Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1926, Page 2

DEALERS TOREPLY [NCOAL PRIGE WAR Are Ready to Back at Opeiraters in Hearing Re- newal Today. Tu correct “the irresponsible state- certain members of Con- Washinkton coal dealers an- a this morning ihat they would the ional fuel in- T this afternoon ove the claim of that whaiever a ments of g i Bo: ctor <ent have pre Up Operators. | show that due entirely to the mines, several de. hat they would act sum P wally submit their sick of trea h silk gloves They threw us pared to show will It this fd Show boo! declu it red which was, started by | District _committee and intl; by a House umed at 2:30 rcon in the room of | District commi The | mony be coffered from many | quarters, it is | ed, will force the tors to bro-den the scope of | sy to include submission of | s by the operators as well as etailers, this Miners Represented. | element of interest in con- i th this herring was uncov- | The United Mine | + had two high offl- | he prepared to the m nu | upon 1 s | 1 not f un lieu‘enants «n immediately after the to John L. Lew Anothe neetion w rd of | tives of | | Max Kauffmann of this city | since 1918 exclusively, at Airlie. GREAT QUAKE REGISTERED Prague Seismograph Records Catas- trophic Disturbance. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January | (#).—The selsmograph instruments | at the Geophysical Institute, at 1:57 | o'clock this morning, registered what rmed a ‘‘catastrophic earth- a great distance away. The sl ocks conunued for two and a halt hours. | 126 MRS, KAUFFMANN DS AT ARLE Wife of Managing Editor of! The Star Succumbs After Long Illness. by the | < Kennedy Kauffmann, Iudolph Kauffmann. vice ident and managing editor of The ening Star, died today after an filness of several months' duration at her residence, Airlle, on Military rond. in Rock Creek Park. | Alrs. Kauffmann, who had resided in hington for more than half a cen- v and who had a very wide circle of | friends and acquaintances in the Na-| tional Capital, was born in Jamestown, X. Y., the daughter of the late Charles and Alcey Keyes Kennedy. With her parents she moved to Washington in| 1871 In January, 1882, she was married to Rudolph Kauffmann, who survives her. She also leaves a son, Rudolph a daugh. Newton Murray of | and four grand- Lew N. ter, Mrs. Dunkirk, children, Mrs. Kauffmann was one of the earliest members of the Church of the Covenant, becoming a communi- cant soon after the time of its torma- tion, about 1¥87; maintained her awfli- ations with that congregation during the remainder of her life, and took a prominent part in all church activ- it She was a member of the Washington Ciub, the Arts Club, the Archeological Society of Washington and a number of charitable and bet- terment_organizations. Since 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Kauffmann have made their home largely, and Y. Funeral arrangements have not as vet been comp.eted. the Unied Mine Workers. here admitted that - hearing is broad- ems inevitable, it : the Uni‘ed Min= | o bring their| e fleld squarely | and force via & gen- ons in the | -gardless of | industrial limitations. | arge Issue Befogged. | hington retailers arej cover what they term de- | representatives of | operators and members to fog the real issue of the pres- | ng by quoting prices for high s coal and mistead- | into believing tl g to| prices of low atile | st widely used in 1se of lts compara- ske content. The price v volatile bituminous coal is ad- ed by the ope rs to be twice it of high volatile 1 In the meantime, Representative Treadway of Massachusetts. has an- wced that he would present to the tors today a proposal for the | ing of retail coal dealers in| ishington. Under his proposal, calers would be obliged to report | a bureau, to be -’xDDOlnledI . and show statis- | their buying m’icesi and their selling prices. If evidence, of profiteering were uncovered. the | »fending dealer would have his li- | cense revokec nd be unable to con- | tinue doing business in Washington. Reads Operators’ Figures, i Late vesterday ator Neely, { t Virginia, read veral m om operat s State, quoting and freight rat to Wash- z'on. One declared t “soft coal” is being delivered to Washington for 10 a ton The message said that 00 tons of high volatile coal in and nut sizes were shipped from field last week at net ton at the mine. The freigh r to Washington was leclared to he $£3.09 per gross ton. Another telegram was from Beck- Va.. and said in part as fol- Ch ng red 1hlic resent the al, co reg thro ties concerning | i to ish to point out that while led s of our coal are now sell- | at from $4 to §5 the ungraded run sizes, which represent the large part of duction, are selling it from $2 to $£250 net ton at the mines, and are perfectly good for do- mestic use, as evidenced by the fact that 87 per cent of all pur coal sent to “hicago for domestic use is mine run; other large cities, Cleveland, De- troit and Washington.” ing mine e COMMITTEE ENDS PROBE INTO ALUMINUM INQUIRY Report Prepared by Walsh Expect- d to Be Ready for Considera- tion by Monday. e judiciary committee yes- terday conctuded its Inquiry into the whether the Department of diligent in Investigating es that the Aluminum Company f Ameri 1 violated Federal court de The report will be by Senator Walsh of Mon- and may be ready for considera- tion by the committee Monday. Wheth he committee will make iny investigation of the company it- <elf, in which Secretarv Mellon is a stockholder, will depend on the ac- n of the Senate on the report, Sen- tor Walsh said. He declined to say whether he would recommend that course He did say, however, that he had been importuned to go into that phase of the situation, but had con- cluded that this could not be done under the provisions of the Senate resolution under which the commit. tes was proceding. e GETS MANY INVITATIONS. President, However, Plans to Stay in Washington, The President has recelved an un- usually e number of invitations om various sections of the country visit them this Winter, but he has 'n conpelled to decline all of these e be (hinks it s his duty to remain in Washington to give his attention to the Government's busi- Dess. He let it be known today that it he €hould find that it is convenlent for him to leave Washington any time soon, he would go to Plymouth, Vt., to visit his father Col. John C. Coolidge, who has been ill for the last few months. e Virginiu, although listed as a South- arn State, finds use for 260 snow plows in keeping clear its highway system of 4,500 miles. - 1% 'RAILRCAD EMPLOYES’ ! Richberg Testifies Before House COUNSEL BACKS BILL Committe in Favor of Labor Settlement Plan. By the Assocfated Press. Donald K. Richberg, general counsel | for organized rairoad employes, testi- fied before the House commerce com- | mittee in favor of the Watson-Parker | hi'l tn nrovide means of <ettling rai- road labor issues. He previously had tesiified be.ore the Senate committee havine urisdiction over the question. Exclusion of electric raflway sys- tems irom provisions of the measure was asked by Charles L. Henry of Indianapolis, counsel of the American Electric Rallway Association. GOLD PROVES ILLUSION. Thousands of Russians Flocking Back From Siberia. ! BLAGOVESTCHENSK. Eastern Si- berfa. January 26 (#).—Another Rus- sian “gold bubble” has burst. Twelve thousand disappointed, disillusioned, destitute Russians, who sough#riches in the much-advertised Tommoto gold fields in Siberia, streamed into Blago- | | vestchensk with tales of hardship and | suffering. They said that nothing but “marshes” were found where the “gold beds" were supposed to exist. They report that only a single small | area, called “the gold key,” represents any value. Today in Congress Senate. The Senate went on with the Wor ou't with the probabil- ity that voting on reservations would start today. The agriculture committee con- tinn~| arings on the Caraway cotton bill. Inquiry into local coal questions is to be resumed by the District cor mirren afternoon Senator Capper announced that the District committee would take up the two pending welfare bills at its weekly meeting tomorrow. The House today continues con- sideration of the Haugen bill to create a division of co-operative | marketing in the Department of | Agriculture. Following the co-operative mar- keting bill the House will take up ! the agricultural appropriation bill. Three subcommittees of the House District committee held hearings today. The subcommittee on elective franchise conducted a hearing on the Gasque bill. The subcommittee on the judiciary postponed for three weeks hear- ings on the bill to legalize boxing in the National Capital and heard testimony on the Zihlman and Un- derhill zills for a new juv:mle court act. The subcommittee on bathing pools, playgrounds and parks continued its hearings on the bill to enlarge the personnel and powers of the National Capital Park Commission. The civil service committee be- gan consideration of a series of bills to bring presidential postmas- ters within the requirements of the civil service law. Subcommittees of the appropria- tlons committee continued hearings on the independent offices, State and Justice and deficiencies appro- priation bills. Admiral Moffett was the princi- pal witness before the naval af- fairs committee in the hearing oa the Butler bill to replace the Shen- andoah Representatives of organizations of railway employes appeared at the hearing before the interstate commerce committee on the bill to abolish the kailroad Labor Board and set up a system for mediation and conciliation. Hearings continued before the committee on World War veter- ans' legislation. Secretary of War Davis and Gen. Patrick were witnesses before the military affairs cominittee. The hearing was continued be- fore the committee on mines and mining on the bill to establish a mine rescue station in Kentucky. Representatives of the State De- partment were witnesses before the immigration committee at the hearing on the Perlman bill. The wavs and means committes was in executive session on bills on the calender. The public lands committee held an executive session on bills on the calendar. { trary to schedule. ROKY NAKES T OFGANG EYPENSES | Will Make No Effort to Get| $5,C00 Asked to Pay for Trip Here. S. L. Rothafel (Roxy) und his “Gang" will make no further efforts to collect an expense account of $5,000 incurred inciderit to the organi- zation’s appearance here January and 10 for four concerts for the benefit of projected hospital for tuterculous children, the proceeds of which amounted to $4,000. In fact, he will make the Washing- ton committee in charge of the benec- fit mov of the trip, which, he says, amounted to $8,900, and which he will bear and say nothing mere about it. The radio entertainer today g this Information to The Star o long-distance telephone, after he had been told that the “Interested parties” here in Washington sull were Gead- locked and no nearer a solution for disbursing the $4,000 on deposit in the American Security and Trust Co. to local creditor whose bills amount to almost th m. e Awalts Agreement. Charles E. Howe, treasurer of the bank and treasurer of the ‘und, has refused to dlsburse one cent to any one until it has been clearly snown that an agreement satisfuctory to all has been reached. Roxy's decision to agreement, which he says was en- tered into with M John Allan Dougherty, shington chairman of the National Sanatorium for Tubercu- lous Children, In Albuquerque, N. Mex., and which called for a sum of $5.000 to be pald the “Gang,” was given on the spur of the moment. Previously, in his con- versation he declared he would not withdraw his claim to the fund nor the statement made in a letter to Edwin L. Wilson, Washington attor- ney, that he herty “personally responsi $5,000. brogate a verbal W le' for the Rather uive Money. “All_right,” he said, “T'll what I'll do. I'll withdraw my claim and let the matter go at that. 1 don't want my friends in Washington to think that this thing was run con- We gave up an en- gagement in Detroit to come down there, but, seeing how it turned out, I would rather have given the $8.900, which it cost me, outright to the children.” Both Mr. Howe and Mr. Wilson had declared prior to the Roxy dec! that It he would withdraw his ¢ the Washington creditors would satisfied. It is understood this e sion was arrived at following a con- ference yesterday evening at the frust company, which included Erig. Gen Llovd M. Brett, U A.. retired, na- tional president of the orgunization. but a non-participant in the local movement for funds; Mrs. May B. Moran of Pittshurgh, Pa., executive secretary. who came here from her city yesterday to help straichten out the muddle, and several officers and attorneys of the trust company. be JAIL 98,000 BOOTVLEGGERS. Russian Authorities Seize 35,000 Vocka Stills in Year. KHARKOV, Russla, January 26 () —Fines aggregating 000 were imposed upon 98,000 Russian boot- leggers in the Ukraine district dur ing the year just ended. More than 35.000 1illicit stills for making vodka were confiscated. Despite tha fact the government now allows the manu- facture and sale of 40 per cent vodka, the peasantry continue to make their own “home brew.,"” which costs about one-half the price of government- made vodka. Alcoholism has in- creased at an alarming rate and the government is taking drastic meas- ures to check ft. BALLOU CONTROLS 5 ON SCHOOL BOARD, PEYSER TESTIFIES (Continued from First Page.) gave notice that so far as he is con- cerned he wants all of the facts in the case to come to light. Mr. Gasque made the npening stote- ment, in which he expl: of Congress to give District residents an opportunity to voice their opinions on the measure. Lie salé 3 per cent of all organizations in the District had indorsed the bill and that as far as he knew the opposition was ‘‘exiremely scattered.” He sald that he had “hree children in the school system here, and that while he was satisfled with thelr scholastic progress, he thought it a crime the way the children “are cooped up without playgrounds,’ and said in his opinion this situation would be better relieved if an etective Board of Education was seated. Thinks Measure Valuable. “It is an irrefutable fact,” said Mr. Gasque, “that men and women who are elected by the people and are an- swerable to the people are going to be more on their toes and have more pep than members who are elected by District Supreme Court judges and do not have to answer to anybody for anything.” Mrs. Mary T. Norton, a member of the subcommittee, seemed Im- pressed when Mr. Gasque told of the evident overwhelming approval of his bill, and said “The voice of the people of the District certainly should be heard on the subject.” Representa- tive Frank L. Bowman and Repre- sentative Florian Lampert, the other two members of the subcommittee, were both present. OPPOSE GASQUE BILL. Georgetown Citizens Condemn Pro- posal to Elect School Board. After denunciation of the Gasque bill providing for popular election of school board members, last night, the Georgetown _ Citizens' Association, meeting in the Potomac Bank, unan- imously passed a resolution putting the association on record as vigorously op! to the bill. Some of the older members described the confusion that reigned at the time when the school board members were elected. The present method, they said, is far the most satisfactory than has ever been employed here. A motion requesting the Public Utilitles Commission to arrange for a stop on the Washington and Electric Rallway Co. express line on P atreet between Twenty-second and Wiscon- sin avenue was also passed. Alblon K. Parris, chairman of the committee on_public improvements, reported that Wisconsin avenue from its intersection with Thirty-fifth street to its intersection with P street is now being paved, and that the work soon will be completed. Fifty dollars was appropriated for the Old Ladles’ Homs. - . to be located at| would hold Mrs. Dousg- | tell you | ned that he | introduced the bill at the last session | | | | | | H | ment a “present” of the en-| | tire expense 1 i | | | | | airplanes. Below: Ruins of hangars where roofs collapsei in flames. LEWS SEES PEACE | INCOAL DSPUTE Optimism, However, Is Not Shared by Others—Confer- ences Open Today. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 26.—In another effort to settle the anthracite strike a conference of operators and | miners was called to meet at 3 o'clock | today. John L. Lewis, president of the | | United Mine Workers, at whose re- quest the call was issued, said last night that if the operators’ spokes- | men would waive their insistence on |arbitration of wages the strike would | lend 20 minutes after the meeting | opened. It is the third attempt by |the two groups to adjust their dif- | | ferences. “A mew pressure of public opinion, | exerted within the last 48 hours, I am | | certain,” said Mr. Lewis, “will have clarified the atmosphere for our ne- | gotiations, and 1 will be surprised if !a changed spirit does not prevail in the joint conference.” i Optimism Not General. Others did not share the optimism of the miners' leader. The operators made it plain before glving their assent to a resumption of negotiations that the peace plan of E. J. Lynett, Scranton publisher, was not acceptable to them. This plan, accepted in principle by the mine workers as a basis for negotia- ions, apparently was the only one ready for presentation to the Jjoint meeting. The operators' chief objections to the Lynett proposals, which provide for the immediate resumption of work at the old wage scale, are that the same wages continue in effect indefi- nitely unless the miners agree to change them. Pinchot Bills Moving. At Harrisburg measures backed by Gov. Pinchot to make coul a public utility and to permit State compacts for regulation of production and sales have been assigned hearings by a committee, which seemed to have pigeonholed them. A bill as to certificates for skilled miners would allow the necessary two years' experience to be obtained | janywhere. The present law requires | that applicants must have worked two years in the mines of Pennsyl- vania. FIVE TEAMS ENTERED IN THE PAS DOG DERBY | 3 Annual Race in Manitoba to Be Run Over Course of 120 Miles. By the Associated Press. THE PAS, Manitoba, January 26.— Only five of the best teams in the North Country were entered today for the official opening of the ninth an- nual The Pas Dog Derby. The derby this year is scheduled to be run 120 miles, and will last -three days. One-third of the distance s to be covered eich day, over a course on the Saskatchewan River. The entrants signed for the first Iap today are Billy. Grayson, Earl Brydges, Harry Olensky, Ross Mox- loy and Emil 8t. Goddard, all of The “Shorty” Russick, former decty THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1926. Great biaze sweeps through buildings at Army Air Field here. Above: Interior, showing remainds of burned FAIR, PAJAMA-CLAD DEFENDANT DENIES SHE DROVE WHILE DRUNK Startles Police in Race Through Streets, Then Garb Gives Court Shock—Toledo Man, Named as Father, Doesn’t Know Girl. tA lamp-post at Eleventh and S| the judge made any decision the | &C! |Streets yesterday afternoon ended what the police termed a wild ride following a drinking party, and as a result a pretty 19-year-old girl clad in pajamas and a bathing suit was taken to the House of Detention, with the charge of driving while intoxicated and no operator's permit lodged against her. Policemen Heide and Deyoe of Capt. Burlingame's flying squadron of the eleventh precinct arrived on the scene immediately after the crash and took the unfortunate miss to a sheltered place out of the raging snowstorm. The girl gave her name as Benita Kennison. and stated that she was the daughter of F. P. Kennison, a railroad man in Toledo, Ohio. She also stated that she was visiting her sis- ter, Miss Velma Kenhison, at 1465 Columbia road. ‘The sister and a man who gave his name as John Hoffman were riding n the machine with her, but were not held by the police. They got the car away, and later on came to the Wom- nn's Bureau, bringing more suitable clothes for the prisoner. But before the good samaritans ar- rived the girl was taken into Traffic Court clad as she was and Judge George H. Macdonald was given an unusual case to trv. News of the de- fendant spread quickly and before courtroom became crowded and or- | ders were given the baliff to let no more in. After deep reflection Judge Macdonald stated that he would not hear the case until today. So back the girl was taken to the House of Detension. In Police Court today the prisoner clad in Washington Winter clothes pleaded not guilty and demanded a | jury trial. Bond was fixed at $500 | and the case was set for Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The girl could not make bond immediately and was kept under the chaperonage of a policewoman. Through the Associated Press, Mr. Kennison of 2110 Glenwood avenue, Toledo, the address the girl gave, was notified, but denied having a daugh- ter in Washington. "I hav. 3 daughter,” he said. “'She years old and is with me." nison Is the vice president and trust officer of the Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Co. of Toledo. In Police Court today the defendant refused to make any further com- ment except that she was Miss Kenni- son and that her father lived at 2110 Glenwood avenue, Toledo. She did say that she did not want him notified. The girl's alleged sister, could not :)le traced at the address given the po- ice. MILLION STARVING INCHINESE STATE Threats of Bandits and War Parties Prevent Shipment of Food From Cities. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, China, January 26.—It is estimated that a million persons out of a population of 60,000,000 are starv- ing in the Province of Hupeh. In the Province of Honan a smaller propor- tion -of the populace is in distress. There are plentiful supplies of food- stuffs in Honan, but owing to the tie- up of the railway because of the mil- itary situation, they cannot be sent into the stricken districts. There is sufficient freight lying on the *sidings awaiting shipment to tax the full capacity of the railroad for six months, but the militar.sts who are in control of the line are demanding $600 for each car they release, not includ- ing the regular freight charges. Another factor contributing to the seriousness of the situation is the pro- hibition against the operation of pow- er boats on the rivers of the interior. Junks, fearing attacks from bandits, are traveling together. Sometimes there are from 40 to 50 of them in a flotilla. The opinion is expressed by relief workers here that foreign contribu- tions are useless as long as the of- ficials refuse to aid in the distribu- tion of supplies. —_———— winner, and regarded as a favorite this year, failed to enter at the last moment. It was announced that he would participate in the derbies at Quebec and at New Hampshire. In previous years The Pas race has |ice below the falls and the ice bridge | George H. been a 20¢-mile non-stop affalr, AMERICAN IS KILLED BY JAPANESE MOB Sailor Reported to Have Started Trouble by Striking Interpreter. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, January 26.—Dispatches to the Japanese newspapers from Hako- date report that an American seaman, John Burnham, was attacked by a Japanese mob on Sunday and died from his injuries. It is sald that Burnham, a stoker on the steamer West O'Rowa, which Is ‘undergoing repairs at Hakodate after having been disabled on her trip across the Pacific, quarreled with an interpreter, whom he struck. There- upon a mob attacked Gponiar e the American The American consulate here has not yet received a report on the kill- ing. It is understood the Hakodate police have arrested several persons who, it is alleged, took 1 t- *ho. part in the af AMERICAN FALLS BLOCKED Ice Jam Reduced Water to Few Small Streams. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., January KZG UP).—The American Falls “yester- day was almost a bare clif when great quantities of ice jammed at Port Day and shut off all water from been holding back the ice pack and the cold weather has solidified it, forming almost a solid dam in th upper river. There is also a great quantity of s oue of the largest in yoars. TWO ENVOYS SHIFTED. H. P. Dodge Goes to Denmark and J. D. Prince to Serbs. H. Percival Dodge of Massachusetts ‘was nominaed today to be Minister to Denmark and John Doneley Prince of New Jersey to be Minister to tha Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Mr. Dodge and Mr. Prince are to change posts. Frince is now Minister to Denmark and Dodge to Jugoslavia. — THREESTEANSHPS CRPPLED N STOR At Least 12 Liners Also Bat- tling in Atlantic With 6,000 Passengers. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 26.—Three steamships were in distress today as the result of & storm in the Atlantic Ocean. At least 12 liners, including the Leviathan and the Aquitania, were battling toward port with nearly 6,000 passengers aboard. Most of the liners have been de- layed from one to three days by the storm which already has taken a toll of three lives, and was responsible in part for the sinking of one ship. The ships in distress were the Brit- ish freighters Antinoe and Laristan and an unidentified vessel near the { Panama Canal. ! Two Sailors Lost. When the liner President Roosevelt launched a lifeboat to take off the crew of the Antinoe, two sailors of | the rescue crew were lost as the life boat was crushed against the Antinoe The Norweglan freighter Solvang sank off Delaware Breakwater Sun | day after a collision with the oil | tanker Vacuum and one man was drowned in the heavy seas when the crew of 20 was transferred to the tanker. The President Roosevelt first went [ to the aid of the Antinoe in Midat- lantic Sunday, but lost the crippled | steamer in a snowstorm. After yes. terday's rescue effort, the Antinoe drifted helplessly, with boats and | Wireless gone and waves flooding the holds. The President Roosevelt | stood by. | Had 20 Men Aboard. The Antinoe had about 20 men aboard. She left New York January 14 for Queenstown. When the Laristan sent out an SO: ast night she was north of the An with the German steamship iremen racing to her side. The Laris- an, which carries a crew of 22, left | Swaneca January 8 for New York | with a cargo of coal. | Her distress signals caused a ¢ lown of radio broadeasting in the for 3 hours and minutes. The { American programs of the interna- tional broadcasting tests were silenced |in the Fas: for almost 45 minutes. | Identity of the vessel in distress off | the Panama Canal was sought today She was first thought to be the Corvus { en route from Portland, Oreg., to New ! York, but it developed that the Corvus Is at San Francisco. Liners in Storm. Among the liners in the storm to- {day were the Caledonia, Columbus, { Dullio, Edison, France, Giuseppe Verdi. | Lithuania, Mentroval, Regina, Tran- sylvania and Zeeland. The Leviathan sent word that ail B It |E 1t 5 {aboard were well, but that she was! { making but § knots an_hour in tre- | mendous seas. Among her 1,122 pas- senzers are the Duchess of Norfolk, her daughter and Sophle Tucker, the tress. | Esme Howard, British Ambassador, | is aboard the Aquitania. : LIFEBOAT IS SIGHTED. '(‘nfl Belleved One Attached Sunken Freighter. NORFOLK, Va., January 26 (#).— The American steamer Stephen R. | Jones. en route from Boston to Nor- | folk. reported by radio yesterday that to with water about one mile northeast iof Winter Quarter Lightship. The |boat, the message said, apparently was attached to submerged wreckage. as the location is the scene of the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Solvang Sunday night by the Amer can tanker Vacuum. It is believed the boat is one of the crew of the for- mer ship had attempted to launch be- fore their craft went down. Although | cleared of the davits, the boat appear- ed to be held by the hoisting tack'e and is acting as a buoy over the wreck. The Solvang sank within 10 minutes after the collision. OFFER AMERICANS CZAR'S HUGE DINNER SERVICE Soviet to Sell 900-Piece Set of Finest Rock Crystal—Fraction of Value Is Bid. By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, Russia, January 26. —Americans who cannot afford to buy any of the Russian imperial crown jewels are to be glven an opportunity by the Soviet government to purchase the former czar’s sump uous 900-piece dinner service, made of the finest rock crystal. This superb dinner set was used only when royalty were the guests of the emperor and empress. | It cost $50.000, but now is offered at !a fraction of tha: sum. The smallest | wine glass in this set is valued at $15. | The only bidders for the service so far are the Hermitage Gallery of Fine Arts and the Soviet forelgn office, { whose offers are not stated. The serv- | ice is 8o enormous that it requires six capacious cupboards to accommo- date it. SPY SENTENCED TO DIE. Russian Charged With Betraying Revolutionary Orders. IRKUTSK, Russia, January 26 (#). | _Sergius_ Sinlaveky. a protessional | spy, charged by the state with caus- 'ing the death or betrayal of 135 revo- |lutionists, has been sentenced to \death. The prisoner, who served in the czarist secret police for many years, was held responsible for the be- trayal of the Yenisseisk Congress of Social Revolutionaries, certain Mos- cow revolutionary organizations, the ravolutionary Red Cross and his own lawyer. Bridgeport Bank Fails. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, January 26— The Dollar Savings Bank of Bridge- port was closed today by the Ohio State Banking Department. H. E. Scott, examiner, said frozen assets caused the department to order the total assets of $988,708, according to a statement published last Scheetz, postmaster, Prersdaqt of the baak. is Lady Isabel Howard, wife of Sir| | she had passed a lifeboat partly filled | week. | the swamp GOOLIDGE HANDLING TAXBILL PROBLEM May Have to Decide Fight to Get Measure Passed—Coal Policy Backed. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Anticipating the fight awaiting the tax reduction Jegislation when {1 finally goes to conference, President Coolldge 12 Republican lead in the House as his guests at Lreak fast this morning. The object of this informal con ference is understood also t hav been to enable the Executive to hav a clear understanding of the truc sentiment in the House regarding the anthracite coal strike and the atti tude of the members toward the var ous bills and recolutions that been introduced with the settling the strike. Othel ts understood to have bee i but the White House version of the real purpose of the breakfast c ence was that it was merely for purpose of an informal exchang vie Now that the Senate has acopted he cloture and all concern ahout the outcome of the World Court has been put asid t F | giving his 1 revision leg disturbed hy [ met in the Sena opposition the ! finally may be ps j Fears Tax Delay. The President has expressed [ tear that with this s Se land the battle av jconferces meet, the ten u the law to become effective by 15, when the first income tax instal ments of the y fall du Following notice of C of the House ways and r {tee and other influ | ‘hat body that the bill the Senate by man of the financ is unsati: ble, Mr. Cooli he House leaders “ght bitterly for total cut resemb House reduction, at $330,000,000 The reduction provided in the Smoc obiect o nfer presented to r Smoot, chair- ip is determi on unf nator Smo irman Green cor 1Smoot bill will ultimat annual loss to the $467,000,000 In reve more than Secret | Mellon has st lowed. Want Inheritance Tax. Besides describing as misleading, Chain others in the House are elimination of v prel y {drawn-out battle and lock President Coolids differenc If the confe coming to an main with the Pres | figures he consid | Coolidge is not overp eased with prospect. He does not fancy making a decision of this kind, but he mindful of the importance of gett this bill enacted in time It 1= understood Pres'dent Coolidge has learned cnough of the attitude of the leadershup of the House to re ! that that bodv has no intentio: | embarrassing him in the ter of | coal legislation. There are a number | of bills and resolutions dealing with | the question, but the Presdert | been given 1o under d that what ever legzis'atitn pasted will along the lines recomn in mes to Congr Those who were at the breaki conference today were Speaker worth, Repressntative Tiison, necticut, mjority leader, and Repr: | sentatives Madden of Illin “halr man of the appropriation mmittee Green of lowa. chairman of the and means committee: Parker ¢ York. chairman of the ir | foreign commerce committee Oregon; Magee, ew ton, Illinois: Tread { chusetts, and Hawley, Or | retarv Sanders was prese Immediatelv following this confer ence the Pres‘dent confer-ed witl Senators Watson and Robinson of In diana. They sald they saw the Prest dent regarding patronage. Smoot figu has is | Pennsylvania Denison, N CAPT. PECK AND LT. HESS TO RETAIN POLICE POSTS Board Unlikely to Approve Sur- geons’ Recommendations That Pair Be Retired. Retirement of Capt. Charles T. of the ninth precinct and Lieut liam P. Hess of the se h precinet. recommended by the board of poiic and fire surgeons, will not be approve by the retirement board, it w dieated today. Both officers w to be physically incapacitated duty. Capt. Peck and Lieut. Hess ap peared before the retirement board last week and objected to their retire ment. Testimony introduced by the officers showed they were able to pe: form their dut'es. it was said, ar the board Is understood to have de cided to disregard the verdict of the surgeons and advise the Commission ers that the men be retained for active duty. The retirement board, however, agreed to retire Detective Sergt Harry Evans of the central office, who voluntarily applied for rellef from active duty. DEATH CLAIMS FLYER IN MISS!ISSIPPI MORASS Pilot Tramps Through Marsh, but Fails to Save Life of His .Exhausted Helper. { By the Associated Pi | _NEW ORLEANS, January 2 ! Death and youth battled in the track tess marshes at the mouth of the | Mississippi River Sunday night and dcath won by claiming Charles naux, jr., 21, aviation helper, w froze to death in the marshes, He dled after his pilot, Henry Ransdell had lurched through the morass for more than an hour with the exhaust- ed youth on his back. The palr had been forced down by an empty gaso- line tank. " Lanaux and Ransdell were employ | ed by the New Orleans Air Line, en | gaged In carrying United States mail | from New Orleans fo Pilot Town and return. In spite of unfavorable weather con- ditions the two youths went for a test flight. exhausting their fuel and being forced down in the swamps after | nightfall. Ransdell finally reached a tele phone, although barely able to talk to the officials of the New Orleans Alr Line of the tragedy. He returned to with help to bring the body of Lanaux to New Orleans. The body was expected here tonight. Peck for s