Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy and cooler today: to- warmer, HOrTOW showers. Temperatures a.m. yesterday: lowest last night. Full report « slightly Highest, 7.9, at 10 Forecast.) probable 36, AL 10 p.. o Page 5. | he Swunday Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION The Star Sunda o0 cents per 1 and service w is delivered ever ‘rom Press to Home Within the Hour” evening and inz 1o Washington homes st wonth. Telephone Main 3000 Al start immediately 2( 1.074— NG o. Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER TENFEARED LOST ON VESSEL BURNED OFF FLORIDA COAST Clyde Liner Comanche De- stroyed, But Majority of Passengers Are Rescued. CHIEF ENGINEER HERO OF MARINE DISASTER Tanker Pilot Call Help Spread Beyond Control. and Boat Flames Answer for as Fla MAYPORT Octoher 17 Ten hich port s Comanehe off thit ta infowmation its of the Clyde liner was destroved hy fire Tate today. according here, as the tanker Reaper and Pilot heat reached the pe The Reaper and pilot Meta, With the rescued passenzers and erew members, reache Mayport st he description of the 7330 in hold No. the heroic fire. crew the blaze \ccording to feey ing efforts of ard, and despite the \ spre I'he avs two lif The « o 1 bevond ¢ Reaper: which was not far inswered the SOS call and sent sent i out two life eer Proves He the chief the enzineer of of the ind mine others from one che lifehoats, which had the ¢ disaste Capt of the been swamy her the the, ning from < érnshed & omanche as dashed against e side of the tanker There was no panic senzers of i P amonz the pas ill-fated crafr, accord survivors of Hazesmd, « passenyers e work Lawler tirst the dmirable f hei time mn.. one nd. said was handled in He said that de which was r passen the sea mnin he rs were rap ken from the sea and the opern Saw Two Boys Drown the vessel on the hoat.” Mr. Lawler said, that time T saw two boys jump over board and drown. . The deck was prac tically 4 mass flames toward the forward hold and the five was rapidly Spreading. A< our boat laid by, I saw ered improperly and four vn into the sea. I never £ them recovered and feel sure they were lost." capt. Bd Sin was lauded by eificient the © Many their statements less of a bheen a The burning and motori heach declared pillar of fire 10 be about cue wor heach seribed seeing side the JlLf aftgrward the Meta Tho passenger Dist Mrs. Mabel Clark Joseph AL Jacobs Miss (" Roberts P Tully, M. AL Malley and | 1 and wife, Walter Chag Frese. Bruno Bischoff and T. 1. Tolson. Mrs. A. B e of owner Bristol Hotel, Miss E. I Nellinger. H. A. Smith Hull and wife, W. B Rranch, Miss Lillian cett. Miss Mary E. O'Brien. John tis, wife and \er (ticket agent, Clyde Line) Collar, F. M. Osborne, D. Sharkey. Joseph Moore, C. Carmichael, S, Russell, Mrs errity Miss M. Gerrity, Mrs. W B. Fraser J.W. Dolly. Harry 1. Boutwell, fohn M. Bush. George K. White, F. M Fanning, W. W. Mitchell and wife, Mrs. A, F. Ford. Do 1 NIX and wife D Isaaes, Georse W. Gilander, Jaw John Iohnson, ¥ AL Dudley, Fr doe Wilder A. Baingard, D, denke, L. D. Lake, W L Evans, b Swith, Gomes, Ehirtaston Charles ¥ Wilsor but eton of the pilot ship the for his handling of during survivors his boat passengers were that had there would list. flames from 1he illuminated the sea driving along the that they could see the hich they said seemed < at The from the line de- ! pull along and shortly frank in heen seaman have larger ea hizh-flung could sea res k seen the Reaper eraf Those o1 coast follows: « P. 1. Brown Miss Lucile William J P Hass wood tarillus Lawler, F wife, . nat. D wife. Mrs Wateon, w New York ity A d THIRD SHIP LOST IN ¥ One-time Pride Line Fleet. Comanche of Clyde TACKSONVILL (P). Three Clyde gone o “Dav Past vaee. Lag last vear off the Delav 1 passenger list Jives lost In May a vessel ! October Line stean Tocker 17 < have Jones in the the Mohawk was lost There was a hut there were no are coast of this ansferred service vear the Mohican from passenger 10 freight hurned off Cape Canaveral, 130 miles south of Jackson Ville. « The crew Tonizht the steamer Cor time pride of the Clvde Jies a total wreek by off the coast of Mayy a litile town at_the mouth of the Si. John's River. The vessel was built in Philadelphia 1895 and was of 3,556 gross ton- et lonnage, measuring L in length, 46 feet in breadth and drawing 18.9 feet it registered carrying a crew of 82 and fis engines had an in- dicated horsepower of 3528 Tont was driven by reciprocating en kines of quadruple expansion. It car yied four boilers with “0v-pound pres sure The (wmanche left New York Octo her 13 and was on her return trip there. She is one of the largest ships i the Clyde Line service and an im- ' portant passenger and freight ca yier hetween the North and Florida. Whilst first reports indicated there were few passengers aboard the ship, efforis to check up the list here were not successful and pending her re turn to this port, there was no indi cation as to loss of life or injurfes caused hy the fire Company officials wers at a loss o explain reporis of an explosion on the comanche as the ship was not known 10 b8 carAing any explasiy was saved anche, one Line fleet, | for | hounded | was played almost entirely in Prince- | disastrous fire | | zamely | | ing out of danger whenever it | | | | | The | B 'HIGH-PRESSURE SALESMEN 'HYPNOTIZE MIAMI VISITORS 'Wearing-Down Process Also Helps Keep, Sales of Lots at Hundreds Each Day. BY BEN McKELWAY. | SRl Corres [ Mraw | tizn | bined for the purpose of this illus is w combination of two of known developments around | which ! tration pihe best Miaml. You ha with the up somewhere arters ahout 10:30° oclock, in time ket a seat in a comfortable bus whicii will carry you to the scene of ndent of The Star. October 16 (hy Mail) et salesmanship with tedious wearing down | process, whereby the victim, as a last | | vesort against suffocation, puts {down a check and heads for the oper | spaces where men are not real estate | Uaughter. | Other n. combine down here to sell | crowd of visitors AX100foot lots at a speed which sends | You study the people who arve scated jhundreds of men and women away | With vou in the bus ohey 'l'l‘l'“l'm every dav the proud possessors of | Slrange resemblance to the oceupants ml'm”f:.r l'h' I.x.“,!r Bt £ of any sight-seelng bus in Washington Lions : The only differ Thousands o day might be more like | wild look about the eves which Take fig posted heen developed by constant talk on the bulletin hoard ar the headauarters cngagement picked vou reach com your who vou head : and slow % busses 1 about 150 it these es on and wherever they've heen fortunes to he made by buying Even the woman with the fwo small children i among those pres nt. and the children. thronzh environ ment. have acquied a clutehinz ges ture with their little ha Which they exer whenever they pass row of white stakes set in the zround The bus is started. and on the drive out the combined chauffeir and our conductor the honses of various celebrities as we pass. he shouts above the motor. “is the Winter (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) one the ge developments down here: old sold 25,00, 1 vesterday o1 2402557 .00 Lots sold this vear —331.345.330.00. And this is only one of the sec pecial developments of one kin another zoing on around Mian the average eost.’per lot. prob. runs somethivg less than $5.000. wonder at this, but come with trip 1o Beaucoup Fr of ind ind ably Ye me on Points ont roar of President to Make NAVY EI'EVEN "E ) " 4 Speeches Before "EER, ]fl][]’ UPSETS Congress Convene MARK GRID GAMES Yale Beaten by Penn. 16-13. Army Swamps Notre Dame, 27 to 0. President Coolidge now is expect ed to deliver at least four public addresses which he will dis euss hoth domestic and foreign auestions of policy, hefore Conzress gets under way in' December. Two speaking engagements in the Capital already have heen made, and the President also is planning 1o speak November 17 New York City before the New York State Chamber of Commerce, and early in December in Chicago st the national convention of the American I Burean Federa tion The First real clashes of the 1925 foor ball season vesterday resulted in a series of form upsets. Penn, chosen » be Yales first important vietim, trounced the Eli's, 16-13. conquered Illinois, with Red Grange in his best form. 12.10. In the first big imtersectional conflicts, Army »uted Notre Dame, 27-0, while Ohio ate gave the West an even break by winning from Columbia, 9-0. Three of \Washington's five col- lese elevens won—Catholic U. from Villanova, 8-0: George Washington from Mount St. Mary : George- town from Detroit 1 . Mary- laind was defeated by Virginia Polytechnic, 3-0, and Gallaudet lost to Albright, 58.0 first of the two gddresses here will be delivered next Tues day before the National Council of Congregational Churches. The other will dedicate & monument 1o Gen n Martin. the Argentine patriot. One or two additional en gements are under consideration Towa 62 HURT IN CRASH OF BLEACHER SEATS BALTIMORE October 17 Al Panic FOIIOWS Collapse 0' though outplayed by its powerful op. E ponent during most of the Stands. Plunging Scores Into Creek. same Pri ved the Navy to u 1010 the A tie 50000 speciators in huge Baltimore Stadium today. stubborn defense in the shadow of i~ own goal line is all that saved the s of Old Nassau from feeling the ks of the Navy anchor The Tiger held the upper hand dur ing most of the game, however, the avy tving the count in the last five minutes of play on short forced | which Shapley carried 50 yards touchdown. | Roper elected to start without Sla-| o i gle, the Princeton star haMback, who h“(':”' e & fast year hooted the field goal that | 'PSeC fhe’ sconcless jile @ gave Princeton a 17-to-14 verdict over | half-way mark in the gridiron the Navy. The Middies came in with | amped their feet the all varsity hands aboard, but were | perfod opened. The vibration w. outlucked” by the Tigers from the much for the bleachers. With & start. rending crash it collapsed, precipitat- ing men, women and children finto The ers punctured the scoring |Catfish Creek, over which the stands column early. After having its of-| had heen erected. iensive stopped almost to a standstlll | Immediately u panic ensued. Foot on the opening charge, Ewing, the! ball was forzotten as frenzled spee Tiger field general, stepped back to|tators from the other stands rushed the i-vard line. and booted a field | to the scene, Intent upon rescuing goal, which strugk the crosshar and | some relative or friend. over the gowl, giving the |dred of the bleacher occupants were Tigers a lead in the first five minutes [ thrown into the water under the mass of play. But this lead was soon di-| of debris. minished by the Middies when Hamil- | Siate troopers ton executed similar goal from the | at the time 26-vard line later in the gquarter. | eue work shionably dressed men ‘'hen the break went against the |and women worked frantically with Nuvy. With the ball on the Prince. | the officers, assisting in dragging the ton 24-yard line and two minutes to |injured from the creek. Ambulances play in the second period. Hamilton | were_summoned, and within & short attempted a pass. Shapley almost | time® practically’ all those who got his hamds on i, but it caromed | suffered hurts were en route to his fingers into the waiting armé | Washington Hospital of Caulking, who dashed up the fleld | Those =eriously i vards to the Navy I-vard line be-| Mrs. Juanita Pavcell Martin fore he was dropped m behind. | Donora and Mrs. D. W, Y, Sridges carried it over the line on| of Dono Mrs. Martin, first charge, and the Princeton | high school professor and sister of nz terminated for the day. Just|Malcolm Parcell, the well known svious 1o this play, Slagle ran 13 | artist, suffered severe injuries to her s for a touchdown, but an over- | back. zealous Princeton lineman had start Practically all those hurt the ball and it was called | idents of Washington. Px ack and the Tiger penalized 5 vards|burgh. The list of injured, however for offside play. his was the only | Included several from other ecitjes break of the game which went against | Among these were. William F. Dime. Petaclon low, New York City, and Mise Mary Claysville, Va Three years ago. on October 14, one boy was injured and hun dreds of others escaped when wooden stands erected to accommodate by who had been admitted to witness the Carnegie Tech-Washington and Jefferson game free, collapsed. S¢ By the Associated Press WASHINGTON Sixty-two spectators several seriously, bleachers at College during ths Washing ‘arnegie Tech fool Pa., October 17.- injured, the east ield collapsed »n and defferson ball game. spectators, were when en t the strug third too ‘Tigers Score Karly. who were present 2 took charge of he res the ired of ung, also wife of are res .. and Pitis Navy Attacks Furiously. The Navy tossed a furious offense ] at Princeton during all of the final half. but & tie is all it could salvage | from the wreck. The third quarter territory, but when the seriously and saved i the Tiger fought Navy threatened s lead by kick iati was | Rockefeller Association Meets. the ball on| xEw YORK October 17 ().—Forty- e | two members of the Rockefeller i By a serles of line plunges ana |30 TIeribors of e Focketeller Ramily end runs, the Navy rushed the ball | s to the Princeton 47-vard line and with five minutes to play in the final | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ton . fortunate enough to get dow tertained by John D. The association is holding teenth annual reunion. its nine- Famous lcelandic Poet Outlines Plan For Five-Stale Scandinavian Republic By the Associated COPENHAGEN., October 17.— Gun- nar Gunnarsson, considered the great- | . The speech made a sensation here. st living Teelandic poet. an ardent nnarsson intimated that his idea is champlon of close co-operation among | supported by prominent men in all the Scandinavian peoples. outlined at | the wountries mentioned and an- a public meeting foday a scheme for nounced that a series of public propa- 1 Scandinavian republic which would | zanda meetings will be held in include Denmark, Norway. Sweden, (‘openhagen, Oslo. Stockholm and Finlana and Teeland, joined on lines | Helsingfors. The poet firmly helieves il the un the United [ 1hat his idea will materialize within Gunnas wsed that | five year |ihis republic be headed by a pre dent elected by popular vote. Stares, | the nce is that they havea | has al home | Several hun- | had ! included | cantico hills, where they will be en. | Rockefeller, sr. ! 18, 1925—118 PAGES. # (#) Means Associated Pre: ss. FIVE CENTS 'BERLIN TO RATIFY TREATIES, CANVAS OF PARTIES SHOWS 1 120 Nationalists and 30 Reds to Be Only Opponents of Early Action. NATION’S FUTURE SEEN DEMANDING APPROVAL | | i Even Republic's Foes Think Course | Is Open to Wipe Out Old Disputes. B Cable to BERLIN. October 17 camvas by the Warld orrespondent for the political ere shows they take the ratification of the loearno by the Reichs will he put in the ratification of the Rhine. paet was encountered by the Dawes plan. it can be safely said i There re only 1wo factions H posed peace —the extreme right wing the Nationalists, numbering | 100 Nationalist deputies and | Communists who bit The Star and New York World A News tharoush | Serviee tead position of wedicting 12reement difficulty the than Tiese of way on [ of out « thirty-odd | ter-enders. Consequently (‘han | and Foreign Minister turned with Germany, willingly | plauding their achlevements at Lo €arno—a rare honor for German dele sates assigned bargain with the enemy. What astonishes most oh servers, even those mosi calloused 1o | udden chanke of frant by German Yourgest Weapon of War about face executed by the Nutiona! Apt to Have Greatest Atten- tion in Coming Session. ISUpArty in its oppositlon 1o the pact are ellor Luther esemann re an AVIATION DEBATES to This is easily explained. The curity pact is being sold to the Ger | mAn people as a means of scrapping the obnoxious treaty of \ersailles Tonight all the newspapers are car rying inspired articles stating Strese mann brought up the question of war = The airplane. guilt at Locarno and that all nations : «rmament of | hitherto ignorant of Germany's in |overshadow in the del nocence would be given this inter- | con, ite grizzled Wt ire mos convineed tey e on: | Inantrs and the battleship main in power and sign®the pact by | TWice In the last nine months its telling isunporters it lis the only way | Acvities and potentialities have been of ridding Ger of the burdens | ! investigating bodles | imposed at Ver: {and the reports of these two inquiries Tonight the word has gone forth {will furnish the basis of discussion. ,hat ence Germany enters the league (e, the President's Alr Board she will insist that other nations dis- | which closed open hearings Friday. e hpiS would bUL Germany on &1 will be given dirsctly fo President nations and wipe out the defeat in war | C00lidge, but the other. by the House e s sk e aircraft committee, will be turned The removal of the restrictions im-|over to Congress itself. nosed on aviation would follow. Al The President's Alr Board met in readjustment of the entire Rhineland | pcecutive session vesterday to %o over problem and the possible restoration | | .liminary plans for the drafting of of colonial‘mandates would also follow. { fi= PR BR AT SO0 o0 G De ziven to the President about Novem Will Regain Old Place. ionalists | ler The most pessimistic of - realize that even If the dream doesn’'t | Throughout its inquiry ne true. the pact will make Ger-|held to a polioy adopted at its first ¢ an important political factor in; meeting—to seek facts and informa n affairs tion only. and so far as possible re of the main aloof from personalities e Amsoeiated Prese in the promises 1o te in the next assoc junior natio weapon ress as upon by the board Members interviewed he promises Foreign Secrel Great Rrits Nutionalist ourse, by Briand and Chamberlain _of n must materialize or Ger- | many will scrap the pact. They in sisted the pact may be changed by the Richstag. providd the alliss con sent The Party | that : - Many Witnesses Examined. In its four week= of work It ‘tically all Government ged with the conduct avy aviators, represen tives of the aircraft manufacturing industry and others connected with the commercial uses of the airplane. At least two dozen recommenda sns were presented. and among the Jutstanding of these upon which the board must p re Creation of a department of nation defense, in which departments of land. air and sea would he given ¢ equal status. A department of air 10 rank equally with the Departments of War and Navy. A separate alr Army and Navy Creation of a bureau of civil aero. nautics in the Commerce Depart ment, to be charged with licensing of commercial pilots. inspection of com- mercial pilots. inspection of commer cial planes. supervision and develop- ment of airwavs and the construction ! of landing fields at principal cities. Increased appropriationa, not alone for the two air services, but also for | other units of the national defense. Appointment of another fstant Many Untoward Events. P E RS ha Sl pextices By Cable to The Many proposals were presented for LOCARNO. Switzerland, October 17, administration of the personnel under Premiec Mussolini of Italy. here for | the proposed separate air corps. the conference. looks pale and hag. | zard. The old fire has gone from his | eyes. He looks as if he is suffering | from a deadly malady. However, he | Koes about carrying his figure erect. As he passes people standing in groups he fixes them with a haughty glance. At the signing of the Rhine pact he | didn’t attempt 1o call attention to his presence. He reserved his insolent manner for public appearances. i Another Incident adding to the bad impression already created here by the Fascist visit occurred this after noon when Henri Barde, correspondent for the Liberal Parisian newspaper Oenvre, was insulted and knocked down with a blow on the jaw by one | of Mussolini’s blackshirts, Capt. Pasaetti. exam offi of on Democrais ! heen mentally {pact does vealize they have outpolnted even if the not rantee Furope | against war, that other treaties have heen broken before this. but a¢ least the past insures Europe a breathing spell for industrial resioration. which | is one desire all natlons share in com mon. Berlin already machinery for has organized ratification. The min !isters of fetleral states will be in Ber lin early next week to confer with Luther and Stresemann. The Rhine land Is sending its representative to! delve into the allied promises. The ! usual conferences with political lead. | ers will take place. There may be | | some minor obsfacles and a good deal of empty fuming. but there is no doubt that as the pact now stands it will be acceptable to Germany (Copyright, 1925.) MUSSOLINI LOOKS ILL. corps in both the 2 (Continued on Page 2, Columu 8.) MRS. LAURA BIDDLE DIES; PROBE BEGUN Physician's Diagnosis of Heart Disease Questioned by Los Angeles Undertaker. By the Associated Prers. LOS ANGELES, Calif., October Mrs. Laura Biddle, wife of Craig Bid Attack Occonrs o) ract. dle. millionaire Philadelphia _sports- The attack took place in the public | | man, died here tonight. Police are square. Barde was first insulted by | jnvestigating circumstances surround- four local Fascists. Barde. who is a | ing her death. | small man physically, accepted their A doctor, who was called after the challenge to fight. He requested them | hody had been found by two maids. to come on one at a time. His atten- | pronounced death due to heart dis tion was distracted by Pasaettl. As ! | ease, but an undertaker to whose e: Barde turned his head Pasaetti struck | (ablishment the body was taken ques- him a blow on the chin. As he fell | tioned the diagnosis and notified the the monocle he was wearing broke | coroner, who in turn notified the police. Against his leye. An autopsy to take place tomorrow Foreign Minister Briand of France, |pas heen ordered by the coroner !who was waiting at the time on a{\as indicated at the official's office {lake steamer which he had chartered |(hat it was belleved there thal the |10 entertain all newspaper correspond- | woman might have died from the ef ents, heard of the incident, and left | fects of poison. (0 seek Barde and express his regrets. 22 | Barde refused to make a complaint. The cantonal authorities, however, or: dered_Pasaetti's arrest and expulsion. Pasaetti is an employe of the ltalian travel agency, and also is unofficially connected with the Italian delegation He was one of the few Italians left {in Locarno, most of them having re. |turned to Ttaly with Mussolini_ fol- ! ‘lowing the signing of the security !pact. i Ttaliam Switzerland already | fended at ail-F| By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE. October 17 In the enforcement of a new ‘code of laws designed to curh reckless ‘utomobile driving. the Constanti- was of- | sungs of bravos Mussolini: b Locarno as bodyguards. O ant amietad TayEUArds. | Sople police have hit upon A novel {of the townspeople at the manner in | 1#St for antomobile brakes. {which Mussolini_came to Locarng, Tbeytihrons soxosn (e pathi ol the (Copyrikht. 1925.) lear being tested a board filled with Q DAVIS FAMILY, R ANYHOW | CONGRESS TOGFT Topavs s | Tales of Well VINDICATE PART ONE—18 PAGES. neral News- Local, National Forelgn Schools and Colleges - Pages 22 and 2 At the Community Centers—Page Parent-Teacher Activitles— Page 2 \round the City—Page 33 Boy Scout News—Page 34 Girl Scouts— Page 34 erial, “The Double (ross V. W. . A. Npws—Page 35 Radio News and Programs—Pages 36 and 37 D. A. R. Activitles—Page 3% Army and Navy News—Page 18, Veterans of the Greal War—Page 48 Spanish War Veterans—Page 48 n Page 35 PART TWO—14 PAG Fditoriale and Edite Featur Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4 Reviews of Autumn Books—Page 4 Known Folk —Page ews of the Clut Vl ART THREE—I6 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo play. Music in Washington—Page 5. | Motors and Motoring—Pages 7, 8 9, 10 and 11. Distriet National Guard—Page Fraternal News—Page 14. Civillan Army News—Page 15. 13~ PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction tures. The Rambler PART SIX—12 PAGESN, and Fea Page 3 | Classified Advertising. | | sireets the police illed Boards Used in Turkey - To Test Auto Brakes Work Two Ways | street Finaneial News—Pages 10, 11 GRAPHIC "TION—12 PAGES, World Events in Pictures COMIC SECTION—1 PAGE: Betty: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs Mutt and Jefr. RUM CARS BATILE POLICE IN STREET Two Autos Captured, One Man Shot in Spectacular Chase Through Traffic. A spectacular running pistol battle hetween three alleged liquor cars and two police machines, fiving through traffic-filled streets last night, enl minated in the shooting of one man the arrest of another, the capture of two of the fugitive cars and seizure of 18 cases of alleged liquor. The wounded man gave his name as lames Francis Warren of 1810 Calvert He was taken to Emergency Hospital, suffering from a bullet wound in the shoulder. His condition is not serlous. The man under arrest. who is being held at tne third precinct on the technical charge of investiga- tion, described himself as Leon Keat- ing Warren of 2520 K street. The chase started when Capt. Guy Burlingame's flying squadron, accom panied by Prohibition Agents Hart man and Corpett, spotted the three high-powered automobiles at Fifteenth and T streets. where they had been Jving in walt for a delivery of liquor expected to be made at that point. Fugitives Open Fire. An automobile operated by Cornett save chase. Down Fifteenth street swept the three alleged liquor cars— | two of them loaded, one acting as a blocker. From the blocker machine, police say, shots were fired before three squares had been covered. At N street the blocker swung west and came about in: thence back into Fifteenth street. At the corner of Fifteenth and N car rammed the suspect, from which shots had been (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) If driyers cannot check their suffer nails. mmachinex in time they not onl loss from punctures, but ar ducted to repair stations by police who see that the brakes are properls usted or else confiscate the ca -The police census shows only 1. motor vehicles in Constantinople, city of 700.000. taxis, 41§ private cars and 210 trucks. and 12.4 » Rhode Island avenue and | i ) B! | & | exclusively "~ tie Of these, 669 are !he Roval Ac GUT OF §300,000,000 K- PRESDENT OPENS EXHIBITION OF ART First Night of Academy of Design Show Attracts Distinguished Guests. The President of the I'nited States and Mrs. Coolidge headed the throng of distinguished guests specially in vited to the opening view last night of the great retrospective exhihition zathered 1o mark the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the National Academy of Design. oldest and best known of American art organizations, and installed in the®Corcoran Gallers of Art. oldest and hest known institu tion of its kind in the National Capit {art center of America The Chief Executive not only honored the occasion with his presence, but 4150, by releasing one end of a barrier of heavy laurel roping, formally opened the comprehensive display of the best in American art that the past century has been able t_ produce Following this simple but Impressive act, Charles C. Glover, president of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Gallery, and Edwin . Blashfield president of the National Academy of Design. escorted the President up the broad marble stairway and through the second floor gallery and salons given over to the commemorative ex hibition, while Mrs Coolidge was escorted b Harr W. Watrous. vice president of the academy. and Henry | White, vice president of the Corcoran hoard Distinguished Guests Present. There was ng receiving line and the several thousand representatives of offcfal. diplomatic and residential cir cles of the Capital and of art circles here and throughout the country were At once at liberty to follow their in clinations in inspecting a display. unique in characte Gilbert Stuart’s full-length portrait of ieorge Washington, painted in 1796 {and ends with examples of the work of National Academicians who are to |day in the very prime of their gkill ‘ The entire council ‘hnd\' of the academy is called. and a large contingent of its membership came to Washington vesterday after. | noon on « special train for the ocea- slon. while officials of every art insti- tution of ‘importance in the I'nited States were also specially invited te he present. A stringed orchestra playing through out the evening and appropriate new decorations of laurel. palms and ferns lent color to the occasfon. The in stallation of the exhibit is said by ex perts 1o be 100 per cent perfect, due to a combination of the taste and | pains of the academy’s hanging com | mittee and of the physical assets of | the gallery chosen for the premiere, | Shows National Progress. | Conversation overheard among spec | 1ators indicated that this great collec- tion of 525 examples of the best work |of 436 artists. illustrators, sculptors and architects possible to bring to | zether had come fully up to expecta- { tions: that it was an art event of na. | tional importance, and that it not only I formed a remarkable display of itself | but also, because of its variety and the period covered, drove home to professional and amateur alike the deep conviction of distinct and steady | national art progress. Persons familiar with the local zal- | lery, who included the vast majority | of those present, can realize what ar | effort it must have been to remove all | that portion of its permanent collec- tion which is usually above stairs. glance at the artists’ names in ! handsome and profusely illustrated | catalogue prepared for the occasion in | dicates plainly the vast amount of | planning. “patience, diplomacy and hard work accompljshed by National Academy officials to' obtain these half a thousand works of art from the ins tutions, families and individuals scat- | terea throughout this country and | abroad who are the proud possessors { theréof. Great Task of Moving. | | (Once assembled in New York, these works, some of them monumental in | | size and many of them only intrinsically, but by reason of | sentiment, had to be transshipped here in special cars and unpacked and arranged. This was o be but the first step in a long task. for, following its public exhibition here for four full weeks beginning today, the collection | and the will be shown in the metropo later, in major part, throughout country. The National Academy of Desizn. se first president wa Samuel F. Aiorse, and which is the oldest or nization in this country composed artists, occupies a posi spproximately similar 1o that of demy of Great Britain, m Page 3, Column 3.) w B (Continued which begins with | as the governing | valuable noi | 10 300,000 J00SEEN INNEW TAX BILL | Measure Expected to Be Put Through Both Houses Before March 1. | TWO PARTIES EXPECTED | TO AGREE ON PRINCIPLES Definite Yet—Hearings to Be Opened Program Advanced Tomorrow A nd Federal by avinz of £500,000.000 the taxpavers' of next year is in prospect the A clea bill in be enactment by first payments of new is predicted by Chai of the House and mittee. revenue measure o orrow omised the enate, and 15 days before year are nan Greer means com- track has h the Ho: March 1 the Seif he situation two years ago Mellon advanced definite program, no complete bill has wen put forward. General agreement is perceptible, however, among both { Republicans and Democrats on these provisions Unlike when Secretary main Provisions Desired. Reduction of both the normal and surtax income rates Modification or abolishment of most of the remaining miscellaneous taxes including those theater tickets club d automobiles and the like " Repeal or modification of the pub- licity of taxes provision Increasing of exemptions so ) relieve those of small incomes of all on St Revision of the estate ta vent duplicati in levies by and the Federal Government Preliminary to the opening of pub- arings tomorrow by the commit- ecretary Mellon vesterday named representatives to work with the com mittee. Democratic of the committee met yesterda discuss the legisl most « them appearing in_accord with t program advanced Friday by Repre tative Garner of Texas, ranki Democrat on the comimittee Chair- man Green has called an executive session of the full committee for to- morrow morning, and the hearings will be opened in the afternoon. The position of the Treasury, which is expected to guide administration members to a great extent, will be presented to the committee at the opening of the hearings by Secretary Mellon. Tndications have been given by the Treasury that it will sanction eductions amounting to at least ).000,000 in taxes. Mr. Mellon is expected to favor a cut in the surtax rate from 40 to 20 per cent and to propose reductions in the normal rates, now 2 per cent on incomes of $4.000 and less, 4 per cent on incomes hetween $4.000 and $8,000 and 6 per cent on incomes above 38,000 Representative prove a maximum cent and Chairman_Green also ap- proves that fizurg. Mr. Garner, how- ever, would in®ease the exemptions for single persons from $1,000 to $3.- 500 and for married persons from $2.- 0 to $5.000 Mr. Green. who wiil have much to do with formation of the bill, has not outiined a concrete plan and has de clared he hopes the measure will he worked out in a non-partisan manner in committee. $400,000,000 Cut Urged. Representative Bacharach, Republi can, of New Jersey, a member of the committee, yvesterday advanced a pro posal for reduction amounting to £400,000,000. He would cut the normal tes to 1 per cent on incomes o $4.000 and under, 2 per cent on in- comes between $4,000 and $8,000, 4 per cent on incomes between $8,000 and £12,000 and 6 per cent on incomes above that amount. He would reduce the maximum surtax rate to 20 per cent and increase the exemptions for a single person to $2,000 and for married persons to $3,500. The age limit for dependent children exemptions would be raised from 18 to 21 yvears, Mr. Bacharach advocated repeal of the taxes on club dues, automobiles and parts, jewelry, firearms and am munition, cameras and lenses, cigar holders and pipes and other miscella neous taxes. He would make the tax on theater adm ions apply above $1.50. Other features of his program in clude repeal of the publicity of taxes provision, modification of the estate and gift taxes to begin at $100,000, {with a maximum rate of 20 per cent instead of 40 per cent, and reduction of the corporation tax from 1213 per cent to 10 per cent Hearings Scheduled First. For the first two weeks the commit tee will hear persons interested in re ductions, almost a hundred, represent- ing almost as many industries and in- Lerests, having applied for hearings. The committee then will begin draft ing a measure, and with almost five weeks left before Congress opens to complete its work, agreement is ex pected by that time. I As a result of their increased ma jority in the House, Republicans will | have a larger percentage of the mem. ! bership on the committee this session, the ratio being 15 to 10. It was 14 to 11 at last session, with Representative” Frear of Wisconsin counted on the majority side. Mr. Frear has since been voted off the committee by the Republican caucus. The committee membership, subject approval by the House, now in- |cludes: Republicans—Representatives Green, lowa, chairman: Hawley, Ore- son: Treadway, Massachusetts; Bacha- Hadley, Washing- e, Colorado: Watson, 3 Mills, New York; Me- | Laughlin, Michigan; Kearns, Ohio: Chindblom. Illinois: Crowther, New Bixler, Pennsylvania: Faust, H suri. and Aldrich, Rhode Island Democrats—Garner, Texas: Collier | M Oldfield, Arkansas; Crisp !'Georgia; Carew. New York: Martin Louisiana: Rainey. Hlinois; Hul, Ten nessee; Dickinson, Missouri, and Doughton, North Carolina, informall o n, s Garner would ap surtax of 25 per [