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& Weat 1 tomo WEATHER. * Buceau Forecast.) rrow, some- ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | 425 1es e every city block and the regular edi- || tod tion is delivered to Wacshington homes ‘ Full et | as fast as the papers are printed ! Clulz N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesierday's Circulation. 122.222 No. 2020, Emevet ax second cigss mattar WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 192%6—FIFTY-SiX PAGES. » P) Means Associated Press. WO CENTS. HOVE TODRAW .S, INTO COURT PARLEY BEGUN BY LEAGUE Suggests Members Unite in Request That America At- tend Meeting in Geneva. WOuLD Lilrl} STRESS ON NEED FOR THIS COURSE Great Britain Gives Pledge of Whole-hearted Aid in Arms Re- duction Conference. By the Associated Press C A, April 1.—The nations which have sizned the protocol of the Permanent Court of International Justice have been advised by the L. e of Nations to indicate to the States Government the diffi of treating American reserva to adhesion to the court by di-| exchange of notes and to point out the need for a general agreement. United enlty rect The league has made this recom mendation in a circular letter ad-| dressed to all the court signatories, ' inviting them to the conference to be held September 1, at Geneva, to con sider the American reservations. The text of this letter was given out today by the secretariat of the It emphasizes that the court | ories should take the attitude indicated by the league in their indi | vidual replies to the notes addressed | them by the United States informing them of the American stand on adhe. ! sion to the court: The leazue’s circu- | lar summarizes briefly Secretary of | State Kellosg's letter to Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the league, announc the nature of American conditions to entering the | court and tells of the council’s deci- | slon te convoke the September con- | ference 1t requests all the goyernments ad- | dressed to inform the leagus secre. taviat as soon as possible whether they accept the invitation to the con ference. In case the invitation is ac- cepted, each covernment is requested ta name a delezation to participate in the September meeting MOVE CAUN SURPRE Officials Here See No Good in League’s | Action. { By the Associated Press ¥ The latest step of the League of ! Nations in connection with American | membership in the World Court has ! caused surprise and concern in Wash- ington. Officials here believe no & od will he accomplished by the league's circular to court members advisinz them to consideration at favor a round-table Geneva of the American court reser- vations. ews dispatches announcing the | Jeague's latest proposal reached the State Department a few minutes afier ¢he official invitation to attend the Geneva conference had been laid be- | fore Secretary Kellogg. He declined to comment. but it coon was apparent at the State De. partment that the chances of Amer- jean participation in_the conference had been harmed. rather than helped, by the explanation made in the Jeague's circular to nember nations. “hairman Borah of the Senate foreizn relations committee and leader , In the fight 1o keep this country out | of the World Court. sald the League! of Nations circular opposing eceptance of the American ccurt reservations by direct negotiation was al development, They are trying to draw us into nezotiations with the league.” Senator RBorah added. “l don't see how those| American adhesion can to this procedure.” BRITISH FOR ARMS CUT. he proposed ohject i Pledge of Assistance to League Con- ference Given in Commons, LONDON, April 1 UP).—The British | government will participate whole- heartedly in any international steps leading to zeueral measures of armament and Lord Cecil will 20 1o prepared to urge some defi nite scheme. This was made clear in the House of Commons teday by Godfrey Locke Lampson, parliamentary undersecre- | tary for the home office, answering a question raised by Arthur Ponson- | by. who was al member of Ramsay MacDonald’s labor ministry What we have to do, If we can to exorcise the demon of interna- | tional suspicion.” said Mr. Locker- | Lampson. “Lord Cecil certainly will | £o to Geneva prepared to urge some Geneva definite scheme of disarmament. We took the inftiative with the United States regarding naval disarmament because’ it is apvropriate to do so, but in all probability it will be more appropriate for some great militar power at Geneva to take the inltia- tive regurding militar; mamne, as | After 2 e step h niready been taken t Wash ington a very imy treaty was signed between five powers Imposing very definite limits on their navies, that similar | applied to sub. | consideration much fur. 1 think it i= unfortun instructions were not marines. \Very careful must be given as to how ther these principles can be carried. The government hope they will be carried further and will do their best in this direction.” Pointing out that the British navy, army and air force had been reduced. the secretary declared vulner:ble trsde routes must be protected and nothing must ba done Lo endanger them, but the government was ver: anxious to eo-operate in anv general | snheme for the limitation of armies | and their forces. Predicts Parley Success. ! 1 can assure the House.” he said *that the government will not bc behind-handed in the.international ef- forts now taking place to secure the peace of the world.” The British case at Geneva, he ad- ded. would be in the capable hands of Lord Cecil and he anticipated that something substantial would emerge from the sittings of the preparatory disarmament commission which he termed ‘‘one more milestone on the long, difficult road to universal peace. Mr. Ponsonby's speech, to which Mr. Locker-Lampson replied, was in nl(.cll (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) [ tee ‘will be devoted entirely to considera- !jously disappeared from that addrese jabsence, alarmed his friends, who in- i that Sponge Fishers Idle in Fear of Death Tradition \ BY the Assoctated Press. | TARPON SPRINGS, Fla.. April | I fappd idly in the reeze and dinky engines remained cilent yesterday, as boats of the (iresek wnunge fishing tleet rode at at the whart, afraid to venture into the open sca lest disaster vy ertake them ! ~ Death stalked the sponge. | fishing colony and claimed George | Filkaouris, one of the Greek fisher- men vescued trom e Tarpon Sprin that burned to the | water's edge on March 17 Leinging the toll of the disaster 1o three. A fourth member of the crew is expected to die from burns | received The five others rescued We v ot T recover, Tradition of the colony is that disaster urks for the boat that ventures into the open scu while there is a ¢ ve open for a member of the colony. COAL ISSUE PUT UPTO CONGRESS Threats Unless Control Leg- islation Is Enacted. Warning that Congress will be al- most entirely to blame if it fails to pass legislation at the present ses: slon stabilizing the coal industry =nd aimed to prevent strikes, Representa. tive Jacobstein. Democrat, of New York told the House committee on in- terstate and forelgn commerce today that although the recent anthracite agreement enabled the mines to re- open, “it hears no guarantee of peace in the industr Mr. Jacobstein said the present bituminous asrecment ex- pires on March 31 and hinted at pros- pects of a strike in the soft coal fields unless Congress passes remedial legis: lation. During today's session of the hear- ing which began last Monday. Chair man TParker of the committee an- nounced that the situation with re. gard to coal prices in Washington would not be investigated, nor would any local coal dealers be asked to testify. He sald the coal situatfon in Washington had already been investi- gated in the Senate, and if taken up by the House should properly be tak- en up by the House District commil. id, The present hearings. he s tion of the general coal problem, in line with the recommendations of the President for legislation stabilizing the industry, and will not go into lo- al problems unless insisted upon by a committee member. Says Nine Rule Industry. Representative Jacobstein, the sole witness at an abbreviated session to- day. drew a picture of the coal indus- try as a basic industry on which all business and prosperity hinges. He eriticized anthracite operators for in- creasing prices of coal at this time and sald that if it were not for strikes many of the companies which ordinar- ily lose money could not exist, as the: raise their prices immediately afte strikes are ended and so vecoup losses of previous vears The public, as usual, pays the bill,"” he said. Mr. Jacobstein named nine large an. (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) PAN AMERICAN UNION| WRITER DISAPPEARS Friends of Marcial Neira, Alarmed by Month's Absence, Start Police Search. City-wide search was started today when police learned that Marcial Neira, member of the editorial staff of the Pan American Union and a resident of 1647 Fuller street, myster- a month ago and has not been seen or heard of since A cablegram arriving for him a’ the Fuller street residence a few dave ago. evidently from Peru, where he formerly resided, resulted in renewed fears for his safety. After persons residing In that house exhausted every means of tracing him. they called in the police today. Neira Is described as being 30 years of age. of medium build, 5 feet 10 nches tall. He has a smooth face dark complexion, black hair and dark eves. When he left the house for werk on March 1 he was wearing a dark suit, dark overcoat and dark hat. The fact that his trunk with wear. and a ing apparel and a large amount «. personal belongings was left in his room, together with his protracted timated to the police their anxiety he may have been taken #l or injured in some accident. Police were requested to institute the search by George B. Blandford, occupant of the Fuller street resi- dence. HOT WORDS PASSED AT HOUSE HEARING “Dirty. Contemptible Scoundrel.” MEMBERS SEPARATE PAIR, PREVENTING FIST FIGHT: “Quotations” of Profanity Barred Henceforth From Debate, Which Will End Today. By the Ascociated Press A near fist fight on the House flnor resulied today from an argument be tween Itenresentarive Mills, Itepub- lican, New York. Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi. procedure in the impeachment ¢ inst Federal Judge English of Il linois, After Mr. Rankin had demanded that a quorum be presented when de bate was resumed, Mr, Mills walked | 1 ~ ON JUDGE ENGLISH Rankin, in Wrath, Calls Mil's r | | | | d Representative | over i to the Democratic side of the House apparently to urge the Mississippian to withdraw his motion, but Rankin met him half way on the double quick. Other memvers, convinced that physical encounter was threatened, kept them apart Get on your own House,” shouted Rankin, shaking his fisti ou can’t insult me. You are a dirty, contemptible scoundrel.” Mills Not Excited. side of the The sergeant-at-arms the Mis appian. Mills, unexcited, tnen moved aw debate proceeded without call Colleagues near the two sald that Mills approached sissippian and said: “IUs mean thing to do Keep here——" His sentence Kin rising and exclaiming talk to me that way.” The heated exchange followed. Rep resentative Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, first intervened. apparently ay, and the a quorum members the Mis- a damn to 20 men was unfinished, Ran “You can’t Later Regrets Remark. Members said that no sooner had Rankin hurled vile language at Mills than he said. “I'l withdraw that remark. I won't call any white man that.’ After the affair Mr. Rankin told correspondents that he regretted the incident. He said Mills by approach ing him and speakinz as he did had made him angry. Mr. Mills later explained that he had walked over to protest against a aquorum call, as a large part of the House membership were on the floor and he was desirous of con- cluding the English case before ad- journment tonight. M Plain Words Used. The incident gave a running start to the last day of a debate which \ready had taken its place as one of the most plainly-worded discus- <ions ever indulged in on the floor of Congress. Passages of profanity and vile epithets contained in the vecord of the case have been re- seated <o ofien in the presence of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. CUBAN BANDIT FOUND HANGING FROM TREE PRESIDENT SEEKS DATA ON AN Favors Higher Payments. But Know Cost | helped quiet %8 THE FIRST OR APRIE [John L.’s Famous Belt Is Reported Melted at Min t | Br the Asenciated Press | PHILADELPHIA. April 1. What is said to have been the famous $10,000 championship belt of John L. Sullivan has been melt | ed at the mint here for the gold that was in it The belt, with its 397 small dia monds missing, found its way to the mint through a Baltimore junk dealer who brougnt it here and received a check for a little more than $800 for the precious metal it contained The emblem was pre Sullivan by citizens of 1887, 515,000,000 IN WORK HELDUPBY STRIKE Pay Demand of Steam Shovel and Hoisting Men Hits D. C. Operations. to in ed on | Approximately new construction { lumbia {s affected by union steam shovel and hoist neers to strike today for n wages from $10 to While only about | are affected. the steam hoisting trade here is practi union and is one of the key $15.000,000 n the Dis iet shovel BY J. RU There is no rea employes to lose heart ELL n for Argentine Cabinet Takes Reins From NU”IES Leisurely Congress By the Associated Press UENOS AIR April 1.—Ow- 1 ing to the failure of Congress to Bt porians. sarernien measures, the cabinet has taken Wants to matters into its own hands. A o decree has heen issued placing First. the 1823 budget in effect for the present vear and withdrawing ur cent measures which lonv had YOUNG. been awaiting congressional ac tion. overnment Among the measures withdrawn regarding the was a government message urging passage this session of Congress| mprompt consideration of Argen legislation to liberalize the retirement | tina's relations to the League of act, according to Speaker Longworth| Nations. Congress convened No of the House of Representatives, who| vember 9, but up to date it has was in conference with President| failed to act on any important Doslidss. LooRy: measnres, including the budget The Speaker intimated that the| 01926 | pinciple involved in this legislation S VAR is generally approved, and when some | definite estimate of the amount of money the Federal Government will | I be called upon to pay is arrived at| he 1 very certain that the legis- |lation and the cost of increasing th { annuities and the possibility of enac t this session was of their conference | mated, however, that the | has not vet reached a thorough under. standing of the actuaries’ estim | stand regarding this legislation he i {anxious to receive further Citizens Begin to Take Law in Own | Hands After Over Dozen Murders. By the Associated Prese HAVANA, April L—Two men mur- | g0 (/10 dered. two seriously wounded and the discovery of a man’s body hanging from a tree are the latest develop- ments reported from Western Cama- guey Province, which has had a plague of bandits for the past month. More than a dozen persons have been killed or wounded in the past two weeks. Near Velacco two men were shot and killed and two others seriously wounded when bandits held them up in their own homes yesterday. The body of Juan Barranco Basulto, believed to have heen one of the ban. dits who killed one man and wounded another near Velasco, sevefal days ago, was found hanging from a tree on La Vega farm, near Camaguey City. Rural guards investigating the case believe citizens may have taken the law in their own hands and hanged him. Rural guards fought a pitched bat- tle with the bandits Noa and Pena in the mountains near central Bara- Fua yesterd: ’l'?'f? bandits escaped. . Texas Prisgn Board Head Dies. HOUSTON. Te April 1 (®).— Capt. J. A. Herring. chairman of the Texas Prison Commission, died here today. Weird Rites With Dances and Torture To Feature Indians’ Easter Observance By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., April 1. he near approach of Easter will be ushered into the Southwest tonight by the throb of Indian tom-toms along the southern border of Arizona and the wail of reed flutes of the Peniténtes in the remote hill regions of New Mex- ico. Keeping preparations and prelim- inary rites veiled in mystery, the red men of the desert country and the descendants of the Spanish conquer- ors in the foothills will begin their annual enactment of versfons of the Passion Play and the crucifixion, More than 900 Yaqui Indians from Arizona_and northern Mexico have gathered at Tucson for their cere. monial, which will continue without cessation until 8 o'clock next Sunday morning. Tourlsts by hundreds have flocked 1o the old Indian pueblo to witness the Oberammergau of the Southwest. which will be enacted in inso u}:-y plaza. i ther tourists; following tru guides, have taken to !hefifl(le«u’:g logging roads and trails of the New Mexico Mountains, where the villages of the Penitentes are scattered. Each village has its own celebration, vary- ing in Intensity with its distance from and contact with civilization. The Penitente rites consist. mainly of flagellations and self-togture, in which participants indulge as they make their piigrimages from one mo- rada to another. - Its climax comes in the crucifixion of an eMgy on Friday night. Roth peoples derived their practices from the same source, that of an or- der of men*.s, members of which came from Spain with the earliest Spanish explorers. Both the Yaquis and the Penitentes | are jealous of the secrecy of their tra- ditions and seek, as far as possible, to avold the prying eyes of strangers. ! proposed legislation that will requ | annual appropriations, but which | deemed of sufficient importance to hr ! lation can be put throu The ma: 5h ‘ of figures presented by the actuaries | intended to show what the Govern-| ment’s share of expense will be are | so complex and of such a varied ¥ nature that it is difficult for the | House to proceed with this legislation | H 2 R e e oee Mo " ieaser ~ana | Gets Time to Amplify Fenning more specific. Mr. Longworth said dent is deeply intereste ing this Jegixlation the principal topi at the White House to and before he takes ment. Higher Annuities Liberalization of the nuities was included considered, although th: Case and Tell of Hospital Conduct. that the Presi d in this lezis He vda " President Additional charges against Commis- nection with nis guardianship of more than 100 mentally incompetent in- mates of St. Elizabeth's Hospital and concerning the conduct of that insti- any posil enlig Thursday Democrat by Representative Bl of Te who tod anton, y. by Favored. vetirement an | ynanimous consent. was granted 30 in the list of | minutes for that purpose. | Mr. Blanton explained that he wished to discuss “the condition of Elizabeth’s Hospital. that “veterans of all veterans in St ey are on their He explained tace Canttes o administration’s | H1e wars, the World War and the The President’s conference with|Spanish War and the Civil War and Speaker Longworth was virtually | Wars back to the Mexican War are along the lines of the conference sev. | there.” afid he promised “first-hand eral days ago between the President |information” ahcut these cases. and Representative Tilson of Con.| Mr. Blanton first asked to be heard necticut, Republican leader of the (0N Monday. but, owing to the crowded House. Durtng the latter conference|condition of the calendar. he was un- the President gave his ideas to the|able to get time before Thursday. He House leade out of legislation priations, particularly that will continue annu definite period in the future. Increased annuities were approved by President Coolidge alo; proposed increases du with Leader Tilson. even went so far as t |the retirement legislation be given a | place prominent among the preferred list_of legislation to be handled dur- (Continned on Page 7, Column 2.) TROOPS REPORTED | ADVANCING ON PEKING Travelers Say Road With Mukden Men—Firing * Heard. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN. China. April 1.—Travel- ers arriving by motor say the road is filled troops advancing on Pel umns marching on either side. Fifteen trains are 1 daily for Nankow and quarters of the Kuom tional army) troops and equipment. are believed country toward maining in the capital. Peking dispatches to the London Daily Mail last night battle was raging for {of Peking, with the booming of guns plainly audible in the Kuominchun troops are commanded by Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. retreated to Peking being defeated in th Tientsin. arding the weeding carrying Kuominchun to be moving across nkow in an attempt to cut out the Kuominchun troops re- was asked by Representative Rerger, Socialist, of Wisconsin. if he propose calling for appro- . A o bropriations | 1o discuss “the Fenning affair,” and salle for an in.| Mr. Blanton replied “he is connected ; wWith a few of these cases.”” Mr. Ber ger said: “If this is the Fenning af- ng with other | fair, I believe it ought to be threshed ring this talk |oUt by a committec and investigated by a committee, Says Men Are Denied Rights. Blanton said that he wished to The o request President that “the rights which are denied veterans of every war who are incar cerated in St. Elizabeths' Hospital come of whom are of sound mind. Representative Dyer said that “if there is going to be an inquiry by a committee with full authority to take testimony in this and other matters roncerning which complaints have been made affecting one of the Com- missioners of the District of Colum- bia. then. in my judgment, these mat- ters.could be better inquired into by an impartial committe : Mr. Blanton then declared: s Are Filled in. formation, to which 1 have devoted much _of my time, will be for the (Continued on Page 7, Column 6.) L P AT “He Ts Risen™ So said the angel to Mary, mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb. The old, old story graphically and reverently told by Har. lowe R. Hoyt and Walt Scott under the title from Peking with Mukden king, with col ] & eaving Peking Kalgan (head inchun or na- Mukden forces “Dramatic Events In Bible History” Follow these dramatic inci- dents of the Bible each week. Study them in connection with the Sunday School lesson every Saturda: said a severe the possession capital. The They recently after e vicinity of Radio Prog?m | The quning Star sioner Frederick A. Fenning in con. | tution will be made in the House nexi | UTILITIES BODY BILL | dairymen, both in Illinois and Wiscon- the building industry. All ex | steam ghovel, concrete mixin ing and portable machinery work done by union men is affected by the strike order. City Paving Affected A number of District and Fe johs will be delayed by wa pute. Among the larger build ected is the Washington Bu ifteenth street and New Y nue, where work on di ORDERED DRAFTED Measure Prov'dlng Board Ot About $2.500.000 worth of residential econstruction. for which foundations, Three and Counsel to Be | e have to be dug. and 1926 paving contract for s allowed under the deficie Ready Monday priation bill also are affe: SEESSIETET will delay the paving of in t | vieinity of Trinidad d Monticello Chairman Zihlman of the House!ivenus northeast and Sherman Circle Distri day t committee was instructed to- | by the public utilities subcom: 0.000. Work additions in Petworth, valued at § will be halted on two new | to the school syvstem, namely grade school authorized at Fifth and Sheridan street northwest and the | grade school at Thirteenth and Nichol son streets northwest. the combined | cost of both being agout $425.000, and | the filtration plant now being built ibv the Federal Government just off | the Condutt road near the District line. The proposed new $750.000 buildirg for the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele | phone Co. and a number of other jobs are all hit by the strike. The Press Club building will not be affected, as an outof-town firm is doing the ex cavating work. To Oppose Demands. The 17 employing steam shovel and hoisting engineers who do practically all the work in the District have mittee to prepare a bill providing for a separate Public Utilities Commis n of three members at a salary of 500 cach and a people’s counsel at salary of $7.500. This measure would include instructions to the pro- posed new commission that it is the wish of Congress that provision be mede for a reduction to one-half the regular street fare for school children. These provisions of the new legis lation have the unanimous support of | the subcommittee. Representative | Blanton, Democrat, of Texas sought also to have the measure include in- structions to the new Public Utilities | Commission rezarding a return to the fare provided in the charters of the street railway companies, but no action was taken on this proposal Mr. Blanton favored the other pro visions of the hill. car crease and have received support many of the general contract decision of the pledzed themselves to oppose the in- | FRANCE BALANCES BUDGET AFTERTWO - YEARS OF FAILURE Revenues to Make Up Huge Deficit Voted in All-night Session of Chamber. | | [ | i BRIAND CABINET GIVEN STRONG LEASE ON LIFE Premier Wins Confidence Vote. Fight to Establish Fund to Meet _Debts Due Soon. ra icluded thi= revenues suf et defielt betwee: ancs without esser G Ateniat thas fort ty restore rces he Easter er Peret then to finance a e of the inter 1d iebts Lottery Is Authorized. tributie however, Vit h ended f new measur the tide did not turn in favor nt until Finance Min this increasing the The outcome 0103, It was of the vote was 2 nance minister first time M. P had made any question a m confidence in the government The receipts from are estimated at | (887.500,000), while the budget deficit was 2:430,009,000 francs ($8 | Allowing- for ~variations in t | from the new measure: the sur wil' be somewhere between 30,000,000 and 60.000,000 franes. Most of Taxes Indirect. Three-quarters of the new taxes are indirect. The biggest sum, 1,200, 000,000 francs ($42,000,000), is provided | by ‘the increase in the tax on busi ness turnovers of wholesalers and | jobbers. Alcohol is asked to furnish 000,000 {rancs (§7,875,000), while lividual poli tax is expected to 000,000 francs ($19.950.000 fe the "Operative number of Chairman Zihlman hopes to have This u"‘:nk they formed a permanent | makes i o interpr this measure ready for consideration | organization among themselves and it | on the measures, but the t the special meeting of the full Dis- | is understood that ble | nore the less achieved. The B rict committee called for next Mcn- | amount of money has been d to| accordingly strengthened ay morninz. He is advising today | oppose the demands of the union men o be safe from attack ith the legislative drafting ser Telegrams and advertisements have time and may be able to get on its preparation been sent to other cities and the em e measures to finance the .A people’s counsel for the Public | plovers hope to import a number of 1d, which is depended upon Utllities, Commission already has | non-inion men and resume work on | to make French f P finally safe Dbee rovided for in the District ! their contracts within a short time. | st all eventua appr&usagtion bill for the next fiscal | Contrary to the tement of the| The ernr s success is attrib. "nw*m”ihlnh::nh»'end passed by the |employers this morning, representa-|uted partly to Premier Briand's skill Heuteeio i expiem e |0:ortmlfv!\n< of Local No. 77. International|in utilizing the divisions in all tt e e” v the Senate | Union of am and Operating E and partly to the personal Bl $hie safary M"m he M’:‘l”_'“"rhumn‘l declared they still have a num ty of his minister of finance e aleris et o Al n'-mvesm'u sel | ber of men at work where their de- | et will appear as the princip: SRy Would seiing e new bill | mands have been met. A spokesman | wirner, since M. Briand failed with authorize appointment | for this organization claimed they are | two other finance ministers to get a of this official at a salary of $7.500. N = 00.. in every way justified g for The special meeting of the District | qpejr raise, and expressed mina committee on Monday will have a! ¢ion not to return to work until number of important measures up i Gicencrory settlement ie arrived at | for consideration. Besides this pro- | “2US Lo I ke with the employers Four Years Without Raise. The union men declared they have not received an increase in wages for more than four vears, and that since $12 per day is the standard wage be. posal for a new Public Utiliti mission, which is_intended distinet from the Board Commissioners, the committeee will have under consideration subcom- mittee reports on the Gasque bill! s Com- | to be of District providing for popular election of the ' ing paid to members of their union | school board, the teachers’ retire- | in practically every large city in the ment law and substantive legisla- country. it is only fair that this wage tion 1o give permanent status to the | should be the standard here. The women's bureau in the Police De- | union men feel their demands would partment. with a considerable in- | not add any burden to the general pub- crease in. personuel. I lie and would only be bringing the . Washington members of the organiza- I tion up to the average wage standard CHICAGO DAIRYMAN for this particular trade of the coun- | ftry. On the other hand, however, the BOOTLEGGING M'LK\nmpln_\srs state there are four other !trades in the building industry asking | increases from $1 to $2 per day. They | < 2 | say that if they grant an increase to Attempts to Sell Flnid Coming:the steam shovel and hoisting en | gineers they will have to acquiese in From Untested Herd—Ship- | the demands for increases recently % made by the union rpenters, mill ment Seized. workers, concrete rodmen and sheet metal worker: This. they say, will = {mean a general wage increase of Br Consolidated Press. about 10 per cent. which will add an | increased cost of from 6 to 7 per cent CHICAGO, April 1.—"Bootleg” milk put in its first appearance in Chicago | today and went the way of beverages | The emplovers sav that they do not feel the general public would approve. which come under the ban of the | Names of Contractors Volstead act. ¢ The excavating contractors who It was unceremoniously dumped |pave this week formed the Excavating into the gutter. ¢ | Contractors' Association of the Dis The Chicago Health Department is | trict of Columbia and who have agreed determined to see that Chicagoans |not to meet the wige increase are drink only that milk which comes | Hyman . [Parsons, tWarren 3 b Brenizer Co.. Lockjoint Pipe Co ¥ from healthy and contented cows. It Prenizer Co. Lockiolpl Dibe Co.. has set its foot firmly against impor- | pyight & Shepherd Contracting Co., tation or sales of lactic fluid from any | Vinson Contracting Co., L. B. Haw & but tested herds. | Co.. J. A. Forbes, E. G. Gummel, J. B. This city has accepted the new pro- | Latimer, Latimer & Maloney. B. B. hibition with decided favor. There | Allen. Loomis & Wetzel, William Cush were no untoward incidents marking {and G. B. Mullin. its imposition today, except the dump- | _Mr. Mullin was elected president of ing of milk at one dairy company. |the association. ‘This milk was sald to have come from | = s FLORIDA AIR MAIL BEGUN cows which had not been tested for | Planes Start Jacksonville-Tampa- tuberculosis. o Under the Health Department rul- | the bcnkl:nz lfi(r 2 city councll ordl- | nance, all milk coming into Chicago - must be from cows which have been | gt My Cralt tested for tuberculosis and reacted | TAMPA, Fla. April 1 UP).—Air mail _Thousands of farmers are affected, | Miaml, Fort Myers, Tampa and Jack- 25,000 in the Chileago district alone. | sonville—was inaugurated today when Many of these dairymen are unable | planes hopped off from Miami and to meet the requirements. Jacksonville. ks culin-tested herds has resulted in a | sonville to Tampa, thence number of harmless outbursts from | Myers and from there to Miami. Aany of the latters in the first pack sin, whose cows have not met the ets for air transportation were notes Ing, which has now taken effect, with | favorably, service to the four Florida cities— The demand for milk from tuber- ; The route of the planes is from Jack- i | ot greeting botv‘n city officials. on building operations in the District. | to Fort | financial plar 0il Tr through the Chamber Project Adopted. The petroleum monopoly project | which threatened for a moment to up. set the whale situation was adopted in prin but it was surrounded with such precautionary provisions that the Chamber's action lacks s nificance. The whole question must come hefore Parliament again after long study before anything can be | done. So fatig sion that with deposi signifying votes iple g was the all-night ses a Socialist deputy charged blue ballot slips—blue against the govern ment—in the urns in behalf of his | absent comrades, fell asleep at his {post. Another deputy stole a number | of the precious scraps of paper and returned them amid an uproar of | laughter | early was featured by the Communist urnier, who was elected Sunday in the second district inviting the Socialists ta cause with the Com mornin; by a deputy only 1 of Paris make common | munists | The Socialist | plied, “We will the Communists imprison our Russia.™ Other Revenues Voted. leader, Renaudel, re not collaborate with until they cease to Socialist friends In g the other revenues voted expected vields are: A tax nsters of real estate. 00,000 s; tax on sales of business good 05,000,000; stamp tax on trans securities, 50.000,000; an addi jonal tax on railroad way bills, 56, 500,000 registration tax applicable to private ban 15,000,000; tax on busi ness houses with numerous branches, Amo and th 000,000 francs i “The sugar monopoly, which was voted in principle, will follow the same course the petroleum monopoly, and come up again in the chamber a vear hence before anything is done. The Senate might disjoin these buis | from those brinzing in immediare | enue, but it could make no important amendments in the revenue-producing | measures. THREE HELD ON SHIP. | | Arrests Follow Discovery of Hid- | den Cartridges for Mexico. NEW YORK, April 1 (®).—Charged with violation of the President's | proclamation forbidding the exporta- | tion of arms and ammunition from | the United States to Mexico, three members of the crew of the Ward | Line freighter Cauto were held under arrest today. Their arrest followed dis | covery of 20,000 cartridges secreted on i the ship. ‘ g‘.