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WEATHER. Partly cloudy and slightly co8ler to- day: rain. ed at 10 p.am. last night: at midnight last night; 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on Page 20. No. 1,026.—No. . BRITISH GIVE EGYPT 24 HOURS TO AGREE 10 DRASTIC TERMS Note Threatens “Appropriate Action” in Event Cairo Fails to Comply at Once. SWEEPING DEMANDS ARE MADE IN STACK MURDER| Zagloul Pasha Reported Willing to Meet London Ultimatum in Part. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 22.—The Brit- ish government has sent a stern note 1o the Egyptian government on the mssassination of Maj. Gen. Sir Lee Oliver Stack, governor-general of the Sudan and Sidar of the Egyptian army, wh odied from assassins’ bul- 1ats Thursday. Fleld Marshal V! count Allenby, British high commis- sioner in Egypt, presented this note nnd a supplementary note to Premier | Zagloul Pasha today at Cairo. The British note is even sterner| than at first indicated inasmuch as) the Egyptian government is held di-| rectly responsible for the assassina- | tion because it failed to take into account previous warnings from the British government. "Alvnrnprh\lel ection” is threatened for faflure im- mediately to comply with the de- mands. Text of Notes Insued. The forcign office tonight issued the text of tha two notes. The first not referring to the brutal murder n. Stack, says: “His majesty's government consider this which holds up Egypt as at present zoverned to the contempt of civilized peoples, is the natural outcome of a campaign of hostility to British| vights and British subjects in Egypt and Sudan, founded upon a heedless ingratitude for benefits conferred by Great Britain, not discouraged by your excellency’s government and fomented by organizations in close contact with that government. “Your excellency was warned by | his majesty’s government a little | more than a month ago of the conse- quences of failing to stop this cam- paign, more particularly as it con- cerned the Sudan. It has not been stopped. The Egyptian government have now allowed the governor-gen- | eral of Sudan to be murdered and have proved they are incapable or unwilling to protect forelgn lives. Demand Apology. “His majesty’s government, there- fore, require that the Egyptian gov- ernment shall, firstly, present an am- ple apology -for the crime; secondly, Pprosecute an inquiry into the authorship of the crime with the utmost energy and without respect to persons, and bring the criminals, whoever they are and whatever their age, to con- | dign punishment; thirdly, henceforth | forbid and vigorously ~suppress all| popular political demonstration; | fourthly, pay forthwith to his ma- Jesty's government a fine of £500,000; ffthly, order within 24 hours the withdrawal from Sudan of all Egypt- fan officers and purely Egyptian units of the Egyptian army, with such resulting changes as-shall here- after be specified; sixthly, notify the competent department that the Sudan government will increase the area to be irrigated at Gezira from 300,000 feddans (a feddan approximately an acre) to an unlimited figure as the need may arlse; seventhly, withdraw all opposition in respect hereafter specified to the wishes of his ma- jesty's government concerning pro- tection of foreign interests in Egypt. “Falling immediately compliance with these demands, his majesty's government will at once take ap-| propriate action to safeguard their| interests in Egypt and Sudan.” | Protection Specified. ‘The second note details the specific requirements respecting the army in Sudan and the protection of f8reign interests in t, as follows: Firstly, Egyptian officers and pure- ly Egyptian units of the Egyptian army having been withdrawn, Sudan. ese units of the Egyptian army shall be converted into a Sudan defense force, owing allegiance to the Sudan government alone and under supreme command of the governor general, in whose name all commissions will be given | “Secondly, the rules and conditions governing the service, discipline and retirement of foreign officials still employed by the Egyptian govern- ment and ths financial conditions governing the pensions of foreign officials who have left the service shall be revised in accordance with the wishes of his majesty's govern- ment.- i Thirdly, pending the conclusion of an agreement hetween the two gov- ernments regarding the protection of foreign interests in Egypt, the Egyptian government shall maintain the posts of financial and judicial advisers and preserve their powers and privileges as contemplated on the abolition of the protectorate and shall respect the status and present attributions of the European depart- ment of the ministry of the interior, as already 1aid down by ministerial order, and give due welght to such recommendations as the director gen- eral may make upon matters falling within his sphere.” Reply Limit Fixed. | There is no indication In the com- munication from the foreign office that a reply Is demanded within 24 hours, but it is thought that this was communicated verbally to Pre- mier Zagloul by Viscount Allenby. A Cairo dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph states that Premier Zag- loul informed the chamber that the cabinet proposes to accept the Brit- ish demand for payment, &8 compen- sation, but not as indemnity. It had also agreed to arrest and punish the criminals, but the other demands would be rejected. The chamber, the dispatch adds, in- dorsed these decisions, passing a vote of confidence in the chamber. Izzet Pasha, the Egyptian minister in London, in an interview tonight «ald he was certain his government would leave no stone unturned (o bring the criminals to justice, as the whole nation strongly condemned the assassination. He paid tribute to Gov. Gen. Stack’s abilities and lovable character. The British cabinet held m second council tonight. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for foreign affairs, pre- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) 29,426. tomorrow unsettled, probably Temperature for 24 hours end- Highest, 56, lowest, 42, at Entered as second claks tnatter post office Washington, D. C. A comedy in three acts entitled “The Landlord and the Downtrodden Tenant” by some observers, and “The Tenant and the Downtrodden Land- lord” by others, was staged upstalrs, downstairs and in milady’s chamber at the fashionable Sixleenth Street Mansions Apartment House last night, to the intense and undisguised enjoyment of an interested audience which cheered the vlilian and the hero with vim and with gusto uatil the final curtain. The stage was set in the apartment house some time before the curtain went up. The plot wus woven bout the fact that the Tenants' League planned to hold an indignation meet- ing to protest against alleged in- creases in rent and other alleged al- legations, while Joseph Low, the manager of the apartment house, was there to prevent such meeting. The curtain, rising on the first act, .found two guards posted on the outside and two on the inside of the main entrance to the buflding, with all other entrances closed. Enter a young man—that {s, he started to enter, but the guards, each one dls- guised as a three-minute egg, said “No.” “But,” protested the young man, I_want to see a young lady. “Nothing doing,” said the guards, making nolses in their throats like water at the bolling point. “Page her for me and tell her to mect me out- side,” said the young man. But the JOHNSON'S GOAST DEAL CALLED OFF murder. | Backers of Famous Pitcher Aliow Oakland Club Sale to Default. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif.,, November 2 Plans of Walter Johneon, ace of the Washington American League base ball club, and George M. Weiss, owner of the New Haven club of the Eastern League, to pur- chase the Oakland Coast League Club have been abandoned, it was an- nounced here tonight. Johnson and Weiss fafled to make their second payment of $25,000 on the club, which was due today, and the deal was called off. They paid $5,000 as an Initial payment last Mon- day, but stockholders of the Oakland club tonight voted to return this sum to Johnson and Welss. were to have paid a total of $350.000° for the Oakland club, intimated that men upon whom they had counted for backing had failed to support them deal. Planned Rébuilding. Johnson and Welss had been so sure of the success of their venture that they had made plans for rebuilding the local park and for obtaining players from major league clubs. Johnson left last night for his home in Reno, Nev., it was learned today, and Weiss, who is still here, expects to leave for his home in New Haven within a day or two. Almost as soon as the failure of the deal was announced, speculation was begun in local base ball circles as to Johnson's future. Report Big Offer. Joe Engel, scout for the Washington club, is at Johnson’s home in Reno on a hunting trip and it is reported that he has been authorized to offer John- son a three-year contract with a total compensation of $90,000. It also is reported that there is a movement on foot in St. Paul to collect a fund by popular subscription with which to purchase the controlling in- terest in the St. Paul American Asso- ciation club and present it to Johnson Another report is that efforts are be- ing made by Los Angeles interests to have Johnson take control of the Ver- non Coast League club. STORM HITS NEW YORK; ONE DEATH IS RESULT NEW YORK, November 22.—Dis- rupted transportation, broken water mains, flooded cellars and one death were the chief components of to- night's aftermath of New York's first heavy rainstorm in more than six weeks. Several accidents suffered by automobile parties traveling to and from the Yale-Harvard foot ball game at New Haven were reported here. X Suburbna trains were tied up more than haif an hour by & short circuit resulting from the flooding of an electric conduit. The tie-up occurred just as a dozen special trains were loading at Grand Central Terminal to carry the foot ball crowd to New Haven. Thousands of commuters, pre- vented from leaying the city, ma- terially increased the confusion in the terminal. “To the Birds of Piney Branch— From their Friends, Elise and Jules Jusserand.” Many years hence, when the name of a distinguished gentle- man of France is but a memory here, the thoughtfulness and hu- man kindness which made him loved by the people of a great na- tion will live inscribed in the en- during stone of a monument erected “To the Birds of Piney Branch.” During those dark days of 1914- 18, when the German army was at the threshold of Paris, when the cables hummed with the tid- ings of some new thrust at the heart of France, the French Am- bassador #and Mme. Jusserand sought respite from the turmoil and nerve wracking atmosphere of a war embassy. They made it a custom to ride out to Piney Branch Valley, there to walk among the trees, to take comfort from the solemn stillness of na- pitching The two eastern base ball men, who and they were unable to finance the he E WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, Tenants and Landlords Fight No-Decision, No-Casualty Bout Unrefined Epithets Chief Ammunition in Comic Opera Strife at 16th Street Mansions—Renters Finally Meet. guards reiterated a firm no, and the disappointed swain tled himself out- side while the audience sat back and waited for further developments. Developments came in the persons of Mrs. Henry C. Brown of the Ten- ant's League, and Mrs. Margdret Hop- kins Worrell. The guards stopped them. Here, the audience thought, was the climax. But ft wasn't. The two ladies stated they were coming as the guests of Miss Elsie Harman, a tenant of the apartment houses. They were allowed to enter. Other developments’ approached. The first was A. O. Reed, who on en- tering the door was seized by the guards, who started to g! e him what is technically described as the “bum'’s rush.” Between pushes and shoves Mr. Reed endeavored to explain that he was coming to see his doctor, who lived in the apartment. The guards explained, between more pushes and shoves, that no others than temants of the bullding were allowed to enter the building, and Mr. Reed made motions with his face which seemed to say, “Hang the tenants, I want to see my doctor,” and with a skilful movement of & free arm he sent one of the guards reeling to a nice, com- fortable sofa which rested In the lobby. About thls time Mr. Low, noticing (Continued on Page Column 4.) TERMS FROM SPAIN REIECTED BY RIFFS Possible Passing of Moroc- can Coastline to Tribes Stirs Other Nations. By Cable to The Star and New York World. PARIS, November 22.—All efforts on the part of Spain to make peace with Abdel Krim except on terms dic- tated by the Riffs have apparently failed. King Alfonso’s personal friend, the millionaire shop owner, Echevarrieta of Barcelona, has just returned from Morocco, it is learned in Parfs, without Inducing the Liffs to compromise. The terms which the Riffs before Echevarrieta are as follows: Twenty million pesetas indemnity the dellvery of 12 airplanes, the de- livery of a battery of 120-millimeter cannon and 10,000 rifies with a supply of ammunition and the immediate evacuation by Spain of all occupled territory down to the fortifications of Ceuta and Melilla, The Riffs refused to return their 1.100 Spanish prisoners until these conditions are fulfilled. Echevarrieta was obliged to leave without getting any better terms than these. His interview with the Riffs was in the Bay of Alphucemas. Believing Spain will be ture of Morocco. It is feared, as it is in England, that it would be danger- ous to allow the long Moroccan coastline to pass into the hands of the tribes- men. It is further feared that the French control of the Interior of Mo- rocco to the Atlantic may soon be considered objectionable by the Riffs, and that they may intend to dispute French control, which until now has been accepted. There is a disposition here to con- sider that the French and British have an interest in preventing the Riffs from securing the capitulation of Spain in Morocco on such terms as they are now asking. (Copyright, 1924.) Wife of Former Attorney General Succumbs to Illness in Columbus, Ohio, Home. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 23 (Sunday).—Mrs. Harry M. Daugherty. wife of the former United States At- torney General, died at midnight at their Town street home here of pneu- monia. Mrs. Daugherty, though an invalid for many years, had been in better health this Summer than usual. She became {1l last Monday and pneu- monia developed Thursday. She had been unconscious for two days. Mrs, Daugherty had not been told of the death of Mrs. Harding, widow of the former President. She and Mrs. Harding had been intimate friends stnce girlhood, they having attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music together. Jusserands Leave Token for Birds, Remembering Solace in War Time ture, to hear the cheerful, hope- ful nflodies of the birds. The world must have seemed dark and dreary to Jules Jusse- rand on some of those days. They must have made his heart bleed, as the heart of many a loyal Frenchman bled. And it was the nature of the man to seek com- fort from God's creatures whose little throats seemed fair to burst from the very joy of living when the rest of the world was steeped in_sorrow. So while he goes back to a Frarice that is sunny again, ‘he does, not forget the “Birds of Piney Branch.” A bird bath,.con- structed of stone from France and set in the park surrounding the John Dixon Home on upper Four- teenth street, has been ordered by the French Ambassador. M. Cret, & French architect of Lyon: France, and Philadelphia, h been engaged to do the work. There will be one simple in- scription: “To the Birds of Piney Branch—From their Friends Elise and Jules Jusserand." !iron, churned into a sea of muck and |upon a vast, but bedraggled crowd ofl | greatest exhibitions of driving power, finally { forced to accept the RIffs’ terms, some | concern is felt in France over the fu- |50 1" soomed likely | complete MRS.H. M. DAUGHERTY! PNEUMONIA VICTIM| YALE IS VICTORIOUS OVERHARVARD. 195 WINS “Blk 3" TITLE 74,000 Brave Torrent to See/ Battle Staged in Sea of Mud. POND AND KLINE STAR FOR CONQUERING BLUE Gehrke's Toe Puts Crimson Ahead, But Bulldog Rallies at Close. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 22.—A blue tidal wave, gathering fury as it rolled on, surged through the Yale bowl this afternoon, submerged the gallant Crimson defenders and swept on to smashing victory. Out of the morasses of the Ell grid- mire by a torrential downpour | throughout the game that beat down 74,000 banked upon the slopes of the bowl, Yale's mighty foot ball machine rose to new heights of glory by con quering Harvard, 19 to 6, and captur- ing the “Big Three" crown for the second successive year. Wins In Final Half. Beaten back, outplayed and neld scoreless in the first half of this mud battle in which Harvard stowed sur- prising strength and scored twice on field goals through the brifliant Lick ing of Edwin Gherke, Cleveland, half- back, who was the Crimson's out- standing hero, Yale rallied in the se. ond half and half-slid, half-smashed | its way to triumph in one of the| under seemingly insurmountable odds, ever witnessed. | Uudaunted by conditions even! worse than those existing a year ago in the memorable fray in the mire of Harvard's gridiron, Yale came from behind to score two touchdowns in| the third period, both of whicl were | aided by Harvard fumbles, and to| | add a third score in the final quar-| | ter on a 75-yard march through the| bogs and that dotted the! fleld Through the last half Harvard was| helpless, beaten back but fighting| stubbornly, while Yale, alert and irresistible, drove on with a relent- ! less series of onslaughts in which/ lagoons placed | *\Ducky’”* . Pond of Terrington, Conn., ] 8 hero of Yale's trfumph at Cam- bridge a year ago, and Billy Kline of Dubols, Pa, his running mate, always were the spearheads. Twe Carry Burdenm. Together this pair of slippery. eel- like runners boro the brunt of the Blue charge, Pond carrying the pi skin over for the touchdown that tied the score, while Kline took over the other two, all three coming on short line thrusts after Yale had steadlly pounded her way into Crim- son_territory. ¢ Thus Yale's superior, more re- sourceful attack turned a tide that at the outset took on a Crimson hue to sweep on to the upsets that marked both previous “big three” games this year. Harvard, going into the fray with a forlorn hope, put up a stub- born battle, but lost because she did not have the sustaining power to hold the advantage which smart generalship and Gehrke's talented toe gave the Crimson through the early part of the game. 1t was a crushing setback for Harvard, despite her gallant fight, for the Crimson closed one of its most disappointing seasons by losing (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) —— MANINAUTO SHOT lof Virginia. FROM ANOTHER CAR William E. Hartley, Returning From Dance, in Serious Condition. ‘William E.-Hartley, 21 years old, of 719 Fourth street southeast, was shot in the spine and severely wounded last night by one of two men in an automobile which drew abreast of the car in which he was driving toward ‘Washington on the road from Mitch- elisville, Md., early this morning. At Casualty Hospital, where the victim was taken, his condition was pronounced _serlous. _ Washington police and Constable Thomas Gar- rison of Hyattsville, Md., are co- operating in & search for the occu- pants of the automobils, which dis- appeared under mysterious circum- stances after the shooting. Returning From Dance. ‘With four friends Hartley was re- turning to this city from a dance at Mitchellsville. Some miles the other side of the District line a small automobile was noticed passing and dropping be- hind the car in which Hartley was rid- ing, which was operated by Edward Green, 770 Sixth street southeast. The third or fourth time this macihne had come up parallel with Green's car, one (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 300 PASSENGERS SAVED AS TRAIN JUMPS TRACK By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 22.—A Mich- igan Central foot ball special train of nine coaches and Pullmans, return- ing from Ann Arbor .to Detroit with 300 persons who had attended the Michigan-Towa foot ball game, went into a ditch/ near Springwells, a suburb, at 7 o'clock tonight. 8o far ae is known, no one was injured, al- though all coaches left the track, three turning over on their sides. Tracks were torn up 50 feet. Doctors, nurses and first-aid equip- ment were rushed to the scene of the wreck at once, but were not needed, S THEBATTL P S HBWETON WAS R iy T00D S 4/4]' ErMPTS 7o BOARD MAY SELECT TWO PARKS IN EAST Committee Is Favorable to Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountain Sites. BY HAROLD K. PHILIPS. Two national parks instead of one probably wiil be the ultimate result of the Government's determination to establish in the Southern Appalachian Mountains a vast outdoor playground for the people of the East and a won- derful natural museum wherein will be preserved all of the flora and fauna native to the ancient South. Returning from a tour of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, the five committee- men appointed by Secretary of the Interlor Work to select a site for the establishment of the park are in Washington enthusiastic over the scenery and rugged beauty they have found in abundance in the supposedly “tamed East.” Out of the dozens of areas the com- mitteemen have examined stand two that are regarded as eclipsing all others, lands of enchanted canyons, towering mountains reaching high into the heavens and untraveled for- ests primeval—the Blue Ridge Moun- tains of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Two Sites Draw Admiration. So worthy are these two sites of becoming national parks, so dis- tinctly different is each from the other in its scenery and wild life, that it is regarded as virtually cer- tain that _when Congress meets Secretary Work, acting upon the suggestion of his committee, will urge that both be acquired and pre- served. The members of Secretary Work's committee have as yet reached no public decision in this regard. - It may be that they will inspect the | mammoth cave section of Kentucky: iit is, certain that some of them will pay another visit to the Stony Man Mountain section of the Blue Ridge But those close to the judges are convinced as to the final choice. Blue Ridge First Cholce. It seems certain that the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia will become the sita of the first of these great parks, with the Smoky Mountains becoming the second reser- vation. The West already has 17 national parks and the East has nons, say those who are interested in the project to bring one or more to this part of the country. There are many reasons why the Blue Ridge area should be given first cholce, according to national park ex- perts, The most outstanding of these is its accessibility to the peopls of all parts of the East—Norta and South allke. It is within & day’s train ride of thirty million city-bound per- sons and only two days by automobile to the most remote of those persons. It is as accessible to the citizens of Boston and New York as it is to the residents of Knoxville, which is lo- cated on the edge of the Smoky Mountain area, and Atlanta. Wash- ington would be a pleasant three hour's ride by automobile via the new Leo Highway, which will be opened between here and Luray, Va., before Spring. The National Capital, Mecca of all American tourists, would vir- tually be its gateway. One highly important element in favor of the Blue Ridge area would be the comparativeiy small expense to turn it into & -National park. Al- ready there are beautiful bridal paths (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) $3.000,000,000 Worth of Ships What Are We Going To Do With Them? One of the most vital eco- nomic problems the Coolidge administration has to solve. G. Gould Lincoln | —will discuss it in a series of three daily articles, beginning tomorrow in The Evening Star “From Press to Home - ' Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. OVEMBER VICTOR. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—48 PAGE General News—Local, National, Foreign. News of the Clubs—Page 30. D. A. R. Activities—Pages 30 and 31. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 31. Around the GCity—Page 32. Boy Scouts—Page 32. Girl Scouts—Page 32, Y. W. C. A.—Page 32, District National Guard—Page 33. Radio News and Programs—Pages 36 and 37. United Daughters of the Confederacy— | Page 37. Schools and Colleges—Pages 25, 38 and 39. Current News Events—Page 39. At the Community Centers—Page 41. Financial News—Paj 42 and 43. Army and Navy—Page 44. Veterans of Great War—Page 44. Spanish War Veterans—Page 44. PART TWO—18 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and-Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 15, PART THREE—I12 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo. play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 9. Reviews of New Books—Page 10. The Civilian: Army—Page 10. Fraternities—Page 11 Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. PART FOUR—{ PAGE¥. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Serial, “Captain Blood"—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAGES. World Events in Pictures. - COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES, Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Felle and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. U..S. PAYS TRIBUTE 70 MRS, HARDING Hundreds of Telegrams Sent Relatives—Body Lies in State in Niece’s Home. Mr. By the Associated Pre | Rev. Mr. Swank, MARION, Ohio, November 22.—Final arrangements were completed today for the burial of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding here Monday afternoon. Her Dbody lies in state here tonight and may be viewed by friends until noon Monday. Hundreds of telegrams of sym- pathy continued to arrive here for relatives of the late President's widow, many of them expressing praise at the gallant fight she put up to ward off the hand of the grim reaper. George B. Christian, jr., secretary to President Harding and a close friend of Mrs. Harding, announced the order of the burial services would be as follows: Funeral Program. The funeral cortege will leave the home of Mrs. F. J. Longshore, a niece of Nfrs. Harding, at 1:30 p.m., for the Epworth M. E. Church. Song, “The End of a Perfect Day.” Mrs. Harding’s favorite selection, by the Columbus, Ohio, Republican Glee Club. Scripture reading from part of the fourteenth chapter af John and part of the second chapter of IT Thessa- lonians, by the Rev. Jesse Swank. Prayer by the Rev. George M. Landis of the Trinity Baptist Church, President Harding’s church. Brief funeral sermon and prayer by the Rev. Mr. Swank. The cortege then will move to the cemetery, where the regular commit- tal service will be conducted by the z with the Rev. Mr. Landis pronouncing the benediction. Taps will be blown by members of the 10th United States Infantry as the body is being placed beside that of her President husband. - ‘The War Department today ordered 100 soldiers and officers to augment the regular detachment on guard duty t the President's tomb during Mrs. on Paj Column 6.) {distinct URGE NEW COURT gin Agitation With Con- vening of Congress. Aroused over the thremtening situ- cases that “traffic criminals” may circumvent or indefinitely delay their punishment, the District Commis- sioners are preparing to seek with renewed vigor congressional action looking to the establishment of a new court exclusively for traffic cases, it was indicated yesterday. It is probable that with the con- vening of Congress next week the Commissioners will begin agitation for a separate trafic court and also for authority to impose jall sentences on ‘drivers who cold-bloodedly leave their victims helplessly injured or dying in the streets after an accident Inability of the present courts to dispose of more than two or three jury trials in trafic cases a week, creased by jumps and bounds, has created a serlous problem for law- enforcing authorities to work out. Offenders appear to recognize the ad- vantage of “stalling” thelr cases by demanding trials by jury and the docket is already congested to a point of grave concern, legal experts point i out. Only One Remedy. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ringgold Hart, legdl member of the Commissioners’ traffic board, is fully cognizant of the court situation, and believes that the only remedy court, devoting its whele time to meting out justice in traffic offenses. A traffic court has long been the goal of District officials. Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superintendent of police, in his annual report to the Commission- ers “urgently recommended that leg- islation be immediately enacted es- tablishing a traffic court, the function of which should be the trial of traffic cases exclusively.” Maj. Sullivan also recommended that Congress be asked to “provide against forfeitures of collateral, the end that all persons arrested on charges of violation of any of the traffic regulations be given a hearing in open court.” May Revive Bill. It is likely the Commissioners will petition Congress to pass a bill simi- lar to the one introduced in 1921 by Representative Frederick R. Zihlman of Maryland, and which failed of passage. This measure provided for creation of the “District of Columbia Traffic Court,” with a judge appoint- ed by the Presideni, and which should have “exclusive original jur- isdiction” over offences “against any law, municipal ordinance, or regula- tion in force in the District in so far as it relates to the regulation of ve- hicle traffic.” As it is now there is virtually but one afternoon a week available for jury trials of trafic_cases, since the morning of the one District jury day usually is taken up with routine cases. The District formerly had two jury days per week, but because of the congestion of Federal cases one of the days was turned over to Federal Government prose- cutions. Effect of $500 Fine. The effect of the newly adopted $500 fine for fleeing from an accident will be added to the stagnation in the courts, officials point out. With the $40 limit such cases did not go before juries, but with the higher penalty the defendants may demand a hear- ing by jurymen. The result on the docket will not be immediately ap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) If You Are a Cross-Word Fan Watch Tomorrow’s Star The first of a series of daily puzzles will appear on the magazive page. Solution to each puzzle will appear in next day's Star. Beginning Tomorrow FOR TRAFFIC ONLY Commissioners Likely to Be-| ation of a court so congested with| whereas the docket is being daily in- | is a| to| liquor | FIVE CENTS. CURT SELEGTION S SEMATELEADR GELEVED CERTAN |Warren Likely to Decline Post to Continue Efficient Work on Comm_ittee. [SENIORITY RULE FACES UPSET' IN CONFERENCE G. 0. P. Meeting Friday to Break Custom in Giving Kansan Lodge's Place. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyo- ming. senlor Republican Senator in point of service, will relinquish hiy claim upon the majority leadership of the Senate, it Is expected, and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, assistant leader and whip, will be chosen leader at the Republican conference of the Senate Friday. The mere expression of a wish on { the part of Senator Warren to have the leadership of the Republicans in | the Senate, made vacant by the death !of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, ! would assure the Senator from Wyo- | ming that office. In fact, unless Sena tor Warren should state tkat he has no desire for the office, it would be given him. Warren Still Silent. No statement from Senator War in regard to the leadership probably avill be made before Tuesday or Wed- nesday. At that time it is expected | that hie will make it clear he prefers | to give his whole time and attention to the important work of chairman of the Senate committes on appropria- ! tions. For many years Senator War- jren has worked ably and efficiently as chairman of this committee, han- dling many of the appropriation bills in committee and on the floor of the | Senate. It has been his duty to re- sist many items of appropriation isought to be inserted in these bills, {and by his efforts to keep the appro- i priations down to the limits of abso- lute necessity, he has saved the Gov- ernment many millions of dollars. ! But Senator Warren has also aided in { putting through appropriations for needed and importent projects which have greatly benefited the country The three Senators whose names |have been most prominently men- { tioned in connection with the Repub. {lican leadership in the event Senator | Warren declined to be candidate for { election are Senators Curtis of Kan- as, Wadsworth of New York and | Watson of Indiana. Senator Watson, |it is said, has given over the idea of | becoming leader and will support { Senator Curtis for the place, with the junderstanding, of course, that Senator | Warren is not desirous of holding the { office. . i Wadsworth Passive, | Senator Wadsworth, while he has {had the support of a number of & | ators, has not been actively a candi- | date.” In fact, some of his supporters I believe that New York Senator, | who is chairman of the military af- | fairs committee, is rather indifferent ‘ln the matter of leadership. Senator Wadsworth is expected to return to Washington Tuesday Republican Senators have for & long time chosen their leaders through the | seniority rule—picking the man who | had been the longest in the Senate. iUnder this rule Senator Warren jwould be the leader. The argument jhas been advanced that he should take the leallership so as not to break {down the senfority rule, and so do harm to the aspirations of other Sen_ |ators. who might expect to become Republican leader of the Senate in fu- ture yvears. | A glance at the service record of the Sénators shows that next to Sen- ator Warren comes Senator Smoot of | Utah and next to Senator Smoot, Sen- {ator La Follette. Then in the order |named comes Senators Borah, Idaho: | Cummins, Towa; Jones, Washington: McLean, Connecticut; Norris, Nebras- ka, and Curtls, Kansas. | Curtis Beaten in 1912, Had it not been for the fact that Senator Curtls was defeated for the nomination for the Senate tn 191 and. consenguently, falled fo be re elected to the Senate that year, the Kansas Senator would stand on the service record next to Semator La Follette and anead of Senator Borah. Senator Curtis was out of the Senate [ for only two years, and was success- ful in his race for nomination in 1914, by direct vote of the people and was elected that year. nator Smoot, the second on the list, is chairman of the Senate finance committee; he is the ranking Repub- | lican on the appropriations commit- tee after Senator Warren, and is chairman of the Public Buildings Commission. With all the work he | has on hand he has no ambition to become leader. That the Republi- cans would select Senator La Follette as their leader after the recent cam- paign is unthinkable, even If he would | accept the job. Senator Borah is | slated to become chairman of tha committee on foreign relations, and (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) PLANE CRASH KILLS 3 IN ADVERTISING STUNT | Craft Lands in Garden—ZLack Fuel Caused Plunge, Is Belief. By the Associated Press. GREENFIELD, 111, November Three men were killed when an a! plane from St. Louls fell into a back yard garden, two blocks from the town square here, late this after- noon. An examination revealed that the gasoline tank was empty, and it was believed the plane fell when the engine was stopped by the lack of fuel. The victims were George Walker, 43 years old, a newspaper man of Jerseyville, Tll. and two flyers of St Louis, H. G. Tilley, 22 years old, and Ole Hagen, 25 vears oid of Osage,’Ia. The three had been hired by a Jer- seyville merchant to distribute adver- tising matter for a Christmas sale, and were returning to St. Louls when the crash came. The machine was flying low, wit- nesses sald, when it took a sudden nose dive. One of the men was seen to leap from the machine, before it struck the ground, but he was pin- loned under the wreckage. of