Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Fo Mostly cloudy row; somewhat cooler ton Temperature: Highest, p.m. vesterday: lowest, 66 today. Full report on page recast.) tonight and tomor- ght. 90, . at at 6:15 4 am. VClosing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 he 2 20 (3! Entered as seco No. 29.638. ol ae Washington, nd class matter D. C. * NONKILLED, AHURT IN CRASH ENDING LQUDR AR CHASE Rum Auto Demolishes Sedan | of Sisters in 60-Mile-an- Hour Dash. VICTIM WAS KNOWN HERE AS ANGEL OF PROVIDENCE | Man and Woman Captured When Mad Pursuit Is Climaxed by Accident. Speeding bootleggers. bent on unloading contraband cargo from their flying automobile before pur suing policemen could overtake them, hurtl ly into a smaller car this morn crushed to death Sister throughout Washing Little Angel of Provi her generous work of Ladson only up- | led m: ng and Cephas ton dence Know as “the city’s poor. i of 310 ¢ street | southeast, driver of the demolished car. which was owned by the Provi dence Hospital, sustained concussion of the brain and severe ! and Sister Agnes, anothe of the machine, was badly Istelle Robinson, colored, the bootleg automobile, and Clifton Young, also colored, driver of the machine, sustained less serious in- Suries. Woman Re: mercy among Robert \ owner ts Captors. The Robinson woman, whose hus- band wa killed only a month ago when his automobile crashed into a tree while he was being chased by revenue agents, and Young were cap- | tured by Detectives Ogle and Schenck | of the fourth precinct, but only after | the woman, covered with blood frum" her own injur fought like a col nered tigere: and was virtual dragged to the police station. i The accident occurred at the inter section of Second and D streets south- | east, two blocks from the Providence Hospital, which Sister Cephas and! Sister Agnes had left just a minute before to go marketing for supplies they intended distributing among | their needy charges. Sister Cephas | died before she could be carried back | 1o the hospital, but the others, al-| though severly hurt, will recover. Crash Inevitable. Ladson was driving the hus[)x(fl” car, a sedan, north on Second street.j The bootleggers’ machine dashed sud-| denly out of D street. There was no| time to swerve—ust a flashing sec- | ond of agony, a shocking crash ac-| companied by the screeching of | brakes, and withesses saw the twisted | frame of what was once the sedan crumpled up on the far sidewalk, where it had been hurled by the on- rushing rum-runners’ machine. i Sister Cephas, who had occupied the | seat with Sister Agnes, lay un- conscious 3 vards from the wreckage, her head resting on a pile of splintered a dozen or more pieces of the glass puncturing her brain. 1t is be lieved she had been hurled completely through the rear door of the sedan, the frame of the door being found nearly half a block from the scene of | the accident. | Companion is Injured. Sister Agnes, stunned and too be- | wildered to understand what had oc-| curred, was found on the floor of the tonneau, and Ladson was sprawled unconscious over the steering wheel, one hand still clutching a piece of the wheel, which had heen smashed into a dozen' parts by the impact. A lamp- post on the corner had been snapped offt 6 inches from the sround and twisted almost into the shape of an interrogation mark i Residents who had witnessed the tragedy from their windows and pe. destrians rushed to the scene. A pri-; vate automobile that stood nearby was | pressed into service and the injured were placed in it and rushed toward{ Providence Hospital. Before the car conld travel the two blocks, however, | Sister Cephas died and it was feare for several hours that Ladson, too, would succumb to his injuries. Priest Rushes to Scene. { before the acci- Sisters of Char- Less than an hou dent occurred the tw ity had attended T At St. Peter Catholic Church, less than a block | from the scene of the accident, and | Father Moore, who had served them holy communion, hearing the crash of | the collision. rushed to the scene. He wag just in time to swing on the run ning board the automobile it started toward the hospital There, hatless and clutchin door handle with one hand. he administered the last aments to the dving “An el of ywwidence.” The priest had felt her pulse and realized that she could not live more than few sec- onds. The final pravers of the priest sped her soul on its long journey into eternity. Upon reaching the operat- | ing room of Provid Hospital he also said the last rites over for Lad-| son, believing that he, too, would die. | In the meantime the police car con- taining Detectives Ogle and Schenck, | barely avoiding the collision itself, had | stopped and the officers turned their | attention to the woman bootlegger and | Young. Unmindful of the still forms of their victims that were scattered about, the drivers of the death car had tried to take advantage of the| excitement to escape, but the ready | help of citizens had left the officers nothing to do but continue their pur suit. Woman Tries to Flee. Young had steps before stumbled only a few | he was collared by | Schenck. The Robinson woman, how- | ever, had disappeared. and she wi found fleeing up an alley Wea ned | herself by the shock of the collision, she was soon overtaken by Ogle, and | when she found capture inevitable she turned on the policeman with a threat to Kill him if he came near. Ogle, | however, continued after her. Tearing off the heavy mourning veil she wore, she turned upon Ogle and clawed at him in frenzy as he grabbed her. Screaming, she was led back to the scene of the tragedy, and after both she and Young had been exam- ined by physicians, was taken to the fifth precinct police station. Ogle and Schenck were first attract-| ed 1o the bootleggers’ car at First street and Virginia .avenue sou!hwssl[ hecause of its excesdive speed. As| they gave chase Younz, who was at the wheel, opened the throttle wide | and the big roadster dashed away toward Southeast Washington on its , (Continued on Page 2, Column 43 | tors | there, ! hitting each other wildly. 'Birds Amundsen Saw Near Pole Indicate Land to Northwest |Explorer, in His Own Story, Says Mac- Millan Probably Will Find Continent in Unexplored Editor's note.—In the continues the story of his daring a taking up the narrative where Ja patch published in The Sunday Amundsen’s story will be BY ROALD Special Dispatch to The Star and North A KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 2 “In his dispatch of Sunday James B. and the North American Newspaper following dispatch Star. published tomorrou Arctic Region. Amundsen n North, his dis- of Capt. star. capt. Roald irplane flight into the fro mes B. Wharton left off in Another installment in The Evening AMUNDSEN. rican Newspaper Alliance 3 (By Radio From Steamer Heimdal).— . Wharton, correspondent of The Star Alliance, told in my own words the story of our hop-off on the polar flight, our landing in an open lead at latitude 75.44 and our days of struggle in ex its dangerous “Our next t cating ng airplane from position. ask was to get the plane off the hum- our remair mock and across two fissures several yards wide into the main lead with countles: wooden sho plane off, apparatus. It That signified land in the im “On May into the main beyond danger “By June 1 N that we now used for even though old ice, which “On_June 2 take-off, and through the ice for the entire way which we at the end of A dense polar mist, the fir on us and pr ROALD AMUNDSEN now behind us Meanwhile, on May 1 had made a depth 30 trying to take-off from the water cou or floe. We had filled these fissures tons of snow and ice, using rude to prepare this path for the six-ton 28, week after the hop ounding with the Behmlot showed 3,750 meters. or 12,200 feet to me that there was certainly no mediate vicinity Main Floe. we succeeded in getting the floe. Here we believed it temporarily of being crushed by ice pressure the great floe was frozen so solidly hoped it was sufficiently strong Plane Placed it was marred by chunks of ary to level off. ready to attempt the trial, but she broke 00 vards of the run- had so laboriously cleared. We halted the course and floated on the water. ince landing, settled turning around and se which was ice, it was nece: the plane wa. we made the evented us from Plane Nearly Crushed. “Alway awakened by the cry of Feucht, in Ger alarm w ice mass about to clo one was on guard while the others slept Tonight we were man, "All hands on the ice at once!’ His as followed by a terrific noise, the hissing and cracking of a great unately. the ice slipped under the (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) STATE DRY HEADS' POSTS ABOLISHED Sweeping Change to Create 22 Federal Enforcement Districts. The most Sweeping reorganization of the Government’s prohibition en- forcement machinery since its institu- tion s announced today by Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon, to take effect August 1. The present system of State direc and 18 divisional headquarter: will be abolished, and the country will be divided into 22 Federal districts, bounded X by the Federal judicial district lines. The change, it was explained in Sec- retary Mellon’s statement, was work ed out by Assistant Secretary Andrews in “collaboration with Commissioner Blair of Internal Revenue and Com- missioner Haynes of the prohibition unit and the heads of his variqus de- partments.” Tt was approved by Pres- ident Coolidge. Personal Changes Seen. arreaching changes and shifts may be made in the personnel of head- quarters here in Washington and the field, Assistant Secretary Andrews in- timated in an interview following issu- ance of the statement. No change in the head of the prohibition unit, Roy A. Maynes, was indicated. The reorianization will make many persons “uneasy,” it was predicted but Mr. Andrews went further to ex plain that he knew enough about ad- ministration to realize that efficiency depends upon “retention and some: times promotion of faithful employes.” “We have en ourselves five weeks to work out the details of the plan.” said Gen. Andrews. “So far we have outlined the general scheme, and 1 believe it is the most efficient that could be evolved—a real Federal plan.” ¥ The reorganization, so far as it has been drafted, looks forward to “clos- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) FRENCH DEPUTIES STAGE WILD FIGHT Free-for-All Follows Slugging of Communist Member by Vet- eran in Chamber. B the Associated Press PARIS, June 23.—Today’s session of the Chamber of Deputies considering the Morocean question broke up in a free-for-all fight when the white-haired Col. Picot, deputy of the right bloc, rushed to the rostrum and slugged the Communist deputy, Doriot, squarely in the face as the latter was attacking the French government. Deputy Doriot staggered. but clinch- ed with his assailant. Communists from the left and Nationalists from the right came climbing up the steps of the rostrum until 25 deputies were milling around, wrestling and A turmoil of deputies then surged in the open space below the rostrum and it was 10 minutes before the ushers could break up the various fights and President of the Chamber Herriot could adjourn the session. One aged 4 clipped on the chin by a Vigorous swing, fell between Premier Painleve and Foreign Minister Briand, who watched the fight with folded arms. Before the disturbances started Pre- mier Painleve had commenced an ad- dress to the chamber upon the Moroc- can situation. He said France must present a solid front in Morocco. “If we took the least initiative to- ward peace negotiations,” he said, “our action would be interpreted as weakness and make our situation | more difficuit. “Evacuation of Morocco would be the signal for a general massacre of all French in northern Africa—men, women and children”—he declared. The Socialists today reserved the right to act with entire, freedom on future questions of policyjin Marecco, and bald-headed usher, | JAPANESE DEMAND . CHINESE APOLOGY | Threaten to Avenge Stoning of Envoys in Three Cities in South. By the Associated Prese. Possibly serious developments in the Chinese situation were indicated today by reports, in some cases not confirmed, of attacks upon Japanese officials in three cities in South China. In one case—the stoning of a Japanese consul at Ching Kiang—an apolosy was demanded, and It was intimated Japan might take strong action if the apology was not made. Reports from Ningpo described the movement as rampant and said rioters looted a foreign mess there. Jupanese consuls were reported to Ching Kiang. commissioner ¥ A Japanese customs reported killed and two Japanese injured at Wuchow. This report was not confirmed. At Peking the diplomatic corps de- cided to open negotiations with the Chinese government regarding respon- sibility for the recent Shanghai strike troubles and for subsequent develop- ments. At the same time the diplomatic corps sent to the Chinese foreign office ity for the delays in settling the | Shanghai question. The note also charged the Chinese foreign office with narrating a version of the Shanghai incidents that does not accord with the facts. ORDERS AMERICANS OUT. U. S. Consul Warns Them to Leave City of Canton. NEW YORK, June 23 (#).—The American consul at Canton has ordered Americans to leave that city because of anti-foreign agitation, ac- cording to a cablegram received today by the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church from its sec- retary in China, O. W. McMillen. The message says: “‘Considerable anti-foreign feeling in Canton, consul ordered all to leave. All are safe.” The cablegram was filed from Hong- kong. although Mr. McMillen's head- quarters are in Canton. It is not known here whether he has moved to Hongkong, in which tish colony conditions are comparatively safe, or whether he remains in Canton and sent his message down the river for filing at Hongkong. RIOTERS RAMPANT. Junior Customs Mess Raided in Anti- Foreign Moves. NINGPO, China, June 23 (#).—The anti-foreign movement is rampant here. Rioters damaged and complete- ly looted the junior customs mess here last night. Urge Strike at Manila. MANILA, June 23.—Attempting to extend the anti-foreign agitation to Manila, Shanghai radicals today | cabled to comrades here urging a general strike at Manila beginning on June 25 25. REPORT JAPANESE KILLED. Customs Official Dead and Two Con- suls Hurt, Advices Say. SHANGHAI, June 23 (#).—An un- confirmed private telegram from Wu- chow, 180 miles west of Canton, says a Japanese customs commissioner has been killed there and two Japanese injured. 2 It was reported here today that Japanese consuls have been attacked by Chinese mobs both at Chung King and Chingkiang. The consuls at the latter place demanded an apology and intimated that if it were not made strong action would be taken by Ja- pan. More anti-British boycotts were re- ported from various Chinese cities to- day. A Britisher destroyer left for Hoi-How where the British consul re- ported trouble. Martial law has been proclaimed in WASHINGTON, | plane to be| a takeoff. The ice was 8 inches thick. but new have been stoned at Chungking and a note refusing to accept responsibil- | Continued on Page 2. Colugn 3.) . D Q, 300,000,000 SLASH IN FEDERAL TAXES NOW SEENS SURE Mellon and House Leader | Agree on Program for Big Reduction. ONLY MINOR POINT REMAINS UNDECIDED Conference Leaves Matter of Re- peal of Estate Levies for Fu- ture Discussion. By the Associated Press An administration reduce the present tax burden by $300,000,000 has virtually been com pleted for submission to Congress next Fall. That agreement on most of the ma program was rey i ence today between Secretary Mellon | and Chairman Green of the House ways and means committee. The two were said to be in accord except on the question of repealing estate taxes Cover Main Policy. The agreements already arrived at do not reach as far as intricate de- tails of tax schedules, but cover in the main the policies to be followed. They will be disclosed later. The Secretary and Mr. Green went over carefully the budget figures made public at last night’s business meeting of the Government, and shaped their discussions in the light of President Coolidge’s promise of a tax reduction URGE BUDGET CUT. tax program to had. heen reached | jor features of the | ed after a confer TUESDAY, JUNE Coolidge and Lord Asks Savings, No | Matter How Small. | | Criticizing the system of Federal | contributions to States as a cause of | i “double taxation” and calling upon | | heads of the business organization of | the Government to cut expenditures | still further for the next two fscal| vears, President Coolidge last night formally announced the intention of | | recommending to Congress in his next budget message “further tax re. duction Neither the nature of this recom- mendation nor any details of the Chief Executive's prospective pro- | posals were revealed, but he laid down with heavier emphasis than ever be-! fore, last night at Memorial Conti- nental Hall before the business or- ganization of the Government. the principles of retrenchment in public: expenditures, from which he expects | to gain further relief for the people from “the burden of war taxes.” Director of the Budget Herbert M Lord reviewed the budget and ap- pealed for progressive saving both in major and minor items of Govern ment expense. redicts Big Surplus. The President predicted a surplus for the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1925, of $200,000,000, and estimated a surplus for 1926 of $280,000,000. He | asked that the total expenditures for 1926, excluding alone the postal serv ice, be kept within $3,375,000,000, a cut of $125,000,000 from the estimated comparable expenditures for this year, and called upon his administrators to pare estimates for 1927 still more sharply down to the total of $3,080,- 000,000 exclusive of the postal service. The President again touched upon necessity of keeping down the number of Government personnel, as he had done in his last previous message to the same gathering. Tracing the in- crease in personnel, President Cool- idge said he did not wish “underman- ned public service,” but did ““advocate and desire the closest supervision over your personnel requirements, so that any surplusage may be prevented.” “Wastrels, careless administrators of the Government's substance,” the President said, “will not be tolerated.” Taxes Still Burdensome. Pointing to a saving under four years of operation of the budget of $2,981,000,000 in annual expenditures, {with a decrease of $3,426,000,000 in the public debt, the President said, re duction in taxes “has not vet reached the point where taxes have ceased to be a burden. It is to the reaching of this point that our efforts must be |directed.” The President recognized, however, he said, that eventually “we must face a gradual expansion” of the legitimate business of Government. | Gen. Lord amplified the principles laid down by President Coolidge on economy, referred to numerous exam- ples of success in saving throughout the Government establishment, and |declared: “He who saves a Govern- |ment pencil from a sense of duty and Eln the interest of the taxpayer is per- | forming as honorable service as he +who saves his millions of dollars.” Reviewing the fiscal year to come to !a close at the end of this month, Gen. | Lord said the Bureau of the Budget had been fighting against almost in- surmountable odds to bring the ex- penditures for the year, exclusive of the Postal Service and reduction in the pubiic_debt, down to $3,000,000,000. Many unforeseen factors, including the Postal Service act with $26.,000,000, additional tax refunds of $30,000,000 with $5,000,000 interest, contributed to (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) SHIP STEWARD KILLS PASSENGER IN FIGHT Man Listed as “Police Commissioner,” Dies From Blow in Row. By the Associated Press. ROME, June 23.—A dispatch from Naples today says during a quarrel with a steward on board the American Palestine Line steamer President Arthur, at that port, a man named Edward Turner, described as a “police commissioner,” ‘was killed by a blow from the steward’s fist. The dispatch did not give the address of the man killed. The President Arthur sailed from New York for Haifa, Palestine, May 11 and now is in Naples on her home- ward journey. She had no Edwaid Turner on her passenger list when she left New York, but has touched at several Mediterranean ports on her Iso far ity and an election must be held to fill | | Senator La Follette's place | Edward Turner, | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. The Star's as fast as the “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,741 23, 1925 —-THIRTY. TWO PAGES. (P) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. STEP UP Bovs ol /e et SELECT THE'{ ONE You CAN WIELD MOST EFFECTIVELY NORTHWEST FACES POLITICAL STORM Bitter Fight Expected in Wis- consin and North Dakota for Senate Seat. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The death of Senator Ladd of North Dakota following closely on the heels of that of Senator La Follette removes within a week 50 per cent of the vot ing strength of the so-called radical group which was read out of the part by the regular Republicans last Win ter. Senator Frazier, also of North Dakota, and Senator Brookhart of Iowa are the two remaining member: So far as Senate control is con cerned, much wiil depend upon the successor of Senator Ladd—as it will also upon the successor to Senator La Follette. Investigation here. as well as reports from North Dakota, indi- cate that there is doubt whether the Governor of North Dakota has the Power to appoint a successor to Sena tor Ladd. to serve until the next gen eral election. or must call a special election for the purpose of choosing a Senator. In Wisconsin the governor has been given no such author- Governor Is Leaguer. The Governor of North Dakota is Arthur Sorlie, like Senator Ladd, a Non-Partisan Leaguer. The league in North Dakota captured the Republi can organization, and Sorlie was nom inated as a “Republican” and so elect- | ed, although the so-called regular Re- | publican strength was thrown to Hal- vor Halvorson, a Democrat, although known as the fusion candidate. It is to be expected that Gov. Sorlie will name a Non-Partisan Leaguer to suc- ceed Senator Ladd, if he has the au- thority to make an appointment. Sorlie was reckoned a support- er of Senator La Follette during the last campaign. Late in September, however, some of the La Follette peo. ple and Non-Partisan Leaguers began to doubt Sorlie. and a petition for the nomination of William Lemke, for mer Representative, as governor was filed by a group of them. Sorlie im- mediately declared his earnest support of La Follette and Lemke declined to be a candidate and the matter was smoothed over. When election day rolled round, Sorlie was elected by a vote of 100,793 to 85,441 for Halvorson, the Democratic and Fusionist nom- inee. At the same time President Coolidge carried the State by a vote of 94,816, with La Follette receiving 733, and John W. Davis running a poor third, with 13,830. Special Law Needed. No law, it appears, has been passed by the North Dakota Legislature deal- ing with the filling of senatorial va- cancies since the adoption of the sev- enteenth amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States, which pro- vides for the popular election of Sen- ators, The language of the constitu- tional amendment, referring to vacan- cies in the Sewate, is: “When vacancies resentation of any S happen in the rep- ate in the Sen- fate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies; provided, that the ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 2. 11 P.M. BEDTIME FOR ALL UNDER 21 | SOUGHT IN COURT BY PARENTS Yonkers Father Starts Campaign by Invoking Law to Limit Spooning, Dancing, Late Suppers and Other Pastimes of Modern Youth. By Consolidated Press. YONKERS. N. June 23.—The youth of Yonkers is to be put to bed at 10 or 11 o'clock, or at least kept from jdle meanderings in the world outside the home after those hours, if the par- ents who are organizing here to con- trol them have their way. It all started Monday, when one Yonkers father, Louis Manzell, in- voked the law in all its might and majesty-to help him in his struggle to be head of his own house. Anna and Josephine, 18 and 17, respectively, were keeping late hours against his protest, he declared, and he took the girls to Judge Charles W. Boote, in Yonkers Court, to see if he could rea- son with them. The girls solemnly listened while the judge declared that until they are 21 Years old their father has a legal right to dictate their bedtime. trip at any of which passengers may bave boarded her, & “You may stay out until 11 o’clock on nights when yol gq tq the theater,” | | | story today 50-Y ear-Old Twins Agree to Starve In Chicken Coop | | By the Associated Press GENEVA, N. Y, Charles and William Thomas, vear-old twins, who crawled in a chicken coop to die by starvation few weeks ago, were today in Willard State Hospital The brothers, who are gradu ates and wealthy, suffered financial losses which caused them to make a suicide pact. They crawled into the chicken where they re. mained several days before being found The twins are a double enigma vsicians and officials and are ed to be the most remarkable of co-ordination in thought action that has ever come under observation. They exhibit acute distress if they are separated for a moment from each other, and each unconsciously follows every movement of the other. AT DMITS HIRING MEN TOSLAY HIS WIFE Kansas Merchant Confesses After Being Hounded by Gunmen, Who Failed. June 2 50- college coop case By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June ~The Kansas City Journal in a copyrighted aid that Charles B. Davies, | retired merchant and secretary of the Elks’ Club at Concordia, Kans., had confessed he hired gunmen to kill his wife. Mrs. Davies was attacked in her bedroom October 14. 1924, and left for dead. She recovered from a tractured skuil Charges of assault with kill were filed last night against Davies and seven others. The con- fession of Davies was obtained by County Attorney L. W. Lundblade on information provided by the Journal. Davies, the Journal said, hired Wal- ter Moseley to kill his wife, paying $2,000 with a promise of $3,000 more after the slaving. Several days after the attempted killing Moseley and Ray Bryan de manded the remainder of the money, according to Davies' alleged confes. sion. Davies refused to pay because the job had not been completed. The two men then offered to complete the job. They later extracted small sums of money from Davies for their silence. The crime was covered up by mak- ing it appear a robbery had occurred, the confession said. Davies, however, soon found himself at the mercy of the men he had hired to_dispose of his wife, his confession added. | When Moseley and Bryan offered to | complete the job, after Davies re- fused to pay the $3,000, Davies said he “told them I had come to my senses and would not go through with it and Moseley told me at that time | he would get me.” intent to| Judge Boote told them. “And until midnight on nights when yvou go to dances. But you may do neither oft- ener than your father approves. Monday night in Yonkers there was a meeting of a group of some 200 men who have organized into the Yonkers Fathers' Association and who came together to discuss ways and means of working the judges’ ultimatum into their own family life. Among the things which Yonkers fathers aim and hope to ban are: Afmless riding in automobiles after 10 o’clock. Spooning in_automobiles, parked or moving, anywhere in the city. Too frequent trips to movies and theaters, followed by long walks or drives or late supper parties. Late dances which tempt their daughters to stay until the last piece is played. {is expected he will | | | | | Couneil |and the | PRESIDENT LEAVES ON VAGATION TRIP LUNP SUM FISCAL PLAN HIT; COUNGIL ASKS $38.908.609 Unwise and Unscientific, Ad- visers Say, in Recommend- ing 1927 Appropriation. GROUP TO SETTLE ISSUE DEFINITELY IS FAVORED $13.000,000 for Schools Is Among Many Items for Which Increased Funds Are Asked. In submitting to the District Com missioners a $35.908.809 be ope today retommendation ed of Congress expenses of the District € the that for Columbia vernment during ens’ Ad ed its opposit fiseal he Cit e Ci is0 an n to the an of District of Columbia s and expressed the hope commission will be appointed settle for time the matter of fiscal the Dist Federal Government Appropriations requested by the heads of the District Government de. partments totaled more than $43,000 000. The coun lump sum p appropriatic that all relations between ot so advised the Com- missloners in its letter accompanis the report that is_vigorously posed to the so-called Bor ment ch imposes property “heavy and i cial tax burdens on s and amend. nequitable spe treet and road |construction. Final Cabinet Meeting of Summer Held Before Departure. | commissioners. President Coolidge left Washinzton today to spend the Summer in! Swampscott, Mass. Accompanied by | Mrs. Coolidge and a staff of secretaries | and attendants, the President depart ed from the Capital shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern standard ‘ime on a spe cfal train. He will reach Swampscott tomorrow morning. The President held what was haps his last cabinet meeting for the Summer today and prepared to leave | town. | With his departure for the Summer | White House, at Swampscott, Mass set for early afternoon, Mr. Coolidge devoted the morning to a last-minute check-up with his cabinet and ar- ranging for a quick transfer of the major business of his office. Practically every important pe question had been disposed of by Mr. | dge today, although a few ap- | pointments remain to be made and he | still has under consideration some re- | ports from the Tariff Commission rec. ommending changes in duties. An| office has been set up for the Presi- | dent in Lynn, Mass., and with part | of the executive force there, including | Secretary Sanders, he will carry on per- | ing such business there as arises during | the Summer. i Forster in Charge. | Rudolph Forster, for many _\P-Il’fl! executive clerk at the White House, | will again assume vacation charge of | the White House. He will direct af- fair this end as in the absences from Washington of former Presi- | dents. being in direct communication | with the Summer executive offices. | Mr. Coolidge has not announced plans for his program while in Mass. | achusetts. For a_time, however, it remain close to the spacious home at White (ourt which he and Mrs. Coolidge will oc cupy. resting from the cares of office, aggravated somewhat by the unusual Iy hot weather of the last few week Tt is likely that they will remain on the Massachusetts coast until Fall, breaking their stay with a visit to Plymouth, Vt., the home of the Presi- dent's father. | | i Others on Train. { Other members of the party on the President's train include Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Col. S. A. Cheney, military aide to the President; Maj J. F. Coupal, the President's ph cian, newspaper men and secret service operatives. The train has been sched uled as a, separate section of a reg ular train. It will arrive at Salem,| Mass., early tomorrow, the four-mile trip from there to Swampscott to he by motor. John Coolidge who has pleted his freshman year at Amherst College, will join his parents at Swampscott. Later he will enter the Summer training camp at Camp Dev- ens, Mass. just com MAYFLOWER UNLOADS. Yacht Will Marblehead. BOSTON, June 23 (#).—The presi- | dential yacht Mayflower, which is to | base at Marblehead during the stay | at White Court, Swampscott, of the | President and Mrs. Coolidge, anchored | in President Roads for a short time | today while a_small automobile truck, | which is to be used to convey sup- | plies to the vessel while at A\larhlP—; head, was unloaded to a lighter to be taken to the navy yard. The Mu.\'-r flower then proceeded to her Summer anchorage at Marblehead. 16TH ST. TRAFFIC LIGHT POSITIONS APPROVED will B'e Placed at Every Intersec- tion From Fafayette Square to Irving Street. The District Commissioners today approved the positions of the lights to be installed on Sixteenth street in the new automatic electric traffic control system, recomended by Director of Traffic Eldridge. The lights will be located along Six- teenth street at intersections from La- Presidential Base at | | | | Calls by young men which last until after F} a'clock. e fayette Square to Irving street, and will be operated from a central switchboard a* Eqrgv. Circle, | which |amount of time, which should be | interest | and bona fide residents and taxpa | the last Congress of the g Want § The cof appropr Distri entire 3,000,000 il rec for tivities buildin; the Board of and also that other school iter For Schools. mmended increased many important It urged that the program submitted by Education be adopted certain increases s be approved by the as- to bring the estimates to more the total ol $13,000,000 Other important departments for liberal appropriations were fa- vored included the street and roadway improvement division, with $3,86! Free Public Library, $275.000; Department, $3.109.980; Fire Depart- ment, $2,152,065; charities and correc tions, $3.278,500; increased water sup ply, $1,600,000: water department, $1 401,920; public playgrounds, $155,000; Traffic Bureau. $65.000; sewers, § 700,000, nd refuse collection and dis- 1, $1,4 Fruit of Mature Thought. “Our opinion and recommendations submitted herewith,”” the council ported. “represented our mature con- sideration and judgment as to the actual needs of the Distri of Colum- bia for the fiscal vear 1927, having due regard for timated available revenue produced by a fair rate of taxation and assuming that the Federal Gov ernment will make a fair and j tribution “A number of projected improve. ments of considerable magnitude and representing real needs might have been proposed by the council, but for the uncertainty regarding Govern- ment contributions to the District budget. Our people are ready and willing to go forward with such major projects whenever the Federal Gov- ernment is ready to bear its equitable share of the cos “In arriving at the results sub- mitted herewith we recognize and de- sire at this time respectifully to emphasize the dual responsibility of the Federal and District Governments in meeting this budget which is ab- normaliy large by reason of cumu- lated needs over long period. st con a Hits Lump-Sum Plan. “We invite vour attention, and, through you. that of the Congress to the responsibility of the Federal Gov. ernment to carry an equitable propor- tion of this burden, the only contro verted point being the proportion of such contribution. This annual recur- ring controversy consumes a vast given to consideration of real needs, is un- sslike and is unsatisfactory, both to the Congress and to the people of the District of Columbia “We submit that an arbitrary lump- ‘um contribution is unwise, unscien- tific and calculated to work injustice to one or the other of the parties at We do not assume to be able to pass upon the equities involved, nor do we helieve the Congress able, through its ordinary legislative ma- chinery, to solve the problem Asks Commission on Issue. “The council. therefore, advises that it believes it to be the desi the people of the District of Columbia that you incorporate in your annual report and in the estimates to be sub. mitted to the Congress a recommenda- tion for the appointment of an official commission consisting of an equal number of members of the Congress vers of the District of Columbia to make proper inquiries and report to the Congress and to the people a perma nent plan for the equitable apportion- ment between the Federal Govern ment and the District of Columbia of the expenses of maintaining, expand ing and beautifying the Nation’s Cap- ital, and that you further recommend that until such a permanent plan be comes effective Congress recognize the obligation to appropriate on a definite proportionate basis as provided by ex isting law. In urging the Commissioners to seek the immediate repeal of tne Borland amendment, the council points out that “our citizens, through our civic and trade bodies. with great unanim ity, have long and persistently peti tioned for this relief.” Enactment by soline tax law has recognized a principle of re sponsibility opposed to that involved in the Borland amendment, the re port declares. Held General Obligation. “The responsibility of the users of the streets now being definitely estab- lished,” the council adds, “it would seem that in all fairness it should like- wise be recognized that street and road construction and maintenance is a general rather than abutting prop- erty obligation.” The report was signed by Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the council, and Harry N. Stull, reporter. Chairman Suter and Mr. Stull handed the report ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Radio Programs—Page ]8. /