Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and much colder to- day; tomorrow fair, co fresh northwest winds, Highest, 70, at 4 p.m. ye: ntinued cold; diminishing. sterday; low- est, 44, at 12:30 a.m. vesterday. Full report on page b, No. 1,042— No. 29 Entered a. post office, second class matter Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY M COOLIDGE 70 NAME "~ WARREN IN RECESS; BITTER FIGHT WITH - SENATE THREATENS White House Announcement Starts Storm, and Body May Stay in Session Longer to Watch Moves. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ATTACK PROPOSITION: | Declare It Is Plain Instance of| Senate—Vote | for i Contempt Comes Tomorrow, With Rejec- tion Almost Sure—Statement Is| Complete Surprise. - | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A White House statement that! President Coolidge will give Charles | B. Warren a recess appointment as | Attorney General if the Senate re-| jects his nomination, now before it] for a second time, caused a sensa-| tion in the Senate last night. It threatened to caus& a conflict be- tween that body and the Chief| Executive more bitter than has oc- curred in many years. That the Senate will accept the challenge of the President was the statement made on the floor by| Senator Robinson of Arkansas, democratic leader, and Senators| Reed of Missouri and Walsh of| Montana, both Democrats and lead- | London Radio i | | Thousands of radio listeners-in in Washington last night, especlally the crystal fraternity, recelved a shock of serioua proportions, when on tun- Ing In for what they thought would be WRC's evening program, they heard: “This is the British brpad- casting station 2LO, broadcasting to America a program of dance music trom the Savoy Hotel in London.” Immediately, the Radio Corporation of America’s station here was swamped with telephone calls, some expressing doubt, some excitement, some congratulations and one deep feeling of appreciation. Without any opportunity to make an advance public announcement, WRC was called on the telephone late yes- terday afternoon by its New York headquarters and told to be ready to pick up a program of British broad- casting direct from London at 6 o'clock. Promptly at that hour—I1 o'clock at night in London—the voice of the British announcer was heard, and for MARSH EXPELLED ‘BY PANAMA DECREE Explorer Said to Have Aided San Blas Indians in Move for Own Republic. By the Assoclated Press. PANAMA, March 14—A presidential | decree issued today declares Richard O. Marsh, an American explorer, ex- pelled from Panama and prohibits his return. The decree states that ers in the fight against the nomina- tion of Mr. Warren i May Stay In Session. 1 Instead of an immediate adjourn- | ment of the Senate following the vote | on Mr. Warren's nomination—if the| nmomination be rejected—the Senate| will remain in session “long enough ! to give the President opportunity to Indicate what he will do about an At- torney General” it was said last night. The White House statement, which | follows, was read into the record by both Senator Reed and Senator Walsh. “Notwithstanding various reports and rumors, the President Is making | every possible effort te segure.the confirmation of Mr. Warren. As the time is very short and to accommo- date the Senate he has consulted cer- tain men and certain Senators as to what_course should be pursued in Mr. Warren is not confirmed. e has decided on no other ap- pointment. He will offer him & re- cess appointment. He hopes, how- ever, that the unbroken practice of three generations of permitting the President to choose his own cabinet will not now be changed, and that the opposition to Mr. Warren, upon further consideration, will be with- drawn intorder that the country may have the benefit of his excellent cualities and the President may be | unhampered in choosing his own method of executing the laws. Agree to Vote Tomorrow. | The Senate by unanimous consent sgreed to vote on the Warren nomi- nation at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, after | four- hours' debate, with the time equally divided between the oppo- nents and supporters of Mr. Warren. No Senator, however, is to speak longer than 30 minutes. The Senate will meet at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, and the nomination will then be laid {further hostile acts, {arms and other the findings in the case do not justify a request for extradition and that there is proof Mr. Marsh abused Pan- ama’s hospitality and the permit granted him to conduct scientific re- searches by aiding the San Blas In- dians in an attempt to establish their own republic. Panama dispatches late in Febru- ary reported a revolt among the San Blas Indians and unconfirmed reports connected the disturbances with the presence of Mr. Marsh. On February 26 the Panama government made public a document signed by the va- rious Indian chlefs, in which the San Blas people demanded the right of independence. The document was said to have been translated by Mr. Marsh at the request of the Tule National Congress of the Indlan chiefs. It ended with a petition to the United States Government to accept a pro- tectorate over Tule. State of Siege Declared. Later the National Assembly de- clared the district of San Blas in a state of siege and Panama forces were dispatched to the region. Clashes between the Panama forces and the Indians were reported to have re- sulted in the death of 10 to 30 persons and the burning of several villages. An investigation was begun by Dr. John Glover South, the American Minister to Panama, into the reports circulated in Panama to the effect that Mr. Marsh was to some extent Tesponsible for the trouble in San Blas. On March 3 Minister South agreed to act as mediator between the Panama government and the San Blas Indians, and a few days later a peace agreement was signed between them. The Indlans promised not to commit to return all property captured from the police and various citizens, before it for consideration Opponents of the nomination of Mr. | Warren predicted last night that it would | be rejected with several votes to spare. Administration Senators ad- | mitted they saw no chance of his! being confirmed. Word has been | sent to Senator La Follette of Wis-| consin, who is in Florida, to return | to Washington to take part in the| vote Monday, if possible. La Follette | is reckoned an opponent of Warren. | Walsh Balks Plan. The President’s statement was is-| sued in reply to published reports| that he was considering other men | as possible appointees if the rejec- tlon of Mr. Warren should follow, and that the administration had practi- cally abandoned its fight to have Mr. Warren confirmed. These reports arose from the fact that negotiations | were entered into early yesterday be- tween Republican and Democratic leaders on the floor of the Senate to put the nomination of Mr. Warren over until tomorrow, with the under- standing the President should be al- lowed more time to consider whom | he would appoint In case Mr. War- ren’s nomination was rejected. These negotiations resulted in a tentative agreement to allow the consideration of the nomination to go over until tomorrow, but amounted to nothing when Senator Walsh refused to fall in_with the plan. Furthermore, the negotiations were begun after Senator Curtis and others had visited the White House. After Mr. Curtig’ return word passed about the Senate chamber generally that the President was considering other men as possible appointees for Attor- ney General. A special point was made by Senators who discussed the Teport to the effect that the nomina- tion of Mr. Warren should not be acted upon until the President had more opportunity to consider the matter. Statement Is Surprive. | The statement from the White House, issued by the secretary to the President, Mr. Sanders, came as a complete surprise to many of the Senators. When he had concluded an address replying to a defense of Mr. Warren by Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, Republican, Senator Reed read to the Benate the White House statement. He said that it would be a sad day for the country when the preroga- tives of the Congress under the Con- stitution should be disregarded by the Chief Executive and when the prerogatives of the Executive should e disregarded by Congress Senator Reed said that the attitude of President Coolidge with regard to the Warren nomination, judging from the White House statement, was the same as if the Senate should send [Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | by and to submit to the laws of the country. The Panama government agreed to allow the Indians to keep their shotguns and not to interfere with their customs, te Indians. rsh was last reported, on as being in the City of Mr. March 7, Panama. Mr. Marsh, whose home is in Brock- port, N. Y. last year headed an ex- pedition which made a search in the Darien jungle of Panama for “white Indians.” Last July he returned to New York, bringing with him what were described as three “blonde” Indians. After a series of critical examinations by sclentists some of them were of the opinion that the Indians were white, while others con- tended they were of the albino type. CHICAGO REPORTS 148 NEW INFLUENZA CASES Eighteen Deaths Added to List, But Health Commissioner Denies Existence of Epidemic. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 14.-—One hundred and forty-elght cases of influenza and pneumonia were reported in the 24 hours ending at 9 o'clock this morning, together with 18 deaths from the diseases, it was announced by the Health Department tonight. Reports that the city is in the grip of an epidemic were forcefully denied Dr. Herman L. Bundesen, health commissioner. Music Thrills Thousands of Listeners Here WRC Rebroadcasts Concert From Savoy Hotel, and Also Midnight Chimes From Parliament—Feat Is Innovation. was played by the the pleces were music Among known ver,” “My Best Girl” and “June Night”” Then, just before midnight in London the microphone was switch- ed over to the House of Parliament for the striking of midnight and the tones of the big bell resounded in the ears of Americans thousands of miles away. Agalh returning to the hotel an- other half hour of violin, cello and Ipiano music was given, Interspersed with frequent statements by the IlXI‘ilish radio announcer. This experiment, arranged and con- ducted by the Radio Corporation of America, was the first in the history of radio broadcasting where a pro- gram in a foreign country has been successfully rebroadcast in the United States. Varlous radio sets in of amateurs, from time to time, have picked up foreign station but reg- reception has been impossible. plan adopted by the Radio orporation, however, enables tiny (Continued on Pag 2 TEACHERS KILLED AT RAIL CROSSING Members of Hood Faculty Die When Train Hits Auto at Gaithersburg. | one hour i orchestra, the well Miss Mary McQueen, aged 31, and Miss Edith S. Baker, 31, members of the faculty of Hood College for Women at Frederick, Md, were killed last night when a Baltimore and Ohio train struck their automobile at Gaithersburg, Md., five miles from Rockville, Miss McQueen, a teacher in the home economits department of the college, and Miss Baker, instructor in the department of English expres- sion, were returning to Frederick after a shopping trip to Washington. They reached Gaithersburg at about 6:30 and their machine wasgun down by a local which was just gather- ing speed after pulling out of the Galithersburg station. The car was demolished and Miss McQueen killed instantly. Miss Baker lived abowt 15 minutes. A watchman stationed At the cross- Ing told Sheriff Plummer of Monts gomery County that the driver of the machine disregarded his signal to stop and that he was forced to jump aside to prevent the machine running him down. Miss Sarah C. Lovejoy, dean of Hood College, was notified of the tragedy and left Frederick last night to take charge of the bodies. Sherift Plummer, after a preliminary investi- gation of the accident, announced that the inquest would be conducted today by Justice of the Peace J. P. Garrett of Gaithersburg. Miss McQueen’s home address was given as Vonore, Tenn., and Miss Baker lived at Hyannis, Mass. WIFE KILLED TRYING TO SAVE HUSBAND Man Also Loses Life When Power Wire Touches Pipe Used in Drilling. By the Associated Press. SANTA ROSA, Calif,, March 14.—A tragedy which took two lives and which was marked by the unavalling and desperate attempt of a wife to save her husband from electrocution was enacted late today on a ranch at Glen Ellen, 10 miles east. The vic- tims were Peter Oehler, 54, and his wife, 50. Oehler had been boring a well on his ranch. In removing a section of plpe from the well-drill it was bent and came into contact with a high voltage wire. Oehler dropped.lifeless with his body pinned under the pipe. The screams of his son and daugh- ter, ed, respectively, 20 and 17 years, who had witnessed their fa- ther's fate, summoned Mrs. Oehler, J. H. Murray, district fire warden, and T. Meglan, a rancher. Murray and Meglan attempted to remove the charged pipe from Oeh- ler's body, and, unconscious, were hurled several feet. Then Mrs. Oehler, disregarding the pleas of her children, grasped the pipe in both handg and crumpled be- side the body of hér husband. -— German Fishers Ask Big Loan. BERLIN, March 14—Germany's a government loan of marks at low interest, to be used in reconstructing the fishing fleet and otherwise developing the industry. The necessary bill will soon be pre- sented in the Reichstag. Man Who Uncovered Plot to Kill Wilson Has Mysteriously Vanished Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 14—The “man by the name of Garland,” credited in the autoblography of Samuel Gompers with disclosing a plot to assassinate President Wil- son, and who subsequently dis. appeared while “engaged on a highly dangerous venture,” was to- day identified as Oscar Green- halge, nephew of former Gov. Frederick T. Greenhalge of Massa- chusetts, & former Chicago police- man and Treasury agent, The identification was confirm- ed by Ralph M. Easley, chairman of the National Civic Federation, which employed “Garland” during the war, and by Col. Arthur Woods, former New York police commissioner. “Greenhalge - was -his name &l right,” Mr. Easley said, “and he Wwas, as you say, a relative of former. Gov. Greenhalge of Massa- chusetts. So far as I know he has not been heard from since he left Halifax In the entourage of Count von Bernstorfl. While there is no proof of death, I do not believe he is alive. There are rea- sons for thinking the Germans discovered his real occupation. Mr. Easley sald that Greenhalge discovered the alleged plot against the war President while he was investigating German activities here. He said that Greenhalge re- ported that a group of Anarchists in Paterson, N. J., planned to con- ceal an assassin, armed with a rifle with a Maxim silencer, in a tree near the White House to sics . the President. “Stars and Stripes | hands | deep-sea fishing industry is seeking | 10,000,000 | ANIMOSITIES FLARE HIGH IN SENATE ON PROBE OF REVENUE Ernst’s Request for Right to Call Fellow Member “Liar” Precipitates Uproar. COUZENS CHARGES CITED AS CAUSE OF OUTBURST Borah Sees “Pitiable” Point Reached in Personalities—Lan- guage Later Withdrawn. Long smouldering bitterness in the Senate over the Internal Revenue Bu- reau Investigation broke into flame vesterday with Senators hurling | charges against each other across a| crowded. chamber and one finally | asking the privilege of calling an- | other a ilful, maliclous and wicked lar. The request, made by Senator Ernst, Republican, Kentucky, came as a climax to a sizzling debate in which that Senator, who is a member of the committee; Chairman Couzens, and Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, were the principals. Senate In An Uproar. The Senate was thrown {nto an up- roar which lasted for several min- utes during which there was doubt as to the fdentity of the Semator at whom Mr. Ernst desired to hurl his | epithet. Thinking that reference was to him, since he had just concluded | his speech, Senator Glass advanced across the chamber toward the Ken- tucky Senator with a demand that he name his man. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, drowned out both Senators with a demand to present | @ point of order and meantime taking | a position between the Kentucky and Virginia Senators. Senator Ernst { finally was taken off his feet, but the hubbub continued and Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, attempted to throw the Senate into executive session %o as to shut out the scene from the crowded galleries that| watched in eager expectancy Borah Reproaches Body. That falled, but order finally was| restored when Senator Borah, Re- publican, Idaho, told the Senate that “it is a very pathetic thing and a| very pitiable thing that we have! reached & point here in the Senate of the United States where we cannot| discuss puble guestions without in- dulging in such perconalities.” ” Meantime, out of the confusion,| Senator Ernst had assured Senator | Glass that his reference was not 1o/ the Virginia Senator. Later, after thé | Senate had voted, 32 to 48, against a | motion that he be allowed to “pro-| ceed in order,” the Kentucky Senator was glven the floor and withdrew his | language, but declared that he want- ed to read to the Senate what it was that brought about his reques “Here wae the statement made by the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Couzens),” he sald. “Such a state-| ment I have never before had made | concerning me.” | ! Rends Couzens’ Statement. He then read a statement previous- 1y made by Chairman Couzens in r. ply to a charge by the Kentucky Senator that the chairman in inves- tigating the Treasury had been actu- ated by “personal animus’ against| Secretary Mellon The Couzens statement was: “The prohlbition unit agents have been In touch with him (Senator Ernst) hour by hour, by telephone and by personal calls, so that they might know in advance what the committee has proposed to investi- gate. As evidence of that, the rec- ord will show that letters have dis- appeared out of the files, that com- munications have disappeared, and that letters have been lost, because apparently it was to the advantage of the Treasury that they should dis- appear, and undoubtedly they were informed by the Senator from Ken- tucky so that they might do these things.” Declaring that' this was a serious charge, Senator Ernst said he was amazed that those who heard it did not take exception to it. He ex- plained that he himself could not hear it because one of his ears does not function properly. “I never heard of a paper disap- pearing,” he said. “I do not know (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CAPITAL COOLS OFF | ON BLIZZARD FRINGE Winter Weather Out of West and | North Not Expected to Be Severe Here. By the Associated Pres: HALIFAX, March 14—One of the { worst blizzards of the Winter set in today. Several big trans-Atlantic liners were off the coast, but were not expected to make the harbor unless the storm abated. Chicage Feels Shivery. CHICAGO, March 14.—Mild weather which has prevailed in the Middlewest for the past week disappeared sud- denly today in the teeth of a snow, sleet and rain storm which came rushing out the northwest and to- night was pushing eastward in front of a brisk wind. The cold weather is pushing south- eastward with a general fall in tem- perature as far east as the M sippi River and much colder weather predicted for tomorrow as far south as the Ohio River. About 12 degrees above zero was predicted for Chicago by tomorrow morning. Washington was declared immune by the Weather Bureau last night from a blizzard or intense cold report- ed north and west. Colder weather was predicted but only just enough to take away the Springlike atmosphere. Cold was also- predicted for tomorrow, with mild winds, but the indication was that it would not last long. Warm weather was scheduled to return to portions of tke éast and the Gulf States tomorrow. ORNING, MARCH 15, RENT ARBITRATION BOARD PROPOSED Would Take Place of Com- mission and Enforce Deci- sions by Wide Publicity. The creation of a board of arbitra- tion to supplant the Rent Commis- sion in its work of adjusting dif- cultiex between landlords and tenants is now being actively attempted by & number of large property owners. The plans call gor a board of four arbitrators, one to be delegated from each of the following organizations The Federation of Citizens' Assocla- tions, the Washington Board of Trade, the Washington Real Estate Board and the Washington Association of Bullding Owners and Managers. James MeD. Shea, president of the Bullding Owners and Managers' Asso- clation, which represents more than ‘$50000,000 of rental properties in the District, hfs sent letters to the offi- clals of the four organizations men- tioned above outlining the plan of the proposed board of arbitration and urging them to appoint their dele- gates as soon as possible so that the board can begin to function immedi- ately. The present Rent Commission is practically inoperative and cannot hear cases, although it does not ex- pire until May 22. The proposed arbitration board would not have the legal rights given to the Rent Commission and could not force a landlord or tenant to abide by any decision it made. However, it is suggested that if wide publicity were given to the fairness or unfairness of each case the pressure of public opin- ion would force any party to a con- troversy to act fairly and reasonably. Those who are interested in the for- mation of such a body point out that a similar organization is functioning very successfully in New York. It is planned that the tenant and landlord may come before the pro- posed board upon mutual agreement, or in the case of only one of the par- ties complaining, proper considera- tion would be .iven to the justice of the complainant’s cause. C /d Change Membership. It is also proposed that the body would sit formally, but at the same time its membership could be changed at any time one of the four organiza- tions represented changed its dele- gate. This would eliminate the necessity for one person to sit con- tinuously. The difference between the proposed board of arbitration and the Rent Commission would be very wide, it is said. The proposed body would have no judicial power to enforce the raising or lowering of rents, but as representatives of the civic and busi- ness interests of the city the deci- slons would be equitable and would create & force of public opinion. Those who are urging the forma- tion of such a body feel that it would be necessary to hear only a few cases if the findings were given wide pub- licity, as there would then be a tend- ency for both landlords and tenants to amicably adjust their disagréements. The Washington Association of Building Owners =£nd Managers is willing to place its rental appraisal committee at the disposal of such a board, sald Mr. Shea. Curzon Has Poor Day. LONDON, March 14—Lord Curzon, who underwent an operation recently, suffered a good deal of pain during the day, says a bulletin issued by his physicians tonight. His general con- dition has not changed since this morning. Auto Plunges Into Rock Creek; Driver Gets Out and Can’t Be Found Headquarters detectives ~ with lanterns, a patrol wagon load of police and a crew of harbor police with grappling hooks failed com- pletely last night to solve what might be termed “The Mystery of the Abandoned Flivver, or Who ‘Wrecked Mr. Owens' Car on the Banks of Rock Creek. At first-it was thought that Mr. Owens himself (C. Edelen Owens, of 1218 Wisconsin avenue), might have been In his car when it took a plunge near the gas houses in West Washington about 9:30 o'clock, nose first into the dirt hard by the canal. The mysterious personage who left the flivver to its fate, after a wit- ness of the accident had gone to tele- phone for help, left also a number of_letters addressed to Mr. Owens. But when Mr. Owens finally was located late last night the myste: * only deepened. Police say he decla | iy Star, 1925—106 PAGES. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—10 PAGE Generat News—Local, National, Foreign. Around the City—Page 21. Civilian Army News—Page 22. At the Community Centers—Page 22. District National Guard—Page 23. Boy Scouts—Pa Girl Scouts—P: Serial, “The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith”"—Page 24. Schools and Colleges—Pages 26 and 27. Current News Events—Page 27. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 30. News of the Clubs—Page 31. D. A. R. Activities—Page 31. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 31. Radio News and Programs—Pages 34 and 35. Financial News—Pages 35, 36 and 37. PART TWO0—20 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Wzl Known Folk—Page 18. W. C. T. U. News—Page 19. PART THREE—12 PAG Amusements—Theaters and the Photo. play. Music in Washington—Page 5. M Motoring—Pages 6, 7, 8 Reviewsof New Books—Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 10. Fraternal News—Pa; 1", PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Ramoler—Page 3. PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Army and Navy News—Page 9. Veterans of the Great War—Page 9. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Picture: COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Feller: and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. BANDITS GET $20,000 IN NEW YORK FUR STORE Five Men Bind Proprietors and Score of Customers and Escape With Gems and Valuables. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—Five ban- dits tonight held the proprietors and a score of customers at bay in the Superior Fur Co. offices on Broadway while they gathered jewelry, furs and cash amounting to about $20,000. several of those in the store who re- sisted were assaulted by the robbers, who escaped. Before leaving the robbers bound their victims with wire. Pedestrians | heard their cries for help and re- | leased them. The victims told the police that one of the robbers, who appeared to be the leader of the gang, walked among the bound customers and fre- quently would strike one with his pistol, saying: “I don't like your looks.” The robbers entered the store at the height of the rush hour. SOS Signals Picked Up. LORIENT, France, March 14—The wireless Station at Pénmane has picked up feeble SOS signals- from the Brazilian steamer Araguary, the exact position of which has not yet been learned. The steamer Araguary is of 3,075 tons and is owned in Rio Janeiro. he parked his car in front of his house at 10 o'clock, halt an hour be- fore it had taken the header over the embankment. If his car took the bumps, it was taken without his knowledge and permission, he says. When the car dived toward the canal the driver remained’ in his seat until John ~Edward Kyton, watchman on a sand dredge arrived to offer help. Before he had a chance to, however, he was asked what the h— he wanted, he informed Head- quarters Detective Jim - Springman. After asking for some matches, Ky- ton sald, the driver stumbled out of the car apparently in an intoxicated condition and finally managed to sit down on the slanted running board. Kyton left him there while he tele- phoned the police, but whan he re- turned no one was In sight. Detective Tom Walsh even dragged the canal to satisfy them the un- stéady motorist had not fallen into | serious “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. FIVE CENTS. Lo NEW SCHOOLS HERE MUST PLEASE EYE Artistic Buildings in Other Cities Deeply Impress In- vestigators for District. If Washington is to have a school system that will serve as a monu- ment to public education in America, attention will have given to the esthetic treatment of the new buildings erected under the huge $19,000,000 five-year building program. This was the unanimous opinion of the District's committee of school planncrs which returned home last night after a two-day sur- vey of modern educational plants in Baltimore and Philadelphia. The committee’s tour of inspection in Philadelphia vesterday served primarily to emphasize the fact which became évident in Baltimore Friday, that the trend in modern school con. stryction is very definitely toward t artistic—not pretentious, but simplé and dighified type of building. Two of the threé buildings inspected stressed this simplicity in beautiful architecture in the interior as well as the exterior. Moreover, the ornate structures were further offset by the artistic landscape treatment of their ap- proaches. Bullt on Elevation. Elevated on verdant knolls. about 20 feet above the street elevation and surrounded by a low wall of Penn- sylvania field stone, these two build- ings, the Roosevelt Junior School and the John Story Jenks Ele- mentary School, present an imposing picture blocks distant. In such sharp contrast to some unattractive schools, the spectacle made a deep impression on Supt Frank W. Ballou, Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris and Ernest Green- wood, vice president of -the Board of Education. The trio agreed that the ornamental tion should not be overlooked in planning the new buildings provided in the five-year project. The committee was also amazed at ‘the vast size of the playgrounds ad- joining Philadelphia’s new schools. The space devoted to outdoor Tecrea- tional facilities in two instances, covered an area greater than the structures occupled. Philadelphia obviously has taken great pride in these playgrounds. The 8reater portion of them have a con- crete surface, something which only one Washington school can boast. These playgrounds are well equipped, even to the point of conveniently lo- cated drinking fountains. Private Phone Systems. Two novel features, which caught the attention of the committee in the | Philadelphia schools, intercom- municating telephone systems and electric power plants, both of which are standard equipment in the new buildings. The telephone system, which connects every room with the principal’s office, will be recommend- ed for installation in the District's new junior high school. are to_be | High | of Washington's | side of school construc- | 1 | | | MEMORIAL BRIDGE PROJECT EMBRACES TEN YEARS' LABOR Sublime Boulevard to Link Capitol and Graves of America’s Dead Heroes PLANS HERE DEVELOPED LIKE PROPHETIC VISION B Street to Be Widened, Mall Beautified—Preliminary Work Started Yesterday. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Work started vesterda tional Capital parkway development, which is included the Arlington Memorial Bridge program, and which within the next 10 means the most extensive work done in any similar period of time for idealized and symbolic beautification of Wash- ington. Few have visioned the of the project commonly on the Na- in vears magnitude known as |the Arlington Memorial Bridge plan. The bridge itself-is but a small part of the general development and beautification program provided for in the legislation which passed Con- gress in the closing days, and for which an {nitial appropriation of $500,000 was made. The project includes features: these other Widening of Streets. (1) Widening B street north from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol, cutting across Pennsylvania avenu to the norfh side of the Capitol, clean- ing out the unsightly shacks that have been an evesore and providing |a great governmental boulevard from the Capitol for corteges across the new memorial bridge to Arlingt: National Cemetery. (2) Widening Twenty-third street, at right angles from B street, north from the Lincoln Memorial to Wash- ington Circle, as the most important north and south route for the entirs northwest section of the city 10 the Lincoln Memorial and acroes the memorial bridge to the Nation shrine at Arlington Columbia Isiand Plan. (3) The most beautiful island velopment In the world, on Columbia Island, reclaimed by dredging opera- tions, along which there will be a magnificent boulevard drive at right angles to the memorial bridge, and which will connect across gn auxil- iary bridge with the great Lee high- way. (4) Erection _of _the. Titanic and John Ericsson memorials equidistant from the entrance to the bridge from B stredt, on either side and on the watérfront, thus flanking the bridse and beautifying the entrance to the Capital from the South. (5) Continuing the development of the river drive and parkway west of the Lincoln Memorial and beautifully linking the Rock Creek and Potomac parkways, with the river drive moved closer to the river and raised § feet higher than at present. Creation of Great Plaza. 6) Creating a great plaza between the Lincoln Memorial and the bridge, including an_attractive water gate fronting the Lincoln Memorial. (7) Glving Washington, on the Virginia shore, the most beautiful gateway to any city in the world (8) A magnificent memorial en- trance to the bridge from the South (9) A beautiful plaza and park from the southern end of the bridge on Columbia Island to and including the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. (10) A memorial gateway into the Arlington Cemetery. So the entire project as authorized i by Congress has many important features, which, taken together, make it the greatest single memorial proj- ect undertaken by any nation in many years. It supplements and completes the great Lincoln Memorial in finishing the landscape in its vieinity and it carries the Mall treat- ment of Washington and L'Enfant across the Potomac to Arlington and up to the last resting place of the designer of the original plan of the Capital at the portico of the Lee mansion. Route of Fallen Heroes. There is also the compelling patri- otic motive in the project of a broad boulevard from the Capitol through B street extended and widened, by way of the Lincoln Memorial and across the broad and dignified bridge, as a route for the Nation's fallen heroes to their last resting place in Arlington National Cemetery. There is a third great motive in the complete plan—provision for a mag- nificent entrance to Washington from Virginia for the Lee highway com- ing across the entire continent from Mr. Harris, however, will return|Los Angeles, Calif. to Philadelphia soon to study further the ‘electric power plants in The fourth, and pe haps the great- the | est of all, is the symbol of the bind- schools before making any recom- |ing together of the North and the mendation on this feature. Philadelphia has found it more eco- nomical to produce its school light- ing and power current, Mr. Harris believes that such a plan would prove costly in the ‘District. Like Baltimore, Philadelphia is in the midst of a gigantic school con- struction program, and before its completion will have spent between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 on new schools. Large eums of money for school buildings are raised easily in Philadelphia when compared with the animated and “red tape” procedure of procuring school appropriations in Washington. In Philadelphia the school board decides on the amount needed for ad- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) TACK TAKEN FROM LUNG. Ten-Year-0ld Boy on Road to Re- covery After Five Years’ Suffering. PHILADELPHIA, March 14.—Ten- year-old Roedell Rowling of Eldo- rado, Ark., tonight is on the road to recovery after removal of a tack from his lung by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, bromchoscope specialist of the Jefferson Hospital here. The tack had been lodged in the boy's lung for five yvears. During that time repeated effcrts had been made to cure him of ailments in duced by the tack and an effort had .been made to reach the tack by cut- the murky waters below. ting through his ribs. | Heights i tion Although | South in one indlvisible Union, know- ing no sectional lines. Bursting of Panorama. As the traveler approaches Wash- ington over the brow of Arlington in Fort Myer, there will burst on his view a panorama that has few equals in all the world. Once seen it will never be forgotten, and will live in:-the memory of the be- holder forever as a perpetual inspira- to loyalty, patriotism and de- votion to country. The most immediate effect of the new bridge upon the Mall develop- I ment is the completion of the area around and to the west of the Lincoln Memorial, on which Lieut. Col. Clar- ence O. Sherrill, the engineer officer in immediate charge of the entire project, will have work go ahead at once. This affords a much needed im- provemient of that section of the Wash- ington waterfront. Titanic Memorial Plans, Fitting in as one of the important features of the entire development is the Titanic Memorial at the foot of New Hampshire avenue at the junc- ture of Rock Creek and Potomac parkways. This memorial is to the heroes of the Titanic disaster—the ment who stood back saving, “Women and ohlldren first” Work on this memorial started yesterday. This means the early cleaning up of that unsightly area near the Rock Creek and Potomac parkways Preliminary to the erection of the Titanlc Memorial, in order that 1 (Continued on Page 4, Column 1)