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The committee, which recently voted overwhelmingly to report unfavorably on a surcharge elimination proposal, was declared in the minority report to have held hearings so that the majority report “might _influence members of the House to vote against the Senate amendment” having the same object, attached as a rider to the independent offices appropriation bill | Except for the Senate rider, “the House would not have been given an opportunity to vote on the proposition at all,” the minority charged. / “We object to the imposition of this extra charge upon the traveling public -and favor its removal’” the report continued. “The larger por- tion of this surcharge revenue is re ived by roads that are being paid under contract with the Pullman Co. for hauling their cars, and a_very considerable portion of this surcharge revenue is being received by roads that are earning more than the fair return fixed under the law.” “It described as ‘nothing short of a penalty upon the reguirements of naiure,” the imposition of the sur- charge on a passenger when, “after having paid the road for transporting him and the Pullman Co. for lodging | him, he is required to pay the rail- road company an extra amount for the privilege of paying the Pullman Co. for the accommodations which it vrovides The report said that it was not conclusivelry shown that the per mile cost of hauling a sleeping car was greater than that for a day coach. ADMIRAL CALLED IN ARGRAFT PROBE Jones to Be First Witness at Reopening of Hearings To- morrow. Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, chairman of the Navy General Board, will be the first witness tomorrow morning at the reopening of hearings by the House aircraft investigating | committee, Representative Perkins, | Republican, New Jersey, the com- {mittee examiner, announced today. Admiral Jones was asked to appear by Mr. Perkins to give the committee 4 supplementary statement on the Teport of the special board of ad- mirals on the relation of submarines, aircraft and surface ships in the Navy, which was made to President | Coolidge several days ago The hearings tomorrow will be the first in almost a week, the committee having decided last Saturday after- noon to conclude its investigation | The matter was reconsidered yester- {day, however, and agreement was {reached to hold open hearings to- 3 | morrow and Friday after 1t had been ertained there money available to lover to the end session Sims Called for Friday. was sufficient tide the work of the present Mr. Perkins also announced that Rear Admiral Willlam S. Sims, re. tired, would be called Friday morn- ing to give his views on national de- fense questions. At the same time it was hoped to have Rear Admiral Fullam, but the condition of his health will make it {mpossible for him to attend. Admiral Fullam is an ardent supporter of aviation and has | been actlve in aeronautical work since his retirement. It was learned today that Repre- sentative Frank R. Reid of Tllinois, Republican, will not urge the ap- pearance of Lieut. Commander Clif- ford A. Tinker, U. S. N. R. F, for whom a subpoena had been issued to explain a magazine article he had written charging Congress with re- sponsibility for the death of 34 offi- cers and men in the dirigible Roma explosion. The responsibility was placed by Mr. Tinker because, he charged, that body had failed to ap- propriate money for _transportation of helium to Langley Field, Va., from Fort Worth, Tex., to inflate the diri- gible. The ship took off buoyed with hydrogen and exploded. The reason for Mr. Reid’s lack of interest in hearing Mr. Tinker, it was learned, was that Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee had Eiven an explanation of the charge which convinced Mr. Reid the author of the story “didn’t kmow what he was talking about.” Test Invitation im Air. While the committee has expressed desire to attend a special demonstra- tion of anti-aircraft fire on a_towed airplane target at Fort Monroe March 6, to which it had been in- vited by the War Department, some question now looms as to the chance of members getting away for that affair. The question will be discussed tomorrow morning and a formal reply to the invitation will be given the War Department. While the hearings will have been closed by that date, the committee will not have made its report and still will have a “mind open to all questions,” Representative Perkins said. The invitation of the War Department was extended to substantiate its claim that anti-air- craft fire did play havoc with -air- planes during the war as opposed to the unanimous declarations of all war pilots who appeared before the committee that anti-aircraft fire was ineffective and meant nothing to the aviators. 5 New Congress to Act. The subcommittees of the House military affairs committee and the naval affairs committee, expect to meet in joint session early in the next Congress to discuss the Natlon's air defense, Representative Wainwright of New York, a Republican member of the military committee, announced last night. Mr. Wainwright, a former Assistant Secretary of War, as chair- man of a special aeronautics subcom- mittee of the military committee, and Representative Swing, Republican, California, of a similar naval subcom- mittee, decided at a recent confer- ence to postpone any action until after members had been glven an op- portunity to study the report of the present aircraft investigating com- mittee. Mr. Wainwrlght said if a thorough surves of the problemsyof the air e interstate commerce committee | | representing “Sober” Navy Used 45,000 Gallons of Rum Years 4Ago Wilbur’s Speech Brings Historic Allusion by Admiral Phelps. Secretary Wilbur's reference in the course of @ speech yesterday before the Women's Conference of National Defense as Peace Insurance to the Navy of the United States as a “sober” Navy found echo a few hours later in a historical allusion by Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps to a Navy not so sober—a Navy whose yearly re- quirements of rum-ran up to 45,000 sallons. Admiral Phelps, illustrating the de- tails which occupied the Secretary of the Navy in the early days of Amer- ican naval affairs, told of the Navy head's interest in getting an adequate supply of liquor for the salts who manned the young Nation’s fighting fleet. Under date of May 31, 1806, the then Secretary wrote to a farmer in Hagerstown, Washington County, Md., as follows: “Articles of whisky and linseed oil, I should suppose Washington County might supply in good quantities and upon reasonable terms. The sailors are by law allowed rum, but being persuaded that whisky is a more wholesome drink as well as & much more economical one, 1 am anxious to dntroduce the use of it into our Navy generally, but this cannot be Immediately effected. 1 have, there- fore, made experiments to introduce it and the result has satisfied me that in time the sallors will become per- fectly reconciled to it and probably prefer it to rum. Our Navy's con- sumption of rum is about 45,000 gal- lons. 1 would for the ensuing year engage 20,000 gallons of whisky, but it must be pure rye whisky of third or second proof and one year old.” And 110 years later, by secretarial edict, the Navy was dry. HOUSE SPEED LAW CUT IS PROTESTED Auto Owners and Dealers Ask Restoration of 30- Mile Limit in Bill. Automobile owners and dealers, through their respective organiza- tions, today voiced their protest to members of the Senate against the re- duction of the speed limit from miles an hour to 22 miles an hour as provided in the traffic bill for the Dis- trict now in conference. The American Automobile Association, the car owners, Washington Automomtive Trade Association, representing the dealers, have pointed out the inconsistency of such action in the light of another section of the bill which contemplates the establish- ment of arterial highways. In a letter to Senator L. Heisler Ball, chairman of the Senate District com- mittee, the A. A. A. points out this low speed would destroy to a large extent the purpose of the boulevard stop system as provided in the bill, and that in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louls and other cities where the system 1s in use a greater speed is allowed on those streets than either in the resi- dential or congested business dis- tricts. and the See Traffic Expedited. “We believe that the designation of certain streets as boulevard stop streets,” states the letter, “will do a great deal toward expediting traffic and reducing accidents. It is our opinion, however, that the reduction of the speed limit to 22 miles an hour to a large extent nullifies and defeats the purpose of the boulevard stop system. “We believe that we express the opinion of the majority of motor in Washington when we recommend that the speed limit be fixed at 30 miles an hour, instead of 22, giving the director of traffic and the District Commissioners authority to further reduce the speed in the residential and business districts.” Paul B. Lum, president of. the Washington Automotive Trade Asso- clation, writing to Senators King, Capper and Jones, Senate conferees considering the bill, praised the mem- bers of Congress in evolving a practi- cal traffic bill “which should prove beneficial to the pepole of Wash- ington and assist materially in reduc- ing the number of traffic accidents.” Sees Effect of Law Hurt. He called attention specifically, how- ever, to the speed limit section, point- ing out that if that section as amend- ed by the House were emacted it would seriously affect expediting traffic and relleving congestion. “Experience in other large cities having arterial highways,” Mr. Lum stated, “shows that a higher rate of speed on such thoroughfares is not only desirable, but absolutely neces- sary in order to move traffic effi- ciently and expeditiously away from the centers of congestion. Arterial highways would add much to the safety and convenience of motorists and pedestrians alike, but they would be ineffective if the speed Iimit on such streets were fixed at 22 miles.” He added that on the streets desig- nated in the McLeod amendment as arterial highways there would be no danger in permitting a 30-mile limit. MUSSOLINI MUCH BETTER. Date May Be Set for Reopening of Senate and Chamber. By the Associated Press. ROME, February 25.—The condition of Premier-Mussolini, who is conva- lescing from influenza, shows such marked improvement that steps have been taken to set definite dates for the reopening of the Senate and Chamber, as the Italian law requires an announcement five days prior to the actual event. The premier has been asked to de- cide whether announcement could be made February 26 or 27, so that the chamber might re-assemble about March 3. Mussolini's answer is being awaited. Despite the eagerness of the head of the government to assume his cus- tomary activity, his physicians insist that he remain indoors, fearing that his weakened condition might lead to some complication, and’ it is thought that Mussolini will not emerge from his apartment before the first of next week. — defense was found advisable, the mat- ter might be taken up jointly by the two House subcommittees and sub- committees of the Senmate military and naval committees. Mr. Swing thought the question of creating a unified air service un- doubtedly would be brought up in the next Congress, as it was practically certain that the Curry bill designed to bring this about would be reintro- duced in the new Congress. Hearings on this bill have been held at the present sessjon by the military com- mittee. BELIEVE SECURITY LIES IN DEFENGE Women Indorse Prepared- ness and Integrity of Amer- ica’s Peace Aims. The national security of this nation rests in an adeqhate national de- fense constituting America’s best peace insurance “until such time as by agreement limitation of arms may be possible,” the Women's Conference on National Defense as Peace Insur- ance declared today in a declaration of principles adopted as the closing business of a four-day session of the conference at American Red Cross headquarters. To carry out the ends sought by the conference the committee on rec- ommendation urged in its report, which was adopted by the conference, that a Nation-wide educational cam- paign on the national defense act as it interprets the constitutional provision for the common defense be undertaken. Declaration of Principles. he declaration of principles was adopted by the conference, represent- ing 16 national women's organizations with a membership of more than a million women, as follows: “We believe in the integrity of our ountry’'s purpose to promote peace among the peopl “We would feel a sense of over- whelming sham were its sword un- sheathed in any unjust cause, and would endeavor to prevent unrighteous warfare.” Because of a sense of gratitude for the prosperity of the United States the conference declared it believed it the duty to co-operate in any effort to reduce the possibility of war, and that the members of, the conference pledged themselvs as individuals to promot the cause of peace. With the present unsettled status of the world, living in the midst of national ambitions, jealousies, suspicions and hatred, the conference said, “it would be puerile and foolish to cast off the instru- ments of defense.” Urge Adequate Defense. “We seek no territory nor are we envious of any other nation's posses- sions, influence or power. But we are determined to protect and defend our own and to be able at all times to main- tain our national integrity. We there- fore urge all our fellow citizens to sup- Dort a consistent program and policy of adequate national defense.” Reviewing the steps leading to the foundation of the American Red Cross, John Barton Payne, chairman of the relief organization, said the first American participation in Eu- rope by the Red Cross came in 1892, when the farmers of the West sent a shipload of wheat to famine sufferers in Russia. The first war participation by the Red Cross was in the war with ain, he added. Today Mr. Payne sald the Red Cross is established in every civilized country, and its strength in the United States rests on the appeal of its almost universal popular mem- bership. Agents of the Communistic govern- ment of Russia are working 2t the very vitals of American institutions, seeking to destroy this Government through every agency into which their theories can be thrust, Fred Marvin, editor of the Searchlight, told the conference. Mr. Marvin said the Communistic movement is older than the United States, having been formed in Germany in 1776, with the theory that no man should own property, there should be no church, no govern- ment, nor legalized marriage. Mr. Marvin said Communists today are in control of one-fifth of the world's ter- ritory and controlled “the most dan- gerous and menacing army in the world.” Mr. Marvin said the purpose of communism here is to create a co- operative commonwealth, and added that if this Nation is ever overthrown and made subservient to communistic ideals, the fault will rest with the individuals of today, who do not see the danger and vigorously fight it. Pleading for more general support of the citizens' military training camps, Col. Fred B. Ryons, secretary of the Reserve Officers' Association of the United States, sald *“We want 100,000 young men to apply for train- ing this year.” Col. Ryons said the military authorities have worked out a plan which provides the greatest assistance to prospective applicants for the training camps with a very little effort. Placing his plea on the basis of preparedness as the best defense against war, Col. Ryons sald, “The pacifist is working to destroy our land and unless we work he will succeed. Let us think only of our comrades in France and of the count- less thousands in our hospitals, for that will give us strength to do our duty.” Forty-one thousand American nurses are held in reserve by the American Red Cross in readiness for war, Miss Clara D. Noyes, director of the nurs- ing service of the Red Cross said. Miss Noyes added that no army was ever cared for as well as our Army in the last war. The Navy system of training, in- struction and promotion which, he said, makes it possible for a youth lacking educational advantages to become an admiral, was outlined by Rear Admiral William R. Shoemaker, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, at the meeting yesterday afternoon. A resolution urging representa- tives of the women's organizations participating in the conference to sup- port the campaign for an adequate American merchant marine was intro- duced by Mrs. Isabel Wesrell Ball, former vice presideat of the Woman's Relief Corps. Ths resolution, was to be acted upon today. THREAT BY RENNIE, ACTOR, IS CHARGED Movie Producer Says He Was Told to Limit Testimony Against Lillian Gish. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 25.—James Rennie, actor and brother-in-law of Lillian Gish, has become involved in the legal battle between her and Charles H. Duell, president of a mo- tion picture company, who seeks to compel her to fulfill @ contract to ap- pear in motion pictures produced by his company. Rennie was summoned to appear in Police Court today to answer charges that he threatened to “get” Duell. Duell ¢old Assistant District At- torney McGee that last Thursday as he was leaving his office he was ac- costed by Rennle. “Duel, this situation is serious and must be stopped,” Duell quoted Ren- nie as saying. “He demanded that tesefmony in my case against Lillian Gfsh be lim- ited,” continued Duell, “and actually said that unless I informed my attor- ney to that effect he would get m “‘This is your only warning and act quickly,’ he said. ‘I am giving you this chance 'to save yourself.’ In his suit against Miss Gish, Duell intimated that at one time he re- garded himself as engaged to her. She denfed an engagement. Rennie is the husband of Dorothy Gish, Leviathan, Fastest, May Now Become Marryingest Ship 15 Maiden Names to Be Taken From Passenger List on First Trip. By Coanolldated P NEW YORK, February 25.—The steamship Leviathan, claimant of the titles of largest liner afloat and swift-/ est liner afloat, now threatens to an- nex another title—that of the marry- ingest ship afloat—when she emerges from her Winter hibernation Saturday for another season of transatlantic cruises. Perhaps the suggestive influence of her skipper, Capt. Herbert Hartley, who recently took unto himself & bride in a romance which began and culminated on shipboard, has some- thing to do with it. Perhaps it Is something else. But the fact remains that the Levi- athan has prospects of 15 weddings aboard during her first crossing of the season. Accordingly, to help the erstwhile pride of the German mari- time world play the part assigned to her by her prospective passengers, Capt. Hartley is preparing to break out a special “honeymoon flag"—two arrow-pierced hearts on a blue back- ground—after the first few hours at sea. Already preparations are underway for an elaborate shipboard wedding for a well known vaudeville star—her name is withheld as yet, but her fame is vouched for—and a New York banker, to take place as soon as the ship hits-neutral waters. And in the past 48 hours no less than 15 other blushing couples—chap- eroned or not, according to age and style—have sought out Capt. Hartley to make sure that he can tie a binding wedding knot. He assured them that nobody could tie a tighter one. ORI MAY MODIFY STUDY OF MATHEMATICS Readjusted Course in Junior High Schools Asked by Parent-Teacher Body. A readjustment of the mathematics courses in the first year of the senior high school and the ninth grade of the junior high school probably will be made i the next two weeks, as a result of a protest by the Langley Junior High School Parent-Teacher Association that the Jjunior high school course does not correlate with that in the senior institutions A committee, headed by Harry Eng- lish, former chief of the department of mathematics in the high schools, is now at work revising the mathe- matics course in the junior and senfor high schools. The madified course probably will be approved by school officials, it was said today, be- cause they have felt that the present arrangement works an Injustice on the junior high school pupils who plan to enter college. The present mathematics course in the junlor high school is unified, con- sisting of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, while the course given in the senior high schools, designed to give the student college entrance credits, consists entirely of algebra for the first year. Extra Demand on Juniors. As the junior high school course is not designed to give the student college entrance credits, he is re- quired to take full semester of alge- bra when entering the senior high school. Special classes in mathmatics for students who entered the senior high schols from the junior institu- tions have been organized at Cen- tral and McKinley High Schools in order that they may obtain the col- lege entrance credits without repeat- ing some of the work, pending the correlation of the courses in the junior and senior high schools. SRR T T, STANLEY’S CONDITION CALLED FAIRLY G0OD X-Ray Shows Broken Rib and Bruised Shoulder—Driver Eluding Police. A fractured rib and a bruised bone in the left shoulder were shown today in the X-ray pictures taken of Sen- ator Stanley of Kentucky, the victim of a “hit-and-run” automobile driver here yesterday. Dr. Daniel L. Borden, Senator Stan- ley's physioian, said his condition was fairly good, although he had some temperature and was in considerable pain. He hoped, however, to have him out again at a reasonably early date. While the Senator was being flooded with messages of sympathy for his condlition and bitterness against “hit- and-run” automobilists, local police embarked on a city-wide search in an effort to locate the automobile which came flying out New York avenue shortly after midnight Tues- day to run over Senator Stanley at Fourteenth street and New York ave- nue and then disappear before any trace of its identity could be ascer- tained. The police investigation was two- pronged—first a search through local garages for automobiles bearing marks of a collision on the forward mudguards, and secondly inquiries from all taxicab companies in an effort to discover the taxicab driver who brought Senator Stanley to the hospital and then disappeared with- out leaving his name. So far police efforts have been fruitles EE I T A 2 U. S. BANKS DEPOSIT GOLD FOR ARGENTINA $10,000,000 Placed to Credit of South American Nation to Ease Money Stringency. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 25.—Initial deposits of $10,000,000 in gold to the credit of the Argentine treasury, under emergency plans by which the government will issue currency to relieve a serious money stringency, were made yesterday by the National City Bank and the First National Bank of Boston. The metal, for which the Federal Reserve Bank will act as custodian, has been “ear-marked” temporarily, it was announced, and will be held subject to the order of the Argentine Ambassador. Additional deposits of $20,000,000 or more by American and foreign banks are contemplated to make the meas- ure effective. By issuing currency against gold deposited in the United States the Argentine government ex- pects quickly to relieve the money shortage, avoiding the delay which would have been encountered in awalting actual gold shipments to LEHLBACH SCORES PERSONNEL BOARD Says He Will Press for Amendment to Classing Act to Insure Justice. The Personnel Classification Board is severely criticized In the favorable report from the House Civil Servie committee on the Madden bill, h | propose to amend the classifl act. Chairman Lehibach of the Civil Service committee, said today that he will use his best efforts to get action on the Madden bill before the close of the present session, that justice may be done to the rank and file of Government employes, and to protect them against favoritism in promo- tions. Chairman Lehlbach in his report says that the classification act direct- ed that within the grades contained in the compensation schedules in the act the personnel classification board should set up classes and write and publish specifications of duties for each class. Departmental heads were then to allocate individual employes to their appropriate cla which allocations were to be subjected to review and revision by the board He points out that the personnel classification board failed to set up these classes, but directed such allo- cations to be made to a series of general grades, loosely defined and not even following the language of the compensation schedules. This, he said, has resulted in much confu- sion and manifest Inconsistencies in the allocation and provoked a large number of appeals. Opportunity for the correction of such mistakes in initial allocations ought fo be afforded, Chairman Lehl- bach argues. By reason of the absence of clear- cut specifications of duties, to govern allocations, the system ubject to abuses, he emphasizes. If the pay roll of & division or bureau has been fixed in_an appropriation bill, increases in salary may nevertheless be granted favored employes by the subter- fuge of revising their allocations to a higher grade in the compensation schedules, and without the restriction in-the bill, such Increased salaries would automatically become effective, even though deficiencies were there- by created, he points out An amendment to the act limits promotions to one a yvear in the case of an employe who receives more than $3,000 annually, and to two a vear in the case of an employe who receives $3,000 or less. Such a limi- tation was carried in the classifi tion act when it originally the House, and is deemed House Clvil Service committee to be a reasonable provision. Another proposed amendment re- quires the head of each department to make an annual report of all pro- motions, giving such details that the propriety of each may be ascertained and any improper practices involved may be disclosed. COOLIGE IS TRYING T0FIND POSIIONS Wants to Place Workers Cut Off in Departments by Retrenchments. While the President is insisting upon the greatest possible economy in the conduct of the Government's business, which policy includes the dropping of as many surplus em- ploves as can be done without in- jury to the service, he is at the same time mindful of the welfare of these employes. Not only is he eager for some form of rent control legislation ~which might serve to check rent boosting, and probably would otherwise improve the housing situation here, but he asked depart- mental heads first to see If it is possible to get places in some other branch of the Government where there is need for their services of those employes who are to be dropped. He is of the opinion that while one department or bureau may find it possible to do away withfthe services of a certaln number of its emploves, it is more than likely that some other agency of the Federal Government may at the time have urgent need for extra help. He would rather see these latter places filled by victims of the economy program than by newcomers. The President is known to have made this suggestion to every member of his cabinet and to heads of inde- pendent Government bureaus, and that since some of the employes dropped or scheduled to be dropped have been taken care of elsewhere in the Government, or will be, Information has been furnished the President that the progress of the work of that section of the Veterans’ Bureau and the War Department han- dling the adjusted compensation will soon lead to a big reduction in the force of clerks engaged in this work The President has asked the members of his cabinet personally to look about their respective departments to see if these workers,can be given places. Sl oo WRECK, FATAL T0 3, DUE TO BAD BRAKES Pennsylvania R. R. Train Accident Injures Scores When Locomotive Is Stopped by Roadbed Ballast. By the Associated Press. HARRISON, N. J., February 25.—,| Preliminary investigation has shown that failure of the airbrakes was the cause of yesterday's wreck in which three employes were killed and more than a score injured at the Manhat- tan Transfer station of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, Chairman Osborne of the Public Utilities Commission said today. Examination of the wreck Indi- cated, he said, that rock ballast thrown up from the roadbed had struck and closed an angle valve on the airbrake line between the loco- motive and the first car of the Phila- delphia Jocal train which crashed in- to the rear of the Atlantic Coast Line express. He said the brakes of the locomotive were set with tearific force. The string of cars behind the closed angle valve were not braked, he said, due to the evident accidental closing of the valve. J. A. Kilt, engineer of the Phila- delphia train, and his helper, Frank Hutchinson, are expected to be brought before Prosecutor Milton by Pennsylvania Rallroad officials for questioning. Both jumped from their fiying locomotive "just before the crash and were uninjured. George Huether of Newark, car in- spector, one of those killed, had plan- ned to be married in June to Miss Katherine Brady, also of Newark, it was I l.?ed today, l | that her husband was “insanely JURY HEARS MRS. BROWN. Widow in Murder Case Says Victim Was “Insanely Jealous.” By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, February Taking the stand as a witness for the defense, Mrs. Georgia May Brown, widow of Howard D. Brown, former prohibition officer, for whose alleged murder, Linwood H. 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