Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 2

2 * CODLIDGETS HOS 10 SENATE CHIEFS Fourteen Ranking Members Guests at Breakfast; Others to Be Invited. Fourteen Republican Senators were President Coolidge's guest at break- fast this morning during which the convening of Congress, a tentative Jeglslative program and other mat- ters important to the administration und the party leardership were in- formally touched upon. The purpose of this gathering w described by several Senators them- selves and by White House attaches “s @ "goodfellowship breakfast” af £ort of “get-together gathering.” It| was sald also at the White House that another group of Republican Senators wHl be similarly entertained by Pres- ident Coolidge tomorrow morning and Wednesday morning. According to one of the President's assistants the list jor these three breakfasts were made up mostly ac- cording to seniority. Veterans Among Guests. In this morning’s group were Sena- tor Curtis of Kansas, the leader of the Senate, and Senator Watson, as-| rs were all| committes chairme Al s of New H. ¢ the joint committee on printin Warren, Wy ing, chai an of the ppropriation mittee; oot, ! Utah, chairm he finance com- | ‘mfttee; Borah, ranking member of | toreign relations; Cummins, Towa,| resident pro tem of the Senate;| Wads'vorth, New York, chairman of | fiitary; Hale, Maine, chairman of aval; Jones, Washington, chafrman ¢ commerce; Sterling, South Dakota, chalrman of post office &nd post oads; McLean, Connecticut, chair- man of banking and currency; Norris, Nebraska, chafrman of agriculture, and Spencer, Missourf, chairman of privileges and elections. | 1t 1s understood that the invita- tions for today’s gathering were co; eved to the guests by means of the; telephone vesterday. ‘The Presi und his guests sat down at ¥ o to the mesl, which | was what has been described at the! White Houss on former occasions as | an old-fashioned New England meal— frult, -hot cakes and sausage. scram- eggs and bacon, hominy, fried potatoes, Jam, milk, coffee and tea. The whole affalr was said to be in- formal and the conversation was gen- | eral, covering a of subjects | looked upon as at for the present. The Pre was repre- rented as having no favors to ask and | made no attempt to gather-in any pledges before his guests departed. Upon the completion of the meal cigars and cigarettes were passed nround and the party smoked talked until § o'clock, when the tors left in a body. Beveridge Is Guest. President” Coolidge has invited a| few close friends to be his guests at ' dinner tonight, among them being former Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who will be a house guest. The President’s day was a full and | busy one. Besides the scheduled list of callers there were a number of party lsaders and congressional call- ers, as well.as prominent persons! from different parts of the country who arg in Washington for the open- ing of Congress and who called mere- | 1y to’ehake hands with the Executive. Prominent among the President's impromptu callers was Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, one of the Democratic leaders In the Senate, who recommended the appointment of Judge William Grubb, judge of the United States District Court of Northern Alabama, to succeed Judge A. C. King of the Ffth Circuit Court of Appeal: Joseph Kealing, Republican na- tional committeeman for Indlana, saw the President again today regarding the elevation of Judge A. B. Ander- #on from the United States District Court at Indianapolis to the vacancy! on the Seventh Circuit Court of Ap- peals. Dencen Is Caller. President Coolidge had an inter- est w; chat today with Charles S.| Deneer of Illinois. who was elected November 4 to succeed Medill Me- Cormick ms Senator from Illinots. | This was Oev. Deneen's first visit| to Washington since his election and | was the first time he had ever con- versed with the President. He had been introduced to him during the| uneral of President Harding in| Marfon, but had no opportunity then | 0 really become acquainted. 1 Senator Deneen said his object in | coming to Washington at this time | GROSSMAN 3-Year Extension Of Leave Is Asked For Gen. Butler Bxtension of the leave of ab- sence from the Marine Corps for three vears for Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, now director of public safety of Philadelphia, was re- quested by Mayor Kendrick in a communication lald todax before Prosident Coolidge. The President will confer with Secretary Wilbur before taking action. PARTY 0 IGNOR CASE OF WHEELER Senate Democrats to Make No Effort to Read Him Out of Party. - P There is to be no effort at this time to formally read Senator Wheeler of Montana out of the Democratie party. Senator Robinson of Arkaneas, the Democratic leader, xo announced to- day, in response to inquirles whether Senate Democrats would follow the lead of the Republicans, who have ex- cluded from party councils Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, with whom Senator Wheeler was assoclated on the independent presidential iicket. RSenator Robinson sald there wasi no occaslon for calling a conference of Senate Democrats; that there would be a meeting only of the steering committee to fill vacancies on stand- ing committees of the Senate. S OSE ARRUED IN COURT President’s Power of Pérdon, Is Debated Before Su- preme Justices. The President's pardoning power was argued before the Supreme Ceurt today in the case of Philip Grossman of Chicago, charged with having vio- lated a prokibition padlock injunction and sentenced to a term in the house of correction. President Coolidge pardoned him, but the Federal Dis- trict Court took the position that the Chief Executive had no power in con- tempt, cases. Attorney General Stone, by special direction of Prestdent Coolidge, ap- peared to sustain the action of the Executive, and Amos C. Miller and F. Bruce Johnstone were appolnted | special assistants to present the views | of the lower tribunal. | Broadly, it was éontended that the President’s power to pardon extended to al! contempts not committed in the presence of the court, and that it in- cluded all contempts whigh constituted a violation of the law and could be punished by indictment and jury trial See Criminal Contempt. 1t was pointed out that while Gross- man had been enjoined from the further sale of intoxlcating Liquor #nl- lowing his first conviction, the vio'a- | tion of the injunction: constituted an | oftense under the prohibition law, and | that he could have been tried for the second sale of liquor. The offense | constituted a criminal contempt, it | was asserted, which was an oftense against the United States and within the pardoning power of the President. Counsel for the other side insisted that the President had exceeded his constitutional power and could not grant pardons in any contempt cases. The courts must be recognized as having unimpalired authority to e force their orders, it was asserted, otherwise they would be powerless to maintain themselves and their juris- diction. PR S WOMAN KILLED, 25 HURT | IN WRECK IN CHICAGO Express Crashes Into Immigrant Train, Demolishing Two Rear Coaches on Pennsy Line. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 1.—An uni- dentified woman was killed, and ap- proximately 25 other pasengers in- jured in a rear-end collision of the Pennsylvania _Railroad passenger trains on the South Side today. The victims were occupants of an immi- was to attend the convening of the Senate and to confer with some of | the party leaders beforc he is sworn | in next March. He said he plans to| confer with Senator McKinley of | Tllinois delegation in the House be- | fore leaving for home tomorrow. Postmaster General New corferred | grant car on the rear of train No. 109. Train No. 109 was running late ! when an express train crashed into | #, smashing the two rear cars of the | immigrant train. The wreck occurred | two blocks north of the Englewood Union Station on Sixty-third street, | The immigrant train had slowed | Thene photographs were transmit- ted by wireless from the London offices of the Marconi Co. to a re- celving apparatus in New York at a successful jemonstration before sci- entists, engineers and others. The demonstration proved that It is practical to broadeast photographs acroas thousands of milex, oceans nnd continents alike by rapld transmis- sl Above are whown reproductions of pictures of President Coolidge and Premier Staniey Baldwin. Below: Ambassador Kellogg and the Prince of Wales. HOI%RORS OF PRISON LIFE UNDER SOVIET CAUSE SUICIDE WAVE (Continued from First Page.) in the Winter usually run out. Those sent to the remote parts are sure of nothing, living as they do where agriculture is _impossible, where there often is no medical treatment for the rick, and where no intellectual intercourse fs possible. How these live. the writer cannot say. Late one night less than a fortnight ago the correspondent was in Tomsk and visited the prison there—one of the oldest and best managed of the Russian prisons today. He listened to the stor'es of inmate after There was a fevered and passionate when the supplies |outburst from a woman Maximalist, who is now en route te exile at Narim after 20 months of confinement at the Novonikolalevsk camp. Bound for Arctic Camp. Next came quiet words from a wom an teacher who was charged with having influenced the children under her against the government. She was in a cell with her little daughter, aged 8. Both were bound for an Arctic exile The prisoners, knowing that a strangor was present, assembled a cholr In the library below. One priest, who had been sentenced for the con- coalment of church treasures, led the " 1. and another priest, sentenced for speaking against taxation, stood br. Most of the members of the chorus were men of education, bear- Ing no signs of a-criminal strain, although they were treated as crim- inals As the writer entered they began to sing in tones of‘indescribabie emo tion Russia’s famous prison song— “Break Our Chaine; Give Us Liberty and We W1l Teach .You the Value of Freedom.” It was as though they were plead- ing through the correspondent with Ruseia’s rulers, who alone can help them. Again and again their volces rose in the mournful and heart-rend- ing_refrain: “Break Our Chains.” Words failed the writer. The tragedy robbed him of the power of speech, but now he sends on thelr plea, and pleads not for them alone, but for all of Russia’s unhapply polit- ical vietims. Will her rulers listen? Will they frame that political amnesty bill for which all Russia® waits and for which all Russia would bless them? (Copyright. 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) (Unauthorized reproduction mrbld:vn! COURT DENIES WOMA $20,000 DAMAGE AWARDS Jury Returned $10,000 Verdict Each to Two for False Incar- ceration in Asylum. By the Associated Pres: WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. December 1. —Verdicts of $10,000 each, awarded by a jury last Friday to the Misses Ada and Phoebe Brush, as damages ‘with the President on department | down when the fast cxpress plowed | for false incarceration in Kings Park matters, Scott C. Bone, former Washing- | ton newspaper editor and now Gov- | otnor of Alaska, called on the President to pay his respects and to discuss informally the conditions in that territory. Others who saw the President were: Representative Winslow of Massa- chusetts; Representative Owen of | Minnesota, who was assistant in| arge of public speakers' bureau at | Chicago during the last campafgn;| Representative Wurtzbach, the only | Republican Representative from Texas; Mrs. -Harrlet Taylor Upton, | former vice chairman of the Repub- | lican nationat committee, Who was ac- tive in women's organization work during the campaign;: Representative Pat Kelly of Michigan: John Hammill, Governor-elect of Towa, who was in- troduced by E. H. Cunningham of the Federal Reserve Board; the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and gMrs. Don, president of the National Tem- perance Assoclation. PROBE STUDENT’S DEATH Officials Told J. J. McCarthy Was Run Down in Rosslyn. Following the death yesterday of John J. McCarthy, 28 years old, of 2813 Washington circle, at George- town Hospital, an investigation w started on both sides of the Potomac river of an accident in which Mc- Carthy was run over by an auttomo- bile in front of the Arlington Motor Co. garage, at the Virginia end of the Key Bridge. J. Reed, 45, of Arlington county, with whom McCarthy {s said to have heen riding, was held for questioning. rnest Getzinger of Randle Heights, Md., driver of a Fort Myer bus, took the victim to the Fort Myer Hospital, where he received first aid, following ‘which he went to his home. —— E9 Befere you buy securities from any ane be sure they are as §ood as your Dollars. |into it. | Jerome B. Burke, a Civil War vet- | Among ‘ee injured was a 6-year- old boy, said to be a son of the wom- an killed. Except for those in the immigrant car, the other injured were sald to have been chiefly in the car ahead. ———— GEORGE W. BURKE DEAD. ‘Was for 40 Years an Employe of Ensuvl‘ng Bureau. George Wilson Burke, 58 years old, who was for 40 years an employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing, died at his home, 421 Cummin Lane, Chevy Chase, Md., yesterday. Death was due to acute indigestion. Mr. Burke was, a native of Fred- erick, Md. He hdd long been prom- inent in Masonic and other fraternal circles, having been a member of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, F. A, A. M.; Modern Woodmen of America; Junior | Order of United American Mechanice | and the Gavel Club. He s survived by his father, Maj. eran and Past Master of Pentalpha | Lodge; a son, Jerome E. Burke, and a daughter, Mrs. Katherine B. Miller. Masonic funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Congressional Cemetery. —— WILL PLAN MEETINGS. | House District Committee to Get Together Wednesday. The House District committee will hold its first meeting Wednesday morning. It was explained today by Representative Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia, who resumes active charge of the committee as chairman, that this is meeting to consider when future meetings will be held. It will be in ssion only & few moments becau: message Is to be read in the House on ;hfl qayy Insane Asylum, were set aside today by Supreme Court Justice Mosrc- hauser. Defendants to the joint ac- tion were Drs. W. B. Gibson, and Walter Lindsey, both of Huntington, Long Island. Justice Morschauser's only com- ment upon his order was “the motion of counsel for the defendants that the verdict be set aside is granted.” He indicated when the jury announced its decision last Friday that he con- sidered it “contrary to the welght of evidence.” This Is the second’ time Justice Morschauser has ruled adversely to the Brush sisters. Last year he re- versed a decision of the appellate court in Brooklyn granting the wom- en permission to sue the doctors for $250,000 e WILL REPORT ON BUREAU ‘The report on conditions at the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing by a specigl investigating committee of the House which hag held hearings during the recess of Congress is ex- pected to be made on Thursday. That day an executlve session of the com- mittee will be held and Representa- tive Edward J. King of Illinois, on whose resolution ‘the committee wa: appointed, has a report ready for con: sideration which he belleves will be approved. The hearings grew out of charges by Charles B. Brewer an agent of the Department of Justice, rcgarding’ du- plication of bonds and other irregu- larities, as a result of whose report to President Harding a number of the most_important officials in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing were Sum- marily dismissed. Dawes Able to Walk. CHICAGO, December 1.--Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Vice : President- first time since he was operatéd on for hernia two weeks ago. He walk- ed a Iitfle and ‘tatked with' friends and said ‘feels better than ever bagare.’ : tendapee: VASHINGTO PICTURES TRANSMITTED OVER SEA BY RADIO ; WITH GOOD RESULTS (Continued from First Page.) the plctures flashed from River Head to the Marconi radio sta- tion at Carnarvon, Wales, and with- out being “unscrambled” were radioed back he to be reproduced. ‘Thus plctures actually have been success- fully transmitted twice across the Atlantic in a single operation A feature of the apparatus is that it operates as a simple accessory to the system of radio tranemission now in commerclal use. Thus, while a picture was being sent, the London operator would “cut in” to send a news dispatch and the picture mak- ing would be arrested. SENDS PHOTO MESSAGES. bearing Jenkins' Transmits Pictures From D. C. to Boston. Dy tiie Assoctated Press - MEDFORD, Mase, December 1.— Wireless photographs sent this morn- ing from Washington, D. C.. by the inventor, C. Francis Jenkins, were re- cetved at the station of the American Radio and Research Corporation here. The test was part of the Boston radio show which opens today. The eame test failed last night. The photographs were of messages written by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Curtis D. Wilbur, Sec- retary of the Navy: Paul Henderson, Second Assistant Postmastre General. and Ismo Yoshida, Japanese Am- bassador. The last message was in Japanese characters. STATIC PROBLEM HARD, Transmission Rendered Difficult by Fading. By Consolidated Press. W YORK, December 1.—What to do about static? That is the question troubling officials of the Radio Cor- poration of America, who succeeded in transmitting photographs across the sea between London and New York Sunday ‘With the success of the demonstra- tion unchallenged, perfection looms Pictures are sent between two -stations, one to transmit, the other to recelve, each dot and dash at exactly the same rate of speed, after the fashion in which a half-tone re- | production is made. While the small {Pen, by minute dots and short faint lines, traces with fair acouracy the picture held in London, each fraction of a second in which static was ex- perienced caused an empty vold to appear at that part of the face of the photographed person which the in- struments were thep reproducing. A continued spell of static would make impossible the sending of any photograph at all. - Fading Means Failure, Various difficulties experienced in sending messages and programs by radio attend the sending of photo- graphs. Fading, when signals become indistinct, due to ether. conditions, spells failure to the receiving instru- ment, which cannot pick up the dots and dashes which make the photo- graph on the afr. Last June when the transmission of photographs. by telephoné was dem- onstrated at the Republican conven- tion at Cleveland, one point was made clear. Absolute privacy was insured. Because a telephone wire conneets only two points, the picture could be received by only the person to whom it was sent. ¥ No Privacy Assured: |" Radio transmigslon of photographs | presents a’new phase which may be {an advantage or a tremendous handi- | cap. Because radio waves are not di. | rectional, because they have no dis- | tange 1imit except as the power of the receiving set determines how far away they can be received, people in any sectlon of the country equipped with the proper instruments could “pick up” a photograph sent to a par. ticular person. Although the radio corporation has no license to send its radio message except over the sea, it cannot stop in New York a picture that has been sent from London. That picture can g0 beyond, if therp are instruments to receive it. —_— ~SENATOR DALE ILL. Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont !1s confined to his home with a severe i case of grippe, it was learned today. {The Senator was taken ill on Satur- day and has‘ been forced, under bis| physician’s orders, to remain In bed. Although his case 1is dlagnosed as Picture i purely a get-together | elect, loft his bed vésterday for the | well advanced, his physicians *hope that by rest and proper attention Senator Dale will be able -soon to resums- kis- place trafned nurse is sald to be in at- e D. C | i i AL DRVERS BOUND BY TRAFI LAWS U. S. Chauffeurs Not Ex- empted, Appeals Court Rules in Traffic Case. the employ of the Government are bound by the traflic_regulations. Justice Robb of the District Court of Ap- peals 80 held today when he upheld the action of the Police Court in con- victing Louis M. Croson, who failed to exhibit hi¢ driving permit while oper- nment-owned machine Chauffeur United Stat The Court of Appeals declares that the authority of Congress as the legislature of this District/is plenary and the case at bar is not one of conflicting jurlsdiction between the District and United States Govern- ment, but on¢ involving the intent of the sole legislative bLody. Congress, it Is pointed out, has au- thorized the making of traffic regul tions, and the police regulations re- quire the {ssuance of permits to op ative motor vehicles, and that the failure of a driver to exhibit suca permit, when required. shall be zan- ishable. Intext of Congrs-3 Outlined. An examination of the intent of Congress in traffic legislation, Justice Robb says, shows it is to make its provisions “all-embracing except as otherwise specified.” It requires that motor vehlcles owned and maintained in the District by the United States or the District government should be registered and carry identification tags, but that no fees should be ex- acted for such registration and tags. “One evident purpose,” says Justice Robb, “of the act was to make it possible to identify traffic law vio- latore, and it is clear, we think, that to have excluded this large class of vehicles (government owned) would have frustrated to a considerable de- gree the purpose indicated. Moreover it was the view of Con- gress that a special provis'on was necessary to c¢ffect the exemption of this class of vehicles from the pay- ment of fees for registration and tags. While Congress has not enacted legislation directly dealing with the issuance of permits, the court de- clared. there can be no doubt of the authority of the Commissloners to promulgate ~ regulations relating thereto under their general powers. “Such regulation undoubtedly is rea- sonably necessary,” says Justioe Robb, “for public protection. Indeed In_ view of conditions judicially | known to exist in the District of Co. lumbla. it might be suggested that the regulations are less drastlc than the situation demands” s Congress has made no proy excluding drivers ' of - Governmant: owned cars from the requirements of the police regulations respecting per- mits, we think the conclusion firre- | sistible that such_driveres are mot | exempt, declares Justice Robb, In conclusion the justice states: } "It is even more Important, § | view, that the drivers of all vehiclay | within the. District should satisfy | the requirements of the traffic regu- {lations as to their qualifications to { operate motor. vehicles than that | those vehicles should be reglstered and -carry identification tags. The vehicles are dangerous only when driven and unless all drivers are to be subject to these reasonable regu- lations there can be no real protec- tion to the public.” , COURT GRANTS NEW TRIAL Holds George L. Bolt Illegally Con- victed of Carcying Weapon. George L, Bolt, convicted in Police Court of carrying a concealed weap. on, will get a new trial. . Justice Robb of the District Court of Appeals held today that the conviction was illegal because . the weapon was unlawfully seized from Bolt and because the trial judge refused to permit evidence to go to the jury that Bolt had re- celved the weapon in payment of a debt and was taking it home. There was no evidence of the gun being loaded or that Bolt had cartridges in his possession, the court points out. The- trial judge also permitted po- lice officers to testify that they had recelved information that Bolt and another man were contemplating a i t the Capitol. A|burglary. Bolt was standing at &|Two of the men were re) arrest . stop when nl nnae.rw MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1924 BRITISH DEMANDS 0.K.D, CRISIS ENDS Egypt’s Acceptance of All Terms to Stop Customs Occupation. By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, December 1.-—Al- though not yet officially announced, it {s understood authoritatively that the Egyptian government has ac- cepted all the British demands, made at the time of the assassination of Maj. Gen. Sir Lee Stack. The acceptance came after lengthy conferences yesterday. Its first im- mediate consequence will be the evac- uation by the British of the Alexan- dria customhouse. The ministers of education and pub- lic works have resigned and it is expected the minister of communica- tion will follow suit. Mustafa Nahas, former and a number of other lawyers have addressed a letter to the public pros- ecutor protesting against the arrest of members of the Chamber of Dep- utles in connection with alleged plots against the British and demanding thelr release, EVACUATION QUIET. Egyptian Troops Quitting Sudan Without Disorder. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 1—All reports from the Sudan reaching London to- day indicate the situation there fs quiet and that the evacuation of the Egyptian troops {s procecding stead- ily without incident. . Egypt has agreed to the outstand- ing terms, previously unaccepted. which were lald down .after the assassination of the sirdar, Sir Lee Stack. Messages to this effect, it is learned from authoritative sources, have been received from Lord Allen- by, British high commissioner in Egypt. (The demands to which the Egyp. tlan government at first refused to accede were that all Egyptian officers and purely Egyptian units of the Egyptian army be withdrawn from the Sudan; thyt an increase in irri- gation be pefmitted in the Sudan, and that opposition cease to British wishes concerning protection of for- eign interests in Egypt. After the Egyptian refusal the British author- itles themse ves ordered the Egyptian troops to evacuate the Sudan and some of them have left.) Situation Qulet. The situation both in Egypt and the Sudan continues quiet, according to the latest reports from newspaper correspondents, whose dispatches im- ply that further trouble in the Sudan, at_any rate, is improbable. The munity of a small body of troops in the 11th Sudanese Bat- talion is generally ascribed directly to the influence brought to bear on the men hy their officers acting in behalf of Egyptian propagandists. The full extent of the casualties among the mutineers, suffered during their fighting with the British appar- ently will not be established until the ruins of the buflding in which they barricaded themselves are cleared away, but some reports indicate that only ‘about a score le under the debris. L (A Calro dispatch on Saturday sald one officer and 14 men of the mutineers were belleved to have been killed, the remainder surrendering, with the exception of a small number who were being rounded up by the police. An official communique showed that two British officers. one British physician and two Syrian physicians were killed and nine men of the ranks wounded.) Agreement Reached. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Express understands that an agreement has been reached by which the British troops will be withdrawn from the Alexandria customs house, which they recently occupied. This, he adds, would seem to indicate con- fidence in the willihgness and ability of the new premlier, Ziwar Pasha. to hold down the extremists and fulfill the British terms. A message recelved today says the Cairo schools, in which the students have been on strike, are reopening and that the situation Is quiet in both Cairo and Alexandria. There is no prospect of further dis- orders, this message asserts. BACKS BRITISH VIEW. Nansen Says Egyptian Dispute Is Domestic Issue. By the Assoclated Press. TRONDHJEM, Norwi Deocember 1.—Dr. Fritdjof Nansen, referring to the Egyptian crisis during a lecture here on the League of Nations, de- clared that Egypt could hardly be re- garded as a sovereign state, and, therefore, the present conflict was purely a British domestic question. He added, however, that it was to be regretted that the league had not been called upon to deal Wwith the question. : FIRST HOUSE ACT TRIBUTE TO WILSON Garrett Resolution for Joint Serv- ices December 15 Passed and Sent to Senate. The first act of the House today. after the formalities connected with its convening, was to pass and send to the Senate a resolution proposing that - Monday, December 15, be set ide for services in memory of ‘Woodrow Wilson. ‘The resolution, presented by Repre- sentative Garrett of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, would authorize a joint session, to which would be in- vited the President, members of the cabinet, the Supreme Court, and others in officlal life. Speaker Gillett appointed these members to be a committee on a rangements: Bacharach, New Jerse, Anthony, Kansas; Green. Iowa, and Scott, Michigan, Republicans, and Garrett, Moore, Virginia, and Pou, North Carolina, Democrats. e 1 DEAD, 4 HURT IN CRASH Engimeer Scalded Fatally When Trains Collide. ATLANTA, Ga., December 1.—Hand ley Harcourt, 38, an engineer, is dead and four other men, all employes of the Southern Railway, are injured as a result of a train.collision here yes- terday. The five men were riding in a Southern Railwi engine, which crashed into the rear of a Southern freight train on Ponce de Leon ave- nue at a road crossing. All the men were scalded, and Harcourt died soon after being removed to a hospital. ; Tted In serious conditien by Jties. minister, | ACHRACH. SENATOR W SENATORW.L JONES LEY L. JO! MADE 6. 0. P. ‘WHIP Washington Man Personal i Selection of Curtis for Important Post. Senator Wesley L. Jones of Wash- ington today was named Republican whip in the Senate. The selection was made by Sena- tor Curtis of Kansas, the newly elect- ed leader of the majority. Senator Jones is chairman of the Senate com- merce committee and long has been high in the Republican Senate coun- cils. In his capacity as whip it will be his chief duty to aesist the lead- | ers in maintaining quorums. There had been a suggestion that Senator Watson of Indiana, recently chosen assistant leader. combine with that office the duties of party whip. That plan, however, was abandoned. UPRISING OF REDS IN REVAL REPULSED Armed Communists Attack Government Buildings in Esthonian Capital. | By the Associated Press. REVAL, Esthonia. December 1.— Armed communists attacked certain government and military bulidings here at 5:30 o'clock this morning. Ac- cording to the officlals, the attack was immediately suppressed and or- der restored. No disturbances are reported from the other towns or provinces. PROCLAIM MARTIAL LAW. Soldiers Placed in Control of Reval Government. By the Associated Pres HELSINGFORS, Finland, December 1.—According to advices from Reval, the Esthonian capital, armed men oc- cupled the raflway station there to- day and attempted to capture the tele- graph and telephone office. Several persons, including a num- ber of police, are reported to have been killed, and others, incinding M. Kark, minister of communications, were wounded. The minister was shot while on the way to the station. Order was restored by troops after a number of scattered fights, in which hand grenades and machine guns were used. The troops recap- tured the railway station at § o'clock. Martial -law has been proclaimed, the advices say, and all the govern- ment buildings are held by troops. SEES REVENGE MOVEMENT. Esthonian Envoy Tells of Sentences on Communists. LONDON, December 1l.—he Estho- nian Legation in London in a statement this afternoon said the attack on the | government military buildings in i Reval this morning was undoubtedly a-Communistic demonstration in con- nection with the conviction last month of mere than 100 Esthonlan Communists on charges of conspiracy to overthrow- the Esthonian consti- tution by violence. Thirty-nine of the convicted men were sentenced to hard labor for life and 74 others were sentenced to terms ranging from 6 to 15 years. ‘The statement declared the move- ment was immedlately ~suppressed after Minister of Communications Kark had been killed. The total number of casualties was placed at 50. Martial law has been declared throughout the country, the legation stated, and Gen. J. Lainener has beeh | appointed commander-in-chief. - ALLIES WILL ALLOCATE GERMAN RECEIPTS SOON British Said to Be Dissatisfled With Way U. S. War Claims Will Be Met. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 1.—The meeting of finance ministers at which it fs planned to allocate definitely the reparations received from Germany un- der the Dawes program has been set ahead to January 6. The delay is sald in diplomatic circles here to be due to the fact that the British are not in accord with the French and Americans con- cerning the way in which the Amer- fcan war damage claims should be met. The British, it is stated, also are dissatisfied that they had no | part in the negotiations on this sub- ject that took place between James A. Logan, the American représenta- tive and Finance Minister Clementel of France. ‘The British experts who shared in the work preparatory to the confer- ence made no statement regarding the British position when Mr. Logan announced recently that the Amer- {cans would ask that their claims llbl in ’0': ‘dnlltrlbflunl;n of np:::. tion recef, € experts sayi, bad tnsufficient {nstructions. A -‘7 FONDS FOR ARMY PSS HERE ASHED Walter Reed and Bolling Field Aid Plea Made by Weeks in House. ! i | A construction program the various Army posts in the United States, Hawait and the Panama Canal Zone, estimated to cost $115,338,000 and including $3,820,000 for Walter Reed Hospital and $398,600 for Bol- ling Field, Anacoetia, D. C., was out- lined In a report submitted to the House foday by Secretary of War Weeks. If the funds asked for to under- | take new construction projects at Walter Reed Hospital are granted, three permanent wards, housing 380 beds, permanent quarters for non- commissioned officers and quarters for the hospital nurses would be erected within the reservation. Bolling Fieid's dilapidated war-tims barracks that house the enlisted men and the unimposing officers’ quarters together with other war-time estab- \lshments at the field, would be re- placed by structures of a permanent and efficient type. This improvement would place Bolling Field on a par Wil many other modernized fie throughout the country. Would Sell Holdings. The War Department authority to sell real estate it and now of little value to it in to hegin the much needed work { throughout the country. So far only $15,000,000 could be realized from the sale of this real estato and $115.- 938,000 is needed to eliminate ther ime structures. Since the war tit is sald at the department today 40,000 men have been living in tents and temporary barracks and the situ- ation has now rcached serious pro- portions. As Bolling Field stands far dowr on the priority list, it was explained n the Alr Service headquarters to- day, there stands little chance of the construction program going into ef- fect, if the appropriation is granted, within the next five years Walter Reed Hospital, however. a little better chance of re 5 its much needed improvements, Lut at present it is all up to Congress just how much to appropriate and how much to spend on each projec recommended. $54,659,500 Asked for U. <. Of the total, $84,659,500 would expended in _continental United States, $11,748,500 In Hawaii and $19,530,000 in the Canal Zone. In addition, it was set forth that new construction, classed as deferrcd and totaling $37,705,000, would be needed some time in the de seeks owns order ands future, d¢ which $27,600,000 would be utilized to provide Army storage and shelter in the Philippines. New construction suggested in th report, which was requested by C gress, and the rough estimate of tota! included: E Boston, ; Camp Devens, M $4,456,000; Camp Dix, N. J., $1,028 Fort Jay, N. Y. ,269,000; Mitchel Field, N. Y. $1,055,000; Plattsbur N. Y., $482,000; Fort Totten, N. Y $301,5 Fort Wadsworth, $977,000: Camp Vail, N. J., $1. Aberdcen Proving Grounds, Md.. § 000: Edgewood Arsenal, Md., $451 Fort Eustis, Ga., $2,463 Humphreys, Va., $2,053,000; Fleld, Va., $1,515,000. Camp Meade, Md., $3.6! Bragg, N. C., $4,117,000; Fort Benning. Ga., $10,339,500; Camp McPherson, Ga.. $551,000; Camp McClellan, Ala., $2,317. 000;" Maxwell Fleld. Ala. 3380.000; Fairfleld Air Intermediate Depot, Ohlo, $592,000; Fort Benjamin H rison, Ind., $1,434.000: Scott Fleld, $1,952.000; Seifridge Field, Mich., §2.- 255,000; Chanute Field, Ili., Jefferson _Barrack Army and Navy Ark., $161.000; Fort Riley, Kane, $1 011,000; Fort Bliss, Tex., $1.158. Brooks Field, Tex., § Field, Tex., $2,028,00 moyle, Tex., $833,000; ¥ ton, Tex., $7,342,000; Fort Sill, Okla $3.394,000; Letterman General Hosp: tal, Calif,, $1,035,000; Camp Lew Wash., $4,884,000. BALL TO PUSH BILLS T0 BETTER TRAFFL Senate Committee Favors New Court, More Police and Other Changes. The traffic problem in the Distr: of Columbia 1s to be coneldered soon by the Senate District committee, cording to Senator Ball of Delaware, chairman. The committee during the last session of Congress submitted a comprehensive report on traffic con ditions In the District after a ttor- ough investigation. Senator Bali said today that bills are now being drafted embodying many of the important recommendations contained in the committee's report. He will ask the Senate committee to give favorable consideration to these measures. Among the recommendations of the committee now being put into legisla. tive form are the following: That & traffic court be organized. That the number of policemen in the District be increased in number 200, and that all policemen shall be directly under the authority of the District Commissioners and paid by the District. That all offenders be required to appear in person before the Traffic Court and that no forfeiture of col- lateral be aecepted. That the Enginecr Commissioner shall report on the advisabllity of widening such streets as now have i width of sidewalk in excess of width of roadway. Senator Jones of Washington, an- other member of the Senate Distfict committes, also declared his interest in traffic conditions in the District, and said that stringent measures should be taken to prevent violations of the trafiic regulations. - 1t pays to read the want columns of ‘The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtained through them. Christmas Is Coming Shop . Early So You Can Mail Early