Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘Unsettled tonight; occasional shower: minimum temperature above freezin tomorrow fair; little change in tempera- ture. Temperature—Highest, 49, at 8 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matter post office, Washirgton, D. C. Deaf Mutes Hear With Hands In Experiments at Gallaudet Students Understand Spoken Sounds by Feeling Them—Same Method May Later Enable Some to Find Speech. No. PRESIDENT SCORES 29,554 LENDING TO EUROPE T0 FINANCE ARMIES Coolidge, However, Equally Firm for Policy of Aiding Trade Revival. LEGAL BAN NOT POSSIBLE, BUT RESTRAINT EXISTS France Ready to Attend Confer- { ence, But Sees Little to Gain, F Is Paris View. T Private Amerlcan loans abroad are fot favored by President Coolldge in fases where the money is to go into nilitary armament or similar govern- gnental expenses among European pountries. Mr. Coolidge is equally fixed, how- pver, in the belief that American citi- pens should do all in their power to Rid efforts abroad to restore normal pconomic conditions through stabill- pation of currency , rehabilitation of fommercial enterprise and other forms of legitimate peace time meas- pres. The President draws a distinction, Ko far as the Government's interest is in question, between loans made by private individuals to foreign govern- ments and those similarly made to private corporations or individuals pbroad. Distinction in Loans. Loans to governments are of inter- Bst in Washington because of the uses to which the funds involved are to be put and American prospective fnvestors in forelgn governmental se- curities who inquire at the State De- partment find that such loans are frowned upon if they are to go into ihe support of military establish- ments, Private loans to commercial cor- porations or to individuals are sub- ject to much less rigid scrutiny if called to the attention of the State Department, since these commitments can have litte to do with military ex- pendiures and may have much to do with economic restoration abroad. Under the law the Government has no authority over foreign loans float- ed in this country, but American s financiers usually seek advice here when such loans are in prospect. What recent loans may have been thus called to the attention of Wash- ington is not revealed, nor will any official intimate whether speclal at- tention is being given here to the fiscal policies of any particular Euro- pean nation. FRANCE COOL TO PARLEY. Will Attend, However, Out of “Deference to U. S. iy the Associated Press. PARIS, March 31.—The French Ambassador in Washington has had Tio special Instructions to take up any particular question with Secretary of Stato Kellogg, it was said at the foreign office today with regard to M. Daeschner’s recent call upon Mr. Kellogs. The Ambassador was given full in- structions when he left for Washing- ton and naturally comes into con- tact with the head of the American State Department from time to time, but nothing new has developed to make additional instructions neces- sary, it was added. As for another armament confer- ence, it was remarked that the ¥rench government is little interest- ed at the present time in plans for such a meeting, because the French navy has been reduced even below the minimum fixed by the Washing- on conference. With reference to British criticisms that France has provided for the Building of 125 ships, it was explained that this covers a full eight-yvear program, and that even when it is completed it will leave the nav. low the efficiency it ought to have in order to protect the immense Krench coast line. The French government, it was raid, would certainly accept an invi- tation to a further disarmament con- ference, but this acceptance would be entirely out of deference to the Amer- an Government rather than because ¥rance has anything further to ac- complish along that line for the mo- ment TEACHER WINS $800 * FROM HAIRDRESSERS | Given Verdict for Injury to Scalp ! ‘While Securing Per- manent Wave. Miss Mary P. Clary, 1616 Sixteenth street, a teacher at Business High School was awarded a verdict for $300 @amages this afterncon by a jury in Circuit Division before Justice Stafford, against Leon Bute and Jules Vaugon, trading as Leon & Jules, 1332 H street, for injuries received while securing a permanent wave to ‘fer hair. She claims the over the tubes used in the operation were not properly tightened by the assistant in charge, and tha the heated tubes came in contact with her scalp, burning the hair away and leaving a bald spot. The accident oc- curred November 9, 1923, Miss Cleary said she paid $25 for the services. Counsel for the hairdressers had ene of the permanent wave machines in court and through the services of a model explained the operation to the jurors. Miss Cleary had asked for $10,000, but the jury considered $800 sufficient compensation. She was rep- resented by Attorneys Wilton J. Lam- bert, R. H. Yeatman and A. F. Can-| field. Attorneys Frank J. Hogan and Edmund Jones appeared for the de- fendants Hamil Quits Tax Board. Charles D. Hamil of North Dakota resigned as chairman of the rd of Tax Appeals and probably will be succeeded by J. G. Korner of North Carolina, already a member of the board. Mr. Hamil plans now {o return to private law practice be- | covering | An apparent miracle in which the palms of the hands are made into eardrums and the deaf enabled to hear” is being accomplished at Gallaudet College. Not only do the experiments now in progress under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Gault, professor of psy- chology at Northwestern University, promise to restore the hearing of deaf mutes, but there is a possibility that the method will enable the un- fortunates to teach themselves how to talk. Advance Over Lip Reading. In this respect alone it is a great advance over the lip reading and sign language, which have been hitherto practically the sole means of com- munication for those born without volces. Dr. Gault's method was developed at Northwestern. He is in Washing- ton on leave of absence under the ausplces of the National Research Council. At Gallaudet he is enabled to work with all classes of students from rather carefree freshmen to serlous-minded research students, The principle behind the experiments is simple. Ttsapplication is extremely tedious and difficult, although probably POLISH REDS SLAIN ONWAY TO LIBERTY Officer* Fires on Prisoners When Near Border to Be Exchanged. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, March 31.—The Terror- ists Baginski and Wierzorkiewicz, whom the Polish government recent- 1y agreed to exchange for two Poles under sentence of death in Soviet Russia, were attacked and wounded, Baginski fatally, by Police’ Sergt Nago Muraszko while on the way to the border for the exchange, accord- ing to information here. Muraszko Is quoted as declaring that he made the attack in revenge for atrocious treatment he underwent when a resident of Russla. The in- cldent has strongly moved public opinion. ‘Baginskl and Wierzorkiewicz, who formerly held commissions in the Po- lish army, were sentenced to death last_year on charges of implication in the Warsaw citadel explosion of October, 1923. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment by President Wojciechowski. The train bearing the two terror- ists to the place of exchange was | nearing the Soviet border when Mu- raszko suddenly drew his revolver and fired several times. ‘After the deed Muraszko at once surrendcred himself to the custody of the other members of the police guard, exclaiming: “I have acted as 2 patriot! 1 have killed two traitors” When it became known 2 few days ago that the Polish govex:nment had decided to accept the Soviet offer of an exchange involving the two ter- Torists protests were forthcoming from the Diet and the press. The critics of the government declared it was setting a precedent which would encourage acts of violence by bol- shevist agents in Poland A Moscow dispatch last night sald it was reported there by the official Rosta Agency that Baginski and Wierzorkiewicz had both been killed by the head of the police post convoying hem to the border. The Soviet min- ister, it was added, had been instruct- e to protest vigorously to Poland. ORDERS FIRM REPRESSION OF CHURCH DISTURBERS Mexico to Punish Severely Wor- shipers Who Fired on Soldiers. | By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, March 31.—The 68 men and 10 women arrested at Aguascallences Sunday for firing upon federal soldiers, on the assump- tion that they were about to take over the church of San Marcos, will be tried on charges of rebellion. The government, according to Sec- retary of the Interior Valenzuela, intends to use a firm hand in sup- pressing disorders arising out of the religlous agitation. A schism recently developed in the Catholic Church in Mexico through the formation of @ so-called Mexican Apostolic Catholic Church, disavow- ing the authority of the Pope. Sev- eral cases of disorder have been re- ported, one in Mexico City, ‘where the new faction took over the Soledad Church. This dispute was settled by | the government withdrawing the | bullding from use for public worship. New Finnish Cabinet Formed. HELSINGFORS, Finland, March 31. __A new cabinet has been formed, with M. Tulenheimo, as premier and M. Idman as foreign minister. President Coolidge will be known hereafter by the name Bear Ribs ! to the Sioux Indians of the Stand- ing Rock Indian Agency at Fort Yates, N. Dak. Comparing the President with a former chief of the Sioux who tried to teach the Indians the white man's way 35 yaars ago, a committee of the Sloux tribe wrote Mr. Coolidge today that the Indians indorsed his farseeing and progressive policy and therefore named him Bear Ribs in memory of the aforesaid chief. “Because Bear Ribs was a far- seeing, progressive man, we now give you the name Bear Ribs, by which you will be known to our ch ‘WASHINGTON, little more so than the average human being goes through as a baby in learning to talk and understand. The mechanism is based on the same prinetple as a telephone Instru- ment, but the vibrations on the dia- phragm of the receiver are greatly amplifed. This recelver is held in the palm of the hand by the deaf subject. Now the normal individual hears because of the faculty of the ears in distinguishing the difference In vi- brations set up by different sounds Every word consists of about as many sounds as it has letters, and every one of these produces a slightly different sensation on the ear drums. Unconsclously the indi- vidual differentiates every one of these sounds. In other words, every sound gives a different push to the nerves of the ear. Sensation on Hand. Now hold the hand over a telephone receiver. There will be a slight sen- sation caused by the sound vibrations hitting against the palm of the hand. These vibrations are, of course, too faint and rapld to be differentiated, even with long practice. But when they are greatly ampli- (Continued on Page 5, Column Easter Egg Rolling At White House Is Officially Pledged A custom of many years' stand- ing will be observed again at the White House this year, when the vounger generation of Washing- ton will be invited to take part in the annual egg-rolling frolic on the grassy slopes immediately south of the White House on the morning following Easter Sunday. Thg announcement was made at th® White House today. The youngsters of the city will not receive formal invitation. They don’t have to. They know the custom and will again flock to the White House Easter Monday. The Marine Band will furnish ap- propriate music. WHEAT KINGS FALL AS PRIGES TOPPLE Bull Speculators Back to Bedrock, and Luckless Retinue Wiped Out. By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, March 31.—The 1 wheat kings, enthroned in golden splendor by the wild speculative orgy they started last November, today were unseated with every prop knocked from under their recent high pedestal One of the mighty monarchs of the wheat pits, two months ago referred to as a $30,000,000 winner, now is accepted as being back among the common herd with a measly million or so to show. His short relgn on the Board of Trade pedestal of fame was considered ended by Monday's price crash Along with him have gone other members qf the royal household of bull speculators in wheat. Fortunes so glibly accepted but a few weeks ago at their face value on paper have dwindled until their holders are being classed once more among the somewhat impecunious speculative nobilitr. 925 Drop Has Been Steady. One short and sweet swoop wiped out the lambs that innocently follow- ed the leaders into the first happy slaughtering ground prepared for un- sophisticated gamblers in grain. But it was a slow and torturesome process that the bull wheat kings went through before their teeth and their fortunes were pulled. While the kill- ing was going on they've had allur- ing prospects dangled before them from time to time in the form of price advances that looked assuring, but, on the whole, the drop of 61 cents a bushel has been relentlessly steady. The explanation now is that the erstwhile wheat kings did not play their cards right. They jumped into the pit too early with their cry of a world wheat shortage, stampeding a violent price advance. Time still re- mained for the word to economize on the use of wheat, and it's just that thing that the word has done—so that instead of a wheat famine, as antici- pated, estimates now are that approx- | imately 50,000,000 bushels of wheat will be carried over in this country out of its 1924 crop. over is 75.000,000 bushels. ‘With this situation clearly evident, while Americans still held huge quan- titles of cash grain in their elevators, a crash from $2 wheat was taken as inevitable. But it 4s another matler to say that present prices are not too low Indians Name Coolidge “Bear Ribs” In Memory of Late Progressive Chief tribe,” the letter said. At the same time the committee said it had mailed to the President a pipe and a beaded tobacco bag. “Presidents in the nlat\‘have done much in reference to the Indian and his destiny, but it remained for you to give to the Indian that citizenship which he hoped 1or through many years,” the leiter said. “We desire to express our heartfelt appreciation for the citi- zenship granted us and also for the good judgment shown :n pro- tecting our property rights by not turning them over to the {ndians without superviston.’ The letter added that the chief mentioned was slain by Indians who ohjected to Kis advanced ideas. A normal carry- | ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DRY AGENTS FIRED . INNEGLECT CASE Karl E. Noll and L. M. Price Said to Have Let Carload of Alcohol Disappear. Two general prohibition agents, Karl E. Noll, and Levin M. Price, who formerly worked In the Govern- ment ‘service in Washington, have been dismissed “following their ar- in Philadelphia on a charge of vill fully neglecting duty in allowing a freight car 10ad of alcohol to dis- | appear, when they should have been guarding it,” accgrding to the In- ternal Revenue Bureau Noll, records of the bureau show, formerly was a clerk in the Census Bureau here. He was appointed gen- eral prohibition agent February 13, 1925, giving his address at that time as 328 Shepherd street Price Also Once a Clerk. Price, according to the record: formerly was a clerk in the Veterans Bureau and was appointed a prohibi- tion agent December 6, 1924, when he gave his address as 3122 Mount Pleas- ant street. Price for a short time was attached to the local force of general prohibition | agents operating out of Washington, but later went back to Philadelphia. All general prohibition agents operate un- der E. C. Yellowley of the prohibition unit and are subject to frequent trans- | fer. Few details of the case have come through from Philadelphia, it was said at the Internal Revenue Bureau. The exact date of the alleged offense is not clear, but it was announced that the men were separated from the yesterday. |STOCKS BAD TRADE INDEX, SAYS HOOVER Business Basically Good, Despite Wall Street Slump, Secre- tary Holds. The continuing fall in. stock ex- change and grain pit prices has mnot induced Secretary Hoover to change his opinion that the outlook for business activities is good, he said to- day, but it has “raised a question as to the efficiency of the stock exchange as a business barometer. “So far as the production, distgibu- tion and employment in the United ! States continues to be as satisfactory as they are,” the Secretary said. *I do not feel that it iS possible that there will be any recession of busi- ness activity. These are the matters that must concern any governmental administration rather than the specu- lative movements which are essential- ly evanescent phenomena. Doubts Market As Guide. “The action in the security markets raises the question as to how good a barometer the market is of future prospect. Of course, the speculative tremors are not things that one likes to see. They are not in the interest of sound business and a lot of inno- cent people get hurt. It may be remembered that a vear ago the stock market Securities declined and | the large number of people who be- lieved the market discounts the futurd insisted that bad business was in prospect for the Fall months. The result forecast by the market was not experienced. It seems likely that the situation Is repeating itself. The fact Is that the speculative mar- ket movement is always exaggerated. CELEBRITIES SUMMONED IN FRENCH WAR TRIAL By the Associated Press. ORLEANS, France, March 31.—Po- litical, diplomatic and military ce- lebrities have been subpoenaed to ap- pear ‘at the court-martlal, which is being resumed today, of Capt. Jacques Sadoul. He was sentenced to death in 1919 on charges of deserting to the | Bolsheviki while-a member of the French military ‘mission to Russia. He returned to France last December and demanded retrial. The defense has called, among others, former Premier Caillaux and former Minister of the Interior Malvy, who were granted amnesty last No- vember for war-time offenses. Although no manifestations are ex- pected, precautions have ‘been taken to, cope with possible incldents. D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 0 Star. 1925-FIFTY-TWO PAGES. ’ FAMILY OF AMERICANS MURDERED IN MOROCCO Chicago Relatives Learn Dr. Ham- merstein and Children Were Killed by Natives. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 31.—Word that Dr. Hans L. Hammerstein, his three children and their governess were killed by natives in Spanish Morocco has reached Chicago relatives from Barcelona, where, it was said, his wife, seriously wounded, is in a hos- pital. Dr. Hammerstein was an explorer and zoologist and had been granted some virgin forest in Morocco by the panish government for cultivation. He lived here 20 years ago and con- tributed some valuable animals to the Lincoln Park Zoo, among them a Shetland pony 2 feet 10 inches in height P . & 0 NERGER WTH 355 VOTED Night Session—Protest Filed by Minority. uj By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 31.—Lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. to the Greater Nickel Plate sys- tem was formally approved by the stockholders of the former shortl after noon today. The vote was 506,- 542 shares of stock for ra‘ification of the lease and 152,818 against. The meet- ing adjourned at 1. . The vote followed charges of fraud and misdealings in interlocking direc- torates by a group of minority stock- holders opposed to the lease, who pledged their efforts through the courts “or im any way possible to defeat the | merger plan.” A majority of the stockholders formally voted at 10:06 o'clock this morning in favor of the leas: as a unit of the Van Sweringen “Big Five" system. The vote then ‘was also announccd as 506,542 to 152,818, It followed an all-night s ion of the stockholders and 23 hours’ continuous labor by the Inspectors of election in caruifving and checking proxies. Oppoxition I Raised. After official announcement of the examining committee had been made, the poll was declared still open for objection or motion, and Thomas B. Gay, representing minority stockhold- ers opposed to the proposed lease, noted an objection under section 3799 of the Virginia Code, which provides that any proxy must be voted within 12 months of date of execution. “No substantial majority of prox- ies voted for the merger,” Mr. Gay said, “were dated nor showed any evi- dence of when they were executed. President W. J. Harahan of the Chesapeake and Ohio was then elect- ed chairman and the secretary read the notice of the meeting. forth its time, place and purpose. ti Proponents Are Vietors. The contracts by which the proper- way Company would be leased to the kel Sweringen merger were read, where- justification for the action of the board of directors of the Chesapeake and Ohlo on Jauary 20, 1925,” which action directed and approved - the lease of the railway, “it is declared to be in all effects detrimental to the | stockholders and violates their rights | under the laws of Virginia." | A vote on the resolution’ was re- | quested by Mr. Gay and the result was announced—152,818 shares for and 506,542 against. - Then came the final ratification. In Session All Night. President Harahan, the two :Van Sweringens, a small knot of stock- holders, officials and newspaper men composed the group that maintained the all-night vigil, as the proxles were checked, prior to the merger vote. Declaring that the meeting was convened until the report of the in- spectors was rendered, the rallway head refused to.consider requests that the session be recessed at 3 o'clock. There had already been three re- cesses since the initial convening of the meeting at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. - In the inspection room Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, and —_(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) |Radio Programs—Page 38." swehr Weser being constructed by pioneers in con- nection noeuvres collapsed part of a field equipment which attempted to use the temporary structure. handicap of their heavy and of numbers of them to free themselves, from death list sustain fantry, Reichswehr units, practice since the early morning, was cattered over a wide area and when the accldent occurred the officers in command immedlately ordered a roll call In an effort to learn the identity of the victims, the number of whom had at a late hour. been due to the of the pontoons. Center Lin no choice. 277 of the nearly 27,000,000 votes cast in this election. in dency, will be put forward by the setting | Socialist, Democratic and Center par- ties for premier of Prussia. o0 SOLDIERS LOST INFALL OF BRIDGE Reichswehr Company, With Full Equipment, Plunged Into Waters of Weser. v the Associated Press. DETMOLD, Germany, March 31.— ifty members of the German Reich- drowned in the River morning when a bridge were this with the reichswehr ma- The victims were column marching in full More than 100 soldiers were pre- cipitated into the river when the pon- toon bridge gave way, and the first estimate of .ceeded. The i 50 drowned may be ex- men thrown into the struggle against the equipment, it was feared that the inability ater had to it might greatly increase the The pontoon bridge, which failed to the marching column of in- was constructed over the pper Weser at the point where it joins the rivers Werra and Fulda, between the towns of Housberge and Wertheim. A large contingent of enguged various in field not definitely been established Among the missing one officer. The accident is believed to have overloading of one DR. MARX RE-ENTERED IN PRESIDENCY RACE Party Backs Former Chancellor and Support of Two Others Is Predicted. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, March 31.—The executive committee of the Center party this afternoon decided to run Dr. Withelm Marx, former chancellor, for the Ger- man presidency in the second elec- on to be held April 26. The first election, Sunday, resulted Dr. Marx polled 3,884,- Otto Braun, the Socialist candidate Sunday's election for the presi- The interparty pact which resuited in the decision to nominate Braun, is ties of the Chesapeake and Ohlo Rail- | believed in political circles to presage the nomination of Dr. Marx as joint Plate as a unit of the Van|candidate of the three Republican n parties for president in the second upon Mr. Gay proposed a resolution;and deciding election, to be held April declaring that “whereas there is no ' 26, In Sherrill’s The office “pest” in the Govern- ment departments who throws the windows wide open when the radiators get too hot for him is not ouly the bane of his col- leagues' existence, but is directly bucking President Coolidge's econ- omy program. Such is the Inference drawn from an announcement today by Col Clarence O. Sherrill, director of public bulldings and public parks. Col. Sherrill's statement, in pointing out how employes in Government buildings under his supervision may help in bringing about a necessary saving of $74,- 000 from the 1925 appropriation, declares; “A considerable saving in fuel can be made if employes will turn off the radiators when the rooms become too warni, instead of open- ing the windows wider than is necessary for proper ventilation. It is sald’ that in making this BN “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,529. * TWO CENTS. 50 Killed, 100 Hurt In Terrific Crash Of Russian Trains By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, March 31.—Nearly 50 persons were killed and 100 others injured in a head-on collision be- tween the Tashkent express and a Moscow suburban train last night. The heaviest loss of life occurred on the Moscow local, the three coaches of which were crowded with workers on their way home. The locomotives, which were big oil burners of the American type, were reduced to tangled masses of metal, while the coaches were Tip- ped apart like so much tinder. The locomotives telescoped one another, scattering fuel oil, but no fire followed the terrific impact. Nearby sidents ministered to th suffering and removed the dead, who were pinioned under the wreckaget QUESTION STATUS OF TRAFFIC CHIEF Officials Discuss Whether Post Comes Under Civil Service Commission. Question as to whether the person- nel of the office of director of traffic comes under the Civil Service Com- mission has been raised, it became known today, and is now the subjec of discussion between the District Commissioners and civil service offi- clal Neither the city au Civil Service Commission were pre- pared today to make any announce ment, for the reason that the question of procedure has not been settled. The Civil Service Commission, it is understood, wrote to the District Com- missioners several days ago, expres ing the belief that the language of the law placed the new traffic office under the superintendent of police, and that, since the Police Department is under civil service the traffic office also would be subject to civil service. horities nor the Question Involves Future. It was said today tnat settlement of the question of civil service juris- dlction will not affect the status of Director of Traffic Eldridge or the assistants that have already been ap- pointed. So far as could be the question deals with the procedure to be followed in making future ap- pointments. Director of Traffic Eldridge, it was pointed out, was in the United States agency, for 25 years, while his assist- ant, Col. I C. Moller. was actually in the’ Government service in the Public Roads office at the time of his appoint- ment to the traffic office Although the Commissioners not prepared today to discuss the matter, it is understood they may ask Corporation Counsel Stephens for an opinion as to whether he believes the traffic office is under civil service jurisdiction as a part of the Folice Department Director Eldridge has arranged to call the first conference at the District Build- ing tomorrow night of the advisory com- mittee he has orgagized to assist him in getting the views of the public on new traffic methods and regulations. The members of the committee thus far appointed are: George A. Finch, Federation of Citizens' Associations; Rudolph Jose, the Automotive Trade As- sociation ; Joseph McGarraghy, repre- senting the corporation counsel’s office ; Charles W. Darr, Chamber of Com- merce ; Pearce Rayner, Board of Trade; Edward Brashears, Washington division of the American Automobile Association, and Inspector Albert J. Headley of the Folice Traffic Bureau. A representative were Association has not yet been named. Commi: ter today desig- nated Director Eidridge to represent Washington at the Eastern Confer- ence of Motor Vehicle Commissione to be held at Richmond, Va. April 24.. This conference will discuss uniform treatment of those phases of the traffic problem which can be handled the same in various juris- dictions Commissioner Oyster also took oc lon today to express his approv the manner in which Director Eldridge has approached the big problem of improving Washington's traffic system. The Commissioner ap- pealed to the public to co-operate with the traflic director in the carry- Ing out of his plans. yet decided on the thoroughfares that are to be recommended to the Com- missioners for arterfal highways. Selection of the streets probably w await completion of the traffic survey. SHOOTS HER 2 CHIVI-.DREN. SOMERVILLE, N. J.,, March Mrs. Catharine Sheridan, wife of a farmer at North Branch, 4 miles from here, shot and killed her daughter Helen, 17, and critically wounded her son James, 14. as they slept today and then shot herself three times Neither the mother, who is believed to have been temporarily insane, or her son, who was shot twice, is ex- pected to recover, hospital physicians say. 31— T e e BRI S “Fresh Air Fiend” Curb Suggested Economy Program suggestion. Col. Sherrill may hav been minaful of the fact that the economy aspect, while important is not the only point which the plan has to recommend it. The suggestion, at any vate, will be received with acclaim by the viee tims of the fresh-air flends, it is understood. “To assist this office plying with the wishes of the President,” says the letter, “the co-operation of the heads of the various departments and inde- pendent establishments housed in buildings under its supervision is requested. This co-operation may be shown by keeping requests for alterations and repairs, partitions, new fooring, palnting. etc., down to a minimum. The cost of elec- tricity tor light 2nd power may be reduced materially if the employes will see that unnecessary lights are not left burning and current for electrically-operated machin- ery is turned off when the ma- chines are not in use.” in com- learned, | Bureau of Public Roads, a government | of the Merchants and Manufacturers' | al Mr. Eldridge said today he has not | 11| HOOVER WOULD PUT ML HIS BUREAUS UNDER ONE ROOF Commerce Department Of- fices Now Scattered in 14 Buildings, Causing Waste. | SEEKS APPROPRIATION FOR ONE BIG STRUCTURE May Shift Some of Activities to Hurley-Wright ‘Building as Economy Measure. Centralization of all the Department of Commerce urder one roof, with the exception of the |Bureau of Standards, which has an expensive and complete plant on Con necticut avenue, is planned hy Secre tary of Commerce Hoover, it learned today at the department Mr. Hoover proposes to house some of the various departments and bu reaus under his administration in the Hurley-Wright Bullding, at Eight- eenth street and Pennsylvania ave nue, which will soon vacated by ftne Rallroad Administration. At pres ent the activities of the department are in 14 buildings scattered throug! out the city An_ appropriation has been sought by Mr. Hoover for some time wit which to erect a large building for the department with adequate housing facilities for all of activities Until this building is erected Mr Hoover believes that various econo mies could be effected by the cen- tralization of the department’s activ ties through thelr transfer to the Hurley-Wright Building. Mr. Hoover pointed out that the time and money now lost by the de- partment by duplication of messenger service and the necessity for long- distance transmission of business with the activities widely scattered is bevond estimation. Part 'of this probably would be saved, he ? ithe department was housed building. Another burden will b ary Hoover's duties the Patent Office ix transferred the jurisdiction of the Depart of the Interior 1o the Depart- ment of Commerce. This is the only such transfer vrojected Hoover made it clear that there wo | be no change in administration or im mediate revolution in methods of pro- cedure as a result. Construction of & new bulilding for the Patent Office, which has been suggested by Commissioner of Pat- ents Robertson as necessary to hoyse the ever-increasing business of that Joffice, Mr. Hoover believes, should be | considered in connection with the |erection of a new building to house activities was its sai in one added to tomorro | when from ment all of the activities of the Commerce Department. The proposed central ng of the depar: in the pinion of Mr. Hoover, should also | provide quarters for the Patent Of | fice i Transfer of Bureau. | Proposals have been made for the transfer of the Bureau of Fisheries jfrom the Commerce Department to ‘lhr Department of Agriculture, Mr i Hoover said, but he believes that the ! Fisherfes Bureau should be turned }0\'91’ to the Department of the In- terior. Referring to the suggested transfer of the Bureau of Mines to the Commerce Department, which was outlined in the report of the joint congressional commission on reorgan ization of the executive departments, Mr. Hoover explained that there was some difficulty over this transfer be- cause the Mines Bureau had been | placed in the Interior Department by Congress before the organization of the Department of Commerce, in 1913 | i i 40 TRAPPED MINERS ARE THOUGHT LOST Relatives Stand in Cold Rain as Rescue Efforts Go On—Water Is Rising. By the Associated Press. NEWCASTLE, England, March 31.— Forty men, it now is stated, are trap- ped in the Montague colliery at Scob- wood, near here, which was flooded 3e§lrrda3' by a sudden inrush of water. Little hope is held of saving any of the men. Scores of relatives are grouped bout the pit head, including many women who have stood in the cold rain for 14 hours or more in the hope of rescue. Men who attempted to enter ‘the pit mouth this morning said the waters were rising rapidly and that the deadly black damp was already present, greatly lessening the chances that any of the imprisoned men would escape alive. A new pump was up this afternoon which it was hoped might gradually drain the flooded pit. Of the entrapped men. mine offi- clals announce, 26 are married and have a total of 70 dependents. Clergymen of every denomination who hurried to the pithead yester- day remained there all night pra; ing for the rescue of the victime. | They still were at the mine today trying to console the grief-stricken women and children of the miners’ families. p Officials of the miners’ association and local authorities are arranging for financial relief for dependents. The disaster is the worst in Eng- land since January, 1918, when 153 men were lost in the Minnie pit in Staffordshire. WILL COLLECT BALLOTS IN IOWA VOTE CONTEST | Eaward P. Thayer of Indianapoll who has been appointed representa- tive of the Senate subcommit 2 in vestigating the Brookhart-Steck sena- torial contest in Towa, will leave fext | week for Des Molnes to supervise col- lection of the ballots. They will be placed in Tocked mail sacks and guarded on the trip back to Washington. Mr. Thayer expects to complete the work in Towa by May 15, so that the subcommittee can begin actual con- sideration of the contest s0o1 after thet date. hurriedly rigged