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P - * THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, CONTRACT AIR MAL SERVICE PLANNED U. S. Soon to Ask Bids for| Kansas City-Chicago Route Under Recent Law. v the Associated Prese. L contract Kansas ( cago, counecting with New York over ht ably will be asked for b; General New in a few da; The action will form the first actual | step in the Post Office Department’s plan to spread a net of air service routes over the United States. The| Chicago-New York night service is scheduled to begin about July 1. Postmaster W. E. Morton of Kan- | sas ind Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder of Chicago have jointly peti- tioned for the new service. their wction constituting the first regularly tted appeals on whieh the aster General is authoribed to act under a law passed by the last Congress 1 The contract air mail service will differ from the Government-financed | svstem hat the carriers will be pri controlled ollecting their through the depart- - postage fee. is proposed to have the Kansas | Chicago route laid out via Moline, | 1 wh there is a large flying} field. Moline, on its own behalf and | on behalf of nearby cities, has in dorsed the plan The Kansas City petition. by the Chamber of Commerce, the large Southwestern and Western territory served through the Kansas ity Post Office and the time savings which would be effected through an air mail service. At the Post Office Department it was said Kansas City, ver capita, used the mail more than any city the United States. The distance from Kansas City to| Moline 324 miles and from Moline to Chic: 79 miles. Kansas City | ail i that handled through Kan-| sas City would conneet in Chicago to| both ex and west bound mall routes. posed to have planes leave | ity at 4 p.m., reaching Chi- | 10 p.m. Under this plan Kan sas City mail would reach New York the following morning. _Westhound planes would arrive at Kansas City later than noon. mail serv- ty and Chi- e Chicago- service, prob- Postmaster | ity backed cited LISBON REDS ATTACK POLICE COMMANDER! Fire Six Shots From Ambush. Four Reach Mark—ufartial Law Extended. By the Associated Press LISBON, May 16.—Maj. Ferreira Amaral, commander of the safety state police, was attacked in a street | here last night by members of a red organization and was severely wound- ed. Amaral was ambushed by members of the “red leglon," described as a bomb-throwing organization 3y The government has decided, as a result of this outbreak, to continue martial law Amaral had a leg broken and was wounded in the hand, but drew hi pistol and returned the fire of his as- saflants. He is in a hospital guarded by police to prevent another attack. The “red legion” is an organization which Lisbon police recently have been actively pursuing. The supposed mo- tive for the attack is the recent de- portation of some members of this or- ganization. When Amaral was ambushed six shots were fired at him, four of which took effect. The reds also fired upon 2 police squad which came to Amaral's rescue and wounded a police corporal. Amaral commanded a Portuguese regiment in France and was cited for distinguished bravery in action. Physicians tonight extracted a bul- let from Maj. Amaral's leg, and he is reported progressing satisfactorily. Several arrests have been made. i gt NAVY OFFICER GUILTY OF LANDING LIQUOR Chief Machinist Frank Hendricks of U. S. Transport Beaufort To File Appeal. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va. May 16.—Chief Machinist Frank M. Hendricks, chi engineer of the transport Beaufor which 500 quarts of liquor was s by a searching party February 24, was found guilty by a naval court-mar- tial today on charges alleging con- duct to the prejudice of good order d discipline, attempting to land quor into the United States and vicla- tion of the lawful regulations of the The court reached its decision after nearly 3 hours' deliberation, but did not intimate what the sentence would be. The decision, with the record, will be forwarded the Secretary of the Navs. Lieut. J. W. Cavanagh, Hendricks’ counsel, said he would appeal Hendricks, on the stand, denied ab- solutely that he had placed liquor the ship or knew anything presence in his stateroom. al of Chief Pay Clerk J. P. Gallagher on similar charges will be- zin Tuesday morning before the same court. His case will be followed by the trials of four Heutenants, all of whom are alleged to be owners of part of the assorted liquors seized in the raid. PROTEST TELEPHONE REVALUING EXPENSE W. McK. Clayton, Citizens’ Body Representative, Objects to Allowance. Representing the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations, Willlam McK. Clayton filed a letter with the Utilities Commission yesterday afternoon ob- Jecting to an allowance for the Chesa- peake and Potomac Telephone Co. of The $105,000 expended by the company in revaluing its property recently. Mr. Clayton told the commission he based his objection on the belief that | the commission under the law cannot allow this sumn as an operating ex- pense charge against the current rev- enues of the company. Mr. Clayton told the comnilssion he would further outline his position, either in writing or orally, as the commission prefers. The company points out that it has been 10 years since an inventory and appraisal of its property was made BALL. JOHN M¢ELROY. SCIENTISTS BRIDGE. BOLSHEVIT GULF Russian Orthinologist’s Visit| to U. S. Is Extended in Interest of Bird Study. Sclence. which knows no political nor international boundaries. has Lrought about the first handshake be. een two prominent institutions of viet Russia and the United States. The intermediary is Prof. Peter P. Sushkin, world famous orthinologist of the Leningrad Academy of Sciences, the greatest of the bolshevist scien- tific organizations. He is now at work in the Division National Museum after the American sclentists intervened with the immi gration commission to save him from being deported. & The Russian scientist is working in harmony with experts of the Depart- ment of Agriculture and of the Smith- sonian, who regard him as one of the | s line of all time. ion of arrang- ing through Prof. kin an inter- change of scientific material between Russia and the United States. Lectured at Harvard. Sushkin first came to the United States as a short-term visitor to lec ture at Harvard University. He came to Washington to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Sclences early this month and was at- tracted by the bird material at the Washington Museum. Unfortunately his six months were up and he was notifled by the Department of Labor that he must leave. greatest There is s American scientific bodies, including | the Smithsonian, came to his rescue. The great value to the world of the Russian’s studies, his notable record as a scientist and the innocuous na- ture of his activities were brought out, with the result that the distin guished visitor was given an exten- sion of time until he can complete his | work. Former Commissioner neral of Immigration W. W. Husband said yesterday that the case came to his attention in common with a great many other cases.of extended leave; that it was never intended to work any hardship on Dr. Sushkin, and that when his request was taken un- der consideration it was granted with out much question. Few Russians Here. Although Russians are free to enter the United States as visitors, the im- migration records show that few have done so, and that of these Sushkin is practically the only figure of interna- tional repute. “The fact that we have no displo- matic relations with Russia,” said Mr. Husband, “has, of itself, no relation to the immigration law. Practicaily, of course, it is Impossible for a Rus: fan to obtain a vise to come to Amer- ica, because we have no agent in Rus- sla to sign such a paper. The same would apply on this side. An Amer- ijcan wishing to go to Russia would be unable to obtain a Russian vise. “Of course, it is possible to get around this, and the immigration of fice never has put up a bar against Russlan visitors. The new law has wiped out the old rule by which visits were limited to six months. Now the time is judged entirely by circum- stances. We consider the work the man wishes to do in this country and are willing to take his own word. so long as it is reasonable, on how long he will need to complete it. He can practically set his own time, within reasonable limits, but when that time is up we expect him to go. Misunderstood In Europe. ‘Unfortunately, however, the im- pression _seems to prevail in Burope that visits are limited to six months. We recognize the importance of the work of a man like Prof. Sushkin, who, I am told, is a very great figure in sclence. We are willing to co- operate with science wherever possible. “I see no objection to an exchange of sclentific material between two in- stitutions in Russia and the United States, especially between two colleges. 1 see no reason why an American col- lege like Harvard should not exchange professors with a Russian college if it sees fit.” Prof. Sushkin is engaged here in the preparation of a work on the birds of Siberia and Mongolla. He expects to spend about six weeks examining the collections. He has pald especial attention to the birds of prey. The new National Museum has some particularly valuable material in this line coliected by Asian ex- peditions during the past few years and that since that time the telephone plant has increased greatly in value, necemsitating careful revaluing. and which is now_in process of classification. The Russian, by his sclentific skill and invariable courtesy, of Birds of the New | GEN. MILES RTES | " PLANS COMPLETED | Limit Is Placed on Numbe! | to Attend Chureh i Services. | | Surrounded by a few treasured keepsakes reminiscent of his,triumphs on the battleflelds, Lieui. Gen. Nelson A lly todny in the unpretentious drawing coom of Miles sleeps pec it | his Connecticut avenue home, await- | reunion with comrades bivouacs of Ar | | | | | ing his eter of oid in the lingte Iaithtuliy porals he veters quiet followed by & bewed cor- of the fast-vanishing commanded in the past, the 1 of three vietorious American | vies Will be borne (o his final rest- | s place at @ o'cloelt Tuesday after- roon amid heners fitting his high | {rank and his place in the Nation's| | history ! Military to Escort Body. ments, representing every | armed service, | will escort him from St. John's Epis. | Church. at teenth and H | to the ma ieum: on the riinzton’s siopes. | Beside him will lfe his wife, who | preceded by 16 vewrs. | Just a away a great marble | lglobe mari ave of Admiral | Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, {and across a shallow ravine the mast {of the Maine towers near the Tomb {of the Unknown Soldier on a netgh- boring hill. Shadowing his sepulcher the embattlements of one of the forts thrown up to defend Washington from invasion from the South still stands guard. Flags to Be Half-Staffed. ¢ of the funeral every | and the standards fon Government buildings and reser- vations throughout the country will ! be half-staffed in honor of the pass- {ing commander. The services at { St. John's Church, which will be con- ducted by its rector. Rev. Robert Johnston, will be brief and immedi- ately afterward the cortege will pro- ceed to Arlington, the casket resting on the carriage of a_fleld plece, draped with American flags. he cortege will move from the church to Jackson place, through West Executive avenue past the White House, turning west at State i place to Seventeenth street, whence it will turn south and swing past the | statue of John Paul Jones and around {the east angle of the Tidal Basin to | the Hizhway Bridge. Reaching the irginia end of the bridge, it will proceed direct to the south gate of Arlington and to the mausoleum. Churth Attendance Limited. | _As the seating capacity of the | Chureh of St. John is lmited. a wish {ms bgen cxpresmed by members of | Gen. Miiles' family that those who | attend the funeral will do so at the | grave, where the simple but impres- | stve milltary honors of farewell will | Le paid. A Hmited number of auto- { mobiles will be allowed to park in the | cemetery on roads some distance trom the tomb, but after neom the gates will be closed entirely to motor traf- fic. Parking will be permitted. how- ever, on the roads surrounding the cemetery. | Drig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commander of the district of Wash- ington, will be in charge of the cor- tege, accompanied by his entire staff. The troops will inciude a _battalion each of Cavairy, Artillery, Engineers and Infantry, a battalion of Marines and a battalion of seamen. The Army and the Navy bands will also be in line. Members of the Grand Army of the Republic and representatives of other military and patriotic bodies will ride in automobiles. After the regular military servic at the mausoleum, the regular three volleys will be fired, followed by the sounding of taps by an Army bugler. The military escorts will be broken up to return to their posts by dif- ferent routes to prevent crowding the {roads back to Washington. Automo- | biles bearing civillan members of the cortege will return individually. Son's Approval Awaited. Final approval of these plans await the arrival of Gen. Miles’ son, | 3aj. Sherman Miles, who is due in | New York Monday from Constan- tinople. Maj. Miles is on the Levia- than, and upon the ship reaching Quarantine his journey to New York and then to Washington will be ex- pedited as much as possible. He is expected here late Monday afternoon or evening, but it is thought he will approve the plans as they now stand. They have already been acccpted by other members of Gen. Miles’ family. Gen. Miles will be laid to rest the dress uniform of a leutenamt gen- feral of the Army, a rank that was accorded him in 1901. He was the sixth man in the history of the Army to win that high office, George Wash- ington having been the first. [rom his throat hangs the Congressional Medal of Honor he won at Chancel- lorsville when, although desperately wounded and thought to be dying, he refused to retreat in the face of numerically superior Confederate forces. Scores Send Condolences. More than a hundred telegrams from all parts of the world have been re- ceived at Gen. Miles' heme expressing regret over his death. Many are from high officials of the Government, the Army and Navy. A number are from Paris and London. Acting Secretary of War Davis today advised the far- flung Army posts of the death of Gen. Miles in a special order that recounted his record. Gen. Pershing, who once served under Gen. Miles, added his tribute, saying: “He was an exceptionally splendld field soldier, and during the trying days of frontier campaigns was the idal of all who were associated with him. His death ends a life entirely de- voted to loyal and patriotic service to the Nation—one which must ever stand out as a fine example to his fellow counrtymen.” Gen. Pershing recalled that he had seen service with Gen. Miles during the Sioux Indian campaign and later as a member of his staff in Washington. suard line Tweo branch of Amerfea’s | summit Capt, Charles J. Denholm, Dental Corps, has been transferred from this y to Fort Totten, N. Y.. Maj. Clarence C. Benson, Cavalry, from Fort Leavenworth, to the Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.; First Lieut. Leroy M. Wolfe, Air Service, from Bolling Fleld, to McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio; First Lieut. Samuel C. Skemp, Air Service, from Chanute Field, Ili., to Bolling Field, and First Lieuts. Philllps Melville and David G. Lingle, Air Service, from the War Department, to McCook Field. e —————— has made an excellent impression upon scientists here. He is a short, heavy set man, with the pointed beard typical of an Iluropean scientist. He speaks English with difficulty, al- though he writes it well. Prof. Sushkin yesterday wss on a picnic up the river with scientific friends and was not expected back at the museum before Monday, e, AT ), | MAY 17, 1925—PART 1. SCENES FROM THE EVENTFUL PAST OF GEN. MILES Gen. Neison A. Miles, whose sudden and tragic death occurred Friday, pic- tured during episodes in his romantic Hfe in the past. Above (to right) he is discussing _his campalgn against the Indians with his old friend and cem- rade, Buffale Bill. In the center is shown, when commander-inchief of the American forces during the war with Spain, surrounded by his staff. Inserts portray him at various stages of his famous Army career. Above, at left, when he was in his twenties dur- ing Civil War days. At right, two later s of the general the time of the Spanish War. BAPTISTS REVISE MISION SERVICE Evolution Subject Crops Out in Final Session to Be Defeated. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 16.—Im- portant changes in the department of evangelism of the home mission board today were adopted by the Southern Baptist convention before bringing to a close the convention's seventieth annual meeting. Virtual re-establishment of the de- partment will result in the beard electing at its next annual meeting a superintendent of evangelism. The superintendent’s salary will be equal to that allowed secretary of the convention boards. The national Baptist memorial to religious liberty at Washington is practically completed the convention ‘was told, and bids are now ready for the completion of the interior. The memorial was erected as a joint project of the Northern and Southern conventlons. Benefits in the amount of $12 961.35 were pald out last year to 1,085 persons. A minimum of $400,000 is expected to be raised this year, it was reported, and with that amount the rellef and annuity board would insure receipts of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller, sr., whese gift is made contingent upon raising the other amount. Evolution Comes to Fore. The theory of evolution focused the convention's attention twice today— smoldered in resolutions on two oc- casions which sought to record a dif- ferent attitude from that embodied in the convention's declaration of faith—only to dle when the conven- tion would have no more of it. Rev. Allen H. Autry, Little Rock, Ark., would have delefed from the statement on science and religion a sentence to which there was objec- tion, but President McDaniel ruled him’ out of order. The chair ruled that in order for the statement to be put before the convention it would have to move to reconsider the en- tire statement. This, the convention agreed it did not care to_do. Tt was resolved to repeal the entire statement on science and religion, it bing pointed out that it was not a part of the convention's declaration of falth and message. The resolu- tlon was voted upon, but was tatled by a decisive margin. T PR L Corporal Is Retired. Corp. Aubrey B. Stacey, 29th En- gineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va.. has been placed on the Army retired list Heroines, Mothers and Taxpayers May Vote Among Italian Women By the Associated Press. ROME, May 16.—Municipal suf- frage just granted Italian women by a bill adopted by the Chamber of Deputies will be restricted to women over the age of 25 years coming within the following cate- Sories: First, those decorated with medals for military valor or with war crosses of merit. Second, those decorated with medals for civil valor or merit in public sanitation or elementary in struction, or for meritorious pub- lic service on the occasion of a public calamity. 229 Missing, 5 Dead In Terrific Blast In Dortmund Mine By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 16.—A terrific ex plosion occurred today in pit 5 of the Dortsfeld mine, near Dort- mund, which subsequently spread to pits 2 and 3. Two hundred and twenty-nine miners are missing. Of the 238 miners working in pit the pit, 99, including 14 injured, had returned to the surface by evening. Of the 238 winers working in pit 8, 194, including 4 injured, re- turned to the surface. Five bodies have been taken from the pits up to midnight. ROSCOE ARBUCKLE WEDS. Doris Deane Is Bride of Former Film Comedian. PASADENA, Calif, May 16 ().— In the presence of a large company of guests, many of them prominent in the motion picture world, Roscoe “Fatty" Arbuckle, former film comed- ian, and Dorls Deane, film actress, were married shortly after 9 o'clock tonight at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Charles R. Dibble, in San Marino, a suburb. Judge Hugh J. Crawford of the Los Angeles County superior court officiated. APPEAL FOR MORE MEDICAL INSPECTORS AND SCHOOL NURSES Senator Copeland, himself an authority on health and formerly Health Commissioner of New York City, indorses Washington’s appeal to Congress to make adequate pro- vision for the medical inspection of all publi¢ school chil- dren. this paper. See his' interview, published on another page of Health Department Waits on Congress The Health Department and the Board of Education have repeatedly asked for the money with which to em- ploy the needed medical inspectors and nurses. Civic and Commercial Bodies Urged to Act Citizens’ associations, churches, business and civ c clubs, fraternal lodges, labor unions and social service agencies can all help in voicing this need by passing reso- lutions and sendin, them to the District Commissioners while they are considering the annual budget for the action of Congress. This bulletin is paid for by the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1022 11th. Street N.W, Legal Notice 2 e Third. mothers of war dead Fourth, pensioned wa widows. Fifth, those exercising the rights of guardianship or tutelage over children. Sixth, those having completed the compulsory elementary school courses prescribed by the state, or are able to pass equivalent exam inations. Seventh, those payving annually taxes of not less than 40 lire, and who are able to read and write. Women wlil be eligible to hold all communal offices, except those of mayor, assessors or heads of councils. HALF-BILLION LOSS INTAXES CHARGED Senator King, Drafting New Bill, Says Corporations Have Mulcted U. S. Senator King of Utah, Democrat, member of the Senate finance commit- tee and of the Couzens committee which has been investigating the In- ternal Revenue Bureau, is preparing a bill reducing taxes and amending the present tax law in important particu- lars. He will introduce the measure when Congress reassembles. His bill would result in reducing the annual tax collected by the Federal Government by some $750,000,000. It would cut the income tax rates, in- cluding surtaxes, and would eliminate the so-called miscellaneous taxes. It would decrease- slightly the corpora- tion tax, but would make the adminis- trative features of the coporation tax much more stringent. As a member of the Couzens com- mittee, Senator King has looked care. fully into the operation of the tax law, and has become convinced, he said vesterday, that the Government has been mulcted out of hundreds of mil- lions of dollars, probably half a bil. Hon, by reason of allowances granted corporations, which never should have been granted, including particularly depreciation allowances. For this reason, Senator King will advocate in his bill the elimination of allowances for depreciation to a very large extent. With regard to the surtaxes, Senator King’s bill probably will go as far as the Mellon plan in such reductions, making the highest bracket 25 per cent. The Couzens committee is to meet tomorrow to decide whether it will g0 ahead with its investigation of the operation of prohibition enforce- ment under the Treasury Department. Service Is Extended. Thomas Granville Carmick, a veteran employe of the War Depart- ment, who has completed nearly a 50-year service of indexing and search- ing the official records of the United States Army since 1800, has been reappointed ‘a chief clerk in the ex- ecutive division of the Adjutant Gen- eral’s office, for two years. This is the second extension of his tenure of 3:1:37’.”hle'e‘{'mvlngt ruchodl the civil rement a; nearly two years aga. o Active Duty Ordered. Maj. John G. O'Brien, Specialist Reserve, and Capt. Arthur P. Fenton, Quartermaster Corps Reserves, hoth of this ecity, have been ordered to active duty in training, the former in the office of the Adjutant General, War Department, and the latter in 'the office of the Quartermaster General, | Amundsen’s Dash ToPoleby Air W aits! On Good Weather By the Associated Press OSLO, Norway, May 16.—The Shipping Guzette, published here, states that Roald Amundsen, the explorer, will start his air dash to the North Pole whenever meteor- ologists think that a period of good weather has set in. Amundsen will not wait until the end of May or the beginning of June, as he pre- viously planned, but will start di- rect for the Pole from Spitzbergen without landing at Dames Island. His airplanes are in perfect condi- tion and are being tested daily, the Jjournal states, but weather condi- tions still are troubling the ex- plorer. Low temperature prevalls and snow fell today at the base at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. D. . ESTIMATES ARE FACING SLASH Commissioners Will Take Un Tentative Figures From Various Departments. The District Commissioners begin within a week or ten days to study the tentative estimates of their department heads for the fiscal year 1926-1 in order to provide the Budget Bureau with a prelimi- nary report of the approximate total to_be requested. While no definite information is available as to the aggregate amount recommended by division heads, it is reported to be in the vicinity of $40,000,000. That the Commissioners will find it necessary to make a deep cut in these departmental recom- mendations is practically certain. Citizens to Check Up. While the city heads are going over the proposals of their assistants. the Citizens’ Advisory Council also will be busy studying the current appropria- tions for each department make suggestions as to how more or less should be sought for each activity next year The council will hold a conference tomorrow night with C. B. Hunt, en gineer of highways, and Morris Hack- er, supervisor of city refuse. to find out what are the outstanding needs of those two branches of the service. Other conferences probably will be held with the heads of the Police and Fire Departments before the council makes any recommendations to the ner First Report. The first report made to the budget bureau by the Commissioners will not go into detailed estimates, but conslst merely of approximate totals, in order that the budget officials may indicate what they believe should be the limit on the local budget submitted to the next Congress. FLYING- ééONY TAKES RICH KENTUCKY DERBY (Continued from First Page.) been the popular play on Sande's mount that when the mutuel pay- ments were figured up, it was found the winner pald only $3.15 to §1, or $8.30 on every §2 ticket. The Derby a_ three-horse race from first to Quatrain, of which so much was_expected, was never prominent in the running As they in racing parlance, he could not get up. He was far in the ruck as the fiving fleld of 20 gallant 3.year-olds passed the grandstand on the first round. and at the end of the mile and a quarter journey he was trafling in fourteenth position, never having favored his wealthy backers by so much as a bid for a contending position. He was almost a city block behind the winners. The three contenders from the pringing of the barrier were Flving ony, Captain Hal and Son of John. finished. Although Flying Ebony won by a length and a half, and Captain Hal was only a head in front of Son of John, it was generally agreed by turfmen at the track that Earl Sande could have won with any one of the trio, it was a Sande victory from first to last, and one of the most popular in_which he ever has participated. It was his second victory in the Derby: whatever there was of romance to the race gathered about the jockey. Last year Sande was riding for Harry A. Sinclair, the oil millionaire. At Saratoga he was in a dangerous spill and when he was picked up prostrate on the track after several horse had passed over him it w thought his riding days were over. But, Sande came back to the races this year, after showing in his fight for recovery the same dogged grit and unfailing nerve which have pulled him_through many such a field as that today to ultimate victory. Riding as Free Lance. Sande has been riding as a free lance. Two days ago it looked as if he would not have a mount in the Derby. All the owners had made jockey contracts months ago, when no one thought of Sande in a Derby saddle. Sande was distracted. He did a re- markable thing—he offered to give Jockey Bruening, who had the mount on Quatrain, $2,000 if he would release his contract. Sande further offered to turn over to Bruening the $5,000 fee he expected to collect if Quatrain had won. But Bruening wouldn't hear of the bargain. Then came the jockey's big chance. He was told that if he could not get the call on the favorite he could ride the Cochran coit. The result is history. Sande won against all the adverse fates. Flying Ebony is a sparkling black colt. He is a son of the Finn, sire of the matchless Zev, which won the Derby two years ago, with Sande up. Flying Ebony demonstrated anew that on the turf and in the animal kingdom blood will tell. Only on the human plane does it seem at times to fail. It was, as predicted, a millionaire’s victory this year, but the “poor folks' of Kentucky had the second and third horses in the money, D. W. Scott of Lexington, owner of Son of John, a poor man, had refused $30,000 for his colt before the race. (Copyright, Memorial Trees As General Miles’ Tribute Are Urged By the Associated Press. ARLINGTON, Mass., May 16.— The suggestion that memorial trees be planted throughout the country as a tribute to Gen. Nelson A. Miles, was made in a telegram re- ceived today by Mrs. Mary K. Wells, secretary of the First Ald Assoclation of America from offi- cials of the American Tree Asso- ciation at Washington. Gen. Miles ‘was one of the incorporators of the First Aid Association of America, * 19265.) will | order to | much | will | to be . UNDER SKILLFUL RIDE| and that was the order In which they | NEW PINEY BRANCH DRAINAGE SOUGHT Board of Trade Committee Urges Commissioners to Con- sider Present Conditions. Deploring the polluted condition of Piney Branch west of Sixteenth strest the committee on sewerage of the Washington Board of Trade, in the annual report of Chalrman Asa E Phillips, urges the Commissioners tn consider this condition in framing the new estimates of the Sewer Depar ment. The report was recently adopt ed by the board of directors. The committee expressed gratifica ition over the liberal sum allowed by Congress in the last appropriation act for improving the drainage system but declared it would have been mora gratifying had the Commissioners considered the Piney Branch condi- tion Worst in Country. Pi v Branch is referred to by t committee as being not only “the mos highly polluted stream in the District but is probably the most grossly pol- luted park stream in the entire cour try.” In describing the condition of the stream the committee said “The enormous volume of sewage now periodically dlscharged into Piney Branch west of Sixteenth | street, has converted a park strean the banks of which are the play- sround for many children, into an open se For at frequent inter vals th out the the entire sewaze 2 population soon to number 100.000 persons, including the sewage of the Tuberculosis Hospltal is now dumped into this small park stream, flowing in a flood of pellu ltion down the length of the Pinev Branch parkway and into Rock Creek, where it contaminates the waters en ough the Natlonal Zoolog this vear Protest and Reply. After telling of the results of bac- teriological examinations, the com mittee continued its discussion of Piney Branch follows: “These conditions had been given careful study by your committee, he fore submitting its last report and specific recommendation was therein made that relief should be provided {7t is hardly necessary 1o restate here the details of this problem, as these have quite fully been set forth in the recently issued annual report of the board of trade. But certainlv the fact should be recorded, that this 1e port was submitted by the board of jtrade to the ioners as early in ampl time for the inclus this improve ment in their 1 annual estimates No reply was received to the board of trade’s letter of May 324, until March 5, 1925, when the eering Commissioner wrote in reply, that ‘it |is not deemed expedient to consider | further treatment in the Piney Branch parkway at the present time.’ “Yet, during this interval, the Com missioners submitted estimates, to g0 ito Congress, for suburban sewers lalone, in 27 projects, aggregating { nearly $1,000.000, many items of which { were improver nts In sundry sub { urban developments, having but minor Jand local interest, and none com | parable in mor importance to public [ health and sanitation, with the re {moval of sewage from the Pine Branch Parkway, and the correction of this gross pollution of Rock Creek within the limits oft he park The committee also reported that the recent abandonment of the public bathing beach on the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park presents an additional reason why Rock Creek and its lateral stream should be redeemed from sew | age pollution and their waters made clean, so that bathing and wading need not be prohibited for hyglenic reasons. In conclusion, the committee proposed: “It is recommended that the atten tion of the District Commissioners again be directed to this important matter, with the request that it re ceive their attention prior to the prep {aration of their next annual est mates.” EXPIRES SUDDENLY AFTER OPERATION (Continued from First Page.) of the appropriations, judiciary and claims committees of the Senate. He was a mild reservationist in the Ver. sailles treaty fight in the early davs of his first term. Senator Spencer engaged in a con- troversy with President Wilson in Oc tober, 1919, when he contended that the war-time President at the eighth plenary session of the peace confer ence, on May 31, 1919, had promised American military aid to Rumania and Servia in the event of invasion of those countries. The declaration was repeatedly denied and finally resulted in producing the official stenographic records of Mr. Wilson's remarks at the peace conference to refute the interpretation placed upon them by Mr. Spencer. Senator Spencer was born at Erie, Pa., September 16, 1862. He attended Yale University being graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1884, and then attended Washington University from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1886. He also held the honorary degree of M. D conferred on him by the Missouri Medical College, where he lectured us professor of medical jurisprudence and the degrees of Ph.D. and LL.D. from Westminster College. He entered the practice of law 1 St. Louis upon his graduation in 185, He served in the Missour! House of Representatives in 1895 and 1836. T'he following year Mr. Spencer became & judge in the eighth judicial circuit of Missouri, serving until 1903. Te was a captain and adjutant in the Missouri Home Guards and was chairman of the district exemption board in St. Louls under the selective service law of 1917-1918. Senator Spencer was married De cember 8, 1886 to Susan M. Brookes of St. Louis, daughter of Rev. James H. Brookes. He is president genetal of the Scns of the Revoiution and member of the Militarv Order of Forelgn Wars and the Societ; of Colonial Wars. 98 ENLISTED MEN WIN ENTRY TO ANNAPOLIS Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 16.—For the first time since the law permitted 100 members of the eniisted force of the Navy and Marine Corps to qualify as midshipmen the quota will be practi cally full, as 98 of these young men have qualified mentally for entrance. As they have already passed physical tests to enlist, their acceptance at the Academy is practically certain The explanation of the larger num ber than usual is found in the cur- tailing” of the number of congres- sional appointments. Many youths who failed to secure an appointment took the enlistment method of reach Ing the Academy. It is also an nounced that 413 of those appointed by members of Congress and the President also passed their mental tests and that the new class is likely to reach 500 members, /