Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 4

ETTER FORECASTS OF WEATHER SEEN Meteorologists Predict Im- i proved Service for Bene- fit of Aviators. The seventy-ninth convocation of the American soclation for the Advancement of Sclence came to @ Qlose late yesterday when the Amer- fcan Meteorological Soclety, the last \f the sectional organizations to meet, held its concluding sessions in the United States Weather Bureau, Twenty-fourth and M streets. Discussion of Improved knowledgo of weather conditions and better forecasting for aerial navigation fea- tured the final papers presented. Visibility was declared to be the weather condition most important to aviators, as the power and speed of planes now make them independent of ordinary winds and rain. Tribute to Melsinger. Tributes were paid by his u>0(lalr‘§ to the scientific work of the late C. LeRoy Meisinger of the ‘Weather Bu- peaun, killed during a balloon flight Jast Summer. His work was de- olared by Charles F. Marvin, chief of the bureau, to have been of the greatest value in forecasting for avi- ator: : Luring of the cotton boll weevil by sweet perfumes untimely end was described by Mcindoo of the Departme ture. Gov- ernment chem have ex- racted flavoring substances from un- ton bolls to » them as lures to poisoned t e work is still incomplete, but promising, he stated. Knowledge of Stars. Mound Builder ruins near Ports- mouth, Ohio, show evidences of & knowledge of the heavenly bodles similar to that poss ed by the Mayas and early Mexica ansbury ar of the Brooklyn Institute, de- clared. These ruins were the most tmportant aboriginal remains in this country. The scientists during their week sessions, indorsed the plan for a new calendar of 13 months of four weeks each; the establishment in Washing- ton of a national botanical garden and aboretum, and of a national park along Glacier Bay, Alaska. The pro- pesed extensive study of the oceans BY the Navy also was approved. Most of the section had completed their work the day before and a few had adjourned even earlier, although a majority of their members remain- ed over to attend the session of those branches of s n which were still at The entire convocation, adjourned yesterday _to in Kansas C! next De- ts, ns, Awarding of Prize. One important task still remains to be done. It is the awarding of the American Assoclation prize of $1,000 to the delegate who presented a pa- per constituting the greatest contri- bution to science during the convo- cation, S of the author of this paper was intrusted to a special committee and the winner probably will not be unced until the mid- dle of the week because of the tre- mendous number of papers that must urveyed for the final cholce. before in t tory of the d has so large a body of repre- sentative scientists been brought to- gether for a general discussion of tho solences and the researches of tho past as at this convocation of the American Association. _During the week 4,300 members registered, many hundreds more than had ever befors attended one of the conventions. In that time more than a thousand papers touching every field of science were read, and most of them were :lly discussed in open meeting. Nearly 50 societies, among them some of the largest research organizations in the United States met here. simul- taneously with the American Assocta- tion and still more were represented by delegates Although most of the delegates had begun their journey back home by last night, a few are remaining over for private conferences and for visits to the numerous places of scientific inter- est in and around Washington. Virtu- ally the entire time of the delegates was occupied with hard work during the convention and little time was found for sightseein, COOLIDGE SHELVES PLAN FOR DISPOSAL OF SHOALS AS A UNIT ued from First Page.) of regulation out altogether. The Underwood substitute provides for by the Alabama State sion if the lessee of the prop- sells part of it to consumers. If, however, the lesses uses the power for his own purposes or sold it to tenants on the property under lease, or wholesaled it to a distributing ®ompany, he would be specifically ex- empted from or service regula- tlon under the provisions of the Ala- bama public service law To operate the nitrate plants now 1scle Shoals to full ca- y woull require 500,000,000 to €00,000,000 kilowatt hours per annum, oF not more than one-half the energy that can be produced by dam No. 2 and the steam plant at Sheffleld. Re- cent developments in manufacture of nitrates are away from power. They are using less and less horsepower all the time in the synthetic produc- tion until some processes use very 1ittle power at all More to Sell. Bo the probabilities are that the development in the processes of ni- trate production will be such as to require constantl aller and still smaller quantities of electric energy, and, therefors, there will continually be ' constantly Increasing amount of energy available to sell. The location of Muscle Shoals is such that with the opportunities for additional development, particularly with regard to storage on the Tennes- sec River, it could be made the most ymportant factor in a superpower sys- tem the Southeastern States, which would not only cover areas now supplied, but additional areas to the south and wes M sippi and Loulsiana and the western part of the State of Tennessee. Unless there Is a very considerable increase in hydro-electrical development, it is scarcely possible that Mississippl and Louisiana can be added to the super- power zone of the South. There will Dot be enough water resources avail- able for such extension without em- ploying in the southern superpower sone the Tennessee River power. rate Figures on Waterpower Resources. The United States Geological Sur- vey estimates the waterpower re- sources of the six Southern States of Tennessee, North Carolina, South Car- olina, Alabama, Georgia and Missis- sippi as approximately 4,200,000 horse- power. This figure does not include, however, additional power that may be produced by storage. The total, therefore, is doubtless in excess of 4,200,000 horscpower. The Census Bureau reports that the central sta- tion companies in these States in 1922 had an installation of 1,720,000 horeepower, and that the manufactur- ing establishments in these States in 1919 had an Mstallation of 2,650,000 Borsepower, Or an aggTegate of 2] ‘1911, Light Rains Today Due to Transform Snow Into Slush The District Is about to undsrgo at least a day of gross discomfort if the prediction of the Weather Bureau last night of light rains for today holds true. The rains will be accompanied by & rise in tem- perature and the two forces will Join hands in changing the heavy snow into slush. Last night a noticeable upward trend in the mercury created pools of slush and water at many street crossings and other places because the heavy packed snow had prevented a flow to the sewers. The Weather Bureau also stated that there is no cold weather in sight, which means no snow for a ltttle while. The forecaster was further convinced that the precipi- tation predicted for today and pos- sibly tomorrow would be followed by clear weather. e AGCUSED SLAYER BELIEVED INSANE Hahne Thanks Police for “Entertainment,” Refuses to Admit Uxorcide. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, January 3.—J. Warren Hahne, 49, wealthy Omaha contractor, held without bail at the local police station in connection with the death of his wife, Mae B. Hahne, 46, whose body with 12 gashes in the head, was found in the basement of their home yester- day, is probably Insane and no further attempt to obtain a confession will be made, Chief of Police H. Van Deusen announced tonight. Mrs. Hahne's body was found yester- day afternoon by Hahne and a plumber whom Hahne had taken to the house to fix a leak in the bathroom. A bloodstained hatchet matted with hair, and a small mechanic’s hammer are held by police and are believed to be the death weapons. Thanks Police. Hahne's replying to questioning by police tonight, declared he is innocent and thanked police for the “enter- tainment.” Police questioned him minutely in an effort to establish his connection with a “mob” in Columbus, Ohio, which forced a way into a bank and blew the safe in 1907. Hahne was arrested last night as he was leaving a mortuary where he made arrangements for his wife's funeral. The slain woman s Hahne's second wife. His first wife died in New York in 1911. The Bureau of Vital Statistics here declared her a suicide Hahne married his second wife in Colorado Springs in 1914. She was a business woman in the Colorado city and was known there as Mae S. Ben- nett. The Hahnes came to Omaha about eight years ago. FIRST WIFE A SUICIDE. Body Found in Bedroom of Home in 1911. NEW YORK, January 3.—John W. Hahne, charged today by a coroner’s jury in Omaha with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Mae Hahne, formerly ived fn the Bronx section of New York City. The Bureau of Vital Sta- tistios records that on November 14, Alice V. Hahne, who is be- lieved to have been Hahne's first wife, died a suicide. Her body was found in her bedroom. Cosee SUES PHONE COMPANY. SBATTLE, January 3—J. L. Finch, attorney for Roy O. Olmsted, former Seattle police lieutenant arrested when prohibition officers raided the Olmsted home, has had his $31,000 damage sult against the Pacific Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. trans- ferred from the State courts to the Federal court. The suit was the re- sult of a raid on Finch's office in which papers seized were sald to have involved Olmsted. When Olmsted’s home was raided a powerful radio casting set was seized. Officers charged that the set was used ostensibly to send out bed- time stories, but really to dispatch information to rum-running ships off shore. 4,270,000 horsepower. That is, the installation in water wheels and in steam engines in the Southern States at the present time is approximately equal to the estimates of its poten- tial water-power resources. Due, however, to the fact that ex- isting installations produce = con- tinuous energy output of only a part of their rated capacity, there is still 2 conelderable margin left between the waterpower resources of these States and their total power require ments. The margin, nevertheless, is not sufficient to make it a matter of indifference whether the energy available from the 850,000 horse- power of proposed installation at Muscle Shoals is or is not to go into the general utility market of the South. Alternative Is Offered. The alternative to this method of handling the proposition would be a concentrated industrial development at Muscle Shoals, repeating in the South the mistake made at Niagara Falls in concentrating cheap hydro- electric energy in a limited territory for electro-chemical processes and requiring general industries, trans- portation and domestic service to rely largely on higher-cost steam power. In the early days of electrical de- velopment in this country, another great power site—that at Niagara Falls—was developed by a private corporation without being subject to public control. At present, more than three-fourths of the energy generat. ed on the American side at Niagara Falls is wholesaled to industrial cor- porations within the clty of Niagara Falls under long-term contracts, and less than 25 per cent of the energy is available for general public serv- ice In the adjacent territory. While the cheapest hydro-electric power on this continent is being de- veloped at Niagara Falls, the city of Buffalo, a few miles distant, supplies its citizens primarily with steam- generated power. Holdx Step Mistake. The power site at Muscle Shoals will develop the greatest block of power at the cheapest rate available anywhere In the South. It will be a grave mistake, the President has been advised by his cabinet officers who are best informed on this sub- ject—such as the Secretaries of War, the Interior, Agriculture and Com- merce—and a step detrimental to the best interests of the entire South, to establish a second Niagara at Muscle Shoals. The development of the South as a whole and the widespread utiliza- tion of electric energy in small in- dustries, homes and on farms and plantations, is of greater value from the standpoint of providing comfort and _ convenience and producing, wealth than any concentrated {ndus- trial development in any single com- munity, the Pregident realizes, THE ARBORETUM NEED DECLARED VITAL Dr. Coville Sees Great Aid in Combating Flora Maladies. Possibility of increasing having disease resistance” in culti- vated varleties of trees and plants and thus effecting great saving to the American people is advanced by Dr. Frederick V. Coville, botanist of the Department of Agriculture, as the fundamental reason why a natlonal arboretum should be established at Washington. Dr. Covllle in discussing the need for such an arboretum as is pro- posed in the Pepper and Luce bills now pending in Congress explained that the breeding of disease-resistant varieties was becoming necessary be- cause of a weakening in the strength of cultivated plants to withstand attacks upon them by thelr natural enemies. “In the development of our agri- oculture,” explained Dr. Coville, “it is found that many of our cultivated varieties have become, through nar- row breeding, susceptible to fungus diseases and to Insect pests, while the wild stocks from which they were derived are still vigorous and resistant to such troubles Sees Enmormous Saving. “There is no question that in many cases we can introduce strains of dis- ease resistance into our cultivated varieties and thus obviate the enor- mous expense and loss to which agri- culture is subjected In combating these diseases and pests. This, It seems to me, is the fundamental rea- son for the establishment of an ar- boretum in Washington. “The Botanical Soclety of Washing- ton has nearly 200 members, profes- sional botanists,” continued Dr. Co- ville, “most of them engaged in the advancement of American agriculture through their connection with the United States Department of Agri- culture. They often have had extreme difficulty in obtaining the breeding stocks they need, having to wait for years before these plants can be brought to the United States from different parts of the world in which they grow. “The work of these men would be tmmensely more valuable to the Na- tion if they were provided with the additional facilities of an arboretum. Like Great Library. “I should regard an arboretum as corresponding to a great library, in which the books are trees and other outdoor plants, which can be drawn upon by sclentific men for purposes of study and sclentific discovery, just as we go to the Library of Congress for rare and expensive books which we need to use in some special in- vestigation. “Such an arboretum would be of immense value, not only in the work of the fentific Investigators of the Department of Agricuiture here, but also in the work of scientific men 1n experiment stations throughout the country. t ought to contain all the wild relatives of our cultivated plants from all parts of the world, at least those which will thrive out of doors tn this latitude. “In the arboretum these plants will be brought together where they will be-available to every plant breeder in the country. Sees Subject Only Touched. n my opinion the world has made hardly more than a beginning in the breeding of plants useful to the human race. In a hundred years from now people. will be looking back to the present time as a primitive period in plant breeding. “The American Association of Nur- serymen and other commercial or- ganizations are deeply Interested fn the establishment of an arboretum, because it constitutes for them and for the public who purchases plants from them, a bureau of standards for horticulture, in which the identity and authenticity of varieties bought and sold can be established. ““So many losses occur to purchasers of incorrectly labeled nursery stocks that there Is now pending in Con- gTess a bill exacting severe penalties of nurserymen who sell incorrectly labeled stock. A national arboretum at Washington would serve as a very valuable intermediary between the public and the horticultural trade in straightening out these difficulties. “There are certain incidental uses of an arboretum in Washington which are distinctly worth consideration. An arboretum established on Mount Hamilton and the adjacent upper Anacostia River flats would consti- tute a living museum of outdoor plants, having great value for public instruction and outdoor recreation. It is the same sort of instruction and recreation that is found in museums of solence and of art, but It has the additional advantage of being located out of doors. Many Lessons Conveyed. The Mount Hamilton tract contains some fine areas of our native hard- wood forests. In the more open spaces some of the individual trees are of great dignity and beauty and are fine examples of the park or pasture type of tree. Other areas have the im- pressiveness of the deep forest. All these things convey lessons in the ert of tree planting, and they are stimulating to persons seeking out- door refroshments and recreation. “Along the Anacostia River at the toot of Mount Hamilton and Hickey HIll 18 a large area of the original wild rice marsh, which was formerly characteristic of the Potomac River in the neighborhood of Washington. Dredging operations threaten to wipe out all these marshes. It is now pro: posed that as a part of the arboretum a sultable area of the wild rice marsh be preserved forever, where it will be washed by the tide, and thus kept free from predatory animals, so that the bobolinks, blackbirds and other migratory birds, in their northward and southward migrations can find & quiet and safe resting place and feed- ing ground. The sight of hundreds of thousands of these birds dropping down at night into such a wild rice preserve within the limits of the city ot Washington will be & source of perennial satisfaction to all lovers of birds. , Great Bird Resort. “For ‘many years Hickey Hill has teen known to ornithologists and out- door people as one of the greatest bird resorts in the District of Co- lumbla. Its preservation with the adjacent feeding ground for the birds nesting there would make of this part of the arboretum a permanent birg sanctuary.” Discussing the possibility of water gardens in the new arboretum, Dr. Coville referred to the success of an establishment near the site for grow- ing water lilies. From this com- mercial place, he reported, thousands of blooms are shipped daily to dis- tant cities, and on some mornings in May and June as many as 6,000 new blooms open, making the spot “one of the show places of Washington.” This establishment, Dr. Coville sald, was an illustration of the beauty that might be developed in the water gardens on a portion of the Anacos- tie River flats Stressing the value of the arbore- tum as a “permanent” place for pre- serving the trees and = perennial plants _which would be there, Dr. Coville predicted that the SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, JANUARY Z 1925—PART T. TWO OF MT. HAMILTON’S BEAUTY SPOTS. Tpper: View along Anacostia River near Licking Banks, an anclent deer lick. on a spur of Mt. Hamilto: American people could look forward to the perpetuation of the place with some of the same trees for at least a thousand years. Dr. Coville summarized his impres- sions as to the future of the project as follows: “A mational arboretum at Washington would do as much for American agriculture and outdoor lifo as Kew Gardens st London has done for the British Empire.” Dr. Coville is chairman of the research committee of the National Geograph- ic Society, and a member of the board of trustees of the soclety. He is curator of the National Herbarium in the Smithsonlan Institution. HERRICK CONTINUES NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRENCH ON DEBTS (Continued from First Page.) ernment was certain to bring up the question of France's indebtedness to that nation next week while the al- lied finance ministers were meeting in Parls, the State Department an- nounced that Ambassadors Kellogg in London and Herrick In Parls, assist- ed by James A. Logan, has been se- lected to represent the United States at the Paris conference. Unitea States Claims Big Issuc. Regardless of what the British may tell France on this point, and as im- portant as is the British attitude on the question of debts owed by France to the London and Washington gov- ernments, the prime motive behind American representation lles in the Question of war claims and not debts. The three Americans are regarded as exceptionally well qualified to rep- resent the attitude of this Govern- ment and defend its right to claims payments from Germany out of proceeds accruing to it under the Dawes plan. It is pointed out that since the finance ministers are called to meet for the specific purpose of allocating funds to be paid by Germany, the claims question will be the most important from an American viewpoint of all others to be considered. Instructions to the American repre- sentatives to the Parls meeting will be explicit. Congress has placed war debt settlements in the hands of the debt commission, and no one other than that body is authorized to dis- cuss the subject with agents of other governments. W. R. RATHVON WEDS. LANCASTER, Pa., January 3.—Mrs. Lora C. Woodbury and Willlam R. Rathvon, both of Boston, today were married at the home here of Mrs. John Skiles, sister of Mr. Rathvon's first wife, who is dead. Mr. Rathvon is a trustee of the estate of Mary Baker Eddy. The pair went south for their honeymoan. We control one of the most beautiful estates in Virginia. 700-Acre Virginia Estate Near Virginia Hot Springs’ and the new National Park, on the great Lee Highway. The improvements are in every way high class, but the real value is in the land. For sale or exchange. Priced reasonably. 2 W. H. West Co Real Estate 916 15th St. Main 9900 s a site for a CAPITAL FUND BILL BEST EVER DRAWN, OFFICIALS BELIEVE (Continued from First Page.) Maryland and Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont have also asked to be heard on this subject and are prepared to urge that the budget recommendation of $600,000 for park sites be increased to at least $1,000,000. Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Committee of One Hundred on Development of the National Capital; Evan H. Tucker, for 30 years president of the North- east Washington Citizens' Assoclation, and Frederick G. Coldren, chairman of the Washington Board of Trade committee on parks, have also asked for a hearing. It will be pointed out that as the National Capital parks commission was authorized more than seven months ago, the budget figures of $600.000 to be made immediately available would mean only that much for two vears, whereas the legisla- tion creating the commission spe- cifically contemplated an appropria- tion of $1,000,000 each year. Representative Gibson will urge particularly the urgent need for ac- quiring the Piney Branch, Klingle Ford and Patterson tracts for park purposes, since he was chairman of a special subcommittee of the House legislative committee on the District, which investigated this phase of the park system, particularly. The committee will be told that there are scores of other plots of land that should be promptly secured CAPITAL, SURPLUS and UNDIVIDED PROFITS, $6,401,600.83 Member American Bankers® Association 3% ON SAVINGS - Lower: An open woodland Two typical views of the many known to those familiar with the Mt. Hamilton tract, which ix proposed in bills introduced in the House and Senate national arboretum. because @ number of building opera- tions threaten to cut across the pro- jected parkways, as well as to pre- vent the denuding of forest areas about the Capital and destroying springs and water courses. Emphasis will be laid on the fact that this commission, especially in the first few years, ought to be gi evety ‘dollar of the intended million annually, so as to catch up on long neglected parkway connections. It will' also be forcefully pointed out that steps are under way in Maryland and Virginia to authorize co-opera- tlon between these States and the Federal commission in parkway de- velopments. For this reason the Na- tional Capital park commission ought to be assisted in cleaning up on the walting work in Washington before the more extensive developments in adjacent States are taken up. The District judges are summoned to appear before the subcommittee tomorrow or Tuesday, when they will be questioned closely regarding the disposition of cases of traffic violations brought before them. The subcom- mittee is determined to do all it can to make a short cut to relieve what has been called “criminal conditions now existing.” Several members of the subcommittee have been studying data supplied them so as to be pre- pared to cross-examine the judges who have been accused at the hear- Ings of having failed to adequately support the police in enforcing the trafic laws and regulations. - This emphasizes the opinion of tne subcommittes that a very consider- able increase in the police force must be allowed and that a regular trafio force is badly needed. The subcom- mittee members have expressed them- /AM]ER]IC/\N SECURIT S AND TRUST COMP BIBLE CONFERENCE PRINGETON PLAY 10 OPEN TUESDAY Business Meeting to Precede International Vacation Schools Session. Preceding the offictal opening of the iuternational conference of the World Aszoclation of Daily Vacation Bible Schools in Calvary Baptist Church Tuesday, 8 o'clock p.m., a business session of the organizatlon will be held in the white parlor of the Hotel Ebbitt at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Floyd W..Tomkins, 8. T. D. president of the World Association of Dally Vacation Bible Schools, will preside. Rev. E. A. Harrar of Cam- den J., will introduce the dele- gates. This session will be follewed by a reception to be ‘held in the home of Mrs. John Hervey Young, 2212 R street at 4 pm. Welcome addresses will be delivered by the the Right Rev. James E.. Freeman, Blshop of Washington, and other prominent churchmen. Brief responses will be made by Rev., Robert G. Boville, founder of the World Assoclation of Dally Vacation Bible Schools; Mrs. E. P. Holdriage, whose great-grand- father founded Colgate University, and Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins of Philadelphia. The conference will open in Calvary Baptist Church Tuesday night at § o'clock, with devotlonal exercises by Rev. W. 8. Abernethy. Among the prominent speakers of that evening, and the subjects they will discuss, are: Cora Wilson Stewart of Ken- LRZAL MELODRAMA “Soarlet Coat” Features Murder on Lavish Scale Before Big Crowd. Princton University’s versatile Tri- angle Club dashed into Washington last night and transivrmed the stage of the President Theater Into one of the most dastardly, blood-curdlink frontier outposts of the great North- west that a troupe of leering villains, half-breed trappers, mounted police, dance hall girls and what-not could conjure up. “The Scarlet Coat” a musical ros mance in two acts, they called it, and it was all of that. Featured by &~ tion of the two-fisted, Alaskan movie- melodrama sort—lots of shooting, heh-hehing, man hunting and sll- around villainy—the capacity audi- ence of grads, relatives and friends forgot all about the realistically cold theater in the heat of the excitement. It was & thoroughly Princetonian production, from the tuneful lyrics and orchestra to that chill-producing snpwstorm on the Koyukuk River, Afd you fellows who long for wimyun as is wimyun, well, those trading post gals didn’t even exempt Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and Speaker Gillett from those vampish glances, despite the presence of the ladies accompanying them. If any thing, those choru were too cffeminate. Has Regular Plot. Yes, there's a plot the thing girls tucky, ‘founder -of “the moonlght schools,” and noted authority on il- literacy problems; who will speak on “World _Illiteracy.”. Dr. Frederic Lynch of New York, editor of Chris- tlan Work, “World Children, World Peacemakers,” and Rev. H. Pearce Atkins, Cincinnati ~ Federation of Churches, who will deliver an ad- dress on “The Child at the End of the Weorld.” Wednesday morning the delegates will visit the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Sol- dier, Arlington Cemetery; Natlonal Cathedral and Christ Church, Alex- andria. Wednesday -afternoon, at 3 o'clock, 2 round table conference will be held in the white parlor of the Ebbitt Hotel. Mrs, Oscar G. Levy of Balti- more will preside. The following subjects will be discussed: “Policy of the Association—A Thousand N hools in China; A Hundred New Schools in Curea; Are They Pos- sible?” At 3:45 pm. with John S. Wurts of Philadelphia presiding, the following subjects will be discussed: “How to Make the Missionary Offer- ing More Effective Both in Quantity and Quality.” Is it Desirable to Omit Handwork and Hygiene From Daily Vacation Bible Schools?" The program for Wednesday night in Calvary Baptist Church features American-Oriental pageant presented under the direction of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest; benediction by Rev. Floyd W. Tompkins; brief addresses by Rev. P. L. Vernon, pastor of First Baptist Church, Alexandria; Rev. H ‘W. O. Millington, head of Washing- ton Baptist Federation; Homer J. Councillor, of Calvary Baptist Church and Murray S. Kenworthy. . Profs. N. C. Laird of Canton, Chive H. H. Underwood of Seoul, Corea, a7 1 E. C. Knapp of Shanghal, will speaa at the sesslons scheduled for Wednes- day afternoon in the Hotel Ebbitt A music program is being arranged by Mrs. E. N. McMillan of Philadel- phia. Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews is honorary chairman of the conference committees. Selves as willing to &0 to the full imit of their authority to relieve the bad trafic situation. All that is reasonable for schools, police, streets and sewers and the water supply will be allowed in the bill, members of the subcommittee have assured District officials. Chair- man Davis is especially interested in sewer extensions, in view of the ex- tensive bullding operations. He feels that sewer extensions are even more important than street extensions, be- cause it is unwise to build houses without sewers, whereas people can wait a while for improved streets, according to his way of looking at it. Dr. George W. Bowerman hurried back to Washington from Chicago last night to be ready to testify be- fore the subcommittee on the needs of the Washington Public Library. He probably will be heard Tuesday morning. The snowstorm which caused the streets to become clogged has delaytd the subcommittee from making a personal inspection of the streets which need repairs. This may result in the District appropriation bill be- ing delayed until the following week. Chairman Davis said last night that the subcommittee wants to view the roads when they are in @ fair con- dition. It seems that somebody around the trading post, seeking variety in mur- ders, had popped off one of the “scar- let coats,” those brave-hearted mem- bers of the Royal Mounted. Some- thing had to be done about it, so the villain, ourling his moustache, directs spspicion at Plerre, carefree trapper of the woods, and courts meanwhile Cherline, daughter of the dance hall proprietor. Ot course, Pierre also falls in love with the fnnocent, heart- tingling little Charline, and the mortal feud between these two men serves as the basis for a liberal sup- ply of six-shooting and rioting. Just as the police of the first pre- cfnct were about to step in and prevent the hanging of several per- fectly innocent men accused of the murder of the s carlet coat, what did the resourceful Pierre do but expose the real culprit, who, gosh dang it. was none other, exclusively and solely the cringing accuser himself. It was most thrilling, or, as Secret W. Service, the anemic poet, whose visit to the trading post for “color” furnished the basis for many of the laughs, would have it—“perfectly { priceless.” Casting Is Excellent. The work of Irwin Thompson in the role of the poet, let us say in pass- ing, won well merited applause. To single out any particular performer for praise, however, would be a dif cult task. Avery Sherry made a much better saloorkeeper's daughter than the daughter herself would have made, and Lawrence Braman, as Maybelle, the dance hall queen, had even the rough voice of an uncouth lady. Robert Crawford made lently romantic trapper, aided and abetted by a good voice. The char- acter acting of Jack Hamlin in the role of pleptomaniac, is worth spe cial mention There fever was ain with more sncers and ahas per act than William Brenton portrayed last night. Broke-Again-Bill, a pros- pector, as conceived by Day Edgar, shoul have rosy prospects, and Scotch of several kinds was spilled around during the evening by James MacIntosh, as MacGregor, the dance hall owner. Others in the cast were Julian Street jr., as a mounted man-hunter; Hugo Bell as a squaw, Adolph chmidt as another mounted policeman and Waller Booth, jr., and Jack Evans as gamblers. In addition to the creditable must cal score rendered by the orchestra, the production boasts some real jazz, as played by the Triangle Jazz Band There Were many high lights, such as the illustrated _ “ballad,” “There's No Place Like Nome,” with heart rending stereoptican accompaniment and some lively stepping, both by the choruses and individual stars. The book is by Day Edgar and Ju- lian Street, jr., and the music by Rob- ert Crawford. Lyrics are by Ernest Heyn, Day Edgar and Julian Street, Jr. The handiwork of Ned Wayburn was easily dlscernible in the work of the chorus. At the conclusion of the show the ensemble and audience joined in singig “Old Nassau,” winding up with three cheers for their alma mater and an ensemble cheer for Washington, So everybody left happy. —_— If you need work, read the want columns of The Star. an excel- ° CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1924 Cash on Hand and Due From Banks.... U. S. 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