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WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) colder tonight; (©. s Fair and slightly minimum temperature Ereck: tomorrow fair; cold. Highest, 57 lowest, 22, at § Full report on page T. n bout, ot 16 de- quite so vesterday; Closing N. Y. Stocks and B onds, Page 28 Che Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. The every city © as fast as th Star’ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,360 Entered as seco post otlice. Wa 29,487, nd class matter shington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D5 20, | FREDAY, CAPITALPREPARES " 70 VIEW ECLIPSE 5T TOTALHERE Margin of Uncovered Surface to Be Scarcely Visible to Layman. SHADOW TO REACH FULL SCOPE AT 9:04 0’CLOCK Event Seen Here. United States Scientists Plan Thorough Study. Ever I First ! Washington and most of Northeast- ern America is waiting today for the phenc non that will be revealed in the heavens tomorrow morning when | the moon sweeps out of the west and blots out the light of the sun in the first total eclipse white man has ever beheld in this part of the world. Although Washington falls just be- yond the line of totality, the sun wiil| be €5 per cent covered from here, and | able to any but the ores of astron- omers and scientists who will train telescopes and cameras upon the un- sight from the Naval Observa- d cther pot t vantage At exactly 7:55 o'clock tomorrow ning the moon, passing between the and the earth, will make its first ntact with the sun. From that mo ment it will slowly move across the face of the sun, untll, at 9:04 o'clock, it will have obscured 95 per cent of it here and pletely obliterated it to ob. servers in a narrow belt in a few North eastern States Millionx to See Eclipse. hen the shadow will begin to pass and at 10:2 o'clock the sun will emerge completely, If predictions for fair, weather are accurate. The will occupy 2 hours and 2 utes, during which time millions of persons, including hundreds of tists, will have viewed it Aside from the fact the first time that has seen the sun blotted out by the moon, many interesting things observers may see if the weather is clear and the sky at least moderately void of interfering clouds. One of these will be, perhaps, the first family reunion of the stars in our own solar system within the time of history When the eclipse aches Its peak here, at 9:04 o'clock, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the moon all will be seen near the sun. The moon, of course, will be directly in front of the sun, and the other thr planets just.go the west. Missing from that extraor- dinary reunion will be only Mars, Saturn and Neptune. | Like Celestial Homecoming. | Scientists expliained that it will look | almost like a homecoming, since it is | generally believed that all of the units of the solar system were once part of the sun. This hypothesis sup- poses that anotner star swerved too close to the sun when it was a much larger bod and pulled out great tides of its flaming gases Gradually huge masses of these tides soared away to their own evo- lution. Jeing much smaller the radiation of their h went on at a tremendously more apid rate, and entury by they cooled until y reached the stage of dead stars, of which the » and the moon, its nearest usu ts clear scien- that it will Washing- nearly there are Far off in the distance some other stars that are well known units of the universe will become visible as the eclipse progresses. Among these possibly will Vega, Arcturus and Antares. The distinctness with which tars may be observed with the . however, will depend upon ic conditions. be these naked e atmosph City to Be Darkened. 16 eclipse Washington will darker until, at 9:04 ral light here be- | of dusk. Then the | and little | until the its During gradually grow o'clock, the natu con that begin to will e ars, so far parts are con- | In order to as distinct pos cials decided today that they will not order lights turned on. In- spector Headley announced, too, that motorists might use their own judg- ment about using their lights. The Potomac Electric Power Co., however, has made ngements to handle an unusual d « load during the phe- - observations here | District offi- n the to Lizht Streets. “n-l.l'iune j ot | forgotten, 4,700 Are Dead As Flu Epidemic Spreads in Tokio By the Associated Pross TOKIO, January Forty- seven-hundred persons are report- ed dead as the result of an influ- enza epidemic in Greater Toklo, which started about 20 days ago. BORAH TALK SHOWS SPIRIT OF CONGRESS Unwillingness of France to Settle Debt Is Source of Indignation. BY DAVID LAWE The prompt reply made by Horah, chairman of the Senate foreign committee, to Louis Marin of the French Chamber of Deputies indicates the temper of the American Congress with respect to the non-pay- ment by France of her war debt. For a fortnight the tenslon which followed the speech of the French finance minister, M. Clementel, has been eased by the expectation that the French government would present formal proposals to fund the debt owed to America. It needed only the spark furnished by Deputy Marin to set off another blaze of congressional indignation. While it is true that M Marin represents the minority in the French Parliament, nevertheless his theory colncides so with what infor- mally has been expressed as the true French ldea about the American debt that Congress is not drawing much of a distinction between majority and minority opinions across the Atlantic. France Expects Concessions. Ever since the war the contention has been made by French statesmen and publicists that because France sac- rificed more human lives than did America, the latter should either can- cel or scale down the three and a half billion dollars France from the American taxpayers. The French have naturally taken it for granted that a nation which could send overseas two million men and raise unparalleled sums money merely to serve the general cause democracy would not hesitate to show further generosities with re- spect to war debts. What the French do not understand is the change in Washington itself toward Europe. It is not generally appreciated in Parls that France it- self is as much responsible for the change In opinion on this side of the Atlantic toward war issues as any al- leged materialism in America. The refusal of France for several years to listen to the appeals from America for & settlement of the reparations problem, together with the French at- titude of opposition to the reduction of land armament, has alienated many of her friends in Washington. Premier Poincare is as much responsible as any French statesman for -the es- trangement. Directed at Mandates. There are few men in Congress today who feel that the war accom- plished what its slogans claimed were the true objectives of the con- flict and this is particularly true of the battle cry “No annexations and no indemnities,” which stimulated the American Imagination shortly before America entered the war. The spec- tacle of quasl annexation, whereby rman colonies passed into the con- trol, if mot the exact possession of the French at Versailles, has not been and Senator Borah, in his speach, has just made articulate a spirit of criticism about the mandate system which has been brewing for the last five years. When the French contend that they have made large sacrifices in man power there i6 no let-up in the sym- (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) enator JERSEY DRY CASE JUROR ACCUSED Fellow Member of Venire Says Man Made Up Mind Before Trial. By the Associated Pry JERSEY CITY, N. J, January 23. The prosecuting attorney's office is expected to give further consideration !today to charges by Everett H. Mac- Philadelphia the darkness have prepared, ir street lights extraordinary precautions | be undertaken to guard against| iit outrages. A number of bank remain closed until the eclipse its end, and the New York Stock Exchange will not open until the sun is well on its journey from behind the moon. Although most of Washington sci- entists already have gone to New York, Connecticut and Long Island | in order to be well within the area of totality to observe the eclipse, & group of astronomers and physicsts will assemble at the Naval Observa- tory. They will devote their entire | time to making accurate notations| of the time the eclipse begins, its| progress and its final conclusion, and | to photographing the sun’s corona. The corona remains one of the out- standing mysteries of the sun. It ap- pears only during an eclipse such as this and then as a beautiful, fleece-like cloud. Two theories are ndvanced as to its composition. One ts that It represents clouds of elec- trons darting from the flaming mass of the orb, some of which reach this earth and make life here pos- eible, other will be however. | fully, In! addition will is near Dust Theory Advanced. Another is that the corona 18 & cloud of dust, similar to those of Saturn,! whirling around old helios. Although | it may seem strange to speak of dust particles existing so close to the sun, that is quite possible, according to istronomers, because they could not| be consumed because there is no| oxygen there to permit the heat to| destroy the particles. Up in New York and Connecticut, however, where scientific parapher- nalla worth millions of dollars has " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) ~ @ member of the jury agreed vesterday in the of 12 men tried here in the alleged Wee- hawken liquor conspiracy, that one member of the jury had entered the box determined to acquit Aloysius McMahan, assistant prose- cutor of Hudson County, said yester- day that he believed the charges of MacLeod would be presented to the grand jury. Among them will be MacLeod's assertion that a man as- soclated with the defense had signaled answers to one of the defense’s chiet witnesses. MacLeod, who is a Jersey City ar- chitect, last night visited Col. George T. Vickers, special prosecutor of the alleged prohibition law conspirators, and related his suspiclons of several of his fellow jurors. Even before he had called upon Col. Vickers, the latter had commented: “I was sure something was wrong in that jury box.” Says One Juror Deaf. It was sald that MacLeod told Col. Vickers that one juror was so deaf that he could not hear much of the testimony. On the very first day of the trial, this juror is alleged to have remarked that he “would not vote to convict the ‘cops’ no matter what evidence was presented.” Although the prosecutor's office had not yet declded upon a definite course to be followed In regard to charges made against United States Senator Edward I. Edwards during the trial by two Government wit- nesses, it was said that thelr testi- mony would be presented to the grand jury next week. Samuel Wilson, assistant superin- tendent of the New Jersey Anti-Sg- loon League, in a statement today de- clared it would be “a joke to hold a new trial here,” Leod, hat dis- case borrowed by | the | REALTORHITPLEA FOR RENT BIL ON CROUNDOF MORALS Health and Public Welfare Arguments Also Declared Unsupported by Facts. | | | SENATOR COPELAND HAS SUBSTITUTE PROPOSAL Would Let Municipal Court Decide Fair Charges—Ball Introduces | 1 Pyramiding Measure. Outstanding developments today in the controversy over the proposal that a permanent Rent Commission be set up in the District of Columbia and other remedial legislation be en- acted, were: First—Absolute denial before the congressional committee by R. L. Mc- Keever, that health conditions, morals and public welfare in the District demand handling of the rental situ- ation by & Government commission Mr. McKeever represented the Wash- ington Association of Building Own- | ers and Managers Second—Suggestion by Copeland of New York, that Congress | pass a joint resolution as a substi-| | tute for the Whaley bill, which would | {set up the premise that rental prop- | erty in the District is affected with |2 public interest, and that Congress | | has a right to control rentals there- for; that all rentals shall be fair and | shall be determined by the Municipal | | Court of the District. The resolution makes no provision for a Rent Com- mission. Anti-Pyramiding Bill, Third — Introduction by Senator | Ball, chairman of the committee, of a bill to prohibit pyramiding of values by limiting loans on property to not more than 10 per cent in excess of the sessed valuation, to compel the | statement of true consideration in all deeds of transfer of real estate, to punish conspiracy to increase prices, |and to compel deeds of trust to state | exactly what they are. Mr. McKeever was the first witness before the committee today. He strongly urged the Congress to pass no further Rent Commission legisla tion, but to let the law of supply and demand operate in Washington for at least & year. He insisted that if th course were followed the situation | would clear itself up. Copeland Explains Measure. In offering his substitute for the Whaley bill, Senator Copeland declared he was convinced that a State Legisla- | ture could not pass a law setting up a permanent commission to fix rentals. Such legislation, he said, could be enacted to meet an emergency. He said, however, that he believed Con- gress could set up a permanent rent commission in the District because of the exclusive jurisdiction given Con- gress in that document over the Dis- trict. He added that the jurisdiction given over the District was the same as that given Congress over arsenals, forts and so forth acquired by the Government throughout the United States, | Senator Copeland sald that if the | rents for buildings in a fort were| !deemed too high, the commanding | { officer undoubtedly could insist upon [ thetr being lowered i Former Senator Gore of Oklahoma, | appearing as counsel for the Asso- | clation of Bullding Owners and Man- | agers, pointed out that in a fort the Government would own all the land and therefors would have a right to control rentals which it did not have to control rentals of privately owned property in the District of Columbia. Compares With State Rights. Senator Gore Insisted also that the courts have decided that Congress has no greater police power in the | District than the State Legislatures have in the States. He said that it would be a monstrous proposition | that the safeguards set up in the Con- | stitutlon for citizens of the United States should not apply y in all " (Continued on Page 2, Senator | ANIMAL DISEASE GERM LINKED WITH HUMAN ILLS New Discovery Resembles Some of Typhus, Trench and Other Fevers. By the Associated Preas, PRETORIA, Unlon of South Africa, | January 22.—Dr. Edmund V. Cow- {@ray of the Rockefeller Institute, | New York, who was sent here at the invitation of the South African gov- ernment, has discovered a micro-or- ganism causing a disease known as “heart water” In sheep, goats and cattle. The microbe resembles close- 1y, but not identically, other organ- isms causing typhus, trench and other fevers in man. Sir Arnold Theiler, director of veterinary education and research here, regards the discovery as of the highest Importance. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Three Burned to Death in Blazing Home. SSTON, W. Va., Janua . —Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Massey were burned to death today when fire destroyed their |home at Chelyan, near here. The parents and three other children escaped by leaping from windows. Frounshi Named Soviet Army Chief, Replacing Trotsky By Radio toThe Star and Chicago Dail WARSAW, January 23— has just reached here from Moscow that Frounshi, whose real name is Mihailow, has been appointed to head the Soviet army, succeeding Leon Trotsky. (Copyright, 1923, by Chicago Daily News Co.) CHARLI | Alabama Radio Programs—Page 36. £ JANUARY 23, 1925 —-FORTY-TWO PAGES. * TWO CENTS. SENATORS DELAY GONFIRMING STONE | Further Inquiry Into Morgan Estate Case Sought by Opponents. Confirmation of the hominatic Attorney General Stone to be an as- soclate justice of the Supreme Court, is being blocked in the Senate to per- mit further inquiry into a case in which he acted as counsel for the executors of J. Plerpont Morgan Senator Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, who had the nomination held up for a time in the judiciary committee has been joined in his re- port for delay by other senators, cluding Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama. Mr. Stone appeared for the exec- utors some years ago in the Supr Court in a suit brought against James A. Ownbey, a mining man of Colo- rado, after action had been brought in' the Colorado courts and before there had been final action there Senator Heflin sald today the record showed that not only has Mr. Ownbey been denfed any hearing in the Dela- ware courts, where he appeared in answer to a writ, but that at one time when he sought to protest against a statement of facts in the action he was removed from the court by a batliff. After the executors had thrown Ownbey's company into the hands of a receiver in Colorado, declared the Senator, they had then brought further action to obtain judgment under an ancient Delaware statute which had been invoked only a few times in history. Administration leaders, nevertheless, are confident the nomination will be confirmed at an early date, probably in the first executive session to be held next week. Senator Overman plans to deliver an address reviewing the record of the Morgan case and Senator Heflin, prob- ably will do likewisc. Senator ‘Walsh, Democrat, Montana, who asked for further delay in the com- mittee, sald today, he would inter- pose no further objection, as he saw no ground on which the nomination should be opposed The nomination Warren of Michigan General in place of Mr. Stone is now fore a judiciary subcommittee which Chairman Borah expects to call to- gether in a few days. of Charles B. to be Attorney PLANES TO HUNT CITIES BURIED IN DESERT SANDS Expedition Being Organized London for Work in Egypt, Arabla and Mesopotamia. in By the Associated Press. LONDON, January undiscovered buried cities of Egypt, Arabia and Mesopotamia, may be sought by an aerial scientific expedi- tion next Summer, according to plans announced here. Beneath the shifting sands of the Eastern deserts lie a number of lost cities and it is from the air rather than from the ground itself that the indications of these places may be more easily traced, in the opinion of promoters of the idea. 23.—Some of the CARTER TO GET TOMB. Egypt Willing to Turn Over Con- trol, Report Says. LONDON, January 23.—A agency dispatch from Cairo states that the Egyptlan government has provisionally agreed to hand over control of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb to Howard Carter pending Lady Carnar- von's written acceptance of the terms of the egreements recently concluded with Mr. Carter. The work of clearing the entrance of the tomb, it was added, was commenced today and the control will be handed over to Mr, Carter in four days. =t 4 WOUNDED IN HOLD-UP. Bank Bandits Escape With $5,000 After Battle. BRISTOW, Okla., January 23.—Four persons were slightly wounded here today when policemen and officials of the American National Bank en- gaged four robbers in a gun fight across a busy street intersection. The robbers escaped with $5,000 in cur- rency after holding up the bank, news in- | MEMBERSHIP BWITHOUT a3 %) BELONG6ING To THE One Church Used By Both Catholics And Protestants By the Associated Press. KEYSTONE, Nebr., —Co-operation and religious tol- eration are receiving a thorough test in a little church here, where both Catholics and Protestants wor- ship. One end of the edifice is the Catholic altar. Opposite the pulpit for Protestant services. Seats are arranged like those of a railroad coach, so that the backs face either end of the building. Reversal of the benches thus changes the church from one de- nomination to the other as de- sired. The church seats about 75 ASKSINDIAN OFFCE PROBEDISHISSAL Commissioner Burke Con- tends Charges Unsupported and Backed by Malice. January is Charles H. Burke, commissioner of Indian‘ affairs, today formally re- quested a subcommittee of the House Indian affairs committee to dismiss its nquiry into charges of maladmin- istration of his office Burke contended that the charges made by Hugh L Murphy, former judge of Okmulgee County, Okla., had not been sustained. The inquiry cen- tered upon conditions in Oklahoma and the evidence presented at lengthy hearings has involved * settlement through the Indian office of estates of Saber and Martha Jackson, wealthy restricted Indians of that State. In his request Burke referred both to Murphy and to George M. Swift, an attorney of Okmulgee County, OKla., as the complainants. He asserted that: “The charges upon which this in- vestigation is based were conceived by George M. Swift, with an iniqui- tous and malignant design to injure the commissloner of Indian affalrs, prompted by a spirit of hatred and revenge, because of the refusal of the Department of the Interior to allow his claim for large fees that he was not entitled to receive from the es- tates of two full-blood restricted In- dians. “That Murphy, who signed the charges, was the willing tool of George M. Swift, having no personal knowledge of the facts to which he made affidavit, and was used by Swift only because for a short period he (Murphy) had been a county judge. “That from the testimony in these hearings it clearly appears that George M. Swift, in his connections with -the Saber and Martha Jackson cases, was guilty of unethical and reprehensible conduct and that he is unreliable and unworthy of belief. “That none of the cases has been sustained, but on the contrary have all been disproved and the testimony vindicates the commissioner of In- dian affairs of any maladministra- tion.” Burke Upholds Course. “I believe we were within the law and had the right to do what we did, Burke asserted. “I would do the same thing under the same circumstances now.” Never from any source, since the marriage of Jackson Barnett, wealthy Indian, whose estate one of the charges of maladministration in- volves, has there been any suggestion of misconduct on the part of Mrs. Barnett, Burke declared, but on the other hand she has been his dutiful and faithful wife. Make No Deciaion. W. W. Pryor, Holdenville, Okla., attorney, addressing the committee in opposition to Burke's motion to dis- charge the charges, made a vigorous plea. His information was, he de- clared, that Mrs. Barnett was not any “sweet-smelling geranium on the breast of soclety.” The committes then without any discussion Burke motion, with the charges ‘in the Martha and Saber Jackson, Jackson Barnet and Rich- mond Bruner cases of Indians closed adjourned as to the hearing of New Mexican Envoy Coming. MEXICO, CITY, January 23.—The new Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Manuel Tellez, is leav- ing next week to assume his duties in Washington, where he was for- merly-charge d'affaires. RAIL INTEREST CUT IN APPROVED BILL Roads to Get U. S. Funds Re- duced if They Show Dis- aster Impends. A bin interest authorizing rates on a reduction vernment in ad- vances to railroads was approved to- | day by the Senate interstate commerce committee The measure given approval, a sub- stitute for onc which has been the subject of hearings, provides that when necessary the rate shall be so reduced as to exceed by only quarter of 1 per cent the amount paid by the Government for money bor- rowed by it. Jt i3 further provided that in no case could the rate given the roads e less than 41 per cent. Might Embarrass Roads. one- During the hearings the cammittee | was told that a reduction of the pre- ent rates, which vary under different conditions, was absolutely imperative if some of the roads owing money to the Government are to avoid serioys financial consequences. Under the bill reported the Inter- state Commerce Commission Wwould be given authority, when a road ap- plied for a reduction, to inquire into the case and, if circumstances rant, certify to the Treasury that a reduction of interest Is funding “or other financlal operation to prevent impairment of service that would be caused by appointment of a receiver.” Upon receipt of such notice, the Treasury would “ascertain the aver- age price pald for money by the United States during the last pre- ceding year,” and put that average rate plus one-quarter per cent on the Federal indebtedness of the carrier. LONG-HAUL BILL ARGUED. Backers Would Make Charge Same as for Short Distances. Concluding their presentation of ar- guments in support of the Gooding bill, which would prohibit rallroads from charging less for long hauls than for short hauls over the route. proponents of the measure to- day urged the House commerce com- mittee to lose no time in submitting a favorable report so that the House may have an opportunity to vote on the proposal at this session. KELLOGG FIXES DATE FOR QUITTING LONDON Successor to Secretary of State Hughes Will Sail for Home February 18. Frank B. Kellogg, Who gives up his post as Ambassador to Great Britain to become Secretary of State on March 4, is expected to sail for the United States on the Berengaria, February 18. Mr. Kellogg fixed that sailing date subject to approval by the State Department and today Secretary Hughes advised him that the plan was entirely satisfactory. The Secretary-designate is expected to spend some time in conference with President Coolidge and State Depart- ment officials before he takes up his new dutles. ROBBERS SEIZE CITIZENS. Bind Wakeful Portion of Illinois Townsfolk and Loot Bank. WHITEHALL, Ill, January 23— Robbers descended upon the little town of Alsey, near here, early to- day, ‘bound. the wakeful portion of the citizenry in chairs in a restaur- ant, then :looted the Alsey State Bank:of its entire fund of cash and all negotiable paper, according to re- ports reaching here. CHINESE DECLARE TRUCE. Contending Armies Call Off Fight- ing to Celebrate New Year. By the Associated Pres: SHANGHAI, January 23.—Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang, former military gover- nor of Chekiang, and Gen. Chi Shieh- yuan, whose armies have been con- testing for the control of the Shang. hal district, have declared a week’ truce over the Chinese New Year. war- | necessary | to permlit the carrier to carry out re- | same | China Beheads 200 For Not Growing Opium Is Report SHA. HAI, China, —A prominent missionary province of Fukicn had beheaded 200 Christian Chi farmers b The missiongr added that though the Chinese officials compelling the farmers to culti- vate opium, 1,500 Christian fami- lies had refused to obey the orders and that the executions followed. PORTER IS READY 10 EAVE PARLEY Opium Discussion in Present Stage, He Fears, Would Bar Future Chances. January 23 today cause al- By the Assoelated Press GENEV. January 23.—A private meeting today between Representa- tive Stephen G. Porter of the United States and Viscount Cecil of Great Britain, in an attempt to save the opium conference from a breakdown, resulted in failure. Mr. Porter stated that unless condi- | tions changed radically he would re- |turn to United States |tew @ “I cons |ed such a stage that my continued presence would imperil The Hague oplum convention,” Mr. Porter said. Opposes Commission Idea. Mr. Porter told Lord Cecil that the plan for appointing a joint cor gion from the present and earlier con- ferences to discuss the problem of opium smoking proposed by some of the delegates as a means of saving the present conferen was not ac- ceptable to the Americans. Mr. Porter considers this plan unsatis- factory an useless, o the gra d that the members of the commission representing the present conference would have no officlal standing owing to the contention on the part of many of the countries that the present o ference has no competency to discuss opium smoking. Mr. Porter expressed the opinion that the best procedure would be to convoke a new conference with opium smoking clearly on the agenda Lora Cecll told Mr. Porter he had not looked favorably on the proposal | of some of the smaller states to ad- Jjourn the conference for about a year, but was not final. He usked the can represent&tive to remain and il'unlpl(‘le the narcotic drug conven- | tion, leaving the question of oplum | smoking for further treatment in the future. Mr. Portér declined t prop- | osition because he believed two problems were inseparable. within a the No New Concessions. | Other efforts to save the conference | will continue tuis afternoon and this | evening. According to the Ameri- {cans, the ~ powers having oplum- smoking colonles in the Far East | have made no new concessions, but | are standing by their demands that { the suppression of smoking within a specified period be conditional upon the reduction of opium production in China—which condition is unaccept- able to the Americans | The joint commission Iidea was levolved as a possible means of get- {ting around the difficulty ‘caused by | the fact that the British and other delegations maintain that the opium- smoking problem lay entirely within one, and that the latter conference is not' competent officially to take up the problem of opium smoking, as in- | sisted by Mr. Porter. Look for Adjournment. League of Natlon's offictals said to- “da,\' that as a result of further con- |ferences with leaders like Lord Cecil, | Dr. Zahle and M. Daladier of France, an adjournment would probably be favored by the lea authorities pro- vided they became convinced no |agreement now was possible Some of the smaller states seem anxious to adopt the adjournment al- ternative as a means of presery the prestige of the League of Nations, under whose auspices the conferences have been held. A group of representatives of such states, headed by Michael Mac- ‘White of the Irish Free States, called on Mr. Porter last night and urged him to favor a long adjournment if an accord seemed impossible at this time. The idea is that the next as- sembly of the league would convoke a new conference embracing both nar- cotic control and opium smoking. HAS PLENARY POWER. "lmmc(hau-l_\' preceding the present | i cuss Porter’s Action in Geneva. Representative Porter, chairman of the American delegation at the Geneva oplum conference, who has threatened to withdraw and return to the United States, is conducting the negotiations with full plenary powers and without any set instructions. He has not re- ported very fully to Washington dur- ing the last few days. Should Mr. Porter come home, it is considered possible that his colleagues on the delegation may remain and continue (Continued on Page 3, Column See Auto Show With The Sunday Star Every person intending to go to the automobile show next ‘week, every one interested in motors and motoring, every present and prospective owner of an automobile, should make it 2 point to procure a copy of The Sunday Star for January 25. The motor section of next Sun- day's Star will be filled to the brim with timely articles writ- ten especially for The Star by the country’s foremost writers on motoring topics. There will also be many pictures of the new models and numerous valu- able suggestions for making your ‘visit to the show enter- taining and profitable. You'll be sorry if you miss the motor section of The Sunday Star er the situation has reach- | said his decision on this point | Ameri- | the province of the first conference, | State Department Declines to Dis- | SE000000 PLAN FORU.S. BUNLDINGS INDCHELDVITL Priceless Records Stored in i Firetraps Prove Need, ‘. Committee Told. | | WOULD REBUILD ENTIRE i SOUTH SIDE OF AVENUE Miller Declares Property Should Be Condemned and Model “Work- shops” for Government Erected. | ‘ The crying need for expendit f $50,000,000 within the next 3 |on the of F ral buildings |in the National Capital to house the | en1 of the ment the ble erection ing and dollars’ agences safeguard worth of val documents new stored in “firetraps further emphasized at the hearing befors t House building Govern- millions of was committes on public |ana grounds to. get an | the the ¢ suffer through ir especially for ti tal suggestions to w limitations upon ar should expended in th met with vigorous opposit Representative Magee a member of the subcomn Treast mittee, rest of Sty adequate into ti runt the be Distr appropria ed the n &S ir ns co! ed for ¢ the Nat B he sai where of the te emplo it ard. He ex that if a fire s ve time Would Rebuild on Avenue. Chair Elliott said of the country is represer appropriations committee whilt the District of no representative, so the country as if the rest of to be able to look after its own terests when each item for a butlding comes up for considerat During deba the bill Repre- sentative Mi Tllinois declare that if he had his way he would con- demn all property along the south side of Pennsylvania avenue and build utility workshops for the Govern- ment instead of monumental struc- tures. Representative Magee told the com- mittee bluntly that this bill can be i put through at this session of Con- | 8ress, which will make a splendid | start on cleaning up the public b | ings needs of the country. He warn ed the committee that no other build- ing bill than the one now before the committee, which carries the indorse- ment of the Treasury, and which is not inconsistent with the financlal policy and program of the Preside can be passed at this session ought Approves New Bill. Representative Magee explained the committee that this new style of a public buildings bill logical out- growth of the budget system. It brings | public buildings within the provision of the budget system. The appropriations committee requires full details, and will hold hearings on each item. It merely gives to the Secretars of the Treasury who has custody of public buildings, the right to make re smmendation on what building projects he believes are most necessary for the Government to do business efficiently. The primary object is to get efficiency in the public service The Post Office Department now has not proper facilities for efficient service, he said He expressed the opinion that there will be no material objection in t House to this bill and that if this bi does not pass there will be no public buildings erected fo ars the Bureau of Internal Building at Fifteenth and B the thousards of employes would not have time to jump out of the win- dows, and documents, including h dreds of millions of dollars’ worth | of records, would be burned up with- in 15 minutes, if a fire started, Repre- sentative Magee said. for another Revenue streets Elltott Sponsors Bill. When Representative Busby asked if this bill was not a cloak to get a general public buildings bill through with the $50,000,000 whioh President Coolidge advocated for the District of Columbia when it seemed as if a general public buildings bill could not be passed Representative Elliott, au- | thor of the bill, hastily replied that it had been infroduced on his own initiative, and not on the suggesti of any Government official Representative Magee replied that the buildings needs of the Govern- ment in the District of Columbia should be provided for the protection of records of the Government and for efficlency of service. He called at- tention to the fact that the Under- secretary of the Treasury in his tes- timony yesterday had said that only $5,000,000 for 10 years would be used in the District. Bill Backed by New. Chairman Elliott read a letter fr the Postmaster General in which he recorded his entire approval of the Ibill, saying that in his opinion it | embodies the best suggestion fo | public buildings legislation that has been made for some time. The Post- master General had suggested to the director of the budget that the build- ing program in the District should be separated from the general public building program. He also suggested that in view of the fact that most of the money would be spent throughout the country on post office buildings the Postmaster General should have concurrent authority with the Secretary of the Treasury. When Representative Almon of Ala- bama suggested that a limitation on the amount to be spent in the District out of the $150,000,000 should be made, Representative Magee said it would be better to “trust” the appro- priations committee. It was at this point that Chairman Elliott called at- tention that the District was without representation. Representative Miller of Tllinois said “that is one reason why it might be well to fix the figure for the pro- tection of the National Capital.” Henry H. Kendall, past president of the Soclety of Architects and super- (Continued on Page 3, Column )