Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1926, Page 2

W vay. ENTRANCE ASKED [ R | Harvard Street to Be 120! Feet if Park Committee Plan Is Approved. Widening of Iarvard street from | \ount Pleasant street to the entrance | ) the Zoo park was approved today | v the city and park plant wittee of the Nationul Cup “ommission, and the recomme vill be sent to the District Commis- sloners for action. The committee, according to Maj arey M. Brown, chalrman, rec ed that this thoroughfare, which | a heavy traffic in out of . be given a uniform width of In some places it 15 now wide, but g t is only 80 n: e committec this afternoon is rmak r of the city examining vari X street intersec tio vhere it would be the curve radius r to handle traffic at Br sald that there of such places in the d the southeast corner of street and Pennsylvania Treasury place. This s « bad trafiic intersection and the utting off of this corner and mak- ng it more round would materlally relp in th vement of traffic. The comu ilso studied a pro- subdividing Wils to ractical to cl rovid sas for park e plot of land the Natlonal Capitai Park nmission has been usked to pur- chase for use as a playground for the on of the clty, doing 80 b f ds. Ma). Brown said the committee was quite inter- ested in the plan, waich set aside certain areas for park purposes, but that it will be given further study Vefore action is taken. F s WET CANDIDATE ENTERS RACE IN NORTH DAKOTA Will Oppose Senator Nye on Plat- form Calling for Light Wines and Beer. By ¢ Assoczated Press BISMARCK, N. D., April 13.—The prohibition question was brought into the campalgn in North Dakota for e United States senatorial Repub- ican nomination yesterday with the announcement that C. P. Stone, Fargo, would be a candidate on a wet platfoy Stone was selected Sunday by the executive committee of the North Dakota Better Citizenship Association as its candidate in the June primary. He will oppose L. B. Hanna, Fargo regular” Republican, and Gerald P. Nye, non-partisan. The platform adopted by the com- mittee urges revision of the penal and civil code to eliminate those fea- tures which have been found imprac- icable, paying especial attentlon to he prohibition law. It demands mod- fication of the national prohibition act to permit manufacture and sale of light wines and beer under Gov- ernment supervision. . Stone’s slogan, he announced, would be “100 per cent law enforcement, 100 per cent anti- saloons; common henesty, common justice and common sense. i SUGAR CRISIS UNMET. Cuban Cabinet Falls to Solve Problem of Low Prices. HAVANA, April 13. (P).—After a three-hour session of the cabinet last night it was announced that no defi- nite decision was reached on the economic problem facing the country through the low price of raw sugar. The question again will be considered at the regular meeting of the cabinet Wednesday. The ministers, however, decided on mmediate construction of the long- slanned central highway to cut straight ough the center of the island for its entire length. WOuLD UII;FY DRY 'FORCE. Andrews Urges Avoidance of Over- lappiug Patrols on Border. Unification of all Federa! border patrols to prevent overlapping was urged before a House judiciary sub- committee yesterday by Assistant Sec- retary of the Treasury Andrews, chief of the customs and prohibition unit, and Commissioner General Hull of immigration. An “air tight” border line against liquor smuggling would call for a prohibitive expenditurs, Gen. Andrews seld, urging co-ordination of agencles in the interest of economy and better ~nforcemen STOCK FOUND IN WALL. Qertificates of Oil Company Used as Wall Paper. “peeial Dispatch to The Star. WINNEPEG, Manitoba, April 18.— Billy Stokes, one of the old specula- tors in the 1914 hoom in Calgary, Alberta, is the owner of the Empire Hotel there. After the last boom he found himself with a bale of nicely angraved and gold-sealed certificates of shares on his hands. Many of them were left by oll men in lieu of hotel bills, and Stokes, thinking they were valueless, hit on the idea of papering ‘wo rooms in the hotel with them as A souvenir. The recent rush for Alberta oil stocks found Stokes locking up both rooms, and now there are several saps on the walls where certificates have been soaked off. One of them brought in $1,000. But he is not cash- ing in on them all yet. o e WANTED TO SEE CROWN. Four-year-old Girl Disappointed in Princess’ Attire. LONDON, April 12 (#).—Four-year rld Pearl Hay is not willing to believe *hat a princess can exist without a white gown and a sparkling crown. The little miss was commissioned to nand a bouquet to Princess Marie Louise at the opening of the Ideal Home Exposition at Olympia. “But you are not a real princess,” the little girl protested. ‘Yes, I am,” Princess Marie Louise taughingly replied. “IWhere's your white gown and your sparkles? And wherp's your crown?" “Oh, they only show at night,” the princess replied. The Most Chipper Chap. From the Boston Transcript. “Who was it said that life is like + game of poker?’ “Dunno; but he was wrong, any- In poker it's the gayest chap who hes the bines.’ I i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON ISTECK GETS TO U. S. SENATE IDENING OF 200 UNHAMPERED BY PAST RECORD Made Race as Opponent] of Radical Element in | State Politics. Veterans’ Representation Remains Unchanged. Joins Bruce Group. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. | Capt. Daniel F. Steck, the first| ) Democrat to represent Iowa in the! United Siates Senate since the Civil| War, takes his seat in Congress un-| ampered by any previous experience in public life. He is very little known n Washington, about his only close | ~tends here being the Hanford Mac- iders, Mr. MacNider being Assistant Secretary of War. | Capt. Steck does mnot add to 'the| World War veterans in the Senate, | because Senator Brookhart, whom he | ousted, wus a colonel during the late, unpleasantness. The new Senator be- ing only & ca; the veteran: a matter of lose u littl grade. Capt. Steck is an Iowan, born and| bred and knows more about corn— | the tall corn that Jowa grows—than| almost any other man in the upper| branch of Congress. The corn belt. | however, {s wide and stretches far and this statement unquestionably will be contradicted. But Senator Steck 13 of the Iqwa Stecks through and through. He was born in Ot- tumwa, 44 vears ago and has lived there ever sin. ¥or 20 years or more he has prac- | ticed law. In the bright lexicon of | his outlook on life there was no such | word as politics until two years ago, | when some of the Iowa conservatives, | who were not at all pleased with the radical views of Mr. Brookhart con- | cefved the idea of opposing him in serious manner at the polls. Brook- | hart had run away with the Repub- | lican primarios because some of the | G. O. P, of the State appeared to be | in a rebellious mood. Steck Was Only Chance. Tbhe only chance of defeating Brook- hart lay at the general polls and it was realized it would not do to run an independent Republican against him. Casting about for a Democrat, Capt. Steck wes seized, conscripted and otherwise drafted into th “cause.” The captain had been ac- customed to taking orders on the | Western front in France; he had serv- | ed with the Signal Corps of the A. | F., and so at last he somewhat re- luctantly consented to go over the top and after Col. Brookhart. Only & hand ful of his friends thought he had a | chance to win, but, anyway, Capt. Steck knew enough to make a gallant fight. The result was close, but there were many who contended from the start that Steck had won and would eventually get the seat, even if the board of elections did issue a certifl- cate to his opponent. Senator Brookhart virtually de- feated himself in Jowa by his support of Senator La Follette for President 1a the 1924 campalgn and his attacks | upon President Coolidge and his run- | ning mate, Gen. Dawes. Senator Brookhart called upon the latter to resign his place on the nations! ticket. ‘The Senator evidently misjudged the | sentiment of Iowa by a very wide mar- gin, or else there was a sweeping change in this sent¥ment between the date of the primarles and the day of the election. Coolidge and Dawes swept | the State by polling 530,719 votes to 372,243 for La Follette and 162,600 for John W. Davis. From this vote it will be seen what a small chance a Democrat would have of being elected to any office under ordinary circumstances. But there was a decided revolt against Brookhart, and Capt. Steck recelved | the benefit of ft. { 4 Jolns Bruce Group. As a “conservative Democrat,” vot- | ing with his party on party questions, | i tain, as in} Capt. Steck will have plenty of co pany in the Senate. He may be de- scribed as a Democrat of the type of | Senator Willlam Cabell Bruce of Ma land. Senator Bruce is an old-line conservative, who votes with his party when he thinks it is right, but does not hesitate to vote against it when he regards it as being in the wrong position. Senator Bruce belleves the Democratic party to be the great con- servative influence in the country and will be glad to welcome the young son of Towa under his wing. The result of the Steek-Brookhart el STOCK IS DEPOSITED. NEW YORK, April 13 (F)—Deposits of 271,835 shares of Chandler Motore stock and 274,320 shares of Cleveland Automobile Co. stock, out of 280,000 shares of each issue outstanding, had been made April 10 under the plan for the merger of the two companies. DANIEL F. STECK. SMITH W. BROOKHART. controversy as a whole, however, has been the czuse of more mixed feeltngs than Washington has known for a time and represents anew the condition of latter day : Democrats of the more or less radical school have regarded Capt. Steck with suspleion. The Republicans of tho regular wing have openly stated they would rather have a Democrat of the Steck type to deal with than a R Brook- hart type. The Senate remains about in its same position toward the administra- tion. President Coolidge could not count upon Brookhart for party sup- port and therefore has lost nothing. Party abels are getting more and more unsatisfactory and lacking in meaning. vright. 1926.) SHIVER; CITIZENRY HIES TO BALL PARK TO WELCOME NATS (Continued from First Page.) wes wa to be enacted for the bene- fit of the thousands assembled, and, withal, the score or more of news photographers. Mr, Dawes is sald to have been practicing up for the event, and the plunk of the ball in the mitt of Blg Barney was to be the signal for the teams to sp into action, to the lusty and thrilling cry of the *‘umps”: “Play ba-a-all i gt MONTREAL MAYOR WINS. Is Re-elected by Majority Exceed- ing 20,000 Votes. MONTREAL, April 13 (#).—Mederlc | Martin again has been elected mayor of Montreal. In the election yesterday he won the seat by upward of 20,000 votes over the two other candidates. ‘With the exception of the perfod from 1924 to 1926, when Charles Du- quette held the office, Mr. Martin has been chief magistrate of the city since | 1914. Estates Disposed Of by Will. Henry Keller, who died at the Sol- dlers’ Home April 3, left a will giving his entire estate to his 14 nieces and nephews, all residents of Bavaria, in Germany. D. L. Pitcher of the Sol- diers’ Home is named as executor. The entire estate of Seth G. Evans, vho died April 10, is left to his wife, Emma F. Evans. She also is to act 18 executrix. Shri_ne for Holy Memories Between the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Tidal Basin, in Potomac Park, there is to be erected soon a beautiful memorial temple to both the dead and the living who represented the District of Columbia {in the armed forces of the great World War. As both a memorial and a place where military concerts may be held, the classic structure will serve a dual purpese. Of exqui: te beauty, dignity and built of white marble. i 1{:: By it t Greek simplicity, the temple will be names of those who made the sacrifice, not“only for their country, but for you, will be preserved to posterity. Names will be placed either in the marble dome above or sealed within the sacred crypt of the corner stone. We appeal to every Washihgtonian to contribute to this memorial; to those for whom some one near and dear served, and to those not so favored. Your contribution to the $200,000 cost of the memorial, whether it be for $1, $10, $100 or $1,000, or any intermediate sum, should not be a burden, but .f shrined, who means the most to you. (Signed) ersonal tribute to the one, out of all the 26,000 names to be en- FRANK B. NOYES, Chairman, District of Columbia Memorial Commission. MEMBERS OF MEMORIAL COMMISSION: Charles A. Baker, Isaac Gist Blair, Edward F. Colladay, John Joy Edson, John M. Gleissner, E. Lester Jones, Edward B. McLean, Gans, Frank B. Noyes, G. Logan Payne, Julius 1. Peyser, Anton Stephan. Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, J. R. McDonald, R R N R e D TS TS ‘WASHINGTON, D. District of Columbia Memorial Commission: T hereby subscribe and promise to pay to the order of John Poole, treasurer, the sum of ‘ I inclose check in full payment of above subscription. 1 will pay my subscription May 1, 1926, $. Aug. 1, 1926, $.. Signed..... Mail Address..... Please Make Checks Payable to John Poole, Federal-American National Bank % BEVRR IS R b IS T R Y C, 1926 (& .) Dollars. 2 ITALIAN DEBT PACT DEBATE RESUMED McKeliar Attacks Terms of Agreement—Flays Rule of Mussolini. With the Steck-Brookhart contest out of the way, the Senate returned to the Italian debt settlement today, and Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee opened the debate with an ap- peal to his colleagues to reject the settlement now before Congress for approval. The Tennesse Senator mid he had no criticism to make of thé Debt Com- mission except as to the judgment it displayed In arriving at an adjust- ment with the Itallan government. He sald there were three reasons why the plan presented should not be ac- cepted, namely: First, because he aid not belleve the commission gayve suffl- clent consideration to the instructions ot Congress; second, because the com- mission did not adequately appraise Italy's capacity to pay, and, third, be- cause he did not think a settlement should have been made, “in view of unetable conditions of their govern- ment.” , Senator McKellar severely criticized Mussolini, referring to him as a man who regards himself as another Caesar or Napoleon. He asserted that a debt settlement now ‘“‘means nothing, be- cause if the Italian people ever come to themselves and shake off this yoke of tyranny, one of the first things they will do will be to repudiate his acts in this settlement as well as in other things.” The speaker said he had no hard feeling ugainst the Itallan people, but in this country who were no better situated than the citizens of Italy, and that in matters of charity he belleved America should be considered first. . It is probable that Senator Smoot, in charge of the debt scttlement, will strive to keep it before the Senate un- til it is finally voted on. COSTLY LOOT STOLEN IN SEVEN ROBBERIES $400 in Dresses Taken From Shop. Cash and Watches Lost ! From Homes. Reports were made to the police of half a dozen burglaries committed yes- terray and last night. The apartment of Clara Reynolds, 2127 P street, was entersd by & jimmy thief yesterday afternoon and $36 stolen. Police are searching for an unidentified colored man seen at the door of the apartment at about the time of the robbery, and who told 2 questioner he had been sent there for laundry. A duplicate key worker entered the home of John D. Rhodes, 1427 Madl- son street, yesterday and stole a wrist watch and A watch valued at $40 was taken by a burglar from the home of Frank E. Day, 6703 Colorado avenue, and $176 was stolen from the home of Harry G. Wilson, 4004 Geor- gle avenue, by a thief who galned entrance through a rear door. Twenty-flve dresses, valued at $400, were stolen by burglars from the shop of Samuel G. Gaffiin, 813 H street northeast, late Sunday night or early yesterday morning. The_show window at the store of Miss Lottle Feldman, 1343 H street northeast, was broken open early this morning and robbed of shirts, ties and other articles, valued at $33.26. Burglars entered a store of the At- lantic & Pacific Tea Co. at Thirteenth and C streets southwest last night. Entrance was gained through a cellar door, police were informed, and gro- | taken. S |MEETING TO CONSIDER BORLAND AMENDMENT Bell Calls Conference of Trade Bodies and Citizens’ Council Thursday. Ideas of the Washington Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and the Citizens' Advisory Council regarding the Borland amendment, which as- sesses abutting property owners 60 per cent of the cost of street improve- ments, will be sought by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell. Invi- tations will be sent to these organiza- tions urging them to send representa- tives to a conference with him Thurs- day afternoon at 2 o’'clock. The Citizens’ Advisory Council and a number of civic organizations have gone on record &s favoring the repeal of the Borland law. District officials, however, do not belleve that Congress would coneider this proposal in the remaining brief perfod of its present session. It might be possible, it was sald, to get Congress to approve a modification relieving property own- ers of paying one-half the cost of re- surfacing streets. CITIZENS DECRY USE OF “SHORT TON” IN D. C. Manor Park Group Decldres Law Provides Coal Be Sold at 2,240 Pounds to Ton. The Manor Park Citizens' Associa- tion last night passed a resolution which was forwarded to the District Comnmissioners condemning the prac- tice of selling coal substitutes in a 2,000 pound ton while under the law, coal must be sold by a 2,240 pound ton. The assoclation met at the residence of Michl Pipitone, 6110 Third street. The assoclation again expressed its opposition to the closing of Ritten- house street between Third and Fourth streets. The city government has planned to reduce the depth of the street to overcome a drainage condi- tion and has already let contracts for the work, but the assoclation feels that this end could be accomplished without closing the streets. A resolution favoring the adoption of the three-year medical program for the schools as proposed by the Mon- day Evening Club was also passed. HEARING IS WAIVED. H. H. Kreisher Accused by Gas Light Company of Embezzlement. with embezzlement of $116 ‘Washington Gas Light ‘where he had been employed as zlerk up to the first of last month. Her- bert H. Kreisher of 1920 8 street waived preliminary hearing before Judge George H. Macdonald in Police Court today, and was held for the ac- tion of the grand jury. Bond was fxed at $10,000. Kreisher was . arrested by Head- quarters Detective Harry K. Wilson :‘por;.. the complaint of Richard A. Eno| ceries valued at £1.50 and 45 pennies | Arrow and circle indicate location chosen by the Fine Arts Commission for the $200,000 circular Doric Temple the World War. DISTRICT HIGHWAY PLANS IN PARLEY Public Hearing Announced on Changes Needed to Preserve Esthetic Contours. called for ners today A public hearing was May 1 by the Commi to consider proposed chang in the highway plan of the District which are designed to curb the leveling of hills by steam shovels and the destruc- tion of other esthetic contours of the eity. Tha contemplated alterations are recommended in a report submitted to the Commissioners by Melvin C. Hazen, District surveyor. They have been approved, It was said, by the city planning committee of the Na- tional Capital Park Commission and District department heads whose work will be affected. Eight changes are recommended in the report. One of the most impor- tant proposes to make the one-mile course at the Benning race track into a street, with another bisecting the liptical infleld. @ hartered strest extensions through the Washington Cathedral Close also are proposed to be eliminated in addi- tion to some extensions in the viein- ity ot Bladensburg and Queens Chapel roads with a view to allowing com- mercial development. Nebraska ave- nue as originally planned between Conduit road and the American Unl- versity grounds is r rommended for abolition and a curved avenue follow- ing the route of the old Chain Bridge road along the ridge substituted. Plan Curve for Foxhall Road. It also is proposed to curve Foxhall rond between Foxhall Heights and Wesley Hetghts to follow topography and eliminate expensive grading. The same treatment would be accorded the | ferritory between Rock Creek Ceme- | tery and Fort Totten, changing the | lines of several streets. ! ‘Thirteenth street is slated to be | curved around Fort Stevens to con- | serve the old fort site. It would be de- | veloped with a parkway connecting | with Sixteenth street. Straight streets | | are to be ellminated in part of Foxhall | Village and that section given more of | a villagelike treatment. (Photo airchild Aerial Su that he felt there were some people | of white marble, to be erected by popular subscription in honor of the District of Columbia men in armed forces Sailor Has Wife In Every Port, But She Is Same Wife| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—A Sailor with a wife in every port—the same wite—is Lieut. Willlam Pal- mer Bacon of the destroyer Cog- lan. Mrs. Bacon, formerly of Bal- timore, returned yesterday on the liner Adriatic with her 6-month- old_daugnter, Barbara. They had ‘met Lieut. Bacon in Cherbourg, Rotterdam, London, Copenhagen, Gothenberg, Oslo, Bergen, New Castle, Glasgow, Ed- inburgh, London again, Paris, the Rivieria, Naples and Rome st WILL ASK REPEAL OF BORLAND LAW Piney Branch Association Protests Reassessments for of DRAFT BOARDS' AID SOUGHT FOR SHRINE Bodies Plan Means to Help D. C. War Memorial—Site Found Ideal. { A meeting of all the draft boards of the District of Columbia which operated during the World War for the Induction into service of thou- sands of Washingtonians has been called by Daniel J. Donovan, auditor of the District, who was formerly “director of the draft.” for Wednes- day, April 21, to consider how these | men may aid the project of the Dis-| trict of Columbia war memorial for | Potomac Park. The meeting will be held in the | during the evening. Maj. Donovan called attention to the participation of the board personnel in the mobilization program of the United States, and satd he belfeved that not only the matter of the war memorial but other matters of in-| terest to such a group might be con-| sidered at the session. Road Surfacing Work. Repeal of the Borland law will be urged upon Congress, according to resolutions adopted by the Piney Branch Citizens’ Assoclation at a meeting in Hamline Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets, last night. It was pointed out that after once paying for the surfacing of a street property owners should be exempt from future assessment for resurfacing. Specifications drawn by the Com- missioners for the laying of concrete road surfaces were sald to be flaw- less, and, if strictly complied with by contractors, should withstand all man- ner of hard usage for a great num- ber of yvears, it was said. Several streets in the Piney Branch neighbor- hood which have been concreted but a few years are in deplorable condi- tion, and the property owners are faced with the prospect of an addi- tional assessment for replacement, it Suggests Permanent Body. i Informally Maj. Donovan has inti-| mated that he believes a permanent | organization of the men who so served | thelr country during the World War | might be feasible, for purposes some- what similar to those along which the American Legion and o'her war groups have organized. This may be presented to the men in their first formal meeting held since the stirring days of the war. Contributions today continued to come into headquarters for the Dis- trict War Memorial fund, at the Fed- eral-American Bank, where John Poole, treasurer of the fund and chair- man of the campaign, was carrying of the drive. partments reported today they had circular carrying a fac-sinile of Pres- ident Coolidge's letter, in which the was stated. Doubt was expressed as to the right of the District to levy a second as: sment, because, it was pointed out, the contractor is at fault for not sticking strictly to specifica. tions and should be liable for replace- Today in Congress Senate. The Senate returned to consider- ation of the Itallan debt settle- ment, with Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, opposing its adoption. Senator Phipps, Democrat, of Colorado, reported the District ap- propriation bill to the Senate and announced he would call it up at the first opportunity. The raflroad consolidation biil was reported from the interstate commerce committee by Senator Cummins of Iowa. The wets resumed argument in favor of modification of the Vol- stead law before the judiclary sub- committee. Interstate commerce committee held executive session on thé bill to adjust the interest rate to be paid the Government by the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Privileges and elections com- mittee held executive session to consider the contest brought by former Senator Magnus Johnson for the seat of Senator Schall of Minnesota. Commerce committee met on the seamen’s act. Agriculture committee began holding executive sessions to de- cide on farm relief legislation to be recommended to Senate. Claims committee held executive session on pending rellef bilis. House. Representative Boylan, erat, New York, deliver: on “Thomas Jefferson," House, House votes on commercial avia- tion measure, which reached the final stage yesterday. Interstate and forelgn commerce committee has called bringing up foreign service and lighthouse measures. Judiciary subcommittee of House District committee continues hear- ing on chiropractic and milk con- tainer measures. b Interstate commerce committee considers miscellaneous matters in executive session. Post office committee holds regu- lar meeting in executive session. Military affairs committee con- tinues its hearing on council of na- tional defense. Committee on agriculture con- tinues hearing on relief measures. Judiciary committee considers several matters in executive ses- Demo- address in the sion. . Banking and currency committee continues hearing on stabilization ot price system In Federal Reserve. Foreign affairs committee starts hearing to amend the Rogers re- organization act. > Rules committee in executive session. { : ) ment. The Senate will be appealed to for reinsertion of an item of $75,000 in the District appropriation bill for the construction of an assembly hall and gvranasium at the West Junior High School. It was said this item was stricken out, along with a number of other school {tems, to provide more funds for the purpose of street im- provement. It was declared that while street improvements are desir- able in their present condition, the re- lief should mot be obtained at the ex- pense of educational facilities. President Edgar B. Henderson pre- sided. e By e SAYS éAFEGUARDING PAYS IN “DOLLARS AND CENTS” Secretary Davis Announces He May Call Conference on Accident Pre- vention in Industries. Special Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 18.—De- claring that the steel .industry has found that accident prevention and safety work in general has paid in dollars and cents, Secretary of Labor Davis announced in an address here yesterday that he wishes to call a na- tional conference on safety in indus- try to focus the thought of employ- ers and employes on greater safety fo!'. men in industrial pursuits. ‘By such means I hope to bring the day when every employer in the country will be stirred to copy the splendid achievement of one of our foremost industrial organizations.” The declaration of the Labor Sec- ry was made at the convention of the Amalmagated Assoclation of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers, which opened hehr; tng:yi T, vis said the progress of in- dustrial peace in the past 40 years has been encouraging. He pointed to the contrast between the Homestead strike and the recent strike in the anthracite coal flelds. Arkansas Law Construed. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 13 (®). —The State Supreme Court yesterday held that a constitutional amendment adopted in 1914 authorized a leuten- ant governor for Arkansas, and attor- neys unofficially said that Gov. Terral now i empowered to appoint a lieu- tenant governor pending an election. 0il Found in Canada. MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan, April 13 (#).—Confirmation of reports of an ofl strike near Ardill has been received here. It is said that a good gradé of petroleum was struck at a depth of 900 feet. When the reports were con- firmed there was a rush to the Do- minion land office here to file upon land adjoining that on which the strike was made. Chief Executive had not only ex- pressed his approval of the project, but had inclosed a personal contribu- tion. Site Found ldeal. | _ Aerlal photographs from the United | States Army Air Service and the Fair- { child Aerfal Survevs, Inmc., published here today, disclose the site selected | by the Fine Arts Commission for the memorial to be in an ideal spot in Potomac Park, in a grove of trees. The aerial pictures disclose better than any other means the desirability of the location for a District of Co- lumbla war memorial, between the two pools of water, reflecting basin of the Lincoln Memorial and the Tidal Basin. The photographs also reveal the relative location of the site in a ection already hallowed to the entire Jation by those two great memorials the Washington Monument and Lineoln Memorial. WOMEN VOTERS’ LEAGUE SHUNS “SPOILS SYSTEM” So It Will Contend at Annual Con- ) vention in St. Louis, Open- ing Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 18.—The League of Women Voters is not functioning to put women into public offices and political jobs on a “fifty-fifty” basis, it will be brought out at the seventh annual convention of the organiza- | tion, here April 14 to 21. Although the league is urging wo- men to delve into politics and aspire to public office, it is not followin, any lines of the old *“spoils system,” leaders declare, but desire to place women in office strictly on a basis of qualifications. \ + _ In support of this claim, the board declares that women have more ideal- {sm than men, that they are “not yet distllusioned,” and through the proper political tra'ning should be a potential force in public life. 0. K.s Havens for Migrating Birds. Proposed legislation for the estab- lishment of refuges for migratory birds was approved by Secretary of War Davis in a letter to Chairman Norris of the Senate agriculture com- mittee vesterday. The Secretary of ‘War wrote as chairman of the Presi- dent’s committee on outdoor recrea- tion and called attention to the recent indorsement given the proposal by the National Conference on Outdoor Rec- reation. Resent Closing of Méxican Banks. CHIHUAHUA, CITY, Mexico, April 13 (#).—All business houses here closed in protest yesterday against an order issued by the Federal govern- ment closing all banks except the Bank of Mexico. Considerable excite- ment prevailed. The act of the gov- ernment in closing the privately owned banks is looked upon here as the first step to impose the Federal system of banking on the entire re- public. ¢ forward further plans for prosecution | Al JUNIOR HIGH HEADS 0.K. CADETS' GARB School Officials Explain That Uniform Ruling Has Prin- cipals’ Approval. School officials today gave assu: ance that thelr plans for authorizing offictal uniforms for Junior High boys has the unanimous approval of Junio High School principals and tn no de tail is expected to offend the mac: of affected motliers. It was made plain today that no boys will be given the special train ing for entrance into the Senfor Hig! Cadet Corps unless they so elect The boys who do not care to enter the Seni School Cadets wil simply thenics and mas« athlet While it is the the ninth vear boys the fa cost more than $2. rticles of wearing ar parel which the boy to ac vantage during the it is made plain that the wearing of the uniform will be compulsor only on the day High cc School ft is expec wear their u however, Jju an ‘to have all of inior High Schoo! uniform appear urs of training. ¢ at the Fran} receive a neat, ng thelr t protest who would b prepared executive order on the s Ject and let the matter be passed c at a regular meeting of the Board Education. EXPECTS RECURRENCE OF VOLCANO ACTIVITIES Hawaifan Observer Predicts Crate of Kilauea, World’s Largest, Wii! Follow Recent Eruptions. By the Assoclated Press. HILO, T. H., April 12.—Re« of volcanic activity ten rock down its side expected by Prof. Thomas A. Jag gard, in charge of the Hawallan vo! cano observatory. He thinks it pos sible that Halemaumau, crater of Kilauea, worid's greatest active vol cano, will spout lava scon. Mauna_ Loa glowed Sunday nigh until & heavy fog swept across it lofty summit, shutting the magnif cent spectacle from view. Lava broke out at several parts of the island Five wseparate cones were forme along the line of the old Alika flov but the stream of fire ceased Sunday Selsmographs are recording the de velopment of an extensive crack Mauna Loa, although no lava has ap peared at the vent. S BILL TO DRAFT INDUSTRY FOR WAR UP FOR HEARING Vigorous Arguments Pro and Cox Made on Capper Measure Before Senate Committee. Vigorous arguments for and agains the Capper bill for a universal draf of industry, as well as man power, it time of war were heard by the Senate military committee vesterday. While Hanford MacNider, Assistan: Secretary of War, testified as to the aid that would be given his depart ment by ctment of the meas Fatner John Ryan, professor at t Catholic University, declared the bl provisions were the “most astoundin | and most revolutionary ever offered. Albert Brookings, St. Louis, chair man of the price-fixing board during Chief clerks of the Government de- | the war, expressed belief that enact ment of the blll would prevent what completed distribution of the official { was described as “the vicious cir: of price increases in almost all co: modities and services. . M. Cavert, general secreta: the Federal Council of Churches, de- nounced the bill as & war measure and not a peace proposal, as did Bishop Paul Jones of the Fellowship of Reconclliation, New York C! Edgar Wallace of the American Fed eration of Labor opposed the bill on the ground that it “would consecr! labor.” R ST e Youth Held for Lunacy Jury. An inquiry into the mental cond. tion of Harold S. Marsh, 19 years old who s charged with arson, will be heid before a lunacy jury Fri Marsh is accused of setting fire tc Victoria Apartments January 31, ca ing damage of $60,000. The case was scheduled for trial in Criminal Di vision 2 yesterday, but the trial was postponed until April 26 to await the outcome of the lunacy proceedings. IHAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. FIRST RACE. 2:30 P.M. (Horses listed according to post positions. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,200: malden year-old colts and gelding 4 furlongs. Ossie H, ...... 118 F Golden 'Pennant. 2 18 Press Gang 118 Marble Arch Frank Andrews.. 1]8 Landlord tSagamare Stable entry. SECOND RACE—$1.200; claiming: 3-year olds and up: 6 furlongs. (it il Ol Guard SLuvine Johnnv Ci Lord Balt Excheater . McCrimmon THIRD RACE-—$1200: the purse: d-year-olds: 6% furlonge ‘*Chocolate Ve ¥ 118 Stonv Man Centrifugal 108 Punjab .. Timmara ...... 112 tSagamore Stable entr, TH RACE—Puree, $1.500: the Ches ter AT 3 year-olds and up: 1 mile an: 70 yards. 108 (o x mmission (i memiv- 119 et 3 Coten “Ruie 1. 115 tCudgeller tH. G. Bedwell entry. TH RACE—The Hacford handicap $15:000 sdded: dyear-olds aad up: 6 fur Tong Centritugal Ginema Sinilefoo FExtra Golden Rule . Wilderness Snearo . Grand Béy ! Tip Te Sold'r 10 I 100 100 1o~ §Joy Smoke Noah . ‘Traveller duit . kweed Bitie S 'VENTH RACE—Puree, $1 : clatm tne TS yout-olds and up: 15 e % N Bt 1 el Aary Buen’ 0. 102 Spuse P . 107 104 10w . Al