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- dispatches WEATHER. . Fair tonight and tomo: change in temperature, Temperatures: Highest, pn. vesterday; lowest, a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Weather Buresu Forees t.) rrow; little 93, at 4:10 69, at 6:45 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as seco post_office, Wa 29,578. o. nd class matter shington, D. C. BALKANS NOBLEE ARMIESINFACEOF BULEARAN THREAT Three Nations Act to Check Spread of Terror Across Cairo Evacuation By British Force, London’s Proposal BY the Associated Pres LONDON, April ~The Daily Mail says a proposal has been made to evacuate Cairo and concentrate the British army in Egypt on the Suez Canal, probably a: Al-Kantara (28 miles south of Port Said), appar- ently with the idea of placating Egyptian susceptibilities. The newspaper adds that the Their Borders. ALLEGED BRUTAL MURDER OF RED SUSPECTS DENIED | | Rumania and Jugoslavia anorad: Ready to Act Against Sofia if Provoked. Disputches from Sofia eontinue to iinimize the riousness of the Bul carian situation, but indirect reports | from other Balkan centers picture | conditions as grave. alkan st are said to be taking | ¥ precautions against the spread terrorism in Bulg which to its high mark with the re tack on King Boris. assassina. | tion of Gen. Georghieff and bombing | of the Sveti Kral Cathedral, where | 160 persons were killed. | Rumania is reported 1o be moving troops toward both her Russian and | Bulgarian frontiers. Jugoslavia is | guarding her border, indirect advices | say. Greece is mobilizing a part of | Jher army, but will not intervene un i less Greek frontiers are threatened tes mili of the Naved Greece Sees Threat. | according to these reports, | will regard an increased Rul;:ariav\i army as a menace to the Balkan status quo. Greek agents are report- ! ed en route to Belgrade to renew ne- eotiations for ireek-Jugoslav alli- | ance Rumanian intervention will follow | any attempt to establish a Communist | republic in Bulgaria, it 4s declared in trom Bucharest, where | sensational accounts of the Bulgarian | situation have been received. Belgrade dispatches to London say | a serious diplomatic conflict between | Rumania and_Bulgaria appears pos- | Greece. proposal is causing dismay to those in the limited circles in Great Brit- ain and Egypt, which are cogni- zant of the situation, as such a step would mean abject surrender to the e elements and have dis- sults on British prestige and trade throughout the East. Declaring that Egypt would rap- idly sink into chaos if the British army were withdrawn, the Daily Mail predicts that some other pow- er, probably Italy, soon would step into the British shoes in Egypt. DELEGATESDENY NORTHWEST LOT T0 RULE COUNGL Deplore Raising of Sectional- ism—pPledge to Vote for Best Candidates. Characterizing as teapot” the sectionalism injected into the campaign for election of the Citi- zens - Advisory Council, northwest delegates to the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations, in whose hands lie the proponderance of votes, gave surance today that there is no “con- piracy’ on their part against .the three other sections of the District of Columbia, nor is any move con templated to prevent the reprosenta- | tion of these sections on the council. A canvass of the northwest dele- gates today disclosed their general at- a tempest In &1, building, to match in dignity and | money to WASHINGTON, NEW AUDITORIN TOCIST 0000 SVOTEDBYDAR Enthusiastic Delegates Con-| tribute $50,000 Toward Building' Fund. VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON | IS ON THIS AFTERNOON! High Army and Navy Officers Ac-| company Delegates on Most Solemn Annual Pilgrimage. than an hour ufter the Thirty-fourths Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution had voted this afternoon to au thorize the erection of a beautiful new auditorium here. ting nearly $2. 000,000, enthusiastic delegates had pledged initial donations from the floor | of the congress totaling nearly $50.000. Never before in the histe of the D. A. R. has Continental Congress been swept by such a spirit of spon- taneous enthusiasm as the approvai which marked the adoption of the plan for the proposed auditorium which is | to be erected on the ground already owned by the society, directly behind Memorial Continental Hall. Funds Will Hasten Work. Although the method by which the beauty any in Washington, is to be | fimanced has not been announced, it | is understood that bonds may be is- | sued. Already, however, the volun- | tary contributions pledged from the floor today, most of which were indi- | vidual donations in_memory of de- | ceased ancestors of the delegates. provide the society with enough | go ahead with its plans immediately. Two gifts of §5,000 each turned the congress into a bedlam of applause. One was from Mr. Cook, husband of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, the! president general of the in D. C, FRIDPAY, A “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, 102,611 PRIL 24, 1925—FORTY -SIX . PAGES. * TWO CENTS. NEWSPAPER ROW. ForTY YEARS AGO \ PR! AUGHT N.?A}Pcpmc- = AKS [/ REAKS A BT|\=_VOTE ’; ) OF “TH = Wl FORTI DEMO SIDESHO L EMOCRATIC HARMONY CONFERENCT H ANNIVERSARY DINNE R OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB. D. C. Woman, Badly Hurt in Jump From RAIL MERGER STEP i By |G SEN I SURYEY OFCARLINES ERE | | [ | | { By the Associated Press. TURIN, Italy, April 24 Mrs Elizabeth Murray of Washington D. C., was seriously injured today when she jumped from a motor omnibus while touring with a party of Holy Year pilgrims. She became frightened by the nearness of the omnibus to a precipice Mrs. Murray was taken to a hos- pital here, where it was stated she may not recover. She is 58 vears old. $50,000 Inquiry Is Ordered Begun by North American Company. HEAT WAVEIS DUE vcs v o T0 LAST TWO DAYS Thunderstorm Coming Sun- | day or Monday—One New | a $50.000 survey of transportation | conditions in Washington, which may Record IS Made_ result in the long-sought street rwil- { way merger, will be undertaken it —_ {'umh:nu‘l\'_ the Public Utilities Com ; mission announced today, T tion is to be made by e firm of MeClellan & Junkersfeld engzineers, under the supervision | North American York. { which represented a having “‘substantial Investment in transporta tion systems in the Distriet.” P hicago Engineers Will Start Work by Sending Out 200,000 Questionnaire Cards. | Relief from the present heat wave |the third in April in the {the Weather Bureau's records, w predicted tos caster Mitchell f ibly Monday | thunderstorm. After it established a new heat rec ord for April 23, with 93 degrees ves. terday, Washington came back today |and with a temperature of 89 at noon, | I :\:\ash(—d all existing records for Aprill 4ccording to Maj. W. E. R. Covell, Getting down Into statistics, how.| oo rePresented the commission o ever, the present wave is not as hot |\ -ANEINg for the survey, the North as it was in 1896 or in 1915, In the American Co. is neither for nor former year, on April 17. 15 and 19,| against a merger at thix time. The |the temperatures, respectively, were | company, Maj. Covell said, is frankly 93 and 92, while in 1915 the hot-| interested and desires to have the test April on record, the temperatures | facts impartially determined so that were 93, 94 and 95 for the 25th, 26th can b its future actions thereon. Covell expressed the belief and 1" Ma {that the forthcoming inquiry inte 1915 record for o heat wave oves twe | transportation conditions as they now | or more days will stand unchallenged. |eXist is probably the most construc- Following the predicted break in the | tive step toward a merger ever taken. heat wave, Mr. Mitchell said there The representative of the comm “will be nothinz radical” nor willigion stated that Willlam McK. Cla there he long drawn out days of rain |y, gpokesman for the Federation of and cold. A lower and pleasant tem- | gD g e i it s and, peasantte | Citizens’ Associations, has-heartily in. history ay by F night form of Sunday the expense is to be borne by of New Dos: in o the Co. is + fierent on Merger. the thermometer takes a de cided jump tomorrow and Sunday the predict today. SNOW AND FATAL HEAT. 5 "dnr:«en the step 1 sible unless Bulgaiis abandons her | titude as one of whole-hearted sym- clety, suspicion of Jugoslav complicity in|Pathy with the other communities in the campaign of terrorism in Bul-| the eastern and southwestern parts garia. Jugoslav officials deny that as-|of the city and, at the same time, of sistance has been given Bulgarian as-| deep regret that sectional “strife” has sassins. been stirred up “without cause memory of his mother. The other was from Miss M. A. Dobbons of Philadelphia. - Connecticut offered $3,000 as a nucleus “and anything else | it is asked to.give later.” At least | 15 States donated $1,000 each. and Suburban Lines Join. The Maryland Public mission has been consulted by Maj. Covell,” and has requested that the GREECE AND TURKEY SIGN | PACT TO END EXPULSIONS | Service Com- | | Relief Promised in Both Tempera- 14 HINERS TRAPPED S-R00M SCHOOLS ' Bulgarian Premier Says Quiet Re- | " been killed Sofla dispatches quote Minister of the Interior Rousseff as declaring that not over 1,500 persons have been arrested throughout Bulgaria during the campaign against, terrorists, He asserts that Moscow furnished arms d money for the subversives. Denies Reign of Terror. Premier Tzankoff declared the state- | ment attributed to‘the British Labor party members recently’ in Sofla that many had been killed in Bulgaria without trial is “sheer calumny.” He declared the situation is calm throughout the country. Other indirect dispatches, however, continue to report that King Boris of Bulgaria is virtually a prisoner in the roval palace at Sofia under Gen. Lazareff, head of the military junta. jofia continues apparently under virtual martial law. The Bulgarian militia is being increased as author- 1zed by the council of ambassadors at to cope with the situation, and Rumania, Jugoslavia and Greece are| protesting that increase. COUNTRY REPORTED CALM. stored Generally. By the SOFTA. April 24.—Premier Tzankoff declared to the Associated Press today that the charges made by the British members of Parliament who- recently visited Bulgarfa regarding conditions here were ‘“sheer calumny The premier said the Laborite M. P.’s had not seen the things they alleged they saw ‘Statements that heen killed in Bulga are sheer calumny,” he said. “The Laborites have not seen anything themselves, while in Bulgaria, if they speak as they are reported to have done in Belgrade.’ Associated Prese hundreds have ria without trial Persecutors. of the ques tion that summary executions such as they make out have taken place. The question of those involved in the bombing of the Sveti j« in the hands of justice. If there have been persecutions—which I can- not admit—the authors thereof will be pursued and judged. The situation is calm throughout ihe country. dJustice is pursuing its normal course and we are constantl discovering fresh evidence. I, as Bul- garian ~premier, ask how these Laborltes, who in actual fact only passed two or three days in Sofia, can make such grave statement: Three members of the British House of Commons were quoted in a Belgrade dispatch Wednesday night as declaring after a visit to Sofia they vinced several hundred persons had without trial and on the merest suspicion after the recent bomb explosion in the Cathedral there. The number of arrests, they said, was estimated at 6,000, The men quoted were Josiah C. Wedgwood and W. MacKind TLabor members, and P. D. Malone, a Unionis Tvan Manoeffe, 2 member of the se- cret committee of the Bulgarfan Com- munist party, was shot and killed by the police today when he refused to surrender. Another store of arms has heen found by the police in a search of the home of a suspected conspira- | tor. 3 Says 1,500 Arrested. Gen. Rousseff, the minister of the interior, told foreign correspbndents today that the number of those ar yested in the entire country since the heginning of the government cam- palgn against the terrorists did not exceed 1,500. The minister declared |]|3}l Moscow | had individuals and bands in its pay | on rezular monthly wages in Bulgaria and gave special premiums for crimes committed. A campaign of calumny against Bul- garia was carried on, he charged, by | agrarian communists who had gone | from this country to Jugoslavia, and at the same time, Macedonian and Thracian refugees, expelled from their homes, formed an element of disorder in Bulgaria. Gien. Rousseff, however, was careful “to_avoid any suggestion that the TEontimusd on Page 2. Column 63 Kral Cathedral | were con- | If the word of some of the prom- inent northwest voters is a criterion of the prevailing opinion armong the | majority delegates, the residents of the northeast, the southeast and the | southwest sections need have no fear | either that their communities will not | have direct representation on the | council or that their sections will be | neglected in favor of the fast-growing | northwest district. - | Qualitles to be Test. | In fact; a number of the delegates | interviewed today went so far as to | disclose their personal deciston, al- | ready made, to vote for several candi dates from the northeast, southeast and, -if any are nominated, from the southwest, not so h because of their place of residence as because of | their high qualifications for office. William _ McK." Clayton, delegate from the Brightwood association and | prominent” in_the federation's activi- ties, -expressed keen regret that. sec- tionalism had “‘crept’ into the cam tory of the federation.” He pointed out that the Brightwood association has instructed him and his co-delegate, John A. Saul, to vote, specifically, for one candidate from each of the threc | minority sections as an evidence of | the good faith of the Brightwood peo- | ple and in view of the fact that fear | had been expressed that the northwest delegates would “freeze out” the other representatives. “It the southwest section doesn't nominate a candidate for the council | we are instructed to cast two votes for | la northeast candidate,” Mr. Clayton | said. : Deplores Raising of Issue. “It is deplorable that this sectional- | ism was brought up at all,” he con- tinued. “The second president of the federation was a_northeast citizen, and never, in the history of the asso- | ciation, has the sectional issue been raised prior to the present election | campaign. “There is absolutely no foundation in fact for fears that the northwest residents are so unmindful of their obligations as citizens of the National Capital or so unfair to their fellow | citizens in other sections as to even | think of misusing their voting power, | especially at a time like this, when | good faith is of paramount Impor- { tance. “The attitude of the Brightwood citizens is that the question should | never have been raised, but that as | long as some persons have seen fit to stir up all this talk, we would answer it with a concrete move designed to | emphasize our interest not only in our own community, but in the Dis- | trict of Columbia as a whole. Others Attack Issue. i [ | council the delegates, I am’ certain, | are going to consider not where a man | lives, but whether he is the very best | type of man to serve in the importan | capacity for which he is an aspirant.” | George R. Wales, member of ‘the | Civil Service Commission and delegate |~ Stumn 5.9 | (Continued on FPage |President to Receive Descendants Of Capt. Coolidge of Lexington Fame The President and Mrs. Coglidge late this afternoon will receive several relatives of the ¥xecutive in the blue room of the White House. While this meeting will not be a full gathering of the Coolidge clan. it will be the first getting_together of this many rela- tives of the President since he has been in the White House. - - - The group to be received are all descendants of - Capt.- John- Cool- idge of Plymouth, Vt., who re- sponded to- the Lexington alarm April 19, 1775. These relatives for the most part came to Washington at this time for the meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In the group will be Mrs. Lettes McWain-Morgan, music teacher, of Claremont, N. H., accompanied by her daughter, Pauline. The former | i | paign. ‘“for the first time in the his-| voting for candidates for the there were half u dozen similar do tions from individuals, including number of the natienal officers. The contributions ranging from $1,000 to $15 were too. numerous to be counted. All of these donations from the | States and chapters, it was pointed | out, are merely Initial contributions, | and in most cases the donors an- nounced that they would be r o meet any future demands th: be made of them. One page, Miss Helen Harrison of Minnesota, donated | $25. A woman, whose named could not be learned, contributed $125 each in the memory of four great-grandchil- | dren. | Before calling up the project, which had been made the order of the day, | Mrs. Cook reminded the delegates | that they were about to decide one of | the most important questions any Continental Congress had been called | upon to discuss in the last decade. And she warned each and every one to give the matter the most serious ! consideration. ! “Remember, we have until Saturday | night. if necessary, to vote on this out- | standing proposition,” Mrs. Cook said, ‘and don’t forget that it sometimes is | possible to turn back the hands of the ! clock when matters of such dominat- ing importance are before us. It has | been done in the past and it can be | done in the future. We must not, we | shall not, let matters of time frus.!| trate us. The decision is in vour| hands. Think wisely and act with de- | termination. But do nothing hastily." | Warned of Big Expense. | Leading the economy sentiment, | Mrs. Robert Johnston of Towa, a for. mer president general, took the in- itiative at the outset of debate today and told the delegates that the ex- pense of keeping up the proposed new | auditorium would be $150,000 a year alone. Of this amount, she said, $25,000 will be spent in taxes, $18,000 insurance, $58,000 in yearly upkeep and the remainder in necessary sun- dries. “Do_you want to shoulder such a burden” as this at this time?” she asked. Mre. Robert M. Somerville, regent for the State of Mississippi, followed Mrs. Johnston with a plea for the dele- gates to postpone action on the new auditorium until the society has paid its debts. ~Several times the policy of President Coolidge for strict econ- omy was called to the attention of the congress as an example that it might well follow. On the other hand, the congress was told all of the money the opposition is | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ABANDONS CABINET TASK. By the Associated Press BRUSSELS, April Emile Van.| dervelde, . the Socfalist leader, today informeéd King Albert that he had| found it impessible to fulfill the mis- sion intrusted him of forming a cabi- net to succeed that of Premier Theunis, which resigned April 5. | has the distinction of being the nearest relailve of ‘the President outside his - immediate family. Others in the group will be Mrs. Frances L. Smith of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coolidge, dr.,tof Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. and Mrs. Marion B. Cady of Takoma Park, D. C. Mr. Coolidge today tentatively accepted an invitation to make an address at the meeting of the Na- tional . Council . of -Congregational Churches in this city on October 20, next. The invitation was extended to- day by a committee representing the National Council, headed by Rev. Charles F. Carter of Hart- ford, Conn. The introductions were made by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, where the President and Mrs. Coolidge worship, __ | States ! lower levels. |later he found. the plant afire. BY FIRE N IO Rescue Parties Have Hope of Reaching Men—U. S. Ex perts Are Assisting. By the Associated Press WALLACE, Idaho, April that 14 men entrapped b, workings of the Hecla Mine at Burke, seven miles from here, were still alive and would be rescued, from. their prison on the low er levels, was expressed by a news: paper correspondent - who - returned from the mine early today He declared that the ‘imprison, men are believed to be in the =t workings, two miles from the Ilecia main shaft. Air compressors were wor was declared, to clear the air of the workings of any gas and smo'e that might have penetrated to ‘hat part of the mine and at § o'clock the fire pumps were started. 24.—Hope fire in the silver-Lead inx, Rescue Forces on Hand. Twenty helmet men of the United Mine Rescue Forces were on the ground ready to go below. 1t the men still in the mine re- mained in the Star workings, mine men declared, they were confident they were in no great danger. The belief was expressed that the fire would be confined to the Hecla mine proper and that - present measuics would bring it under control shortlv. Three men were brought out alive from the 1,000-foot level after fire, breaking out in a pump station at the 2,000-foot level, had imprisoned the 17 members of the night crew on the The remainder of the night erew, numbering in all about 100 men, according to estimates, made | their escape. Fire Starts at Midnight. The fire started shortly before mid- night in the pumping plant at the base of the main shaft on the 2,000- foot level. The pump man on duty left his station, It was stated, -and when he returned about 10 minutes The Star workings extend -laterally from the Heckla shaft, and mine officials believed today that the air lines that carry fresh oxygen to' the miners there were unbroken. The only danger they saw for these men was that they might have at- tempted to make their escape through the numerous workings in the:Heckla proper above the 2,000-foot level. - If they had, the fear was expressed that they might have entered the area filled by the poisonous gas and smoke from the fire. No night crew was at work in the Heckla proper. The blaze itself, the mine men be- lieved, was confined to ‘the lower part of the main shaft and, with the fa- cilities available, they expected that the damage might be held to a nom- inal amount. eer aty FRENCH CHAMBER VOTES 1925 BUDGET FOR NAVY Only 20 Communists Oppose Pro- gram for Increased Efficiency on Seas. By the Associated Press PARIS, April 2£—The French naval program included in the 1925 budget was voted today with only the.com- munists opposing, the vote being 422 toe29. In urging the adoption of the naval budget, M. Dumesnil, former naval minister under Herriot, declared “we wish rigorously to observe our pledges signed at Washington. They allow us freedom concerning light units. If the present program is not voted the French navy, in 1933, would consist of only two battle cruisers, six destroyvers and four torpedo destroyers, mostly obsolet |drug company at | London Hears Two Nations Agree | to Bring Differences to a Close. ¥ the Associated Press LONDON, April 24.—Advices to the ! Exchange Telegraph from Constanti- nople say an agreement has just been signed settling all the probems affect. ing Turkey and Greece. The principal cause of friction be- tween Turkey and Greece has been the operation of that part of the treaty of Lausanne providing for the exchange of minority populations. The question was apparently settled |at the meeting of the League of tions Council in Brussels last Octol but it was suddenly reopened early this vear when the Turks expelled ‘the ecumenical patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Most Rev. Con- stantinos, from Constantinople on the | zround that he was one of those “ex changeable’” under the treaty. Greece appealed to the league, and the coun {eil on March 14 referred the case to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague. WINFIELD JONES INDCTED WITH 10 |Accused by Federal Grand Jury of Dry Plot—Trials in Baltimore. | By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, April 24.—Indict- ments were returned by the United States grand jury here today against 11 men who are charged with con- spiracy to violate the Federal prohi- bition law. Among them are Winfield Jones and N. T. Jones, sons of the Rev. Charles Jones, superintendent of the Georgia branch of the Anti-Saloon League. A separate indictment was returned against Thomas A. Nolan, Federal prohibition agent at’ Pittsburgh. He was accused of having accepted a bribe of $150 from the Maryland Drug Co. of Baltimore. The arrests of those concerned were made recently at Atlanta, Washing- ton and Baltimore. The Government alleges a conspiracy to defeat the prohibition law through the diversion of alcohol to illicit channels by fraud- ulent use of a permit held by the Maryland Drug Co. to withdraw alco- hol ostensibly for the manufacture of toilet waters and other patent prepa- rations. Mrs. Eva Eggland, bookkeeper for the company. and Milton Summers, shipping clerk, were not indicted. They were granted immunity for tes- tifying before the grand jury and will be used as Government. Witnesses. United States. Attorney Amos W. W. Woodcock said he would immedi- ately have steps taken to transfer to Baltimore the men arrested in Atlanta and - Washington. Al the cases will be tried here, it is said. The arrests followed a raid made on the offices and storerooms of the 24 South Charles where a large quantity of seized. street, jaleohol v | POLICE CLUB EBERT, JR. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April — Friedrich Ebert, jr., son of the late President of Germany, and_Fritz Koch, chairman of the Berlin Reichsbanner organiza- tion, were arrested last night and al- legedly struck with police clubs when, in response to cries of “Down with Marx!” they called: “Long live the republic!” When the chief of police was noti- fied he ordered their immediate re- Tease. 7 2 " | mense elementary - INDETROIT VISITED iBaIlou Is Told Huge Buildings Have Proved Best for Platoon System. | BY JAMES E, CHINN Staff Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, Mich., April 24.—Im- schools containing 30 classrooms, built on sites covering | between eight and ten ‘acres, greeted Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintendent | |of the District public schools, and Osgood Holmes, & sistant ‘municipal architect, as they started a tour of | Decroit’s schools today in search of new ideas in schoolhouse planning. | The immensity of the buildings as well as the sites on which they stand jmade a striking impression on the committee of school planners. No | elementary schools of their size had been observed by the W shington officials since beginning the investig: jtion trip. which has taken them to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo and Cleveland. | | One on 45-Acre | Detroit three of the 50-room ele- mentary schools and three more are under construction. All are located in rapidly developing residential se tions outside the city limits. e. | stor structure, located on a 45-acre {site. It is a novelty in schoothouse { building, and the Detroit school | authorities told Dr. Ballou that it was designed as an experiment, and if the | tax payers indorse it more like it will be erected. The immense elementary schools, it was pointed out, are necessary be- cause of the platoon system of opera-. tion. Although the iwork-study-play plan has been introduced in the olde type smaller schools, having but 12 reoms, the Detroit officials say that large buildings are better for the platoon system. Detroit is the center of the develop- ment of platoon schools in the United States. Eighty-seven of its elemen- tary buildings' have been platooned since the system was adopted in 1919, and the Board of Education is def- initely. committed to a, policy of con- tinued expansion. Al of the new buildings under construction are de- signed for platoon operation. Studies Platoon System. A careful study of the platoon sys- tem is being made by Supt. Ballou be- cause of the sporadic agitation in Washington for the introduction of the work-study-play plan in the Dis- trict’s schools. Dr. Ballou expects to make a report of his observations to Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the school board and chairman of its special platoon investigating commit. tee. Mr. Greenwood had hoped to make a personal investigation of the platoon schools -here, but was pre. vented from joining. Dr. illness of his mother. The Washington school planners learned that Detroit 1s making strenuous efforts to keep its school construetion in pace with the ever- increasing demand for school facilities. $30,000,000 in Eight Years, | Thirty million dollars has been in- |1ast eight years, and the Board of Edu- | cation has just. prepared a budget | calling for the expgnditure of $5,000,- 000 for additional school accommoda- tions for the current calendar vear. Like Washington, Detroit plans to rid its school system of all of its anti- quated, old-type three-story buildings in the new development program. The Detroit school officials long ago saw the wisdom of acquiring school sites far in advance of their use and (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) _ Radio Programs—Page 36. d One of | those nearing completion is a single | Bailou and | Mr. Holmes because of the serfous vested in new schools in Detroit in the | ture Extremes Today. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April 24. | thunderstorms and lower temne: today brought back topcoats Middle West, which vesterday swelter ed in record-breaking heat Relief also was promised to central Montana, which shivered under & I blanket of snow reaching a depth of | |17 inches in Butte. At the same time, | the prairie and great lakes States were | mopping brows and consulting records | of previous April heat. A forerunner of the cooling |came last night in Missouri and | Kansas, accompanied wind of |tornado proportions in South Dakota Jefferson Mo., reported a tem | perature yesterday of 94 degrees. the highest reached in the hot weather rains aring mercury in several sec lose to the Missouri | capital’s record. St. Louis reported a ! maximum of 81, and the same point | {was - reached in various sections of Kentucky Heat Kills 1l Minn., which reported an | ce temperature. attributed two in Hennepin County to the Detroit. which. with other secti had weather of 90-degree variety, had one pros. tration, and Milwaukee reported two. Indiana and Ohio, included in the forecast for today's relief, had weather | that broke records for vears, with | temperatures in the 80s. | All Chicago’s records ! for more than half a century twere | i broken when a peak of 86 desrees was reached at 4 o'clock vesterday afternoon. The former highest of | $4.6 was reached April 1915. i Throughout the gulf and cotton | | States temperatures ranging from § |in Mobile to 88 jn Vicksburg, M { and Birmingham, Ala., were reported Some sections of the East experi- enced Midsummer touches. New York reported $3 degrees as tne warmest | vesterday. | STATE DEMORALIZED. | wo. st 80-deg: | deaths for the day By the Associated Press BUTTE, Mont., ‘Winter's most bitter ringtime on- slaught vesterday unleashed the ele- ments on Montana and left a snow- covered State, high running streams ! and partly paralyzed transportation | and communication systems Small hamlets were marooned, high ways were blocked with huge drifts, wires were down, industrial traffic was | demoralized and railroad traffic seri- | ously affected by the Winter's fleeting lash. Clearing skies over a greater | portion of the State today promised | relief, along with the weather man's | predictions that the storm would move | eastward. | Butte prepared to dig itself out of a | 20-inch blanket of snow left by the | storm,, which diminished last night | and was followed by rain. Corps of | workmen began to repair the damage, | estimated at $50,000, which the storm | caused in the city to power lines and | | traffic lanes. [ ! Lo | King | TRIAL OF WHEELER MAY CLOSE TODAY Arguments Expected to Be Ended | in Time for Judge's Charge Before Nightfall. By the Associated Press. | GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 24— | | The fate of Senmator Burton K. | Wheeler may be in the hands of the Federal jury by night. The Montana i tion survey be extended into those Mary- |land communities bordering on Wash- ington and served by local transporta- stems. The Virginia Public service Commission also will be con- ulted The engineering firm which is to ake the survey already has en- zed offices in the Barle Buflding, at Thirteenth and E streets, and work is expected to start next week on the gathering of a gregt mass of data as to the movement of street car, bus and private automobile travel. Maj. Covell declared the study about to be undertaken will be far more in- clusive than was made here during the war by John A. Beeler, which re- ulted in the introduction of the skip- top system and the lpading platform. 200,000 Questionnaires. One of the first things the engineers will undertake will be to find out from at least 200,000 residents of the city how and when they get to and from work. This will be sought by 'the sending out of questionnaire cards. The Washington Railway and’ Elec- : Co.. the Capital Traction Co. and Washington Rapid Transit Co. all have pledged their co-operation in ollecting information for the survey, Maj. Covell said. T Next Congress Can Act. This move is believed to have a spe sial signific: ce at this time, in view »f the assage by Congress a few months ago of an act authorizing merger of the local railway lines, with a proviso that any scheme of consoli- dation agreed upon be ratified by Con gress at the next sessic Officials of the commission did not conceal the fact today that they look upon the investigation as an impor- tant step toward a merger. Although officials of the commission have had several informal conferences at which the proposed survey was discussed, no_intimation of what was being arranged was given until today Maj. Covell made public the follow ing letter from Edwin Gruhl, vice president and gefleral manager of the North American Co., 60 Broadway, New York Broad Study* Proposed. “Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbix, Washington, D. C. Sentlemen: This will review our conferences concerning a transporta- tion survey of the District of Colum- bia and record our understanding | with respect to the following matters: *(1) The Public. Utilitles Commis- sion has found that a thorough study of the transportation situation in the Distriect of Columbia is essential in order to procure ultimately for the Distri¢t the best and most economical transportation service by co-ordina- tion of existing facilities and the adop- tion of additional transportation agencies. s‘“i"l'he North American Co. at present has substantial investment in fransportation systems in the Dis- trict, and accordingly is interested in | a solution of the existing problem. As a result of a preliminary investigation, the North American Co. has reached the conclusion that a thorough study ! of the present transportation situa- s essential. 'lf?f":!: Because this mutual interest the North American Co. agrees to have made through McClellan & Junkers- feld, Inc., engineers, at a cost not to exceed $50,000, a fact-finding survey under the regulation and supervision of the commission. The results of this survey shall’ be reported to the com- mission and shall be available to the street railway companies operating in the District, to the North American and otherwise, as the commission v direct. h “(4) Attached hereto, marked “An- nex A,” is an outline of .data to be assembled, which is understood to ent the general scope of the proposed to be made. 5) This survey will be undertaken at the earliest practicable date and legislator is accused of wrongfully [will be carried out as rapidly as may appearing before the Department of | be consistent with the securing of the the Interior in the interest of a client. | necessary basic data, including dn't’x. Taking of testimony in the cue1vrenr::|:;a:vunlnme in’the files of the came to an abrupt end late yesterday | COMMm e 2 ynen the defense gave up the plan | ol o SeSoun £ Tunkersteit of calling additional witnesses to con- ‘;fl‘vkefl flm' c s B bl el £ trovert the testimony of the Goy-|InC. for this survey Noett ernment’s star witness, George P,|ican Co. Will defray any extra . 4% Hayes, “(Continued on Page 4, Column 13