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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.} owest temper- Cloudy and warmer; ature 85 degrees tonight cloudy and warmer, yesterday; lowest, 26, at 6 Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,884, i e HOUSE BODY VOTE SWEEPING SURVEY Liquor Traffic Committee Unanimously Votes to Study Prohibition Effects. PLAN FOR PROCEDURE TO BE MAPPED SOON Backers of Proposal Think They Have Right to Act on Own Initiative. B the Associated Press. The House alcoholic lquor traffic committea voted unanimously today 1o undertake an inquiry into -condi- tions under prohibition. The committee will meet next Mon- day to consider a plan of procedurs. The members expect a thorough sur- 1oy of all aspects of the prohibition situation. The meeting today was in execu- tive session. The House rules com- iftree has failed to take up a resolu- 1ion sponsored by the alcoholic traffic committee asking specific authority to conduct such &n inquiry, but a num- Ter of members believe there is au- thority under the House rules to pro- «eed regardless. 1 Commlittee Long Idle. | In recent years the alcoholic lig- * mors committee has been virtually inactive, although before prohibition it handled much {mportant legislation dealing with the licensing and regu- Jation of the liquor traffic. Prohibi- tion legislation has been in the hands of the judiciary committee. The resolution presented to the rules committee declared a survey to be warranted in view of frequent | charges that there was no material | decrease in drinking under dry law | enforcement and that the morals of | the youth of the Nation were being | corrupted by prohibition. Will Recommend Action. This resolution was used as thel basis for today’'s action. After the| tnquiry the alcohol committee con- | templates recommending any remedial | Jegislation that may be necessary. Besides this resolution, the rules committee has before it a pro- posal by Representative Britten, Re- publican, Illinois, to investigate the ‘Anti-Saloon e, and yesterday Representative Democrat, Arkansas, introduced a resolution to| investigate the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. “LITTLE ITALY” GANG KILLS 41ST VICTIM Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands.” Deportations Asked. By the Associated Press. CHTICAGO, February 24.—As immi- gration inspectors prepared deporta- tion proceeflings agairst a dozen aliens taken In raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up mext week, a man, identified as Bal- Aelli, the -Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today. He was the forty-first victim of gang ‘warfare in recent years. The man had been shot and appar- ently carried to the spot in an automo- bile. In his clothing was found a no- tice that his application to be & po- liceman had been filed. A card found in his pocket was that of a partner of Orazio Tropea, the “Scourage,” whose assassination, climaxing _others. precipitated the action of the immigration authorities to weed out undesirable aliens. Police called attention to the fact that, despite the drive, a lull of only | one dax had brought a killing. The smmigration inspectors, after arrest- | ing 121 in raids Monday night, sus- pended further round-ups until next week The officials made it plain they were uot working against law-ablding citi- zens of any racial groups, but rather | &gainst certain undesirables whose operations brought disrepute to their countrymen. The president of an athletic club and a chauffeur told the police they thought the assassins’ victim was Baldelli. An examination disclosed he had been glven a terrific beating. The police thought the slaying had nn connection with an earlier shoot- ing affray between two rival gangs in automobiles, which raced on a West Side boulevard while occupants | exchanged some two dozen shots. One man, giving his name as George Far- rell, was captured when he jumped from one of the automobiles and fled into a residence, begging to be saved. WANTS MINISTER'S ACTIVITIES PROBED Wheeler Asks Inquiry Into Work of Hungarian Envoy in Karolyi Exclusion. By the Assoclated Press. Investigation of the activities of the Hungarian Minister to the United Btates and a detective agency alleged 1o have been employed by him, in con- nection with the exclusion from this country of Count Karolyi, was asked today by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, AMontana. The resolution, which was referred | to the foreign relations committee, alleged that the Hungarian Minister | had pald a private detective ngency | $20,000 to “hound” the Count and Countess Karolyi. Charges have been made, it was sald, that the count's “‘exclusion’ re- sulted from the forging of documents which tended to connect the count probably rain. Temperatures—Highest, 89, at 4 p.m. Entered as second class matte Washington, with undesirable political organiza- tions with waten tne United Sll&'n.' Q5 oL pu iriegdiy e : tomorrow a.m. today. r D. C. CHURCH TO TRY TEACHER ACTIVE/ IN RECREATION AS ‘TOO WORLDLY’| Indiana Case Will Show Modernism Is Not Irreligi- ous, Says Defendant, Who Allows Athletics, Checkers and Dramatics in Community Hall. By the Associated Press. PALMYRA, Ind., . February 24.— Because he organized basket ball and foot ball teams, encouraged roller skating and band practice on Sunday, and built a community house, where he allowed checker playing and ama- teur plays, W. Clyde Martin, 40, farmer, educator and athlete, must face trial at the Church of Christ here next Sunday on charges of recrea- tional practices unbecoming a church worker, Martin, a native of this village, re- turned here after graduating from Winona Agricultural College, where he plaved foot ball and basket ball. He became prineipal of the local high school. Immediately he had the board of trustees tear out a partition of the school, which he turned into a gyvmnasium. The schood then began turning out basket and foot ball teams and also an orchestra. The people of the town did not ap- prove of his recreational activities ¢h ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. =* and at the next election voted to put | back the partition. Martin then constructed a commu- nity hall, paying for it out of his own pocket, which soon became the center | of the voung soclal life of the town. Dancing was not permitted in the | house, but plays were given on the community stage by local talent. Checker boards were in the place, but | card playing was not allowed. When he allowed the plays, one of the deacons of the Church of Christ demanded he be excluded from tak- ing an active part in the church, say- ing he was too worldly. Martin demanded a public trial. Three judges, one selected by Marti, one by the church and one by his a cuser, will preside. H He announced he will conduct his own case, saving he will prove from the Scriptures that modernism isn't irreligious. “The trial will be of great value In | spreading some ideas of recreation,” Martin declared. SHODTCALLS P TARES N SEMATE Approval Expected for Bill, Which Passed House by 354 to 28. The conference report on the tax bill, which was adopted by the House yesterday, by a vote of 354 to 28, was called up in the Senate for considera- tion this afternoon by Senator Smoot, chairman of the finance committee. Favorable action on the report by the Senate 1s expected. It lops a total of $387,511,000 off the 1926 tax bill of the American people. Senator Smoot explained in some detall the action of ths conference committes and urged the adoption of the report, so that the bill could be | enacted into law in time for the peo- | ple to benefit by its provisions when they make their first income tax pay- ment, March 13. Smoot Explains Bill. Senator Smoot said the bill had gone to conference carrying 206 Senate amendments. The House, he said, had agreed to 145 of these amend- ments, and the Senate had receded from 19 of its amendments. The other 42 had been agreed to with certain modifications. The bill as it passed the Senate would have brought about a total-re- duction in revenue for the year 1926 of_$456,261,000. The conference bill, Senator Smoot said, reduced this loss of revenue by $69,000,000. While it provides for $60,000,000 more reduction in revenue than when the bill first the House and $35.000,000 more than when reported to the Senate, Senator 8moot 714 the conferees were relying on the prosperity of the country and increas- ing business to make it possible to meet the budget requirements. He added that the margin of safety may have been exceeded, but he reiterated his confidence that the economic con- duct of the Government's business and the taxes ralsed upon increasing business of the country would safe- guard the people. Two principal matters had been at issue in the conference, he said, the amount of reduction in revenue and the proposed repeal of the estate tax. In order to make it possible to enact the bill into law in time for the March tax payment, Senator Smoot said it had been necessary to compromise in conference. He then described those compromises. Early Approval Seen. The bill, passed by the House by a 354-to-28 vote, is expected to get to the White House before the end of the week for President Coolidge's signa- ture. - u,u in the House debate yesterday, the inheritance tax is expected to be the center of dfscussion in the Senate, which twice voted by substantial mar- gins to repeal the levy. House con- ferees forced restoration to the bill of “(Continued on Page 5, Column §) TYROLESE ASK BORAH TO AID THEIR CAUSE Pray “a Nulble Friend of Peace to Bear in Mind” That They Are Béing “Tortured.” By the Asscciated Press. INNSBRUCK, Austrian Tyrol, Feb- ruary 24-—After a mass meeting, at- tended by 3,000 persons here last night, a cable message Was sent to Chairman Borah of the foreign re- lations committee of the American Senate, /asking his assistance in be- helf of Southern Tyrol, the former Austrign territory which was given to Italy after the World War. The mes- sage said, in part: “Representatives of Tyrol pray a nobld friend of peace to bear in mind that/ Tyrol, which Mussolini has of- ficlally threatened with a Fascist in- vasion, and whose southern portion is ruled by Italy, is tortured by inhuman cruelties.” It points out that President Wilson in his memoirs referred to the trans- fer of Southern Tyrol to Italy as the gravest error in the peace settlement. TWO SHOT DOWN INST6300HOLD-UP Four Baltimore Bandits Es- cape in Auto After Get- ting Dairy Pay. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., February 24.— Four bandits escaped with $16,300 this morning after shooting down Eman- uel Berlin, paymaster of the Western Maryland Dairy Co., here, and a police- man, Patrick Durkin, who acted as nis bodyguard. Berlin and Durkin had just stepped out of the dairy and were crossing the sidewalk to board an automobile when four men, who had been standing at the curb, advanced. Without warn- ing, the bandits opened fire and snatched the satchel which Berlin carried. Rushing to an zutomobile, waiting with motor runmng, they drove off, whirling around a corner and disappearing before either of the victims could recover and draw a re- | volver. The victims staggered to their feet, assisted by pedestrians and employes of the dairy, who rushed outside upon hearing the shots. Both were taken to @ hospital, where it was said thelr wounds are dangerous, but not neces- sarily fatal. Pedestrians told the police the ban- dits’ automoblle sped northward. It was last seen moving st a lively rate through the northern outskirts of the city. ptions of the bandits were sent to the police of cities near Baltimore and a blanket lookout was established. v Though the four bandits who robbed the Western Maryland Dairy Co. pay- | master after shooting him and his bodyguard this morning took a north- ‘ward course in their flight, Washing- ton police were asked to be on the lookout, as they might swerve south- ward in order to thwart pursuers. Armed with rifies, headquarters de- tectives Kelly, Sweeney, and Waldron covered roads leading into Washing- ton from Baltimore. The Baltimore dispatch informed police that the ban- dits were well armed. LIBRARY BILL IS GIVEN HOUSE COMMITTEE’S 0. K. Measure, Passed by Senate, Ordered Favorably Reported—Will Come Up March 15. The measure which has already passed the Senate rewriting the or- ganic act of the Free Public Library and reading room in order to give a thority by law for continuation and expansion of the library work, includ- ing school branches, was ordered favorably reported by the House Dis- | trict committee today. This measure now goes on the District calendar to be taken up on Monday, March 5. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, resérved the right to file a ‘minority report. e FARM BODY COMING. Conference Executive Committee to Seek Stabilizing Legislation. DES MOINES, lowa, February 24 (P)—Twenty-two representatives of the eleven corn belt States, organized as an_executive committee of the North Central Agricultural Marketing Conference, will go to Washington next Sunday in an effort to obtain legislation to assist in stabilizing ag- riculture. On Monday committee members will meet with the congres- sional delegations of the 11 States and on Tuesday they will confer with the Benate and House agriculture committees. Wednesday the delega- tion will confer with President Cool- idge and Secretary Jardine. Doumer Going to London. PARIS, Februiry 24 ()3—The minister of finance, M. Doumer, will g0 to London to reopen discussion of | the war debt question as soon as the financial bill has passed through the Senate and Chamber, it was, :nnuuneod at the finance ministry Thousands of Birds Starving to Death In Snow-Covered By the Associated Prese. ‘BOSTON, February 24.—Thousands of birds in the snow-blanketed North- ern States, fighting a desperate battle for life, with their food buried deep under the snow, will have died of starvation when Spring comes. Massachusetts is distributing free grain to responsible persons and to rural mail carriers to save them. ‘Winthrop Packard, secretary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, de- clares the situation is the worst in years. A fpge 61 guwil appuaied i pensh States of the North of food In Wollaston, almost in Bos: ton, he sald. Hungry robins have haunted many communities throughout the Winter at Princeton, wild pheasants have ap- peared in the streets, the crow and ruffed grouse are hunting food about farm yards. The ground-feeding birds are hardest hit. These include such well known specles as juncos, tree sparrows and meadow larks and quall, 3 lb?nd phamt.l, and the mi- gratory robins and song sparrows who dallied in the North too long and were caught wheo the SMRE: CUTINFUND BILLS 0 MEET TAX SLASH ASKEDBY GOOLIDGE President Counts on House and Senate Leaders to Prune Appropriations. MAKES PLAIN HIS OPINION ON REVENUE REDUCTION | Apprises Tilson of Danger He Sees in Running on Too Close Finan- cial Margin. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge expacts Congress | materially to reduce some, it not all, of the pending appropriation bills to offset the bi¢ slash made in taxes by the revenue-reducing bill which is ex- pected to become a law before the end of the week. The President has made known his feelings to party leaders in the Senate and the House regarding the tax re- duction, which he has no hesitancy in declaring is considerably larger than he thought was practicable or pos- sible. He has directed these party leaders to use their influence in dis couraging increased appropriations ind where possible to effect reductions Word to this effect was carried {away from the White House today by | Representative Tilson of Connecticut, | Republican leader of the House, and several days ago the President gave | his views to Senator Reed Smoot of | Utah, chairman of the finance com-! mittee of the Senate, and asked him to handle this matter in that body. Will Sign Tax Measure. Representative Tilson did not get the impression that would refuse to sign the tax bill be. cause it I8 so much greater amount than he wanted, but he did get the impression that the President is very insistent that Congress trim down the appropriations. The Presi- dent, he believes, considers the $387,- 000,000 tax reduction as being so large as to cause serlous reflection, special- 1y so if there is any advance indica- tion that there is to be a falling off in the Government's revenues which are being counted upon to make this re- duction possible. The President has {sald on more than one occasion that ' it Is not wise for the Government to operate upon & dangerously low margin such as he contends is likely to be the case as a result of the pres- ent tax reduction. Among some of the appropriations that are likely to beur the brunt of this pruning process in the House and Senate are the public bufidings bill, increased pensions for veterans, espe- clally those of the Spanish War; good réad development and rivers and har- bors improvements. Besides these there are any number of items in the regular supply bills which call for| appropriations either larger in size than the amouni of money approved by the Budget Bureau or else rot at all approved by it. These, If totaled up, gvould run up into the hundreds of millions, and, in the opinlon of the President, could be reduced greatly. Many of these items, he contends, could be very well eliminated entirely. Would Ban Small Bills. Added to these money-spending de- vices there are many individual bills calling for large and small appropria- tions “or authorizations. These the President has let it be known should be_put aside entirely. Representative Tilson did not say whether he agreed fully with the President regarding this wholesale trimming of appropriation bills, but he did intimate that he considered it udvisable to enact the public bulldings bill this year. THis measure already has passed the House and he thinks it eventually will be passed by the Bonate. He would make no comment mbout the other more or less {mpor- tant appropriations which were men- tioned by the President during his conference. Representative Tilson declared that during his talk the President was very complimentary in referring to the business-like manner in which the House has progressed with its regu- lar business. But at the same time {he was plain in making known his disappointment at the size of the tax reduction bill as it was finally Those who are close to the Presi- dent, however, feel very certain there is not the slightest intention on his part of declining to sign the bill, although it impresses him ns being a trifle large in its tax cut. It was explained that the President favors tax reduction and wants ‘o see as much of the burden lifted {from the taxpaying public as possi- ble, but he at the same time does not want to jeopardize the fiscal cen- ditions of the Natlonal Government. | Fears Contingency. The President’s intimates say that his only fear is that a slumv in the business of the country might present itself during the year, with the result that there would be a followfng decrease in the revenues, in ‘which event the present reductions might bring about a deflcit. During this conference Representa- tive Tilson went over briefly with the President the legislative situation in the House. He told the President that the body of Congress has reached the point now where it could adjourn by the first of May. e ATHLETIC CLUB OFFICIAL FOUND SHOT TO DEATH Paymaster of Coal Company Lying Dead in Room—~Buicide Is Indicated. By the Associated PFrees. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February 24. —Albert L. Cobb, president of the Birmingham Athletic Club and pay- master for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Ralilroad Co., was found dead to- day in his room at the re¢ently com- pleted building of the athletio club. A pistol was found by his side. His body was found by a maid. He ‘nad been in {ll health for some time. Coroner J. D. Russum was summoned and immediately started an inquiry to determine whether it was a tase of self-destruction, as reported to po- tco headquariers. the President | in | YEAR'S DELAY SEEN ONWORLD COURT Reservations May Tie-Up U. i S. Entry to Extent of Reopening Issue. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although the United States Senate voted to permit entry into the World Court, it may be a year or longer be- fore the American Government is a member. The correspondence between | the Department of State and the va- ,rlous governments which are mem- | bers of the court promises to be long- drawn oit. The reservations tacksd fon by the Senate must meet with the |approval of other governments or else the latter must indicate their passive acquiescence by making no comment. Just what constitutes a reasonable time for other governments to say whether they accept the American reservations is difficult to te. In some instances governments have felt that a diplomatic note was under consideration if it was ac- |knowledgea and an answer given {within a year. Hardly Before November. Certainly it seems probable now that when the congressional elections are held next Autumn and the anti court speakers are upbralding the Senate for its action, there will be considerable doubt whether America will or will not have joined the court. Officials who are famillar with the time it takes to get action from 40 or more governments say the task could not be completed beéfore next November. The World Court issue, however, as developed by Senator Borah and oth- ers, does not involve so much a crit- icism of the supposed {ll effects of Anerican entry into the court as it does an argument against possible entry into the League of Nations. The Idaho Senator has let it be known that he will not aid any Republican Senators who voted for American ad- herence to the court and who are up for re-election next Fall. He does not say he will campaign against them, but in some cases he will as- sist their opponents. Mr. Borah plans to speak in New Hampshire in behalf ! of Senator Moses, one of the irrecon- cllables. He has made fpeeches in Illinois where quite a World Court agitation | has been started in the hope of de- feating Senator McKinley, who will ! seek renomination in the Republican | primaries. Administration Works Quletly. } ) ! Opponents of the court concede that | the reservations may tle up the ques- tion of American entry to such an ex- tent that a revision of the reservations may yet have to be worked out and that the question may have to be brought up again If the foreign gov- ernments do not accept the changes us made. The administration is trying to smooth out the wrinkles quietly and without public discussion as the mat- ter is complicated enough by the ne- cessity of action by foreign offices and in some cases by parliaments. Some of the friends of the World Court, particularly the Democrats, have been inclined to raise the League of Nations issue with a proposal for some form of @ssociate membership in mind, but the chances are against such a step getting very far at this Hme: Copyrignt. 1026.) Asks Haynes O. K. Beer Shipment to Congress Members By the Assoclated Press. Permission for the Schlitz Brew- ing Co. of Milwaukee to ship a case of pre-prohibition beer to each member of Congrees to deter- mine whether it is intoxicating was asked today of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes by Repre- sentative Hill, Republican, Mary- land. Mr. Hill said that transporta- tion of the beer. in his opinion, would not be illegal, because it would be used “for the purposes of inspection, investigation and ob- mervation” by members gress. To prevent any question arising, however, he requested that “you telegraph permission to make the shipments.” A copy of a recent telegram from the Schlitz Co. offering the beer for inspection was inclosed by Mr. Hill. e Radio Programs—Page 26. AUNTIE, WE'VE EVEN THOUGHT OF ALL |McKinley Asks Aid | Of G. O. P. Leaders In Illinois Race | :.1 the Associated Pre: Senator McKinley, Republican, | | Ilinois, who has announced his condidacy for re-election, sald to- | day, after a conference with Pres- | tdent Coolidge, that he hopes | spokesmen for the administration | would be sent into Illinois to | counteract attacks made by Sena | tors Borah, Republ Reed, Democrat, others. | Secretary Hoover has an engage- ment to speak in Chicago March 9 and Senator McKinley thought it likely that other Cabinet mem- bers and supporters of the Cool- idge administration would deliver addresses in thq, State Lefore the April primary. Reporting to the Presiden: the effect of the, Borah - speeches in Chicago, Senator Me- Kinley said he thought “ths thinking people of Iilinois rSent the idea that a Republican Sena- tor from Idaho and a Democratic Senater from Missour! should try to tell them how to run their affaire.”’- n, Idaho, and Missourt, and gt COUNTESSISDENIED NEW HEARING HERE Case Must Be Decided in Court, Labor Department Heads Say. By the Associated Press. A new hearing for the Countess of Cathcart, on the order for her exclu- sion from the United States was de- nied today by the Labor Department. In the opinion of Acting Secretary ‘White, the case now can be decided only by the courts. A judicial deter- mination as to whether moral turpi- tude is a crime and constitutes a bar to the admission of allens admitting acts of that sort, it was said, is de- sired by the Labor Department. Mr. White, after a conference with Assistant Secretary Husband and Solicitor Theodore Risley, notifled Ar- thur G. Hays, attorney for the coun- tess, who had requested that the case be reopened for the submission of new evidence, of the decision. Mr. Risléy said cases similar to that of the countess were continually com- ing before the department, and he hoped the court action growing out of the habeas corpus proceedings insti- tuted by Mr. Hays would define for the department a course which it would follow in the future. The solicitor added that he had or- dered the release of the countess from Ellis Island for a 10-day period, under bond, only after he had conferred with various departmental officers, who ad- vised that the case be decided by the courts and the countess given freedom while it was in the process of final adjustment. The Labor Department, Mr. Risley sald, considers the detention of the countess was correct under the laws regulating the admission of allens to this country. The erder for her ex- clusion, he added, would be defended in court, probably by legal officers from the department’'s own person- nel. In denying a new hearing, Acting Secretary White sald close adherence had been given to departmental poli- cl “Under the practice of the depart- (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 4.) as fast as th Yesterday’s (#) Means Associated SYEARARNY A PROEETDRAFTED Proposal, Similar to Navy Plan, Will Be Laid Before Congress Soon. By tha Associated Press A five-year continuing aviation de- velopment program, similar to the naval aviation project now before Congress, will be submitted to the House military committee by Secre- | tary Davis of the War Department next week. The project provides for & propor tlonate increase in aviation as co pared to other branches of the Army It was described at the War Depart ned to strengthen equipment, that the plan would not invoive great an expenditure as the $100,000, 000 in the five-year Nayy plan. The progyam was werked out result of the study Secretary Dx directed be undertaken of all the tes- timony at recent congressional and other aviation hearings. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Air Service, coopernted with othe branches of the Army in its prepara- tion. The project was described as in the nature of a first phase of the Lassiter Board program which contemplated a 10-year expansion to 2,500 planes, but modified to make expenditures reasonable and conservative and al to conform with the recommendations of the President’s A‘r Roard MRS. COOLIDGE STILL ILL. Physician Expects Full Recovery in Day or Two. Mrs. Ceolldge ed to bed today by a heavy cold, which caused her to cancel arrangements to attend the dinner given last night by Attor- ney General and Mrs. Sargent in honor of the President and herself Dr. James F. Coupal, the Whita House physician, reported that Mrs. Coolidge was resting comfortably and would be in usual healih in a day or two. CALVERT GIVEN DIVORCE. Wife of Mount Rainier Man Now in Cairo, Egypt. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Feb- ruary 24.—By decres of Circuit Court for Prince Georges County, yesterday, Charles Benedict C of Mount Rainier was granted an solute divorce from Lola M. F. vert on the ground of separation for more than three years. Mrs. Calvert has been living in E rope for more than & year and is now in Cairo, Egypt. She was formerly connected with the motion picture col- ony at Hollywood, Calif. COURSEY CASE VENUED. Charge of Beating Son to Death to Be Heard at Towson. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., February 24.— A change of venure was granted by Judge Stein here today in the case of Ralph Coursey and wife, charged with beating to death Mrs. Coursey's §-year-old son two weeks ago. ‘The case will be tried at Towson, Md., Herbert R. O'Connor, prosecutor, to arrange the date at a conference with court officials there. alvert ab- McCarl Stops $25,000 Prizes Offered By Navy for Airplane Landing Gear Proposed expendfture of $25,000 by the Navy for prize money to the de- velopers of “designs for amphiblous landing gear suitable for application to the SC type airplanes” has been stopped by Controller General McCarl. Declaring that such expenditure ‘would be illegal, Mr. McCarl suggested that if the Secretary of the Navy found that “none within .the Navy it can initiate, develop or produce such a design, then there would appear need to submit the mat- ter to the Congress, so that it may express its intent thereon.” At the Navy it was pointed out that the proposed departure from past practice in the matter of experimenta- tion had been with a view to encourag ing the private industry. The Na . X to the AlcCarl decisien, to spend the money l as $15,000 first prize and $10,000 sec- ond prize out of an appropriation for “‘continuing experiments and develop- ment work on all types of alrcraft” in the Bureau of Aeronautics. “The designs to be submitted,” said Mr. McCarl in denying the use of such funds for prize money, “evidently are not now in existence; neither are they to be produced under and in accord- ance with prescribed Government specifications. Therefore the proposed transaction cannot be regarded as a purchase or ~comstruction contract. ‘And while it involves, primarily, per- sonal services, it cannot be regarded as the employment of personal serv- ices either by contract or appojat- ment. Reduced to its final analysis, I fail to see how the proposition can be regarded as other than the offering of a reward or prize for the first and second hest design or conception of & signed | “From Press to Home ‘ Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Circulation, 105,141 T™WO Press. CENTS. THREE GRADES GET POOREST TEACHERS, - EXPERT DECLARES [Arouses Controversy by Claim That Schools Main- tain Dumping Ground. 'FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH | YEARS HELD NEGLECTED | | Prof. Earhart Says These Often Constitute Pupils’ Last Schooling. Charges that the fourth, fitth an- | sixth grades of schools in the United |States are becoming ‘“a dumplngz iground for incompetent teachers.’ | were made by Prof. Lida B. Earhar: {of Columbia University today at m | gathering of women educators holding administrative posts in connectlon with the fourth days’ sessions of the Department of Superintendence, Na | tional Education Association. | The educators, comprising members {of the National Council of Adminis |trative Women in Education, and rep resenting tates. appeared sur prised at Prof. Earhart's charge and several of them denied the accuracy of her statement. Others reluctantly {admitted there was much truth in the assertion. The debate on the question, {together with discuseion as to the best | means to remedy the situation, was | spiritea. Are Important Grades. . Earhart reminded her fellow | ore that they have 80 long { concentrated their efforts on kinder | garten ana prima ades and or | junior high sch that the v grades . have been ignored tten ion that at least one | third of the children of the country | 40 not go bevond the sixth grade ! this trio of units in the 6-3-3-plans { should be the strongest instead of the | weakest | Prof. Ella Victoria Dobbs of the | University of Missouri, admitted there was less attention given the 4-5-6 | grades than the others, but appeared to disagree with the unqualified state- ment of Prof. Earhart | Prot | educ: i Need to “Get Busy.” { It was agreed, as the meeting at the Raleigh Hotel progressed, that edu | cators must “get busy” on these three des. While this unexpected outburst was golng on at the Raleigh the members of the department of superintendence were confining their morning session at the Washingion Auditorium to |papers on A Junior High School Consisting of Grades Seven, Eight and Nine. |~ Promptiy at 11 o'clock the hallor boxes at the auditorium were opened and members ag‘exhe department o superintendence bhegan voting for & president to succeed Dr. Frank W Ballou While all of the four candidates for the presidency are considered able educators, it seems to be the con weus that the election will o to Edwin C. Broome of Philadelphia. who is plaving such an important role in the revision of the curricula, or Ran- dall J. Condon of Cincinnati, who for many vears has made his presence fe!- National Education Asso Southern Men Boomed. It is known, however, that the members of the department from the South and Southwest are wuging & vigorous fight in behalf of their can didates, E. To. Oberholtzer of Houston. Tex., and Charles B. Glenn of Birm ingham, Ala. It has been agreed for some time that the South should b served by a presidency in the depart ment, but as yet they ve not polied sufficient strength to swing an elec | tion. | The Texas delegation of 178 are | exceptionally active in behalf of Mr | Oberholtzer, and they held a break {fast in his honor yesterday which ; attended by scores of the edu Houston_also will make ! for the 1927 convention of | department. Pralse of Schools Here. A resolution voicing “gratificati over the status of schools of the Na tional Capital, expressing the belfet | that they are “coming rapidly to & | position that promises educational i leadership,’ and predicting they “‘may finally be found a model system of | education worthy the emuiation of every American city,” is expected to | be submitted to the department of su- | perintendence for adoption at tomor { row's final session. The resolution alsn is expected to state: “We are happy to observe that the wise directing mind and the skilled administrative hand in this undertaking are those of our col | teague, President Frank W. Ballou.’ Other resolutions known to be un der consideration by the resolutions | committee for presentation to the de | partment deal with the following sub- jects: 125" apprectation over the George i Washington address made before tho | convention Monday night by Prest | dent Coolidge. Thanks for the caurteous co- operation afforded the convention by citizens, officials and teachers of Washington as well as the high schocl cadets who acted as ushers and aides Attitude on Child Labor. 3. Affirmation of the ‘position o the department on the subject of child labor and passage of legisle- tion “preventing the explojtation of the children of America.” 4. Requesting public s,m»!pon in the algn to eradicate illiteracy. raalppflgmge of legislation clearing the title to lands grantsd by Con- gress for the benefit of common and public_schools. B 6. Recognition of the “acute” rural school situation and plea for its correction. | 7. Suggestion that the February date of the meeting of the depart- ment be changed. 8. Support of a health program in the schools. 9. Opposition to Legislatures dis- turbing the echool ourricula in the lllght of the Tennesses ani &, Urging that economy mnot be im- voked too far in educatiol §. Weet, superintendent Rochest. Y. in an (Continued on Page