Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1925, Page 1

( —_— WEATHER. I] (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Snow this afternoon and tonight, ond class matter shington, D. C. Closlng Stock Prices in 5130 Edition, Entered as s post oflice, W No. 29,493, b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, $31.016,957 BUDGET FOR D. C. REPORTED:; $1,814.803 INCREASE House Committee, Submitting Measure, Attempts to Continue Lump-Sum System. DECLARES CAPITAL’S FINANCIAL CONDITION ONE OF BEST IN U. S. Says Return to 60-40 Basis Is Ques- tion for Congress to Decide in Granting Appropriation. Old and New D. C. Bills Compared Appropriated, 16 Payable from D. C. reve- nues (on 60 per cent basis) $ Payable from U. S. Treasury (on 40 per cent basis) From gasoline tax From water revenues . ,028.083.21 $17.295456.60 $19,982,747.00 | 11,530,304.40 722,500.00 9.000.000.00 925,000.00 . 1.219.070.00 722, 812,000.00 122221000 1,222,210.00 $30,770,471.00 $31,016,957.00 Total $29,172,153.21 I'he District appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next was reported to the House today, carrying appro-| priations totaling $31,016,957, which is an increase of $1,844.803 | over the current appropriations and an increase of $246,486 over| he budget recommendations. | The House appropriations committee, in reporting this bill.| attempts to continue the lump-sum contribution ($9,000,000),! which is law for the current year only, with reference to the | sharing by the Federal Government in the Capital’s expenses. Jt| however, that: | | | Vs, | “Whether we should continue the lump-sum policy inau- gurated in the current appropriation act or go back to the 60-40| some other proportionate percentage plan is for the Con- gress to determine.” Tt discusses the division of expense at) length. - le HEALTHY FINANCIAL CONDITION, “There probably is no municipality in the country in a. healthier financial condition than the Nationat Capital,” the re-| port emphasizes. | i With the exception of a single item | current appropriation act of contrib- In the Interior Department appropri-.LMting a fixed, definite sum and to ation bill account of Freedmen's | 2llow the mxs!rlfil to receive full | et g = egu. | credit for a miscellaneous lot of reve- | v"r f:.,,.;,;h:..:r‘,‘:.;.r::fi: ;»,.T:gifl» nue which, up until the present fiscal i el 2 ? As year, had been credited to the United partly to the Treasury of the Unlted | States and the District of Columbia States and partly to the revenues of | in the proportion that each had been fhe District of Columbfa, including | supporting these miscellaneous reve- appropriations on account of park | Nue-producing agencies, areas under the jurisdiction of the “During the fiscal year 1924 the| Superintendent of Public Buildings | Government's share of such revenues | and Grounds, the Zoological Park and | 3mounted to $858,254.76. For the pres. for certain work being performed un- | it fiscal year and for next year‘the der ‘the supervision of the Engineer | to1als are.not more or less problem. e (e [ dtpes it oay ot o atical. This class of revenue was ap- Rertuent SC e AImy. oh preciably affected by the gasoline tax for support of the tourist law, which operates to reduce the in- {or sunnoic come from motor vehicle tags, but S A many of the other sources are of an T dngatiie expansive character and ultimately, el e if not immediately, should produce | L gio AN more than enough to offset this tem- practicable to make any substantial porary setback. reductions in the budget proposals On the contrary, a number of situa- tions presented themselves which the committee felt should not pass un- heeded, and it has, therefore, in a number of instances, seen fit to exceed the budget estimates, the net aggre- gate of such excesses being $245,456.” on today camp in Po- increases over the the committee re- as found it im- Leaves Decislon to Congrexs. “Whether we should continue the ! lump sum policy inaugurated in the | current appropriation act or go back to the 60-40 or some other proportion- | ate percentage plan is for the Con- gress to determine. “The following table portrays the operation of both plans: 1. Total of divisible appropriations, 102 £20200 505.58; 105, 357, 0 hrom e Sat, 1024 47, Federal Government's share, 149,500,000; | Changes From Budget. | The biggest increase for salaries is | the office of the Engineer Commi: sioner, with an allowance of $11,500 above the budget recommendations, and the biggest salary decrease under the budget figures in the Public Library allotment, which is cut down 58,640, The biggest inc bill is for salaries in the polic providing for additional officers, which is $219,770 more than current appropriations and $233,500 more than the budget recommended. Provis is made for of 128 additional policemen whom are to be regularly ass wrafiic work Eighty-six contemplated substitut ir 1924, 1926, What Federal Government's s have been or would be on 6040 by $10.511,233.25; 1926, £11,593,098. 80, age of item 1626, 34, 4.76 of this amount w Deducting this sum, the item 2 of item 1 would be 35 15800.000 represents estiviated Government’s share of mis which this year. and next terms of the bili. will the District of Columbia. g8, 159,500~ hare would 1925, 19 asis; | in the whole force, = of item 1, 1924, i1l be refund- ns : Percentage of amount et llaneous revenne year under the be credited wholly to spointment 60 of gned to “The contributions from the eral Treasury made and proposed for 1925 and 1926, respectively, work out to be 36 and 34 per cent, respeetively. Taking into account the refunds i the Government from miscellaneous revenue in 1924, the Governments share for that year actually was 35 per cent and not 40 per cent, and the 35 per cent was approximately the | same proportion as the current fiseal year and as proposed for 1926, 1f tne 50-40 had been in effect for the fisen] year 1925 and were proposed for the | fiscal year 1926, the United States, jn- stead of paving approximately $.50 000 for each of those years would required to contribute $10, for 1925 and $11,593,095.50 | These comparisons state the lump sum fixed percentag. ed- teachers are 24 of whom will be Funds are made imme- diately available under the bill so as to provide improved heating and lighting facilities in a number of ol buildings One of the most important street fmprovement items was put in the bill at the last moment—$100,000 for widening E street from Fifth street to Thirteenth street and Thirteenth stgeet from E street to Pennsylvania avenue to a width of 55 feet, to cor- espond with the widening of Thir- enth street last year. All of this opriation is to come out of the soline tax fund, making the total street improvements under that sum $812,000. There are g the corrections additlonal be .811,233.28 | for’ 1926, | the case of | contrasted with the tial for al and increases charities subs line Contrast With Appropriatie, “Under the lump sum plan, amount contributed by the United States—when contrasted with the to- tal amount appropriated—Is readily translited Into a percentage figure, | Inversely, on a Dercenage basis, the | percentage contribution. Is readily translated into a definite sum, oncy the total of the appropriations for the | given year is arrived at. If the lump | sum contributed by the United States | is settled at a fixed amount for g | period of years, that sum will roxxrp~l sent a decreasing percentage of the total amount to be paid from the Federal Treasury and an increasing percentage to be paid from the Dis- trict’s revenues as the grand total of the appropriations increases year by year. 'So, too, if the grand total should decrease and the fixed sum remained unchanged, the percentage of the United States would increase and that from District revenues would decrease, “The permanent adoption of th lump-sum plan ultimately will involve a determination of what should con- stitute a fair and just rate of tax- ation for the people of the District of Columbia to pay for the benefits and " (Continued_on Page 4, Column 1,)_~ ’ In endeavoring to justify the lump 000,000 as a substitute for the de proportion of 60 per cent by District taxpayers and 40 per cent from the Federal Treasury, the com- mittee makes clear t under the definite proportion policy, which is still the general law, the real share of the Fede Government in upkeep and development of the Nation's Cap- ital wonld be $11,573,098.30 instead of the flat $9,000,000 offered Fixeal Polley Explained. Discussing the fiscal policy the re- port filed by Pepresentative Charles 2. Davis, Republican, of Minnesota, will be seen from the opening aph of the bill that it proposes the imposition of a total charge ainst Federal funds of $9,000,000, > same amount as will be contrib- uted during the present fiscal year, the bill being shaped with respect to the division of the expenses of the District of Columbia for the ensuing fiscal year exactly as is the law for the fiscal year now current—i. e., in lieu of appropriating on a percentage bhasis, as had been the practice prior 1o the fiscal vear 1925, it is proposed to continus the. policy imitiated in the parag | Neighbors rushed TUDENT SHOOTS WIDOW ENDS LIFE Woman Expected to Die. Shot After Refusing to Wed Youth. Ry the Associated Press CLARKSBURG, W ~—Neeson C. Woods, a freshman in the law school of Yale Univers shot and killed himself early tod. after he had fired two shots into the body of Mrs. Georgia Warder, 23-year- old widow of Bridgeport, W. Va. The tragedy was believed to have been used by Mrs. Warder's refusal to marry the young student A taxicab driver who had driven Woode and Mrs. Warder from Clarks- burg to the home of Wades Sanbridge, her brother, in Bridgeport, whe she lived, heard Woods say as he stood upon the steps of the home ‘Well, if you don't marry me nobody else can_have-you.” TheFouple went into the house and soon” the driver heard the shots. to the house and Mrs. Warder was taken to a hos- pital where it was said she probably would not live. One bullet entered her head and the other ncar her heart. Woods and Mrs. Warder, accom- panied by the student’s mother, Mrs. J. Hop Woods, had dined together in Clarksburg in the evening. They had visited for a time at a hotcl \Qh}’re ‘Woods and his mother were stopping and the young couple left for Bridge- port in a taxicab. Woods’ father, J. Hop “'u(\d{, as a p rominent attorney in West Virginia and died a few years ago. The stu- dent, who was graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan last June, entered Yale last fall and came to Clarks- burg for a visit this week. Mrs. Warder is a native of Bridge- port. Her former husband, Oran Warder, was killed, accidentally, a few years ago. She has a son, Oran, about 4 years old. She and Woods had been friendly for some time, but, it was said, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sanbridge, had opposed her marriage to the student. Va., January 20 SLAIN, 20 WOUNDED IN STRIFE IN SHANGHAI Battle Follows Effort of Victors to Disarm Defeated Army of Chi Hsieh-yuan. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, January 29.—Twenty persons were killed and 20 injured today in a thickly,settled section of the Chinese district when a small contingent of victorious troops, rep- resenting Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang and the Central Chinese government, were resisted when they attempted to dis- arm about 1,000 defeated Kiangsu troops of Chi Hsieh-yuan, deposed leader. The spirited exchange of shots was ended by the appearance of reinforce- ments, which compelied the Kiangsu troops to submit to disarmament. The panic that resulted when the sooting started resulted in the death or in- jury of a number of non-combatants. Woman to Cast Wyoming Vote. DENVER, Colo.,, January 29.-—Mrs. E. C. Giddings of Fort Collins, the first white child born in Larimer County, will cast Colorado’s six elge- toral votes for President Coolidge. Mrs. Giddings is In Washington awaiting the meeting of the electoral college. Alaska Deer Starve Cold Ruins Vineyards of Caucasus By the Associated Pres: JUNEAU, Alaska, January 29.— Deer are starving to death in great numbers on Baronoff, Admiralty and other islands -southwest of here after the heaviest snowfall in many years, according to official reports received from Sitka and other points today. The crew of a gasoline boat ar- riving from Gambier Bay, Admi- ralty Island, counted nearly 200 carcasses on the beach between Point Hugh and Point Arden, where they were driven by the cold to eat kelp. E. M. Goodard, game warden at Sitka, has requested from officials in Washington, D. C., authoriza- tion to employ men to cut hem- lock and other brush for the deer. BATUM, Georgia, January 29.— Vineyards and orchards valued ap C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, ¢ Toening Star. 1925 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. FELLER b7 WHo's AFRAID O'GETTIN Non-Stop Flight, Paris to N Ty the Awsociated Press PARIS, January secretary of state is credited the papers with organi rplane flight York. It is said_that the trip will be made in a 300-horsepower single- motor monoplane and that it is ex- pected the voyage will require hours FORBES CASE GOES 29.—The under- aeronautics by evening news- ng a non-stop from Paris to New |Veterans’ Bureau Trial Near: Completion After Session of Two Months. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jnauary 29.—The ans’ Bureau conspiracy t its .end today after more months. Only the final argument Government counsel and the court instructions remained for the ing session, with indications the would be given to the jurv soon afte the opening of the afternoon s Counsel anticipated a quick verdi Charles R. Forbes, former directo of the United States Veterans' reau, and J. W. Thompson, wealth building contractor of Chicago v than tw an Judge George A. Carpenter on vember 24 last, charged with spiracy to defraud through veterans' hospital contract The proceedings grew out of sen sational charges of corruption, collu sion and loose management in th Veterans' Bureau under Forbes i | 1921 and 1922, related before the Sen ate investigating committee in th | Fall of 1923 by Elas H. Mortime Washington agent and s If-style “'snipper of official red tape. No First of Many Defendants. The defendants were the first sons brought to trial in criminal ceedings as a result of the far-flun series of Senate investigat crowded the history of 192: Thirty-three overt acts were fied in the indictment trial was based, among spiracy to prevent free bidding, favoritism ons whic] speci them co competitiv confidential information relating t selection of sites. In its opening statement, and argument, the evidenc: prosecution con ner, J. W. Black of St. Louis, deceased, entered into a conspirac with Mortimer and Forbes early i for the bids of the subsidiary an associated companies of Thompsa and Black. Mortimer’s Part in Case. Mortimer, who posed, according t of official Washington, was taken int his_pretended influence with Forbe: viously been a partner ~ “(Continued on Page 5, of in Snow Drifts; millions of dollars have been de- stroved by the unexampled cold which prevails throughout the Caucasus. The famous Abraudurso vineyards in the northern Cau- casus, which have supplied Russia with its finest champagne, are completely ruined, and many vine- vards noted for white and red wines have suffered a similar fate. Great areas of lemon and tange- rine trees In ‘the Batum district have succumbed. There is three feet of snow in the Tiflis and Baku districts and all the oil wells are idle. Anxiety is felt for the effect of the con- tinued freezing weather upon next year's wheat crops. w York, Planned in France) 10 JURORS TODAY s near morn- case on Bu- St. Louts, went to trial before Federal con- the Government | per- pro- and 1924, on which the for certain con- tractors in the announcement of con- templated projects and the passing of tended that Thompson and his part- since 1922 to obtain preferential treatment the trial record, as a close friend of President Harding and one who com- manded entree in the highest ciroles the enterprise, he testified, because of Forbes, it is charged, having pre- of C. B. , Column 1) By Hoover to Uses Private Fortune to Make Up for Small Salaries. Instance Shows Need for Increases for Scientific Men. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM W Herbert LE. Hoover spent $100,000 in 1924—of his own money-—to promote efliciency in the Department of Com- merce. The funds were mainly de- voted to the remuneration of em ployes necessary, in Hoover's estima- tion, to maintaln the right kind of standards in his department. When the Secretary of Commerce realized that it was impossible to obtain ade- quate appropriations from Congress {he determined to delve into his pri- }\a(c fortune for the purpose. | There is no oMcial record of this | wholly unprecedented and unselfish | contribution to national service. It | bax not been revealed by Mr. Hoover { himself. It comes to this writer from 11 unquestionable quarter in connec- | tion with discussion, now rampant in | every department of the Government, |of President Coolidge's insistence upon dismissal of superfluous Federal employes. The Hoover plan of self- help, where the budget cannot help, Senate Is Asked To Punish Papers In Secrecy Breach The proposal to discipline news- papers that print secret proceed- ings of the Senate has been brought forward in definite form by Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, as a result of the publicity given to a recent execu- tive session for discussion of the Stone Supreme Court nomination Senator Reed has submitted to the rules committee a resolution under which newspapers which permit news about executive pro- ceedings to appear in their columns would be barred from repr tion in the Senate press gallery nators, however, appear to re- the likelihood of any such step as remote, and many of them greet with smiles any suggestion that the immemorial practice of publishing news about executive sessions can be stopped. Senator Reed, however, is convinced some- thing can be done about it and will urge the committee to bring his proposal to a vote. (LD SERUN S USED INNOHE EPDEN Anti-Toxin of Five Years Ago Aids in Stopping Diph- theria Sweep. Ry the Associated Press NOME. Ala January 29 | demic-stricken Nome, fighting aga : |the spread’ of hundreds of cases of | diphtheria today with antitoxin units five years old, was demonstrating to ! the medical world that aged antitoxin, thought worthless after six months, retains its curative powers for years. Under the press of necessity medi- cal men here were forced to experi- | ment with the old supply of antitoxin | While dog teams were racing over 500 miles of snow-bound trails, hastening to this town from Anchorage and ! Nenana with 300,000 fresh units. Dr.| Curtis Welsh in charge of the forces| fAighting the epidemic pointed today to | the results obtained from the use of | | the old serum. | | _Most of the deaths have béen among | Eskimos, whole families being afflict- | |ed In many instances. The Barnett| | family lost a small boy and their young daughter had contracted the| disease, although she has shown im- provement after injection of a supply | of 0ld serum gar S INSURGENTS 0UT OF 6. 0.P. CAUCUS Republican Leaders Exclude La Follette Followers From Party List. ot | Goex to Meet Dog Teamn. Leonard Seppalla, dog sweepstakes | winner, left yesterday with a fast Siberian team of 20 dogs to meet re- lay teams from Nenana .which are carrying 300000 autitoxin units sent | m Anc by Dr. o eppatle har® o . B Beesoh.| Republican House leaders moved to- ®oing nearly 400 miles toward Nenana | 4a¥ to bar La Follette insurgents and then returning on the same route. | fTom the party caucus, whicn wil b2 Prof. Rynning, superintendent of | held February 27, to select candidate | public schools been taken i1l with!for Speaker and floor leade .lur;;‘:\h-:ilru_“hu: ‘h‘!!x"t‘"mll(l(on has iM-, Invitations to the confe proved. Mrs. am Cameron, an- Ga i b eprosen The board of health declared the|Wo0d. of Indiana, chairman of the epidemic conditions were somewhat|Republican congressional campaizn {committee, who was authorized Ly the better. | Republican committee on committe:s FLYER OFFERS TO AID. {to invite all Republican men:bers-elect p ] of the House to participate. Dog Teams, Eowever. .| No invitation was sent to Represent- = e Reeard. | N hior Ve bounsin s oo e ed as Safer. |the La Follette insurgent bloc, : : E | manager of the La Follette presi- Seian dential campaign, or to auy other o mechanicians the nine Wisconsin Representatives, N who, although re-elected as Repub- 400 miles to Nome in one of three | . ¢ 3 airplanes stationed here, arrange |licans, supported Senator La Follette ments were made today to rush by | for President. . call also excluded Representa- fast dog teams, running in relays, a |, TP€ 3 B supply of 1,000,000 units of diptheria tives Keller of Minnesota, Sinclair of antitoxin on receipt from Seattle via Seward, Alaska, to the quarantined town of Nome. | Roy 8. Darling, special investigator | for the Department of Justice and a | former Navy flver, volunteered his | With the La Follette forces, were in- services, but Delegate Dan Suther- |vited to the caucus, organization lead- land sent word from Washington that | ers holding that during the recent the dangerous trip must be made by |campaign they did not show open hos- dog teams instead of by airplane. | tility to the Republican national The antitoxin units are to leave |ticket. Seattle Saturday on the steamship| The move today is in line with ac- Alameda. | tion already taken by Senate Repub- 3 cans, who have barred from party PLANE MAY BE USED. | couneils Senator La Follette and g other Senators, who supported him for the presideney. | | | or t o ¥ d nes wera e n = Alaska, January 29.— | aviator and volunteer were available to fly & h York, all of whom have been active in_the insurgent group. Half a dozen or more Representa- tives who have been allied at times e o} v n di n Navy Department Approval Sought by Sutherland. Possibility that an attempt might be made to send anti-toxin to Nome | by airplane was revived today, when | Delegate Sutherland of Alaska ob- | tained from the Department of Jus- | &) tice permission for Roy S. Darling, a department investigator and a for. mer Navy flyer, to make the trip ve not been binding. from TFairbanks. Before arrange- | *'ons 'ie MWith the fssuance of the ments for such a trip can be com. | CoteldqTt L Te TRANECE Mative pleted, however, he said, the Navy|fmaco’or \Wisconsin, one of those not Department must pass on ' the pro-|{ "8t ™ 5orended his sctivity as a posal. o n it V] supporter of La %ollette in a spee Meanwhile, Mr. Sutherland said, ar- | SUPPSrter o b0k team were helas eartin o o DEBUTANTE IS KIDNAPED, THEN LEFT ON ROADSIDE Conditions at Nome, he said, showed By the Associated Press some improvement. The temperature today was about 14 degrees below zero, and atmospheric conditions were favorable to flying. A landing, he sald, could be made on the sea sur- face off Nome. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, January 29—Mary Ellen Mellon, 19-year-old debutante, was kidnaped, gagged. bound and left on the roadside by two burglars, who entered the home of her stepfather, R. D. Halliburton, head of a large department store, shortly after midnight. Miss Mellon was hysterical when found by a watchman for a hospital and was suffering from shock today. She said the men entered the house soon after the rest of the family had retired and left her downstairs alone. They dragged her to their car, she said, and, after taking her scveral Resume ‘Caucus” Designation. Representative Wood _designated the ‘meeting as a *caucus,” indicating that Republicans of the House will resume the practice of binding their membership to decisions reached at such conferences. For several years | meetings of House Republicans have - | been called ‘“conferences” and deci- o o SR e CONFESSES KILLING GIRL. Army Private Says He Was Jeal- ous of Comrade. PROVIDENCE, R. I, January 29— Private George Carmark Cordy, 22, stationed at Fort Adams, Newport, today confessed, according to the police, that he killed Mary Gleason, whose body was recently found in a deep moat at the reservation of Fort Adams. lRadio Programs—Page 36. blocks, depositéd her unharmed at the roadside near a hospital. She said the men made no attempt to rob or etherwise harm her. Cordy said he formerly kept com- pany with Miss Gleason and resented her engagement to Private George P. _ . Henderson, & comrada, a | North Dakota and LaGuardia of New | The Star’ every city “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ’s carrier system -covers block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,079 TWO CENTS. $100,000 of Own Money Spent Pay U. S. Experts SECRETARY HOOVER. is not ely to among executive chiefs in ton. Barring perhaps Secretary lon, there is no member of the cabi net able to make so heavy a draft on his own resources as Hoover did last vear. But when the Secretary of Commerce's amazing action becomes known, it is likely to draw the atten- tion of Congress and the country at large to uation that long has nored for remedy. That situation Column prove contagious Washing ge 20 ON SHIP FEARED Schooner Rawlings Struggles Five Days in Storm to Stop Leak and Disappears. NORFOLK, for help In a Quarters, Va, Herbert L. Rawlings h and is believed to have gone down The Suard cutter which was sent to the aid of the sel, reported that no trace of Rawlings could be found The crew, consisting men, had been working for five days, bailing water from the hold, where it has been rolling in as a result of a buffeting heavy sea. The schooner was first reported by | the American tank steamer Tulsagas, which sighted her about 150 miles south of the Virginia »es. The Rawlings was caught in a storm last Saturday and veered off her course. Sig- E gale off the schooner s disappeared, Coast Gres m of despera 20 bout | Carries Cargo of Salt. | . Bound for New | Island with = York from Turks cargo of s e vessel |is said to have made tedious prog- until Saturday, when the le | was followed by the raising of a |a signal. "The crew was be- lieved to have been almost fatigued {by its strugzle with the pumps against a great inflow of water, and their work was hampered by an endless surge of the stormy billows Off Winter Quarters, the vessel was 20-odd miles from shore, and there was little chance that her human car- g0 could have been rescued, if fate was to go down in the sea, for no other vessel was near enough to lend assistance when the Gresham started out for the scene. The storm of the past few days has been so heavy that the Shipping Board vessel Paria w unable to take on a pilot and was given the attention of the cutter Carrabassatt M'CARL ress stress her AND WILBUR Controller General and Secretary of Navy Summoned in Naval Pay Suit. Justice William Hitz of the Dis- trict Supreme Court today issued a rule on J. Raymond McCarl, control- ler general of the United and on Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, to show cause Febriary 13 why they should not be enjoined from withholding any portion of the pay of Lieut. William D. Thomas, U. S. N, and of 61 other naval officers. Despite an injunction issued against the officials by Justice Hoehl- ing at the suit of Lieut. Comdr. Cox, in which the court held that no authority of law withholding pay of the naval officers for a supposed claim of the United States, the court is told by Lieut. Thomas, who sues for an for himself and on behalf of 61 other naval officers similarl, situated per cent of his pa fixed by Con- gress is being withheld to meet ruling by the controller general Controller General McCarl has ap | pealed the Cox case and so continues to decline, it is stated, to permit the payment of full salaries to those officers against whom he contends there exist claims in favor of the United States for unauthorized pay- ments of certain allowances to these officers. Attorneys John W. Price, Leckie, Cox & Sherier appear for the naval officers. Siates TROTSKY QIBTS Moscow IN SEARCH OF HEALTH By the Associated Pres MOSCOW, Januar. sky, the former Soviet w who recently was duties as chairman of the revolution- ary war council by the executive committee of the Communist part has left Moscow for southern sia, according to an announcement made by the Rosta Agency, the official Soviet news bureau Trotsky, who has been in failing health for some time, wijll endeavor Leon Trot- r minister, Mel- | LOST OFF VIRGINIA the | CITED IN INJUNCTION : for | injunction | relieved of his | Rus- | to effect a cure for his ailment under | [the paimy climate of the south, RULING ON VALIDIY OFRENTACTDENED BY STONE AND BALL Report That Attorney Gen- eral Had 0. K.’d Measure Quickly Disavowed. OPINION NEVER SOUGHT ON PROPOSAL, HE SAYS Court Decisions Are Cited in Letter From Assistant Attorney General. Reports | Stone .haa aa rent act, b neral and Se in form: After howe 1 statements e I e joint cong rent 1 of i written by Ir | Attor, General, t | der date of | constitut - als egislation invest K. Wells 24 Jany to establi mission In ry stion whether the proposed { held as a valid exerc | tutional pow upon whic can fairly | ness, a “However, certa helpful and ill Cites De Mr. ns be v Wel handed d of th been nu b | the Mr. purposed the prime constitutiona islation, but Wells sa T had extent Ived, the sed leg- T mitted by the the committe W. MacCh Rent has heard represen n of Na- tate Boards. It would that an extended me would be but Mr. Wells' lette to request al E therefore, at this t discussion cumulat was en in re- Senat upo Whale Wells in- Hof, and the that exerc which ol purpose local Distr the sed ongress has District for rament, national exercise within gislative power of a State had within the State. Brooke Case Cited of Gos and_m all the 1 Legislature which poli imited quote althousl wtion Mar questic that of proper of Block vs statement today had expressed stitutionality of 'he attent has been directed lished in th Attorney ( r | formal opi as t ¢ | t‘onality of the pendin late and control rent of Columbia “The Attorney ed n mor| that the an f nst 1to reg District eral this su has e x- | pr | Conversation Casual. In a casual conversation atoy Ball, chairman of the District committee, the Attorney ral suggested that a point to I sidered in support of such leg tion is that it be decmed dental to the constitutional power of the Federal Government to maintain | the seat of Government in such dis- Itrict and to exercise exclusive legis- lative jurisdiction Senator Ball also denied that opin- ion had been given him by the torney General in regard to the con- | stitutionality of the proposed rent legislation. Senator Ball said Deniex Press Reporis. “I not n the public press of this morning what purports to be an in- terview between the ¥ General of the United States yself, and | that Attorney Genera > is cred- ited with giving an opinion on the | constitutionality of the rent act in the District of Columbia and on the power of Congress to enact such a law l “I desire to state that the Attorney General is misquoted so far as his interview is concerned. While we discussed conditions in the District generally there was nothing said to ant such an interview as appear- ed in the morning press, no opinion | being given by the Attorney Gene al” According to pinion on d the morning news- papers, Attorney General Stone | credited” with having told Senator { Ball informally that Congress has a | constitutional right to pass rent con- trol legislation for the District i Cnuses Much Commen | The report caused much comment, as the Attorney General is the chic law officer of the Government and also has been appointed by the Presi- dent to be an_Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, which may be | called upon to pass on the constitu- | tionality of rent legislation that may be enacted by Congress Senator Ball said today | would call & meeting of the joint | congr 1 committee to consid o Column ) that he