Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occaslonal showers today; tomor- row rain; mild temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 62, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 33, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. “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 and service will start immediately he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,039.—No. 29,517. Entered as second class matter _Post office, Washington, . C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY AIRCRAFT INQUIRY ~ ABRUPTLY HALTED: BOVIB TEST BEATEN Committee Pleads “Lack of Funds,” Denying “Coercion” Rumors at Capitol. PROPOSED PLANE-SHIP | EXPERIMENT DEFEATED| | attempt tas well Report Will Be Made on Basis of Present Information—Many H Witnesses Unheard. { Without Hous aireraft cially designated committee of inquir; of the United States air service, sud- denly announced late yesterday | afternoon the cessation of its hear- | ings on the threshold of what ap-| peared to be a busy and interesting | week of testimony, judging from the Wwitnesses that were to appear. 1 he announcement made at close of a two-hour executive in the office of Chairman | Florian Lampert of Wisconsin. The mijority the members en- tering showed vid of what| to be but general | impression broadeast that the | of holding more battleship ! exercises to wipe out the| a ot committee, the nto operations word warning select | was the meeting of before was taken up, was " be ing ave doubt in the minds of the| y people as to the compara- tive values of the different arms of the country’s military service” would | bo discussed erican Plea for New Test Loses. Represcatative Anning 8. Prall, Democ: New York, had prepared a resolution for adoption, which would have accepted the invitatlon of Secre- | tary of War Weeks to attend an anti- aircraft demonstration, “provided that the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy co-operate in giving the Army Air Service an op- portunity to show its efficiency in bombing from the air, and provided | further, that the battleship North| Dakota be placed at the disposal of the Army Air Service for this test.” The resolution was voted down, 5 to Chairman Lampert voting with Mr. Prall The New York representative then left the meeting and announced that the commit had decided to at- | tend the anti-aircraft demonstration March 6. A program already had]| been mapped out by the War Depart- ment, and was presented to the com- mittee 3 At the conclusion of the executive meeting, there was a noticeable hasty exit on the part of the members, but | waiting newspaperrien were able to| “corner” Representative Randolph Perkins, Republican, New Jersey, the committee examiner. He stated it had | been decided to conclude the hearings | at this time owing to the shortage of fun and in order not to lose the benefit of the vear's work which the committee had expended on finding out what was the matter with the air services. Doubt Fund Forthcoming. It was explained that the commit- tee felt Congress would not grant an additional appropriation to carry on the inquity through the Summer and that it had better cease its investiga- tion now and spend the remaining | days of this session preparing its record for printing at the Govern- | ment Printing Office. There is pend- | ing in the rules committee of the House a resolution authorizing the | committee to make its report at the | opening of the next Congress, in De- cember, which authority, if granted, | will enable a careful study and check | of the voluminous mass of testimony before an intelligent report is ren- dered The committee in open session last | week had moved that Secretary of War Weeks be called to explain a War Department news release that there are now 1,200 airplanes in the | Army Air Service ready to meet an emergency. Brig. Gen. Willlam | Mitchell, ssistant chief of the Army | Air Service, had testified there src, only 19 modern planes—all of the pursuit type, that could cope with a | modernly equipped enemy. Author of Story Cailed. Then the committee, through Rep- | resentitive Prall, had announced that | Representative Sol Bloom of New | York was to appear tomorrow and explain an invention in bomb sights | that would revolutionize bombing ac- | curacy. Representative Bloom was| to have spoken in behalf of the in- ventor and introduce him to the com- mittee. | A subpoena was issued for the | author of a recent magazine article | that Congress had sold the lives of | the 34 officers and men killed on the | Roma explosion for $412 apiece be- cause it failed to appropriate $14,000 10 transport helium available at Fort | Worth, Tex., to Langley Field, for inflatifon in the new dirigible just| acquired by the Army. The ship had | 10 be b ed with hydrogen, and on a flight exploded with the loss of lives. | The author of this story was Lieut. Comdr. Clifford A. Tniker, U. 8. N.| R, F. | Another witness held for the (‘u"l-; ¥ tee was Jean Alfred Roch an | aerodynamic expert of McCook I-‘Xpld,‘! | Dayton, Ohio, who, with Lawrence Kerver, another expert, had prepared & report to the committee on the per- formance of planes accepted by the | Army with those built by James V.| Martin, an aircraft manufacturer with | many grievances against the Govern- | ment. Mr. Roche and Mr. Kerver had | explained the report in some detall, | but it was the desire of Representa- | tive Frank R. Reld of Illinois that Mr. Roche give further testimony on the subject. Coercion Rumored. Talk of coercion against the com- | mittee, of the wielding of a “mailed fist" and other forms of intimidation buzzed about the corridors and a feeble attempt to substantiate this assumption was given in the form of an “anonymous” letter which each member of the House rules committee was said to have received. A copy of the “anonymous” letter was trans- mitted to the committee while in executive sessibn, and Representative Perkins said it was not read to the committee, although Representative Prall announced its presence on emerging from the meeting. The letter claimed the committee had exceeded the bounds of its origi nal authority and criticized the | method it had employed in recelving "~ T{Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) Cham ber of their submarine: | into existence eleventh-hour {of the city's guests, BY By Radio to Th PARIS, February Ambassador Kellogg is speeding to Washington with plans elaborated between him- { self and the British foreign secreta Chamberlain, for another Washington disarmament conference If continental and e powers agree, the conference this time may to r land armies. declared in London that Mr erlain will personally attend such a conference if it is held during the coming Summer. Here in opinions are reserved until a clear ement of the objects of the con- ference is made known. Austen It i Paris In Air for Months. This project has been discussed in- cessantly in diplomatic circles. The most important fact is that have been numerous exchanges of views between the French and Jap- anese governments, which are agreed that the question of submarine strength cannot be regulated in the ame manner as battleship ratios namely, by using existing strength as a basis. Both Japan and France have ex- tensive plans for incroasing the num- and both i ARRIVING THRONGS FOREGAST CROWD FOR INAUGURATION Committee Permits Erection of Reviewing Stand Before the White House. shington has begun to prepare in earnest for the quadrennial duty of formally inducting into office an- other new administration for the Nation. With the inauguration of President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes only 10 days distant, the next few days will see the city once more | donning its tamillar attire of em- blematio bunting and getting ready for the enthusiasm that is an insep- arable part of every Inauguration, de- spite a policy to hold the celebration within the bounds of modest sim- plicity. Vanguard Pouring In. Undeterred by official announce- ments both from the White House and the chairman of the Washington committee that the inauguration of President Coolidge will not be showy, the vanguard of the army of citizens which i3 coming from every corner of the Nation to see or participate in the ceremony has begun already to pour through the gates of Union Station. As a result, the dozen or more committees entrusted with the care of these visitors have begun to press plans more in keeping with the size of the crowd which has announced its intention of “whooping things up a bit anyhow.” Most important of these is a decislon, reached late yesterday, to build at least one public review- ing stand in front of the White House. Stand to Accomodate 3,000, After once voting not to erect any stands along Pennsylvania avenue in front of the White House and turning down a number of offers from private | ind¥viduals to build seats along lower portions of the avenue, the committee yesterday accepted an offer from a local contractor to construct a stand with a minimum capacity of 2,000 chairs. The stand will be operated by the builder. Col. Frederick A. Fenning, secre- tary of the Washington committee, said that the stand probably will be built to hold 3,000 persons. The com- mittee specified that no seat in the stand may be sold for more than $2.50, including war tax, except boxes, which may bring $3.50 a seat, also including war tax. Additional stands may be constructed along Pennsylvania avenue below Fifteenth street. Tickets for the seats in the Lafay- ette Square stand will be on sale at the Washington committee's head- quarters, in the Gridiron Club room of the Willard Hotel beginning Thursday morning. This arrange- ment was made for the convenience who also are swarming into headquarters for tick- ets to the concert that is to be given | in the Washington Auditorium on the evening of Inauguration day. Rudolph to Take Part in Parade. It was announced that Commis- ioner Cuno H. Rudolph will appear n the parade, representing the Dis- i trict in the second division with gulate submarine fleets | there | France and Japan Cold to Cut In Submarines at Arms Parley ‘Report That Program Will Deal’ With Regulation of Undersea Craft-and Land Forces Brings Difficulty. sist on the strategic necessity of ch increases. | Japan's argument is that, being an island empire and being reduced by the first Washington treaty to a state of iInferlority in battleships, she must be allowed superior strength in her | submarine fleat to protect her own |coasts and communications with her 'uul),\'lng possessions | France Points to Need. France points to the fact that she may be encircled or blockaded in ‘the Atlantic and Mediterranean unless she ha powerful fleet of ubmarines, | As far as In corned, Fra any conferenc science. Poin the original nd armmments 15 she with a ¢ ng to the fact Washington conference merely arrested construction ard left | the relative battleship strength in tatus quo, France is willing that the | same rule should be applied to land armies, and, indeed, would welcome such limitation. What s astonishing, from the French viewpoint, is that no sugges- tion comes concerning limitation of aerial forces. Hardly a day passes but both in England and America new plans are launched for increased air programs, say French spokesmen. Apparently everything saved by bat- tleship limitation, their view, i ! 7" (Continued on ¥ 8 2) are con- an enter an con- f 43 MINERS BODIES 8 OTHERS SOUGHT | Rescue Workers Toil On After Obstacles Are Mastered. " Relief Fund Open. By the Associated Pres SULLIVAN, Ind., February 21.—Rapid progress was made tonight in the re- moval of bodies from the City Coal Co. explosion wrecked mine. Rescue workers penetrating one of the entrles in which most.of the miners were trapped had recovered all but eight of thegfifty-one vietlms of the morning. 4 Sagzing Roof Impedes Work. For a time this afternoon rapid progress was made in bringing out the bodies. The rescue workers had succeeded in improving the ventila- tion system and in clearing away debris, but the crumbling walls and sagging roof this evening again put obstacles in their path. Bodies brought out during the day were so badly burned identifica- tion was diffcult and several were identified erroneously. Relatives, however, through scrutiny of bits of clothing or trinkets, were able to make positive .recognition this eve- ning. Thus far all officials have directed thelr efforts towards rescue work and have refrained from taking any ac- tion toward investigation of the causes of the disaster. Albert Dally, State mine inspector, explored the wrecked portion of the shaft as far as possible today, but declared he had no thought of inquiring into the explosion until the bodies are on top of the ground. Norval K. Harris, Sullivan County prosecutor, has in- dicated that a grand jury investiga- tion is an improbability. All other county officlals, through their long experience in the coal fields, are in- clined to accept the disaster as one that may come at any time in con- nection with such a hazardous occu- pation as mining. Rellef Fund Started. Relief for families of the victims was uppermost in the thoughts of Sullivan citizens. A relief fund was started and a committee appointed to co-ordinate the work of rendering assistance. Steps were taken also to obtain prompt settlement of claims under the workmen’s compersation law. Although these claims will ag- gregate more than $200,000, the workmen's compensation insurance carried by the mine would take care of the entire amount, officlals declared. Funeral services for some of the victims will be held tomorrow and others will be buried on Monday, Seperate services huve been arranged for each. Thousands of persons floundered through fields ankie deep in mud to- day to get a glimpse of the mine. Intermittent rains also failed to check the sightseers. A little band of relatives maintained a faithful watch at the mine mouth, apparently with a despairing hope that some of those underground might be brought up alive. Two undertaking establishments to which (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 7, Column 2.) Stone Mountain Project Threatened By Poverty and Jealousy, Borglum Says Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, who s carving a huge memorial to the Confederacy on the face of Stone Mountain in Georgia, an- nounced in a statement here last night that no funds remained for carrying out his work, and that the association created to pro- mote the project has “shrunk into a local habitation with scarcely a nam, Mr. Borglum, who is in Wash- ington in connection with financ- ing the memorial, said the time limit on the preseht central group in the work is expiring, and that “no approach has been made” to meet his wishes or those of the owner of the mountain that “ju tifles further cession of granite. “There is no contract with me to complete the work,” he said, “nor is the agreement in existence equitable, fair or even carried ou't a8 it is” Mr. Borglum said there were no funds available to distribute the coins he had designed as a tribute to the South from the North and from which money was to. he de- rived for carrying on the memo- rial project. More than a million of these already had been ‘minted, he said. “The sad, destroying fact is,” he asserted, “the South as a whole is not building the memorial, is not guiding the building of the memorial; the South is not even properly informed or made a part of the memorial council.” The sculptor said he would not “even consider the abandonment of so splendid a thing.” His statement did not make clear where the “opposition” was com- ing from, but-charges there were (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) that | FOUNDATSULLIVAN; blast that damaged the mine Friday | MAJORD.C.BILLS PASSAGE EXPECTED INNEXT TWO DAYS Congress Deals - Construc- tively With Capital Needs in Record Appropriation. | TRAFFIC MEASURE HELD CERTAIN OF ENACTION Lump Sum as Basis of 1927 Divi- sien of District Expenses May Be Stipulated. | | BY WILL P. KENNEDY, | With the largest appropriation bill | | for the National Capital that Con- | gress ever drafted now in its final stages and awaiting only action by the House tomorrow, the last District day of this session, upon the trafc bill, Congress, with only eight legis- lative days remaininfi, is going to make a strong finish on important legislation for the District. Throughout the entire session the District has recelved more sympa- thetic, constructive attention from Congress than for many years. In the closing rush the Capital comes to the forefront with the following ma- Jor measures almost certain to pass: $1.500,000 for District. First, the largest deficiency and i supplemental appropriation bill ever drafted for the Capital will be re- ported to the House tomorrow and called up for action on Tuesday. It {contains more than $3,500,000 in Dis- trict items, including $2,698,170 as 2 special school bullding fund to come ! out of the $4,500,000 surplus fund to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury. It contains other important {tems for Federal activities in the District, including $173,000 for purchase of additional land for the Bureau of Standards, which runs the total up to more than $6,600,000 to be spent on local projects. Second—The House is expected to act favorably tomorrow upon the traffic bill on which joint committees of the Senate and House have labored for months. The Senate passed this measure Wednesday night. The House District committee voted yesterday to substitute the Senate bill for the House measure to expedite passage of the best measure possible under the present circumstances to afford treific_reiief. Although Representa- |tives Blan‘on and Hammer have de- {elared that *hey will fight the Senate biil,_it_is exyected to. pass. Expects School Bill's Passage. Third—The House i3 expected to pass tomorrow the five-year school butld- ing program for the District, which has already passed the Senate, and which members of Congress generally have declared to be the most pressing need of the Natfonal Capital. Fourth—With the “traffic bill dis- posed of the House will take quick action on the conference report on the District appropriation bill, which shows four items still in dispute be- tween the two Houses. One of these relates to the provision for two ad- ditional judges and necessary at- tendants for the Police Court and & proposed change of law to lessen the number of jury trials so as to ex- pedite judiclal punishment of law breakers. It was to awalt imminent permanent legislation on this sub- ject 1n the traffic measure that the House delayed action upon the con- ference report on the District ap- propriation bill. Fifth—The House will vote, perhaps tomorrow, but more probably on Tuesday, on the lump-sum provision in the District appropriation Lill for sharing the costs of the National Capital. The House put this share of the Federal Government at $9,000,- 000. The Senate raised it to $11,000,- 000. The House instructed its con- ferees not to agree to this increase. There are strong prospects ihat the House will force the Senate to yield. Budget Proviso for 1927. Sixth—The final section in the Dis- trict appropriation bill, which is one of the four points of difference be- tween the House and Senate, was adopted by the House on motion of Chairman Madden of the appropria- tions committee. It permits the Bureau of the Budget in submitting estimates for the fiscal year 1927 to (Continued on Page 5, Column Z.] HERRIOT WINS FIGHT FOR NIGHT SESSIONS French Premier Gains- Point and Stirs Wrath in Demand for Action on Budget. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 21.—Premier Her- | riot, after delivering an ultimatum to the Chamber of Deputies demanding a night session for work on the bud- get, won his point this evening by a vote of 119 to 58. The opposition, noting absence of many governmental supporters, sprang a surprise,attack on M. Her- riot by insisting upon a public in- dividual ballot by roll call, thus pre- venting deputies from voting for their colleagues by proxy. The op- position at the moment was In the majority in the house. Government followers, hurriedly summoned by telephone, began ar- riving in evening clothes, and dinner jackets and with intensely angry ex- pressions on their faces at being dis- turbed their dinner or theater en- ' gagements. They were jeered by the opposition. The first ballot brought no quorum, but it was not long before the gov- ernment was in the ascendency. New Radio Broadcasting Directo! dis- and —up to the minute with letters, locations, air-line tances from Washington, other ready information— Page 27 of Today’s Star MORNING, FEBRUARY 59 24, 192 5—EIGHTY wnday Star. -SIX PAGES. FIVE CENTS. 1Y RN _4 ST [t} ¢ Uis! T e o n N\ STILL ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF BEAUTIFUL WASHINGTON. BUS LINE TEST SUIT PROPOSED BY BELL Commissioner Writes Sena- tor Copeland Utilities Body Invites Friendly Action. A test case in court to settle the question of the Utilities Commission’s authority to grant bus lines to street railway companies was Sugg ed as a possibility by Engineer Commis- sioner Bell, chairman of the commis- sfon, in a letter to Senator Copeland last night. The Senator, a week ago, wrote to Col. Bell, challenging the legal power of the commission to authorize the trolley companies to enter the motor bus business. In reply Col. Bell declared the com- mission disagrees with the view taken by Senator Copeland, and add- ed that the commission would be glad to co-operate with any one in a friendly suit to settle the Issue. Will Not Present Arguments. Col. Bell told the Senator he would not present legal arguments for the following reasons: “The street railway corporations are at present operating 12 bus lines under permits issued by the Public Utilities Commission during the past three years. It Is evident that shoud the Commission now hold that these permits were issued illegally and are therefore void, it would result.in an action In court by the street railway corporations to protect their capital invested in these busses. Feeders to Car Lines. “Moreover, many of our citizens would protest the withdrawal of their motor bus service. These bus lines are operated In general as feeders to the street railwgy systems, with transfer privileges. They were op- erated last year at a net loss of $54,- 848.47. It is manifest that no inde- pendent bus line could replace this service. “It is clear that this matter must be_settled in_court if it be pressed, ~ “(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) YOUTH HELHIN EXTORTION PLOT AGAINST WOMEN Kenneth Wilkshire Arrested as He Receiving “$5,000” From Mi%s Longfellow in Cambridge. BY the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 21. —Kenneth Wilkshire, 19, whom the police charge with authorship of ex- tortion letters sent to three prominent Cambridge women during the last three months, was-arresiad tonight on a bridge where he had kept an ap-! pointment with a messenger boy who was to have delivered $5,000 from Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Miss Longfellow had received sev- eral extortion letters. Acting on in- structions from the police and com- plying with the directlons of the let- ters she sent a messenger boy with a package to the bridge. ‘Wilkshire rode a bicycle to the ap- pointed place and after accepting the package was arrested on the charge of threatening to kill. In default of $500 ball he was locked ‘up. He is lame, and in that respect answers the description of the man described in -earlier letters as the one to whom the money should be pald. - FRANCO-GERMAN TRADE PACT SEEMS ASSURED Viewpoint of Both Countries B lieved Conciliated as New Formula Is Found. By the Asfociated Press. PARIS, February 21.—Negotiations on the Franco-German commercial agreement, which have been goin on for the past three months with indifferent success and threatened rupture, again assumed a more opti- mistio aspect today. The French minister of commerce, M. Raynaldy, and the head of the German dele- gates, Herr Trendelenburg, appear to have reached a new formula which conciliates the French and German viewpoints. It is thought that they probably will be enabled to draft a .protocol agreement covering both a modus vivendi and the final treaty. The next plenary meeting 'is fixed for February 26. In the meantime the two delegations will work on the new suggestions. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—32 PAGES. General News—Local, National, Foreign. | Veterans of the Great War—Page {8. Clvilian Army News—Page 18. You and Uncle Sam—Page 18. W. C. T. U—Page 18. At the Community Centers—Page 19. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 19. Serial, “The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith”"—Page 21. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. Current News Events—Page 23. Radio News and Programs—Pages 26 and 27. New Radio Station Directory—Page 27. Fraternal News—Page 28. @irl Scouts—Page 28. District National Guard—Page 29. Boy Scouts—Page 29. FMnancial News—Pages 30 and 31. PAKT TWO—I12 PAGES. orials and Editorlal Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. D. A. R. Activities—Page 10. News of Women's Clubs—Page 11. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Around the City—Page 12. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motering—Pages 6, 7 and 8. Reviews of New Books—Page 9. PART FOUR—{ PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Army and Navy News—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—# PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. FRIENDS SEARCHING FOR OSBORNE WOOD Valet Fears for Safety—Mili- tary Attache at U. S. Em- bassy Notifies Police. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, February 21.—Osborne C. Wood, son of Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, has disappeared from his apartment in Paris and is being searched for by his friends and the police. He was last seen Monday night at a res- taurant conducted by the widow of a famous English circus clown. He abandoned during the evening his private automobile and departed from the restaurant in a taxicab, in which he placed his valise. Wood's Chinese valet, who remains at the hotel where Wood has living quarters, believes that something of a serious nature has happened. He sald today: My master was not in the habit of going off on parties. He was ac- customed to change his clothes two or three times daily. I cannot think of him remaining a whole week in ordinary day clothes.” The military attache of the Amerl- can embassy has been making in- quiries for some time at the hotel re- garding the whereabouts of Wood, and, distressed at the news of his absence, notifled the police. The hotel Apeople deny giving publicity to the affair, their assumption being that he had gone on a visit to a prominent American portrait painter, or he may have been merely seeking rest at one of the Parisian suburban resorts, Ver- sailles, Fontainebleau or Barizon, where he had numerous friends among the artist colonies. e o HOUGHTON LEAVES BERLIN BERLIN, February 21.—Baron von Maltzan, the new German Ambassador to Washington; Foreign Minister Stresemann, virtually all the mem- bers of the cabinet, British Ambdssa- dor Lord d’Abermon and representa- tives of all the foreign embassies in Berlin, as well as many membe; of the American colony, were at the sta- tion tonight to say farewell to Ameri- can Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton and his daughter Matilda, who left for St. Moritz. They are joining Mrs. Houghton for a fortnight's vacation before Mr. Houghton enters upon his new duties as the successor of Ambassador Kel- CAPITAL T0 HONOR 'FOUNDER OF NATION City-Wide Demonstrations Are Arranged Tomorrow as Tribute to Washington. Washington, the city, will lead the Nation tomorrow in paying homage to Washington, the man, commemo- rating the 193d anniversary of his birth with impressive ceremonies sponsored by patriotic socleties, civic organiza- tions and representatives of public and private life of the Nation's Capi- tal. While the wheels of Government business and private industry remain motionless for the day, because they could not properly show such respect today, and in compliance with a proclamation issued by the Commis sioners of the District of Columbia, un- usually extensive exercises will take place in appropriate parts of the city, so closely identified with the life of the country's first President. Although two organizations—the Washington National Monument So- clety and the Society of Natives of the District of Columbia—will lay wreaths today at the base of the great memorial shaft on for which the former body is the honor guard, the round of observances will begin publicly tomorrow at 10:30 am, with simultaneous celebrations by organizations whose members proudly claim descent from revolu- tionary ancestors—one at the Audi- torium, under auspices of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Co- lumbia, with 71 other groups par- ticlpating, and the other in Memorial Continental Hall, under joint aus- pices of the District-of Columbla So- clety of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Daughters of American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution. Tributes at Noon. Half an hour later the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, in accordance with an- nual custom, will hold a patriotic meeting in the Union Engine House, Ninteenth and H streets, and at noon another series of memorial tributes will be rendered, viz., the reading of Washington's Farewell Addvess be- fore the Senate by Senator Ashurst of Arizona, the laying of a wreath on the statue of George Wasnington in Washington Circle by Commis- sioner Cuno H. Rudolph, &nd ths holding. at the La Fayette Hotel of the annual memorial services of the District of Columbia Spciety, S. A.R.| “(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) e GOODWIN TO QuIT AS AIDE TO WORK Assistant Secretary of I'nterior to Become Member of Reclama- tion Board March 4. Francis M. Goodwin, an assistant secretary of -the Interior, will resign his post March 4 to become & member of the board now being organized by Secretary Work to review and reap- praise. Federal reclamation project: The work of the new board is in con- nection with the survey of reclama- tion projects recently made by a spe- ofal committee headed by former Gov. Thomas E. Campbell of Arizona. A successor to Mr. Goodwin is ex- pected to be named within a few days. Mr. Goodwin ‘was appointed from Seattle, Wash., by Secretary Fall in 1921. Mr. Goodwin has been in charge of land office work as an assistant sec- retary of the Interior, having become familiar with the work of the General Land Office as chief of the field di- vislon in the Northwestern States 20 years ago. With him on the new Federal or- ganization will_serve Mr. Campbell and Dr. C. R. Widtsoe, members of the special reclamation committe: ITALY BOMBS SHIP. Four Hits Registered by Planes. Test to Be Repeated. CAMPANIA, Italy, February 21.— During airplane bombing experiments here today, a ship was bombarded from planes at an altitude of slightly more than 3,100 feet, the bombs strik- ing the target four times out of five. The experiments are to be repeated with a movable target, the Mall| the | 1 GONGRESS' SPEED AT FINISH T0 BAR SPECIAL SESSION Supply Bills’ Passage As- sured With Bodies Working Day and Night. THREE MONEY MEASURES NOW ARE HANGING FIRE Muscle Shoals, Civil Service Re- tirement and Building Bills Have Fighting Chances. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Sixty-eighth Congress comes into the home stretch this week. Un- der whip and spur, with sessions day and night, the Congress will wind up its labors before the final gavel falls at noon March 4. TUnless the unexpected happens, all of the annual supply bills will be- come law in ample time—and no spe- cial session of the new Congress will be necessary this Spring. Three of these measures are now in the con- ference stage—the Interfor Depart- ment, the independent offices and the District of Columbla bills. All the rest are safely through, including the legislative bill—which has proved to some of the members that after all there is a Santa Claus, Presidential approval of the last bill is expected A veto of the measure, carrying the increases in salaries for the Congress and the cabinet, would indeed creat« a stir. Three Bills Hang Fire. The Interfor bill is hanging fire only because of an irrigation project in Montana. The Independent offices bill has several ftems in disagree- | ment, including the Senate amend- ment putiing an end to Pullman car surcharges. Its opponents say that if adopted this amendment would cre- | ate a bad precedent, taking from ths Interstate Commerce Commission powers that it should exercise. The say, too, that if the surcharges are done away with there will be less chance for a reduction in freight rates_on agricultural products, etc The District bill waits on an agree- ment in regard to the Federal con- tribution to the upkeep of the Na- tional Capital. A final deficlency appropriatio bill will be rushed through at th {1ast moment, gathering up loose ends. But when it comes to general legis- lation, the pleture is somewhat dif- ferent. Important bills, on whic much work has been done, are threat- enéd with extinction becatise of lacl of time, mm become the essenc of all th N Shoals Bll a Sticker. For weeks at the opening of the present session the Muscle Shoals bill was unfinished business of the Sen- ate, a kind of old man of the sea which that body could not shake off —and now In the closing days, the measure is again occupying much time. Under a unanimous consent | agreement entered into yesterday afternoon. a vote is to be taken to- morrow en an appeal from the deci- sion of President pro Tempore Cum- mins holding that the conferees on the bill had exceeded their authority. It is to be taken two hours after Sen- ator Ashurst of Arizona shall have finished reading to the Senate the Farewell Address of George Washing- ton. If the decision of the chair is sustained—and it is likely to be— then the bill will go back to con- ference again, and its chances of final | action become still less. The postal pay and rate increase bill, the leaders say, will eventually become a law, though the conferees on that measure are still struggling. Another bill which is likely to re- ceive the final legislative action is the rivers and harbors bill, authoriz- ng projects and surveys for projects that will call for $41,000,000. Retirement Bill Looms. Still a third measure for which strenuous efforts are being made is the Stanfield bill, liberalizing the civil service retirement act. An agree- ment was reached in the Senate ye terday to take this bill up at 1 p.m, Tuesday, and at 2 p.m. to limit all speeches to five minutes each. It will pass the Senate, and Its friends hope to get it through the House. There are other bills knocking at the door, however, for which there is not so much hope. Among them is | the $150,000,000 public buildings bill. This bill went salling through the House, but it has struck a snag In the Senate. The executive depart- ment is left to select the bulildings and places where the money is to be expended. This is contrary to prece- dent and to the best minds. Congress in public buildings bills heretofore has specified, and specified minutely, just where money is to be expended. House members, it Is sald, reaiized this oniy after the bill had passed, and now the measure must run the gantlet of the Senate, where the flaw has already been observed. Of the total amount carried In the bill, $50,000,000 is to be expended in the District of Columbia for Federal buildings. It s not this money, but the $100,000,000 which is to be ex- pended around the States that ls causing worry. The members want to say where it shall be expended. Tying Bills Together. The Cape Cod Canal purchase bill is having its troubles. That bill has passed the House and has been on the Senate calendar for some time. Senators from the West have been impressed with the idea that it is a good kite to which to tie the Good- ing bill to enforce strictly the long and short haul clause of the inter- state commerce act. This Is.all right o far as the Senate i concerned— but the House Is balkipg at the Good- ing plan. President Coolidge’s farm rellef program seems to be moving along. A bill to increase appropriations for agricultural experiment stations in the. land - grant colleges has gone through both houses. The Strong bill to aid the cattle men by in- creased credit facilities through the intermediate banks has passed the House. And now It appears that the main part of the program—the co- operative marketing bill—is going through, though not without some opposition. The House will vote finally on it tomorrow or next day. The Senate agricultural committee authorized Senator Capper of Kansas, who ~(Continued on Page 4, Column €) e :