Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (1" S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder, with lowest temper- ature tonight; tomorr udy; rising temperature, Temp es—11 . 46, t 4 p.m lowest, ull veport Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 Iintered ax second class matte; post office, 0. 20876 ! No. 29:876. Washington, 0. . & ch WASHINGTON AVIS IS EXPECTED ?HETEN WILLS DEFEATED, 6.3, 8, IN TENNIS CLASH WITH SUZANNE CATHCART'SPLEA = Mallory. V/ill Decide Case Today. Has Recommendation of Board of Review. es (;ll;l’i[)ll.\‘ Fight De- spite Injury—Both Cautious By the Associated Press. CANNES, i Miss Helen CONTROVERSY MAY GO - i i TO U. S. SUPREME COURT felied shrio [swent down t | wizardry of Su nsel to Force Test of Law if [Py many as the i | | e, February 16, Wills' ‘quest for world in tennis has failed—but ailed glorious old American champion lay before the racquet anne Lenglen, hailed eatest womin tennis | plaver who ever stepped on it court. iffering from a gash in the knee he sustained in a fall yester 0 extended the redoubtable 1s she has never been ex- | tendea e her memorable default 1o Molla Mallory after the loss of a yom for final de. | et at Forest Hills in 1921. il 5y ,_LH"}'),W_ score of today's match, the s final in the Carlton tournament. was British Noblewoman Is Ex- clnded by Officials. Suzanne 1 aftes Secreti bor Davis had be. him this 1% Countess noblewoman MTIE—3. 8—6. It was played before a Island and excluded from en | crowd that packed the stands, with 10 the United States on alleged | hundreds clamoring at the gates. tets involving moral tur- | able to gain admittance. Some had stood in line all night to be sure of witnessing the clash of the champions. | AMiss Wills staged one of the most matic tennis struggles in the his- of the zame. and the result was : in_doubt until the last point. woulid he responsible whether The American girl was within a the decision or delegated it point of winning the second set when his assistants, as is usualiy ' a ball from Mlle. Lenglen's racquet, imigration cases, which appeared to many to be out- Fedpr mendation of side, was allowed by the linesman. ew. Kept it secret, w Then for the first time in her | [ted 1o the Labor Secretary short- | career Helen faitered. She appeared | 2 Officiils said a de. Dhysically tired and at one time put | ission of he case has been takea dire cad of the | Departm i its because what decision be. Mr. Davis ance. 2 or selt sard ns- The st un- | her hands to her head and staggered if about to Both girls ph taking no chances v to the base line (Continued on careful game, sticking close: 4. Column 2) ht be expected helween 3| in the name of the Secre. Exclusion Believed Upheld. -committal | | s were not of the board sunsel for for her right to United States, Jdefinite | ted at the department H ciusion order entered by ration inspectors at Ellis Island \ pheld by the board .mu,Makes Vote on Finance indorsed by the Secretary. | . immizration law of 1917 pro- | Measure Confidence Ques- ol any alien who is guilty | tion—Wins, 258-149 5 -149. the entrance into the United an act involving moral turpitude. | Severar days ago Labor Department ! ofticials said there was no question to the law in the case and that the | By the Associated Pres: countess on her own admission of | PARIS, Vebruary 16.—Premier Bri- Slion Baty '{‘l':‘h(f"r“" \‘:‘“"_‘;‘p be ex-}and early this morning wound up the nets w committeed abroad, the: ('hamber of Deputies on the govern- United States law would not apply. | ment's bill which seeks the financial Since then there has been nothing to | restoration of France by making a indicate a-chanse of attitude. | vote on the bill as a whole a question Vicanwhile, the Earl of Craven,|of confidence in his government. The nimed as co-respondent in the divorce | premier was upheld by a vote of 268 suit_brought against the countess inlagaingt 149, 5 Ensland more b e hag2, BY| With the fear of their constituents Bt | ever before their eves the deputies, of Fhe Barl of Craven arrived in the | “hatever party, could not bring them- selves to vote fresh taxation. As a United States in November, 1925, and | been lavishly enterained in New | consequence, the financial bill is shorn ures intended to of 2 | of most of the m Handling of the case directly by|obtain funds for balancing the budget. Secretary Davis was sald at the de-| It will now be sent to the Senate, pirtment to make futile efforts of | where the government counts upon connsel for the countess to take an direct to the Labor Secretary. May Go to Supreme Court. visions eliminated in the Chamber of { Deputles and add such other clauses {as may be necessary to meet the go rts of the countess to get into|ernment’s requirements. United States may take her case| . Chamber Takes Recess. upreme Court of the United and involve a test of the sec-| mha Chamber adjourned at 6 am. 1 of the immigration law regarding | yntj) next Tuesday, when it is hoped ets involvi moral turpitude, de-| iho bill will have been sent back from partment offick explained. While | the Senate. The Chamber will then, in Department of Justice has taken | o \ords of Premier Briand, either part in the case so far, if an eX-lpave to take it or leave it. He says clusion order is affirmed by Secretary | he iy determined to brook no further Diavis. counsel for the cOUntess may | delay and is resolved to stake the ex- turn fo court action to secure her ad-|jgtence of his administration on bal. ? ancing the budget before the end of the present month. Louis Malvy, head of the Chamber's finance committee, said in debate that the delay in the payment of taxes could not be permitted. Three billion | francs were needed for the treasur { May payments, and if this money {not forthcoming inflation was inev ble. The Chamber then decided that | three-quarters of the taxes must be | paid before May 1. Stamp Tax Rejected. After the Chamber had approved some clauses of the bill and rejected others, tho resources to balance the budget had shrunk to 1,600.000,000 |francs. M. Doumer offered a’ stamp tax to obtain the other needed 2.400.- {000,000 francs. His proposal was re- jected, 389 to 112. When the vote was announced M Doumer said to the Deputies: <sion. unsel, according to Assistant Sec- yetary of Labor White, could apply to eral judge in New York for a vit of habeuas corpu which, if al- 4, would permit the release of the n hond. A hearing would then be granted, and if the decision exclusion w n affirmed, an 1 could be taken. In this w appeals taken from decisions of lower Mr. White d, could take the the Supreme Court of the courts, ase to TUnited Mr. v court action taken would nece he based on the law in the case and that once the Cathcart case came before the courts, the Labor Depart- ment would withdraw. Early Decision Expected. While members of the hoard of re- view were examining the evidence and writing a recommendation for the gnidanc the department heads, Mr. White said early action in the e way of a decision mizht he expected. others with a certs celing of h Th ommendation of the hoard will | tility. It will be sald tomorrow that he reviewed by Mr. {vou have done nothing: that the bud- ond Assistant S et remains unbalanced and that it iransmitted to s P | Will be possible to foretell the date of he Catheart o of the|another crisis, more serious than the prominence of the persons involved | preceding one. which will oblige you to and the many unusual features sur-|Proceed with fresh inflations, entalling rounding it, has assumed great im.|a heavy rise in the cost of llving. portance in the eyes of the Labor De.| In the early debate Premier Briand tment, which usually handles such | said: s in a routine manner. While at-| The country is beginning to give torneys for the countess argued the |materlal evidence of its impatience case vesterday the halls outside the | with the present methods of legisla- hearing room were thronged with countr <ome Wi watching mpathy and SWEDEN TO BLOCK - CHANGE INLEAGUE {Will Keep Spain and Poland From Seats on Council With Germany. ON FISCAL POLICY BY F. A. MACKE E. | By Radio to The Star and Chicazo Daily N STOCKHOLM, Februa den absolutely refuses a sion of permanent membership sther membership on the council of the D €, COMMITTEETO ASK SIOOOMON NAVY - AVATIONPROERAN Members of House Group Virtually Agreed on Five Years of Construction. TWO GREAT DIRIGIBLES Moffett Figures Cut 40 Per Cent. The House nav | tually reed upon a five-vear build. ling program for the naval air service, |10 cost $100,000,000. ‘This amount is about two-fifths of that recommended by Rear Admiral Moffett, naval air chief, as necessary to provide an adequate air service for {any emergency. al decision on the program i ted by the committee tomorrow if adopted. a bill to authorize this s expenditure probably will be intro- duced in the next day or so by Chair- man Butler Program for Five Years. its present the program uthorize an annual expendi- | ture of $20,000.000 for five v . This would provide | Two dirigibles, e | size of the wreck One thousand new planes at the end the five-vear period. An appropriation, the amount as yet undetermined, for the Navy to con wact with the Aircraft Development Corporation, backed by Ford inter ests, for an all-metal dirigible. | Representative Vinson of Georgia, | ranking Democrat on the committee, | n would 1 ch three times the Shenandoah. | said today that members were prac tically united in their views, and that a bill to carry out a bullding program already had been drafted. Moffet Figures Reduced. | Admiral Moffet had urged that ap- | proximately $250,000,000 be spent in | five vears, but the committee cut this by about $150,000,000, omitting a pro- | vision for a new airplane carrier of the Lexington-Saratoga type, and re- iducing by about 250 the number of inew planes to be built. It also ef- fected a reduction by withholding any recommendation for planes for the eight scout cruisers authorized by the last Congress. The committee bill ARE INCLUDED IN PLAN| Also Asks Building of 1,000 Plane. | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1 committee has vir- | | the upper chamber to restore the pro- | League of Nations to any country ex- ' in its present cept Germany, the -correspondent | learns on high authority. i Since unanimity is necessary, this | form does not provide for an addition- al Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle aviation, as recommended by the President’s Air Board. Consider- decision nullifies the international | able opposition against this proposal movement now afoot to give Spain has developed in the committee, a and Poland seats on the council. Spain | Dumber of members feeling that there puts herself forward as representing |15 no need for another clvilian oficer Spanish separating powers. Poland is | o pleading the necessity of hbalancing Germanventry. — * meervaruncs| ANDERSON SEEKING HEARING IN SENATE strongly supports the Spanish and Pelish claims. Austen Chamberlain, B sh foreign Former Anti-Saloon League Head Says He Wants to Answer Britten's Charges. i ) i minister, is reported to have certain promises, but the writer's in- | formation is that gland may sup- | | port Sweden Sweden takes the position that the extension of the membership of the council, except for the entry of a great | power like Germany would lower the | status of the league and disturb the | 5 balance between the council and as-{ william H. Anderson. former head sembly. of the AntiSaloon League in New (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News C0.) | york, has written Representative e Britten, Republican, Tllinois, announc- MANY DEAD AND MISSING | g that if the Britten resolution for | an investigation of the league is adopted Anderson will demand IN VICTORIA BUSH FIRES | hearing to” answer charges axninst R E ! him made by the Illinols Represent: Australian Province Reports Most: "1 qercon. who served a sentence in i i | Sing Sing Prison, said he would wel- Rimislzoit Onitagtaticns -ome the chance to “get into the in Its History. | vecords at Washington™ facts which | would establish that his conviction By the Assoclated Press. | “under Tammany” was without the MELBOURNE, Australia, lightest proof of criminal intent and ary 16.—Twenty-eight persons have | i EGE JUOT, B0 AR B0 A ory of many others are said to be mISSINg.| jna law.” Nineteen fatalities have occurred at Powelltown, in the Warburton dis- = trict. Seventeen persons were sur-| rounded by flames on a narrow tram-| way line at Powelltown and 11 euHI'MCKERs CAPTURE SHIP them perished. Women vied with me [ AND HOLD IT FOR 19 DAYS He expresed the hope the | resolution would be adopted. in_rescue work. The flames have destroved houses, | timber mills and farms. Erica and| Noojez, small towns in Gippsland, | have been damaged. Acting Premier Peacock says the fires are the most | disastrous in the history of Victorf He said the government will aid farm ers who have been burned out. Captain of Iiquor Schooner Tells of Long Imprisonment Aboard Own Craft. | By the Associated Press. LUNENBERG, Nova Scotia, Febru- ary 16.—Capt. Arthur Whynot, master of the schooner Arthur J. Balfour, which has just arrived here, relates a story of being boarded by hi-jackers off rum row. Eleven hundred cases of Scotch whisky were pirated and the captain and his crew were held prison- ers on their own ship for 19 days by armed buccaneers. Capt. Whynot says the hi-jackers came alongside the Baufour in a ves- sel dlsgulsed as & United States Coast aiviaiconss Can Photograph Wilkins Party. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, February 16 (P).—Holding that the Wilkins Trans. polar expedition was a public enter- prise, the District Court here yester- day dissolved an injunction restrain- ing photographers irom taking plc- tures of the undertaking. The plain- tiffs were given five days to file an imended complaint. tion women protesting inst “diserimi- nation” and a “double standard.” Wil- | . wn . Lambert. her counsel, declared Fjpe Fought 40 Stori i Men on Roof Saved the countess three times in her ad- wission to immigration inspectors said the acts of moral turpitude complain- ed of had been committed after her | divorce had been granted. The final decision will be made in \shington, officials said. inasmuch ws an appeal has been taken against the exclusion order issued at Ellis Isiand. The case will not be sent back By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—Forty stories above Broadway, firemen to- Guard cutter. They overpowered the Nova. Scotian crew and transferred the es Above Broadway;: in Thrilling Fashion More than 100 charwomen were driven from the bullding, carrying! mops and pails. Firemen carried hose to the upper left on hoard the Balfour waited pa- tiently for the return of their com- panions who took the whisky away, nd finally, when they did not come back, they sailed the Balfour inshore within a few hundred vards of the ;:nsgl and took boats and rowed to and. = perished in bush fires in Victoria and|(pe administration of American crim- | whisky to the “‘cutter.” The hi-jackers : to Henry H. Curran, immigration commissioner of New York for de- cislon. Women Hold Protest Meeting. Barred from which the hearing room in attorneys for the countess inst her exclusion, 130 members of the National Woman's Part held 2 protest meeting on the of the Labor Department Build- vesterday and sent a letter to Sec ctary Davis demanding a reversal of ‘he decision of the imn tion au- | thorides. Representatives of the \merican Civil Liberties Union were \so excluded from the hearing room. The letter sent by the Woman' Party to the Labor Secretary follows: “On behalf of the National Woman's Party we ask a hearing on the exclu- sion of the Countess of Cathcart by officials under your authority. “This case involves an issue far Jarger than the admission or rejection (Continued oh Page 2, Column 43 day waged a successful and spectacu- lar battle against fire in the $30,000,000 Equitable Building, one of the largest office structures in the world. Most of the damage, estimated at $60,000, was in the thirty-fourth and thirty- fifth floor offices of Daniel Guggen- heim and the American Smelting and Refining Co. The blaze originated in the basement of the skyseraper, wh: s located in the heart of the fina ot r Wall street 1 le: a shaft containing steam pipe: electric cables to the eleventh, teenth, twenty-fourth and thirt floors, skipping those that intervened. Four engineers and repairmen were trapped in the penthouse, a three-story superstructure on the roof, chiefly containing _elevator machinery, and were found by firemen on a narrow ledge forty-three stories above the street level, nearly 400 feet up. The only ladder available was a short one, which was placed on the shoulders of the tallest fireman to reach the trapped men, A ai ped and floors in the elevators, which operated continuously, with the exception of one, which stalled between the twenty- elghth and twenty-ninth floors with five firemen in it. They had to chop thelr way out. Five firemen suffering from smoke | suffocation were attended by ambu-| lance surgzeons affer the fire i The fire was discoverad by a steam- fitter in the ement, who saw sparks among the electric cables The buildinz fire-fizhtin nine men touzht the blaze with fire extinguishers until they saw it was | beyond their control. Then four alarms | brought out a great array of fire-fight- | ing apparatus. The old Equitable Bullding, on the same site, was destroved in a spectac- ular blaze January 9, 1912. In that fire the water froze almost before touching the burning building and the ice-coated structure smoldered for days afterward. Millions of dollars in securities were found safe in the building. force of ! suit filed here HORSEWHIPPED, HE SAYS. Frenchman Asks $15,000 Damages From U. S. Film Director. LOS ANGELES. Calif.. February 16 (#).—Charges that he was horsewhip. | ped were made by Lieut. Gerar Merveux. French aviator and ph culture instructor of Hollywood. in a vesterday against Stuart Blackton. motion picture di. rector, for $15,000 damages for assault | and battery. Counsel for De Merveux said the charges involve an alleged assault and horsewhipping at Blackton's Holly- wood home in May last year, when Blackton is charged with having driven De Merveux out of the resi- dence_with accusations of insulting Mrs. Blackton. Radio Programs—Page 34 H 2 gt It Is ¢ Foening Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1926—FORTY PAGES. Lstimated That a New White House Roof Will Cost Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,529 TWO CENTS. HOUSE COMMITTE STARTS WORK ON DISTRICT BUDGET Menns Associated Pre | Indications Are That Lump Sum of $9,000,000 Con- sidered U. S. Share. |QUESTION TO BE LEFT FOR DECISION LATER k | ' Cemyparison of Private-Owned and | Government-Owned Property Will Be Made by Chairman. Altho Jittee the District hudzei House appropriations committee did not take up the questivn of fiscal 1+ lations between the Federal und Di- trict governments, when they staried hearings today on the $31.700,000 ap propriation bill for the nest fiscal ar, they proceeded on the presum tion that the bill would be hased | $0.000.000 contribution from the .m..x Government instead of the 60 | proportion provided in evistinz la zh members of the subcon ot RELGOUS EHOOLS DETISUPHELD Mexican Court Rules Govern- | ment Has Right to Close Institutions. 1 By the Associated Pre MEXICO CITY, February 16. surt test of the Mexican govern- ‘ ment's right to close rellglous and ed- ucational institutions has resulted in victory for the government. The authorities of the Frariciscan Asylum filed an application for an in- { junction with the district court in an | endeavor to prevent an execution of jan order to close the institution. The court rejected the application on the i ground that the government's course | was permitted under the constitution. The Colegio Nuestra Senora del Pilar, an educational institution, wds ) closed yesterday without incidents or | arrests. | _Only one American thus far in the interfor of Mexico has been involved | in the government’s plans to close all religious @nd educational institutions jand churches where foreign-born | priests officiate. Left at Academy. | superior of the Catholic Academy at Coyoacan. Last week she informed ! James R. Sheffleld, the American Am- { bassador, that she anticipated the closing of her school, which apprehen- ston proved correct. She is being al- | lowed to remain in the academy, al- though 15 of the nuns there have been | efected. | There apparently is no intention to | cease literal enforcement of the con-- [ stitution, which prohibits the func- tioning of foreign-born priests and the operation of foreign religlous schools. Some Spanish priests already have been deported. It is understood that ““Madame Sem- {ple,” as she described herself to the | American embassy, is considering leav- ing Mexico, regardless of whether or | not her deportation is being consid- {ered. The government has not an. nounced whether it intends to deport foreign nuns. Allows Lay Schools Only. Article 3 of the constitution, under which religious schools are being closed, says primary, intermediate and higher instruction” imparted in both official and private schools must be laical and that no religious body or the minister of any religious sect will be allowed to direct schools of pri- mary education. | Ambassador Sheffield will remain silent until the Washington Govern- ment instructs him concerning Mme. Semple. It is known that the Am. bassador several days ago in a pri- vate conversation with Foreign Minis- ter Saenz, who at present is on a tour in Monterey with President Calles, acquainted the minister with the Semple sltuation, although he made no { cfficial representation. } | | Hspatches from le Pass, Tex.. say that the Rev. J. L. Phillips, presi- dent of the People’s Institute of Pledras Negras, just across the Rlo Grande, and seven woman teachers, who were given 24 hours to leave Mexico, have arrived in Eagle Pass. The school has been supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Phillips sald the school was or- dered closed. 4 The Mexican students gave vent to tears when the Americans were or- dered out, and the townspeople held a demonstration of sympathy. The teachers were confining their instruc- tions of the children o the English language and no religion in any form was being imparted. Texas text books were used. The officers of the Mexican depart- ment of the Methodist Church South are to start an immediate investiga- tion of religious conditions in Mexico. Bishop James Cannon of Richmond, Va., has been informed of the expul- sion of the Rev. Mr. Phillips and his teachers. MOVE BY CHURCH HEADS. Methodist Officials Inquire on Status in Mexico. Officials of the Msthodist Church South nave called at the State De- | partment to make inquiries regarding the Mexican church situation, but as yet no formal protest in that country has been filed with the department. As a result of the informal inquiry the churchmen were advised that properties in Mexico acquired by them in accordance with Mexican law are entitled to the same protection as are those similarly acquired by pri- vate interests. The Methodist officials 8o far have been the only church authorities to take up the question with the de- partment, despite expulsion of Cath- olic priests and members of orders of that church. Retribution Comes Pesky Time Signals Revenge Is sweet, especiall when it can be brought about in perfectly legally constituted man- ner. This is the opinion today of Judge John 1 i enthusiast, who was presiding over Traffic Court last night when Wal- ter C. Myers, broadcaster of the Arlington time signals from NAA was brought before him to answer to charges of speeding Myers admitted exceeding the speed limit, but stated that he was hurrying to the wireless station to start the 10 o'clock sicnals. Judge McMahon told the defend- ant that many people would not care if he never got there to inter- rupt the political and musical pro- grams that are on the air at that hour. Thereupon the magistrate, with- regret, imposed a out a show of fine of $15. MINERS MEETING Approval of Agreement Is Foregone Conclusion as Convention Opens. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., February 16.— Ratification of the agreement made in Philadelphia last Friday to end the anthracite strike was before the sev- eral hundred miners who met in con- vention here today to give final sanction to the peace pa As the delegates went into session, approval of the agreement. which will send 158,000 mine workers back to the mines after an idleness of five land a half months, appeared to be a foregone conclusion. The convention held last July, which formulated the demands of the miners, recommended that any agree- ment be reported back to a conven- tion or referred to a referendum of the miners. The convention was de- cided upon, as it gives the leaders more opportunity to explain the vari- ous provisions entered into. Agreement Explained. The arbitration phase of the agree- ment is not thoroughly understood by |some of the miners. and President John Lewis, who presides, prepared to 2o into detail to show that arbitra- tion is optional and in no way compul- sory in the event wage readjustments are considered at the request of either side after January 1, 1927. The morning session of the conven- tion was taken up with completing the organization. Gov. Pinchot, who was invited to address the delegates, was 'not present because of pressing duties in connectien with the closing days of the extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature this week. " The governor, however, has sent’‘a communication to President Lewis td be read to the delegates. Mines Put in Shape. . Some of the leaders hoped to end the convention today, but there was doubt whether the delegates could get through debating the varlous para- graphs in the new agreement. In the meantime the coal companies are working at top speed to have the mines ready for resumption the morning after the pact is ratified. The final meeting of the joint con- ference of miners and operators has been called for tomorrow in anticipa- tion that the convention will ratify to- day. At this session the six miners and six operators who struggled in At- lantic City last Summer and in New York and Philadelphia during the Win- ter to arrive at an agreement will sign the formal legal contract. MISSIONARY IS KILLED. Lutheran Worker in China Meets Death by Accident. PEKING, Februa pateh from Sinyangchow. in -Honan Province, says that D. Nelson of the Lnutheran United Mission has been ac- cidentally killed. No details are given. 7 Sinyangchow was the scene of Wu Pel-fu's recent victory over the Ho- nan troops. The defeated forees re- treated within the town and for a time were reported to be holding for- as hostages. Later they left without harming the foreigners. MCARL AFFIRMS | To Sender of Those| Representative Iunk of Ilhineis chairman of this subcommittee, after ithe hea today said that for the i time bei; his polic +nd the question Detween u §9, ibution from 00,900 Tump sum cor the Federal Govern sment and definite proportion plan will not be considered by ubcom mittee. at least until after hearings or he bill have been finished and the sub. commiittee goes into executive session |to determine its recommendations to the full appropriations commiittee and ithe House. Chairman_ Funk " RULINGONBRIGE Contracts i (jned the Di Lincrease in taxa property in the District of Columbia, quite clearh evidencing his intention to draw com varisons later. In round figures was shown that the assessed value viied real esta ul property and intangible per | sonal property bout doubled in | the last 10 vears. This is due, i considerable measure, to the asse ment at full valuation rather than fractional valuation few years however, 2uditor, el aues Daniel .1 regarding thr Again Declares With “Outside” Architects and Engineers Void. The Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission’s appeal from the com- troller general’s decision prohibiting the employment of “outside” consult- ing architects and engineers in the | construction of the Arlington memo- rial bridge has been rejected by Mr. | McCarl. The comptroller general | merely reaffirms his previous decision | and makes no further comment on | ' Mr. Fank browsnt sttt Fm the case. !round numbers, individual citizen: Major U. S. Grant, 3d, execu-|are paving a total of about $18,600,000 as a G | Will Compare Holdings. Mr. Funk showed his intention compare the privately owned res ate with the Government holdings " TORATIY AGT She is Margarita M. Semple, mother | tive officer of the commission, would | not comment today on the controller | general's latest decision further than to say that he was taking the matter up with the members of the commis- sion to ascertain what could be done As the matier now stands the bridge commission must get its consulting rchitects and enzineers through the | Civil Service Commission at regular classification rates. | Two Contracts Voided. i of the controll those with Me- ulting ar- abrogated as a resu general's decision ar Kim, Mead & White. chitects. and W. J. Douglas, consult- ing engineer. Under the wontr with the commission the former firm was to be paid $60,000, with additional fees for the services of such individ uals as it assigned to bridge work plus their traveling expenses. Douglas was to be paid $200 « for such time as he spent on the bridge in New York and $250 a day for the time spent out of the city viduals it_employed to work on bridge. However, he w only such other emplc dered by the commission its Although the act author bridge gives authority to the commis. on to employ professional seryice at such rates of pay as authorized by the commission, the controller zen- eral held that this provision was for the direct employment of personal services and must be paid for ac the rates determined by the classification act. May Ask Law Change. While it is not believed that act of the controller will in any delay the progress on the brid was said to be probable that would be taken to have the law o rected so that the commission could £o ahead with the contract it had made with the architects and engi- neers. However, Maj. Grant would not say what his action would be, pointing out that it was a matter for the entire commissiori to determine after the situation had been placed before them in detail. THOUSANDS SEEK HEALTH AT MEXICAN CEMETERY the way yard Where Four Indians Are Reported Making Cures. By the Associated Press. LAREDO, Tex., February 16.— Within the shadow of the tombstones in the Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Ceme. tery thousands of s Mexicans are seeking a new lease on Yucatecas Indians who refuse to ac- cept payment for their guidance, The work of the Indians has created a sensation in the Mexican city, oppo- site Laredo, some seven or eight thou- | sand Mexican patients from Mexico The contracts which will have to be | . | plus the cost of the services of indi-| Sick and Crippled Flock to Grave- | and crippled | life through the ministrations of four | year as distinet from cor i porations. "It was evident that his intention is to show that if the ey pense of the National Capital amounts to $36.000.000 u vear, the Fed eral Government, in making 000.000 contribution, pavs about me-quarter of the cost: that the in dividual citizens, taken collectively pay in tases ahout half of the cost and that the other quarter is mads up from various sources by taxes upon corporations, fines, water rev enues and various other sources When the hearing opened today th District Commissioners were the first witnesses and discussed generally, it eply to questions from the subcom- mittee, the entire District establish ment and its needs as a municipal concern. District_Auditor Donovan was next questioned at length by Chairma Funk and submitted extensive s requested by members of the sub. committee. |in taxes u | 'ACTRESS KILLS SELF IN 14-STORY JUMP Pauline Armitage, Ili, Plunges to Instant Death From New York Hotel Window. | Br the Associated Py NEW YORK. February 16.—Pauline Armitage. an actress, who has been {in il health. leaped ffom her room it | On the fourteenth floor of the Shelton | Hotel, > isnd was instantly killed on Lexington avenue, toda: Miss Armitaze. clad only in a pink night dress, landed on the Forty-ninth | street side of the building in front !of the servants’ entrance. The manager and polic j unable to identify the b the room by the scream | Brandt, Miss Armitage’s maid | She tfold the police that when she {went to answer the telephone <h heard Miss Armitage move and. turn ing, saw her leap from the window. Miss Armita had appeared earliey seaxon with Irene Bardoni in aughty Cinderella.”” She appeared last on in three different Broad way productions, “Badges,” “Cobra” and “Lawful Larceny." TWO KILLED IN MINE. Plunge 400 Feet to Death Into e, at firs v, located of Valeri Elevator Shaft. Pa., February plunged 400 fe mine shaft to their deat ¥ when an elevator on which y_were ascending from a mine of | the Mount Pleasant-Connellsville Coal nd Coke Co. at Carpentertown failed |to stop at the surface and hit the 16 UP.—A dis-| and Texas having been attracted to the cemetery, where they cook, eat and eleep while awaiting their turn to be treated. All around the graveyard autome- biles from near and far are parked, while great numbers of the sick and afflicted of Nuevo Laredo are amonz the patients. CAROL BUYS VILLA. will framework of the coal unloading plat- form. Four other mine employes, who ware thrown from the elevator by the i impact, landed on the loading plat- | form and escaped with body bruises. The men killed were Robert Russell. 40 vears old, a mine foreman, and iJoP‘n Skos. 23 vears old, 2 miner. The | determined. cause of the accident has not been BANK ROBBED OF $8,000. Six Make Home Permanently Near Gulf of Fiume. ABBAZIA, ltaly, February 16 (). -—Former Crown Prince Carol of Ru mania_has purchased the sumptuous Villa Morizia on the Gulf of Fiume, and will make it his permanent resi- dence. The villa was formerly the prop- erty of Katherine Schratt, a lifelong friend of the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. Men Flee in Auto as Teller Shoots in Vain. ST. LOUIS, Mo., February 16 (P - Six young men today held up the Water Tower Bank and escaped in an automobile with all the money on hand, estimated between $8,000 and $10,000. The teller fired at the floeing ;obhnrs, but none. of his shots took ef- ect. i