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§320,000 REPAVING WORK BEGINS SOON Wisconsin Avenue Project to Inaugurate Big Street Re- pairing Program. Work will st the most impc District has | resurfacing from Monday on one of paving items the ted for this year, the of Wisconsin avenue Massachusetts avenue to River road, and the removal of the street car tracks from the to the mid- dle of that thoroughfare. The project is to cost $350,000, of which a part will he borne by the Washington Railway and Electric Co. This will mark the opening of the Spring period of activity in the en- Rineering department of the District On the Commissioners will open bids for more than $400,000 worth of street work, part of which Iy provided for in the current law and the balance to made available in the bill now in conference at the Ca ant be new tol. Work to Be Pushed. most of the money District bili will not be available until July 1. funds for street work are made available as soon as Presi- dent Coolidge measure. Bid are being so that as much of the ible may be done during d Summer months. The ing dey tive fron nstalling Between Department makin 3% ceptor ranch street streot While new in the signs th sought ecarly work as pos the Spring a rtm water nts al and street light- » will become ac- laying mains and lamp-posts. wud June 1 the Sewer will spend $175,000 in extensions to the Rock Creek upper Potomac main inter- portion of the Piney sewer, ihe Twenty-eighth wer and the Fourteenth replacement sewer. Extensions. ficiency fund of §50,000 made available before adjourns, the Water De- partment will continue to extend water service to new houses and also will make extensions to a number of trunk mains this Spring. A tentat for strect lighting mplates instal- lation of double s on Penn sylvania avenue Fifteenth to Seventeenth and the placing | of new lights on the following streets as rapidly as funds become available: H street. Fourth northwest to Fif- teenth northeast: Sixteenth, H ' to Alaska avenue; Connecticut avenue and Seventeenth street, Pennsylvania avenue to the District line, Rhode Island avenue, Towa circle to Fourth street northeast, and Massachusetts avenue, [ station plaza to Wis- Water Service With a expected tc Congress e plan improved light po: from streets m, superintendent ot parkings, plans to place trees along the streets of this Spring: trees and 1.000 new the city FRENCH PLAYS UNABLE TO SUCCEED IN AMERICA Handling of Themes and Lack of Originality Believed Two Reasons for Situation. By the Associated Press LONDON, February 26.—The return of two French theatrical companies from the United States has started a dis- cussion as to why the position of the French stage in that country is so low. No living French author, it is pointed out, can boast of having conquered it, although such a conquest is the secret dream of most of them, as Eldorado was once that of the Spanish adven- turers. Other nations can boa of successes, it nisoted, such as England with Ber- nard Shaw, Italy with Pirandzllo, Ger- many with *The Miracle,”” Hungary with “The Swan,” Czechoslovakia with Capek and Russia with Stanislavsky and Balleff, so that France's fallure connot be attributed to America’s not ‘welcoming foreigners. The doings of the Theater Guild, the Equity Theater, and the Provincetown players are cited as proof that it can- not be said the French authors are too “4ntellectual” for America. One sug- gestion is that while many of the Amer- jcan plays are not lacking in audacity, they rarely treat with disrespect the idea of the family, whereas the French theater habitually does exactly that. A second handicap suggested is that the French authors’ successes are largely due to their mastery of dialogue and that their themes are rarely novel or greatly varied, whereas the American demand is for plays in which the subject is not a mere accessory, but the thing which counts most. INSULIN SEEN AS AGENT FOR CURE OF DIABETES Scientists Believe Purified Product Will Prove Invincible in Eradi- cating. the Disease. By the Associated Press, PASADI A, Callf., ebruary 26.—A positive cure for diabetes through elimination of impurities in so-called pure insulin, is being Sought here at the California Institute of Technology, by Dr. John J. Abel, professor of pharmocology and physiological chem- istry of Johns Hopkins University. For some time physicians and scien- tists have been administering insulin belleving it to be pure, said Dr. Abel. Recently he found that even the purest contained foreign materials. He then obtained leave of absence and came here to continue his search for means of eliminating these im- purities. If it is possible to obtain insulin in an absolutely pure and free state, its effect on the human body will be far more positive than it is at the pres- ent time, Dr. Abel said WINDOWS GO UNWASHED FOR SIX HUNDRED YEARS Plea Made for Funds to Preserve Antique Glass in York Minster of Hull. ‘Correspondence of the Associated Press. HULL, England, February 2.— Where are windows in the York Min- ster of Hull which have not been washed In more than 600 years, it was announced recently by the Dean of York in making an appeal for a Jocal fund for the preservation of these antiques which are still in ac- tive service. There is no collection of English glass in the world ap- proachig that at York Minster, said the Dean, and if the public allowed these windows to disappear their like would never be seen again. Some of the windows which have been in place for six centuries were belng cleaned for the first time, the Dean asserted, and it had been found that the bellef that washing might destroy the mellowing effect of time on the glass was without foundation. . The detachable collar was the in- | tive Body of D. C. Court Bailiff Is Found Floating in Basin James Jeffries, 32, Had Been Missing From JAMES JEFFRI The Tidal Basin yesterday the body of James Jeffri bailift at Police Court, missing from his home, since January 11. ton of 5201 Illinois avé- passing around the Tidal Basin saw what e thought to be the head and shoulders of & body floating on the surface. He notified the police. The body was taken to the morgue, where Samuel Hill of the firm of Moore & Hill real estate brokers, identifled it as that of Jeffries. Jeftries was a war veteran, wounded twice during his three years' overseas service.. His condition, according to friends, produced a melancholy state of mind. Since his disappearance a search was instituted under supervision of Inspector C. L. Grant, at the Detec- Bureau, which extended into rtually all large cities of the coun- | Inspector Grant was authorized | Mrs. Louis Antonsante of Porto ter of the deceased, to ofter ward for information as to his whereabouts. Coroner Nevitt of suicide. EQUITABLE BUILDING DEAL REPORTED ON $35,000,000 to $40,000,000 Said to Have Been Offered for Gotham Structure. gave up 32-yar-old who had been 1006 M street issued a certificate By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—The New York Herald-Tribune learns that negotiations are under way for the purchase by a banking group of the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, one of the world’s largest office struc- tures. The reported. price under con- sideration Is between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000, making the Dprospective sale the largest single real estate transaction ever recorded here. Hayden, Stone & Co. and an uniden- tified banking firm, the newspaper says it has learned, have been nego- tiating with the present owners of the bullding, and “prospects for the sale are bright.” T. Coleman du Pont is reported to hold a controlling intérest in the Equitable. COUGAR ATTACKS HUMANS ONLY WHEN QUITE OLD Mountaineers Relate Experiences With Dangerous Animal of Western America. By the Associated Press, SEATTLE, February 26.—Cougars of the mountains of Western America, like tigers of the jungles of Indla, don’t kill human beings until too old to obtain food otherwise, according to ploneers in the Cascade and Olym- pic Mountains. The views of these oldtimers were given In a symposium gathered by a Seattle newspaper after a cougar killed a small boy near Wenatchee on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains in Wash- ington. James Oberg related that 35 years ago a cougar followed him to his father's door. The elder Oberg killed the animal, which proved to be senile. Another cougar that 32 years ago fell upon a child lagging behind his parents on a trail had dull teeth and THE EVENING GORMICK DEATH GUTS LEAGUE FOES Reduces Famed “Battalion.” Young Senator’s Career Always Colorful. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. The death of Senator Medill Me- Cormick of Illinols marks a further disintegration of the famous “bat- talion of death,” which some six years ago set out to kill the treaty of Versailles and the League of Na- tions while those instruments of the peace were still in their formative stages. Within the year Washington has seen the passing of three of the fa- mous half dozen. Henry Cabot Lodge, leader of the battalion by reason of his position as chairman of the com- mittee on foreign relations, died last November. He had been preceded in Odtober by Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut, who died by his own hand. And now Medill McCormick, many ways the most gallant and ro- sourceful fighter of them all, has gone suddenly to his last reward. Three of Group Remain. There remain of the outstanding fig- ures in the battalion Borah of Idaho, who has succeeded Lodge In charge of foreign relatlons: Hiram Johnson of California, who has burst forth but once recently, and “Jim” Reed of Missouri, the Democratic ally of the Republican super-isolationists. It 1s a somewhat motley trio, but the work of the battalion virtually is complete It is Jubt a matter today of “standing a P Medill McCormick was a far more indefatigable foo of the League of Nations than Cabot Lodge. He had a far more.intimate first-hand knowl- edge of Furppe. He had always been an inveterate traveler. Further, he was a student of the modern lan- guages and could talk to the peoples of other countries in their own tongues. He was not at all depend- ent upon the polite English phrases learned for the edification of visitors and tourists. McCormick was one of the Senators constantly building a fire under Mr. Lodge, who sometimes weakened in his resolve against the treaty, or ‘was reported to be weak- ening Was Lively Figure. Medill McCormick was one of the liveliest figures in Washington life. The Capita] had not mourned deeply his defeat for re-electfon to the Sen- ate, for it felt the young Chicagoan was too wealthy, too resourceful, too nervously energetic to remain long out of public life, and it was also known that he planned to spend a g0od part of each yvear in Washington Medill McCormick was never dull, never at a loss for excitement of one sort or another. Once when things seemed ineffably dull here at the Capital Medill turned up from some far corner of the earth wgaring a beard as long as straggly and as fiery red as any hirsute appendage ever seen on Pennsylvania avenue. It gave him such a benign expression the re- port spread that he had been attend- ing the Passion Play at Obsrammer- gau. After shocking and surprising his friends and being duly photo- graphed for posterity, Mr. McCormick parted with the whiskers and they were seen no more. After that his toilet was the most immaculate in the Senate, not excepting Cabot Lodge or Tom Heflin of Alabama. Always Surprising. The Capital got another great laugh when McCormick arose one day and solemnly charged that the American State Department was honeycombed with “lotophagi.” That was In the pre-cross-word puzzle days, but it sent all of official Wash- ington scurrying to the unabridged dictionaries and the encyclopedias. The searchers found that the loto- phagi were the exact antitheses of McCormick, who did anything but live in dreamy indolence. McCormick was always surprising, always delightful, and, while respeci ed as a fighter, he was, none the less, very universally beloved. American official life is the poorer for his go- ing. Few men of 47 have left such an impression on the Capital. ——— WOMEN TO PRESS PEACE AND DEFENSE Conference Here Favors Enlarging Training Camps to Enroll 100,000 Youths. A pledge to promote the cause of peace and at the same time support a policy of adequate national defense “as the best peace insurance made by delegates representing 16 national women's organizations, with a total membership of a million, at the closing session yesterday of the Women's Conference of Natfonal De- fense as Peace Insurance, at Ameri- claws worn to the fur. A post- mortem showed nothing in the stomach but part of a leather halter. CONVICT YOUNG BEAUTY. Baltimore Jurors Hold Diamonds Obtained by False Pretenses. BALTIMORE, M4, February 26— Mrs. Mabel Moore, 20 years old and prefty, was found guilty of “false pretenses” in Criminal Court yester- day in obtaining two diamond braceé- lets, valued at $3,906, from a local jeweler. The jury recommended mercy. Sentence was suspended pending motion for a new trial. Mrs. Moore pawned one of the bracelets a few minutes after she bought it. She got $500 for it, al- shough its market value was $2,000. According to her own story, it was not until she had bought the brace- lets that she decided to leave home. Mrs. Moore went to Los Angeles, where she was arrested. During the trial it developed that Mrs. Moore has a small child and that she is sep- arated from her husband. SPOTTY EGGS IN LONDON. Market Specialty Arouses Curios- ity Until Cause Is Ascertained. Correspondence of the Associated Pres LONDON, February 4—Spotted eggs have appeared in the London markets recently in such numbers as to arouse not only the curiosity of naturalists, but of food authorities as well. Investigation revealed that the spotted eggs had been dipped in a solution of coffee to give them a brown tint and that in many In- stances, if left in the liquid for an insufficient time, the eggs became spotty after being withdrawn. It often happens that eggs left in the coffee solution long enough for the can Red Cross headquarters. “In the present unsettled status of the world, living in the midst of na- tional ambitions, jealousies and sus- picions and hatreds,” a resolution by the conference said, “it would be puer- ile and foolish to cast off the instru- ments of defense.” The conference also recognized the “necessity for vigilance in counter- acting the undermining of the loy- alty and patriotic principle of the youth of the Nation,” and as further steps to strengthen national defense, it recommended enlargement of the citizens’ military training camps, now having an enroliment of 34,000 youths, t0 100,000, and the launching of a Na- tion-wide educational campalign with respect to the national defense.act. HABEAS CORPUS IDEA SUSTAINED IN DENMARK Ministry of Justice Overruled in Interning Alleged Offender ‘Without Trial. Correspondencs of the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, February 26.—The recent action of the ministry of justice in ordering interned, without further trial, a prisoner who had served four terms for immoral conduct, has roused a demand for more specific legislation dealing with this class of offenses. The Superior Court of Copen- hagen ruled that the ministry of jus- tice had no authority under the law to impose internment without a trial, and ordered the man released and compensated to the amount of 1,200 crowns. The case created a profound sensa- tion throughout Denmark and numer- ous prominent persons have been out- spoken in their approval of drastic action with regard to offenders against public morality. The author, Olga Eggers, in an open letter de- clared that “the whole people ought to send the ministry a vote of thanks.” browning process to be completed, take on a coffee flavor. ‘While in some parts of the United States white eggs bring the best prices, it is the brown eggs which for years have been sold in London at a premium. It is only of late that vention of a woman, Mrs. Hannah L. Vonl’u,u, the \\H’« of a blacksmith|ing the shells with the coffe l poultry dealers have taken to color- solu- tlony Alfalfa Club- Gives Dinner. The Alfalfa Club is giving a dinner at the New Willard Hotel tonight in honor of Representatives Samuel ‘Winslow, - Massachusetts; Homer Snyder and Charles B. Ward of N York, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ASSIGNED ATTORNEYS IN RED TRIAL REMOVED Regular Lawyers Granted Request by German Court in Case Against Communists. By the Assqciated Press. LEIPZIG, Germany, February 26. When court reconvened this morning in the trial of 16 Communists for murder and terroristic acts, both regular and assigned defense at- torneys were present to represent the accused men. A demand of the regular attorneys to read a declara- tion was refuced by the court, where- upon the regulars requested that the assigned attorneys be withdrawn. This request was granted, and Attor- ney Arthur Santer, who was ejected from the courtroom Thursday, was permitted to re-enter the case. SENATE REQUESTS EAS PROBE REPORT Calls on Coolidge for Trade Commission Findings, if Not Incompatible. President Coolidge was today by the Senate to tr the Federal Trade Commli port on the gasoline industry, incompatible with public interests ction was taken on a modification of a resolution by Senator Trammell, Democrat, Florida, which would have directed the commission to transmit the report. Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, explained that the De- partment of Justice was making an investigation of the industry on the basis of the report with a view to anti-trust proceedings, and therefore it should be left to the discretion of the President whether the report should be made public The commission conducted its in- vestigation last year and submitted its report to the President. It was sent by him to the Department of Justice Another resolution, by Senator Trammell, demanding an investiga- tlon by the commission of the recent increases in gasoline prices is pend- ing Senator Harreld, Republ Moma, presented to the Senate a let- ter from the Department of Justice in which it was said the newly organ- ized Federal Oil Conservation Board would make & thorough study of the oil industry uit Now Pending. Reviewing the department’s activ- ities, Assistant Attorney®General S mour said investigation in the Spring of 1923 had disclosed an interchange of patents covering the “cracking proc- ess for manufacture of gasoline, which were interpreted as in_ restraint of trade. On the basis of these findings, he said, the department had insti- tuted an equity suit which now is pending s a second step, the department proceeded last Summer to investigate “certain trade associations” connected with oil production, refining and dis- tribution, but this failed to disclose evidence “warranting Institution of proceedings,” although one assoc ation voluntarily abandoned an activ- ity under examination by the Gov- ernment. In the meantime, the letter said, the department was co-operating in every possible way with the attorneys gen- eral of the States SENATOR STANLEY GAINS AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL Physician Says Injuries Inflicted By Auto Will Prevent Active Work for Present. Senator A. O. Stanley of Kentucky, who was struck by a hit-and-run motorist early Tuesday, was reported recovering today at Emergency Hos- pital, although suffering somewhat from pains as a result of body bruises. Dr. Daniel L. Borden, his physician, stated, however, that it would be some time before Mr. Stan- ley's condition would permit him to return to active pursuit of his dutles. Not a single clue has been uncov- ered by the police of the first pre- cinct in their search for the automo- bile which knocked Senator Stanley down at Fourteenth street and New ¥York avenue while he was crossing the street early Tuesday morning. Police, however, expect to locate the taxicab driver who brought Sen- ator Stanley to the hospital in the immediate future. uested n, Okla- o e RADIO TENOR TAKEN BACK TO ROCHESTER Mario Capelli, Who Sang Also in Church, Faces Wife Abandon- ment Charge. Mario Capelll, tenor, who was ar- rested after he had been singing for radio fans through WCAP's studio, and who sang at the First Congrega- tional Church, which President Cool- idge attends, went back to Rochester today in custody of Detective George Sailer to answer charges of wife abandonment. According to Safler these charges include allegations that after having used his wife's money to obtain and develop his musical education, he de- serted her. Saller said that word of Capelli's whereabouts was learned through a clerk of the Rochester Police Court, who was in Washington sightseeing and noticed the announce- ment that Capelli would sing, dis- played in front of the First Congre- gational Church. Knowing that a warrant for his arrest was out, Sailer said, the clerk communicated with the police of Rochester. PLOT TO KILL COUPLE . ADMITTED, SAYS OFFICER By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 26.— Capt. of Detectives Duncan Matheson announced today that Ralph King, a former patrolman of Honolulu, and now a private detective here was in jall and had confessed that he had been employed for $3,500 to kill Fred Hotaling, heir to a fortune, and, Mrs. Hotaling, Fred's wife. According to Matheson, King said he In turn had hired two men to kill Hotaling and Mrs. Hotaling’ and that the men apparently had at the last minute abandoned any act of violence and resorted to the use of poisoned milk. King was quoted as saying he was 2 close friend of a San Francisco millionaire. The plot against Hotal- ing and Mrs. Hotaling was revealed two weeks ago when Hotaling turned over to the board of health the con- tents of a bottle of milk which had been left on a porch of the Hotaling home. Analysis showed that the milk contained poison. Certain - African tribes mel: fron ¢ in furnacesy C., C. &P. VALUATION HEARING RESUMED Item of $2,800,000 in Dis- pute Today—Tax Assess- ment Taken Up. The claim of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. for an item of approximately $2,800,000 for what is known as going-concern value, in its total valuation, was one of the subjects of inquiry when the Utilities Commission today resumed hearings in the telephone rate case. Charles A. Robinson, chief engineer of the company, testified that the go- ing concern value added to the physi- cal value is made up of four items 1, the cost of organizing and training the operating employe: cost of at- taching or obtaining business; 3, cost of maintaining completed plant until each exchange Is in operation, and 4 cost of maintaining idle plant after operation until all business is at- tached. Engineer Commissioner Bell, chair- man of the commission, and Maj. W. E. R. Covell, his assistant, asked Mr. Robinson numerous questions both to the going concern claim and to the methods he used in arriving at the reproduction cost of the telephone property. ¢ Value Put at $2 Dozier De Vane, attorney company, stated in answer tion from Maj. Covell shat pany will argue for a valuation approximately $25,000,000, and the #est evidence of value in tase is Mr. Robinson's estim reproduction cost less depreciation. Willlam _McK. Clayton, repre ing the Federation of Citizens' sociations, requested that the mission consider not only the esti- mated cost of reproducing the plant, but also the dctual cost before de- termining the present fair value for rate-making purposes When Maj. Covell inquired of Mr. Robinson why the company acquired vacant land at Georgia nue and Gallatin street, the witness stated that the company expects to establish a new exchange there son. It was learned later that the new central of- fice will be started before the end of 1925, and placed service in 1926 to relieve the Columbia, Adams and North exchanges Enlargement I 000,000. for the to a ques- the com- of that this 1t also developed that the comvany adjoining the main Twelfth street betw G and Streets because it expects to enlarge that building within five years District Assessor William P. Rich- ards took the stand at noon to explain how he arrived at the assessments he has placed on the telephone com- pany's real estate for faxation p poses, which estimates totaled onl about half the estimated value placed on the property by telephone wit- nesses last week BUILDING IS SOUGHT FOR REVENUE BUREAU Smoot Introduces Amendment to g Provide $6,250,000 Fire- proof Structure. hearing vacant lot »xchange An amendment to the $150,000,000 public bulldings bill passed by the House and now pending in the Senate was introduced today by Senator Smoot of Utah providing for the con- struction of a fireproof modern build- ing in the District to be used by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Senator Smoot's amendment limits the cost of this proposed building to $6,250,000, and also appropriates $1,- 500,000 of this amount to be used dur- ing the coming fiscal vear. Senditor Smoot will seek to have his amend- ment adopted when the public build- ing bill comes before the Senate. It is now on the calendar. LITTLE CONGRESS TO DINE J. Hampton Moore Expected to Speak Friday. The sixth annual banquet of the Little Congress, a debating society composed of secretaries to members of Congress, will be held Friday eve- ning at 8 o'clock-at the City Club, Among the out-of-town speakers scheduled is J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia, former member of Con- gress. Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia will sing and Misses Dolly Moore, Ethel Adrian and Helen J. Marr will appear in in- terpretative dances. The toastmaster will be William E. Murray of Illinois, speaker of the Little Congress. AT LINER IS DAMAGED. Steering Gear Trouble Halts Ship Off Fastnet. LONDON, February 26.—The Cana- dian Pacific llner Montlaurier, from Liverpool to St. John, N. B, was lying off Fastnet, southwest of Cape Clear, Ireland, today, with a damaged steer- ing gear. The liner was too far out for an- chorage, but it was sald she was in no danger and was expecting to con- tinue on her way soon. The number of passengers aboard could not be as- certained. S e Bond Issue Bid Approved. Special Dispatch to The Star. PORTSMOUTH, Va., February 26.— Bid of Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. of New York of $177,836.40 for the $180,000 issue of 4% per cent municipal im- provement bonds was approved by the city council yesterday. The bond issue will be devoted to replacement of the present incinerator at a cost of $30,000 and to sewerage work in the sixth and seventh wards. Bids on the sewerage work probably will be advertised for within a few days, as specifications have been practically completed by City Engineer Weaver. Hotel Inn Phone Main 81088109, 604-610060 9th SL‘I: “1’5 Kkly; $1 3 wih TRt Showeraa” avatars.” $10: 2" room, 50 per cent more. Rooms Like M tuer 3701 Sixteenth Street All outside rooms, overlooking beautiful Rock Creek Park, 24-hour elevator and switchboard service. * Large living room, dressing room;; Murphy bed; bath, dining alcove and il!chen. $57.50. Reception hall, large living room, bed chamber, bath, dining alcove and kitchen. $77.50. Apply to Resident Manager or 'MORRIS CAFRITZ [ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY onlljeve that 26, 1925. General Alarms Rouse Queries About Guarding of Rest of City Reserve Trucks Called I Off Duty Summoned. Held at All Engine Houses. Did you ever stop to wonder what happens in case of a second fire when all the trucks have been called out on a general alarm? Have you ever looked at a jam such as occurred at the Kann and Nee fires, when the hose was appar- ently in an unsolvable tangle and the trucks seemingly as badly mixed up, and wondered how the Fire Depart- ment meets another simultaneous The same questions have been raised by Fire Department officials and a solution worked out With the sounding alarm, ling out plece of apparatus in the city, back in Fire Department headquarters a man gets busy on the telephone. All over the city go his calls summoning to emergency duty all the men who are at home on their “days off.” New omergency companies are formed with officers, also off duty, put in charge. Hold Reserve Trucks. In spite of the hand-to-mouth con- dition of most of the supplies of the District, the Fire Department has managed to accumulate four or five reserve trucks. Th trucks are meant primarily for replacement work when any of the regular equip- ment is temporarily laid up for re- pairs, With alarm, of a general practically every the they sounding are of a general restored to active HOTEL LAW COURT TEST TO BE DELAYED Absence of Counsel to Cause Con- tinuance of Rate-Posting Amendment Case. The case set for tomorrow in Po- lice Court to test the validity of an amendment to an act of Congress stipulating that the management hotel must post his rates in each room and not raise them without the authorization of the District Com- missioners will be continued one week, owing to the absence of the counsel, Edward F. Colliday, who at present is in New York City. Hotel managers in Washington be- if the act is held valid it virtually will give the Commissioners the power of fixing rates and the classification of a junipr rent com- mission Text When the of Amendment. rent act, due to expire May 17, 1924, was continued for an- other year the following amendment to the act was added ach and every hotel the Distriet of Columbia a notice of its rates guest room and raise said s manager in shall keep posted in each upon a desire to rates an application must be made to the District Commission- ers, which, if approved, cannot be put into effect until 30 days following, and then a new schedule of rates must be posted In each room.” In a recent letter to the Commis- sioners from Townley T McKee, president of the Hotel Men's Associa- tion in the District of Columbia and part owner of the Metropolitan Hotel, he requested that a test be made of the law to ascertain its validity and further, that the case be made against his brother, Ralph McKee, part owner of the Metropolitan Hotel, in as much as he is the manager. “In order to make the test case the Metropolitan Hotel,” the letter con- cluded, “respectfully declines to com- ply with said act.” JUNIOR LEAGUE CHARITY FILM TO BE PRESENTED “The Man Without a Country,” Donated by William Fox for Benefit Saturday Night. Under auspices of the Junior League of Washington and for the benefit of local charities, the William Fox film version of Edward Everett Hale's fa- mous story, “The Man Without a Country,” will be shown in the ball- room of the New Willard Hotel Sat- urday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Fox has specially donated the use of his film production for this occasion. The story of “The Man Withuot a Country” concerns a voung soldier who, in a fit of exasperation, cursed his country and her flag, and as a penalty was forced to live his life on first one and then another American battleship that never touched at a bome port. Through the unflinching devotion of his sweetheart in youth his pardon was ultimately secured by her from President Lincoln. It is a romance, tender as well as patrioitc, of the days of 1812. Methodists in U. S., 4,711,994. In the United States there are 4,- 711,994 persons who have established active relations with the Methodist Church through membership, this fig- ure showing an increase of 51,450 dur- ing 1924. This gain takes into con- sideration the withdrawals through death, removals or transfers to other churches of about 35,000. There are about 28,000 members in foreign areas. Saturday, Feb. 28, Closing Day of Our February Clearance Sale Our less than 90 Formerly $13.00 Shoes. ... $12.50 Shoes. .. oreicrmeoa ...,_....510.00 $12.00 Shoes. e o conmaomicane $9.60 $11.00 Shoes. ccm. $10.00 Shoes. . $9.00 Shoes.... $7.50 Shoes ..ceevuenes cne. We Advise All to Anticipate Their Footwear Needs entire included. It consists of all new merchandise nto Service and Firemen Plenty of Extra Hose service, and the newly formed crews assigned to them. These trucks are dispatched to points so located as to | give the maximum protection to the greatest area possible In every truck house is located ample hose to take care of all re- quirements. The average truck car- ries from 1,500 to 2,500 feet of hose Back in storage are from 1,500 to 2,000 feet ready for emergencies and to replace hose used in a fire while the latter is being given time to dry. Can Care For Several Fires. The emergency trucks are loaded up with this surplus hose at what- ever engine houses they are assigned to. Tn case the second fire should be sufficiently serious to ‘require mor than the reserve trucks, others ar detached from the big fire, abandc ing their hose and proceeding to the scene of the new blaze. En route, they stop at the most convenient en- gine houses and load up with a fresh stock. No serious emergency has agisen along this line, so far, but if you| have any fears, you may rest assured that the Fire Depamtment ready The present reserves can take care of several minor fires during a general alarm blaze and it is comparatively seldom that the fires ever get beyond the minor stage. COOLIDGE ASKS FUND . FOR BRIDGE START 5 e | President Sends Budget Estimate | to Senate to Provide $500,000 for Memorial's Beginning. is President Coolidge today to the Senate an estimate prepared by the Budget Bureau of $500,000 to be- gin work on the the Memorial Bridge Potomac recently authorized act Congress The bridge, which is to extend from a point near the Lincoln Me- morial to Arlington, Va, is to cost not more than $14,760,600. The ap- propriation . asked for today is to permit the work to be begun and carried on during the fiscal year. An effort will be made to include this item in the deficiency appropriation bill. 20,000 IN GOLD RUSH IN SOUTHEAST SIBERIA Excitement Causes Russia to Close sent construction of across the by an of Camp and Restrict Operations of Prospectors. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., February 26— Olat Swenson, president of a whole- sale fur company here, who has just returned from Vladivostok, seid to- day that 20,000 miners have rushed to the sceme of a gold discovery southeastern Siberia 250 miles north- ensk on the head- waters of the Aldon River, a tribu- tary of the Lena. “Owing to the great excitement throughout Russia over the discovery the Soviet government has closed the camp, and no additional prospectors are being permitted to enter,” said| Swenson. o person is allowed to| take out more than 9,000 rubles and no one can remain in the district over four months. “Nine thousand rubles are con- sidered quite a fortune and a number of Russians are taking advantage of the gold stampede. There are no claims. The clean-ups are under gov- ernment supervision and exact records are kept by government officials.” is here to pep you up PEP the peppy bran food stock is days in stock Now - $8.80 e $8.00 $7.20 $6.00 in | k4 s WONAN AUTO HIT DIES AT HOSPITAL | Miss Carry McGill, 65 Years 0Old, Victim of Accident at Ninth and H Streets. Py - another fata asing toll ears old “hit-and-run” motorists added pid! McGill place, died at Emergency Hospital this morning following a traffic accident last night Miss McGill knocked down by an unkno at Ninth and H streets last night. Without attempt £ to stop, the motorist made his escape by speeding away. Miss McGill was taken to Emergency Hospital where it was discovered that she was severely injured the head ty to their ra when Miss Carr: of 20 Gi was n driver Girl In Auto Injured. Another narrow es curred last night doe, 17 years when n death o fay 1. Bed old, of 500% Tulip avenue, Takoma Park, Md., was se verely injured” and three other oc cupants of a coupe narrowly ped injury, when the automobile by Harry E. Beddoe, brother girl, was ed off the roadway near the ‘duck d in Soldiers' Home and slid down a steep embankment, turn ing over. Miss Bedd ington Sanitarium tion was pre cut severely fered extr > descr ve was rusfed to Wasl where her cond ced serious. She was ibove both eyes and suf hock. Internal injuries stion of tthe automoblle which was swinging wide on the tur at the point where Beddoe was forced from the road was obtained. Beddc car was badly damage: d The M tucky m in the n mmoth C: bhecome r futu ve region in Ke a national park HAVE YOU SEEN CROMWELL TERRACE ? Come Out Today . A Few Left 6 rooms, hot-water electricity, Fr 4 cious porche garage. ONLY $500 Cash Price, $7,550 North from 4th nd Ave. N west to i Cromwell Te The Joseph Shapiro Co. 919 15th St. N.W. Franklin 1140 Office Open Un! St. and Rhode Channing north to 1 st., Beiore You Buy——Sce STUDEBAK-ER for your pocketbook’s sake “THE ARGONNE 16th and Col. Rd. Several very at- tractive apartments ranging from two rooms, kitchen, recep- tion hall, bath and bal- cony to four rooms, kitchen, reception hall and bath. ISR L A AN For Farm and Garden These balmy days re- mind that some prepara- tion must be under way for the Spring planting —and there are many things which will be needed. Tools to work with and things for the soil and to plant. In the Classified Sec- tion of the Star, under the “For Farm and Gar- den” column, youw'll find where you can supply everything needed. Consult it closely and follow its directions fully. PISO’S N. HESS’ SONS, 607 14th St. forcoughs