Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Burean Forecast.) enerally fair tonight row, slightly colder : Highest, 42, : lowest, 38, at ‘ull report on page 9. tonight, temperature about 34 degrees. at 11 and tomor- lowest Teni- 0 p.n. 7:40 am. to- Cl No. 729,861, Phicred e neco MOVES T0 RELIEVE D.C. COALSITUATION BLOCKED IN SENATE Howell Resolution for Selling at Cost at U. S. Fuel Yards Temporarily Tabled. DEMAND -FOR COOLIDGE INTERVENTION SET ASIDE Joint Congressional Investigation) to Be Continued Today—Author- ity for Auditors May Be Asked. problem Washington corne Senate was Nebraska to States Ciovern- - Howell of ze the United t fuel yard consumers ter Senator ght to have e esolution requesting the Presi- to take steps to bring about im- fate resumpliton of anthracite minutes New York. )al preduction, and this afternoon o joint congressional committee in- stigating retail prices here will sit executive session to consider ask- uthority to employ auditors to e the books of Washington merchants Senator Howell's resolution bri ed immedlate coal v i 1 . fiy Washington consumers with thelr fuel at cost until the present anthra- and prices reach normal levels. It would renew such authorizi- rrival of similar fuel emergencies. Members of the Senate District committes pointed out to Senator Howell that an Investigation of prices is now under way. and re- quested him to lay the resolution on the table for a day at least. Senator FHowell acquiesced. Copeland Ts Blocked. <enator Copeland then sought unanimous consent to congider the Pesolution “requesting the President to take steps to bring about imme- diate resumption of production from *he anthraeite mines.” Senator Jones, a member of the joint congressional Investigating committee, objected, and, under the rules,the motion was lost. Nenator Copeland then moved that Calendar No. 45, which is a resolution containing much the same nroposition, be taken up. . ' Refore the question could be consid- ered, however, numerous other resolu- tlons were offered and Senator Cope:, strike ends ©ls neare: itomaticaily tion upon the land’s efforts to bring the coal con-| direet to the floor of the Sen- ate were temporarily blocked. = The joint congressional committee which has been investigating fuel vrices in Washington and which dis- vovered late Saturday that it could not_employ auditors to examine the books of retall merchants because its probe had never been authorized by a troversy Senate resolution will held its exec-| utive session at 2 o'clock this after- 100 to consider what further steps | be taken. It is belleved that the esult of this meeting will be a reso- tution in the Senate tomorrow request- ng a sufficient appropriation and au- Jrity to employ the Lecessary audit- Certain Washington coal dealers have indicated their willingness to submit to such an audit. Hold Probe Superfluous. shington retall dealers hoid that of the investigation by the joint congressional committee is superfluous. While a number have in- dicated their willingness to have their oks audited and two have definitely the committee that they would ome such a probe, it was pointed out today that Senator Capper ordered he investigation on the basis of @ tatement made by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania timt Washington dealers ore reing §1 a ton bout at the rtion b Leen fiscredited. it is estinony submitted hoth by ope: and retailers. Another thing Washington ants profess their inability to ather §s the fact that on the testi- mony of representatives of the oper- s themselves, it has been proved that the mine owners took advantage of the anthracite strike to add from £3 to $4 to the price of bituminous prepared coal at the mines. It was #lso shown that no additional expenses enter into this advance: it simply represents ‘“velvet,” according to uble testimony, which the oper- s are pocketng because there is greater demand for their prepared coal than ever before. Profit About $2 Per Ton. Ulie most extreme claim ever made as to the profits being taken by local walers is that they have profited ' the extent of about $2 a ton. Al though figures do not show this to e true, and although one dealer ad- mitted a profit of around $1.75 a ton without including anything for his salary, rent for his property or Wi continuance ) utors nsurance in the costs, retailers avgue | that if it was correct that their profit way 82 n ton, it AIF of the added pr tacked to their prices without iner in expenses. On this s, Washington retailers are at a , they ¥. to understand why nd not the bituminous opera- © being “investigated.” The attitude of the dealers, as ex- 3 C. Suter, managing the Retail C rd of Trade here cution has proved by that Senator Reed was entirely in er ror when he made his charge in the Senate. He quoted high volatile coal prives instead of low volatile coal vrices, it 13 said. Hence, assert the ashington merchants, the original s been disproved and the en- eeding from mnow on will hout a search for some on which to base a new any that the prose irge. It was pointed out today that every time mentlon is made of the tremen- dous strike-time profit bituminous op- erators are making, Senator Neely ex- vlains that if the profits of the oper- ators were taken on a yearly basis, it would show a loss. Some dealers hold that it is unfair to compute their prof- its on the basis of the period of the inthracite strike and compute the profits of the operators for a wholé year, particularly when the strike pe- (Continued op Page . Column 2) osing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 au- | wuthorization | for the Federal coal vards to supply | for coal | mines. | thoroughly | held, on the basis of | mer- | would be only one- | fit the operators | al Merchants' | its own figures | Iintered as second class matter shington, D, (. ‘BY KING, SCORING orris Joins in Senate Attack ch WASHINGTON, COOLIDGE TRUST STAND FLAYED BREAD COMBINE on Ward Firm Merger. President and Department of Justice Come in for Fire on Floor. tdent Coolidge und the investi | eating agen ¢ his administration wers attack Senate by | Senutor King, Democrat, Utah, tn con. ! nection with the n of a two biilion-dollar corporation by the Wuard interes to deal in bread and other foodstufr While the Feder sion lacks detailed Tade (‘omn information re rding the Ward 1"ood Products Cor- | ipumlhm recently organized in Mary {1and to deal in bread, it was indicated today that any inquiry into the sub- Ject would he covered in the broad | Investigation of the bread industry which has been in progress several | months, 1is was only one effort * the control in the end must destroy the 'stem of the United States. 1 do not expect the Department of | Justice to act,” he said. “They ure { | the slseping while these great (rusts are being formed. “The Iede impotent. I do not say that & Jority are protecting the predatory s, but a majority take a view to the spirit of the trade & They are derelict in | the discharge of thelr dutles. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¥ Iy SARGENT REFUSES 10 RULE ON POINT D, INALUMINUM ROW, to Withhold Evidence Held Beyond His Province. here are bills here proposing to! aholish the Federal Trade Comimssion | and some of us intend to press them, not that we do not think the commis on has been useful in the past, but that it oytlived its usefulness as | now directed. | | “The present wholly indifferent to the growth monopolies and trusts. Indeed, President of the United States in his speech recently in New York seemed to pronounce a benediction on these | great organtzations.” Senator Nor: braskin, sugzested th combine” might wheat in the all the breud. Is ot administration Republican. t the new “br Propose to buy all sell (Continued on Fage ¥, Column 6.) TRAINMEN'S RAISE _Railways Are Given Definite Time for Reply to $1 Increase Demand. | By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, February 1.—Eastern rallroads toduy received demands for increased pay for tralnmen and con- ductors and were given untll March 2 | to make thelr unswer. The Increases demanded amount to about $1 a day. | The demands were contained In | joint letters from the Brotherhood of | Railway Trainmen and the Order of Rallway Conductors. Each railroad recefved an individual letter and was | asked to make an individual reply to the demands. The communications were concern ed almost entirely with wage matters, with only minor changes fn working conditions being requested. Granting of the requested increases would restore the wage scales fixed by the Rallway Labor Board in 1920, the highest wage scales in the history of the rallreads. When it became known that tralnmen and conductors Were preparing to inake the demands spokesmen for the ralil- roads sald such restoration would in- icrease the total annual expenses of the companies by $500,000,000. | CONFERENCE FORECAST. Conductors’ Brotherhood Head Denies War Scale Is Asked. SAVANNAH, Ga., February 1 (#).— A joint conference between repre- sentatives of railway conductors and railway executives probably will be called to consider the request of con- ductors for a salary increase, in the opinion of L. E. Sheppard, national president of the Order of Railway Conductors. At present Mr. Sheppard, who was {a visitor here vesterday, stated the | highest pald conductors receive only |$7.50 a day. “We are not asking for a war-ttme | scale,” he sald. “We are asking only for what we consider a just increase in salarfes commensurate with the increase granted in other lines of en- deavor. “Raflroads generally are experi- encing the greatest prosperity of their history and the conductors wers instrumental to a great extent in bringing about this prosperity. We feel that it is only fair and just that we be pald better salaries.” Mr. Sheppard said the conductors were asking approximately a 12 per cent salary increase. AL SWEDISH PAPER SCORES COURT RESERVATIONS Says Tribunal Has Been Degraded by Being Made Subject to Desires of U. S. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily N | STOCKHOLM, February 1. | svenska Dagbladet today opens a bit- {ter attack upon the United States Senate for the reservations with Which it voted adherence to the World Court. The Senate’s actlon is charac- terized as a direct abandonment of right and justice. “The international tribunal,” says Dagbladet, “has been degraded into the position of being subjected to the arbitrary desires of one power in a manner seriously affecting its author- ity | [ Should these reservations be ac- cepted, the foundations of the tribunal will be seriously upset, not by any changes genuinely required, but in | Geference to a great power, which those concerned do not dare refuse certain privileges and priorities.” (Copsright, 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) Colored Man, Cold, | | Lendo Isley, colored, sometimes known &8 Charles Randolph, appears to have a clear title to the question- able distinction of being the coal strike’s latest victim. Lendo, who halls from the sunny South, came to Washington the other day totally unprepared for the chilly climate and after enduring the dis- agreeable weather for three davs, he ventured forth in search of some means of increasing his body tempera- luz‘tar ‘wandering around for a while he finally visited a coal yard owned by Hyman Epstein at 441 N street, and as there did not appear to be any particular obstacles in the w he Radio Programs—Page 30 BY MARCH 2 ASKED YOUTH HELD IN FIRE THAT IMIPERILED 75 Admits Starting One Blaze Alarms—Engine Kills Man. Harold Stewart Marsh, IS old, self-confessed firebug, who early yesterday morning set fire to the Vie- torla apartments, Fourteenth und Clifton streets, imperfling ubout persons, including his father, mothe three brothers and two sisters, who were usleep, was being held at the elghth precinct station today investigations were being conducted to determine the loss caused by this fire and a4 number of others he is said to have started. Police had placed no charge against {the youth late this afternoon, will be charged with arson before he ing. Capt. Robert E. eighth precinct sald. Police officiuls sald today that they would recom mend a mental examinatiol for | Marsh. While beginning to realize the-gerk. ousness of the trial focing him Marsh talked freely to detectives and newspapermen, admitting he had started at least one fire deliberately, but insisting that the Victoria blaze was an acecident. The blaze at the Vi | indirect cause of the death of Samuel W. Yearwood, 41, colored, a New Doyle a taxicab in which he was riding crashed with a fire engine bound for the fire on an emergency alarm and the cause of a dangerous injury to Fireman James Reed, 609 Rock Cre Church road, whose left leg was as it arrived at the blazing apartment. His condition was reported serfous at Emergency Hospital at noon toda; Quick Work Saves Residents. Deputy Fire Chief Andrew Sullivan, who hastened to the scene on the se ond alarm, said if a small blaze, which ‘was discovered on the first floor of the apartment house shortly after fire- men arrived had gotten a headway, many of the dwellers might have been trapped on upper floors. Quick work of the firemen first to the apartment and the flames were confined largely to the top floor. e Marshall Selb estimated today the damage would not run over $60,- 000, including both damage to the building, which is owned by Alonzo Bliss, and the contents. Less than an hour after the toria blaze was discovered an alarm came from the King Pin Bowling Al- leys on the third floor of the Thomp- Kins Building, at Fourteenth and Mon- roe streets. The fire there was b lieved to have been started by a lighted cigarette, carelessly thrown on a wooden floor, and caused a_damage estimated at $25,000. Ten of the a leys were destroyed. The alleys are owned by Myer Davis and are man aged by J .W. Wood. Says Match Caused Blaze. Marsh, who made a signed stat ment to Capt. Doyle of Lhe‘el}ghlh pr:- cinct, admitting responsibility for the apartment fire, said he had gone to & storeroom on the top floor of the bufld- ing and lighted safety matches to look for something because he could not find any electric light. A burning match dropped into a crack in the floor and he couldn’t put it out, he told police. Marsh then went to his room on the fifth floor, but was nervous and couldn’t sleep, he said. After a short while he dressed and went out to a nearby restaurant to see a friend. Not finding him, Marsh then returned to his apartment, woke his brother, an whispered: “Don’t you smell smoke He received no reply, but later aroused his mother, Mrs. Isabelle R. Marsh, and ran to pull the apartment fire (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Craves Comfort And Coal; Collects 270 Days in Jail proceeded to help himself. Congrat- ulating himself on his good fortune, Lendo slipped out the side gate and into the arms of Policeman B. A. Die,-who had been an interested on- locker. house Lendo was found to have help- ed himself to 15 cents worth of Mr. | Epsteln’s coal, and in addition he had a revolver in his pocket for which he could offer no satisfactory explana- tion. When arraigned in Police Court | before Judge Schuldt this morning it was brought out that Lendo had no home, stove or any other apparent means of using coal as coal should be used. So the court sentenced him to serve 30 days on this charge and an additional 240 days for carrying the revolver, the ! United States and | Think what a fine condition we will | and Sounding Scores o\‘I yeurs | while | | the propos: | Is brought to court tomorrow morn- | of the | Yorker, who was killed instantly when | crushed as he fell from Truck No. 14| arrive on the scene saved residents of | On arriving at the station | | i WALSH ASKS SENATE INQUIRY INTO COMPANY 'Declnres He Has Doubt as to Good Faith of Justice Depart- ment Probe Dropos Into the affairs of America, ir Mellon is interested Co. of fused to i {as to the right of the Pe Commisston to withhold |it= possession. | Basing his refusal on a policy which i he sald had obtained “for more t a century,” the Attorney ( vised the’ Sen: { could find no authority ing of formal opinions on {1aw at the req: £ either house | Congress, Mr. Sargent's letter | how at he | siving an ing views on the que Doubts Remedy Possible. He then sald it was his uno he refusal of th 1 to turn ¢ the e x- ny eviden, or the rende: ate ordere | satd, 1 1t alone ~ompel the commissio facts The while the judlc alr v has 1§ | Department's | Aluminum Corp {to a proposal by | Montana, that the poration's ject of a d into the Justice the whole ques the was defe { mittee until Thursd. i Doubts Good F: nate inquiry B, enator \Walsh doubts aroused vigor and good falth partment of Justice in the corduct of fi'{' inquiry to establish whether the fram prope says, mintm company has vi Federal court consent decree er against it in 191 Besides recommending be a third Government of the Mellon company ars, Senator Walsh nate direct the Federal Trade Com | mission to turn over to it all of the |evidence furnished by the Alumin concern and which the commission withheld from the Justice Department on the ground that it is “confidential.” Describing this action of the com { mission as “senseless,” Senator Walsh takes the position that since the {ate ordered the commission to make ered wh nve: t would ton within four that the |1t can evidence. i Criticizes Sargent. ! Attorney General Sargent and other {officials of the Justice Depurtment are sharply assailed by Senator : | for the manner in which the inqui I“ prosecuted after the Trade « mission had reported to the deps [menl in October, 1 fnum Co. had decree. Calling attention that evidence ad- lduced at the judiciary committes hearing on the subject showed that | months elapsed hefore any move was made, the Senator declares that had | the department moved with celerity it would have obtained the “confiden- | tlal" evidence subsequently withheld 11 n it | The rveport emphasizes that whlie |an agent of the department was find- {ing from a field of inquiry that the | aluminum fndustry was well satisfied | with existing conditions, an investiga | tion of the Trade Commission found compel production of the rt- . that the Alum violated the consent - {much complaint against the Alumt |num Co. of America, and obtained {evidence on which the commission | lssued & complaint last Summer. This | complaint is to be brought to trial on February 13. Strongly Criticizes Sargent. “It is suflicient to s § Walsh continues, “that no bus organization could tolerate such pro crastination on the part of its legal bureau as has characterized the ac. tion of the Department of Justice in the matter under inquiry, nor would it be regarded as exculpation on the part of the head of such bureau to say that he intrusted the work to subordinates fn whom he had confi- dence. “It s not expected that the Attor- ney General will be conversant with the detalls of all litigation before his department( and he may well be entirely ignorant of some matters having or calling for his attention, but it is not too much to expect thai he will at least be informed concern ing a charge by his predecessor and another branch of the Government in cffect, that a fellow member of the cabinet, at least a corporation of which he is the dominant factor has been gullty of contemptuous disre. gard of an injunction of a Federal court.” Senator Walsh read the report to the committee today, but action on it was deferred until Thursday. In pre- paring the report he acted as the sub- committee’s prosecutor in the investi- gation, ator PONZI TO SEEK AID. To Circulate Petitlon at Fair Ask- ing Clemency. TAMPA, Fla., February 1 (#).— Charles Ponzi has announced his in- tention of seeking aid in gaining clemency at the hands of the Massa- chusetts authoritles. The financial wizard of Boston, who is attemting to recoup in Florida real | estate, has announced that he will ‘have a booth at the South Florida Fair, which opens tomorrow, and that he will have & petition for visitors to sign. It will be addressed to the State of Massachusetts. Ponzl said he would appeal to all who helieve he has heen persecuted. MONDAY, FEBRUARY potnts of ! the investigation in the first {nstance | ness | 1, Trade commission is| Right of Trade Commission! 1926 —THIRTY IX PAGES. IF THAT STRIKE DONT,BREAK MAyRE (LLTop, Ti AT FREN ALTkTuIalE] E£COl A ) = ) ¢ Foening Star. The Star every city t tion is deli as fast as tl “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ ‘s carrier system covers block and the regular edi- vered to Washington homes re papers are printed. Sunday » (#) Means Associated RIFFS GET BUSH ANDTOBININDEAL |Zachary and Ballou Traded| to Browns for Veteran anqrol{tfielder. Washington ) of the Amer gue by the | sub- ! ient of this d to prove one of of the season. w St. Louis by the ient of Browns. It was gi en | | out that no cash was involved. The N ve been, angling | tor e SERTENY: H Bush tor -mary | | weeks, Active neg wions to obtain | | him were instituted at the annual| | meeting of the big leagues in New | York early in December, when Presi- | | dent th and Manager Harris of | { thy Nutionals hel ronfer- | ences with Pilot George Sisler of the | Browns. Sisler was reported to have demanded that another player on the | {local club be included in the trans faction and the refusal of the Wash {ington management to consider giv-! ing up any players, but finally in cluded in the dexl caused negotiation {to be dropped for a time. nuge Announcement Withheld. ! Following the New York meeting, | Hurris and Sisler got together n in Florida, where eich was managing a team in the Wniter league, and per fected arrangements for the trade, al- | though announcement of it with held pending the approval of Phil DeC. Bail, owner of the St. Louis club. Altough Washington headquarters expected the announcement to be ade today, no corroboration from sident Griffith had been received up to noon. Bush and Ballou are regarded as the I most valuable players nvolved in the sw Tobin has not held a regular Louis outfield for a hary's work he s o tiveness. 34 his_ effe Although for York Yankees and St. | since he broke into fast company with Connie Mack’s Athletics in Bush is regarded #s one of the best pitchers !1n hase ball and is expected to render | valuable assistance to the Nationals |in their effort to land a third straight pennant next season. In addition to his prowess as a slabman Rush is one of the best batting pitchers in the American League. and probably will | be called on frequently in a pinch- hitting role. Regret Ballou Loss. | Grifith and Harris undoubtedly re- | gret the necessity of giving up Ballou, as he conclusively demonstrated here | last season that he has great possi- | bilittes as & boxman, but in order to obtain Bush it was necessary to make | the concession. Of the quartet of players involved in the deal, Bush has been longest in major league base ball. Leslie Joseph, to give the big righthander his full y_the Louis Browns 1 | I 1 STILL BAFFLES POLICE Grilling of Husband and Wife Fails to Uncover New Clue. Couple Are Released. Alembers of the police murder aquad | today admitted they were avithout a | | tangible clue in the mysterlous murder of Mrs. Emma Kirk, who conducted an umbrella repalr shop at 819 R street, and whose hody was found there about noon, Saturday, January 23. Many contradictory statements have been made to the police concern- ing what had taken place about the repair shop before and after the woman was slain. Mrs. Beatrice May Kolik, 42 years 0ld, 1748 Eighth street, and her hus- band, Paul Kolik, 55 vears old, were closely questioned by the detectives Saturday night. They were questioned pecause Mrs. Kolik had told of hav- ing ed the Kirk home the night Mrs. Kirk is thought to have been slain and of having seen a colored man near there. It also was reported that she had seen a light in Mrs. Kirk’s home. The questioning fafled to elicit any information bearing on the investiga- tion of Mrs. Kirk's death. The couple were discharged. | Roosevelt, Weather Experts To Give Groundhog Tk e Cold Shoulder > groundh v rrow euther for the nest six weeks will fies the sam, w.J phreys, professor of o phys at the U Weather Bureau, fo shown that there or other par coming of Spring that tomol nd I tom says Dr. and 1t , it s possible be cloudy gin in hedgzehog s the £ his Wi his shadow in Germs: it in France is 1y immigrants to b however, found Lhe groundhog more coramon than ar thes. 80 this harmile 13 mygde the hutt of the J DEMOCRATS PLAN ACTIVE CAMPAGN Urged at Dinner by Lead- ers of Party. BY G. GOUL) LINCOL wggressive action by the Dem- ocrats was forecast today following a pow-wow of influential party leade at a dinner given last night by Sen- ator Walsh of Montana at | | i | | torney George D. | {Drive Before Next Elections I which | point. SEARCHING 0 DENIED AS EVIDENC to Examine Persons Not Under Arrest. cution’s outstanding witnesses. When Assistant United & tioned search of to Wash; " in solving the triple m t the Chinese tucation Miss house, which the Government tends was committed on the nigh: y Wilton J unsel, apt. B Wan, officer nd I don't see what r ¥ here by had to search him. He c invitation. 1 don't had to search s issisting ma him (Burlin; i the sta esti- begun Thursday and interrupt- ed when the court was forced to re- At the outset of his jurlingame ent made Thursday 5 Li. the Government's star witness, had furnished him with Wan's New York addr He de- clared he voluntarily approached Mr. Horning Saturday and requested he be permitted to borate on this Capt. Burlingame testitied that Dr. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the guest [ Dr. Li, who during his testimony of honor. The often repeated queries to whether the Democratic national com- mittee was to be reorganized, at least to the extent of having a new chair- m: togethe within a agitated again tod: the party last night insi been no talk whatever of displacing Clem Shaver of West Virginia as chairman of the national committee But the demand for greater activ on the part of the natlonal commit- tee with the approach of the con- gressional ampaign is growing stronger constantly, it was admitted. Whether Mr. Shaver will desire to retire as chairman under the eondi- tions remains to be seen. It was re- called that former Chafrman White of Ohio, who conducted the campaign for Gov. Cox when the latter was the presidential candidate in 1920, retired after the election and Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessea hecame chairman and served with much sat- isfaction to the demacrats until the fiasco at the Democratic national con- vention in New York in 1924, Mr. Shaver was the choice of John W. Davis for chairman after Mr. Davie had been nominated. Leaders at Dinner. At the dinner last night besides Mr. the party candidate for Vice President in 1920 and the floor manager for Gov. Al Smith at the convention in 1924, and Senator Walsh, were Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl, Representative Finnis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic leader of the House; Representative Willlam A. Oldfleld of Arkansa: chairman of the Democratic congre sional compangn committee, and Rep- resentative Cordell Hull of Tennessee. Senator Gerry of Rhode Island, chair- man of the senatorial campalign com- mittee, was unable to be present be- cause of other engagements. The conference at the dinner was devoted largely to ways and means of getting the Democratic cause most ef- fectively before the country, to means of greater co-operation between the Democrats of the Senate and House over legislative matters, and to greater co-operation between the three party campaign committees, the Democratic national committee the Senatorial campaign committee and the congres- sional campaign committee. No attempt was made, it was said, Qoldefln:3 or‘:lxl issues for the cam- paign. But s generally expected that the tariff will be a major issue in this campaign, with the Democrats attacking the high protective duties in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. Their effort will be to line yp the farmers of the West and Midd] (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 3 short time, Members of 1, and whether it would be called | dre were | death ed there had | 112th street, New York. eral da had declared he did not know Wan's address, had told him the defendant lived in New York. De- tective Idward J. Kelly had found some papers in the Mission House, them being an_ envelope ad- to Ben Sen Wu, for whose ‘an is charged, and return address of 313 bore Li thought that might be Wan's ad dress, the witness explained, and this sbstantiated lingume, and Li were about to b ork late at night, Jan- 31, on recelpt of 4 message from adquarters that the foregoing wa the correct address. Headquarters the witness added. received this in. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) s e S MITCHELL BECOMES PLAIN ‘MISTER’ TODAY Retirement as Major General Asked in House Resolution—First Attack Awaited. The Army career of William Mitch- ell ended foday. It was brought to conc! formal notification from the War De- partment that his resignation from the Army had heen accepted by di- rection of President Coolidge. The acceptance automatically can- celed the sentence of five years sus. pension from rank, command and duty in the Army imposed on the former air officer by the court-martial which held him gullty of insubordination, Mitchell had expected to reopen the fight on administration air polictes, which led to his trial, belleving that | his resignation would be effective {of midnight January 30, but delay on the War Department's part in no lugion by a change in his plans. His first attack as a civilian on aviation defense will be launched late today in the form of a statement for publication in the papers {omorrow. Representative Curry, Republican, California, introduced today a resolu tion to place Col. Mitchell on the re- tired list as a major general. “The decision to court-martial sald Mr. Curry, “dates from the time he informed Congress that it was possible to destroy battleships by the use of airplane bombs. Mitchell's service to the Army has been bril- liant. The Army, it wouid seem, found him a good enough soldier to send West him to the front every time we had trouble while he was in the Army. fying him of the acceptance caused a | Mitchell at the first epportunity,” | Saturday’s Circulation, 101,104 Circulation, TWO CENTS. S1T3AGTB1S ASKED FOR DISTRICT WORK - IN DEFICIENCY BILL |Estimates Provide for Ex- tending 16th St. and Mass. Ave. Signals. 1$462,000 IS SOUGHT FOR STREET-IMPROVING Measure Carries Total in Excess of $380,000.000—Tax Refund and Postal Pay Main Cause. 109,645 Press. 1 | | of $3 needs of the Go 3 h $1.724,678.33 is pay le frum the revenues of the Dist of Columbla luding the gasoli and water revenues, th propriation bill fo was reported 1t This total for tha District is $57,70 less than the Budget Bureau recon mendations. The principal it For the office are: the Director hich f= $2.680 I estim re Budget | nated 409; post paving h is $14,300 lesc ; for paving streets frox whici recors 000, which is $20 « Ludget recommer Tuzon 50. Public Schoo ol, equipmen d Junior High , no vear. $55,00 , Fifth and Buchanan strests hiwest, completion, no year, $27 building, Fifth nd Sheridar ts northwest, completion, no ¥ 04 Brightwood Park Scheo u. no vear, $30,000. Foli pnal cells, second ; harbor patro 26, $1,050. Police s relief fund, 1926 Department— Pou . 1926, $200; nee, 1925, nue trunk West nee, mainter rial Home =cho Gallinger 1926, $3.100. 1026, | sewe {roof and | workhouse, 606, Distric Judgments 1 total of $1,609.678.3 . exclusive of the W ! ter Departme There is also recon mended $125.000 for extension ¢ mains under the assessment systen parable from water revenues. Plan More Lights. The $41 in the bill as report for traffic bureau is to cover tl re-examination as required by law o approximately 200,000 motor vehicle operators’ permits, the purchase and placement of spotlights for traffic off cers at inadequately lighted interse: tions, parking signs, street markings. houlevard stop signs, danger signals |ana traffic lights on Sixteenth stree from F enue to Fark roa: and on Massachusetts avenue fro Twelfth street east to Seventh stree For street paving, repavin ne nd widening the sum of $7 is recommended. Work to be done 1 cludes the widering of Connecticut avenue from K_street to Lightee street and of Eleventh street fr Pennsylvania avenue to New Yorl avenue and the assessment of 40 per cent of the widening cost against the abutting property. These street items were deducted from the 1927 budge: and placed in this bill so as to divide up the street work and provide the funds at an earlier date than would e possible In the regular District a) propriation act in order to take i vantage of the full working season Road Provisions. The specific street and road improy ¢ ments and repairs included in the $135,700 item from the general fund are as follows: ¥or paving Ingraham street, Ses enth street to Eighth street, $5,500. For paving Center street, Meridi place to Ogden street, $4,700. For paving Decatur street, Kansas { avenue to Fifth street, $7,600, For paving Eighth st Decatin street to Emerson street, $5.500 For paving T street northeast, T4 coln road to Second street, $12,800 For paving Neal street northeast West Virginia avenue to Trinidad ave for the Dis | i | Oates street northeas Montello avenue to Trinidad avenue $10,200. For paving Trinidad avenus north east, Neal street, to Queen street, §14 000. For grading, including necessars culverts, drains and retaining walls the followlng: Albemarle street, Murdock Mill road to Wisconsin avenue, $6,500. Cathedral avenue, Conduit road 1. Weaver place, $13,600. | Garfield street, Tunlaw Forty-fourth street, $5,500. Twenty-ninth street. Woodley ro: { to Calvert street, $15,000. | _Dix street, Forty-fourth street | Forty-ninth street northeast, $4,400. Firth-Sterling avenue, Howard roa:! tevens road northeast, $8,100 Three Items Eliminated. Three items passed by the budge were eliminated by the House appro priations committee: Decatur street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth street $7.500; Albermarle street, Massachu- | setts avenue to Murdock Mill road. 182,800, and Evarts street northeast from Third to Fourth street, $4,000. | _Under the item of §462,000, from the { gasoline tux fund, the specified streets to be improved are: Northwest—Columbia __road. @< @ontinued on Page 5 road 1o