Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forec Increasing cloudiness with mill temperature today; tomorrow unset- tled, probably rain; moderate south- erly winds. Highest, 60 at 4 p.m. yes- terday: lowest, 34 at 6 a.m. yesterday. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 (. 8. t.) Full report ot page 10. o. 29,503, 1,037.—No. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he Sundiny WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1925-NINETY-FOUR PAGES. MILLION 70 SEEK ORATORIGAL PRIZES; D. C. T0 COMPETE Star Again Sponsors Capi- tal's Part in National Con- test on Constitution. WILL GIVE $300 EXTRA TO LOCAL ZONE WINNER | Victors From Se‘ven Sections of | United States Will Strive in Finals Here May 8. More than a million higk school| students in the United States, includ- ing those of the District of Columbia, @re expected to participate in the second natfonal oratorical contest, the | fnale of which will be held here May 8. The cuntest, which will have for its general su. "t “The American Con- titution,” w1l \be conducted on a ore elaborate ‘cale this year than hast, not only from the standpoint of he number of participants and ex- ent of prizes, but for the elaborate- ness of ceremonies which will mark he preliminaries and semi-finals in €vpry section of the land o So great were the beneficial resulfs o©f last year's contest that President Coolidge and the American Bar As- soclation already have indorsed this year's event, which is expected to| be epoch-making in arousing interest not only In the schools but among citizens at large. Movement Widely Supported. Few movements in the history of American education have received Buch widespread commendation and support. It was largely because of numerous and insistent requests from outstanding individuals and organiza- tions that it was decided to repeat the contest, which has no commercial features and is treated throughout as & clean-cut contribution toward better and more intelligent citizen- ship. The Evening Star, which sponsored the project in Washington last Spring and whose representative, Ruth Newburn, won the second prize of $1,000 in the national finals, June | 6. also will be its sponsor this vear. | The plan of awards Is even more attractive from the viewpoint of the| District of Columbia participants than before. { Many Prizes Offered. | The national prizes will total $5.000, divided as follow First, $2,000;! second, $1,000; third, $500; fourth,! $450; Aifth, $400; sixth, $350; sevehtH, | $300. In addition each major news- ! paper will offer awards in fits own | territory. o : The territory of The Evening Smr‘ 11 be divided into eight districts. Each of the seven senior high schools in Washington will rank as a distriot, and the winner in each will receive $100 in cash. The private and paro- chial high schools in the District will e up the eighth district, the | winner .in _which will also recelve | $100. The Evening Star will give, as an additional local award, $300 as the District of Columbia grand prize. Any bona fide high school student under 19 years of age on February 1, | 1925, 18 cligible. This includes girls 28 well as boys, and applies to public, private and parochial schools alike. Originality Is Required. | The orations must be original, must | Aot require more than 10 minutes for| delivery, and must be o v one of | the following subjects . tution. Washir s tion, Hamilton and Jefferson and the Constitution, Mar-| #hall and the Constitution, Madison | and the Constitution, Webster and the | Constitution, Lincoln and the L‘unsti-} tution For the purposes of this project the, Nation has been divided into en | zones. Of these the District of Co-| Jumbia is one The champion of the District of Columbia will competel with the six other zone champions in | Washington May 8. each of the na- tional finalists being assured an award ranging from $300 to $2,000. Thus the District of Columbla winner will, in addition to the $100 prize for| winning his school championship and the $300 award for the District of ¢ lumbla championship, automatically| recelve one of these national awards. | Same Method Employed. | In the District the same method of | #electing the Washington spokesman which was used last year again will | be employed—that is to say, each| school, under the direction of its own | authorities, will select its own repre- | sentative. Between April 24 and May 1 -three reputable judges will visit | eaoh school in turn, and will hear | each representative deliver his or her | oration in that friendly environment Having heard each school's repre- | sentative in that way, the judges will | designate the winner of The Evening | Star's $300 District of Columbia | award. That winner will represent the District in the national finals. | That designation (provided the win- | Wer exercises the right to speak fin | the national finals) will guarantee | the additional award, ranging be-| tween $2,000 and $300, depending upnhi | Consti-| Ui Constitu- tiie Constitution, | the rating which the spokesman re- celves in the national finals. Division of Zones. | national zones, outside of | of Columbia, which is Fone seven, are as follows | First, the Northeastern, embracing New England and castern New York. Sccond, Eastern, embracing New Jersey, Delaware, Marylund, Pennsyl- Nania and West Virginia | Third, Southern, cmbracing those States south of the Mason and Dixon | Linc and east of the Mississippi| River | Fourth, Central, embracing Michi- gan, Wisconsin, lllinois, Ohio, Indi-| ana. Kentucky and western New | York H Fifth. Midwestern, embracing those | States between the Mississippi River | and Rocky Mountains. | Sixth, Pacific, embracing the States | west of the Rocky Mcuntains. i Dr. Frank W. Baliou, superintend- | ent of Washington schools, has writ. ten the national director as follows: “I have read with much interest and -satisfaction that the national oratorical contest which was so suc- cessfully conducted last vear is to be repeated this Spring. The six the District | ¥ Ballou In Interested. | “#As superintendent of schools in| Washington I am interested in this contest not only from the standpoint | of its effect on our local school sy ‘ “(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) . | that | Asleep Ordered in ‘More Work and Less Gossip McCarl’s Office |Controller Demands Strict Compliance With Schedule, No Visiting in Office Hours and No President Coolidge’s pronouncement concerning the inordinate cost of personnel in running the Government has found an enthusiastic advocate in Controller General McCarl, who esterday issued regulations for the 300 employes of his general ac- counting office, sharply defining their duties, and calling them to account in the matter of ' punctuality and service during office hours The regulations, which sidered some circles to be drastic in nature, nevertheless, place the controlier general on record as “putting his own house in order.” It said he could insist the more are con- | appropriately on all departments ob- serving the niceties of economy in Government administration whilg demanding that those in his own em- ploy give themselves whole-heartedly to_their jobs. Protest has been murmured against the stringency of the regulations by some clerks, but little protest has come into the open, as the employes are called upon to observe their busi- ness hours punctually, but no more. The regulations, which speak for themselves, are as follows: “Employes of the General Account- ing Office must be at their desks or posts of duty at 9 am., and continue on duty thereat until 4:30 p.m., unless HOPE OF RESCUING COLLINS ALIVE DIV SHAFT CUT 22 FEET Digging Halted by Test to Decide Direction—Progress Only Six Inches an Hour. By the Associated Press. CAVE CITY. Ky., February 7.—The drili boring down through the roof of Sand Cave. where Floyd Collins has been imprisoned for eight and a half days, tonight had penetrated to a depth of 60 feet, without breaking through into the underground colis- enm. The last 14 feet was ghrough solid limestone. The six-foot square shaft, however, lagged behind the drill, having reac! ed a depth of only 22 feet at 10 o'clock tonight. After several hours of timbering, the work of digging and hoisting was resumed. Hope of Rescue Fades. Rescue workers conceded, however, whenever they penetrated Sand Cave, they probably would find the man, trapped beneath a boulder, no longer Homer Collins, who wore himsalf out the first three days after his brother was trapped in the cavern, took a small party into a crevice not far from the mouth of Sand Cave, and penetrated 7 feet today. A black pit of unknown Jdep:h blocked passage thefe. and after Iropping a rock to satisfy thems:ives the bot- tom was some distance helow, the lit- tle band returned to daylight for rope {and better lights. Work Ceases for Tes Meanwhile another experiment was underway. Three volunteers bound themselves together with rope and ecrawled Into Sand Cave for a survey | Car- | |and most of them aiready had had under the direction of H. T. michael, supervisor of the mining operations. All work on the surface ceased as the three solemnly entered Sand Cave mouth. Carmichael fol- lowed them. Soldiers ordered the strictest silence. | No miners worked in the shaft.” The dlamond point drill was idle. No one in the vicinity was permitted to talk or walk about the surface. Half an hour after the party dis- appeared the drill began pounding away In accordance with previous in- structions from Carmichael. For two minutes its boring continued, and then all was silent for five minutes. The experiment was repeated while hose below made observations. Shaft Properly Located. The tests occupied more than two hours. and at 4:30 p.m. after Car- michael had compiled his data, he an- nounced the survey made in locating the shaft was correct and that the experiments were successful. The party took bearings by means of a ‘ontinued on Page 4, Column 5.) AASLEéP IN FURNACE, LAD BURNS TO DEATH Jumps From Entrance a Living Ball of Flame When Janitor Starts Fire. By the Associated Pres! LOUISVILLE, Ky. February a blast furnace of the Na- Forge Co., when the negro tional janitor started the fire today, Albert | Lee Greaver, 12 vears old, was so seriously burned that he died several hours later. Neither the janitor, John Jones, 50, nor the boy's mother, Mrs. William E. Greaver, could ex- plain how the boy happened to be in the furnace. Shortly hefore he died, Albert said he had laid down beside the furnace and gone to sleep. When he awak- ened his clothes were on fire, he said. The boy, a living ball of fire, leaped screaming from the furnace as woon as the fire was started, Jones said. The janitor attempted to ex- tinguish the child’s burning clothing with old rags. The clothing was burned from the boy’'s body, which was severely seorched. Albert was taken to a hospital in an unconscious condi m. In lucid moments he told of going to the fur- nace, which is used for melting iron, but was prevented from telling more by physicians. Mrs. Greaver sald her son frequent- 1y stayed away from home at nights. b | almost Asion Early Lunches. absent on offictal husiness, for luncheon, or by permission. A recess »f half an hour for luncheon is allow- ed from 12:30 to 1 p.m. “Clerks and employes will not be permitted to visit each other or to receive visits during office hours, ex- cept on officlal business, and then only with the knowledge and con- currence of their immedliate official superiors. Frequenting or loitering in the corridors of the building will not be permitted. he watchman shall take the name of every emplove appearing at the door for departure before 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. Names so taken will be transmitted to the chief of division, who will call the matter to the at- tention of this office for sultable action. “The practice of eating luncheon in the building before lunch time and taking the half hour for other pur- poses, the reading of newspapers or other unofficial matter, conducting private correspondence, attending to business purely personal, using official time for private conversation and the discusslon gf unofficlal subjects, loud and unnecefsary talking and bolster- ous conduct of any nature, and smok- ing in the files rooms of the division are positively prohibited. “The chief clerk and chlefs of divi- and their assistants are ad- monished to properly enforce the pro- visions of this order. d PLAGUE IN FRANCE. London Hears of 12 Deaths From Scourge at St. Malo. By Cable to Tbe Star and New York World LONDON, February 7.-—An outbreak of bubonic plague at St. Malo, France, 16 reported in a dispatch from Jersey which the Sunday Express will pub- lish, as follows: ersey—A sensation was caused here today when it became known that the steamer St. Brieuc from St Malo was not being allowed to land with passengers and that the vessel had been ordered to anchor some His- tance off shore. The reason given is that bubonic plague has broken out in St. Malo, 12 deaths being reported yesterday.” No such outbreak has been reported in Western Europe in many years. (Copyright, 1925.) 135 WOMEN LOSE JOBS AT BUREAU iShortage of Funds at En- | graving Plant Causes Time Curtailment for 600. One hundred and thirty-five women, temporary employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, were dis- missed last night, and night work division, and a daily about 600 emploves established Monday. This action was taken Ly the Treasury Department last night, In view of the fact that no further supplemental. estimates are seen forthcoming to allow the bureau 1o operate under the schedule in force S0 far this fiscal year. The 135 women were uotified last night that their services will longer be needed. They were all temporary employes, it was explained, furlough of about six months of employment under their temporary appointment. In view of the fact that it would be necessary to begin rurloughing reg- ular employes of the bureau ibout one day a week, Treasury officials dc- cided it would be only just :o drop these temporary workers. Furloughs Begin Tomorrow One hundred and eleven of the women dismissed were plate printers’ assistants and the remainder oper- atives in varifous parts of the bureau The plate printing division was un- derstood to be the hardest shift in the program of operations. The night work will be abolished and about one-fifth of the plate printers em- ployed, or about 95, will be fur- loughed on the first day, tomorrow. The total number of employes to be lald off a day each week from now until the end of the present fiscal year, June 30, 1925, will be about 600. The curtailed operations to take af- fect tomorrow morning was brought about through failure to obtaln addi- tional funds to carry on the program of building up a surplus of United States notes and national bank notes. This program of operations, which had beeri effect for the first part of the fiscal year, was building up a re- serve of these notes in order to sup- ply the increasing demand with an improved quality of paper inoney. So great have been the requirements that it has been necessary to put in circulation paper money on which the ink had not been ‘properly seasoned and the use of which was considered poor economy. The surplus program is that abandoncd, temporarily at least, and will not be resumed unless the bureau of the budget and the President should recommend and Congress authorize supplemental ap- propriation to resume it. BULGARIAN TOWN RAIDED Three Men Killed When 100 Ban- dits Invade Godeo. By the Associated Pre SOFIA Bulgaria, February 7.—A band of about 100 men attacked the town of -Godco, 30 miles north of Sofia, just before daybreak - today, captured the government house and robbed the treasury. A policeman nd two civillans were killed, and our men were wounded during the fusillade which took place as the bandits, covering their retreat, with- drew from the town in the direction of the Serbian frontier. An official statement issued by the ministry of interior expresses the belief that the band was organized and armed in Serbian territory, a: the Serblan frontier is only seven miles from Godeo. will be abolished in the plate printing | on | no | PLANE POTENTIALLY BEST U. 5. DEFENSE, JOHNSON TESTIFIES Can Build Wall Around Coun- try, He Tells House Air-- craft Probers. BATTLESHIP LATER MAY BE RESTRICTED, HE SA¥S Declares Army Violated Orders in Bombing Tests in Reply to Mitchell. The airplane today can establish a wall of defense 250 miles from the! shores of America and prevent at- tacks by battleships from any for- elgn power; and as the range of action of the planes increases to the point where they can cross the ocean and bomb enemy territory, “the tend- ency would be to keep the battleship fleet off the ocean” Capt. A. W.| Johnson, assistant chief of the Bureau | of Aeronautics, Navy Department, sald in reply to vigorous questioning | before the Lampert aircraft inquiry committee vesterday afternoon Capt. Johnson appeared at his own |request to see that the Navy got a “square deal” in the present contro- versy over a united air force which Brig. Gen. William Mitchell advo- cates. One of the main arguments of Gen. Mitchell is that the airplanes can protect the coast out to a point 2560 miles and beyvond that distance the fleet must operate under water| nd on the surface. Capt. Johnson @aid he also appeared to refute sev- eral statements made by Gen. Mitchell | in his recent printed articles regard- | ing the 1921 bombing exercises. Witness Pinned Down. The committee showed no mercy to Capt. Johnson and he was pinned down to every question when the members thought he might not care to give an answer. It took several minutes of cross-examination on the part of Representative Perkins of New Jersey, the committee examiner, to get Capt. Johnson to express his bellef in the perilous condition the battleships would be in when. at- tacking an enemy, thelr own planes were shot down by an armada from a land base. Capt. Johnson said he had been in aviation about two years and a half, but said he testified as an officer of the Navy, believing that aviation is on a “co-ordinate basls with cruisers, submarines, destroyers and battleships In pursuing his questioning on the defense walls possible of establish- ment by airplane, Representative Perkins asked Capt. Johnson what | means of defense a battleship would have If it got within this limit and had its aircraft shot down by an | overwhelming force of airplanes from the land. Capt. Johnson replied he would zig-zag and steam at full speed and also use his anti-aircraft guns. Representative Perkins then recalled previous testimony of the “utter contem held for the | “archies” by American airmen in France, and Capt. Johnson agreed that a very small percentage of | American planes had been lost through anti-aircraft attacks. While willing to agree that the airplane occupies a formidable posi- |tion in defending the coast lines, Capt. Johnson asked “who is going | | to protect our merchant ships, our | | commerce, our citizens in foreign | lands and our possessions if we have | ro battleships'? Sees Plane’s Importance. Representative Prail of New York asked the witness if he thought avia- tion in the Navy was as important |as any other branch, to which Capt. | Johnson replied, “It soon will be.” | | The officer declared that any attempt | to obstruct naval aviation in the | Navy would injure the national de-| | fense. The airplane, he said, is the | best protection a battleship can have. TRNETER TESTS. BEEN TONORROW Utilities Gommission Will Examine All Cabs Under Its Jurisdiction. The Public Utilities Commission an- nounced last night that it will begin tomorrow making regular tests of the meters of those taxicab companies | over which the commission exercises jurisdiction. In making the announcement Earl V. Fisher,. secretaty to the commis- slon, stated that the inspector as- signed to the. task would make .both ! road tests and bench tests. After a meter has been tested .the |inspector will. place on it a.stamp bearing the. following notice: “This meter has been duly inspected, its ac- curacy checked and its use is hereby approved. Two Tests to Be Made. The bench-tests will be made at the plants of the companies and the road | tests wiH be conducted on the streets. George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights and measures for the Dis- trict, early last week asked Corpora- tion Counsel Stephens for a legal opinion as to whether he has author- ity under existing law also to test taxi meters. Mr. Stephens stated last night that he is satisfied the welghts and meas- ures law clothes Supt. Roberts with ample authority to make such tests and that he has prepared an opinion in accordance with that view. Other Tests in Obeyance. Whether the weights and measures office will be assigned the task of testing those meters not looked after by the Utilities Commission was not known last night. A week ago The Star conducted a test which showed that six out of seven cabs selected at random and driven over a measured 4-mile course were overcharging and one under- cllnrgln‘. . | gineer and a | gress meets a proposed biil may BELL OFFERS PLAN 10 IMPROVE CITY Taxpayers’ Council afid New Budget Estimating Among Commissioner’s Ideas. Although declaring that Washing- ton in ellent condition and out of debt.” Engineer Commissioner Bell outlined in a statement made public last night several ways in which the development of the citx and the administration of its affairs could be improved Here arc the primary suggestions advanced by the engineer commis- sioner: An improvement in the method of handling the annual estimates by eliminating the hearings at the Bud- get Bureau and having the Senate and House subcommittees hold a joint hearing on them. Creation of the proposed city coun- cil to voice the opinions of the tax- payers as to the total of the bud- get, its proper balancing and to con- | sider the legtslation. advisability of proposed Contingent Fund Favored. Granting to the Commissioners an annual contingent fund of several hundred thousand dollars to meet public needs that cannot be foreseen when the regular estimates are pre- pared months in advance. Passage of the bill adding an en- lawyer to the Public Utilities Commission, which is now composed only of the three District Commissfoners. That the National Capital Park Commission render assistance to District agencies in city and regional | planning. “It appears,” said Col. Bell in be- ginning his statement, “that Con- gress at its next session is going to consider some change in the method of conducting District affairs. Meanwhile, our citizens should formu- late some conservative and well con- sidered legislation so that when Con- be in its hands Benefits to Taxpayers. “The organization for administra- tive control of the District’s activ- ities is excellent. If the taxpayers will consider all the benefits aceruing to them from their taxes, such as schools, streets, pavements, water and sewer service, police, fire and health protection, disposal of city refuse, street cleaning, lighting, trees and parks, etc., | believe they will appre- clate the fact that they come as near getting thelr dollar's worth out of their taxes as out of any expendi- tures they make.” Discussing the present method of preparing the estimates each year, ). Bell said, in nis statement: n spite of the great amount of attention given these estimates, 1 feel that the method of handling them could be improved greatly with considerable saving in time for our administrative heads, and the result- ing budget would be much better balanced. It will be noted that there are four hearings In all, whereas two would appear to be sufficient. ssuming that the lump sum fNscal relation be made permanent, the tax- pavers become the principal party concerned in the total of the budget (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) o GERMAN TRADE PACT COMES UP IN SENATE Borah Brings Treaty Up to Com- plete Preliminary Consideration and Sound Sentiment. © The German commercial treaty came before the Senate yesterday in executive session, Chalrman Borah of the forelgn relations committee call- ing up the pact in order to compleie the preliminary stages of Senate conslderation by a first reading and Dbrief discussion to sound sentiment. _The foreign relations committee has recommended a reservation, ap- proved by the State Department, un- der which upon 90 days’ notice after the treaty has been In force for on: year the United States could force a policy of discriminatory tariff duties in favor of its shipping as against German shipping. The reservation meets with opposition on both sides of the chamber because it leaves to the Executive a declaration of this policy. Chairman Jones of the com- merce committee and others want to leave that question solely with Con. gress. | — TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Boy Scouts—Page 22. Army and Navy News—Page 22. Civillan Army News—Page 23. District National! Guard—Page 25. Schools and Colleges—Pages 26 and 27. Current News Events—Page 27. Radio News and Programs—Pages 30 and 31. Financial News—Pages 32, 33 and 34, Spanish War Veterans—Page 34. PART TWO0—I16 PAG! Editorlals and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page News of the Clubs—Page 12. At the Community Centers—Page Veterans of the Great War—Page D. A. R. Activities—Page 14. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 14. Girl Scout News—Page 15, Notes of Art and Artists—Page 16. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7 and 8. Fraternal News—Page 9. Around the City—Page 9. PART FOUR—4 PAGES Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—S8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Reviews of New Books—Page 8. The Ark of the Covenant'— Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 PAGE World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 PA( Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Feller: and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. TRAIN SIDESWIPED: FIVE GO T0 DEATH Passenger Jumps Track and Hits Freight—Soldiers Trapped on Blinds. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans., February —Five persons were killed and sev- eral others injured, four dangerously, when the locomotive of Missouri Pa. cific passenger train No. 104, east- bound, Omaha to Kansas City, left the rails and crashed into a standing freight train at Nearman, Kans., 3 miles west of here, late today. The exact cause of the wreck had not been determined tonight. The list of dead is: R. H. Jones, Falls City, Neb gineer of freight train. D. R. Wires, Falls City, Nebr., fire- man of freight train. Marvin C. Wodell, Kansas City, en- gineer of passenger train. W. E. Gardner, Kansas City, fire- man of passenger train. Corp. Carlos Hall, attached to the service school at Fort Leavenworth. Saw Train Leap. W. J. Neely of Falls City, Nebr., brakeman of the freight train, who witnessed the accident, declared he saw the passenger train leap from the ralls of the main line as the front trucks of the locomotive hit the switch. The impact of the locomotives was heard several miles. Farmers who rushed to the scene said they found passengers leaping from the windows of the coaches and women screaming and praying. The freight engine was thrown down a shallow embankment into mud. R. H. Jones, Falls City, Nebi engineer of the freight train, was pinned in his cab and died while men struggled vainly to reach him. All the dangerously injured are soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, who were riding the blinds on the passen- ger train. They are: D. N. Coulston, 22, right arm crushed; Kenneth Bun- ker, right arm and right leg severed, and J. A. Painter, 21, left arm severed. en- Lisbon Ministry Bombed. LISBON, February 7.—During a popular demonstration in favor of the government last evening, outside the ministerial offices, where the cab- inet was assembled, a bomb exploded in the door of the municipal chambe.. Troops on guard there fired into the crowd and there were four casualties. Conslderable damage was done by the explosion. The government has or- and service will start immediately. < FIVE CENTS. THESE SUPERB BUILDINC SITES, FIRST GLIMPSE OF BEAUTIFUL WASHINGTON. FIND BABY'S BODY, MOTHER 1S HELD Unwed Government Clerk Admits She Planned to Cremate Corpse. Discovery of a package containing the dead body of a baby girl at the door of a furnace in the basement of the Iriquois Apartments, 1410 M street, vesterday started police on an investigation which disclosed the attempt of an unwed mother to veil her secret by cremating the child born Wednesday without attention of a physician and packed away in a trunk for the four following days. Miss Leona Holman, 31 years old, government worker, who was ar- Detective Weber, Gallinger Hospital last night in a serious nervous condition, while Deputy Coroner Herbert E. Martyn was performing an autopsy which re- vealed strong indications that the child had lived after birth. Examination Tomorrow. Detention of Miss Holman by the police depends finally on the decision gation by or whether it was killed or allowed to die from criminal negligence after birth. This will not be decided finally until after a microscopic examination tomorrow. If it is found air passed into the lung, “the decision will be that the child had lived, and an in- quest held. Otherwise, Miss Holman will be released W. E. Randolph, janitor at the apartment house, set official wheels turning by his report to the real estate agents of the discovery of the infant’s body. The agents reported to the police and Detective Weber was assigned the case. Janftor Tells Story. Randolph told him that Miss Hol- vesterday with a request to be al- lowed to burn a package In the fur- nace. “It depends on what burn,” Randolph replied. “Please don't ask so many ques- tions,” Miss Holman is quoted as teli- ing the janitor. After Miss Holman left the base- ment Randolph noticed the package on the floor, where it is believed It dropped because it could not be forced through t.ue fire door of the furnace, which had been filled with fresh coal. Randolph picked up the package. Wrapped in gauze, the body of the baby was found. He then made his report to the agents, Miss Holman was taken into cus- today by Detective Weber. Asked as to the facts surrounding birth of the infant, she admitted being its mother: that she had no attendant whatever at the birth or since; and that she did not know whether or not the child was alive at the time it was born. She said she had packed the body in a trunk Wednesday in which it remained until vesterday. She said. in addition, that she want- ed to prevent news of her plight from becoming known and had feigned a severe cold to account for her ab- sence from work for the past few weeks. Police turned You want to the case over to Coroner Nevitt, who ordered an au- topsy last night. - Dr. Martyn, who performed the autopsy, sald that pre- liminary tests did not prove con- clusively the baby girl had lived. ‘There were no marks of violence on the body. There was a strong indica- tion, he reported, that the child might have lived and died from bleeding to death. The question of the birth is to be determined by microscopic evidence. Miss Holman, it was said at the hospital last night, was in a condi- tion bordering on nervous hysteria. The ordeal has brought on a mental condition also which evidences a tendency to melancholia. —— ASKS SENATE CUT FUND TO FIGHT WAR FRAUDS Reduction of the $1,000,000 ap- propriation for prosecution of war frauds by the Department of Justice o $500,000 was proposed yesterday by Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennes- see, as an amendment to the Depart- ment of Justice supply bill. Declaring the 26 lawyers and in- numerable high-paid accountants handling these cases had won only three judgments and collected about $170,000 while costing the Govern- ment $700,000 so far this year, Sena- tor McKellar said this appropriation amounted to “throwing away $1,000,- 000 of the public's money.” The $1,- gg.o,ooo item was approved by the use. “ia D.C. BILL IS PASSED, GARRYING TOTAL OF §31,141.307 FOR CITY Lump Sum Basis Retained and Funds Appropriated for Two More Judges. FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION CONTINUED AT $9,000,000 Bathing Beach Provisions Retainzd After Debate—Street Grad- ing Provided. The District appropriation for the coming fiscal was passed by the House late yesterday and sent to the Senate. As passed no reduc tions were made from the amounts recommended by tha appropriation committee and $132,950 was added during consideration in the House making the total $31,141,907. The _principal Increase $58,124 to $90,774 for the Police Court making provision for two additiona {judges. Another large was vear was from increase | thoroughfares. After two i the exist whole abolishing both t ng bathing for | people and the proposed bathing beach for colored people for which appro- priation was made in the defi 3 | bill passed last December, this ap- | propriation was restored by a votr {of 137 to 125 when the was re | ported in the House for final passa 1$70.500 for grading of two im i beach w bi 1 Lump Sum Retained. | The bin based on a lu contribution of $9.000,000 frc Federal Treasury, leaving the other $22,000,000 to be pald from District taxes. An attempt to make tk lump sum contribution permane stead of the definite proportion 60-40 was defeated Friday { new paragraph, however, was addc | to the bill today authorizing the Bu | et Bureau in framing the 1927 s su P 1 h | late rested pending the coroner's investi- | was at | as to whether the child was born dead | of a portion of the lung of the infant| man had entered the furnace room | propriation bill to follow the | sum basis in the present bill Hygiene Fund Increased. | The first change made in the bill yesterday was to increase from $18,0: to $25,000 the appropriation for m | taining a child hygiene service ! cluding the establishment and main- tenance of child welfare stations for the clinical examination, advice, care and maintenance of children under § years of age. Representative Ayres Democrat, Kansas, who offered this amendment, said that Mrs. Frank B Noyes had shown him the necessi for this increare. Chairman Davis of the subcommittee in charge of the bill said that it was the intention of t j committee to allow all the funds necessary for this child welfare work, and he was not opposed to the amend- ment Representative Ayres was succes ful in having adopted an amendment | for two additional judges in the Po- lice Court and other provisions to pre- vent congestion of the docket by de- mands for jury trial in minor cases The Ayres amendment proposed an increase from 124 to $90, cluding compensation in accor | with tne classification act for two a ditional judges and such other court employes as may be found necessary with the sum of $6,530 available im- medlately | "This amendment provided that | addition to the sums appropriated for | | 1 expenses of the court, there should be a further appropriation of $22.800. which $12,600 would be immediately available. Biack Ends Objection. Representative Black of Texas m.de a point of order, but withdrew {it ‘when Representative Axres and | Chairman Davis explained to him th the committee would have written this amendment into the bill. only |that it wanted to give the District legislative committee an opportunity | to pass upon it. Another amendment carrying appropriations for tem- {porary home for Union ex-soldlers ! provides that soldiers, in the item (and sailors, sailors and marines of the World War lor who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to this home, all under supervision of the board of managers. One of the most drasiic fights during | consideration of the bill was over the location of the colored bathing beach. {An amendment offered by Representa- | tive Joseph Byrnes of Tenn rank |ing Democrat on the appropriations | committee, struck out the provisions for | the existing bathing beach for white Ipeople and orders returned to the Treasury the appropri made for the colored bathing b The item | “for purification of waters of the Tidal | Basin and care, maintenance and opera |tion of the bathhouse and beach, $12, was stricken out by this amendment. Madden Approves Action. | In substitution it was provided the unexpended balance of $50,000 and reappropriation of $25,600 carried in the second deficiency act approved December 5, 1924, for construction of the bathing beach for colored peo- | ple be converted Into the Treasury to the credit of the District. Two votes were taken on this D?]!O\!Hn on of which resulted 55 to 4 d the other 83 to 57. This action was later reversed in the House. Representative Byrnes declared that the bathing beach never should have been put on the Tidal Basin because it destroys the beauty of the park He pointed out that the Lincoln Me- morial is ciose by and it is also proposed to build a great memorial bridge In that vicinity. He declared that it is out of all reason to add another beach there. He :aid the rows of bathhouses detract from the beauty of the park and in Summer bathing suits and towels are hung out to dry. “Spend this money and t will not be four years before we are called upon to tear down the bathing beach in the interest of beautification of our parks,” he de- clared Chairman Madden of the House ap- propriations committee argued vig- orously that the colored people should | not be denied a proper place to bathe. | Acting Chairman Zihlman of the | House District committee insisted that |action should not be taken cutting off | the appropriation for the present bath- ing beach until it wa's relocated in some ™ more desirable place. Senator Phipps of Colorado, chair- man of the Senate appropriations (Continued on Page 2, Column 7 that