Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1925, Page 2

FOUR MEET DEATH INCHICAGOHILARITY Stray Bullets Hit Man on {Train, Woman in House and Two on Streets. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, January 1.—Four persons ‘were slain and one probably fatally shot; only two arrests for drunken- ness, packed hotel dining rooms, ocabarets and restaurants into the small hours of the morning, and thousands of private house parties heralded the birth of the new vear here last night. Despite the hilarity and the reported flow of liquor in all sections of the city, the police said there was little disorder. The downtown district was crowded until early morning hours. The passing of 1924 was marked with the blowing of horns that blared in wild chorus at 12 o'clock. From windows confetti and streamers poured forth into the streets. Prohibition agents reported the usual distribution of liquors, but those who drank did so on the quiet, ihey said. The passing of the liquors from flask and bottle to mouth was not so much in evidence as in years past, Stray Bullets KUl Four. tray bullets probably fired by per- ®ons joining in the celebration were declared responsible for the deaths of four men. A passenger on a sub- urban train was shot and died on he train. The bullet was fired at 01 o'clock. Another was shot to death in his home three minutes later A bullet came through a Wwin- dow. Two others were found dead of bullet wounds on the streets, while one woman was wounded as she sat in her home, the bullet coming through a window. Cover charges in the principal ho- tels and cabarets ranged from $8 to $15. Every chair in each was filled. Not until dawn did many of the rev- elers turn homeward. From the standpoint of the police 1t was one of the quletest New Year celebrations since 1918, they sald. Two men was to the toll of police vigilance for intoxicated revelers as compared to hundreds arrested last year. GOTHAMITES LAW-ABIDING. Revelry Lasts Until Early Morn- ing, But Crowds Are Orderly. NEW YORK, January 1l.—Record crowds, despite the rapidly falling temperature, mjlled about the side- walks of New York far into the early hours of New Year day In a carnival spirit, tooting horns and clanging cowbells, to make their greetng to the new year audible above the shrill whistles and the church chimes. In the theatrical district the mass of people was kept in some form of slow motion by 300 extra policemen. who were nearly overwhelmed when the theaters poured out their patrons at the approach of midnight. Other sections celebrated in a quieter fashion. In the almost de- sorted financial district the chimes of old Trinity pealed out patriotic and sacred songs. On Fifth avenus a crowd gathered before St Patrick's Cathedral to hear the chimes. Prosperity, or a belief in prosperity, colored the celebrations in the hotels and cabarets, all of which were filled to overflowing with revellers. Many more, who did not brave the cold to celebrate in public, listened in on various radio programs, which included the services at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The fire department answered its first alarm when the year was but a minute old, only to find it to be a false alarm turned in by a New Year revel- ler. Prohibition enforcements' ranks were greatly reinforced, but only one raid of any consequence was made during the early morning hours, when $5,000 worth of liquor was seized in a fash- ionable East Side restaurant. BONUS CERTIFICATES MAILED TO VETERANS FROM BUREAU HERE (Continued from First Page.) signatures, finger other necessary data Thus far 15,000 applications have been disallowed. War Department bonus machinery has reached the point where it is able to forward| 32,000 approved applications daily to the Veterans' Bureau. Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis, who, as adjutant general of the Army, has been charged with the administration of the bonus act in so far as it affects the War Department, has certified 1,500,000 applications to the Veterans' Bureau for extension of the benefits 1o the claimants. The War Department belleves It has completed more than hall of the huge Job imposed upon it by law and that, as; a result of the experience gained, o difficuity will be met in the applications flowing _steadlly through its machine to the Veterans' Bureau, no matter how many may be received a day. As yet, Gen. Davis has not heard from about 1,800,000 veterans to whether they intend to apply for compensation, Director Hines also announced that as an experiment in expediting cases, a section of the Central Board of Appeals will be removed from Wash- ington to Francisco to handle all cases in the Control Area under the San Francisco office. Should the experiment prove a success, It was said, branches of the Central Board would be established in Boston, New York, New Orleans and Chicago, with a similar unit at headquarters re- maining here ofice on Coant. A staff of officers will leave for San Francisco in a few days to or- ganize the office and take over appeal cases originating in the Far West The office will act directly under Director Hines. The officers who will conduct the San Francisco office are Capt. O. Shaw, chairman of the central appeal board; Dr. Carl J. Harrls, Dr. E. M. ¥isher, Dr. H. C. Cook, H. M. Seydel and W. T. Hardaway Establishment of the branch appeal offices is another step in Director Hines' decentralization program, un- der which regional offices of the bu. reau are being set up in 51 citie This work is about two-thirds com- pleted, the director said today, and has resulted in a 50 per cent decrease in appeal cases. Gen. Hines in a statement also commended the speed with which the new construction division of the bu- reau had been completing projects several days in advance of schedule. prints or acific - THREE MINERS KILLED. VASPER, Tenn., January 1.—Three miners were killed In an explosion in Ihe Vasper coal mine yesterday after- noon and their badly burned bodies were recovered early today. The explosion was belleved to have been eaused by a spark from the tele- phone battermy ' keeping | Britain Sends Long Note on American Reparations Claims By the Assoclated Press. 2 LONDON, January 1.—The Brit- ish government has forwarded through Ambassador Kellogg a long note replying to the recent communication from the United States Government concerning participation by America in rep- aration receipts to meet American Wwar damage claims. It is understood the mote dis- cusses the subject in a most cor- dial tone. PROMIBITION UNIT Senate Committee Under Couzens to Begin Inquiry Within Two Weeks. Open investigation of the prohibi- tion unit, which formed the basis for a heated disagreement between the administration and the Senate at the last session, was decided upon yester- day by the Senate committee under the chairmanship of Senator Couzens, Republican, Michigan. The decision was reached after the committee had heard from both its own investigators and officlals of the Internal Revenue Bureau and the Prohibition Enforcement Division. A definite date for beginning the hear- ings was not fixed, but it probab will be at a time not more than two weeks distant Meantime the committee's special investigators, including John S. Pyle, formerly assistant prohibition direct- or for western Pennsylvania, will con- the prohibition division. lajid before the committee at the hearings and enforcement officials then will present thelr side of the case. Policy to Be Taken Up. Under present plans, the committee will confine the hearings to subjects of general policy and thelr effect in actual operation, without undertaking a dragnet inquiry of special cases, such as that, for Instance, at Wee- hawken, N. J. At the conference yesterday be- tween the committee and Commis- sioner _lalr of the Internal Revenue Bureau and Commissioner Haynes and other officlals of the enforcement sec- tion, Earl L. Davis, counsel for the committee, presented specific criti- clsms based upon reports of investiga- tors who have been working in the prohibition unit and Commissioner Haynes and the others made reply. Commissioner Haynes told the com- mittee that much of the criticisms offered had been justified, but that conditions leading to them had been remedied. He promised that the com- mittee would be given full co-opera- tion In getting at all the facts as he said it had been given In the phnses of the inquiry conducted up to this time. These will be OLD SOL TO REMAIN ON JOB AS IN PAST, SCIENTIST ASSURES (Continued from First Page.) planation of this is simply a process of shrinkage that results from the radiation of heat. “Anything that can run down,” Dr. Russell said, “will run down, and the contraction of the stars is simply a running down process. Through billions of years they have been hurling their energy out into space, throwing it everywhere, gen- erally reaching nowhere. Litile by little they have been shrinking in size and losing In reat until some have condensed into the cooler red stars.” Gases Virtually Solid. Although _science describes the stars as “gaseou Dr. Russell pointed out that the “gas” is really many thousand times denser than water. “It is perfectly possible,” he said, “to have a perfect gas that is a thousand times as dense as water and platinum.” The sun is in such a state, and millions of times hotter on the inside than it is on the out- side, from which we obtain our necessary heat and light. Change is Slight. It is quite possible to determine to a certaln degree of assurance the con- dition of the sun through a study of the geology of the earth. Science can trace, through the rocks and minerals, something of the history of this planet back for 1,000,000,000 years. During the sun was never much hotter and never much cooler, although it got rid of a lot of energy in that period. The only reasonable explanation for this condition, he declared, is that the sun and the other stars have tre- mendous internal stores of energy. It is known that the internal heat of some of them reaches 30,000,000 de- grees Fahrenhelt, and the small white companion of Sirius is believed to be even much hotter than this. Thus, although their surfaces ra- dlate heat and energy in bewilder- ing quantities, the storerooms inside are constantly manufacturing and sending out more, and this process | will keep up until they shrink to the point where their atomic bodies are pressed tight together. Then the process of real cooling will begin and possibly eventually leave the stars cold planets. To Live Billions of Years. “Although the sun drives out its own energy at a rate of 4,200,000 tons a second,” Dr. Russell declared, “we can figure on it keeping on going for at least fifteen thousand billion years more. Figuring on the information at hand, we can say that the total life of a star (the sun included) runs into hundreds of thousands of years.” Dr. Russell declared that the small white stars, onc of the enigmas of science, are believed to represent the oldest and latest development of stel- lar evolution. Although the vast ma- jority of stars turn darker and red s they shrink with age and loss of energy, such bodies as the tiny com- panion to Sirius, which remains white hot despite its size, must have in their makeup elements as yet unknown, which continue to manufacture tre- mendous heat in relatively small bodies. Arboretum Is Indorsed. The determination of sex in plants and animals and problems of life in the tropics were leading topics of yesterday's discussions. Plans for a new national park in Alaska, and a new botanical garden and arboretum near Washington were Indorsed. That sex was probably determined at the time of fertilization of the female cell and could not be affected Ly later influences upon the mother was asserted by Drs. Calvin Bridges of Columbia University, W. W, Swingle of Yale and Carl R. Moore of the University of Chicago. Accord- ing to their views, it was determined conditions either inherent in the or by conditions of their nutrition before conception. Announcement was made by the assoclation of a plan for a laboratory to make a sclentific study of laag- - PROBE IS DECREED tinue thelr work in gathering facts in| that time, at least, Dr. Russell said, | COASTER IS KILLED; 2 OTHERS INJURED Police Order Close Guard ot Streets Used for Sleds After First Snow. Already Washington's first gener- ous snowfall has resulted in one boy killed, two others injured while coasting, and orders by Maj. Sullivan for police to guard closely all places in the District where danger lurks for children out for a gay time with thelr new Christmas sleds. Benjamin Tenn of 700 Irving street novthwest, was the first victim of the new coasting spree, into which |it seemed all youthful Washington launched last night as soon as suff- {clent snow had coated the streets. { He was fatally Injured when struck an automobile driven by James A. Flynn, 24, 654 F street northeast, near Warder street and Columbla road. The accident took place short- 1y before 10 o'clock. Before leaving home this morning Maj. Sullivan warned his 10-year-old son of the danger of coasting on the streets and the boy, turning to his father, asked: “What is a boy going to do these days? If he can't coast on the streets where can be coast?” Maj. Sulilvan advised the son to do his playing on the sidewalk, fully reallzing, however, he sald, that his suggestion would not be adopted. i Dies at Hospital. The boy was rushed to Garfleld Hospital and dled there at 11:05 o'clock. Numerous children. taking adva {tage of the first snow of the season that made coasting possible, were in the vicinity of Columbia road and Warder street when Flynn's automo- bile, going West, appeared and the accident happened. akes Boy to Hospital. Flynn, member of the fire depart- ment and driver for Chief Watson, took the injured boy to the hospital. He was detained by the police until released by order of Dr. Herbert E. Martyn, acting coroner, for his ap- pearance at an inquest at the morgue tomorrow morning. Sled Hits Auto. two injured lads wers hurt when the bobsleds on which they were riding crashed into an auto- mobile at the foot of Nineteenth street hill at Florida avenue today, one sustaining serious injuries, and the other escaping with only minor bruises. The boys are Gordon Wilkins, 12 years old, of 13 Iowa Circle, whose injurfes were pronounced slight; and Ernest Anderson, 11, of 1835 Oregon avenue. Who was the boy seriously hurt. They were rushed to Children’s Hospltal for treatment. Young An- derson was immediately taken to the operating room, where physicians re- ported his injuries very serious, but irefused to predict the possible out- come of his condition. Maj. Sulllvan had recelved from several parts of the city numerous requests to protect children coasting by closing off the streets, but unable o comply with these requests, he issued orders to police captains to survey their entire precincts and keep a close watch over the flying sleds, protecting children from intersecting trafic. Maj. Sullivan's order to the captains reads as follows “Commanding officers are again di- rected to give special attention to points where children are coasting, and to utilize as many men as pos- sible in affording protection to the children “Make survey of.your predinct and station men at the particularly dan- gerous points, and wherever it is found difficult to afford adequate po- lice protection to the coasters, advise them to desist from coasting at that point. “For night The coasting use red lan- terns wherever advisable, have ser- geants make continuous visits to places where there is coasting and see that the men on duty are alert and helpful. 1 want the children to enjoy themselves, but I also want them kept safe from harm.” COSMOPOLITAN CLUB DANCES IN NEW YEAR Members Hold Greenwich Village Entertainment at Lee House. Amid the interchange of resolutions the members of the Cosmopolitan Club danced in the new year at a celebration held at the Lee House !1ast nignt. | A large number of the members |and their friends were at the party, which took the form of a Greenwich Village entertainment. As some of the members sang old-time songs to herald in the New Year, others danced their welcome to 1925. Dr. J. Rozler Biggs was chairman of the enter- tainment committee. Yesterday the women of the club, under the chalrmanship of Mrs. Fred- erick Rice, gave a party for the chil- dren of the members. The infants were entertained from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m, and the older children from 4 to 5 p.m. Several community center di- | rectors were engaged to direct the children’s games. uages With the aim of discovering the physical laws back of the differ- ences in speech between races. Experiments With Plants. Dr. John H. Schaffner of Ohio State University told of controlling the sex of plants by their surroundings. In some cases this was done Ly varying the amount of food, while in others the sex was changed by manipulating the amount of light. Sex is, first of all, dependent on physicological states, Dr. Schaffner asserted, is not de- termined by inherited factors, and is subject to change through environ- ment. »uth America needs not merely a larger population but a better dis- tribution of what it already has, Dr. Willlam A. Reid of the Pan-American Union, told the Assoclation of Ameri- can Geographers. While the continent as a whole is underpopulated, the housing conditions in some of the larger cities are as bad as any in Europe or North America, he declared. Lack of transportation over vas areas, and the prevalence of Kroplan fnertia were also given as hindrances to the development of the southern continent. Floods in Lower Amaszon. Insects and floods were the two chief obstacles to the development of the lower Amazon basin, the area of which was estimated as three times that of Texas by Dr. Willlam Haas of Northwestern University. The flood waters of the river often rise 50 feet above normal, he said, making almost impossible the cultivation of any crops except rubber and timber. An appeal to teachers of botany to teach their students to plant and pre- serve native flowers rather than to cotlect them, was made by P. L. Ricker of the Wild Flower Preservation So- clety. The practice of collection had some times resulted in rare plants be- coming completely extinct over wide areas, be said. Despite the bleak wenther, many citizens formed In line at the W D. O, THURSDAY, JANUARY T, '1925 2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, g ite House to wait their chance to shake the hand of the Chief Executive. Mrs. Francis Bridgham of Boston, Mass., headed the line that began to form about 10130 o’clock this morning. STRAY SHOT IS WOMAN IN HOUSE Through Window—4 Arrest- ed for Use of Firearms. One injury and four arrests resulted from the use of firearms to welcoma in the new vear. Mrs. Raymond P. Repetti, 37, of 318 Third street southwest, was shot in the leg when a bullet from outside crashed through a rear window of the home of Thomas Roche, 415 New Jer- sey avenue southeast, just four min- utes after midnight. Before striking Mrs. Repetti the bullet passed througa a glass partition and the panel of an ;m-\rmr door, spending much of its orce. Mrs. Repetti was taken to the office of Dr. H. J. Crosson, where she was given first ald. The injury was not serlous. Detectives Springmann and | Darnall and police of the fifth prec- inet investigated, but were unable to identify the person firing the shot. Four Are Arrested. The first arrests or the new year were recorded at 12:10 o'clock this morning when four prisoners were taken into custody for reckless use of firearms. James Ford and Plummer Toliver, colored neighbors on Pierce street northwest; Dalsy Eilington, colored, 48, of 40 F street, and Raymond Stark, colored. of 333 H street southwest, ere those arrested. While a New Year celebration was in progress at 1814 N street, some member of the light-fingered frater- nity of sneak thieves crowned his achievements for the closing year by stealing several overcoats, hats and scarfs last night Earlier in the night Robert Jackson, colored, 2§, was shot in the abdomen at 2227 Fifteenth street. He was taken to Emergency Hospital and police arrested the alleged assallant, to be held for further Investigation of the case. William H. Gordon of 3745 Brandy- wine street successfully outwitted a prospective hold-up man, roughly clad, on Albemarle street near Con- necticut avenue early last night. The man displaved a pistol and started a hold-up operation, Gordon told the police, but was frightened off when Gordon turned and headed for Con- necticut avenue. Gordon told police he thought the armed man followed Eim from Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street. INJUNCTION ASKED AGAINST CHALIAPIN Chicago Opera Company Pe- titions to Prevent Appear- ance Here January 26. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 1—The Chicago Civic Opea Company vesterday filed a petition asking that Feodor Chalia- pin, noted operatic star, be enjoined from making any public appearances In Washington, D. C., prior to Febru- ary 10, 1925. The company asks es- pecially that he be denied the right to appear in “Faust” in Washington January 26. According to the petition this would be a violation of the baritone’s con- tract with the company and also would tend to greatly reduce ths ticket sale to the opera “Boris Goudo- norft,” in which Challapin agreed to appear in the Capital February 10. Chaliapin’s contract, the petition states, provides for appearances in 30 operas here this winter and a road trip of ten weeks following the Chi- cago season. He would be pald $3,500 for each appearance. THREE DRY ARRESTS MARK NEW YEAR EVE Harry M. Luckett, chief of general prohibition agents for this division, whose men kept a close watch on all the principal public dining halls in Washington last night, declared today that he was “agreeably surprised” that there had been so little drinking in the Capital New Year eve. Only three arrests for drinking were made by his agents, Chief Luckett said. i An augmented force of agents had been gathered here in Washington to keep a strict surveillance over the fes- tivities of the holiday, Luckett said, and the men worked hard, watching all the principal gala parties in public, and the dining halls, where drinking might have been suspected. “What we want. however,” sald Luckett. “Is to stop this drinking, not to ses how many arrests we can make: so we are very well pleased and satisfled with results. by some who have been connected with enforcement of the law in ‘Washington longer than I have been that last night was one of the quiet- est New Year eves, as regards drink- ing, that the Capital has seen In years. 1 'personally feel that there was definite improvement’ shown.” Luckett fRlt sure, he said, that the warning jsued in advance that his force would be on sharp lookout for violators of the law and would promptly arrest all who could be caught had been somewhat of a help in better observance of the lawy Iam told; Two Casualties Reported Early From Snowballs An unidentified man, incensed because a small boy struck him with a snowball while passing Monroe and Fourteenth streets last night about 11 o'clock, picked up a sled and struck Richard Reid, 10, 1369 Newton street, breaking four of his upper teeth. The man who delivered the blow was ac- companied by another man, and both men left the scene in an au- tomobile. Police are investigating the affair in an effort to arrest the boy’s assailant. While in his automobile near Fifth and I streets about 12:30 o'clock this morning, J. N. Romm, 2323 Twelfth place northeast, was struck with a snowball, breaking his eyeglasses and cutting his left eve. He reported the incident to the police and said he would ob- tain a warrant for the individual who Infiicted the injury. ATTEND RECEPTION ATWHITE HOUSE Association of Oldest Inhabit- ants Carries Out Annual New Year Custom. Following a custom they have ob- served for many years, the members of the Association of Oldest Inhabit- ants of the District of Columbia today went to the White House in a body to attend the New Year recep- tlon of President Coolidge. At the conclusion of a brief busi- ness meeting at their headquarters in Union Engine House. Nineteenth and H streets, the members marched down Pennsylvania avenue to the White House at 11:30 o'clock. Undaunted by the snow and on the ground. Judge Cbarles Bundy, one of the oldest members of the assoclation, now in his 93d year, accompanied his associates to the re- ception. The delegation was headed by Vice President Henry L. Bryan and Gen. Charles H. Ourand, marshal of the organization. Appeals for Birds. At the business meeting, the asso- ciation adopted a resolution offered by John Clagett Proctor, calling for participation by the association in the regular Washington's birtnday exercises at the Washington Monu- ment, under the direction of tha of- fice of public buildings and grounds. It was voted to appoint a committee of five to arrunge for the exercises. Dr. Willlam Tindall appealed both to members of the assoclation and to Washingtonians generally to scatter crumbs for the sparrows in such weather ag that of today. Dr. Tindall said that on his way to the meeting this morning he observed many of these birds apparently hungry. Dr. Tindall said that there is some prejudice against the sparrow, which he declared {s unfounded. He ex- pressed the bellef that these birds have helped greatly in protecting trees in the parks from the attacks of some insects which destroy the foliage. ice Congratulte Newly Weds. The association had presented to it two portraits, one of J. Goldsborough Bruff, who was a member of the as- soctation in its early days. The pho- tograph was presented by a daugh- ter.” The other picture was a like- ness of P. Thompson, one of the earliest bookdealers in Washington. The members of the association ex- tended a vote of congratulations to Dr. Benjamin W. Summy, vice presi- dent and treasurer of the association, upon his recent marriage. Two new members were elected, namely, William H. Shipman, 2146 F street northwest, and Alonzo F. Get- ty of 1110 Lamont street. The names of three members who have died since the last meeting — Edward H. Tabler, C. B. Smith and Ira H. Johannes—were read. A special meeting will be arranged within a few days, at which Capt George W. Evans will read his an- nual chronicle of events of the past vear. Vice President Bryan, who presided, extended to the members of the association a New Year greeting from the president of the association, Theodore W. Noyes. BORAH‘TO F;?OPOSE WORLD TRADE AND ARMS CONFERENCE (Continued from First Page.) to come, there might be at the same time some effectual settlements with regard to the internatiopal debts. It was Senator Borah who first in- troduced the resolution providing for a conference on naval limitation. Many months passed before this plan was eventually adopted, and the Washington conference on limitation of armaments and the problems of the Pacific followed. The holding of an economic con- ference during the year opening to- day is the purpose of Senator Borah in advancing the idea again. Such a conterence, it is believed, would do far more toward bringing about peace and continuing it than can be effectuated by the so-called World Court. Everits in Europe recently have not inclined some of the Senators toward ITENSION RELAXES ON FRENCH DEBTS Officials Appear to Breathe Easier, But Remain Silent on Facts. Official Washington seemed breath ing easier today, following receipt of reports from Ambassador Herrick at Paris concerning the French position on Inter-allled debts. Although there was no officlal of the State Department who would formally admit that the dispatch had ever been received from Ambassador Herrick, It was noted that the ten- slon which has characterized the atmosphere here since M. Clementel saw fit to publish his now celebrated balance sheet Jeaving out of account the French debt to this Government, had materlally lessened. The results of the American ambas- sador's conversations with Premler Herriot and M. Clementel were be- lieved to have been fully outlined by Mr. Herrick in his cable to this Gov- ernment. Inquiry at the State De- partment, however, was met with the flat statement that the subject of the ambassador's report was not one that could be commented on. Unofficial Reports Cheerful. Unofficial advices from Paris recit- ing the statement of M. Clementel to Ambassador Herrick, in which the French minister recognize® the obli- gation of his government to the United States and declared its inten- tion to honor the debt, were received by administration leaders with no lttle satisfaction The statement that Ambassador Herrick had trans- mitted M. Clementel's remarks to Secretary Hughes, however produced only a refteration of the department's decision “not to comment.” Officlals who took occasion to talk at length on the French debt ques- tion at the time of the publication in France of M. Clementel's balance sheet, which omitted reference to money owed the United States, re- mained silent today. There was no word forthcoming either to disprove receipt of such information from Mr. Herrick or to admit the arrival here of the Ambassador’s dispatches. Silent on English Visitors. Much of the same attitude marked the action of officials here, respecting reports of the arrival in New York last night of Montague Collett Nor- man, governor of the Bank of Eng- land, and Sir Allen Garrett Anderson, a director of the same nistitution. At all important offices in the Treas- ury and State Departments, and even at the British embassy, it was said merely that nothing was known re- garding the mission of the distin- guished financiers to this country. Treasury officials admitted only that they had recelved word of the visit when Gov. Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank request- ed that the department extend cus- tomary courtesies of the New York port to Messrs. Norman and Ander- son when they arrived. Secretary Mellon, a friend of Mr. Norman's for years, did not known officially of his presence in this country, nor did Sec- retary Hughes. One official, disqussing the visit ot the British financiers, said it appeared to him personally that they had not left the Bank of England at this time to come “grouse shooting” here. It was more likely, it was said, that Mr. Norman and his friend, as fiscal offi- cers of Great Britain, had a keen in- terest in the question of war debts between the United States, France and England and the matter of clalms col- lections from Germany by the United States, which already has Leen the subject of note exchanges between London and Washington. It also was suggested the financiers might be in- terested in the attitude of the United States on questions to come up for discussion January 6 before the allied finance ministers in Paris. Although the attitude of the United States on war debts and claims has been repeatedly presented to the al- lied and associated powers through official pronouncements made by Gov- ernment spokesmen here. It is re- garded as probable that Messrs. Nor- man and Anderson, through personal contact with high officials of the Washington administration, might be helpful to their colleagues participat- ing in the Paris meeting for the Lon- don government. PEGGY MARSH WEDS. Actress Married to Relative of Duke of Manchester. LONDON, January 1.—Peggy Marsh | the English actress, was married at a Iregistry office here today to Capt. Keld Robert George Fenwick, for- morly of the Royal Horse Guards says the Evening News today. The bridegroom’s country seat is Witham Hall, Lincolnshire. He is a relative of the Duke of Manchester and his firet wife was a sister of the Duchess of ‘Westminster. Pegey Marsh was married in 1921 to Albert L. (“Buster”) Johnson, who died in New York in January, 1923. —_— United States to the World Court. For example, the recent determina- tion of the British and the French that Cologne shall not be evacuated because they charge that Germany has not complied with the disarma- ment provisions of the Versailles treaty has not tended to relieve the situation. Why, it is asked here, should not the World Court be called upon to determine whether or not Germany has complied with these terms of dis- armament? The contention is made that the World Court is not being used to deal with the really impor- tapt {ssues that are arising, MARRIAGE CONTROL BY STATE FAVORED Rules Governing Parenthood Proposed by Massachusetts Professor. ’ State control of marriages as a growing necessity for the perma- nency of soclety and the betterment of the race and cessation of legls- lation intended to disrupt marriage through the divorce court, were urged | today by Prof. E. A. Kirkpatrick of Fitchburg, Mass., before a meeting of the American Assoctation for the Ad- | vancement of Science. “While what individuals shall live together is chiefly a matter of in- dividual decision,” Dr. Kirkpatrick declared, “the kind of children that shall be born and how they shall be given a chance for development is most certainly chiefly the affair of the State, because it represents the permanency of society and the race trom generation to generation “While it cannot be sald that man can discover a better method of pro- moting race betterment than by in- dividuals choosing their mates and rearing children in permanent fam- ilies, yet sclence can give data as to the probability of certain matings re- sulting in superior children—although it cannot at present plan for this.” Would Give State Control. Prof. Kirtpatrick sald the State should have control in the case of in- ferior, diseased and defective indi- viduals, at least. He cited the enor- mous time and effort that is wasted in framing and executing divorce laws which have been largely with the object of restricting individual choice and not in the interests of race betterment. “Could not this effort and expense,” he continued, “be better spent on marriage laws, working toward the mating of the right sort of persons to produce children and maintain a desirable family life? Why not work toward the protection and perma- nency of marriage laws rather than toward legally disrupting them? “Some recent legislation concerns the marriage of deficient and dis- eased persons, which is a step in the right direction. This must, however, g0 much further, by providing means of determining deficiency, for which there is now no provision. Laws re- quiring health certificate, it perfected and improved, will no doubt prove of great value, as also would a law re- quiring the declaration of intentions of marriage for a definite time. Hold Up Marriage Licenses. “Before these requirements are met no marriage license should be issued. It cannot be denied that laws cover- ing the granting of marriage licenses are far less rigid than those granting licenses to operate engines, moving picture machines or for selling drugs and practicing medicine. Sclen knows enough of biology, anthropology soclology and physiology to be of great assistance in framing marriage laws. “The physical condition of every person should be recorded at birth, at 6 years and again at voting age: also careful records kept of death certificates. All of this information, scientifically analyzed, will go far toward helping _ formulate and reliable rudes to govern the granting of licenses to produce chil- dren and rightfully care for them Control of these features of soclety, Prof. Kirkpatrick sald, {s just as much a matter for scientific research of civil, mechanical, electrical social engineering.” Food, too, is a prominent factor in determining the quality of a nation's population, Prof. Rudolph M. Binder of the department of sociology of New York University declared. Food, he said, 1s largely responsible for the surplus energy so evident in some races and so lacking in others, all of which is a direct result of proper BILL PROPOSING MUSEUM OFFERED Representative McKenzie Intro- duces Measure to Take Over Pension Office. Creation of a war museum in_ the Pension Office Bullding, which will be a permanent memorial to those who fought America’s wars, is proposed in a joint resolution introduced in the House by Representative John (. Mc Kenzie of Illinols, acting chairman of the House military affairs committee, ment of a commission to consier and establishing within the Pension fice Building a ‘'war memorial commission would be composed the commission of pensions and national commanders of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Spanish War Veterans and the Ameri- can Legion, The bill has been referred to the House military affairs committee, where early action is assured. It is contemplated that the pro- posed museum would contain paint- ings, models, heirlooms, relics, battie flags, standards and other trophies reminiscent of the Nation's battle, where they can be carefully pre- served. $12,500,000 FUND FOR SCHOOLS TO BE URGED AT HEARING (Continued from Fii This hool site, $60,000 School addition, $150,000; Dunbar High School site, $180,000; site near teenth and Ogden streets, §$22 Miner Normal School steps, remodeling Cardaza School, site for Georgetown Junion High, $100,000; plans for new Business High hool, $5,000; axsembly hall for West School, $100.000, and assembly hall for Lovejoy School, $100,000. For the Franeis Junior High School Building the total appropriation of $470,000 will be urged instead of the $175,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau, and for the Macfarland Junior High School $275.000 will be urged instead of $125,000. Ask Other Inmcreases. For extension of school play- grounds the school officials will urge these items, all of which were strick- en out by the Budget Bureau: Addison, $50,000; E. V. Brown, $20,- 000; John Eaton, $25,000; Jackson, $4.000; Hubbard, $15,000; Johnson, $30,000; Monroe, $20,000; Petworth, $60,000; Morgan, $15,000; Brookland, $16,000; Eckington, $10,000; Langdon, $2,600; Park View, $2,600; Benning, $6,- 000; Ludlow, $15,000) Wheatley, $15,000; Carbery, $15,000; Peabody, = $10,000; Toner, $2,250; Bradley, $6,000; Cranch, $3,000; Ketcham-Van_ Buren, §12,00 Montgomery, $35.000; Stevens, 350,000 Wormley, $5,000; Slater-Laugston, $7,000; Douglass-Simmons, $i.,000; Banneker, $15,000: Birney, $50,000; $200,000; Lincoln, $25,000; Payne, $3,500. Supt. J. S. Garland will continue his testimony in support of larger water department items. He pointed t that the work of the department definite | and assistance “as any other problem | or This measure calls for the appoint- ! report to Congress ways and means of | ot- | of | the | | | quer design printed CABINET OFFCES EEP OPEN HOLGE Weeks, Wilbur, Mellon, Stone, Hoover and Davis Receive Guests. Fewer of the cabinet homes than usual will be opened this afternoon for receptions, the Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks and the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur having by far the The guests will wear full dress uni- forms, imposing largest number of visitors. with swords, and present an spectacle enjoyed by on- lookers outside, as they pay homage to the heads of their branches df service. Scarcely less Imposing are the callers in other cabinet houses, many of the diplomats making th rounds of the cabinet in democratic fashion The Secretary of the Treasury and Miss Mellon will recelve callers in thelr apartment oOn Massachusetts avenus from 4 to 6 o'clock, and have with them at the tea table Mrs Charles Dewey and Mrs. Eliot Wads- pege worth At Weeks Home. With the Secretary of War and Mrs Weeks, who are recelving in their home on Sixteenth et from 3:30 to 6:30 o'clock, and either presiding at the bountifully laden table or as- sisting gene re: Mrs. John W. Davidge, daughter of the hosts; Mrs. Dennis Nolan, Mrs. Charles McK. Saltzman, Mrs gar Jadwin, Mrs. John A. Hull, Mrs. Jonathan M. W wright. Mrs. John R Mrs. Preston and Mrs. The Secretary of the Nav Wilbur will have with them the afternoon at their home Mrs. E. A. Eberle, wife of Admiral Eberle, chief of naval operations: Mrs. John A. Lejeune, wife of Maj. Gen. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps: Mrs. Benjamin F. Hutchison, wife of the commandant of the Wash- ington navy yard, and Miss Edna Wil- bur, daughter of the hosts. Mrs. Wilbur will wear this afternoon receiving her guests a becoming gown of rose-color georgette e brofdered in pearl beads The Attorney General and Mrs Stone are keeping open house and will have assisting them in their gay decorated drawing rooms, Mrs. Gros- venor H. Bakus, Mrs. Augustus T eymour, wife of the assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Ber- nard H. Snell, wife of Representa- tive Snell of Pottsdam, N. Y. Mrs Stone's gown for the afternoon is a handsome visiting pinkish tan velvet trimmed fx bands and tails and a hat to espond Because of the recent illness of Mrs New, t Postmaster General a Mrs. New are not keeping open hous as they have done in previous years since coming into the Gay Like Ca The home of the merce and Mrs. the riot of fruits ifornia, suggest from that State showing. in man atures of home, including the Yule logs blazing in open fireplaces, and the table, on which appears a bounteous center- plece of fruits and flowers from that ate. Mrs. Hoover will wear this noon recelving her guests a gown of black silk with a large lac jad their durin nink creary of Com- Hoover is gay with d flowers of Cal Assisting them will the divisions of the dep s lending spectal assistance p itncludes e Assistant Secre- of Commerce and Mrs J. Walter Drake will receive h Secretary and Mrs. Hoover and ng over the tea table will be citor of the artment, | { | | Department and Mrs hen . Davis. Others assisting will be the Director of the Bureau of Census and Mrs. William M. Stewart, the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce and Mrs. Julius Klein, the Commissioner of Fishe and Mrs. He O'Malley, the Comm oner of the Bureau of Lighthouses and Mrs. George R. Putn the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and Mrs. E. Lester Jones, and Dr. George K. Burgess, director of the Bureau of Standards; Mr. D. B. Car- son, commissioner of Navigation, and Mr.'George Uhler, supervising inspec- tor general of steamboat inspection service, whose wives were unable to be present because of illness, and the following assistants to the Secretary: Mr. Willlam R. Snyder, Mr. E. W. Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Har s’ Stokes, and_their wives. retary and Mrs. Hoover will home from 3:30 to 6:30 The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, who have but recently re- turned from a Latin American trip of unusual interest, will keep open house at Wardman Park Hotel, whera their living suite occuples one floor of a wing of the building. Their hours are from 4 to § o'clock and they will have ng them Mrs. E. J. Henning, wife of the assistant secres : Mrs. A. H. Vestal, Miss Dorothy Mrs. Henry Watson and Mrs M. Wyant in laying water mains is months be- hind, owing to the rapid develop- ment of the city Estimates for ment approved 1 reau total §1,020.000. The figures tontain items of $447.000 for main- temance of the water supply; §$175,000 for extension of the water depart- ment distribution system; 000 for a main on Rhode Island avenue be- tween Sixteenth street and Queens Chapel road northeast; $45,000 for a main on Allison street between Illi- nois and New Hampshire avenues: $42,000 for a main on Grant street between Forty-eighth and Fiftieth streets and $13,000 for a main on 1 street from Sixth to Eighth streets northwest. the water depart- the Budget Bu- at i 1353 Kennedy St. N.W. For $12,750 % I i E | Atmosphere--- % NOVEL PLEASANT EXHILARATING B‘ {)AVA : TEN-TEN FOURTEENTH Next Franklin Square Hotel Dancing Nightly at 10 Boernstein’s Band PETE MACIAS, Directing Miss Helen Jane Marr Danoing ot 11:30 and 12:30 P