Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness tonight fol- lowed by rain late tonight or tomor- row; not much change in temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 55, at 6:10 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 7:40 a.m. today. Entered as sec No. 29,511. - §11,000,000 ASKED OF U. . IN SENATE D, DL REPOR Appropriation Bill Carrying $661,970 Increase Given Committee 0. K. EXTRA $200,000 SOUGHT FOR REPAIRS OF STREETS $300,000 Added to Push Work on Stuart Junior High—Lump- Sum Probe Later Likely. The District ppropriation bill, carrying $31.81 and with the contribution from the Federal Treas- ury ported to the Senate today by Senator Phipps of Colorado, from the commit- tee on appropriations. The bill was placed on the calendar and will be called up for consideration at an early date. The Senate committee added $718,- 500 to the bill as it passed the House, the major items of increase being for public schools and street repairs. The committee decreased appropriations! made by the House to the tunme of $56,530, making the net increase in the bill $661,970. Section 7 of the bill as it passed the House, providing that “the estimates of appropriations in the District of Columbia chapter of the budget for the fiscal year 1927 shall be submit- ted on the same basis of contribution by the United States which this act provides,” was stricken out by the Senate committee. Oppose Lump Sum. While the Senate committee made no attempt to substitute the 60-40 plan of dividing the expenses of the National Capital between the District and the Federal Government, some members of the committee still look with favor on the fixed proportionate division of expenses between the two. In their opinion the Budget Bureau should not be compelled by action of Congress to submit to the Senate its estimates for the District for suc- ceeding fiscal years on the lump-sum idea, or with the idea that the lump sum shall be same as contributed in the pending bill. The committee increased the lump | sum to be contributed by the Federal Government from $9,000,000 as pro- wvided by the House, to $11,000,000, be- lleving that the Federal Government's share in the upkeep and development of the Capital should be greater, No effort was made to restore the fixed proportion Awith the sessiom of Congress drawing to a close. It was feared that a prolonged contest with the House over this matter might re- suit in the bill's failing. Will Renew Fight. Suggestion had been made that the Senate committee include a provision for a joint congressional committee to investigate the fiscal relations be- tween the Federal Government and the District to determine whether the fixed proportionate plan or a lump- sum plan of contribution by the Fed- eral Goverment should be made per- manent, and to report back to Con- gress early in the next session. The Senate committee, however, felt that it would be difficult to get members -of Congress to serve on such a committee during the recess. The plan for such a committee, how- ever, will be pressed at the opening of the next session of Congress, it 1s said The bill as reported to -the Senate is the largest District bill in history. It exceeds the District estimates submitted by the Budget Bureau by $1,017,346, and exceeds the appro- priations for the present fiscal year by §2,630,083.79. The largest item added by the Senate committee is $300,000 for Stu- art Junior High School building. The House had provided $175,000 to begin this building. As carried in the Sen- ate bill the item Is $475,000, to com- plete the structure. $200,000 for Streets. The next largest item of increase s $200,000 for street repairs. The report shows. the following Increases and decreases. Increase. Office or superintendent of weights, measures and markets—Maintenance and repairs to market, $1,000. Municipal architect's office—Re- placement of truck, $2,400. Employment service, $60. Street and road improvements— Paving Ordway street, Thirty-fifth Street to Wisconsin avenue, $14,000 paving Macomb street, Wisconsin ave- nue to Idaho avenue, $12,000; paving | Quebec street to| Thirty-fifth street, Rodman _street, $4,500; repairs to streets, $200,000; total street and road improvements, $230,500. Upper Potomac main $50,000. Collection and disposal of refuse— Site for garbage transfer station, $9,000. Public schools—Personal services, $11,880; department of school at- tendance and work permits, $11,600; community center department, $4,700; contingent expenses, $3,000; Stuart Junior High School building, $300,000; total, public schools, $331,180. ¥ire Department—Personal fces, $60. Court of fces, $560. Public buildings and grounds—Im- provement and care of public grounds, 38 intercepter, serv- Appeals—Personal serv- Water spection §7.710. Total increase, Department—Revenue, in- and distribution branches, $718,500. Decrease, Playgrounds — Superintendent bathing beach, $720. Police Court — Personal services, $32,650; miscellaneous expenses, $22,- N0 total, Police Court, $35,450. Jail—Support of prisoners, $360. Total decrease, $56,530. Net increase, $661,970. Amount of bill as reported to Sen- ate, $31,812,237. Provide Bathing Beach. The appropriations for personal services in the Police Court were re- duced by the Senate committee from $90,774 to $58,124. The House language providing that the Police Court in the District shall consist of four judges, instead of two, as at present, was stricken out of the bill along with other legislative provis: of Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 increased to $11.000,000, was re- | ond class matter post_office, Washington, D, C. Asked to Curb Advocating the establishment of a censorship board in the District of Columbia to prevent the staging of Immoral shows, and citing the Bos- ,ton Censorship Board as a model, Representative Frederick W. Dallin- ger of Massachusetts, chairman of the House committee on education today introduced a resolution which directs the District Commissioners to inform the House of Representatives as to { what steps, if any, they have taken to prevent the staging of improper | plays in the District. In his resolution Representative Dallinger emphasizes thatf “plays have recently been staged in the theaters of the District so obscene and indecent in plot and language as o shock the moral sense of the com- | munity and to cause the just con- demnation of newspapers and peri- odicals in other parts of the country. | He bases his resolution on the fact { that under the Constitution Congress {has exclusive jurisdiction over the { District and that it has delegated to the Commissioners the usual police powers enjoved and exercised by municipal authorities elsewhere in the United States. Says Authority Given. In his resolution Representative Dallinger argues that in the exercise of this pollce power the District i MUST KEEP CREDIT, HERRIOT'S WARNING { Prevention of Inflation, Re- i gardless of Cost, Vital, ! He Tells Deputies. | | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, February 16.—Premier Her- riot. in explaining the government's { financial policy to the Chamber of { Deputies this afternoon, declared em- phatically against inflation. | “Cost what it may,” he said, “France | must in the solution of this problem { maintain her reputation for financiat | probity. Cost what it may, she must re- sist all temptation to abandon the rolicy of avolding inflation.” “I am not here to talk politic: Premler Herrlot declared in beginning | his promised statement on the govern- { ment’s financial policy, “but solely to ;let the country know the exact finan- clal situation. It is the government's duty to inform the country of it.” The chamber listened with the clos- est attention, noting that the premier, contrary to his custom, seemed to in- tend to read his speech. “During the war,” said the premier, “we had to borrow the most possible while paying off the least possible. Now we must pay oft the most possi- ble while borrowing the least possible.” | Huge Total Indebtedness. | ! Premier Herriot sketched the ter- rible consequences of the war, nota- bly to France. He said that by the end of the war France had borrowed 55,500,000,000 francs, plus 17,000,000,- 000 francs in national defense bonds. By the end of 1918 her indebtedness | was 144,000,000,000 francs. Since the apparent liquidation of the war the appeals made to capital investment had been 37.000,000,000 francs in 1920; 24,000,000,000 in 1921; 17,000,000,000 in 1922; 18,000,000,000 in 1823, and 5,000,- 000,000 in 1924, showing the loans had been decreasing. The premier said it was not a mat- ter of addressing lyrical appeals to the country for confidence, but to show exactly what was to be done. ‘When the government, by virtue of the London agreement, had found it possible to deal with the repara- tion proceeds g0 as to allow for the first time the inclusion of 1,250,000,000 francs from this source in the bud- | get, he said, the government had set to work on a budget which was | complete in itself and which balanced. Needs World's Credit. | “We need the entire world's credit,” continued M. Herriot. “The world must know that the franc will im- prove slowly, but surely, like the wine of our country.” He cited England as having brought the pound sterling well toward par | despite unemployment, while the workers and middle classes of other countries had suftered through other | solutlons. “It is for the franc that the gov- ernment demands the effort of all,” !said the Premier, to the applause of | the House. | “Volumes have been written for the defense of the franc. Among the so- lutions suggested is revaluation, which is rapid, immediate and de- |cisive. But however seductive thls solution appears, I must tell you I do not belleve in a sudden solution. “Healthy money must be our pol- fcy,” declared the premier. “Healthy money is the only policy capable of lowering the cost of living, capable of giving France the authority she needs in International councils.” Confidence Held Vita M. Herrlot, appealing to all French- men to unite to solve the country's financial problems, declared he- had entire confidence in the satisfactory outcome of France's troubles. “The country has the necessary re- sources,” sald he, “and It has the needed determination to work out its financial salvation. All that now is lacking is the confidence which a union of all parties in a common ef- fort will restore.” LACK OF FAITH BLAMED. | Experts Declare Large Sums Sent Out of Country by Investors. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, February 16.—The sharp de- cline in the French franc causing seri- ous difficulties in France, and the gov- ernment fears that in order to preventa further decline it will be compelled to use the deposits of the Banque de France, which were returned to the bank by J. P. Morgan & Co. after the conclusion of the American loan last October, The government now has at its dis- ~ (Contmued on Page 2, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) ¢h WASHINGTON, D. C, | Censorslu'p Board in Capital Salacious Plays Choice of City for Premiers of Obscene Dramas Calls for Drastic Action, House Measure Author Says. Commissioners have authority to pre- vent the exhibition of improper plays by revoking the licenses of places of amusement. In discussing this resolution today, Representative Dallinger said: “Al- though 1 have not seen any of the plays which recently have been shown in the theaters here, it is clearly apparent from newspaper and magazine accounts, as well as from conversation with ' those who have seen them, that they are the worst which have appeared on the Ameri- can stage for a good many years. Even the more blase patrons of the theater are shocked at the unus- ually frank presentation of immoral scenes, which leave nothing to the imagination, and the frequency with which profanity and obscenity occur. “In Boston, one of the great the- atrical cities of the country, a sim- ilar situation prevailed a number of years ago. A severe censorship or- dinance was immediately passed es- tablishing a board of censors, com- prising the mayor of the city, the chief justice of the municipal court and the police commissioner, with the official city censor serving as secretary of, the board. “The work of the board since its in- stitution has been so effective that theatrical managers no longer find expedient or profitable to book sala- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BALFOUR REVEALS PEACE PACT FLAWS Thinks Security Treaty With- out Germany Weak, Paper Reports. By the Asociated Press. LONDON, February 16.—The Daily Mail says that Lord Balfour, as a member of the imperial defense com- mittee, has written an interim re- port upon the conclusions of the sub- committee which was especially charged with the examining of the Geneva agreement on arbitration and disarmament. This report, the paper understands, ranks with Balfour's famous memo- randum on interallied debts, writ- ten In 1922, which formed the basis of the recent British note to Franc Ic roviews the past security policy, indicates what is deemed e unworkable character of the present Geneva agreement and sets forth the lines upon which the subcommittee believes the future security policy should be framed. Lord Balfour stresses the danger of ieaving Germany isolated to join forces with Russia, and, alluding to the important part the chemists are expected to play in future wars, points out the grave danger of Ger- many establishing chemical and other tactories in Russia. If Germany co-operated in a secu- rity scheme, the situation would be materially different. The report, therefore, considers it desirable to treat Europe as an entity, not exclud- ing any large state. —_— NATIONAL PARKS BILL IS ENACTED House Passes Senate Measure to “Determine Boundaries” of Smoky Area. A Senate bill directing the determina- tion of boundaries of proposed national parks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the Smoky Mountains of Ten- nessee and North Carolina and in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky was passed today by the House. The measure, which now goes to the President, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to decide whether additional parks should be created. Believes éoolidge Is Not Overworked, Drops Relief Bill Declaring “the present occupant of the White House does not need the relief proposed,” Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, today withdrew a resolution he had in- troduced after the death of Presi- dent Harding proposing that a special commission study ways and means of lightening the burdens of the presidency. Among other things, the commis- sion would have been autherized to draft legislation “to lighten the responsibilities of the President, including changes in the length of his term of office and the limi- tation of any occupant of the office to one term. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—When Horace Love, torn by machine-gun bullets, was waiting for death in no man's land, a dog saved his life. Yesterday he saved that dos. Love, now a student at North- western University, was severely wounded while fighting in the Ar- gonne, when the dog, Bolivar, then working for the German Red Cross, found him, went back to surgeons, and brought them to the stricken man. Later American forces captured the position, and when Love returned home, he brought Bolivar. About a month ago Love, with another student, lost Bolivar while on a hike. For days they searched in vain. Mean- while reports were brought in that a “wolf” had been Veteran, Saved by Dog in War, Pays Debt by Rescuing Animal From Death WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION PRESDENT 0 CALL HOUSE LEADERS PLEAFORD.G BLS White House Plans Eleventh- Hour Effort to Get Some Ac- tion Before Adjournment. GIVEN GLOOMY OUTLINE OF PRESENT PROSPECTS Senate to Meet Tonight to Take Up Traffic, School, Welfare and Other Measures. President Coolidge will summon | Republican Leader Longworth and several others of the House to confer with him at the White House within | a day or so in an eleventh hour attempt to get through Congress rent legislation and some of the more im- portant bills_ affecting the Distr{ct of Columbia. The Executive conferred today with Representative Reed of West Virginia, chairman of the House District com- mittee, and it was during this con- ference that the President let it be known that he will send for the House leaders in an attempt to pres: upon them the necessity of getting a clear track for the more important District legislation, Gives Gloomy Outline, Representative Reed said after- ward that he went entirely over the situation with the President and in- timated that he gave the Executive a rather gloomy prospect for the chances of the rent legislation. Mr. Reed sald that from the talk he had with House leaders the chances of any rent legislation was very doubt- ful. He said also that the legislation proposed to regulate traffic here, as well as the public schools building | program, are not very promising. While Representative Reed expects the President to specify particularly rent legislation when he talks to the House leaders he also expects him to | use his influence in favor of the public | school program and traffic legislation. | Representative Reed said he did not | discuss the reorganization bill, al- | though he knows that the President is specially interested in it and is very hopeful that it may be given consideration at this session. The pending rent legislation was the subject of a number of communl- cations received today by Repre- | sentative Reed, most 6f which vigor- ously obposed this measure. Senate Meets Tonight. The Senate will consider District legislation &t 2 night session, be- ginning at § o'clock tonight and running untll 11 o'clock tonight, under a unanimous consent agree- ment entered into this afternoon. Five bills will be considered in the following orde the traffic regula- tion bill, ‘he school building pro- gram bill, 2 bill closing a part of Thirty-fourtn place, 4 joint resolu- tion providing for a city planning | commission and the public. welfare bill. The street railway merger bill was omitted from the list at the request of Senator McKellar of Tennessee. The bill to extend the life of the| Rent Commission, which was on a| similar list, scheduled to be taken up at a meeting Friday night, also ‘was left out of the list of bills to be con- sidered tonight. Under the unanimous consent agreement speeches on the bills and on all amendments are limited to 15 minutes each. The limitation of de- bate was proposed by Senator Rob- inson, the Democratic leader. Senator Curtfs, the Republican leader, pro- posed the night session for District legislation. Controller McCarl suggested two minor amendments to clarify and simplify accounting. The " Building Owners and Man- agers' Association of California and the Pacific Southwest, In convention, sent a telegram to Chairman Reed, in which they said that legislation at- tempting to fix and regulate building rentals in the District should be op- posed with the utmost vigor as dan- gerous in principle and destructive in its tendency to the very fundamental doctrine of the sacredhess of private property, upon which our economic structure rests. Example of Russia. This telegram says that if this leg- islation is upheld as constitutional, it will speedily spread throughout the {n(lra country and ultimately result in the complete nationalization of all property ownership, as in Russia. The Building Owners and Man- agers’ Assoclation of St. Louls im a communication declared that the pro- posed legislation is “Impracticable.” ANTITOXIN REACHES NOME Driver and Dogs Arrive Blizzard. By the Associated Pres NOME, Alaska, Sunday, February 15.—Ed Rohn and his dogs arrived at noon today in a bliszard with diph- theria antitoxin. Crossing Norton Sound, two of his dogs fell into a fissure of the ice, in Yesterday, Love, still at his Quest, was stopped by a policeman because his automobile lacked = license tag. At a suburban station he explained his search. “Why, we've a dog like that,” the sergeant sald. “Caught him— it took half a dozen of us—after ‘he had 'scared folks on the road He looks half starved; he's sched- uled to be shot in the morning. “You'll have to shoot me first, Love sald. Bolivar was brought in. He was a skeleton. But he cleared the room in one bound and ‘almost floored his master with his joyous assaylt. . Theére will be no execution, Radio Programs—Page, 14, weLt [ GoT MY G- ¢ Foening Star. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1925—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. d SETTLEMENT €7 BEFORE THs L0/ STANLEY ATTACKS NEW TRAFFIC BILL Senator Declares Some of Clauses Are Relics of Dark Ages—Denies Vital Need. Characterizing certain provisions of the joint committee traffic bill which | was taken up in the Senate Friday night relics of the “dark ages,” and denying that there was any ne- cessity for a new traffic law, Senator Stanley of Kentucky on the floor of the Senate today told his colleagues that an existing law covered most of the provisions in the propoesed bill. The Kentucky Senator denied em- phatically that he had attempted-to obstruct traMc leglglation Friday night, and quoted from the Congres- ional “Record remarks in which he asked for additional time to consider | the matter. Importance of Control. He said today that every one real- ized the importance of traffic control, but that was no excuse for enactment of “ill-digested” legislation. that the new bill contained, as far as he could find, no provisions that were not adequately covered by the traffic law now in effect in Washington. Senator Stanley asserted that the proposed bill was not only crude in construction, but proposes to repeal laws which had been on the statute books for 20 years. He cited the new speed law and the hit-and-run clauses to show what he termed the utter “futility” of the new measure. “It says here,” said Senator Stan- ley, reading from the proposed traffic bill, “that if any one exceeds a speed of 25 miles an hour he can be charged with reckless driving and prescribes a penalty that the judge must inflict.” Hit-and-Run Clause. The clause dealing with the hit- and-run motorist, he sald, is ridicu- lous. “if 1 should accidently scrape another automobile as I was emerg- ing from a parking space downtown and should go and explain to the owner of the other car that 1 was sorry and he accepted my explanation, I would bé sent to jail if I failed to report this trivial offense to the police within 24 hours. The same pénalty would apply if I struck and killed a pedestrian and failed to report to the police. If there was no law on this matter the provisions proposed in the bill would appall me, but there is a law and it has been on the books. after careful consideration, for a great many years. “This bill 1s an illustration, to my mind, of what the mad mania for leg- islation will lead to. The malin trouble in Washington is that there is (Continued on Page 2, Column §.) HOUSE 0. KS MERGER OF FEDERAL OFFICES Public Buildings and Grounds and State, War and Navy Commission Joined. The House today passed, under unanimous consent, the bill consoli- aating the office of public buildings and grounds under the chief of en- 'gineers of the Army and the office of superintendent of the State, War and Navy Departments Building. * On motion of Representative Cram- ton of Michigan the House substi- tuted his measure for the Senate bill, favorably reported from the commit- tee on public buildings and grounds. He explained that this administrative change would effect a saving of about $50,000 a year. The committee report pointed out that the commission in charge of the State, War and Navy Department Buildings really has charge of most of the Gov- ernment buildings in Washington, and thag its name is simply a continuation of the old name under which the office was instituted 30 years ago. A similar situation applies to the office of public buildings and grounds, which wes or- ganized about 100 years ago. This meas- ure has the support of the Secretary of War and of the officer in charge of these offices, the legislation being mere- 1y to change the name to suit the fact and to bring about better.co-ordination. He said | WINNERS | Interior Employes Get Silver Dollars In Pay Envelopes Following the lead of several other departments, the Interior Department today began disburs- ing silver dollars to its employes in their pay envelopes. One thous- and dollars in silver was distri- buted today when the ‘“ghost” walked in the department, and an- other thousand will be distributed at the cnd of the month when the next semi-monthly pay envelopes are distributed. Secretary Meilon recently urged the distribution of silver dollars, pending issuance of new paper dollars. Similar action has been taken at the Treasury and at the Department of Agriculture. COOLIDGE INSTRUCTS SPECIAL COMMISSION Explains - Purposes_of Board Cre- ated to Plan Washington's 200th Birthday Observance. President Coolidge, as chairman of the United States Commission for the celebration of the two hundredth birthday anniversary of George Wash- ington, presided over the first meeting today of that body at the White House. The Executive made a brief address of welcome, during which he outlined the purposes for which the commission was created and stated that he will make public announce- ment later when he will define the general purposes of the commission and will make known the tentative plans for this celebration, which will be held in 1932. The members of the commission present were: Senators Fess of Ohio, Spencer of Missouri and Glass of Vir- ginia and Representatives Gillett, peaker of the House, of Massachu- setts, Stilson of Connecticut, Halley of Washington, Bayard of Deleware, Byrns of Tennessee and Frank A. Munsey of New York, Mrs. John Sher- man, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cooks, president of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. At today's meeting Senators Fess and Glass and Representative Halley were named a special committee to effect a permanent organization. Rep- resentative Stilson was designed as secretary pro temport of the commis- sion. PROFESSOR IS FOUND SHOT; SUICIDE SEEN No Cause Assigned for Action o!, Greensboro, N. C., College Faculty Member. By the Associated Pres: GREENSBORO, N. C., February 16. —The body of Prof. Lee White, head of the department of-education of | Guilford College, was found shortly after 7 o'clock yesterday in the yard of his home. A pistol was found lying beside him. The body was found by Mrs. White, who hurried into the yard when she heard a shot. Friends said it was believed that the professor had ended his own life, although ng cause for such an act was assigned. Prof. White had been a member of the college faculty for five years, and was popular with the students and residents of the college neighbor- hood. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes The Story of The French Debt A timely and authoritative dis- cussion of one of the day’s big problems, By William P. Helm, Jr. In nine installments, to be pub- lished, beginning today, on Mon- days, Wedaesdays and Fridays, on the Editorial Page of The Evening Star * | | I | | | DEADLY WAR EAS DESCRIBED B FRES Will Be 50 Times as Vital in Next Strife, Aircraft Probers Told. Briz. Gen. Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, told the House aireraft committee today that as attacks in the next war would be 50 itmes more important” than in the last, picturing raids where from 25 to 100 tons of gas bombs would be dropped, to the confusion of the at- tacked area. ! From 10 to 20 tons of gas bombs | to the square mile, dropped from the air, he said, would entirely destroy everything within that area. Cites Value of Bomb. Asked as to the effect of aerial gas bombing on a battleship, Gen. Fries said he believed explosive bombs | would cause enough damage without using gas, which, however, would prove a valuable adjunct. Phosphorus or polson gas bombs, he asserted, would drive the crew from the deck of a ship, and, if the ship's ventilating system were damaged by shellfire, also cause injury inside the vessel. The general told the committee that the Chemical had developed a smoke screen gas, which could be be laid down by swiftly moving planes, and thus en- able large bombing planes to ap- proach very closely the surface area. Such gas would be very effective, he declared, in shielding an attacking squadron from searchlights at night. Under the present policy of the War and Navy Departments, the Army Air Service Is. tied to the im- fenses and must wait for a fleet to bombard the shore line or land troops before it can attack, Maj. Thomas D. Milliig, in charge of the Army Air Service Tactical School at Langley Field, Va., told the committee. Maj. Milling, who has been fiying for 14 years and is one of the oldest pilots in the service, gave the com- day aircraft would attack and sink an enemy fleet approaching Ameri- can shores. He said he wanted to clear up the idea that one or two bombing planes would go out for bat- tle and be at the mercy of anti-air- craft fire or enemy pursuit ships. of aviation closely co-ordinated would be used—pursuit, attack and bom- bardment. As soon as the intelli- gence was flashed to an airplane base by patrolling dirigibles that a fleet was approaching shore these three branches of aviation would take the alr, Maj. Milling said. \ Describes Tacties. In the enemy fleet undoubtedly would be an aircraft carrier, and the first duty of the American pursuit planes would be to draw into the air the enemy pursuit planes and either destroy them or lead them away from the fleet. Immediately, the attack planes carrying gas bombs, smoke screens and small explosives, would swoop down on the battle craft, de- stroying the small upper armament, forcing the crews to don gas masks and obscuring the approach by smoke of the heavy bombardment planes carrying 4,000 pound bombe. Thus, declared Maj. Milling, the way | would be paved for the big bombers to sink the battleships or put them out of commission, and it would not Dbe necessary for them to operate from an altitude of 10,000 feet or more, as has been contended, because the pursult planes and anti-aircraft de- fenses would have been destroyed, Milling explained. Disagrees With Wilbur. Representative Perkins of New Jer- sey, the committee examiner, read extracts from Secretary Wilbur's testimony to the effect that the range af aircraft always will be short and that during the war they carried out sporadic ralds, inflicting only damage to morale in the majority of cases. Maj. Milling disagreed with the Navy Secretary’s belief, and declared he “minimizes” the great part play- ed by airplanes in the late war, At the same time, however, Maj. Milling declared, “we can’t hark back to the World War” to determine the performance of airplanes today, be- cause at that time in bombardment work, for example, 25-pound bombs were the largest used. Today, he continued, bombs weighing from 100 to 4,000 pounds would be employed against targets, and he declared “there is no Limit to the size of them.” At the Air Service Tactical School Maj. Milling said the types of targets have been listed together with the I men testified before the Warfare Service | mediate vicinity of the fixed coast de- | mittee a word picture of how present- | Under the present plan three forms | as fast as the papers are printed. y’s Circulation, 101,664 Sunday’s Circulation, 108,322 TWO CENTS. CAVE LATERAL CUT CLOSE TO COLLINS; GUARDS INCREASED Doctors Ready to Enter Shaft If Victim Found Alive. Rescue Perils Increase. HARD WORK EXPECTED AFTER HE IS REACHED Voices in 0ld Tunnel Direct Dig- ging Accurately Now—Less Than 10 Feet to Go. By the Associated Press CAVE CITY, February 16.—Sur- mounting serious obstacles and over- | coming large falls, it now remains a question of cubic yards and time juntil Floyd Collins’ rescue party ex- pects to reach the void which will lead directly to him, sald an official bulletin today. However, as it re- quires an hour to remove a cubic yard of material, immediate results in reaching Collins must not be ex- Pected, the bulletin said. Additional soldiers were assigned to guard duty around the Sand Cave area this morning. This Is the first time that the guard has been in- creased since official reports were 1s- sued that rescue workers had found fissures and laterals extending from | the side of the shaft being sunk to bring Floyd Collins from his trap Homer Collins, brother of Floyd, | broke by the military guard and ai- | most succeeded in reaching and going | down the shaft when a rumor reach- ed him that Floyd was being brought up the shaft. Medical Aid at Hand. John Gerald, one of the last to see fCoums, said that it would take sev- eral hours’ hard work to release him | When he was reached, either in front | or behind. Physicians’ plans include medical treatment down in the cave, occupy- ing perhaps an hour or more, if the fainvest spark of life is found. Stim- ulants will be administered and everything possible done to prepare him for the shock of removal through the narrow tunnel No sign of Collins being alive has | been reported since Friday, when four tate mili- tary inquiry that they heard him cough and gasp. The sound amplifier test failed last Wednesday. Collins has not been fed for 12 days and last talked to the rescue party 11 days | ago. | Inquest is Plavmed. An inquest will be called at the scéne immediately in event Collins !should be dead when found, it was lannounced by Magistrate Clay Tur- ner. He said that the jury would then adjourn to Cave City to hear testi- mony of other witnesses. The military court of inquiry ex- | pects to continue sessions after the finding of Collins to complete its record. Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago will not be the only physician to go to Collins when found. Two medical officers of the 149th Infantry.arrived {here Sunday from Bowling Green. | They were Maj. M. M. Moss and Capt. |C. E. Fran At a conference today i consulted Lee Collins, father of Floyd, and the aged parent said he would leave it to the military. It was |then arranged that Maj. Moss and {Capt. Francis would go with Dr. | Hazlett to Collins as soon as it was | possible. | Early Statement Today. { The official statement, by H. T. Carmichael, M. E. S. Posey and Gen. | H. H. Denhardt, follows: Results in the lateral heading last night are very encouraging and at a |distance of 12 feet from the main shaft an attempt Is being made to break through the limestone roof and drift vertically into the avenue, the existance of which is determined from the Core drill log. uch® trouble was encountered | during the last few feet of the head- |ing and falls were numerous, but it is being well timbered and is considered safe, ~“Indications are sand will be found lin the avenue which will facilitate work, but progress from this time forward will necessarily be slow, as material must be relayed in a nar- row passage from man to man to the bucket in the main shaft. It is | thought the avenue referred to above !is an extension or branch of the orig- | inal Sand Caye channel in which Col- Ilins is, and it is thought that the rescuing parties cannot be more than {10 feet from him. ; Hour to Move Ome Yard. \ “However, as conditions are such as to require one hour to transport one cubic yard of material from the face of the heading to the bucket in the shaft, immediate results in reach- ing Collins must not be expected. “It {s felt that the most Serious of obstacles has been surmounted and that it is now only a question of cu- bic yards and time until Collins is reached.” One of the greatest difficulties con- fronting experienced engineers in the rescue shaft, to determine closely the direction from the shaft where Floyd Collins lies imprisoned, is being solved.. Shouts between Sand Cave tunnel and the shaft now form the chief guide for the engineers. | Danger in Soft Mud. | The other great difficulty, and danger, too, is the instability of the almost liquid mud encountered wt 55 feet. In digsing the sloping lateral tunnel the mud was too soft to sup- port the big limestone boulders en- countered and many cave-ins oc- curred before the roof and walls were braced securely. Looking toward Sand Cave's mouth, up the little ravine north, the shaft is about 15 feet in front of the cave. Almost in the middle of the intervening space is the 70-foot arill hole which Indicated a 9-foot cavern at that depth. ‘The 45 degree sloping lateral now being opened toward this cavern slants slightly to the northwest, but itself twists somewhat because the engineers decided to go around the largest boulders instead of removing them. Today's first official bulletin said that the lateral had been pushed 12 feet toward the cavern and Collins. The only newspaper man to go down the shaft since the lateral was decid- ed upon, is William B. Miller of the " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) ~ “(Conynued on Page 2, Column K