Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1926, Page 2

‘9 »¥ SOLDIERS SAW WAY FROM GUARDHOUSE Three Sing as Fourth Cuts Hole in Floor—One Cap- tured by Patrol. prisoners in the Humphreys last od spirits Thile three guardhouse at ¥ on a blanket.draped bunk sang, talked I gave evidence a fourth hole in the 10 escape One of the Adams sentence of six enlistment _and tured i between Va. He highway lgan sat rawise o sawed a Uling the quartet enzineer tloor, en m the post ped prisoners, Joseph ¥ st cap oad Alexandri Hye Liew patrol He the whereabouts of his compani Countryside Scoured Mulligan's patrol entive nee: was part Lieut of the of the northeri whereabouts of the are James R portation to Fe A two.vear enlistment Smith, col ceny, and with dese Ac the me house, discovere floor. They place draped bMankets or of their numt wi procured from some ot hix companions above « noise and the ciently large 1 ground entry passed the They post sente and red Fr for charged X vial post 1 the in aver and one hack-saw n source ut the suffi bunk h whed hy one When No. 1 gnardhouse and awvas at the far end of the the men made sful dash for free dom. 1t is helieved the was effected about 10:3 )k last night. Their absenc discovered a &hor* 1k smmed| down : guard was of the High t post o eng this section A “irginia end {dge this morning Yooking into ever that approach ed. Last nizht all e stopped and examines Patrols also were dis patched throughout the countryside Wore Fatigue Garb. three men wore khaki-colored 10 clothes of the overall jumper . mackinaws and service hats. The men pounds, brown hair ish face, dark ¢ feet 7 inches, 145 vears eyes and thin boy Smith po 24 years ol wn skin. indistinct splotches on face. small ar on left cheek brown eves, &mall head and very par ticular ahout his dress. Kriner, 5 feet 3 inches. 30 pounds, old, aquiline face (ong nose, com- plaxion. SENATE VOTES BILL TO BUY PLAZA LAND (Continued the fact that the dormitory buildings aré on portions of the plaza stil} the HBaltimore Ohio railroad, and that §7 is being paid as ground rental Bl he said, will enable ment to resume nes purchase of the land. which had to be discontinued about 10 vears ago The chairman of the committee ex plained that there is an unexpended balance in the Treasury of $1,700,000 from appropriations made decade Ago when' steps were hesun to ac quire the property The bill would futhorize reappropriation of that bal ance together with whatever addi- tional amount may found neces Rary. Senate Virginia, ment is determined make the approaches to the United States (Capitol more attractive, and that if it does not huy the land now it w for it & or 10 years from now He pointed out that no p huildings have been erected 1 time, and that if action is de long the private owners may thereby necessitating expensive demnation _proceedi to carry the park plan Senator Kendrick Wyoming in- quired if ‘the dormitories would con- tinue in operation the bill passed and Senator Fernald rveplied that it was his thousht that thev should con tinue as long as they are serviceable, but that the Government should take immediate steps to acquire the land for the Capitol grounds and save the large rental now heing paid SENATE APPF;OVES INAUGURAL DATE sallow from First Page.) most o owned by and 000 a vear Tt the Govern- iations for the Swanson declared Democrat. of the Govern eventually 1o nanent build con SET IN JANUARY| (Continned from First Page.) newly elected members to meet im- mediately after they are elected. Senator Fletcher, Democrat. Florida, did not oppose the resolution, but sug gested it should go further and change the terms of House members from two vears to four vears. Senator Norris gaid he was in favor of that but thought it would complicate the consti- tutional amendments to include it with thiz proposition. He told Senator Fletcher that his constitutional amend- ment would prove a big help to mem bers of the House by enabling them to take office two months after their election “Under the present svstem.” Sena tor Norris declared. “before a new member of the House is sworn in and begins to serve he is in the midst of a campaign for re-election, before he has had a chance to make a record or to show that he is carrving out the will of his people. This amendment to the Constitution will give him much more time of actual service after his election before he has to pre pare for re-election Senator Underwood, Democr bama, also was the problem could be solved by legislation of Congress without a constitutional amendment, but Senator Cummins. Republican, lowsa, said the judiciary committee had gone carefully into that suggestion and found it would not meet the situation. Senator Norris explained that the Constitution did not actually fix the time for the beginning of the session of Congress, but it did definitelv fix the length of terms of members of the Benate and House and of the Pre: dent and Vice President. When the first Congress decided to meet on the first Wednesday in March, which hap- pened to be March 4, it hud the effect of making that date the time for the beginning of the term by reason of the fact that the lengith of the term of members was defigitely fixed in the on, ors o voted again t, Ala on the stipped | ineers | tehed up and | pay two or three times as much | b 10 this | ed too | out | 10,000,000 Donor. T | night. ! { i Above: John . Rockefeller, jr. Below: King Fuad of Egypt. LANS PREPARED FOR STREET WORK Highway Engineers Ready to Push $325,000 Program When Funds Are Voted. Highway engineers of the District rying out a comprehensive program of street improvement work which will he started as soon as Congress | passes the supplemental appropriation | bill, making funds avallable. Bids | for the work, it was announced, will be opened March 10, and by that time | District officials believe the funds will have heen provided. The improvements. it is estimated. will cost $325.000. Of this amaount £150,000 will be used for new conerete pavements: $75,000 for new asphalt pavements, and $100.000.for resurf ing and renewal work. Sireets slated for low: Sixth street and from M to O street, Tenih street from, S to U street, H street from Fifteenth street to Vermont avenue, New York avenue from Seventeenth to Eighteenth street, Rhode Island avenue from Third street to 100 feet west of Florida avenue. S street from Sixth to Seventh street, New Hamp- shire avenue from Georgia avenue to 2andolph street, S street from Twelfth to Thirteenth street, Seventeenth street from New York avenue to Penn- svlvania avenue, Volta place from Wisconsin avenue to Thirty-Afth street. Calumbia road from Sixteenth to Eighteenth street Massachusetts avenue fre teenth to Sixteenth streets, avenue from Thomas Circle Circle and from R to T streets, T street from Ninth to Fourteenth streets. West Virginia avenue north- east from Florida avenue to Penn street. Kentugky avenue southeast from H street to Admiral Barney Cir- cle, Kentucky avenue southeast from fteenth street to South Carolina avenue, C street utheast from Twelfth to Fifteenth streets, Kansas avenue from Sherman Circle to Emer- son street. Ruchanan street from New | Hamphsire avenue to Kansas avenue, south and east side of Sherman Circle | from Kansas avenue to | street. Tlinols avenue from Ruchanan { street ta Sherman Circle and around Seott Circlo. The resurfacing of Wis. consin avenue from P street to Thirty fifth street also is provided. but this work will not_he undertaken until the Washington Railway and Electrie Co. completes the relaving of its car tracks in this section. reets to bhe paved fallow: Northwest—Ingraham street from Seventh to Eighth streets. Center street from Meridian place fo Ogden street, Decatur street from Kansas avenue to Fifth street. Eighth street from Decatur to Emerson streets Northeast—T street from Lincoln road to Second street, Neal street from West Virginia avenue to Trini- dad avenue, Oates street from Mon- tello_avenne to Trinidad avenue, and Trinidad avenue from Neal to Queen streets The following streets will be graded and culverts, drains and retalning walls fnstalled: Albemarle street from Murdock Mill road to Wisconsin ave- nue, Cathedral avenue from Conduit road to Weaver place, Garfield street from Tunlaw road to Forty-fourth street, Twenty-ninth street from |Wondley road to Calvert street, Dix street northeast from Forty-fourth to Forty-ninth streets, and Firth- erling avenue southeast from How- rd road to Stevens road. resurfacing- fol from P 1o Q street m Four- Vermont ! to Towa and regraded Skiing in 1860. Skiing as sport began in Norway about 1860 in the district of Telemark and vapidly spread over all the Scan- dinavian Peninsula he sport ‘hua in latter vears been Introduced into other countries where the Winter 18 severe, and has become very popular n Swiizerland, Canada and the United States. Government made plans today for ear- | Crittenden | | | DL | | maintenance in Calro of a great mu | senm and archeological Institute. | versity | i | have been | places elthes JOHN D., IR, OFFERS $10.000 000 MUSEUM Rockefeller Proffer to Egypt Would Aid Archeological Research. By the Associated Press. . NEW YORK. Februaiy 5. ~dohn Rockefeller, Jr.. hag offéred King Fuad and the Egyptian-nation the sum of $10,000,000 for the erection and Thix fact has hecome Kknown through announcement in Calro by Prof. James 1. Breasied of the Uni- of Chicago, whi will be chair- man of the trustees of the new mu seum it King Fuad accepts certain conditions for the gift. which Mr. Rockefeller desires to impose. In New York an agent Rockefeller characterized nouncement as premature. of the Mr an- Desires Amerlean Directorate. Extreme Egyptian natfonalists wish that control be vested In the Egyptian government. Mr. Rockefeller, it is erted. desires an American di torate. Negotiations have heen In progress Rince last Fa)l. The museum would house marvelons treasures which found in Egypt. Including those taken from the tomb of Tut Ankh-Amen at Luxor and other re Mr. Rockefeller has never heen in Fgyvpt. but In recent vears he has been intensely interested in the ex cavations in that “eountry He fol lowed with avidity the excavation of the témb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and recognized, because of the public in terest on the subject. a new educa tional value in archealogy. During the last five or six vears he has made rge gifts w archeological re. search in Greece. Ezypt. Palestine and other places on the Mediterranean Mr. Rockefeller's wife I an en thusiast on Egyptian art ohjects Some of her Egyptian bronzes were recently used by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Kere in demonstrating a new process-for restoring corroded bronzes. Would Widen Human Knowledge. Formerly Mr. Rockefelier's theors of giving from the world's greatest fortune was that of producing the greatest direct benefit to mankind He has now added 1o this I_hfl-n\ the aim of widening the boundary of hu man knowledge. 1t was on this prin ciple that he made his recent gift of $20.000 to finance a flizht to the North Pole. This was his first gift to aviation or polar research It is the opinion of archeologists | that, notwithstanding mukeéums are filled with Egyptian art. enly a small portion of that country’'s story has been told, and that the Rockefeller gift will go a long wayv toward bring: ing 1o light further marvelous things remaining in the veritable treasire | house, and also facts about the hu man race from about the year 15400 B. C. to the time of Homer and Herod ofus. One of the great incentives to archeological research ix for proofs establishing the Teal eradle of elviliz tion. whether along the the Fuphrates. | i | | | | Financing Other Work. had active part Luspr and previous Iy successfully explored Egvptian tombs. Recently he b‘:&m ~the i ploration of the aquare WHE consti ing Armageddon. It is reporfed t Mr. Rockefeller ix financing this work In Cairo Prof. Breasted sald the of. fering of the great sum to King Fuad by Mr. Rockefeller was hecause Mr Rockefeller had heen moved by the fact that the whole world. “especially the New World of the West Egypt a cultural debt the magnitude of ‘which has been increasingly re vealed by the extraordinary archeolog ical and scientific investigations of re- | cent vears.” ! He added that in offering to estah. | lish a research institute.in conjune- | tion with the new and imposing mu seum. Mr. Rockefeller falt that facili- ties would be afforded not only fo| scholars throughout the world to ob. tain fuller knowledge of the histor of civilization. but 1o all young Egyp- tlana desiring to receive the bhest scien- tific training as historians of their own extraordinary land. 15 FIGHT REMOVAL T0 TAMPA FOR TRIAL Decision Is Deferred on Plea of Counsel for Accused in Liquor Conspiracy Case. Prof in excavations Breasted t T owes Warrants of removal to Tampa, | Fla. of the 15 Washingtonians charged with a conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act were asked of Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Supreme Court today by | Assistant United States Attorneys O'Leary and Burkinshaw. The court deferred action untll Thursday after- noon at the request of counsel for the accused. who wishes 1o inake a tender of proof to combat the prob- able cause rajsed by the indictment. | This offer by counsel Is regarded as| the forerunmer of an application for writs of habeas corpus in the hope of getting the legal questions in- volved to the United States Supreme District Court of Appeals re. cently decided that the District Su- preme Court conld not pass on the question of the validity of the indict- ment and declared there remains nothing hut the issuance of the war- rants of removal. Included among the accused are Joshua L. Sprinkle, retired leutenant of police: 3 former deputy United States marshals and 11 others. English Hen Set Age Record. What is believed to be a record in hen longevity is reported by a reader t Pebmash, Kssex, where a crossbred silver-spangled Hamburg hen has just died at the age of 191 yeurs, suys the London Mail ‘The hen luld well all her life and b ed out her last brood s month before she died. Two<hickens hatehed when she was 1815 venrs old are large, heavy birds and magnificent lavers. By John Mc By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, February 15.—Bernard H. Sandler, attorney for Marjorie Rambeau, actress, who was mentioned in the divorce suit of Mrs. Kevitt Manton, which comes up for-trial to- day. revealed that John MgCormack. the tenor, saved Miss Rambeau from committing suicide in Paris last year. lhe actress, Mr. Sandler sajd, dis tened by malicious gossip . that nked her name with that of Man- o EpBdnerat with hen he-arrived with Dan hy: ik Mfirjorie Rambeau Saved From Suicide Cormack, Attorney Reveals Stveeney, his manager, ‘he_found the actress unconscious.” McCormack gave her first ald. while McSweeney went for a doctor The attorney #aid he will call A. E. Anson, the actor to whom Miss Ram- beau is engaged, to the witness stand to refute the charge that she wus friendly with Manton. Mrs. Manton's accusation was “'preposterou lawyer maid. Miss Rambeau has been twice mar- FRisk - University | bar {FALL INDICTMENT | muet bound to read the indictment Scene where boiler blew up early today, » when safety valve failed to w (o patrons narrowly eseaping. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1926. K, two employes being injured and seversl COBB NAMED UNICIPAL JUDGE President Coolidge Nomi- nates Howard Professor to Succeed Robert H. Terrell. JA Cobh, A enlored lawyver of he District of Columbia, today appointed judge of the C of the District o succeed Iate Judge Rohert H. Terrell nomination of Cobh was sent to the Senate by the Prestdent It will be referred to the Senate judiciary com mittea-and a favorable report ex ed from that committes siderable pressure b r for the appointment of a Mu niclpai Court judge from outside the District. but it has bheen President Coolidge’s contention that the law re. quired the selection of a resident of the District (obb has been a professor at -How- ard University since 1915 and is at present vice dean of the legal depart- | ment at the university. . From 1907 | 1o 1915 he was a special assistant as. signed to the Attorney General's office in charge of pure food and naturali zation cases. He resides at 942 S atreet He was born at wary 20, 1876 Straight University James A wak Mu the The sught Arcadia. La., Jan and educated at in Louisiana and | hefore coming -io | Washington to be admitted to the | in 1901. He belongs to the Ma sonic order and a number of Greek letter fraternities, For many vears | he has conducted a general law Lusi ness at 609 F street IN OIL LEASE CASE IS DECLARED VALID First (Continued from Page.) null_and void. Therefore, they may. ! the United States conld not have been defrauded, even if the corrupt agree- ment had heen carrled out and con- | sequently the corrupt agreement was | not a conspiracy to defraud the United States. Sees Conspiracy Grounds, “To this the Government answers{ that although an award by Fall would not have been hinding upon the United States it would have been such an interference with gevern- mental functions and operations as necessarily would have embarrassed the United States, and that ‘such an interference when' its performance is accompanied and accomplished by trickery, deceit and bribery s a fraud npon the United States, and that, | therefore, a conspiracy to do such things is conspiracy to defraud the U'nited States. Nammerschmidt ve. UL 265 U, 182, The defendant’s reply. that the trickery and deceit in such casex must be trickery and deceit practiced upon the representative of the Gov- ernment who is charged with the legal | duty involved; that siuch representa- | tive in this instance was the Secre.| tary of the Navy and that the in- dictment fails to charge that any trickery or deceit was to be practiced upon him. “It jn true that no such charge is to be found in the indictment, but it is true to say that trickery and deceit cannot have the effect of char acterizing and making criminal an interference with governmental func- tions and operations unless the trick- ery and deceit are practiced upon the custodian of the legal power? In this very case, suppose that Fall and Doheny had only agreed that Fall should act in the matter of the con- tracts and leases both honestly be- lMeving that the executive order give him authority to do so, and that he should proceed honestly and regularly in all respects, treating Doheny’s com- panies like all other applicants, “Would such an agreement be the sume in legal effect as the agreement set out in this indictment? Do mot | the corrupt means to be used and the corrupt manner to be followed make | it a conspiracy to defraud the United Stafes, whereas the honest agreement first supposed might not, although | that wlse niight be an unwurranted sud unjuitifiable interference with the functions und operations of the Government? Holds Indictment Valid. “Phis court-feels constraihed to hold that such s consplvacy as this indiet- | ment chargés f& a conspiracy to- de- fraud (he United States, regardless of the fact that Fall had no legal au- thority to do what he conspired to do. “In this view of the indictment much | that it is stated by.the way of lezal | inference and conclusion may and be disregarded. The court is| in the light of the law as the court under. stands it and then see if the facts alleged and admitted by the demurrer do or do not constitute the crime. Another objection is that the in- dictment does not contain a direct averment that the naval reserves in- cluded any such lands as were by law subject to lease or contract. But this is nverred indivectly in various places and the court i inclined to hold that such averments are lume(el;‘tk :‘n o= pect, to ghe -property to. wi e gnmlm‘!. refated.; The gemurrer will e overruled.’ k24 5ot i | ety | Broker, Said to |tha G | amount. of which. he explained. | Apartments fire January 31. | Alb CORBY FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Body of D. C. Business Man. Who Died at Miami Beach, Is En Route to City. services for Charles died while watching Miami Beach, Fla.. S urday. will he conducted at his home on the farm near Rockville Md.. Wednesday afierncon, the to be announced late W Abernethy, pastor of Baptist Church, of which Mr was member. and ltev. .J. Stanley Durkee president of Howard [niversity will oficlate. The ins will be placed in a vauit in Creek cemetery The hody is e from Florida Mr Corby Funeral Corby, who polo game at time Corby a now route Corby president of the Baking ( til its merger last with the Continental Baking in % He was born in Binghampton ¥ 1871 Mr. Corby came ty in 1881 to join his L W Corby inder of the Bakery. and the two formed partnership, soon after. with quarters at 320 Twelfth street DRURY IS INDICTED ON THEFT CHARGE vea tere N this Corby head Be in Lon- don. to Be Sought in Trust Case Here. D. H. Roland Drury, real estate broker, said 1o be now in London, Eng land, was Indictéd today by the grand jury on a charge of larceny after trus involving, $3,500. Drury left Washing 0. nd Aquitania January United States Attorney Gordon Assistant Unfited States Attorney Con- nolly will ask the ¢ take siep® to mecure the return of the accused fo-answer the indictment. Twao counts are contained in the in | dictment. one charging the misappro- | priation ‘of $2.500 intrusted to him by Thomax-R. Harney and the other with using $1.000 intrusted to him by Mar. Harney to he invested in real estate notes. The investigation into the charge by Assistant United States Attorney Con nolly disclosed that Drury was ap proached early in October. 1925, by Philip Stearns. another broker. who had an application for a loan of for a client. Drury accepted the dation, it is sald, and made out the deed of trust-and the notex. and. after their execution by the client of Stearns, turnad the notes over to Har nev, who gave his check for the full helonged to his wife, Deed Alleged Unree led. it fs stated. kept putting off Ktearns from time to time until late in December Stearns see red the loan from another broker. whose deed of trust was placed on record. The trust |given to Drury was never recorded, for Q it is stated. The indictment alleges that Drury appropriated the money received from | authorized to bring condemnation pro- | Harney to his own use, leaving Harney | ceedings to extend Quackenbos street with the unsecured promissory notes of the applieant for the loan. The grand jurors refused to indlct n five caseX of trafc accidents. among them Robert A. Seay, colored. whose car was in collision with a fire truck yesponding to the Victoria The col- liston occurred at Third street and Florida avenue, and resulted in death of Samuel Yearwood, a phssen- ger In Seayv’s machine. Other homi cide cases ignored were Albert €. Bur- gess. jr.. who killed Samuel Fleming by coiliding with him. January 31, at New Hampshire avenue and Randolph street; Robert H. Riddick. colored, who jcaused the death. February 3. of An- nie Munford. at Nineteenth street and Florida avenue; WHilam Foster, col- ored, who ran hix machine against a cable drum at Connecticut avenue and marle street, February 2, causing the cable to strike und kill Otto B: Buzzard. foreman of a gung of “repair- men, and Lioyd Russell Jones, volored: whose automobile. February 4, killed Annie Hawkins, at and Penngylvania avenue southeast. Other Cases Ignored. = The grand jurors also Ignored a charge of gambling against Ear] Hei of joy-riding. against Willlam Brown: of farceny after trust against George L. Craddock; of embezzlement’ against Powhatan T. Stephens; of grand lar- ceny against Charles E. Burns: of car- nal knowledge against Raymond Brown and of forgery against James W. Queen. Those indicted and the ‘charges against them include: George Wi liams, allas R. H. Smith, Bernard H. Southall and Mary L. Lewis, grand larceny; Hoyt Scott. embezzlement; James Ferguson, Jones B. Ferguson and Willlam F. Grady, Jjoy-riding; Charles E. Smith, Francis W. Dabney, Joseph Green and KErnest Payne, housebreaking and larceny; Henry Hardy, assault with dangerous weap- on; Danfel J. Shanklin ggnd Thoman Hall, robbery; Barl Sch Duffey, nonsupport; Se: nitampted © tine ate Department to | | “There is a practically universal de | mand that Fourteenth street be opened 1,000 | the | Eleventh street |- | COUNCIL OPPOSES GOAL REGULATION | Advisory Body Favors Pro- | posed Extension of*14th and Quackenbos' Streets. Favorsble report from ‘the Citizens Advisory Couneil on the hill’ for extension of Quackenhos street ommendasions of amendment bill authorizing the extension of Fourteenth street through the Walte Reed Hoxpital grounds. proval of the bill of conl in the Distriet swere received « by Chalrman Zihlmun of House District commitiee, These were all chalrman rec [ sizned by Jesse (. Suter, of council In s conl denlers Mr. | disapproval w { mous adoprion | Fepore: made -by Conncilman Charle A. Baker, to whom the bill had beer reterrgd for study This ireport sald poses a return (o swar-time method during peace and involves a | of paternialism which in the mind o vour committee & out of harmony {with American principles | obvious intent of the hill i tect the public against » the bLill for Suter wrote th through the by the counefl unani “This bill pro- to pro. | prices through municipal supervision | ATt ARE profire charged hy the loeal Lt conl ders. who all to h lic For Fourteenth Strest Rxtenasion. In its ‘report on the Fourteentt | street extension measure. the counci! recommends that this bl be amend | ed by the elimination of the prov sion that any part of control of Four 1 | teenth street he retained by the War Department. construction work or posed development be allowed to inter fere with the extension of Fourteent street and that If any such | templated. such plans be altered suit_another location is con 1 through to the hospital grounds.” th report Avs, “in order to open up fo better development and quate transportation facilities for th area in the District and in Marviand north of the hospita through to Silver Spring and heyond “Fourteenth street ax planned wil | be at some distance from the hospita wards occupied by the inmates of th hospital and near the medical centes sccupled principally by medical office and students. No the proposed line of Fourteenth street which lies in the natural valley. tend ing still further to reduce noise from traffic.” the in the and disap- to regulate dealers the the regulating the of & degree The'| extortion ve | It alko recommended that no future { ton last month and ix reported to have | hospital | sailed on the pro- h provide ade- nearby bufldings are on | expected to follow within a |BOILER EXPLOSION {DIVES OF THUANA - HURTS 2 IN STORE Building in Alexandria Dam- aged $6,000 When Safety Valve Fails. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. AEXANDRIA, Va. February 15 Two men were injured and about $6,000 property damage done when a boller exploded in a back room of the Old Dutch Market here at 8:55 o'clock this morning, shattering windows and a portion of the builaing. J. E. Boothe of Brightwood, D. ( # meat cutter, wus taken to Alex andria Hospftal, suffering from seri ous scalds. Hunter Proctor, another employe of the store. was slightly injured Willlam Herring, a solicitor of the Alexandris Gazette, and several pa trons narrowly escaped injury. Safety Valve Defect Blai Fallure of a safety valve to when the steam pressure ran was blamed for the accldent The building. located at 100203 King Atreet, was one of the oldest in the ~ommercial digtrict of Alexandria, hav Ing been occupied by many provision stores and markets before it was taken over as a branch of the Dutch Market Co. of Washington, D. No damage 10 -adfacent property was cuused despite (he intensity the blast and fying of fragments Havoe to Bullding. Windows were broken throughou the rear portion of the building and the tloor, cefling und reof uf the two- | slory structure were driven over large area, large holes appearing when the steam abated. | Police sav that death would have resulted for any one nearer the boiler | than Boothe, who was at least feat away nd protected hy a partitior Boothe's reiatives were notified 1 his condition late today was reported as critical. FORM FOR INCOMES UP 70 5000 00T Blanks Released as Senate and House Agree on Section of Revenue Bill. d waork high { > 1 Washingtontans will | benefit of new Federal | within a few davs Although the revenue the hands of Senate and He ferees ar the the RBureau Internal Revenue has ardered collect ors of Internal revenue throughout the country to release to xpayers, the llanks for the largest group numeri- | ly—with incomes of $5,000 and under. | Attached to these old blanks, similar | to that wused last year, will he vellow slips of paper on which will be printed the revisions effected in the income 1axes of thir class of taxpavers hy the revenue bill now in the hands of the conferees. Taxes and returns will due on or before March 15 At the local tax office, 1422 Penngyv vania avenue, Deputy Collector Powell estimated that the blanks are expected tomorrow morning, for this group. apprec tax reductic LAl Qs still 1se con- | | : = 2y | b | 1| [ No Change Expected. The Bureau of Internal Revenue is| releasing these first blanks now, it was explained. as the same tax re ductions provided for this grou taxpayers have been agreed to hy hoth | House and Senate, and no further | changes are Iikely in that section. | The blanks for persons reporiing | incomes of $5.000 or less will be mailed o|out to all taxpavers in Washington as soon as possible from the office Collector Tate in Baltimore. This task will probably aceupy 4 few days e | it was estimated, hut the hlanks will r | prohably be avaflable at the office at 1 Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow according to expectations. The blanks now released are known as No. 1040A. Instructions with re gard to relesing other larger forms 1} including 1040, which are used for 1| reporting net income of more t e | $5.000 or net income, 1 rdless | amount, if derived from a professi or business. including farming, are short time | Changes Noted. n | The principal changes }lh? tax for persons reporting effected 5,000 In regard to the proposed extension | or less are in the normal rate. whicr of Quackenbos street. the counci ing the most economical and feasibl and in the best interest of the peapl in this general locality as well as of the entire District of Columbia The principal features of the bi as approved by the council are: F | that the owners of land from Birth street nearly to street shall dedicate the right of wa enbos street: second, afte edication by office, the Commissioners ar | such veyor | trom Blafr road. its present termin east to Sligo Mill road, in accordane with the upproved highway plsn. Th Commissioners are further direcrec o have plans and estimates made fo a conduit under the tracts of th Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ai 1h point of intersection: the Commi: sioners may suspend the use of thi nad east of Blair road until the < ad ossing shall the street can he water, gas and alectric- Hght mains. Ry ‘consulting the plat bhooks, % council found that Quackenbos street nue intersect at such a point that th: facilitate traffic under the tracks an on both sidex of the, rialroad. 1$452,373,959 FUND FOR INDEPENDENT st Page.) $22560, and the Shipping $14.198.000, decrease. $10,000,000, ‘The commitiee reported that las year employes of the Flest Corpora tion had been reduces (hAl! sly:x’:e June 13; 1 1 of tl year,. sold fér-a "total ‘ol 1," to Januar! 48 5 2,000. the alien property Yot a year ago that legislation be en of this property, s that the office o the custodian could be abandoned. Vocational rehabilitation work which will cease next June 30, the committee pofnted out, represents a to total expenditure of $628,717,000 date, with an estimated expenditure o! $1,000,000 more. that” to date appropriations for al. \ War ,000. ecommends passage of the hill as be. extending | vear 1925 was p Eixhth | visions of i e revenue filing in the sur. have heen abolished utilized for sewer North Capitol street and Kansas ave one conduit under the rallroad can he made to serve all three streets and .. OFFICES REPORTED Board, by 1,057, and | ipe had been ‘Value of property held in trust by ustodian, the com- mittee said, approximates-$281,000,000, | and it reiferated its recommendation acted to provide for final disposition It likewise reported 1| Wax reduced from 2 per cent | par cent. and in the amount e | emptions. These changes are e|in the vellow slip which w f | tached 1o the old blanks. and will read as follows “The accompanying o noted n individual iy | come tax return. form 1040, for the inted under the pro- act of 1424 ¢ | “Special attention Ix directed to the r | following changes in the instructions on thix form which must be com- plied with in making vour return 1 the calendar vear 1925 ‘Under the heading ‘Liability Filing Return,’ a single person ing a net Income of $1,500, instead of $1.000, or a married person havi net income of $3.500, insteud of § must file u return. “Under the heading ‘I’ersonal emptions and Credits.” « single person is allowed an exemption of $1,500 in-| stead of $1,000. and & head of a fami or married person is allowed an exemp. | { tion of $3,500 instead of 0. Where { a head of a family is married during | the taxable year the exemption shall not_exceed $3.500 instead of & “The tax on the income reported on line 14 on the face of the return must be computed. at the rate of, 1z per cent instead of 2 per cent. “All other instructions printed on form 1040A must be observed.” |FIGHTS MRS. BERRYMAN'S "CLAIM TO PAINTING Thomas B. O'Sullivan Asks to In- tervene in Suit for Possession of “Bridgewater Madonna." e for hav e e | gl ' e| e a Thomas B. O'Sullivan, 12i4 O street, | | disputes the claim of Mrs. Gwendolyn Berryman as to the ownership of the ‘Bridgewater Madonna.” which has been on exhibition at the National Gallery of “Art and which was seized recently by United. States Marshal Snyder under a writ of replevin sued out by Mrs. Berryman. Mr. O'Sulli van. through Attorney Ralph A. Cusick, today azked the District Su- preme Court to permit him to lnter- vene in the sull. Pending action of the court the picture will remain in the safe of the marshal's office. Mr. O'Sullivan says he bought the picture from Mrs. Berryman about 15 years uago for, $150 and has since jenrned that It §g a real itaphuel and may be worth$100,000. = Attorney Cusick declares V(s client has a gen . | uine authenticutfon fFam the Vatican authorities that the picture is the f 14 ORDERED CLOSED Seven Held as Murderers in Peteet Cases—Saloons Face Enormous Bond. Dy the Assortated Pres, TITUANA, Mexien, Fobruary 1 On twn sides of the internatienal boundary this morning moves are ur der way against Tijuana vioe condi tions brought into the spoflight by the Peteet tragedy, which resulted yester day in murder charges Leing presented 1 Mexican courts agains seven mer held in connection with alleged attacks upon Audrey and Clyvde Peteety 17 found guilty, fhe proecution will ask thit the seven .t firing squad, In Tijuana cent of the ons are repo g closing as result of ov. rignes, restricting 0 1wo sireets s placing these under $10.000 cagh bone h. Woman ennartainers today are ished from haxs and ca sugpleious charactars are he ported or 1o the Tres Mart Islands in ¢of Callfornia per & oo Mayor Calls\Meeting. Do In San called a which p! \Department ta nd ned p campatgm 1s he S. Urias. f Mex < constdering the accompanying gninst the mer the two Peteat Hitty ot Ahie Peteats in San cidal resulting of the attacks on_ whether irial of the charges is warragted within the nexv 48 informati men must hours on be made Seven Are Accused, tlons presented dnpooug dor, proprietor of the efugio L. Alvarez, W Navarro and_Bal f police of Tijnana, ales, taxi driver, acking Audrey 1 accused of deaths of the Lat the st v be drop physicians he e that pated e ¢ ; merican Navy o vesterd e mont s the resu ago of lax of here. Heard € Elmo K who Tiua nves repo Geor; nkenr £ on for ah. dar Gordon hear door of his cell and she W Short Gordon [ henck silence Mey the deposi The hours ¢ Sena tion of Stanfield’s The commer mee 1 met sy The Senate su meet HOUSE. $165,001 bill came up sage with 2 quired. This sper 0 blie bulidiy he ilouse for pas 1 £50,¢ i progran e ation fiscal year ginning July 1 next., earrying a tatal £4 of which $14.220 is for work of particular impor to residents « District lumbia, was reported to the House today from the appropriations com mittee. Former Ambassador ITenr White appeared before foreigi affairs commitlee today at the hear ing on the Porter embussy bill Action looking toward the early passuge of the Washington tu Mount Vernon boulevard bill, anticlpation of the bi-centenntal of Washington's birth in 1982, was taken by the House commitiee on roads today ealling upon the chief of the Rurean of Public Ro for a detailed report. Interstale commerce committes continues hearing on the Ketcham seed bill. Indian affairs tinued its hear extend civi Indian: Subcommittee of Post Office com- mittee continues hearing on Sproul Dill, wuthorizing Postmaster Gen eral o negotinte xroup iusurance Lmmigration and reclamutio: committee continues hearing Pecos River. Judiciary committee continues hearing on bills authorizing change in_place and time for courts Committee on agriculture Nolds hearing on migratory bird bill, Commijtee on roads holds hearing on United States ald to States in IS S i e committes con- g on legislation to and criminal law to ou