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WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and warmer tonight possibly local thunder- showers tomorrow aftérnoon or night. and tomorrow, Temperature: yesterds Highest, lowest, 54, at 6 Full report on page 22 94, at 345 m. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 The E: Bost No. 29,579. otfice, tered as second class maltter Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, FUTURE OF EUROPE SEEN INVOLVED IN GERMAN ELECTION Presidency Vote Tomorrow to Fix Germany’s Policy for Years to Come. HINDENBURG AND MARX RUNNING NECK-AND-NECK Prophecy of Outcome Defied. Large Vote Will Give For- mer Best Chance. RY EDGAR ANS Ry Radio to The Star and Chie Daily News. BERLI April —Tomo; w, in the greatest election in their history the German people will decide thei own and possibly Europe's future for the next few years Externally, the question is whether pretexts for further militarism in Eu rope will be justified or whether they will continue to be removed. Internally, the Germans are asked Whether they desire to inject the old imperial spirit and personnel into the republic, or whether they prefer the new Weimar leaders. The choice is largely between a spe- cifically western Democratic and a| specifically German spirit. | Old Spirit Seeks Rebirth. | Finally, it is a plebiscite on the per-| son of Gen. von Hindenburg and the! spirit which animated Germany dur- ing the war. If this spirit was holy then Hindenburg is the proper candi- date. If this spirit was generous but misguided, then Hindenburg would mean disaster. Generally speaking, those who real-| ize that Germany's future is dependent | upon the good will of western nations | cannot vote for Hindenburg. Those who want a Democratic republic, gen- | erous to the working classes, must | refuse the old general. Those who| fear the advance of Socialism mostly consider him the lesser of two evil Those who want something specific- | ally German in the old sense—a re- turn to the “good old day: of Wil- helm—yearn for the old general. MOWRER. Struggle to Be Close. i ignoring the Communists, two! camps are drawn up in bat-| tle formation, and the struggle will be | the hardest and probably the closest ! ever witnessed here. | For Hindenburg stand the supe: patric who eam of ‘“revanche,” the anti-semites, who, confusing Israel ! with capitalism, make the Jews re-! sponsible for all their recent suffer-| the old aristocracy of landed proprietors and their dependents on| the farms and in the kitchens of the| old bureaucracy; the Nationalists, who | selieve the world can be bullied into| iermany to her old position; i-Catholics: a large part | of the dispossessed middle class, who| oat to sacrifice for their | lost comfort and prosperity, and many | who fought in the war and still feel| the old spirit of discipline, or esprit de corps. In addition will get the votes of many sentimental, | romantic German women, a large | share of the industrialists and bank ers who fear a Marx victory would mean further taxes on large fortunes | and possibly socialism, and finally the | Bavarian Catholics, who, alone, are open monarchists and believe Hinde: burg’s election would prepare the wa; for the return of “‘unser Rupprecht Marx Backers Strong. For Marx are the Catholic Center | party, the German democrats who | wish to follow the western lead, huge | masses of unorganized non-communist | laborers and share of German | businessmen, shopkeepers, bankers and professional men. The great question is the attitude of the 10,000,000 non-political persons | who have never voted. If they go to! (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PRESIDENT TO MAKE WEEK END CRUISE| So, opposi Coolidge Will Be Host to, Party of Friends on Mayflower. | Mr. President and Mrs. Coolidge, with a few friends, will pass the week end aboard the presidential yacht M flower. It is expected the ship will anchor for the night a short distance | below Colonial Beach, and, following a | cruise about the lower Potomac and | Chesapeake Bay tomorrow, anchor off | Hains Point tomorrow night and dock at the navy vard early Mond: The high temperature in Washing- ton during the past few days has not | been at all to the Executive's liking, | and those close to him are hoping he | will be refreshed on this cruise. Those accompanying the F and Coolidge are Sec the ury Mellon, Hoover, Art P. Denni: esident | etary of | ecretary of Hindenburg | h | New |War Debt Discussion | Awaits Result of German Balloting By the Associated Press PARIS, April The Franco- British diplomatic exchanges, both as regards security and war debts, are again entéring an active phase. M. de Fleuriau, French Ambassa- dor to Great Britain, has arrived from London to go over the whole situation with Foreign Minister Briand preparatory to reopening pourparlers as soon as the results of the German presidential election are known. When the pourparlers are suffi- clently advanced M. Briand will meet the British foreign secretary in conference. This will probably be at London, toward the middle of next month. But there has been no definite decision as yet. M. de Fleuriau and M. Briand had a long conversation this morn- ing, during which they discussed the security situation and other questions of Franco-British diplo- macy WHEELER CLEARED Receives Verdict of Acquittal and News of Birth of Daughter Together. i i By the Associated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 25.— Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- tana, late vice presidential candidate| and political storm center, basked to-| day in the double-distilled sunshine| of fortune. As the Senator stood in Federal | Court here last night he received two| messages simultaneously, one his ac- | quittal on a charge of wrongfully | using his senatorial influence with | the Interior Department, and the other an announcement of the birth| of a daughter in Washington. | The verdict was returned two hours and thirteen minutes after the jury had retired to deliberate. One ballot wa | | as taken. Despite an admonition by Federal| Judge Frank S. Dietrich that there! must be no demonstration in the| court, there was a rush for the Sena-| tor after the verdict. In his hand| he held the telegram announcing the birth of a daughter. He strode over to the jury box and shook hands with each of the 12 men. | District Attorney John L. Slattery | shook hands with Senator Wheeler. “I hope both the daughter and verdict | get along all right,” said Slattery, smiling. Indicted Year Ago. Senator Wheeler then shook hands with Senator Thomas his chief attorney, and S. C. Ford, W. F. O'Leary and James H. Baldwin, as. sociate counsel, and retired from the ! courtroom. He later issued a state- ment saying that the verdict was| what he ‘expected and thanking Sen | tor Walsh for his services. He also aid that his concern for Mrs. Wheeler was greater during the trial than was | anxfety over his case. Senator Wheeler was indicted here | April 8, 1924, by a Federal grand jury | on a charge of accepting a fee of, $4,000 from Gordon Campbell, Mon- | tana oil operator, was appearing, af-| ter his election to the Senate, before | the Department of the Interior in| prosecuting ofl land permits for his | client. He branded the indictment as “‘palpably a frame-up” and blamed the Department of Justice, which he was | investigating at the time as prose- cutor of the Senate Daugherty in- vestigating committee. Next day the Senate started an investigation of the case and later exonerated him. Much Documentary Evidence. The trial started here April 16 after | many delays. The Government intro- duced a mass of documentary evi-| dence which, it contended, was proof of the charges. ~Senator Wheeler | maintained that tHe fee he accepted | from Campbell was for services per- | formed in the Montana State courts The Government produced its | star witness George P. Hayes, New York attorney, who testified he mel! enator Wheeler by appointment in | York in March, 1923, and that | the Senator asked him to appear in| his stead before the Interior Depart- | ment. Senator Wheeler, who took the | stand in his own behalf, denied Hayes' | statements. | Senator Wheeler expects to leave at | once for Butte an® then to return to Mrs. Wheeler in Washington as soon as possible. i In his instructions to the jury Judge | Dietrich said that a verdict of guilty | would not be justified on the basis of evidence tending to show that Wheeler (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. TROOPS GUARD RITES FOR LORD RAWLINSON British Take Precautions to Pre- vent Bomb Outrage Similar to That in Sofia. i AS HERESS ARRVES | by 7,000 men. | riff Commission and M ank B. Noyes. president ted Pre: nd Mrs. Noyes Hight. manager of Hotel, and Mrs. Hight of Dennis, the A |' o he | Br the Associated, Press. the | " L,ONDON, April quare, outside | Westminster, was filled with large, Sarar | vds toda: th i BRITISH KING BACK HOME |ZiF, inera Services for Gen. Lora Rawlinson, commander-in-chief of the Parliament t. Margaret's Church, | Returns From Mediterranean Trip Bronzed and Well. April 25.—King Geor; returning from their Mediterranean trip, arrived at Vi toria station this morning. looked bronzed and well. They were greeted by the Duke and I)ut"hps.fl of York, Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, Prince Hen: and l’rl}’ICe George and Prince Arthur of Con- t. P ing and Queen drove to Buck- ingham Palace in an open carriage {hrough streets lined with thousands of cheeiring persons. 200 PERISH IN STORM. By the Associated Press. "SEOUL, Korea. April —Two hundred Korean emigrants perished in a nowstorm in the Primorsk region on Tuesday. ” bl LONDON and Queen Mary Both | British forces in India, who died at| |Delni March 25 after an operation) | for appendicitis. A brigade of helmeted guards, num- bering 2,500, escoged the coffin from | the church to Waterloo Station, where he body was placed aboard a train for Sherborne, Dorsetshire, where bur- |1al will be made. The Daily. Mail of London yester- |day declared extraordinary precau- tions were being taken to safeguard those gathering for Lord Rawlinson's funeral, the precautions being prompt- ed by fears that a bomb outrage might be attempted similar to that which wrought havoc in the Sveti Kral Cathedral, Sofia, last week during the funeral services for Gen. Georghieff. St. Margaret'’s Church, the paper sald, had been minutely examined by | Scotland Yard detectives and guards posted at the entrances i IRufig Programs—Page 27.1 K} | BRUSSELS, April 2 1 | BALKANS' FERMENT ALLAYEDBY ENVOYS OF U.S. ANDBRITAIN Rumanian Aid Given Bulgaria to Quell Reds—Greeks Still Neutral. JUGOSLAVIA ACCEPTS CONCILIATION OF SOFIA Possibility of Recurring Violence Seen in Execution of Sus- pected Plotters. | | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dails News VIENNA, April 25.—Communists burned the city hall, the library and a theater at Plevna, Bulgaria, Friday night. Bombs were exploded during the fire, but no lives were lost. Many arrests have been made. (Copyright, 1. By the Associated Press. The situation in Bulgaria, as re. flected by dispatches from Sofia and outside points, is apparently calmer, a fact which is attributed in some foreign quarters to counsels of mod- eration by the American and British Ministers. Bulgaria's neighbors, how- ever, are in a state of anxiety lest her troubles, which the Sofia authorities ascribe to a Communist plot, spread to their own territorfes. Rumania appears to have become fully alive to the danger threatening the Balkans, Sofia advices say, and is lending Bulgaria every assistance, while Greece maintains a more or less neutral attitude. Serbia’s Position Not Clear. Jugoslavia's position is not so clear, and a Berlin dispatch says German government circles emphasize the danger of possible Jugoslav interven. tion in Bulgaria, which, they point out, might easily lead to another Balkan war. The Bulgarian government pro- | fesses to be in complete possession of the details of the plot for the bomb- ing of the Sveti Kral Cathedral in Sofia last week, the disaster which, coming on top of the attempt against King Boris and the assassination of | Gen. Georghieff, brought the declara- tion of martial law and the present situation. The authorities say the plot was carried out by Bulgarians, raid lavishly for their work by Com- munists, who remained in the back- ground, awaiting the outcome. This is supported by advices reaching the German forelgn office, which declar: the coup had long been planned an that its object was to seize Sofia and establish a strong operating base for the spread of Communism in the Balkans. Executions Reported. Dispatches through Berlin and Bel- grade tell of executions of persons charged with connection with the piot, Numbers of Bulgarians are reported to be fleeing over the Serbian and Ru- manian frontiers. An Italian correspondent tele- graphs that the streets of Sofia still present a “civil war aspect,” and that possibility of a recurrence of violence is indicated. Arrests in the search for terrorists continue. ATHENS SCENTS PLOT. Press Denounces Increase in Bul- garian Armed Forces. ATHENS, April 25.—The news- papers of Athens today editorially de- nounce the decision of the Council of Ambassadors in Paris to allow Bul- garia to increase her military strength They take the ground that Bulgaria's present difficulties are the direct result of the Bulgarian gov- ernment’s “terrorist policy.” RED COMMITS SUICIDE. | Ranoeff, Hunted in Plot, Ends Life to Dodge Arrest. By the Associated Prese SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 25.—It is learned that Ivan Kanoeff of the Bul- garian Communist Party, who was vesterday reported to have been shot by the police, committed suicide. The act occurred when the police demand- ed his surrender after a search of his home, in which they declared they found evidence of his connection with the revolutionary plot. NEW ATTACK THREATENED. Bulgarian Minister Says Peace Guarantee Impossible. By the Associated Press. ROME, April 25.—The Sofia corres- pondent of the Messaggero telegraphs his paper that Bulgarian Minister of the Interior Rousseff has stated that the government cannot guarantee that more attempts at outrages will not be made, because, he said, terrorist com- mittees in other countries threaten to cause new attacks in Bulgaria. Rousseff renwed the charge that ex- plosives used in the recent cathedral bombing came from Jugoslavia. The Jugoslav minister at Sofia presented a_strong officlal protest against such charges, which have been denied pre- viously by other Jugoslav officials. The dispatch also said the Serbian minister may leave Sofia as tangible protst against the alleged atiitude of the Bulgarian government in sus- pecting Serbia of complicity in caus- ing the Bulgarian disturbances. It was officially denied, according to this_ dispatch that the Agrarian leader Granciaroff has been executed, or that he had even been arrested. It is rumored that Granclaroff found a safe refuge in the Serbian legation. It also was officially denied that the " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) WILL NOT FORM CABINET. Belgian Leader Declines Commis- sion From King. has requested Aloys van de Vyvere, financier and statesman, new cabinet to succeed that Premier Theunis, who resigned April but M. Van de Vyvere has declined. dervelde. socialist leader. cabinet to succeed that of A to form . by Chicago Daily News Co.) | —The king to form a of | i | This follows the failure of M. Van.|heating method. WITH SUNDAY MORKNING EBITION Fhening SATURDAY, APRIL 25, HIRTY-FOUR PAGI Star. “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. TR PEACEND GENTLEYS :—_” DETROT SCADLS ERECTEDCAEAPLY Have Beauty Lacking Here, | at Same Cost—Fact Is Hard to Explain. | BY JAMES E. CHINN, (Staft Correspondent of The Star). DETROIT, Mich., April 25.—Detroit is building new schools with striking architectural embellishments and cost- ly interior finishing at 35 cents a cu- | bic foot which would cost Washington 50 cents to duplicate, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, and Osgood Holmes, assistant municipal architect of the District, estimated to- | day after inspecting seven of the city's most modern public educational in- stitutions. Washington is paying 35 cents a cu- bie foot for its new schools, according to Mr. Holmes, and they represent the last word in aconomy. For the same price Detroit is getting buildings more esthetically treated than those in the tional Capital, as well as better fin- shed interiors. Some of the schools here contain conveniences and a few dignified frills and ornaments which, Dr. Ballou said, he would not dare recommend for Washington's new schools to be erect- | ed under the $19,000,000 five-year | building program. Walls Are Plastered. The walls and ceilings of all of De- troit's new schools, for instance, are covered with plaster—a large item in the ultimate cost of a building, with plasterers collecting $16 a day here for wages. Washington's proposed new bulldings will be plasterless in the interest of economy. The Detroit schools also have ex- tensive terrazzo and promenade lino- leum floors throughout the corridors —a floor covering which has been found too costly for Washington. Detroit school officials were unable to explain satisfactorily to the Wash- ington delegation just why their schools are costing less than those in the District. Wages are as high here, they sald, as in any place in the United States, while building mate- rials probably are not any cheaper. This fact has presented the Washing- ton school planners with a perplexing problem which undoubtedly will re- ceive serious attention when building contractors are asked next Fall to submit bids for the first buildings called for in the initial installment of the five-year program. Seven Schools Studied. Of the seven schools inspected today by Dr. Ballou and Mr. Holmes, five were of the elementary type. Both were anxious to observe the innova- tions in this type of building, as plans are in the process of preparation for eight of the elementay schools pro- vided in the first installment of the building program. An intermediate school—a junior high school with a Detroit name—and the nationally known Cuss Technical High School were the other two buildings visited. The latter is a huge structure, seven stories high, with an enrollment of 5,000 students. It was built during the war at a cost of more than $4,000,- 000 to meet the demand for highly trained technical men. The school’s auditorium seats 3,300, just 1,400 more than Washington's largest school au- ditorium in Central High School, while its immense lunchroom provides ac- commodations for 1,000 students. The elementary schools inspected were the Poe, Brady, Doty, Ferry and Hutchins. The one which com- manded the most interest from Dr. Ballou and Mr. Holmes was the Ferry, erected at a perlod when Detroit ob- viously lavished money freely on its schools. It has expensive ornamental lighting fixtures in every classroom, large pneumatic clocks projecting out from the walls at frequent Intervals throughout the corridors, and porce- Jain cuspidors with running water, re- cessed in the walls of the gymnasfum. These novel cuspidors cost Detroit $50 each. School officials explained their presence as an unusual schoolhouse fixture as a convenience for tobacco chewers who attended community gatherings at the school at night. Old Buildings Revamped. * Another school which interested the visitors was the Poe, an old-type eight- room. building on which has been added an extension of equal size to- gether with a gymnasium and assem- bly hall, for conversion into a platoon school. A number of other of Detroit’s older buildings have been revamped in this fashion to meet the requirements of a platoon school. As for new ideas in schoolhouse con- struction, Detroit has taken the initiative in installing dual heating systems in all of its buildings of recent construction. Hot air is the paimary Steam is used as an auxiliary. The hot-air registers in Turn Air Hose on Smoke, Clearing Path to Fire, W |Officials Predict Better Sys-| | ton leads to a merger o |{COOL-HEADED MINERS BATTLE WAY" OUT OF FLAMES 2,000 FEET DOWN/:» i Then Pump Water From Drainage Ditch and Calm- ly Ring for Cage to Lift Them to Surface. By the Associated Press. WALLACE, Idaho. April 2 —Four- | teen miners who subdued a fire on | the 2.000-foot level of the Hecla silver | and lead mine at Burke, seven miles | from here, and escaped by their own | efforts late vesterday afternoon after | being trapped in the mine for more than 12 hours, are the heroes of Burke. After battling smoke and flames for several hours the men reached the main shaft and calmly rang for the cage, They were hoisted to the sur- face unharmed. When the alarm was sounded all | men working in the mine were hoisted | to safety except those who were two | miles away in They disconnected a pump used in their drilling and by compressed air drove back the smoke until they were | close enough to pump water on the | burning plant. | From then on, the miners said, they | pumped water from the drainage ditch until they were finally able to drive | the fire back and reach the station. | A leak in an electric cable is believed to have caused the fire All day anxious relatives and friends FAIR PLAY PROMISE PLEASES COL. BELL Assured Northwest Dele- gates Will Not Try to Domi- nate Council Election. | T [ Engineer Commissioner Bell, who fathered the idea of creating a Citi- | zens’ advisory council, was gratified today over the assurance given yes- terday by northwest delegates that they will treat all sections of the city fairly in electing the members of mel’ council. Delegates to the Federation of Citi- zens’ Associations from the northwest, when canvassed yesterday, discounted the suggestion that they had any in- tention of seeking to dominate the election because they outnumbered representatives from other localities in the federation. Pleased at Indications. “I was pleased to see these sions from the northwest people,” Col. Bell, “and I feel confident that the federation can and will find mem- bers to serve on the council who will take a broad view of the needs of the entire city.” Col. Bell announced todav that he will address to Jesse C. Suter, chair- man ex-officio of the council, during the coming week a letter on what he will expect the council to do in con- nection with the preparation of the next District budget. 3 Preparation of the next estimates has not been begun, but Col. Bell will provide the council with a statement of the amounts appropriated for gen- eral classes of work for the fiscal year now drawing to a close and for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Data to Serve as Guide. These data of the most recent ap. propriations will serve as a guide to the council in advising the city heads | how much the next budget should total. The belief prevailed today that the expressions of fair play on the part of representatives of northwest as- sociations will go far toward dispel- ling the fear that had developed among some delegates from the eastern and southern parts of the city that their candidates might not have a chance because a majority of the delegates in the federation, who will do the voting, are from north- west. Several of the northwest delegates interviewed yesterday went so far as to say that they already had made up their minds to vote for several candi- dates from the other sections. Ten Colored Candidates. The two colored members of the Citizene’ Advisory Council will be elected at a meeting of the Federation of Civic Associations in the board- room of the District Bullding Friday night, May 1. This was decided upon at a meeting of the colored federation at the District Building last night. There are 10 candidates for the 2 seats to be filled, namely—George T. h i “(Continusd on Page 5, Column 2) l ¥ (Continued on Pages, Column 1) - | enough |of Karl T. Sparks. chief engineer of awaited word from them. They were imprisoned far underzround in the Star workings of the Hecla. about two miles from the shaft. United States | mine rescue crews poured water down | the shaft of the mine upon the blaze | that had broken out shortly before | midnight in the pump station of the | 2,000-foot level 1 Meanwhile helmet crews waited im- | patiently at the head of the shaft| until the flames had been sufficiently controlled and the shaft had cooled to permit them to enter the tunnel in search of the imprisoned | workmen. { In the afternoon they sent the| mine cage to the 2.000-foot level and | the Star workings. | it came back only warm. Then three | take of them went down, under command | the mine rescue crews of the Couer d’Alene mining district. It was not long afterward before they came up | again and reported conditions im- proved. ‘Soon, the entrapped miners | themselves came up the shaft. The 14 men. turned back b smoke and fumes when they (Continued on Fage 4, Column COOLIDGE HAS OPEN MIND ON SHPPING | Doubts Congress Would | Grant Subsidy—Any | Plan to Be Studied. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. i President Coolidge’s thoughts on the | state of the Union as revealed by the White House spokesman are not turning toward ship subsidies as a! way to assist the merchant marine— | nor are they turning to anything else | so far as afirmative indication of | shipping policy is concerned | The spokesman’s outgiving to the press contained the following infor-| mation presented virtually verbatim:| i Doubts Success of Bill. 1. That the President hasn't seen the proposition said to have been! made by Gen. Pershing regarding financial assistance to the American merchant marine. That has been a subject that has been under consider- ation by Congress a number of times but it never passed a bill of that kind. The President doubts very much if it can be persuaded to pass a bill of that nature now, notwithstanding | the fact that our shipping costs an- nually—the expense above the re- ceipts—are from $30,000,000 to $50, 000,000, not _counting depreciation. The press would recall the effort made during President Harding’s ad- | ministration to provide for a law of | this kind, which failed. Such an effort | also had been made previous to that | by Senator Mark Hanna, when he | was in Washington around 1900— | that failed also. The President re- | lls the merchant marine bill that | went through the House in the Hard- | TRACTION SURVEY | public {and Yesterday's Ciz’cuhtinn,_ 101,499 TWO CENTS. ]apanese to Hold [] A R Naval Maneuvers (L AUDITORIUM fn Pacific May 27 FIIN) NEAR §75,000 TOKIO, April The United States Navy will not be the only one maneuver in the Pacific Voluntary Subscriptions Pour in as Delegates Prepare to Close Congress. next month. The Japanese Navy proposes to hold an interesting display of its power of attack in ANTHONY WAYNE COOK WILL GIVE $5,000 MORE celebration of the anniversary of the battle of the Japan Sea on May 27. The program is stated to include a reproduction of Admiral Togo's onslaught, when he swept the waters clean of the Russian fleet. A feature will be the appearance of a considerable section of Japan's air force. (Copsright by Chicago Daily News.) Florida Tops All State Donations With $2,000—Number Put Down Names for $1,000 T0HELP SERVE Back inental in their Hall the thirty-fourth Continental the D. A. R. prepared to close session today by raising the volun tary subscription to the building fund for their new $2,000,000 audito: to nearly $75,000 | When Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook president general the society opened the morning session of the final day of this con confronted by scores of waving hands of delegates who were tryin t | donations, ranging from $10 to $5.000 { each, all at once. Before this renewed outburst of gift-giving had subsided, it was estimated that more than $30.- 000 had been subscribed in ttle more than an hour. Gives $5,000 More. Leading the list of big donors again today was Anthony Wayne Cook, hus | band of the president general. Yester = Bell, chair- | day he brought down great applause man of the commissi also was [when immediately after the congre optimistic today over the possible re- | had authorized the bt g of the new Its of the investigation. auditorium he ed $5.000 While the survey is to be made(memory of his mot Today he m by an outside firm of engineers and | that sum as a orial to his wi at the expense of the North American Co. of New York. which ow n interest in local utilities, it will be carried on under the close super- vision of the commission. This is provided for in the agreement made vesterday between the com- mission and the North American Co. Will Start Next Week. Agents of the firm of McClellan & Congress of to hetr tem Even If Merger Is Not Accomplished. fum Whether the forthcoming survey of transportation conditions in Washing. the lines or | not, it will result in many improve ments in existing facilities, in the spinion of officials of the Public Utili- ties Com Maj. W. sion R. Covell, assistant to e commission, suggested today that e study may show the advisability of advantageous rerouting of cars elimination of dead-ends of track in the center of the city and similar bet termen E a neer Commissione topped h a gift of $2.0 the D. A. R toward South Dakota’s qu ring that the gift should appear in the ame of her State rather than her n name. There were nearly 10 other personal of $1,000 each, half a dozen or mare of $500 each, at least a score of $100 each and so many con Junkegsfeld, Inc., of New York, va‘il. butions ranging from $10 to $75 that ployed to conduct the study, will|Mrs. Cook found it literally impossible come to Washington early next week | 10 announce them all from the plat and take up offices in the Earle |form as they were shouted to her by Bniliie & besin: weask the enthused delegates on the floor. Maj. Covell estimated today it will Gitls a8 Memostals. three months to finish the » In nearly every instance these gifts thorough sutdy that is planned. | : - Empheasis is being 1aid on the point |came as memorials to Revelutionary heroes from whom the donors had that this is to be simply a fact-find- | her ing investigation, with no recommen- | descended. One woman gave a hun- dred dollars in the memory 6f a cap- dations in the final report. e i 3 The result, however, will constitute | fain in the Civil War. Mrs. Alfred B. Garges of the District of Columbia such a complete presentation of how _ Washington is actually being served |8ave $50 in honor of her “little Irish what the possibilities of future |8randsos growth are, that the companies will be Not to be outdone by modern gen h a good position to discusé merger. |erations. Mrs. J. N. La Salle of Mas- If the survey is completed by Au.|Sachusetts rose and declared ~she gust 1 there will remain about four | Would subscribs $500 each for two months before the opening of Con- [Sets of twi One hundred and fifty gress in which to arrive at a basis for | Years azo one of my Revolutionary merger, if the survey should show the |ancestors became the proud mother desirability of such a movye. of twin daughters,” she said Officials of the commission have| “Just a few months ago my been particularly impressed by the daughter zave birth to twins. I want fact that officials of the North Ameri- | to subscribe $500 in honor of those can Co. believe Washington is due for | Revolutionary babies and another $500 rapid expansion in the future. The |in hor of our twentieth century company has agreed to spend $50,000 [tWins.” The congress roared with in making the investigation. laughter. MRS. MURRAY DIES OF INJURIES AT TURIN Jump From Omnibus Fatal to Washington Woman on Holy Year Pilgrimage. all State donations 0. A single gave $1,000 ota, prefer own $500 From Banker. George W. White, ,president of the Metropolitan National B: chairman of the advisory board to the Daughters of the American Revo tion, wrote a letter to Mrs. Cook this morning in which he declared that although he was barred from active membership in the society, he wished | to congratulate her and this condress on its laudable action in deciding to | build here an auditorium worthy of [the heroes whose names it will per petuate, and that he hoped con gress would accept from him a gift of $§500. It took the congress just about two seconds to carry out Mr. White's wishes, amid tumultuous applause Some other outstanding donations that could be heard above the uproar that accompanied each announcement were: Mable K. Richardson of South Dakota. $1,000; Mrs. Eleanor Hale of Kentucky, $100, a dollar for each year of her father's he having just passed the century milestone in life Mrs. Harry L. Rust, $200; Mrs. Lud wig of Connecticut, $500; Mrs. John Hune of Ohio. $100 in honor of her daughter Marjorie. who is a page at this congress; Miss Broadhurst, $125 Mrs. A. Fisk Meritas, $100 in mem ory of a Minuteman; Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, former treasurer general, $1,000; the State of Kansas, $1,000, Gifts Come Fast. In most of the other announce. ments, only the figures could be over heard, but gifts of $100, $500 and $1,000 and $50 were being shouted back and forth across the dignified old auditorium in Memorial Conti nental Hall so fast they fairly made one dizzy, and finally Mrs. Cook was obliged to ask each donor to write her gift on a piece of paper and send }it to the platform by the pages. In a few minutes a dozen pages were standing in line waiting to reach Mr=. Cook with hands full of these written {announcements. By tha Associated Pre: TURIN, Italy April Mrs. Elizabeth Murray of Washington, D. €., died here today from the effects| of the injuries she received yester. day in jumping from a motor omni- bus while touring with a party of Holy Year pilgrims. She leaped from the bus when frightened by the close approach of the car to a precipice. Mrs. Murray was 58 years old. Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, 640 F street southwest, left Washington April 10 to accompany a party on a | pilgrimage to see the Pope at Rome. She sailed from New York on the| Rochambeau the following day—Sat- urday, April 11—expecting to reach Havre, France, April 20. : Mrs. Murray was accompanied on the trip by her sister, Miss Lydia Shoemaker. News of the accident first reached here yesterday through an As- soclated Press dispatch from abroad. A cable message was also communi- cated to a brother, William A. Shoe- maker, a patent attorney of this city. The latter message stated that Mrs. | Murray was ‘“slightly injured,” had bee taken to a hospital and that a letter would follow giving details of the accident. Besides her hoemaker, Mrs brother, William A Murray is survived |ing administration and they [ Said there ‘were. mamiciens | by two other brothers of this city Ibert and Blair. leaders) L votes in the Senate to pass it, but! it didn’t come to a vote there. They | decided to wait till the new election, | B which changed the complexion of the Senate in such a way that it was found the bill wouldn't pass. ‘Would Consider Plan. Murray, who died several years g0. She was a native Washingtonian. GERMANS PL'AN ATTEMPT Mrs. Murray was the widow of John | When the role of these donations is finally inscribed it will bear the name of practically every State in the | Union and many names immortal in the history of America's beginning These are only preliminaries, dona | tions from some of the comparatively few delegates here who represent the The inquiry having been made as to whether the President now favored such a bill, the reply from the spokes- man is that the President would want to know what the nature of the as- sistance was going to be, and how much it was going to cost and what | probably would be its effect. He was not in favor of presenting a bill for that purpose at the present time, but if some one has a plan he should loak at it with a great deal of interest. Of course, it must be remembered that a great many American ships are being operated—some of them at a fair return—without the aid of any direct financial assistance from the United States Government, but it has always been thought that if you are to have an adequate merchant ma- rine—one that would give adequate service to all parts of the country and provide sufficient merchant vesgels to aid in defense in case of a national hundred and fifty thousand Daughters of the American Revolution scattered throughout the world who yet remalin to be heard from. Due to Hit $75,000. The donations received yesterday, although still uncompletely tabulated, | passed the $40,000 mark and the gifts this morning totaled better than BERLIN, April 25.—The German |$25.000 on the pads of those who jotted Alpine Club is preparing an attempt |them down as they were called. It this Summer to reach the summit of |Was estimated that before the con- Mount Everest, highest mountain in |8ress adjourns this afternoon, $75,000 the world, making the ascent from |Will have been contributed by the few the Nepal side of the Himalayas. delegates here. The expedition plans to leave Ven.| All the while the congress was busy ice, Italy, on July 2, seemingly being |taking in the donations toward the confident that the British government [new auditorium, Secretary of Labor will grant the necessary permit. This|Davis sat quietly on a chair just be- confidence is not shared everywhere, |hind the scenes, waiting to address however. One newspaper describes|the delegates. He remained outside the enterprise as hopeless and also|bY preference. But nothing could stem unfair. The English, having in vears|the flood of checks and money that past spent money and lives in at.|Kept pouring up to the president tempts -to conquer the mountain, it|eneral’s platform until well on savs. is not likely to grant the per-|foward the noon hour. and it was *ar mission. > (Continued on Page : 53 TO CLIMB MT. EVEREST British Government Is Expected to Refuse Permit to Alien Adventurers. | By_the Associated Press.