Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1926, Page 1

‘The Foening S WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. Wi Weat \THER P e Pt ) The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. tonikht and possibly tomorrow ng followed by clearing: slightly wikht. colder tomorr tures—Highest at noon west, 385, at 10 pan. yesterday eport on page 9 { Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,890 WO Entered as second claxs matter post_office, Washington, 1p. (. No. 298 P) Means Associated Press. CENTS (COMMITTEE URGES JBODIES TAKEN SENATE RECONSIDERS PROPOSAL ARMY OF MINERS FROM DEBRIS OF UTAH AVALANCHE 43 More Believed Buried Un- der Huge Pile of Snow—Res- cue Work Is Underway. TO SURFACE; BOTH HURT| 100 Men Start Digging in Mass 400 Feet Long, 100 Feet Wide and 15 to 20 Feet Deep. the Assnciated Pross 1AM, Utah, of more than smatic search of February 18, debris at th ap Gulch this morning under |y frect supervision of Frank A ptendent of the Utah ware Mining Co. In this way it hoped to vecover the hodies of still unaccounted for in snowslide which vesterday known toll of 36 lives, Woardlaw, super those {Bill Put Back on Calendar at Request of Phipps of 100 men began a | | . (he | Amendment had took @ The Senate today reconsidered its action of vesterday in passin;s the bill which would have Distriet taxpascrs to hear the centire expon of $600,000 to complete the conncet- ing link hetween Rock Creek and Potomae Parkway. At the request of Senator Phipps of Colorado, who belicves this appropri required | 60-40_between the the District government, the bill v placed back on the Senate calenda which had the effect of setting aside | the approval vated by the Scnate yes terday. When the Senate convened today, Senator Phipps explained t called from the chamber just before the parkway reached and therefore did not have AN opportunity to present to the Sen- te his amendment. under which the nd still needed to link the two park < would be paid for on a 60-40 motion to reconsider wa. ind he was then about to 1t the bill be recommitted to the Dis- trict committee, in order that he might have an opportunity to present argu ments to the committee in support of his amendment. He explained that hi: not been argued be- fore the committee when it reported the bill to the Senate. Several Senators suggested to Sena- tion should be made on the basis of | United States and | _| connecting of the park Colorado, Who Believes Approprigtion Should Be Made on a 60-40 Basis. tor Phipps that instead of recommit- ting the bill that it be left on the Sen- ta cilendar, which would enable him 1o present his amendment for consid- of the Senate when 1ken up in its regular Phipps accepted this sug- zestion and the bill was returned to | the calendar for later consideration. If the action of vesterday“had stood nchanged, the entire $600,000 neces- ry to complete the connecting of the ¢ would have been taken from revenues of the District of and since the House already passed the bill in that form, it would have become 2 law within a few days. The action taken by Kenator Phipps park the surplu other chance to have Congress con- sider the contention of local citizens { that the Fede pvernment should bear a prop ate part of linking More than SLO00.000 n spent in past yvears on the and all pre | vious appropriations ha | ed between the IFFederal and | zovernments |~ Local citizens contended it was un entirely from the District surplus. If the Senate should adopt the Phipps amendment, the bill then would have to go to conference be- tween the two houses. today, however, gives the District an-| e heen divid- ! Distriet | fair to take the last $600,000 needed | 15 BACK AT WORK INHARD COAL AREA 4500 Men Strike Over Wage . Rates at Pittston as Others Resume Toil. i - i | SOME FUEL HOISTED TO COLLIERIES TODAY | Radical Drop in Coke Price Comes as Shafts Are Reopened in * Anthracite Region. | By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., | Mining wa February 18.— resumed in the anthracite ' <ion today when the vast army of underground workers returned to their dutie after bhein )sent more than !five months because of the strike. Thousands of workers (hrnngpd; around the shafts of the different coal | {companies everywhere in the hard| oal fields at 6 a.m.. at which hour the | ges began lowering their loads of | -~ | /ALUMINUM PROBE; PUTY THESE! e CAMERA ( ; % BoYS IN THEY RuM CHASING CUMMINS DISSENTS .Later Says Proposed Action Opens Way to Changed Form of Government. iWALSH VOICES Si’AND OF MAJORITY MEMBERS | Holds Justice Department Derelict in Failing to Press Prosecution GOULD LINCOLN Aluminum Co, of Secretary M BY G and the Dr under i reasury Department rtment of Justice, came the floor of th n Walsh of M e urged that the dep: had been derelict in its duty: that had not prosecuted with due diliz its iIry to ascertain whether ti human freight to the howels of the | jearth and begin the actual production | \White House News Photographers Chased ex-Representative Andrew Volstead Across the | of anthracite, the first since the strike | { Aluminum Co. had violated a decr | the cou enjoining the compar {from acts in vielation of the ant us I laws | . ! nator Walsh urzed further that in conformity with the majority report of the judiciary commitice the Senat cuthorize that c ttee 1o invest zute the company. Asserting that the Crashes in Flames BUDIES []N B”I]GH‘,“ el By the Associated Press. 3 - ted Pres o num Co. of America, Senator Cum ABLANCA, French Morocco, mins of Towa, chairman of the judici 'wo More Days for Search. | | Leading coal | expected to produce | cent of the Iy average of 65,000 Construction of a vehicular bridge | tons. A, v, will not be ship-' across the Washington Channel south of the present Railroad Bridge at the has been covered. Mr. Wardlaw said. | approximate extension of Fourteenth He estimated two more days will be required to make this search until after 9 o'clock that he de. Cathcart Lawyers Will Ask Writ for Immediate Ad- mission on Bond. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. February 18.—Gov- ernment officials of two continents looked on today while the Countess of Cathcart prepared to wage a fight through United States courts for The provisions in the bill for the con- 'dence indicated the Aluminum Co. has tingent and miscellaneous expenses | acted in violation of the court decrer were completed and the hearings had jand that the Department of Justice tarted on the street items when the |had not prosecuted its inquiry as il subcommittee adjourned. Most of the |gentlv s it should. v permission to visit in this country.|session tomorrow will be on the street | Senator Walsh announced that if Many Affairs Planned. Her case will be ried to the |items. | the report were adopted he would offer United State Supreme Court if neces- | It is probable that tomorrow the|a resolution directing & senatorial in counsel for the countess said | District street officials will be ques: | vestigation of the Aluminum compan tioned regarding the widening of | Eleventh street, which is already au- thorized under the deficiency appro- | priation bill as far north'as New York . 1o ahont, suid Senator i avenue. To complete the widening of | “0abiad 4 implication of dm_g[;{‘;.‘” Eleventh street from New York ave- . c“qurc {1 Sbiavon of derel nue to Massachusetts avenue would ' piofte S0 I PArt of the Depar cost approximately $45.000. and would | jnta (he acts of the Aliminum o Is Important Issue. By the Associated Press, ““Thie report which the Senale LOS ANGELES, 18.—A long, slow earthquake shock rocked Los Angeles and vicinity starting at 10:17 o'clock today. Calif., Slides Two Miles. The slide Twelve survivors are in the he 1 o . To Remain in Bed; coal was hofsted 1o the collieries and | Ambulance Plane. - " he. botk £t p run through the chutes at 7 o'clock | 5 sinning the: hottom_ of the No Alarm Is Felt | this morning. The coal wax mined by | | (larryinfl Patient eiful at a time. Splintered hoards | <) 9 President Coolidge, who for the | The whole region became active as| ther perishable debris was de i v E ousands of workers en !Fine Arts Body Also Proposes | «na again canceled his business | | And thousas Mgt sa oned R five-vear peace pact. formally signed 18.—An airplane ambu ry committee. submitted inorit said he hoped to izl 9 parye Along Water Street S D ar nmittee. submitted a minorit it least 400 feet long filled to| oL e e A Operators said row_Supenntendents Hold | Rifan zone, fell in flames today Subcommittee Weighing "\l:‘nn imittes shoifld nndsriate to ih ey e ddbe Jese all were burned to death. Estimates for D. C. for the resolution of nvestization e it was thought best for hi 4 s neec . was thought best for him to re- |ped a use much of it is need-| | jator Cummins said.” He said that anies in the anthracite fields. The ' host to the 15,000 educators, including [l Raneamen oy cltizens: ansoc - reaolution bacomes the Seneral mrie street southwest, and establishment| cided not to keep his engagements. | oomen 10 A0 i e o 3 A it ons o "‘i',’:":w‘;d' Mkl jvork | tice of the Senate the “overthrow of “And_then we may miss some.’ =k e oRportuRty i verybody rather than all to a few, ' yy, & rsed 1ogar by the. National Com.| maining in his room the greater |Tne maximum output wil PRENHInG conk FA T AL RIM Y {9 mOFECS the House appropriations committee | Will Change Government. when the snow melts away 3 2 s 5 5 LGl e Smod) feousidering filie R he struggle which must ensu e Mhoi L oot e aner John L. Lewis, president of the | Superintendence. National Education « U, trict budgec for the fiscal vear be |will end either in the complete subord: Only 18 of the known dead have|commission by Maj. J. A. O'Connor, The plans, Maj. O'Connor said, were e organized labor. involving wages ag-|State Superintendents and Commis. | ready listed about 25 prominent citi. | legislative branch, or in subjecting the The rescue workers, numberi DU MOBIE | Mine workers who went to work to-! Hotel, and will hold a banquet to- S HAGEE the ARt Taker] Ene of the Aluminum Co. of finding alivi MeDc v bridge, according to Chair- ding alive of Jimmy MoDonald and| The new bride 1 {a month in normal times. Their pav | consent azreement for the consider: District budget. Danfel J. Donovan. ment under the wreckage. rittee, The question before 1l E. McComb, the engineer of bridges. o ' 1 given up for those remaining{duct and across the present Four- sary. | the council. tiihh Campbell, a miner, first heard S. Water street and the water fron: at | LOS Angeles, Santa Barbara, | s is “Troutie marked the reopening | and S. D. Shankland, secretary, t fn= for aid he dug and chopped his tion pier, which will have a small park s Tiien orhere Guployea by wed his way a distance of % i ervation at Washington Barracks at | a few minutes after the resumption of | the educational conclave can be gain- over her left arm, which was broken. ment of the water front will be un- February | sore spot in the upper hard coal|ruary 25, a perlod of eight d 8 jon for a writ of habeas debris and succoring injured survi he necessary appropriations made. | Woodward mine of the Glen Alden|tors. The program shows-that there | yilton J. Lambert, Washington traversing Its length removed. and v RA, Galir, Bebru=| combany. huhds S ¥ g di Secrets : s & & ed. an NTA BARBARA, Calif, Febru- [company hunds were turned bacl | The Washington Auditorium today | {HDSR1 10 (0€ oo atatod that Massachusetts avenue, thus | pitier Bt one of the hiehess i tal. and more than score receivi st-aid treatment. The sun was| ing today and weather :-nn«lllmn!l | shifts that went to work in the mines | ihe remains of what was once the ! t two days has been suffering |!h€ mine whistles blew this morning ed in a bonfire. i : 4 . ; | here vesterday afternoon. ng a native wounded sol- | Citi i Ireport in which he sharply ’ fo “tatk Lotort A epacel s sala s felt o ks Breal < a Citizens to Testify Before: report in which he sha: ke in Beautifying Plan. S o un Dames tooay ate the Alumiting Ci vags depthiof e : e 5 ar Kasba des Tadla. The pilot, zate the Aluminum Co. TEEcidIPih oL b o 20l teer = illness serlous. The President is ont Nizht and dav shifts will be kept main in hix room. He arose at his | ua for boilers at the mines ompanies will try to spread their! many of national prominance, and e S rmiente e of two small parks and a recreation| Then he went back to bed. jeomy X 1 to | our form of government is tha cert he said. “We may not know the > maining In his room the greater |The maximum output will be attained | for the nesstons of the Department of One unidentified body - was re. |mission- of Fine Arts. The bridge union, safd it wa$ the greatest con.|Association, and allied organizations e S0 T Gt Chndals : e i B s ot r han. on &I ation of the executive or judici been identified. | gregating a billion and a half dollars stoners of Education opened their s soon |legislative power to the ex '3 only tentative, and will have to be zens who desire to be heard as soon | v he "~ executiv more than- 50, were s { submitted to purEelonin day will not receive any pay for atipnighi’ ‘Dr: John J. Tigert, United Sxpatiie e America came up for constderation fn his wife mission, would & P his wife, owners of the hoarding house, | man Moore of the com: e (his month | Will speak on “Relationship of State o ey e conclders the District auditor; the assistant to The McDonalds were brought out 1 e nate was the adoption of this report e, were the principal witnesses today teenth Street Bridge. | 500 Men Go on Strike. | Dr. Frank W. Ballou, president of their faint cries coming through the i . approximately Tenth and L streets O the anthracite mines here. todas | day held a final conference on last 7 ; Santa Monica and Ventura way to them Both were conscious. at its land end, will be located at the Perriayivanis {Coal Co. 2t the | feet to his wife, who was the approximate extensions of Sixth | operations. ed from the fact that, beginning to- v effort has been bent toward % dertaken, Mr. Moore explained, as district for years. | total of 55 banquets, luncheons and 1o secure her release from ~vors and those who have been mad i Water stoget willibs repaved, two Coal Co. on the west side. but op-|will be 26 banquets, 16 luncheons and | ,iorney. who handled the countess' miles from | the entire dock line of the Washing-|a 18 (M —Santa Barbara was ) from various operations shortly after {has a_decldedly educational favor apylication for the writ_ would | relies imsiderable congestion on ! iance, d by the dlgnity of th Ninth ; \pproximately 40 others are miss Coolidge Still 11, went {nto effect September 1. Some ! zood for the search i ch, the debris was heing moved a ! flast n homes of a score of families. ghe . s hand from a cold, felt no hetter today | or the first time in nearly a half} {tered the pits in compliance with the ) | I engagements | 15,000 Expected by Tomor- i 25 d o 0spita re fre : the proposal tha s rough ng more than 100 feet wide his private physiclan, who is at- Production 25 Per Cent. dier to the hospital here from the he proposal that the ate, througi v | . . i N g = 0 4 Thére is no eonstitutional authorit by Bia dabyies very loabie ] 5 nician, surgeon and patient n u sald to have no temperature, but Opening Meeting. oy ommended in the majority report <1 work until the entire ground 5 usual hour today. and it was not | There are ahout 125 producing com-: Washington today began playving 3 - {product so that a little will g0 10| their families, who will register at the Be heard before subeo e < pler alonz Water street, were in President Coolidge, after re- heard before the subcommittee of | “esult exact number of dead until Spring. i bout the end of the month. office about 4 o'clock in the after- |“ yo) s covered early today. {and park plans were submitted to the ! o o , in the history of | The 53 delegates to the Council of | o : s al. |branches e Goyi he | engineer for the Washington District.| tion of importunt matters. tract ever drawn up in the vy of Funk of this subcommittee has xl. |branches of the Government to t Find Two Still Alive. == gre iin_five vears. sessfons today at the New Willard 2 hor I power.” said Senator Cummins Congress for final | as the District officials have finished | thelr atéa B b authorization. S attack upon the debris by the least 20 days. They are pald twice! g Sile T SO0 L R ation the Senate today under unanimo A ” Rapid progress s being made on the e 3 ; 50,000 and will form a | for the remaining ! i 20ct Bors b 1 howrs Umprison 'g';',',&'fu?.,r’ residents of Southwest i will come to them between the 10tw| Departments to the United States Bu- by Senator Walsh for the judiciar Washington to enter Potomac Park and 15th of March. In the meantime | reau of Education Music will be 4Hs . eriginter Of highweys andl David Jate last night after all hope had | Without going under the railway via- | | relier will be continued where neces.| furnished by the Men's Glee Club of which in effect asserted that the ¢ hried. P The parks are to be located between WILKES-BARRE, Pa, February | the Department of Superintendenc snow and splintered timbers. Call- . and Eighth and H streets. The recrea- Siter mearly six months of idleness. | minute detalls at the Franklin School VMeDonald, with a badly injured hip, the i north boundary of the military res- Feel Long Shock. | No. 4 shaft at Pittston went on strike| An idea of the huge proportions of pinned into the wreckage by a timber D and P streets. The entire develop- The dispute arose over wage rates, | night and continuing throughout Feb. lawyers were preparing an recovering those burled beneath the 2 soon as authorized by Congress and Trouble was also reported at the ! breakfasts will be held by the educa- land pending court decision. byrsless. the f treet K of the four street car tracks now a o s 1o erations were continued. A score of [ 13 breakfasts. appeal to the Secretary of Labor, by | allow « miin artery of traffic connect- | pant.'or America. t 15 ot o taioi 0 tile ‘setilomne ot thid ton water front on the Washingt 2 b 4 5 | 5 0 N o e little settlement, more than a ashington | shaken hy a sharp earthquake shock [the opening of the mines because of | with 154 exhibits flanking the ground ade immediately to the United Tenth and Twelfth streets. par olved and the interests « mile #hove sea level in the Oquirrh ; Channel side rearranged. Mr. Moore [at 10:1% this morning. Although Mountains, when the freshly fallen | described the proposed new bridges, to|some excitement was caused, there enow <lipped from its resting place | COSt about $50,000 as “a little bridge.” | was no damage. Some persons ran on an earlier fall that had become | ‘WAter street, under the plans of the | from buildings. In general, the di- crusted. Ax it zigzagged its wayCommission, would become the main | rection of the shock was the same as down the canyon it gathered mo- | traffic artery —between northwest |that of June 29. It lasted approxi- mentum, weight and speed. In its| ‘Washington and Anacostia. The pres-| mately five seconds. Path of more than twe miles the|ent plans do not call for extensive avalanche dropped at least 1.000 feet, | commercial development along the| SANTA MONICA, Calif., February A mile from the start it passed | \VAter front, but are consigned to|18 (P).wA slight but distinct earth- gver and elosed & tunnel mouth. Haif | beautification and improvements /of | quals was felt here at 10:19 am a mile farther down it closed still|the present docks. CEN ‘2 - ing from’ its foundations and then|Posed $3,000,000 construction project |\ ot P NANETR RSUAE FET 8 o morning. No damage was reported. the failure of the miners to report for | floor, housing all the principal firms | States District Court. It will ask issue work. ) in the United States catering to edu-|tiar the countess be admitted to the Senator Walsh told the Senate that _The walkout was not unexpected.|cational needs . United States under bond. the lawyer fttee is understood to be | the Aluminum Co. of America en Prior to the expiration of the contract | Space for these exhibits was eagerly | <aid continuation of this | joved a monopoly of the production of last September there had been trouble | taken as soon as it was placed on the ) crude aluminum’ in America, and that at this operation, the workers demand- | market and the returns are to help miscel. | it controlled the supply of bauxzite ing $7.50 to $8.80 for a shift, which the | defray the expenses of the conven- ¢ from which it is manufactured. and company refused to pay. i tion. |the industry in general. The decrer Usual Procedure. i Superintendents’ Meeting. s ok Si¢ | the Personal Tax Board, harbor mas- “::“\;‘t'r::u:"l nl\’ll‘!m'!ls\;!l\anm hede'«i | owever, s s to k ter, Health Department, survevor's e n had enjoined the m?;h:orl:’&u‘mp;fi::“: :::‘mltr;u:‘:fu;-’:? Brief talks on “Objectives in State | out” and fight. she said. office, office of superintendent of | COMPany from acts which would con e oo evante commmittes toc | School Administration” were given | “I did hope the authorities would | (eigits, measures and markets, De. Sttute & monopoly. in the meaning of adjustment, and If satisfaction is not | t0da¥ at the opening session of the | consider the human elements and|partment of Insurance and Board of | the antitrust laws. He said that the made a clear leap of more than 100 | for extension of Walter Reed Hospital. ADiained. to ‘arrange for a complere | Councll of State Superintendents and | not only the terrible severity of the | Charities, 50,000 is proposed. which company had controled both the ot feet to the thickly settled canyon,| The commission did not discuss re. e e Bitiston aren. " Tniq | Commissioners of Education, with the |law.” the countess continued. “Per- |i¢'¢3000 more than the current appro- | Put and the prices of aluminun. Where it exacted its toll of life and |moval of the tourist camp in East |Reports from the Southern Pacific| (113 fmyolve 10,000 workers. | following delegates reporting: C. O.|haps T expected too much. Srlation, OF-this ‘amount: $161000 10| e were ihat (he carthauake was felt, "O0 K. Morris, general manager of | Case. Arizona: A. B. Hill Arkansas:| “But I do not see how the Govern- | for stationery biank forms, printin | * 2 with severity at Santa Suzanna. | the Pennsylvania Coal Co., announces | Will C. Wood. California; Mary C. ment can judge me. I had thought|and binding and miscellaneous office “When the Senator from M supplles; $3,000 for furniture, $2,500 ' savs that the Aluminum Comp monopoly, does property and came to u stop at the l’l"m"lm" Park to another site. It has very doors of the community church |already gone on record as favoring 3 7 c Santa Suzanna is approximately 18 o8 5 ERES RO S officlals of | Bradford, Colorado; Elizabeth Russum, | that only God was my judge. How miles inland. Redfield, Idaho;|can men judge women. If women |for typewriters and $2.000 for books| America has of reference. mean that it so controls that others upon this business ind the offices of the copper mine. | removal of the tourist camp to another e a e . far B 7 s the first report | 0 ¢ S Ethel B One man, Id Halvorsen. an occu- | location, preferably on the Eastern his is th § ! District No. 1, United Mine Workers, | Idaho: Ethel e of the disturbance touching a polnt | o members of the colliery grievance | Francls’ G. Blair. Tllinols: Henry N.|had passed on mv case I know the y appreciable distance away from result would have been very dif-|" For printing all annual and special | cannot _enter : 2 reports of the Distret fuvernment for | asked Senator Reed of Pennsylvani Siichtly tnjured: s wite tion of $50.000 is already available for The miners in the Pennsylvanial Henry Rhoads. Kentucky: J. M. Mc- the ¢ last night to go to Montreal (o gperation of passenser FIff on crude al New Mexico; - Minnie J. it of the two-family house car., Branch. A joint resolution was intro- ' | | Sherwood, Indiana: May Franci: the ocean beach. ferent.” submission to Conzress $4.800 is pro-| Semator Walsh replied ths the missing. the construction of a permanent build- operations have figured in many un.| Connell, Minnesota; Charles A. Lee. na “mother that wild boy,” her husband. | owned by the District the bil' <ible for others . Favorable to Continuation. The com favorable for a work. Amonz the contingent and laneous expense items for the general expenses of District offices. including Countess Disappointed The countess, by telephone from Ellis Island. expressed disappoint- ment with Secretary Davis' findings. repair and 1 1 automobiles | cause of the high tz as|inum ft was impo: 1 on the ci of the duced in Congress yesterday dealing o - v 4 5 committee during the day in an ef-| Sy e s Goes to “Mother” Craven. sed ny owned and controlled absoluteix ing at the present tourist camp, 12 DEAD, 130 REPORTED oo | Missourl: May Trumper, Montana i o 1 Fear Other S ; s Camp: authorized strikes in recent years, | Miss May distance of half w mi with the tourist camp and an appropri. 1fort to end the dispute. | Towa; Jess W. Kansas The Countess of Craven prepared| For maintenance o the production of bauxite and that be At 2 o'clock this afternoon the mem- Company officlals said they had worked | John W. Matzen, Nebraska: Isabel “ompany officlals said they had wor ILL IN TYPHOID EPIDEMIC ! & total of only two months in 1925 The | L. Eckle A bathtub and wash bers of the commission Inspected an Baitia home saved little Couchita and Johnnie Baitia, 4 and 23 years, re spectively. Their mother and a baby are amons the vecovered dead, | ter is missing, The father, < in the mine and was among | je workers that. after six tiveless effort, extricated the two surviving members of his family. While the rescue work was in prog- | ress, Dr. ¥ “traup, county physi- | cian and mavor of Bingham, called an | emerzency meeting of the tcwn board 1o take uction toward relieving the ! suffering of the homeless. There will he no inquest, nor will there he any official Investigation, au- | tharities said Two previous ‘h each took of these wa snowslides in Sap! tolls of three lives. s in 1889, the other IFearing that another slide might oc- cur. Superintendent Wardlaw detailed two squads of men to patrol Frisco Gulch, adjoining Sap Gulch. The men are armed with shotguns and are in- structed to fire three volleys in the event the snow begins to move. Aids in Sending News. Whole-hearted co-operation on the part of Supt. Wardlaw enabled the \ssociated Press speedily to reach the utside world with the authentic in- formation of the snow slide which took such a h toll of lives. The scene of the disaster is 32 les from Salt Lake City and more in_two miles up the canyon from nzham. This trip can only be made by sled horseback. The slide stopped within 5 feet of the rear door of the com- pany office building. Mr. Wardlaw turned his private office in this build- ing over to the Associated Press. Half an hour after the staff man ! the Associated Press reached the scene, the wire connecting the tele- sraph key in Mr. Wardlaw's office, Jdirectly with the overland wire be- 1ween San Francisco and Kansas installation of flags on F street be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth, ar- anged by the American Legion. Cer- monies were held in which the Dis- trict Commissioners joined. The com- mission then resumed its deliberations at the Interior Department Building, taking up the question of construc- tion of a medical building at Howard University, and the size of the figures for the Ericsson memorial under con- struction in Potomac Park. Bergdoll Charges Extortion Plot. MOSBACH, Germany, February 18 ). — Grov Cleveland _ Bergdoll, American draft evader, in his prelim inary examination on charges of se- duction, claimed that Robert Sachs, the detective who brought the charges, attempted to extort -hush money from him before lodging his complaint. Colon, Cuba, Placed Under Strict Quarantine and Compulsory Inoculation Started. By the Associated Press HAVANA, February 18.—One hun- dred and thirty cases of typhold fever are reported in the town of Colon, 92 miles from Havana. Twelve deaths from the disease have occurrea there. The sanitary department several days ago established a rigid quaran- tine guard of soldiers around the town, refusing passage in or out to persons who had not been inoculated. Compulsory inoculation was imme- diately started. The department an- nounces that in view of the strict quarantine no danger exists to other sections of the republic. 5 Tables Turned as Rubber Goes Down And British Cry for Revenge on U. S. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. LONDON, February 18.—British rubber dealers in Mincing Lane are complaining bitterly that American speculators are responsible for the dis- astrous slump in prices from the high peak of last Fall of 5 shillings a pound to the present quotation of about half that amount. Where a few months ago American consumers were feverishly demanding action against British producers, the boot now is on the other foot, with British agents clamoring for revenge against America. Stocks in London warehouses are ac- cumulating rapidly, with many deal- ity was ecarryvinz the account of on . Column 1) ers holding large quantities for which .hey refused offers of 1 shilling 6 pence per pound last November. They would be lucky if they could sell today at 2 shillings 5 pence per pound. Reports from the rubber estates in the Far East indicate that production exceeds world demand, with every likelihood that prices will go still fur- ther downward. Future orders could be booked here today for regular monthly deliveries during 1926 at 2 shillings 2 pence per pound, with even lower rates prevail- ing for next year. Big manufacturers in England declare that they hope to see the price descend to 1 shilling 6 pence, which they claim would give the producer at least 10 pence profit on every pound. Even conservative observers Belleve the price is bound to be downward during the next six months. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicako Daily News Co.) {charter of the local of which these workers are members was revoked by the union last year because of alleged | disobedience of orders from Interna- | tional headquarters. ! DEMAND INSPECTION. POWHATAN, Ohio, February 18 (®) —Demanding a further inspection of the workings by State and company inspectors, 600 miners refused today to return to work in the Powhatan | | Mining Co.’s shaft, where one man was killed and 23 others injured by | an_explosion, Monday. Less than 100 men responded to an order to resume operations, which was issued after E. W. Smith, district mine inspector, had pronounced the | mine safe. They changed their minds at the pit mouth and refused to go underground. The miners have called a meeting for this afternoon to decide their fu- ture course. COKE PRICES DROP. PITTSBUGRH, Pa., - February 18 (#).—A radical drop in crushed coke prices, due to the termination of the arthracite suspension, will be marked by the resumption of operations at a number of large Pittsburgh distirck blast furnaces, according to leading steel interests. ‘With the demand from the anthra- cite- consuming region practically eliminated, it was the general belief that the by-product, coke, would be used to operate the blast furnaces closed down recently. The price flurry in' coke today—a drop from $12 to $13 a ton to $5 and $6—had little effect upon much of the | Distyict of Columbia; W. beehive product en route or ready for shipment in the Connellsville coke region. Operators explained that the drop would not affect this coke, since it was under contract at the time of the anthracite suspension. Radio Programs—Page 34 / ! Nielson, North Dakota: Vernon M. Riegel, Ohlo; W. M. Smith, Oregon: C. G. St. John, South Dakota; S. M, N. Marrs, Texas: C. N. Jensen, Utal John Callahan, Wisconsin; Mrs. Kath- | erine A. Morton, Wyoming: Lester D. Anderson, Alaska; Will C. Craw- ford, Hawaii; Juan B. Huyke, Porto Rico; Arthur E. Lindborg, Virgir Islands, and G. R. Manalac, Philip- pine Islands. Afternoon Discussion. This afternoon the delegates wili hear H. B. Peairs, chief supervisor of Indian education, and Mrs. A. H. Reeve, president of the National Teacher Association, who will talk on_“Parent Power.” Tomorrow morning the following delegates will give their contribution on the “Objectives in State School Administration”: John W. Aber- crombie, Alabama; A. B. Meredith, Connecticut; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, S. Caw thon, Florida; N. H. Ballard, Georgia; T. H. Harris, Louislana; Augustus O. Thomas, Maine; Albert S. Cook, Maryland; Payson Smith, Massa- chusetts; Thomas E. Johnson, Mich!- gan; W. J. Hunting, Nevada; Ernest W. Butterfield, New Hampshire; John Enright, New Jersey. Frank P. Graves, New York; A. T. Allen, North Carolina; M. A. Nash. Okla- homa; F. B. Haas, Pennsylvani: Walter E. Ranger, Rhode Islan James H. Hope. South Carolina; P. L. Harned, Tennessee; Clarence H. Dempsey, Vermont; Harris Hart, Vir- ginia, and George M. Ford, West Virginia. —_— Missionary Reported Unhurt. PEKING, China, February 19 (P).— A report dated Tuesday says that John Bly of the Lutheran United Mis- sions at Sinyangchow, in Honan Prov- ince, has been located, unharmed. Previous advices said that he had been made prisoner of the national people’s army on a charge of spying. In parting Lady Craven immigration authorities excluding her termed the exclusion order blamed her husband for anything he had done. sald, "I just love people who get into trouble.” DAVIS UPHOLDS BAN. Decision Mandatory Under Law—La- bor Department Case Closed. The announcement Davis in the Countess of Cathcart ex- clusion case said the decision was alled the ‘dolts” for one-time rival. 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First Publication Beginning Tomorrow. of $89.100. of $14,976 for | owned motor ve- i there is no tariff on the importation of of official | For postaze of strictly o} Auditor Donovan recommended | Aluminum Company imports bauxite $20,000, which is §1,000 more than for | from abroad”" For judicial ex.| procurement claims of title, the printing of briefs. witness fees and experts services in | America. before the Supreme | 5,000 is asked for the next fis. | Germany and France and urged upon of | not matter cal year, which is $1,000 more than on, | it | which the Aluminum Co. has @ con For advertising notices of taxes in olumn &) import it “Doesn’t the Senator know tha auxite?”” interrupted Senator Reed Doesn’'t the Senator know that the Senator Walsh replied that it did that the Aluminum com - was the sole source of supply “Doesn't the much aluminum is Senator know imported that from the market here?” continued Senater For general advertising as required | R by law and for tax and school notices, | and notices of chanze of regula es.” replied Senator Walsh, “and comes from concerns abroad, in trolling interest. There is an agree | ment on pric Senator Reed asked Senator Walsh 1o name a company abread so con trolled by the Aluminum Co. America, and Senator Walsh promised lto do so. Cannot Maintain Suit. ‘The Department of Justice hus reached the conclusion that contemp! proceedings cannot be maintained suc cessfully azainst the Aluminum Co. of America, after “exhausting evers available source of information,” S ator Cummins, chairman of the judi ciary committee. informed the Senate in a minority report filed by him to day Its decision upon this matter, and the conclusions upon which that de cision is based. are now available™ continued Senator Cummins. “The majority report (filed by Sen ator Walsh of Montana several davs ago) in effect demands that the Sen ate shall disregard this decision and shall substitute the opinion of the ma jority of the committee for the de liberate judgment of the executive officiale, who are fully acquainted with the facts and who are alone charged with the responsibility of enforcine the la; These facts, Senator Cummins de (Cbntinued on Page 2, Column 5.