Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 2

o HUHES TOIGNORE TCATCHERINNOTE ;Tnvegtigation Shows Charge | of Trespass on Soviet Territory Baseless. 1t George Tchitcherin, Soviet min dster of foreign affairs, expected to dead the way to an exchange of com- {munications between the Washing- fon and Moscow governments by gomplaining In a telsgram that the @oaet Guard cutter Bear committed violation of international law when t aftixed a brase plate to a rock on Crukotek Peninsula in’ 19 he is 8oomed to diseppointment. £ It was stated authoritatively today that no answer to the mlnisters tele- gram, cuoted in Mascow dispatches Hst night, would be wmade Ly thie Government. Purpose of Plate. | Tchitcherin's protest, it was learn- #d. was recelved recently; the inei- dent was investigated and was auto-| matically closed on the findings of | the investl £ The facts as reported to the State| REPRESENTATIVE FRANK MURPHY, will be n member of the subeom. mittee of the use appropriation: committee which will consider the Distriet budget. Department by the Coast Guard Serv-| Jce revemled that the Bear affixed aj Plate rock awhil King a sur- | ey ers in the vie o B tne The gurve seie purpéses and the pl onl¥ that the watd Ly the Bear. as shown that 2t the time| committed tha “lawless| lained by Tchitcherin | ry about Chukotek Penin-! controlled by the Chita| or the so-called Far Last- | lic, end with which tes then hud informal re-| Iations. The authorities in control as- dented to the surveys which the Bear| made and gave permission for it tof affix the plate No comment was made herin’s statement that st Tess * would be sternl; by the Soviet government. THREAT TO “BE STERN, Red Official Sends Abrupt Note to United Statee. | on T tlar “law- repressed i i By tiie Avsociated Pro MOSCOW, Tohitcherin, forelgn aff; a caustlc no 16.—George tet minister of ccember 11 sent etary of State | Hughes st Washington, complaining that the United States Coast Uuard vessel Bear (n 1920 had committed an act which constituted a gross viola- tion of international Jaw and of the sreignty of the Soviet repubiic. note added that milar “law s act” would be sternly repressed the Soviet government. The complaint of the Soviet go srnment was that the Bear had affix- ed a brass plate to a rock on_the Chukotsk Peninsula {n Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, in Eiberla, near Bering Strait, bearing the Inscription “United { States Geodetic Magnetic Statjon.” The plate was discovered by Soviet authorities and bears the warning: “For disturbing this plate, $250 fine or imprisonment.” Tchitcherin assertad of the plate shows that magnetic observations had been car- ried out In 1920 and subsequent years the Bear. W pointed out that repeated entry of an American war vessel into the territorial waters of the Soviet répudlics without permission {s con- irary to law,” M. Tchitcherin sald, “I must emphasize that the erectlion of the foregoing plate and the threat to Soviet citizens Inscribed on it consti- tute a gross violation of the sover- eignty of the Boviet republics.” -— MATSUDAIRA MADE AMBASSADOR HERE Veteran Diplomat Will Represent Japanese Government in ‘Washington. 1 tho that the | By the Associated Press. #TOKIO, December 16.—The appoint- ment of Tsuneo Matsudaira, vice winister of foreign affairs, as Ambas- sador to Washington was formally announced today. ‘Matsudaira succeeds M. Hanihara, who returned to Tokio following the passage by Congress of the immigra- tion bill containing a clause exolud- ipg Japanese Immigrants from the inited States. A member of one of the old daimio families of Japan, Matsudaira was born in Tokio in 1877, o graduated from the Tokio Im- perial University and entered the diplomatic service as a clerk in the forelgn office. He served as secre- tary of the legation in Peking and embassies in London and Parls, and consul general in Tientsln, and later had charge of diplomatic affairs in connection with the Siberian expedi- l;liin following the revolution in Rus- Service in Tokio. (From the latter he went back to! the forelgn office as director of the! Western division, which includes Eu- rope and America, and in this way was brought into close touch with the diplomatic representatives of the United States in Toklo. :Upon Hanlhara's appointment as Ambassador to Washington, Mateu- daira succeeded to the position of vice minister of foreign affal which position he ltkewise kept in clos touch with the relations be- t¥veen his country and America. The new Ambassador is considered an expert in Russian affairs. He rep- remented Japan at the Changchun conference in 1922 and behind the sgenes in the conference with Rus- sian delegates in Tokio in 1923, both of which were unsuccessful. Both Mr. and Mrs. Matsudaira speak English fluently and are very popular in diplomatic cireles in Toklo. BLAMES WIFE'S AUNT. ‘¥lenry James In an answer to._a agit for a limited divorce brought by his wife, Elma B. James, tells ths District Supreme Court that his fife's aunt, Mrs. Daisy Shorts, at! whose home the wifé resides, would | npt permit him to talk to his wife and threatezed to have him arrested i he came to the house.. The aunt's interference with his domestic affairs, in. which she advises his wife of her rights, the husband claims, s one of the yeasons for his marital difficul- tes James denled the charges of cruelty and desertion made by his wife and asserts that in fact she left him and T8 taken up hor- abode with her aunt. The husband, through Attormey Maurice M. Grudd, asks the court to, dfamiss the sut of his wife, % FREEIES. Maj. Blanchard on Detail. Maj. Joseph W. Blanchard, U. 8. A, | 1, | etgntn atroet SIX DIE WHEN FIRE SHEERS TENEMENT Five Women Trapped and: Man Plunges to Death From Safety Rope. ° By the NEW YORK, er 16-—8lx versons lost their lives, nine others were injured and hundreds were driven from their homes early today In a serles of fires in apartment houses, tenements and one hotel in Manbattan and Rrooklyn. Today's blazes brought the number during the cold spell since Sunday to more than 100, making hundreds homeless and eausing heavy property losses. Five women and a man lost their 1 in a fire which swept through & five-story apartment house in East Ninoty-¢ighth street near FIfth ave- nue. I'ive other persons were pain- tully burned In escaping from the blazing building, and scores of fam- illes llving in the neighborhood wera driven to the streets from their homes Children Are Burned. Four persons, including two chil- dren, wera severely burned in a fire| which broke out about the same time in a four-story dwelling in Sixty- sixth street, Brooklyn. The blaze spread to an_adjoining dwoelling house, driving 12 families from thelr homes in both bulldings. Guests in an Eighth avenus hotel, patronized largely by members of the theatrical profession, were routad from thelr beds by a fire which start- ed a few hours after the Ninety- blaze. Many of the guests were forced to escape by way of the hotel roof, after the flames had spread from the lower floors. Five of the victims in the Ninety- elghth street fire were trapped nnd burned to death in the bullding. The sixth fell to his death from the fifth floor when he lost his grip on a rope which firemen lowered from the win- dow of adjoining buildings. Hospital In Terror, This fire occurred but two blocks from Mount Sinal Hospital and the | €&ns of public opinion and exponents | attendant noise and confusion awak- ened patients, who found the sky about the institution a quivering red. Doctors and nurses patrolled the wards, pulling down blinds and as- suring their patients that there was no danger. The bravery of a 19-year-old youth, Fred Nugent, saved an entire family. Awakened by smoke, he ran into the room of his mother, Mrs. Anna Nu- gent, and carried her to the street. Entering the building he dragged his sisters, Barbara and _Antolnette, to afety and then for the second time | plunged into the flaming house. This time he was driven back by the flames as he attempted to enter the room of his uncle, Edward Russell, who had been weakened by a long iliness. Plunges to Death. Meanwhile firemen, who «lso sought to rescue Russell, had dropped a rope to him at the window of his room, from a higher floor in an adjoining building. The aged man clutched the rope, but his grip gave away and he fell five stories to his death. The fire was discovered by a pa- trolman shortly after 3 o'clock, und the tenants were awakened by the beating of a police club against their d6ors. Swarming from thelr apart- ments in night clothes, in their bare feet, and carrying blankets to shelter them, they fled to the street. Suffering from cold and exposure, men, women and children were taken in by neighbors, while those who had relatives missing ran from house to house in a frantic effort to find them. Police were forced to make a house- to-house canvess in the district to check up the missing. TWO VETERANS KILLED. Fire Sweeps Soldier Home Dormi- tory in Mississippi. By the Associated Press, BEAUVOIR, Miss, December 16.— Two Confederate veterans were burn- ed to death and two were injured when fire destroyed a dormitory of the Jefferson Davis Soldiers’ Home at 2:35 a.m. today. The dead are F. J. Sharpe, 78, Co- lumbus, Miss,, and J. P. Hunter, 89, Laurel, Mies, Twenty veterans were asleep in the eight-room, one-story trame building, when the fire was discovered. Volun- teers, fighting through the amoke, carried most of the veterans to safe- ty. Bharpe and Hunter could not be reached, their bodies being found in bed. Bome of the veterans went back into the fire for their poseessions, and it was only with difficulty that they ‘were rescued the second time. The dormitory adjoined a hospital occupied by 25 women, aged from 80 to 100 years. The hospital was emp- tled by volunteeers, The fire was belleved to have bean due to an open fireplace. The loss wes estimated at $18,000. FAIL TO PAY, SENT TO JAIL. Three Pleading Guilty of Intoxi- cation Fined $50 Each. ’ Edward R. Ryan, Frank Smith and Michasl A. Gainey, pleading gullty to charges of intoxication, were fined 360 ehch by Judge Mattingly in Polics Court today, and in default of pay- ment of the fine were committed to jail for 60 davs. Ryan was given an additional $50 or 80 days for a charge lof_aisorderly conduct. Pollceman F. W. Bauer testified rétired, in this clty, has been detalled a#’ professor of military science and tacties at Wenonah Military Acad- N. that he had found the triumvirate to- gether, and, upon searching them, founé a bottle of denatured alcohol and a bottle of peroxide, SERVICE BOARDS Civil Service Reform League Urges Changing of * Classification. Charging the TFederal Governmeit |with “inefcient and uneconomical methods” in handling the personnel problem, the Natlonal Civil Service Reform Leaguc, in forty-fourth an- nual meeting at the Washington Hotel today, recommended that both the Personnel Classification Board and the Bureau of Efciency should be “merged {n one bureau, controlled by the United States Civil Bervice Com. mission.” The recommendation included in the report of the resolutions committee, Samuel H. Ordway of New York, chairman, was unanimously adopte It goes turther even than the repo of the cound of the league, adopted previously at the same wmesting, which had approved the Lehlbach bill, now pending in the Senate, for aboll- tion of the classification beard and transfer of its functions to the Clvil Service Commission, - Robert Catherwood) attorney. of Chicago, was elected. president and & long list of neariy 100 officers and members of the osuncil war named for the succeeding year. Propoxe Salwey Ralse. | necommeondation that the Bureau of Efficlency and Classification Board should be transferred to the Civil vice Commission also fncluded the proposal that. Congress should Creese the salary of the members of the commission to at loast $10,000. Other resoluttons called on the cit- 1zenship of Amarica to help “root out remnants of the spolls system Nation, States snd municipalitie further legislative enmctmen carry out the execulive orders ler the Rogers law, for reorganiza- tion of the fore'gn service, and con- | demncd the pr of having e masters chosen by approval of mem- bers of Congress and recommending instead they should hoad of the eligible list. Another resolution indorsed the Hull bill, which would permit the President 1o extend the classified civil service include other branches of the Govern- ment service, such as the field workers in the prohibition unit, the Shipping Board and other establishments, Exten- sion of the merit System into the States where there are no clv!l service laws was glso urged. lected. for ‘Washingtontans Among the officers elected the |city. as a vice president, and the fol- {lowing members from Washington to {gerve on the council: Robert W. Belcher, { John Joy Edson, ot M. Goodwin, Harlean James, Ruth Putuam and k lery C. Stowell. The morning session concluded {with reports from the various asso- ciations and Civil Service Commis- slons throughout the country. Mrs. Charlas Belmont Smith, president of {the New York State Civil Service Commission, led this discuseion, de- claring that the “merit system in the State of New York had really made great strides” and that thers was no serious “attempt to chrcumvent 1t." Battle Againat System. the work of the league in its “battle against the spoils system” (n Governe ment, but predicted that “so long aw patronage, Federal, State and local, remains to be fought for as a major abn of political organization, partles | cza never be made to function pri- | marily as sincere and courageous or- i of_political principles. Revealing “an inquiry among the | politicians,” the council reported that “letters were written to all members ot the Republican and Democratic national committees submitting reso- lutions substantially identical in character by the'adcption of which either party would challenge the oth- er to join in a public pledge to uphold and sbide by the merit system of ap- pointment in public office, both In let- ter and epirit.” Favor Merit System. ! As a result, it was reported that anly two persons expressed an opin fon in opposition to the principle of the merit system. ‘Three-fourths of the replies received from committee- men of both partles,” said the counell, “state that they would support such a resolution as was proposed by the league at the next meoting of their respective committees. Much s saifl of the uselessness of the nledges and platforms adopted by po..tical organ- izations. However, not many yeafs jago a similar inquiry addressed to th members of the natlonal committees of Dboth organizations would un- doubtedly have resulted in as many statements in. denunclation of the merit system as were recelved this year in indorsement of it.” Representative Hamllton Fish, jr. was attacked by the council in its report as typical of “various mem- bers of Congress who will seem to consider the spolls system as a nec- essary adjunct to the future of a po- litical organization.” According to the council's report, Representative Fish “found the Democratic incum- bents of the post offices in his dls- trict generally well qualified, but, as they were Democratic, he asked that they be removed, and the Post Office' Department generally very kindly ac- ceded to his requests.” Political in Nature, “It is well understood,” sald report, “that the appolntments &t pastmiasters and rural .arriers, as made under the present practice -of the Post Office Department, are largely political in character. The league condemns the practice of re- ferring the eligidble lists to members of Congress, and reiterates its for- mer recommendation that the Presi- dent provide by executive order or otherwise that the Post Office De- partment, in making _selections, chooke the first person on the eligibls list in every case. In this way only can the present practice be eftectively checked. \ The Post Office Department was charged with withholding from In- spection records in regard to the ap- pointment of postmasters, “The de- pertment has refused to permit the league to. have the information it ked for, stating ‘that no good pur- pose would be served by furnishing the Information in question,’” accord- ing to the council. “Similar infor- mation has been furnished the league in the past upor the direction of Postmaster General Haya. during the first year of President Harding's a ministration. Why should the dJe- partment now refuss to give the league this information?% The council, commended President Coolidge's “sincere expressions of approval ofe the merit syste: in- cluded in hill messages to Congrese. Praise Rogers Bill. Enactment of the Rogers bill, for reform in the forelgn service, was id by the council to have “lald a undation - for a foref service which may become fully the equai to If not the superfor of the foreign service of any other nation.” In supporting the Lehlbach bill for transfer of the duties of the Personal Classification to the Civil Service Commission, the counel! _attacks the Buresu of Bffi &Y; fn- | politiciana, | Le appointed only from namee &t the | to | | yrar were Franklin MecVeagh of thie ! The report of the councll reviewed | the { STA CABINET IS UPHELD ONEGYPT ANDRELS Wins After Strong Critioism " by Liberal and Labor Members. By the Associateq Press. LONDON, December 16.—~The first division in the new parliament was taken tonight when the Trevelyan endment, expressing regret at the government's policy in Egypt and Russla, was defeated by a vote of 363 to 132, after a debate in which the government was subjected to strong criticlsm from Liberal and Labor members, Austen Chamberlain's speech wa: considered somewhat disappointing. His most interesting announcement was the government's willingness to submit the Gesirah water question to & mixed commigsion on which both the Sudan and Egypt would be rep- resented. Greeted With Shouts. Chamberlain, was greeted with op- position shouts of “What have you #a1d?” “What has happened?” dur- ing. the opening passages of hig speech when he related all that he “thought necessary to zay,” about his recent converiations in Parls and Rome, They were, of courd¥, ironic taunts, but had a certain substratum of justification, for the forelgn se revelations were of A very nital charncter. The dobate originated with the op- | position amendment to the address, moved by Charles ). Treveiyan, Labor, “regreting the goverament's policy with. respect to Egypt and Russia,” and after these opening passages Mr. Chamberlain proceeded (o reply to Mr. Trevelyan's critiolems. Thus his speech dealt largely with Egypt and Euss| The foreign seeretary repudiated any desire to withhold-desarved credit from Ramsay MacDonald, although | he thought the former Lahor premier went profoundly wrong on the Rus- slan treatics. But he was sure that N MacDonald and M. Herriot, the nch premier, did great Burop. rid at the London conteren for that he wished to’pay duc credit to his predecessor. ¥ { Security In Egypt. Declaring that the security of com- | munications in Egypt was vital to the | very existence of the emplre, the sec- | retary outliped the government's p fcy, which Was fulfiliment of her ob- ligations In tha Sudan and proper conduction of affairs in the Sudan by government, and he | strongly nsisted that Egypt was no case to take to the League ot Nations. Roeverting to Russian matters, he declared that the evidence received { regarding -the Zinovieff latter left no shade of doubt as to ite authenticity. snd he therefore declined to discus: the subject further. As to treaties, he would not exclude the pomsibility {of some tuture resumption of nego- tiations with Russla, but for the present the government would await developmenta. HOUSE APPROVES POLISH DEBT PLAN Setilement by Lithuania Also Ratified—Burton De- fends British View. i The House today by X unanimous wgte approved the settlement with oland. The ratifying resolution pre- | viously was bassed by the Senate. The House then took up thy debt | settlement agreement with Lithuania and ratified that, which also has been acted upon favorably by the Senate. In discussing the foreign debt ques- tion, Representative Burton asserted vhile he was opposed to any material change from settlements already ratified In effecting agree- ments with other nations, he belleved the United States should show all possible lenjericy and in some cases should be willing to grant moratori- unis on early payments. To alter radically the terms of agreements hereafter negotiated, he contended, would be unjust to nations which have already made debt ad- Justmen Justified Hritish View. Great Britain Is justified in insist- ing that its debtor natlons must bé- gn repayment of loans to her it they make debt settlements with the United States, the Ohio Represgenta- tive sald. “Great Britain must first fulfill her obligations to us, he added, and so long as we are seeking payments how can we justly complain if she also is asking her debtors to make settle- ment,” he asks. ! Capt. Benitez Transferred. Capt. Enrique M. Benites, 6th Coast Artillery, at Fort Eustls, Va., has been assigned to duty at the Army War College, Washington Barracks, D. C . olartrig that “the time has come for a’ complete exclusion of the efficiency bureau from any business connectlon with the personnel administration in the Federal civil service.” "It is important,” says the council, that the funotions pertaining to peérsonnel administration now pos- sessed by the efficiency bureau be transferred by legislation to the Civil Service Commission without delay." Report was made by the council on the action of the administration in restoring to their former positions the .ousted officials of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who had been removed overnight by Executive order. “Secretary Mellon found,” sald the report, “‘that there has actual- 1y been a minimum of ground for critlcism of any of the employes In the bureaq, whether based on fraud or otherwise."" Concerning the prospects of ob- taining beneficlal State legislation, it was 68id that plans had been made for Becuring the adoption of civil service laws “in Texas, Minnesota, Kansas,' Vermont, Ul ahd Michi- gan. More favorable sentiment was also reported as existing in Pennsyl- vania, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Virginia. Classification of Government em- ployes is expected to come fn for prominent conslderation at the pub- iic mesting tonight at the Washing- ton Hotel. The akers _include Samuel H. Ordway, acting presiden of the league; ' Belle Bh presi- dent of-the National League-of Wom- en Voters; J. Butler Wright, ‘Assist- ant Secretary of State, and Benator Thomas Sterling of South Dakots. Speakérs - scheduled for the after- noon meéeting were F. A. Moss of the Bureau of Publio Personnel Adniinis- tration; FEugene J. Benge, manager of Industrial relations of the Atlantic Refinfhig Company; Henry M. Waite, lorduel;‘ pt‘tvy manager of Dayton, ‘Ohl‘?. an . “Dodds, secretary the Nattonal Municipal League. - work for | Santa Claus Land Hotels Made In Pretty French Pastry Designs | Floor, Bounces Up BY CAPT. ELIJAH SQUINT. The only explorer who never lost bis war at Dupont Cierle; leader of The Star's expedition | to Banta Claus Lana. By Courier Duck to The Bt HOTEL CHARLOTTE RUSS Claus Land, December 16.—We slid down a pole, use, from the rock candy clift into the hotel lobby. The clerk was a jolly fat boy, who had & way of bouncing, in- atead of walking. He had a plum- colored sult with gingersnap buttons. As he bounced over the desk and came toward us, we saw that, instead of a pen, he had & jackknife over his ear, with the big blade open. “Register, please,” he sald, handing me the jackknife “Where?’ I asked. “On, just cut your initials some- where," he answered, bouncing back jover the desk again. The hotel was decorated with French pastry designs. We saw a big panel of icing and began to cut our initiale on it. “You can make hearts and arrows, too, If you want to,” sald the clerk. S0 we made beautiful deslgns. Ishy- Koo sald his was the best, but I think mina was. “Pogo sticks In the corridor to the right,” sald the cierk, putting the Jackknife back over his ear. We went to the pogo stick desk. Tt was kept by & nice old lady who Wwas practicing on & mouth orgat. When DISTRICT HEARINGS Representative Frank Mur- phy, Capital’s Friend, to Sit With Committee. Hearings on the District appropri tion bill for the coming fiscal year, the budget estimates for which total $30,770,471, are to start December 29, the day on which Congress reassem- bles after the Christmas holidays. Representative Frank Murphy of Ohlo, who has been X member of Congress for six years, and who for- merly served om the House District committee, having Jjurisdiction over legislation affecting the National Capital, will serve with the subcom- mittee considering the Distriot budget. Mr. Murphy is substituting for Rep- resentative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who will be un- uble to attend the hearings on ac- count of ill health, IDver since he has been In Congress Representative Murphy has shown himself an ear- nest friend of the Caplital, and while on the District legislative commit- ered and supportéd a number of progressive and constructive meas. ures for improvement of local con- ditions. He is a busines elected to Congress was president of the Cho.aber of Commerco of Steu- benville, Ohlo, his native city. He is well disposed toward all needed Im- provements for the Capital and e pecially interested In providing ade- quate and modern school facilities and in the extension and proper up- keep of streets. Mr. Murphy is a member and h held omce n many of the larg: man and when Representative Crisp, Democrat, Georgla, a member of the Ameri- ‘can Debt-Commlssion, announced formally .today in the House that no concrete proposal for funding the French war. debt has been " broached to the American commis- - sion by any officlal representative of France. Mr. Crisp ma this statement during consideration of a bill which would glve congressional sanction to the settlement nego- tiated by the commission with Paland. _. = 2 \Star Expedition, Given Rooms on 75th of Using Elevators as in Washington. like the ones firemen | ' BEGINTHISMONTH French Debt Funding " To U. S. Is Declared Indefinite|wnm & Bassett Honorea by to Quarters Instead { #he haad given us éach tick, 1 sald: “Now what do wo do | Bounce Up Elevator Shat | “Those are your elevators,” she |sald. “This hotel fs all hollow, so you | just bounce up to whatever balcony you want.” What floor are your rooms on?" “Seventy-five.” | “Just & moment) she said. “We | have a elogan for each floor.” She | { was turring over the puges of a huge book. “Oh, Yes, here it is. Now get raedy with your pogo sticks. Say it |atter me and then bounce on your | sticks: “Seventy-fire, Skin ‘em alive!” ‘We said it after her and bounced on our pogo sticks, and on the second bounca we shot up and landed lightly as a feather on the balcony of floor 75. 1 had scarcely eettled myself in my room, which was done in peche Melba design, when a messenger bounced tn through the window. He gAve me a beautiful frosted paper with a tiny slelgh bell on each cor- ner. On the paper was written: “Santa Claus will be pleased to re- celve Capt. Elijah Bquint and his com- panions in the royal palace at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.” (Copyright, 1924.) | i (Continued tomorrow) | fraternal organizations. He is a past |grand commander of the Knights | Templar of Ohio, thirtysthird degree Mason, Shriner, Osiris Temple, Wheel- | ing W, Va.; Elk, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Moose and Red Man. He never held any politickl office until clected to Congress. When the subcommittee meets for consideration of the budget one of the first questions of policy to be considered in executive session wil! be on the fiscal relations between the Federal Government and the munic- ipality. The budget as submitted by the President and the bill as drafted for committee coneideration oarry he alternative propositions of a ump sum oontribution by the Fed- eral Government and the rest of the appropriations entire'y from the Dis- trict revenues, which was tried out a8 a compromise during the current fiscal year, and also the old 60-40 definite percentage plan of sharing the costs of upkeep of the National Capltal. Most of the members of the com- mittee feel that this question should Dbe sett =d before the bill iy considered in detail and before any Distriot offi- cials are called upon to explain the ostimates submitted through the budget bureau. The first witnesses called will be the District Commiseioners and Maj. Dan- fel J. Donovan, the District auditor. The Commissioners will discuss with the members of the appropriations committee the general matters in re- gard to finances and revenues. The chairman of the Commissioners will then be allowed to speak in behalf of any soecial project or proposition be- fore the bill is taken up in order. ‘The subcommittee, in the course of its hearings, will ke a personal in- spectlon of streets and school bufld- ings. The other members of the suboom- mittee on District appropriations are: Representatives Charles R. Davis, Minnesota, chairman; Frank H. Funk, Republican, Illinols; William A. Avres, Democrat, Kansas, and John J. Egan, Democrat, New Jersey. —_— Assigned to Fort Myer. TFirst Lieut. Joseph H. Landrum, United States Fleld Artillery, at Fort Hoyle, Md., has been assigned to the 15th Field Artillery, at Fort Myer, Va. Proposal “The commission i& hoping, how- ever,” gald Mr. Crisp, “that some representative of Frange -~ will come before it with a funding proposal, as it is, desirous of ne- gotiating a settlement. The Georgia Representative ex- preesed the opinion that the fund- ing arrangement worked out with Great Britain was “just” and should be the basis for agree- ments with other debtor nations. He declared his opposition to -any settiemgnt varying substantially from the Writish.agreement. | crossing raliroad grade crossing. The 3 ARE PROMOTED, 12 NAMED FIREMEN| / i Changes Made to Provide for Day Off in Seven Ordered by Congress. Thirty-six yaembers of the Kire De- partment were promoted and 72 new privates were appointed by the Com- missioners today as the first step to- ward complying with the act of Con- gress granting to firemen one day off a week. The following lleutenants were | made captains at $2,600 & year: O. C.{ Besford, F. D. Gibbe, M. D. Murphy, | T. 8. Jones, P. Cross and J. W. Myere. | The following sergeants were ole- vated to lleutenants at $3,350 a year; C. D. Barthelmes, H. W. Lee, E. L. Hanback, F. Chinn, R. C. Glasscock, W. A. Bryarly, C. W. Rice, 5 M. Gould, J. B. Dutton, G. C. Meeks, Wil- liam Trent and H. Kinsella. These privates werse promoted to the rank of sergeant at $2200 = year: M. J. Barry, D. F. Sullivan, 3. J. Bweeney, J. C. Btein. J. C. Lacey, J. J. Liston.'W. C. Actfon, J. A. C. Fougth, H. H. Harrison. C. L. Byram, C. C. Weitzel, E. J. Ruffner, J. A Mayhew, D. R. Moore, R. E. Oden, E. J. Tralnor, D. J. orton, W. R.| Lusby and H. C. De Groot, New Privates Named. The new men appointed privates | today were: M. R. Huff. Z. D. Law, T.| L. Phillips, A. H. Schwenk, H. A.| Streb, J. I MoDonald, J. W. Conroy. £ W. Kagey, C. W. Hebb, T. R Towery, R. I L3 C. Beaboid, | §. P. Bailey, chell, M. R.{ Ross, Nells Mortensen, J. E. Brady, R A. Crider, Frank Gelfound, A. H Crosley, L. B. Rider, Eiwood Graham ana_J. 'C. Price. W. H. Cameron, L. D. Cooke, How- ard Th R.J. Bittner, Charles Comegys, P. W. Stattord, M. F. Tobin, T. M. Anderson, A. E. Cross, G. T. eardon, Inrie, A. E. Bigos. F. . Kandl, F. W. Troupe, Acott Valen- tine, J. W. Grannan, J. W. K: | M. Cox, G. M. Snow, H. D. Grimaley, W. H. Boswell, F. F. Ardigo, E. Negley, A. J. Baker, G. R. Tow 1 R. Cruickshank, S. T. Waters, 1. H.!| Willlamson, J. ¥. Redma | Kluge, R. H. Bower, | Maurice Jenson, J. E y, F. R. | Skidmore, Allen Lew n Bingham, B. L. Owens, R. Smith, R, E. Gregory, 8. M. Payne, | bert Dasford, Michael Fillah, W. . Phelps, J. L. Mapn, H. J. Atwood and J. F. Bees. re Chief George Watson told Commissioner Oyster in his recom- mendation that he is des'rous of puts | ting the day off each week rule into | sffect as soon as he obtaivs the ad-| ditional number of privates required. — PRESIDENT URGESA i CAREFUL STUDY OF | SAFETY MEASURES (Continued from First Page.) sentéd to the conference today and taken up point by point for approval | by the entire meeting. The report was comprehensive in character and went Into exhaustive detall in the matter of legislation recommended for State and municipal authoritles, statisti compliations, road con- | struction, the motor vehicle ({tself, education of the public and the gen- eral subject of highway safety. Fred- eric A. Delano of Washington, vice ohaifman of the conference, acted as chairman of the drafting committee which drew up the consolidated re- port. i Compromise on Cressing Stops. i Discussion of several of the pro-| visions in the report found division of opinfon on several peints, among them the indorsement of the prinoiple of a full stop by motor vehicles before | conference, after much discussion, finally adopted a motlon by F. T. Singleton of indiana indorsing the regulation enforcing the grade cross- ing stop at crossings to be designated as dangerous by the proper State onference passed over with- fon a paragraph In the consoldated report which recom- mended that special trafic courts should be established to permit prompt &nd _effective handling of cases of traffic violation, and at its morning session adopted the com- plete section dealing with legis'ative principles drawn up in a broad way and capable of application to any State. The entire group of conferees, to- taling more than 400 representatives of Stats highway commissions, the public rafiroads, automobile manu- facturers, chambers of commerce and many other groups, went to the White House at 2 o'clock and were received by the President. ‘Wants Continuiag Body. Secratary of Commerce Hoover, per- manent chairman of the conference, at whose call the conference is being held, proposed that it be made a con- tinuing body, to be called together agaln after an interval of a year to consider progress in the development of safety, and that technical groups be continued for the study of special problems too complex for conference action. A recommendation 4that re should be an adequately nned traf- fic division In the Poiice De- partment with traffic safety a major function of such bureau was passed without discussion, the section add- ing that in cities the common p tice of enforcement of trafic laws by the Police Department is rocog- nizged. Relation of the Federal Government to the safety program, the conference declared, is one of encouragement, of assembly and distribution of infor mation and the development and us of best practice, belleving that uni- formity will be secured by voluntary action of the Several States. Regula- tion of speed of vehicles should be directed primarily at reckless driving and should be uniform throughout the country far as practicable. State laws, the conference declared, should pro- hibit a municipality from establish- ing a speed limit lower than 15 miles per hour, while 35 miles an hour on the open rond was placed as the maxi- mum beyond which proof of non-reck. less driving should rest with the vehclile operator. GETS METALLURGY MEDAL Engineers. NEW YORK, December 16.—Award of the James Douglas gold medal to ‘Willlam H. Bassett, metallurg! of the American Bry Company, Water- bury, Conn., was announced today by the American Institute of Mining and Motallurgical Engineers. The medal. commemorating Dr, James Douglas, twice president of the Institute, is be- stowed annudlly for distingulshed achieyement in non-ferrous metal- lurgy, Mr. Bassett s a director of the institute, 6f which hé has been & mem- ber_aince 1887, ¥ ) | Weods, | Capt. Brown, show LANGLEY IS SILENT ON POLICE CHARGE Congressman Accused of In- toxication Quits City With- out ifaking Statement. Representative Langley of Ken- tucky, who was arrested hore Satur- day night, charged with fntoxication, has returned to hts home at Pike- ville, Ky., without making a state- ment on the cass. Representative Langley has not be n in good health, it was sald at hie <Mice, and his re- turn home was advised by his doctor. Rides in Patrol Wagon. Representative Langley arrest- ed 1ast Baturday night at the House of Detention, where, according to those wio were present at the time, he entered upder the belief that he Was in the Oxford Hotel. He was arrested by Policeman J. M. Smith of the fourth precinct, who is detailed at the House of Detention, and was taken to the first precinct in a patrol wagon and afterward to the fourth precinet, and $10 collateral was paid for Rppearance in court Wednesday. I was charged with being “drunk.” Lieut. Van Winkle's Statement. to Mre. Mina Van W , Who' s in charge of the Wonm en’s Bureau, and who has offices the House of Detent Building, man followed Pollceman Robert detalled as & night wa man on the Lors' foor of the bulld ing, down Fourteenth etreet and at- jtempted to enter the building. He. ing a commotion outside, Mrs. Van Winkle said that she came in the hallway just in time to the door open with a crash and a hatless, tle- less and collarless man lurch across the hallway and cateh himeslf on the rail in front of the telephone booth. She eaid that she did not recognize Representative Langley at this time because of his unusval appearance Lieut. Van Winkle satd :r::.:r’ mend buzzed for Smith, n and attempted to qui an, who, Mrs. Van Winkie sat using offensive language. Refases to Leave Station. Th? man insteted that he E the Oxford Hotel and would not g Mrs. Van Winkle safd (hat Sm asked her if he should arrcst the man, whom she still failed 10 reeog- nize, and that sho replied: “Of cogres, any man who comes into the Yo of Deteation in that condition shoul be arrested.” According to Smith, asked to leave fn the o would aot. He sald the op then sang for No. 1 precinot ‘\:azon about 9:30, The rec No. 1 precinct station, according that the w ) vent to the House of Detention tor nunnuaner't‘ at 9:43. epresentative Langley was then placed in the patrol wagon. Mre Yan Winkls said that ft was not un- il he was getting in the 1 wagon that sh recognized Iip:r::' sentative Langl She said she the told Smith “That's Congressman La patrol i ley Report Made to Chief Sullivan. Asst. Supt. of Police Charles A. Evans today submitted the foliowing raport to Maj. Sullivan in connection with the I was called- by telephone at my homns by a friend of Congressman Langley of Kentucky, who stated that the con gressman_while intoxicated had wan- dered fnto the House of Detention and had been arrested by. Pvt. Smith of the fourth precinct, detailed at the House of Detentlon, who ment the con- ressman to the first precinct, where he was detained. T made inquiry of Sergt Carlin of the first precinct whether or not it was an ordinary case of intoxice- tion, aud had him phone the House of Detentlon to see If the Congressman had been disorderly in any way, He report- ed Dack that It was plain case of Intoxication, and that no dlsorder had been committed. Orders Cellateral Be Accepted. “I then got in touch with Lieu Beckett of the first precinot, who came into the station at that time and ordered him to accépt $10 col- lateral for the Congreseman and to turn him over to his friends 1f h ‘was in condition to be released. Th was done. “On the 13th instant. upon request of a friend of the Congressman, I notified | Pvt. Smith at the House of Detention not to file information in the case until Wednesday, the 17th instant, and also notified the first preeinet not to send the $10 collateral to court until that time. There i nothing unusual in the handling of tiis case, as cases of a like character have been disposed of by the writer in the same manner, and this report is forwarded to you for your infor- mation.” it NINTH LIFE TAKEN BY POISON LIQUOR 67 Other Victims in Bellevue Hos- ital, With 12 Not Ex- pected to Live. By the Ausociated Press. NEW YORK, December 16.—The death toll from poleon liquor during the past three days mounted to nine with the death today of Abraham Botnoy, in a Brooklyn hospital. Six- ty-seven other polson victims are In Bellevus Hospital. Twelve of them ara not expeoted to live. Several others may be blinded. The death 1ist for December so far is 33, a Tec- ord number. Aroused by the wave of alcoholic deaths, the police and prohibition authorities have started unusually energetic actlvitles to curb the sale of poisonous llquor as the Christmas holidays approach. The police arc sending to the Federal authorities addresses of suspicious places. Twenty-five prisoners arrested for drunkenness, some of them found un- consclous in gutters and exposed to the bitter cold, were arraigned last night. Denounding liquor trafckers who sell polsonous concections, Mag- istrate Bimpson dlsmissed moat of the prisoners with & warning. A few old offenders were sentenced to work- house terms. Federal prohibition cfficials say that the prevalence of poison liquor is due to the embargo againsl Smuggling which has been eatablished off the coast by the Coast Guard patrol. Two of the poison victims who died Quring ‘the past three days werc, women. Ship Pulled From Rocks. SACKET HARBOR, N. Y., December 16.—The lighter Isabel Reed. which went aground here last Tuesday dur- ing a gale, was pulled from the rocks yesterday. She waa reported to be leaking badly, due to a-damaged bot- tom, and it said she would have to be repaired here before being tak- en to her home port. Toronto. She 1s owned by the John E. Russell Salvage Company.