Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1926, Page 2

2 THE D.A. R SUBSCRIBE HEAVILY FOR HALL Thousands Given Toward Fund as Convention Comes to an End. The thirtv-ffth Continental fress of the Daughiers of the Ameri can Revolution clase Iate esterday afternoon zolden awer of eontribmtions the £2.000.000 fund with which the seciety inends in the Hail. its teenth street The deluze eutright gifts of chaire where Will he convened bers of the manner subseribing fund gelling The purchaser fhen of dedi worthy person ot neuncing the fact th he attached 1o chair, As an add ihe varlous Staiss boxes are e offeved the privileze hoxes for $1.000 each came 1o a amid taward ta eract Canctitutional pear of Memaorial Centinental historic home on Seven form first of he purchase anditorium took the throuzh the Continental To offer future new nivesses the mem tangihle the is 1 { society | of roward The committee the chairs for $123 each has the priviiece the chalr and so 2n audi orinm “ating o some on a silver plate | the back of the tional attraction. | for which the 45| named have heen | of buvinz the All Gone, i the ! hoxes Boxes Nearly of a n conrse number of th #hased and it 4 ar the seasion onl: remained that were beinz Rratr which they mamed. the natienal officers having Igen assured that the neces monev would he raised in ample 1 This. however ried anew a mand for Al that remain he =old For more than an hour the delegates clamored o announce their purchises fiom the floor and al-| though the clerks were unahle 1o an-| nounca immediately how much had | bheen subscribed. it was zenerally con- | ceded that the total will run well| Inte five fizures, Many of the their rhairs to are. hut other of more recent from Pennsy in honor of he congress vere pur- | formally announced vesterdav that | to be sold and held for the were 1o he closin three they s for saies ddedicated | revainionary ancest ehnse 10 honor persons One el gate nurchased a chalr retiving president general, Mrs. Anthonv Wayne Cook Immediately asnother delegate from the same Siate said she hud intended dning the same thing. ani sked Conk if she would «leet ta having twn chairs named in her e oane | the honor Roosevelt and 1ee “Nn. indeed Cook. laughing. n Aot answered A% long #s it brinas | n contributions can name as many chairs #s 1ou wan' after me.” Mise Janet Richards of the District then dedicated a cf to Theodore Roosevelt, and when 2 woman from Texas announced in clarion fones that =he wished to dedicate cns ta itohart E. Lee, the house broke out in ap. plause. Another delegate from the District next braught cheers when she announced thai she wished to sub. seribe 10 $10.000 worth of hands in the | name of Onr Flag Chaprer, of this ~ity. Her identity could not he | learned A delegate from Vermont hougzht twe chalre and dedicated one to President’ Coolidge and the ather to Mre. Coolidge South Carolina promptly hought 1wo and dedi them 1o Woodrow Wilson, North Carolina immediately matened its southern sister with a similar dona tion and dedication. Cal. Wal:er Scott of New York. ‘the sandwich 1azn who treated the whole house Fridas nikht, contribuied £1.000 in cash All Buy Washingio: Chair. When a delexate asked te huy a chair in honey Washington, another el tecsted that every ane shon' ven an apportunity suheeribing o sueh an honor. Mre. Cnok syggestsd that 175 delegates each suhscribe a dollar to the Washington chair, and the «n tire quota was on filled. Other interesting rontributiens were made. hut they came 1an fast for immediate recording. The last minutes of the Thirty Continental Congress were not’ with nut their sorrowful phase, The: | marked the ing of the administra | tion of Mrs. Cook as president gen eral This tribute to the retivement of Mre. Cook was in ne manner flection upon the personal popularit of Mrs. Alfred .. Brosseau, the new n ident general’ who as treasurer ceneral during the past three vears had muech to do with the suceessful campalgn for the heginning of €Con =titution Hall i Rut from svery side it was dec ed that never hefore have the Dauchters of the American Revolntion had a | president-general who was so unani- | monsly admired as was Mre, Coaok Greeted With Kise, In pinning the hlue insignia of of. fce upon Mrs. Rrossean at her in Auction during the clasinz minutes vesterday afternaon, Mrs, [ wisheqd her suecess and Godsp and then tnok the new president aral in her arms and Kissed her fertionately. The anditorinum inte enthusiastic applanse at mark of affection The ather newiy elected national of- ficers were then inducted inte office and the new State regents and State vire regents were formally confirme There was nn more business hefore | the congress and the hour for ad. | journment of the most tranquil and | possibly most progressive congress in the history of the Daughters of the American Revolution had arrived. The delegates left the hall singing “Auld Lanz Syne.’ night they reassembled for | annual dinner, but it bore no | relation tn the congress. The | was held in the main hallroom | permission of Gearse he g fift) this | | | | nfMcial Ainner of the Willard Hotel and its brilliancy | was more social than anything else The newlv Insialled national officers aceupied places of honor and it: was one function te which the hushands af the delegates were entitled to be present. GERALD CHAPMAN COST CONNECTICUT $23,792.66 Slayer's Arrest, Trial and Cunvic-:r tion Brought $16.768 Expense; Appenls $7.026. | By the Assomated Press HARTFORD., Conn., April 24 Gerald Chapman, executed April 6 for the murder of a New Britain police man. cost the State of Connecticut a grand total of $23.792.66. The original cost of the Chapman case, which incjuded his arrest, trial and conviction was $i6.766.28. The additional cost of § .38 represents | the progress of the case through the Federal courts in Chapman's writs of habeas corpus and the appeals to the Cirenit _and Suprema Courts. the motion for a new trial, and the appeal to the State Board of Pardons. The State paid $784.07 to nine in vestigating agencies In checking up alihi witnessee. These witnesses wers to be used in 8 new tral if the court had granted Chapman’s motion for a rehearing of the case. ' < | | was 4 member Hall. | | lations | sontheast, Thursday, will be held to. | which My = 3 German Champion Arrested as He Ends 48-Day Fast | Rr the Assaciated P | BERLIN. April | days withont food, | man. also known professional faster. siaggered from his glass cage today into the arms of police who were Waiting to ar vest him on a charze growing ont of an old frand case. The arvest hroke up Glueckman's plan fo ex tend his fasting record to 30 davs in order to shatter the 44-day rec ord made by Herr dolly and the 43.day record made soon after by twe other Germans Glueckman was making his rec o fasi, however, chiefly tn end disnnte aver the world's champion hip of 30 days which is claimed by Frank Wolfe of Jones. Okla. He had hoped ta hold ot 31 days FLDRIDGE URGES MANDATORY SIGNS Declares if Police Notices Are Made Binding Code Could Be Cut Greatly. 4. After 48 Adolph Glueck ns Ventego With to the Distriet simple amendment traffic making traffic hinding regulations, the of condensing the lenzthy traffic code would bhe practically solved, Traffic Director M. O. Kldridze axplained last night in diseussing the plans of the Commissioners to elimi- | nate the potential nunnecessary regu- | Iations, | More than half of the code is taken up by enumerations of parking regu- in detail. Mr. Eldridze point “This material clutters up he “and discourages from to master the regulations.” Would Make Signs Mandatory. The wafe divector declared that he has urged Congress for some time adopt the amendment. "It ought to he the law that when an official police | < placed on w streel, it must he he said. ““There is no neces puiting the names of all the where parkin resulated | among the rules. except that the traf. | fic now makes it mandatory to | promulgate a regulation. advertise It} and include it in the code. | Mr. Bidridge indicated that he has | heen giving derable attention to the activities of the police in making « iarze number of arvests for parking | At night without lights. The police | records show that onethird of traffic arvests in March were for viola tion of the parking light regulations A law signs problem ed the code motorisis ont said, trying sizn abeyed | Sty for i streets ix all | | Reassures Night Parkers. | A majority of these violations oceur | ‘hecanse of the fear of motorisis that | None of the parking lights on their cars will | run down the batteries, in Mr Eldridge’s opinion. “I have gone into that subject.” he said. “and it ig an{ idle fear. A 6.volt hattery has a | capacity of 115 ampere hours. A park- | ing light consumes one.balf an am- | pere. If no headlights were burned | and a car not run- at all, a full battery | would keep one parking light burning | 10 hours & night for 23 nights without | running dewn. | “A pai of ordinary headlights con; | sime 5 amperes. 1f m car is run 4| hours a night and parked £, the bat- | tery wouid keep the headlights and parking light hurning for 5 2.3 days | without taking cognizance of the fact | that the car, when running, wenld recharge the battery. There is ahso. | Intely no reason in economy or fea for hatteries to vielate that lation regu- ZION NATIONAL PARK DRAWING THOUSANDS| Tourist Travel to Nation's Scenic| Areas Expected to Break Records. national parks will enjoy unprecedented popularity this vear, according 1o Dan 8. Spencer zeneral passenger agent of the Union Pa Railroad nt Salt Lake City who ix in Washington on business | for his read. Zion National Park and the Yellowstone, he edicted, will be | among the most popular places of | tourist travel thix Summer. Spencer declared tourist vegistration in Zion National| Park last vear approximated 18000 whereas in 1926 he will be very much surprised If the record is not increased to at least 30.000. Thix growth of travel is remarkable when it ix| realized thai no organized system of ! transportation nd accommodations was available until established hy the “nion Pacific in 1925, he sald Yellowstone Park travel in 1925 showed a total of 154 against | 144,158 in 1924, a substantial increase ! which if only equaled in 192 will, America’s great A the total| PUTSt | hring the total for the oldest and most | haps they popular of national parks to well over 150,000 fn 1926, W. B. HARTLEY'S FUNERAL | TO BE HELD TOMORROW ! G. A. R. and 0dd Fellows. Balti- i more and Washington Pastors, | to Participate in Service. I services for William R. retired merchandise broker, at his home, 513 A street | { Funer Hartley, who died afternoon at the residence, W. A. Melvin of Baltimore | and Rev. T. I. Turkington, pastor of | the First M. P. Church of this city offi | of the Republic, | Fellows and the Association | Inhabltants. in each of | Hartley held membership, will he represented at the funeral. Mr. Hartley was in his 83rd year.| He was a past grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District and was for many vears chaplain of Union Lodge. No. 11.'1. 0. O. F., of which he 60 vears. He had re sided in Washington continuously | since the Civil War, SLAYERS TO BE RETRIED. Mexico Gives New Chance to Pair| in Mrs. Evans Case. MEXICO CITY, April 24 (P).—The Mexican Supreme Court has ordered retrial of the two men accused of the murder of Mrs. Rosalle Evans, American wife of a Rritish subject, who was assassinated-on her ranch in the state of Puebla in 1924 This automatically stays the exe. cution @f the death sentences pro- | nounce@ against Alejo Gacia and Francisco Ruiz. The Supreme Court held their first trial null and void becguse of technical errors. The date for the new trial bas not been fxed. % morrow with Rev the Odd of Oldest P 1Bach Jounds | poun | shovt 1At | 1ncked | Msting hapks. / 1ain | nis | Kskimos are true and that the Alas. | turned hack to the west. DOG TEAM WHICH C Above: “Sandy” Smith and his skies leaving Fairbanks, Lower right: Map showing route followed by party. ight by paver WILKINS’ DOG TEAM ATTAINS POLAR SEA; | FLYERS STILL LOST First North an News. Alhance. Amer (Continued from Page.) and given his official o. k.| personal equipment weighs 431, pounds. In addition there | will he three rifles and a shotgun and every one s equipped either with . sinch blade hunting knife or a small hatchet Fach man's equipment and the weight each article follows: Pac hag. 11, pounds: bacon. 21, pounds hard bread. 21 pounds: United States | emergency ration, 9 pounds: sugar. % | Arctic bisquits, 3y list man’s <on's pounds pound: ammunition, 5 pounds | bags, June snowshoes. & | shelter cloth, 116 pounds: tea. | pound. total, 40% pounds; enough food for 20 dayvs. Smafl Cook Stove Included. A small gasoline cook stove, tea ket (le, stew pan and five big spoons are inciuded in the equipment of the | plane. | Tobaceo, personal effects, extra | mukluks and socks and fir wald Kits bring (he total weight to 431¢ pounds ponnd alt, 'y sleeping | | per man. Mij. Lanphier and Wisely prefer cigarettes, Hufford cigars, myselt & brier. Mason doesn’t smoke. Thevefore. the commander of the Detrotter added two extra cartons of with Wisely approving. Huf <neaked in a box of Perfectos and | insisted on a plug of “whit- Uing” smowing tobacco, three corn cob pipes and a few packs of the kind of ifalta that helped to win the war. | fagn ford 1 11t we do have to mush the bovs are | o zet a lot of solld comfort | itting on top of an kndicott ntemplating the scenery amid of Missouri meerachaum “tailor-mades” give ot s have ever heen lost in ihe Endicotts, but if we are and lose our smokes At the same time, we | Nres that the expedition is going to | hegin @ pall on us right then and | there | “'wo light kodaks, a small moilon | picture cameru, the radio sets and my bortable typewriter and writing ma- | teriais’ complete the invoice. | Fairbanks Progressive Town. The expedition has Leen in Fair hanks two months and during that wpace has hecome so well known a# to be considered among the oldest sottlers, We seem to'fit into this pogressive jlittle town on the novthernmost frontier of America, | no point north of here 18 a settle ment large enough to be dignified with the ame of town. "The ~trects of the city are well kept up and Winter and Summer numer- automobiles from the tin lizzie type to high-price closed car models roll along the macadam. At mght the mournful howl of malamute doga i= heard above the purr of gasoline Ariven vehicles and the northern lights flash into the star-studded sky as the vellow lights twinkle on the streets. Fairbanks is a city of un- aoors, where men are called firat namen. Joe Hughes, a butionholes us on the street f advice on sub. in the wilds. A housewife “omes to the door of her tiny log cabin as we walk out to the aviation fleld d usks if we are going 1o fiy today. We shall be sorry to leave Fair for the town has adopted the Detroiter expedition and every ¢ tizen has a fri dlv interest in its success. A Toveard sehoolboy planted him f on the sidewalk in front of Capt. wfter the first return trom and asked the explover if he had a pleasant flight. The cap- assured the lad that the trip was highly successful and the little fellow scampered off to school with wme history - making information. We are chechachos, or tenderfeat. but we hope to see the lce go out of the Yukon hefore we quit this rugged land. and on our next trip we'll come in a¢ sourdoughs- for once you visit Alaska and go ‘“outside’” vou are never satisfied until vou return. So @ay the permanent inhabitants. Per- are yight 6. by Ane. BELIEVES PLANE DAMAGED. Stefansse vys Wilkina Would Have Returned If Possible. NEW YORK. April 24.—“So many things may have oceur ed to Capt. Wilkins that it is impossible to make specific assertions with any degree of authority.” Vilhjalmur ~Stefanssen, chief technical adviser of the Detroft Arctic expedition, said today. “How- ever, one thing is certain—his plane has been damaged or 18 not in condi- tion for the fight from Barrow to Fairbanks. or he would have returnad. It is highly improbable that adverse weather conditions would prevail for nine days “His silence may mean only that vadio has suffered some injuity or that the conditions which hindered | reception of the overland party’s | messages last night are general throughout the region. ““Assuming that the rveporis of the going ut Alp th frer V78 { the by their musher and whispers words of el Wilkens, rrow had the North American (Coprright,_ 19 YO ew Alifance ) N kan was seen over Thetis Island, the erucial thing is to ind out which way it was fiving. If Capt. Wilkins was fiying morth it is not conclusive evi- dence that he is lost, for he may have seen open water at any time and If he was fiving to the west he is very probably in Barrow now. Eskimos Along Route. “1f the plane was forced down be- tween Thetis 1sland and Barrow, Capt. Wilkins would have had only the in convenience of a few hours’ walk to some Kskimo hut where sledges and dogs would have been available. There are Fskimos all along the coast be- tween those places. If he was forced down out on the ice his equipment and his knowledge of the reglon— which he explored with me in 1913— <honld bring him out safely, though no one can tell when “1f the FEskimos only imagined they <aw a plane. the whole field of con jecture iz thrown open. A descent in the Endicotts would almost certainly mean a crash and probably a tragedy. Farther north on the coastal plain Capt. Wilkins could take care of him. r SUNDAY e ———— e P STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, APRIL _25. 1926 PART 1. ARRIED WILKINS® SUPPLIES TO POLAR SEA would face a lung has few inhabi be likely 10 self. though he walk. as the country tants and he would not find dogs. It 18 extremely unlikely that he | has undertaken A long exploration fiight with his injured wriet. He knows that members of party sounded the Arctic Ocean miles MORGAN LEAVES WHITE STAR BOAR o Resigns, Indicat- ing Sale of Line Is About Completed. of Morgan and ! to Aid An ations, Radio Station Party in ( Army radio xtations Fairbaaks, Fort Giboon and Nome have been directed Ly the War Depariment o give every cations enoperation with the Amund- sen-Elsworth expedit to the Polat rvegiony thix Xummer, he expedition is attempting the trip In the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which is now i Ruseia, at Almska Assistance in communi- ‘Will Consider Radio. The Senate (nterstate commerce committes will consider radio regulx tion legislation this week, probably Tuesday. This decision was reached vesterday aftar Chairman Watson had declared that the 1#cent Chicago court | decixion in the Zenith casze had “lefi | north of Thetis lsland in 1418 and found A depth of 15000 feet. Thie virtually eliminates the possibility of land within 400 miles north of the oy Steele Als Wanted to Drift. “Wilkina has frequently sald to me that he would like nothing better than | to fly out into the middle of the 1 explored regions, land on a cake ice and drift for one or two vears. | living by hunting. 1 know. however, | that he did not intend to do this, ex. By the Associated P i Ol ;4! nos:lhh' (\v‘n n last flu.hld" NEW YORK, April 24 Indications oward F. Mason, chief radio man | .. . . 03 Tk P RARYG R M0 dnetitorE ur| 1Nl SHemIe of ther Wl A¢ay Din® the United States Army signal station | division of the International Mercan in Falrhanks are making evers effort | tile Marine to Rritieh shipping in- | to establish communication with the G B eloe bty Duaiion was ey | TR W aboin compluen wére difficnlt last night., and the fact that | Siven today when J. T the Detrofter had left Falrbanks Charles Steele. partners in the Morgan proved that it was not receiving the | hinking firm, resigned as directors of Fairbanks signals. Mason hopes for battsr conditions hefore the departure | the corporation. of the Detroiter. when he will ask for | Mr. Morgan and his associate later fturther details on the story of h | anthorized the statement that their | Eskimos, which may indieate Capt.| . g Wilkins' probahle whereshouts. resicnations were prompted by the (GaovriEhy. AB58. by Nosn: Arericen N fact that their London partners mizht vaver Allianca ) he interested in the contemplatad sale o of some of the corporation’s prop- ORDERS ARMY TO HELP. | erqjes and hecause of this connection [ they considered it appropriate to with- adsen | draw from the directorate. Morgan. | Grenfell & Co., the London braneh |of J. T, Morgan & Co.. ix undersivou to have conducted the negotiations abroad Both the Cunard Line and Furness. Withy & Co. are reported to have made bids the White Star fleet. with the prospects favoring a traos. | | fer to Cunard interesis’ for approxi mately $35.000.000. A subsidiary com- pany may be formed to acquire direct control. British Are Uninformed. | LONDON. April (#).—Shipping | cireles here were without authoritative news today of the deal. said in New York to he in the process of negotia- [ tion for sale of the White Star Line division of the International Marcan tile Marine Corporation to British in- terests, Rumor credited Raron K cant of Carmathen with heing one of the principals in the deal. It was things in a chaotic condition.” | suggested that the Royal Mail Line, . of which he is chairman and manag i ing director, wants to enter the North Reserve Officers Appointed. U8 C i (et ™ and ' fe therefore | Marshall 1. G 3334 Upland Ter. | ~ager to obtain higger ships. Lord race. Chevy Chase, D. C., has been | Kvisant, however, refused to com- appointed by the War Department a | ment. first lleutenant in the Chemical War. | Those connected with P. A. §. tare Service, and James R. Quade. 28 | Franklin, head of the International Allegheny avenue, Takoma Park, Md.. | Mercantile Corporation. were disposed a Arst lieutenant of Kngineers, hoth | (o discredit the rumor. while Mr. in the Reserve Cor the Army | Franklin himself declined to talk May-Day Is Child Health Day Agaln Sponsored by President Coolidge Big Program at Central High Stadium From 3 to May Ist in the stadium of Central High School the public is invited to a children’s festival in which games, drills and a health circus will be staged by children from the city playgrounds, the community center: rl Scouts Y.'W. (. A. Girl Reserves, Blake Open Window Class, Camp Fire Girls. with music by the Marine Band and the Washington Boys' Independent Band. “Cho-Cho” Clown at Theater Parties the famous health clown, “ChofCho." oli Theater for white children and at ). From 10 to 12 am is to periorm at the the Lincoln Theater for colored children, with songs, drills and picture plays for each. Health Examination of Children All parents are urged on this day to have their children given a health examination by the family physician, or exam- inations can be had at_the Public Health Centers of the Health Department, beginning at 10 a.m. and at the Chil- dren’s Hospital from 10 to 3 h¢ the Child Welfare Society. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 1022 11th Street N.W. Who have paid for this bulletin (legal notice). ’ {annuitiex | care of | McFadden branch | Noted Swedish Biographer CONGRESS ADVISED 0 PRUNE AND QUIT White House Breakfast Im- presses Two Needs Upon Legislative Leaders. President Poses For Sight-seers. Setting Precedent presidential | | | | I An innovation in practice was given hy President Coolidge yvesterday when he per mitted s ghi-seers whom he had just greeted in his office during the noon hour to photograph him at will on the lawn south of the White House. Mr. Cooildge had stepped to the lawn to be photographed with dele gates to the International Electro- technieal Commission, which is in xession he 1 Prese Honse leaders emerged nference at v with ‘N Appro at and hreakfast White Houge yesterd things in mind—-holding do: priations and adjourning House leaders even saw prospects of quitting for the Summer by May 15, and some of the Senators thought it ‘would “he possible to finish up the legisiative program early in May and then consider the impeachment Federal Judge English of [linofs, The guests got the very definite im pression that the President thought ap propriations had gone ahout far enough for this session, and Representative Tilson, the Republican H floor leader, expressed the opinion thar would he best for Congress to journ and go home inasmuch as have no money to spend.” Fa Bill's Path The It was zathered of the leaders that lation. which would Senate from ad we y. expressions relief legis an_ imme. from farm place diate tax on the Treasury, would have | voad 1o travel, but none way definitely whether the pending nieasures came in this class. Another bill, which some of them expect Lo be vetoed. is the measure to increase the pensions of disabled Spanish War veterans now has thix measure and i xeeking the opinion of Director Lord of hudget as to how ft will affect G arnment finances. After the conference, Rep ilson issued this statement Farm leglslation was not fically referred to except as directly conngcted with the financial problem hut there wag considerable discussion of the legislative situation in with particular references Yo bills propos ing large increases in the annual ex- penditures of the Government. Many Money Bills Waiting. “On the House calendars there bills increasing pensions and other annual expendi [ by approximately $360.000.000 very nearly the amount by which taxen were reduced “Means may he found for taking ne, but it ix certain all « even most can not he passed without a deficit, and for one, speaking for myself alone, 1 am unwilling to do this “1am not pending agriculture, hope that & bill will the committee on g can be passed without fously the financial policy of the administration. 1 am holding time for the consideration of an agricultural hill. 1 hope such a bill may be passed by the House Mr. Tilson hoped for $36,000 800 omnibus nill. and ators, on the basis ence, held hopes for tion's co-operative marketing bill banking bill. the public buildings bill, ratification of pending debt settlements and other measures not calling for appropria tions which would embarrass the Treasury. Other House leaders have declared Muscle Shoals legislation, war vel orans bills and several other subjecti will he dealt with Besides Mr. Tilson. the guesis in cluded Senator Curtis of Kansas. the Republican Senate leader: Speak: Longworth, Chairman Madden of House appropriations committee and Representative Dickinson of lowa ane of the House farm leaders. ELLEN KEY, FAMOUS AUTHORESS, IS DYING and A rocky wonld esentatve speci ure the hills i is my vled by which with atl but rep niture arniling e passage rive and f the Nen their confer the adminisira the hart Eesayist, 77 Years Old. Had Wide Influence. Ry the Assaciated Press STOCKHOLM. Sweden. April Mise Ellen Kev. famous Swedish au- thoress and lecturer is dving Fllen Key, known as “The Pallas of Sweden.” was horn in 1849, H hiographical and critical studies are distingulshed by their remarkable originality and she is credited with sing considerable influence over pinds of the last generation in “Fhe Century of Childhood.” pub- lished in 1905, #nd comprising a philo « phical survey of the progress of elementary educatfon in the nine teenth century, has been called the finest of her books. Some of her best exsays were collected under the title “rhought Pictures.” published in 1899, Another of hei tanding volnmes is “Human Beings.” a study | of the Brownings and Goethe, brought ot in 1900, FARM SERVICE EXPANSION MEASURE IS APPROVED Bill Makes Commissioners of Agri- cultural Department Abroad Attaches. A House bill providing for the ex- pansion abroad of the service rendered by the Department of Agriculture in acquiring and diffusing agricultural information was ordered reported fa- | vorably vesterday by the Senate agri- culture committee. The measure provides that agri cultural commissioners now represent- fng the department in foreign coun- tries shall be known as agricultural attaches to the diplomatic missions of the United States. Their duty would include the acquisition of information regarding world competition and de- mand for agricultural products, pro- duction, marketing and distribution in foreign. countries and the dissemina- tion of this Information through agri cultural extension agencies and other means. Freshmen Denied Autos. PRINCETON, N. I.. Aprii 24 (#) Princeton freshmen are forbidden to own automobhiles under faculty regu- Jations just published by * Dean Christian Gauss in the Dally Prince- tonian. Sophomores may own cars under regulations requiring registra- tion for three-day periods, and up- per classmen must obtain their purents’ consent to own automohiles and must rezister them with uni- versity polic Junior High Teacher Tests. Credential examinations to obtain a list of eligibles to teach in the junior high school will be held Friday, June 4, and non-credential examinations will he held Saturday. May 22, it was announced yesterday hy Harry O. Finglish. chief examiner. Mr. English has prepared a six-page pamphlet deseribing the examinations, for distribution amons those inter. ested. . The receiving teller in your hank will be glad to take your contribution the Distriet of Columhia War lemorial. the | two | The I'resident | vetivement | endangering | Ax he staried to return tohis office several woman sight-seers staried to snap him with their eameras Noticing them. he returned to with in camera range while dozens of other camera enthusiasis trained on him and snapped at will FARM BILLS' ACTION SLATED BY HOUSE Three Measures Expected to Come Up This Week or, at Latest, Next. By the Amsociated Press Farm relief legislation is expected nsfdered the House this week or, At the very latest, the week to he by followin, The, give it riles commitiee js willing to right-of-way the latter part week, with general dehate Hmited to four heurs, but the agri- culture committee may ot he ready to have it considered then Chairman Haugen wald vesterday that several members of the agricul- ture committee had requested an- sther week to study the reporta on ree bills—the Haugen price stabi- lization measure. the Tincher credit hill und the Curtis-Aswell national commodity marketing proposal Will Press for Action. On the hand, Represen tive Tincher. Republican. Kansas dicated that he would prese for in mediate consideration of tne ques- The committee expects to de- cide Tuesday when it will he pre- pared 1o proceed Representative Tilson lean leader. and other hers whe attended vesterday's break- conference at the White House th impression that 1I* e feels the hrakes n legislative prop direct drain on were (nclined that he did not loox with disfavor on the provision of the Tincher bill. which Sec- retary dardine’s recommendations, 1o Torinte $100.000.000 for A revely- i nd for 1 the (armers | co.operative association {771t was pointed out that would be extended under guards, and the Treasury likely to suffer a Stand on Others Donbtf Mr. Tilson was not certain as to the attitude of the administration toward the Haugen hill. which would require the proposed Federal farm hoard te use any part of a revolving fund of £375.000.000 1o maintain prices of I baste crops at their world market quotation, plus the impert tarift Under the Curtis-Aswell bill. farmers would finance themselves through ns tional associations, and the appropria n would b€ confined to $10.000.000 for administrative purposes i At a session Friday night that terminated after midnight. the agricul ture committee completed considera tion of the three hill and instructed thelr authors to file reports on them hy Tuesday. There was no vote in the committee on the merita of any of the proposals. PERMANENT SCHEDULE FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS SET 45-Second Intervals During Rush ! Hours. 35-Second at Other Times Are Adopted. | The traffic bureau adopted yester iday a permanent schedule for opera tion of the automatic controlled signal lights on Sixteenth street and Massa husetis avenue. The timing will be 45 h direction between § and d 4:30 and 6 pm. At all other perfods 1t will he 35 seconds up to midnight, when the lixhts are turned off. Sundaye and holidays the lights will be displayed for 35 seconds be tween 3 and 7 p.m. and 40 seconds the remainder of the time The new standard of next i ather the House mer Repn fast vined exi dent Coolic he applied invoiving a Treasury. They lieve. however carries out Toans this credit proper safe | was not ' i i seconds in i 9 aam timing will streets of 18 miles an hour during the rush hours and 22 miles an hour at other times. On rainy daye the 35 second interval will he exiended to 40 seconds, making possible a speed of 22 miles an honr for motorisis to operate throngh the light controlled areas withont stepping. RODGERS LEA'VES TODAY FOR BALLOON RACES | Will Represent Navy at Elimina- tion Contest and Air Meet at Little Rock. By the Associated Press. Comdr. John Rodgers of Tawaiian flight fame will represent the Navy Department at the national elimina tion balloon races and air meet at Little Rock, Ark.. Thursday and Fri- day. e will leave Washington today in a Navy Airplane, going to Little Rock hy way of Hampton Roads and Ma- con, On the way he will test a complete set of air navigation instru- menin, especially inatalled his piane. He hopes to make the fiight by celestial observation, using a “bub. hie” sextant and a new French inatru- ment known as the “navigraph.” de- signed to plot out a plane’s course when sun sights are imponaihle. 1 “COCkTAIL" IS POTENT. Inventor of Roach Powder and Soap Drink Laughs for Week. Special Dispatch to The St NEW YORK. April 24—The recipe for the “kitchen cockiall” a new synthetic drink. was recorded at a police station by Patrolman Arthur Disch after sending John Walsh, 65, in an ambulance to Bellevue Hos- pital. The recipe consists of roach pow- der, soap and a washing powder, mixed with water to taste. Walsh's wife asked by telephone that an ambulance he sent to her home as quickly as possible. . Dr. Fair and Patrolman Disch arrived .. think there = somethinz the matter with him.” Mrs. Walsh said. “He’s heen drink- ing this coneotion and laughing for a week." chen - lanzhing. provide a speed on the light regulated | and found Walsh sittinz in the kit- | ADVISORY COUNGIL HITS BORLAND LAW Repeal and Not Modification Asked in Letter to Com- missioner Bell. The Citizens' Advisory Council through its chairman, Jesse ¢ formally notified Eingineer Commis sioner 1. Franklin Rell yeaterday Lit would not he a party to the move ment for medification of the B amendment “The conncil is vinced than ever Suter Jand move firmly that the Rorland law should he repealed in itx entireiy as this is the zeneral desire of the citizens of the Distriet, who alone a1 entitled to considecation In this mat ter,” Mr. Suter's communication said The general revenues of the District of Columbia were required to hear the burden of highway construction he fore the enactment of the Borand law and that is where this hurden row he longs, of cotirse recognizir that the gaxoline tax is an added special sonree of revenue for thix particular nur pose.” The council's letter tion of last Tuesday in reiteraing stand for complete repeal of the : At that time the proposed bill to mod ify the law, drafted by Commissioner Kell. was considered { i followed ire ar Amendment Called Unjust. “While your proposed bill wonid grant relief through exemption from Assessments vepaving,” declared the council’s letter, 1 the same time proposes to exterd the aperation of the Borland law threngh making operative against properiy in outlving sectione which has net heen sibd vided into blocks. As far as we jave heen able to discover the « virtue in the sald Borland ia that this part has been made inoperatl through judicial decision. Thers is n desire on the part of the couneil to support the Commissioners in ohtaln ing legislation to overthra this action by the court. Our only egret is that | the court dia not invalidaie this | just and unnecessary law ite en | tirety.” Mr. Suter cited the npreviens recon mendations of the council on the B and act, and declared that it net only | represented s maiu sment. practically the nnanimons views | the people of the Distiict “as | sistently expressed f number vears n the « | Suter 1 n per f connection with the report to imissioners on the hudget, My nointed out. the couneil on Jdtne 1925, made the following recom mendation: “We recommend veu to urge upon the Congress the immedi ate repeal of the socalled Rorlani | amendment. which imposes upon abut ting property heavy and inequitahle special tax burdens for street and froad construction. Our citizens | through our civie and trade hodiea. with great unanimity have long and nersistently petitioned for this reli Enactment by the last Congress of the gasoline tax iaw has recognized a principle of respensibility opposed to that involved in the Rorland aniendment. The responsibility of the nsers of the sireets now being defi nitelyv established. it would seem that in fairness it should likewise be vecognized that sireer and road eon straction. and maintenance is a gen eral rather than an anntting preperty ohligation.” Repeal Is Asked. Suter alse ealled attention o a in the council's first legicla tive report relating to the question which read: “The council renew recommendation for repeal of the Bor land amendment contained in its re port on the budget. This law is s manifestly urfair the owners of Abutting proprty that it should he immediately repealed “The theory of the sion is that & highway for the henefit of abutting The faet is that any the use of the entire public. Tha con- strvetion and maintenance of Any highway <hould he horne equally hy Al the taxpavers. Consideration hac heen gziven to a proposition to modifs this law so A= to relieve abutting property from assessment for resur facing and repairing whers they have paid for the original pavement. but | e adhere to our orizinal opinion that ! justice demands a complete repeal.” “We sincerely trust.” the counell's lietter canciinen \ . sioners will join forces with the res of the community and insistently and persistentiy urge upon Congress the repeal of this entire law 'SECOND HIGH RESERVOIR FINISHED AND ACCEPTED Link in New Water System Will Supply Section Now Served by Brightwood Pool. Another link in the new water sup ply system for the ¢apital has hearn completed and was accepted last wesk I by the Gavernment officiale from the contractor, This {s the second high reservoir, which has heen under con struction’ for some monthe at Forty fourth and Van Nese streets, and which will serve that area of the efty hy gravity new supplied hy the Brightwood reservoir on Sixteenth street. but which is to be abandoned as soon as the entire plant s com- pleted. The tid (ween third stree cectic Borland provi is 30 per cent property highway is for 6-foot tunnel through the rock underlying Upton street, Thirty-seventh and Forty which now is in course of construction, is nearing comple. tion. and it was said that the con (racior expects to break through the {wo ends within the next few weeks. One end of the tunnel connects with (he pipe line from the Dalecarlia fl tration plant at the District line and the second high reservoir and on the other end connects with a pipe line, which will carry the water to Seven- teenth and U'pton streets. where fy wifl be run into the distribution mains for that general terrifory TACNA CASE OUTLINED T0 SENATE OF CHILE Foreign Minister Mathieu Gives Data at Secret Session—Pub- 1lic Opposes Bolivia. By the Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile. April 24.—The Senate met In secret session this aft ernoon to hear Foreign Minister Mathieu report on the Tacna-Arica plebiscite situation. Nothing leaked out as to what took place, but there were rumors in the lobbies that the Senate will decide on the text of the instructions to be sent to Senor Cru- chaga, Chilean Ambassador in Wash- ington. The Chilean government maintains the utmost reserve with respect fo the plebiscite while publie sentiment is growing against the trend the ne. gotiations have taken and in partic Iar against Bolivia's attitude. Public manifestations will he tomorrow throughout the country protest agamst the uncertainty [ vailing and to compel the government to insist on the earrying out of the Tacna-Ariea award as Iaid down by President Coolidge. held 1o