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POLICE CHIEF HURT Women Storm Catholic Edi- fice in Mexico, Braving Fire Hose Attack. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, February 24.—Dur- ing u women’s rlot at Church of the Sacred Family the chief of the tenth district was serfously in. jured and four civillans were hurt Vesterday. The gendarmes fired a volley over the heads of the rioters, composed mostly ¢ women, bhefore they dis- persed 'he playving of hose upon them by firemen previously had had no_effect. The trouble began when gendarmes endeavored to disperse parishioners who had thered in the belief that Jhe government was endeavoring to ! «lose the church. As a matter of fact, howev, Mexican priest, Father Carrasco, ordered the edifice closed. Chief Clawed by Women. The women attacked the police, oentering their efforts on the chlef, who was clawed and mauled badly. When the flremen turned a stream ©f water on the women they marched o department of the interfor fntentfon of making a pro the shutting of the doors | *h. llere nlso the firemen | were called out, and when more | plaved on tho women they and went home. most serfous incident it has developed since the govern- t started enforcing constitutional 2 bitions againat forelgn ecclesfastics. Demonstration Planned. Advices from Chihuahua City say that in protest against government interference with religlous schools & hig demonstration is to be held there next Sunday. Twenty-thres schools there, including a Baptist academy, have been closed. They had a total ©of more than 6.000 students. The government of the State of maulipas has fnformed the Cathollc *ishop that foreign priests must quit 1iie country or be expelled. In Tampico the mavor has sent out a similar otification and the Church of Maria f Auxiliadora will be closed, as i priests are officiating in it. 'COUPLE DIE BY GAS IN BALTIMORE HOME Mrs. Ross Duncan, Nurse, and W. R. Riley, Former U. S. Army Lieutenant, Victims. Br ths Associated Press, BALTIMORE, Md., February 24— Mrs. Rose Duncan, 35 vears old, reg- istered nurse, and William Raymond Rfiey, 40, a former United Sates Army lleutenant, were found dead today in Mrs. Duncan's East Baltimore sreet apartment. Gas flowed from a tube ing between them. Authorities safd AMrs. Duncan's father died Monday and that her 13- vear-old ter had been ordered to an_institution yesterday. Detectives found in the pocket of the man's coat a letter bearing the rignature of Maj. Charles F. Clark of Quartermaster's Corps, United tates Army, commending Riley for his work in building up a company depot in France. It identified him as @ member of the 342d Battalion, artermaster Corps, and was dated me 13, 1919. e DONALD H. STEVENSON VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Reservation Warden of Biological Survey at Unalaska, Alaska, Buried onald Harley Stevenson, 33 years 2 reservation warden of the ited States Biological Survey, sta- d at Unalaska, Alaska, who was for consultation regarding his there, dled of pneumonia in the gton Hotel Saturday. Funeral cas were conducted in Arlington Cemetery this afternoon with military nors. He served as an enlisted man Camp Lewis Washington State, | during the World War. Mr. Stevenson had been called to Washington the early part of this month and contracted pneumonia soon after his arrival. He was flrst connected with the Biological Survey about 10 years ago, his first work being in assisting to make collections of wild birds and msmmals for scientific purposes. Tater he became a hunter in con- neotlon with predatory animal con- trol work of the bureau in the West. Fntering the military service in 1918, Mr. Stevenson served until the end of the World War and was emploved as | a ranger In the Forest Service, where he served until 1920, when he was transferred to the Blological Survey | and placed in charge of the urea:i Aleutian Islands resarvation. He is survived by his father, F. M. Stevenson of Babb, Mont., and a half- brother, who also resides in Montana. CIVIC PLAN UP TONIGHT. Lyon Village Meeting on Organi- zation Is Arranged. $pacial Dispateh to The Star, LYON VILLAGE, Va., ¥ebruary 24. on of a citizens' associa- cepresent this community in the onal development progrs Arlington County will be discus and probably effected at a meeting to night of Lyon Village residents in the office of Lyon & Fitch, at 8 o'clock. Robert Plymale, president of the Arlington County Civic Federation, has agreed to assist in the organiza- tion of the new citizens’ body. He will call the meeting to order and make a brief address outlining the possibilities for civie servica which lie hefore the new assoclation when formed. It is expected the meeting tonight will be devoted to the election of tem- | porary officers and the appoiitment of a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws. Indications point to a large attendance. F. C. RIELY, 60, DIES. Resident of Capital for Past 30 Years. Francls C. Klely, 60 vears old, a regident of this city for the last 30 veers, dled at his residence, in the | Troquols Apartments, 1410 M street yemterdny after an illness of 10 aavs. " Fun services will be condicied at Hysong's undertaking establish- | nent, 1300 N street, tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Arlington. a re; Had Bee | INRIOT AT CHURCH | mother to that .of the dean of Bar- { lamp-post, telling him he fthe Deans and Presidents of Colleges Tell of Experiences. Four College Heads Among Those Gathered at Dinner. BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER. The dinner of the deans—that is, of the National Association of Deans of Women—last night at Wardman Park thrilling affair dem- speaking. Never have T seen 80 many woman college presidents gathered together outside of the classic maternal halls. Wisdom and wit were present in the same person, and that person v multiplied. President Marfan Parke of Bryn Mawr, notable for being the pioneer institution where research opportuni- tles were opened to women, po: a sense of the satirically hum that can eat through seemingly impenetrable problem like acid through a stone. To illustrate, she said, among many other things: “The presi- dent, biologically speaking, antedates the dean. The first deans were actual- ly called ‘lady principals.’ The one- candle power thouzh had finally come to & certaln board of trustees that it might be possible that women could be useful in supervising the minor problems of the woman students, but none of the major activities! But women are at last coming to the upper reaches of administrative work, and the range of deanships goes all the way from a sort of super house- wus a rather cally 1 nard, who 1is herself the flnal ad- ministrative officer. The one factor in common is that of personal con- tact with the students. The work is hard and fatiguing beyond any other. It s vague and only to be deter- mined by experience." President Mary Wooley of Mount Holyoke, kindly, and much cherished by her students, was at the speakers’ table, but did not,speak. Preside: Meta Glass, the most recent acquisi- tion to the ranks of her distinguished profession, brought with her « hreath of peaceful things from her Virgini hills. Her college is Sweet Briar, | which, in spite of its idylllc name, is| a tlourishing institution. I think life there, to judge at least by its pre: dent, must be more serene and un- ied than is our usual tempo. more glven to contemplation as wers an-| clent halls of learning. President Vivian Small, head of the Lake Erie College for Women, like i , graced the dais in sight | s assembled, but was not on the program. These are all women whose achievements, combined, fill much space in ‘*“Who's Who.” But last night the sense of individual things done was merged in a deeper feeling of completed personalities that went THE NOTED WOMAN EDUCATORS SHOW RARE BLEND OF WIT AND WISDOM MARIAN PARKE, President of Bryn Mawr. beyond degrees and books written and committee: nd campalgns. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, legislative councilor for the National League of Women Voters, needs no description to Washingtonians. She is a speaker of wide experience and much charm, and she told one story last night that was both funny and illuminating. At a conference here in the Capitol some time ago, many of the workers for a certain measure were gathered to- gether. Among them were several voung college girls, very modern and Joining with derable zest into the deliberatior Mrs. Park was interested by their attitude, and said to them that she liked very much to see their genera tion taking a part so v was rather startling: ed In_ seeing men of (Mrs. Park said “old women' a part. This is our job. You'll all be dead, probably, before the next war, but we'll have to fight it:" Dean Florence Purington, also of Mount Holyoke, is continuing as presi- dent of the deans' association. Miss Marth Doane, who presided at the din- ner, is dean of women at Earlham Col- lege, Richmond, Ind. Miss Doane's story of us quo in Latin for the mesy we're in” was another highlight of the evening. Other notable mem- bers and guests who were at selected ables were Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips of New York City. one of the promoters ) the early organization of the asso- tion; Miss Mary Ross Fotter, councilor of women at Northwestern and one of the hostesses; Miss Mar- aret Cameron, National Assoclation f Appointment Secretaries; Miss elyn Hartridge, president, Headmis- tress Association, and head of the Hartridge School for Girls in New Jersey; AMiss Sarah Converse, presi- dent of the National Aseoclation of Schools for Girls and principal of the Summit School In St. Paul; Mrs. S. E. D. Deane, dean of the Everett, Mass., High School. and Harrlet Sartain, dean of the Philadelphia School of De- sign for Women. MOTORISTS PLAY TO TRACK DOWN Surroundings Traffic authorities have provided an intriguing little game of hide-and- seek for visiting motorists in search of Massachusetts avenue in the vicinity of the Public Library. Through the simple expedient of signs the unwary visitor is led in far- flung directions and over devious thor- oughfares until he is willing to give up and ask the answer from the nearest policeman, although this resort is not exactly fair if one would play the game squarely. Here is how the game of try-and- find-Massachusetts-avenue is played: A visiting car going west on the avenue is confronted at Sixth street with a sign Instructing the strunger | that Massachusetts avenue is hack where he just came from. Asking ad- vice from a passerby is permitted a this point. The passerby suggests| that the sign was intended to point north on Sixth street, and vouchsafes the opinion that perhaps a mischie- vous boy has turned it around. Turning out Sixth street, accord- ingly, the stranger is led past K street to New York avenue, where a new trap awaits him. On his right at Sixth street and New York avenue, and also | on the lamp-post is another sign,| whose long arrow indicates that Ma sachusetts avenue is due south. Turn- ing his head toward the left, he is greeted across the street with another such sign, heckoning him westward if he would find, Massachusetts avenue. It does not take long for the driver to confer with his rear-seat advisers and his bighway maps and arrive at the conclusion that, having just come from the south, he will try the west clue. HIDE-AND-SEEK ELUSIVE AVENUE Traffic Authorities Have So Arranged Signs Near Li- brary That Driver Is in Maze Unless He Knows Thoroughly. Bearing out New York avenue to- ward the library, then, the motorist pulls up at Seventh street and Mount Vernon place. On his left is an arrow sign_pointing east to Massachusetts avenue, and, across the street, on his right, is another pointing west. He chooses west, if he is a wise driver, and presto, hefore he knows it he as found the elusive avenue. The motorist who starts the game from the west end of Mount Vernon place is glven more latitude in his hoices. For example, when he reaches Seventh street he may turn right and strike Massachusetts ave. nue without playing the sign game at all. Oldtimers, without the sporting instinet, usually go that 1f he is a stickler for signs, however, he | will follow the arrow pointing aleng New York avenue and zig-zag his way to the goal. The fdea back of the sign move. ment from the standpoint of the west-bound motorist 15 this: There is a rule against left turns at the cor- ner of Seventh street and Mount Ver non place, and unless the driver wants to continue up Seventh street to L and make his left turn, he must shunt_hls car through Sixth street and New York avenue in order to enter Mount Vernon place. Just what is back of the east and south hound slgns is not so clear, but it is presumed the ldea is to relieve congestion at Seventh and K streets, although there is no regulation against left turns at that intersec- tion, At any rate, the sign complex is furnishing lots of entertalnment for the stranger within our gates. TWO POLICEMEN RETIRED; ONE GIVEN HIGHER POST e Sergt. Lee pnd Pvt. Simms Trans- ferred From Active List, Pvt. Gouldman Promoted. The District board meeting toda; retirement of Sergt. Robert E. Lee and Pvt. James W. Simms of the metropolitan police force, and pro- moted Pvt. Chester Gouldman o the position of sergeant. Gould- man is attached to the fuurth pre. cinet, while Lee is at third pre- t and Simms at the cleventh pre. cinct. Lee was retired with annuity of $£100 a_month, while Stmms will receive £87.50 a month The Commissioners aiso approved a recommendation from the police trial bpard and ordered removal from the fgrce of Private Carl Henderson of te elghth precinct. Henderson was tried on February 4 on charges of neglect of duty and intoxication and found guilty. The following members of the police force were assigned to motor cycle duty with additional compensation, effective March 1: Otha R Theodore O. Mcntgomer Gemeny, jr.. Irvin I mond E. Smith, Laurence and Frederick (. Williams. i The following were assigned to bieyele duty. effective the same date: Willard H. Garner, James L. Mavars, William R. Ellery, Flovd A. Truscott, James T. McCary, William J. Lynn, George E. Thornton, Thomas M. Po- land and Howard O. Hurd. Commissioners, in approved the Death Penalty Report Due. Chairman McLeod of the judiciary subcommittes of the House District committee has called for a meeting | Friday, at which he expects to report to abolish capital punishment | i the District of Columbia and to | take up for consideration the Dick- | stein bill regulating the sale of kosher in_Glenwood Cemetery. i Mr. Riely is survived by his widoy Mrs. Beesie (. Rieiv. (weo brothers and & sisten, meat in the District Jf Columbia and the bill backed by women's organiza- tons to give women equal right with tmen for Jusy dulys Deaths Reported. The following_deaths have been reported {o ihe Mealth Department in the last 24 ours: Lola . Warnix, 20. 2410 18th st Ellen E. Leeds, 82, 1314 6th s Myrile C. Mclutyre, 42, 1400 Lawrence st. cholson, 78, Home for Aged, Plains.” iliam . Hall, 84, Homeopathic ial. Mjnnle ¥, Voute, 86, st. Bl aboin'e Has: pital, - Jane H. Kenney, 32, 1673 Columbi John C. Ellts United States Naval Hogpital, ¢ > Steifel, 60. 1503 30th st. Wilder H. Cookson, 38, St. Elizabeth's Hospital. William J. Walsh, 67, 613 H st. a.w. Dantel Howell,” 63,81, Elizabeth's How pital Harry F. Lacey. Catherne 1. Tien Ruth V. Moffar. A 19 14th st n.e. 1719 13th allinger ‘Hospital. KOG Alton pl. 17 Shaanon pi. se. L 2124 P st Home for Aged, 6o, 2 ® Mary E. Bardwell, Wilion L. Gannon. Leo H. Brudhurst, 15th st. M o Lo ™ 1, offat, "I hour, 1088 oosns ¢ Sowler, 60, 1817 i omas C. Bowler, 69, 10th st Hester Butler, 11th st. G Katie S. Robinson, G5, 331 U 8, Louise F. Edwards, 47, 600 40th st. n.e. a Newman, 48. Gallinger Hospital. wrence A. Gross, 21, 1019 18th st Sarah Patterson, Gallinger Hospital pyettie Abraham. 83] Home for Aged. Blus ains. ieorge W. Shumate, 4! 5010 Fitch pl. n.e. amue! lson. 19, 1 Linden court nie. Mare E. Stewart, 13 months, 218 R st. ll;‘.‘lph B. Laces. 8 months, Children's Hos- pi Births Reported. Erank and Janey A. Jones. boy. Charles R. and Mary Gantt, girl. William §. ‘and Masbelle L B Charles ind Lacte M. Williams,' boy.’ Charles and Jean H. Kibbey, boy. enry T. and Gertrude M. Arnold, girl. urdett 8. and Violet B. Righter, girl, Clarence M. and Mary E. Woodyard, boy. Joreph G, dnd Grace'Stephenson. g1t reorge and Margaret Curtis, boy. Albert C. and Eva Grunewald, boy. Samuel and Rose R. Shub, girl. John E. and er{ S, Vickery, girl. James ¥. and Edith M. Manning, girl. Stephen B.. Jr.. and Ruby Clements, boy. William and Katie Estes, girl. Marceilus and May D. Grimes. boy. Carl and A Bray. girl. Roy and Mamie Easley. boy. John and Faith Robinson. boy Joseph and Georgia Minor, gisl Bernard and Sarah J. Pogue. giil Roaco and Seima Atcherson, girl. Jolin 0. and Fennillia Johnson, &i:l Tames and Sally Upsher. boy. Alonzo and Marie Jackson, girl Arthur and Agnes Hawkins, girl. aad Foed, ganle TVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, NEED OF ARMORY TOLD IN HEARING Erection of Permanent Tour- ist Camp Buildings Opposed Before Subcommittee. The need of the District Natlonal Guard for & new armory and the de- sirability of preventing erection of permanent bulldings for a tourist camp in East Potomac Park were discussed at the hearing by the sub- committee on the District appropria- tion bill today. The subcommittee will start tomor- row on a tour of inspection of the streets to see where funds should be spent during the next flscal yea This afternoon the subcommittee e pects to finish hearing District offi- clals, except on part of the school appropriations. The school budget probably wAll be disposed of Satur- day. Next Monday and Tuesday the subcommittee will invite represent- atives of citizens’ assoclations and other civic societies who have asked to be heard on various items in the bill. Gen. Anton Stephan, head of the District National Guard, discussed the armory problem with the subcommit- tee today, when the item of $6.000 for erection of the armory was reached. He told the committee that the Dis. trict Natlonal Guard hos been ordered 1o vacate i1s present guarters on June 30. and in spite of desperate efforts they can find no place to go. He mentioned the possibility of se curing quarters in the Old Pension Bullding. It is certain, however, that Congress never would sanction the use “of any part of the Pension Building for an armory even if it should be recommended by the sub- committee on appropriations. $49,850 in Appropriation. The total in the bill for the District National Guard is $49,850, which is an increase of §2,400 over the current appropriation, The tourist camp was discussed at length when Maj. U. 8. Grant, 34, engineer officer in charge of public buildings and parks, was before the subcommittee. The appropriation bill last year car- ried 000 for permanent constric- tion work at the tourist camp. The contract for this building has not yet been let because strong opposition has developed among members of Con- gress against establishing @ perma- nent tourist camp in East Potomac Park. A canvass of members of Con- gress shows that there will be no serious critlefsm of the engineer of- flcer it he delays letting the contract for this permanent building until Congress has had an opportunity to pass legislatively upon the bill intro- duced by Chairman Zihlman of the House District committee and Senator Bruce of Maryland directing that no permanent structura for @ tourist camp be erected in East Potomac Park. Asks Lump Sum. Maj. Grant argued in justification of @ lump sum appropriation for the support of public buildings and pub- lic parks amounting to $334,660, in lieu of a number of smalil definite ap- propriations for {ndividual projects. He told the committee that a consid- erable reduction on cost could be made having a working lump sum in stead of inaccurate definite appropria- tions for particular work, the exact cost of which could not be determined in_advance. This saving also would result from a shifting of employes from one ac- tivity to another, which would be im- possible under the definite apportion- ment as heretofora made. This lump sum scheme has the approval of the Budget Bureau. A new {tem In the bill calls for an appropriation of $11,450 for uniforms and equipment for the United States park police. THEODORE F. SWAYZE DIES IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. Union Veteran of Civil War and Former Chief Clerk of Treas- ury Department. Theodore F. Swayze, §1 vears old, Unfon Army veteran, former chiet clerk of the United States Treasury Department, where he was employed for many years, and long a resident of this city and Chevy Chase, Md., died In St. Petersburg, Fla., Monda?. He had been in failing health sev- eral years. He went to Florida last Tall, it having been his custom to spend the Winters there. Mr. Swayze was first appointed to the Treasury Department in 1869 and was made chief clerk in 1884, serving in that capacity several years. In 1892 he was detafled on special duty with the collector of customs in Georgetown and served until resign- ing from the Treasury Department in 1893. He was reappointed to a position in the department about five years later and was retired soon after the retirement act went into effect in_1920. During his long service in the de- partment he was in charge of much important work, and at one time served as _confidentlal secretary to Frank A. Vanderlip when the latter was Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury. He served as a musiclan with the New Jersey volunteers in the Civil War. Mr. Swayze was a Mason, & mem- ber of the Kirkside Golf Club and the Cosmos Club. He belonged to Pentalpha Lodge, F. A. A. M. was a Knight Templar and a member of ‘Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He leaves a son, Robert Carlyle &wayze of Connecticut, and a daugh- ter, Mre. Burr Edwards of Chevy Chase, Md. Funeral services will be conducted at his late residence, 1 East Melrosd street, Chevy Chase, Md., tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. Charles Wood, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, of which he was a mem. ber, will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. DOUBT ROBBERY STORY OF AMNESIA VICTIM After a thorough investigation yes- terday, Detectives Kelly and Scrive- ner reported to Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives, their belief that Fred McDonnell, 70-year-old am- nesia victim at Emergency Hospital, had not been robbed while in Wash- ington. The detectivea traced the movements of McDonnell since his arrival in ‘Washington. The investigation resulted from a statement by McDonnell that he had been robbed of approximately $1,600 in a local hotel. In the effects of McDonnell at Emergency Hospital Detective Kel- 1y found underwear stamped with his name as well as with the initials S. S. D.” in large type. Kelly be- lieves that this indicates MecDonneil at the time these large letters were printed thereon was an inmate of some public or semi-public institution, or sanitarium, and a check on such institutions in the New England sec- |tion from which McDonnell is he. Lisvad {a hava cume Was lealijuted, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928. CARRIE C. CATT, RETIRING AT 67, SAYS WORLD PEACE IS ON WAY Convalescing After Two Weeks’ Illness, Holds Work Is Done. Won’t Come in Her Time, But Is Inevitable, She Declares. By Consolidated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Iebruary 24.—Carrie Chapman Catt is retiring from active service after 40 years of unremitting battling for the advance- ment of American women. £he is re- tiring with the culminating campaign of her useful life uncompleted, a campalgn for world peace, which she 18 convinced will not come within her thme. Mrs. Catt is convalescing here after a two weeks' {llness. She said today that during that illuess she has been dolng some heavy thinking. One con- clusion that she reached was that the time had arrived for . her to let younger persons. carry on the work. She is 67 years old. and rhe feels that she has earned a rest. “I shall not live to see world peace come to pass, nor will you,” said Mrs. Catt. “I am an old hand in the busi- ness of helping people to change thelr minds. I have been at it for 40 years. The process is slow. Many foolish mistakes are made. Changes Come Slowly. “Slowly but surely these great world changes {n thought come about. And this, like woman suffrage and abolition of slavery, is certain to come, as certain as the sun’s rising. But for me, at 67, I am preparing to re. turn to my home in New York in a retiring disposition. It looks to me, 8 I think of myself, that this is Patti's last stand. There is apparently no feeling of personal regret in Mrs. Catts' con- viction that she will not ses the end of the world peace movement. Move- ments have always been bigger *han studied them all her life. “The older I grow,” sald Mrs. Catt, “the more 1 feel that we do not dig down to the roots enough in these thin It took more than 150 years to bring about the abolition of slavery and 100 vears had to pass before pro- hibition arrived. The suffrage move ment, nobody knows when that started, but it took at least 100 years. “It's 'all & matter of helping people to change their minds. They change slowly, little by little. Sometimes you can hardly see that they change at wll. But they do a little here and a little there. And finally they ac cept the whole idea. Minds Change Point at Time “Here s an instance. After passing of the nineteenth amendment, I discovered that men who had been give the vote to women were shocked the | dent most enthusiastic in the campaign to|the world 100 years hence,” said Mrs, and grieved at the idea of woman's|fact.’” L MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. entering into politics or holding office. You see, their minds had changed on one point only. More alterations had to be made. “Foolish mistakes are bound to be made in these movements. By the time the victory is won, the beginning of the movement looks so small and obsolete and naive. “For Instance, the early abolitionists, you know, never had any idea that slavery should be abolished by law. Not at all. They tried to get the slave owners to realize that slavery was wrong and voluntarily free their slaves.” It was suggested that perhaps, if many workers in the peace movement came to feel as Mrs. Catt does, the realization would never come in their time, they would quickly lose interest. Takes “Long Look.” “I know,” sald Mrs. Catt quietly, “to work for a cause, mAne! people must belleve always that victory is at hand. And that is natural. But, I think, I have always been one to take what I call a long look at things."” But Mrs. Catt could not be wholly Carrie Chapman Catt and she has|gerious in announcing her ‘retiring disposition.” As she reminiscenced, the following observations punctuated her conversation. “Men needn't brag so about their old Shakespeare; after all there was only one of him. “In addition to preparing their chil- dren for the world, the business of women now s to prepare the world for their children. “According to one scientific theory, there are more male genjuses than female, and also more male diots.” Mrs, Catt, in 1919, as president ot the Natlonal Suffrage Association, saw her lifelong dream realized when the nineteenth amendment was added to the Tonstitution of the United States. Today she Is honorary pres! of the National League of Women Voters. “How I would love to peek in on Catt. “Then world peace will be a Dr. Charles W. Gilmore, paleontol- ogist of the Smitheonian Institution. who recently uncovared in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River many footprints belleved to have been made approximately 25,000,000 years ago in the sand by animals long since ex- tinct, is preparing to ret i in a few weeks to the canyon and.cont'nue his investigations. Under . grant from the Marsh fund of the Natlonal Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gilmore, who 1s curator of ver- tebrae paleontology of the National Museum, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, will devote himself to investigation of new lo- calities and obtaining additional spec- imens of these ancient footprints from the famous Hermit Trall local- ity for natlonal collections. Dr Gllmore's present plan is to leave some time after the first of April. He expects to be gons a month | or more on this work. It is possible that important new discovertes will be made and that new light will be shed on the habits of the antmals which made the tracks in the wet sand, now become sandstone, that have already been dlscovered. “The Coconino sandstone of the Hermit Trail in which these tracks found is considered Permian in says Dr. Gilmore. “In this sec- tion it has a total thickness of 380 feet, but, 50 far as known, footprints are found only in the lower half.” The footprints, explains Dr. Gil. more, occur from 900 to 1.080 feet below the level of the present rim of the canyon, which demonstrates thelr FOOTPRINTS 25,000.000 YEARS OLD SOUGHT IN GRAND CANYON Smithsonian Paleontologist to Slu(iy Habits of Ani- mals of Prehistoric Ages by Tracks in Sandstone of Colorado River Gorge—Seeks Samples. great antiquity, especially when it is considered that hundreds of feet more must have been eroded off from the top of the present canyon wall. The stone in which thess footprints have been indelibly preserved s a pale buff, finegrained, crossbedded sandstone, whose distinctive features are its massive appe: nee, the huge scale of the cross-hedding and the | uniform fineness of the o mponent grains of sand. The massiveneces of the sandstone, which is due to the coarseness of the cross-hedding, causes it to weather into the high- est and most precipitous cliff in the upper wall of the canyon. “Some slabs,” says Dr. Gilmore “were literally covered with imprints. and, curiously enough, all pointed in the' same direction up the steep slope of the sandstone laver, sug-| gesting an old trail leading (o the | water, or possibly recording a great | migration of animal life such as is occasionally known to take place among animals at the present time. Of all the trafls collected and the still greater number observed in the field, but one exception to the uphill mov. ment was noted, this heing the tracks | of « large quadruped, which clearly pointed downhill No doubt tracks occur in the Co- conino sandstone in many other local- ities, having been reported on the rocks near ‘Dripping Spring,’ also in the Hermit Basin, but the usual pre. cipitous face of the formation, ex- cept in a few favorable places, does not permit searching for them. REPORT ON TAX BILL CALLED UP IN SENATE FOR FINAL ACTION (Continued from First Page.) this tax, but ylelded to the Senate provision for & retroactive reduction in this tax. Cheered by his colleagues, Repre- sentative Garner of Texas. ranking Democrat of the House conferees, in the debate yesterday assailed the action of the Senate in repealing the inheri- | tance tax, and said it was due to the “wicked, viclous and indefensible campaign of the American Bankers' League.” Charge Against League. He sald some State legislators who had appeared here in opposition to the tax had been “bought” by the league, and charges of lobbying by other legislators wers made by Rep- resentative Tillman, Democrat, Arkan- sas. The House gave {ts approval to the measure yesterday after two hours of flery debate, centered on the inherit- ance tax, which the Senate voted to repeal and the conferees restored to the bill. A motion by Representative Drane, Democrat, Florida. to send the meas- ure back to conference with instruc- tions that this tax be repealed was rejected by a thunder of “noes” with- out a roll call. The membership arose and cheered Representative Garner of Texas, rank- ing Democrat on the board of House conferees, as he assailed the action of the Senate in repealing the inherit- ance levy, and attributed it to the “wicked, vicious and indefensible cam- paign of the American Bankers' League.” Lobby Activities Charged. Mr. Garner charged that the league had- paid the expenses of members of several State Legislatures to come to Washington “and seek to influence our views.” Pointing out that all Senate Democrats had voted for the inheritance tax in 1916, he inquired, “What has come about to make them change their view: | tive Green, States,” Mr. Garner continued, “must take {ssue at home with your Sena- tors on this question or change your views.” Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the board of | Senate conferees, had led the fight for repeal of the levy in the Senate. Asked to name some of the State legislators whom, he said, had been “bought’ by the American Bankers' | League to advocate repeal of the Federal inheritance tax, Mr. Garner named Speaker Brown of the South Carolina House. Representative Tillman, Democrat, Arkansas, said the members of the Argansas Legislature, by the names of “Hill and McCall, came up here to lobby" for repeal of the inheritance tax. Cheers also were given Representa- Republican, Towa. head of the House conferees, when he re- ported restoration to the bill of the in- heritance tax and claimed a victory in the conference ‘“for the principles of the House bill"” Fight on Retroaction. The Senate provision for a retro- active reduction in the inheritance tax was the subject of a sharp fight, but a motion by Representative New- ton, Republican, Minnesota, to recom- mit the bill to conference with in- structions to eliminate it failed be- cause the motion of Representativa Drane had right of way and only motion to recommit was in order under ! the rules. i Representative Newton declared | that the orovision would mean a | loss of $85,000,000 in revenue through | the lowering of taxes already as- sessed on estates. Representative Ramseyer, Repub- lcan, Iowa, also assailed the pro- vislon which substitutes the lower 1921 inheritance tax rates with a maximum of 25 per cent for the increased rates put in effect by the 1924 act, which carried a maximum of 40 per cent. The bill provides for a cut in the maximum inheri- tance rate applying in future to 20 per cent. Representative Garrett of nessee, the Democratic leader, con- | gratulated the House conferees and Ten- | urged approval of the compromise bill. o Milan, Italy, will hold its interna. ~Yoii members frem the Southern 'tional fair in Apefl. L RADIO PIRACY CASE MAY START “RAID" Said 24 Stations Will Seize Wave Lengths if United States Loses Suit. ‘While 24 broadcast station owmers are standing by walting for & chance to conduct a pirate raid on the high- 'ways of the air, officials of the Depart- ment of Justice today were putting the finishing touchea to the legal ar- guments they hope will prevent snch an outbreak. The result of their labors will be forwarded to Chicago in the form of & brief as the final link in the Govern- ment's case against station WJAZ, charged with illegal operation of & radio transmitter in the Nation's first attempt at alleged “air piracy Big Issue Involved. As the suit brought agal WJIAZ tests the regulatory powers of the present radio laws, nothing is beins left undone that might help its case and the arguments being prepared in Washington are in answer to addi- tional evidence introduced by the own- ers of WJAZ at the conclusion of the formal hearings {n Chicago. The time required for the prepara- tion of this answer s expected to de- lay decision of the case at least another fortnight. Meanwhile, with the powers of the present radio laws stil] in dispute, and with the whole realm of broadcasting threatened with chaos should the con- duct of WJAZ be held legal, the Sen- ate is again stirring itself in the interest of new radio legislation. A resumption of the hearings on the two radio measures before ft— the Howell and Dill bills—has been scheduled for Friday and Saturday before the interstate cemmercs com- mittee, and it is reported that com. promises on several of the most con- troversial points of the bills have been reached by the conferees. It hostility to the radio legislation &8 it 1s now written fails to appear this week, it is believed that final ap- proval of a radio measure can be speedily obtained. Notice that at least two dozen of the dissatisfled broadocasters of the country will follow the lead of WJAZ and appropriate wave lengths to their liking if the Government loses fits suit at Chicago has been given to the Department of Commerce. This in- formation is being used by advocates of the new radio bills as an argument for early passage of new legislation. Even should the courts decide agalnst WJAZ, there are other cloudy features of the radio situation which seem to need clarifying. FLAG DISPLAY FAVORED. Arts Commission Suggests Length- ening of Staffs. Approving “in principl the plan for a flag dsplay in Washington, as recently demonstrated on F street by the joint committes American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Fine Arts Commission has suggested that the flagstaffs should be length- ened and stiffened, and the =ize of the flag should be somewhat larger than those used in the demonstration Feb- ruary 18. “With these changes,” said Charles Moore, chairman of the commission writing to the joint committee, ‘“‘the object of a significant dignified and effective street decoration will result.” BURDEN OF PROOF PUT ON FRIEDMAN Must Show Neglect by Con- sul to Furnish Daughter Visa. Justice Adolph A. Hoelling of ibe District Supreme Court today filed = memorandum opinon in the man- damus proceeding brought by Lewix Frieirian of Washington to compel Secretary of State Kellogg to direct o visa by the United States consul ai Warsaw, Poland, for the immigration of Friedman's daughter Rose to Amer- ica. Friedman went to Poland to bring his daughter to this country be- fors she reached the age of 21 years and while she had @ preferential status for edmission. By reason of misinformation and alleged failure of assistance on the part of the consulate officer there he claims the girl reach ed majority and lost her status under the immigration laws before her de parture could be arranged. The court holds that the plead ings are not in shape for & final dect sion of the case end suggests ther they be amended 5o as to include 2§ party defendants the commissioned general of immigration and the S retary of Labor, both of whom woull have to pass on Immigration matters before action by Secretary Kellogg could be required. Until such amend ment and until proof is offered to support the claim of the father the he made request for assisiance in Poland at the consular office and to settle a question of fact raised f: defense that no consular officer re called the alleged visits of the father to the office, the court Withholds final decision. Justice Hoehling, howevdr, reviews the law in the case and reaches the conclusion that if the question of fag is proved Friedman should have been assisted by the United Htates consul at Warsaw in making necessary pas pers to secure a preferential quo‘s status for his daughter before sha attained majority. o good reason exists' says Jue tice Hoehling, “why appropriate re- lief should not now be afforded the father nunc pro tunc; since the right to compel performance of a duty ghould not in equity and good con- sclence be held to be destroyed by the lapse of time within which, in the first place, the duty ought to have been performed.”” Attorneys Peyser, Edelin & Pers and Georgs I Curtis appeared f the father, while Secretary Kelloge was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Rover. 610 9th—For Lease With Basement Term of years _Commencing March 1 Chase’ Coine. 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