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WEATHER. (7. S. Weathier Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight and tomors: row; not much change in tempera- tu minimum temperaturs tonight about 26 degrees. Temperatures: High- est, 46, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Clesing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 25 ch ntered us second class matter Lot office. Washington, D C. 29,469, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 5, ¢ Fpening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1925 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers arc printed Saturday’s Circulation, 94691 Sunday's Circulation, 104,027 ». rwo Leaves Highest Bench. FRENCH DEBT NOTE TURNED QVER T0 MELLON BY HUGHES Document Probably Will Be Laid Before Funding Body | This Week. | MORATORIUM MENTIGNED | IN INFORMAL PROPOSAL 80-Year Payment Period Under- stood to Have Been Asked by Clementel. Aing to the memorandum regar: ce's war debt smitted to Secretary JUSTICE McKENNA, tra today JUSTICE IPHENNA RESIENS HIS SEAT ON SUPREME BENCH Has Spent Upward of 30 Years in Highest Court. Has Reached 82d Year. and private document wa Fre mbassador He pre Depar nent offi- no comment on the n it. They did was hoped the 11d make embodied it er, that ight up.” follow Discussed. stood to ment torium, with of 80 years atorium e during rate of unde sett m i time the m interest payments rium per at a 1 per cent ayment one Mr o 1ch- Fundir C to this virtue Debt by all heir document by head of the Commission authorized to receive 1 act upc of settlement by debtor He is expected to la suggesti before the n within a few days Mean the diplomatic phases of debt likely to re- 1in quiescent so far as the ited States is concerned. If inter- ed debts are disc 1 during the ference of finance ministers, representatives there Ambassadors Kellogg and Herrick and James A. Logan, are expected to declare themselves unprepared to take part in such a discussion . scus: position as The resignation of Associate Jus- tice Joseph McKenna was announced thotoday from the bench of the Supreme com. | Court. Chief Justice Taft, making the annou t as soon as the court met, the resignation n m said ime at least of of 30 Supreme bench, Justice e ranking as virtue service on the M is t justice of the court. He retire: cause of his advanced age. Justice McKenna s in ar, and three weeks day will mark the anniversary of his elevation to the Supreme bench by President Mc- Kinley. Before that appointment he had in Congress a Repre- entative from California, had been United States circuit judge under Harrison administration and had ogcupied a place in McKinley's cab- inect as Attorney General. Wife Died Recently. His health had been unusually ro- bust for a man of his s, and he has applied himself with great vigor o the heavy tasks of the high court. Several imonths ago, however, the death of his wife added an additional weight sorrow and loneline: the burden of the advancing years, and we decided to lay aside the offi- clal cares which for =o long have taxed to the highest capacity his brilliant capabilities. The members of the court joined i a letter to Justice McKenna express- !ing their high regard for n and their sorrow at his leaving the bench. “Your pride In the court, its high traditions and its courage.” the letter said, “has made deep impression on us, who have enjoyed the it of Your greater experfénce, example and | esprit_ de Your fraternal na- ture, your loyalty toward each of us, nd us upward s Kenna ociate 1s co the American d to- his from War Claims Chief The interest Government in Jies the contr to the United Stat of a sufficient vards the ssion| n Washington the Paris conference versy over payment . under the Dawes um to meet the American-German The American have -been providen | the latest American reat Britain on this today was lald be-! fore the British cabinet. The com- munication not made public here, t is understood the United States | standing firmly on its opinion that Y should be permitted does the administrati avor on sug ons that ritish object to the nts the American claims should mitted to ar AT s It very strongly here that the ims are unassailable either on zal groun with relation to the involved, and that the no why entirely s justment cannot be made by direct rcourse between the governments will share in the an pay- . of the served as of th T wi m resentatives h a copy of lum to subject, which payments h with of an ben Officialx Re izhout the Wash- had indicated a aesire to be and to extend the period for s long necess: the Clementel debt apparently is not re proposal, it does Washington officials in se It acts « direct ne- hints that M. balance sheet war debt, French thought ved. hr ont Whil discussion corps. ing 1 P vour tenderness in times of strain r you, to us and mak nsible to our loss justice presented a let- expressing appreciation At the conclusion of the court session a large ket red flow was brought to the bench and placed be- fore him. x s may be stress i feel deeply The retiring ter in reply mem ded ve the v- T is of ementel's implied a ! and it officials to the nt they ndicates that serious of in Philadelphi Born in Philadelphia August 1843, Justice McKenna moved to Cal- ifornia with parents at the age 12 and continued his education, began in a Catholic school in the Quaker City, in the Benicia Collegiate Institute, where he studied law Admitted to the bar in 1865, Justice McKenna soon became active in poli tics and was elected district attorney | for Colane County, California. In 11875 ana 1876 member of the State Legislature. Twice he was defeated for Congress, but was elect- ed in 1384 and served in the House until he resigned in 1892 to accept an appointment by President Harri- son as United States circuit judge in the circuit embracing the Pacific Coast States Justice McKenna's warm friendship for President McKinley won for him an appointment as Attorney General, and about a year after entering the Cabinet was chosen to fill a vacancy on the Supreme d by the death of Assoc Stephen J Field of service on n that this wed up in ly upon the 1 and unofii to Mr. Herrick U. S. CLAIMS SPLIT ALLIES. he was a Finance Parley Wednesday to Show Diverse Views. Final ¥'s conf arrange- nce of being nearer draws to intense. im of t the billion repa received but eneral im- this business will be what goes on in the words “inter- on every lip. of the appointment American Ambassa- Herrick as well as an, the regular repara- has served to strength- tef t the debt be a subject of unoffi- ations, and it is hoped | help bring a solution ap- nearer in the subjects be con- sidered is growing more Court cause te Justic ifornia. the Supreme Court bench he wrote a large share of opinions dealing with cases from the Pacific | Coast States, Hawail and the Philip- pines| It the general supposition that he retirement of the justice will be llowed by the appointment of other member of the court from Pacific Coast. One of those men- tioned is Secretary Wilbur of the Navy Department, who before he e tered the Cabinet was chief justice of the California Supreme Court. conference #old marks | to apnc Germa préssion is that overshadowed by e lotbie a deb Ann and ent is and an- the a Stat the pu blem will conver e will tably CALL NIGHT SESSIONS. Senate agreed tos ions, beginning to speed up its work, by the debate on Muscle Under a unanimous consent the first of the annual Thorniest Parley Problem. <t pre har, Fr that equit the the plan em hefore that of Dawes Italy and Bel- United States f not in law, to proceeds, Great Britain At the same time allies which admit the Ameri- n ciatm ask that their own percent- s be not cted, thereby 2 up an extremely important h n; namely, the widening of t ope of application of the Daw thor The night in order dclayed Shoals. agreement suprly partment, will be taken up ow night after the Senate has I posed of the President’s veto of the tal salary increase measure. to s tomorrow, in th th. Whil im admit 1% a right are in the nies such right ose tomor- ASKS EXTRA STREET SUM eat importance is attached to the aeeting today of the British cabinet, a it is hoped some arrangement may be devised by his majesty’s Min- jsters which will permit settlement «f the difficulty over the American vim “hould the British refuse 1helr attitude it i tho e et gress for a supplmental appropria- tion of $8,200 to continue the work of a street survey in the Capital. This money is to be refund- ed by payments assessed against in aividual property own v ho a@ to modify robable had | 3% ikl | I ck I 8§ ns, 3] (> vepted by Dresident Coolidge, | €/ick I Siddons, presiding in Criminal | vears' | 1 | | | | | jurors declare | | | confessions wtenty-seventh | to} Bguilty is 10, | | | | During his long | | jecellor that the allied hold | lonz | bills, that for the Interior De- | i | at the chancel President Coolidge today asked Con-| .omprised five typewritten pages. National | indicate whether it suggests a com- mey | GRAND JURY HOLDS TWO POLICEMEN IN ASSAULT ON DAVIS Lieut. Pierson and Proctor Declared to Have Beaten Prisoner in Cell. MOST OF FORCE UPHELD AS OF HIGH CHARACTER Little Evidence Found Substantiat- ing General Third De- gree Charges. W. Pierson and P Proctor, hoth of the were indicted today the grand jury on a charge of sault with a dangerous weapon. Bond vas fixed at $500 for both and an im- mediate trial ordered. Tt is charged that the two beat Arthur A. Davis with rubber hose, blackjacks nd other weapons while he was & prisoner at the seventh precinet tion September The grand jurors expressed the be- lief that other policemen were in- volved in the assault as actual par-| ticipants or as having guilty knowl- | edge of the affair, but their identity | was not sufficient to warrant indict- ments. Davis, although he had been | arrested for beating an officer earlier | in the night, was entitled to the protection of the officers on duty as much as any other prisoner, the grand | Lieut trolman Joseph talph centh precinct by olicemen ASSERTS COOLIGE DENES RENT L The indictments are the outcome L. T. SMith Quotes President of the recent inquiry by the grand| N s jury under Foreman George 9. Vass, | a8 Saying He Did Not Rec- ommend New Measure. vice president of the Riggs National| Bank, into rumors that the police use “third-degree” methods to extort | from prisoners. The {n quiry was ordered by Justice Fred- o 4 Following a 35-minute interview this Division 1. The witnesses were ex-|morning at the White House, Lee amined ]": "\\'v‘ stant United S[a‘cs"rhump&m Smith, national president of A the Building Owners and Managers' As- The grand jurors, in their report today to Justice fddons, exonerate | Sociation, stated that the President in- the Washington police foree of the|formed him that he had not recommend- sharge of using inhuman and cruel|ed the particuiar rent legislation now treatment to secure confessions from | before Congress, and that he was not as persons in their custody | familiar as he would like to be with Only a stupid official would today | conditions in the District. According to e ARy lhl’.’. §dsEzoe nusthol 1 SAYS | Mr. Smith, the President expressed deep the report, “since the Bertillion and | X % the finger print systems of identifi- | Interest in the local condition, and con- ation and the card index records|Vinced Mr. Smith that he desired abso- have placed in the hands of the! lutely fair treatment to all parties con- police a far more effective method | cerned. The President, Mr. Smith stated, of bringing criminals to justice.” | declared that he was in favor of some Police Abuses Found. {lewisiation to_remedy conditions here, The Davis case and others investi- | but that he was not in favor of regulat- gated by the grand jurors, hr)we\'eni ing business by legislation. | Mr. Smith said he understood from | the President that he was not famil- i | the report points out, disclose there iar with all details of the bill. The are individual officers who mistreat prisoners, not to extort confessions, but to satisfy personal grudge or In|pregigent,. he said; had agreed to re- {.”’”,””m" for aupposed WIONBS. | cojve g delegation of local and na- POrLiof helsrand, Jnry. whicls ¢opeos might present further facts to him. The Chief Executive expressed his opinion that there had been a pyra- in detail of the arduous dutles of the officers, few in number, covering a miding of trusts here, Mr. Smith sald. arge area and making more than 66,000 arrests annually out of a pop- | ulation of 450,000 Two other incidents police are declared to have been of assau on prisoners are given in the report. One was at the| second precinct, where a bootlegger s severely beaten because he out- witted officer and prevented the arrest some other persons. The other at the ninth precinet, | where “drunk” disturbing the | officers with his noise was punched on the jaw, which was broken on| both sides. In the first instance, the bhootlegger testified he was advised to drop his charges before the police trial board, which he did. In the| other c the prisoner failed to ¥ identify his assailant. The offending |at the meeting by the statement of officers are not named in the report. fone of the :";:l‘:firr:u f‘]‘\srlw:“vlufi:; Mouse ‘Oltaning. Ueked. | ftated T a letter that It would mot A house cleaning in these precincts | jond any money on construction in recommended by the grand jury. the District if the rent law was which points out that It is a mistaken | |acged idea for officers knowing the facts| Harry Wardman, local builder, also in theese sporadic cases of assaults|gigcussed the situation with the Pres- on prisoners to protect brother of-|jjent today. ficers through fear of discrediting| M wardman, after seeing the Pres- the precinct or the department. Such | gunt gaid that he discussed the hou house cleaning would restore disci-|j;g ‘condition here quite thorouzhly pline, say the grand jurors, who addanq went Into the law for the regi ' lation of rent. Cites Bankers Stand. in which the Mr. Smith declared that he told the President that a number of heads of big financial institutions had person- ally informed him that they would r. | fuse to lend any money on building projects in the District should the rent measure p; It was stated at a conference of local and national of- ficlals of the association that one large insurance company in the habit of lending millions of dollars on real estate had already included a re- | strictive clause in their loan contracts against sections of the country where rent control legislation was in effect or pending. Much alarm was caused an of was a (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) MARK GETS ALLIES OLOGNE DECISION Identic Note of Five Pages Is Handed to German Chan- cellor in Berlin. Sees Aggravation. Passage of such a law as the Presi- dent has transmitted to Congress, Mr. Wardman said he explained to Mr. Coolidge, would nggravate rather than help the situation here. The President was told that builders here are overcoming the housing shortage rapidly and that apartments of three and four rooms could now be had for around $55 @ month. Mr. Wardman said that he was try- ing to build a number of small houses and apartments to do what he could to help the situation here, he indicated to the President, and If left alone housing and rental mat- ters would adjust themselves, but to ! pass such a law as has been sent to | Congress for its consideration would only result in a number of bullders | being driven out of business. If he was acting from a purely selfish mo- tive, Mr. Wardman said, he would be in favor of the law, because, as he pointed out, it would only result in securing money from the market where the small ‘builders obtaln it. Such a result, Mr. Wardman said, it could be seen, would merely help him. Sceks Definite Action. It was indicated that the President was not absolutely indorsing the measure which he sent to Congress, but Mr. Wardman said that the Presi- dent was anxious to have something in a constructive way done which would solve the local rental problem. Mr. Wardman did point out that there was no possible way at this time of putting up buildings which could be rented at a figure to meet the budget of the man who gets $75 or $100 a month. That time is passed. he said, but he did point out to the President that If matters were left as they are now builders would go ahead and provide houses and apartments at By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January French, Italian and Japanese Am- bassadors and the ~Belgian Minister today presented Chancellor Marx with the allied governments' identic note regarding postponement of the evacu- ation of the Cologne zone, which was set for January 10 under the treaty of Versailles. Baron D'Abernon, the British Am- bassador, informed the German chan- council of am- dors would dispatch a supple- mentary note concerning the Cologne evacuation soon as the military control commission’s full report had been surveyed and examined. German obstruction was given as the reason why the control commission could not submit a complete report before January 10. 5—The British; Visit Is Short One, The visit of :the allled ambassadors lery consumed less than 20 minutes. After their departure Chancellor Marx, Foreign Minister Stresemann and Minister Gessler pro- ded to examine the note, which he quoted above. Mr. Wardman did not represent the Jocal real estate men in his call on the President, but called personally as a business man and citizen to give the President the benefit of his expert quarters here tenor of the declined to note or to Official discuss the (Continued on Page %, Column 1.) promise in the nature of a request to Germany o ‘enter nezotiations over the problem of the Cologne bridge- | Lead ¢ywcuaiion, Nadio Programs—~Page 14. LAFoLLETTE AND WHEELER. MUST HAVE BEEW OFF ABouT THAT |a foreign combination for its supply of | der BIG SLUSH FUND!' FOREIGN NITRATE TRUST MAKES | MUSCLE SHOALS USE VITALl May Lead to Separate Leasing of Power and Ferti- lizer Plants, Latter With U. S. Financial Support. | Editor's note: Tifs is the thind #nd | concluding article by Mr. Keunedy deai- ing with the problem of Muscle Shoals. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The United States is at the merey of |the power property, with at least two |large utility corporations bidding for it. 1 This power would be sold under con- tract, with the right of recall. The nitrate plants will be turned over on very reasonable terms possibly un- | a subsidy—to private enterprise | that may be willing to engage in inten- | | sive study of a method of cheaper pro- duction; or—and which is much more | probable—it will be used by the Gov- | crnment itself to work out a process of | nitrate manufacture on a commercial scale at prices that can meet competi- | nitrates, and it was to free this coun- try from that grip that some $150,000.- 000 has been invested in the plants at Muscle Shoals. One of the biggest needs of the United States today, as seen by such men as Secretary Hoover, s to find some way | tlon and price-cutting from the Chilean of making nitrates at a price that can | field. defy this forelgn combination. | DTower and nitrate manufacture are | Don't forget that background in con- | W0 very different types of enterprise, | sidering what's to be dons with the big |20 o Solt both te ome peracn would ;:‘V):‘f:'nefl'»"“fl!d plant at Muscle | nert or ‘a nitrate, expert he would still 3 have to gamble or take a big chance on Here's what President Coolidge and the other side of his bargain; so, his advisers believe Will s00n be done: |taking such a big risk he would want The power properties and the nitrate to have big safeguards. If the Govern- properties will be disposed of separate- | ment disposes of each separately. it will Jy. There should be a ready buyer of (ConMnued on Page 4, Column 4) | | something around the figure which | | deputy commiss NEW YORK JUDGE ~ MUSSOLINI 1S LEFT HITS D.C. SYSTEM TO GOVERN ALONE Collateral Forfeiture Perni- Two Liberal Ministers Leave cious, Says Recognized Cabinet and Opposition Traffic Authority. Threatens Fight. | Characterizing feiture s ny IRAM K. MODERWEL By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News ROME, January 5.—The resignation of both the ministers of education and public wor Casati and Sarrochi, has been confirmed, and the Italian cabinet is now purely Fascisti. In the 48 hours just ended the op- position press has been muzzled, Par liament has been indefinitely dismiss- ed and the premier is now ruling alone. The Fascisti are waiting tensely. Rome Is calm, but it is asking “What | will the black-shirted militia do?" The opposition is reported to be pre- | paring to accept Premier Mussolini's challenge contained in his speech on Saturday and to bring formal im- peachment proceedings against him for complicity in a murder last June. The means by which they will pro- cee however, are not clear, sinca Parliament has been sent home in- definitely. Meanwhile Rome is waiting breath- less to learn the measurcs by which the premier, in accordance with his speech, will “clear the air” and “break the Aventine sedition,” which is how he describes the act of the opposition Deputies who are absenting them- selves from Parliament. These measures, so far as is known, will be: First, strengthening of the rail- way militia to prevent the alleged at- tempts of sabotage; second, sequestra- tion of the headquarters of political as- sociations which are yet unspecified, and third, giving the local prefects the power to mobilize a black-shirt militia. In Rome and other cities the militla has mobilized. Fifteen hundred black the collateral for- tem used in the District of Columbi 8 “pernicious” Judge W. Bruce Cobb of New York, a recog- nized authority on traffic, appeared | before the joint committee of the| House and Senate District committee today With Judge Cobb w John A. Harriss, also of New York,| the originator of the Fifth avenue traffic light system and an honorary | oner in the New York Police Department. The committee in inviting these| men to go over the. tentative Traffic bill believe that valuable advise could be given. | Judge Cobb took the tentative hilly section by section and gave his opin- ion on its various provisions. He sald | that to his mind the bill was too gen- | eral in some respect.and too detailed | in others. | In regard to a traffic court Judge Cobb said in his opinion it would promote efficiency to add to the present court rather than the creation of a separate court. He stressed, however, that uni- formity of court action in meting out sentences was most important. Responxibility of Judge. Representative Rathbone of Illinois asked the judge if shifting of judges in the proposed traffic branch would not prevent them getting into a rut. Judge Cobb answered that he thought 50 per cent of a judge's time on traffic matters was enough. Judge Cobb strongly urged the in- stallation in Washington of the sum- mons_system, which is now in use in New York, pointing out that there was no provisions for it here. The collateral s Dr. | than could be done by one alone. shirts, fully armed, performed their Wife of Canadian Official Amazed By Snow Tie-up CONCERTED EFFORT 3 King, wife had fine sleighing in Otta “Wh no in point of fact, we have sleighing Ottawa at all When the snow falls it is at once cleared y and the streets are }Promise of Deficiency Fund Lot oner, for, s Houovle | Recommendation Causes the Canadian apital better than | Order to lee MOre Men. they do in the United States. Though really we seldom have more snow than I ha seen in ‘Washington It was with diffi- culty that T was able to get to a point where I could see the Lin- coln Memorial, which I had never seen before. It is a number of vears since I was last here and I was greatly disappointed that I could not do a little sightseeing, and of course riding for pleasure was out of the question.” Damage Set at Se in aw {CONDITION CONSIDERED | IN LIGHT OF EMERGENCY Snow Declared Menace to Health. Hun- veral veral dred Thousands. PRESIDENT URGES CO-OPERATION CURE -~ FORFARMERS ILLS Déclares Such Remedy Must Start at Soil in Address to Leaders. ment th rid the ¢ tacked 1 this morni the Com Morris H. Departmer Co-opera marketing should be made a success in - because it provides the best means of stabilizing the’country’s agricultural marketing orga President Coolldge lared today to the an- nual convention of the tional Counell of Farmers' Co-operative Marketing Associatior Addressing the delegates to the con- vention the White House, the President warned that co-operatl marketing sed no maglcal at- tributes, and asserted that it must start from and be developed upward ve and erica ization, The $25.000 be appropr ment to the $168,0 at the soil Must Start at Bottom. Menne ; Held Health There is a school of co-operator who seem to believe that the program can be started at the top and built downward,” he added ey the Government, or the banks, or philanthropies, or Providence to lay out a scheme big e h to cover the country, set its machinery moving guarantee it all nceded capital, and then fnvite the farmers to sit in the places reserved for them proceed to garner their profits. Let me say that I offer no such Aladdin-like proj- cct. I wan* society as a whole to help: hut T want the farmers to do their share, and I warn them that this will be the lion's share.” The President’s speech, in full, fo lows: “In welcoming the members of your conference. and wishing all success to vour deliberations, 1 find myself dis- Posed to refer to but one subject in order to enter a protest against some urrent misconceptions. I wish to urge consideration of some fundamentals that, If understood and appreciated would, 1 believe, clear away some of the greatest obstacles to effeceve co- operation in agriculture. Sees No Mystery. “There has been much tendency to surround co-overative organization and processes with mystery. It has been announced solemnly and sepulchra from the hollow deeps of seif-consti tuted orac'es, that Americans are not the sort of people who possess the genius for co-operation. We have been assured that they are too individualis- tic. too loath to yield any part of their independence and initiative “People who Indulge this kind of nonsense invariably assume that co- | operation is a new and comparatively untried formula. Their whole treat- ment of it proves that they have not aught the idea. They have complete- ¢ missed the forest bhecause there were t00 manv trees growing all about They have overlooked the fact that all human society is a vast system of co- operations and co-operations. From its simplest to its most complex. manifes tations. there is nothing to it but co- | chairman Madden operation. It began with the discovery | poa 1o authority that two people could together roll a | it o qeficiency, heavier stone or move a bigger 102 |oh emergency. e . That| ou1a assum was the beginning of co-operation and | T8 " 17T of social organization. A long time | JEUCVeS Iater, these aborigines made the further | “{T"( discovery that with the help of a lever | 1 The SRRFOPERECN Ar e ot they could handle a still greater scifically provided for. The weight. That was the beginning of SNOW Is specifically y 2 i tools, machinery, the factory method, | {Und provides for dust preventon All the way down, from those earliest | SWeePIng anc cleanin e discoveries to the Ford achievement of | for cleaning a motor car every 15 seconds, the ma- | Streets, sidew terfal advance of the race from sav- | Sutters g st ages to chauffeurs has been merely the | That language did not formerty 4 development of co-operation and the | Pear in appropriation bi s adaptation of new tools for it to use. | District authorities had to come b { Congress a special appropriation e | for snow removal. In 1912 appropria “The truth is, and it cannot be too | tion act, there was a special item ¢ often or earnestly emphasized, that|$10,000 for cleaning snow and ice co-operation Is the earliest of man's | soclal discoveries, the one that has | served him beyond all others in mak- | ing material progress. Doubtless its| The e carliest application on a considerable | Oftend® 1 5o in “the 1918 appro scale was in mdking war. But all| OGS NS fing for snow re government, all systems of finance, |, a1 \was merged with the fund for - of protests reached a n eak 2 a state rg. Gen the Publ Service o Cummir to the eff reets co “pneumor protest” board Assoc of reque menace and “vigorc advisory Automobile present state with an u fund; decl, coupled snow-removal The assoc f the automo! ared that “the dan 'd to the business mated at ity is that it thousand doll ation to the stree ie ests o proba hundred Sees Gen. Lord. issioner ¥ would be From to the Cap before committee ss Orders Use of Fundx. After conferring with CI den of the Hc mittee today. use of strect ing f to cover the of t vear for the emergency job of removir the snow, and th streets. Maj. Bell that he contem that if he -did, the pro that he would have to call or propriation committee for a d item of $35,000 to c the work of street cl of the fiscal year. J 1se appropriat Bell rized t apporticned prese told Chairman fency ordinar ning until the end told him that to direct him to in- but thought that in the Dis official athority he streets ought b and that to appropriation act for th walks and merly a Use in Emergency. alwa was no authorities this sum District that system, he said, should be abolished al- together unless in every case where col- lateral was forfeited a bench warrant was issued. Taking up the question of operative permit the judge asserted that an appli- cant should be mentally, morally and physically fit Senator Copeland of New York at this point told the committee that while he was on the examining board for drivers applications he had been perfect- ly amazed at the number of one-eyed (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Slush Just Dirty Washington is not raising a unanimous protest against the condition of the streets since the I late storm, @ survey today dis- closed. There are those, It develops, who have no criticism whatever to make of the Commissioners, Congress or_the weather man. They havs, on the other hand, nothing but words of commenda- tion for all three. A reporter for The Star ob- tained the following statements in_this coanection today: Dr. K. Kerr Kerchoo, cough specialist und author of “From Coft to -Cofin"—I think Mr. Hacker has done splendidly. 1. Fixem, dealer in auto springs and axles —Being a nature lover, I cannot help but deplore man’s [Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Bucky Harris’ Own Story “Mine Boy to Manager” Begins Today Water to Majority, But Has Glitter of Gold to These Few 3 Z) | general street cleaning afid a line was included which said that the Commissioners™ shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a de | ficiency therein.” That language however, does not appear in the 152 appropriation act, that it is be lieved on Capitol Hill that Maj. Bell |is acting fully within his authority | under an emergency in using what | ever funds are available for thix work, even though it may entall a deficiency later in the T | __Even with the old language in the 11913 act against a deficiency, there are those who say that the District officials would still have authority to recognize an emergency. The anti- deficiency act specifically provides as follows: | ““Nor shall any department or any officer of the Government accept vol- untary service fors the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involv ing the loss of human life or the de- struction of property.” {Continued on Page 1, Column to the marchants and manufac- turers’ protest, did vou? Olga Loshes, proprietress of rubber and boot salon—T'll bet all those kickers have mercenary motives. Tke Umplain Knott, snow shov- eler—The deeper the snow and the longer it lasts, the more I like it. L Will Draggett, auto wrecker and tow artist—All this rot about the streets paralyzing business is bunk. Dr. Verta Brae, spine mender— The only tning paralyzed is my arm, from eetting broken spines. August De Meanor, mortuary director—it looks like a pros- perous New Year. Oui Reepa Harvest, traction magnate—At first I had some complaints to make, but now I think everything is lovely. Reading of Law. It the District Commissioners lieve that the snowstorm created emergency endangering human life and that to leave the snow on the be- disturbance uf nature’s handiwork. on Page 22 Wotta Quaxmyer, skid chains— Tuu Giewe gty Lune MEleu Clyde Moore Often, wholesaler of bumpers and fenders—| am 00 busy, to talk to you, Streets would cause serious destruc- iy t fully wit

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