Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1926, Page 2

2 » WILL FRAME NEW RETIREMENT BILL House Subcommittee Named to Expedite Civil Serv- ice Measure. Legislation Uiberalize the civil service retirement act and to assure istice to the veteran Federal em ploves was expedited today by the ap ointment of a subcommittee to draft new retirement bill Representative Lehlbach tican, of New chairman civil s o committee, is #l man of the subcommittee. The other members are Hepresentatives son of Vermont. Hudson of Michigan. Jef fers of Alabama and Woodrum of Vir nia This subcommittee is fully throw of the retirement hills now pending hefore the commit and on which hearings have been 1, and embody in a new hill the rious provisions meeting with its While this is being done by the subcommitiee, cost estimates ave being prepared by actuaries at the re quest of Mr. Lehlbach. About Two Weeks' Work. In about two weeks., Mr. Lehlbach Anticipates. this subcommittee will have bill ready to report to the whole committee and the estimate of . will then be ready as a basis for the committee veport Members of the mittee said t o of getting favorable tirement bill month ubcomm; on other m Civil Se commi tive Sn T4 the subcommittee ting 2 new per dien tive Rachman subcommittee proposing put third post Civil provisions. Repub: of the » chair to go care- he v approval W its Service Com very optimistic 1ction on the re in the House next trees also were appointed | ires pending hefore the | Representa : airman of n the Regg bill set travel allowance. is chairman the measure second and under the tivst class stors Service Are Computing Costs, The Senate and subcommit tees named to draft re liberal re. tirement law civil service em. ploves held a joint meeting ar the Capitol vesterday afternoon to discuss th the of various | been suggested, taken. the object £ being merely to give s some idea of the dif: the committers have in they may prepare esti House lraft & m actuaries cost 2 have finite action was of the mee the statisticia ferent rates mind, so that mutes of cost probably will several weeks to after which the cof again to de gress will this session It was suggested to George B. Buck, one of the actuaries, yesterduy's meeting t he prepare figures as to | the cost retivement law, using { $1.800 as a maximum salary for pur. poses of computation and multiplying the aver e salary for the last 10 vears service by the number of ) rs of service. The s to be prepared | also will be dividing the re- | of the multiplication by 45 and | 50. On the question of optional retire. ment after 30 vears of service it was suggested that the actuary prepare es. | timates of cost on the basis of a vear-old age limit for those employes who are entitled to retire now at the ages of 60 and 62 vears, and a 60-vear | limit on optional retirement for those | who are retired now at 70 vears. All| of these estimates will be tentative | and merely for the'guidance of the | committees in their deliberations and do not dicate hat any deci ns have been reached on the exact time of the retirement legislation. take the actuaries compile this data, mmittees will meet ire that enact at f st sult C. I. CORBY FUNERAL TOMORROW AT 2 P.M.| Services Will Be Conducted From Late Home Near Rockville. Funeral services for Charles 1. Corby. who died at Miami Beach. Fla., Saturday. will be conducted at his late home, near Rockville, Md.. tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Re Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Church, and Rev. Dr. J. s y Durkee. president of Howard Univer- sity, will officiate. The body will be placed in a vault in Rock Creek tery. | Honorary pallbearers will be Edwin | C. Brandenburg, W. W. Everett, Wil liam John Eynon, Frank E. Altemus Leroy Mark, Robert V. Fleming, J. | Tihiman Hendrick, Frank Fish Rogers. Louis J. Kolb, G. Barton Keene. Wil liam L. Radcliffe, Charles H. Tomp. kins, Joshua Bvans, jr; Elisha Han son. Edward 1. Droop, Dr. Sterling Ruffin, Edgar 1. O'Connell, William Jorg, William ‘11. Thomas and John Day Green. The bakery section chants and Manuf: tion, of which M ber for many ¥ of the Mer- turers’ Associa- Corby was a mem- ars, will ho!l special memorial services for him in its as- sembly room in The Star Building tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Ar- rangements are to made at the meeting for members of the associa tlon to participate in the funeral exercises. In issuing memorial meeting “Mr. Corby was of the that an annonncement it waus stated not oniy an out standing figure in the bakinz indus- try in Washington, bu: a man who had risen to national importaace in the trade.” Mr. Corby was president Corby Baking Co. until its last vear with the Continental interests. Born in Binghampton, N. Y., fn 1871, he had been a resi dent of this city since 1531, when he came here to join his brother, W. . Corby, founder of the Corby Hakery. of the nierger Raking FURRIERS’ UNION STRIKE AFFECTS 12,000 WORKERS Disagreement Over New Contract ‘When Old One Expired Cause of Walkont, By the Ase ated Press. NEW YORK. February 16 thousand members of the Union, employed in 2,000 shops in New York City, struck today follow- ing discord between the union and the Assoclated Fur Manufacturers at the expiration of their agreement, which expired January 31 The workers demanded a 40-hour week, 3 per cent of the manufacturers’ pay rolls to go to a fund which would insure against slack employment pe- riods, and an equal division of work throughout the year to obviate lay- offs. The Associated Fur have adopted a resolu agreement impossible, “due to the un- compromising. dictatorial and im- perious attitude taken by union repre- sentatives." ~Twelve Furriers’ Manufacturers ion declaring { By 3TPLAYGROUNDS 'THREE CON ASK DRY LAW CHANGE City Oouncil Petitions Congress for Modification to Permit Light ‘Wines and Beer. * the Associated Prese CLEVELAND, February 18, —City council by a vote of 18 to 8 last night adopted a resolution to petition Con- gress for a modification of the Vol steid uct to permit light wines and rer The vesolution charucterizes the act “the most unpopular piece of legislation folsted upon the people in recent yvears.”” and adds that “'whole- some beverages legitimately sold” in pre-prohibition time are preferable 1o “sickening and pofsonous concoctions™ now sold illegally. 10 OPEN MARCH 1 Arrangements for Operation Now Being Completed by Mrs. Rhodes. Twentv-fiva municinal nlaveronnds and 12 public school playgrounds will bhe opened March 1. it was announced today by Mrs. Susie Rooi Rhodes, su- Arrangements for their op eration are now being completed Mrs. Rhodes and her ants. Ten of the school playgrounds are those which_were kept open through December. The other two are at the Johnson-Powell and the Jefferson Schools. Besides these the school playgrounds to open follow: Adams Burroughs, Cooke, Corcoran, Denni son. Orr, Birnev. Fairhrother, Gid dings and Deadwood. The municipal playgrounds slated for opening are: Bloomingdale, Chevy Columbia Heights, Gariield . Georgetown, Happy Hollow, . Towa Avenue, Mitchell Park Montrose Park. New York avenue, 'k View. Phillips, Plaza, Rosedale, Thomson, Twin Oak: n Ness, Vir- sinla avenue, Cgrdozo, Howard. L gan. Rose Park, Pavne and Willow Tree. Two additional municipal play. grounds acquired recently by the Na tional Capital Park Commission will be opened July 1. Mrs. Rhodes said, if Congrass provides funds in the a propriation bill for the services of directors. One is in Takoma Park and the other at Eureka Park in Anacostia. _The latter is for colored children. The park commission also sed for the playground de- partment the ground in Chevy Chase which has been rented heretofore for plavzround purposes. The residents of Chevy Chase have offered to build a swimming pool in this playground providing the department furnishes the lifeguards, and Mre. Rhodes has asked Congress for an appropriation for their salari EUGENE L. GADDESS, U. S. WORKER, DIES Member of I. C. C. Legal Staff Suc- cumbs in Home Here at Age of 55 Years. pervigor. by Staff of assist- Eugene 1. Gaddess, 35 vears old. a | member of the legal staff of the Inter. state Commerce Commission, where he had been emploved ahout 30 vears, died at his home, 2623 Connecticut | avenue, today. Death was attributed | to compiications of high blood pres sure and heart disease. He had been in failing health for several vears but worked at his office vesterd: Mr. Gaddess T sident of this city since a_hoy. < a_mem- ber of Temple Noyes Lodge. F. A. A. M. Surviving him are his widow. Petita Gaddess Gadde: who lives in Mexico: three brothers, John, Stockton and Clarence Gaddess, and two sisters, Mrs. George Schwinn and Mrs. Walter Wills. Funeral arrangements have been made. not DEMNED MEN GIVEN RESPITE Midget Bandit and Two ciates Are Granted Re view of Evidence. Asso- By the Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, 1., February 16. —Henry Ferneckes, “midget bandit.” and two associates sentenced to hang for murder at Chicago next Friday, were granted writs of supersedeas by the State Supreme Court today. Peti- tions by Ferneckes, John Flannery and Daniel McGeoghegan for a review of the evidence were granted. The three were convicted less than a month ago of robbery and murder of Michael Swiontkowski of the Pu- laski Bullding and Ioan Association of Chicago. It was charged that they blocked his automobile on the way to a bank and took $11.950 from him. Efforts of the prosecutor to get speedy justice, the three declared, rob- bed them of a fair trial. The court's action merely suspended execution of sentence until it can be determined whether the three men re- ceived a fair trial. Oral arguments in support of their appeal will be heard in the April term, when the court may either take the matter under advise ment or return an immediate decision. R. R. GOVIN, FORMER WASHINGTON MAN, DEAD Family Maintained Home Here While in U. S.—Was Pub- lisher and Industrialist. Rafael R. Govin, industrialist and newspaper man, who died in Monte Carlo Sunday of heart disease, was a former resident of the Capital, the family maintaining a home at 2230 Massachusetts avenue during the lat- ter part of their residence here, divid- ing their time between Washington, New York and the Catskills. Mr. Govin was president of the Jour- nal of Commerce Co. of New York, and also owned four publications in Havana—El Mundo, La Prensa, the Havana Post and Havana Telegram. He also was president of the United States Asphalt and Refining Co. He is survived by his widow, whom he had recently joined in Monte Carlo, and a daughter. Mrs. John D. Schoon- maker of Kingston, N. Y., whose wed- ding was one of the outstanding socfal events of the Capital in 1924. THE EVENING STAR, WANHINGTON, D. U, TUESDAY, |CLEVELAND OFFICIALS WALL PAPER STORE GUTTED BYBLAZE Flames on Seventh Street Cause Loss Estimated at $100,000. A spectacular fivealarm fire last night gutted the building of the Cap- ital Wall Paper Co. 909 Seventh street, causing damage estimated be tween $75.000 and $100,000 to that building and adjoining structures and their contents. Two firemen were hurt, but not seri ously, when a buckdraft blew them completely through the front show window of the wall paper compuany store. They are Private 1. (. Kepple 46 years old, of No. 14 engine cor pany, who was cut about the hands by glass and nauseated by smoke. and ivate Leo Lanahan. 30 years old, of No. 4 engine company, who sustained a crushed hand and cuts on his arm Both were treated at Emergency Hos pi The bluze evidently the cellar, not far from the fur from a cause undetermined. It pro- gressed up a rear elevator shaft, but through a freakish maneuver, the fire almost skipped the second floor of the three-story structure and centered its activities “on the topmost floor. The thousands of gallons of water which seeped through the third story flooring saturated the massed stores of paper on the second floor. however Dense smoke from the blazing pa per, combined with the disagreeable odors from the chemicals in the paper. hampered the work of the firemen and affected persons living in apartments and nearby rooming houses. the thick clouds drifting over the entire block east of Seventh street and north of 1 sreet Damage originated in principally the property and stock Capital Wall Paper (o, was constdered doubtful ance would entirely cove was valued at $50,000 diate north of consisted loss in the which it that insur. The stock On the imme- the wall paper com pany’'s building the Penn Electric Co. sustained considerable damage to fixtures and electric essories through smoke and water Damages Adjoining Property. The Plggly Wiggly Co. and Kal Hpolis Grotto club ms, in the ad Joining building to the south, sus tained damage also, the grocery com pany suffering the lighter loss, while the Wright Furniture Co.. south of that bullding. reported some damage from a flooded cella Until the sewerage connections from the bullding could be opened from clogged debris, the cellurs under the entire four buildings were flooded. the water reaching more than a foot in_some parts of the Penn . structure and more than t under the wall paper company's structure. This cellar water also caused heavy damage in the wall paper store. since a large number of rollx of paper were stored there A large crowd turned out to watch the fire, which broke out while after theater parties were still in the down town section. Capt. Martin Reilly called out reserves from the sixth pre. cinct and from the first precinct to handle the crowds and scores of police men from the first and sixth precincts reporting off at midnight, half hour after the first alarm. also volunteered for duty at the fire lines. Firemen *Stand By" Till Morning. The crowd waited for more than an hour and then, the blaze getting under | control, melted away as the biting breezes proved too fierce. But fire ap- paratus continued at the scene untii | early morning. most of the engines leaving at about 3:30 o'clock, although water was still being poured into {hlvl building from No. 14 Engine Company { at & late hour this morning, to guard | against smoldering sparks in the wall | paper stock. The building principally affected by the fire, the wall paper company’s plant. is recognized as one of the most carefully built atructures in downtown Washington Built in 1885, with low er walls two feet in thickness, firm and solid. it was used by Christian Xander., wine and brandy merchant, as a rectifying plant and salesroom until prohibition came to Washington Fire Marshal L. V. Seib is going over the huildings affected by the fire today, making a careful check-up on stock and fixtures in an investigation s determine probable cause of the blaze and the loss. 18,000 PROPERTIES LISTED IN TAX SALE Auction of Real Estate to Be Held on March 9—Total Value Exceeds $600,000. in Approximately 18,000 pleces of prop-| erty owned by delinquent taxpayers will be sold at public auction by the District March 9 if the taxes are not paid by that date, it wasannounced to- day by C. M. Towers, collector of taxes. The total value of the proper ties, which includes several of Wash- ington's Jargest apartments, Mr. Tow- ers estimates to be between $600,000 and $700.000. All property to be sold at according to Mr. Towers, is that on which owners are in arrears on 1925 taxes. Some have pald a half year's tax, he said. while others have failed to make any remittance. Owners can save their from the auction block. Mr, Towers explained. by paying the tax plus a 12 per cent penalty for delinquency. A fee of 50 cents also will be levied for advertising the property for sale. A voluminous book containing the names of all delinquents, their prop- erty and the amount of the tax. hu been published by the District. Copies may be procured from the tux ¢ tor. ! More than 6,000 pleces of property were sold at public auction last year, according to Mr. Towers. $5,000,000 FOR AVIATION ADDED TO NAVAL BILL Allotment in Measure for That Service Reaches Total of $18,- 900,000 for Ensuing Year. In reporting the naval appropria- tion bill yesterday the Senate appro- priations committee added nearly $5,- 000,000 to the allotment for naval aviation, making the total recommend- ed for this purpose for the next fiscal year $18.900,000. In addition to this total, the bill would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to expend $4,100,000 for produc- tion and purchase of new planes, and one of the amendments inserted by the Senate committee would Increase by $650.000 the House appropriation of $6,278,686 for maintenance of air- craft factories. air stations and all other Navy aviation activities. Presenting the bill for the commit- tee. Senator Hale, Republican, Maine, oftered no comment on the program for greater aircraft appropriations, auction, property —_— Philadelphia every' month produces | female population of England and |appropriations exceding by $4,121 more ice cream than any ether <ity in the werld. Tt is estimated that about half the Wales are now wearing their hair ‘bobbed. but gave notice he would ask early action on the measure, which carries the tatal of $312,312 the House, 7 approved L , FEBRUARY 16, 1926. e B FIGHTING $100,000 BLAZE IN PAPER PLANT Flashlight photograph of fire last night t, which wrecked the building oc venth street northwest. tional Photo. COUNTESS CATHCART WILL SEEK RETALIATORY LAWS IN ENGLAND pocrisy on Part of Unite for “Guilty” Parties BY ROBERT The Countess Catheart pledged herself of her found militant feminine friends in this country to work for a law in England, lating inst the immigration ws of the United States, as con ned by officials of the Department Labor T. SMALL. of has 1o some new The forward-thinking women of both | England and the United States have grown exceedingly bitter over treatment of the countess hy the im migration authorities in this country the g detention at Ellis Island be- fore coming to a final deciston, and the dmission of the Earl of Craven with out any question as to his participa tion in the elopement which caused all the trouble for the lady in the case. The countess has stated openly and | publicly that she sees no reason why England should not have a law bar ring all American women who have bheen involved in divorce proceedings She also has stated that such a law might serfously interfere with trans- atlantic travel. Favors Retallation. It does seem to be a fact that Amer- jcan divorced persons, if they have the means to do so, generally “cele- brate” their freedom by a trip abroad. If France also should join England in retaliatory immigrations laws the em barrassments to Americans would be bevond measure. One of the amazing things brought forth by this case of the Countess of Cathcart is that the United States Government has not hesitated to issue passports to travel abroad to “guilty” parties in divorce cases. So far as it is known no man or woman ever has been denied this stamp of ap- proval by the Government, this war- rant of protection in foreign lands, this request to all other governments to treat the person named with all due respect and to extend tojhim and her all possible official courtesies. Just how the same government which vouches for its own divorced people can humiliate the divorcees of other nations when they propose a call of courtesy on the United States is more than the militant women of the country can understand. Women Are Serious. The National Woman's Party, al- ways alert to the equality of rights of their sex, is taking the Cathcart case with extreme serlousness. They were up in arms long before they dis- , Foreigners See in Her Case Nothing But Colossal Hy d States, Which Vouches Abroad. | covered that the Earl of Craven, with | whom the countess eloped, had heen admitted to the country without ques tion by the authorities. They knew that plenty of “guilty" men had been admitted to the country in the past and they resented the singling out of | the countess andi holding her up public scorn because xhe had frunk enough to admit her past The ladies have been very frank themselves in expressing their opinion of the narrowness of the public of- ficlals who halted the countess and sent her Ellis Island. They have contended all along that the countess had committed no crime involving moral turpitude. She may have com mitted an indiseretion—in fact the ladies are free ta sav she did so—but no criminal charge ever was laid agalnst her in England and therefore it was held that even a narrow view of the American law regarding “erimes involving moral turpitude’ could not legally bar the countess. The Cathcart episode has served to call attention anew to the differences between English and American divorce cases as they occur in the so-called higher circle Colossal Hypocrisy. | Tt seems that in England whenever | married persons decide 10 go in for & new love they elope. English elope- ments have heen pictured in story and | song for centuries. There is nothing | new about them. Two persons decide to “cut it.” They decide 1o make a sensation out of the affair. They pub- lith thelr new-found love to the world. They elope. Sometimes they elope only to the Riviera of France. times they go to Italy. particularly bold and wealthy the to Egypt. Their secret is out body knows about them In America. on the other hand, di- vorces generally grow out of some he- lated discovery of relations which have been going on for a long time. Americuns. as a rule, do not elope. They just carry on until found out Sometimes American couples travel abroad with no object of matrimony European countries have been i dulgent in matters of this sort in the past. but in the future they may put | 1l Americans through a third degree | 85 10 their present or previous condi- tion of morals and moral turpitude. The Cathcart case will never be understood abroad except as a piece of colossal hypocrisy on the part of the United States (Copyright, 1928.) DAVIS IS EXPECTED TO DENY COUNTESS OF CATHCART’S PLEA (Continued from First Page) of any individual. It involves the status of all the women of our coun- try. The present decision of your de- partment, if allowed to stund, would recognize that the Government of the United States may officially set up a double moral standard ax between men and women. ““Fhroughout the years olir Govern- ment has admitted men who were the guilty parties in divorce proceedings and it is a glaring injustice to set up now this standard for women. “Therefore, on behalf of American women whose interest is involved as well as that of the Countess of Cath- cart, we ask you to be heard in pro- test against this discrimination and in demand of a reversal of the verdict of | the immigration authorities. EXCHANGE PERSONALITIES. Lady Craven Wants Countess Admit- ted to See “‘Cradle Snatchers. NEW YORK, February 16 (®).— With the Countess of Cathcart wait- ing at Ellis Island for a decision from Washington on her exclusion, and the Earl of Craven in Montreal, whither he fled just before a warrant was is- sued for his arrest, the principals in the case are engaging in an exchange of personalities. The countess thinks the earl is a coward because he fled. She wouldn’t “have him back if he groveled at her feet."” The earl, glad to be safe from im- migration officials, says *‘the Countess of Cathcart only came over as a sort of publicity stunt and they hit back at me.” He wants redress for “unwar- ranted mudslingi: Lady Craven, O took the earl back after hiz c.opement with the countess in 1922, wishes the countess could enter the country 8o she could see a Broadway play entitled “The Cradle Snatchers.” Legality Is Challenged. The countess’ counsel appeared be- fore the Labor Department Board of | Review in Washington vesterday and| challenged the ‘legality, common sense and justice” of deporting her because of her admitted relations with the earl on the ground they consti- tute moral turpitude.. 3 ngress did not intend to set up the Department of Labor as a censor of international morals,” he said. In the Senate yesterday Senator Copeland of contrasting the “gracious reception” of the Earl of Craven with the plight of “this weak woman,” asserted every citizen ought 1o blush with shame over the action of the Labor Department. AL Ellis Island the countess said she thought the earl’s “departure for Canada showed luck of pluck.” She sald she had “lots of fight” yet. In New York Lady Craven blamed the countess for dragging “me and all my ideals in the dust.” Her husband was a “poor sick soldier” at the time of the elopement, when he was lured away by an older woman, she con- tended. Going to Bermuds. In Montreal the earl denied guflt of moral turpitude and expressed his shame of the country in which his mother, daughter of the late Bradley Martin' of New York, was horn. He plans to sail for Bermuda, joining his wife there. Ralph Neale, playwright and finance of Countess Cathcart, cabled an ap- peal from London to Secretary Davis, asking him to reconsider the case. He also has asked President Coolidge to intercede for the countess. The National Women's Party, the Lucy Stone League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom held an impromptu discus- sion of the case after the regular per- formance at a New York theater last One spectator, who described him- self as a “mere man,” said in defense of the countess: “Has she done any- thing so very wrong that we haven't done? BRITISH ARE AMUSED. See Countess Involved in U. S. Love For High-Sounding Words. By Cable to The Star ao Chicago Daily News. LONDON, February 16.—Far from being enraged by the exclusion from the United States of Vera, Countess of Cathcart, the British public seems to be mildly amused over the diverting attempt to enforce a loosely worded law. Most of gently pok the newspaper editorlals fun at the “moral turpi; tude law,” which they claim illus trates the American weakness high-sounding and loosely phrased moral generalizations, where what is needed is absolute precision. There is not the least indication of any ill feeling over what might easily become an International incident. Con- siderable has been deveted to wecounts of the Earl of Craven's pre- cipitate flight across the fromtier to been | | | for | at NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICE PLANNED Will Be Held Five Days a Week at Theater, Com- mittee Announces. Noonday Lenten services will be held at Keith's Theater daily except Saturdays and Sundays, beginning next Tuesday. It was announced to day. The services will start at 12:30 and will be conducted under the auspices of the Laymen's Service As. soclation of the diocese of Washing ton of the Episcopal Church in co operation with the Federation of Churches of the District. The puhlic is invited Tuesdavs and Thursdays a 5-minute program of special m will precede the regular service. Dr. L. W. Glaze brook. chairman of the committee in charge. announced. The services will be opened with a hvmn. followed by a praver and a 20-minutes address. collection will be asked will be broadcast. azebrook will preside at the service Tuesday. Rev. James T. Marshall will conduct the service, Rev. William F. MeDowell. Bishop of Wash ington of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be principal speaker and Jack Bowie will sing R. L. Ilavcock will preside, Rev. k. Pinkney Wroth will conduct the sery- | ice and the address will be given by Payson Smith, commissioner of edu cation of the State of Massachusetts, | on Wednesday. On Thursday, Dr. W. | Sinclair Bowen will preside, Rev. H. J. Smith will lead and Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore will speak. Miss Richie McLean will sing. Friday of next week, Percy S. Foster will preside. Rev. W. A. Lynch will conduct the service and Stephen B. Kramer, assistant superintendent of schools, will be principal speaker. AUTO IS OVERTURNED; OCCUPANT IS UNHURT in The programs Car Collision With Truck. Man, 80, Injured by Street Car—Child Is Hurt. Charles J. Lentz, 28 vears old, 1215 Twenty-ninth street, narrowly escaped infury this morning about 7:30 o'clock, when hix automobile was in collision with a delivery vehicle of Chestnut Farms Dairy at Tenth and I streeis and overturned. Lentz was driving east on T street, | while the delivery vehlcle, in gv’ of Harry L. Kinnear, 758 Sixth street southeast, was going south on Tenth street. Kinneur also was un- hurt. Richard C. Warthen, 30 years old, 1424 Webster street. wue serious'y Infured by a Capital Traction car a: Thomas cirele und Fourteenth street vesterday afternoon. Police report he | Ntepped from the curb in the path of an approaching cur in charge of Motormun Willlam Hino, 1323 M street, who was unable to stop the car in time to prevent the accldent. The injured man, unconscious, was taken to Emergency Hospital and was reported this morning as being somewhat better. While croesing in front of his home, at 2134 Eleventh street, ves- terday afternoon, Frederick Brooks, five vears old. was knocked down hy the automobile of Edward S. Whit- ney. jr. Fairfax. Va.. and slightly injured. He was given first aid At Children’s Hospital. EXHIBIT REPORT DUE. Progress of the plans for the second annual industrial exposition will be reported at the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the Wil- lard tonight. The report, covering the number of exhibitors and plans for special ex- hibits and entertainment features, will be submitted by Rudolph Jose, general chairman of the exposition commit tees. It will indicate that the second exposition, to be held March 4 to 13, will surpass the first in the scope and number of exhibits, IMMIGRATIONLAW HELD INFLEXIBLE Officials Cannot Admit Prom- inent Persons and Bar Poor, Experts Declare. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Every time there's an outburst in New York or elsewhere over the oper- mtion of the immigration law the De- partment of Labor here sits back and steels itself against the shower of criticism that comes fts way then quietly calls the critics’ atten tlon to the inflexibility of the statutes. How can a law ever be written which will permit the rich and promi nent to escape technicalities and at the same tme bar the humble ax low? That'’s the conundrum which cfficials here challenge the critics to solve. For in the case of Lady Cith cart, us well us in u number of othery in which the principals are well known, the depurtment here has had no alternative but to upply the law Iit- erully. Law Is Emphatic. There are many people seeking ad- mission to the United States who have been guilty of immoral acts The Federal law doesn't say that the Government can condone a few fenses nor does it permit discretion 4s between a person who Is zener- ally of bad rente and ene who is otherwise of good repute, but has been named as the guilty party in a divor case. And members of (Con- B s would hardly try to write an amendment to the present law which would make it keep out undesirable aliens and at the same time admit those of high station The theory back of the law fs. of course, not ko much, as the London critices have said, to place America on a higher moral plane than other countrfes. Basically the state has no particular Interest in the wsocial code only as it relates to public ex- pense and taxation. The entire fab- ric of law in this regard rests on the iden that an fmmoral person is likely to hecome a burden on the state in one way or another, and that crime and other interferences with the nor mal life of the state are liable arise if an undesirable class is mitted. Thousands Have Been Barred. Thousands of persons have been refured admission in the past because of moral delinquency. The public never hears ahout it till some promi nent person is involved. Virtually the same kind of criticism when any one is excluded for preach ing bolshevism abroad The allen laws state that any guilty of preaching a doctrine of » ution by force cannot he admitt Scores of revoiutionists and anarchists have been kept out. But when some publicist_or noted person school of thought tries o enter Island there a tirade of criticlsm about the law. Secretary Kellogz of the Department of State has gald that he doesn’t see why the same defense of aliens of low rank isn't mude by the champions of people who happen to have the funds to make a fight. He insists that the law permits ad one The Department of Labor is up against the same proposition every day and In cases, two, that are in no way related to moral turpitude. The immigration law is full of technicali | tles. It was written o as to limit the number admitted. Officlals concede that It works hardship, but an execu tive depariment cannol make new laws. It can only administer and ] force laws already passed. If the luw is wrong in the Cathcart case, Con gress alone can change it. but the Chunces are few members would care to sponsor a change in the law so as| to permit one type of alien to be pre. ferred over another in the uncertain and indefinable realm of what constl- tutes violations of the moral code. (Copyright. 1826 1 “Flu” Epidemic in Dallas. DALLAS, Tex.. February 16 (#) More than 250 persons are seriousiv il with influenza and 20 deaths from the malady have been reported in Dallas since Saturday noon. vital sta tistics showed vesterday. Thousands are miffering from a mild form of the disease. Today in Congress Senate. The naval appropriation bill is slated for consideration on the floor this afternoon Leaders of colored organizations urged passage of a Federal anti lynching law at & hearing before a subcommittee of the judiciury com mittee. Representative McFadden testi fied on the national bank bill be fore the Senate committee on buuk ing and currenc. * A subcommittee held hearings un the agricultural appropriation bill Further testimony on the rail road consolidation Lill was taken Ly the interstate commerce com mittee. Conferees on the tux bill met again today in the hope of adjust- jug the differences Letween the Senate and House action on the bill. The public lands committee con- tinued Hearings on the Stanfield grazing bill. Senator La_Follette, Wisconsin, advised the Senate he would not press for action on his resolution proposing an inquiry into recent food product mergers, in view of the court proceedings the Govern- ment has instituted. He asked that his resolution lie on the table in event he should decide to bring it up later. HOUS! The House today completes con- sideration of Army appropriation bill, which now goew to the Senate. House takes up consideration of sesquicentennial celebration bill. Hearings on District of Columbia appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, totaling $31,- 700,000, started today before the subcommittee of the ilouse appro- priations committee, with Re: sentative Funk of Iilinois chalr- man. Regular meeting of interstate commerce, public lands and judici- ary committees, all in executive session. Hearings on education of Persian Montreal, but even this angle of the story is treated as farcleal and as showing most excellent judgment on the part of the harassed nobleman. n an ironical veln, the Post _declares: s ‘“We hope they do not mean it, but Americans have contrived to give what we hope is a false impression of superior_virtue, which Is a little gal- ling to Buropeans. We do not desire to ent upon an unfortunate con- troversy over the detention of an Eng- lish lady in a spectes of moral turpi- tude, outside of New York Harbor, but least we may say without any in- tention of malice that divorce seems to be one of those American institu- tions which flourish under high pro- tection, “As for the lady herself, it may be hoped that the success of her play will compensate for the stay in the glass house of Ellis Island.": (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Ce.) students under the Imbrie indem- nity fund continued before fureign affairs committee, with Mrs. Imbrie @s star witness, - Civil service committee appoints a special subcommittee on civil service retirement measures. Representative Dyer of Missour], principal witness before immigra- tion committee at hearing on legis- lation to admit Chinese wives of American citizens. Hearing before merchant marine committee on proposal to extend thanks of Congress to the crew of the S. 8. Roosevelt and othars. Gen. Davis, principal witness at hearing before military affairs com- mittee on proposed new department of national defense. Hearing continues before com- mittee on roads on United States ald to the several States in con- struction of post roada. and | rexults | no discrimination in excluding aliens. | ! and CHANGES N WATER MEASURE SOUGHT Citizens” Council Asks Bilis for Virginia Be United in One Proposal. Alterations in the pending bl which would autherize the delivery of water from the Washin, ! : ¢ gton Clty system 1o the Arlington County sanl. tary district in Virginia are recom- mended by the Ciilzens' Advisory Council, which was called upon for a report on th asure by the House District commi Two bills wer senta Moore 1w for delivery Vashington suburbs Marylund m, introduced by Rep- Virginia provid water irom the the Virgin provided 1¢ One measure would permit delivery of water direct from Dalecarlia reservolr uctoss the Chain Bridge under the ac {tration of the Secretary of W, The other would permit delivery across the Francis Scort Key Bridge under administration of the District Commissione In hearings was explained that the Chai Proposition water we be taken directly from the Dalecn Whereas in the Ke it would puss through hea used main of trict’ svstem, o that in one District niains would not be in the other part of livery svstem would he Mr. Moore ins both of the proposit meazure, and i bill that the ¢ il _mukes its rej The council #i aqueduct, which imd the new reservoics, whict construction supply for the Virginia s The council polnts out 1 and 3, taken | two agencies v ity for the distri 1s ¢l wro the report Continuing | believed | 2uthorit leave of Colum} stoners, | suthorits about @ o distributior system to aseis already suburbs. the in employ wa is this composit ns Advisory Co; ds that with the new is about com filtration plan are in the cou the vill be an amy ch sha water rd bad legisla iT oft the f these are no | &na should | The provisios |to Arimzton ¢ <imple terms « of water ne footing as all The District Cc advises, in fixing for nsers of IN ALUMINUM CASE Counsel for Company Refuses to Tell- Stockholders at Probers’ Request. legal | By 1 PITTS Feder it Asrocinted Press URGH Trad -d bruary 16.—The ission. delving practices of America, 1 Treasury uck a the names 3 1 % monopolisti wWhich Necret W. Mellon a stockhol veste when e own the stock Whiteley duay wany ref persons wiore than 3 per commission counsel the hem w comy the names of ste in comp: holders he put purpose of stockholders with America. W. W for the company would not be produced. He considered information “hizhl tial”" Whiteley W. W Shepard. « who ordered that the Smith reiterated his subject was dismisse Later Whitele: on under consideration nerval be he courts i names, George R secretury America day 1 f compa ! tition the i Co. =mit unsel said the names such confiden Maj commission exam <t be prese and. and the tn obtain the vice president m \lumin Co of w the most out |ENGINEER DEAD JN WRECK ON HELL GATE MOUNTAIN Firemu Injured, Score Shaken Up. Plunge Into Valley Is Nur rowly Averted. the wor By the As Lehigh Valley bound from New was wrecked on i 10 miles from here the death of the injury of the fireman sengzers received cuts none was badly hurt he engine and six cars left the rails on the upper side of the track. Had they left on the other side they would have plunged over the side of the mountain. Only one passenger car was attached to the train. This was in the rear. and. with four other express cars, remained on the track. All the passengers were hadly shaken up. Re- lief crews sent to the scene brought them to this city William Graham, the engineer, who lost his life, boarded the tr ton. The name of the injured fireman has not heen ascertained Traffic on the division was complete- Iy tied up fof several hours, and it was necessary to route all trains over the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Unofticial reports said that a dragging brake beam was responsible for th accident. PLEBISCITE LAW OUT. Tacna-Arica Commission Promul- gates Rules for Election. ARICA, Chile, February 16 () The Tacna-Arica plebiscite commis- slon last night promuigated the law which is to govern the plebiscite to determine the suzerainty of the two provinces he law will regulate registration of electors and bailoting The commission postponed the com- mencement of resistration (o March 15, Twenty Amevicans arvived | terday from Panam; They tute the vanzuard of more than Americans. all of whom will { upon the 1l and secrelaries express train N ot 1 seri \ and broises, but const o European for tonished at the the United State: penple are aa- of timber 'y