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= 2 - AUTO SHOW SWEPT BY §2.000 /00 BLAZE 375 Vehicles, Accessories | and $650,000 Building Ruin- ed in Kansas City. By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. February 14. Motordom's newest offerings for 1920 were reduced to a mass of twisted and charred wrecks early today in a fire that ended the Kansas City motor show by destruction of the American Royal Livestock Pavilion Three hundred pleasure cars. ap- proximately 75 motor trucks, twe airplanes. and accessories destroyed were valued at $1.500,000. The $650, 000 building was leveled Capt. John J. Crane, 65. Kansas City’s oldest fireman and head of the only remain'ng horse-drawn company in the department, was burned to death. He was caught on an incline between the main building and an annex while attempting to work a hose. Most of the cars on display had been shown at this year's New York Cleveland and Chicago motor shows and were intended for the San Fran- cisco show after the display here ended ton ght 713th Fire of Year. The fire, the T13th of the vear here. broke out in the last few minutes of Friday, the 13th The doors of the show had been closed an hour, thousands of persons having crowded the pavilion through- out the evening. The fire originated in the annex amonz the flimsy decorations. due. it was believed. to faulty wiring. The flames spread quickly to the main | structure. “One minute there was a little blaze, and the next it was all over,” axld Jess Simpson, pavilion engineer. Blast after blast rocked the build- fng as the flames reached the gaso- line tanks of the cars. George Bond, manager of the show, declared all tanks had been drafned, but that the fumes in the tank probably caused the explosions. Virtually all Kansas cities scene, but were unavailing. because of the great apparatus in was rushed the two to the headway gained. Within less than two hours the pavilion walls had crumpled and the roof of the main structure crashed in Horns Wall Death Song. The ghosts of the recently proud kings of the motor world seemed to shriek and moan from the inferno when sirens and horns on the cars were set off as insulation burned from switches and wiring. Many of the exhibits were espe- cially designed by the manufacturers. Five nickel-plated chasses, built especially for show purposes and valued at $20,000 each, were de- stroyed. A wooden balcony in the main building, upon which many high- priced cars were exhibited, hastened the spread of the fire. As the bal- cony gave way the cars plunged down upon others on the arena floor. The pavilion. owned by the Ameri- can Royal Live Stock Association, was dedicatea November 18, 1922, and was considered the finest of its kind in the country. The floor area was 7% acres, and the auditorium had a seating capacity of 14,000. D.C. SCHOOLS MAY GET ADDITIONAL FUNDS Senators, Af;e—r Tour of City, Plan to Report Full Building Appropriation. Following a tour of streets, schools, #ehool sites and playgrounds of Wash- ington members of the subcommittee of the Senate appropriations will meet this afternoon to complete work on the District appropriation bill. Senator Phipps of Colorado, chairman of the committee, said today that he be- lieved the bill could be reported out Monday. No reductions have been made in the measure since it came from the House, It was learned, but some small addi- tions has been made, principally in street and school items. “Offe of the new junior high schools for which only a part of the total cost was recommended by the House has bheen changed so that the full appro- priation will be made this vear. Mem- bhers of the committee believe that the school should be avallable at the aarliest time, and if the full appro- priation is agreed to the schools will he completed a vear earlier. Senator Phipps said that he anticipated no difficulty in the passage of the meas- ure “It dame to my committee in work- able shape, and there are few, if any items of controversial nature. ¥ no reason why the committee should not complete its work in time to re- yort the bill Monday. We have made 1wo tours of inspection of streets, chools and playgrounds, and the mmittee believes that the completed bill will go a long wav toward meet- Ing the District needs.” BABY IS SMOTHERED BY BED CLOTHING Year-01d Girl Found Beneath Bed- ding by Mother—Efforts to Save Child Fail. 8mothered under bed clothing dur- ans slumbers last night, Joyce Sherwood, 1-year-old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sherwood, 24 Hamilton street, Cottaze City, Md. died today hefore Mrs. Sherwood could seach Sibley Hospital with her. Efforts to resuscitate the child failed Coroner viewing the hody, learned that the death occurred in Maryland, and did not issue a cer- tificate of death The body of the child was brought back to Maryland by the parents The discovery was not made by Mrs. Sherwood until this morning, accord- ing to neighbors. She went to take the child up and found it beneath the covers, and apparently unconscious. There had been no noise during the night, as far as could be learned. FOUR POLICEMEN SHOT. Riot Gun of Companion Is Dis- charged Accidentally. MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 14.— Four policemen were shot by the acci- dental discharge of a riot gun in the hands of another officer here late last night. The men were waitinz to in. tereept elght motor cars thought to contaln liquor. its Nevitt, on the efforts of the firemen | committee | {3 WHITE MEN ARE KILLED | IN RACE CLASH SHOOTING Two Negroes Are Held After Texas Trouble—Deputy Sheriff | Among Victims. | By the Associnted Press. ORANGE, Tex, February 14— Three white men were killed here to- day in a shooting affray between inegroes- and whites. The dead are | Joe Projean, aged about 48; Dallas | Morris, about 22, and Deputy Sheritt | Basil Stakes, 30. Two negroes were | urrested. BIG ISSUE HIDDEN "IN AIRCRAFT ROW { Mitchell Forces Vital Ques- tion of Unified Defense | I Into Open. BY | _Back of Brig. Gen DAVID LAWRENCE. the controversy raised by William Mitchell, with re- | spect to the value of airplanes as against battleships, is the larger problem of aviation, which has had a difficult struggle to get attention dur- inw the past flve years. Gen. Mitchell may not have chosen the most tactful way to force the is- sue, but the friends of aviation think | he has succeeded in one respect—he | has managed to drive the debate into the open and out of the realm of red tape and service prejudices. From the beginning Gen. Mitchell has antageonized Army and Navy | bureaucrats by insisting that the air | service be a separate institution in- dependent of either. His thought | was that in no other war would air- | ieraft receive proper _attention. The | tendency, however, has been the re- Iverse, for President @oolidge has been urged to put the Army and| Navy Into a single department of na- | tional defense. He has been inclined {to recognize the merit of the argu- {ment that economies cou'd be effect- jed by such an arrangement, but has | { felt, on the other hand, that the tra- | Senators Angered at Series | Ke'logg THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. FIGHT ON WARREN AIMED AT COOLIDGE of Appointments Without v Party 0. K. RY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Causes far more bitter than sugar lie at the root of Charles Beecher Warren's confirmation difficulties in the Senate. It Is not so much Mr. Warren himself that is/ objected to. It 1s the circumetances under which President Coolidge nom- inated him for the attorney generalship that have really held up the Warren confirmation. The Michigan lawyer's legal affiilations with the sugar interests are merely the formal peg on which the fight against him has been hung. The nail on which the Senate fis actually | hammering is the' resentment of Presi- | dent Coolidge's appointment policy, with its total disregard of organization eus- ceptibiities, :enatorial traditions and the other vested rights of patronage dic- tators, The foreign relations committeé of the Senate, in _which the irreconcilables have their stronghold, is the source from Wwhich most of the hostility to the Cool- idge appointment program springs. The trreconcilables’ ire was first aroused by the nomination of Ambassador Frank B. to succeed Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State. ‘There Is no conatitutional require- ment that the President shall seek the | “advice and consent” of the Scnate of his foreign about the selection minister. But the foreign relations it to be so obvious committee held and logical a matter for them to be consulted upon that they frankly and | bitterly objected to being ignored There was, of course, the addition of nsult to injury in the nomination of & man long suspected in the isolation- ist camp of having an international mind Irreconcilables Angered. It would have been diflicult for President Coolidge to appoint any- body more objectionable to the irre- concilables than Kellogg, a “mild res- | ditlons of the two services required | aration, Under the circumstances | Ihe did not favor the creation of an- | | other defense unit, with separate pur- | ‘hasing departments and personnel | officers. Combination is Seem. He came to the conclusion that cen- | tralization was desirable and one out- jcome of the discussion ultimately may | I be the combination of certain bureaus | |of the War and Navy Departments,| though this is tied up with the whole question of reorganization of the gov- | ernment which is dragging along and | ! may not be acted upon for another! | vear. i General Mitchell has been the most active influence in favor of aviation that the Army has developed. He has the sympathy of all the commercial 1 ' concerns interested in air craft, and | he has built up a following in Con- | gress. It is an unusual situation in many respects for he risks the hostil- {ity of his superior officers by con- tradicting them in the open. The War Department, however, is| amenable to Congress because it must be. Appropriations must come from | Congress, and it so happens that Gen. Mitchell has acquired in recent years {a number of friends on the congres- sional committees. Were it otherwise he might today be detailed away from Washington, where he could be silenced. His method of campaigning for the thing In which he is inter- ested is not popular with Army and Navy officials, who fnsist that an opinion of a subordinate can onby be rendered to his superior officer, and if the latter disagrees with it that's the end of it. Thus is opigion in the Army squelched, as a rule, by the use of military discipline Officers who | have violated the rule have usually been punished May Retire Iin March, H Congress will not countenance pun- ishment for Gen. Mitchell, but the ! War Department can'do many things| {10 silence an officer. After the fourth | of March Gen. Mitchell will probably have to lead a quiet life, so far as agitating the aviation problem. It may be that he intends to retire any- | how, for there have Leen reports that | {he might become a candidate for Con- gress from Wisconsin. i In both the Senate and the House | | i there is a disposition to keep the con- troversy going, %o that the members and the country may be enlightened. 1f battleships are out of date and air- plane attack Is much more powerful than has been .supposed, Congress ! wants to know it. The trouble is lhel defenders of the battleship fear it will be abandoned some d and they are insisting that it should not be | made a secondary institution. The advocates of the airplane as a first line of defense concede the usefulness of the battleship. The difficuity 1s that in service rivalries the airplans | and the battieship are considered as | alternatives instead of as supple- ments to each other. This s one ‘of | the principal arguments made by the ! people who contend for a single de- partment of national defense—that all weapons of warfare would then be considered on thelr mcrits and com- | bination attack and defense would become paramount. (Copyright. 1925.) ADMIRAL TO DENY CHANGING REPORT ON BOMBING TEST Continued from First Page.) | | made any statement that the report | {could not be given out as the Army. { had prepared it. The investizating committee was | meeting in executive session for more | | than an hour this morning with Maj. | | Gen, Nathan M. Patrick, chief of the Army Alr Service, as witness. No indication was given as to the subject discussed. Gen. Patrick's appearance in the House office building was the first since the committee has been hearing testimony on the value of air craft, battleships, bombs and personal qualifications of officers in the Army | and Navy. Criticism Heavy. Lieut. C. A. Sprague, executive offi- cer of the Naval Air Station at Ana- jcostia, D. C. one of a half dozen qualified pilots selected at random from a list of naval aviators in Wash- ington provided the committee by the bureau of aeronautice, told the com- mittee vesterday the control exercised by non-flying naval officers over the qualified pilots and the 50 per cent addi- tion to their base pay for flying as pas- sengers, Is the basis of much criticism among naval fiyers. Lieut. Sprague did mot 'volunteer the testimony on this subject, it having come to official cognizance through questioning by the committes. Representative Prall of New York then moved that the bureau of seronautics be called upon to fur- nish the committee with the list of offi- cers who receive the reward for fly- ing given pilots but who do not know how to fiy. Bellef in the effectiveness of an air corps In the Navy, which would per- mit officers to concentrate on avia- tion and not have the possibility ot | took their breath away. {at White House will is now out | the buflding, testified that the Navy ervationist” on the league, uniess he had rewppointed Mr. Hughes to suc-| ceed himsclf. The Kellogg nomina- tion took the foreign relations com- mittee utterly by surprise. Also, it | When they | recovered their breath, they breathed | damnation on the appointment and all | the circumstances in which it was made. If Mr. Kellogg fails to satisfy the foreign relations committee on the Parls reparations agreement, it is strongly within the realm of proba- | bilities that he, like Mr. Warren, ma confront confirmation difficulties The Kellogg Secretaryship of State affair was no sooner announced than Mr. Coolidge handed the foreign rela- | tions committee another unexpected; jolt by naming Ambassador Alanson | B. Houghton to succeed Kellogg In| London. About the very moment | Houghton's appointment was made public, Senator Borah, chairman of the committee, was on the way to the White House to urge the nomination | of Senator Medlll McCormick, & mem- | ber of the foreign relations body, for the London ambassadorship. No ob- jections to Mr. Houghton have come to the surface in the Senate. He s regarded as having made a creditable record at Berlin and as deserving pri motion for merit. But, as in the case of the Kellogg appointment, the for- elgn relations committeemen are irked by the President's insistence upon overlooking them. The Court of St. James is the pivot American ambassa- dorial post in Europe. Borah and his colieagues would like to have at least | their little finger in the ple in the fill- ing of the job. Patrenage at lssme. When all these things were hap-| pening—Hughes resigning, Kellogg | coming to the State Department and Houghton transterring from Berlin to London—the Paris reparations agreement bounded into the open.| That was the last straw for tha! irreconcilable group in the foreign relations committee. They met, mused and boiled over. Their indig-/| nation is faithfully reported to this writer by one of them to have been | “unparalleled.” Such “unity” of out-| raged spirit Is sald never before lo| have been witnessed, even in the! most hectic league days. Led by the embattled and embittered Irreconcil- ables, the foreign relations commit- tee voted unanimously to demand the tull Paris facts from the administra- tion. Even now, with those facts sub- mitted by Secretary Hughes, the com- mittee is far from reassured and ap- peased. They are going to “walt and see,” in the language made famous in British politics by Herbert, Earl of Oxford and Asquith. They are walting for Mr. Kellogg and intend seeing him as soon he gets here later in Februa: To get back to the Warren con- firmation, there is, of course, the an- cient question of Senatorial courtesy directly involved. Under the leader- ahip of Senator Couzens, Republican, | of Michigan, the entire G. O. P. dele- gation of that State not only appealed to Mr. Coolidge not to nominate Warren for the Attorney Generalship, | but to appoint somebody else, that Is, | Gov. Groesbeck of Michigan. The| President paid no heed to Senator Cauzens. Couzens supported Coolidge in 1924, but he is not regarded any more securely hitched to the regu- lar organization on Capitol Hill than, for inatance, brother Republicans like Borah, Hiram Johnson, George Nor-| ris, et'al, are. At any rate, the whole business of whether the party and the Senate and patronage traditions generally may or may not be fiout:d n tront. The fate of Warren and Kel- logg will show how that business is likely to be transacted during the Coolidge administration. (Copyright. 1925.) —_— Lieut. Ralph A. Ofstie of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and Lieuts. Sprague, Lester T. Hundt, George Henderson, James Varner and A. J. Williams of the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, D. C. Lieut. Ford O. Rogers, U. 8. M. C., a war pilot and also of the st tion, came out unreservedly in favor of a united air force.. Says Discentent Is “Petty.” The Naval Air Station officers agreed that If there was any discon- tent among the naval fiyers, it was in regard to ‘petty and minor things,” such as white uniforms for flying. The committee also heard Spencer Meath, an airplane propeller manu- facturer of Baltimore, who, after demonstrating a reversible propeller to the members on the south side of Department had given him no en- couragement with his invention. The propeller, he said, is designed and arranged to enabie an airplane to get into the air from a small fleld, and also land in areas which an or- | vorver. 500-Mile F light, 2 Hrs. 56 Min., Is Record for Speed Lieut. Hunter’s Airplane Trip From Detroit to Washington. ' A new airplane speed record betwean Detroit and Washington was estab- lished yesterday afternoon by Lieut. Frank O'D. Hunter of the 1st Pursuit Group, who flew from Selfridge Field to Bolling Field in 2 hours and 56 minutes without a stop. The distance between the two points {s more than 500 miles. Lieut. Hunter was cailed to Wash- Ington to testify before the Lampert aireraft investigating committee. and recelved his order at 1:30 o'clock. By 2 o'clock Lleut. Hunter, in one of the new Curtiss PW-S pursuit planes, was n the air, and, setting a course which took him over Akron and Pittsburgh he arrived at Bolling Fleld at 4:56 o'clock. During the speedy trip Lieut. Hunter flew through some snow and rain flurries. Liout. Hunter is a war pilot and an ace. Last vear his back was broken in an airplane crash, but he has been able to carry on his duties efficiently In the past few month BIRL IS SHOT DOWN BY CRAZED WOMAN Assailant Believed Wander- ing Around Armed—Hotel “Thrown Into Excitement. By the Associated Press W YORK February 14.—Miss Elsie Holzman, a student at New York University Medical School, lies seri- ously wounded at Metropolitan Hos- pital today, while police are searching for her assaflant, a woman acquain- tance, who, it is feared, may be wan- dering about armed with a loaded re- Reports that the womin is suffering from a mental disorder also led police to search the banks of the East River near the tack in the belief that she may have committed sufcide. Miss Holzman, who was shot twice while in her room on the sixth floor of the Punior League Hotel for girts, which is at Seventy-eighth strest and the East River, gave the name of her as- ailant as that she had known her for but a short time. She sald that the woman had come to her room last night Shot Without Warning. You remember me. don’t you?”' the woman asked. Before an answer could be given she whipped a revolver from her pocket and fired three shots. By the time heip could reach Miss Holz- man her assailant had disappeared. There were about 600 girls in the building and for some time they were thrown into wild excitement. Before an attendant in the hotel could reach Miss Holsman the wounded girl had dragged herself across a corridor and had fallen part way down a flight of stairs. She was wounded in the back and neck Little {s known of Miss Holzman's assailant except that she was being treated for a nervous disorder, that her age ix about 25 years and that she wore a lizht green dréss. She is belleved to bear a distant relationship to her victim. Miss Holzman was able to' 2ive no reason for the cause of the shooting. police said. WISCONSIN AVE. CAR LINE T0 BE CHANGED Plans for Repaving Thoroughfare | Near Completion and Work ‘Will Start in Spring. Plans for the repaving of a large portion of Wisconsin avenue and the relocation of the street car tracks in the center, between River road and Massachusetts avenue, were practical- ly completed at the District Building today. Following a conference with cials of the Washington Rallway and Electric Co.. Engineer Commissioner Bell stated that new materlal would be used center of the strest. Work will be started as soon as weather conditions permit. It was indicated al=o that the trol- ley poles probably will be placed in the center of the street instead of at thé curb. It was further stated that in addition to the paving work be- tween River road and Massachusetts avenue the railway company plans to repair its tracks on the lower part of Wisconsin _avenue between Thirty- sixth- and Thirty-seventh streets’ In the District appropriation act the total cost of the paving and re- location of the track between River road and Massachusetts avenue is placed at $350,000. It was evxplained that the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Company | will spend more than $100,000 on the project as the work progresses, leav. ing the matter of assessments to be adjusted when the job {s completed. PHILIP T. HALL DIES; LONG IN BUSINESS HERE Retired Merchant, Formerly Min- ister, Was Prominent in Trade and Masonic Circles. Philip T. Hall, 71 years old, a re- tired merchant of this city and prom- inently Identified in trade bodies and Masonic circles here, died at his res! dence, }438 Wisconsin avenue, yes- terday. Mr. Hall was born in Portland, Me., but moved to Baltimore with his parents when he was 2 years old. Before going Into business he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many vears. He went into business In this city in 1885 and retired about five years ago. Mr. Hall was a member of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade and Hiram Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A. M. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Kreh. Funeral services will be held at the residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment- will be In Oak Hill Cemetery. dinary ship could fiot be set down in. He quoted & naval officer, with whom, he said, he had had negotiations as to purchase, as saying: “I would hate like hell to see you sell this to a forelgn government after I have turned you down.” Mr. Heath testi- fled he had demonstrated the mech- anism to about six foreign repre- sentatives, but had made no sal sea duty with ships ever present, was given the committee in testi- mony by Lieut. B. H. Holcombe and The question as to the life of the committee, which would die March 4, 13 being &iven consideration, Held on Five Forgery Charges. Speciat Dispatch to The Btar. RICHMOND, Va. February 14— Clyde Kloss, arrested several days ago in Petersburg, has been held for the grand jury on five charges of for- gery. He is 22 vears old and has a wite 18. He is charged also with having entered his father's factory and taken 16 ‘dozen brooms, which he scene of the at- | Sadie Steinberg,” and said | offi- | in placing the rails in the | C, ROOT, RETIRING, HAS FAITHIN'U. S Voices * Strong Optimism. Hughes Lauds “Genius” of Veteran “Statesman.” By the Assoc NEW YORK, February 14—Elihu Root. at a dinner tendered him last night by the Union League Club of New York, of which he has twice been president, declared that In, retiring from public life he had falth that the United States will prosper and progress under its present democratic form of government. The dinner was in_celebration of Mr. Root's $0th birthday anniversary, which will be| Sunday. , Eulogles of Mr. Root's career were spoken by Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, and James M. Beck, solicitor gengral of the United States. Overwhelmed by the ovations, Mr. Root could at first say only: “I Tave done what®came to my hand to do as well as 1 could.” ated Pre | Mr. Root aMirmed his devotion to | the United States Government as it is today. and sald that the Amerl- can people are more competent now | to carry out their dutles as citizens than they were when he first launched | upon a public reer. Volcex Optimiam. He sald that speaking as an old | man he was not inclined, as patriarchs | generally are, to be critical, but was optimistic becauce the country has better educational cquipment, a bet- ter International attitude and a cleaner Internal political condition | than it could ever hope to have had | 50 years ago. | Expressing his faith in the ability | of the American people to carry for- | ward the work of de loping gelf- | | &overnment and confidence in the - tion’s future achievements, Mr. Root | concluded: “These wider thin il be accom- plished, Senate or no Senate, Congress or no Congress, Legislatures or no | Legislatures, pacifists or no pac fists, bolsheviki or no bolsheviki™ | Secretary Hughes elevated Mr. Root to “the American nobility,” placing him “In our hall of illustrious men, who hold the only patent of nobility in this Republic, that of worth of character, distinction of attainment! and pre-eminence in service.” This, said Mr. Hughes, Is “the fearest ap- pivach that we can make in this| { country to the gift of an earldom.” | Louds Root ax Gemlus. Mr. Hughes explained that he paid | tribute to Mr. Root not only as an |achievements, but as a friend of 42| vears' standing. From the time Mr.| | Root was United States district at-| torney for the southern district of | New York to the present day, said the | Secretary, he has “displayed a genuls for statecraft as distinct as that of the most eminent painter, sculptor or | { poet for his art.” “In his service o his country,” con- tinued the Secrdary, “he has been {true to the highest ideal of his pro- fession, and there could be no higher praise than that. * * * He had the work of applying to some 10,000,000 of people fn Cuba, Porto Rico and the ! Philippines the principles of Amer-| ican liberty. You will find in his in- structions to the military governor of Cuba in February, 1901, the for- imulation of our relations to Cuba which were afterwards embodied in| what is called the Platt amendment. {You will find in his reports the ex- | plication of the principles to be ap- plied in Porto Rico and the Philip pines and the foundations of whatever successful administration we have in| these Islands. i Valuable to Roexevelt. “It is, however, in the international sphere that he has rendered the most I notable service. He became Secretary |of State under Presidcnt Roosevelt. It (1% no disparagement of that dynamfc | personality te say that Roosevelt ineeded Root. Roosevelt admired and | trusted Root, and Root admired and | admonished Roosevelt { Mr. Hughes cited Mr. Root's visit] to South America, where he enun- clated the principles “which must | ever guide us In our relations with the Latin American republics; his { adjustment of the school controversy with Japan and the ‘“gentleman's| agreement” on Japanese immigration; {he told of Mr. Root's instructions to | American delegates to the second | peace conference at The Hague, and| of reform in the American consularj service. He coptinued: i “But H Mr. Roft has rendered even | greater service In the international {fleld since his retirement from office. le ¢ ¢ It vou asked me what I| | considered to -be the crown of his| endeavor, 1 should say It was his| =kill in cutting through the entangle-' ments which stood in the way of the! establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice. His sus-| gestion as to the method of selecting | judges made that court possible and, this suecessful endeavor in the ine| terest of International peace through| promoting the reign of law will ever| enshrine his memor. . GET BELATED CITATIONS. | i Three Officers Honored for Hero- | ism 25 Years Ago. Three more officers of the Army have recelved belated silver star ci- tations for gallantry in action against enemies of their country. Col. Willlam M. Morrow, United States In- fantry, stationed at Alcatraz, Calif., is cited for herolsm at Santiago, Cuba, July 1, 1388; Col. Luclus L. Durfee, retired, at Zanesville, Ohio, for hero. ism at El Caney. Cuba, July 1, 1898, and Col. Clark D. Dudley, retired, at San Francisco, for heroism at San Mateo, Philippine Islands, August 12, 1899, The Secretary of War also has offi- cially commended Maj. Herbert N, Pace, United States Finance Depart- ment, at Brooklyn, N. Y., for heroic conduct in rescuing two women from drowning in the Arroyo Colorado near Harlington, Tex., October 20, 1915. " FAVORS LABOR. Attaches With Diplomatic Stand- ing to Serve Embassies MEXICO CITY, February 14. attaches with 'diplomatic are to be added to the staffs of all the Mexican embassies and legations under a presidential decree. They will perform the dutles Involving la- bor investigations and similar busi- ness functions now carried on by the commercial attache: ‘Among _the first appointments was that of Canuto Vargas as labor at- tache to the Washington embassy. He has long been connected with the Pan-American Federation of Labor. Mrs. Annie Porter Dies. Mrs. Annle de Camp Hegeman Por- | MEXICO ter, 89 years old, widow of -Rep- resentative Henry Kirke Porter of Pittsburgh, died “at her home, 1600 1 street, Thursday. Funeral services ‘will be conducted at the residence by Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock. - Interment will be in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Porter is survived by a daugh- ter, Miss Annie May Hegeman of this city, and a son, Joseph P, Porter of | heimer proved able and sympathetic |meeting. New York. #the winners are not to be inspected by | win | Government { Constitution { tion | Associated Studios’ Group Gives Re- lin short trousers. proved the sensa- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925. ORATORICAE. CONTESTS CHATS H Play the Game. BY RANDOLPH LEIGH Na This in one of a_series of articles by the firector of the National Oratorical "Con Written to give coatestants the ben efit ‘of his observations Auring the 1924 contest, and to offer practical suggestions % to the present contest. Contestants, having mastered the Tules of the contest, should show sportsmanship in abiding by them without quibbling. One of the most important things to bear in mind in this connection is that the decision of the judges must be final. The judges of the contests within | the schools will be selected by the | school authorities. Those for the con- tests between schools will be chosen by the newspapers, and those for the nutional semi-finals and finals by the national management, with the ad- vice and approval of the newspapers concerned In all cases great care will be taken to secure competent and reputable Judges. The judges having been so chosen, there can be no appeal from their decisions. Furthermore the bal- ‘ots used by the judges in ting contestants, In the 1924 contest there were very few cases in which an attempt was made to question the selecting mude by the judges. Almost all of these cases were due to misunderstanding of the system of judging employed. Some, however, were due to out-and- out lack of good sportsmanship and ISTAR SUGGESTS LIST OF BOOKS | AS AIDS IN Three Groups Enumerated Which Deal With the Constitution and Constitutional Government in Way to Be of Service to Participants. i The Evening Star books listed below as an aid to par- ticipants in the national oratorical contest on the Constitution. The | lists are in three groups. The first| covers the immediate subject of the Constitation. Speciul Importance is| attached to the fuct that all of these} books are brief. The second deals with the seven leaders whose rela- tionship to the Constitution can be| dealt with in the contest. The third is made up of books on| suggests the, admirer of the veteran statesman's|(N® Keneral subject of constitutional| Formation of the Constitution. {government and should prove helpful | pleton. to those students desiring to make | an intensive research on specific| phases of the various subjects. It is| taken for granted that all contestants | study the Constitution ftself. | Likewise valuable insight into the whole problem can he obtained| through use of the selections from | “The Federalist.” i Specifie List. Beard. C. A.—"An Economic Inter- pretation of the Constitution of the! United States” (MacMillan), 212 pages. Describes the driving forces back of the movement for a stable| and shows the effect! which they had on the Constitution and on its subsequent development.® | Farrand. Max—"The Framing of | the Constitution of the United States” | (Yale Univ. Press), 281 pages. Based| on the actual record of the constitu- tional convention. Shows how con-/ flicting programs were blended, and| the results thereof. | JFiske, John-—"The Critical Period | of American Histor: (Houghwon, Mifin), 383 pages, Deals primagily With the bridging of the gap between | the Articles of Confederation and the | Contains in ad ion the story of the formation and adop- tion of the Constitution. Jones and Maurer—“The Constitu-| of the United States” (Heath), pages. Discusses fundamenta the Constitution and develops in detail Importance of the Bill of} Rights. Also includes 100 questions | on the Constitution | Leigh. Randolph The Citadel of | Freedom” (Putnam). 210 pages. By the director of the National Oratorical | Conteat. Designed to give contest-| ants a bird's-eye view of our consti-| tutional development. Appendix con- tains the three prize-winning orations of the 1924 contest. Thorpe, F. N.—“A Short - tional History of the United States (Little, Brown). 395 puges. Traces the development of &he constitutional | idea in America. Describes the for- mation, ndoption and ratification of | the Federal Constitution in detail. | of Constitu- Biegraphical A. J. Baveridge, “The Life of John Marshall.” Houghton Miffiin. | Henry Jones Ford, “Washington| and His Colleagues.” Yale University Press. ‘Gaillard Hunt, “The Life of James| Madison,” Doubleday, §i&¢ | MUSIC PUPILS DISPLAY - | TALENT IN CONCERT cital of Excellent Merit at the Playhouse. A concert by pupils of the Arso- clated Studios, Otto Simon, voice; La Salle Spler. piano: Henri Sokolov, vio- Iin, and Richard Lorleberg. cello, at the Playhouse last night revealed much talent. | David Legum, a 12-veggeold lad, stil, tion of the evening by his colorfuland | confident interpretation of the difficult violin "Concerto, A Minor,” by De Beriot. With ease and grace he brought forth clear, clean-cut tones, full of expression and feeling. Virginia Shull, at the piano, present- ed a group of three, “Il Penseroso” and “Praludium,” by Liszt, and “Soiree de Vienne, No. 5" by Schubert-Liszt, with depth of sympathetic appreci: tion. Sophie Snyder was delightful in & group at the piano, by Chopin, “Prelude, F Sharp Major,” ‘“‘Masurka, ] B Flat Major,” and “Waltz, B Minor, while Thomas Clarke revealed talen( in Liszt's “Au Lac de Wallenstadt” and Chopin's “Waltz in E Minor.” Puplls of volce provided a dignified and pleasing series. Mrs. Ida Willis Beaton, in “The Young Nun,” by Schu- bert, disclosed a clear, fine Soprano. Dr. Carson Frailey, baritone. sang “Be Thou Faithful Unto Death,” by Men- delssohn, with fervor. Lilllan. Ade- lafde Watson revealed a voice of wide range in Bellini's “Qui la Voce.” Anna Ledward Patterson sang “Elsa's Dream” (“Lohengrin”), by Wagner, in full, well rounded tones; Haze! Gem Hughes, in a soprano of sweet qua ity, presented Puccini’s “Se Come vol Picina to Fou and Charles Watts, tenor, was fd to advantage in “Were My Songs. With Wings Pro- vided.” by Hahn. Cello numbers were played by Louise Bernheimer, who presented with spirit “Tarentel by Squire, and Godard's “Berceus: Willlam Kendall, who showed promise in Bach arabande” and Cul's “Orientale,” and Hazel Ben- ton, whose “Andante,” by Gluck, and “Bouree,” by Handel, were interes! ing. Otto 8imon and. Mrs. Jonas Bern- accompaniotn. ORATORICAL CONTEST | ! Putnam | Hopkins University tutional Theory,” Columbia Univer- | sity Press Nicholas M. Butlér, “Why Change Our Form of Government?” Serib- ner. Director National Oratory Contest Awards - Eight school each. prizes of $100 One grand District of Colum- bla award of $300. Seven national awards of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $450, $400, $350 and $300. The District of Columbla representative will automatic- ally receive one of these seven national awards in addition to the above-mentioned local prizes. a desire to win in any way that seam- ed possible. Fortunately such instances were rare and received the support of only | & small number of pupils and teach- | ers. In this conection it must be borne | in mind that in a widely participated- in contest of this character, the prob- | lem of selections become increasingly | difficult as the movement draws to its climax. The better the contest the closer the contestants will be to one | another in their scores. f By all means get excited over the contest, but do not forget that you must play the game and stand by the results. | | | F. 8 Oliver, “Alexander Hamilton,” Archibald, Constable Nicolay and Hay, coln,” Century Co. T. E. Watson, “Life and Times Themas Jefferson,” Appleton E. P. Wheeler, “Daniel Webster,” Putnam. L 8. Andrews, “Manual of the Con- stitution,” American Book Co. J. F. Baker, “Federal Constitution,” Abraham Lin- of George Bancroft, “History the Ap- of C. A. Beard, “Economle Origins of Jeftarsonian Democracy,” MacMillan. J. M. Beck, “Constitution of the | United States” Dor i A. J. Beveridge, the Supreme Court.”” Bobbs James Bryce, “American wealth,” MacMillan, | James Brvce, “The Predictions of | Hamilton and Dé Toqueville,” Johns | udies | anges in Consti- | | Crusade Against Common- J. W. Burges A. J. Cloud, “Our Constitution, Its Story, Its Meaning, Jts Use,” Scott E. 'S. Corwin, “Constitution snd What It Means Today,” Princeton University Press. E. . Corwin, “John Marshall and the Constitution,” Yale University Press. G. T. Curtis, “Constitutional tory of United States,” Harper. His- W. F. Dodd, “United States Con- ¢titution,” Cambridge University Prass. Edward Elliott, “Biographical Story of the Constitution,” Putnam. R. C. Gettell, “Constitution ®©f the Unifed States,” Ginn. H. E. von Holst, “Constitutional | and Political History,” Callaghan A. C. McLaughlin, “Confederation and the Constitution” Harper. Willlam Neigs, “Growth of the Con- | stitution in the Federal Convention ot 1787." Lippincott. | Masuji Niyaka “Powers of the! American People,” Baker. T. F. Moran, “Formation and De- | velopment of the Constitution,” | Barri G C. W. Pierson, “Our Changing Con- stitution,” Doubleday, Page. W. L. Ransom, “Majority the Judiciafy,” Secribner. | A. M Schlesinger, “Economic As- | pects of the Movement for the Con- stitution,” MacMillan. Robert L. Schuyler, “Constitution | of the United States,” McMillan. J. A. Smith, “Spirit of American | Government,” MacMillan. Alexis de Toqueville, “The Federal Constitution,” World Classics. A. H. Vandenburg, “If Hamilton Were Here Today," Putnam Woodrow Wilson, “Constitutional | Government in the United State: | Lemche. BALL INTRODUCES BILL TO RAISE CONGRESS’ PAY Proposes Salary of $10,000 Per Year for Members of House and Senate, Effective March 4. A bill to Increase the compensation of members of Congress was intro- duced yesterday by Senator Ball of Delaware. This is the second measure of this nature that he has introduced | at this session. The bill provides that section 4 of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation act approved February 26, 1907, be amended as follow: That the compensation of - the Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, the Vice President and the heads of the executive departments who are members of the President's cabinet shall ba at the rate of $12,000 | per annum each, and the compensa- tion of Senators, Representatives in Congress, delegates from the Terri- tories and resident commissioner from Porto Rico shall be at the rate of $10,000 per annum each. “This act shall take effect on March 4, 1925." Rule and [ ) 50 SEEK NEW JOBS. Candidates for School Attendance Officer Under New Law. Fitty applicants for the positions of attendance officers created In the new compulsory education and school cen- sus law, were given examinations to- day by the boards of examiners of the District public schools at the Frank- 1in School. Twenty ot the applicants are white. The examinations were conducted to | establish an eligible list from which appointments will be made when Con- ‘gress grants the appropriation for salaries, College Women to Meet. Plans for the annual meeting of the National Assoclation of College Wom- en in Baltimore April 16, 17 and 18 were discussed by the executive board of the organization at a recent | fair, | conspiracy ARMY OFFICER DIES UNDER MOTOR BUS Lieut. Col. R. R. l.ove, Pa- tient at Walter Reed, Feil or Jumped to DeAth. Lieut. Col. Robert R. Love of tha Sth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Clarke. Tex., a mental patient at Walter Reed Hospital, was killed shortly after % o'clock this morning when run over by a motor bus of the Capital Trac- tion Co. on Sixteenth street just north of the west entrance to Walter Reed Hospita'. Col. Love was rushed 1o the hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival by Maj. Benjamin Norris. Ofticars at the hospital. recalling that Col. Love came to the hosplial suffering from “anxisty neurosis.” a nervous disorder, termed the death a clear case of sulcide, especially as a few moments before Col. Love was crushed beneath the motor bus a ci- villan had informed the hospital by telephone that the cavalry officer had attempted to throw himself under th wheel= of a District trash truck Oliver Carver, 23 years old, of 615 G. street, northwest driver of the motor bux gave himself up immediatels at the Tenth precinct, where he questioncd, and later released on orde of the coroner. He will appear a: the inquest. There were no eye-wit nesses to the affair, according to D lice, except Carver. Police and ho pital officials are investigatinz determine how he came to his de Cirenmatamces in Dowbt. Col. Love, according to police ports. was walking on S street, and either fell or dived und the bus, which was stopped His body was removed from be the front,and rear whesls. Offic of the Capitol Traction Co. would r allow Carver to talk ahout the a pending the inquest. The Army officer came o Wal Reed Hospital on February 8. “matter of routine” according Walter Reed officials, suffering fro what was diagnosed as “anxiety ne: rosis,” which was described as a ner ous disease which causes the pati- to believe he is about to suffer son severe physical ailment. His recc showed no evidence of suicidal t.: dencies, hospital officials said. Trea ment prescribed for him was alor the line of suggestive therapeutic or phychological treatment th would remove the though of a p sible. dread physical ailment i went out for his customary walk t morning, leaving his quarters in officers” ward a few minutes bei he was killed. G: ate of Ranks. Col. Love rose from the rank the Army, entering the military so1 ice ax a private in the 6th Penns vania Infantry, in May, 1895, He 1 successively ~through the vario grades, serving with distinction the World War, and was appointed lieutenant colonel of Cavalry on Sey tember 24, 1921. He was born May 1 1878, and was 46 years of age H wife, Mrs' Eliza T. Love, is at Fuou Clarke Both police and Walter Reed v cials had the report that Col. Lo had attempted to throw himself u der the wheels of a District tra- truck a few moments before he w killed by the motor bus. A qui turn by the driver was said to h. saved him. PRISONER CHARGE: Heard Government Witness Threaten to “Queer” De- fendants, He Says. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, February 14— bert Phillips, a prisoner In the Atlanta Federal penitentiary, todsy testified In the trial of A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, deposed warden and deputy, respectively, of the in stitution, and Laurence Riehl, Colum- bus, Ohio, that he heard Graham Baughn, a Government witness threaten to “queer” the two officials Phillips was the first® witness at the morning session called by the defendants, who are charged with and bribery. While Sartain was in Washington in December, and an agent of the Department of Justice had taken charge of the prizon, the witness stated Baughn took F. L. Dodge. & Government operative, to town one ht and on his return had asked him to search the automoblile Baughn. convicted in the Savannah “rum ring” exposure, was the war- den’s chauffeur. TRAFFIC CLUB READY FOR YEARLY DINNER Celebration Will Be Held at Ra- leigh. Thursday Night—En- tertainment Is Arranged. The nineteenth annual dinner of ihe Trafc Club of Washington will be held February 19 at the Raleigh Hotel The principal speakers will be Russell Brown, vice president of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. and president of the club: for- mer Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Philip C. Campbell and Frank J. Hogan. The entertainment features will be presented by various members of the club, George O'Connor and Mat Horne. Others on the program are Mrs. Bel- knap S. Smith, Le Roy Lewis, Wil- liam Jules Ricker, Miss Edna White and Sam Rosy and band. Odell S Smith is chairman of the executive committee and on arrangements. . PRIZE FOR PEACE SYMBOL National Council for Prevention of ‘War Offers $100. The National Council fer Prevention of War announced today that it wil give 3100 in gold for the best symbol that signifies peace that can be used on a button, seal, letter head and in gen- eral. The council suggests a symbol that historically has stood for peace. The contest will close at midnight, In- ternational Goodwill day, May 18. The judges will be Delcevare King of Boa- ton, who suggested the contest and donated the prize, and Frederick J. Libby and 8. E. Nicholson, secretaries of the council. PEL o Gen. Dorey Assigned. Brig. Gen. Halstead Dorey, stationed at Fort Omaha, Neb., and now in this city under orders, has been assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands, Miss Lucy D. Slowe, na- tional president, presided. sailing from Seattle, Wash., by the first available eommercial lner. PLOT ONWARDEN: