Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1925, Page 2

2 * GZECHS ARE READY 10 CONFER ON DEBT Prepared to Enter Immediate Negotiations With U. S. on Settlement. Br the Ascociated Press With dates Jeeiving the /missions, and with negotiations ready under way with lialy, the State Department notified tox that Crechoslovakia will farmaliy announce within a few days its readiness to en- der jmmediate conferer ment of its fUnited States. The Czechosiovakian legation formed the department that its zov- ernment at a cabinet meeting for- mally acknowledged the obiigation and an official note outlining its de- would be forthcomin The Czechoslovakian nstruction debt is about $80,000,000, the amount having been agreed upon by the Czec =iovak mission sent here in Jun In addition about $11.000.600 is for expenses incurred Ameri the transportation from Czechoslovakia of echoslov ftroops in 1919 and fUnited States desire t 2 debe fmission be sent to this country tion officials said that this 3y would be done. ment may be reached of notes. was done inf Poland and Li H PAYMENT NECE tentatively set for re. was econstruction debt to the in 192, lega- undoul erwise as the huania SARY. i i TPsychology Demands That Settlement | Be Made. BY DAVID LAWRENCE Broader than the material erations involved in settling debts is a sentiment rapidly ing among officials of he States Government that it is essential to clear up the controversy between the various nations for pyschological rsasone There no longer that the United consid is any doubt here tes will give easier terms to the tinental allies than were given to Great Britain. Premier Baldwin has stated he has no objec tion to this. But even if the settled with the United States on the same terms Great Britain the amounts of money that actually would be paid into the Treasury for sever: vears to come would be relatively amall. The two benefits. therefore. ex pected to flow from a debt are First recognition of ness of international There has been talk of repudiation and cancellation and a tendency in some quarters even te refuse to rec. ognize debts incurred Second, a removal of the friction which underlies the diplomatic rela- the sacred obligations tions of the United States and Euro- | pean powers and that exist between tries. the controversies European coun- Advantages Not Fi From the two foregoing considera- tlons a debt settlement that brings in little money at this time will he compensated for in many other di- rections. That is the view now being taken by officials who are anxfous that some settlement he made this vear with all the debtor nations. Incidentally, the exchanges of opin- fon which now are going on through diplomatic channels emphasize anew the importance of analyzing the true meaning of “ability to pay.” So far as interest is concerned, there ie a disposition to reduce the amount and even forego payment in certa vears, but on the principal. the ar- Bument now is being advanced that “ability to pay" in 1925 should not be taken as a criterion of “ability te | Pay'’ in 1935 or 1945 and so on. The American Government adapts the theory that if France were to zet no better financial statu: or 30 vears hence than she S ith there would be no use discussi financial settlement at all The French themselves do not con- tend that they w prove their econor they point to the of their present burdens and the necessity of using funds for reconstruction and the pay ment of internal debts incurred as a result of reconstructing the war areas, The United States {s indicating to F‘ran(fi a willingness to take into con- sideration all the factors which bear on “ability to pay,” but the important e¢lement in the situation which is new Is that some settlement this vear is being aimed at in order that more serlous damage may not be done to the international credit structure and the zood feeling that ought to pre- vail between nations. Protracted dis. cussion of the debt is not helping the European powers in their relations to each other and is impeding efforis for international peace which are regard- neial. i condition. but od here as even more vital to economic | “With a view to conserving in the safety in the future than the amounts Involved in the debts themselves. (Cooyricht. 1923 SIR THOMAS BEECHAM AND WIFE SEPARATED Court Decision in London Reveals Long Discord in Home of Pill Maker's Son. LONDON, ®).—The famiiy | Adifficulties Thomas Beecham, son of the late Sir Joseph Beecham, the pill manufacturer, and Boecham.. daughter of Dr. Cha 2 Welles of New York, were reviewed in the newspapers today wken Lady Beecham failed in her court petition to keep her hushand from canceling the authority he had given her to pledge his credit with London store keepers The musical Tuly of Sir knight. who is recog- nized one of the leading composers And his American-born wife, it was revealed by the proceedings. have not Nved together for many vears. The | present _dispute arose when Lady | Beecham took a house in exclusive | Grosvenor Square for herself and her two sons with, she alleged. authority from Sir Thomas to lease and furnish the house. Sir Thomas with others purchased A house in the same square for the use of “a lady friend.” Lady Beech. | am's counsel stated. Sir Thomas ob. jected to his wife's selection of | place of residence. ultimately cancel. | ing the agreement to pay for the | furnishings. for which dealers now are threatening to sue Lady Beecham. 8ir Thomas Beecham was married to his American wife in 1903. He succeeded to the baronetcy conferred on his father when the latter died in 1916. Sir Thomas figured as co. respondent in a divorce case that re ;-:i‘ved wide publicity In London in 1. Admits Slaying U. S. Sergeant. PARIS, July 7 U®).—French police say they have found the murderer of | an American Army sergeant, V. Har vey, whose body was-found at Mehun- | sur-Yevre on July 17, 1919. A sailor, | Louis Lafaure, arrested for another French and Relgian debt | al-| settle- | com- | allies | sattlement | be unable to im- | {authorized and diracted | ings for [timore, now of New York, an expert | [ | | | the war | develop- Fred Wagner (sitting), at the Willard Hotel, with Peter De P (National { | | | | | of Furniture Sh (Continuad from First Page.) with mirrors over them and candelabra on the shelves. Three crystal chan deliers form constituent parts of the | decorations. as do also the four bron siandards bearing electric lights. | which are placed at the four corners | of the room. | The window draperies are of heavy | yellow silk damask, the banquettes are | gllded and carved and covered with [ silk velours, and there are four new iconsole tables with marble tops. In {this room, as in the other rooms on ;’ | the drawing-room floor (except in the is used) hardwood | laid and wainscots | of which the | hall, where stone floors have been hav been introduced | lower member has been made of mar- |ble of suitable color. The conce { grand piano. decorated by Dewing, is the gift of the makers.™ Dining Room Entarged. The State Dining-room—"By remov- | ling a partition and including the west end of the corridor, the staie dining- room has been enlarged by over 60 | per cent. and instead of accommoda { ing hetween 50 and 60 guests at table 107 can be seated comfortably. A | stone chimneypiece, with an antique fire set. has been added. Thé walls {are paneled from floor to ceiling in | oak. richly carved: the chandeliers and { wall branches are of silver, and heads | {of American game are used around | | the frieze. The ceiling. in stucco, is | elaborately decorated. There is an In- | dia carpet in solid color, the table and | | sideboards are of mahogany and the | chairs arc upholstered in tapestry. | The draperies are in green velvet.| Two tapestries, one bearing a text| from Virgil's VIII Eclogue, are of { Flemish workmanship of the seven- teenth century.’ From the above official descriptions made to Congress it will readily be seen that not only were these redeco- rations not described as of the French empire style, but that they are really 1more or less of a hodge-podge, adher- ing strictly to no particular style or period. Donations Approved. Now, to get down to the present | situation. In the act passed shortly before adjournment authorizing the |work contemplated Congress sald White House the best specimens of the early American furniture and turnishings, and for the purpose of maintaining the interior of the White House in keeping with its original design, the officer in charge of pub- Jic buildings and grounds (Lien Col. Clarence O. Sherrill) is hereb, with the approval of the President, to accept donations of furniture and furnish- use in the White House. All such articles thus donated to b come the property of the United States and to be accounted for as such.” 1 This act further directed Col. Sher- | Hil with the approval of the Presi- | dent, to appoint a temporary com- | mittee, composed of one representa- | { | | tive of the American Federation of | Arts, one representative of the Na- tional Commission of Fine Arts, one representative of the National Acad- emy of Design, one member of the American Institute of Architects and five members representing the public | at large; the sald committee to have full power to select and pass on the articles in question and to recom- mend the same for acceptance. Committee Appointed. Accordingly. the following commit- tee has been appointed | Robert W. De Forest of New York, | head of the Métropolitan Museum of Art, donator of the new American wing of American furnishings at the | Metropolitan Museum: vice president | of the American Federation of Art. | William Adam Delano of Long Is- land, one of the leading American | architects #nd an expert on interior turnishings, particularly of the co- lonial period: member of the Na- tional Commission of Fine Arts. Francis C. Jonss, formerly of Bal- on paintings of the colonial era; sec- retary of the National Academy of Fine Arts. - Charles E. Platt of Cornish, N. H., treasurer of the American Institute of Architects and an outstanding ar- chitect of structures of the colonial period: architect of the Freer Art Gallery. R. T. H. Halsey Chairman of the committee of the Americs decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum; recognized as an expert on American furniture: the establishment of the National Metro- politan Museum fs a work largely ac- complished by Mr. Lockwood and Mr. of Long Island: murder, has confessed to killing the American. Lafaure says he struck Sergt. Harvey with a boat hook and finished him in a struggle in a canal A Halsey. Luke Vincent Lockwood of Con- necticut: Author of ene of the best known works on American colonial ¥ vel well known United | who is in Washington to start the races at | White | Mr. {of several THE EVENING STAR, “'ASI-fINGT()N. D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1925. HERE FOR AUTO RACES Varpaal starter of automobile contests, Laurel on July 11, snapped toda aolo, champion anto racer. Photo.) WHITE HOUSE REFURNISHING SEEN | AS DISCARD OF “HODGE-PODGE” Roosevelt Report on Interior Makes No Mention of | French Empire or Louis XIV Style, and Study ows No Period. . furniture and a this subject Mrs, Harold Pratt of New One of the leading members of the Garden Club of America and well versed in the collection of colonial furnitur Mrs. Miles White, jr.. of Baltimore. A splendid representative of the lay element interested in work of Amer ican colonfal furniture and furnish ings. Maj. Oscar N. Solber, office of pub- lic buildings and public parks, Wash ington, D. C. Architects Represented. should be noted that the Amer ican Institute of Architects. which has made the protest to President Coolidge over carrying out the co- lonial atmosphere in the White House interior, as successor to the pseudo French Empire style, is well repre- sented on this commission by two recognized expert on It | members—Messre. Delano. oné of the most eminent of architects, and Platt treasurer of the institute. The details of the Colonial scheme are not vet available, beécau: this commission will not hold its formal meetings until October or November. All that is being done this Summer, taking advantage of the absence of President and Mrs. Coolidge from the House. Is to paint the zreen 1oom and clean up some of the oth- ers. Later curtains, draperies and rugs will be ordered from the $50,000 appropriation made by Congress. In_the painting of the green room the first attempt toward the Colonial atmosphere will be attempted. It has Dbeen charged that the blue room, the red room and the green room would entirely disappear. They will con- tinue, but instead of such glaring and startlingly vivid colors as now char- acterize them the colors will tone down so that the green will blend more gradually into the blue and the blue into the red, so that the entire effec. may be more quietly harmo- nious and the transition from one room to_the other more pleasing The committee appointed by direc- tion of Congress has informally ap- proved this work. Must Tone Blue Room. While it has been stated that blue room. which is the principal one where state receptions are held, will not be materially changed in the course of the refitting of the state suite, it is clear to those who are co- operating with the President and Con. gress for restoration of the White House interior to a truly colonial mansion that this room also must be toned down. in harmony with the others. The details will be carefully | considered this Fall by the committee of specialists which Congress provided for. xtreme care was taken In selecting a commitiee whose members are out- standing authorities on colonial style, both interior and exterior. As Con- gress has not made any appropriation for furniture, but has authorized the acceptance of gifts of furniture and fittings, an important part of the work of this committee will be to pass upon the gifts offered, so that the White House will not partake of the appearance of a museum. It is more than likely that every plece of furni- ture that goes into the White House under the authority of this act will have a history. Lockwood Best Authority. The decisions will Lockwood, who is recognized as probably the best authority in the country on Colonial furniture. He is the author of & monumental work on this subject in two large volumes with $67 illustrations selected after a study thousand pieces of furni- ture, especially the Bolles collection of American furniture, which is the most important ever assembied. The letters submitted by the Ameri- largely rest on |can Institute of Architects to Presi- dent Coolidge seem to express & de- sire to emphasize the fact that this institute considers itself ‘“unofficial { custodian” of the White House. Mem- bers of Congress, particularly mem- bers of the Ryles committee that re- ported oul the resolution providing authority for accepting gifts of co- lonjal furniture for the White House, and of the appropriations committee that_recommended the appropriation of $60,000 for the work being carried on this summer, say, however, that Congress has not yet surrendered to any organization its jurisdiction and uthority over the Executive Mansion, which, as President Roosevelt in a message to ongress sald, “is the property of the Nation and so far as is compatable with living therein it should be kept as it originally was, for the same reason that we keep Mount Vernon a8 it originally was.” The attitude of President Coolidge seems to be in complete accord with this attitude of Congress. The American Institute of Archi- tects has made public a letter from 6, York: | the | IPOSSE SEEKS MAN INDUAL SHOOTING Husband Whose Wife Dying of Wounds May Be in Capital. Is Aroused by the attempted double murder of his wife of 13 months and | his mother-inlaw. at whose home he was a guest. by Ralph Todd, Balti- more street car conductor, at Hunt- | ingtown. Md.. iasi night. men from all Tts of Calvert County and Prince orges County today armed them- | selves and joined in the det {hunt for the man. More men ara reported to have formed into | posses. which are scouring the roads and woods in the two counties, fol- lowing clues of his flight. Police in Washington have heen placed on the watch for Todd. who was believed heading for this city The young wife, Mrs. Beatrice Lyons Todd, is dyinz of two bullet wounds in her stomach. according to | { Dr. J. W. Leftch of the Calvert County | Hospital, where she and her mother were taken. The wife's mother, though dangerously wounded, is said not to have been mortally wounded. Emergency operations were performed on the two victims last night by Dr. Ellott Hutchins, who was called from Johns Hopkins ['niversity Hos. pital, in Baltimore Todd escaped Into a woods near| Huntingtown about dark after he had | pulled a revolver from his pocket and fired it point-blank into the back of his mother-in-law, who was driving | {him, to meei a bus. in her car, and | |then turned and shot hix wife. He | {nad disappeared before Mr. Lyon {attracted by the screams of the tw | women. could reach the car Man Acted Normally reason could be given for the act by sither of the women or by Mr. Lyons. Al said he had acted normal. ly throughont hix visit and had eaten | dinner quietly with the family before | he started to return to Baltimore. Hinis of a quarrel. however, were ! raised by Constable Polk Lyons. who| sald Todd had besn reported “gun-| {ning” for his father-inlaw earlier in| the day. The story of the attempted killing | was gasped out by the (wo women. the only witnesses, as they luy In the hos- | pital 1ast nigit. | Todd weni to the Huntingtown home last Friday. where his wife had besn | visiting for a week or two. He de-| {cided to catch a bus back to Balti- | more last night and tha mother-in. | jlaw. volunteered to drive him to the | {bus stop in her car. Todd and his| {wife sat in the rear seat while she | drove. | | | No | Drew Pistol in Auto. A= they passed through a woody | section not far from the home. Todd, the women said, drew a pistol and fired. once at Mrs. Lyons. the bullet plercing her right lung. Tusning in a flash before his horrified wife could | move. he fired another bullet, which lodged In her abdomen. Screaming, | Mrs. Lyons leaped from the car and | tried to grapple with him, but he broke | free, returned to the machine. and fired a second shot into his wife's hody, Mrs. Lyons told Constable Polk Lyons. Oden Lyons, the girl's father, at. | | tracted by the shots and the screams. ! jarrived at the scens a few minutes | after Todd had plunged into the | woods and disappeared. County officlals were notified and a {posse of 50 was quickly formed and {took up pursuit. An all-night hunt, | however, was futils. Early this morning a train crew on the B. & O.| ! Rafiroad reported they had seen a | man of Todd's description at Owings, | Md., heading in the diraction of | Washington. | Todd. who recently was treated in | {a sanatorium for tuberculosis. accord- {Ing to Constable Lvons. is 6 feet & | inches tall. has gold teeth and has a | |dlsl|nf'! droop to his shoulders. i ASKED TO STAY DEATH. MOSCOW. July 7 (#).—A request | the Soviet government stay | execution of the death sentence pass ed by the supreme court last waek | against two German students has been handed to foreign minister | Tchitcherin by the German ambassa- dor, Count ven Ulrich Brockdorff- | Rantzau. The students, Dr. Karl Kindermann | and Theodore Volscht. were charged with plotting against the lives of | Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders. Max von Ditmar, an Esthonian sub- ject, vas also condemned — e | | | | | | that President Roosevelt aftér the White House repairs In 1903, which, how- ever, is not a part of the report {made to Congreas. This letter w dated December 19, 1908, and was ad- ressed 1o (ass Gilbert of the Insti- of Architects, as follows: Now that 1 am about to leave of- fice. there is something 1 should like 10 say through you to the Américan Institute of Architects. During my incumbency of the presidency the White House, under Mr. McKim's di- rection, was restored to the beauty. dignity and simplicity of its original | plan. It is now. without and within, literally the ideal house for the head of a great democratic republic. It should be a matter of pride and honh- orable obligation to the whole Nation to prevent it being In any way marred. 1f T had it in my power as | T leave office, I should like to leave | as a legacy to vou, and to the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, the duty of preserving a perpetual ‘eye of guardianship' over the White House to see that it s kept unchanged and unmarred from this time on Gilbert’s Reply. The reply of Mr. Gilbert was as lollows: “I have no hesitancy in assuring vou, Mr. President, that the Amerl- can lnstitute of Architects will ac- cept all of the honorable obligations which your letter implies and will lend its influence always to the pgeservation of the White House as it now stands, unchanged and un: marred for future generations of the American peopl Those in Congress and elsewhere who have been in close touch with the preservation of the White House (within and without) can find no real confiict between what is contemplated and the desire expressed by President Roosevelt that the WHhite House should be kept unchanged. The reno- vations made in his time were, as has been pointed out, principally structural. No material structural change is now contemplated—merely the creation of a truly Colonial at- mosphere. At best, but- little turni- ture s required in the state suite, they point out. PLAN RENOVATION. Col. Sherrill and R. T. H. Halsey Will Inspect White House. Plans for repainting and refitting the White House with draperies will be gone over tomorrow by R. T. H. Halsey of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York and Lieut. Col. C.O. Sherril, director of the office of public buildings and public parks of the Na- tional Capital. Mr. Halsey is a me: ber of the speclal committee on the renovation of the White House re- cently announced by Col. Sherrill. The inspection will start at 9:30. e'clock tomorrow morning. i BY the Amociatad Preas Remains of aleohol manufacturing plant, which went up in fi; LUXURY AND AFFECTION AWAIT 14-YEAR-OLD MODERN CINDERELLA Wealthy Real Estate Man Seeks Companion for Adopted Daughter, Offering Every Advantage Money Can Purchase fo r Chosen Applicant. he NEW a derella YORK n place Cin for a L Some prince a July of husband. is going to have all the ad-|got so lonesome for her recently that | taken into the home on month or six weeks “Dorothy has turned out rfect prize.” Mr. Browning said. trial for to be a oy vantages that riches can give in re. T dropped all business and traveled up turn for love of an adopted father. |'° Edward W. Browning, wealthy real estate operator, has advertised for a pretty, refined girl about 14 years old to be brought up as his own child with “every opportunity, education travel, kindness, care and love." His office has been flooded with plications. After he sees and talks with prospective daughters thev have & Cinderella treat whether they meet with his approval or not. In place of a coach and four horses that turn into mice they are sent home in big limousine with liveried chauffe and footman. Mr. Browning is aiready the foste father of two girls, Marjorie Gloria and Dorothy Sunshine Browning. |ba After he divorced his wife in Parls |ev ast year it was agreed that Mar- |er jorie was to stay with Mrs. Browning | ch while he retained Dorothy. He wants another girl principally to grow up|a s a playmate to Dorothy, who was | lifted into the lap of luxury sit vear: ago. Children of the poor, Mr. Brown. ing believes. ara healthier and do bet te ce au |pr | th ba art the Dorothy's companion will §7.500 LIMIT FIXED ONORY AGENTS'PAY | Controller Blocks Proposal to Give $10,000 Salary to 22 New Administrators. rich. The pay of Uncle Sam's new pro- hibition administrators to bhé ap pointed in 22 districts throughout the country can run up to $7,500, but not bevond that sum. | This has been decided by Controller General McCarl, it was learned toda and has been communicated to Secre- tary Mellon. Under the new plan of wholesale re- organization of the prohibition unit by Lincoin C. Andrews, Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury. it had been hoped that these 2 administrators might be paid a higher figure, perhaps $10.000, a sum_equal to some of the highest paid officials in the Government serv- ice. in order 1o get men of big caliber. But the controller general in his decision held that the salaries of these administrators must fall with- in the restrictions now imposed by law upon the fisld services of all the Government. Unleas salaries are otherwise stipulated by law, they must be arranged comparably to the salaries prevailing in the District of Columbia under the classification act and administered under the Peérson- nel Classification Board. May Boost Pay of Some. The salaries of State directors, and of divisional chiefs of genéral prohi- bition agents, who now total 71 throughout the country and in the territories, have run up to $5,200 in the past, it was said at the prohibition unit. This would indicate that the McCarl decision will allow an increase in the pay of some of the bigger posts under the new decentralized plan of Mr. Andrews. It responsibilities can be arranged for these new administrators of suffi- clent scope 80 as té place them within the $7,600 salary class for field serv- jces, it was indicated that at least four of the new administrators in what are considered by the Govern-| ment to be the four most responsible prohibition jobs might receive the maximum. These points are: Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. | | | ROCKEFELLER TEAM HIT. Expert Horsemanship Saves John | D., Jr., From Injury by Auto. By the Associated Press. TARRYTOWN, N. Y. ly pert horsemanship saved John D. Rockefeller, jr., from injury when he narrowly averted a collision between an automobile and the two-horse trap he was driving yesterday. Mr. Rockefeller was driving his team down Broadway to take a train for New York when an automobile | speeded out of a garage just as he was passing the building. ~He pulled his horses sharply to the right and the fender of the automobile scraped the rear wheel of his rig in passing. Reining up his horse Mr. Rocke- teller descended and examined his car- riage, to find that ‘no serious damage had been done. Merely remarking quietly. “Pretty near, but not quite,” '& elimbed back to his seat and drove | | | mont where she is staving | streamed down her fa | for | Mr, | . in world affairs than children of founder clothiers. the private camp in northern Ver. in Win r 1 sénd her to a select school for girls on Riverside Drive. “She knows she is my adopted child |but that makes no difference in her loving attitude toward me. It is amus ing o see how her tastes have changed. | Not so long ago she had nothing. Re the cholee of an Rolls ntly I gave her tomobile, and she selected a Rovee.” In town Doerothy’s playground is a ivate roof garden 12 stories above e streei, with an artificial Jake for thing. When the first girl she wished applicant was leave her vhile tears But the ride ck home, she safd, was the best she er had. Most mothers pleaded pov ty for wanting to part with thefr fldren. A boy 14 years old wrote. inclosing pleture of himself holding a violin. “I_will amuse you and the littie he wrote, “by playing the violin ou When I grow up to he an tist 1 will pay vou back.” Browning Is the son of of Browning. King & the Co.. BAND CONCERTS. Walter Read General Hos- 1. today at 6:30 p.m.. by ion of the 1nited States M Band, Taylor Branson, leader. conducting. “Heads Up" Ruy Blas, Mendelssohn Serenade, “Heart of Harlequin.” Drigo Selection. “Ruddigore.” Sullivan Intérmezzo, ‘“Whispering Wil- Tows"™ .Herbert Valse 1'Armour Meurt” ............Cremieux Balle suite, he Shoe.” Ansell (a) “The Sabot"; (b) “The Bal- let Shoe": c) “The Court Shoe: (d) “The Scandal; (e) ““The Brogue. “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Army Music School, at Washington Barracks, D. C., this evening at 6:50 o'clock; John A. Dapp, W. O., conduct- ing. March At pita sect rine second March Overtu 1ent, “Quand’ “The Navy Forever," Maurice ‘Quean of Autumn,” Biggs Fox trot, “Cheatin’ on Men," Yellan Short and Oveérture, Dust for trumpet, Sweet” ... .T. V. Short (Played hy . Thomas, F. Darcy and Kenneth Hérbert.) American fantas “Gems of Stephen Foste . ... Tobani Grand selection, efistofele,” Boito “La_Czar- ....Ganne (b) Serenade loszkowskl Excerpts from the musical farce ‘High Jinka" .. Friml Waltz, “Bris des Nuits, @) il Mazurka Rusae Lamothe (a) Fox trot, “Honest and orm and Sun- Heed “The Star Spangled Banner.” At Reservation 313-A, South Dakota avenue and Irving street northeast, at 7:30 p.m., by the United States Navy Band, Charles Wise, assistant director. March, “Emperor's Maneuvers,’ Friedman Overture, .. Thomas Caprice, Le Caid ‘Italien,” Tachalkowsky the opera ... Verdi ‘Spring _and von Blon Gems from the musical comedy “The Lady of the Siipper,” Herbert Selections “Atilla’ Waltz di concert, “Celebrated Minuet,” aderewski Aelected fox trot, “Lakesonian". ... Lake “The Star Spangled Popular March, Finale, Banner. At United States Capitol. to- morrow at 5 p.m., by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; Tavior Branson, second leader. Benter .. Lassen Song and Sallors’ from “The Flying .. Wagner Clarinet Puritani,” fantasia . - .+ . Bellini-Bassi (Principal Musician Emil Rada.) Prologue to “Pagliacel,” Leoncavallo Two mo ents from the sym- phony “Rural Weddin, Goldmark (a) In the Garden. (b) Bridal Song. Suite, “Les Erinneys, (@) Danse Grecque. ) La Troyenne Regrettant sa Patrie, () Finals. 9 “The Star Spangled Banner.” solo, Massenet | | | ! t | | | Commission | tirelessly | program for the | toric {tound, would be mes today following explosion. ARCHIVES BUILDING NEED 1S STUDIED Investigates Crowded Conditions in State War and Navy Offices. A drive to get the iong-proposed ar chives huilding srected at the earliest possible date. as “absolutely essential to the proper operation of the Govern- | ment’s important dspartments and bu- reaus,” will he made, under the leader ship of Senator Smoot, chairman of | the public buildings commission and of the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, as soon as Con- | sress meets. With the need for a proper place in which the vital records of the Gov- ernment mav be safely stored again emphasized during an_extensive sur- vey of the old State. War and Navy Building, at the corner of Pennsyi- vania avenue and Seventeenth street by the Public Buildings Commission Senator Smoot said that he will work for an archives building from the $50,000,000 building tional Capital, for make a renewed aside which he fight It is not generally known that the riginal coples of all the laws of the United States are stored in thé State Department Building, as well as treat- ies and other fundamental papers af. tecting our relations with the na tions of the world. The proper stor age of these irreplaceable documents as caused a serious problem in the will also ate, War and Navy Building. which | has greatly hampered the tion of important cause of office congestion transac. Badly Overcrowded. To get first hand information so as to try to work out a solution of the probiem. the Public Buildings Commis son went through the entire old. h building today “from garret to cellar.”” After the inspection Senator 8moot as chairman aaid that while they found some space that the War Department might use to better ad- vantage, still there was a serious con- gestion which created impossible working conditions. The State De- partment was found to be in as bad, it not worse, condition, as regards over-crowding. The best that could be done to af- ford relief at present, the commission to authorize these two departments to make transfers and exchanges of rooms among them« selves and to see if they could not find some way of storing “ded” files {to_give more office space. The commission realized. however, that very little space could be thus supplied. “If ‘we had the archives | building the problem would be large- v #olved,” sald Senator Smoot, “he cause by moving the files we could get much more room for offices. State Department Grows. At present ‘the War Department occupies a little more than half the | entire sphce, whereas it formerly oc- { cupied about three-fourths. Rapid expansion of the State Department has gradually resulted, however, in the transfer of the entire Navy De- partment to its present quarters, in West Potomac Park, and the trans- fer also of several bureaus of the War Department to the Munitions Building, in West Potomac Park. Branches of the State Department occupy expensive rented quarters in different parts of the city, and it has been suggested that great economy would result from the assignment of the entire State, War and Navy Build- ing to the State Department and the transfer of the War Department offices still there to the Mupitions Building, where there is available space. Most of thé War Department section of the old building is occupled by divisions of the adjutant general's office, which also has branches in other buildings. In addition to the forces of the adjutant general's office, the offices of the Secretary and As’ sistant Secretary of War, the offices of the chief of staff and the entire general staff personnel, the judge ad vocate general's office. the inspector general's office, the office of the chief chaplain and Gen. Pershing's private offices are now located in the building at Pennsylvania avenue and Seven- | teenth street. Spend Day in Survey, ‘While the War Department officials recognize the advantages of concen- trating the offices of the State De- partment in one bui'ding, they seri- ously object to any plan that would involve the loss of thelr present quar- ters, and Suggest a compromise that would involve the transfer of only one or more of the smaller bureaus and leave the offices of the Secretaries, the chief of staff and the adjutant general undisturbed in their present quarters. The survey occupied the time of the commission most of the day. The Pub- lic Buildings Commission has final au- thority in the matter. It is composed of Senators Smoot and Swanson, Rep- resentatives. Langle: 4 Clark, the architect of the Capitol, the supervis- ing architect of the Treasury, and Col. S8herrill, .director of public bulldings and grounds in the National Capital. In their rounds the members of the commission . were accompanied by Chief Clerk Schofield and Mr, Hoadley Shuman and Mr, O'Brien «of the ad- Jutant general's office and by. repre- sentatives of the State Department. % State business be. | | DISTILLING PLANT REVEALED BY FIRE Police Seek Man Who Fled Barefooted After Blast Starts Blaze. When an explosion and a fire that tollowad wrecked a well equipped as- | tablishment for the rescue of dens tured aleohoi today. somebody laft the | scene so precipitately that he left T shoes and stockings behind. Now prohibition agents are scouring north- east Washington. the scene of the hiaze, for a harefooted man in hopes of discovering the proprietor of ihe place before he can purchase new footwear It is believed the man who left the | shoes stopped long enough the closest fire alarm box to call engine companies to the scene and then con tinued his flight. At least the a thorities have not heen able o learn the identity of the person who sound ed the alarm, nor is the whereabouts of the proprietor of the ruined boiler house known The entire structure at 316 ( street northeast, originally designed as a two-story brick garage, was a mass | of flames when the first engine com | panies arrived, and one brief sniff satisfied the firemen that alcohol was |causing the blaze. which was un lally terrific_for such a small place When the flamas were finallv exti guished the evidence was found profusion Find Ple A big furnace and three huge hoil ers occupled the front room of the garage. In another room were four barrels of denatured aleohol the | police said, and more than 100 A gallon cans, some of which were also fillad with alcohol Revenue agenta | believe all contained the same fiuld before the fire and that it was de stroved by the flam. e second foor apparently bhad been used as a living quarters and was there that the shoes and stock inga were found latter h garters attached. he bullding {located in Bassetts alley. immediate Iy in the rear of St. Joseph's (‘ath olic Church. The playground of | Joseph’s Parochial School distillery’s front lawn Surrounded by such an unsuspi | cious atmosphere, the place prohahly { would have proved an ideal spot for the manipulation of denatured al cohol and the sale of the somewhat product. Joseph Wondrack street northeast, owner of the place. said he had rented it to two young white men only a week ago | but he could not give the authorities | their addresses, and it is thought | hoth spent most of their time in the impromptu distillery. ¥ of Evidence. | was the | | purer |233 C COOLIDGE TO URGE CUT IN ALL TAXES T0 SPUR BUSINESS (Continued from First Page.) sandy Here the rum runners have the advantage of small. uninhabited islands, numerous coves and a shore {1ine broken by cliffs and peninsulas. Unofficlal reports are to the effec that liquor is still being landed, bu the enforcemeént officers insist they have bottled up the rum schooners and that any motor boats or dories ai tempting to land liquor consignments will be caught before thev reach shore Mr. Coolidge has been able 4 see only the inner biockade of the Coast Guard. The rum fleet is well beyond the horizon. Late in the week, understood. the President may take a short cruise on the Mavflower and very Iikely if he ventures from shore will get into the zone of more serious operationa. Gov. Jackson of Indiana was President’s most important caller terday afternoon. He and Mrs. Jack son stopped off #n route to Indiana from the meeting of governors in Maine and went to White Court to pay their respects. The visit caused |a variety of rumers, among them be {ing that the Indiana governor, who was élected with the indorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, was here to urge that President Coolidge address the Klan meeting in Washingten August §. Officials characterized this as ground less and explained that the call was purely formal. At the executive of fices it was said the data forwarded by Col. C. O. Sherrill, superintendent of public buildings and grounds in Wash- ington, regarding the Klan parade and the protests thereto had not reached Swampscott. The President conse- quently has had no further worry over the Klan question. It is said also that if Col. Sherrill has sent anvthing it is no doubt a rveport of what he has done and will require no answer. the | ves. COUZENS URGES (UT. Surtax Rate Reduction Is Seen Need. ad by Senator. CHICAGO, July (). Senator Couzens, Republican of Michigan, who opposed the adminIstration tax vision program the Sixty-eighth Congress, recommends, in a signed ar ticle published today in the National Income Tax Magazine for July duction of the maximum surtax rate to 20 per cent. In discussing tax revision in re. in the probabilities of the next Congres Senator Couzens urges adoption of the basic policy of benefiting all classes of taxpayers in whatever re- vision may be made. He suggesis abolition of levies on all incomes un aer $5,000, elimination of automobile and accessory sales taxes and a num- ber of revisions simplitying collection and accounting procedure involved in luxury and commodity taxes In discussing what he terms the competition between the national and State governments in collecting in- heritance taxes he outlines a plan under which the Federal Government would collect all such taxes and di- vide the return with the various States on a fixed pro rata basis “The tax on Automobiles and ac- cessories is, in most part, a tax on transportation and should he re- pealed before taxes on Incomes are, reduced.” The yield of these leyies hé esti- mated at $166,000,000 annually, The elimination of taxes on incomes of less than $5,000 estimated - would wipe out 91 per cent of the- number of returns made under existing sched ules. He attacks the law permitting deductions for capital l0sses. Suggest- ing that “the subject might very w be discussed as (o whethér matter of taxes on gaini in capital might not be repealed. “To go Into the application of the statutes by the Bureau of Internal Revenue is to reveal the absurb re- sults of these provisions. Many of the statutes work out foolishly Prohibition Success in Togoland. GENEVA, Switzerland, July 7 () —Prohibition_is making rapld prog ress in Togoland, the mandate com mission of the League of Nations has been informed by British Commission. 4 er_Mansfield of the Gold Coast. Owing o the mbfll&fi the natives, he said, there 18 1itf importation of alco- ol and practically no stuggling.