Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. w. 8. Probably light snow late t morrow—lowest tonight, a grees. Temperature for 24 at 2 p.m. tod: yesterday; lowes Full report on page Highest, 14, Weather Bureau Forecast.) onight or to- bout 22 de- hours ended 25, at 3:30 at 4 am. % Closing N. Y. Stucks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,455. RANCETOPAYUS; MORATORUMVITA JISSERAND HOLDS Envoy Reveals He Told Mel- lon His Country Must Have “Breathing Spell.” EXPECTS PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT, HE CLAIMS Declares Payment Will Be Effected by Attitude of Nation's Own Debtors. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. France needs “a breathing time.” Sho requires a moratorium. When it has been granted her, France can and will begin the payment of her! $4,000,000,000 debt to the United States. That was the burden of a spsech by Jules J. Jusserand, French Am- Dassader in Washington, today be- Jore a current events class. In the first public statement made by Mr.| -Jusserand since his recent informal interchange of views with Secretary Mellon, the French envoy spoke with uncommon frankness regarding the! economic conditions and necessities| of France, and told how they require | the French government and people 0 ask a period of further grace from America. | Losses of France. The Ambassador also made plain | indication that France expects pref- erential treatment, as compared to the | terms of settlement which the United | States has granted to other of her World War debtors. “France suffered | 1he gravest loss in blood and life | said Mr. Jusserand in passionate ac-| cents. “Our relative national wealth | considered, we suffered the heaviest loss in fortune. And finally, it must| De remembered, France was the bat- | tlefield.” | After recounting that the French| national economic situation was a stabilizing itself, Mr. Jus-| declared that if France's own | how no inclination to pay— and he said he saw no sign of that— French policy with regard to pay- ment of France's debts to others nat- urally would be affected. Need Breathing Time. “What we need,” the ambassador continued, “is a certain moratorium— | a breathing time. That is why I have | 1ary of the Treasury. Various versio of those talks have gained currency. Sometimes they have been called con versations, and sometimes negotia-| tions. But the upshot of it all is that | we mean to pay. We have alway paid. We are one of the nations that mean to settle with you. We want to| pay. We paid our enemies after 1871 The more we are determined to pay our friends. “I am confident our particular con- ditions will be taken into account. ‘We are not hoping for a different set- 1lement, but rather for equitable terms. It is simply fair terms that we seek—fair in sense of terms that take our situation into consideration. A moratorium is one of the things ihat we need, which the others do | not need. We supplied more blood to the common cause than any one. ‘\'e‘ supplied more money than any other | nation, based on our national wealth. | We supplied the battleflelds. If the war had taken place in the United Ntates, over an area stretching from South Carolina to Mailne, or in Eng- land, over a territory reaching from | Dover to York, France would have paid her debts already.” Has Two Objectives, Ambassador Jusserand _told his audience, which numbered ‘500 or 600 of the leading women of the Capital, that he was going back to a France that had two primary post-war ob- Jectivi to work hard and to keep Deace.” To keep peace, the ambassa- dor sald, France must also “Keep ready.” Workmen and peasants from the Pyrennes to the Alps, Mr.-Jusse- | rand declared, are united in the de- termination to rehabilitate the land of their birth and love. The French treasury had already made prodigious efforts in the direc- tion of restoring the vast regions devastated by the Germans. For that purpose, France herself has already spent 67,000,000,000 francs, toward which giant disbursement the Ger- mans to date had paid only 1,000,000 000 marks. It was because of these extraordi- nary demands upon the French na- tional treasury and taxpayers that| ihe republic had not yet been able to approach more tangibly the question of liquidating its external obligations incurred for the war. Raises Loans Internally. “rance, M. Jupsserand pointed out, 15 in the habit of raising her own loans internally. The recent $150,- 000,000 loan floated in the American money market was an unusual trans- action. It was a burden thus to add the already enormous national debt, but it is a burden which France is determined bravely to shoulder, in order more and more to put her eco- nomic house in order and meet the obligations undertaken with Great Jritain and the United States in the common cause of the rescue of civili- zation. Life Loss of War. “The eloquent Solicitor General the United States, Jame: a1 speech in New York t. said Mr. Jusserand, thrilling—indeed, almost heartbreak- sug—figures something of the life loss the war had brought to France. Mr. Beck reminded his hearers that it all the glorious dead of France could rise from thelr tombs beneath the poppy fields and march In an unbroken line beneath the Arc de “Friomphe, they would be marching 30 days and nights.” The French Ambassador spoke vig- orously of France's determination to hurl back the red peril of communism, which has raised its head in his} country. He sald he did not believ: it was a real or grave danger. “We are a steady nation,” he asSerted. The soil on which the French revolu- n battened is not the soil of modern France. There are no centuries of abuses to give rise to a red revolu- tion there today. As we said to the Germans at -Verdun, ‘Thou. shalt not pass,’ we say to the Bolsheviki and the Comumunists, ‘Thou - shall not come” ™” Says Taxes Are Heavy. Mr. Jusserand said:a mistaken no- tion was abroad ,in:the world that of M. Beck, in other day,” xplained in | tions of Entered as second class matter post_officeWashington, D, C. Met Death By the Assoclated Press. AURORA, 111, December 22 —Charles Gilbért, rellef air mail pilot and first of the night-flying mail men to lose his 1ife in the service of the Govern- ment, was killed last night in a plunge to earth, it was disclosed to- day when the body was found near Kaneville, 50 miles west of Chicago. His parachute apparently had fail- ed In a leap {n the dark and the cold as the snow whirled around him. For six months the transcontinental day and night air malil has carried its valuable freight without a serious accident until Gilbert vanished from the night ligthed overland trail. For 15 hours farmer searchers and representatives of the air mail had scouted around the open coun- try near Kaneville, where the lights of the lost pilot's plane last were ob- served. Searchers came upon the wrecked plane a mile north of Kane- ville with the mall intact. A searching plane, piloted by R GERMANY'S SECRET ARMING CONFIRMED Allies May Delay Evacuation of Cologne as Result of Experts’ Report. By the Associated Press, PARIS, December 22—The chances of the Cologne area being evacuated by the allies on January 10, under the provisions of the treaty of Ver- sailes, have been diminished, it is hought in French official circles, by the regular semi-monthly report of the allied military control mission in Germany. This report, which now is in the hands of the allied war committee, is understood to confirm the special Teports in their charge that Germany Was persisting in arming, contrary to the peace treaty provisions. The pressure being brought to bear by the German government through Ambassador von Hoesch will be un- availing, it is thought here, in the face of the reported positive viola- Germany’s agreements to | disarm. Envoy Gives Warning. The Ambassador declared to the political director of the foreign of- floe™ M. Laroche, on Saturday that if the allles persisted in their inten- tion of remaining In the Cologne area, as forecast, it would be difficult to form a government in Germany that could be depended upon to carry out the Dawes plan. The political director is understood tp have replied that if the intention of Germany to make good its agreement under the Dawes plan was so frail es to risk breaking under the simple ex- ercise by the allies of the undoubted right conferred by the treaty of Ver- sailles to insist on the fulfillment of the disarmament clauses of that treaty, then any concessions the allles might make would risk encountering a stmi- lar reaction in the future. M. Laroche added that the evacua- tion question was-an allied - ore, in which all the allles must have a voice and that it could be decided only after consultation. It is understood that exchanges of views are actively in progress by the chancelleries In Parls, London and Rome in anticipation of ‘Wednesday's meeting of the council of ambassadors. The final report of the military control mission will come too late for action prior to the date fixed by the treaty for the evacuation, but it is belieyed in official circles here that the semi-monthly report gives a suf- ficlently clear idea of Germany's at- titude to enable the allies to decide whether they can safely leave the Cologne bridgehead. Marshal Foch's opinion will have great weight with the allies, it is conceded, and there is an inclination in some quarters to look for an opin- ion less favorable to Germany from him than the nature of the control mission's report might forecast, al- though it is not thought the marshal will seek to minimize the importance of the Versailles treaty lations which are recorded by the report. Jt is taken as an accepted policy that the allies will in no case evac- uate the Cologne bridgehead without having previously taken final action on the control mission’s report, which, if not ready for Wednesday's meeting of the ambassadors, proba- bly will go over the holidays. BERLIN DENIES CHARGE. All Disarmament Stipulations Ful- filled, Says Statement. By the Associated Press. _BERLIN, December 22.—Another semi-official statement with regard to the extent of Germany's disarmament, issued today, replies to certain asser- tions of the Parfs Temps, which re- ently declared the allied governments were in possession of documents prov- faction regarding any of the five points 1aid down by the ambassadors’ confer- ence, The semi-official statement reiterates that during the past four months the military control commission has had full opportunity for ascertaining that “Germany has fulfilled her disarma- ment_obligations in every fleld” and that “the organization of the German army corresponds with the directions of the allies, even to the smallest de- tail.” . Regarding the five points, it is de- clared a considerable portion of the demands_eomprised in them already have been fulfilled, while negotiations are pending regarding the others. The ambassadors’ note on Germany’s disarmament was forwarded March 5 last. It set forth five points regarding disarmament on which Germany was required to give satisfaction. These were: Reorganization of the police force; war material factories to be transformed; the remainder of non- authorized war material to be handed over; all documents relating to war material existing at the time of the armistice also to be handed over, and the promulgation of new laws pro- hibiting the import and export of war material and putting the organization and recruiting of the army into har- Jramce does not tax hersclf as other o (Continued on Paj mony with the terms of the treaty of Versailles. vy he WASHINGTON, D. C, Night Air Mail Flyer Killed In Leap for Life in Blizzard Piece of Parachute Hanging to Belt Testimony of How Charles Gilbert in Illinois. Page, sent out from Chicago soon after daybreak, picked up the mall and started for Omaha. A short time later the searchers found the body of Gilbert, a part.of the torn para- chute still attached to his belt. Since establishment of night flying in the transcontinental air mall June 1 the postal pilots have carried their cargoes with the same fideli- ty characteristic of the United States mails, and without a single serious accident, according to air mail offi- clals. \ Over the great cities, across the prairies and above mountajn ranges the mail had been carried day after day in all kinds of weather, with a minimum of delay and only a few minor acidents. More than 1, miles had been traversed without other than trival mishaps. When the cold wave gripped the West and Midwest, with tempera- " “(Continued on e 2, Column 2. ENGLAND ATTACKS U.S-BERLIN PACT Right to Share German Pay- ments Outside Versailles Treaty Challenged. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The first real “penalty” that the United States Government has been | called upon to pay for the controversy in the American Senate over the League of Nations immediately fol- lowing the war in threatened at last. For the British government has refused to recognize the separate treaty of peace between Germany and the United States as having the valid- ity claimed for it by senatorial pro- ponents and even the Department of State. And the Washington adminis- tration has a lively controversy on its hands which may extend to France and the other allled powers. The point in question was raised when the late President through Secretary -of State Hughes, submitted a separate treaty to the Senate as a consequence of the joint | FeSOIULION™ WHIEH - pamsad declaring a state of peace. In th: treaty, the United States claimed all-the rights which it would have enjoyed under the Versailles treaty, but renounced the ptincipal obliga+ tions of the latter, inciuding the League of Nations covenant, twhich was a part of the treaty. Cpnarass, Had Alternative Course. The alternative course ratify the Versaillom reservations specifically disclaiming responsibility for the league cove- nant and other provisions especi- ally the economic clauses having to do_Wwith ‘the claiming of reparations. Mr. Hughes might have submitted the Versailles treaty with reservations, but President Harding thought the “irrecon- cilables” in the Senate would block ac- tion. For the sake of expedlency the separate treaty was made. Not long aft- erward France indicated unofficially that she questioned the validity of the Berlin treaty, and yet nothing was said publicly about it. Great Britain and the other allles were silent, because the issue was never put before them. The American Government took the position that it was not necessary to get allled consent or agreement to the Berlin treaty, since it was a separate document and had nothing to do with the allies as such. Germany m the Berlin treaty gave the United States the same benefits which she conferred on the al- lied powers in the Versaflles treat, Having secured Germany's ratification, the United States did not worry further about it. Say U. S. Left Partnership, Now, however, the expected argu- ment has been made, namely, that the contract between Germany and the allied and associated powers for the division of reparations was an agree- ment between the Berlin government on the one hand and a partnership of nations on the other. Germany as- signed her assets to the partnership, which the allies claimed was indi- visible, or, at least, indivisible with- out mutual consent. America by fail- was to treaty with ~ "(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) . U. S. MISSION TO QUIT PERSIA NEXT YEAR Millspaugh and Other Financial Experts Expected to Leave When Contract Ends. By ine Assoclated Pres LONDON, Dercember 00,000 Harding, | Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, SLEET AND SNOW PROMISED TONIGHT WEST GAINS RELIEF Cold Wave Grips East and New England—Mercury Rises Here. |LOW TEMPERATURE DUE IN CITY BY WEDNESDAY ;One Dead in New York—Hundreds i Seek Refuge in Mis- | sions Here. | Sleet and light snow tomorrow probably will follow the gradual but temporary rise of the mercury today from the season’s low mark of 14.4 degrees above zero, es- tablished in the early hours before jaylight, it was announced at the Weather Bureau today. The warming-up process will be of short duration, Forecaster Mitchell clieves, and tomorrow and Wednes- day fhe- city will again be In the throes of a cold wave, such as last night, which froze automobile radia- tors, elevated milk-bottle tops and sent many destitute men and women to charitable places of shelter. Break Reported in West. While the East was beginning to feel the grip of the cold wave tighten today, the West was experiencing its [ first break from subnermal tempera- | tures and violent storms. From Chi- cago and throughout the Middle West | came reports of snows, warmer tem- | peratures or promises of relief. In | meantime the New England States be- Zan reporting record low marks for | the season, and ocean trafic was be- | ginning to feel the teeth of the storm. Already the cold wave has claimed one victim in the Eas A vagrant who was found dead in a New York bowery basement. The giant liner Leviathan arrived at New York 24 hours late as a result of battling against terrific gales, another ship sent out distress signals off the New ingland coast on Lake Ontario, a ferry boat grounded in the midst of a storm and two tugs were captured in five inches of ice. tonight and 1 Snow to Be Light. | The smow predicted for Washinston j tomorrow and Wednesday will not be heavy, according to the present out- | look. Conditions are not right for an { honest-to-goodness sleigh-siding sort et Bty i e ROt out. Many weather disturbances are in prospect in the next 36 hours, how- éver, and. by tomorrow the bureau expects to be able to give a more definite. idea of whether Washington will experience a real white Christ- mas next Thursday. Last night's frigid wave drove many unfortunate. persons from the {streets to the warmth of missions and charitable homes. Two hundred beds were not enough to accommo- date the overflow of “down-and- outers” who sought lodging at the | Gospel Mission, on John Marshah place, and approximately 30 men, ranging in age from 17 to 60 years, gratefully seized the opportuuity of bunking in the lower hallway. News- papers served as Improvised mat- tresses and caps or other articles of clothing as pillows, while their own coats took the place of blankets. The Municipal Lodging House was crowded, as was the Salvation Army Social Center at First and B streets. Other charitable organizations aided the destitute, Firemen Kept Busy. In an effort to cope with changed weather conditions yesterday and to- day it became necessary for house- holders to greatly reduce the size of their coal piles, and in numerous in Stances overheated stoves, furnaces and stovepipes resulted in starting additional fires that meant work for the Fire Department. More than 40 calls were received by the Fire De- partment M. S. Bond, Apartment, Sixteenth street, received burns to his hands and neck while extinguishing a fire in his apartment about & o'clock this morning. Bedding caught fire from a lighted cigarette, and the fire was extinguished before more than $5 damage had been done. George Jackson, colored, 42, 311 New York avenue, sustained painful |burns to his left hand early yester- d. morning while fighting a fire in his home. Origin of the fire was not determined, police reported, and the damage amounted to $500. | 22, 1929 Gas House Blaze Small. Sounding of an alarm at the plant of the Washington Gas Light Company, foot of G street, gave firemen a thrill, | older members of the department re- calling trouble experienced at fires there years ago. This morning’s scare was caused by blazing tar in a pit, and the blaze was extinguished before any dam- age had resulted. Fire of undetermined origin started on the lower floor of the home of Mrs. Helen Porter, 1709 Vermont avenue, about 9 o'clock this morning, doing dam- age estimated at $600. | An overheated furnace caused a fire scare In the home of David Lawrence, 13929 Nebraska avenue, about 9 o'clock That Ar- ing that Germany had not given satis-thur C. Millspaugh and his colleagues on the American financial mission to | Persia will leave when the term of their contract expires next year is the general belief in Teheran, ac- cording to mail advices from the Morning Post's correspondent. The writer recalls that Mr. Mills- paugh has twice resigned during the last few months, but has withdrawn his resignation on each occasion. He Tepresents the mission as confronte With a virtually unsolvable problem, partly owing to what he describes the mission’s ignorance of conditions in Persia. The delegates have succeeded, a cording to the correspondent, in e tablishing control in virtually all the departments’ of the government ex- cept the war office, which draws about 46 per cent of the country's revenues and which refuses to have its affairs controlled. Mr, Millspaugh propesed certain new taxes, but part of the schedule was vetoed and the remainder is doomed to the same fate. The rul- ing class in Persia, the writer says, is tremendously annoyed by the Americans’ activities, especially their taxation proposals, which have con- tributed to make the mission as un- popular today as it was popular two | years ago. ‘Radio Programs—Page 22, ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) It hubby's socks freeze to the wash line these days, or if the radiator freezesup overnight, don't mumble excoriations at the weath- er and its whims. It's your own fault, according to Forecaster Mitchell of the Weather Bureau. “We are running this bureau to serve the public,” he announced today. “It's up to the public to make every use of the service they desire. If the woman of the house is afraid the wash will freeze after she puts it out, she should call us | up and find out just how cold it's going to be the remainder of the day. That's what we're here for. “In the newspapers we try to glve as accurate a forecast as is possible in advance. But weather is a fickle thing. It may decide to do something different than the outlook called for. For that rea- son we are only too glad to make Wash and Radiators May Freeze, But Weather Man Refuses Blame a special, up-to-the-minute predic- Star. The tion is delive; 29 &4, DECEMBER THE GONGRESS' ACTION ON GUNS AWAITED Coolidge Will Not Take Up Elevation Issue With Brit- ain in Meantime. Until Congress has made known definitely its attitude on the question of appropriating funds to change gun elevations on capital ships, the Wash- ington Government will engage in no controversy on the subject with Great Britain. Two last Summer from the London foreign office, con- tending that alterations of the guns to give them increased range would | Niolate theaninit of the memme sm—mdeei will not be answered until sentiment in Congress has crystallized. In the event Congress indicates its willingness to supply the monev and authorize the work on the ships, then the question would become one for diplomatic treatment between the two governments. | Policy is Undecided. 1t is possible, however, that should the money be provided, President Cool- | idge would decide not to authorize a | gun elevation program. He is unde- cided at present whether the money required by the Navy for this work should be expended upon the old ships | to which it would go. It has been sald that he will defer decision until | he has received the report of the spe- clal board created to study the com- | parative values of capital ships and | alrcraft, and until he is able to deter- | mine whether the expenditure would be in keeping with his policy of economy. ASKS RESIGNATION OF SENATE CLERK notes received Sterling Refuses to Specify Charges Against E. H. Mc- Dermot. Senator Sterling, chairman of the| Senate committee on post offices and | post roads, today demanded the res- ignation of E. H. McDermot, assistant clerk of the committee. He #aid that he had taken this action “for the good of the service.” The Depart- ment of Justice, Senator Sterling said, was looking into charges made against McDermot. He added that he did not care to specify these charges at this time. $20,000,000 RAISED FOR EASTMAN GIFT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December than $20,000,000 in cash out of the $25,000,000 gift recently made by George Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., to educational institutions was raised in Wall street today through the pub- lic offering of 157,500 shares of East- man Kodak Company common stock. The stock was priced at $110 a share. The remainder of a block of 250,000 shares, which Mr. Eastman placed at the disposal of a special foundation to administer the fund, will be retained as a permanent investment. 22.—More tion to those who take the trouble to ask use < “My garage man told ‘me this morning that he had to thaw out 30 frozen radiators yesterday. That was entirely uncalled for. ‘We gave everybody ample warn- ing of the cold wave, and they should have taken héed and doc- tored up their radiators. “The Weather Bureau can save the public a-lot of wasted money if it will make use of our regular and speclal service. “It is surprising to me how few persons ask the bureau for spegial forecasts. Of course, it- means more work for us when they do, but we are glad to aid them.” Mr. Mitchell is not patticularly desirous that everybody in Wash- ington call him up every morning to find out whether they should wear their rubbers or put on their extra-heavies, but he is perfectly | willing to ready and willing to take the time: to glve the latest advice to per- sons with a good reason for ask- ing for it 1924 —FORTY PAGES. 2 PLEASURE Tinseled Postals Barred Unless in Sealed Envelopes Christmas cards which to vividly depict having small attempt snow and ice by pieces of mica or glass pasted thereom will never reach their destination, Post- master William M. Mooney warned today. A large number of these cards have been received at the Post Office here and their passage through the mails is forbidden by law. Numerous cases are on rec- ord of these small chips of mica gl oming off the card and imbedding themselves in the fin- gers and hands of the clerks, pro- ucing blood poisoning. If these cards must be sent they will have to inclosed in a sealed envelope. Those so far received at the post office have gone to the dead letter office and others that come in will be routed in the same direction. desk Toduy weveral special delivery letters undoubtedly containing amounts of -money’ bearing ab lutely no address or mark of any description. They also will have to g0 to the dead letter office for lack of Information as to the ad- dressces or the persons who dis- patched them, ot NEW MAIL RECORD BEING SETIND. C, Volume Already Greatest in History of City—Most of It OQutgoing. The volume of Christmas mail pass- ing thorugh the City Post Office up to Saturday has been the greatest in the history hington, Post- master William M. Mooney announced today. Figures on the amount of letters and packages received and dispatched yesterday have not been compiled, but the Post Office was risk the prediction that this Christmas’ mail would stand head | and shoulders above all others in the | past. | More mail has been sent out of Washington than has been received, but Mr. Mooney would not let Wash- ington lay official claim to the old adage ‘Tis more blessed to give than receiv. because many Western trains have been delayed and tied up due to severe weather. Somewhat of a deluge is looked for in the next two days. Keep Abrenst of Work. The augmented force of postal em- ployes here has been able to run neck and neck with the heavy traffic. Mail received at the Post Office up to 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon was de- livered to the addressee the same day and all outgoing mail was dispatched by midnight Saturday. Cancellations of letters and post cards December 20, 1923, were 1,218,675, while Saturday they were 1,297,162 bags of parcel post packages dispatched last year numbered 14,390, and this year 17,950 ; parcel post bags received num- bered 6,249 a year ago and 7,409 this year; the number of bags collected about the city Saturday in 1923 was 6,531, and this year were 6,841; parcels delivered home to home last year were 19,207, and this year 18,918 (decrease due undoubt- edly to the Western weather tie-ups. special delivery letters -and packages last year 5,152, and this year 5,558. Al day yesterday the City Post Office was_visited, by Christmas mailers, and in the evening hours the branch offices | kept open. QUAKE IN ITALY. Five-Seconds Shock Recorded Early This Morning. MODENA, Italy, December 22.—An earth shock lasting five seconds was observed at 7:62 o'clock this morning. > Be |Careful Mothers have chil- . dren eager to see Santa, Mr. Motorist, so be OF PREPAREDNESS. | ceea $1,000, | survived by | superintendent of police. lthe petition {week for the injunction, obtained a “From Press to Home Within the Hour” Star's ‘carricr system cove every city block and the regular ed red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. e \ urday’s Circulation, 93993 Sunday’s Circulation, 105,162 * TWO CENT | | { GOMPERS' ESTATE GIVEN AT §30,000 Widow Not Among Heirs and| Next of Kin Requesting Probate of Will. | Aghting and Samuel Gompers, late president of the American Federation of Labor left an estate worth about $30,000, according to the petition of his son, | Samuel J. Gompers, for the probate | of his will, the terms of which were | published Saturday. All the heirs and next of kin join in the request for the probate with the exception of the widow, Mrs. Gertrude A. Gompers, | who, under the provisions of the! TRTER e Taw aliow There was an earlier will, which gave Mrs. Gompers the bulk of the estate. but less than weeks before his death the labor leader revoked and canceled that document. { Attorneys Newmyer & King. repre- senting the executor, Samuel J. Gom pers, issued a citatlon against the| widow to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Should Mrs. Gompers desire to at- tack the validity of the will or ob- ject to its probate she will do so when she answers the citation | Owned $15,000 House. Mr. Gompers owned premises 3300 | Thirty-fifth street northwest, valued at §15,000, and four small unimproved lots in Sherman Park, N. Y., estimated at $500. He also was possessed of building association stock, liberty | bonds and cash of about $15,000 In all, In addition to household effects | and a number of souvenirs in gold | and silver, and trophies presented to | him during his long service with or- | zanized labor. His debts will not ex- | the executor tells the the widow, Mr. Gompers fs | his three sons, Samuel J. and Henry J. Gompers of Washin ton, und Alexander J. Gompers of New York, and two grandchildren, Henri- etta Mitchell and Ethel M. Katz, chil- | dren of his deceased daughter. | Julian Peyser, attorney for Mrs. Gompers, declined to _say today | whether Mrs. Gompers plans any legal | action in connection with the wiil. | SULLVANENIONED IN SOLICITING ROW Forbidden to Molest Volun-| teers of America Workers on Capital Streets. purt. Besides On complaint of the Volunteers of | America that Maj. Daniel Sullivan had disregarded the rule to show cause issued against him by Justice | Hitz of the District Supreme Court and had arrested® Capt. Walter W. Davis of the Volunteers while he was soliciting Christmas funds for the poor Saturday at Eleventh and F streets, Justice Hitz today issued an injunction against the major and The injunction forbids Maj. Sulli- van from arresting or causing to be arrested, from prosecuting or causing to be prosecuted or from interfering in any manner with the agents of the Volunteers of America while solicit- ing funds on the streets and avenues of the city. The injunction by its terms expires January 2, 1925, unless otherwise ordered by the court. Attorney Alfred D. Smith, who filed of the Volunteers last rule from Justice Hitz requiring the chief of police to show cause why an injunction should not be granted January 2. The rule was served, he told the court, but did not prevent the arrest of Davis. e 30 CHILDREN RESCUED. Twelve Families Driven Into Cold by Flames. JERSEY CITY, December 22.—Fire that destroyed two tenement and warehouse buildings here tonight drove 12 families from their homes. { and | these | abe able to establish the one-d: Police rescued 30 children asleep in the tenements before the arrival of the firemen, 224 OF 840 PLANES IN'NAVY READY FOR WAR, MOFFETTSAYS 500 Craft Obsolete, Others Rapidly Becoming So, He Asserts. COMPARATIVE FIGURES GIVEN HOUSE COMMITTEE Declares America Leads in Person- nel, But Lags Behind in Other Respects. Only 224 of the $40 planes of all kinds in possession of the Navy could be used effectively in case of war, Rear Admiral Moffett, chfef of the Bureau of Aeronautics, testified today before the special aircraft in- vestigating committee of the House About 500 afrplanes are obsolete he said, and even the 224 which could e used effectively are becoming out- of-date. Among the 224 are includec Douglas torpedo type, 32 three- | seated TS fighters, 5 three-seated C= fighting and bombing planes and 2 spotting planes. These types hay | been improved upon, Admiral Moffeii sald, the Douglas torpedo especially the newest type being superior any other in the world. 117 on Ships at Sea. At the beginning of November 1 planes were afloat doing service « ships. It is the policy of the depari- ment, the admiral sald, to instal planes on all fighting craft Twe one observation plar will be put on ev: battleship, anc even every destroyer will have | plane. As far as efficiency of performan | and air personnel And type of plane are concerned, Admiral Mofflett s that “nobody is ahead of us—in fac: we are leading.” We are so far ahead of anybod else in naval aviation that It wil take them a long time to catch up | he declared everal European countries have & greater number of planes and piloi= than the United States, the admirs sald, but he pointed out that the have not done the experimentation the research carried out herr No other country has develope Dlanes for duty aboard sbip, he adde and the catapult for launching air- eraft is a purely American inventio afeyarahLuronean countries are mercial aviation, Admiral Mofe(t viid, because Buropean government subsidize the industry as part of na- tional defense. Denfesx Warfare in Air. miral Moffett disagreed —with assertions that the mext war will be fought wholly in the air. “The air is merely a new arm, but will not displace anything,” he said Freight and troops will still have to be carried by ships, he added. and will have to be protected by aircraft, but planes,. he sald, are hapdicapped by having to rely on landing bases. He opposed the suggestion advanced by Brig. Gen. Mitchell of the Arm Air Service, and others, of a unifie: air service, as not beneficial eithe: to the country’s defense or to air commerce, If naval by people aviation not were controlled expert in the Navy's reeds, he satd, “disaster” would re- sult in operating with the fleet Landsmen, he added. are not com- petent to pass on naval aviation. The admiral commended the cross license agreement between manufac- turers as beneficial to the Goverrment, making it possible to build pianes speedily when they are needed. Inventions Studied. Inventio and designs submitted by individuals to the Navy Department, he said, ure carefully investigated by ex- perts. FIREMEN MAY OBTAIN DAYS OFF IN JANUARY Chief Wntso_n Hopes to Make New Schedule Effective Early in Year. Here is a bit of news that should cheer the families of Washingtor firemen for Christmas. Fire Chief Watson expressed hope that he would off- a-week system early In January. The day off for both policemen and firemen was authorized by Congress last Summer. but it could not be made effective without an increased per- sonnel in both departments. The ad- ditional men were not provided for until the deficiency bill passed a few weeks ago, and Maj. Sullivan and Chief Watson are now making every effort to obtain the needed men as rapidly as possible. The Fire Department probably will have its roster complete before the Police Department, because the num- ber of new policemen required is greater. MRS. OLMSTED ENGAGED TO VANCE C. McCORMICK Widow of Pennsylvania Represent- ative and -Democratic Commit- teeman to Wed in Holidays. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURGH, Pa., December 22. —The engagement of Mrs. Gertrude Olmsted, widow of Marlin E. Olm- sted, who represented the nineteenth Pennsylvania district in Congress for a number of years, and Vance C., Mc- Cormick, former chairman of the Demecratic national committee, was announced here today. The wedding is expected to take place during the holiday season. CHICAGO, December 22.—Furs val- ued at approximately $100,000 were taken by burglars from a West Side store, it was discovered when the store was opened today. The thieves had circumvented an claborate. sys- tem of burglar alarms.