Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 17

WORLD FLYERS POSE AT at work, and the aviators, from Y ——— WASHINGTO! DANCERS TO TAKE PART IN RELIEF BALL. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TIONAL MUSEUM FOR WASHINGTON SCULPTOR. The Air Service officers who made the record-breaking trip by airplane will now have their likenesses in special niches in America’s Hall of Fame. The photograph shows Sculptor Anthony Atchinson left to right, are: Smith, Harding, Nel son, Ogden, Wade and Arnold. Misses Katherine Hereford, Elizabeth Gardiner and Edna Bowman, who will dance at the Russian relief ball at the New Willard tomorrow night. NEW PAY SYSTEM FORU. 5. 15 LIKELY McCarl Sees Change Depend- ent on Decision in Navy Officers” Suit. Controller General McCarl, in h annual report to Congress, made pub- last night, declared court decision favor of a group of Navy officers ho are attempring prevent de- ductions from pay checks for alleged to be due the Govern- ent would probably make necessary an entirely different system of pa ment of Government emploves. Much of the difficulty of his office, Mr. McCarl safd, was due to the “un- husinesslike methods” in various ex- ecutive agencies of the Government, which he sald involved “such lack of nersonal responsibility ae not to in- ure observance of the law with re- spect to the uses of public funds. ie also criticized “the advancing of public funds to approximately 3,000 inadequately bonded disbursing offi- cers for payment of obligations ad- ministratively incurred.” The report was addressed to the I'resident pro tempore of the Senate, since the office occupies a position of Independence under the statute au- thorizing its operation. U. S. Officials Scored. Mr. McCarl insisted that the stat- utes “clearly contemplate” submis- sion by heads of departments to the accounting office of all doubtful ques ifons as to avallability of appropri- ted funds for proposed use, and de- clared the failure of Government of- ficials to live up to this spirit had led 10 much confusion when the transac- tions had to be disallowed “after the damage had been accomplished.” Admjnistrative opposition to his rulings, he said, has been encouraged hy “obsolute statutes intended for a particular beneficlal purpose, but now advanced as authority for conduct never intended by the enactment, and, xecond, certain unfortunate advisory opintons of administrative officers nsed as reason or excuse to justify evasions of proper accounting requir- ments.” There are evidences, however, that is is subsiding,” he added, “as dur- the fiscal year there has appear- «d in some quarters an evident pur- pose to co-operate.” The report showed settlement in last year of 82,000 claims involy- $50,107,000. More than 9,77 claims were pending at the date of re- vort. PUTS BUFFALO ON MENU. National Park Director to Serve Rare Meat at Meal. Memories of the days when the plains of the West were covered with herds of hison will be brought back to the guests t a dinner to be given at the New Wil- lard Hotel December 17 by Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park Service, who will entertain in honor of Horace M. Albright, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Included among the guests will be “onators Kendrick of Wyoming, Oddie of Nevada and Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan. There will also ho present a number of newspaper men who accompanied President Harding on his trip to Yellowstone Park when the J'resident was en Toute to Al g Buffalo meat will be the piece de re- sistance of the dinner, from one of the her@ in Yellowstone Park. This will be the first time in the memory of employes of the hotel that such meat has ever been served at the New Willard. o their <nms the ;i Cross-Word Wave | Forces Change In ! Clothing Styles Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, December 10.—The ©ro: word puzzle is not only tying the populace up into mental knots, but it is’ playing hob with the plans of fashion designers. Mill stylers, who prepare fabric designs well ahead of the con- sumer season, were all set for a “plain” color season next Spring, but the puzzles have switched the demand to checks of all sizes. Shepherd checks and plaids will be featured in the sport Spring wear bigger than ever, says the manager of a large manufac- turer's women's dress goods de- partment, | | | | HGHWAY SAFETY - CONFERENCE TOPIC National Gathering Here Monday to Devise Plan for | Minimizing Street Perils. The program which will be the guide of the national conference on street and | highway safety conference, open next Monday at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the call of Secretary Hoover, is being pre- pared now and will point the way, it | toll_of lives and property taken in traffic accidents tion. ‘Topics of Committee Reports. The conference will have before fit, in addition to the agenda now in course of preparation, eight reports from as many committees dealing with definite traffic findings and the recommenda- tions for dealing with it, compiled by groups of men who have made ex- tensive studies of the subject and have approached it from an angle ca- pable of applying their findings to every community and municipality which has a traffic problem. | With these definite conclusions be- fore it, the conference, which will in- lclude ‘the police chiefs and traffic |heads of a great number of | will immediately get down to dis- cussion, instead of appointing com- mittees to draw up reports and recommendations, as has been the custom in previous conferences Eliminates Duplication. This method, according to spokes- men for Secretary Hoover, will elimi- nate much duplication of effort in the organization of the meeting and will permit it to get down to work with- out delay and protracted discussion of subjects not germane to accldent prevention. Mr. Hoover will open the | meeting himself and hopes to preside at most of the sessions. ‘The committees which have already reported and the conference itself will make no attempt to find a cure for the traffic problems of particular communities, but will confine them- selves to recommendation of general features of traffic control capable of application to any community within a certain population group. Secretary Hoover has taken a great interest in the pgeliminary work of the conference and will place the re- sources of his organization at the call of the conference. - Seventeen denominations were rep- resented at the recent convention in Chicago of the Asociation of Women Preachers. which will | is hoped, to a great reduction in the | throughout the Na-| cities, | Copyright by Harrls & Ewing. SUPPORT PLEDGED Conditions to Recognition by U. S. and Others Listed in Note. The provisional government of | China at Peking was advised yester- | day by foreign powers that full sup- | port to the new Chiness governmen would be given and that it would be | duly recognized, provided it fulfills all treaty conventions and other en- gagements entered into by its prede- cessors. Diplomatic representatives from United States, Great Britain, rance, Japan, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands sent communications to this effect. The promise of support, as set forth in a joint note, was conditioned fur- ther on the understanding that the | provisional government had been con- | stituted with the concurrence of the people of China for the purpose of conducting government affairs pend- ing establishment of a formal admin istration representing all ,province: {and parties of the country. Text of Envoys Note. | The text of the note, telegraphed to the State Department by the | American Legation at Peking, sald: “The representatives at Peking of the United States of America, Bel- glum, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands declare in the names of their governments that, | taking note of the communication ad- |dressed to them on November 24 by the Wai Chiao Pu (Chinese foreign |office), announcing the assumption of |office by the provisional chief execu- tive and of the mandates issued by |the new chief executive on the same | date, they will lend their full support |to the ‘provisional government in | Peking under the present provisional chicf executive, and that they have entered into de facto relations with the same on the understanding that this provisional government has'been |constituted with the concurrence of |the nation for the purpose of taking |charge of the.affairs of the Chinese {republic pending the establishment of | formal government representing all |the provinces and parties in the re- {public and on the understanding that |it is the intention of the provisonal {government and of any formal gov- ernments that may hereafter be es- | tablished to respect and duly fulfill all treaties, conventions and other engagements entered into by the former Manshu and Republican govern- ments and all rights, privileges mnd immunities enjoyed by for- eigners in China by virtue of such international engagements, which, ac- cording to International usage, can only be modified by mutual consent of the contracting partles. “They further declare that on the above understanding their govern- ments are willing and anxious to pro- iceed as soon as practicable with the carrying out of the measures con- templated in the Washington treaties and resolutions,” Watch Parking Rule Effect. The Columbia Heights Business Men's Assoclation will endeavor te sound out opinfon in that section om the new one-hour parking regula- tion in Fourteenth street between Co- lumbia road and Monroe street be- fore action will be taken against the new parking ruling, found objection- able in some business quarters. The matter was discussed at the meeting and banquet last night of the assoc- clation at 1406 Park road and Leroy Sherman and A. T. Androus were ap- pointed to ascertain the sentiments of the business men concerned. - CHINA BY POWERS) | | | tual { his Copyright by . & A. Photos. D. C,; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1922, - ‘WIVES OF SENATORS PREPARE THEIR OWN LUNCHEONS AT SENATE CLUB. The first luncheon of the club since the opening of Con- gress was prepared by the wives of the Senators themselves, and dainty dishes popular in all parts of the country were featured. s; Mrs. Ralph Cameron, wife of the Senator from Arizona; Mrs. W Senator from Idaho; Mrs, A. A. Jénes, wife of the Senator from New Mexico, and Mrs. W. M. Butler, wife of the Senator from Mrs. T. H. Caraway, wife of the COMBING THE HAIR OF HIS PET CACTUS. The English have taken up a new fad CUT IN BUILDING INSPECTION FORCE DUE IF DEFICIT NOT ME growing cacti in the home. Enfield, gives the treses of his plant a daily Sidney Smith, F b mb Underw. ~R.( . of Copsright by & Underwnod Supplemental Sum of $5,000 Needed to Keep Serv- ice Up to Present Standard Through Current Fiscal Year, The bullding inspection service of the District will face a deficit in its appropriation for the employ- ment of inspectors in the Spring un- less Congress grants a supplemental sum to carry the inspection force through the fiscal yvear ending next July Out of a total field force of 19 men, Building Inspector Oehmann has only 13 inspectors available for the ac- work of building of the remaining six as- signed to elevator inspection fire escapes and one to the tion ofe signs. A part of this forcs is composed of regular annual employes and the remainder are temporary appointees paid out of a lump sum. It Is In this fund for temporary iployes that the deficie; is expected to occur in the i inspection one 10 inspec- Need Placed at $5,000. The current appropriation act car- ried $17,000 for the employment of temporary inspectors. Inspector Oeh- mann said today that unless a de- ficiency appropriation of $5,000 is ap- propriated by Congress before ad- journmer(t the inspection force will have to be reduced from the latter part of April until the new appro- priations become effective July 1. ith the amount of building that is going on in all sections of the city, Mr. Oehmann said he could not get along with fewer men than he now has. On the contrary, officlals feel that there should be more men available for this important work of bullding CITIZENS RE-ELECT DR. STARR PARSONS Thomas Circle Association Votes to Retain'President for Third Consecutive Year. Dr. Starr Parsons was re-elected for third term as president of the Thomas Circle Citizens' Association last night at a meeting at the Luther Place Memorial Church. Other omcers named were: Flrst vice president, Frank G. Stewart; second vice president, Mrs. C. Fuller Winters; third vice president, Mrs. Jeter C. Pritchard; secretarys Edward N. Parker; financlal secretary and treasures, John S. Hodgson. ‘Washington's trafic problems oc- cupled the remainder of the session, with discussion of the situation by several members of the association. A resolution was passed approving the afforts being put forth in the Senate and House District commit- tees looking toward better traffic regulations for the District. Prospects /for the association dyr- ing the year were declared to %be bright, with a campaign launched for obtaining new members. Asks His Name Be Changed. Carl Frederick Stein today asked the District Supreme Court to change his name to Stone, which is the Eng- lish translation. Stein says he was born in this country, October 27, 1901, and his family has resided here for several generations. He wants to get away from the foreign sound of his name, he states. He is.repre- sented by Attorney George A. Pre- vost. Says Official. inspection. Recognizing the need for economy in Government expenditures, however, the Commissioners did not |ask for an increase in the number of inspectors for nmext year Increase in New Seales. The amounts Budget Bureau larger but it | the the recommended by for salaries in next year appropr take care of alowed by permit than current Ay to higher pay scales reclassification and will of an enlargement of the force The current appropriation for the pay of annual employes of the build- e office is $57.080. The new budget recommends $58,000. The current al lotment for temporary inspectors is |$17,000, and the new budget recom- | mends '$20,000. | Mr. Oehmann’s prediction that a 000 deficiency will occur this year appropriation at $17,000 in- the sum required annual- {1y for temporary inspectors is $22,000. ations increase is me he not I Disaster Spurred Discussion. Following the Knickerbocker Thea- ter disaster there was considerable ing inspectors. Mr. Oehmann stated today that the force has been in- creased by four men since that time. The entire District of Columbia is divided into 10 large inspection areas, with oneWgeneral inspector assigned to each area. tion of steel and throughout the city. {“WIZARD OF FINANCE” AT LIBERTY ON BOND | M. Earl Williams of Batavia, With $200,000 Liabilities, Accused of Grand Larceny. concrete work By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, M. Y., December 10. Earl Williams, Batavia's alleged in- | solvent young wizard of finance, was |at liberty last night on $10,000 bond after his arrest on a warrant charging first-degree grand larceny. While the police and county au- thorities, who maintained a watch at the railway stations and on the highways throughout last night, were sending de- scriptions of him to nearby cities, Wil- llams_walked Into the ‘law office of City Judge Lelsure and surrendered. He pleaded not guilty and walved examination. Elwin A. Willlams of Elba road, an uncle, and Augustus Hint of Oak Fileld, a friend of the family, were accepted as bondsmen. Williams' case will be presented to the Genessee county grand jury in February. ‘Williams explained that he left Batavia to engage Philetus Cham- berlain of Rochester to defend him. The warrant on which his arrest was offected was sworn by B. W. Welch, an numxmbiln dealer, who al- leges that he Idaned Williams $1,200 on a short-term note with a promise of 35 per cent profit. District Attorney Albert B. Water- man estimates that Williams® liabil- ities aggregate $200,000, comprising 174 personal promissory notes. ‘When men admlire a great free without wanting to convert it into lumber, romance will come back. M. discussion of the need of more build- | Senator from Arkans THE BUOYS ARE GOING INTO WINTER QUARTERS. sea, navigation has stopped for the Winter. The buoys h ave been taken up 1 ASKS RECLANATION MEASURE BEO.K'D. Commissioner Urges Rel nual Report. into law of the the | Ena menda on reclamation Mead, « tions of spec urged by E of the is v mmissioner lamatio retary in his Al af Interior Rec today to Se | A bin v | recommendations the w and having for main purpose financial relief settlers on existing projects passed the House and now fore the Senate, Commissioner M points out. If enacted in its pres: form it will authorize the follow modifications in reclamation methods | 1. The annual payments on c struction charges will he based the average annual gross crop |turn: now they are based on | centage of the projected cost, without relation to of the land ‘ 2 Where lack of soil fertil scarcity of water, or other adequ: cause | project costs, the make such inves close the pertinent facts I'them to Cong with recommen tions looking to a correction of | fault. The present law calls for fi Secretary There are three other |payment of project costs in full, re- men who concentrate on the inspec-|gardless of the value of the water | made available for irrigation. ‘Would Change Payments. Operation and ! bringing i harmony Government with that owned works. for the most part, service is rendered. 4. The costs of the Washington |fice, including expenses of practice of privi paid after dertaken by the committee, will All of the foregoing charge: | be helpful, Commissioner: Mead = in the operation of but If legislation stops with th | the amended reclamation act will provide a.working plan for the velopment of new projects due to fact that many of the best {mitles for future reclamation be taken up and constructed by United States under the reclamat act, the commissioner explained, was never the purpose of that act subsidize private owners by furni ing interest-free money to thelr excess land holdings, them free to capitalize the Goves ment's Investment in reclamat! works and add it to the price to actual settlers. Nor was it T {leave the owners of those estates create a system of tenantry and T the land on an irrigation basis. Surg. Gen. Ireland to Speak Surg. Gen. Merritt W. of the United States Army will lumbla Medical Sociefy tonight, subjeet being the coming convent of the American Cxngress on Inter; Medicine. bers of the moclety will be presen hallow and M. I. Bierman, | for Homesteaders in An- wood Bureau report per the productivity renders settlers unable to p ion as will dis- and report maintenance | charges will be paid in advance, thus tely Such charges are now, general | investigations similar to the one un- charged to the reclamation fund, but not to the water wsers as at present will existing projects, opportu- where the land is now privately owned Although privats land projects may develop leaving which they sell their excess holdings intention, he added, to improve arid estates by supplying water and then Treland ad- dress members of the District of Co- Papers of interest to mem- by Drs. W. H. Hough, Dunlop O. Pen- In the and will be stored at Sorel, Quebec. Forgotten Grave Bars Development Special Dispateh' to The Star. NEW YORK, December lone gravestone, hidden by weeds; the withered stems flowers, circled loosely by twi of wire, red with the rust of ye Beneath these, in an abando family burial plot behind the Brookside Inn, at Pompton Lakes, N. J., the bones of nine-year-old Susan Hoffman Ludlum have lain 26 year: ourteen years ago the Ludlums moved away, arranging for their dead to be taken ‘o ceme- s tangled ief re ym- But Susan was left. dlum mother Her father, dead. Her could not he found. Legal' authorization was lacking for removal of the hod ) it was forgottan in-the shad f the Ludlum mansfon, now an A company, headed by State Sen- ator Hirshfield, Is seeking rela- tives of the child so it can obtain parmission to move the body and &6 on with its real -estate de- velopment. FORCEDA W i ite of has be- ead ent ing on on re xed ity, ate nay da- the s Sir Esme Howard Sees Adoption of General Protocol as Necessary Requisite. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 10.—Great Britain may have to go further than [ the United States in co-operating with other European nations to pro- | duce a s to disarmament and peace, Howard, the British Ambassador, told members of the Xngl Union of the United States last night. This must not be construed, he as- serted, as implying a possibility of a clash between America and England | “which the other nations of the world | must_really learn to consider—as we already do consider—as the one | thing we will neither admit nor en- dure.” Eyery European power, Sir Esme said, would be glad to reduce expend- itures on armaments if only a sense | of security could be established. This | could be done, he belleved, by the | adoption of the Geneva protocol. Com- pulSory arbitration, he asserted, was | the only way to/establish a sense of | security. The aim of the United States and Great Britain, the Ambassador con- tinued, was to promote peace and not to establish an Anglo-Saxon domina- tion of the world, Coolidge Sends Greeting. President Coolidge sent a m asking to be numbered among “those who will pay their tribute to the Ambassador and the great coumtry he represents.” “The aim of youf organization to promote those sentiments of good will and co-operation between this country and your own is deserving of all support,” the President wrote. Secretary Hughes sent a message, which said, in part: deeply regret that I am unable his | to join vou this evening in the greet- fon |ing to Sir Esme Howard, the British nal | Ambassador. * * * “We are happy in the thought that the chief valge of our diplomatic in- tercourse is reafized.in the oultiva- tlen of friendships and we recog: in the of- be | id, not de- the | 1 the ion it to sh- Tn- fon at He essage to ent ted By Realty Group CALLEDPEACE MOVE ate of confidence leading up Sir Esme h-Speaking At the table are /. E. Borah, wife of the sachusetts. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood St. Lawrence channel. from Montreal to the No more steamers will pass through the waters until Spring Copyright by Underwood & Underwood CONFIDENGE VOTE * GIVEN TO HERRIoT |Chamber Expresses Belief in | Ability to Cope With Com- munist Situation. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 1in all its manifestations w ed from every viewpoint French political world i [the Chamber vesterday, which drag ged along for hours and ended in tha |adoption of a motion expressing con- fidance the government's ability to suppress violence without specify {ing its source. The vote for Premier Herriot's ministry was 319 to 29 All the Communists voted against the motion, and about 150 member | of the opposition abstained from vot | ing | Premier. Herriot presistsd in h |refusal to take the agitatfon of 1l 10.—Con: as di of 1 cuss- the a debate in | Communists too seriously. | | mused” by Communists. | | “Communism is not capable of . stroving law and order in France | declared M. Herriot. “The Commu nists amuse me when they talk about forming a peasant bloc. The worst they can do is to provoke minor dis- orders, with collisions and blood shed, which will be promptly re- pressed. On the other hand, I hear that the Action Francaise people are tive. We have proof that dec tion is being prepared by them; that orders have been issued to buy | blackjacks and revolvers. These at- |tacks will find the government ready.” The first note of warning that the Socialist party might abandon the government was sounded during the discussion when M. Compere-Morel, one of the most influential among the 105 Socialist deputies, said: “If you insist on combating Com- munism by force of arms you sepa- rate yourself from the Soclallst party. M. Compere-Morel advocated grant- ing workingmen social reforms, in- ‘u”a ‘of sending the police to expel them M. Outrey, deputy for Cochin-China, emphasized the Communist danger in the French and British colonies. He jcharged that the bomb outrage in Canton, which nearly cost the life of Gov. Gen. Merlin last June, was the | work of Reds.” Challenged by Deputy Moutet, the Cochin-Chinw deputy produced and read what he de- clared was documentary evidence proving his charge. M. Doriot and M. Moutet characterized the document as an impudent forgery. M. Outrey, however, went on and flatly accused Dr. Sun Yat-Sen as be- ing the instigator of the Canton out- break. The president of the Chamber then read a motion by MM. Cazals, Blum and Thomson, which Premicr Herriot accepted and made a question of con- fidence. The resolution was in effect that the government should resolute- ly pursue its republican and soclal policies and” not allow them to be compromised by systematic violemce. in Sir Esme Howard one who Is an expert in that art. * * + “It is not too much to =ay that tha hopes of a world which should enjoy the opportunities created by the advancement of science without the wasgte and destruction of war find n essential condition of their fulfiliment in the strengthening of the bonds of friendship beiween the peo- ples represented In your gathering this evening.”