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WEATHER. nd tomor Eht pera row; colder ture about 16 degrees; warmer Wednesday. Temperature for 24 hou pon. toduy. Highest, pon. vesterday: lowest, am. today. Full report on rs ended at 38, wt 0 27, at 5:00 page 14 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Pag~ 28 29,434, . post officy \Was PEACEFUL OPENING OF CONGRESS HELD PRELUDE TO SHARP FIGHTING EXPECTED Brief Sessions in Senate and| House for Organization. | Adjourn in Respect for| Members Who Have Died. MESSA"E OF PRESIDENT | TO BE READ WEDNESDAY ! | Appropriation Bills Scheduled to, Receive Chief Attention, With Some of Them Doubtful of Pas-| sage Before March 4—New Faces E Appear in Both Houses. : R H i After a six-month rest, the Sixty- eighth Congress reassembled today to renew in its last and short ses-| sion the turmoil and strife which characterized its first and prolonged ! gathering. The gavels fell at noon. with Sen- | ator Cummins of Towa, the President | pro tempore, presiding in the Sen-; ate and Speaker Gillett in the! House. | The opening sessions were brief. | After prayer by the chaplain and] quorum calls, the oath of office was | administered to new members; com mittees were named to inform Presi- | dent Coolidge that the Congress was | ready to receive communications | from him, and resolutions on the| death of members during the recess | were presented and adopted. Ad-i journment then was taken out of re- spect to the memories of departed Senators and Representatives. Adjourns Until Temorrow. The adjournment was until noon to- morrow. i Immediately after the opening prayer by the Senate chaplain, Rev. Dr. J. J.! Muir, the roll was called, showing only a handful of Senators absent. | Senator La Follette of Wisconsin oc- cupied his accustomed seat, in the front | 10w on the Republican side of the S n-‘ ate chamber. The Wisconsin Senator, | who- returned today from big home .in | Madison, looked cheerful despite his re- cent defeat in the presidential election | d despite the action of Senate Repub- | licans, who have endeavored to read ; him owt of the party. During the pro- | ceedings today Senator Wheeler of Mon- | tana, vice presidential candidate on the | La Follette ticket, crossed the aisle from the Democratic side and warmly greet- ed La Follette. : 1 For the first time ‘since he was) seriously Injured during @ pistol bat- | tle between prohibition agents and! bootleggers last Spring, Senator Frank | Green of Vermont, was n his seat in the Senate chamber today. He still bears marks of the wound, which he tien received. Butler Is Sworn In. | The Senate, on motion of Senator| Curtis of Kansas, the new Republi-| can leader of the Senate, agreed to| the swearing in of Senator Willlam | M. Butler of Massachusetts, appointed | 1o fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Lodge; Senator Rice | W. Means of Colorado, ‘elected to fill | the vacancy caused by the death of | Senator Nicholson, and Senator Met- | calf of Rhode Island, elected to fill the vacancy cause by the death of Senator Colt. A’resolution providing for the ap-| pointment of a committee to join with | a similar committee of the House to inform the President that Congress had assembled and was ready to re- ceive any communication he might care to make, offered by Senator Cur- tis, was adopted and Senator Cummins appointed Senator Curtls and Sena- tor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, members of the committee. tesolutions expressing the regret | of the Senate upon the deaths of Senator Colt of Rhode Island, offered by Senator Gary; upon the death of Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, of- fered by Senator McLean, and upon the death of Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, offered by Senator Walsh, were adopted. Announces Lodge’s Death, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, in ! announcing the death of Senator Lodge, said: “It is my sad duty to formally an- nounce to the Senate that on Sun- day, November 9 last, my colleague, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, died, following & brief illness at the Charlesgate Hospital, in Cambridge, Mass. “For 37 years Senator Lodge rep- resented Massachusetts without a| break in the continuity of his serv-| ices in the Congress of the United | States. His career in the House of | Representatives covered three terms, | and he was a member of this body for 31 years. “He was for years the foremost figure in the dominant political party of Massachusetts, and in recent years he was one of, if not indeed the fore- most figure in the Congress of the United States. Called One of Ablest. “When death came he was the majority party leader in this cham- ber, the senior Senator in years of continuous service, and one of the ablest and best known, nationally and internationally, of any member of the United States: Congress. Truly an exalted position has been made vacant by his death. The life of one of the great leaders and states- men of our days has ended. “This is not the occasion to under- take to review the career of this statesman and scholar. At the proper time I shall ask the Senate to set aside a day upon which proper tribute may be pald to his memory.” Senator Walsh then moved that a5 a further mark of respict to the memory of the three dead Senators the Senate adjourn. His motion was carried unanimously and' the Senate adjourned after a session lasting 22 minutes until tomorrow at noon. It is expected that a effort will be mad at that time to dispose of the de- ficlemicy appropriation , bill, ~-which Enterea us second oluss mutter hington, D C. l : L d : WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 'Stark -Horror of Soviet Exiles’ Life Causes Wave of Suicide Prisoners Sent to Work in Bitter Cold Marsh Waters Without Food ; Women and Children Tragic Victims. The follow of Ruse autho it @ diescteh broug't out * atec the Russ'am Soviet s had forb'dden its frans- ission, paints graphically some of the scenes le wtiessed in exile piisons, to whih thousands of wen, women and children are deing sent— frequently on trivial pretexts—Uy the Soviet authorities. BY F. A. MACKENZIE. able (o The Star and Chicago Daily News RIGA. Latvla, December 1.—One o the main concentration camps used by the Russtan Soviet authorities for the incarceration of prisoners—polit- 1 and well ae criminal—is Se! vetsky island in the White Sea. The 1 is the site of a former 1onastery, now used as a prison. It almost comple: isolated from the rest of the world for five to eight months each year, on account of the frozen seas. At the height of the Winter it is is almost perpetual dark- ness save for a half light during the noon-day hours, On this island are confined a group of political prisoners sald to number 340 ¥ are not permitted to work, th the other prisoners, to or concerts. Thelr appalling isolation, the long Winter and the constant darkness drive many By an is IVGARL IS BARRED FROM WITHHOLDING NAVY OFFICER'S PAY Justice Hoehling Rules Con- gress Has Fixed Sum Due. Holds Deductions lliegal. Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court today decided that J. Raymond MeCarl, controller of the United States has no authority or right to withhold any portion of the pay of naval officers to offset the sup- posed claim of the Government for dlsallowed payments. Congress flxes the salary of the officers, the court declares, and neither the accounting officer nor the controller may with- hold any portion of it Speaking of the action of the con- troller general in first withholding all pay of officers from whom he claimed allowances should be deducted, and then conceding, at the request of Sec- retary Wilbur, to retaining only 20 per cent of the pay, Justice Hoehling says: “The asserted authority is con- trary to the principles of decisions laid down by the United States Su- preme Court. The fact that there ap- pears to be such a seeming unanim- ity of declslon concerning the matter mlght well serve a court to entertaln a reasonable doubt as to the legal soundness or correctness of an opin- lon reached in opposition thereto.” Case Brought as Test. The matter out of which this con- troversy arose, declares the justice, was one for judicial decision rather than administration, and in this case furnished no legal excuse for with- holding the salary of the officer that he is entitled to “in the usual cus- tomary manner as officers in the Navy are paid.” The suit decided today was a test, is underc.od, and_ was brought by Lieut. Comdr. John F. Cox against Controller McCarl, Secretary Wilbur and Benjamin Lankfort, dispersing officer. McCarl in his answer denied the right of the court to review his action and algy declared that the mother of th. officer for whom he had drawn allowances was not de- pendent upon him for support. Secre- tary Wilbur, in his answer, denied that McCarl had the right to witi- hold or check pay o: officers, but sald he had ordered the withhold- inz of 20 per cent as a compromise and to enable officers to get enough pay to meet obligations. Attorneys Cox and Sherrier appeared for the naval officer. it o |FIVE DEAD IN FIRE IN APARTMENT HOUSE Eleven Others Injured—Woman Leaps From Roof—Three Bodies Found. | 8y the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 1.—Three women and two men lost their lives today in a fire which swept a five- story rooming house in West 63d street, near Columbus avenue. Eleven persons were injured, five serlously. One of the woman victims was killed In leaping from the roof and another died after she had been low- ered by her husband from the top floor by & rope. The bodies of a wom- an and two men were found in a hall- wa: of them mad. They are exceedingly discontented and create meny dis- turbances, which are severely re- pressed. There are many suicides at Solovetsky, not alone among the pris- oners, but among their soldier guards Yet the conditions of these political prisoners is paradisical compared with that of the larger group, num- bering about 3000, who are treated as crilninals. These include many un- organized political offenders, priests, bishops and old whites. They are poorly fed and are worked tremend- ously hard. One of the tasks of which the prison ers complain most bitterly is working in the marshy land cutting and haul- ing timber. The men wre sent out af 5 in the morning, walking from 1( to 15 versts (7 to 10 miles) without | food except what they may have saved from the rations of the previous day. Then they are given a task which often takes them ten hours, working walst deep the water. Around - Solovetzky are numerous islands where prisoners are sent for whom greater isolation ie desired. Terrible as the conditions on Solovet- zK¢ are, they are preferable to the fate of those sent to root, hog, or die in the remote Siberian villages. The Solovetzky prisoners at least dre as- sured of a pound of black bread and a dish of fish soup daily, ve late Column 3.) BLTZARD' FRINGE WL NP DISTRT Temperature to Be 15 Above Tonight—Wires Down, Deep Snow in East. (Continued on Pa; Overcoats, wraps and alcohol (for radiators) will be much in demand shortly after nightfall tonight, ac- cording to the forecaster at the Weather Bureau. The thermometer will register 15 degrees above zero, with scattered flakes of snow falling. The tem- perature will be the lowest of the season so far and continue cold until eter will rise gradually until it will be normal again Wednesday. The threatened snowstorm. which began in disturbances ower.(hio" the Mississippi Valley and drove eastward, ‘t00k u noFthérn direction this morning and broke in a storm over Nova Scotia. The forecaster warned all autoists who have been using a slizht amount of alcohol in their radiators to add more alcohol tonight. The promised cold spell will be by several degrees the coldest weather so far this year and somewhat lower than the same day last year. DEEP SNOW IN MOUNTAINS. e Fall of Eight Inches Reported West of Cumberland, Md. CUMBERLAND, Md.. December 1.— Eight inches of snow is reported in the mountains west of here this morning. At Altamont, Garrett County, the temperature was 18 above zero, this being the coldest recorded this season. TWO FEET OF SNOW FALL. Blizzard Sweeps Over Traverse City, Mich., District. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. December 1.—The first blizzard of the season swung down over this region last night when a 10-mile gale swept out of the northwest, accomparied by heavy snowfall. Early last evening there were more than two feet of snow. and travel was almost at a standstill. Petoskey reported snow and a gale, with a temperature of about 18 de- grees above zero. Traffic there was paralyzed. TELEPHONE WIRES DOWN. Points in New England Are Cut Off by Storm. BOSTON, December 1.—New Eng- land today was still plecing together its strands of communication dis- rupted by a Sunday storm which felled telephone poles by the thousand, blocked roads with snow drifts, blinded drivers of automobiles and broke wires. ‘Temporary telephone lines to North- ern New England wlill be arranged by tomorrow, it is expected, but per- manent repairs will require weeks. Autos Find Hard Going. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.. December 1.— With the cessation of a four-hour storm yesterday, 12 inches of snow had fallen here. Automobiles traveled with difficulty and some wires were carried down by the weight of the snow, but there was little other dam- age. Columbus Coldest City. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Decemhe’r 1.—Co- lumbus was the coldest spot in the United States early today with the mercury at that time down to 9 de- grees above zero. The cold wave was accompanied by a snowfall reported to be 5 inches in some places. One death was reported from exposure. Rising temperatures are predicted for tomorrow. e it o S S S S Army Team Won Because of Prayer, Garbisch Says, Revealing Practice B S By the Associated Press. WEST POINT, N. Y., December 1.~The West Point foat ball team prayed before each game to be played in the past season, Capt. Edward Garbisch msserted in hl last speech to the team. He at- tributed the team’s. victories to the prayers. 4 Standing on top of the -stage coach from which captains - Army elevens have traditiomilly made their last. speechesfo the “Before every game this.year, Whether that game seemed to bé @ hard one or an easy-gne, every: man of the squad prayed. We did not pray for vi , only that we might acquit.otrselves like men. And after the game Saturday every.man on. the eleven tore off his-headgear and thanked God Aervently for the victory.” The man who beat the Navy by his four drop-kicks Saturday was wildly ‘cheered by the 1,200 cadets who had gathered to welcome homs tomorrow night, when the thermom- | .|Navy vesse 'BANDIT RING HERE BELIEVED BROKEN BY ARREST OF.SIX Lawyer and Five Others Are Taken Into Custody in Robbery Series. DARING BANK MESSENGER HOLD-UP PLAN DROPPED S. A. Schwartz Accused as Master Mind of Gang on Basis of Admissions. aey Albert Schwartz, who says he is an attorney and counselor at law. and five other men, whose occu- pations range from chauffeur to| metalworker, were brought to police | headquarters rly this afternoon and charged with robbery and lodged in cells at separate police stations, following |alleged confessions by all but Schwartz that the six had en- {Baged collectively or individually in armed hold-ups within a month. The arrest of the men, accom- plished overnight by a dozen head- Quarters detectives after a city-wide round-up, is alleged by Inspector Clifford L. Grant to spell the doom of a gang of bandits who have been| terrorizing Washington for several} weeks under leadership of Schwartz. | Drop $30,000 Hold-Up Plan. In addition to the five robberies alleged to have been recounted in the confessions, two of which took | place Saturday night, the gang, Grant declared, had planned a dar- | ing daylight bank messenger hold-up | at Fourteenth and G streets about a | month ago. The plans fell through, the inspector said, because the gang- sters found out that the messenger | | was to carry “only $30,000" from the { Treasury to the bank, “which wasn't enough to run the risk for.” Had the plot been carried out, Grant said, the hold-up men would have found a squad of detectives ready to pounce on_them. | The men were booked as follows: (Sydney Albert Schwartz, attorney, {2414 Twelfth street northeast: Victor | Paul Turey, 24 years old, chauffeur, | {510 Randolph street; Scott William | | Smith, 21 years old, helper, 449 Gl street; Jerry Mann, 40 vears old, !meat cutter, Stag Hotel: Charles { Beall McDonald, 20 years old. helper, { 1324 H street northeast, and Theodore Wesley Merritt, years old, sheet metal worker, Fairfax, Va. According to Detective Tom ey, three of _IGQ SIX _Wore ar- ed last night while.they were on theif way to see some young women who wetre known to the police. Long Under Police Eyes. Inspector Grant declared that the six men had been under surveillance of the police for about a month, or Just before the alleged bank mes- senger plot. He sald that detectives learned that three of the wen had at that time made arrangements with a colored hacker to be on hand t 8:30 o'clock in the morning with | “a speedy car.’ Police informants also let the police in on the fact that the whole plan was called off when the amount to be carrled by the bank messenger became known. Grant said that he had several men on duty on the morning set and was ready for eventualities. Since that time, Grant explained, there have been a number of hold- ups by robbers who answer the de- scription of the men arrested last | night. Not until Saturday night. ho | ever, following the robbery at the delicatessen store of Alexander Dio- | des, at 405 Elghth street northwest. | did the detectives pick up clues lead- i ing directly to the men under arrest. Bofore the delicatessen robbery, which occurred after midnight, one other hold-up had been reported by men with similar descriptions. Harley H. Price, manager of the gasoline station at Georgla avenue and Quincy place, had reported being held-up at the point of a pistol by three white | men who robbed him of about $75 and a gold watch, Caught at Girl's Home. Following the Saturday night rob- bery Inspector Grant called a dozen of his men together and sent them out to follow up the clues obtained in the latest hold-ups. The men in- cluded the following headquarters de- tectives: Sweeney, Waldron, Murphy, | Mullen, Springmann, Darnall, Scriv- | ener, Alligood, Keck and Weder. They jlearned yesterday that several of the men suspected had an engagement (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 1 3 | ! | i ' | CLUES FAIL TE IDENTIFY WRECKAGE OF VESSEL Name of Craft Fails to Appear on Log Book or Records Included in Flotsam Found. By the Associated Press. CUTTYHUNK, Mass,, December 1.— Wreckage washed ashore here yes- | terday, indicating that a vessel had been damaged or lost, was still uni- dentified today. An address “medical officer, U. S. S. Camden,” which ap- peared on a case of Navy medical supplies, ws unexplained, as all ves. sels of that name were apparently accounted for, and the name did not appear on log book, or chart house which were Included in the wreck- age. z From a description of the straw and gray color of the shattered chart house, Navy and Coast Guard of- cials sald it appeared to have been a - but ~euggestions were advanced -that”'it might have been sold and converted into rum-runing or other purposes. This theory, however, did not ac- count_for entries in the water-soaked I ‘which referred to movements at “navy yard” on November 29, and to the fact that the vessel was “un- der way,” on November 30. Check- up -at various navy yards along the coast fdiled to identify the vessel from these referénces or from an entry on October 10 saying that th vessel had left New Haven on that date. . ‘The wreckage included tt;.‘brokt: chart house, & chart box, the log an: the medicine chest. It was in such oonlurl as to indicate that it had orn_loose only & fow hours ki | Taylor. | the lower Potomac $6,290,000 ASKED BY ENGINEERS FOR PARK SYSTEM OF DISTRICT Estimate of $3.516,000 Made for Continuing Work on Conduit—=$2,062,000 for Public Buildings and Grounds. Estimates aggregating about $6.- 290,000 for the maintenance and im- provement of the public parks of the Disrtict and for various Federal en- gineering projects in progress in this city and vicinity are contained in the annual report of Maj. Gen. Harry chief of engineers of the Army, made public today The largest single item in the long and interesting list is an estimate of $3.516,000 for continuing the work on the new conduit from Great Falls during the coming fiscal year, which estimate is understood to have been reduced to $2,509.000 by the budget officer. Estimates for public buildings and grouyds aggregate about $2.062,000; for Improving the shoai sections of River, $176,000; for redredging the Virginia Channel &t Washington, §75.000; tor improv- ing the wifer front of Alexandria, Va.. 386,000: “for the development of Anacostia River Park, $370,000, and $25.000 for building 2 road to the Birthplace of George Washington, at Wakefleld, Va. now RADIO TRANSMITS MISSION OF MERCY PICTURES OVER SEA ENDSINAUTO GRASH Flashing Photos Through Air Becomes Practical After Severe Test. Associated Press. W YORK, December 1.—Trans- Atlantic transmission of photographs by radio is a reality. Portraits of President Coolidge, Premier Stanley Baldwin, the Prince of Wales and Owen D. Young were among those dispatched by wireless trom Ldhdon vesterday during a public test conducted by the Radio Corporation of America. In its offices | here, a jiggling stylus drew these pictures on an oscillating cylinder and 20 minutes after each original had been put on the air in London, it was reproduced in New York. Offi- cials of the company say t the invention, an all-American instru- ment by which not only pictures but printed messages may be transmitted, is a complete success. Needs Little Refinemen The device was developed by C. H. Taylor, chief engineer of the radio corporation; E. F. W. Alexanderson, consulting engineer, and R. H. Ranger, directing engineer. With but little refinement, they explained, their process will be available for tran: Atlantic transportation of news pic: tures, eecret business messages, diplomatic correspondence and identi- fication photographs of criminals for police purposes. The cost of transmission of a plc- ture is between $30 and $40. This computation is based on the number of ,words that could be sent at toll rates during the 30 minutes required for the dispatch of a pleture. It is expected, however, that the sengimg time will be reduced considegably in the near future. s Reproduction-of Dots. The system of transmission is much like that employed by the American Telephone & ~Tefegraph Co. months ago_ when - nt _photographs from Clevelarrd to New York by land wire. There is this difference, however—the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. process reproduces a picture which parallels shade lines, while the radio pletures are made up of thousands of dots placed in parallels. The first is the product of a con- tinuous electric current fluctuating under control; the second the product of & series of distinct impulses. In- ventors of the latter process said they found it impossible to control a con- tinuous current in radio transmission because of static interference. The first photo radiograms, as they are called, were sent months ago— by wire from New York to the radio transmitting station at Tuckerton, N. J., thence by air 230 miles to the re- celving station at River Head, Long Island, and thence again by wire to New York. ‘When those transmissions proved successful, photographs were trans- ‘mitted by radio to England and re. turn. - They could not be received in ‘England, because there was no ap- there, s0 the radio impulses marked by a | | ! | ard's car and wrecked it. n Star. 1924 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. monument, which Geu. Taylor says is practically inaccessible at present by reason of the destruction of the old wharf on the Potomac. That Gen. Taylor belleves in the development and beautification of the National Capital in a practical and systematic way is indicated by the character of the recommendations for new work contained in his report. In addition to asking for liberal ap- propriations for all the park projects he mentions several as deserving of special consiceration by Congress. One of these is the Tourist Camp on which he says $100,000 can be profit- ably expended during the next fis- cal vear. “The present Tourist Camp, tempo- rarily located in East Potomac Park and utilizipg temporary war struc- tures,” says he, “has demonstrated the need for -a- perminent tourist camp -in a_suftaBle location in the vicinity of Washington, to be operat- ed under the officé of public build- ings and grounds. The ever Increas- ing _number of automobile _tourists (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Autoist Rushing Injured Man to Hospital Collides With Sedan—2 Others Hurt. An automobile rushing to the hos pital early today with the injured driver @f a machine that had just been demolished in a collision with a street car near St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pltal turned its mission of mercy into one of near-tragedy when it collided with another car and added two more accident victims to the hospital list. The original victim, Bernard Kin- ard, colered, 20 vears old. of 626 Wade road southeast, was operaling his car north on Nichols avenue south- east and, police say, along the south- bound car track, when a one-man street car of the Washington Rail- way and Electric Co., in charge of Joseph Burg crashed into Kin- Auto Hits Sedan. Kinard was picked up by a passing motorist, Albert Day of 605 Raleigh street southeast, and was being taken to Casualty Hospital when Day’s ma- chine collided near the Anacostia car Pit with & sedan operated by George Aiken, 2316 Shannon place southeast Edgar S. McDonald, jr. 21, of 2711 Nichols avenue southeast, and Jgssé H. Brown, 21, of 2941 Seventh street southeast, passengers in Adken's car, were cut and bruiseg.” They were | taken to Casualty Hospital in the No. 11 precinct patret, while Kinard was Ppicked up by the Casualty ambulance. At _the hospital it was found that| Kindrd was suffering from a frac- tured skull and numerous cuts. His condition 1s critical. Three Others Hurt. i Three other persons were hurt in traflic accidents last night and this morning. Edith Klavans, 15 years old, of 1401 Ingraham street, was knock: ed down last night near her home | by an automobile operated, police re- ported, by Robert Fauntleroy West of 5944 Georgia avenue. She received brulses about the face and legs, for which she was treated by Dr. Stewart C. Johnson of 5214 Fourteenth street. She later was removed to her home. Elizabeth Walker, colored, 41, of 774 Florida avenue, was struck by a machine operated by Joseph’ Henson of 1218 Kirby street while she was crossing the street near Ninth and Q streets, police were told. She was taken to Freedmen's Hospital and treated for slight injuries. Gladys Mahoney, "colored, of 1816 Twentieth street was slightly injured In a collision this morning at Eigh- tenth and Q streets between the au- tomobile of Wendell Pope of Tenth and Rhode Island avenue, in which she was & passenger, and a car oper- ated by Henry Flather of 1528 Bigh- teenth street. Both cars were slightly damaged. {Congress Must Decide Meth- | {@Erived, shall be credited wholly to as fast as th Sunday's DISTRICT FINANCE PROBLEM UP AGAIN od of Sharing Expenses of National Capital. ! Congres; will be called upon a:ain! at this session to determine whether the Federal Government is to pay a proportionate share of the expenses of the National Capital, or whether it will appropriate a lump sum for the| fiscal year 1926 as it did for the cur-| rent fiscal year. In the budget which is soon to be| submitted by President Coolidge it will be neceseary to set forth the permanent law, as well as the action of Congress for the present year. The permanent Jaw calls for appro- priations for .the District of ‘Coluns. bfa on the 60-40..plan, whereby 60 per cent of the expenditures for the National Capital are pald for out of the revenues of the District and 40 per cent out of the Federal Treas- ury. Compromise Was Reached. As a result of a compromise in conference between the two houses of Congress during a legislative jam, an innovation was made by which Congress contributed a lump sum of approximately .$9,000,000 toward the costs of the Capital City, leaving the taxpayers of the District to bear all the burden of the remaining budget- ary expenss This change was ef- fected largely as a result of personal efforts by Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, who two years ago was acting chairman of the sub- committee handling the District ap- propriation bill As a result of Representative Cramton’s drive the House wrote into the District appropriation bill lump-sum appropriation of $8,000,- 000. When the Senate got the biil it promptly struck out this $8,000,000 and reverted to the old fixed pro- portion of 60-40 and then when the bill got to conference, with the House conferees stubborn, a com- promise was reached changing the $8,000,000 to $9,000,000. Thus, the 60-40 proportion ognized as permanent law and will be used in preparation of the Dis- trict budget, but the $9,000,000 proposi- tion for last year, will also be in- cluded, as the budget throughout con- tains comparative data. Provisions of Bills. The District appropriation for the" current vear reads: “That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1925, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as a result of the expenditure. of appropriations made for the-fiscal year 1924, and prior fiscal yedrs) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the”same proportion that each contffbuted to the activity or source from which such revenue was is rec- the District of Columbia, and in ad- dition $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money In the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and all the remainder out of the combined rev- enues of the District of Columbia and such advances from the Federal Treasury as are authorized in the District’ of Columbfa appropriation act for the fiscal year 1823 The essential point is that this change in flscal relations is specifical- 1y made only for “the fiscal year end- ing June’ 30, 1925. Representative Cramton is prepar- ing again to make a fight to con- tinue the lump-sum contribution sys- ready to make a stand in defense of a fixed proportionate share by Congress the costs of maintkining the Capital City as a model for all the world. . FRENCH AIRMAN SETS NEW SEAPLANE RECORD By the Associated Press. ARGENTEUIL, France, December 1.—~The airman Paumier, using a new amphibious plane equipped with a 350-horsepower motor, yesterday broke the speed record for seaplanes for the distances of both 100 and 200 kilometers while carrying a load of 500 kilograms. Paumier's average “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes e papers are printed. " Satarday's Circulation, 94,837 Circulation, 105497 TWO CENTS. TRAFFIC PROBLEM, DRY ENFORCING AND OTHER D. C. ISSUES GIVEN T0 GONGRESS Commissioners Ask for New Courts, More Policemen and Heavier Sentences to Combat Law Violations. NEW INSURANCE CODE AND TAX CHANGE URGED Establishment of Department of Charities Recommended—Need for Additional Fire Apparatus Cited—Improving Street Light- ing System Held Essential. Steps that should be taken to in- prove the traffic situation, now one | of the foremost municipal problem were laid before Congress today i the annual report of the Distric Commissioners. They passed on to the Senate anc House for consideration the recomn: mendations of the Police Depart ment, which, briefly stated, are: Establishment of a traffic court with a provision to prevent a per son from forfeiting collateral to avoid appearing in court. A material increase in the num ber of policemen assigned to traf fic duty. A law making it obligatory upo the court to impose a jail sentence for conviction of driving while in- toxicated. The report of the Commissione: is intended primarily to be a revie of the services rendered to the comi- munity during the last fiscal year b the various departments of the Go:- ernment, but the document include many suggestions advanced by dr partment heads for the future is provement of the work of their re spective bureaus Would Better Dry Work. police chapter of the two important suggesti repo contain: lor making prohibition enforcemer o Washington. Thev ar ksl ndment of the penalty clause to pravide a jail sentence of &t le €0 days for the first offense, without fine, and proportionately heavy in- creases for subsequent offense A law making it a felony punish- jable by two years of imprisonmen for the use of a smoke-screen on an automobile to elude police capture Other important legislative recom- mendations contained in the report may be summarized as follows: That the time for the annual filing of personal property tax returns_be changed from July to May. Asses- sor W. P. Richards points out that the filing of these returns in July is too close to the month of Novem- ber, when the first half of the tax is due. He also raises the point that many property vners are out of the leity in July.” Nearly all taxpayers { visit the District Building fn May to pay the last half of their current tax bills and could file their personal re- turns for the next year at the same time if the proposed change is au- thorized. Ask Insurance Code. Enactment of the proposed new in- surance code at this session of Con- gress is urged by Superintendent of Insurance Baldwin. He states that a bill to regulate fraternal insurance also will be Introduced at this ses- | sion. The Commissioners renew their in- dorsement of the plan of the board of trustees of the Free Public Li- brary and of ‘the Board of Educa- | tion for conducting branch libraries |in school buildings as an efficient lana economical method of extending 4the library system. - Attention aiso is called’to the fact that Congress failed to make pro- vision in the Pistrict appropriation jact for the current fiscal year for the opening and maintenance of the new-Mount Pleasant branch of the Pub- fc Library. Hope is expressed that funds will be provided in time to prevent the building from standing idle for several months after its com- pletion. More rigid regulation of hucksters peddlers and other transient venders. 1s recommended by Superintendent of Welghts and Measures George Roberts. ‘Want Police Station Sites. Purchase of sites for the erection of three more police stations is rec- ommended by Maj. Sullivan. The policé_chief states that they should ibe located at Benning, Tenleytown | and on Georgia avenue near Colorado avenue. The oftrepeated appeal of hte Po- lice Department for an adequate law {to cope with the indiscriminate sale of revolvers and other deadly weap- ons is once more renewed. The ! Comngissioners say that if Congress will enact the pending Capper bill to | _|tem, while friends of the District are | restrict the sale of such weapons it will result if a material reduction in _the number of crimes of violence. In addition to the preceding reques for a special traffic court, the Ce missioners recommend appointment of two or more regular Police Court judges. The report points out that the volume of Police Court business has been multiplied five times sincc the court was created with two judges. A law to make drug addiction a felony in the District with a penality of from one to five years at the work- house is recommended. Such a pen- alty, the report states, would maks possible the administration of med:- cal treatment in an effort to cure victims of the habit. More Fire Apparatus Asked. The need for more motor fire an- paratus is stlil present, Chief Watson speed for the shorter distance was slightly over 192 miles an hour and for the longer distance slightly under that figure. The performance was the more re- declares. While there are no horse- drawn companies in service, the chief points out that & number of the old tractor-type motor engines are worn out and should be replaced as quick- e eeei———— | T&TkADl6 in that the test was made |1y as possible. D over a 10-kilometer course and_ the machine - was brand-new, never hav- It has become mecessary, the chief {(Continued on Page 3, Column 2)