Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 4

Fgg = WARRANT OFFICERS| FIND PAY CHAMPION Johnson Offers House Bill Restoring Former Status in Navy. To benefit onefifth of the entire office personnel of the Navy, the p tical seamen and practical specialist type, by restoring commissioned wa rant officers to the pay status th had for some 20 yeurs hefore the pas sage of the joint service pay act of June 10, 1922, deprived them of such status, a bill roduced in the Tiouse yesterd: by Representative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, chalrman of the veterans' committee. The officers to be affected by this legis tion are commonly known as Voatswains, chief gunners, chi tricians, e but they e ned officers s much other officer of the Nuvy, Represent tive Johnson points out “They work up from the ranks after long service to these special com missions, which furnish the only sub- stantial | opportunity promotion trom the 1 he said is of Knsign. For & t number of vears, up to 1922 Mr. Johnson explains, was the settled policy of Congress e Navy Department and th law provided t these officers, upon be. sioned, siould have the pay and allowances of an ensign, and at 6 and 12 vears' commissioned se the pay and allowances of Meutenant Junior grede, and lieutenant. respec tively he law also provided that whenever the pay of ensign and liew tenant was increased the pay of these officers would also Increase automati cally. g | said and nd ool 1 rd none advanced. why wlicy should have been changed. Indeed, there is greater rea son than ever before for maintaining it now on.” he Efticiency Is Tmpaired. Lvidently the joint service was nulated the pay officers was over looked. and a single senten act destroyed t parity with toned di ir when pay i status of thes men his the participate i hat rs. amilies not rease He | kent: act in the These off > seriously judgment nd dicapped ha in o ¥ impaired. pury of the bil to hese officers the equality o which had been theirs for wi of which the in act deprived them. introd i for the the la ngress others will be intro. ntl I will co-operate with thors of them ail 1o secure rrection of the inj e, and T request il the co he Navy Depart- ment were entitled 10 the sa 1< an ensign 899 up to 1922 10 1o less 1 BRIAND NOT TOO BUSY TO NEGLECT CLASSICS Likens His Task of Forming Gov- ernment to Penelope’s “Wean- crease Other saine and duced the bills ing and Unraveling.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 19.—Even in the midst of the delicate task of forming a government, Aristide Briand does not forget his classics. It was while en- guged in the discouraging job of put- ting together & ministry that he stop ped to dra a parallel between him- ind Penelope, th of Ulysses. nightly unraveled the weaving d done during the da 1ve been familiar with the story of Penelope for a long time,” said M. Briand, wearily, as he left the Ely Palace after having informed Presi dent Do 1 that the new cabi- net had been formed. *I always had the greatest admiration for that lady, constantly occupled in weaving and unweaving, but not until now have 1 realized how great was her merit in 1z each day what would be undone at_night.* Thenr lluding to the many personal difficuities he hud encountered in hi: negotfations, he added, “It is true that the Queen of Ithaca was all alone in front of her loom, whereas I——" HARVARD CLUBS COMING. Combined Concert Will Be Given by 40 Performers. who she ¥ The Harvard University Instru- mental Clubs’ selected group of 40 performers will give a_concert at the Mayflower Hotel at 8 o'clock next Sunday night. The ~ organization will include a banjo and a mandolin club and a vocal «lub, which will sing popular college songs, and the Gold Coast Jazz Or- chestra The Harvard Club of Washington, which is headed by Dr 1 Hall, president of Gallaudet College. is sup- porting the concert. A large subscrip- tion list aiready is under way at the Mayflower, under the direction of Mrs. William Laird Dunlop and Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes. TEXAS ROAD REFUNDS TAKEN UP BY McCARL ON BEHALF OF NATION (Continued (Conti from First Page.) mobile traffic. The American Road Co., testimony showed, sublet con- s to other companies to do the actual work at a lower price. When the State sued a settlement was reach- ed in court whereby the American Road Co. admitted $600,000 excess profits and was ordered to return this amount to the State treasurer. NO U. S. FUNDS INVOLVED. Texas Attorney General's Office E plains Situation. AUSTIN, Tex., December 19 (#).— Federal ald funds are not involved in suits instituted in Texas to recover (rom road-building companies alleged excessive profits on State highway contracts, it was stated tonight at the attorney general’s office in connection with a dispatch from Washington that the Government is acting to protect Federal funds. The only possible Federal aid project involved in the American Road Co. suit, in which the State has recovered $600,000, is the Barker County con- struction, and the judgment recited there was no recovery on that job, it was stated. The statement from the attorney general's office was in effect a reitera- Tion of a recent declaration of Capt. P. 8t. John Wilson, chief engineer of {he Federal Bureau of Public Roads, that mo Federal ald funds were in- volved in the highway suit the Navy is bound to testin ler and the Anti-Saloon League as the backbone of a “viclous system which is destroying the soul and conscience of America. Mr, Wheeler can rise in his place, sald Mr. Gallivan, “and say with one of Lord Castlereagh’s devoted disciples—'Thank God I have a country to buy and sell.’ Charging that he had been threat- ened with defeat in the next election if he made the speech, Mr. allivan detled Mr. Wheeler and his organiza- tion to muster his forces and come into the South Boston and Roxbur) district against him Cites Columbus Case. AMr. Gallivan also cited a recent case in Columbus, Ohio, where a Federal agent gained the confidence of a outh of 19, who worked for a deli- tessen store, and a week luter per- suaded the boy to buy a pint of whisky and then arrested him. A United States commissioner dis- charged the boy Yet,” said Mr. Sullivan, “1 have Just learned that this agent is still on the pay roll. They sent this agent that figured principally in the Wash. ington hotel to Alaska when they learned that our committee had the matter under investigation. There were other contributions the concentrated fire of oratory moditication of the prohibition law. Opening debate, Representative are. Republican, Pennsyvivania, de. ed expenditure of millions bad shown the Volstead act to be “unen forceable,” and demonstrated that the American people “don’t want to be bone 2 A dry rally came lute in the when Representative Hudson, Repub. liean, Michigan, took the floor for a few minutes to explain the incident involving the trapping of employes of the Mayflower Hotel b @ prohibition age to for Explains Hotel Incident. Replying to references made to the notel inciden:, Representative Hudson said the prohibitien unit had been in formed from several sources; many’ of these anonymous, that liquor was he- ing served at banquets in the hotel One report told of an alleged repre. sentative of the hotel purc ing 1 of liquor in Montreal, cting on these tips, Mr. Hudson Bdward O. Birgfeld, a_prohibi tion agent, went to the hotel, at the direction of the unit, and registered under the name of Theoc » Burton, out described himself poration agent trom Califc to charges that the agent posed well known congressman, the Michi- gan representative declared that Bir feld had denied he knew there was member of the House by the name Burton. Reads From Record. ading from the official record of v of prohibition enforcement and interpolating his own re T which rocked the House with laughter. Mr. Gallivan spoke, in p as follows: “I am in accord with my associates, excepting on_one paragraph of the bill, and that has to do with a graphic story of the luxurious adventur two prohibition agents who lived at one of Washington's most fashionabl hotels to cateh persons suspected violating the provision of the dry law. One of these, posing as a Congry man who was supposed to be able and willing to entertain his guests with all good things obtainable, took up his domicile at the Mayflower Hotel and mingled freely with the great and more great assembled there. He, it appears, was on the trail illieit liguor, “In this bill you will | are usked to appropriate miliions for the enforcement of prohibition. “I have reserved my right as member of the whole committee vote agafnst one paragraph in the bill that has to do with the request of the department for $250,000 to pur- chuse evidence. In other words, solicit and entrap poor devils who violate the. Velstead commandment, ‘Thou shalt not drink.’ = (Laughter.) Yes; and to entrap them into violat- ing the law. of Purchase of Evidence. “In the report of our hearings vou will find the whole story of this pro- hibition agent who lived at that won- dertul hotel here in Washington and who spent a thousand dollars of the people’s money before he was able to entrap anybody and then he snared a man with whom he had be- come Intimately acquainted, an em- ploye of the hotel, whom later on he persuaded to stage a banquet for 17 persons, at $6.50 a plate. We have here in the record of the hearings vouchers that this prohibition agent returned to his department in order to be remunerated, and I am gying to try to read a few of themto the House to show just how these agents are going throughout the country in- lducing people 1o violate the law and spend, almost without limit, the money that Congress appropriated in other years, and is now dsked.to in- crease in this bill “The man whom I have in mind registered at the hotel about the 29th of May under the name of as promi- nent & member of Congress as there is in either branch. “The name appears in the hearings. At the time this agent registered this particular congremsman was in Geneva: he was a member of the United States commission to arrange for the settlement of our foreign debt, and he was busily at work. Over there he received coples of certain Washing- ton papers and a short note now and then congratulating him upon the wonderful banquet that he had given at that hotel; he also had letters from friends regretting that they were not present to participate with him in the enjoyment of such g feast. Of course, he wondered what happened here in | Washington while he was in Geneva. Hard to Get Vouchers. “‘As I said, we have here vouchers, and, God knows, we had hard work in getting the prohibition department to come through with them when they were called for. They pleated that it those vouchers were printed in the record of our hearings it would in. terfere with the trlal of the two minor employes of the hotel whom the agents eventually arrested. May T now say to you that these men were tried this week by judge and jury in the City of Washington and both of those defendants were discharged by a jury; they were found not guilty. (Applause.) One-thousand dollars of the people’s money was spent in this famous hostelry in Washington on an issue which culminated in the ac- quittal of two employves of the hotel! “Mr. Chairman, I want to enlighten my colleagues how one of these fel- lows enjoyed himself at the expense of the taxpayers In accordance with his own vouchers. On June 5 he says: “Talked with bellboys at hotel refer- ence to_location of hotel stock of liquor. Room service and dining- room waiters only ones that make de- liveries at rooms. Entertained lady at hotel for appearances.’ “‘Supper for two (the entertain- ment for lady), $7.20." . “‘Glory be to Peter!" “What an appetite she must have had! " “To continue from this interesting voucher we learn as follows: ‘Covers for supper dance for two, $2; soft drinks, $£1.50; tips, $1.35, etc.” Lady Wasn't Drinking. The lady evidently was.net drinking that night. He runs along to June 10, still at the Mayvflower Hotel, and we nd the following item: “‘In morning.,played . golf and in | boollegser | | | find that we | to | | number’ for somebody in the | pense { tatc | checrfully HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C GALLIVAN ASSAILS DRY AGENTS FOR BUYING LIQUOR EVIDENCE afternoon took lady to tea in hotel to keep up appearances.’ “He was drinking noon. “‘Not trying to make buys; waiting r party to come off first. “He was entertaining a lady spending the taxpayers’ money most lavishly, as his vouchers show. Then on the 17th of June we find the fol lowing entry in his voucher: “*Ten am., saw Ve and he gave me receipted bill for 224 to cover ex penses of party of 13, including item of $61.75 for “refreshments,” which in re whisky five bottles of “Old Smuggler whisky, and two rounds of The hanquet was origing only 13 showed up, an tea that after fo and but nely dcoteh wektails, Uy for 17 unlucky prohibi tion department: at $6.50 a plate, and I have the menu for that banquet, which the department deemes u\u.‘.-.» sary in order that it might secd vi- dence against this hotel or some of its managing directors. 1 know the House will like to hear how prohibition agents enjoy themselves at the ex of the people. Listen to the Lucullian feast they had! IHere it s The banquet began with ‘supreme of cantaloupe Think of 1t! Supreme of au porte! Then comes co tomato, celery olives, ri n imperial, cold After that he needed something hot to cheer him up. Then we have breast of chicken florentine, and julienne po asparagus holandaise, and then had clzarettes and cigars but they Came Well Supplied the - heard th Pre. Evidently went in charge had we had a wonderfit who T few vears ag omas Riley Marshall who safd that the best thing that h had found in Wushington was a ; clgar: but these birds had to Corona-Coronas ut 70 cents 1 wonder the House has made upon it by the taxpayers of t Republic to reduce the taxes, and gladly yesterd od for the committee bill as it « of the committee reducing say this Is one ¢ ) the majority We must cut the taxes d the people’s out of this House, e going ¥ on ‘supre md other things fc e of prohibition. Mary vou, this man in charge of the frame-up had plenty of liquor when he registerad at the hotel in May. He came the well supplied. He wormed way into t s of of the emplo inviting them up now and t 4 drink, and the night of he to the heud 1l out of liquor, o spe th il waiter the head tc i, and, aceordin he bad six bottl i coteh 1 mention the name now (beciuse, us the seneral rule, T do not mention ames as it might look like advertising), but you cannot vertise liquor now v where except here on the floor of th House. They had coc and then they had some cordiuls the hotel waiter, mark you. brou into_this man’s Toom the two hootlezgers from outside and zave hun their names and telephone numbers s that he could always be supplied: yvet tb prohibi tion agent never laid a ) the s from that day to this, but he caused be ar sted the hotel waiter and his assistant! [ find all these vouchers were approved by the departmen and 1 find that the money had been paid to this man who was not the great Congressman from Ohlo, and who, probably, had never heard of the distinguished Ohioan until he was told by some one of his chiefs to use the name of Theodore . Burton. Let me read another item as this man recorded it Smuggle Expeénse of Banquet. “To amount expended for giving a banquet to certain agents whose at tendance would enable them to see and testify concerning violations of the national prohibition act, the sum of $229, the banquet being held in Jet terson room of Mayflower Hotel. “I want you gentlemen ‘to pay marked attention to this next thing that I read. He had but 13 guests, but he had to have printed invitations for them! X “‘For printing invitation cards in connection with banquet, $10.11. “He Med in this voucher and I can prove it. “Think of that! Ten eleven cents for the cards that in vited these men to the feast at the Mayflower. Now. we have an entry of a tip tp the maitre d'hotel, $20— this tip was never received by Mr. Venize—and a tip to the assistant maitre d’hotel, $5; and another item of tip to Waiters, $5. Twenty dollars! Why, if T give them 25 cents down there they are ready to hug me. (Laughter,) Then, after having con- sumed six bottles of ‘Old Smuggler whisky .and varjous cocktails and cordials, we have an item here for the purchase of one bottle of Scotch whis: ky, purchased for evidence, $10. Of ‘course, they already had the evidence, but it was safely ensconsed within them, and they felt its warmth, and it would have needed a stomach pump to produce it in court, s0 ‘they bought an extra bottle and paid $10 more of the taxpayers' money. (Laughter.) Square Deal to People. I want the ‘dry’ and the ‘wet’ mem- bers of this House to read the story as it is-told in the committee hearings and you will not wonder why I am £0ing to oppose the appropriation of $250,000 which was asked for in our committee hearings for actions such as 1 have been describing to you. I shall not vote for one dollar to ald men of that type to solicit and entrap poor devils to commit crimes against the law of the land, and I hope this House, when it is considering the bill by paragraphs, will seriously ponder as to whether it is a square deal to the American people to waste $250,000 in that manner. “I_have promised my assoclate on the Democratic side that 1 would try to complete my remarks in 45 min- utes, and I am going to keep my promise. S0 1 shall not be able to dollars and t tell the House all that I wanted to say | and I am going to ask unanimous con- sent to extend my remarks by insert- ing certain portions of the record itself and nothing else. “The Chairman — The gentleman from Massachusetts asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks as in- dicated. Is there objection? “There was no objection. ‘Now, there is a reason why these fellows have done this thing. There happened a few weeks ago in Colum- bus, Ohio, an incident where an agent arrested a boy 19 vears of age who worked in. a delicatessen store. He fooled aronnd with this young man for three weeks and then persuaded the boy to go out and buy him a pint of whisky. When the boy had bought the pint of whisky he arrested him, but when the lad was brought before the United States commissioner out there, after hearing only the evl dence of the prohibition agent, the com- missioner rose from his chair and said: ‘The defendant needs not to produce any evidence. I discharge this young man.’ And then and there he de. nounced the prohibition agent in lan- guage -something like this, as I re. member: Scored Dry Agent. “‘You are the.worst rat that ever entered the City of Columbus. You are not fit to associate with decent men anywhere, and 1 am going to re- port_your aciions-to the department in Washington." “He did so; but the man, I learned only an -hour ago, who caused that the | ind you have | cheering | | INCREASE IN SIZE OF I.C. C. DEBATED !Enlargement to Represent Southwest Discussed hy j Senate Body. Interstate Com morce Commission to permit repre- | sentation of the Southeast was dis cussed yesterday by the | state Commerce committe was deferred. Members said sentiment was for the adoption of the required numb of commissioners to give full repre- sentation o every section of the country. The stumbling block was the number to be adde i The commission now omposed 11 members, Senator Smith of uth Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, has proposed that the bership be increased to 12, This has met opposition ins. Republican Town r chairman, who con- tends an odd number is necessary to possible deadlock e this objection it was the commission be| composed of 13 members. This met with lfttle favor, however, and the were proposals that four new mem- | dded to bring the total num- Enlar of from subject will come to a deci: the committ h's bill proposing regional s of commissioners taken u DR. OBERHOLSER HEADS | BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY| | Elected President of Organization | at Meeting in Cosmos Club | Last Night Oberhols the Blolog in »smos Club last elected were Goldman, A H. T Dr. H. ¢ was elected | sident ! 1l Society of | in the & 1-| ht. | Wet. ! Jack-| Blake wvder | uneil, 11, O | Maxon. . W. Stiles, A_ | and B 1. Swales | or. us vice president of | shington Academy of Sciences, | represent the Blological Soclety president w A. | next meeting the hely the Cosmeos | toriun Other presi spondir treasurer | Fuller, W | A. Doolittie " "Dr. Oberh {the W {witt | T | Rok R Ciub on January 5 EX-COP IS ARRESTED. W. H. Mitchell Is Accused of Forg-| ing $175 Check. Warren H. Mitchell, aliax William | J. Hicks, 24 years, rec tly dismissed | from the police force foliowing an in. vestigation into a charge of speeding, was arrested last night by Detectives { Thompson and Keck on a charge of forgery. Mitchell, the police allege, went 1o the office of A. Brylawski of the Earle Theater, under some pretense, and while thera took a blank check, which he forged with Brylawski's signature, making it payable for $175 to “Wil: liam J. Hicks. While he was waiting for change ifrom the check at a Ninth street | cloth: ore, after purchasing a $35 overcoat, the detectives were notified by the manager, and after a speedy investigation placed him under arrest. men Was dismissed from the force two months #go, according to the police. on recommendation of the Traffic Bureau, as the result of a speeding charge. OPEN CHILDREfl’S WARD. Casualty Hospital Facilites creased, Directors Report. In- Complete facilities for the care and treatment of children have been in- stalled in Casualty Hospital, accord- ing to Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, presi- dent of the hoard of directors. Open- ing of the children’s ward now enables the hospital to care for all kinds of cases. An obstetrical ward also has been opened and the hospital now, Dr. | Rogers suid. is capable of caring for | & number of maternity cases. | | = | voung boy to violate the law is still jon the pay roll. So is the fellow who staged this banquet. When they dis- covered that evidence was before our | committee they sent him to Alaska, |and Mr. Jones, the prohibition com' missioner, said that nothing like this would happen again, and, of course, he ought to be disciplined. i “You, members of Congress, know now whether you should spend the people’s money and get nowhere, ex- {cent to involve a reputable hotel and two unfortunate employes who had been lured for weeks to drink his liguor by an agent, purchased outside of the hotel. When he ran short of liquor he persuaded two bootleggers to come into the hotel and produce the liquor for that particular banquet. “There is a reason for all this. I ask your closest attention here and now. ‘There are certain organizations in this country today some of which have the | audacity to characterize themselves as ‘churches’ and branches of the Chris- tlan religion. Scoff at Scriptures “These political and quasireligious organizations scoff at the Holy Seri) tures; they mock the crucified Savio they teach their credulous and ignor- ant rabble followers that the miracle that changed water into wine was a crime: and they belleve they can re- peat the miracle of the loaves and fishes by capturing the Treasury of the country. They live in the hope that they can repeat the deluge drowning out the people and princt- ples of America, when the ark will be filled with the sweepings of the as: lums, yes, and of the underworld; when the carrion crow and the poison ivy will replace the dove and the olive branch, and Wayne B. Wheeler will replace that grand old navigator, Noah. (Laughter and applause.) “The ‘Wheelerites,’ the ‘Wights,’ with water wheels under their hats, and | nating Foresees Cooler Weather in Sun Spots’ Activitie By the Associated Press. The sun is stoking its fires and is two years ahead in its work, but that doesn’t mean the earth will be treated to balmy weather. On the other hand, it should bring a period of relatively cool weather all over the world. Thus, astronomers at the United aval Observatory and Prof. Humphreys of the United ither urean, opined 3 to unusual sunspot tivity noted in the h The astronomers said the present num ber of spots to be equal to what should prevail in 1928, and Prof. Hiumphreys, while declaring un | solar activity almost always means lower temperntures on the enrth surfa sald the declines seldom were extreme UNITY IN WELFARE CONTROL FAVORED IN SURVEY REPORT «ontinued from First Page.) resentatives of 50 soclal and civie or ganizations and the consulting serv- ice of two eminent students of child welfare problems. The commission, Justice Siddons said, has been in al most continuous session since Janu ary. 1924, and has held eight public | hearings Variety of Appointments. Discussing administrative confusion among al welfare agen- . the report Vs We tind one board appointed by the President,an other by the Commissioners of th Distriet and a third by the President on the recommendati of the Attor ney General. liistorieal accident sems to be the explunation for this variety of appointments. In recommending the abolition of the Board of Charities. the Board of Children’s Guardlarn the Training Sche port indicates that members of these boards agree with the recommendation the commis. sion th one new board be substi tuted. After existin 1 an i for L n ¥ of the flaws in the existing seems discussing the functiontng of the three boards, the report says: 1 - there ought to be o decided gain wdministratively in ishing these three boards and substituting in their stead a single board, provided services rendered by the different boards are so clo related as to mit of unification under one board vided further that this process does not loading the new board with han It can efficiently and Intelligently administer Tendency to Center Control. The report points out t “the modern tendency in State, county and city units zovernment has been definite he direction of center. ing the control of public welfare agencies and institutions in single department or board “The obvious adva movemen s the com port. “are the possibilities of co-ordt- the various public welfare services. Fffective team play should result in better service to the poor and the handicapped and in the elimina tion of friction and overlapping, with 4 consequent saving in money or, at any rate, better service for the money expended. One board can plan to bet- ter advantage for the public welfare as a whole than can several boards, and it can more effectively balance up the needs and demands of the various activiti under its control, assigning to each a more equitable share of the appropriations available at.any given time. Uniformity in pu ses, ac- counting and reporting work can be effected, with resulting economies in time and money. Avolded Complication. The report declares that while there are some needed reforms in the laws relating to the various welfare boards in the District which might have been remedied in the bill on this subject now before Congress, it was thought wiser not to complicate the issues, but to confine them to the one ques- tion of administrative reorganization. No new duties are imposed on the proposed board of public welfare, which would replace the three exist. ing boards. The new board would simply discharge the responsibilities now resting on the boards to be abolished. No new employes are pro- vided for except a director of public welfare. Discussing the relative merits of the supervision of welfare activities by a board of cltizens appointed b Commissioners, as provided in the pending bill, or by n department, with a director appointed by the Commis- sioners, the report says: "It seems wiser to reduce the existing diffusion of boards to order and unity rather than to turn suddenly to the extreme form of centralization represented by abolishing all participation of the citizens through a board and by put- ting one man in complete control of our welfare administration. A well chosen board can bring to the prob- lem, without cost to the public, a wealth of experfence, a knowledge of business method, a_human sympathy and understanding which ought to be invaluable to a director in the solu- tion of his difficulties and an assur. ance to the public that its wards are recelving proper attention at a cost which represents effciency both in ad- ministration and service. Responsibil- ity to the heads of the municipal gov- ernment s definitely established by having the Commissioners appoint the board, and the director, upon nomination of the board, and by hav- ing the board's budget submitted to the Commissloners, as are all other budgets for municipal activities.” The commission was assisted in its preliminary studies by Dr. Hastings H. Hart of the Russeil Sage Founda- tion, and since by William Hodson, formerly director of the Department of Social Legislation of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, who is consultant to the commission. MOVIE SHOWING TONIGHT. Pre-View to Be Presented in Honor of Finnish Minister. A preview of a motion picture, ‘The Land of Athletes, Forests, Lakes and Music,” will be shown at the Wardman Park Theater tonight in honor of Axel Leonard Astrom, Min- ister from Finland to .the United States, who will introduce the scenes. in in this Kion'S re. are here in this Capitol, in the gal- lery now while I talk to you, ves, and some of them sitting on the floor of this House; if they can throw a new scare into an already panic-stricken, water-logged Congress, they will again make a raid on the Treasury. “These are the types that threaten and insult the President of the United States; they misrepresent his moves and motives: they tell him that they, not he, represent America, they call even on the Pope of Rome when they are damning him to swell their game; and after a while they will get to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Grand Llama of Thibet, and this House, if he tells the truth, will sit and tremble under Wayne and wait until his league tells us to dry or to die. I marvel at the patience and tolerance of the quiet man of the ‘White House; under noxious critics he is not nolsy; 1 wonder when his pa- tience will run out and he will e: press his emotions with his boot and make painful for Wayne and his Willles to sit down and stay seated.™ ‘The pre-view will be held under the auspices of the Bureau of Commercial Economics, in co-operation with the ‘Wardman Park Hotel Theater. A special orchestra will play Finnish musle. WOMEN TO CO-OPERATE. Federation of Clubs Will Aid in Observance of Thrift Week. The General Federation of Women's Clubs is co-operating in the cbserv- ance of National Thrift week, January 17 to 23, and will have charge of the day's program on January 19. This program is being arranged by Mrs. Edith McClure Patterson, budget spe- cialist of the General Federation, who has been in Washington attending the meetings of the National Distribution Council, of which Mrs. John D. Sher- man, president of the General Federa- tion of Women’s Clubs, is a committee member. RIRC the | DECEMBER 20, ! MINISTER SHU FOR CZAR MURDER . | | investiz 1925—PART 1. NNED Red Envoy’s Family Find Warsaw Diplomatic Set Cold to Them. Correspoudence of the WARSAW, Novemb 18, Voikoff Soviet Minister to W w12 are having a hard time breaking into Warsaw's diplomatic soclety be cause of his alleged partictpation in the murder of the Romanoffs At first the Polish government wis unwilling to accept Voikoff, b whe the Soviet officlals denied the Mini: ter's hands were bloody he was re ceived. The Associated Pross. book of Judge Sokoloff, who ted the murder, however, in cludea the photograph of a document, alleged to have been signed by Voi koff, asking for gasoline to burn the bodies of the czavistic family. It be ame difffcult for diplomatists and theis wives to fgnore this Many of the wives declined to m Mme. Volkoff, and the matter became the subject of diplomatic representa tions. At least one Scandinavian gov ument offered apolog Mosc * the snubbing given Mme the wife of its Ministe Mme. Voikoff left Warsiaw rarlly and upon her return «ently renounced her social ambitions with the sult that the boycott agairst her has n relaxed some whia PRESIDENT FINDS LEAGUE PARLEY BID KNOTTY PROBLEM First o< 1o te ¥ (Continued from Page.) ponents would endea tal out of i Notwithstanding s the reticence elals night ague's invitation, it s stated in well informed quarters i the administration will seek first 10 learn the exact program of the pro posed confe before accepting or declining the invitation Thel certain amount of skepticism here as to the ability of the ontemplated conference really to achieve limitation of armament: hat ng the case, the argument is made at it would be unwise for the United States to get itself into a position where it-might be accused of pre venting the consumation of a disarma t agreement because it would n f join in various security agree ments with’ European and other na tions of Go Court Debate to Continue. The World Cou debate will tinue in the Senate tomorrow and Tuesday, when the Senate will ad journ for the Christmas holidays. Senators Walsh of Mo 3 of Pennsylvania, Fess Ohio are expected to court proposal. It s the leagu invitation to t arms conference will be made a subject of the debate, athough there is an i clination among the Senators to per- mit the President to handle the mat ter for the present at any rate. Word received here vesterday that the Soviet government of Russia had accepted an invitation to the Geneva meeting to discuss plans for the arms conference caused not a little interes The attitude of this Government has been not to recognize the Soviet gov ernment officially, and that being the case, the question arose as to how this Government would be able to participate in a conference with that government without retreating from the position it has hitherto held. On the other hand, it was recognized that con 1 speak possible | | | | presic Voikoff | JAPANESE RULER ILL. Emperor Has Faintng Spell and Tostpones Winter Trip. ! TOKIO, December 19 (). — 1t il me ige from the im fal rusehold says the Emperor last | evening suffered a den stroke of cerrebral anaemia,” meaning | fainting spell | While the physicians do not believe the condition of the Emperor has been temporarily postponed. | ser his departure for Numazu, | where he usually spends the Wintey JEWISH RELIEF DANCE. 1 | = is | Jus arsaw, and his| New Society Plans Benefit Enter- tainment for Consumptives. e first annual given by the Jewish Consumpti will be held Januar Hotel, accordl ns made at a veception Ausiliary Relief Society | 26, at the May & to tents board meeting of | auxiliary. Mrs. Harry Sherby nt of the new organi sponsoring the reception Proceeds will go to the support of a sanitorium located at Denver, Colo. | Prominent persons are t brief 1ddresses & e Miss | Evelyn Rosen has chairman of publicity linry, Mrs. Sherby and of the make stion for the announced. aux if there is to he lim ion of ments through international ment in FEurope, Russia must arma agree- | RUSSIA TO TAKE PART. Willing to Act, But Skeptical, High Official Asserts. MOSCOW, December 14 (#) Kussia will accept the League of Na tions' Invitation to partic fonal disarmament confer 1s the world economic | substa confer “\While e still skeptical of the European nations’ real desire for dis- srmament,” said a high officlal of the | zovernment to the Assoclated Press today, “we are willinz to make an ¥ effort to establish general peace i economic co-operation among ul inl:ind “With this end in view, we are ready to put before the conference u concrete and definite plan represent in the Rus people’s earnest de sire tor peace. a new soclal order and L frm economical foundation for the 1 Shy at Switzerland. similar statements, government newspaper s that although Soviet Ru gladly join in such conte it cannot do so if the discus are held in Switzerls bolsheviks have assassination v at Lausanne in 1923 paper thinks the very the invitation was extended ia by the league is an adroit 1 diplo ic game carried on British diplomatists “under the | camoufiage of pacification.” addi | that the allies were fully aware of t | Soviet's neg: attitude toward t league when they extended the and also the possibility refusing to in the essing Izvestia, the e evel of Vaslav in of ussia’s con ference. Soviet Army Reduced. “Refusal to participate, however the Izvestia continued, “would be | playing into the hands of the league | and would brand the Soviet union as an enemy of peace. The paper declares Russia’s gen- uine desire for disarmament is already known to all the world through its declarations at the international con ferences in Genoa, Moscow, Rome and London. It calls attention to the fact that the Soviet during the last three years has reduced its army from 6,000,000 to 500,000 men, and asserts that this number will be further reduced if the other nations do likewise. appointed |} | sotias WAY OF PURIFYING GLD OIL IS FOUND Alabama Scientist Finds Method That May Have Great Economic Results. By the Associa AUBURN. Demonstrations nkcase has been ro be Ala., December 19 here indicate that ol of automobiles which ded fit for nothing, may reclaimed and Dr. C. D. 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