Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Temperatures—Highest. pm. today. Full report on page 5. vesterday; lowest, 53, at 8 a.m. ., 54, at 4:10 CloxingVN. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. The as fast as th Star’s every city block and the regul tion is delivered to Wash “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier covers, ar edi- system gton e papers are printed Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,115 No. 29,730. Trie%ines “We Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEI - LANSDOWNE APPEAL FOR FLIGHT DELAY DENIED, CHIEF SAYS Steele Tells Probers Com- mander Asked Time to Bet- ter Mooring Facilities. PLAN WAS OVERRULED BY NAVY, WITNESS HOLDS Officials Here Declare Weather| Conditions Did Not Enter. Case in Any Way. By the A LAKEHURST, fa ated Press N. shenandoa J., September 1 was ordered on ht to the West on Sep- spite recommendations of Comdr. Zack Lansdowne | trip he deferred until the ek in September. v official document record today of the! of inquiry by Capt. Steele, jr.. commandant st Air ation. avy Department plan for s od, Comd: T protest pt. Steele deciared in court. The correspondence | howed he department was very nxiou: to have the great alrship | State fairs in Ohio, Indiana.| Towa and other Western States during the first two weeks of Septembes Comu: Lansdowne re- | plied that, since there would not be | me to complete preparations at ott Field, lil, for the reception of the ship. he would susgest that the vo; be deferred until the sec: ond week. July The Navy her Lien v hat 1 ~cond w This is shown read into the aval court \ had approved h « Flight Called OF Department disapproved | the itinerary and | o undertook o carry ! from Scotch Lady Bailie Refuses to Shirk Duty at Hanging By the Associ GLASGOW, little white-haired, Scotch lady—Mrs. Mary tomorrow morning will face the terrible ordeal of witnessing the execution of a murderer. She holds the office of bailie, and under the statutes the bailie must attend all hangings. She apparently is the first woman to hold such a position in Great Britain. Sympathetic officials have advised her not to attend, but her reply was: “I don't see that just because I am a woman I should shirk my duty in the least. When women took up work on public bodles they were not elected just to choose the task that suited them best.” The execution is that of John Xeen, for the murder of a peddler. ONE AIR SERVICE PLAN HIT BY NEW Progress of Mail Work Made With Aid of War Depart- ment Outlined. The Presidént’s aviation board of inquiry turned its attention today thoughts of aviation for war to the possibilities of aviation as the future wings of commerce, and found what promises to become its greatest fleld for service to civilization and progress. In a brief but intensely interesting statement, Postmaster General New laid before the board the astounding achievements of the Air Mail Se-vice, drew a vivid picture of the tuture air lines and added his disapproval to that of the Secretarles of War and the Navy of any plan that would divorce the flying services from their | present parent departments. Airmen Satisfled. None of the nervous tension that marked the testimony of Army and t had been sug hat time Comdr. tar bacuvss Hhat | he season of thun- | Middle West, d it | is ob, tion that the ptember frequent inspec: airship and Tetal structure. | court tha her Jf her departure approval Ho.uhhnl; izht was undertaken by the | men in e vel hopeful inging the uti i de- | this kind of craft home | of the countr Capt. Paul Foley, the 1dge cate, eloped that Comdr Lans downe's objection to an earlier flight and his reasons for recommending | that the start be made in the second | week {n Septembe) re because of fa- ; cilitles for ha the ship at stop- | ping places rather than weather con- | Correspondence was introduced to | chow that the mooring mast at De- | trott, which the Shenandoah was to | 1sa on the vovage. had been com- pleted on August 10. Comdr. Lans. | a ired to have the Shen a flight to Detroit to | . but his recommendation | ved because the Shenan-| ah had moored at masts on the | Pacific Coast without previcus tests, insdowne hac 1A be during the met old_ the it the spirit of sirability of to the people advo- | Willing to Grant Plea. i The Navy Department did write, however. that if Comdr. Lansdowne | regarded a trial flight as necessary it would be ordered. Capt. Steele said | at Comdr. Lansdowne made no smmendation. and pre- v was not convinced of the ne- for a trial flight. ing the inqu conditio flight was under to the Rear president re was amy predicted time the Admiral of the doubt that ted \ere was no doubt in my mind on | that point,” Capi Steele replied. Che ! veather map W not perfect, but | few are perfect from a flying | standpoint.” | “‘Was there anything predicted on | the p which you thought would be | 2 menace to the Shenandoah?” asked | the admiral. I saw nothing on the weather chart | which I thought could not be passed | or avoided by the Shenandoah,” Capt. | Steela replled. | Asked as to his opinion of Comdr. Lansda e's ability as a flying officer, Capt. Steele said he considered him a very capable and careful handler of irships. The commandant the flight should | added in reply her questions that he helieved | Lansdowne handled situations | with the Shenandoah in no way differ- ent from the very hest Zeppelin. prac. | Rigid tests of samples of the wreck- | #ge of the airship Shenandoah by the | Rureau of Standards, Washington was ordered today. Samples of the | R kage now here will be assembled in tha order of their place in the ship | for inspection by the court before the | tests are made at \Washington. | The court also directed the prepara- tion of a blueprint of the ship giving the loeation of the various witnesses | e time they saw or heard the | in itlons of the breaking up f the craft so us o ascertain whether it will he possible from the testimony location of the first | the structure. | Comd o dete serfogs fa Cross-Examination Delayed. | re in Before the inquiry can go much | her the court must take time | to digest the tesymony of more than | a score of witnesses who have passed | before it in such rapid succession | during the two days of the investiga- tion. The cross-examination of these witnesses is yet to come. Besides the narratives of the sur- vivors, the court has received the opinion of ene expert as to how the <hip broke up. He is Comdr. Sidney Kraus, who was detalled in Germany to observe the building «of the Los Angeles, d who personally ex- amined the Shenandoah wreck. Thinks Girders Failed. His opinfon is that the breaking up of tha big airship resulted from the | ire of one or more main girders ward of midship. His theory, | hased on his examination and informa tion obtained from avallable saurces, j« that subsequently the control car roke away from the hull and swung (Continued om Page 2, Column 4.) e iy A air | he said. Navy officlals was present in the hearing chamber this morning when the Post Office Department heads ap- peared to present the story of avia- tion’s place in commerce before the men who are to tell President Cool- idge what they believe would prove the most successful plan for the ad- ministration of aviation in America. At the very outset Mr. New bluntly told the board that the Air Service of the Post Office Department has no place in the controversy that is shak- ing the Army and the Navy to their foundations. Supported by his subor- dinates, he declared there is no dis- | satistaction among the pilots of the Afr Mail Service and showed how his men had traveled more than 2,500,000 miles with only two fatalities. W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster General, in charge of air mails and foreign service, who follow- ed Mr. New on the stand, deliberately asserted that if the War Department treats the Army Air Service “like a stepchild,” referring to the charges of Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, “then the Post Office Department treats the Alr Mail Service like a fifth cousin.” Needs More Money. He bluntly added, with Mr. New seated opposite him, that he thought the department could well afford to spend more money and more time im- proving the service. But there was no sign of friction or even disagreement between Mr. Glover and Mr. New over this statement. It was directed at the possibilities of improving service and contained no hint of dissatisfaction among the personnel of the Alr Mail Service. Mr. se New's disapproval of a_unified vice, combining the air mail with the Army and Navy aviation corps, was not contained in his writ- ten statement, which he read to the board. It was brought out by Repre- sentative Vinson of Georgia, a mem ber of the board, who asked, “Mr. New, we would like to know what you think of a unified air service?"” “I think the Post Office Department,” he answered without hesitancy, ‘‘un- questionably should have untram- meled control of its own service. There are—" He hesitated on the point of enlarging upon the answe and then briefly added, “Well, that' enough.” Mr. New was then excused | from further examination, but several times he offered to answer in greater detall questions asked of other mem- bers of the Post Office Department staff. Gives Air Mail Start. Mr. New declared the sole aim of the Post Office Department in estab- lishing the Air Mail Service was to demonstrate that commercial aviation is a possibility. The department, he sald, had no idea of continuing its ac- tivities permanently, but merely to give commercial aviation a start. He (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) BRITISH VISITOR IN U. S. SHOCKED BY PROHIBITION | Saw More “Drunks” in Detroit in | One Day Than in England in Year, He Says. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, tember 23.—Capt. T. J. Colo., O’Connor, a | member of the English Parliament, | and a delegate to the meeting of the | Interparliamentary Union in Wash- | ington next month, said here yester- day that he is “shocked” by the ex- tent of the drug traffic in the United States and the “farce” of prohibition enforcement, “More intoxicated persons are to be seen about the streets of Detroit in a day than in England in a year,” he asserted. ‘“‘Prohibition has directed the thought of the people toward drinking.” He sald there has been “an enor- mous increase in temperance in Eng- land,” “The prohibitive price of spirits has | put them out of the reach of many, ‘“The working populace drink | beer of low alcoholic percentage be- cause it is cheap, and there has been {2 marked diminution in the consump- tion of spirits.” Capt. O'Connor will advocate at the | Washington conference which the give an accounting of its narcoucs, that China, produces fully 95 per cent of world’s opium, be compelled to exports of & Sep- | PALMER'S SAVINGS ENORMOUS, RECORD OF WORK REVEALS Fleet Corporation Head Has Cut Expenses Despite Ship Board Opposition. COSTS TO GOVERNMENT REDUCED 14 MILLIONS | More Vessels Placed in Private Ownership and Business Put on Healthier Basis. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In the controversy between the Ship ping Board, on the one hand, and Pres- | ident Coolidge and the Emergency | Fleet Corporation. on the other, over | the operation and disposition of the | Government-owned merchant fleet, | emphasized in the recent demand of | the President for the resignation of Commissioner B. E. Haney, the fol- | | | i | | | | | .| lowing facts stand out: | 1. A tremendous reduction in the | cost to the Government of the ope ation of the ships, since President Coolidge came into office and appoint- ed Admiral Lelgh C. Palmer president of the Fleet Corporation. 2. A great increase in the efficiency | of the Government-owned merchant | { marine, due in large part to the econ omies instituted and the reduction in the budget appropriation. 3. The Government ships in the fis- cal year completed June 30 (ast, with an average of 299 vessels in opera- | tion, as compared to an average of 338 in the previous fiscal year, car- ried as many payable tons of freight and obtained as much revenue as in the previous year. 4. The actual transfer of Govern-| { private American ownership and oper- | ation is rapldly becoming an accom- plished fact. Sequel in Congress. The present controversy will find its sequel when Congress meets, and a | determined effort is made either to | amend the merchant marine act g0 as 1o remove the board absolutely from | the field of operation of the ships or to abolish the Shipping Board entire as advocated by some members of Congress. President Coolidge recommended to Congress at its last session that the law be amended S0 a3 to separate en- | tirely the Fleet Corporation from the board, and Senator- Jones of Wash- }ington, chairman of the Senate com- merce committee, prepared a bill for | | this purpose. A similar bill was pre- pared for consideration by the House. | Whether the President will go further | in his next message and urge the ab- | olition of the board remains to be | seen. The President has indicated in | the past that the board has functions | to perform of a regulatory and in- { quisitorial nature, and that is should confine its activities to those func- tions. | i | Lives Within Budget. The great improvement in the ship- | ping situation indicated by these | tacts is due in large measure to the determination of President Palmer of | the Fleet Corporation to live within | the budget appropriation for the | ships and to the economies and more | efficient management instituted un-| ;der his regime. | During the fiscal year 1923.24 the | Shipping Board and the Flest Cor-| poration were operating under an| appropriation of $50.000,000, divided as follows: $42,000,000 for ship op- eration and $8,000,000 for liquidation | of inactive properties and upkeep of | the laid-up ships. That is the ap- propriation which was in effect when | President Palmer was appointed by | the President in January, 1924. The | | appropriation made for the next fiscal year, 1924-25, was $36,000,000, $30,-| 000,000 for ship operation and | $6,000,000 for liquidation and upkeep | of the lald-up ships. For the next| fiscal vear President Palmer has de- | clared that it will be possible to get | along Wwith $18,000,000 for the opera- | tion of the fleet and $3,000,000 for liquidation and_the laid-up vessels. The Shipping Board, on the other hand, is holding out for $22,000,000 for operation. President Palmer in- sists the operation can be maintained efficiently, without further reduction of ships in operation, with the $18,- 000,000 appropriation. Saving of 50 Per Cent. Here is a cut, therefore, in erating costs of more than 50 per cent in two years proposed by Ad- miral Palmer, with the assurance that the services and the ships will be | maintained with increasing efficienc: " (Continued on Page 4, op- HYLAN IS UNDECIDED | ON MAYORALTY RACE Now Favors Withdrawal, But Will Consult Backers in New | York Thursday. { | By the Associated Press. ! NEW YORK, September 23 —New | { York's mayoralty -campalgn, quiet ! since the defeat of Mayor Hylan by State Senator James J. ker in the recent Democratic primary, stir- red again today, when it was indicated that the mayor still is uncertain about running _on_an independent ticket sponsored by Willlam Randolph Hearst, the publisher. His decision rests on a conference with friends in New York tomorrow morning. . “In my present mood I would say that I was out of politics,” the mayor | was quoted as saving last night at Holyoke, Mass. “My future hinges somewhat on that conference.” | The Republicans, with Frank D. | ‘Waterman as their standard bearer, {are prepared to open their campaign | againet Senator Walker early next | week. Former Secretary of State ! Charles Hughes and former Gov. ! Nathan L. Miller are among their | campaign orators. Radio Programs—Page 33. ment-owned ships and trade routes to | WHERE THE PU ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1925 —-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. gz \) "BLIC FURLY CONCUR . WITH THE KRIN T0 PAY $2,000 EACHFORAVATORS Offers Rewards for Amer- ican Flyers Brought to Him Dead or Alive. Br the Associated Press. OUEZZA French tember 23.— Morocco, Sep- wirds totaling $5,000 for every mem ber of the Sheriflan squadron. com posed of American volunteer aviators, | brought to him, dead or alive. ne planes of the squadron par icipated in the operations of the French yesterday against the Riffian tribesmen. Each plane made two or three raids. Second Lieiit. Curtiss L. Day New York and Paxton, Ill., made his first flight across the lines going as a bomber. Lieut. Day, a graduate of the University of lllinols and of Le- land Stanford, arrived at the Beni Amed Aviation Field Monday, coming directly from the United States to join the American volunteers. KRIM NEEDS VICTORY. Wants to Bolster Up Damaged Pres- tige With Tribes. By the Associated Prese. FEZ, French Morocco, September —Information reaching Fez from Moroccan sources, gathered by the French intelligence service, says Abd- el-Krim, the Riffian commander-in- chief, wants to make a successful at- | tack /against the French in order to bolster up his damaged prestige. This_information tends to show that the Riffian leader is sending troops to the Tetuan region, where it | is understood he hopes, by plercing the Spanish line and penetrating the Tangier zone, to start international | diplomatic complications. Emissaries of Abd-el Krim are said | to be announcing to the tribes that he is certain of obtaining a great success at an early date. Beni Zerouals, who have just come over to the French. say they month victory was assured them for a revolution would break ‘out in France. Plans Spanish Push. MADRID, September —Gen. Primo de Rivera in a message sent from the battleship Alfonso XIII off Alhucemas says that the preparations for another Spanish push against the Moroccans are well advanced. The message adds that there are in- creasing signs of poor morale .among the rebel forces. This is being mani- fested in lack of obediance to the authority of Abd-el-Krim. COTTON FUTURES INVIOLENT BREAK Crash from $6 to $9 Per Bale Follows U. S. Report Promising Bigger Crop. Br the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 23. pendicular break of $6 to $7 a bale | In cotton prices followed the publica- | tion of the Government's report on production and ginning today, estl- mating the condition at 53.8 per cent of normal and a crop of 13,931,000 bales. The trade was entirely unprepared for the big figures shown in the report and selling orders poured into the market from all quarters. October sold at 22.95 and December, 23.40. $9 Break in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, September 23.— December cotton broke 185 points, or approximately $9 a bale, today on re- reipt of the Government condition re- port, selling at 22.35. A disposition to rally followed the first rush of selling. RESTIRTRE TR Canadian Village a Fire Ruin. QUEBEC, September 23 (#).—Most of the village of St, Camille, Belle Chasse County, lay in ruins this morning—the result of a fire during high winds last night. Volunteer fire- men were almost helpless as the flames spread, destroving the parish church, the officex of La Banque Canadienne Nationale, six stores and six private residences. ) L2 Abd-el-Krim, the Riffian | chief, is reported to have offered re- | of Leaders of the | were | shown letters from Europe indicating | that if they could hold out for another | A per- | |“Tame’ Bear Slashes | Small Girl’s Throat, | | Causing Her Death By the Associated Press. OTISVILLE. N. Y., September 23.—Dorothy Craig, aged 9 years, died at the office of a local phy- sician today from wounds received yesterday when she was attacked by a supposedly tame bear. The bear, one of two kept chained in a tent in the yard of Dorothy’s father, James Cralg, snapped its collar and attacked the child as she was at play. the bear knockad the little girl down and tore her throat. Leo Shovel and Blake Newkirk hastened to ald her. The bear was eating its victim while fits mate growled and strained at its chain. The two men bheat the bear with a plank and Mr. Craig attacked it with a knife, but the animal did not release its hold on the child until a neilghbor shot ft. The mate also was killed. The bears were caught as cubs in the mountains near here three years ago. Craig had kept them for exhibition purposes, charging visitors a_small admnission fee. DOPE RING IN SOUTH BARED BY ARRESTS “Higher-Ups” Taken in Raids at Tampa—$1,000,000 in Drugs Seized. By the Associated Preas TAMPA, Fla., September 23.—With 18 persons under arrest and the seiz- | ure of narcotics valued in excess of $1,000,000, Federal agents hers today continued their drive into what is be- lieved to be the headquarters of a gi- | gantle “dope” ring involving virtu ally all Southern States. Those now in jail as the result of raids last night and early today are the alleged “higher-ups” of the ring, and many more arrests are expected. Agents say that the narcotics already confiscated are only a small portion of what they expect to seize shortly. i Sold by Small Children. In connection with the peddling force of the circle, agents claim that children whose ages range from 6 | York University | America’s prominent educators will | years up have been peddling drugs on the streets and in homes here. Source of the narcotic supply has been uncovered in the discovery that large shipments are being received here from foreign ports, hauled di- rectly into the city by motor boats. These boats, officers say, meet incom- ing vessels several miles off shore and transfer the cargo at night. The investigation is said to have gotten under way last Spring, when Federal operatives were picked from the best of the Southern forces and have been' shadowing leaders of the | ring since working under Latin aliases and, posing as international smugglers, the agents established acqualntance- ship with the inner workings of the drug clearing houses. Bared Huge Traffic. Through their disguised actlvities, officers claim they have uncovered virtually every angle of drug dispens- ing in_Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and other States. Operations of the agents during the last two days in which the actual { “round-up” has been under way have |been under the direction of Joe M. Bransky of the Federal narcotic’ de- partment headquarters in Washing- ton. He was dispatched to Tampa after “‘under cover” men had gathered evidence sufficient to expose the lead- ers of the alleged organizations. ATTACK ON DELEGATES. P‘eruvhnl Report Ineldent' Arica, Chile. ARICA, Chile, September 23 (#).— Another incident_growing out of the feeling between Peru and Chile over the Tacna-Arica dispute has been re. ported to the plebiscitary authorities. Julio Soto and Victor Belina, auxil- at tion, claim they were attacked while out walking. Their injuries are not serfous. Road to Build California Stretch. The Western Pacific Railroad asked permission from the Interstate Com- fary members of the Peruvian delega- | merce Commission today to construct 12 miles of new railroad in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The line will extend from Villinger Siding to an unnamed point in the valley. EDUCATORS TOMAP COURSEASODEL Dr. Ballou to Take Prominent | Part in Discussion at New York University. In a quiet, secluded niche in New a small group of meet Friday and Saturday to pool their ideas for the construction of a suitable curriculum for the boys and girls of the American public schools. The results of this conference will form the basis for a new course o study for the District public schools. With the sanction of the Board of Education, Supt. of Schools Frank W. | Ballou is golng to New York to at- tend this meeting, which is regarded | as of utmost importance in educa- tional circles. As a matter of fact, Dr. Ballou is scheduled to take a prominent part -in the deliberations, as he is chairman of the group’s com- mittee which hag devoted considerable study to the question of revising the course in elementary science and na- ture study. Represents 300 Systems. The group of educators who will gather in New York constitute the commission on curriculum of the de- partment of superintendence of the National Education Association, of which Supt. Ballou is president. It represents more than 300 co-oper- ating school systems of the Nation. The Washington School Board al ready has indorsed Dr. Ballou's plan to revise the curriculum in the ele- mentary schools, and steps have been taken to start with the course in ele- mentary sclence and nature study, the one with which the superintendent is | most familiar. The ideas submitted by the other subject specialists will be brought back to Washington by Dr. Ballou and the most suitable used as a foundation for the revised coufses of study in other subjects. Reflection of Soclety. The work of curriculum revision, the most far-reaching and forward-looking step ever taken by a large group of public school systems, involves both the preservation of that which is best from the contributions of the past and the selection and organization of the most fmportant values of the present day. ‘In one sense, educators regard the public school curriculum as a re- flection of the life and progress of-so- clety. Its revision, therefore, they con- tend, should occur as often as progress occurs. A static school they argue is not possible in a dynamic civilization. It is pointed out that the present-day developments, for example, in science, art, industry, etc,, are sufficient to give new life and color to the curriculum from the kindergarten through the high school. The division of research of the N. E. has made a comprehensive survey of current curriculum practice, which involved a nationwide search for material and a vast amount of labor in organization. The subse- quent intensive study of time allot- ments of school subjects, included in the general analysis of present ele- mentary school curriculum practice, it was reported, showed clearly the need for evaluation of the present curriculum content and careful deter- mination of objectives as a basis for the selection of material to be taught in our public schools. Members of Commission. The commission on curriculum of the N: E. A. is headed by Edwin C. Broome, superintendent of the Phila- delphia. public_schools. Serving with him-are Dr. Ballou, John L. Alger, president of the Rhode Island College of Education; Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey, superintendent of schools of Los Angeles; John M. Foote, rural school supervisor of the State Department of Education of Louisiana; Charles H. Judd, director of the school of educa- tion of the University of Chicago;! Harold O. Rugg of the Lincoln School - of Columbia University's teachers’ college; Zenos E. Scott, superintendent of schools of Spring- field, Mass.; Frank E. Spatlding, dean of the school of education of Yale University; Paul C. Stetson, super- intendent of schools of Dayton, Ohio; A L. Threlkeld, deputy superintendent of schools of Denver,” Col.; H. B. Wilson, superintendent of schools of Berkeley, Calif., and John W. Withers, dean of the school of education of New York University. "Threé mem bers of the N. E. A. headquarters staff in Washington—S. D. Shankland, executive secretary of the department of superintendence; John K. Norton, director of the department of research, and Miss Margaret M. Alltucker, assistant director—also will attend the New York mesting and outline the re- sults ~of their research work In curriculum revision, Caillaux Is “Ki-yo”; Other Attempts Amuse Minister By the Associated NEW YORK, S ptember 23.—F1- nance Minister Caillaux, who be- gins negotlations for the settle- ment of the ¥French war debt to the United States in Washington today. has been amused by the mis- pronunciations of his surname. These have ranged all the way from something that sounded like “Kaloaks” with a long a to “Ki yux” with a short i and a long u. One of the members of his par ty tried to impress upon newspaper men, who met him at quarantine. that it should be pronounced pho- netically, as though it were written “Ki-yo,” with both vowels long. In French, he explained ‘“the double 1 has the sound of v and, with few exceptions, the only final consonants that are ever pronounc- edarec,1,randf.’ . BUILDERS TOPLEAD * FORMORE SEWERS [ City’s Health Menaced, Oper- | ations Held Up, They Will | Tell Budget Director. | i 1 Faced with the possibility of cu tailing thelr bullding activities in the National Capital because of lack of | | sewerage facilities, Washington build- |ers have obtained an appointment| { with Director Lord of the Bureau of | the Budget to “implore” him for the | sake of the health and development {of the community to allow generous| | appropriations for the water and| | sewer departments of the District| | government. Representatives of the | | Operative Builders' Assoclation will | | confer with Gen. Lord on Friday| |afternoon and tell him that Wash-| |ington's present building boom is se- | | rlously threatened City's Health Menaced. | | Not only will the prospective build- | {Inz of 3,000 more houses in the Di !trict in the next few months be seri {ously curtailed unless Congress al-| lows a deficiency appropriation to supply the needed sewerage, but the| {city itself will be faced with a dan- | gerous sanitary problem, according to the builders. Members of the association state ithat there are now 3,000 outside| {toflets in Washington. or 500 more| | than there were two vears ago, du to lack of sewerage. This numbe is increasing greatly, they say. The members point out that these outside toilets are not in outlying sec-' tions, but in such sections as.the { vicinity of the Soldiers’ Home, varicus | | spots in the Northwest sections of the | city, near the distributing reservoirs on Conduit road and éther important parts of the city as well as Anacostia | and Benning. | $15,000 Houses Without Sewer. One spokesman for the builders stated that he knew of a builder who 1 had erected $15,000 houses and was | forced to instali outside toilets because | of lack of sewerage. This spokesman jalso said that a certain section in! Sixteenth Street Highlands, bounded | | by Sixteenth street itself, had been | forced to put in septic tanks. Outside | toilets would have been necessary ex-| cept for the porous condition of the ground in that section, he said. i Bullders say they have been paying | out their own money for sewerage, but | that they cannot afford to continue this. One builder would have to pay 75,000 for sewerage to supply 10 to |15 houses if he chose to pay for his |own. This cost would, of course, be |added to the price of the house and |thus the penalty of insufficlent ap- | propriations would be extracted from | the prospective home owners and tax- | pavers, builders declare. | 500 Acres Affected. Builders frankly say they are faced with the alternative after January 1 of ceasing many of their operations unless some means are taken to sup- ply money for more sewerage and water. At this moment, they sav, lack | of sewerage is threatening the de- | velopment of almost 500 acres of val- | uable property in various parts of the city. It is estimated that about 3,000 houses will be erected between now and next June and that unless ade- quate sewerage facilities are supplied | this amount may be throttled to about 1,500, confined to sections where there is now plenty of sewerage. Bulders feel that appropriations are being made for the sewerage and wa- ter departments of the District on the old basis and that the present build- ing boom, the increase in costs, the growth and ultimate size of -the city are being totally ignored. There are plans now, according to the Operative Builders’ Assoclation, that will continue the erection of houses at the present peak mark for another two years. This will be ruin- ed if money is not forthcoming for water and sewerage, they say. Fund Nearly Exhausted. J. B. Gordon, sanitary engineer, ex- plained today that with new homes | being erected in all parts of the city much faster than the District can supply them with sewer connections, the sewer department is facing the serious prospect of using up before Januar. v that Con- EXPECTED AT HEARING Lord Confident Bureau Will See Need of Appropriations Asked as Extras. With hearings on the District es- { timates for next year scheduled to start before the Budget Bureau tomor- row morning, District officials are | understood to be confident they will be able to” justify some increase in the tentative limit of ~$36,250,000 which has been allotted them for all local needs. N\ When the hearings start, Gen. Lord and his assistants will have be- | | fore them two sets of estimates—the | regular items, limited to $36,250,000, and a list of urgent supplemental needs, aggregating more than $3,000,- 000. The aim of the local authorities { will be to explain to the budget offi- cials the need for the projects which it was necessary to place on the sup- | plemental list. | cussion | inancial expert, CAILLAUX ARRIVES, CONFIDENT FRENCH DEBT WILL BE PAID Offer Ready to Submit to U. S., But Details Still Are Kept Secret. LEAVES 5R WASHINGTON SHORTLY AFTER LANDING Commission With Finance Minis- ter Includes Best Financial Heads of Country. By the Associated Prase NEW YORK, September pressing confidence t war debt to the United S settled “upon the basi righteousnes: Josept French® finance minist. the steamship Paris toda of a French governmer which will open negotiatio American Debt Commission in Was| ington tomorrow. “I have come, accompanied by nent members of zll political parties in the French Parliament,” he said, in a prepared statement handed to news paper men who boarded the Paris at Quarantine, “to bring a settlement of all our debts. There is no instance in history in which France has failed to do so.” Details Kept Secret. The details of his pl guarded secret, which served for the Treasu; conferees. The | will offer to begin the subject of ears between 1 several of whom paring financial biils cepted by the countr; was receptive to their s did not mention to an: own figures M. Caillaux, recalled from litical obscurity into which his war activities had thrust, him to lead } country out of the wilderness of post war financial problems, reiterated again and again that he hoped and ex pected to go home with 4 satisfactory agreement. Minister Cafllaux, who is about five feet eight inches tall, was dressed a dark blue suit, Oxford gray topco: dark green felt hat, blue shirt v collar to match, and a dark tie. is almost completely bald. Perturbed by Questions. He spoke-excellent English and used expressive gestures. When newspape: men began to bombard him with ques tions he said; “Don’t talk so fas and don’t swallow your words. That is the trouble with many American: and it makes it hard for them to be understood.” The minister was vi by the first question put to ! Wi about as follows We know you were not of treason, but will you what you were convicted of?” Cailiaux threw up his hands apparent disgust “I am the finance r country,” he declared, answer such a question.” “We are men of goed will, my leagues and 1. We shall have great pleasure in meeting the men of will who form the war debt f commission. We are con thanks to our mutual shall be able to reach an and practical agreement. Expects Agreement. “The Unlted States and which have twice fought side by upon the battlefield, cannot but a close understanding upon the basis of peace and righteousness. M. Caillaux was asked if he thought the debt question could be settled in a few days. “I hope s0,” he answered. “Do you expect to get the same terms for France as England got? “‘Better!” he replied emphatically The French minister was closel: pressed to reveal the general terms of his debt plan, but he pleaded to be excused, taking the position that would be unethical for him to_dis close the details before they had been submitted to American officials. Men of Experience. The French minister left the ship by the freight gangplank and through the baggage department of the pier, where a number of automobiles await ed his party. With a police escort the delegation went to the Penns: station. The party left for W ton at 10:10 Eastern stan Only three members of the pr mission have been in the Ur States before. They are the Marquis de Chambrun, Senator Paul Dupuy and Joseph Simon, whose name as the French financial agent is signed to the notes creating the debt. The other members of the mission are Senator Ferdinand Chapsal, Senator Henry Berenger, Senator Louis Dausset, re- porter of the budget of the ministry of finance in the Senate: Deputy Maurice Bokanowski, formerly chief adviser of President Poincare on financial matters: Deputies Vincent-Auriol and Lamoureux and Andre Moreux-Neret, and Haquenin inspector of finance. Marquis de Chambrun is a descend ant of Lafayette. M. Caillaux relies greatly upon him for his remarkable knowledge of America and for his long experience in foreign affajrs. Senator Dupuy also possesses wide knowledge of America. He is the prin cipal proprietor and editor of Le Petit Parisien, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world. This Journal opposedq M. Caillaux during and immediately after the war. Berenger Master of Senate. Senator Berenger as a non-partisan moderate, is regarded on financial questions as master of the French Senate. Of the 308 Senators, 220 are counted as taking Senator Berenger's been re. He rturb , whi in ister of my nd refuse t« | convictions on finance as their own. Senator Dausset has been almost lone in the Senate in saying for the ast four years that France must pay her forelgn debts. He has repeatedly said that France never could have a satisfactorily balanced® budget until provisions were made for the foreign debts. The commission was met at quaran- tine by Emile Daeschner, French Am- bassador to the United States; Myron T. Herrick, American Ambassador to France, and Gerrard B, Winston, as istant undersecretary of the Treasury. ‘(Conunued on Page 5, Column 5 [ . 7/