Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 2

o * BORGLUM ALLEGES - GROOKED POLITICS Traces Start of Stone Moun- tain Trouble to McAdoo Campaign in Georgia. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, who Ga 7.—Gutzon March as di- Moun near, Atlanta | that vin- e of the Stone Memorial it to declared of misrepresentation 1d by the a agent ne Mountaln Confede: mental Association lies the real of the great al, a story to t needs a true anati ng Confedera n newspapers k of the ta a tonight smoke hac screen M story memo: that say the least a that such ation mu m three | n iation, pr t and business man- thereof and their attorney. vents Before Fight. ave been written about evelopments in this story, on has been made of the leading up thereto. The but to go back through columns of the press and needs to the bulletins sent out under the signature of esident of the association, to vinced that there.is a serious discrepancy somewhere. Accusations | been made of late that are refuted by their own pub- 1ents of but a few weeks assert 1 statement an explar fr me he preside the as, the v age Incidents put the ic has refer Fave claarly shed sta Mr. sketched the history memorial, saying it originated | Helen Plane and was | the Atlanta Chapter of | Daughters of the Con- He sald the original idea carve a small bust of Gen. | Lee on the mountain and from that dea “I conceived and planned the present great memorial. From this vision I made the original design and copyrighted same He said this association was com- posed largely of members of the U. D. C.and that svace on the mountain was donated to the association by S. H Venable and his nieces, Mrs. Corible | Orme and Mrs. Robert Roper. It was their intention, he continued, to donate | this space but to the U. D. C. but 10 overcome minor technicalities it be- came necessary to give it in the name of an incorporated body Delayed by War. statement sald that the World War interrupted the plans for financ- ing the undertaking and as soon as that was over, a new organization was | formed to support it in which the members of the U. D. C. were as- &lted by business men tlanta, Hol- ins Randolph being made pres dent Mr. Borglum declared during the years since 1916, in co-operation | with the Southerners and U. D. C. he | was working “this great vislon,” that no attempt was made to finance the project and the expense was borne principally by 8. H. Venable and him- <ol The financing proper, he continued, hegan in March 1923, and Atianta | subscribed $250,000 to the project, outside subscriptions approximated $175,000. It became apparent Kha.li there would be no difficulty in rais- g the sum of $3,500.000 as planned, by public_ subscriptions. The state- ment then described the passage by Congress of an act authorizing coin age of the Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar by the United States Mint. Sale of Coins. “It was mot known,” the statement | sajd, “that in addition to securing | $3,500,000 by popular subscription for building the memorial it was also possible to secure an additional $2,500,000 from the sale of these The sculptor said at the time of the annual election of officers in April, 1924, the association, “faced wonder- tul possibilities.” It had been under- stood that the presidency of the as- ciation was an honor that should be passed around from year to year. This was not alone an understand- ing. it was a precedent Borglum spons by he United federacy wa to a Th | | Ald in Polities. “The presidential campaign was in full swing. The president of the memaorial association was also State chairman of the McAdoo campaign In conference with certain Influ- ential men, the president asked that he be re-elected to the presidency of the memorial association, giving as reason therefor that it would greatly assist him in his political aspirations. rhis request was unthinkingly granted upon the promise of the pres- ident that he would resign immedi- ately following the close of the presi- dential primary campaign. “The date for the annual election of the association was named by the president for the same day upon which was called the conventlon for selecting the presidential primary candidates. The political meeting was held first. Immediately *follow ing the political meeting the presi- dent went to the annual meeting of the memorial association taking with him a large number of prominent men from the political meetings. Played Shrewd Game. “These prominent men unthought- edly played into the hands of the president, for they were immediately elected to membership in the memo- rial assoclation and together with the president dominated the meeting. They selected a new board of direc- tors for the association, increasing 2aid board from a small number to a membership of 50 that there might be no chance for a slip in the domina- tion of the board. This board of'di- rectors in turn elected a new execu- tive committee. The same tactics were employed in the selection of the ex- ecutive committee, so the membership thereof was incrased from nine to fifteen. “I do not believe any of the prom- inent men who followed Mr. Ran- dolph™ to this meeting of the memo- rial association even realized in the least the purpose for which they were being used. With few exceptions they did not even stop to consider that there were dues to be paid the association. They did not pay sald dues. Who did pay these dues? Eighty-six new members who in the main did not know what it was all about. Heretofore the membership dues had jeen $5. On that day the dues were arbitrarily ruled to be but $1 each. Who was enough interest- ed in the future control of the asso- ciation to pay this sum of $86? Why was it done?” The statement charged that Ruben ®. Arnold introduced a resolution stipulating that thereafter any one desiring membership in the associa- tion should first refer his or her application to a subcommittee to be named by the president and that this | tion THE SUNDAY STAR, went to view Unele from the left. ing into the treasury of the associa- tion each month than was being ex- pended and that the monthly pay roll amounted to approxtmately $15.- 000. The statement continued: “In March, 1924, the receipts of the as- sociation equaled th> expenditures. In April the recelpts amounted to more than $28,000, and up to May 12, the office had received 12 founders rolls of $1,000 each and receipts from children’s founders rolls and other subscriptions brought the total to more than $18,000. “E. Rivers was the newly author- ized business manager and arbitrar- ily ruled. Mr. Dave Wedd resigned as excutive secretary. The organiza- work was stopped, since that date, with the exception of money naturally coming in from the mo- mentusn of the money-raising cam- paign already put on, there has been little effort made to raise money.” Program of Propaganda. The sculptor charged that “a pro- gram of maliclous propaganda’ was begun to disrupt the association and that he and Mr. Venable “were de- liberately estranged. He said that Mr. Randolph and Mr. Arnold “hast- ened to my assistance. The iInter- views that were printed under their signatures at that time directly con- trovert their statements of the last two day: He asserted that Mr. Ran- dolph eulogized him in an address before the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention at Savannah Mr. Borglum said that he had a tentative contract with the associa- tion for carving the central group for $250,000 and that his contract was technically with the women of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who supported the project. He said the Stone Mountain Confederate Mon- umental Association was a holding corporation and technmically “the as- soclation was not concerned with my contract. To the assoclation was given the trust of financing the memorial.” He saild that L. W. Roberts, a con- sulting engineer, estimated that he (Borglum) w: entitled to draw §18,- 000 more than he had drawn, based on results accomplished; that he did not draw the money, “and a survey at this time will show that the work accomplished is still far in advance of money drawn.” Entitled to Account. He charges that he was entitled to a personal drawing account on the 10th of each month, that payments ceased, and the business manager told him there was no money com- ing In, 80 none could be paid out. He said his requests for payments were Plcture made at Langley Field, Va, wh received with rebuffs, but that the executive committee as a whole knew nothing of “these ‘insults’ " It was not intended that they should know, he said. He denied that he delayed the de- sign for the memorial half dollar, adding that a national election was coming omn, and this coin for various reasong could not be approved until after that election was settled. Mr. Borglum traced what he de- scribed as efforts of the officlals to force him out, asserting that the president of the association issued a statement without the knowledge of the executive committee that “Borg- lum’s dismissal as sculptor is immi- nent. Disposed of Models. He said that after his dismissal he went to the Stone Mountain studio “and disposed of all my discarded models, that not even these might be allowed to fall into the hands of their stonecutters. He sald that mittee of 14 an executive com- men and 1 woman was_selected but that no members of the U. D. C. were included. He alleged that it was & “cut-and-dried” program. Mr. Borglum declared that for the first time there was more money coming into the treasury of the as- sociation each month than was being expended, and that the monthly pay roll amounted to approximately $15,000. The statement continued: Amount of Receipts. “In March, 1924, the receipts of the assoclation equaled the expenditures. In April the receipts amounted to more than $2§,000, and up to May 12 the office had recelved 12 founders rolls of $1,000 each, and receipts from children’s founders rolls and other subscriptions brought the total to more than $18,000. “E. Rivers was the newly author- ized business manager, and arbi- trarily ruled. Mr. Dave Webb re- signed as executive secretary. The organization work was stopped. Since that date, with the exception of money naturally coming in from the momentum of the money-raising cam- paign, already put on, there has been little effort made to raise money.” The sculptor charged that “a pro- gram of malicious propaganda” was begun to disrupt the assoclation, and that he and Mr. Venable “were de- liberately estranged. BORGLUM TO FIGHT ON. By the Associated Press. GREENSBORO, N. C. March With the withdrawal of requisition papers for him now a matter of his- tory, Gutzon Borglum, former Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial sculptor, now plans to remain here to wage a fight to have all indictments pending against him in Georgia nolle committee consisted of Ruben R. Ar- nold, E. Rivers and Bolling Jones, Cut-and-Dried Program. He said that mittee of 14 men selected, but that U. D. C. was an executive com- and 1 woman was no member of the included. He alleged that it was a “cut-and-dried” pro- gram, adding that E. Rivers was chosen first vice president, ‘“an onto his title was also tacked that of busi- prossed. The sculptor made this announce- ment tonight after City Court Solic- itor C. W. Ramspeck, representing the State of Georgia, had requested Gov. McLean to return the Georgia requisition papers, which were based on charges of malicious mischief, and had signed a consent order for the dismissal of habeas corpus proceed- ings instituted by Borglum, follow- ing his arrest here Jast Saturday. The ness manager.” Mr. Borglum declared that for the first time there was more money com. signing of the consent order by l,Judn Michael Schenck of Superior Court was a mere formality, Borglum to Carve Mountain Statuary In South Dakota By the Associated Preas. GREENSBORO, N. Gutzon Borglum, the nounced early today that he had accepted a contract to carve the figures of Washington and Lincoln on a mountain in the Black Hills Park of South Dakota and soon would start work on the project “I have had the contract under consideration about a year.” Borglum stated. “I have been informed that plans for the project have been ap- proved by the South Dakota Legisla- ture and by Congress A conference between Senator Nor- beck, South Dakota, and Borglum was held in Washington Friday, the sculptor said, adding that at this time he was informed everything was in readiness to begin the work 100,000 LARCENIES CHARGED T0 MAID Police Claim Confession of | Thefts From Three Homes Where She Was Employed. March sculptor, an- By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, March 7.—Arrested | and charged with the theft here and in Chicago of more than $100,000 in jewels and furs, Mrs. Anton Wer- nitzer is said by the police to have confessed today to the robbery of three homes in which she worked as a mald. She implicated her com- panion, Herman Lieberwirth, who was also arrested, and sald that he played the stock market with the results of his operations. When arrested Mrs. Wernitzer is said to have confessed to the theft of jewelry valued at $80,000 from the home of Mrs. Morris Vehon of Chi- cago, and of jewels, furs and silks valued at $23,000 from the home of Mrs. Lucille Schamberg of New York. Police said she also admitted taking valuables from the home of a family in Glencoe, Ill, where she had been employed. Lieberwirth, according to the po- lice, had been interned during the war on a charge of being a German spy. The couple were arrested In their luxurious Brooklyn apartment. Lieberwirth had $2,200 in cash on his person. They had been traced through a second-hand shop where they had left articles for appraisal. Mrs. Wernitzer, according to the police, sald she bought German war bonds in the early days of the war, and found herself penniless when they depreciated in value. She had been separated from her husband, and sought employment In the homes of wealthy families. Her first emplover, she sald, was Mr. Vehon of Chicago, where on Jan- uary 22 she took, among other val- uable property totmling $80.000, a string of pearls valued at $28,000, a platinum diamond ring worth $8,000, a $9,000 dlamond bracelet and a watch valued at $1,800. Later, she sald, she obtained em- ployment with Mrs. Schamberg in New York and stole jewels and silks worth $15,000 and furs valued at $5,000. Mrs. Wernitzer told the police that she met Lieberwirth here a year and a half ago and fell in love with him. The couple were charged with grand larceny. Most of the loot was re- covered, police sald. 12 Pl;nes. Arrive In Capital on Way To Michigan Field Group That FailedinOne- Day Flight to Florida, Stops Here. Nine of the nineteen planes of the first pursuit group, which Brig Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the Air Service, declares consti- tutes America’s only aerlal fighting force, arrived at Bolling Field, Ana- costla, D. C., yesterday from Langley Field, Va. They arp returning to their base at Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Mich., in easy stages from Florida after having failed in the first attempt to transport a unit of atreraft from -Michigan to Florida within a day. The three other planes in the group of 12 will arrive here from Langley Fleld some time today. The planes, it is understood, will remain here today and then will proceed to Selfridge Field in one hop. They are the latest type pursuit planes, known as Curtiss PW-S, and have a speed of 175 miles an hour or more. The ships are in command of Maj. Thomas G. Lamphler, and the pilots are Lieuts. T. K. Matthews, T. E. Til- linghass, Cyrus Bettis, J. Thad. John- son, H. A. Lyan, Sam Ellis, Russell L e members of Congress and high ranking Army and Navy latext model plames and to determine the effectiveness of bomba and anti-alreraft gunx. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, who has been replaced as assistant dropped from pl air chief, ix xhown second WATCH CLUE GIVEN IN PAPPAS SLAYING Brother of Dead Cafe Owner Says Timepiece Is Miss- ing From Clothing. Simultaneous with the announce- ment of a reward of $200 for informa- tion leading to the arrest and con- viction of the slayer of Tom Pappas, Greek restaurant owner, Willlam Pappas, his brother, opened a new lead for police last night by stating that a zold watch and chain which was probably on the person of the victim at the time of the murder, was missing arch ately Sweeney E for the watch was immedi- instituted by Detectives and Waldron, who are in- vestigating the case appas made the announcement the reward, and told of the missing fter returning from George- town Hospital, where he was operated on last Friday of Description Is Given. The watch, he said, was a dis- tinctive timepiece, easily identified and he gave a description to aid the police. Police continued questioning sus- pects yesterday, five now having been quizzed. None of them aided the po- lice in any material manner, it was sald, and the mystery is as far from solution, it was admitted, as on Thursday morning when Pappas was found with his skull crushed by an automobile wrench in his restaurant at 1202 Seventh street. TELLS ABOUT PARTY WORK IN COLLEGES Organizer Informs Coolidge 200,- 000 Students Will Vote Repub- lican Ticket. When the congressional and State elections are held in 1926 more than 200,000 college students in the United States will vote the Republican ticket, according to Lawrence Hunt of Princeton, assistant director of the college bureau of the Republican national committee, who was a caller vesterday at the White House. Mr. Hunt came to Washington in the in- terests of the executive committee of the Assoclated University Republican Clubs, and, while dlscussing Repub- lican organization work among the colleges, predicted that in 1926 there would be an even larger number of college men and women who will vote the Republican ticket than those who cast their. ballots in the presi- dential election last November. Mr. Hunt said there is unfortunate- ly a wid read indifference on the part of the college men and women today toward public affairs and to combat this the Republican national committee, during the last campaign, formed clubs and sent out experi- enced organizers to the colleges and universities. He said that to aasist in this work the Assoclated Univer- sity Republican Club was formed, which organization has been kept in- tact for the next campalgn. Speaking of the complaint that there is not enough intelligent in- terest In public life among the younger generation, Mr. Hunt said: “This movement in the colleges and universities is. of more importance than from the standpoint of a single party. It tends to create public opinion and to provide the country with young men and women who have an intelligent grasp of public Questions, thus . suiting them for leadership of the future.” Mr. Hunt said that the college or- ganization work has received the hearty support of President Coolldge. MRS. BATCHELDER DIES, Husband Formerly Was Governor of New Hampshire. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 7. ——Mrs. Mary T. Batchelder, wife of Naham _ T. “Batchelder, former ,gov- ernor of New Hampshire, died here tonight after a short illness. Mr. and Mrs. Batchelder were spending their first Winter here. The body will be taken back to Andover, N. H., where funeral services will be Wednesday. S T e NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B.F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 0'Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo CONDUCTED BY Rev. B. F. Ruley . Meridith, L. C. Hurd, E. V. White- head, C. K. Rich and R. J. Minty, | the WASHINGTON, PARK EXTENSIONS TO BEGIN AT ONGE Athletic Fields, Monuments, Roads and Tourist Camp to Get Early Attention. Extensive improvements in the Dis- trict of Columbia park system, in- cluding athletic fields, monuments, roads and the tourist camp, will be undertaken at once, according to Lieut. Col. Sherrill, director of public buildings and grounds, who yesterday expressed gratification at the liberal appropriations made by the Sixty- eighth Congress. “The last Congress gave generously to the National Capital park system,” ald Col. Sherrill, “and with the money now avavilable we wiil be able to go ahead on many projects that have been delayed for years.”" With $50,000 available for the tour ist camp in Potomac Park, work is to be started immediately on a program to enhance the d bilities of the camp, not only for those who visit the city by automobile, but with an idea of blending the entire proj, into the general park scheme camp Is to remain at its present lo- cation. courage Floored Tents. It is Col. Sherrill's idea to encourage the carapers to live in floored tents and to eliminate the use, as far as pos- sible, of the many kinds of individ- ual auto tent accommmodations. With an orderly row of well tary tents, and with the proper facili- ties, which are already provided, for doing laundry work indoors, he be- lleves that the camp will become a mecca for the great army of motor- ists who go South each year, and a desirable addition to the many activi ties under his control 000 for the removal of the construction work which had been started on west side of the Tidal Basin for a sec- ‘ond bathing beach, the director pointed out that no funds were provided for the removal of the present bathhouses. “There will be no bathing in the Tidal Basin this Summer under the auspices of the office of public buildings and | grounds,” he asserted. “The present bathhouse will remain tliere for a time anyway, because Congress has given us no money for its removal, but it will not be used for bathing purposes. 1 am hope- ful that we can persuade Congress to let it remain and convert it into a general locker room for the many athletic activi- ties now carried on in the park. 1t would | make a first-class structure for that pur- pose, and could be used by tennis, golf, poio and base ball enthusiasts for dress- ing rooms.” Connecting Rock Creek Park -with Potomac Park by a fine boulevard is one of the projects that Col. Sherrili is anx- ious to carry out. Forty thousand dol- | lars was appropriated for this purpose | during the last session, $10,000 of which is to be used for “cleaning up’ and the rest to begin work on the low-level road. ‘It will take some years to com- plete this work,” he said, “but this is | the first time that we have had any money to make a start and that is why the sum appropriated is par- ticularly encouraging. The length of link when completed will be about 3 miles, and it is estimated that it will cost in the neighborhood of $500,000." Two memorials, one to those who drowned when the giant liner Titanic struck an fceberg, and the other to John Eri on, will soon be erected in Potomac Park. Bids are to be asked by the Titanic Memorial Association, of which Col. Sherrill is a member, on the shaft, which is to be situated at the foot of New Hampshire avenue and Rock Creek Parkway. The me- morial will be outside of the sea wall on the Potomac and will have a solid stone foundation Work has al- ready started on the Ericsson me- morial, south of the Lincoln Mémo- rial, at Twenty-third and South B street Col. Sherrill expressed himself as particularly pleased that many small items in this year's appropriations were consolidated into one lump sum. He said that it would not only elimi- nate a great deal of bookkeeping, but would enable the’ office of public buildings to expend additional moneys on certain projects, if savings in others could be effected. Twenty- seven items were incorporated into the lump sum, with a total appro- priation of $442,000 to cover them. Projects to Be Started. Among the projects to be under- taken at once and which have already been approprinated for, are: Installation of electric elevators in the State, War and Navy Building to replace the antiquated hydraulic ma- chines. - Col. Sherrill said that three of the lifts had already been replaced, | but that with the fund of $70,000 which had been provided, the entire 10 would be renewed. A complete generating plant also will be in- stalled. Replacement of the elevator in the | Monument In this conmection the director pointed out that the Monu- ment lift had become balky at times, that it was impossible to bring it to a stop between the top and bottom, and that it was deemed wise to re- place it with a high-speed modern elevator. Thirty thousand doliars was appropriated for this purpose, Improvement of Meridian Park on 16th street. This was the only item on which Col. Sherrill expressed dis- satisfaction, because at the present rate of appropriation he said that it would take something like 40 years to complete the work. The sum of $27,000 was given, $15,000 of which will be used for general improvement and the rest for maintenance. For continuance of work in Ana- costia Park $63,000 was provided. For a permanent comfort station and lodge in Rock Creek Park, $10,- 000. For band concerts in Potomac Park $3,000 was appropriated. Col. Sherrill said that this amount was sufficient for 100 concerts because the only ex- pense entailed was the moving of the bandstand. Appropriations of $20,000 for wid- ening the Inlet Bridge in Potomac' Park, and $25,000 for maintenance of roads and bridges in Rock Creek Park, complete the list of important projects that will be carried out through the liberality of the last Congress. FOREST PLAN DROPPED IN SMOKY MOUNTAINS Commission Says Title to Land to Be Purchased Was in Doubt. The National Forest Reservation Commission announced yesterday it had abandoned plans to establish a national forest in the Smoky Moun- tains of Tennessee. Title to land which would have been purchased was in doubt, it was sald, and in ad- dition, the commission wished to leave the way clear for the National Park Commission, which is consider- ing establishment of a park In that region. Purchase of 12,817 acres of forest land in Eastern States at an-average of $4.77 per acre was approved by the commission. The land is in Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, North Carolina, Geor- gia, Alabama and Arkansas. During the 14 years in which purchases have | branch. kept and sani- | Although Congress appropriated $10,- | the | 1925—PART 1 LITTLE RELIEF FOR MOTORISTS ON MAIN STREETS BEFORE MAY Winter’s Damage Is Being Repaired as Rapidly as Possible—Suburban Thoroughfares to Take Longer Time. Washington motorists are still thumping and bouncing over yawn- ing holes left in the streets by the Winter's storms, and there is little hope of more satisfactory relief, even in the main highways. before M The possibility of repairing surbur- ban thoroughfares is yet more for- lorn Between the disastrous erosion, caused by the slowly melting ice, and the destructive work of the chains motorists used to prevent ac- cidents, thousands of holes were washed and chopped in the very center of the city’s arterial highways Some have since been worn still deeper and present actual menace to life and limb when they are scured by night Now motorists effects of not only have to dodge as many of these holes as they can, but many times on the journey to and from the office they have to make corkscrew turns to keep from running down the repair crews. C. B. Hunt, engineer of highways, esti- mated yesterday that his men will have restored the asphalt streets in the eity proper to good condition by May Ample Money Available. With respect to asphalt streets, there is ample money avallable and this class of patching, Mr. Hunt said will g0 on as rapidly as the ecity asphalt plant turns out the material, augmented by a small amount asphalt obtained daily from the plant of a priwate contractor. In addition to the balance left in the current fund for repairs to streets, Congress has made the new appropriation for this character of work, immediately available, In the which are appropriation, case of suburban roads, cared for out of a separate L. R. Grabill, super- intendent, said yesterday he has a balance of only $40.000 to keep his division going until July 1, when his new appropriation becomes available Mr. Grabill said he could employ two or three times as many men as he now has to advantage in remedy- ing the damage done to outlying highways during the Winter, but he expressed opposition to such & course because it would necessitate laying off his regular gangs for a time before the end of the fiscal year. At present the suburban road di- vision has »ut 100 men split up into, small gangs, and Mr. Grabill said that with this organization he will have to limit his expenditures on repair work to an amount be- tween $2,500 and 33,000 a week for the balance of the fiscal year. New Paving of Streets. As far us the complete new pav- ing of streets is concerned, the Dis- trict is on the eve of a year of mark- ed progress, with program that calls for the surfacing of more than 5 streets in all sections of the city This new paving work will go on gradually during the next twelve { months The immediate and pressing need in the opinfon of those who haye ob- served the condition of-the streets iy, for a general patching of the ex- isting surfaces that were broken up SLAIN WOMAN FORESAW DEATHBY STRANGULATION Fouth Who Resented Her Psycho- " analyzing of His Life Is Sen- tenced to 12 Years. > The Star and New York World. VIE! March 7.—Rudolph Hughe, 19-year-old youth, today was sen- tenced to 12 years' imprisonment for strangling his aunt, Dr. Helmuth, while she slept. Dr. Helmuth, a dis- tinguished practicioner and a pupil of Freud, predicted her own murder after psycho-analyzing the boy. Writing to a friend shortly before ner death, she said: “My whole life s an expectation of a blow. I am terribly uneasy. I see myself with him standing before me and then squeezing me around the throat.” The motive for the murder was re- vealed at the trial as the boy's re- sentment of the exposure of details of his childhood in a book written by his aunt, “New Ways of Under- standing Children,” a Freudian text- book. By Cable (Copyright, 192 MRS. WILLEBRANDT FLIES Makes Trip in Airplane to Boston From Washington. SOSTON, March 7.—Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, United States assistant attorney general in charge of pro- hibition prosecution, arrived here this evening by airplane from Washing- ton. The supply of oil in the big mall plane was so low that the pilot did not dare to cross Boston harbor to the airport, but circled the shore. The 400-mile trip took 6 hours, 48 minutes, including a stop for lunch of an hour and a half near Bruns- PRAISES CALLES REGIME. Former Postmaster General Calls on Kellogg. Former Postmaster General Hitch- cock, who has recently visited Mexico City, discussed Mexican affalrs yes- terday with Secretary Kellogg. He told the Secretary that President Cal- les had a strong grip on the situa- tion and that under his administration an era of progress was promised. Mr. Hitchcock said that he dis- cussed Mexican affairs only inciden- tally with the Secretary of State and that the real object of his call was to renew a friendship begun when both were members of the Republican national committee. e RECEPTION 1S HELD. Federation of Colored Women Hon- ors Former National Officer. Miss Hallie 1. Brown, past president of the Natlonal Association of Colored Women, was honored at a reception given by the Washington Federation of Colored Women last night at the Phylils Wheatley Y. W. C. A. In the recelving line were Mra Julia West Hamilton, Mrs. Daisy Lampkins, Mrs. George S. Willlams, Mrs. Mary Booze, Mrs, M. C. Lawton, Mrs. Graves, Mrs. O. B. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Matthews, Mrs. Johnson, Miss N. H. Burroughs, Mrs., Preston and Mrs. Coffa. Credit Men to Meet. The Assoclated Retail Credit Men's Association will hold its Spring din- ner in the oak room of the Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock. The speaker will be A. F. Goldsbor- ough, executive secretary, Baltimore A regular business meeting been made 2,593,421 acres have been |will follow, and- an educational pro- added to national forest at an aver- age cost of $1.96 per acre, gram will be presented. A. Coonan will act as toastmaster, of | by the period of snow and January. An automobils ride through the city reveals the presence on many of the streets of ruts and depressions from the Winter, despite the fact that patching gangs have been at work since the latter part of January. According to officials of the engin- eer department, approximately $24,000 was expended for repair work during Februay, of which $14,000 was in asphalt patching and $10,000 in mend- ing outlying macadam oads. Engineer Hunt admitted yesterday that there is still a great deal of re- pair work to be done before the high- way system of the city will be In good condition. In answer to a question, he sald the streets are in greater need of repairs now than they ordinarily are at the end of a Winter. He at- tributed this to the steady period of snow and fce, during which repair work was practically at a standstill Held Up In Winter. or six weeks during the Winter, he explained, repair work could not be carried on. Activitles were re- sumed on asphalt patching about Jan- uary 16, but, officials of the engineer department say, holes continue to ap- pear until warm weather sets in steadily There is a feeling express motorists that delay in repalring small breaks in the surface not only adds to the cost of doing street work by giving these small ruts a chance to grow, but also places an added ex- pense on the public in the damage done to vehicles in passing over the bumps. Some of the streets new appropriation act for complete resurfacing are in bad condition at present. In these cases, engineer de- partment officials say, only the most dangerous holes will be patched, pend- ing the letting of contracts to resur- face them during the Sumi Mr. Hunt said the broken up during the Winter were principally the asphalt streets that are from 20 to 30 years old. The new appropriation became a law about ried a total of $2,815950 for all classes of street work. This is ap- proximately the same as the total for the present fiscal year The principal items are: $300,000 for paving alleys and sidewalks un- der the assessment and permit system $399,750, for the paving of new streets with concrete; $312,000, rep- resenting the gasoline tax collections to be used in paving and resurfacing 42 streets; $800,000, for repairs to streets. Of this last mentioned sum, about $400,000 is used for the complete re- surfacing of old strests. The Streets to be resurfaced are not named in the act, but are designated by the com- missioners during the year. The appropriation in the new act for repairs to suburban roads is $297,500, an increase of about $22,000 over the current allotment. When this money becomes available on July 1, Super- intendent of Suburban Grabill plans to increase his forces in smoothing out all of the important outlying highways. ica in among listed in the act, which 10 days ago, car- {COOLIDGE MAY NAME SHOALS COMMISSION Prospects Seem Bright After Con- ferences With Weeks and Underwood. The prospects that President Coolidge will act favorably on the House proposal to name a commission to study and make recommendations to the next Congress on the question of disposing of the Muscle Shoals property gained added welght yester- day after conferences between Presi- dent Coolidge, Secretary Weeks and Senator Underwood of Alabama. Senator Underwood called on the President early yesterday to discuss the Muscle Shoals question and Mr. Weeks visited the White House later for the same purpose. It was under- stood that both callers discussed the commission proposal as adopted by the House after the Underwood leas- ing bill had fafled of enactment Those close to the President be- lieve he will name a commission of three members, as provided in the House resolution, to make a thorough study of the shoals problem this Sum- mer and report back at the beginning of the next session of Congress. Barry Farm Citizens to Meet. Maj. William H. Barrett of the Sal- vation Army will speak at a meet- iing of the Barry Farm Citizens' 4 Sociation Tuesday night In St. John's Methodist Church. A program of en- tertalnment, including music by the church choir, will be presented. Re- freshments will be served. Henry Braxton, secretary of the assoclation, is in charge of arrangements. Elzie S. Hoffman, president, will preside. February Circulation Daily ...101,868 Sunday. . Busivess Manager NG AND SUNDAY STAR, doen solemnly swear that the actusl number of copies of the papers named, sold and distribut- ed during the month of February, A.D. 1925, was as follows: DAILY Copies. Da. .. 103016 1 .. 103243 17 103,380 .....103.457 .. 103,676 99,940 104,300 .. 104,123 . 103,892 103,304 104,243 101,664 7] z ] Copies. 107,152 104,887 104,512 104,284 104,152 101,235 90,585 104,417 104,289 103,348 103,539 100,587 St = 2,471,205 26,361 2,444,844 100,971 Less adjustments ....... Total daily net circulation. Totat average net paid circu- Daily average number of copies for service, etc...... 807 Daily average net circulation 101,868 SUNDAY. Da Copies. Days. Io.io.e.. 107,894 16. ... 8 .. 107799 220, Coples. 108,322 108,766 432,781 3,700 Total Sunday net circulation. 429,072 Average net pald Sunday cir- culation ... Average number of copies for Bervice, etc: vuv.nuouesncens Less adjustments ...... 106,676 1 i i | | | trades CITY COUNCIL PLAN 1S RECOMMITTED Long, Spirited Debate Pre- cedes Action by Federation of Citizens’ Associations. After Jengthly acrimonious, during which it was charged that the fad- eration was on trial, the Federation of Citizens' Associations at a meeting in the District Building last nigh recommitted the report of its special committee on the proposed city council At the conclusi federation found where It started debate, the frequently n of the d itself right And this te | pointed out by those who took part the the long debate, was in the face fact that the association last meeting approved the coun idea, as suggested by the Commis sioners, and directed the appointment of the special committee to draw up the detalls. Under the which sent committee, made to the regular meeting in Apri at its terms of the report 1other report federation the motior to the will b firet President Suter Speaks. The feeling of action last night tlon of such the Commissi purposes of the federatic night the president floor and give it knowledge of the situation Mr. Suter sald that the proposed city council was initiated by the Cor missioners, who were desirous of ha ing a representative body of citizer confer with them on city matters When requested by Commissioner Bel for his views Mr. S said he tole him that citizens would not approv giving representation entire bodies of the ht it should be made tives of the citize tions and that special interests shoul not be represented. Mr. Suter said he suggested that the federation lect such a body Mr. Suter said that he was vinced this was the greatest oppor- tunity ever furnished citizens to tain representation in the City ernment, and he told of the of other organizations be sented on the body only be represented t as at present approved by constituent members of the tion. Delay in approving the would be & great mistake, and m result, he said, in taking the wh matter out of the hands of the eration those w was opp ussociation called on take benefit ¢ Jesse ( ster thoug resen of a efforts h der pre- the b Oppose to Reference. Referring the member bodies would prod same result, and he cited instar where it was impossible to referendum on comparatively matters from the member bodies the matter went back to th bodies, he said, it will go before man of them which are not representative and at meetings where there are onl matter back to |a handful of people present against insisted This point brought several bers to their feet to protest this remark, hut Mr. Suter that this was rue, as he had attended some such meetings and pointed ou that it was known to the Commis- sloners. He said that if the matter went before the public in the new Papers that this body. after instruct- ing a committee to report and after approving the plan in general, would appear ridiculous and it might result in the failure of the whole matter The report which precipitated the debate was prepared by a special committee composed of William S. Torbert, chairman: Proctor Dougherty, George A. Finch Yaden and Fred S. Walker. merely provided for the detalls of th election of the eight members of the council, with the president of th federation as ex officio chairm It designated the name as “The Cit Council of the District of Columbia Plan of the Council. The report provided that be eligible persons must he 25 years old be bona fide residents for a period five vears, and have no official po tion in the sovernment. The terms of office are to be for two years, four of the first eight elected to serve only for one year, <o that at any one time there would not be a comple change in ‘the council. It then pro- vided for the election of one member by each association of the feders: of citizens' associations one by each association member of the fed- eration of civic associations, and for a process of elmination by the federa- tion until the eight members ar elected. It provided that the nomina- tions should be in by the latter part of this month and the elections next month, but action last night will hav J to | the effect of necessitating a change in | this provision. It provides for a system of after election, of any council, and as to powers and obligations, says “The City Council of the of Columbia, constituted and fied as hereinbefore provided, shall be charged with the duty of advising with and assisting the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in con- sidering and passing legislation, pending and proposed, affecting the District of Columbia, and includiny the exercise of powers delegated sald Commissioners by the Congress of the United States. recal member of the privilege District quali- May Recommend Legis! “It shall be within the power and privilege of said council to recom mend legislation and the exercise delegated power and submit recommendations to the Commis ers of the District of Columbia “The respective federations shall have the right to call for and recei reports from the members of sald city council elected by them “Sald council shall meet at times the Commissioners designate; but sald council may, its own motion, hold meetings consideration of matters before it “Said council shall make such rules and regulations for the transaction of its business as it may deem proper, provided such rules and regulations are mot inconsistent with its duties and obligations as hereinbefore de- fined.” Would Enlarge Council. J. W. Murphy served motice that whea the matter comes up for conu- sideration again’ he will move that the membership of the council be in- creased to 25 and that all reference to the Federation of Civic Associa- tians be stricken from the report. The question of emploving an at- torney to represent the federation fn the suit against the city in the fight on the zoning law, now before the local courts, was discussed when the report of the zoning committee was presented by E. B. Henderson. = The matter was referred to the committees on zoning and law and legislation for report at the next meeting. The federation did go on record as sup- porting the zoning commission in its contest and giving the federatlon's full moral support. fon. such shall tor as Average Sunday net circul tion .. Subscribed and sworn to before .D. 1925, day of March, A. . Seal. BLMER F. YOUNT, ary Publie. The oldest form of fishing boat the coracle, which is still used fishermen in the Cardigan Wistrict of Wal v fragile, be- ing made by covering a wicker trame- work with leather or oileloth, is by