Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 2

» THE EVENING CAROL SEEKS ROLE AS LIBERAL LEADER Renounced Throne Because of Tilt With Mother Over Premier Bratiano. By Cahle to The Star and New Yark World PARIS, January 6.—Former Prince Carol of Rumania renounced his rihts ta the throne on account of political _differan ces with his moth ar. Queen Marie This = revealed in an interview carol = hefore he left mania_ for land for the neral of his srand Dowage Alexandrs This iaterview which the permits puhlisned given one he European cor respondents nf The Star and the < York W Danish neswspaper holm. who released the inte the prince’s consent This shows that F ta declare the renunciation due =o is untrue the throne tonger <unport Premier Bra indicates he of & ne zave jusi Ru Queen now 1o by was remic : Karl man icharest’s efforts 1aly tn personal reasons and Caral renouneed rof that he 1sed mothe tiann in ofiice is A he movement interview e Keepins n the also o leader shonghr i rerenimee romant himself - inte ni ha would presents Intensely The mn. Aot throne tachment a liheral monarchist ested in educating his people posed the rule nf hased on zraft His npinions had leng heen contravy tn those of his father and mother. and o n from royal eouncils Roghnlm caught palace at Sinaia. the faverite resort in the Carpathians, just hefore the death nf Queen Alexandra and Farol's trip fo England. from which he Atd not return T am zlad to talk new po “eaid Carol penple da ne Public Morality Referrinz abliquely As he dnes repeatedly Public marality has <ince the war and ton many pali and lle tesmen forzet plerely t they are here to serve the rountrs A the penple. Never has Aemoralization heen prevalent as at this moment the royal vayval Caral at hout a Some seem to realize it Lowered, ta M. Rratiano, he went on lowered ans snue com th he served. lis peasants, who are the least demorai ized. have heen = advantage nd. Now we need tn teach them to nse it. The time is past when could afford te let things themselves needs leadership which economics. There is no asants land if the state and develop A new Will know how te “Rumania must en one how the state daveion by Rumania nnderstands nse ziving not educate ration which d and think The time has for Ru- mania tn help Its people farward intn the modern world. and if this is nat Aone then it is the end of Rumania “Edueation is the touchstone of all modern government. Our siate needs tn sducate the young. all the voung #0 that the next eneratinn will know how tn gavern itself. Rumania is guided now by phr from the mouths of demagozues and it fs ton hackward to know haw to handle its own affairs. But the next zenera tion can he educated to know what it wants fn create a greater state hy founding families and making a hasis for a hetier. happier country. Hatoes Selfish Politiciar and to get people Anes rome now selfish rid o mon- elieve a phvsi- nsefnl for ton devel helieve a lib. 1 detarmined forwaid the peonls by and instruction in the hest immediate gov- i politiciane \them is zavern themselves Archist In the sense monarchy. while not hate demagogues The only way educate the I am that 1 heing sal neceesity leat chich Rumania haced rannries are not 1 ped v A monarchy affort ze e avery srnment 1 in suarantes for Jacy alanz intellizent lines. By demoe- 1 mean a state of ecivilization every one. regardless posi wealth. has equal opportunity coording 1o his ahilities, and that can anly be if every child has equal op. poertunities for education 1 helieve, firmly and however, in the importance amily. and if the son of a roval father worthy to I am monarchist juzh to helieve the state had better warehy cee the monarchy the best vacy a vhere tion or religionsly of the - , rule ik to m Wants Greater Rumania. “We peaple. and the aze of power of the 1 see it as my duty to do all in my to direct the people ationally, =0 their efforts will he Vvasted and they will er sumania All dream In thie age of speed | whind in the race. and need: to come rward much more rapidly than she dning. and my of holping her rward will he through edueation and ction. teaching the peaple how nge their minds and their hands 1nst usefnlly. | shall devote my time wating a rational retem of edneation That ix the first that theroughly will pass hy themselves the superior knowledge of generation, educated in the way power 1 we - mmania is inaug fundamental. Tf T most of the trouhles through the next modern Admlres The Prine Mussolini’s Fascism mirvad Leon Trotsky leader. All references to the his mother and Premier Bratiano vers indirect. but constant. He re ferred repeatedly to demagogues and <elfish politicians. Ax he made these hitter comments wn the eve of his renunc n. it leads tn a helis( that he hoped King Ferdinand and Marie would renciunce the throne in his faver. but as they did not, he abdicated hiz rights of successinn Copyright Mussolini, Trotsky he admived he also ad: red but rule of New York World Press ing Company. 1926, NOW PLAIN “MISTER.” Publish- Crown Prince Takes Name of Scariat Mondstireanu. LONDON, January 6 @), Prince Carol of Rumania is known as plaln Mr. Searlat stireanu, a name his Rumanian estates, according to the passport he received from Buch- arest. He i= still staving at the Hotel de la Ville at Milan, Italy, and con tinues much in the company of Magda Lupesco, reputedly the woman in the svesent marital dificulties which eatranged the royal suitor from his Wife, the former Princess Helen of Girasce Magda, described az voung and beau tiful and of striking appearance. ir cported to be trving to obtain sever- nce of her marital bonds from her tan nian officer. She to he Mond- he- | { hlast developments of demoe- | national | as a constructive | ~Crown | taken from one of | [“SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI” - MUSES EAFFIC COP FORLORN ‘Sixteenth Street Lights Fl thority, With Its Stern Prerogatives, Overthrow ‘ With head hung low, but not en- tirely devoid of the doughty charac- ‘!orhuh-l th have made him famous, Makem O’Bey. the veteran crossing cop of the Avenue of the Presidents, who rolled his semaphore to the curh vesterday (o the last time, stood silently today in the shadows of a tree on Sixteenth strest and pondered. Yesterday he had reigned as mon. arch of all he survevad, out there in the middle of that interssction. Life was sweet He had but heckon and millionaires, Senato Representative Tom Blanton, one: ‘enning and world of affaire moy toward him: or but 1o lift warning, and they halted tracks. to Com- | others in the| obediently A hand in| meekly in| Prided Self on Rebukes. of them forge It some one matter which they only forgot set’ them down O'Rey prided te had them ind. ready it made no heed—Oh, if how sierniv did he A pex! Policeman himself on his rehukes. all card.indexed in his for any emergency | There was the simple, sarcastie type. | such as ith | “Hey se in minor stinging where's the fire?” for speed cases, (o the more “Wottinel'arya tryin' tdo there” for emplovment against the more fagrant violats who got 1pped hatween signals Of course, thesa salutations invari Wiy were preceded hy # long sharp or series of hlasts if necessity warranted. on his whistle. It was his mosi dependahle friend. that whistle It set the stage for what was to fol- ash and He Finds His Au Has Been n Forever. of holatered him up | for his lecture. He felt for it in hix | pocket. hut remembered he had glven | it to the baby when he went off duty vesterday afternoon Policeman O'Bey felt o shudder go over his frame, and he braced him- self and lifted his chin a little higher. He hen( forward eagerly to see if the new lighte were They were. Maybe the trafic would zet all jammed up and confused when the amber light nearby him changed 10 green. Tensely he watched the on | rush of husses and limousines. a hope- ful )lizht in his eves, hut soon hix lasher dropped and mingled with the molatness hensath. The signal had handled the situation beautifully. He started expectantly in the midst of his reverle. There. up came the driver in whose discomfiture he daily had delighted. That driver had sought fo “get” hix fob a few months back, because the officer had arrested him for running past a stop sign. Since then Policeman O'Bey had kept hix weather eye open and when he glimpsed that same car approach ing he found it deniy 1o switch the sign againat Ho. ho! What glorious revenge' There was a fiash in front of him and as Policeman O'Bey looked up he distinguished, now far down the thoroughfare, the smoke of his vic tim's distantly vanishing machine. It was too much. Policeman O'Bey heaved a sigh pelled d of tobace nal post. and headed slowly down a side street toward his new heat—down hy the gas house. [low, and mort it ax VAN WINKLE SQUAD HITS VICE HARD BLOW, 1925 REPORT SAYS| Persons Sent to Court, Movie Evils Continue Activities of the Woman's Bures af the [Police Department in efforts to wipe out vice, immoralits and invenile delinguency in the Dis- trict are strikingly poriraved in the { annual report of Lieut. Mina . Van Winkle, chief of the bureau. which was submitted today to the District Commissioners While the hureau operatives mide but 682 arresis during the vear. Mrs Van Winkle revealed that they made numerous fmprovements in undesi - | ahle conditions. Some of the things the operatives have done were enumerated hy her follows | Drove the “drug loafers” off street Breke up dizorderly gangs of chil- dren in many sections of the eity Excorted many children home who were found on the streets late at night. Visited thezters. Attended 319 dances. aught 200 truants lade 9000 inspections xamined 3.530 persons Sent 136 persons to court, hut only 26 convictions Some of the things Mre. Van Winkle complained ahout are: | Ton many children are allowed to 26 to the movies at night. i Parents are guilty of children 1o atrend unsuitable shows. duveniles sell papers at all hours. even through eariy morning heurs. ' its | 2,446 moving picture got | door Recreation. Ranitary small the not good. small children generally attend these places. Instead of outdoor recrea- tion. too many children seem to have only the moving pictures as a means of pleasure. “There ix a need for| more playgrounds and community centers prope located and super- | vixed to keep children interested and off the sireets,” she sald “Homes {should he made more attractive to them. and parents should show a el velationship with their chil dren.” | Many patrens of motion picture | theaters are guiliy of indecenci The majority of wohildren dealt with | (are vietims of bad social conditions at | hame. hroken homes, immorality, iz norance and paverty. | | Drivers of taxis and private antomo | hiles who use their ears for immoral purposes were characterized hv Mrs. Van Winkle as “the higgest men. e of society today.” To these mashers’ and quasi-panderers are .ceahle most of the offénses against innocent girls and against in and venturesome young who are otherwise of good hut who foolishly and readily respond to invitations are per suaded to ride. A ‘wavward minors’ law’ would permit dealing with =uch girls and their parents. A the law should include the right of peritio the upper court with hearings in chancery. but we would still need some means of handling the men or some corporation counsel who knows how to,apply existing laws for this gzreatest of all modern evils. Scores Hotel Evil. “Missing. wayward and immoral girls are lost in cheap hotels of Wash- ington hecanse the owners are not zed o register house Ruests. Some hetter class hotels employing unserupulous men shelter girla with- out registration. Many rooming house owners are equally gullty—connive at apportunities for the moral destric- tion of voung girls. We. therefore. recommend that the ‘right name and address law’ now employed in Boston be introduced here. We should then he able (0 make sauisfactory search | for girls reported to us and locate more girls than under present conditions. All rooming houses rent Ing more than two rooms should be licensed and inspected by the police.” Mrs. Van Winkle pointed out that the situation in regard to carnivals hus been definitely improved as a re- sult of the regulation limiting the time [ voung Aiscreet women habits, appears to he taking her position with nonchatance. Magda and Carol are occupying sep- arate apartments, which, however, does not deter them from heing fre | quently in each other’s company, tak- |ing thair meals together and enjoying frequent automobile rides. Whether Princess Helen, Carol's wife, Is going to Milan, as variously reported. still remains a matter of cture. While denied today for the first time, it was added that she would visit her father’s, the late King Constantine’s, grave at Florence in company with her mother, the former Queen Sophie. With Carol at Milan and his wife at Florence. only about 1160 miles will separate the couple. | Ttaly to attend the funeral of Dowager Queen Margheretta, with the possibili- tv of some move looking to con- olliation. Meanwhile, events in Bucharest de- veloped In logical =equenc Carol. having been depri of his rank and rights, 1t hecame known today that the king and queen will pay his debts contracted prior te his renunciatien, but nothing more. | now permitting | could | { Queen Marie, too, is proceeding to | .“l)ru;_v Store” Loafers Routed From F Street, 136 far nearly a vear he had heen excluded | 200 Truants Caught. Menace to Children. of stay in the District of carnivais. Tn former vears, she said, there was al ways a considerahble number of vouns girls from ont of town who followed the carnivals and who were destitute and in had physical condition and were left stranded in Washington these shows, Cabarets and Night Clubs. The chief of the Woman's Bu also pointed out that there are ca rets in Washington werse than the cheap public dance hall and that there are night clubs, which are but “drink and dance halls, where the existing law Is evaded.” 3 She requests the Commissioners to define the meaning of the term “dance hall,” because its definition s left to be interpreted by each individual police officer, and, when the Woman's Bureau operatives get Into court, by each lawyer for the defense and then the judg Mrs. Van Winkle sald that the Rreatest encouragement for the fu ture lies in the fact that there is an ever-growing informed public opinion in Washington. The city, she sid is gradually hut surely acquiring a civic and social conscience which will | result in the common good. She concludes her report with a recommendation that the hills pro. viding for the estahlishment of the Woman's Bureau hy law he enacted af this semaion of Congress. | TRAFFIC CONTROL LIGHTS TIMING IS CHANGED BY TRIAL (ontinued from First Page.) ing east and west on Massachusetis and Rhode Island avenue, a large de. tail of policemen was acattered around | the circle to straighten out diMiculties that might arlse. They were told to direct Sixteenth street trafic through the inner lane of the circle, but, net knowing in advance whether a drive wanted to go on up Sixteenth street or turn right inte one of the avennes, they found themselves tangling things up in a most discouraging fashion. The motorist who did not g0 further up Rixteenth street stopped to axplain his 1 desires, and mean. while the cars wounld pile up behind |him for nearly a block. The explana tions were repeated by succeeding motorists of similar intentions, and meanwhile the signalx blinked away {right merrily. Mayvbe when the halted car finally got ready to start again |the driver found the red signal set |against him. | 'Then. again. the policemen stationed on the intersecting avenues could not clearly see what the Nixteenth street gnals were saving, and frequently it developed that they started feeding the crosx traffic. into the circle at the wrong time, or halted it when it shouid have gone ahead. | Difficulties’ End Seen. | Director Kldridge confidently ex- | pects these difficulties to end when the avenue signals are put into opera tion. probably tomorrow night. A force of kmen wax making every effort 1o complete the installation by tomorrow night, it was stated. The motorist who axpected the new =ignals to apeed up traffic was direly disappointed last evening. TraMc officials refused today to make any | claimx to that effect at all. By actual test, conducted hy The Star at 5 lo'clock yesterday afternoon. it took fexactly 15 and a fraction minutes for an automobile to H street to Florida avenue. The dis- tance is a little more than a mile. In no instance was the car able to | meeting a stop signal. At times the congestion was so great that traffic | virtually came to a standstill, and the distance covered between changing signals was scarcely more than half a block Congeéstion U ual. Col. T. C. Moller of Director Eld- ridge’s office pointed out today that { the rush hour of last evening was un- . usually severe. The ordinary con- gestion resulting from the sudden dis- gorging at 4:30 of Government em- ploves was aggravated by the con. verging of hundreds of motorists who were just curious to try onut the new lights. Col. Moller estimated that more than 15,000 automobiles jammed Six- teenth street during the helght of the congeation. He doea not believe auch a condition will arise under ordinary movement of rush-hour traffic. Col. Moller avers that at 6:30 o’clock last night he drove his car from H streel to Florida avenue in six min- utes. He insisted he did this on Six- teenth street. lle declares when all motorists learn how to use the signals they should be able to do He expressed keen surprise that It should have taken The Star machine anything like 15 minutes to do the same distance, and characterized It as most unusual. It | remains a fact, however, that The Star car was but a chip in the great log jam of trafic, portiona of which were not making so much headway as The Star’s automobile. . Theoretically. as Col. Moller points out. the motorist an Sixteenth street should be able to cover several | working properly. | the atreet. | most convenient sud- | against the sig- | | hy nothing | want to | proceed north from | traverse more than two blocks before | STAR NOTABLES ACCUSED INHUNGARIAN PLOT {30,000,000,000-Franc Coun- | terfeit Case Involves Minis- ! ter of War and Others. By the Associntad Preas BUDAPEST, January 6. The 30, 000,000,000-frane counterfaiting” case fs heginning to assume formidable proportions, and developments even | more astounding than those which al- #ady have hecome public are fore- { shadowed for the near future | Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz has made full confession of his part in the I plat 1o flood Kurope with the spurious | French 1,000.frane notes and also has informed the authorities of detalls of the affair and implicated a number L of persons prominent in Hungary. | Police President Nados#y is report |ed to have heen taken {and War Minlster Count Charles de {Czaky Is sald to have been appre hepded at the Itulian frontier on be half of the Budapes: authorities. | Coupt Czaky is a brotherin-law of Count Jankewvitch. one of the first of the plotiers who was arrested by the Amsterdam police | The investigation into the affair is | proceeding with the greatest diligence { The Hungarian government appa | entlv 1< resigned to the fact that it ix possibie to stop oy even | no longer | mitigate the scandal. The police are Inclined to think that { note forging has heen zoing on for | some time. quantities of false Czecha slovakian. Jugoslavian and Rumantan bills having heen put in ecireulation The Rumanian zovernment is reported 110 have kept silence on the subject, for there was economic despression at | the time the Rumanian forgeries were Issued. and It was feared that a dis | astrous panie might follow D.C. MANKILLED BYAUTOIN MIAMI a | | | Abe Rubenstein Run Down by Unidentified Driver and His Skull Crushed. By the Asscciated Press MIAMI. Fla, January 6.-—Abe Rubenstein, 29, of Washington, D. C.. was run down and killed on a downtown street earlv today by an | unidentified automobile driver. Rubenstein was found dving on the | pavement, with his skull crushed and his throat cut. by a passerby a few moments after the accident. He { died hefore medical ald could be summoned. to the raflroad station train fcr Washingion, where he was { engaged In the dry cleaning businexs Police are seeking the driver of the | aceident. Resided Here With Parents. Mr. Rubenstein had heen a resident of Washington for 11 vears, living here with hix parents, Mr. and Mra Charles Rubenstein, at 1749 T stree He was unmarried. He came to this city from New York. and for the past seven vears had heen engaged with his brother. Samuel Ruhenstein, in a dyeing and cleaning business conduct ad by the Rubenstein Company, at 1220 Twenty-third street. A telegram received by the family this morning, which gave no further details of the accident. sald Mr. Ru | benstein’s body would be brought b tq_ Washington in charge of a friend. who had accompanied him on a business trip to Florida. Mr. Ruben | steln’s parents had recelved a tele {gram from their son last Monday in- | forming them that he would leave Miami today for Washington | - . [DR. JOHN J. SLATTERY, 59, i LOCAL PHYSICIAN, DIES Dr. John T. Slattery. 39 years old. {well known Washington physiclan and {pharmacist and a lifelong resident of | this city, died at his home. 3173 Eight- {eenth street, Monday night after an ill- I|ness of several months. : | Born in this city July 16, 1886, Dr. | Slattery was a graduate of St. John's {College and of the Medical Schoo] of |Georgetown University. He was prominent in medical circles tof this city, and was & charter mem {her of Washington 1 of the Knights of Columbus. | He is suryived by 1 {duughters. Mrs. Paulus Thyson, Mrs. won, Mrs. Edward Gallagher, Miss Mary Slattery, Miss Loretto Slattery and Miss Nora Slattery: four sons John 1. Slattery, jr.. Edward Slattery. | Daniel Siattery and Franciz Slattery. {his father, Edward J. Slattery: three ters. Mra. James Fitzgerald, Mr: Catherine Creagh and Mrs. Nora Fen- nell. and twn hrothers. Daniel Slattery and Edward Slattery. Funeral services will he conducted at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. when requiem mass will be suni. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. = widow. seven tepetti, Mrs. Lawrence Daw- 1 e—— speed without fear of meeting cross traffic or being halted by & red signal. But experience =0 far has proved that one does meet cross traffic on Sixteenth street when it should not. This, apparently, is due to the absence of the new signals at a number of comparatively unim- portant cross street, such as Church, O and one or two other thorough- fares which carry a relatively small amount of trafic. At theme sections reflecting boulevard stop signs have been erected (o warn motorists that they must wait their chance to dash across without inter- fering with the flow of Sixteenth atraet machines. The chances thus to make a dash were exceedingly rare, apparently, and collisions na rowly were averted at times. Col. Moller explained, in thix con- nection, that one of the reasons for skipping these small streets in plan- ning the signal system was because of lack of funds, and he indlcated that when the signals prove to be the suc- cess they are expected to be Ly iheir sponsors funds will be forthcoming for the other intersections. Pedestrians Aided. Mr. Eldridge was parifcular .fled today over the safe fMorded pedestrians by the signal He de- clared they Inaugurate a new era for the pedeatrlan who had been in the habit of risking his life ir: trying to cross Sixteenth street at busy re. rlods of the d Many of the pe- destrians, however, were ton inter. ested in watching the magic lights and the arctionx of the motorists to test the signals themselves. Those who them out, howover, strode across the street in perfect blocks at a goc grat- into clistody | inter- | 1 | | | | | S. Parker Gilhert, agent general | | is sh ! PARK BUYING BILL ’ LISTED FOR ACTION IN HOUSE MONDAY fre (Continued \ First Page.) Ninety-two per cent of this iand been acquired and oniv several | small parcels remain. hut the appro- | priation has been sxiansted and the | | Attorney General has ruled that L will not carry on condemnation | ceedings until the other §800. heen made avallahle Lord's ldea Different. | Mr. Zihlman. %ho is 2 member of | the Xational Capital Park Commis ston, trged that the lanzusge of “he original act should be continved, mak payment for this land He sald, however, that get Director Lord's idea was that { appropriation should come from surplus funds of the Distrie: Mr. Underhill offered an amendment that it should be taken from the sur {plux fund. and on that basis Mr. Blanton agreed not to oppose the |legislation. Representative William | C. Hammer, Democrat of North Caro- lina, vigorously protested, however, that this meant the District paving | entirely for the land to be acquired. Mr. Underhill explained the creation |of the onal Capital Park Com { mission, which was supposed to have {an annual appropriatien of $1.100,000( {but which had been cut to 3600, 600 & year for bullding up the park aystem. Mr. Underhill attacked as hitor-miss” policy the way in which the government has delaved the ac quisition of necessary parks and play ground sites in the National Capital on a program that should have been completed years ago. i | has ng o 30 hasis 31 the the Assalis Parsimony. ile xaid that while he fought for the | lump sum appropriation for the Dix | triet instead of a fixed proportion for The man was hit while on his way | contributions from the Federal Treas- | to board a | ury he had no sympathy with a par; | monious policy in bullding up the Na- ’!lnnll Capital | Mr. Hammer protested that the fis. automohile, who sped away after the cal relation between the National and | | District _governments should go back {to the 50.50 policy. He said he had |no patience with a bulidozing pol | which said. ““Take this and he sat | fled.” He declared that having ae- knowledged the surplus belonging to the District the Congress had no right 10 again take the money away ‘“like candy from a child” and use it to buy Government parks, Representative Houston Republi. can, Delaware, a new member of the ommittee, asked, “What right have we to take this money away from the District again?” Mr, Hammer sald that only ‘way in which to get | priations for the parkway he would not oppose it, but that he did resent a parsimonious and niggardly policy in regard to park development in the Natlonal Capital: that he was still sirongly in favor of the 5030 or 40-60 proportion in fis- cal relations, and thal money for the seat of Government should be appro. priatad with “wisdom and judgment.” i it is the the appro- nnection | | | | { | | Other Measure Backed. The non-support bill has had the the strong recommendation of the | District Commissioners. Mr. TUnder- hill emphasized that the object of the bill i= to restore 1o the Juvenile Court jurisdiction to hear and deter- mine non.support cases. Thix court | exercised such jurisdiction concur- rently with the Supreme Court of the District until a decision was ren- dered by the United StaPes Supreme Court in the case of United States va. Moreland. The changes proposed provide for striking out the provision for a sentence to hard labor so as to re- store Jjurisdiction (v the Juvenile Co Mr Underhill emphasized that the welfare of minor children is involved in practically all non- support cases which come before the courts and that the need for prompt nction is emphatic. This will expe- dite action upon such caxes, because the Juvenile Court does not have the diversified caes that Al the docket of other couris, Latters In support of the non-sup- nort bill were received hy Chairman Zihlman, Mr. Underhill and other members of the committee from the Monday FEvening Cluh. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr. president of the club. and Mra. Louis Ottenherg. chairman of the elub's Juvenile Court committee, urged that the bill be acted upon by the full committee without refer- ence to a subcommittee, in view of the fact that a similar bill was passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress. that there was no known opposition to the transfer and in order to have the bill on the calendar for District day vn Monday. Trausfers Announced. Chairman Zihlman announced the following changes in subcommittee jgnments: Mr. Beers, Republican, Pennsylvania, transferred from subcommittee on the judiclary snd made chairman of the subcommittee | on fixcal affairs of the District: Mr. | Belker. Repuhlican, New York, trana- ferred from the subcommittee on fis- cal affairs of the District and made chairman _of the subcommittee on wtreets. highwayw and traffic; Mr. Me- Teod. Republican, Michigan, trana- terred from the subcommittes on streets, highways and traffic and made chairman of the subcommittee on the {udiciary. and Mr. Reld. Republican. Tllinols, released from the subcommit- tee on police and firemen and Mr. Beers appointed a member thereof. At his own request, Mr. Blanton was made & member of the subcom- mittee on police and firemen and on traffic. He explained that he had ade a special study on these subjects and wished to give the subcommittee the beneft of his findings. Mr. Gibson of Vermont, Republican, was made a member of the subcommittee on police and firemen and Mr. MclLeod was made a member of the aubcommittee on trafc. Debate Limit Agreed. The committee adopted a report from the specia]l subcommittee on rules, covering the meetings of the committee, the reference af bills to [ cousin, Jehn J. subcommittees and limiting debats in Sl the!shall be made of the accounts and rec- charge of reparations payments wn conferring with the Seretary of State this morning. ! he | | | | | | A eyt R {Amendment to i | TEACHER ANNUITY INCREASES ASKED Retirement Law Will Be Submitted to School Board Today. Aun amendment to the retfrement Jaw for public school teachers in the District, imcreasing the minimum | annuitfex from $420 to $720, finalilv drafted at a meeting of teachers and nder the Pawes plan, who is here from Berli U. S. Not to Pay ; $1,265 Spent on | Foreign Officials TWO NEW WESTERN D. C. GATES PLANNED BY FINE ARTS BODY (Continued from First Page.) ntertainment” of officials of foreign governments, paving the way for the recent around-the- world flight, and costing $1.265, as spent by “Lleuts. Halverson and Lawton,” will have to be paid for o of xome other pocketbook than that of Uncle Sam Controller General Mct'arl thus decided today in the second de cision of itx kind. which held that such expenditures were not author ized by the law. In a previous ing last October Lieut. Laclair Schulze was denied an account $487 for entertaining foreizn cials and members of the press. Connecticut avenue close together, and Mr fears short-circuiting of the current may destroy many of them He views the Connecticut avenue the future ax a great business thor oughfare, holding that wherever ade. quate transportation is offered i ness follows. The commisslon tomorrow will take 'up a proposal made by the American Legion for establishment of permanent flag poles on the downtown streers the city. The proposal. originally made to the District Commissioners, was re ferred to the Kine Arts body for rec ommendation. The plan of the leglon would place metal flag poles 25 feet apart, near the curh. on many of the downtown streets.” On them would he placed. in case of a parade or public demonstration of any Kind. flags meas uring 3 feet by 5 feet. The plan works | well in Paris with triangle-shaped ban ners. The commission has already ex pressed itself in opposition te this form of decoration and js not expected tn approve the plan of the leglon. It will also take action on a House resoln tion calling for purchase of a plece of land near Massachusetis avenia fo he set axide for construction of a Moth ers’ Memorial Foundation. | trees | placea | Maore on very is 1 D, the committee under a fiveminute rule. A motion hy Mr. Blanton held over from the organization meeting before the Christmas holidays was brought up. This proposed contintiing the so called law and order suhcommittee that operated In the Sixty-eighth Con Ereas the chairmanship of Representative Henry R. Rathbone. | Republican. of Illinois. In 'annlr\l“(‘ of the constructive legislation this subcommittee had intended frame. Mr. Blanton hit hard at the practice of Washington hotels in welling rtain companie: exclusive right to the use of public streets at the hotel entrances. He also tacked a similar policy Al Unfon Station snd that of the office of public bulldings snd grounds in granting exclusive right to one bus line in Potomac Park and to one individual for concessions at the pub- lic golf courses. T'hi provoked con- siderable discussion, with emphatic declarations by old and new members of the commiitee that such practices should cease. When Mr. Blanton was | i questioned by Mr. Hammer, “lan't|Lo koW how theme private loans were thers a corporation counsel to adyise | Made and how much commission the the District Commissioners on such | hankers were paid and what discounts terat Mr. o A oy received for maliars . Blanton replied Th-r'?Th’n I want to find out if these gen- i one down fhere, but when you iy O . . | tlemen have not put forth thisx propa dithat youive seid akout all; {ganda. 1 want to know who it is who Asks Dance Hall Control. | insiste that these foreign dehts 10 | private Individuals shall be paid Mr. Cibson pointed out another |full while the taxpayers of America ohjective of this subcommitiee for |are forced to meet losses hecanse the control of dance halls, and he cited foreign debts to the United States ‘one near Thomas Clrcle which ought | Government are not paid to be hrought under the law." | This discussion ended, Mr. Blanton | Giigs Taoas Siatement. withdrew his motion, saying that ht‘ Senator Reed read to the Senate an was able to protect his views on|advertisement put out by Morgan & these subjects in minority reports|Co. and other bankers of a loan of under some that to COMMITTEE VOTES NOT TO INVESTIGATE COURT PROPAGANDA fr to e taxicah (Continue m First Page.) ling private banking institutions which |had loaned billions of dollars to these fore I want ternational can United the | States for their own profit gn governments. know bankers States o whether the in- sell the United I want Il | | | | or use and on the floor of the House, since | $100,000.000 to Italy, which was to pay there seemed (o be oppasition in the |9 per cent cofnmitie. | In this advertisement Mr. Blanton brought up the 5.cent | said, Count Volpi carfare bill, urging that if the com- commission which negotiated the debt mittee would report it out it could |settlement here, had described Italy be passed by the House on Monday. | as well able to pay the proposed loan He emphatically declared that the|and had set forth conditions in glow- street rallway companies are robbing | ing terms. the people of the District under an| Senator Smoot R-cent carfare allowed by the Public|of the Utilifies Commiasion, and that they | sisted that the 9 per cent referred should be forced to operate within to in the advertisement covered not their charter, and that it was the ! only the interest which would he paid duty of Congress particularly to pro- [ but the cost of floating the loan. tect 65,000 Government emploves from | Senator Edge of New lersey de- being “gouged.” The entire street | clared that if Ttaly were not in a poor rallway situation was vigorously dis- | financial condition it would not have cussed. to pay such a high rate of interest to obtain a loan. Senator Reed head of the Italian of Utah. a member American deht commission, in- Delay In Argued. On the suggestion of Mr. Gilbert, who said he was in sympathy with the Blanton bill, action was delaved for | come up for consideration in the Sen- a month in order that the committee | ate, Senator Smooth promised he might be thoroughly informed to de- | would go fully into the condition of fend its position when this legislation | Italy as revealed to the American was brought up in the IHouse. deBt commission. He said that today Keller announced that he will the ltalian lira is worth less than troduce his bill for Government owner ship of the street railways in the Na- tional Capital as the only ultimate solution of the problem. Two subcommittees will meet tomor- row, one to consider the bill broaden- ing the powers of the District Com- missioners to have general municipal adminiatrative authority and the other to consider a report on the mothers’ ald legislation. on which hearings were held vesterday. All measures affecting the District of Columbia that have heen introdueed at this session of Congress and re. ferred to the House District commit- tee will remain hefore subcommittees for consideration MEMORIAL BRIDGE CONTRACTS VOID, McCARL DECLARES (Continued from First Page.) Smoot Promises Data. When the war debt settlements the debts of Italy and France to the Uhited States are settled, the lira and the franc would go far down the scale, as did the German mark. The loans which Italy and France are seeking, he said. are to make it | possible to put gold back of their |eurrency and to prevent such a catastrophe. declared that Ttaly could not pay the debt to the United States and the full interest at 5 per cent, or 413 per she did not have the manpower nor the industries nor the soil to meet such payments. b “Then Italy is bankrupt, if she cannot pey her debts,” interjected Senator Norris of Nebraska. Denles Italy Bankrupt. This was denled by Senator who pointed out that Italy was able to pay in part. ‘With the statement of Count Volpi in the advertisement read by Senator Reed, Senater Smoot sald that the Volpi statement was probably true so far as it went. Senator Reed insisted that either Count Volpl was seeking to misiead the American people and the world in his statement of conditions in Italy ax published in the advertisement or else he was drawing a true picture of these conditions. “It is possible that he may have deceived a man as astute as the Sen- afor from Utah." said Senator Reed. “1 doubt If the Senator from had before him all the facts contained in this Volpi advertisemnet at the time of the debt settiement. 1 aay to You that if you defeat this resolu- | tion now you could cut off the means of obtalning the information which be required to supgort payments un- der the contracts and the audit that ords of the contractors. ‘In the absence of specific statutory authority, therefore,” sald McCarl, “such proviwions In a contract are void for the reason that the dutles and responaibilities of determining the suf- ficlency of evidence In support of pay- ments made by disbursing offcers arfd of adjusting and settling claims arising under Government contracts, involving payments from appropristed moneys are vested by law in the Gen- eral Accounting Office, an snch mat- ters cannot properly be made the sub- Ject of contract.” floating the loans. ! in| | cents. and he predicted that unless | The Senator from Utah | cent, without going hankrupt, hecanse | reference to | Utah | | school oficials at the Franklin Schanl | vesterday afternoon, will he s=uh- mitted 1o the Roard of Edueation for approval at the regular meeting of | the hoard this afternoon ar 330 loclack, 1t ix expected the hoard will promptiv transmit the amend- ment 1o the Distriet Cammissioners, | who in turn will send it to gress. | A number of minor changes wera decided upon at vesterday's meeting, it was announced foMay, hut thex | will not be made public until this afternoon. Twno major changes pro | vided in the amendment are the | raixing of the salaries on which 1ha retirement can he hased from § to $2.000 and the increase of the rata Government contribution $10 10 $15 ‘ No controversial suhjects schediiled for discussion at this afternoon’s meeting of the hoard. Dr. Frank W. Ballou Is expected to suh- | mit recommendations for the naming of the Brightwood School, the Bright wood Park School and the new achool in Woodridge. "TABLET WILL HONOR ' H. B. F. MACFARLAND | = = Memorial. Work of Henry K. Bush-Brown, to Be Unveiled Friday Morning. | A portra of will tablet {n memory the late Henry B. F. Macfarland he unveiled at the Distriet Buflding Fri day morning at 10 o'clock with ap propriate ceremonies. This tablet, or medallion. the work .of Henrv K Rush-Brown, seulptor, is the gift 1o the District government of a gronp of citizens In appreciation of My | Macfarland's valuable services to the District as Commissioner The program of the unveiling rere. montes will he as follows: Invoca tlon hy Rev. Charles Wood of the Church of the Covenant. which was attended by Mr. Macfarland: the un- veiling. the vell heing drawn by Mrs. William N -ong. the sister-in-law My land: presentation of ' o the Commissioners Li 1. Miller Kenvon, who ssociated with Mr. Mae eeptance for the Commis- probably by Commissioner Rudolph: benediction by Rev. Irving Ketchunm. pastor of the Peck Me morial Chapel, in which Mr. Mac land was actively interested for many | vear | The tablet is piaced on the wall of | the main stairway of the buflding |1eading from the first fnor. |FEARS FOR HIS OWN LIFE. |" S0 CONFESSES MURDER | the by was farland si ers Gangster Says He Killed Man on Orders of Band of Boot- leggers. Br the Amsociated Pross. CHICAGO, January 3 icholal Augustino, 44, v erday vinlated the gangster code when, fearing for his {life, he surrendered to police, an nounced he was a murderer and said he wanted to give information against iwo other men he said were hootleg e i | He came to America from TItaly in 1928, he sald. and joined the zany he Ry members of the gang, he said, he was sent to White Plair N where he was told 1o kil a man by the name of John Unless. 1le received $1.000, which the gang sall the man owed on a whisky deal e oheved instruetions implictily, he sajd. and shot the man five hours afier arriving In White Plains. Recently, he said. two attempts had heen made against his life. The po lice were unahle ta check on White Plains slaving. BILL ASKS COURT CURB. Would Define Jurisdiction in Cases Involving Members of Congress. | “the jurisdiction of the local courts Yin civil action against members of | Congress wouid be defined by the {terms of a bill introduced yesterd. | by Senator Capaway of Arkansax bill providesx that there shall not | maintained in an District of { lumbla court any suit or action found- | ed on contract or tort where the serv- lice in such action has been or may hereafter be had upon such member { of Congress while in attendance upan | Congresk. There is a provisa to tha sffect that the proposed law would | not apply in cases of debt contracted with residents of the Distriet | The preamble nf the bill recites that it i= in the interesi of public poliry | ihat members of Congress =hali he free from suite during their attend. ance upon and in coming to and re- turning from Congrens. $300,000 Distillery Seized. SAN FRANCISCO, January § (). — wooping down upon a four-story warehouse in Sunnyvale, south of here, prohibition agents last night seized one of the largest fllicit distil- leries that has been uncovered in this Qistrict. The entire layout is said by agents to be worth approximately $300,000. F.'A. Lodge, rancher of Santa Clara County and owner of the warehouse, and five other men were' arrested. vou should have before you act on these debt settlements.” Senator Reed quoted George Wash- ington in warning Americans against the. “insidions wiles” of foreigners. He insisted that it was just as in- sidious to work through church or. ganizations as in any other way and he read from the Christian Century to show the efforta of churches abroad to influence American foreign policy. The fact that such influence was attempted through the churches Gen. Hart Asked Cremation, With Ashes “Cast In Ocean at Any Convenient Place” Directing that his body be cremated and that his ashes be “cast into the ocean at any convenlent place,” the will of Maj. Gen. W. H. Hart, quar- termaster general of the United States Army, who died January 2, has been filed for probate. The general's body was interred at Arlington. His personai_effects are given to a A of 8t. Louls, be Aistributed among his rels- tives. The remalning estate is to be divided into 20 parts and distributed an directed among Mr. Liebe and eight other relatives residing in dif- ferent parts of the country. The estate, according to the will, comprises life insurance of $40,000, an aquity in apartment 0 Massa chusetts avenue and about $5,080 in cash. Mr. Liebs {2 named as execu- Mo., to tor. - abroad and in this countrs made no {difference in the principle. he said. fu fact, the propagands became more dangerous because it had an “odor of_sanctity.” Senator Reed said that the argu- ment whs made that his resolution should not be pussed because it might delay action ou the World Court pro- poral. “We have laen gelting along for 150 vears without taking part in World Court,” said Senator Reed, “and we can certainly get along a little 1enger whils we nbtain the In formation we should have. We are not suffering and the American peo- ple are net crying aloud for a_changs in thelr time-honored policy."