Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1924, Page 2

2 NEW BUS LINES FORCITY PROPOSED One Would Start From Georgetown and Cross Most of Distriot. | Two new bus lines, one of which would run almost entirely across the built-up. area of the city from east to west, were applied for today by the Washington Rapid Transit Co. The cross town line would start at Thirty-fifth and T streets northwest and cover the following route: On T to Thirty-seventh, to § street, to Thirty-fifth, thence to Q street, east 10 Twenty-first street, thence on New Hampshire avenue to K street, east to Thirteenth street, south to H street, east to Massachuseits avenue, thence on Massachusetts avenue to Union Station, on First street north- cast to B street, on B to Maryland avenue, out Maryland avenue to Fifteenth and H streets il\d_ return. The company proposes to give a 6- minute service, The second new route would be in the nature of an extension of the existing bus line the transit company has on Sixteenth street. The request is that those busses run east on Spring road from Sixteenth to Kansas avenue, thence to Sherman circle, north on Iilinois avenue to Long- fellow and west on Longfellow to: Six- teenth strect and down Sixteenth street. Would Give Transfers. On the first line running Aacross town the company proposes to issue free transfers to its other bus lines. The company also advised the Com- mission today that it may have 14 instead of 10 new busses to put In service by February It is not likely that a public hear- ing will be held on the petition for the two new lines until near the end of January or early in February, be- cause it is said to be the desire of the bus company to have the public see the new busses before considera- tion Is given to the new service lines. Due to Fare Increase. * The petition for two new lines is belleved to be a sequel to the recent action of the commission in granting the bus company an increase in fare from three tokens for cents to five for 45 cents, which means a token rate of 9 cents, with a cash fare of 10 cents for persons not buying| tokens. The increase is to take effect | February 1. Following the increase in fare, the bus company applied for and obtained permission to put double-deck busses in operation on Sixteenth street. At the outset the company plans to buy four double-deckers. Maj. W. E. R. Covell, assistant to the chairman of the Utilities Commis- sion, pointed out today that the streets to be covered by the proposed Sixteenth street extension are not in very good shape for bus operation at this time. It is possible that this second petition may be altered to provide only for a straight extension of the transit company busses north on Sixteenth from where they now stop at Buchanan to Longfellow street. Lines Would Ovcriap. The Capital Traction Co. now oper- ates a bus line on Sixteenth street from Kennedy street north to Alaska avenue, The extension sought by the transit company would overlap the traction busses for one square from Kennedy to Longfellow. John H. Hanna, general manager of the traction company, sald today he would have to study the petition more carefully before expressing his opinjon. The cross-town line asked for by the bus company would pass through the densely settled part of the:eity now served by both the Capital Trac- tion and the Washington Railway and Electric companies. Holds Same Position. | When informed of the application of the transit company, William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, stated that his company probably would take the same position it has taken on similar occasions in the past, namely, that if the commission finds that additional service is necessary, the railway company stands ready to furnish such service. Mr. Ham said he did not believe it was fair competition to have a bus company operating through an area also served by street cars with the busses having a higher rate of fare and not subject to the burdens borne by the railway company. LOCAL SCHOOL NEEDS ARE OUTLINED T0 BALL AND ACTION IS URGED (Continued from First Page.) introduced in previous Congresses, the salary law passed June 4, 1924. A bill for free text books has been introducefl in previous Congressess, but no hearings have ever been held on such a measure, Dr. Ballou says. The Board of Education, he says, has agreed not to undertake to push such 2 measure in this session of Congress. Another measure which the school officials belleve should be put through, and at this session of Congross, would exempt teachers and officers from the provisions of section 6 of the leg- islative, executive and judical act, which prevents a teacher or officer in the public schools who receives more than $2,000 annual salary from teaching in & night school or Summer school. Dr. Ballou says with regard to the proposed bill: “In view of the higher compensa- tion of teachers under the provisions of the new salary schedule, & large number of the better teachers and all the officers are excluded from teache ing in night schools. This exclusion of many of our best teachers makes it necessary to employ in the even- ing schools persons who are not trained teachers. This militates against efliclent work in the evening schools. “It {5 the purpose of this proposed legislation to remove the aforemen- tioned restriction from applying to public school teachers and officer: The need for this legislation is obvious and, I belleve, the general principle involved will be so hearitly approved that this bill should find no opposition in Congre: A R FIVE ARE FOUND GUILTY: IN HUGE LIQUOR THEFT Sibley Warehouse Company, Its President, Secretary and Two J. FRED ESSARY, At the annual meeting of the Grid. fron Club at the New Willard toda: the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. Fred Essary of the Baltimore Sun; vice president, Clif- ford K. Berryman of The Washing- ton Evening Star; secretary, J. Harry Cunningham; treasurer, Harry J. Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune:| executive committee, Roy A. Roberts of the Kansas City Star, Carter Field of the New York Tribune and Arthur W. Dunn of the American Press Asso- clation. Charles Michelson of the New York ‘World was elected an active member. The annual Winter dinner of the club will be held at the New Willard, at 7 o'clock tonlght, with a distin- guished 1ist of guests in attendance. The guests are requested to be on time, 85 the hig dinner.be!l will ring promptly at 7 o'clock. FORGER GETS $1.000 ON BOGUS CHECK Attempt to Make Similar Raid on Second Bank Proves Failure. A check purported to have been cer- tifled by the Citizens' National Bank of Decatur, Ill., and presented at the Washington Mechanics Savings Bank, 3608 Georgia avenue, yesterday after- noon by a boy, netted a clever forger $1,000. The name of W. E. Smith, man- ager of the Palmetto Coffee Company, 3512 Georgia avenue, had been forged to a note requesting that the check be cashed and that the money be sealed {n an envelope so that it would not be lost. Morris Browning, 14, son of A. T. Browning, local coffee merchant, re. slding at East Riverdale, Md., served as messenger for the man. When he read the story of the swindle he quickly got in communication with his father and later saw bank offi- cials and the detectives. Young Browning explained that he was at Georgla avenue and Newton street, when a stranger asked him 2 he would go on an errand to the bank, saying he would give him @ dime for his trouble. He sald the stranger told him he would be given @ package containing money for him. Returning to the place where he met the stranger, he stated, he turn the envelope over to him and w given 20 cents, twice the amount he was promised. He furnished the de- tectives a description of the swindler and thinks he wiil be able to identify tm. A similar swindle was attempted at the United States Savings Bank, Fourteenth and U streets, but bank employes, “suspicious of something wrong, refused to cash the check. The boy who presented the note and check at the latter bank, questioned by bank employes, said he had been sent to the bank by an unidentified man from a nearby paintshop. The paintshop was visited, but the stranger had dis- appeared. Got Merchant’s Signature, Joseph Patrick Delaney, who served as messenger on the trip to United States Savings Bank, is 16 years old and resides at 1709 Fifteenth street. Not having made a success of his errand, he received no remuneration. He also is assisting the detectives. The swindler is sald to have ap- peared at the coffee company's estab- lshment about noon yesterday, rep- resented himself as agent for a com- pany getting financial ratings of mer- chante, and inquired of the condition of Mr. Smith's bank account. Inci- dentally, Detectives Brodie and Ver- million were told, the swindler's re- quest for the merchant's signature was complied with. Leaving the coffee company's estah- lishment, the swindler completed the check and wrote the note requesting the cashing of the check. the signa- ture of Mr. Smith showing it had been written by a clever forger. Discov- ery of the swindle was ‘qufckly brought about by Robert H. Hill, cashier at the bank, telephonirig the coffeo merchant that he had neglected to seal the package delivered to the boy, as requested in the note. Detectives Get Descriptions. Detectivos Vermillion and Brodle were called upon to investigate the affair. They obtained descriptions of the swindler from Smith and the boy from bank employes. The detectives said they thought the boy who scted as messenger probably was & school- boy who had been found in the vi- cinity of the bank by the swindler. Washington Mechanics' Savings Bank, victim of the $1,000 swindle yester- day, was the scene of a daring hold- up about two years ago. The lone robber who staged the affair was later captured by Detectives Kelly and Scrivener and sentenced to prison. Loss of the $1,000 obtained on the forged check will not fall upon the Jocal bank, the institution being bonded in a'sum many times that ob- talned yesterday. s b tade QUIZZED ON BAST CASE. Denmark Asked How Bishop Can Be Held. Others Acquitted. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 13.—H Verrell Sackett, president of the Sibley War house and Storage Company, George ‘W. Carpenter, secretary of the com- pany; Police Lieut. Michasl Gredy, Abe Lvin, a saloon keeper and the Sibley Company, were found not guilty, but five other defendants, in- cluding Levant Morrell, trajc mana- ger of the company, were found guilty by a jury today of conspiracy to vio- late the prohibition laws. Approxi- mately 1,700 cases of liquor, valued at more than $1.000,000, disappeared from the warelouse a year ago, COPENHAGEN, December 13.— The Bast case came up in parliament last night when Ove Rode, a former minister of the interior, asked the government how it was possible on mere suspicion and without a formu- lated charge to keep Bishop Bast under arrest while his books were being searched “in the hope of find- ing_evidence ggainst him.” M. Rode declared this\ was contrary to the spirit of the Danish constitution. Several of the daily news) also-are asking whether it is nec sary to treat Dr. Bast 8o harshly, and messages of sympathy continue to arrive from Methodist Episcopal dig- nitaries in the United States, rs THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1924. SEEKS WIDENING OF MORE STREETS Hagner Asks Broader Road- way on Thoroughfares to Dupont Circle. ~ Widening of more streets in the District of Columbla as an ald in pre- venting _traffic accidents is suggest- ed by Randall H, Hagner, local r estate dealer, in letter to Senator L. Helsler Ball, chairman of the Sen- ate District committee. In the letter Mr, Hagner commends the present campaign 0f the police department vigorously to prosecute violators of the trafiic laws, but points out that accidents are bound to contlnue until streets are made wide enough to ac- commodate the constantly Increasing stream of vehicles. Two streets mentioned by Mr. Hag- ner for immediate widenin are enteenth from Pennsylvania avenue to K, and Connecticut avenue from K street to Dupont Circle. Both of these streets, he clalms, are among the most used thoroughfares in the Dis- trict, connecting, as they do, the most thickly populated residential section with the business and Gove ernment locations. “As an illustration of the impractical proportion of these streets As coms pared with the stdewalk and parking I beg to give the following fact sald Mr. Hagner. Says Rondway Too Narrow. “The roadway on Seventeenth street from Pennsylvania avenus north to 1L, street with a double car track in the center is only 45% feet wide from curb to curb; there is on each side of the roadway a 30%-foot park- ing and sldewalk, making a total of 60% feet of roadway, which roadway as above stated has to afford facilities for a double car line track. “Connecticut avenue from K_street north to Dupont Cirele has a 50-foot roadway from curb to curb, having te furnish facilities for a double car line track—and incidentally this car line, which continues down Seventeenth street, is probably the most used of any in Washington, whereas on each side here is 40 feet of parking and sidewalk, 80 feet in all “Practically the entire parking on both Seventeenth street and Connec- ticut avenue is nothing more than sidewalk, because the majority of it is cement, 5o it really meana that on Connecticut avenue proper tiere {s 80 feet of sidewalk with 50 feet of roi way and on Seventeenth street there s 601 feet of sidewalk, as com- pared with 493 feet of roadway. Dangerous to Trafic. “You will find upon Investigation that thers is scarcely any place in Washington where there are more collisions and accidents than on Con- necticut avenue and Seventsenth street in the scctions mentioned, “I should be very glad to supply you with any further iniormation. I think that the Commissloners are very desirous of maintaining trees on these thoroushfares; the quality of trees, however, on both of these streets s very indifferent, and it would seem to me that if the proper widening of the streets necessitated the losing of these trees and the planting of others, this would be bet- ter than, to continue conditions which now exfst. 80 “LAME DUCKS” CAUSE REVIVAL OF MOVE FOR REFORM (Continued from First Page.) elected Senators) will choose the Vice Tesldent; P!. The newly elected President Vice President and members of Con- gress will take office approximately two months after their election; 8. The new Congress may assemble approximately two months after the ection; and 4. A necessary amendment will be made to the twelfth amendment and certain ambiguities will be removed. Ceunting of Votes. Under the present Constitution the old Congress counts the electoral votes, the retiring House of Repre- sentatives chooses the President whenever the right of choice devolves upon the Hou: and the Senate (in- cluding the retiring Senators) choos- es the Vice President whenever no person has recelved & majority of e electoral votes. thln order that these ducles may de- volve upon the new Congress, the first section of the proposed amend- ment provides that presidential terms shall begin January 24 and the terms of Members of Congress on January 4. This permits the new Congress to assemble and affords it 20 days, be- fore the terms &f the President and Vice President begin, In which to count the electoral votes and to make the choice if a majority has not b received. In order to provide ample notice and opportunity to attend, and to prevent any possible retroactive interpretation, it is provided in sec- tion 4 that this section lh‘lll take effect on the 30th day of Novemb following the ratification .of the endment. O hess results can be obtained only by a constitutional amendment. Ob- viously the new Congress must meet and the term of the new members must begin prior to the date on which the President’s term begins. This ne- cessitates a shortening-or lengthen- ing of terms which are fixed in the Constitution and which now begin March 4. ‘ml'nder the present system, the life of the new Congress begins on the 4th day of March of the odd years, and the first meeting of the new Col gress is on the first Monday of the followipg December. The newly elected members have no opportu- nity for 13 months even to begin to put into effect the polictes on which thoy were elected, unle: n extraor- dinary sezsion of the Congréss should be assembled by Executive proclama- tion before that time. The first section of the proposed amendment provides that the terms of the newly elected President and Vice President shall begin on the 24th day of January, and that the terms of the newly elected members of Congress shall begin on the &th day of January. Under this provision the newly elected ofcers will take office and be prepared to Carry out the policies on which they were elact- ed approximately two months after their election. !l investigation SENATE TO PROBE RAPATUNDERWOOD Senator - Assails Editorial Scoring His Bill for Muscle Shoals. Senator Underwood, Democrat, Al bama, today obtained unanimous con- sent of the Senate to have a Senate of statements made about the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill and himself in an editorial ap- in of The editorial was referred to the Judiclary committee, which was glven authority to subpoena the author of the editorfal and other persons to “get at the bottom of the charges.” “I want to challenge the state- ment of any man on this floor or Off,” he sald, “that I have been in- fluenced in any way In the prepar: tion of this bill by the Alabama Power Co. The statement is false in its inception. The collaboration of the Alabama Power Co., has been on the other side In the prepa tion of the power bill." The editorial, he said, not only made it appear that he was influ- enced by the Alabama Power Co., but connected him with corporate influ- ences in general. “1 belleve the editorial was pur- chased by the Interests who are try- ing to gobble this power, Underwood asserted. “I have no proof, but it is apparent that a cor- ruptive influence is behind this lie.” Not Wanted by Company. Mr. Underwood sald that President Martin of the Alabama Power Co. had told him he did not wish to lea: Muscle Shoals under the Underwood blll. The leasing contract, the Sena- tor sald, would be in the hands of the President of the United States, Senator Underwood later broadened his reply to these charges to a general defense against inferences that he was ylelding to corporate interests and declared the Underwood tariff bill was proof to the contrary, The fallacy of the editorial, he sald, was that it stated the power com- panies are behind the Underwood bill to make nitrogen for the farmers, “when every pussyfooted step of the Power companles has been in the di- rection of power and not nitrogen. “It'’s a_damnable misrepresentation of a lobby that is standing around these doors now,” he added. “I know they are here and you know they are here.” Taking up the suggestion that he was yielding to the great corporate Interests, he sald the Underwood tarift bill showed he was not “yielding to the great corporate interests.” “The editorial is attempting to In- sert a viclous lle into the minds of the American public,’ he said. Taking up a statement in the ed- itorial that President Coolidge “does not want a Teapot Dome scandal in his administration,” Senator Lnder- wood continued: “This slimy snake that crawls through an editorlal barn is too cowardly to attack the President of the United States and seeks by in- nuendo to attack other peopla who are trying to carry out the President’s ideas.” HARDING'S COUSIN | CALLED FORFORBES By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 15—Counsel for Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans' Bureau, announced today they had issued a subpoena for Francis E. Pope of Spokane, Wash., a cousin of the late President Hard- ing, to appear in the trial of Forbes and J. W. Thompson, Chicago contractor, for conspiracy to defraud the Govern- ment. Pope's name was brought into the trial by Elias H. Mortimer, Govern- ment witness. During his cross-ex- mination last Wednesday Mortimer mid Pope had been offered $1,000,000 by Thompson interests in 1923 and 1923 for his influence in an under- taking to secure presidential consent for the sale of the Government's wooden fleet. Federal Judge George A. Carpenter ordered the testimony stricken, but it was later introduced by Mortimer in_answer to another question. Pope, 2 member of the insurance firm of Elmdorf & Pope of Spokan is understood now to be in Duquoin, 111, where court attaches are seeking to serve notice on him. Mortimer first mentioned FPope's name in testifying concerning an in- spection trip up the James River in 1922 with Thompson and others, when the Chesapeake Engineering Co., in which Thompson was interested, was considering the purchase of certain vessels from the Shipping Board. Week ena adjournment was taken last night after Mortimer, who had been on the stand seven days, com- pleted his cross-examination testi- mony concerning alleged corruption in the Veterans' Bureau under Forbes. The Government still has a number of witnesses to be heard, and it will, therefore, be impossible for Pope to take the stand for a week or ten days unless an agreement between coun- sel provides for his interrupting the Government's presentation of evi- dence. Such an agreement is consid- ered unlikely, —_— $286,386,578 ASKED FOR NAVY’S UPKEEP (Continued from First Page.) for installing fire-control apparatus on the battleships Colorado and West Virginia and $2,000,000 for commenc- ing two additional fleet submarines, construction of which was authorized in 1918, With regard to its acceptance of the Budget Bureau's recommenda tions for naval aviation, the commit- tee said that a larger cash amount Wwag not carried in the bill because ol‘ihe limited normal productive ca- pacity of the Industry, 90,000,000 for New Plames. “Deliveries under the entire amount which will go into new plane: (roundly $9,000,000) cannot be et fected in numbers to require a larger amount of cash being available,” con- tinued the report. “The total sum to be devated to new aircraft, {nclud- ing the. contract authorization, will &ive the Navy about 212 new plane “The bill carries no money for the aircraft complements of the two air- craft carriers under construction. ‘They will require later a total of 174 planes, which, the ittes estl- mated, would cost §| 0. An {tem of $3,900,000 is carried for the:naval reserve force. - . . In addition to direct appropriations in naval supply bill $75,000 is provided for extending the nurses’ at the Naval Hospital in Washington, to be from the naval hospital fund. the Naval Academy $1,007,468 After great hardships, Capt. Squint has reached the border of Santa Claus Land. Star Expedition Reaches Edge Of Santa Claus Land in North Sugar-Loving Compass Dog Leads In- trepid Seekers of St. Nicholas Home to Partial Success of Venture. BY CAPT. ELIJAH SQUINT. Discoverer of the Toman author of “Squinting the and Culture of Allday . “Through Africa on Roller Kkates.” “How Far is 4nd ““The Other §ide of the Moon' explorer who ever laterviewed Hom.- plestilskin and learned how lopg it would ke a hen and & half to lay & exg and s leader of “The Star's expedition to nta Claus Land By Courier Duck to The Star. HOP-SKIP HARBOR, December 13. —Your commander is pleased to re- port that we have arrived, after in- credible hardships, at Wishbone In- let, on the edge of Santa Claus Land. Our lives were saved by Spud, the small spotted dog loaned us by Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau. As you will recall, Spud s a com- pass dog, and, under certain condi- tions, his tail points north. One of these conditions is that a bit of sugar be sprinkled on the end of his tail. Three days ago we were caught in a terrible storm and lost a sledge with all our sugar on {t. We had nothing to eat but one animal cracker, which we divided with Spud and the other dogs. Without any sugar, Spud couldn’t point and we didn't know which way was north. Ground Covered With Sugar, The next morning I stumbled out of our tent, made out of a large um- brella. The ground was covered with a white substance which seemed too coa! for snow, and I picked up some of it to examine it. Spud had followed me out and some of the white stuff fell on Spud’'s tail. It—the tall—in- stantly stiffened and bristied, waved in a circle and then pointed stiffiy in one direction. I knew the truth! The wind had blown down some sugar dust from Sugar Plum Mountain. We were on the edge of Santa Claus Land! A foeble cheer arose in the tent as I reported my discovery. All hands foused themselves and we began gathering sugar so that we should no longer lack a compass. Holding north by west, as Spud's tail gave us our direction, we appropriated for this year and $26,500 ess than budget estimates. ‘With reference to the Annapolis in- stitution the report said: “The civilian instructor question seems to have been ironed out and the number adjusted in keeping with the reduced number of midshipmen. “The committee feels that it would be remiss if it failed to call attention to the forthcoming retirement for age of the present superintendent of the academy. His career has been a no- table one and the influence of his sterling qualities will be a distinct loss to the active list. The report also sall “The department is continuing to exercise a liberal policy with respect to resignatlons, in the face of the fact that with the reduced number of ap- pointments to the Naval Academy such a course will render it almost impossible to realize the full author- ized number. The thought seems to be that when an officer signifies his desire to leave the service his value to the Navy ceases and he is quite apt to become a bad {nfluence. Peor Prospect of Promotion. “The chief reason advanced for a greater number wishing to leave is poor prospect of promotion, due to the disproportionate number of offi- rs in the lower grades and to the existence of a “hum; resulting from the several hundred temporary offi- cers who were permanently commis- sioned, many of whom, if not selected for promotion, may not be retired under the regular age in grade pro- vision by reason of special dispensa- tion in the law authorizing their per- manent commission. “The committee questions whether ensigns and junior lleutenants, in which grades most of the resigna- tions occur, are really Influenced by the conditions stated. Congress in the past has remedied situations where a proper flow of promotions is not forth- coming. Value of Experienced Men. “To meet this abnormal number of separations the committee has been urged to raise the limitation on the number of appointments to Annap- olis from three to four. This would seem like going at the matter back- ward. The experienced man in the service 18 worth considerably more the Navy than a new academy z-;duuto and it would seem that the would be to increass, tempcrarily,- perhaps, the fixed dis- tribution in the grades of lleutenant and leutenant commander. In any event a situation prevails which de- mands early and close study by the legislative committee. “The chief of the Bureau of Navi- tion has stated that the staft corps fl‘tu-un is_satisfactory, including the source and supply, which he says 1s ample.” ' ‘The tioa at $175,000, ‘wiser cour Ineering experimental sta- anapolis would be alloted rived at the end of the third day at the foot of Sugar Plum Mountain. My half-famished companions began gorging out handfuls of sugar plums, but I restrained them sternly. Do you not know.” I said, “that that deadly peril of the far north— stomach ache—has destroyed every expedition which has ever been sent to Santa Claus Land? Stand on your hands instantly and each give three rhymes for ‘stomach ache.” Every man instantly did a hand-stand and shouted three rousing rhymes for omach ache. Mine was patty cake; | others were coffee cake and silver lake and lummox sake, etc. Poor | Bpud couldn’t stand on his front legs, 80 I held him up by his heels while he barked three times. That works all right with dogs. Sugar Plums for Meals. This is a useful thing for explorers to know. All that night we ate sugar plums without the slightest discom- fort. Today we mushed along, knee deep in sugar, to the red confetti border which is the boundary of Santa Claus Land. As we unpacked our sledges and prepared our camp for the night we heard a strange musical sound. 1 asked Ishy-Koo, one of our Eskimo guides, what it was. He said it was the north wind in Santa Claus' whiskers. So, after all our hardships, we had reached our goal! Just a day or two more and we would meet Santa Claus him- self! But we were doomed to a bitter disappointment. Whether we shall ever get into Santa Claus Land, 1 don't know. I shall dispatch this message by Imogene, my courier duck, who will carry it to the duck pond at the Washington Zoo, (Copyright, 1924.) (Continued Tomorrow.) Editor's Note: Imogene arrived at the Zoo duck pond at noon today. She was brought to The Star office by Sergt. J. J. Kramer, in command of the Zoo police force. She has been sent back to Hop-Skip Harbor for another dispatch. 2 GURES FOR RENT ILLS HERE STUDIED Enactment of Law to End Fake Sales and License Act Considered. Two distinct proposals for reaching the rental situation in the District of Columbla are being considered by Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis- tflet committee. They are: First, the enactment of a law which would make it possible to punish for fake sales of real estate intended to increase the value on Ppaper of real estate in Washington. Second, the creation of a board with power to license and regulate real estate business in the District of Columbla. Senator Ball said today that either or both of these proposals might be submitted to the Senate in the shape of bills. He has not fully made up his mind as to what his course will be. He is intent, however, upon do- ing something to relieve conditions here, Asks Bill Be Drafted. Senator Ball said that he submitted his {deas for the creation of a regu- latory board to representatives of the Real Estate Board of Washington, with a request that the realtors draft & tentative bill. The chairman of the District com- mittes said that in his opinion such 2 board should consist of three to five members and should be composed of men well versed in the real estate business in the Natlonal Capital. Whether they should be appointed by’ the President or elected by the real estate men of the District was & ter which would have to bs deter- mined, he said. Probably the best method would be appointment by the President, Senator Ball indicated, Such a board, Senator Ball said, should have power to license all per- sons trying to o real estpte business in Washington and to revoke Ii- censes where unfair practices were shown. In reply to a question as whether such a board could arbitrate disputes between landlords and tenants, Sena- tor Ball said that the board-could only interject itself in cases where fraud was shown. There would be no effort at price fixing on the part of the proposed board, he said. Benator Ball expressed the opinion that no effort would be made to ox- gend the Mfe of the District” Rent FUGITIVE MOTORIST OF NEW TYPE FOUND Conveys Injured Victims to Hospital or Home and Con- ceals Own Identity. A “new and improved type” of fugi- tive motorist made his appearance last night. The new order carry their injured victims to the hospital, but hide their own identity from the police. Two such motorists are being sought today by the police as a re- eu't of accidents in which two pedes- trians were injured last night. In one instance the driver carried his vic- tim to his home and left without making himself known, and in the other the driver gave a fictitious address, Milton Brackett, colored, 15, 625 New Hampshire avenue, was. knock- ed down near Washington Ctrele. The driver lifted the boy into his car and took him to his home. Later the youth was treated Emergency Hospital for injuries to the scalp and nose. Mattie Jones, colored, 45, 310 Sixty- first street. northeast, was run down at North Capitol and L streets by an atuomobile whose driver said he lived at 1827 Ninth street. The driver took the injured woman to Freedmen's Hospital. Police found that the driver did not lMve at the address given. Bus Collides With Amto. A bus of the Rapid Tranilt Co. driven by Charles W. Carr, 457. Mas- sachusetts avenue, collided 'with the automobile of Policeman H. E. Beck of the fourth precinct at Massachu- setts avenue and Sixteenth street mbout 11:30 o'clock last night. The impact drove the policeman's car against an automobile belinging to Miss H. B. Smith, 1602 Allison street and slightly damaged it. Beck was slightly hurt. Charles W. Iglebright, 1924 Seven- teenth street, crossing at Pennsyl- vania avenue and Seventh strest early today, was struck by a taxicab driven by Rodney D. Harrison, 701 Fifth street. He was not badly hurt. A collision between two automo- biles at Seventh and T streets last night resulted in siight Injury to Lucllle Denny, colored, 21, 1205 Sixth street, occupant of one of the vehicles, She refused hospital treatment. Mrs. F. 8. Bradley, 55, Binghampton, N. Y., in alighting from a street car at East Capitol and First streets last night fell and dislocated her right hip. She was treated at Casualty Hospital. -cluding: medicine and. architeat: Rev. H. F. Wilson, 321 B street southeast, and Policeman G. H. Dal- linger of ‘the sixth precinct were oc- cupants of automobiles that collided at Eighth and A streets southeast yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Vellg Wil- son, 36, was slightly injured. She re- fused hospital treatment. PLANS REARRANGING OF LAFAYETTE PARK Just as soon as Congress will pro- vide the mecessary money, Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, which forms most of the scenery for the north windows of the old mansion, is to be rearranged. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer. in charge of public buildings and grounds, has a plan for improving this popular and historic reservation, the principal feature of which will be the construc- tion of a new walk on the axis of Sixteenth ‘street, running north and south between Pennsylvania avenue fand H street. 5 It is understood that Col. Sherrill has discussed this proposed change ‘with President Coolidge, who is known to be a great admirer of this city park and who frequently includes it in_his daily strolls. this new walk is.only a cffice of public buildings and grounds has been engaged on the 1s and Col. Sherrill will shortly be ready to put in motfon an effort to obtain the money for this proposed work. Commission. The emergency—due to lack. of sufficient housing facilities in the Diatrict—has passed, -he .be- lleves, and on the other- hand that emergency exists bécause the. 'pri asked for rentals in ‘Washington are too high for many Government em- ployes to pay. For that reason, Sen- ator Ball sald, something must be done to prevent the pyramiding of loans and prices such as was re- vealed In. the investigation by his committee some months ago. “It is such practices” said Senutdr Ball, “that have forced many, many prices of real estate so high in Wash- ington. Theé real estats busin the one big b outside of the Government business.. ‘The real estate men should rid them- selves of those who engage in unfair practices. - If they are in'earnest in ‘what they say I belleve that they will ald in putting through such|. legislation_@s I have susgested. Benator Bal] called attention to the fact that boards have been ‘set up here and elsewhere to regulate the .practice of ‘different professions, in- GRAND DUCHESS LEAVES CAPITAL Separation From Entourage Worries Visitor—Praises City’s Beauty. Impressed deeply with the sceni beautles of Washington and the hos- pitality of its citizens, Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodoroyna, wife of tk pretender to the Russian throne, left for New York at 11 o'clock this morning after a two-day visit crowd- ed with receptions and sightseeing trips. Her departure was even quieter and as equally unceremonious as her arrival Thursday zfternoon. Separated from her entourage in a trafic jam on the busy streets of downtown Washington, the titled visitor was forced to wait 10 minutes at the extreme east entrance to the Union Station, only to learn that the oher members of her party had en- tered at the west end of the statio and were ready to board the trair The grand duchess in the meantime paced somewhat nervously about the entrance as Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the former Secretary of State, and her host, endeavored to subdue the visitor's concern over her lost en- tourage by pointing out the dome of the Capitol and other public build- ings which could be viewed from the station. Detective Carries Gems. Members of the grand duc party who became separated on the congested streets while en route to the station were: Mme. Capetilene Makaroff, widow of Admiral Makar- off; Mme. Helene Orloff, widow of Ger. Orloff; Admiral Viasimir Petroff, Mre Henry P. Loomis of New York and Detective Brown of the New York po- lice department's bomb squad, who has accompanied the visitor from the time of her arrival at Ellis Jsland The New York detective carried a small handbag, containing the cos jewels of the grand duchess and tho of Mrs. Loomls, said to be valued at thousands of dollars, The grand duchess, accompanied by Mrs. Lansing, reached the station at 10:40 0'clock—20 minutes hefore the departure of her train for New York. She stood outside the station until 10:50, when Headquarters Detective Ira Keck notified her that the lost members of her party were at the train awalting her arrival. Departare Quiet. The farewell scenes at the truin were marked by courteous hand shaking and the tipping of porters Only the presence of a uniformed Washington terminal policeman. Headquarters Detective Keck and several newspaper men indicated to theé curious persons in the station concourse that the grand duchess was about to bid adieu to the Na- tion's Capital After leaving the Willard Hotel the automobile containing the visitor and Mrs. Lansing deviated from the usual route to the station and stopped for a moment in front of the White House, where Mrs. Lansing left her card. he. FOUR ARE IN RUNNING TO SUCCEED GOMPERS AS LABOR PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) however, is in & state which has no firm basis in fact, although supported by logic. It is safe to say that or- ganized labor is net as dazed, how- ever, -as it would have been had the death occurred when not expected. The recent illness of President Gompers had the effect of causing labor leaders to look to their struc- ture—provisions for the safe con- duct ©f the organization across that perfod of uncertainty _endurinz be- tween the death and the filling of the vacancy. The American Federation of La- bor’s controlling elements, taken by employment classification, consists in the typographical trade, represented by Secretary Morrison: transporta- tion, represented by Treasurer Daniel J. Tobin of the Teamsters' Interna- tional Union, and Martin F. Ryan the seventh vice president, from the railway carmen; the metal trade as represented by Eighth Vice Pre< ident James Wilson, from the pattern wmakers; bullding trades. represented by Second Vice President Hugh Durt of the carpenters, and miscellaneot trades, such as the miners, tho bers, of which Jacob Fischer, fifth vice president, is the represent: tive, and the photo-engravers. These are the constituent elemen controlling the Federation's polici from now on, and the general beli- is that the policies are so firmly im planted in the organization that t- root them out would be to disruy the organization ftself. The death ot S8amuel Gompers, afte: his condition had shown improvemen: came 2s an almost unbearable shoci to his subordinates and associates here in the American Federation of Labor. Miss R. Lee Guard, Mr. Gompe: secretary for 25 years, had been o watch {n his Washington ‘offices for several days, But she had been confi- dent of the outcome of his fight for life. The first report of the death of the labor leader came to her from the Associated Press, but she was called shortly afterward from San Antonio by long-distance telephone, and the news repeated by members of the Gompers party who were on the spot. A false report of Mr. Gompers' death, which was oirculated widely and pub- lished in some newspapers on Thurs- day, had started a flood of mes: s of condolence coming into the federa- tion offices. Today their numbers were multiplied many times, augmented by cablegrams from notable figures abroad with whom his long activity in international affairs had made him acquainted. ¢ To the men rnd women {dentified with the Federiition it has appeared {mpossible to think of carrying on except under the leadership of their long-time chief. His 43 years of service had not only made him the commanding figure of the Federation, but had stamped the Imprint of his personality on every detall of Its functioning. Even Mr. Gompe) repeated at- tacks of -illness during recent years did not serve to destroy this atmos- phere, and his followers appeared to look upon him as the perpetual chief spokesman of organized labor. Mathew Woll had taken some share of the burden of appearing in public from ‘the shoulders of the chief, but to the Iast, as was evidenced by his trip to Mexico and by his investiga- tion just previons {nto Panama Canal Zone labor affairs, Mr. Gompers him- self remained the directing power of the organization. - He himself recognized, however, that a termination of his career was almost in sight. . Five years . egan’ work upon his autoblography nd at intervals of leisurs pursued the - task assiduously. .It was prac- : tically complete when he left for the El Paso convention. 4 —— e Osler Ordered to Testify. TORONTO, December 13,~H. C.. Osler, Toronto attorney, must tell United States oil scandal investigators what he W’W;l B, Pnfu'- wl:nao:lon with § niclair Jease of Teapot Dome, z.w Oourt Justice Riddohi ‘ruled #as