Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 2

EARLY ACTION SEEN ONREORGANIZATION House May Take Up Bill to Regroup Bureaus in Next Two Weeks. zation of the executive sed President Hurding which report by int to the Housp or considered i weeks decided commit discussed witl t twe beer tically Hou pra steering 1ghly nt the hs ability ¢ up present session as stat asures Pres lidge. House Leader Longworth had a conference th the 1 ident Co e esiden by for reorganization be considered in the special rule immedia he next appropriation independent which has - nendations made the committee bably the bill the and Labor and House, of ay f await reorgani State Do ted s nmerce which is to be Rule Probable. tssue a 1 rule tion as soon as the tee says the word The essential made by the is ready to this legi steering commit- speci mendations on reor- joint committee ganization, the membership of which is composed of Senators Re Ttah; J. W. Wadsworth, jr., hd Senator Pat Harrison, sippi, and Representatives Mapes, Michigan; H. W Pennsylvania, and R. Walton Virginia, are as pws The establishment of a new depart- ment to be known as the Department Iducation and Relief and the con tration under that department the scattered agencies which now perform work in the fields of public health, public education and the care of veterans Specifically of Pensions, Missis- arl B Temple, Moore, of these are: The Bureau the Bureau of Educa tion, beth's Hospital, Howard University and Freedmen's Hospital, all of which are now in the Intarior Department; the Public Health Ser- vice, now in the Treasury Department and the Veterans' Bureau, an inde- pendent establishment Other Additions Possible. The committee has recommended that this new department assume the functions now performed by the Fed- eral Board for Vocational E and that it be given the nominal su- pervision of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, now exercised by epartment of the Interior. Dn T Turther recommended by the joint committee that the National Fome for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers be associated with the department of education and relief and required to transmit its accounts. reports and es- timates of appropriations through the head of that department The second major recommendation is for the transfer to the Department of Commerce of certain agencles now located in other departments work s in the field which the Depart- ment of Commerce was established to cover. These are the Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office, now in the De- partment of the Interior; the Lake Survey Office, now under the chief of gireers, United States Army; the and Coastwise Waterways Service. now under the War Depart- ment, and the independent national advisory committee for aeronautics. The joint committee also recom- mends the transfer from the Geo- logical Survey and the War Depart- ment, respectively, to the Bureau of the Census the work of collecting and publishing statistics of mineral production and of water-borne com- n It also recommends the es- tablishment of a new bureau in the Department of Commerce to be known the Bureau of Transporta- tion Interior Department The third Changes. major recommendation of the joint committee is for erec- tion in the Interior Department of two subdivisions, one charged with the administration of the public do- main and the other with the admin- istration of public engineering works The fourth important recommenda- tlon of the joint committee is for the creation of a centralized pur- chasing agency for the Government to be known as the Bureau of Pur- chase and Supply The fifth important recommenda- tion is for the creation of an office to be known the office of public buildings and parks in the District of Columbia, which will assume the functions now performed by two separate offices the office of public buildings and grounds under the War Department and the office of the superintendent of the State, War and Navy Department buildings. The sixth recommendation is for the transfer of the departmental solic ftors from the Department of Justice to the executive departments which they serve. Budget May He Separate. seventh for removal of budget from its with the Treasur its establishment as office directly under the President Most of these changes proposed by the committee were included in the plan submitted by the President on February 13. 1923, The committee after careful consideration of the many aspects of its problem was un- able to concur in all of the sugges- tions coming from the President, but in its report said that the seven ma- jor recommendations outlined above dircetly to the point of correcting, as it is now for Con- gress to do, the more which characterize £ the executive ernment. Benefits Are Tabulated. The committee reported that adop- tlon of these recommendations would Tesult: First, in removing from all departments those functions extran- eous to the major departmental pur- which interfere with effective administration. or which, being sccondary, are not vigorously handled; second, in assembling under the same departmental supervision all activities which are closely re- lated and which, therefore, should be co-ordinated in administration; and third, the eztension of the control by the cabinet officers to reach all matters save those which must by their very nature be handled by agencles independent of the regular departmental organization A supplemental report, signed by Senator Harrison and Representative Moore, the Democratic members of the joint committee, opposed the transfer the Bureau of Publle Roads the Department of the Interior, 1f, when the reorganization legis- Jation is called up on the floor very serious opposition develops, the steering committee and the House leaders aro disposed to lay the matter aside indefinitely, The recommendation is the bureau of the nominal connection Department and an independent the control of so far D the organization branch of the Gov- of to ucation | the | whose | THE EVENING AUTOPSY ORDERED N BERGIN DEAT Effort to Determine if Auto Injury or. Heart Disease Fatal. of 48th an Uni- James Bergin, 55 port streets, Amerd today opened the Whether the injury him when hit by ember 24, at Wis on avenue and Ma street, was the cause of desth dis held a pos- Park ques sus by ixicab Heart s Dr. Anthe n attendi scident da ase is M. Ray, family physi- him, stated that since W change for th only to be followed by & To detormine the exact of deutn, Coroner Nevitt an nounced today autopsy will be performed ot the District morgue Foriest I Winegardner, 308 11th street southeast, oberator of the taxi- b that struck Bergin, took him to corgetown Hospital, where he was given first aid and later removed to i his home ! Sam Rice in Acciden Sam Rice | fleet-footed outticlder for | Nationals, was a principal in an {automobile-bob cled collision near Tth Webster street last night, when { his wutomobile and the sled on which ternard Shartzer, 6 years old, of 4 venth street was coasting crushed [at the mouth of an alley. The boy injured about the face and hands, was to Garfield Hospital in Rice's His condition is not believed Rice was near his home, 713 Allison street. at the time of the col- lision Liquor taken serious is alleged contributing cause Florida avenue vesterday | to have been a in an accident at and Seventh street afternoon when Frederick Sanford, 30. of 830 Madison driving an' automobile and obeying a traffic signal to proceed from Policeman Bowers, swerved to the left after crossing the intersec- tion and crashed Into another ma- chine. The policeman, after investi- gating. arrested Sanford on charges of driving whlle intoxicated and col- liding. Boy Coaster Hurt. Russell Farnsworth, 16, 1636 Rhode [ Island avenue, was the victim of an- { other ting accident. He coasted | off the sidewalk at Sixteenth and P | streets about 10:45 o'clock and was {injured about the legs and arms by automébile driven by Frank P. Ross, 711 Princeton street. The in- |dured boy was taken home. Marian Weed, 15, 1810 Kearney street northeast, coasted against the auto- mobile of Frank M. Burdine, 1417 Twenty-second street, at Eighteenth and Lawrence streets northeast about 8:30 o'clock last night and sustained an injury to her left side. The auto- mobile was parked James Harrisor 7 14, and Daniel Kessler, 12, 1474 Clifton street, were on a sled that coasted against the automobile of Hugh H. Groves, 1014 Spring road, on Thirteenth street near Florida avenue yesterday after- noon, the car and sled going in the ame direction when the accident ppened. Kessler was treated at Children’s Hospital. His companion was not hurt. William A residents of Galt place northeast, were slightly hurt while coasting near their homes vesterday afternoon, their sled colliding with the automo- bile of Y. H. Price, 1648 U street. Girl Runs Into Ca While crossing Seventh between |G and H streets southwest yesterday afternoon, Louise Perry, 9, 616 Seventh street southwest, ran against an automobile driven by W. D. Dun- bar, 1245 Jackson street northeast She was not injured. Norma F. Cogdell, colored, 10, 1143 Twenty-first street, was knocked down at Connecticut avenue and N street yesterday afternoon by an automobile driven by Mr: Philip B. Campbell, 2151 California street. She was treated at a physcian's office. Sidney Porter, colored, 35, 523 Third street southwest, slipped from the | rear step of a wagon at New Jersey avenue and K street southeast about 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and { fractured his right wrist. He received | aid at Emergency Hospital. Policeman Hurt. While on duty at Eighth and D streets last night about 9:15 o'clock, Policeman Robert S Bryant of the | first precinct slipped and fell on the sidewalk, sustaining an injury to his right arm. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. An automobile driven Grant, 1538 Levy street northeast, skidded against and knocked down a lamp post in front of 1812 Ingle- side Terrace yesterday afternoon. Grant was not hurt. Joseph W. Allen, 75, inmate of Soldiers’ Home, slipped on the icy pavement in front of 825 Ninth street vesterday afternoon and injured his right shoulder. He was taken to Emergency Hospital Miss Jessie Eskew, 18, yesterday aftesrnoon fell on the icy sidewalk in front of her place of employment at 734 Fourteenth street and sprained her right knee. First ald was glven at Emergency Hospital. FIRST LECTURE IN SER]ES FOR WASHINGTON STUDY Frederick Moore Announced to Talk Saturday Morning on U. S. Relations in Far East. The first lecture in the course of international relations arranged for Washington study this Winter will be given Saturday morning by Fred- erick Moore, American counselor of the Japanese foreign office, who will speak on America's relations in the Far East. Mr. Moore is attached to the Japanese Embassy here and has just returned from two years' service in Tokio. Other speakers in the international relations course and the dates they will appear follow: Capt. Gordon Gordon-Smith, January 24, “The Sit- uation in the Balkans,” and on Janu- ary 31, “The Little Entente”; Dr. James Brown Scott, February 7 and 14, on recent phases in international relations; Dr. Cosme de la Torriente, Ambassador of Cuba and president of the League of Nations, subject, “The League.” The course on the Constitution of the United States, under the direction of Dr. Henry Campbell Black, was begun Thursday with' an address on the “Historical Background of the Constitution in England.” Dr. Black will speak Thursday on “Historical Backgrounds of the Constitution in America”; January 22, “The Makers of the Constitution”; January 29, “The Framing of the Constitution,” and February 5, “The Safeguards of the Constitution.” . Following this course a number of prominent persons will speak, be- tween February 12 and April 2, on the forms of foreign government. Washington Study meets at 1734 N street on Thursday and Saturday at 11:30 o'clock. Mrs. Gaillard Hunt is registrar, . by John Tn one of the New Hebrides Islands in the Pacific, a married women can be modest only by being snaggle-toothed. Part of the wedding ceremony consists of relieving the bride of her two middle incisors by smashing them with a rock, better | Grimes and John Hayley, | — WILL AID STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. GALLIHER IN PLANNING PRESIDENT’S INAUGURAL A. KELLOGG TO HOLD 10 HUGHES POLICY Soviet Recognition No Near-‘ er Because of Change | in Secretaries. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. No important change in the foreign | policy of the United States will result from the resignation of Secretary Hughes. ’ President Coolidge has Been as much responsible for the various steps taken by Mr. Hughes in the Department of tate as has been the Secretary him- self. and any other impression assumes that the President has merely been nodding a reluctant assent The European press is wrong in tak- ing for granted that the President is about to embark on a policy of his own or that he will with another Sec retary of State approve a reversal of any of the present policies, particular- Iy that with Russia. Recognition of Russia might have happened under Mr. Hughes, if the Soviet government had agreed to fulfill the conditions set by him—but circumstances abroad and not here will bring about the change The new Secretary of State, Mr Kelloge, feels exactly as President Coolidge does about property rights and the sanctity of contracts and com- munism, If the Democratic party were in power, there might be some ground for the belief that a change would ensue, but the policy adopted toward Russia by Mr. Hughes was exactly that which the main supporters of the Republican party in America heartily indorse. Russia may have her own form of government, but she must agree not to attempt to overthrow America’s. She may have her own views about contracts as between Russians, but if she wishes American recognition she must be willing to abide by contracts made by American citizens. And furthermore she must not feel that she can repudiate all her debts. There are various President Coolldge would like to recognize Russia. The friendship of the American people for the Russian people is traditionally strong. The Russian masses may be considered to be the tools of a group of political manipulators. but the United States Government took its time about rec- ognizing Mexico until specific as- surance was given as to the willing- ness of the government there to ful- flll international obligations, and there is no special hurry manifest in ex- ecutive quarters about recognizing a government that is so much more re- mote from the United States. The cabinet has not been divided on the Russian policy. Some of the strongest arguments against Russian recognition under circumstances that have existed have been made by Her- bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce. It is true that Senator Borah, chair- man of the Senate foreign relations committee, is friendly to the Soviet government and that he and others on Capitol Hill are seizing upon the change in the Department of State to revive their arguments in favor of recognition of the Russian govern- ment France, it is pointed out, has recog- nized Russia, but in answer to that the contention is made that expe- diency and not logic dictated the course. Britain's policy under the Macdonald regime more or less in- fluenced the Herrjot administration. America does not suffer finaneial loss to the same extent as do European countries by withholding recognition, and there is more of an opportunity in Washington to stick by a prin- ciple than there is abroad. Mr. Hughes was uncompromising in his attitude. Mr. Coolidge did insert in his last message to Congress a word of friendship to Russia which Mr. Hughes might have thought fu- tile, but which did not, on the other hand, promise a reversal in policy. ‘ommission Might Result. may come—it reasons why The most that may come as a re- sult of the Borah influence with the President, which is not inconsiderable, is a willingness to send a commission to discuss with the Soviet government a formula for the resumption of diplo- matic relations. Such a commission was finally established to deal with the Mexican problem. The negotia- tions might result in public assur- ances which would make possible rec- ognition, or it might define the bar- riers so clearly as to remove the sub- ject from consideration until Russia saw the necessity of adjusting her policies to those of the outside world. Mr. Coolidge had the deepest re- spect and admiration for the Hughes viewpoint on foreign policy. He would have given a great deal to per- suade Mr. Hughes to remain. He urged him repeatedly to reconsider. Under those circumstances it is er- roneous to suppose that minor dif- ferences led to the resignation or that anything else except what was written in the official correspondence actually brought about the resigna- tion of one of Amerlca’s greatest Secretaries of State, (Copyright, 1925.) NATIONALITY IS CALLED NECESSARY TO PEACE Sir Richard Lodge Says This Prin- ciple Was First Developed in Britain. “No peace is stcure until we have secured recognition of the principle of nationality,” Sir Richard Lodge, professor of history and dean of the faculty of arts, University of Edin- burgh, declared in an address in Cor- coran Hall, George Washington Uni- versity, last night. The lecture was the second of a series on historical subjects under the auspices of the university. Declaring that nationality was first developed in England, he explained that it was partly because England is an island, and partly because it was conquered by a great organizing peo- ple, the Normans. The chief cause, however, was that of common tradi- tions, common literature and the sense of common achievements of the sef- tlers. These, he explained, are the forces that build up natiops, Ice and Snow Covering Food Sources and Even Water Is Lacking. Squirrels Suffer Also, Says Dr. Bartsch in Urging Action. Unless Washington householders come to the rescue with bread crumbs, grain and seed, the bird popu- lation of the Natfonal Capital is in fmminent danger of being decimated by starvation during the present snow and ice spell, it was declared today by Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of the National Museum and professor of Z00logY at George Washington Uni- versity. Continued food sources blanketing of the bird's by the ice, sleet and snow of the past several weeks has brought the cheery finches, impu- dent sparrows, songful mocking birds and other popular members of Wash- ington feathery flocks to a famine- stricken state, Dr. Bartsch out Even the wary quail have been forced by vicissitudes to throw cau- tion to the winds in their frantic hunt for food, and a number of instances of quail “begging for crumbs at the rich man’s window,” it might be said, have been reported within the past few the police department has taken an interest in the plight of the bigds. Maj. Sullivan, superintend- ent of police, has encouraged mem- bers of his force, especially in subur- ban sections, to make a daily habit of feeding the songsters who sere- nade them on their beat Even Berries Gone. “If residents of Washington only realized What a pitiful condition their feathered friends are in right now 1 am sure they would take time to throw them a few grains of corn, a handful of birdseed, some chicken- feed or a piece of bread every morn- ing,” Dr. Bartsch said. ‘Unless they do, the bird population of Washing- ton is going to be greatly diminished in numbers, “A short while ago, before the ice and sleet formed on all the vegeta- tion, I saw bluebirds in Virginia feed- ing on poison ivy, poke berries, su- mac berries and fruit of the Virginia creeper. Even this frugal diet is de- nied them now. “At my home on Belmont street I have a shelf at the dining room window on which I keep a liberal supply of various kinds of bird food. | Every morning they come in large numbers — cardinals, song Ssparrows, snow birds, downy woodpeckers and others. They make short the canary seed, sunflower seeds and cracked corn I place there “Above, on the porch overlooking HOUGHTON SLATED AS LONDON ENVOY; U. S. POLICY STANDS (Continued from First Page.) old, and was born ‘in Cambridge, Masa. Before entering Congress Mr. Hough- ton was engaged in the business of glass manufacture at Corning, N. Y., and was interested in other industries. He attended universities both in Paris and Berlin. Task for Cool¥dge. In selecting new Agriculture to succeed Mr. Gore, President Coolidge was sald to be confronted with a particularly difi- cult task, inasmuch as his desire was represented to be the appointment of a man who will be able to work with all the divergent eclements which touch that field. Agriculture, it was pointed out, em- braces a field containing many inter- ests, including business and financial, which all too often ip the past, if not at loggerheads, rqu’:wermed at cross purposes. Chairman Cummins today called a special meeting of the Senate judi- clary committee for Thursday to con- sider the nomination of Attorney Gen- eral Stone for the Supreme Court. A favorable report is expected, with prompt action by the Senate. The nomination has been held up pending examination of court records in the case of the executors of the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan against James A. Ownbey of Boulder, Colo., in which 'a judgment against Ownbey was_contained for $200,000 advanced by Mr. Morgan. Mr. Stone was of counsel for the execugors in that case. a Secretary of REGRETTED IN BERLIN. By the Associated Press.- BERLIN, January proaching departure from 13.—~The ap- Berlin of pointed | work of | I have ancther table especial’ for birds who prefer feed higher up, in an undisturbed place. Kor the starlings, woodpeck- ers and blue-jays I havs ears of vellow corn, and for the chicadees, mocking birds and some other varie- ties 1 have raisins, sliced apples and grain “Squirrels in the public parks and reservations are having an equally hard time of it at present 1 have half a dozen regular visitops of the squirrel family sc my home, and they | find awaiting them the ears of, corn | and raw peanuts. Dr. Bartsch emphasized the neces- sity, also. for supply drinking water to the birds. With the ground froz- en and the usual sources of water covered with ice, the birds are suffer- ing severly from thirst, he said. Birds regard suet as a rare tid-bit at this time of the year, he continued, and he urged that residents tack pleces of beef suet to nearby trees. Thoé fat is very nourishing and warming to the birds, he explained. my rear garden, Sparrows Spread News. The English sparrow, of course, will appear in great numbers at feed- ing time, Dr. Bartsch stated, but they play an important part, at the same time, in broadcasting to the other spe- cies of birds the good news that food waits them at such-and-such & Phce. Like the mischievous little creatures some persons consider them to be, they just can't keep a secret and before long all the birds in the vicinity will knew about the piece of bread that Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith, down the street, has just thrown out the window Attendants at the Zoo have taken steps to ald the starving wild birds outside the cages, and they make a daily practice of scattering chicken feed for the quail that gather there en mass for the expected treat. Sportaman Ald Move. A local sportsman joimed today in the SOS call to aid the suffering sea- son harbingers. Detective Harry A. Cole of the sixth police precinct has recelved word from lower Princ Georges County, Md,, that many quail have perished in that section. He fmmediately dispatched a quantity of wheat screening to his informant with instructions to scatter it over a wide territory. Detective Cole also learned that in other sections of Maryland and Virginia similar condi- tions are reported Cole will endeavor to have an ap- peal broadcast, belleving it will re- ceive a hearty response from hereto- fore thoughtless bird-lovers in the District of Columbia and the two nearby States. “I will guarantee that the average citizen will get more pleasure out of feeding the starving birds outside their home on the proceeds of a sin- gle foregone amusement trip down- town than they would out of using the money for their personal diversion for a few hours” Dr. Bartsch as- serted “If they don’t enjoy it more, there is something lacking in their make- 57 Alanson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, now taken for granted here, is bringing out universal ex- pressions of regret, not only from the American colony, but also from the ranks of the diplomatic corps and German official circles, where he has been a popular figure since his arrival nearly three years agn. He is the fourth ranking member of the diplomatic corps in JBerlin, his senfors being Mgr. Pacelll, the papal nuncio; Lord D'Abernon, the Brit! Ambassador, and Pablo Soler Guardiola, the Spanish Ambassador. Aided Dawes Plan. By virtue of his extensive business training, Ambassador Houghton early took a keen interest in German eco- nomiecs, which he found in a state of chaos as a result of the collapse of the mark and the lack of a co-ordi- nated adjustment of the reparation problem. He sought German opinion in all quarters on this subject. The impressions he gathered enabled him to lend useful and effective co-oper- ation to the American experts in con- nection with the drafting of the Dawes plan. During his residence in Berlin the American embassy has been the scene of numerous social functions at which répresentatives of Germsn art, sclence and letters were frequen: guests. To these the Ambassados often took pleasure in recalling his student days at the University of Goettingen. Ambassador Houghton is an en- thuslastic golfer, ard could be found on the American course nearly every afternoon when the weather permit- ted and diplomatic dutles were not too pressing. The Ambassador expects to return to New York before assuming the post at the Cour tof St. James, al- though his traveling plans have not been definitely decided upon. Miss Matilda Houghton, the Ambassa- dor's eldest daughter, was one of the American young women presented at court in London last Jun = Father and Fiance of Girl Accused Of Torturing Clerk to End Courtship By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., January 13—The arrest of two well known business men of Yonkers charged with having tortured a youth to force him to cease his attempts to marry the daughter of one and the fiance of the other became known today. - The defendants are William §. MacClymont, manager of the Yonkers real estate firm of J. Ro- maine Brown & Co., and his son- in-law, Randolph M. Steele, man- ager of the Newark, N. J, branch of a prominent Wall Street brokerage house. Thelr accuser is William Holland, a young clerk. Holland complained to the dis- trict attorney that he was lured to Brown's office on June 25 last. On entering the place, he said, MacClymont and Steele, who then was engaged to MacClymont's young ' daughter, attacked him, knocking him to the floor and kicking and cuffing him, accus- ing him of attempting to cause Miss MacClymont to break her en- gagement and become his wife. Holland sald he told the two men he was in love with the girl and would continue to seek her consent to the marriage so_long as she remained single. There- upon, he-sald, Steele held him pinned to the floor while the girl's father fastened to his wrists a palr of handcufts known as twisters. While Steele held him Holland says MacClymont grad- ually tightened the grip, causing torture which compélled him at the end of half an hour to take his oath that he would never again see Miss MacClymont. He was then released. Steele since has girl. Both MacClymont and Steele appeared before the grand jury, waved immunity and testified in their own behalf. They will be brought to trial within a month, . i\ married the SHoTos Bv. WARAIS 1. EwWing Left to 1ights Samuel J. Prescott. Kdwin C. Graham, Frank J. Hogan, general counsel: Cuno H. Rudelph, treasurcr; Edward F. Colladay, Frederick ‘enning, secretary: James B. Reynolds, vice chairman. > 'HUNGRY BIRDS FACE STARVATION?REALTORS REFUSED UNLESS HUMAN FRIENDS GIVE AID CHANCE TO “CLEAN HOUSE,” SAYS BALL (Continued from First Page.) enough to break her ankle if she stepped through it. The rent of the apartment had been raised from 335 to $50 a month, with increases at various times. 0. C. Reed of Clifton Terrace testified that he had received a notice in Novem- ber the rent for his apartment would be increased from $75 to $90, and would be retrouctive to October 1. also that | uniess he paid a dollar a month for a | telephone service his telephone would be cut off. The Rent Commission, he said, be- fore he went into the apartment two or three years ago had ruled the rent would be $70 a month with no service charge for telephons. He sald that the present agent is Maurice Baskin & C “Who owns the building?" Representative Stalker. “Nobody seems to know—at I have not been able to find cut,” replied the witness. He added that he had refused to pay the increased rent demanded and that his telephone service had been cut off. Witnesses Are Sworn. At this point Senator Copeland had suggested that it would be to r all witnesses, it it should develop that the committer believed it necessary to draft a bill dealing with the housing situation “based on the present eituation.” “I am convinced that an emergene exists,” said Senator Copeland. “I think that we should have sworn tes- timony to prove it." And so the witnesses were sworn Senator Copeland asked Mr. Reed why he did not move out. The witness replied that he was in the automobile business: that he got around the city a great deal; that he had placed advertisements in the newspapers, but that he had been un- able to find & place suitabie at a rea- sonable rent. He said that he had read advertisements of apartments for rent. “Always when you get there you find no apartments for rent.” He charged that the landlord at Clifton Terrace had been doing all in his power to force him out; that no repairs whatever were made. Mr. Reed told the committee that in- creases in_the rents for other apart- ments in Clifton Apartments had been demanded. He said that some of the tenants were afraid to testify; that a woman had come to him yesterday and said that she was afrald to come before the committee because she would be ejected from her apartment later. Mr. Blanton, witness, asked least wise swe particularly cross-examining showed that his apartment contained three rooms, kitchen and bath. Mr. Blanton insisted that Clif- ton Terrace was located in one of the most desirable parts of the city with good car service and next to the Central High School. “There were "3,100 students there last year,” said Representative Blan- ton “Do 3,100 students make more nolse than 2,100 students?” asked Senator Copeland, interrupting. There was applause {rom the crowd in the committee yoom Representative Blanton objected strenuously to what he called “side- bar remarks” by Senator Copeland ‘We are not in a kangaroo court,’ said Mr. Blanton, “but in a Senate and House investigation. I treat the Senator courteously, and I expect the same treatment.” Mr. Reed, replying to another ques- tion by Mr. Blanton, insisted that $90 was an exorbitant price for the apart- ment he occupied. Mry. Brown then took the stand. She told the committee that she o cupied an apartment in the Pentill 1812 K street northwest. She said that she had lived there since 1921, moving in soon after it was built The cost of {he, building. she sald, was $218,000.% It was assessed at $235,000 and the value had been pyr- amided to $609,000 by the F. H. Smith Co. She sald that she pald $32.50 for her apartment when they first moved in; the rent now, she said, was $100 a month. After six fam- illes had moved out because the rent was too high, she aid, the rent was reduced to $82.50. Blanton Hits Pyramiding. Sne insisted that the rent charge was exorbitant. Her husband is a Y. M. A. secretary recelving $150 a month. They have a 15-year-old daughter to cducate. She herself is an invalid and must live in apartment with an eleva- tor. “People who earn modest salaries,” she said, “cannot pay the high prices demanded in this city. We live in the Pentilly because we cannot get any place elze, not because it is attractive. The buying power of people is crippled. See this coat which 1 have on? I made it myselt out of Army blanket, dyed black. It cost me $11, and I have worn it for three years. When half of your salary goes out for rent it is impossible to provide thiugs that are absolutely needed. Mr. Blanton questioned Mea. Brown about landlords threatepmg tenants. He wanted the names put into the record. Mrs. Brown said that some of them would be pat into the record, but she sald many tenants were afraid to testifr and wanted to know it Mr. Blanton could protect them. Mr. Blanton’sald that he intended to vote for a bill to stop pyramiding of values and to “put those crooks in jail. Mrs. Brown said that it would not £0 far enough; that landlords still jcut off the heat and hot water and annoy their tenants. “I ‘have interviewed hundreds of tenants” said Mrs. Brown. “I have found them fair, but they are scared. I myself am under suit for $250,000 damages by a landlord, along Wwith other mermbers of the Tenants' League.” Mrs. Tschipke, who lives at No. 4, in the DeSoto, was the next witness. She told how she had been evicted with all her belonging: which had been put out into the snow on the sidewalk, even after she had agreed to pay the rent demanded by the landlord for her apartment in an ad- vertisement in the newspapers., She had been paying $47.00, the rent fixed by the Rent Commission, and the rent advertisement was $67.50. She said that the owner and agent of the apartment was Charles E. Tribby. She had appealed to him, she said, several times not to force her out. When she was put out, she sald that she was sick in bed. All her things, she sald, had been sent the | CLUBMOMENSEE PRESDENTS HELP General Federation Heads to Ask Coolidge for Citi- zenship Parley. Projects for general of standards- of American life, espe- clally in the home and among wom- en in industry will be discussed to- morrow at the opening session of the meeting of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Club, which is authorized to trans- act business for the 000,000 mem- bers of ‘the organization throughout the country. The meeting will be held federation headquarters, 1734 N street. Sixty-five members of the board, including the national officers, improvement at the HUGHES STRESSES RESPECT FOR LAW People Have Force to Domi- nate Crime, He Says—Has No Political Aims. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. January one great need of the wo some formula or rule, ablding sentiment throughout land—the disposition to be reasona ble, to be fair, to settle things cording to available standards justice, to enforce the conceptions of Justice against*® the demonstrat of brute force,” Sccretary of State Charles E. Hughes declared in an ad dress here last night Mr. Hughes' address ws d is but a deltvered state and territorial directors, as well as heads of departments of the fed- eration, are expected to attend. In addition, each state federation presi- dent has been invited to attend the sessions as an associate member of the board of directors. Anks Prestdent’s Ald. Outstanding in the -projects to be brought before the board by Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, president of the general federation, is the sit- uation respecting the conference pro- posed for citizenship training. This proposal has been placed before Pres- |ident Coolidge with the request that a committee be called by him. It ix fostered by the general federation and Is regarded as so closely related to immigration as to be worthy of a presidential conference to work out its problems. The federation also places it on the same plane In importance with such subjects as farm economics, un- employment and recreation. Conflict in methods and principles adopted by organizations engaged In citizen- ahip training activities is signaled out by the federation as one of the chiet reasons for the necessity of appoint- ment by the President of & conference committee on this subject Home fmprovement gen-rally, child labor and other subjects will be topies of discussion at the meeting. Today was devoted by the arriving members to various committes mgeetinge and to making arrangements for the transaction of business at the session tomorrow. The program _tomorrow morning calls for reports from Mre. John Dickinson Sherman, president, and from the two vice presidents, the trea urer and from the executive committee During the afternoon tomorrow reporte from the director of headquarters, and from the headquarters and house com- mittee, as well as from the membership committee, are on the program. The bourd will be entertained at tea by Mrs. John N. Speel, local president, tomorrow afternoon at 5 oclock, and tomorrow night reports from depart- ment chairmen on “The American Home.” “American Citizenship” and “International Relations” will be made. Thursday's session and the greater part of Friday's will be devoted to other reports. The toard members will be dinner guests Thursday of Miss Helen Norris Cumming at Alexandria Among those expected to attend the seselon are the six national officers including Mrs. Sherman, president: Mrs. Edward Franklin White of In- dlanapolls, first vice president; Miss Florence ~Dibert of Pennsylvania, second vice president; Mrs. James E. Hayes of Georgia, recording secre- tary: Mrs. Jean Allard Jeancon of Denver, corresponding secretar: Miss Lida Haffard, local director of general headquarters, and the State direcors as follows: State Directors in Atten nee. J. B. Beeson, Alaska; Mrs. T. H. Cur.- ton, Arizona; W. D. Jones, Arkansas; Mrs. Aaron Schloss, California; Mrs. T. A. McHarg, Colorado; Mrs. erick M. Peasley, Connecticut: Mrs H. M. Waller, Delaware; Mrs. Eugene Pitcher of this city; Mrs. Willlam F. Blackman, Florida; Mrs. Alonzo Rich ardson, Georgia; Mrs. L. B. Green, ldaho: Miss Jessle I Spafford, Ili- nois; Mrs. W. J. Torrance, Indiana Mrs. E. F. Armstrong, lowa; Mrs. Charles F. Miller, Kansas; Mrs. H. G Reynolds, Kentucky: Mrs. Charles Vernon Porter, Louisiana; Mrs. E. J. Danforth, Maine. Mrs. J. Wesley Brown, Maryland; Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, Massa- chusetts; Mrs. Dorfan M. Russell, Michigan: Mrs. G. J. Allen, Minnesota: Mrs. Robert Ralston, Mississippi; Mrs. Henry N. Ess. Missouri; Mrs. L E. O. Pace, Montana; Mrs. Edgar B. Penney, Nebraska; Mrs. C. P. Squires, Nevada Mrs. William B. Fellows, New Hamp- shire: Mrs. Clayton D. Lee, New Jer- sey; Mrs. Grace T. Bear, New Mexico: Mrs. John H. Booth, New York: Mrs. Sydney P. Cooper. North Carolina: Mrs. A. C. Strand, North Dakota; Mrs. “harles R. Fox, Ohlo; Mrs. J. R. Frazier, Oklahoma. Mrs. ' Saidie Orr-Dunbar, Oregon: Mrs. John B. Hamme, Pennsylvania; Mrs, Howard W. Farnum, Rhode Is- land; Mrs. L. H. Jennings, South Caroilna: Mrs. E. R. Buck, South Da- kota; Mrs. George A. Washington, Tennessee: Miss Anna Shelton, Texas; Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood, Utah; Mrs. Henry A. Slayton, Vermont; Mrs. Henry E. Parker, Virginia; Mrs. A. E. Larson, Washington: Mrs. John B. Garden, West Virginia; Mrs. Joshua Hodgins, Wisconsin, and Mrs. W. B. Gage, Wyoming. to storage. Her husband conducts a novelty shop on U street. She insisted that Mr. Tribby wanted her out of the apartment because she had had the temerity to go to the Rent Commission. Threatened With Eviction. The last witness at today's hearing was Miss E. B. Semmes of the Plaza. She said that she had moved into her apartment in 1915, and that she has five rooma and bath at the back of the apartment house. The rent, she said, had been increased to $70, and now $90 is being demanded. The present owner is the Morrie Baskin Co. She sald that she had been threatened with eviction and notice had been served on her to quit. A sister, she said, works for the Government, She says is unable to work ¢n account of her health. Questions by Mr. Blanton brought out the fact that they sublet two of their rooms, one for $32 and the other for $25, in order to obtain suf- ficlent money to pay the rent. Re- cently, she said, the service, particu- larly with regard to hot water, has been very bad. AIDS FIGHT ON BILL. Board of Trade Committee to Co- Operate With Realty Men. The executive committee of the Washington Board of Trade yesterday instructed its special committee on rent legislation to co-operate with all other organizations in opposition to the proposed Whaley bill. The committee was appointed last week, when the board of directors went on record against any further law _controling rental properties in the District, and consists of John Joy Edson, chairman; Howard Moran and George W. Offutt. The committee will hold a speclal meeting this aft- ernoon. The committes has also been instructed to inform Congress of the Board of Trade's opposition to the pending bill. Daddy longlegs” are harmless in the house because they do not touch buman beings nor food, Fred- | at a bunquet given in honor of hi and other members of the executive committee of the American Bar Asso ciation. He made no reference his recent resignation from the C: inet Delays Are Deplored. “While we are somewhat disheart ened by dilatoriness in procedu d by the terrible advance crime makes because our people do not telligent enough to rally to their command guilty, yet even then we should re- member that perhaps the best thing we can do in our organization is to create and the abiding sentiment “1 wouldn't speak here controversial, but 1 that in this country, for a time, at least. we have the Supreme Court of the United States secure from the attacks of politicians All the plans of the association for law and order and peace rest on the law-abiding sentiment, Mr. declared. seem their forces to punish the devise Taw of anythin glad fee am to 1 Hughes Urges Retter Ideal of Law. “I wish all our people would think of law as the expression of the de- mocracy's will—not something ‘fm- posed from above,’ but think of it as the expression of the will of the peo- ple—the well thought out, well con- sidered will of all the people, and not something having mere temporary partisan or political advantage. These are four aims; these are ties Asked if his resignation owed an intention didate for now, the no further political desires to devote his sional work . Wil Take Vaemtion, “I want take after I retire on Hughes said. “But 1 my plans as vet and where 1 shall go or what except thag I am g 1 shail with my Ale our securi- foreshad- to become resident fonr etary vears fron indicated he has ambitions, but time to prof to little March have a vacation 4 Mr not made not know I shall do, Then law ng to rest actice of S prominent member of/ the Atlanta bar, dropped dead at_the Piedmont Driving Club just as Secratary Hughes entered t reception room to attend a banquet given In honor of him and other members of the executive committoe of the American Bar ociation The attorney’s body was removed to @ private room. Although a pall of sadness was cast over the par the banquet proceeded. — U. S. WILL REMOVE MARINE EXPEDITION im A Guard in Nicaragua to Be Taken Away—Officials Asks for Retention. Withdrawa United States tained there upon The Nicaraguan government has asked that the American guard of 100 marines be kept at Managua, but the American Government believes the time has come when Nicaragua must take upon herself the preservation of order. fron marine has b Nicaragud of the guard deter: main- en mined 1 SLAIN, 3 'SLASHED IN BOMBAY ASSAULT By the Assoc BOMBAY ated Press Jannuary 13.—A shooting affray in the fashionable residen quarter of Bombay today resulted the death of Abdul Kadir Dawla, wealthy citizen, and the serfous in of Lieut. Seagard, Inglis named Mathews and a woman, whom are in the hospital. Dawla, accompanled by and Mathews, was motoring on Mala- bar Hill when a party of men in an- other car started shooting. Four Brit- ish officers rushed to the rescue and captured one of the assailants, who was badly wounded. The others escaped. firing promiscuously. Dawla recelved three revolver shots from which he died. n a an an all of the woman WORKERS REGAIN RIGHTS UNDER RETIREMENT LAW (Continued from First Page.) the decisions are Haymaker as hav- of a repealing or superseding certair of the original tices in use that termed by Mr. ing “the result amendatory act, express provisions law.” Among the most important of the new rules promulgated by the pension office are the following “In the case of an officer or em- | ploye who, before March 27, 1922 was transferred from a classified position subject to the retirement law to an unclassified position In the executive civil service, such officer or employe will be required to pay into the ‘clvil serv retirement and disability fund' * * * an amount equivalent to 21, per cent of his basic salary, pay or compensation, together with in- terest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum compounded on June 30 of each year, on account of all service rendered since March 19 Pay- ments in such cases are mandatory “In case an officer or employe so transferred prior to March 27, 1922, has received a refund of deducations under the provisions of section 11 of the act Hf May 22, 1920, he shall be required to redeposit the amount re- funded, together with appropriate in- terest, before he may derive any benefit under the retirement law. This latter requirement s optional with the officer or employe. “In the case of an officer or em- ploye who, under the conditions de- soribed in the preceding paragraph, has been transferred since March 27, 1922, deductions with interest will be required from the effective date of such transfer, and in case such offl- cer or employe has received a re- fund of deductions * * * he shall Dbe required to redeposit forthwith the amount refunded, together with ap- propriate interest.” Employes and officers affected by the Attorney General decisions are asked to make application to the commissioner of pensions for service credit for the period involved, on & form which will be supplied.