Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 2

2 * CLAIMS PERSHING SCORED CHILEANS Correspondent Says Report Is Bitter Attack on Tacna- Arica Rule. BY taw wstociated Prese BUENOS AIRES. January 14 Nacion today prints a lengthy patch from Washinglon corre spondent dealing with the Arica plebiscite situation, particularly as regards the report of Gen. John Pershing. chairman of the piebis.| citary commission. which alleged | k on Chile's ad-| cna-Ariea spondent says the which the report | inereased the to know its hints that the public is er o attac art the corr with guarded of the public Semi-official never s been has nts THE EVENING ! WAN JURY PICKED, . TRIAL UNDER WAY Gordon Opens Prosecution of Chinese Student, Charging Willful Murder. The second trial of Ziang Sun Wan, charged with frst-degree murder in the death of Ben Sen Wu of the Chinese Educational nt 2 Kalorama road. Junuary 29, 1919, got under way in Criminal Division. No . today when the selection of a jury, after three days of examina tion of talesmen, was completed and the presentation of the Government's opening statement stuited by United States Attornev Peyvton Gordon The selection of u jury w complished snortly before noon after 12 talesmen had been excused either by the court or the prosecution and WRUERWNO D, RICHARD V. TAYLOR. o inerense iger- savs the has decided © wonld an im when States tike Department th vepe There that Uit Towever press and may efther in ation by the Sta himself make it public his own position pted Report Published. Gen ditfer nie Department or In vindiea Wan remarkable Pershing was the Chilean deie ¥ wanted the ind suggested State Department the State Department the report should he Pershing himself ble 1o the press do. The re remains a When ized unquestion £a report this 1t was willin published would make it avai but this he declined port sequently rlosely irded The ¥ he giver irse eved publicir still howeve facts regarding ire generally know outspoken’ arra . savs that the certain the is an Chilea a. e contend that azainst Chile Gen. Pershing £ Peruvians only Chile declaves she was not Proper opportunity to answer the chargi ment Tacna- At Chileans e out mest werp investi with the as- and that given the refute charges ctance Reign of Terror Alleged. a feature nz ire that d a reign of terror eep the Peruvians in a state insure the ess that deportations of vere carricd out even atter that dur 3 that there were deportations strong ind which the Chilean izn n an plebiscite ians wzs arvival nderst o 1000 1ere were nore cages red. that the and not neen when Gen. Pershing removal ceriain officials other officials were sted who followed the oot of their predecessors Aceordir the correspondent Gen. Pershing asserts that even some the higher administration officials Peruvian peasants 1o be threatened with personal violence un less thev eed to leave the country that cases were reported whe: Chil eans inicrepresented deportees o steamship companies and nprovided them with false vaccination ce:tif cates {in der to comply with the steamchip regulati Urges Peace and Discipline. Chile, January 1 ) head of the Chilean commission. issued an ap. the which he de population for disci. 4 repetition Chileans and a ilean o areps in tocal respect order to avoid i ppeal says the members of the delegation have a perfect that they he respect considered collaborators with common work of holding Furthermore. he savs ters “have a right ute guarantees for their 1 1y and other legitimate ! ivities DRIVER EXONERATED. Alexander F. Gadison, colored. 43 vears old. of Radio, Va., operator of the automobile which fatally injured | Frank LElliort of Ballston, Va.. at Twelfth street and Pennsvivania ave nue. on the night of Christmas eve, was exonerated from biame by 4 coro ner’s jury at an inquest into the death of Elliott vesterday afternoon Elliott died Tuesday night at George. town Hospital The coroner’s jury found accident was “‘unavoidable” to lack of care on the part o ceased.” U.S. TO REFUSE GREECE FURTHER LOAN BEFORE ADJUSTMENT OF DEBT rst expect person plet that the nd “due tHe de (Continued from Page.) Re: snger was a member of the Cail- i commission, but exercised at that time only an anthority and r sponsibility delegated to the members of the commission. Finance Minister Caillaux at that time arrted full plenipotentiary wer itow ex- plained, and was authorized to upon the advice of his commission, | but without the necessity of having their support They were merely advisory. Berenger returns thix time Ambassador, succeeding Emile <chner, and he is understood to carry plenipotentiary powers to sign for his country There were no indications in Amer fean circles today as to what kind of proposals may be expected from the new Ambassador, The extreme difficulty into which “rance’s financial situation has been plunged since the failure of the pre vious debt commission here was be jeved to foreshadow the most earnest efforts on the part of Berenger tc succeed this time in lifting from the French the overshadowing uncertain ty of the ynfunded French debt tc the United States, SCHOOL KEEPS NAME. The Board of Education's recom mendation to change the name of the new Brightwood School @t Thirteenth and Nicholson streets to the William Van Zant Cox School was disapproved today by the B of District Com- missioners. Action followed a protest against the change filed by delega tlon representing the Brightwood 47iti- zens' Assoefation. The delegation was given a hearing | by the Commissioners just prior to the semi-weekly hoard meeting. It w composed of Charles W. Ray, presi dent of the association; Mrs. H. S. Parsons. chairman of the commitiee on education: John A. Saul, William | MeK. Clayton and Charles A. Lang ley The Commissioners were urged 1o reserve the name of William Van Zant Cox for the proposed new junior high school to be erected in Brightwood. Mr. Cox was at ope time president of the school besrd. [ 23 re A | retirement | ployes {bill | Flenced one | the employe and 11 | those | wizh to retire, it is very certain proof from the service.’ defense on peremptory challenges Maj. Gordon, for the prosecution, twice announced contentment with the jury as it then was constituted shortly after court opened. hut Wil- ton J. Lambert, chief defense coun- sel, continued to exercise his chal- lenges until he was satistied with the 12 men in whose hands the fate of the voung Chinese student r When the jury was completed, Lambert had one chalienge left, while the vernment had three still to be used. PARTISANS BACKING TWO DIFFERENT BILLS ON U. S. PENSIONING Wontinned from First Page.) ent messages o the commitiee room | declaring their support of a liberalized | law for Government em Nearly all of them specified ! indorsement of the Stanfield Lehlbach Jury Then Sworn. The jury then was sworn, and Maj Gordon arese present the case which he expects to prove by about i jtnesses to he introduced for the Government. Taking a position befor the 12 men and speaking in a calr low voice, the prosecuting attorney outlined the case as follows “The defendant is indicted for mur der in the first degree and on four counts, We are concerned only with the fourth count, which Is that the de. fendant deliberately and with maliee killed Ben Sen Wu, January 1919, by shooting. The bodv was discovered January 31, with two bullet holes, ¢ in the head and one in the chesi. Two | other bodies we found in the hase ment of 2023 Kalorama road, he quarters of the Chinese bducation Mission and used ax offices and es of the co-mission The mission was sent over China to assist young Chinese an education in this country Dy Theodore T. png was the director ¢ M. Hsle the secretary and treasurer and Sen Wu was the clerk. Out ¢ Wan, the defendant guest of Mr. Wu for ceding the homicid from Shanghai in 1916 1o get an edu ation. In September, 1918, he re- 1 ceived $2.000, which he deposited in | the United States Mortguge and Trust Co, of New York City. He nused this in the movie business in F oklvn paving $1.000 cash and giving a note | for $a00. This was unsuccessful, and | he lost all he had in November. ke | was in debt Communications Favoring Bill Representative Lehlhach, who pre sided. also placed in the record a num ber of communications which had been | received from groups of Government | emploves in several parts of the coun try urging passage of a more Iiberal retirement measure. Mr. Reach testified the GarberHar- reld bill would prevent the temporary re.emplovment by the Government of retired emplove on the ground that it is not desirable to permit this prac- ice. One of two members of the com mittee guestioned the wisdom of such a regrcilon. contending that there may oe (mses in which it would be of | Dbenefit to the Government to call back | temporarily an experienced retired em pioye rvather than to take an Inexpe. vesi- from to get Mr. Beach testified that the bill he is supporting eliminutes the present discretion allowed department heads to extend the service of emploves of | two vears at a time afrer they navei reached the retirement age Representative Upshaw of Georgia. | nd Representative Kellv of 'ennsyl vania. hoth made Statements to the commirtee urging a liberalization of the present retirement law in arder A larger measure of justice to and womgen who devore all of lives 1o the Government service Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the | ioint conference on retirement of the Tnited States Civil Service Employes today made public memorials prepared by empioves of the Rurean of Engrav ing and Printing and the Washington Navy Yard in support of the Stan field-Lehlbach bill Explain Measure. | The siatement of the Bureau of Kn-|a graving and Printing employes ex | but did not come here until plained the bill they are supporting in | 22, 1919. He had received a check for part_as follows $50 on January 13. from Wu and cash “The ages for retirement, with a|ed it 8t a trust company. He arrived provision for two years extension car- | here as x guest of Wu and remained ried in H. R. No remain un- | until the 27th, anouncing he was go ‘hanged. There is provided, however. INg to return to New York. Mr. Wu 1 svstem of optional retirement after | then gave him a heck for $30. In ) vears of service regardless of age. | Slead of going to New York. he regix ovided that retirement under thisitered at the Harris Hotel near the | “agraph shall be 4t the option of | UDiun Station. He sent u telegram hothing hereinafier | 10 his brother, Van. in New York, re contained In thix act providing for|4uesting he come to Washington. Thix automatic action shall apply to the | W8S sent at 6 minutes after 12 o'clock foregoing eligihle [jon. the 27th he method of computing annuity Eibiy Houtslater Shes agatn has been chanzed. resulting generdfly | Kraphed hix brother to give up all hix| in 4 somewhat higher scale of annuity, Satacenwad ife ar e, «nd the maximum has been raised Arrived om $720 to §1.200. The act of | mending the retivement law by pro i viding for deferred annuities of scaled | fo %0 down present annuity—vin case of in. | The day bhefore golutitar s Seeparst on)iaten i1b ""'“’T:I..p:{-lv :I:m"mn story window and of service, and at the age of has | Do o it hace man on 1he heen further amended to provide for | Called 1o @ (s PRI certificate of deferred annuity for | ¥treet. t€lling him he need not attend A e At Jor to the furnace for the next three s 2 four davs as all were Koing to serviee beiween the ages of 45| 25 fou & 1 the ages of 45} NouYork ‘A Chinese student living across method of com. | 2 e H the sireet. named Kang Li. went to puting annuities is made """”“H"'lh: B o bhe S0th ut those already on the retired roll The increase ..v;.h- anmulty romgrrn ] D0 S0l e bel was answered to a possible $1.200 will not induce | h¢ de | Vong any’ larger number of mechanical em. | Clother. L4 inouired for Du Wons r‘,i""p.'" to separate themselves from | ieq for Hsei and Wi, but the de the service when thev reach the op-| rendant said they all were out. W tional ages. When they do take ad. | ‘SRHARL R8T TReX B0 NETE BN ke vantage of the optional retirement of | \waghinston. Lmiversiie. Wh atrenne | the proposed law there will be in every | ' 2SR REIGN RIATLIE. U RGOS case the strongest possible reason | & 22\% [T © 10 B SRR LR SIS why thev should do so. If they do|,vening Wu dined with two Chinese at the Oriental Cafe on Pennsylvania avenue. He left at 8 p.m. and they accompanied him to Fourieenth and F streets. where he took a Mount Pleasant car, stating he was going home. That was the last seen of him | alive. Il ‘Dr. Wong and Hsei dined from 8 | until 10 p.m. at the Mankin Restau- | vant, on Ninth street. Wong lefi with one of the party and took a Mount Pleasant car at Ninth and I sireets. He dropped off ut Connecticut and Florida avenues and accompanted his friend to the Cordova Apartment and bade him good night, and started toward the mission. That was the last time he was seen alive. Hsel accompanied his guest In the nelgh- borhood of the educational mission, a little after 10 o'el The bodies of these three were found in the mission. ! | | | v was Ben at Funds and Work. had heen the the week p Wan came here te do | men their out of funds, out of work g employment He received an invitation to spend Christmas holiday here with Wu | | seeki January | v [ tele tmmediately. ight and is Hotel defend- he ap before mid to the H. Wan, the ion house, “Van arriv | was seeri i i the d 53, The hange in the ) i trey that they are no longer able to render efficient service: and the very object of a vetirement law, from the stand- point of the employer. is to permit hix emploves, when no longer able to render efficient service. in the interest of economy. to separate themselves Diclistein Speaks. Representative Dickstein of New York addressed the committee in al strong argument for passage of the | Stanfield-Lahlbach bill, declaring that it_is desirabie from the standpoint of efficiency hecause it will encourage empioves to retire when they reach the age at which thelr efficiency be- gins to go down. “Therv are two ghosts that bother employes.” the Representative contin- ued. “unemployment and dependent old nge Mr. Dic kstein said the Government emplove ix not bothered so much by the fear of unemployment, and that if this retirement law is passed, Uncle Sam will have a chance 1o become a model emplover by making adequate provision for his employes in old age. $3,000,000 ADDED TO D. C. COFFERS BY NEW TAX Collection on $1.70 Rate Exceeds by Large Sum Returns in Novem- ber and December, 1924. Approximatery $3,000.000 has been added to the District’s coffers through the increased tax rate, it was revegled today by Chatham M. Towers. collec- tor of taxes. The collections amounted to 73 mber to $5 152.47%.82, 1924 Wan Goes to Union Station. Wan, the defendant, wax seen tc enter the elevator at the Harris Hotel January 29. The nexi morning he and his brother Van went to the Union_ Station. employed a taxicab and Van directed they he driven tc Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue The car stopped on the west side of Fifteanth street, in front of the Amer. ican Security and Trust Co.. and Van got out, leaving the defendant in the car. He went towards Pennsyivania avenue and the cabman accompanied him to the door of Riggs Bank. He entered and was there half an hour or more. “Van presented to the paving teller, Mr. Dent. a check drawn on the official fund of the mission to pay to the bearer $5.000. The check was re ported to have heen signed hy Wong and Hsel. “The and comy those on duced in November | 264 . and in De 37. a total of $9, In the same months in the collections totaled $2.1 41201 for November and $4.025.4 for December, w total of $6,174,814.38. The tax rate for 1924 was §1.40 per £100 of valuation, while the new rate is $1.70. Mr. Towers is now preparing the de- linquent tax lists. Property upon which taxes have not been paid will be advertised for sale February 1 and will be sold in March. Those who fail to pay before February 1 will not only be penalized 1 per cent additional on the amount duve the District, but will have to pay the cost of advertis- | ng ing teller b red the inceled letter on tioner requesting the this check (0 the bearer. uncertain, called the educ ston. but got no response. “He took 1t up with Mr. Vass, a vice president of the bank, und Van pre. sented the letter and visiting card of B. 8. Wu, whom he represented him- elf to be. Mr. Vass took the matter up with Robert V. Fleming. now pres ident, and Van endeavored to induce him to cash the check. Fleming tried to get the mission on the felephone Spicious ves with Van pr mission’s sta- bank to pay Dent, being tional mis: shicna checks. the several times, and Van, who did not know thix, asked Fleming if he would = . call the mission. Mr. FI’Fmin: replied - !he @id not want to for fear he would Ferry Saved From Rocxs. |nn| recognize Wong's vaice over the MANITOWOC, Wis., January 14 (). | telephone. g —ATter a 24-hour fight on the rocks a | “He returned the check and Van de hulf mile from shore the Pere Mar- ' parted. returning to the ity Post quette car ferry No. 18, with 49 men | Office. where the cab was dismissed. aboard, was pulled safely into deeper | Van paying the bill. A short time water late last night and now awaits | later Van and Wan checked out of drydock in Manitowoc Harbor, badly | the hotel. That night the brother battered, but not beyond repair. was seen by Mrs. ells In New ‘A STAR, st | hotel i Wend | opening WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926. This Is the Jury In Whose Hands Wan’s Fate Rests The jury for the Wan trial, which war finally completed today, is made up of the following Chesley M. Ray., employe Nor folk and Washington Steamboat Co, John & Co. Robert L. field manager, of Commerce. Addison 1. Ssmpson, Willard Hotel restaurant. Eugene B. Perry, Vim ioods. Charles T. White, jr Harrington Hotel (colored). Leonard M. Cooley. ticket Weshington Termina! Co. Willlam W. Upchurch. timekeeper, Washington Terminal Co. Austin . Gurner, shipping clerk, Morrix & Co. Nicholas Quesenberry, employed Lewis Manufucturing Co. ‘Theodore R. Waggoner, employ- ed by Pennsylvania Electric Co. Burthold J. Humm, manuger, affic Surface Corporation S. Kgan, sales, Walker assistant Chamber Bradshaw, National cashier, Sporting porter, seller, york Clty, where they lived. Wan, the defendant, was seen the next morn in “Dr. who also ton University Hsei since the Sun of the Chinese legation, attended George Washing had not seen Wu and th at the university He missed them Thursday and Friday ud returned to the legation. e led the mission and gol no response. 'hen he kot Kang Li 1o inquire at the mission, and Kang Li went there at 7 o'clock that night and dlscovered the bodv of Dr. Wong ‘On the morning of the 30th the let ter carrier went to the house on three differant occasions. The milk had not heen taken In, newspapers were in the doorway and a small light burned in the hall. A messenger boy with a special delivery letter also failed to get u response “Kang Id. when he went to the house at 7 p.m.. saw a window open about one-half inch Lookinx through it, he saw Iyving in the hall between the front room and the back room the form of Dr. Wong. He called the police. who. after un in- spection. found Hen Sen Wu and Hsei lving in the basement between the furnace room and the rear. Their hends were almost together and a number of gunshot wounds were in the wiles of each A 32.caliber revolver was Iving near Wu X - aminations revealed they had heen dead more than 36 hours At midnight police and Kang L went to New k. arriving on the They went the rooming house of ‘Mrs. Bartell. The entered Van's room and found him dressed in his street clothes. The defendant was in hed, wearing gloves and a grav sweat er and with a number of New York papers, deseribing the crime. hefore him. Told hy Detective Burlingame of the crime. the defendant sald he had just read about it and was draft ing telegram of co lence Kang Li with the pencil paper which he held in his hands Y and Tellx of Movements. “Asked whe he left Washington Wan said the 27th- he was supposed have left butl registered at the Kang Li was brought in and told of having seen \Wan on the h Burlinganie then asked \Wan when he left and Wan replied he left on the 26th. The matter of returning to. Washington wus discussed and Wan said he would like to come along. Kang li said he ought to come as vou were the iast seen and suspicion rests on vou' Wan, the defendant, then said he had no raflcoad fare. but the de tectives agreed that they would pay it He then said that he was not feeling well, but Kang lJ4 assured him he would look after hix welfure. “They arvived in Washington at pom. Saturany. and were taken to Fifteenth street, now nsed a diet Kitchen for the District of Co. limbia government Maj. Pullman then superintendent of police. asked when Wan left Washington.” Mr. Lambert objected 1o the Dis ot Columbia attorney’s relating convers n at that time, but Justice 1 Phillips Stafford said he trust Mr. Gordon to tell fust what vceurred Mr. Lambert then noted an excep- tion and Maj. Gordon continued with his statement Discussing the conversation with Wan and Maj. Pullman. Mr rdon sald that Wan told him he had dined with Mr. Wu and the latter had gone to the station with him and he took the :15 train for New York. Maj Pullman was said by Maj. Gordon to have informed Wan that there was no 8:15 train for New York at that time. and further. the police knew Mr. Wu had dined with some one else. he It could Defense Will Wait. Maj. Gordon meluded his tatement Attorney Wilton J. T.ambert. chief counsel for the prisoner announced that the defense would re. serve its statement until the conclu. sjon of the testimony to he submitted by the Government. The first witness the prosecution was Dr. Kang Li who is o practicing physician_in China and returned to America last November to testify in this case. Kung Li was culled to tell of the finding of the bodies of Dr. T. T. Wong., directo of the Chinese Fducational Mission: Chang H. Hsie. secretary-treasurer of the misslon and Hen Sen Wu, an undersecretary, and was exumined by Assistant United States Attorney Horning After Kang-ll had told of the find ing of the hodies d of identifying them to policemen. detectives, und to Dr. E. W. Titus, former deputy coro- ner of the Districi. he was excused with the statement by Mr. Horning that the witness would later in the trial be recalled to tell of other cir cumstances of the case. Attorney Lambert let the wilness go, declaring that he would reserve his cross examination until the witness had completed his entire testimony. Dr. BE. W. Titus, former deputy coroner, was the second witness. and told of having the bodies identified to him. but thought the identification took place at the morgue and net at the mission. as claimed by the pre- ceding witness. Horning asked Titus to detail the result of his autopsy on the bodv of Dr. Wong. Lambert objected. claiming that the prosecu- tion should be limited to the autopsy on the hody of Ben Sen Wu, with whose Killlng the prisoner ix charged. Justice Stafford overruled the objec tion and the defense noted an excep: Uon. Titus was still on the stand whee the court took the N recess. RED'CROSS SENDS $10,000 70 DUTCH FLOOD AREA Netherlands Body Has Spent Near- 1y $2,000.000 to Repair Dam- age From Tornado. When American Red (Cross today sent $10,000 for the relief of fiood sufferers in the Netherlands. The cable forwarding the money was dis- patched through the State Devart- ment to headquarters of the Nether- lands Red Cross. at The Hague. Heavy floods, caused by high winds and torrential rains. have overtaxed the financial relief facilities of the Netherlands Red Cross, which has distributed nearly $2,000,000 to repair the effects of the great tormade In Holland last Fall, The 'STREET INSPECTION STARTS TOMORROW House Subcommittee to Study Plans to Spend $680,- 000 in Spring. Claims Repre entalive’ Shouldn’t Use Franking Privilege That Way. Looks Like Mean Trick to “Drys,” But Right Is Upheld. Inspection of streets and roadways in the District of Columbia, on which mergency improvements during the | The practice of so-called “wet” Con- Spring months of the present year are | gressmen in utilizing their franking Wit the Approval uf the mudgerar.|Vrivileages to send out (hrough the rector. will be made starting tomor. | mails copies of speeches “attacking the Constitution they had sworn to | row ufternoon by the subcommittes on District appropriations of - the | yp01d” is causing considerable agita- | cdry” elreles, it House appropriations comnittee A total of $670,000 ix axked for this work in order that the engineer of highways may keep his organiziion | at” work and expedite the improve ment durlng the pleasant Sprin weather and not be forced to wait un tl the appropriations for the fiscal | year 1927 become available on July 1 Representative Funk of Illinols chalrman of the subcommitiee, an nounced today that he helieved it fs | guod business judgment to authorize | necessary work of this kind o he done us promptly as possible durins the Spring months. and Chairman Madden of the House appropriations cottimittee sald that whateser mendations Mr. Funk's sibcommitiee make will be approved by the full committee on appropriations The appropriations asked are paving roadwavs under the svstem. $20,000: for zeneval improvements, 0000, and for provements the rasoline 00,000, which includes ing of Connecticut avene tion was learned todiy The cipully in Volsteadites are aroused prin speech made in the louse December 22 by Represéntative Viftin, of New York, and now being reulited in officlul envelopes bearing, Jurge black type, the title: \What Price Yrohibition?” Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon lLeague, has raised question to the right, under 1 member of Congress 1der of his conceived | Xt he to spread netitution House ruies, of {10 embellish the mailing speech with specially title not contained in the address itself, and desizned propaganda st the O of the United States.” Mr. Wheeler declared today the rules of the House and permit the mailing of these spe nder the franking privilege in elopes bearing @ brief statement the contents, hut contended that t Mr iffin has employed th: t e hes | en- | of | For permit $1 und | YN taoties us c the widen 4 certatnly nd the “WHAT PRICE PROHIBITION” TITLE ON ENVELOPE PIQUES WHEELER | Griffin of New York. | ! it wis stated that the only | speech and the nume of 1ts ailihor =uch | of ANTHRACITE SCALE COMMITTEE MEETS Leaders From Every Section and Many Idle Miners at Hazleton Today. —~ 7 {| WHAT PRICE, I’I}OHIBITION!‘ rmren o 4 HON. ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN o o vone orRErREATNTATIVEY By the Assoclated Prass HAZLETON, Pa., tional and district leaders from evers section of the ane thracite fields gathere o) attend a meeting of I'nited Ming Workers' sca wi wil) onsider the fany idle miners also hag action the comr January 14 Nas Label on franked envelopes contain- Al el Jora ing speech against prohibition, which has been mailed out by Representative At the office of W. A. Smith, clerk in charge of the Congressioiial Record | rule gov crning the character of prjited 1 ter on the envelopes franked =peeches ix that there shall be a state ment showing the nature of the ¢ carr ake The commitiee e s fie under the Lewix, ulso union d by & convern miners last July negotlate wase satistaction of ur The committee has ne November, when it plan offered Plan was refec Report ron br The scule There suid, Hmiting exists no regulation, it was the wording to ghe ex-| act phraseology contained im the speech itself, as held by Mr. Wheeler. “The envelope may explain briefly | what {8 contained within it it was | pointed out. “Apparently that is what Mr. Griffin has done. It is not newes- | sarv that the words ‘What Price Hro- | hibition’ be contained in the text of the contents Mr. Griffin's speech is in pamphie form and comprises seven and a half printed pages. The main purpose of the gentleman firom New York, it would seem, was 1o give 10 his col leagues his own estimate of the “price” of prohibition. In pursuance i thix ohjective he enumerated 13 %! “disasters which have followed in the ODer ake of the prohibition fallacy.’ Lmowledge Nevertheles by Gov ted by the of to Be Made. The subcommittes of the s mittee will ake a de ts uns Other wers rs in M serions] or v widening of Eleventh sireet List of Projects, The various paving projec the subcommitiee will | row, with the amount asked ure as follows. In from Seventh to Eighth street Center street. Merfdian place den street, $4.700; De teenth sireet Se $7.5000 Deca ree nie to Fifth street street from Decatur son street, $6.K800. T from Lincoln road $12.600° Neal street Virginia avenue. Trinidad $20.200 Outes street northeast Montello avenie to Trinidud [$10.200. Trinidad avenne northeast from 1 street Queen street 14000 For erading. including culvert draing and retalr are Murdoc sin_avenue § dral avenue. Conduit re Dlace. §$13.600; rachise venue tu $2.8¢ Garfield street Forty-fourth street wentyoninth etreet, Wo Caivert streetfi §15.000 northeast, Forty fourth t streer, $4.400; Evarts stree Third sireet to Fourth frth Srerling avenue southeast ard road to Stevens road, §$5.100 Will View Other FProjects The subcommitfee wiil also examine the extension of Brandvwine. Tt eighth, Fortieth and Forty streets northwest. under the indefinite appropriation for the payments of awards and expensex in the opening, extension and widening of streets an highwavs to conform with the perma nent system of highwaix in the Dis trict of Columbia The profects to he der the $300,000 which will be fnspected ~ommitiee toMOrrow, are fng of Connecticut avenue et on esch side, to w total width of 80 feet. and repaving the rosdwa from K street to M street and widening by 15 feet on the eas to & 10tal width of 65 feet and repuy ing the roadway of Conne t nue from M xtreet to Flghie reet at a total co For widening to paving the roadway street from Pennsylvania avenue fo New York avenue, $43.0 In ) this an appropriation of $22.- for paving and repaving t roadway of Eleventh street from sireet 1o G street feet wide. whic was carried in the appropriation act for the current vear, ix axked to he made available for widening and re paving the roadway of this street 70 feet wide from [Pennsvivania avenue to New York avenue In the widening and repaving of these roadways 40 per cent of the en tire would he assessed ugainst abutting property owners. who would also be required to modify at their own expense the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalks for parking on these streets if it fs found necessary o change such vaults to permit the roadway to he widene hich pe raham SENATE. | $6,500 Consideration of the proposed nd Og.| adherence to the World Court was stgent continued. The Senate committee heg Jpriations sub- rearings on the post office appropriation bill, the first of the annual supply measires to rewch the Senate The committee on agriculture ved to hold hearings on away bill dealing with cot grain futures on January mtreet str | deisrm general counsel for silway executives the interstate com Iroad lahor P Thom the American appea Ne necess commerce hearing the omas F. Wond rstate Commerce 230 pm of the Aluminum vas continued by compiitiee, with seph . Dunn. agent of the De tment of Justice, hefore it finance committee continued he tax reduction bill mzens completing his on administrative fea. following co Albemarie [to Wisee projects streer M natio Wever Albemarie street. Mas M M = rdock Investigation roud | road & road 10 ty-ninth riheast $4.00 How Dix ¥ v The Senator O ent oreign cussed in Committee on civil service hold ing Joint hearings with similar committee in Senate on civil serv. ice retirement leglsiation. Subcommittee of appropriations commitree holding hearings on de- appropriation for State Justice Departments and the agresments dis At Admir ried out un- tax fund the sub widen- gasoline Jones by on the naval affairs com wearing on Kutler bill to the Shenandosh lius Klein, chief of Bu u and Domestic the Department of erce, testifying at rubber wtion before committee on and forelgn commerce. Hearing on cooperative market before committee on Agricul- with Walton Peteet as wit replace Dr reau ] side ing ture ness Hearing on various bills before military uffalvs committee Hines is principal ving by veterans witness commit- er Burke is hefore Indian Commissio at hearing committee Rivers and harbors condueting hearing on Calif., project Representatives of radin manu- facturers testifving at hearing on radio bill hefore merchant marine committee. Attorney for defense before ju diciary committee on the Judge English fmpeachment case. | PERSHING DUE FEB. 8. Other projects under the gasoline | Will tax fund are for paving, repaving and | surfacing, including curbing and gut tering where necessary: Columbia | road; Sixteenth street to Iighteenth street, §22.000; Mussachusetis avenue, ourteenth street to lighteenth street, $63.000: Vermont avenue, Thomas Cir Cle to lowa Clrcle, $25,000; Vermont gvenue, I sireet to T sireet. $13.500: ' street. Ninth street to Fourteenth sureet, $32,000; Virginia avenue north east, from Floridu avenue to Penn street, $20.700; Kentucky avenue southeast, H street to Admiral Barney | Clrele, $9,400; Kentucky avenue south east. Fifteenth street to South Caro witness affairs committee Stockton, Other Paving Proposals. Arrive at Key West on Cruniser Denver. Gen “t Key | Denver The Pershing West alwut s expected to arrive a., on the cruiser February 8 Denver is now off Arica wnd Gen. Pershing, having been relieved of Lix duties In the Tacna-Arica dis- pute for w visit home for medical treatment, will board her for the jour- ney. TREATED FOR DdG BITE. « RUMANIA RECALLS - BIBESGO ASENVOY | By the Assoclated Pre | Washington. | { | lina avenue, $34,200; ' street south east, Twelfth street Fifteenth street, $35,200; Kansax avenue north west, Sherman Chicle 1o street. $24,000: Buchanan Child Undergoing Pasteur Course at Gallinger Hospital. Charles Beech, § years old, of 50 Sher. | treatment at Gallinger Hospital toda following the di: a strange dog several days rabies. The examination of the head of the dog. which positive svmptoms of hydrophobia, and the boy was placed in the hospital for 22.000; south and east side of man Uircle. Kansas avenue to tenden street and Illinols' avenue, Buchanan street to Sherman Circle, $12,000; Scott Circle. $25.000 Mres. L. W. Winkle: of San Jose, Calif., is considered the world's fast est soda pep hottler, turning out 30,000 bottles a da very vesterday that which * bit ago was a vietim of teract effects from the bite. T91./01./9\70\ .7 THE ONLY ‘TOPHAM '¢* G In the Leather Goods Business ST LUGGAGE ¥ 121 G ST Hampshire avenue fo Kansas avenue. | Canal road, is undergoing the Pasteur the boy | had heen killed, showed the 14-day Pasteur treatment to coun-| AND LEATHER GOODS NOW REDUCED 0% to 33% The Regular Prices— BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY such reports mittae in N if any idrawn atterr malint from nance mer the n t ¢ niam 0 in heads York lence has ca workers who care for des! the s of nim har vel ber of app ¥ Additienal Action Declared Due to Dif- ference With Titulesco Over Debt Negotiations. The Junior Branck Red (‘ross has opened and bread centers fc ed children wy are working in = sspension In some quarters @ from the mining fisld less peace s restoned The special gessior « at Harr has before o meas | prevent a tie force. The measur lation of the anthraciia 1 repeal of the State ar and miner's cert!f law The regulators measires woo coal mining & public utilithand permit compacts hetween ‘States for control of the retail trade.' They are supported by Gov. Pinchot CITY HEADS OPPOSE LARGER PARK BODY: WOULD ADD AUTHORITY (Continued from First Page.) ¥ ¢ imania, January zette 1nday alling Prince An Minister the BUCHAR 4. The Official ished a decree sine Bihesco United States Prince Bihesco now is in Rumania. was sald at the foreign office re ntly that he would go to Washing n sh to present his letrers of recall. pub called | It for ¥ 7 Rumanian newspapers have aserib- ed the recall of Prince Bibesco to dif ferences which arose between the Minister and Nichoias Titulesco, who headed the Rumanian Debt Mission to In Bucharestt diplo matic circles it was stated that M. | Titulesco had threatened to resign his post as Minister to London unless Prince Bibesco was transferred from Washington. COMMITTEE ACCEPTS TAX PUBLICITY BAN Provision of House Bill by Senate Finance Body Approves| Wide Margin. Zoning Commission and the director of traffic were also affected ‘It i manife ever brilliant h to prepare detatled without knowledge sctivitles of that cf edge cannot b which fon that may be no one, hows is competent. plans for a city of th nicipal wl- en. for i | { | | | | | The i ssion should ent wvailal the National Capit unts should be I'Enfant and E the T Capital under the | dents Washington ar “The miss members. ers wi arge fo Prop plar e and th By the Associated Press Discontinuance of publicity of come tax returns was agreed 1o by the Senate finance committes accepting this provision in the House tax bill. No record vote on the proposal was taken by the committee Chalrman Smoot announced ment was almost unanimor th action, but Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, reserved the right 1o pre- sent an amendment in the Senate pro posing continuance of the present jaw which allows publication of amounts of income. The North Carolina Senator also announced he would ask the Senate to set the definite date for a vole on the bill for early in February. This he sald. would answer critics who he lieved the presentation of a substitute program by the minority would delay final action. | Such a proposal. if accepted. would assure tax reduction by March 1 when first income Instaliments due National 1 ar ap fre work ssed ¢ ways naty by highwas is more delay in getth mission together than small one. and the there are the more s of controversy, wi rther delay.” req for T y [ | TWO HI-JACKERS HANGED. Vancouver Men Executed Killing Father and Son. in VANCOTUVER January 14 (@ Tacoma. Wash King raid Septen The execution wus near here also convieted | lug removal to Peniter begin Aluminum Used for Teeth. LENINGRAD, Junuary 14 #) Russians are beginning (o weur alumi num teeth. The Leningrad Academy of Dentistry has found that crowns and fillings of this material are not only more economical than efther gold or silver. but considerably stronger Charles in the he it serving n ed States 1923 30,000 foreig thelr ships A Surplus Sale of Suits and Overcoats —custom tailor made You see, when the peak of our season is passed. we gather all the short lengths of Suitings and Overcoatings together—and convert them into garments—of the size which the end makes up—in the style best suited to the pattern—and then put them out for your choosing—at prices that are really ridiculous when the actual values are considered. Worth $35, $40, $45 and $50 —and offered subject to prior sale at— $19.75—$2 4.75 Of course, such values couldn’t possibly aceur in us retailing—it's a producer’s problem that we are sclvi to your advantage. Bradford Chandler 502-3 Federal-American Bank Building 1317 F Street Take Elevator