Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1925, Page 2

CHARGES ARE FILED AGANST GEN.HART C}Onduct in Appointment to | i Quartermaster General i Post Hit by Rogers. Another sensation has develaped in the Wa: Department rezult of the filing of formal charges by Maj | Gen. Harry 1. Rogars. ratived, former | quartermasier general, against Maj Gen. William M. Hart, who succeeded Wim in that office on his retirement fugust 22, Beyond the admis- sion that charges had heen made, of- fifials of the War Department foday Apclined 1o disenss the ¥ay, even to the extent of revealing | the nature of fhe charzes. From | ather sources it was learned, howaver tHat the charges had gone through ‘he reguiar military ehannels and were hefare Mai Gen. John L. Hines of staff whom they wWill be cuhmirted t Pavis, whe | Acting etary of War. for such | agtion as may be called fo. Despite the reticence of nfficials on the subject. it is understocd generally that Gen. Rogers has charged that | | ease in any now hy cal chief o SHAPURJL SAKLATVALA, Membher of British Commons, whe | Secretary Kellogg has decided, cannot | enter the United States hecause of his Communist utterances. SHAUTOISTSHELD -~ INTAKOMA PARK iCounty Police Continue Drive ! Against Evasion of Mary- land Tag Law. Gen. Hart, while serving as a colonel at the Brooklyn Army base in 1621 and 1922 pursued improper methods 10 prevent the reappointment of Gen Tiogers. whose ferm as quariermasier general was about to expire, and to ocure the appointment for him=el Furthermore, it iz said to he alleged that Gen. Hart procured o sponsible for the publication ar on= articles eriticizing the adminis tion of Gen. Rogers and designed tn show the impropriety of his re Pointment Rath officers affacted have had captionally fine military records pecially during the progress of World War. and were awardad the distinguished service medal. Gen. Rogers wae with Gen. Pershing in France, and served ecreditahly as chisf of the Quariermaster Corps f the American Expeditionary Forcas until July 22, 1918, when he was appoinied quartermaster general. He was placed on the retired list in August. 19 at the expiration of his term as quarter- master general hy reason of disability incident to his long and arduous service. He was horn in the Distriet of olumhis June 29 1887, and wasx 2ppointed a paymaster in the Army fn May. 1858, He has had heart trou- Be for some time. and is naw under treatment in Philadelphia Hart was appointed head of artermaster Corpe in succsssion to fGen. Ragere an the recommenda tion of Secretary Weeks on the basis 0 his fine recard of 35 vears in that corps. ineluding his administration nf the important military hase at New York City during the World War. He is from Michigan. and was graduated he would appear or he representad in from the Militars Academy in .June. {court 1585, Before his transfer to the Quar | In the hearing of Abont 12 cases at termaster Corps in November. 1900, ! Rockville vesterday several he served successively in the Infan- | era dfsmissed upon the representa- try and Cavalry. He has basn away | 1jon of defendant that thay from the’city for several daxe on In- | driving autos thai belonged to firms spection duty. and was in New York | noi raquired to obtain Maryland 1i- City vesterday, on his way to Wash-| aenses, but a numher were fined upon Inzton. admission that they lived in Mary- lland and falled to proeure tags of AIR INQUIRY BOARD [ A oA i MAY QU'Z DAVIS ilflnd aperatore’ parmits and ere ad- AS FIRST WITNESS 1Aitionally fined. The police say the ate is defrauded out of many thou- (Continued from First Page.) the Thirty-five more arrests this morning were made n the campaign of Mont gomery Con police against Distriet of Columbia motarisis who live | Maryland. hut have no Marvland tags. Five oficers nnder Sheriff Plummer [of Rockville were stationed a1 Takoma Park at the trafic rush hour and !hailed incoming m: ts. summoning them tn appear hefors dnstice of the P Kyle next Tuasday evening at elock. In the drive vesterday ai Silver Spring Sepatar O. FE. Weller of Mary and wae among thr seore of motor sts snmmoned 1o appear next Tnesday |in Rockville Police Court. The Sena | tor nrotested that he was not trying 10 !avade the Iaw, bt his Japanase chauf. {enr was ordered 1o drive up to a cnrh {Where details ware exchanged. and he promised Daputy Sheriff Roy Snyd ure of motorists whe live within the State. bt | Ington. 1o procure Maryland taxs using the District of Columbia tags from its sincerity. For these reasons ' Instead because they are cheaper. tHéy expressed the hope today that the Army pilot would he omitted from A it o 'KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN Tt was after f oclock hefors the | HOLD BENEFIT DR'LL Insugural meeting of the hoard broke Colored Organization Gives Festi- up yesterday. With the axcaption of an hour while the members were at val for Aid of Cardinal Gib- bons' Institute. Juncheon in the White House with the President, the committee had baen in continuous session since 11 a.m. Afd one White House attache laugh ingly declared the committeemen ware &n.engrossed in their work that they were almost nnpardonably late ar- riving for the luncheon There wae litthe for Mr. Morrow 1o =ay when he left the cabinet room of the Executive offices. The entire day had haen occupied. as it had been ex. paeted it weuld be. hy organization Mr. Morrow explained that it was stifl 100 early definitely 10 dstermine who would he summoned to aid the board in fta investigation of the alir. craft situation. He said this matier would he discussed hatween now and Mpnday and gave out the following offcial statement “The hearings of the hoard will he hald in the room of the House rom mlttee on interstate and foreign commerce. Hearings Open to Public. “They will he open Tt. i= expected that they will hegin next Monday. The sarings will privcesd along tha fallowing line: The hard plans 1o hear. first. the repre sentativas of the air services: of the Army, Navy and post office as to their present condition. organization. | equipment, mission and the relation of“the services to sach other, “Tha board expects thereafier to invite numerous witnesses. including ! Cal. Mitchell, to appear bafore them with eriticlsms and constructive sug gektions.” An axhibition Arill and eutdoor fastival for the benefii of the Cardinal Gibhone Tnetitute a: Ridge. Md.. was held vesterday by the colored Knights of S John and their triends at Graen Willow Park. Anacostia The Arill._held last nizht. viewed hv Rear Admiral William S. Benson. rerired: Gen. Leo G. Schu of Evansville. Ind.. supreme secretary of the Knights. and James Houlahan of Pittshurgh. commigsioner of Alle- ghany County The drill. which was participated in by the women's auxiliary, was in charge of Col. DeReef Holton. A dance was supervised by Dr. Leo Holton. Eugene A. Clark. principal of the Miner Normal School, prasided over the ceremonies. Admiral Ben<on Asked for the con tinued Interest of the colorad popula tion of Washington in furthering the work of the Institute. Gen. Schu- was to the public. | of Si. John and nrged a greater spirit of fraternaltsm. H. E. Danlel. prin cipal of the institnte. callad an colored Carholics to assist in carrving ot the program af indnstrial edueation planned for Southern Maryland, A children’s celshration. under rection of Mra. Gabrielle Pelham. com munity cantar sacretary. was staged during the day. and a series of Roy The wording of this statement, | Scout and sport events were held carefully prepared in the presence of | during the afternoon under supervi | sion of Dr. Aaron Russell. the entire board and given 1o the nawspaper men by Mr. Morrow oniy | WIilllam Prater was in charge of the festivities. in his official capacity as chairman definitely indicat that there will be . BRITISH DISCLAIM PART IN BAN ON SAKLATVALA ne fettering of Col. Mitehell when he IMPOSED BY KELLOGG anawers his summons. He may offer First ai | | hoth “eriticisms and constructive aug. | semtione™ and hic testimony i jikely | 1o prova of a highly sensarional character, Formal announcement that the former assistant air chief would he given “his day" elicited no surprise in offical circles. A& a matter of faet. the War Department, is known 10’ welcome the action. = Although Aeting Secretary Dwight W. Davis made n comment it is common knowled=e that he “hending over backward” trying to give Col. Mitchell every possible latitude in the present controversy. perialistic tactice of the empire.” The question of finances caused' Mr. Saklatvala expressed doubt as some interesi here todav. No an-|to whather his brother wouid have ai- nonncement has heen made as 1o how |tacked the American Government or the aircrafi hoard will pay for the sought to have spread communistic large stenographic and clerical force | propaganda during his visit to this it will need 1o conduct the exhaustive ! country. Latters from him indicated, investigation that is supposed to he | he said. he had a great Hking for this planned for it. Furthermore, it has|country and desired to visit it heen customary in the past for com.| ‘Betides. my brother has no quar mitiaas of such national importance to | with the American vernment.” My be supplied with special legal advisers | Saklatvala =aid. Tt ja the Britf To assist them in their investigation. policy In India that has made him a - | Cammunist.” No Counsel Retained. o | (Continned from Page.) husiness fields. He tried It. hut %non tired of the life, praferring politics, | “In Rombay. where he was horn. | hecame a stormy petrel in local poli- is the English rule in India. | ever been incensed against the im. upstanding man. with piercing eye Thether or nat this committ et mmitthermill but of altogether be. zupplied such aseistance hax not | And_cvnical mien, bean stated, but It is accepted ax cer- | likable personality 1ain that ne special counsel has heen | - 2 v retained thus far. The alrcraft com WIRTH REACHES U. 8. mittee has an-overwhelming task to | g aceomplish in an ineredibly short time. | NEW YORK. September 18 (#).— The President is anxious to have its|Former German Chancellor Carl Jo- report by the end of November. That seph Wirth arrived today on the zives it only a trifie more than two |steamship Stuttgart from Bremen. en months 1o complete its work. route to Washington 1o attend the Under such circumstances, the hoard | second Interpariiamentary Union con- may soon he faced by the necessity of | ferenc emploving expensive assistance or| The former chancellor, whose dra facing the alternative of narrowing |tic reforms in the German finance the scope of its work. President Cool- | ministry during his stewardship in idge i anxious that this inquiry shall | 1922 won him the title of “the fight- he sweeping and it {c helieved that|ing Baden schoolmaster,” said he when the proper time comes sufficient | planned to attend tha confarence funds will be found tn aseure thal'purely as a private citizen.” hoard any and all of the outeide heip| A large delegation of German ad. it may justly need. mirers was at the dock to greet him. 1 b cases | were | sands of dollars annually by the fail- | Arive 1o and from Wash- | 1ald of the development of the Knights | itics, particularly as an enemy against | He has | 1 paxt He plctured his hrother as a “fine, | THE EVENING ORK SUSTAINED ON RECLAMATION Sargent Backs Secretary’s Refusal to Spend Money on New Projects. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Work has just_been sus Attorney General Sargent in &l 1o spend money on Weat nation projects that are ne Secretar tained by [ the ref rn recla “feasible. Mr. Sargent holde that not only is the Tnterior Department under no compulsion to begin such work. bul {that, in the case of the Raker (Oreg.) | project. construction cannot he hegun | without further anthority from Con sress. Oragon and other reclama- [tion States ara cantanding 'hat Secr tary Work Is reqiirad 1 spend menex appropriated by Cangress without re | zard to hix own views amr 1o ‘feasi Libility.” He Is under heavy fire on that score from Senator Rorah and Northuwaestern leaders, other H Wants Land Settled Firs | Until 1ens of thousands of acres of | Western farmlands irrigated at Gov \ expense are settled, Dr. ris there is neither r n in carrying out new recla | mation projacts. That is hix defense |.gun.= the drive launched hy the | Senators from Western States, who {oblect 1o hi= artituda and charge him { with refusing 1o carry oui laws passed | by Congress. The laws in quastion are | those enacied at the late smion, ap. | propriating funds for a series of { reclamation projects in Oragon. Wash |ington. Nevada. Idaho and Montan: | In the case of two or three projact: | provises are attached which. in Dr. | Wark's apinion. 1fe up the appropris | tions until the Siatee involved have [ carried out cectain specifiad cn.opsra tive measnres nor rea Made Personal Survey. 1 <pent most of the Summer ecretary Work In an interview [this writer. “making & persona! in spection of the several reclamation projects under way in the Northwest. | These include the Riverton and Wil | wond-Shoshone projecta In Wyoming: the Sun River project in Montana: | the Kittités Yakima project in Wash. ington: the Raker. Vala and Umatilla I projects in Oregon the Spanish | Springs project in Nevada. and the project in fOrvegon-Taaho. * Raid with Owy hee These various anterprises cail for ir vigation of fracts of land ranging in | area from 10,000 1o 150,000 acr more or less. The ecost | out these projects varies from $3.000 000 $4.000.000 10 &s much $15.000.000 apiece. “1 spoke very | piainly. net enly !in most cases 10 rheir United States Kenators and Tepresentatives who | accompanied me. In one or two States the governors were present and heard me expres frank views. In soms in stances [ said that the proposed recla matlon area did not seem (o me 10 be | the kind of land that could ever | made fertile enough to attract with- In & reasonable period of vears set ! tlers who would be able 1o repay the Governmenti for the farms they might | take up. Therefore. T pointed out. I | 4id not think it feasible for the Gov. ernment to spend money on new proj- ects from which there < plainly | only a remote prospect of return | Slow to Pay United States. “That was my theught with refer. {ence 1o the concrete schemes for { which aproval was sought. But 1 | was actuated by { reaching considerations. Since the Federal reclamation svatem was inati- ; futed 23 vears ago. there has been ex- pended by the United States for recla mation operations of all kinda $205. | 900.000. Theoretically. that entire sum | is repavable. Actually. only some $60. 100,000 has been returned. In thow sands of cases farmers have made no | affort 1o contribute their assassments. | {There ix reason 1o heliave that inter: ssted persons now and then advise set |t1ers not 1o pay. or at leasi not worry about arrears. because. thay lare told. Uncle Sam will not press | them. 1 have bean moratoriums and ! postponements of payments daring back more than 10 years. | 206 farm foreclosuras: on another ! «ingle individual recently foreclosad on {12 farms. On another ane bank has fakean trust dsad titles 16 pracrically very farm in a small distriet. At the | present moment 16000 tarmse {1and, aggregating some 200,000 acre { for which it has proved impossibie to obtain sertlers | Awaits on States | In the case of the Vale clamation | project in Oregon. the Spanish Springs project in Nevada and the Kittitas Takima project in Washington there was attached to the appropriation bills by Congréss a siipulation that the | Statea in queation had to assume re sponsibility for “settlement and devel opment” of the reclaimed land. Tt fa Secretary Work's contention that un 1l the State governments have for mally contracted 10 perform their duty the Federal funde cannot he made avallable. Some of the Stater assert |that they are without conatitutional Authority to undertake the obligationa | Congress imposad upon them. and lo cal intereats demand that the Interior Department procesd withont further delay o expend the appropriations [ that were vored. 'These varied in size, {as initial annual grants. from $300,000 i 10 3900.000 each. ~Altogether Congress made appropriations {new reclamation projects which will cost when completed between 350, 100.000 and $69,000.000. Other projects anthorized by eariler Congresses and ipartly completed will bring the total | conatruction cost of new works fto 1$110,000,000. | “Together, (hese diffarent structures will provide water for more than 400.- {000 acres of land. or about 10,000 ifarme. The construction costs will be {much higher than on the older proj |ecte, the estimatas renging from $100 {10 $160 an acre, Coolidze Backs Work. President Coolidge is supporting Sec- retary Work to the hilt in the policy {of “relentlexs economy’ in the vecla- {mation fields. The administration fs inclined to think that the demand for carrying out certain projects is fo- last Winter for {menied by politicians who want money | ispent in their States or districts e use their personal prestige will the {by be enhanced. This s alleged to be {the case in Northwestern States with close senatorial elections in prospect vear. Farmers in those sections are said to oppose the projecta as un- Justitied by existing conditions. |7 Recretars Work's arguments are hotly rejected and resented in the re. | glons where projecis have haen {launchd and funde actually voted to Ibegin them. He is accused of arbitrary {use of his power and of shortsighted {views of the food and population con- [ ditions of the future. The Northweat- lerners quote a statement made 1o D; ““ ork by President Coolidge wh {the Secretary of the Interior was or- dered to “lay his plans for 20 vears in advance.” 1t is also pointed out th it is not from the Federal Treasur: that reclamation funds are derived, but from the so-called revolving recl |mation fund built up by sale of lands. {rapayments, timber grants and other {vevenue from the public domains, (Copyright, 1925.) 1f children could be reared free from tear would they be fearless men and womeni yme | an to| the penple of sach distriet visited. hut | be | other and farther. | Within six | ! months on ane nld project there ware | there are more than on Government-irrigated | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, 120 IMPORTANT HIGHWAYS MADE | NEW WITH GASOLINE TAX FUNDS Revenue Comes to Rescue Just as Streets Began to Break Under Enormous Traffic Burden—Law Has Proved of Great Value. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. [on plecemaal, very different from what L & ,.| would have heen the case had This in the fifth of a series of ar- | 4nijre amount heen available at the ticlea on the econdition of Washing- - fon's Atreets. The wiatn il appear | "OEINTINE of the facal sear, an in the on Sunday. | | 46 Projects Approved. In the appropriation bill of March 3. 19 which was the second vear of operation of this gasoline tax, Con &ress provided for some 46 ltems of street improvement at an aggregate cost of $812.000. In undertaking these projects the sitnation with regard 1o available funds was practically iden tieal with that in the preceding year. Roth annual appropriations for street work chargeable to the “gaso. line 1ax road and sireet fund.” which Is the official legal title. provided that the work of paving and repaving done from the fund should he assessed Massachy. | AZAINEL the ontting property. the satts avenue ftn the River road 60 |5ame as like imirovements are asse fest wide and £.000 feat in length. | ADle under any other fund. and fur. Central nvenue. trom Renning road her provided that when mich assess tn the Distriet line, over s mile in| Menis for work paid for from the length. fund were collaciad they should he Forty-first street northwest, from credited 1o the gas tax fund and be Davenport to Livingston street. abont | ome available for Suhsequent use or 4000 feat, reappropriation | Georgla avenue. from Military road These assessmenis are provided for | pist Walter Read Hoapital, more than | by the so-called Borland amendment | 6.000 feer. which makes ona-half of the cost of | Bladensburg road, paving or repaving a roadway or one. | kota avenue 1o the half the cost of seiting curb assess. feat able against the abuiling property, Seventeenth airesi with cerfain exemptions from the as nia avenue 1o G messable cont in respect to the paving | oer. of street intersectipne and the paving | Fourisenth strest from north to B | of roadwave in exc of 40 feer in | south width Flevanth atrest Pennsvivania avenue Rranch. Just ax many of our main thorough fares of trafic outlawed by age were breaking fo bitx under the in. | creasingly heavy loads they were never built to carry the gasoline tax came 10 the reacue. In consequence. | during the last vear or 1% months re hax heen a ‘great improvement with about 20 of the important traf. fic highwave resurfaced. thanks to this spacial fund. The goodl work will continue on am annually enlarged scale Hera are specific illustrations T'nder the returns for the fiscal 1928 Winconain avenue. from ear from South Da- | District line, 3,500 from Pennayl street south, 4,500 southeast, 10 the Bl Returns Come in Late. gecond vear of the oper- tax fund the pxpenditure at ially angment- During th. ation of the gasaline I halance available for anv time will he mat 24 by this clase af collections. These returnk come In anvway from six monthe ta thres vears afier the work has hesn compleied and paid for ont of the gasoline tax fund All of the items of &treet ment specified hy Congress he done from the gasoline tax fund dur- ing tha two vears—-some 60 in all- with the axception of about | dozen. are aither completed or a ndear contrici and nearing compl tion. Those half dozen that have heen withheld are delaved on acconnt of lack of funds sufficiant to justify undertaking them 1t should he taken into considera- tion that the fiacal vear 1926 atarted only on July 1 last, and 1 i now only SeptemNer. =0 11 i& very svident that the work g0 a Aving start and has not heen allowed tn lag unduly During the pasi Snmmer ihe monthly collectiong under the gaso line tax have shedn a pronounced increase aver thase of the procesding vear, and when the collsctinns 1in- der the assesemanis provided for by the Rorland amendment hegin me in at an active rate it is icipaied that thers will ha a con- siderably larger halence in the fund. This will he reflected In the hudget for the next fiscal vear, 1997, which will provide for a sum about squal what fs expected 1o ha collected durinz the coming fscal vear Rut. the resurfacing nunder the zagoline tax really fixes up a rela- tively amall araa of strest surface as compared with the tetal area that is conatantly zrowing on Account of new siresis heing opaned. DR B. H. RANSOM, U 5. OFFICIAL, DIFS Chief of Zoological Division Won Wide Note in Sci- entific Field. returns Improvements, Under the fscal 1926 M strest. Georgeiown, from Twenty ninth ta Thirty-Afth sireer. widened And vepaved, 3.500 feet. This is ane of (he hest straet surfacing johs o dons in rthe Capital. 1t gives an ad equate and proper approach tn the new Kev Bridge. Engineers figure it | will serve for 30 vears Rladensburg road, from H sireet 1o { 1. streei, widened and repaved. which will complete an 80.foot roadway im provement from end to end of this streer, from H sireet 10 the Distriet line. North Capitol Michigan avenns for vear improv 10 from \' sivee 1o ba finished o this from nsin avenue. R stieet. from Thirtisth ta Wiscon | sin_avenus. D strest, northwes: Eighth ztraet I street Georgia avenue. from Florida ave. nue to Barry place. This Is in front of the ball park and will be done afier the world series, Thirteanth street in various loca tions are 1o be blanketed with asphalt on top of existing old granite hlock and concrete roadwavs. This i= in progress and will be completad in about two months. One of the higgest improvements —a $100.000 joh —is the widening of F atreet northwest from Fifth 1o Thir- teenth st " Thit & 16 ha done in | the Rpring Tax Law Passed in 1824, The gasoline tax is collectad nnder A law of April 23, 1924, with the title “to provide for a 1Ax on motor vehicle tuels sold within the District af Co- lumbla.” The law imposes a tax of 2 cents per gallon on &ll gasoline sold for use in motor vehicles. and pra- x in the first paragraph that the proceeds shall he paid intn the { Treasury of the United States to ths credit of the District of Columbia. ‘and shall be available for appropri- [atlon by Congress exclusively for road And streei improvements and repair.” Mokt of the States have a gasoline | [tax. some of them at higher rates. | even up to 5 cenis per gallon: but in a 2ood many Statas thix tax i diverted from strests and roads and used for all kinds of purposes. In passing the law for the National Cap. ital. Congress decidad that thiz was noi a square d8al 1owarde the apecial interests paving the tax, since the real argument for impoaing the tax wax that the motor trafic wae wear- ing out existing highwave and that the motorists should pay a fair pro- portion toward maintaining the roads in proper condition for mator traffic Representative Louls C. Cramton of Michigan, who drafted the gasoline tax law. and Congress in passing | dafinitely meant that ths funds | should go exclusively for the onlv| Justifiable purposs In imposing the tax—to keep the roads In propar nce degree in 1899, a master of ahape for motor travel N . L aRT A IGhetr of i ¢ A 203, Mifa Btedets S philosophy degree thers in 1 He xasa fellow of soology at'the Univer. PO S ve. | NIty of Missouri. 190001, and had the Diatrict Commissionsis and ¢-ongrens | Pratka in 1901.02. He wa a student have dscided that traffic thorough- |15 Georss Washington Medical School, fares should recelva first attention, | t0>"4 rether than atreein of minor trafic | Long in U. S. Service, needs. for the manifest reason thai| [y, Ransom firat eame inte promi. the tax i pald by the whole body of | nance by the practical npp"rmynn of motoriata and ia ‘more rationally Ap- | nix vast knowlsdga of z00logy in the i plicable on thoroughfares that are |jatter part of 1983, at which time he Renerally naad by the majority, bhecame an assistant in the division of irather than on those streeis Which | soglogy. hygienic laboratory of the jare used by only relatively few auto- | I'nited ‘States Public Health Service !iata, and also the Marine Hospital Ser | Even In the short time that the | He then. in 1903, became sclentific as- |Basoline tax fund has been available | sistant in the zoological labovatory. In for efiactive use—a little over a vear— | 1908 he was appointed to the position A mirked bettermant has resuited In | which he held at the time of his the s -neral trafic condition by Im. | death. provement of roadway surfaces. In| He had been an honorary assistant |the future this Improvement will he | custodian at the United Statés Na- very much emphasised, bacause the |tional Museum since 1905 |{und- vill be larger and will come in He was a membar of the Halmintho. reguiariy. logical and Entomological SRocieties | The gasoline tax 1s eolleciad through | WAshington. the smerican Micra | the wholasalars, who maka manthiy | Scopieal Soclety, the Washington Acad- | returns to the ‘collactor of tazas of | °My of Sciences, American Socisty of their sales and then pav the tax of | Z00I0Kists. American Socisty of 2 ants per gallon on those sales | Tropical Medicine and honorary mem The collection s thus easilv made | ber of the American Veterinar) |and at a minimum of cost. Tha col-) CAl Asaociation. American Soci | lsetor of taxes makes A monthly re.| Naturalists, a forsign correspondent port to (he District auditor who seta | for the Society de Pathologie Ex- up the fund to the credit of the high- otlque. also a foreign eorrespondent Way department. whieh than-and ot | for the Roval Academy of Agricul until then—ean apend the money. So, ture. Turin. In addition he wax a [it in evident that thers must be a de.|fellow of the American Association {1y in this work until the fund ae.|for the Advancement of Science. cumulates in dribs and drabs, month | Was Phi Beta Kappa. after month. He was a member of the Phi Beta ! Kappa, the Sigma Xi and Beta Thea ;Pl fraternities. Dr. Ransom was the anthor of nu- merous government publications and articles in scientific journais on para- sitology and medicai zoology. Thirtieth sireat 10 from Fifth to Ssvanth from Markei Space to o an- Tr. Rravton H. Ransom. 16 vea 0ld. chisf of the zoalogical division of the Rurean of Animal Industry, Da. Partment of Agricuiturs. for 19 yaars. died &t a local hospital last nizht after a short illness. He had | many nniversity degrees and wasx a | nationally known zooiogist. He was born at Missouri To He attended the University of Nebraska. receiving a bachelor of Valley, | Collections Under Estimate. | On June 7, 1924. Congress appro- priated:for the fiscal year 1925, which began the following July 1. for 14 itams of sreet improvement nggr gating $925.000, which total was a Ho mak & MmemibAE o 00 [during that year trom the gasoline | 04" 0 INC, Jouinbl of Paranitology tax. The évent ahowed the coliections | |/ T Medicine. He was also A member of momewhat ghort of the totAl X-| . "oaming Club of this city pected—as A remult of which the y House Diatrict committee held an In.| RO (he Jast vear. Dr. Ransom i veatigation to see why the fund Aid | P ry Park, Mad. not come larger. Rut it also developed | ;‘:,,,}:"‘?.,."’fin‘.‘.'?"é' o Haneat that the actual cont of the 14 projects | non i Colo.: & sister of New Oulean | was about the same amount lear than | SIVEE D000 R SIL 2 Qint the etimates for these 14 joba. a0 | d | that at the end of mpffluul year. July FITAR i 1, 1926, the revenues from the tax had i about equaled the actual cost of the Italian Settlement Seen. projects that had bean authorized. NEW YORK, September 18 (#). Because the collection of the tax ba. | Arriving here from Italy vesterday. £an 60 daye following the date of en.|Giacomo de Martino, Italian Ambas. actment of the law, specifically on |sador at Washington, spoke hope. ne 23, 1924, the collection of the | fully of an sarly and aatisfactory tax procesded uniformly through the | settlement of the Italian debt. Dis. year, And as the work provided to be | cussing the Ttalian Debt Commission &oon to arrive, he sald: “The great done under the tax could not legally be made an abligation against the tax | experience of Count Volpi in Anancial matters promises a complate and fund until & sufcient amount was in hand to cover the eost, it resulted rapid understanding with the Ameri- can officials.” that the work could only be carried FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. the | A half! the last | - | reconstruction 1925, NEW ERA DECLARED DAWNING FOR CHINA Long Dormant Patriotism Rekindled by Shanghai Riats, Bishop Roots Says. By the Associated Pro BALTIMORE, September 18.—The recent Shanghal riota have lighted the flame of patriotism throughout China, which marks the heginning of a in life, de. clared Bishop : Herbert Roots of Hankow, China paper anlyz ing China’s situation. whieh he placed | hefore the unoMeial conference “hinese-American ralatfons at Johns Hopkins University today. He presented the following conse- quences as “manifestiy of far-reach Ing influence. whatever the facts" that may he developad by the official investigation Tt lighted the flame of patriotism throughout China, which marks the beginning of a2 new era in the na- tion's life, Lo “1t marked the drawing together of 1he students and the industrial workers, a combinailon which may change the face of «hinese society, “It _emphasizes the importance of the indusirial recoiution which h actually begun (although as vet it comparatively insignificant) ] Which has in thi= incident revealed | itself _as a powerful factor in the present and bound hecome mare powerful in the future. . Inolated 2,000 Vears. Rishop Roots developed his ject under six main haads Deveionpment of nationalism, wateh words of nationalism, influence of Ruseia. the Shanghai incident. the po sition of missionaries and the Ameri: can poliey toward China. The hackground ont of which na- tionslism devalopad in Europe was in- ternationalism or imperialism in hoth | church and siate.” Bishop Roots said, whereas the background in China is 2.000 years and more of politically im perialistic theory and practice in a nation Which until modern times has never needed 10 admit the sxistience of any wister nation of equal standing #ither politically or morally velopment of nationalism in Furops he hrought out. spread nver 300 vears, while in China national = seif-con: sciousness hardly existed a gensra- tion age. growing with amazing rapidity since the war 184 Anti-imperialism. anti - capitalism And antireligion are listed as watch worde of the natienalistic mavement Red Influences Bad. he inflience of Russia Bishop Roots expressed as: “Propaganda in the pavment of Chinese writers and teachers: achonling of voung Chinese in Moscow and the financing of stu dents ta enroll in Christian scheols atiersard gaining the confidence of the students. causing trouble In the administration and hreaking up the xchools. ‘U'ndesignad influance. dus to & gen erous treatment of China and sending of the first ambassador China. Russian example in saocial theory contrasted with Chinese theories which were discredited and largely abandoned in the Chinese reve. Intien of 1311: contrasted with Euro- pean social and politiea) theories. which were discredited in Chinese aves hy the Warld War. and appealing 1o the Chinese mind hecanse not only preached but adopted in the actual s0clal and political fabric of its near- et and greatest naighhor-nation.” The exact facts of the Shanghai in cident Bishop Roots cited as being in the process of offcial investigation {And therefore not 10 be assumed to he correctly known In detail The position of miasionarfes in China is a question by irself, Rishop Roots asserted. hecause it fa dealt with in specific clausss of China's freaties with foreign powers. rights heing guaranteed for travel, preaching and residence throughout China. f {dom of Chiness Christians 1o profess their faith. and the nwnership of prop- arty for missionary purposss Urges United Statee to Lead. 1'nder the heading “American Pol. iey Toward China.” Rishop Root listad: Clear recognition of the dignity of the Chinese people. and a whols hearted sympathy with their aspira tions to hecome a strong and free people. Constant new era the nation's Losa in a “n s nd aub- to political and recognition that depend ence on our army and navy 1o pro | tect the rights of our nationals in | China is seldom useful. * * » “Thorough study of general condi- | tions throughout the Far Fast and a | clear recognition of our opportunity | poneibility A< Americans 1« | and take the lead in proposing and carry { Ing out a thoroughgoing readjustment | of the relations between China and | toreign powers “The nacessity of a program provid- Ing for progrestive changes within | China. Gk | “Immediate action. Delax hitherto | has heen a diplomatic method almost | e exasperating and harmful as de | pendence upon force rathar than upon | talr dealinz. We must net wait un duly for other nations to act. China | manifestly expects us to lead in the of her foreign rela | tions. 1f we do not accept this r | sponaibility we lose one of the greatest opportunities which has ever been | presented to our Nation.” Hands Off, Crane Advises. Charles R, Crane, former United States Minisier to China. presiding at last night’s opening session of the un- official conference on Chinesé-Ameri can ralations. likenad China to a man who has discovared a robher digging under hie property wall. Mr. Crane ralated a story once told him hy former President Hau of China, wherein & Chinese gentleman. walking home at night, found a robber digging under a wall and paused to watch him svmpathetically. finally advising him that he was wasting his time— where he dug led oniy to the well. “How do vou know so much about this house?" inquired the robber. Oh, it is my house.” ‘hat is what Europe has been do- ing for a great many years,” declared the session chairman, “and the peo- pié inside the wall are beginning to take nocice. They have been very . but they are beginning to feel though they had nearly enough of thix ! digging under the wall.” | Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze. Chiness Min- ister to the United States, declared in the principal address of the evening | that the peaceful devalopment of China And her millions, “fortunataly peace and security of the is an absolute certainty “un- less that development is deflected hy foreign agency into channels of mili- of the Chinese people regarding the now Axisting treatiés was highly criti- cal. Gasoline Down to 14.9 Cents. OMAHA, Nebr., September 18 (#) Gasoline was reduced almost 5 cents a gallon to 14.9 cents, including the State 1ax of 2 cents, by An independent deal- er today after a reduction of a cent and a half by the Standard Ol Co. of Nebraska had been announced. The new Standard price is 18 cents, In- cluding tax. The deg with Japan in| the | considerate and kind for a long time, | an | tarism.” Dr, Sze said that the opinion | | | Two Americans, father and son, al- leged to be behind the recent organiza tion in Berlin, Germa of the “Knights of the Fiery Cross.” pattern- ed afier the Ku Klux Kian, have been { arrested by the German police. They Lare Otto Strohachein, 34 (above), and { Gotthard Strohschein, 30 (helow), hoth | German born, but now American citi- 7ens, and recently residents af Chiea- | LA FOLLETTE FOES LT OVER RACE {Both Wilcox and Dithmar Stay in Lists. Unity Move Failing. Rr the Asenciated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., |- Dissension in the anti-La Follerte | Republican ranks. which has heen { more or less apparent during the eam | paign for United States Senator. came | to A head esterday when. after a conferance of leaders for the purpase of uniting on one ecandidute, two candidates appear Roy P. Wilcox by vention of anti-La Follette cans meeting at Oshkosh as the man te carry their fight !ihrough the primary, and Edward ¥ | Dithmar, a Republican, who registered as an independent. are in_the run- ning. The conference succeeded in definitely eliminating one man. Arthur Barry. a Republican who filed as an independent. and the only avowed wel candidate. { Out of the turmeil of t1wo dass of heated conferences came a stAtement rom Wileox, defeated by Rohert M Ia Follette for the Republican nomi nation, that he was in the race the finish as an Independant ecandi Aate and _that he refused tn com promise. Dithmar issued a =tatement saving he had registersd as an inde péndent for the emergency which might exist should Wilcox he defeat &4 in the primary. Wilcox was de feated and Dithmar feels he ix bound by his word to those who signed his Sepiemher 15, selected a con Repub Augnst 15 registration petition to make the race. | Woodward Plans to Run. In the backgronnd. waiting for the situation to elarify, & Daniel Woodward. with the indorsement of the Ku Kiix Klan. who. without making anv appareni campaign in the primary. ran a good third. He has announced that he will on the ticket if he finds neaeseary althoiigh he declines make clear how he intends doing this, in view of the fact that he has not regisiered an independent. and cannot ger on | ‘he ticker in any manner. accarding to the opinion of politicians. unless he has his supporters write his name. Willlam George Bruce. the Demo cratic candidate in the primary who ad 1ot poll 5 per cent of the total of the Democratic vote of the last gen- eral slection, Wl also run as an in- dependent. John M. Work is the Socialist nominee and George Bau- man is the Socialist-Lahor nomimse. La Follette, who won the Repub- liecan nomination by a plurality of approximately 80000 votes, starte his speaking camwaign tonight in the ifAnal round of the campaign at { |tevens Point. Light Vote Surprising. H In the face of an intensive primary | campaign and in spite of the large number of candidates in the field nolitical ohservers had for three weeks anticipated a very Nght vote in Tues ! day’s Republican senatorial primary. ! but apparently no one expected sa [ light a vote as was revealed by the | returns. Only a little more than one. fourth of the registered vote was cast and the calculations as (o the cause vary with the source. The statément in Washington Monday night Chatrman Butler that the Republican | national committes would not support | Robert La Follette, jr.. in the event of his winning the Republican nomi- nation was published throughout the State Monday night and Tuesday. but swak ignored by the La Follette | workere. | How many votes were kept { from the polls by the atatement | queation. | With only 88 out of 2801 precineta | miaging the tabulation showed: i 50: Wilcox, 81.721: | _La Follette. 1 Woodward, 40.861: McGovern, 18,380, away is a |LITHUANIAN GETS 10 DAYS | FOR IGNORING U. S. FLAG “My Flag Is Red Flag.” He Says, Refusing to Remove Hat at Officer’s Command. | By the Associated Press. | "~ YORK, September 18.—For |failure to remove his hat in salute to the flag, John Granetzer. ‘A young Lithuanian, it serving a' sentence of 110 davs in A Brooklyn jail. He pleaded guilty of disorderly con- {duct while watching a Mardi Grag pa- rade at Coney Island. Coney gives the name Mardi Gras to a post-season {calabration. A police sergeant in hix complaint averred that when other spectators told him that Granetzer was ignoring the flag, warning was given that his hat must be taken off the next time the flag passed. Granetzer failed to obay the warn- ing. saving. “My flag is the red flag,” the sergeant deposed. | "In the view of the magistrate who sentenced him Granetzer was guilty of disorderly conduct hecause by his re. fusal to take off his hat he created a disturbance. The sentence was im- posed Jast Tuesday after failure to pay 2§25 fine. 3 10! by SAYS .S ADVISED DRUG PLANT DEAL Neufield Jones Testifies in | | Liquor Trial—Haynes : Aids Defense. | Special Dispatch to The Star | BALTIMORE, Septemhar That | he bought the Msrvland Drug and It'h‘m(d‘ll Co. after ! Chief Irey of the Intelligence Rurea {of the Treasury Department. and ir jorder to get In direct tourh with | hootleg trade of Raltimore, was stat led yesterday by Nenfield Hing tried with hix brother. Winfleld | Jone: . >3 Care, Isadore (GGlasser |And Simon Kellner. all of Washing ton. in United States (‘ourt hare he | fore Judge Marris A. Soper an | jury on charges af conspiracy far the llezal diversion of alenhol lation of the \olstead act | Jones testified ae to his work a= ac sistant director of the prof foree of Geargia from Neovember. 127 until Decemher, 1922, when he I signed. Hae alsa tald of working on | number of cases for the prohihitic | department since that time. and ma Ivim\-d the Scarborough-Lansing lone of the higgest hootlegging rase ever nnearthed in Washington, as oane 1and the Della Haves case as the other the Iatter involving an employe of the prohibition depariment at Washin ton, who was charged with glving i formation to the hoatlezzers. Ir | Jones id. he acted as an MmN And wak Arrested with the guilry o lones =aid he firs: met {through his hrother Winfield Ithat time was working on a the consolidation of all the Arug supply hoeuses in Washington, nf which Carn conducied ane of the | a«t in the Distrier, 1t this time 1that Caro learned of {aeatinn of the permit of the Marviane Prug and Chemical Ca. of Raltimore jand hs inforced .lones the f il beboustitint n very: low from William Cohen. prahabis 3,000 conferring with the wha at an for Says Purchase Approved. ! Jones said ha consuited ibuving the plani and said {him he thought the propos &ood and advised him 1o hus Did Mr. Irex or any other Go ment official give von the $3.000 bhuy it with?" Judge Soper then as ta which Jones replied in the Ry sioner A. Havnes. prohihition eommis was an ‘the stand b Aefensa s 2 character witnese for the lones hrothers. As as Mr Haynes came info the conrt he walker right up to Neufield Janes and =hnnk hands with him, and later with W field Jones A% Mr. Havnes tank the stand Mok ert WM. Carman. Jones neel. had read intn the record a letter written b Mr. Haynee to Neufield Jones in Nn ember. 1922, in which the commis sioner said he “regretied very much” the resignation of as chief he prohibition forces in Georg! which he described Jon very valuahie” and his resignat zreat loss ta the prohibit rgia Judge Soper interripted proceadings tn ask defense counsel if thev ~were trying to prove that Mp. .innes ws s rezularly emploved agent in his activities with the Mary- land Drug and Chemical Co. and that {he wae instructad 1n enter oeiensib: Inta a_congpiracy for the | unmasking the yeal conspirators?" | “Yoes,_ your nfnor. thAt is what sxpect 1o prove.” Mr. Carman Mr. Haines said he had 1 Jones on onlv one cage since re signad in 1922 and that a persanne Se. involving the brihery of an en plove of the department in M Haynes said he had known hoth the Joneses practically ever since he fret assumed office, in 1921, and alway | regarded them very highly. n Neudield Jones, for the work whic he had dene for the prohibition canse in Georgia Government replier Other Character Witnesses Other character wiinesses | the atand by the defense wers W C. Kennedv, assistant chief t fisld prohibition forces. stationed at Washingion: Charles W, Warde viee president of the Continental Trnst Ce of Washington eph 1. Rilbrev, at torney for thes Washington anch the National Surety Co. of New and Sid Houston. editor of the Stars and Stripes. of Washingion Willlam Cohen. who, with Je Rakér and Charles Baker, has pleaded guilty, was recalled to the stand ves terday and cross-examined hv Att neyv Robert H. MeNeill of Washine {ton. counsel for Cara, Glasser | Keliner 'MRS. HAYNES WINS WOMAN’S GOLF TITLE i Beats Mrs. Chapman. 6 and 5. to ! Capture Championship i of Dist | ’ Mrs. J. M. Haynes, star player of the Columbia Country ( | Who won the Indian Spring tourna iment last year, todav annexed the | woman's golf championship of the Distriet of Columbia at the Wash | ington Golf and Country Club, defeat ing Mrs. K. B. Chapman of Indian ! Spring by 8 and 5. The resuit was never in doubt. Mrs. Haynes getting . an early lead. which she maintained until the match ended on the thir teénth green Mre. E. R. Tillexr of Indian Spring | who won the champinnship twe vears {ago. won the eonsolation flicht. de | feating Mixe Phyllis Kealar of the | Washington Golf and Country Cluh by 10 and R Mre, Haynes won her way to the final round by a emi-final vietory ves. terday over Mra. H. A. Knox of Indian Spring. on the fifteenth green, 5 and 4. Mra. Chapman won in the semi-final on the last hole from Mrs. I.. 1. Steele, also of Indian Spring 1 up. Mra. Chapman and Mrs. Steele were all even going to the last hole, bu: Mrs, Chaproan was on the green in 3 shots and down in 2 putie, while Mrs. Steele took 6 for the hole. The match today was the firet time aither Mre. Havnes or Mrs. Chap man had reached the final in the Die trict women's champlonship. Mre Emory Smith of Chevy Chase, who won the title last year, did not play. MEXICO DEBT MISSION. September 18 (P). The Mexican secretary of finance, Al berto J. Pani, left today for Los An geles. While ostensibly on a vacation trip, it is reported in well informed circies that he will discuss with rep- resentatives of the international bank- ers the question of réesuming rylr- on Mexico's foreign deht It is reported that Senor Pani is taKing with him written propositions. and that if these are rajected by the bankears an indefinite suspension in the service on the debt will follow. In this case. it iz added. the Mexican government wonld make public the plan submitted to the bankers. S rict. MEXICO CITY 4 n