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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy today and tomorrow, probably showers tomorrow. not much change in temperature. Highest, sterday; lowest, 5 on page 3. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 29,975. N intered as second class matter No. post office, Washington, D. C. KRIN SURRENDERS T0 FRENCH AFTER * FREEING CAPTIVES Chief Puts Himself, Family and Property Under Their Heavy Loss of By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 26.—The Mayama Irrezato reservoir in the -Akita pre- fecture of northern Japan has burst its banks and has swept away half of the town of Kitsur: according > to reports received, here. Protection. _ The towrn has a population of 7.000 and it is feared that the casu- —_— ality list may be heavy. 7 The reports say that the post WILL BE TAKEN TO-TAZA a_ bank and a theater in itsura_have been carried away. A semiofficial report says that about 400 are believed to have heen killed. ~Seventeen bodies have been | recovered. Capitulation Follows Setbacks on | Voleano Grows Quieter. % : Mount Tokachi, the long-slumbering All Sides and Desertions BY | icano. in the Island of Hekialde His Followers. which érupted Monday with disas- TO AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS; trous results, both in lives lost and material damage done, was quieter today. There were voluminous clouds | of smoke issuing from the sulphurous crater. The lava had ceased flowing. The latest reports from Hokkaido . By the Associated Press. FEZ, French Morocco, May 26.— Tt was officially announced this after- | HALF OF TOWN IS SWEPT AWAY | WHEN RESERVOIR BANKS BREAK Life Feared in Kitsura, Japan, With | . Population of 7,000—Volcano Victims Recorded . WASHINGTON, Total 250. sald that 250 bodies had heen recov- ered. Rescue work is being hampered by a thick mist and by the fact that the volcano is still emitting ashes in- termittently. In some quarters a fur- ther eruption is feared. The material damage thus far has been estimated at 2,000,000 yen (about 18940,000, About 3,000 are homeless | and 500 injured. Relief trains have been unable to | reach the center of the stricken area because of floods which swept t from a mountain lake down the side | of the volcano. Warned by preliminary rumhllnx!.l‘ many of the people of the mountain- | side escaped before the eruption and | the deluge from the mountain lake down the side of the volcano: Force of Water Checked. Although the flood rushed down at furious speed onto the village of Biel, an embankment near the entrance to the town checked the force of the water, thus enabling most of the in- (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) noon that Abd-el-Krim. the Riffian chiet, was coming into the French lines Krim will be taken to Taza, where | the Instructions of the French resi-| dent general. Jules Steeg. are awaited. | Krim, it is announced, puts himself, his family and property under the| protection of France. Prior to notifying the French of his surrender, Abd-el-Krim returned all the French, Spanish and native pris- oners who had been held in the Riff. Half of Riff Occupied. | French army headquarters nounced today that the Franco HUNGARY CHARGES HEATED ARMIS RACE - BTSN ELROPE pan. | f f wir | Allegation Is Laid Before country. | The attitude of the tribesmen in the | issi - other h?}” of the district, inhabited | League commISSIon Plan principally by Djebalas and Ghomar- | H vas, Is doubtful. They were reported | ning for Parley. last week to have refused the appeal = ufhllm;:\ for aid. It is considered pos-| By the Associated Press. sible, however, that they may r e anat they may resist| GENEVA, May 26.—Feverish rein- on their own account, and, in view of ; the wild. mountainous country *they | {0rcing of armaments by most of the inhabit, their subjjugation would be | European countrfes which contain long, difficult and costly. {the germs of new wars was alleged Consequently, it is said that the|today by Hungary in a memorandum hest of the poiitical officers amons | presented. to the preparatory dis- ine Jrench will be intrusted with |armament commission. ; e task of convincing these tribes. | % ‘i 2 men that their best interests lie in \,"’,‘,‘e'",f’:',;a‘a”'“ Comnlelned Myl submitting to the French. - practicatiy disermed et | self. she is surrounded by a group of MUST GO INTO EXILE. allied countries possessing vastly su ¥ {perior military forces. < “ . ! By this memorandum, Hungary has ficin 0 ¥ne Wreated “GensrouslyBub |, ;oo herseir ot the siin vf Germany Prudently,” Say French. which through Count von Bernstorft Rt T .. lalready has protested that the Ger- Bl iy ‘:”-*AM'T“\'}""’ | mans have been disarmed while their e treated "with generosity bul|neighhors are permitted powerful with prudence.” a foreign office . puitiar e gordac spokesman declared on receiving the | 3 G news today of the Riffian chieftain's | Note Causes Sensation. surrender. The Hungarian memorandum 1t was apparent on the basis of |caused a sensation chiefly because of the news from Fez he said, that|its strictures against the little entente. Abd-el-Krim, deeming further fight- |t declared that if the egotistical aims ing useless, decided ‘to acvept. the {of certain-comntries continue to hold terms laid down by the French and {up the speedy restriction of arma- Spanish delegates at the recent Oujda ' ments, the commission might just as peace conference, including his exile | well abandon its disarmament project from the Riff. i before it developed into a plain fiasco “That is an elementary precaution,” |and seek some other basis for the an the foreign office spokesman con- |maintenance of world peace. cluded. * i _The memorandum further demanded e the abrogation of treaty regulations HAMMAN RANGE OCCUPIED. |whereby Hungary's army was re- stricted {o 35,000 men, a force that the Hungarians conslder insufficien: to protect them. Heavily armed | neighbor nations should be obliged to reduce their military forces to a lower French Now Dominate Heart of Beni Ouriaghel Country RABAT, Morocco. May 26 (P).—|level, the Hungarian statement said, The French 3d Division, according 10| so that there will not be any wide information given out in French|difference in power between the con- quarters, has occupied the Hamman | querors and the vanquished. Range. forming the heart of the Benl{ Hungary insisted that armament Ouriaghel country, which it dominates | reduction must he general to be ef- from a heignt of 6,000 feet. fective and issued a warning that if The capture of this position is|some reduction fafled to materialize pointed to as the crowning achieve-| Europe and the League of Nations ment of an operation begun two, would be gravely endangered. “If weeks ago and pursued tivelessly for| this disarmament, the hope of the a depth of 20 miles in the wildest|ma. of the people throughout the broken country, in which the oniv|world, is not fuifilled the whole tragile communications are rudimentary mul2 | institution created by the traaties of trails. i peace which were concluded at Paris Possession of Hamman, it is claimed | will tumble to the ground,” the mem- by the French, makes the Franco-, Spanish forces absolute masters oi' the Ghis River, which runs into the sea at Ajdir. i RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT | UPHELD IN ELECTIONS | Wins 75 Per Cent of Seats in| Chamber of Deputies. Accord- | ing to Incomplete Returns. { By the Associated Prees { BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 26.— Incomplete returns from the, parlia- | mentary elsctions, which began yes- | terday. indicate that the government | won about 75 per cent of the seats in | the Chamber of Deputles, the Nation- | alist-Peasant. combination from 15 to | 20 per cent and the Bratiano Liberals | the remainder. A joint protest presented to King | Ferdinand by the leaders of the Na- | tionalist and Peasant parties last| week charged that the electoral con- test had degenerated into “a military offensive on the part of the army and | the gendarmerie against the demo- cratic forces of the country.” | The protest averred that a consider- | able number of Nationalist-Peasant | candidates had not been permitted to | enter their districts during the cam- | paign. i BLAST REVEALS STILL. $75,000 Liquor Plant and Supply Captured by Police. | | SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (#).— | Ten thousand gallons of wine, three large motor trucks, wine and brandy manufacturing equipment and assort- ed bar fixtures were revealed to pro- hibition agents by the explosion of a | still in the basement of a hotel, a block from the Hall of Justice and two blocks from dry headquarters, yesterday. Police estimate the lot was worth 75.000 in bootlegging circles. The | explosion shook plaster from the walls of a hotel and attracted officers to the | underground winery. i One Dead, Six Hurt in Crash. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 26 (#).— One dead and six seriously injured, several of whom are not expected to live, is the toll of an automobile wreck this morning at Whitehead Hill, be- tween Roane Mountain and Elizabeth- | ton. The party was en route from Marion. N. ., to Johnson City, Tenn. to work in a box factory, orandum stated. Memorandum Draws Protest. Representatives of the little entente ' immediately protested the tenor of the Hungarian document. They declared it was virtually a petition for the re. vision of the treaty of Trianon, which, they contended, had no place in the deliberations of the disarmament com- mission. The Serbian spokesman de- nied thac the Serbian army was a menace to Hungary in any way. but was purely a defensive force. More- over, h2 declared. Serbia has nego- tiated a treaty of non-aggression with hungary. England and France supported this view. There could be no question, they said, of modifying treaties and on this understanding the Hungarian memorandum was referred to a sub- committee for examination of its technicai suggestions. After adopting the drafting committee, the commission adjourned to an unfixed date. Mean- while the subcommittess of experts will tackle the numerous problems on wivich their savice has- been sought. report of the The Commision will be convoked when | the work of the subcommittee is fin- ished. This may require several nth: m(;iu a has notified the league that he refuse to give the views re- :ues(ed on questions touching on the control of the private manufacture of arms. Maxim minister of Litvinoff, deputy foreign Soviet Russia, explains ithat his country did not attend the conference on the control of the traffic in arms because she bellev:«: it was not sincere; for the same re e will ha\"‘e nothing to do with the move to control private manufacture. Progress Blow Is Seen. | The opinion generally held in league circles is that Russia’s declination to participate in the various arms me(}!‘h ngs will prevent real progress in the reduction of armaments in Europe. In preparation conl:rexfi:ae the first question which will be asked of every country i “To what extent can you lay down Y'When the drafting committee of the preparatory commission on dis- armament, which is trying to ar- range an agenda for the interna- tional conference, made its complete report to a plenaty public session of the commission last night, the dele- gates discovered that e:,er)'lhin‘ was ntingent on this question. ceEa(‘l'f nation will be asked to stdte what amount of armaments it thinks it requires, calculated with reference to the degree of security existing at the time the conference meets. Fivery son she | for the international | g 200 Dry Agents i y | To Be Chosen to | | Keep “Sesqui” Dry | i | ! | Br the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 26.—-No effort will be spared to make Phila- delphia “as arid as a desert” dur- ing the six months of the Sesqui- centennial Exposition. which opens Monday, prohibition enforcement officials announced today. Two hundred Federal agents will be on duty during the exposition, Frederick H. Baird. prohibition ad- ministrator, who is now selecting these agents, is anxious that they be men of uriquestionable char- acter and ability. He is Investigat- ing not only the applicants, but persons who recommend them. Mr. Baird said the agents would go after the “big fellows™ first. “‘Our main job,” he said. “will be to go after the sources of alcohol and liquor.” BTER RY DEBATE SREAKS N SEWTE Dawes Asked to Curb “Dis- order”—Britten Bill Kills Coolidge Order. By the Associated Press. The dispute over President Cool- idge’'s new prohibition order, author- izing State and local officials to act as Federal dry agents. was renewed today in both branches of Congress. In the Senate the debate quickly mounted to such a stage of bitter- ness that the presiding officer was asked from the floor to rescue the chamber from “disorder.” In the House the discussion pro- ceeded more quietly, but not without the use of strong words. Replying to a speech yesterday, in which Representative Curry, Republican, denounced the President's order as unconstitutional and mischevious, Representative Swing, also a Cali- fornian and a Republican declared his colleague entirely mistaken and out of accord with the sentiment of the people of the State. Wets Started Argument. started the row in the many Senators on both sides of the fence got into the de- bate before it ended. There was an exchange between Senator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, a wet, and Sen- ator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, a dry. on the question of a national prohibition referendum and a protest from Senator Walsh. Democrat, Montana, another dry, that the pro- hibition quarrel was destroying order and decorum in the Senate. To place under the civil service the prohibition enforcement unit and to prohibit the enroliment of State, county and city officials..a resolution was introduced in the House today by Representative Britten, Republican, of Illinois, which he claims is three- fold in its effect upon the recent Coolidge executive order for the en- roliment of volunteer State, county and city officers as agents and in- spectors in the Federal prohibition service. | This resolution provides that no | judge, sheriff, marshal, police officer | or any other agent or inspector of any State, county or city shall be enrolled as the officer, agent or inspector of | the United States Treasury ! ment until he has completely severed his employment connection with State, county or city. It ‘provides also that no agent or inspector in the Treasury Department shall be enrolled at a so-called nominal salary (presumably $1 a year) except by special act of Congress. { Would Settle Issue Raised. . i The Britten resolution further pro- ‘vldeu that all persons authorized to issue permits and agents and inspec- tors in the fleld service of the pro- ! hibition enforcement force shall be | appointed in accordance with the pro- vision of the act of January 16, 1883, which is the civil service act. Senate Orders Inquiry. The legality of Coolidge's order will be investigated by the Senate Judiciary committee. In addition, unless it is revoked | within a few days, Representative Hill, Republican, Maryland, wet !leader in the House, plans to call up his resolution, introduced yesterday, to prohibit exployment of Federal offi- cers by States or of State officers by the Federal Government. The Senate inquiry, to be conducted under a resolution by Senator King, Democrat, Utah, will have as its pur- pose the ascertaining of the legal status of the order ‘“‘to enable the Senate to determine whetherlegisla- tion is advisable or necessary” in con- nection with the enforcement policy it_embodies. Meanwhile, those opposed to the 2try also must give reazons to ontinued vn Pa; Column 3, . (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.).. ¢ I @h y D. C, BAPTIST SIDESTEP FINAL DECISION ON MEMBERSHIP TEST Majority Vote on Immersion Is Compromise — Funda- mentalists Not Satisfied. BOLT IS 'AVOIDED NOW; FACTION MEETS TONIGHT Ballot Shows 2,020 for Resolution to 1,084 Against—Session Is Tumultuous. ‘The Northern Baptist C‘hurch today in a tumultous three-hour session at the Washington Auditorium side-step- ped for the present a final decision on the question of a definition of what ! constitutes a member of the Baptist Church. By a large majority the convention adopted a resolution sponsored by a coneiliation group by which bellef in baptism by immersion is declared, but which does not exclude from the gen eral conference of the church those churches which practice “open mem- bership.” The official count on the single bal- lot taken was 2,020 for the conciliation resolution and 1,084 for the resolution sponsored by the extreme fundamen- talist wing. Meaning of Decision. This decision by the general con- ference will mean that delegates to the convention must be members of the Baptist Church who have been immersed, but leaves to the local Bap- tist churches the right to say what shall constitute its membership. The strife within the ranks of the church over the question of what is a Baptist, involved in the question of open membership, arose at the Seattle convention last year when debate was continued for days over the seating of delegates from the Park Avenue Church of New York, which accepts into full membership those not im- mersed. The threatened bolt of the extreme fundamentalist wing from the conven- tion as the result of the decision of the convention failed to mate- rialize today. Just what action this faction will take, however, is not cer- tain. A meeting to consider the vote of the convention has been called at the Raleigh Hotel this evening by leaders of the Baptist Bible Union, which is the active machinery for the fundamentalists. Issue Yet to Be Settled. Leaders of the strictly orthodox group pointed out, following the morn- ing session, that the matter has not beén definitely settled and that at any succeeding conference of the Northern church the entire question could again be brought up without any previous notice. Dr. Frank M. Goodchild, “con- servative’ fundamentalist, stated defi- nitely: *“The question is never set- tled until it is settled right, and it was not settled right today, in the belief of true Baptists.” The extreme fundamentalists take the decision of the convention as an acceptance of the policy of “‘open membership,” such as is to be found in the Park Avenue Baptist of New York, of which Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick is pastor. On the other hand, the majority of the convention indi- cated by their vote that they believed the action taken to be the only pos- sible one in the interest of harmony and continued operation of a united church. Back College Students. A direct answer was given yester- day by two officlals of the General Conference to the charge of the ex- treme fundamentalists, delivered many times during the sessions of the Bap- tist Bible Union of North America, that the colleges and universities of endowments made by Rockefeller and other philanthropists fostering ‘ra- tionalistic and materialistic thinking. A clear-cut declaration for faith in both the college students and the de- nominational institutions themselves was voiced by F. W. Padelford and ‘William A. Hill of New York in their report as executives of the board of education of the General Conference. They declared, however, that when a Baptist college fails to give its stu- dents a training that Il. not “distinctly: Christian in character” it no longer merited support of the church. The report, delivered jointly by the two officers, denles that their is any atheism among RBaptist college stu- dents. The board executives declared: (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) Pt SOVIET PLANE AIDS GOLDSTROM IN RACE Russia’s Greatest War Ace Rushes Globe Circler to Train That He Missed. | | I | BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily New: BERLIN, May 26.—If John Gold: | strom, the American round-the-world racer, keeps up to his schedule fn circumnavigating the globe, he will owe it largely to the courtesy of the Russian soviet government. Goldstrom reached Berlin Tuesday evening, weary and depressed at the thought that he had missed the weekly transsiberian train which leaves Moscow today. But when he heard that the soviet government not only was willing to give him a special plane to catch the eastward hurrying train, but was prepared to assign him Russia’s hest war ace, Chebanoff, as pilot, his smile’ re- {turned. s Tired though he was, Goldstrom returned to Tempelhofer Field at 2 o'clock this morning. He reached Koenigsburg at 7, and is due in Mos- cow at 5 this evening. At dawn Thursday he will set out with Che- banoff in pursuit of the Viadivostok express, which he expects to overtake before evening. The German press is undertaking to give & history of round-the-world dashes from the time of Jules Verne. *Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Dally News Co.) 3 s 3 li(adig i_}pgfi' ms—Page 35. enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION the Nation had “'sold their souls™ for | GOO g Star. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. SE FHAT THE /EVANS AND QUIMET BEATEN IN BRITAIN Prominent U. S. Golf Pair Lose — Jones, Guilford and Sweetser Remain. By the Associated Press. MUIRFIELD, Hcotland, May 26 Two more gaps appeared today in the ranks of the American golfers, who are making the greatest drive |Ivl history for the British amateur | championship. The gaps were those filled hy the redoubtable Chick Evans of Chicago iand Francis Ouimet of Boston, both iformer American amateur champions. Evans was eliminated by J. B. Beck. former Oxford star, and Ouimet hy | his fellow American, Jess Sweetser of New York, another former champion. Evans had foresworn all the enter- taining offered by the hospitable Eng- lish_prior ta the tournament and had practiced {n deadly earnest, but today { in his first match his putter fafled him, as it has on occasions in the past. He went down to defeat smiling. as of old, but he was not the same memorable 19-hole battle for | champlonship at Prestwick in 1911. { Something of his old-time punch and | aggressiveness seemed lacking. His opponent. Beck, had his troubles with the formidable bunkers of the Muir- fleld, course, but played sufficiently good golf to win, 2 and 1 Ouimet and Sweetser, thrown against each other by the luck of the draw. fought a ding-dong duel, which the New Yorker won, 1 up. Of the other prominent American | players, Bobby Jones, the present American champion. came through in | fine shape, defeating C. C. Aylmer, a veteran Britisher, by 5 and 4. while Jesse Gullford of Boston played ster- ling golf to defeat P. Mackenzie Ross | of Scotland. 3 and 2. Another all-American match, be-! | tween Grant Peacock of Garden City, | N. Y.. and L. M. Lloyd of Greenwich, Conn., was won by Peacock, 4 and 3. ! Donald Woodward Out. | The last of the Washington entrants | was eliminated. when Donald Wood- | ward was defeated by A. C. Bristowe, 3and 2. Watts Gunn of Atlanta defeated {dohn Wilson of Scotiand, 4 and 3; | Harry Brower, former Princetonlan, defeated Samuel Turner of New .Zea- land, 2 and 1. and Donald Gran, an American, who lives in England, won from Col. H. E. Hambro of England, 5 and 4. The loss to the Americans of Evans and Ouimet was balanced in part by the fall of Sir Ernest Holderness. former British champion, who was eliminated by R. W. Peattie of Cupar, 19-year-old Scotch lad who won the British boys’ championship last year. In his afternoon match Jesse Guil- tord of Boston, defeated Angus Ham- bro, 2 up. Bobby Jones was 1 up at the ninth on H. M. Dickson of Glasgow, i who defeated Robert A. Gardner of : Chicago, captain of the American | Walker Cup team, yesterday. Jones’ Game Flawless. Jones started his morning match against Aylmer, playing flawless golf. He scored a birdie on the 358- yard second. Beginning at the fifth. there were a few bad patches as com- pared with his ordinary game, but he continued to get par figures and was 4 up at the turn. Aylmer, who belongs to the genera- tion of golfers before Jones. could not take advantage of the opportunities offered, and won only the eighth hole on the outward ‘journey. Whenever the American was in a bunker, it seemed, the Englishman followed him. The cards for the first nine: Jones..... 434 355 35537 Aylmer... 554 357 44643 The first nine holes tell the story of Jones' victory, as all those remaining were halved except the eleventh, which he took with a par 5. The cards for the last five holes: Jones. 5 5 4 3 4 Aylmer. .5 6 4 3 4 The American champion did the first nine in one stroke under the par which the Americans have worked out for the course, there being no official figare. He was long off the tee, and was outdriven only on the third. At the ninth, Jones shattered the shaft ori\ one o!hhh"tllvmtll lntznp‘ln attem, to play the out of a umllolv"t g:nk-r. A friend rushed the club off to a famous Scottish club- maker for repairs before Bobby's afternoon encounter. The defeat of Sir Enest Holdeness sturdy, dogged Chick, who fought l:o‘i the i signed by French Boy Hiding In Trunk to Reach ' U.S.IsBumped Out Br the Associated Preas. CHERBOURG, France, May 26. —Roger a 16-year-old would-be stowaway, was awakened from dreams of adventure and for- tune-making in America when the trunk in which he was hiding was droppad to the deck of the liner Arabic early yesterday morning as hagzage was being taken aboard for the voyage across the Atlantic. A baggage hauler's bungling in dropping the trunk brought Roger to light and he was compelled to confess that he ran away from his home. in Paris. last Friday, deter- mined to make his way to the United States. He lived for two days aboard.a lighter and finally hid himself in the trunk, heping | that once aboard the big ship he might not bo discovered until it was too Jate to put him ashore and he might be engaged as a cabin bov or deckman. He is belng de- tained at the police station, his parents having been notified. e ) it a2 BUILDINGS GROUP crresthe [0 DRAWPROGRAM | Commission Will Study Plans for $50.000,000 Struc- tures Tomorrow. The first step looking toward the erection of the Federal buildings to be erected in the National Capital under the terms of the public buildings bill the President vesterday will be taken tomorrow. when the United States Public Buildings Com- mission meets at the Capitol. This commission, of which Senator Reed Smoot of Utah., who has been urging upon Congress for a number of yvears the construction of sufficient buildings in this city to properly house the Government's activities, is chairman, will have complete author- ity over the buildings to be built here. This committee will decide what buildings are to be erected under this law. what puildings will be construct- ed first and the manner in which the others «ill follow; the amount of money to be spent upon each build- ing: thejr individual design and archi- tecture, and where they are to be located. $50,000,000 for Capital. The public buildings bill, which makes jt possible for these much- needed Government buildings to be erected in this city, authorizes a five- year program. to cost not more than $185,000,000, of which $50,000.000 is to be spent in Washington. The re- mainder of this appropriation is to be devoted to the purch; of sites and the erection and repair of build- ings outside the District of Columbia. Of the total amount authorized $15.- 000.000 {s for buildings outside of the District authorized bv an act of Con- gress in 1913, buts for’ which actual appropriations were never before made. The bill signed by the President yesterday, while it eliminates the ‘pork-barrel” feature, so prominently associated with public building bills of years gone by, specifies that the acquisition of land, the designing and construction work is to be left with the Secretary of the Treasury, but it is specified in the act that no funds are to be expended except with the firal approval of Congress. This means that Congress has seen fit to remove the ‘‘pork-barrel” feature by turning everything over to the Secre- tary of the Treasury instead of hav- ing the usual mad scramble among members of the Senate and House in.an effort to get buildings for their respective States and districts. Congress Retains Contral. But Congress also has seen fit to retain the r to disapprove any action on the part of the, Secretary of the Treasury in his carrying out of this building program by making it necessary for him to ask for appro- priations for each individual building to be created. This recommendation, under the new law, will be le to Congress by the Budget Bureau through the appropriations commit- tees of the House and Senate. Although the Secretary of the Treasury is named in the act, the actual authority for the buildings for the District remains with the United | States Building Commission, which was created by an act, of Congress by the British boy cl lon, R. W. during the war for just such a pur- D e on a1 ol T | " @tinued on Page 4, Column 1) GOL. service. (®) Means Associated Pr DEN EC D.C. HEADS READY * FOR PONER SHIT Maj. Covell May Go to Zoning 1 Commission When Relieved | of Utilities Work. Apparently confident that the bill providing for a separate Public Util- ities Commission to be appointed by | the President will pass before the |adjournment of Congress, the Dis- | trict Commissioners today began prep- |arations for shifting the burden of their public utility duties. The meas- |ure was approved by the House in committes of the whole Monday. and the Commissioners believe there will be little delay in maneuvering it through the Senate. | As the enactment of the bill will | force Maj. W. E. R. Covell, assistant Engineer Commissioner. out of his as- | signment with the present Public Ctilities Commission. Engineer Com- missioner J. Franklin Bell indicated that he is giving serious consideration to a plan to detail him to the Zoning | Commission as successor to Maj. Ray- mond 'A. Wheeler, who will leave Washington next month to attend | the command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Capt Herbert C. Whitehurst of the Corps of Engineers already has been detailed to fll the vacancy on Cgl. Bell's staff of assistants, and it was originally planned to assign him to Maj. Wheel- er's work on the Zoning Commission. Seemed Fitted for Work. Because of Maj. Covell's familiarity with Washington and his known abil- ity to adjust himself quickly to new assignments, Col. Bell is of the opin- ion that he would make an excellent executive secretary of the Zoning Commission. Capt. Whitehurst would be given other duties and also might be assigned to aid Maj. William H. Holcombe in his work. As Commissioner Bell is anxious to relieve Maj. Wheeler of his duties in Washington as soon as possible in order that he might prepare for the course of study at Fort Leavenworth, if his plan to assign Maj. Covell to the Zoning Commission is approved. the change may be made in the near future. Col. Bell points out that even if Maj. Covell is assigned to the com- mission before the passage of the bill, he could still devote some of his time to _public utilities matters. The bill provides that the three new Public Utility Commissioners shall be- | Ein their terms of office July 1. Each Commissioner would receive a salary ot:?,aoo a year. 2 ppointment of a ople’ by the President at a salary of $7.500 a vear also is provided in the bill. The people’s counsel would represent and appear for the people of the District at all hearings of the commission and in all judicial proceedings involving ;}f\e 'l’:neresls‘ of users of the products r .service furi ut!ll_l;.\' Cnrporltion!.nmh!d L b e term of office of the ' counsel would be four years, and the have been a bona fide resident of t District for a period of at least fl{‘: years immediately preceding his ap- pointment. No such residence require- ment is attached to members of the commission, and the Citizens’ Advis- ory Council has opposed this feature because of the possibility of congres- sional “lame ducks” getting on the new commission. ONE KILLED IN BLAST. Nine Injured in Munitions Plant Explosion in Poland. BERLIN, May 26 (#).—A dispat to the Wolff Bureau from z.g.fz'.’a'mc.:'. Poland, says one person was killed, nine injured and several are missing following the explosion of a powder drum at the munition works there. Among the missing are two French officers who directed the process of m";‘l:"-g:“ni 5 e dispatch says it {s suspected that a criminal attempt wupem.lde to wreck the plant. Part of the plant was destroyed. I A, CHINESE ORDERED OUT. VIENNA, May 26 (#).—Dispatches from Budapest say that police have Issued expulsion orders against 7,000 Chinese who have crowded into that jCity. Many Chinese, who have been h from other European coun- tries, have congregated in the Hun- It‘“"n capital. The dispatches say have Deen ocel hat the poucw:ueve the Chinese | ing that of Bernard ) Communist literggure. bill requires that the appointee shall | ed in distributig | cla The only evening g in Washington wit Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,670 TWO CENTS. THREE WITNESSES HEARD BY FENNING PROBERS INHOUSE Baldwin Testifies Regarding Commissioner’s Attitude Toward Insurance Bill. |BLANTON'S QUESTIONING DRAWS HOGAN’S FIRE Witness Says He Was Told to Wait Until Differences on Measure Were Ended. Closing the first week of its hear- Ings on impeachment charges brought by Representative Blanton, Democrat Texas, against Commissioner Frede. rick A. Fenning, the special subcom | mittee of the House judiciary com mittee today heard three witnesses only one of whom gave direct evidence | azainst the Commissioner. Thomas M. Baldwin, jr. supes tendent of insurance of the Distri Government, under direct examinati by Mr. Blanton, declared insurance companies had opposed a bill now in the Senate District committes and that the Insurance Club had obtained |a hearing before Mr. Fenning. Mr. Baldwin said he endorsed and sup- ported the bill and had appeared be fore both the Senate and House Dis trict committees. After the audience with the club, Mr. Baldwin testified. Commissioner Fenning ‘“told me I had | better not appear before the Senate | committee until some differences had | been ironed out and I obeyed orders. } Hogan Raises Objections. Mr. Blanton experienced soms dif ficulty in leading the witness up t. this declaration, owing to the objec- tions to his method of questioning h; | Frank J. Hogan, chief counsel for Mr. Fenning. | After recalling that since Mr. Fen ning took the oath of office as Com missioner there has been pending an insurance measure “to protect the people from improper practices by in- surance companies,” Mr. FRlanton asked the witness: “State whether Mr. retarded the bill.” to by Mr. Hogan. “State whether instructions were given vou to cease interest in the bill.” Again Mr. Hogan objected. ““Well, then, if the Commissioner gave you any instructions about the bill, state what he told you,” said Mr. Blanton. “I don't like to give this testi mony,"” said Mr. Baldwin. “But this i{s a time when you've got to give it. whether it's agains: vour superior or not.” Fenning Attorney Concurs. Chairman Dyer of the subcom- Fenning ha< This was objected mittee, Republican, Missour!, as- sured the witness he need not bLe reluctant ' and Mr. Hogan said | “Please go ahead. Mr. Baldwin.” ‘The witness, rising from his chair. stated there had been some objec- tion to the bill as drawn by JMr. | Blanton, on the part of stock, fire and surety companies. A man from New York named Doyle, he added objected to all the provisions of it and he got the Insurance Club here to appear before Mr. Fenning. “Col. Fenning then told me I had | better not appear before the commit- tee until some differences had been ironed out, and I obeyed orders,” de- clared Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Blanton stated that the minority and majority members of the com- mittee had froned out the differences and asked the witness: “Has Fenning ever withdrawn the | instructions he gave you?" “No,”" replied Mr. Baldwin. Asks About Later Steps. ““Has he done anything to get Congress and the companies to- gether on the bill?"" Mr. Hogan objected, explaining “it's a little hard for a lawyer trained in law to sit here and listen to those questions.’ Mr. Blanton said he had been in Congress nine years and had for- gotten a little about the procedure in_courts. In reframing his question Mr. Blanton said: “After Fenning said ou'd better not go before—" “There was no such statement as ‘better not go,' " insisted Mr. Hogan, and when Mr. Blanton wanted to turn back in the record the committee as- sured him it wasn’'t necessary. At the outset of his testimony Mr. Baldwin stated that Mr. Fenning had held licenses as solicitor in several bonding companies, but that all of them had expired May 1 of this year and had not been renewed. On_cross-examination by Mr. Hogan Mr. Baldwin said the Board of Com missioners in session had approved the insurance bill and had given him a copy of the letter on the matter sent to Congress. Mr. Blanton then asked: “\Was that letter dated before Fenning had that conversation with you?" “Yes,” replied the witness. “There has been no approval of the bill by the Board of Commission ers since then?” . “No.” Retired Attorney Heard. H. P. Fellows, 77 years old, a re tired attorney of Boston, was called by Mr. Blanton, who explained to the witness there had been placed in evi- dence letters written by Mr. Fenning to Miss E. S§. Kelly offering to se- cure $1,800 due her husbend and ac- cepting no fee until payment by the Government. Mr. Fellows was Miss Kelly’s coun- sel. Mr. Blanton also referred to other letters he presented several days ago, in which Mr. Fenning offered to pay Mr. Fellows one-third of the 20 per cent contingent fee as associate coun- sel. This correspondence was dated in 1911 and the witness declared that since that time he never received a report from Mr. Fenning, never heard whether the claim was collected and imagined it still is pending. Mr. Hogan_developed that Mr. Fel- lows wrote Mr. Fenning that the should be a division of fees and that the latter agreed. Clarkson Greer of the Veterans' Bu- reau gave ‘testimony concerning his identification of a body taken from the Tidal Basin early this year _as be- i nt, and that it was not