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WEATSER. (U. S. Weather Bureau F Fair and warmer tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy; probably 1o Highest, 75, at noon today; 5:45 a.m. toda Full report on page 9. at orecast.) cal shower lowest, C 29,966. ! post TINY ROCKY ISLES INOPEN SEAS SEEN Wa office, BY NORGE AT POLE. Elisworth Clears Up Doubts of Geographers—Not Con- sidered to Be Land. DISMANTLING OF SHIP PROGRESSES AT TELLER Most Perilous Flying Done in Last Lap Over Alaska—Amundsen Hints Retirement. NOME, Alask rth of t transpolar ecated Pre much when he and h over it last Tuesday 17— Lincoln cen-Ellsworth told the Asso. nday that he saw at the North Pole 7 companions passed night in the di-| o Amu ition sw exy Fllsworth provid a question that has nd explorers for ind which was not com- aly settled with the visits of Comdr. ry and Lieut. Comdr. Byrd in their Pole because of the lim- of area viewed by them years said that rocky his party at the 1d hardly be! Mr. Ellsworth said | Hsworth re seen by that these cc losing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 ntered as second class matter shington, D. C. Escapes Bomb PETER AUGUSTUS JAY. WILKINS BELIEVED FLYING INTO ARG Start Due to Have Been Made This Morning—Still Hopes to Find New Land. BY EARL ROSSMAN. Special Correspondent of The Star and North merican Newspaper Alliance am to President one from the Pres. him and his asso- | nment of the far of the earth | thest north poin © Being Dismantled. being d ntl nort ed at est here, hrsday night, g Spitzhe Nohile of Ita where end Col. 1 and b visin other besides wo rth were | te Oscar and kar Omda 1 here in a Jaunch from Teller yes. | ¥ ) lsworth, a tepical American, en- | frontier life and is well known | He came to Nome in 191 | was associated with an attempt to | extract gold from gold-bearing sands i in_this section. | The four men are staving at a log h has heen named “The { Nome.” The explovers | it little on the flight. ! v said the hlimp's gondola was too small to permit the men to lie down. joy here. i Pictures Taken in Nome. Fair! Norge. Two airplanes from Alarka, today visited the carried rival moving pictures outtits, and were 10 ieave tOMOITOW to return to Fairbanks to catch train and hoat for the State The Nc ported, will he shippe two weeks. lce is expec by that time from Por arm of Bering sea on which Teller is situated. lce ust leaves Port | Clarence thres wecks after departing from in front of Nome, which lies on the main »f Bering Sea, and ice left here ht ago. ALASKA LANDING FEARED. aphers re- om Teller in ted to clear Clarence, an he photo, Norge Crew Prepared for Worst, But| Feat Safely / e norrative of 1 Yesterday v | irome. Teller as soon” as i d the start from | 1 the morning of ut the Pole in May 12 Wednesdny tou and the tor Nome or Point Barrow on utting in of the hence onreard BY FREDRIK RAMM. | of The Star Ahoard A 11, via Nome, May transmission).—We first | east (after losing sight! Point E and finding | irselves over Berir ait). Then | we ohserved that course s giving| first open water and then ice, even toward the south Such drift ice is \wtter to come down on than open water We changed our course a cordingly by turning morthward,| where the ice was better. We made slow progress with 40 degrees of drift, at times more than we had all last night. We called} wireless stations in an effort to get| our bearings, but in vain. At last| we crossed land and saw an Eskimo| hut. We tried to go down to ask our position, bnt heavy squalls and| bumps in the air prevented this. | Then we went up through the fog to reach the sun and thus got our Jatitude observations. During this time we had drifted a good distance| inland into Alaska It took us one! hour to reach the coast again after we had dropped to a lower altitude,! as we had lost our exact position. The fog was very thick now. Picks Up Nome Station. We conld hear the Nome wireless calling another station and had_just time to pick up his bearings. Then our position was soon found. We were making for Cape Prince of| Wales. We traveled always in a| northwest direction, with 80 degrees | drift Often we started only to stall. From Cape Prince of Wales we fol-| lowed the coast, but the wind now| was down the mountains and ver bumpy, throwing the ship ahout. A barograph curve looked like a seismo- | graph curve. | We again lost our position. The| ship was so bumpy it prevented us from going lower for visibility. As the wind was always increasing, we| gave up looking for Nome and de- cided to land at Teller, where the ground conditions seemed favorable, Had Fear of Landing. Awnare of what a landing with a dirigible Is In this kind of weather, &0 much more difficult without as- sistance on the, ground, evervhody prepared for the worst. (A section of Mr, Ramm’s dispatch, ng of the actual landing, is ap- ently misging here, havin (Continued gu Page 4, Column 6.) Alaska M (Delayed sieered of land at | capt. i by | through | cuss | merotal. POl (By T BARROW, Alaska, May wireless to George H. Wilkins, commander Detroit Arctic expedition’s aerial search for new lands for the United States, may have hopped off over the unknown ice pack before this dispatch printed. Even Robert Waskey, | with his magical short-wave set here, an pierce the static wall with his dis patehes only at certain periods of the twilight hours about midnight, anc Wilkins' ‘hop off will probably be made during early morning hou The fog, which has prevailed for more than a week, aving. The giant monoplane De- troiter is loaded and her engines are tuned. Maj. Thor G. Lanphier and Charles’ M. Wiseley, Wilkens® companions, are ready and as eager for the flight as the commander. By noon (early evening, Kastern standard time), the plane may bs sped- ing northwest or northeast into one or the other of the two vast unex plored areas untouched by the re cent reconnoissance of the Norge. Capt. Wilkins’ chance of success in finding new lands for the United States are not materially lessened the magnificent transpolar flight of Capt. Amundsen and his com- panior Of the 1,000,000 square miles of unexplored area between Alaska and the North Pole, more than 800,000 square miles still remain unknown. It is reported that no land was found by Capt. Amundsen, but the Norge sailed in almost a. straight iine the hitherto unexplored re- gion and could not have had a lane of vigibility more than 150 miles in wldth over her 1,200 mile course from the North Pole. Water fowl give rise to speculation on the existence of land north of Barrow, for they follow a direct north course out of sizht. (Copyright. AGAIN AS WITNESS Indiana Prosecutor Asks Speaker Longworth to Induce Repre- sentative to Testify. District Attorney Ward at Indian- apolis ‘urged Speaker Longworth to- day to use his influence to epresentative La Guardia, Progres- e Social ew York, to appear hefore the Federal grand jury to dis- his charge that 330 cases of liquor were removed from the Fed- eral Building at Indianapolis. La Guardia made his charges in the House. Tater, when subpoenaed he protested that the summons was an infringement on his constitutional privileges. District Attorney Ward wrote that he had received no response to any of his efforts to persuade La Guardia to testi: He said that while mem- bers of Congress could not he sum- moned to court during sessions, La Guardia's “obligations as a citizen require that he make known to the prosecuting branch of the Govern- ment all information which may be of assistance to it in properly dis- charging its duty.” He added that it was difficult to believe that a mem- ber of Congress would make such a complaint unless he had important facts on which to base it. Germany to Hold Referendum. BERLIN, May 17 (P)—The' Marx cabinet has decided that a national referendum on the question of con- fiscation without indemnification of the property of the former German ruling house will be held on June 20. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, BOMB BLAST SPLITS' shows signs_of | | located | sylvania and west of Maryland ave- induce | U.S. EMBASSY DOOR Reprisal for Recent Denial of Sacco-Vanzetti New Trial Is Suspected. MANY WINDOWS BROKEN Tire Blowout Until Police Ar- rived to Investigate. By the Arsociated Pre BUENOS AIRES was exploded in front of the United States embassy late last night. No sna was Injured and only slight dam- age was done. The American Ambassador, Peter Augustus Jay, was not in the em- bassy at the time, but returned about 10 minutes after the explo- sion. He was at loas to explain why the embassy should he bombed, but the theory was advanced by some that the incident was connected with the recent denlal of a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Tarbo Lomeo Van zett!, convicted in Massachusetts of murder. The in bomb, which exploded front of the main entrance of the embgssy, tore a hole in the left side of the door and shattered sev- eral windows of the bullding and of neighboring houses, Only servants were in the build- ing at the time of the explosion. They at first attributed the noise to the bursting of a tire and did not realize a bomb had exploded until police arrived within a few minutes. A police investigation was begun immediately. SENATE APPROVES BUILDING REPORT Most of Amendments to Bill Were Retained After Con- ference. The Senate this afternoon approved the conference report on the $1 000,000 public buildings bill, $50.000,000 of which is to provide new Govern- ment bulldings in Washington. The only step remalning to eompléte en- actment of the measurs at the Capitol is for the House to agree on the measure, after which it would be ready for the signature of the Presi- dent. The conference report as agreed to by the Senate retains the Bruce amendment, providing that buildings in the District of Columbia shall be in the area south of Penn nues. The amendment as finally adopted provides that this limitation as to site shall not apply to the Government Printing Office, to the proposed building for the United States Supreme Court or to ware- houses that may be needed by the Government. With respect to providing a home for the Supreme Court, separate from the Capitol Bulilding, the conference report provides for the purchase of a ing to be provided in the future. Many Amendments Adopted. Most of the amendments inserted by the Senate relating to the $115.- 000,000 for structures throughout the country were accepted by the con- that form the Senate accepted the report. the amendment of Senator Jone: Democrat of New Mexico, which would have provided that the esti mates during each of the five vears covered by this program would have included one building for each State having a post office of 10,000 or more annual The conferees revised this ment so post amend- cluded in the estimate during the five year: Harrison Plan Retained. The amendment of Senator Harri- son, Democrat, of Mississippi, requir- ing the Treasury Department to con- sider the office receipts in allocating public building funds between the States was retained Wn substance with changes in phraseology. Although-there was some opposition to the final approval of the public buildings bill in the brief debate to- day, the report of the conferees was adopted without the necessity of a roll call cote. Of the $50,000,000 for Washington, the first installment of $10,000,000 is expected to be carried in the Jast de- ficlency appropriation bill, and the Public Buildings Commission will pro- ceed with the plan and decide which department of the government should be taken care of during the first vear. iMcCarl Rules U. S. Must Spend $15,000, Though Bid Is Made for $5,000 Less Controller General McCarl, for the | first time in the history of the ex- ecutive branch of the Government, has ruled that a contract for which bids were asked by Federal authori- ties must be awarded to the highest bidder, even though a saving of about $5,000 could have been effected by ac- cepting the lowest offer. The contract is that for the erec- tion of a classic granite monument over the grave of Lieut. John Fitch, Revolutionary warrior and inventor, at Bardstown, Ky. In a general competition the Pres- ley Leland Co. of New York sent in the highest bid, $14,900. Examination of the enabling act disclosed that the Secretary of War was directed to ex- pend $15,000 for oonstruction of the Worried ov: the manda- nature of the wording of the o 3 tory act, the War Department submitted the matter to the controller general for an opinion and he has just ruled that the whole $15,000 must be used, whether the monument costs that much or not. This i= despite the fact that the de- partment has.received a satisfactory offer to erect the memorial for less than $10,000. Because the act em- ploys the words “shall expend,” how- ever, officials are prevented for the first time in memory from using their own judgment in making an award. A further complication has arisen over the fact that even the highest bid was not enough to meet the de- mands of the act that $15,000 be ex- pended, and now department officials are worrylng over how to spend that $100 which will be left after the Pres- ley Company's bill is paid. - AT BUENOS AIRES AMBASSADOR JAY UNHURT;, Slight Explosion Believed Auto . May 17.—A bomh | site, leaving the funds for the build- | ferces with some modifications, and in | The Senate had previously adopted | | with receipts | that each State having a. | office with receipts of $10.000 | vearly should have two buildings in- | ea. of population and post- | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MON | | | | | AY, MAY 17, 1926—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Foening Sfar. * BANISHED PRELATE -ON'HIS WAY HERE | Mexico’s Charge of Falsifying | Declaration Denied by Rev. George Caruana. By the Awsociated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 17.—Ordered expelled from Mexico, the Right Rev. George Caruana, papal nuncio, was on his way to Washington today via La redo. He was ordered to leave on the | ground that he entered the country in an fmproper manner in contravention of the clauses of the Mexican consti- tution dealing with foreign ministers | of the gospel. On arriving at Washington. he is axpected to receive instructions from | Rome as to his future activities. He was allowed six days after notification of his expulsion in which to leave Mexico. | Before departing, Mgr. Caruana who 1s a naturalized American citizen. issued a statement in which he denied the charges of tne Mexican govern- ment. Ile said he had notified .James | R. Sheffield, the United States Ambas sador, of his predicament and that the | Ambassador had forwarded his side of the issue to Washington. i False Declaration Charge. | The statement said that on May 12 | Col. Delgado, chief of the confidential | section of the Department of Goberna- | cion, handed him a presidential decree | ordering his expulsion on the grounds that he made false declarations re- | garding his birth, profession and re- i ligion when he entered Mexico and that he had functioned as a clergyman while in Mexico. The prelate denied | that he made false declarations. The | immigration inspector, he said, did not | request any statement with regard to his birth or religion, but he did inquire as to his profession. The prelate answered his profession was teaching and he handed to the | immigration officials his passport and vaccination certificates. The pass- port showed that he was Bishop of Porto Rico. The statement asserted that before | Mgr. Caruana left Washington he had received assurances that the Mexican Ambassador to the United States had said there was no Mexican law pro- hibiting the entry or stay in Mexico of any American clergyman, provided he did not exercise his ministerial tunctions in the country. Denies Any Violation. ‘I state that since my arrival in Mexico,” Mgr. Caruana’s statement concluded, “I have never violated in any way the provisions of the Mexi can cons:iitution.” The nuncio told correspondents that since he had been in Mexico he had attended church only three times, and emphatically He had never officiated as a clergy- man, he said. Mgr. Caruana had been in Mexico City two months. The Governor of the State of Michoacan has permitted Catholic priests to resume their functions, pro- viding each priest carries an identi- fication card in a system which limits the number of priests to that fixed by the state law. Services were con- ducted yesterday in Morelias Cath- olic churches for the first time in several weeks. Dispatches from Huejutla say that Bishop Manriquez Zarate of Huejutla has been arrested because of a re- cent pastoral letter protesting against enforcement. of the religious sections of the constitution. It is thought the bishop may be brought to Mexico City for trial. Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San_Francisco, in a gtatement issued in New York, characterizes the depor- tatlon of Mgr. Caruana as “an af- tront to his position as a high church American citizen,” and says his en- trance was in every way legal. The archbishop is chairman of the administrative committee of the Na- tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Mgr. Caruana is apostolic delegate to the Antilles and Mexico. He was born on the Island of Malta and served as chaplain in the United States Army in the Philippines, Pana- ma and Porto Rico. He was engaged in parish work in Brooklyn in 1919, and became secretary to Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia in 1921. ‘The provision in the Mexican consti- tution under which he was ordered deported provides that no foreign nister of any denomination may (Continued op. Page 4, Column 8.) then only as an ordinary worshiper. | dignitary and to his_rights as an| | \ 1 | | | | | | | NEW ENVOY TO U.' S. Sir Hugh Denison Appointed as Australian High Commissioner. MELBOURNE, 17 ). pointed to succeed Sir James Elder as Australian high commissioner to the United States. Australia, May Sir Hugh Denison was born at Forbes, ew South Wales, November 11, 1865, He was a member of the Australian Parliament for six years, is chairman and managing director of the Sun Newspapers, Limited, of Syd- | and Melbourne, and head of the | ney Roval Colonial Institute, New South Wales branch. In 1893 he was mar- ried to Miss Sara Fothergill of Fre- mantle, West Australia. They have three sons. TEACHERS ACCEPT RETIREMENT CUT Regret Reduction of Federal Contribution to $15, But See Annuity Gain. A committee of teachers’ repre- sentatives gathered in the office of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, today unanimously voted to support the amended teachers’ retirement bill entting the Government's con- tribution from $20 to $15. and an- nounced they are hopeful “all teach- ers will do everything in their power to support the bill.” Tt particularly was brought out at today's meeting that the bill ap- proved by the District Commission- ers Saturday “will give every one a hetter annuity than the old hill and no one will get less than under the present bill."” Distinct Gain Is Seen. “It was, of course, hoped.” sa a statement issued by the representa- tives after today's meeting, “that it might be possible for the Govern- ment to grant ag amount equal to ¥ - vear of service. as rep. resenting the portion of the teache annuity which the Government would carry. “The advance to $15 is a distinct in crease over the existing measure, which gives but $10 for each year of service. The limitations of the period over which the Government will grant $15 per vear will, of course, reduce this amount, but it has the advantage of giving a larger amount over a brief period, so that a teacher re tiring at 62 will, in the end, get more from the Government than she would under the existing law. Computation of Charges. “Certain advantages under the bill should be born in mind by teschers; first, the part annuity chargeable to the teacher's contributions will be. computed on the average total salary for the last 10 years of service. This will mean that in computing the amount upon which the 1 per cent is to be taken, previous to 1926, the basic salary, the bonus, the longevity, and session-room pay in case of a principal, will be taken as an aggre- gate to represent the total annual salary upon which the teachers con- tributed part of the annuity will be computed. “It is also to be borne in mind that the bill carries a provision for an ad- justment of the retirement being drawn by teachers now on retired status, with also the provision that no retirement amount now in force will be reduced.” CORCORAN COURTS SOLD. Corcoran Courts, at Twenty-third and B streets, overlooking Potomac Park and the Lincoln Memorial, one of the largest apartment houses in the city, has been sold by the Cafritz Construction Co. to an out-of-town investor for $1,300,000. This structure, which has recently been completed, is one of the three large buildings erected in_ the new development near Potomac Park. The apartment house is eight stories high, contains 400 rooms and 166 apart- ments. The name of the out-of-town purchaser has not been announced. The deal was made through the office of McKeever & Goss and Harry Ward- man. This is the largest apartment. house deal in the past few months. Radio Programs—Page 30. Sir Hugh Denison has been ap- | 4 There has been no question of a BERENGER TO SAIL 10 AID DEBT PACT French Envqy Will Seek to | Obtain Ratification of U. S. Agreement. By the Associated Press. | French Ambassador Berenger will | { safl for France May 22 to assist in| | plloting the debt-funding agreement through the French Parliament. He will speak on the subject May 20 be- | | fore the French-American Soclety at ew York. | The Ambassador paid his respects | today to President Coolidge, prepara-| | tory to his departure. | WILL DEMAND VOTE. | Briand to Make Ratification Question | of Confidence. PARIS, May 17 (P).—Ratification | of the Washjngton debt settlement and arrangements to pay the war | debt to Great Britain are regarded by | the French government as so essen- tial to the stabilization of the franc that M. Peret, the finance minister, | went to Leondon vyesterday to confer with Winston Churchill, British chan- cellor of the exchequer, with a view | to an early agreement. Premier Br d will ask Parliament to approve M. Berenger's arrange- ment at Washington, or overthrow the Government. He will propose the question of confidence on the Ameri- can debt agreement at the end of the | debate, which will begin soon after Parllament convenes again on May 27, The continued and growing weak- ness of the franc has increased the opposition to ratification during the past week. Many radical and, Socialist deputies affirm that the set- | tlement has failed to operate favorably |to the franc. as was expected, and that it is impossible for France to undertake to pay her war debts unless | guaranteed against ruinous rates of exchange. This combination of conferences is taken here as indicating that th‘ question of exchange will be linked with the question of payments and that the French conferees while in London will ask that arrangements be made for credits to protect the franc against depreciation through | transfers of money on the war debt and that provisions be made for the eventual return to tHe Bank of France of 1,800,000,000 francs in gold deposit- ed with the Bank of England as a guarantee for the payment of part of the British loans to France during the war. M. Peret has already conferred with American bankers as to similar credits in the United States to an amount, in addition to the proceeds of the Morgan loan available, sufficient to cover the requirements of French importers and furnish a guarantee against derange- ! ment of exchange through war debt | payments, once the franc is stabilized. loan, the policy of the French govern- | ment being to borrow no more money fon long-term paper. What is de- | sired is to open a crédit which may be drawn upon to requirements. TRAIN KILLS 3 IN CAR. { Youth and Two Girls Struck Near Wadsworth, Ohio. WADSWORTH, Ohio, May 17 (P, —Three persons ywere killed when a special Earle Railroad train_ struck | their automobile near here vesterday. The dead are: Doris Edwards, 13, and Alice Pauline Meese, 20, of Doyles- service. Saturda; () Means Associated Pre: Strike Costs Britain| $3,750,000; Tax Rise | Declared Unlikely| | By the Associated Pres LONDON, May 17.—Government expense in connection with the general strike were about £730,000 (about $3,750,000) Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill, today inform ed the House of Commons. The chancellor said that as vet, it was not possible to estimate the ex penditure accurately and that he did not think additional taxation to meet it would be necessary. “Assuming that the coal stop- age Is not greatly prolonged, and that there is an early return to normal conditions,” he said, “I do not anticipate any appreciable dis- turbance in the outcome of the present financial year, and I see no reason at present to propose any additional taxation.” Sunday’s !No Reduction Expected This Summer—Labor Troubles May Hurt Supply. A warning that no reduction in price of cqal is to be expected this Sum- mer, and that should there be a dis- continuance of operations of the mines this Fall the situation would be made more acute was sounded this morning at the opening session of the ninth annual convention of tail Coal Merchants’ Association, ing held at the Willard Hotel. Spokesmen for the association also defended the coal merchants of Wash- ington and other cities against charges of profiteering growing out of prices which prevailed during the an- | thracite strike of last Fall and Win ter, and declared against any “med- ! dling” by the Government in the re- tail coal business. The declarations Samuel B. Crowell were made by of Philadelphia, | president of the association, who re- ported as chairman of the committee on trade relations in the anthracite industry; and by Roderick Stephens of New York, who is chairman of the exectulve committee of the asso clation. Urge “Self-Government.” In support of their protests against | the movement for legisiation giving the Government power to deal with emergencies in the coal industr: speakers referred to the recent action | taken by the United States Chamber of Commerce in declaring for “self- Government regulation. ‘The question of whether the United the distribution and price of coal prob- ably will be settled definitely at the next session of Congress, the conven- tion was told. The 400 coal merchants who came here from all sections of the East President Coolidge at noon and were photographed with the Chief Exec utive, Commissioner Bell Speaks. Engineer Commissioner Bell wel +he Willard following the House reception. James E. flower, vice president of the Coal District, was toastmaster. Tracing In detail Winter, President Crowell declared: a reduction in the price of coal. declared that their had made 2 merchants and statements that they that were made of profiteering.” Urges Unified Protest. Mr. Stephens called upon all mem- bers of the association to stand ready to protest against legislation designed to place greater power in the hands of the Federal Government to regu- late the coal industry. “If coal legislation seems likely to pass the Senate or the House it will Dbe necessary for every retailer to con- ider himself a member of our govern- mental relations committee and to co- operate with us to make_it clear to Congress that federal rekulation of business is not believed to be in the public interest. * “We are rendering an important service, and we have every right to expect to continue in business with- out being annoyed or injured by politi- cal attacks or by discriminatory legis- lation.” Declaring it to be probable that the House committee would report out a tion of the coal business, Mr. Stephens said he saw no justification for such legislation. $9,000 Contributed in Year. Joseph E. O'Toole, resident. vice president of the national association, declared publications sent to mem- bers of Congress and others interest- the public had served effectively in “breaking down the antagonistic at- titude toward the coal men,” and an- nounced continue to issue hooklets telling the coal men's side of the question. He reported that a total of more than the past year by members of the town, and Glenn Gelser, 19, Marshall- ville, the driver. Dusty White House The dusty condition of the roadway circling in ftont of the White House having become a nuisance to the ex- ecutive menage, officials of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks went to Philadelphia. today in quest of a surfacing material at once cheap, practicable and less dusty. The use of tar on this crushed stone driveway is opposed on the ground that some of. the.sticky surfacing might be tracked onto the marble floors of the Executive Mansion, and construction of a concrete drive is not favored in the interests of economy in Government expenditures. Pxperiments have been made with various types of non-trackable binders, {Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Roadway Starts Officials on Hunt for New Surfacing but nothing so far has been found that will stick to its business of lay- ing the dust and not at the same time to_presidential heels. Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and Frank T. Gartside, chief of the parks maintenance division of that office, are conducting the search for a suitable material. They will in- spect several types of surfacing in the hope of finding something to an- swer the purpose at the White House. Upon their return it is expected recommendatidns will be made for a deficiency apévopriation to purchase and lay the surface selected. The re- pairing would be done during the President’s vacation this Summer, , & b government in business” rather than i lish something better and stabler in and Middle West were received by | bill authorizing some form or regula- | ed in the effect of coal strikes upon | that the assoclation would | $9,000 has been contributed during | COAL RETAILERS VOICE WARNING the Re- | be- | , both | | | States Government should regulate | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yirculation, 97,046 irculation, 107,189 TWO TROOPS, IN REVOLT, MARCH ON WARSAW 10 FIGHT PILSUDSK! Gen. Haller, Supported by Old Government Heads, Leading New Move. CE MARSHAL HAS DEMANDED PROROGUING PARLIAMENT Urges Court-Martial of Members of Witos Regime—Russian Troops Seen at Fronti By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 17.—The Berlin papers carry dispatches reporting that considerable numbers of troops are marching on the Polish capital from Posen. Gen. Haller is said to be de termined to fight Marshal Pilsudski and the new Polish government Gen. Haller is supported by these | | deputies of the former governmen® parties who fled to Posen, amone them the vice presidents of the Diet and the Senate. They have issued a manifesto declaring the new Warsaw government unconstitutional and all actions taken by acting President Rataj fllegal. Rataj, they assert, is acting under coercion. Demands Proroguing Parliament. VIENNA, May 17 (#).—Dispatches from Warsaw s that Marshal Pl sudski has demanded the power tn prorogue Parliament for one year. He also has demanded that all members of the retiring government be court martialed. The central committes of the Socfalist party has demanded that ali “corruptionists” in the Witos cabine: be punished. DICTATOR BELIEVED SOLUTION. Witos, Deposed Premier, Holds Con- trol of Assembly. WARSAW, May 17 (#).—While Po land is outwardly calm, the situation continues fraught with grave possi bilities. Three questions form the chief topics of discussion in Warsaw, fol lowing the successful conclusion of the military revolt under Marshal Joseph Pilsuds] They are: 1. Will Pilsudski prove another Kerensky, and finfl it easier to un seat the government than to estab. its place? 2. Will he emerge another Musso lini, which role he seems uninciined to play at presen:, but which he ma: be compelled to assume by the pres sure of events? 3. Will the situation continue even ly along _constitutional lines after Premier Witos' forcible ejection? Friends Urge Dictatorship. That Pilsudsk! is under great pres sure from his friends to proceed in a dictatorial manner is indicated by a statement made to an Associated | Press correspondent by Col. Polakie the situation | gent. through the strike of last Fall and | Wyitgs people hold the majority. So Mr. Stephens referred to the Senate | .antaple to the army. investigation of the Washington coal | {hrough the motions of a national | | | 1 comed the coal men at a luncheon at | wic; leader of the Peasant Union ‘White | group in Parliament and a close friend Colli- | 5t the marshal. “Many of us,” the colonel said, “are Merchants' Board of Trade of the |gpposed to a national assembly con- vening this week to elect a new presi- As at present constituted, the that one of their men would be likely “We now can see no possibility of | 1o he elected. “Such a man would never be ac- Then why & assembly? I favor the dissolution na 5| of parliament first, and the election cents a ton and less profit “was a |of 5 president by a new parliament complete answer to the loose charges | jater.” “But,” the correspondent said, “as only parliament can legally dissolve itselt and as Witos controls the ma- jority, how can you expect parlia- ment 'to dissolve legally ?” To this, Col. Polakiewicz only shrugged his shoulders. 500 Killed in Revolt. Casualties resulting from the Pil- | sudski coup detat are greater than have previous! been admitted, it s learned authoritatively. About 500 persons were killed and 1,000 wounded. So far as could be learned today no Americans lost their lives. The American embassy is receiving hun- dreds of cable messages from Polish- Americans inquiring as to the fate | of relatives. That so many civilians, including women and children, were among | those killed or wounded is explained solely on the ground that instead of running for cover when shots were heard, the people got within range in their attempts to see what was going on. By a queer reversal of circum- stances the men who died defendins the government will not be given military funerals, while those of the Pilsudski forces who fell will be buried with honors. Diplomats Protest Interference. ‘The foreign diplomatic corps met after the coup detat to decide wheth er the provisional government could be recognied as constitutional. The envoys agreed that they should wait until officially informed of the exist ence of the government and then pass on the notification to their respective capitals. The papal nuncio, as dean of the corps, was instructed to protest against the interference with diplo- matic immunity, machine guns hav- ing been planted on the premises of various legation and_ staff members having been prevented from reaching the telegraph office to file official mes- sages. The forelgn missions are flying their colors to indicate their extra-terri- torial status, and automobiles carry- ing diplomats are likewise marked. A detachment of infantry and cav- alry which had reached Ovarow, 20 miles from Warsaw, to oppose the Pil- sudski movement, agreed to a_truce. Negotlations for a final settlement have virtually been completed. Pllsudski Surprised Self. “I am quite surprised that we suc- ceeded so quickly. Everything went like a stroke of lightning. This declaration was made by Mar- shal Pilsudskl to_correspondents from the Warsaw and Berlin bureaus of the As Press at the conclusion ~(Continued on Page 3, Column A