Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight; minimum temperature above freezing; tomorrow, unsettled; probably showers; colder at night. Temperatures: Highest, 71, at. 3:30 p.m. Yesterday; lowest, 42, at 6:45 a.m. toda No. 29,549. THIRD MAN 1S HELD IN TAX-SLASH CASE; MILLIONS INVOLVED Arrest of Auditor in Revenue Bureau Follows Those of Two Ex-Employes. RAILROAD SAYS PROMISE OF REDUCTION WAS MADE Collusion With Workers Inside Treasury Satd to Have Been Part of Plot. 3 rland, an auditor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, has Dbeen arrested here in connection with alleged attempts to reduce taxes by misrepresentation. Sutherland, who was appointed from Connecticut, was arrested several days ago, but the action was kept secret while the bureau continued its investi- &ation. This, bureau officials sald, ap- Parently was near an end. Sutherland 3s free on a personal bond of $3,000. More Arrests Likely. The Treasury declined to make any ®tatement as to the sums involved, or to name other persons than Suther- land, although they declared addi- tional arrests were expected here The arrest in Milford, Conn., yes- terday of James J. Clifford and John F. McCarren is expected to lead to the apprehension of a fourth man Yiere, Treasury officials sald today. Clifford and McCarren were taken into custody after Joseph D. Brady, connected with the New Haven Rall- road, had given the Department of tice information as to thelr op- erations. It was alleged that they of- fered to have reduced the income tax on the road. Left Treasury in 1921. Records show Clifford resignea from the Treasury March 15, 1921, and McCarren was discontinued from the service November 16 of the same Year. Treasury operatives have been working for some months to deter- mine whether outside agents were working on ° tax-reduction cases through employes inside the Revenue Bureau. Charges Are Defined. Outlining further details of the charges, the Bureau of Internal Reve- nue issued a statement in w] said the railroad had “fully co-oper- ated” with the Government in the in- vestigation. ‘The defendants ate charged,” said the statement, “with an attempt to defraud the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. of g large sum of money by means of repre- senting to the said company that.the Government was about to assess 1axes of over $1,000,000 against sub- sldiary railroads and that said de- fendants could have this tax reduced. McCarren and Clifford, it is charged, appeared in New Haven and sollcited the handling of the business. It is charged that Sutherland subsequent- 1y drew up for McCarren and Clifford a so-called assessment letter, show- ing alleged taxes due of over $1,000 000; that said assessment letter was given to MecCarren and Clifford and by them shown to a representative of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in substantiation of their statement that a tax was to be assessed and they had influence with persons in the department and would be able to have the tax reduced. Road Co-operated Fully. “The New York, New Haven a Hartford Railroad Co, has fully ::ze operated with the bureau in the in- Vestigation of these proceedings. The Intelligence unit began work imme- diately on its investigation and at no time has there been any posaibility ©of loss to the Government in connec- tion with the McCarren, according to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, was “discontinued with prejudice” November 16, 1921 He had been appointed to the bureau from Lowell, Mass. Clifford resigned from the service March 15, 1921. Ile had been appointed from Pittston, Pa. Sutherland had been appoin:ed from epney, Conn., March 1, 1921, COLLUSION IS CHARGED. Men Held in New Haven Said to Have Had Associate. By the Assboiated Press, NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 26— John F. McCarren of 1314 Eleventh street and James J. Clifford, both of Washington, were held as fugitives today in connection with an alleged conspiracy in Washington to defraud the Government of large sums in tax- es. Both have agreed to walve extra- dition. Police here understood that the case wunder investigation involved frauds amounting to millions of dollars, which are alleged to have been per- petrated through collusion with an auditor in the income tax division of the internal revenue department. Police here say McCarren and Clif- ford twere until several years ago employes of the income tax division of the revenue department, but re- signed and went about the country representing themselves as ‘“income tax experts,” offering to have income taxes of large corporations cut in half if they were promised part of the proceeds of the saving. The men, according to the police, approached officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad with the proposition and these offi- cials reported the matter to Wash- dngton "TAREE BURN TO DEATH. . PHILLIPPE DE NERI, Quebec, March 26.—Three persons are dead and & fourth is dying as a result of a fire bere yesterday, it became known today. The dead are Cyprien Chamberland, 2; Mrs. Wilfred Chamberland, his daughter-in-law, and Marie Chamber-~ land, 7, the latter's daughter. A sister of the girl is dying. The fire resulted from the action of one of the family who poured gasoline into a stove, causing an explosion, which wrecked the house. The injured members of the family were not able to escape the resultant fire. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Raid on Former of Day—New Thirteen stills, three of them in op- eration, were uncovered at 2022 R street today, ome of the best resi- dential sections In Northwest Wash- ington. when “Lone Wolf” Asher and Licut. Ready of the third precinct led a raid which resulted, they say, in the discovery of one of the most preten- tious plants for the manufacture of peach brandy ever found in Wash- ington. The residence, previously occupied { by the Spanish embassy, more recent- 1y the home of Admiral Washington. now commanding the China Sea Di- vision of the Pacific Fleet, is now the| home of Charles M. Reed, a lunchroom proprietor. He was arrested. { The raid brought four arrests, on | {charges of conspiracy against the pro- | hibition amendment, illegal manufac- ture and illegal possession. With the | stills were seized 70 gallons of the | finest grade peach brandy, 700 gallons |of mash. 150 pounds of sugar and numerous Jjars, bottles, stoppers and other accessories. Those arrested in this raid included, in addition to Reed, Mrs. Lois Ray Reed, his wife; Mrs. Annabelle Anadale of Stratford, Va., and Edward {Frank Halle of 308 Webster street. Each was charged with conspiracy, manufacture and possession, ~while Reed and Mrs. Anadale also were charged with selling. Halle explained JAY-WALKING BAN FORBUSY STREETS . TOBE CONSIDERED Eidridge Declares His Mind Still Open on Value of Regulation. that he was a I ! A jay-walking regulation for busy streets will be carefully considered as one possible means of improving traffic conditions here, Director of Traffic Eldridge said today. Mr. Eldridge made it clear that he s not made up his mind as.to the desirability of such a rule in this city and pointed out that it may be a debatable question. He said, however, that he was inquiring into what other | cities have done along that line. | Since becoming director’of traffic Mr. Eldridge has received a letter from a friend in the West, telling him that Los Angeles, Calif.,, has been rather successful in trying out a regulation governing the manner in which pedestrians shall cross streets in the central district of that city. The letter explained that Los Angeles uses a gong which rings twice between the changing of signals at the intersection. The first sound of the gong means “Get ready!" the second is to “Go!” | The writer told Mr. Eldridge some | pedestrians havs a habit of going at the first gong, which, he says, is tol- erated, but is not entirely safe. Few Arrests Made. | A pollceman stationea at the inter- section blows a whistle If he sees a | pedestrian start across the street at | the wrong time. The writer told Mr. | Eldridge the ordinance became effec- {tive in January and that there have { been few arrests. “Crossing streets In the middle of | the block has decreased remarkably, though sometimes it means an incon- veniently long walk to a corner,” the writer said. A memorandum accompanying the letter stated that for the month end- { ing March 16 accidents in the central | district of Los Angeles were 24.5 per | cent less than on January 16. The director probably will endeavor to find out what - experiences other cities have had with pedestrian regu- lations. Sixteenth Street May Get Test. While no decision_has been reached with regard to afterial highways and signal devices, Mr. Eldridge indicated today that he regarded Sixteenth street as the thoroughfare on which new signal apparatus probably would be tried. out. An appropriation of $10,000 made by Congress for traffic signals prior to the passage of the new traffic law must be expended be- fore July 1 or lapse into the Treasury. When the traffic law passed Congress made another fund of $50,000 avail- able for. traflic regulation. Fred Seiler, former manager of the touring and transportation board of the American Automobile Association, today wired from Pittsburgh his ac- ceptance of the post of executive as- sistant to the director of traffic. Col. 1. C. Moller of the United States Bureau of Public Roads today wrote to Mr. Eldridge from Columbus, Ohio, that he s keenly interested in the offer that has been made him to be- come engineer to the trafic director. He said he would come to Washington within a_day or two to discuss the question 'with Mr. Eldridge. By the Associated Press. NEW. YORK, March 26.—The steamship Ethyl will sail April 15 from Wilmington, Del, to extract bromine from the ocean. A world shortage of bromine, which is said to threaten both in- dustry and science, caused the Ethyl to be fitted out as a factory for recovering bromine from sea water, the American 'Chemical Society announces. The Ethyl will call at né port, but will roam the ocean and extract from the waters her cargo of bromine which is re- garded as essential to medicine, motfon pictures and to the ethyl fluid of motor fuel. The rapid de- velopment of ethyl gasoline in automobiie operation jg given as the cause of the short: ch WASHINGTON, D. C, Brandy Plant With 13 Stills Four Arrests Made at R Street Residénce by Asher and Aides in Second Foray Ship to Seek Bromine From Ocean; Shortage Created by Ethyl Gas Use Embassy Nets Drive Looms. painter who happened to be working in the house at the time the rald took place, but he was held never- theless. This raid and the one that pre- ceded it marked what police claim is a start of another clty-wide sweep| by Asher. He and other agents hav- ing been working under cover for several weeks here, and additional raids were planned for this afternoon The raid preceding the one.on R street, was at 2403 I street, on the corner of New Hampshire avenue, when five colored persons were ar- rested on charges of conspiracy, man- | ufacture and possession of liquor. A 50-gallon still and. 2,000 gallons of mash was reported seized at this ad- dress. Those arrested were: James W. Britt, 50, of that address: Mary Louise Britt, his wife: Walter Mitehell of 838 New Hampshire ave- nue, 58; KEdward Carnett of 2421} Snows court, 18, and Archie Gatling| of the I sireet address, 21. Three Stillx Operating. The R street plant was located in the attic, above the third floor. 1In this section 14 barrels of mash were fermenting, awaiting the stills, while three large stills were being operated over a gas range. A condenser in operation comprised a large wash tub into which coils were inserted. The water therein was kept cool by a hose conveying it from the bathroom | on the third floor. Another hose took | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION COMPLETE REVISION OF RULES SOUGHT BY U. 3. WORKERS Federation to Ask Appoint- ment of Personnel Chief to Settle Disputes. WOULD TAKE POWER FROM BUREAU HEADS Will Urge Congress to Standard- ize All Regulations, Including Annual and Sick Leaves. A program to govern legislative action regarding Federal employes to be presented to the next Congress, recommending complete standardiza- tion of all matters relating to ernment personnel, Ing conditions, sick and annual lea and other matters now left to the discretion of the bureau chief or su- perior officer of 4 department or bu- reau, was presented to the executive council of the National Federation of Federal Employes, meeting today in the Labor Building. Outlining a compleéte revision of ex- isting management of personnel in the Government service, the pro- gram, presented by Luther C. Stew- Gov- LABORITE THREATENED. Kirkwood Arouses Enmity for At- tacks on Wales. LONDON, March 26.— The Daily Mail says that David Kirkwood, La- borite member of Parliament, has recelved so many threatening letters in consequence of his attacks upon the Prince of Wales in the House of Commons and elsewhere that the| Glasgow branch of the National| Unfon of Railway up the matter with the retary. The latter is said to have promised | Mr. Kirkwood full investigation of the threats and to Bave offered him police protection, which he has re- fused, COERCION DENID | INMLE.ONITY VOTE But Advocates of Plan May Appeal Bishop’s Ruling on Recording Choice. home sec- Although_ entering “solemn pro- | test” against charges that Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta had used “coercive” methods in forcing an aye and nay vote in the Baltimore annual conference yesterday, which rejected the cause of Methodist unity, it was reported among reliable unification leaders in the conference at Mount Vernon Place Church today that an appeal to the College of Bishops from a parliamentary ruling yesterday by Bishop Candler was under consideration. No one would say that the appeal would be moted, but it was admitted by several that the matter was the subject of much discussion and would be seriously weighed from every angle before a decision was reached. The College of Bishops meets In May at Nashville, Tenn. A decision by the college reversing Bishop Candler, it was said by one of those vitally interested, would not affect the negative vote taken yesterday by this conference, but might have a far-reaching effect on the future methods of balloting in the more than 40 conferences in the Southern Church yet to vote. Ruling Made by Bishop. The ruling by Bishop Candler was one in which the bishop held that one-fifth of the delegates could order an aye snd nay vote after the con- ference early in the morning had de- cided by a standing vote to take up the matter of unification at 11:30 and to follow the recommendation of the general conference in taking a secret ballot. The final vote on unification was by ayes and nays. Dr. H. H. Sherman of Nashville of. the joint commission on unification referred to the ruling of the bishop as “surprising” during a short speech from the floor this morning, in which he vigorously denfed the truthful- ness of an account in a morning paper concerning Bishop Candler's ruling and statements attributed to Dr. Sherman himself. Dr. Sherman said he wished to be perfectly fair and just in speaking of the bishop, and he signed the reso- lution of “solemn protest” against the morning paper account. The resolution, signed by both unifica- tionists and antiunificationists alike, was unanimously passed by the con- ference. The resolution “noted with deep (Continued on Page 2, Column Chemical experts estimate that each 1,700 gallons of sea water contains one pound of bromine. A. M. Maxwell, vice president of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, says a new process will enable the Ethyl to obtain 100,000 pounds of bromine monthly. Success of the venture, he thinks, may mean the equipping of a fleet of bromine ships and the creation of floating chemical industries for the re- covery from the seas of “other valuable constituents to enrich mankind.” Bromine heretofore has been laboriously recovered from min- eral springs and from the potash deposits of Germany. The Ethyl was formerly the Shipping Board vessel Lake Har- | sonal matter, | be so. | be removed from the realm of per-| ard, president of the federation, sug- gested creation of a new office—that of personnel manager—for the Gov- ernment service, whose duty it would be to pass on all controversial ques- tions arising with regard to person- nel administration. The council en- including work- | THURSDAY, MARCH | { | i | | | tered at once on discussion of the| plan, and was expected mend today its presentation to Con- | next Decomber. to recom- | gress when the legisiative Lody meets | | One of the major issues involved in the plan as presented by Mr. Steward | Men has taken IS & proposed uniform annual leave | Mr. Steward contended that 30 annual and 30 days’ sick leave | is | a right of such employes or is not a | rule day: for Government employes either right. He wants it taken out of the realm of personalities and put on | a standardized basis. He told the council that Government employes now are in -the: position of literally having to beg for annual leave, and that sometimes they are granted their vacation and sometimes not. “When a man enters on a new job in private employment he Is told what his working hours will be, what pay he will get, and what vacation period with pay he will get. And e gets exactly what is agreed to r. Bteward said. “In the Govern ment the working hours are uniform and the pay rate depends more or less on the individual, but in two offices of the same bureau one em- ploye may full annual leave, while another employe doing the same work, may get none. It is a per- resting with the im- medlate superior, and’'it should not Such questions of right should sonalities and put into the realm of legal rights.” Many other matters having to do (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 18 MEN REJECTED FOR CHAPMAN JURY Eleventh Member Selected and Ef- forts Will Be Made to Com- plete Panel Today. 3, By the Associated Pres HARTFORD, Conn, March 26— Eighteen prospective jurors in the case of Gerald Chapman, charged with the murder of a New Britaln police- man last October, were rapidly dis- posed of, without result, in an at- tempt to get a twelfth juror today, the third of the trial. Most of them disqualified them- selves by declaring they had opinions of the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. Others were opposed to capital punishment. Four were ex- cused through peremptory challenge, one by the State and three by the de- fense. With the examination of the 19 talismen, the defense had left only one peremptory of its original 25. Its request for additional peremptories was dented. A second special panel of talismen was exhausted without result to get the twelfth juror. Court was adjourned.at 11:30 o’clock until 2 pm. Meanwhile, 20 Hartford men are to be summoned as a third special panel. ANTHRACITE PRICE CUT ANNOUNCED AT MINES Four Pennsylvania Companies Re- duce Cost of All Sizes From $1.25 to 25 Cents a Ton. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 26— Reduction in the prices of domestic sizes of anthracite coal were announced today by several of the leading produc- ing companies, including the Reading, Erie, Lehigh Coal and Navigation, and the Susquehanna Collleries companies. The reductions vary, the Reading's new prices showing.a drop of 70 cents a ton on egg, 55 cents on stove, 95 cents on chestnut, 70 cents on pea, 50 cents on buckwheat and 25 cents on rice. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co.’s revised prices show a decrease of 75 cents on egg, 60 cents on stove, 85 cents on chestnut, 75 cents on pea, 50 cents on buckwheat and 25 cents on rice. Those of the Erie are 75 cents on egg, $1 on stove, $1.25 on chestnut, 50 cents on pea and buckwheat and 10 cents on rice, while the Susquehanna Collieries announced a reduction of 50 cents on egg, stove and pea, and %0 cents on chestnut. Doovm ol Nicaragua Rejects Loan. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 26.— The Nicaraguan Congress today I jected the proposed loan of $500,000 recently negotiated by the govern- i ment with New York bankers. The Congress. considered _objectionable the terms on which the loan was based, . 26, ¢ Foening Star. 1925--FORTY-SIX PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- ion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as th e papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 102,815 * TWO CENTS. NEW SCHOOLS HERE 10 SHOW RESULTS OF EXPERTS STUDY Harris and Ballou Find Score of Ideas in Survey of Other Cities. STAGE NOW SET TO START WORK ON BIG PROGRAM | Cleveland Visit Proves Practica- bility of Acquiring Large Building Sites. With a score or more of new ideas !in modern schoolhouse construction, ‘y\p ked up in a survey of the up-to- date schools in Rochester, Buffalo and eveland, Supt. of Schools Frank W Ballou and Municipal Architect Alb L. Harr returned to Washington to- |day prepared to start tue actual de velopment of the District unprece- dented $12,000,000 5-year building pro- gran The the results of the inspection tour elated ove nd News Note: A wrestler has offered his services to the President to keep him in physical trim. POLISH ARMS KEEP REDS FROM EUROPE Nation's Militarism Vital to More Than Her Own National Safety. BY FRANK H. WARSAW, March 26.—Five years ago next - Summer the Bolshevist armies in their supreme attempt to reach the west of Europe approached the gate of Warsaw and there met decisive defeat. The whole story of this episode has been but vaguely known in the West. All that has been clear was that the vast Soviet host, numbering 600,000, was one day sweeping irresistibly onward, and, as it seemed, the next plunged in head- long retreat which was never inter- rupted. The Polish battle of the Marne, this conflict has been correctly called, and coming to Warsaw one of the first things which 1 was anxious to see was this battleground. Through the courtesy of the general staff I was enabled to go to the field accom- panied by an officer who had fought in the conflict and, under his instruc- tion, study the decisive phase of this vitally important struggle. Twenty Miles From Capita SIMONDS. The batt.e centered about the large village of Radzymin, which, in its distance from Warsaw and in many other detalls, suggests the relation of Meaux to Paris in the Marne opera. tion. Actually, Radzymin is less than 20 miles from the palace of the kings and of the president of the Polish republic and throughout the five days of battle the buildings of the capital were shaken by the reverberations of the artillery. Ten miles east of Warsaw on the perfectly flat plain which extends from the German frontier to the Asiatic boundary of Russia there is a belt of sand, beyond which stretches a belt of marsh; beyond this marsh was the last line of Polish defense; 6 or 7 miles beyond and just east of Radzymin is another marsh, through which flows a little river reminiscent of the Ourcq of Marne fame. Here was the front line of the Poles. Be- tween those two lines the battle took place and the supreme bid of the pick of the Russian troops, some 100,000, was_broken by less than half that number of Poles. Straying over the fleld it was im- possible to escape the realization of the meaning to Europe of the battle. At that moment in which it was fought the danger of bolshevism was Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) EIEESE 2 RADIUM’S CURATIVE VALUE IS INCREASED Multiplied Thousands of Times by Method Found to Harness Liquor Car Nabbed By Police Towed Away During Night | Bigger, broader and altogether more embracing ideas in thievery are showing themselves in Wash- ington. Police reports vesterday recorded the theft of a large mov- ing van. Today’s report added in- sult to injury in two additional cases. A bootleg car, riddled with bul- lets, with a hole in its gasoline tank and two rear tires flat, had been parked in a vacant lot near the eleventh precinct station yester- day b vprohibition officers. Last night thieves calmly removed it by towing it away. At the same time some ambitious person removed six loads of build- ing stone, valued At about $60, from the rear of Klingle Mansions, 3100 Connecticut avenue, without arousing any suspicion until the owner found them gone. SAMUEL GOMPERS WILL 1S SUSTAINED Jury Reiect§ Widow’s Charge—Gives Her Only Dower Rights. The will of Samuel Gompers, late president of the American Federation of Labor, dated November § last, was sustained today by the verdict of a jury in Circuit Division 1 of the Dis- trict Supreme Court. The jurors de- clared unfounded the charge of Mrs Gertrude A. Gompers, widow of the labor chieftain, that Samuel J. Gom- pers, a son by a previous marriage, had unduly influenced his father into revoking a previous will giving her the bulk of the estate and making the new will, leaving her only the dower right fixed by the District Court. Three questions were submitted to the jury. First, was the will of No- vember 8, 1924, the last will of Sam- uel Gompers; second, was that paper obtalned or the execution thereof pro- cured from Samuel Gompers by co- erclon or undue influence of Samuel J. Gompers or any other person, and third, was the paper canceling the former will of September 21, 1921, ob- tained or the execution procured by undue influence of Samuel J. Gom- pers or any other person? To the first question jurors answered yes and to the other two replied in the negative. Two Witnesses Heard. The only evidence offered was that of William C. Roberts, legislative agent of the American Federation of Labor, and Edward S. Tracy, an as- sistant secretary of the labor fadera- tion, who had signed the will as wit- nesses at the request of the late labor president. They declared Mr. Goni- pers was then of sound mind‘and ca- New Gas. By thé Associated Press. LONDON, March 26.—The experts of Middlesex Hospital, in London, the center of British radium research, claim to have made an important dis- covery, enabling the curative value of any given quantity of radium to be multiplied thousands of times. Briefly, the discovery consists in bottling radium gas, known as radon, in tiny glass tubes. Radium emits three kinds of rays, known as alpha, beta and gamma, but hitherto only the gamma rays, which have been har- nessed. The present success concerns the beta rays, which the experts now are capturing, purifying, con- densing and confining in glass tubes a little thicker than a human hair, pable of executing a valld dced or contract. - As soon as.the verdiet of the jury shall have been confirmed, which usually takes four days, Samuel J. Gompers will ask for letters on the estate and -take over- his -fathet's property from the possession of the collectors appointed by the court when Mrs. Gompers began her con- test. Attorney George E. Edelin, who with Capt. Julius'I. Peyser, repre- sented the widow, was present in court, sbut offered no testimony in opposition to the sustaining of the will. Attorneys Newmyer & King repre- sented the executor and other mem- bers of the:Gompers family. “The es- tate is said to be valued at between $40,000 and $50,000. to which is given the name “seeds. These “seeds” they are prepared to distribute to other hospital for curative purposes gnd suggest they may prove useful in treating cancer, although they deprecate the idea that they are likely to prove revolutionary or offer a certain cure. The beta rays, which have a pro- found effect upon the tissues of the body, hitherto have run to waste, but now, bottled, they can be used in conjunction with the gamma rays, and it is from this use that greater results are expected. The alpha rays are very weak and are regsrded as negligible. * e T ; MANIAC’S VICTIM DIES: Hospital Patient Succumbs to At- " tack After Operation. KEARNY, N..J., March 26.—David Norris, 66, a patient in the West Hud- son Hospital, who was in a serious condition after yan operation when beaten and partly strangled by a maniacal patient yesterdaay, died to- day. “Fhe maniac, Peter Granato of Ar- lington came out of a 36-hour coma in a violent state, attacked, beat and part- ly strangled ‘three patients and three nurses, after which he plunged through 'Radio Programs—Page 34. the glass of a door and escaped, but HOSPITAL ORDERLY ILL OF SMALLPOX Man Who Served Food to Pa- tients Fountl to Be Suffer- ing With Disease. When John F. Petrasche, an employe of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, alked into the health office in the Distriet Building today to see Health Officer Fowler about an eruption on his skin he was pronounced a smallpox patient and taken immediately District Smallpox Hospital. Dr. Fowler sald that Petrasche told him that one of his duties at Gallinger Hospital was to assist in serving meals and that he had been carrying food to patients in four wards. Dr. Fowler made arrangements with the Board of Charitles not to adm any more patients to Gallinger Ho pital until he has had an opportunity to determine what preventive steps should be taken at the Assistant Health Officer Ford went to Gallinger Hospital this afternoon to confer with the superintendent, Maj. Patterson, to determine how many persons at the building may have come in contact with Petrasche. Dr. Fowler stated that arrangements probably would be made to vaccinate all those at the hospital who have not been recently vaccinated. Petrasche went to see a physician this morning to find out the cause of the eruption on his skin, and the doctor he visited, suspecting that it might be smallpox, sent him to the Health Office with a_note’ Dr. Fowler said he recognized the symptoms of smallpox as soon as the man entered his office. He has been sick since Sunday. METCALF TO ACCEPT to Will Fill Commissionership Tempo- rarily to Permit Recess Appoinment. Wilder S. Metcalf of Lawrence, Kans., who does not desire the post of com- missioner of pensions, for which the Senate has confirmed him, has con- sented to accept it temporarily and then resign so President Coolidge can make a recess appointment. Metcalf returned unsigned the oath of office sent to him. After he was told, however, that his failure to qualify would, under a technicality of the law, leave the office without a head until the next session of Congress, he wired today to Acting Interior Finney asking that the papers be re- turned to him. A 30-day period in which the deputy commissioner, Hays Haymaker, may by law act as com- missioner, expires in nine days. An unwillingness to abandon a farm loan business he conducts was given by Metcalf as the reason for his refusal to accept. —g New Comet Discovered. LONDON, March 26.—The Morning Post reports that Prof. Richard Schorr, director of the Hamburg Uni- Monday discovered a comet of the -eleventh magnitude in the neighbor- hood of the constellations Leo and Virgo. ¥ Dennistoun Arguments In. LONDON, March 26.—Arguments by counsel on the legal points of the 'jury’s verdict in Mrs. Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun’s suit against her former husband were concluded today. Judge McCardie reserved judgment. “The Seven Sleepers” By FRANCIS BEEDING A thrilling story of interna- tional intrigue, ingenious plans, dramatic situations—a story which will hold the reader to the very last word— Begins in Today’s Star On Page 36 was captured later and confined at the ho:plméndar‘um 5 the | institution. | Secretary | versity Observatory, at Bergedorf, on | indicated that they undoubted {be reflected in the initial installmer |of the 35-year development project “We have collected many worthwhile | ideas.” said Dr. Ballou. “The trip has | been very profitable; far more so than we expected.” Large Sites Neede | The Cleveland yesterday again served to impress on the com- mittee the need of large sites for buildings and the wisdom of buying them in advance of their use. Cleve- land has adopted a policy of acquiring three-and-one-half-acre sites for its new elementary schools and 5 acres for the junior hizh schools, assuring adequate playground sp. One school visited, the Benjamin Franklin, located on an immense site con- taining 11 actes | Although Cleveland has many schools of recent construetion, it is continuing to carry out a develop- ment program on an elaborate scale. | A three-year program calling for the | expenditure of $19,500,000 has Jjust been projected. survey in | Cleveland Paying More. Cleveland, however, 1s paying con- siderably wore for its new buildings | than Washington. The estimated cost | of the schools to be constructed un- der its three-vear program is 50 cents per cubic foot, as compared with a { maximum of cents a cubic foot | in_Washington. | The school planners made no mi take in including Cleveland in its itinerary. At the outset of the in- vestigation there, Supt. R. G. Jones assured them that the city is un- usually progressive in its school con- struction Innovations. “Cleveland | tries out many new ideas,” he said, 0d help the man who makes His removal is sure and prompt.” Two standard types of elementary chools have been developed in Cleve- land, one containing 22 rooms and the other 32. Particular attention has been given to the cultural value of the architecture. Movable Furniture Used. Movable furniture has been adopted as standard equipment in all of the | classrooms in Cleveland’s new schools. | The teachers assured -the inves- tigators that they would have no other | type. In the other cities visited, how- ever, the movable furniture was a subject of experiment, and although administrative officers lauded it as the best type of classroom furni- ture yet developed, they aid they found it difficult to “sell” it to the teachers and the community. 1 i | PENSION POST OFFER| | | The types of movable furniture ob- I served in the Cleveland schools in- clude a seat and desk combined and | small tables with six chairs at each | The latter sesmed to be the favorite | type. but the problem of finding space for books carried by the pupils from one classroom to another has not been solved. A system of cupboards under the blackboards is being considered for this purpose. Approaches Made Beautiful, The Cleveland school designers took advantage of the large sites acquired for the new schools, and have given a rather impressive esthetic treat- ment to the approaches. In some in- stances shrubbery and flowers have been planted around the entire school | lots. At one school $13,000 was spent for shrubbery alone. A playground located in front of the school, the first seen by the Wash- ington school-planners during their inspection tour, was studied carefully by Mr. Harris. This playground was about 300 feet long and 100 feet wide, and so designed that it afforded an artistic setting for the building In the background. All of Cleveland's latest schools are set back far from the street; in some cases almost in the very cen of the huge sites, leaving large ex- panses both in the front and rear of the buildings. At those schools which do not have playgrounds a\ front of the buildings, attractive lawns, bor- dered by shrubbery and growing plants, have been developed. One of the schools inspected in Cleveland, the Longfellow, has been put on the platoon plan, somewhat similar to the Park View School in ‘Washington. In view of the recent movement for the extension of the platoon system in the District school, the committee made a thorough in- vestigation of this school's arrange- ment. Pools Not Favored. While Buffalo and Rochester are in- cluding large natatoriums as integral | units of their junior high schools, the investigators learned that the Cleve- land schogi officials are not enthu- siastic over this idea. Supt. Jones told the committee that there is a feeling in Cleveland that school swimming pools cannot be kept sanitary. Of the varied types of school build ings inspected in Cleveland, the Miles Standish, a one-story structure, ap- Peared to interest the school plan- ners. -Cleveland has five bulldings of this type, and they proved to be the most expensive yet erected. A novelty in construction in this school was a gymnasium cordidor. Instead of a central corridor, there are two large gymmasiums. The classrooms open Into them from each side, and the pupils use them as corridors ut recess and dismissal periods. The John Burroughs School 7 {Continued on Page 2, Col.imn <. in