Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 1

i (U. 8. Weather WEATHER. reau Porecast.) ncreasing cloudiness tonight, proba- bly followed by rain or snow; tomorrow, rising temperature. Temperature for 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 36, yesterday; lowest, 28, at 8 at 3:15 p.m. a.m, voday. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as se pust otlice W No. 29,44 11 Cluss matrer hinglon. D. C COOLIDGE ATTENDS WILSON MEMORIAL RITES IN CONGRESS Ex-President Taft, Cabinet| Members and Former Aides | of War Executive Present. ! WIDCW AND DAUG'rlLTER GIVEN SEATS OF HONOR | Envoys of Many Nations Join With ' Officials and Private Citizens in Notable Tribute. Tu the presence of a distinguished Fathering. which Included the Presi-| dent, his cabinet, menibers of the S preme Court and diplomatic sentatives of all the foreign coun-| tries, Congress led the Nation today| in an official tribute to the memory | of Woodrow Wilson. The galleries were crowded by the fortunate ones who had been able to secure cards of admission, and | from 11 o'clo on listene in by ! radio throughout -the Eastern section of the country, and even overseas, were able to hear the proccedings, which took place in the House chain ber. Dr. Edwin A, of the University ered the eulogy o'clock. President Wilson's former cabinet riembers were among the first nota- bles to take their places in tie chamber. Ti were seated on the Democratic_side of the House and included: William Jennings Bryai, fn Secretar of State in Wilson's cabinet; Robert Lansing, whe suc- ceeded 1 ; David J. H ton, first! Necret of Agricultu and later Secretar of the Treasury: Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General:| josephus Daniels, Secretary of the| John Barton Payne, first in | Railroad Administration, then | Secretary of the Interior and now president of the Americun National ted Cross; William C. Redfield, Sec retary of Commerce: William B.| Wilson, Secretary of Labor, and Jo- | seph P Tumulty, private secretary to Mr. Wilson while he was President. { Airs. Edith Bolling Wilson, widow | of the former President, and ..iss Mar-| raret Wilson, his eldest daughter cupied seats in the front row, dire 1y facing the Speaker's desk. Mrs. | Wison was clad entirely in blac escept for narrow white collar. | They were escorted in early by Ed- win F. Halsey, chief of the Senate! pages. Mr ude A. Swanxon. wife | of Senator Swanson. and BMrs. Alder-{ man were seated with Mrs. Wilson.. | Brother Is With Family Joseph R. Wilson of Baltimore, | brother of the late President, sat with | the immediate family. The other two | daughters of Mr. Wlson, Mrs. W. G. McAdoo and Mrs. Francis B. » who Is abroad, wege unable to ttend. John Randolph Bolling, | brother of Mrs. Wilson, who was sec- retary to Woodrow Wilson after he retired to private life from the White | House, was also seated In the galiery reserved for the immediate family. Missing from among the assoclates of the late President In the attend- ance today were former Vice Presi- dent Thomas R. Marshall, Gen. Per- shing, who Is now on a South Amer- ican diplomatic mission, and Willlam G. McAdoo, his son-in-law, who head- | ed the Rallroad Administration and Who was Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. McAdoo, in wiring his regrets | and his inability to attend, charac- | terized Mr. Wilson as “one of the nost notable American statesmen and the leading humanitarian of the mod- ern worl Thomas Marshall, who served with Mr. Wilson as Vice President, indicated in a brief telegram to the committee on arrangements today that he would be unable to participate and sent his regrets, repre- | early Alderman, president of Virginia, deli starting at | Mrs. Coolidge Attends. AMrs. Calvin Coolidge was escorted to her place in the front row of the President’s gajlery by Comdr. An- derson of the Mavflower, who is naval aide at the White House. The wives of the cabinet members were also seated in the President's gallery, where also was Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft, wife of the Chief Justice. Others conspicuous in public life during Mr. Whson's administration] were seen here and there in the gal- lerles, including such men as Joseph Davies, first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and Homer 8. Cummings, Democratic national com- mitteaman from Connecticut for many years. The Democratic na- tional committeemen fro mpractically every State in the Union were in attendance. Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Mr. Wilsom's personal physician who at- tended him In his last illness; Col. E. M. House, Barnard M. Barouch., Breck- inridge Long, Frank Polk, Raymond ‘I. Baker, former director of the Mint, and Clem L. Shaver, Democratic national committee chairman, also were present. The House met at 11:30 o'clock and | after the chaplain's prayer and the' reading of the Journal, stood in re- vess on 'motion of House Leader Longworth. The Capitci Building had been closed all morning to all ex- cept members -and officers of Con- gress, At 10:30 the east door lead- ing to the rotunda was opened to thosa to whom invitations had been extended under the concurrent reso- Jution of Congress and to those who held tickets of admission to the gal- leries. Senator Cxmmins Arrives. i At 12:07 o'clock the doorkeeper of | the House, Bert Kennedy, announced the President pro tempore of the Senate and other members of the United States Senate. Senator Albert B. Cummins, President pro tempore, was escorted to the Speaker's chafr by George A. Sanderson, secretary of the Benate. The other members of the Senate occupled seats on either side of the main isle behind the chairs reserved for the President and his cabinet and the members of the Supreme Court. At 12:11 the doorkeeper announced Chief Justice and Assoclate Justices of the Supreme: Court, who filed in, led by Chief Justice Taft, followed by Justices McKenna, Holmes and the others in_order of seniority. The Ambasgadors and Ministers of forelgn governments re next an- nounced, .and they the :cham- ber legiby J. 3. the retir- ho is dean of E | today WASHINGTON Airship, Dwarfing Los Angeles And Shenandoah, Navy’s Plan 6,000,600 C€ubic Feet Capacity Craft Would Make $4,856,000 Yearly Profit, Admiral Says. air experts have closed” to Congress plins for a 6.000,000 cubic “esl capacity airship, which would dwarf the 2600.000-capacity Los Angeles, muéh larger than the 0 new 5,000,000-capacity ships or- lered by the British government for commerclal use between England and Australia. Such a ship could carry par load” rear Admiral Navy tons of Motfett, {chief of the naval air service, told a s disclosed in| House committee it w eports of the hearing made public On a schedule of 80 single between New York aund he added. the ship would W an estimated profit of $4 000 a year. ‘The proposed air liner, Admival Mof- fett said, would be 785 feet in length, compared o the 658-foot Los Ang. les. have a largest diumeter of feet, compared to the: 90-foot girth of the German-built craft, have 3,900 maximum horsepower, compared to 1,850 for the Los Angeles and have a gross lift of 154 tons, compared to the 67 tons of the Los Angeles. The cruising radius of the big ship would be 7,150 nautical miles without re- fueling at a standard speed of 50 GOMPERS RITES HERE ANNDUNCED Body, Due at 2:45 Tomor- row, Will Lie in State at A. F. of L. Building. Labor will jein hands with capital in paying a last tribute to Samuel Gompers, the man, deceased leader of | America’s working hosts and friend {of their employers, when his body ought to Washington tomorrow aft- ernoon to lie in state for several hours at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor, scene of his administrative endeavo Delegatlons representing the na- tional headquarters, local labor or- ganizations, fraternal bodles and civic ! groups will escort the body from the funeral train upon its arrival at Union Statlon at:3:45 p.m., accom- panying It to the Federation Bullding at. Ninth street aud-Aassachusetts avenue. The casket will be placed in a large reception room at the left of the en- trance on the ground floor, where it will lie in state from 4 o'clock to 10:30 o'clock tomorrow evening. Group to Meet Body. Officials of the Federation of Labor departments and other executives will go to Martinsburg, W. Va. to- norrow morning to meet the funeral train, which will leave Martinsburg at 12:45 p.m. Members of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor executive council with this party will board the train in Cincinnati. A large delega- tion representing local labor organi- zations will go to Washington Junc- tion tomorrow morning and join the train there. The latter group will include also representatives of the Elks, the Grotto and the Mystic Shrine. Preliminary arrangements for the funeral rites in Washington were made yesterday at a meeting of the following: James O'Connell and A. J. Berres, pres- ident and secretary-treasurer, respec- tively, of the metal trades depaftment of the A. F. of L.; Willlam J. Spencer, secretary-treasurer of the _building trades dopartment; John J. Mannifg, secre of the union label trades de- partment; Edgar Wallace and Edward J. McGrady, legislative representatives of the A. F. of L., and Samuel J. Gompers, Henry Gompers and Al Gom- pers, sons of President Gompers. Details Incomplete. Detailed plans for tie reception of the body here tomorrow will be worked out at another conference this after- noon at federation headquarters. At the preliminary conference it was decided to form a cortege at Unlon Station, headed by members of Mr. Gompers' immediate family, members of the éx- ecutive council and department heads of the A. F. of L., and representatives of international unions, the Washing- ton Central Labor Union, other local [ unions and civic and fraternal organiza- tlons. Most of the delegates from the varfous bodles in the procession will be organized at meetings of the re spective organization executives this afternoon. The Washington Lodge of Elks will be represented by Exalt- ed Ruler James A. Balderson and Po- lice Inspector William S. Shelby, sec- retary, with other officers and mem- bers of the order of which Mr. Gom- pers had heen a member for a quar- ~ (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 2.) COLD WAVE COMING BEFORE END OF WEEK Next Two Days Will Record Ris- ing Temperature—Storm From Northwest. ‘Washington is due for another cold wave, but just when is uncertain. For the next two days there will be a ris- ing thermometer, the Weather Bu- reau said today, and it will be cold, but not uncomfortably so. There are indications of a cold wave sbout to strike the northwest, with every indication that it will hit the District of Columbia fhe last part of the week. “There will be a risin thermometer. for the next two days, the forecaster said, “not too high but enough to bring on rain or snow within the next 24 hours. Then will come & cold wave, but not until after ‘Wednesday." The weather promises an interest- ing_week, inasmuch as there is every indication of rain, snow, very little wind. and cold waves. The lowest tempersture tonight and temorrow _morning will be slightly above freez- |knots. compared to the 4 miles {radius of the. Los Angeles. und the 12,300 miles of the Shenandoah. At her | maximur speed of 70 knots, the ship would have a radius of 4,590 miles. “‘he highe t estimates for buildin a ship would Be $6.000,000, or $1 foot, the naval air chie | “The British claimed that they would build their new 5,000,000-foot sh'p at cents a foot, the commit- tee was told, but the admiral said he did not credit it. He said, however, that if four 6,000,000-footers were | built at one time the cost per cuble | toot probably would not exceed 50 cents. | cost of running the big | New York to England on wee - | ages would be about $30,000, against | & cost for the Los Angelos of 321,400 | That ship would expend $14,300 in the horter run to Panama. Figuring on 20 passengers a trip for the Los An- geles at $1,000 each and on 2.4 tons of mail or frelght in addition to be | carried ut a rate of $4,300, Admiral Moffett placed possible receipts . at $24,500 per trip, or a net profit per trip of $2,900. The Panama run, he ship from to make 80 trips a year. RECKLESS AUTORT SCORED BY HODVER Secretary Urges , Vigorous Punishment and Uniform Rules to Lower Fatalities. Sounding a call for greater use of safety measures, Secretary of Con:- merce Hoover today declared that al- though various forms of traffic con- trols and regulations may tend to minimize the effectiveness of the reckless automobile driver as a de- that a large corrective must be more vigorous punishment. The Commerce Secretary- delivered the opening broadside in an address today before a group of more than 400 men gathered at his call at the new home of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, Connecti- cut avenue and H street, in a cam- paign desfgned to cut down the tre- mapoge. toll of _buman, | taken 1 n “filghway ac 3 out the United States. He placed squars- 1y before the conference the: lssues raised by the mounting record .of trafic casualties and recommended specific measures designed to reduce the number of deaths in traffic ae- cidents. Turning to court procedure in se- rious and aggravated traffic cases, Mr. Hoover said: “The great majority of ‘accidents are each and every one of them in themselves proof of guilt in _either incompetence, carelessness or recklessn The time has come when every accident must be exam- ined and punishment meted out that will impress the mind of the reckless for the balance of their natural lives.” A Urges Umiform Regulations. Mr. Hoover recommended uniformi- ty in trafic regulations, declaring that he could be arrested ard con- victed_on a “dosen counts between ‘Washington and New York” if he carefully followed either the Wash- ington or New York traffic regu tions. ‘The conference, which met tod and will continue lh.l'olll'h two « aims at furthering means to sa and prevent accidents, Mr. said; to make travel safer or highways for both the pedestria. the passenger. “It is not safe he added. The interests of any one class . not been subordinated in the asse. bly of the conference to the interests of any other, he pointed out, declar- ing that “if we have lent more em- phasis in one quarter than another it h been that we have had in mind the people who use thé streets nd roads, of whom at least 65 per cent are at any given moment pedes- trians.” A very large portion of the 22,600 deaths and 678,000 seriousger- sonal injuries which is our traffic toll for the last year have happened to men, women and children on foot. Aceidents Due to Automobile. “Nearly 80 per cent of our street and highway accldents are due to the automobile, and while the rate of accidental deaths in our country has steadily decreased, due to better safety measures, yet during the past 10 years- our automobile accidents have doubled. This rate has even increased by about 14 per cent in the last year. While we must not un- derestimate the importance of the motor vehicle as a vital part of our transportation system as well as a means of recreation, we must ap- proach this subject In terms of thoi who are injured. “Nor is there in this conference any sense of conflict of interest be- tween groups, for the transpgrtation industries are themselv the most insistent on-a great reduction in this terrible toll. ~ ® * * “And it is high time that Somethirig should be done about this. We must find constructive measur to meet the crisis of tens of thousands of deaths annually, with hundreds of thousands of serious personal injuries and millions of propertv damage. ¢ ® ¢ There is but cold comfort in the statement that it has crept upon us unawares and that our traf. (Continued on m: 3. Column [5) | a | Admiral Moffett estimated that the | said, should permit the Los Angeles | stroyer of human life, he is convinced | hend WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DO, HERRIOT'S ILLNESS SEEN AS FOREGAST . OF EARLY DEFEAT Rival Groups Prepare Attack to Bring Crisis and Force " Resignation. {PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE LONG REST FOR PREMIER | Patient Refuses to Quit Until Big Issues Are Settled—Cath- olics Open Fight. | ! BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, By Cable (o The Star and Chicago Daily Ne | PARIS, December 15.—It is feared | by Premier Herriot's followers that his illness may force his resignation, | and the friends of Loucheur, Briand | { and De Monzle have already started | pulling wires behind the scenes try- | ing to force a ministerial crisis be- | fore the end of the year. i | Premier Herriot 1. suffering from {a bad attack of phlebitis, which has | been made serfous by the fact that | his heart is much weakened on ac- | count of the overwork. While his | 1ite is in no danger, physicians recom- | mend for him a long rest, which the | premier réfuses to take, stating | that his presence at the head of | Frenc affairs is absolutely necessary ungit the evacuation of the Ruhr is completed, Russian relations put on a sound basis, the questlon of war debts rettled with the United States | and some form of security for Krance | {obtained, be it in the shape of ratifi- cation of the Geneva protocol or a| | Franco-British security pact. | | . Since Premier Herriot will be con- | fined to bed at least until the end' | of the year, he will be unable to use' his personal prestize in the stormy | debates., which, it is believed, will! | take place in the course of the com- | { ing week during the discussion of { the budget of the ministry of for-| eign affairs, in which his opponents | will launch a decisive attack against!| the government. | Premier Herrfot's friends fear that | many of his followers may abandon | him ‘at the critical moment. Even if | the cabinet is able to weather the storm .and remain in offica until the end of the Christmas recess, It will be absolutely necessary for the premler to be on his feet again by January 13, when both houscs assemble again. The situation of the cabinet has ::;end;endercd more difficult the last 9 days-on gccount of the heavy de- fogts: syferel by the Spagier ‘4-. Morocco. Information reached the today.indicating that the serfousness of the situation s er | compiicated by the bad shape of Byk i€h finances. ~The Moroccan war has absolutely drained the Spanish tre ury, which i spending about $1,000,- 000 a day for the army. Question Important. While the French government is not interested in the political de- velopments in Spain Itself, it is forced to consider seriously the Moroccan question. 1t is stated that, so far, Premier Herriot has decided to rec-, ognize Abdel Krim's independence without extending the French sphere of influence beyond the present lim- its, but this policy is not favored by | many of his more conservative fol-| lowers, who believe that France must take an active part in the settlement of the Rifan question in case the| Spanirds are forced to withdraw their | forces back into Jurope. This question, it Is expected, will be raised during the debates on the {Fudget, and the fact that Premier erriot will be unable to be present nay cause the downfall of his cabinet 1 lead to unexpected complications oughout Europe. oyrignt, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) HERRIOT RESTS BETTER. 1 rench Premier Still Experiences Much Pain. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 15, —Premier Herrlot, who has been ill for a week, rested better last night than for| several nights past, in spite of the fact that he experienced considerable pain at intervals from inflammation in one leg. He had a temperature last night of 100.04 Fahrenheit, but ;215 had dropped this morning to : i The movement among the organ- ized opposition parties in protest against the government's religious policy, which they declare a menace to the freedom of creed, continues active. 3 Gen. de Castelnau presided yester- day over a meeting at Avignon of 7,000 Catholics, who adopted a resolu- tion ‘demanding retention of the French embassy at the Vatican, respect fof promises made to Alsace. Lorraine, freedom for all religious congregations, and abolition of all laws limiting the rights and freedom of Catholics. At Bordeaux four meetings were organized, with an attendance alto- gether of about 15,000 persons. The meetings were addressed by deputies from Alsace-Lorraine, Brittany, Maine, Vendee and Basque and Bearn countries, who appealed to public opinion in order, - they d, that France might be spared domestic strife prejudical to the dignity and safety of the country. The French government: has taken up with the government ot Spain the situation in the Spanish 3one of Morocco, with a view to keeping in touch- with the Spanish plans, so as not to be taken by surprise by any developments. The French, it . is stated in official quarters, greatly hope to escape the necessity of inter- vening in any part of the territory evacuated by the Spanish, though of course ready to perform the obliga- tions to .maintaln order imposed on them by -the Algeciras pact and by thelr protectorate. - . PRI e SPRING WHEAT GETS $2. Price on Car of No. 1 Breaks Four- Year Record. MINNEAPOLIS, December 15.—For the lm-t.l'-u'l:‘ lb‘o\ft four years, a 92 » bushel in the local pit 3 tent, it said at R e fi&’ cents sbove the Décom-: LOSS OF MILLIONS IN REVENUE SEEN Couzens Cites One Case In- volving $600,000—Loose Methods Alleged. By the Associnted Press Chairman Couzens of the speci Senate committee investigaiing the Internal Revenue Bureau declared in a statement today that the commit- tee had found “much looseness in the | execution of the work"” of the bursau, resuiting in the apparent loss of “mil- lons of dollars of revenue to the Government.” “In some of these cases,” the chair- man declared, “the department o clals have admitted errors, and while the committee ehargeg no dighonesty, it finds much looseness In the execu- tion- ot the-work." Noting that a review had baen or- dered of one case involving an al- leged ovéerallowance of $600,000 in taxes to one company Senator Couzens sald special Investigators were now working on other cases which will be taken up this week by the com- mittee. He invited the public to send in suggestions for simplifying the procedure of the bureau as well as the statutes. Sees Imjustice to Some. his lack of uniformity.” Senator Couzens declared, “worked great in- justice to some taxpayers and exces- sive reductions to others. The in- justice aroze, not Dbecause the ev dence showed that many taxpaye paid taxes they should not pa but rather that taxpayers were relieved who should not have been relieved. “For example, a large shipbuilding concern on the Pacific was allowed a claim by the United States Shipping Board involving $800,000, and the same oclaim was allowed by the Internal Rev- enue Bureau, thus losing to the Govern- ment some $600,000 in taxes. It de- veloped a clear case of lack of proper working arrangements between the two departments, the responsibility for which was upon the Internal Revenue Bureau. “The committee has been assured that an effort will be made to collect this $800,000, and if it is collected, as the committee believes it should, fully 10 times the cost of the committee's work will have been collected in one case. War Clatms Criticised. “The committee found other cases where claims were allowed for amorti- zation on plants and equipment pur- chased before our country entered the World War, and yet it was clearly pro- vided by statute that'only amortization was to be allowed on war plants and war equipment which were purchased after we entered the wai “The committes also found that taxpayers received advantages over other taxpayers because of the meth- ods used in keeping their books. The cases that the committee has ex- amined in this connection represents a loss to the Government, if the committee’s interpretation is correct, of many millions of dollars of rev- enue to the Government. “The committee has come across of what looks like what is te in Wall Street as ‘washed sales’ for the purpose of tax evasion, and it appears that the -bureau has not given sufficient consideratich to these attempts to evade taxes. Tax- payers have made excessive claims for amortization, alleging that' they purchased excess facilities for war purposes. Laxity in -fixing the ex- tent of the use of these plants sub- sequent to the war has developed in our hearings. —_— CROWDS HAIL TROTSKY DEPARTING-FOR EXILE Soviet War Lord Leaves Capital. Shots Fired in Air Fail to Halt Cheering. By Cable to The Star and New York World. BERLIN, December 15.~—Leon Trot- sky, war lord of communism, left Moscow for his. virtual exile in the Crimea * with the shouts of several thousand “still ‘loyal followers pui suing his train. Even government troops, nominally, under the authority of the fallen war minister, but actually acting for his enemies, the .ot leaders of the Soviet government, ‘werée unable to check the demonstration. Shots were fired mhun ;Bu" ;nv'u'i A 0. dis- rse the mob, but: wds " ve- ?m‘u-oo unperturbed until mg idol n_gn the first ‘public demonstra- ginning of ks quarrel with the lesders, g RN other favor since the be- |- ny Sfar MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924 —FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. Mayor Orders Fine |For Bobbing Minus| 0. K. of Husbands BY AUDE 0. PIK| Correagoudence of Tie Daily SAO PAULO, B November 12—A new champion of the fast sappearing rights of men and a bitter enemy of bobbed hair 0 all of its forms has arisen in the village of Jaboticabal, half a da automobile from this ci redo Campos da Rocha of the village of tar and the we 250 woman's hair without the permis- sion from her husband. father or some male member of her family having legal authority over her, will be flned 30 mllreis, about $6 in_ Ameries 2 This edict has created more ex- citement in Jaboti al than the latest rebellion, coffee cross-word puzzies. The ma & the storm T. The bobbed and would-be bobbed, urged on by the barbers, Wwho are losing profit- able busine are attempting to force him to rescind the edict, jhe first of its kind in Brazil. Fathers and husbands who attempted to stand in their households against the flood of bobbed hair are cheer- ing the mayor. (Copyright. 1824, by Chicago Daily News Co.) SON KILLS FATHER WITH WAR TROPHY Shell-Shocked Veteran Wields German Saber After Drinking Party. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 15.—Bruce A. Shaw, wealthy Oak Park inventor and manufacturer, was stabbed fatal- 1y early yesterday by his sbn, George, 23, who used a German saber brought back from French battlefields. Mr Shaw died at midmight, pleading that his son be exonerated. “George is crazy, a shell-shocked war victim,” he told the police. boy still is suffering from his wou and has been in hospltals most of the time since the war.” Mrs. Marie Ayres, daughter of Mr. Shaw, sald George created a disturb- ance in her bedroom after the two had returned from a roadhouse wine party. His father, she said, attempted to quiet him, and finding his son re- sentful, started to use force. “George picked up a saber and thrust the blade into his father's chest,” she told police. With Mrs. Ayres was a girl com- panmion who attended the party. Mr Ayres said they had been drinking, and that she and her brother had qu reled, each returning home separately from the resort. Young Shaw is a veteran of the Ma- rine Corps and was gassed and wound- ed in the battle of St. Mihel. SENTENCED TO JAIL. Four Former Dry Agents Get Two Years Each. KANSAS CITY, Mo, December 15.— Four former Federal prohibition agents convicted of conspiracy and graft today were sentenced to two years in the Federal penitentiary and fined $2,000 each. The men convicted November 26 are: Ellon Apt, Harvey Storms, Arthur_Curran and Manning Wilcox. Attorneys for the men filed notice of appeal and they were released on bonds of $7,500. The Government charged that the agents had zoned the city in order to facilitate the extortion of money from bootleggers in exchange for immunity from arr Seven Hurt in:Boat Blast. GREENVILLE,, Miss., December 15.—Seven men were injured, two. seriously, in a fire and explosion last night aboard: United States Govern- ment . quarterboat. 1202 Miller' Bend, several miles north-of here. Chancellor Marx . Resigns His Post " "In Note to Ebert LBERLIN, Decomber is—chan- kegin “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tior, is delivered to Washington homes COOLIDGE TACKLES Confident Land, Sea and Air Forces Will Be Adequately Cared For. | | ent Coolidge is giving his ersonal attention to the queetion of { national defense, which recently has | become a subject of widespread agi- | tation, and he hopes the country will | have confidence that its defenses on land, sea and in the air will be ade- | quately cared for. | Peports of negligence and ineff |ciency in the maintenance of the avy and other branches of the na- tion's defense forces have caused some concern at the White House, but tlhie President does not believe such reports will be accepted as cor- rect by thes American people. He is satisfled that the government Is pro- ceeding with its Army, Navy and air programs to the full extent of Con- gressional appropriations and that the budget figures on which appro- priations for the next year will be based reflect fairly the needs of the situation. Thinks Treaty Obeyed.§ So far the Washington arms treaty is concerned, Mr. Coolidge be- lieves the United States is following out the five-power agreement to the letter, and he likewise is convinced, after a’ study of all the confidential information available, that the treaty provisions are being followed by ail the other signatories. The President is not apprenensive of the real state of mind throughout the country on the question of na- tional defense. regret, however, that there is a tendency in some quarters to measure American efforts at preparedness by what other powers are doing, rather than by the yardstick of American national requirements. Competitive armaments, in the opinion of the Chief Executive, are a thing of the past. He desires, therefore, to throw the weight of his influence against any possibility that the national defenses of this coun- try shall stand on a competitive basis with those of any other na- tion, even in the minds of the people. He believes that competitive arma- causes of the World War, and he r gards the whole theory of competi- tive naval building, in particular, as having gone into the discard at the ‘Washington conference. The present effort in Congress and elsewhere to impress upon the public a need for further naval armaments and for a general overhauling of the entire naval establishment has been the subject of numerous conferences between Mr. Coolidge and his advis- ers. He takes no stock In statements that the Navy is grossly inefficient, but. he desires that whatever short- comings there are be corrected and that the Nation be prepared at all times up to the limit of its necessi- ties. He will continue to study the sit- available, both at home and from abroad, and it is his hope that in the meantime neither the press nor the public will form hasty conclusions or readlly discredit the administration’s assurance that it is dealing with the situation in an adequate manner. T. F. APPLEBY DIES; HAD WON HOUSE SEAT New :Ieruy Representative-Elect Underwent Operation Week Ago at Johns Hopkins Hospital. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., December 15.— Representative-elect Thomas F. Ap- pleby of the third New Jersey dis- trict died at Johns Hopkins Hospital early today of heart trouble which de- veloped siddenly yesterday. Mr. Ap- Ppleby underwent a surgical operation t the hospital about a week ago and every indication pointed to recovery, it was. stated at the hospital, until yesterday, when his heart weakened. It was planned to take Mr. Apple- by’s body to his late home at Asbury Park toda; - Mr. Appleby was a Republican in politics. ‘He was a member of the Sfxty-seventh Congress and. was re- elected last November 4, the congres- siondl term beginning next March 4. He was twice mayor of Asbury Park. Mr. Appleby was 60 years of ’f‘ His widow and three sens sur-. vive him,* 3 . DEFENSE PROBLEN He has observed with | ments were among the contributing | uation in the light of all the facts | as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 95, Sunday’s Circulation, s 108,660 TWO CENTS D. C. TRAFFIC GOURT 1S DISAPPROVED BY JOINT COMMITTEE Congress Members Prefer Extension of Present Jus- tice Machinery. ZIHLMAN PLEA FAILS TO CARRY PROPOSITION \ Blanton Refuses to Vote—Ball Explains Reasons for Changing His Mind. | | Despite urgent pleas and recommenda- tions of the Commissioners, Police De- partment, police officials and motor es- | perts, the joint Dietrict committees of the House and Senate, at a meeting to- | day, voted against the establishment of a traffic court in Washington. | Although members of both com: { tees have gone on record as favoring | what officials agree is one of the neces- | sury remedies for the wave of traffic | criminality which has been sweeping over the city, and although the estab- lishment of a traffic court ie provided for in the tentative bill drafted by the |Snnate District committee after a coi prehensive investigation, the joint com: | mittee took an abrupt “about face" aud | passed the resolution of Senator Cope- land of New York “that If any additions were needed to the courts it would be by addition of judges to the present court and not in the establishment of « traffic court.” Blanton Not Voting. | The vote on the Copeland resolution |was 9 to 4. Representative Thomas Blanton of Texas refused to vote pointing out that he did not belleve that the committee had sufficient data on the conditions in the courts. “The traffic court may be the only way that we can handle this situa- | tion,” he said. “I am not ready to say that we should not establish 2 traffic court when we have no data from which we are able to make « 1 happen to know that the | present courts are disgraceful | crowded, and that the two judges | have more work than they can pos- { sibly handle. I am in favor of giving | the District immediately 2 { judges and 100 more policemen. i Representative Zihlman of Mar:- {1and urged the committee to establisi a traffic court. He said that he had | made a study of conditions in Wash- ington, and that he was convinced | that such a court was a necessity. | Work for More Judges. “Thare s plenty of work to leep two additional judges in a separately |created traffic ~court busy all the |time,” he asserted. “The two judges |in ¢he present Police Court handled | thonsands of traffic cases last year | in spite of all their other work, but {the docket is so crowded that justice is siow. They are umable to give each case the proper attention. Any |one familiar with the situation can i give you the full statistics. {” “The thing we need here is a traf- | fic court, two judges and the neces- | sary clerks. The judges should have | nothing but traffic cases, because in this way they acquire the experience and get to be familiar with chromic offenders. This type of law violator should be dealt with severely, and only judges before whom they come time and time again can adequately deal with them. | decision. more Explained by Bal Senator L. Heisler Ball, of the Senate District committee. ! opened the meeting by explaining |that a bill had been drafted by the subcommittee on traffic and that the first item on the proposed bill was the establishment of a trafic court “At one time.” said the Senator, “I was in favor of the creation of such a gourt. The more I think about it however, the more I believe that in {the Interests of economy, additions should be made to the present court rather than the establishment of u new one. I want full and open dis- cussion on this matter by members of the joint committee.” Senator Copeland asked the chair- man if the present courts were crowded and citizens were delayed in getting trial of cases. “I understand that they are very much crowded,” answered Senator Ball, “and two more judges are need- ed for the present courts. Of course, with the addition of judges, clerks the court attendants are necessary, too. The thing that I dislike about the traffic court idea is that the judges will have only one kind of case to handle and I am afraid thev will get into a rut.” Would Give Wider Scope. Stating that he could not agres that a traffic court was not necessary, Reprosentative Blanton said that he believed that such a court should be created, with two more judges, and that the court should sit at night He also sald that the judges should be given general jurisdiction so that if there were no traffic cases on the docket they could work on other matters. Representative Kent of Pennsylvania said that he was not in favor of going on record for additions to the present court or the need of a traffic court. He asserted that if the committee did that it would be going on the as- sumption that violations of the law were going to continue to pile up. “If we could get at the ecause of these violations, instead of punishing them after they occur, there would chairman - {not be so many court cases and there would be no need for more judges or another court,” he said. - | The commitfee will meet again to- morrow morning at.10 o'clock to dis- cuss the needs of the present court and to take up other features of the tentative Senate biil. RED PARTY DISSOLVED. - Serbian Government - Acts Under Law to Guard Realm. BELGRADE, December 15.—The Serblan government, acting under the law for protection of the realm, has dif- solved the Communist ‘party. P In exeécution of thes decision, ‘police searched the party’s offices and seized the Communist newspaper, the Work-