Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (T, S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy today, followed showers late tonight or Monday. ing_temper Temperatures: ture Monday. Highes! p.m.; lowest, 48, at 4 a.m. Full report on page 9, No. 1,107—No. 29,986, FOUR BIG FEDERAL " BUILDINGS WILL BE - BEGUN HERE 30N $6,000,000 to Be Spent in First Year Under Plans to . Be Sent to Congress. WORK ON STRUCTURES TO START THIS SUMMER Program Calls for Archives, Reve- nue, Agriculture and Commerce Offices and Additions. Construction of four imposing new ; Federal office buildings in the Na- 1o apital, one for the Govern mient archives, one for the Interna Revenue Burea, one for the Depart-| ment of Agriculture and another for | the Department of Commerce, will be started this Summer under the first vear's allotment of the public building program for V ton, announced yesterday at | Kalorama road last night. probably by Ris- 2 66, at Tintered as second class matter rost office, Washing?, DG Officers of the Constitut asm, John Hays Hammond, interna tionally famous mining engineer, en- tertained the seven 1926 nationa! o torieal finalists and a few of the friends at o banquet in his home o The ban- quet preceded the second annual meet. | ing of the Constitution Club, com- posed exclusively of national finalists This club now has 21 members, seven for each of the three of the atlonal Oratorical Contests, While the orators were grouped about him at the banquet table he in- formed them of his intense interest in thelr life’s progre d impressed | upon them whenever they are in Washington “the latchstring of my | home always is open.’ Beaming with a youthful enthusl-| | came vinced that the National Orator- Contest which annually draw | upion speakers from among | 00,000 high schoo! students, will | ove to he one of the most important | atures in school life in the United | tates, it < Mr. Hammond who | originally ested to Randolph | Leigh, national director of the con tests, that the Constitution Club be |~ he WASHINGTO HAMMOND IS HOST TO ORATORS AFTER VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON ion Club Elected at His Home—Capital Sightseeing Trips Will Continue Tod: ‘ formed. It was pointed out that be- fore many years the club will have developed into a sizable organization and the national honors achieved by its members will be a source of mutual tification. - The t the, and honors for the ¢ it the day they had hoarded the Sylph, through the cour- - of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, and spent the day cruising along the Potomac and sightseeing at Mount Vernon. During the banquet Mr. Hammond ve the seven orators who spoke at the "Washington Auditorium on Friday night an insight into what they may expect_on their three-month tour of eizht forelgn countries, which begins on July 3. At an appropriate interval, Mr. Hammond, who is honorary president of the Constitution Club, proudly gath ered the members assembled into a secret sion during which they talked over a number of plans for the future. After the meeting had con cluded it was announced that Hler- lert. Wenig, the 192 orical cham- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) entertainment Treasury. Reconstruction of the present erty Loan building, including the dition of two stories and the refac - ing with stone of the entire stru ture, also is provided for in the esti mates for the initial outlay to be sent to Congress 1 Actual construction will be started | first on the $6,00,000 archives build- | inz, which, it is understood, will be | located probably in the square bound- | Lib- ed by B and C, Twelfth and Thir teenth streets, diagonally across from the Post Office Department building. | . This will involve the closing of Ohio | avenue between Twelfth and Thir- teenth streets. ‘Estimates for First Year. The estimates for first.year struction worlk announced by tary Mellon follow 1. Archives building. 2. Internal __ Revenue, stal cost. $7.950,000.) 3. Agriculture, $1,923,000 cost, $8.075,000, including purchas: & building now rented, completion o central part nt administra- | tion building ane a gen- | eral office huilding. 4 erce, $600,000. (Total cost, ! $10,000.000.) | siberty Loan build $300.000. | cost 0,000.) first-year program urchase of additio ernment Printing $100,080, looking 1 erection of a large present building on ¢ 56,000,000 for Year. 1 The total estimates to be made to! Congress for the first vear aggregate | approximately $6,000,000. The “(.“v’ public buildings bill, recently approved, authorizes an expenditure of 000 in the District of Columbin £115,000,009 outside Dis the tter amount 000,000 thorized ddition to amounts pre i ppropriated for completing a | list of approximately 60 buildings out- | side the District, leaving $100,000,000 | for expenditure for other projects | eign to Washingt. Beginnin of constritction in the ! ambitious program means the rear- ! ing, before long, of a stately group Government edifices fringing the hi: toric Mall, south of Pennsylvania ave- nue. Not far from the A probably the south hetween Thirteenth Fifteenth streets, new home for the Bureaw. con- | Secre- | £1,000,000. £1,700,000. | otal of | 1s0 calls for | al land for ! Oftice at a | toward the tition | rect. | TF the the cost of event to i ives huilding, | ide of B street, | hd Fourteenth | will be erected | Internal Rev- | i the enue Commerce Building Nearby. Divectiy across the street, in the block bounded by B and C. Fourteenth | and Fifteenth streets, will rise the | pretentious Departm structure. Farther to the south, across | the 1 the Department of Agricul- ture’s improverents will be executed. The two marble wings of the existing building will e joined, as originally | planned, by a monum al central T- shaped building. and another large office building will be erected nearby, possibly west of B street southwest. | The rented building to be purchased was not announced The Liberty Loan building, adjoin- | ing ou the south the new Bureau of | Engraving and Printing structure, will be remodeled to conform with the general esthetic treatment planned for the new Federal office build The addition vs will vir- | tually d the acity of the | building, and the new stone front will | keep tne whole edifice in harmony | with its surrounding | Archives Building st Needed. RBecause of the urgent need for al fireproof home for Uncle Sam'’s price- less records of ar and peace, first consideration will be given the new archives build. The Government's valuable documents concerning func mental phases of the country’s prog- ress, from great state papers to war | records, now housed in fiimsy wooden structure ellars, in at ties and in ver liable to damage by fire or other h 1o} effacement Publie immediate cons “hall of record: uments must be history straight . the doc: preserved to keep second, their. lo: might result in unjust claims against the Government; third, their presence | in existing places constitutes a fire hazard; fourth, the records are proof of America’s good faith to the world; fifth, they show the advance xth, they now space. building has Iy a quarter rgency con- | since | to further progpress: clutter up valuable of Agitation for such a been zoing on for near of a century. with the stantly inc ng, especially the World W Warned of Fi The Public Buildings Commission has advised Congr: that the fire hazard in some of the Federal offices “is absolutely appalling, and so threateningly imminent as to subject the responsible Government author- ities to absolute condemnation of the public at large for failure to provide adequate remedies for these condi- tions.” The Internal Revent dire need of better q than 70 per cent « e Hazard. s in| More | now ve % 6,000 employe: vy wooden frame " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) marine, This they did w”;m an hour, . ! muster sufficient votes to pass the| | the Middle West is up in arms over nt of Commerce | I | Shipstead of Minnesota, a Farmer- | be set aside to help the cotton farm- | er: | bill, wheat, cattle, corn and = | fee. DAWES' AID ASKED ON FARM RELIEF Called in by Senators tp Rescue McNary-Haugen Measure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Desperate efforts to save at least the principles of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill are being made by the friends of the measure in the Senate. Vice President Dawes has been lled into consultation and it is un- derstood he will take a leading part in efforts to draft a satisfactory meas- ure. He was present of the friends of the bill yesterday fternoon, at which certain modifica- | tions were agreed upon in the hope that the administration may look with | less opposition upon the measure. But when all is said and done it still appears that the bill will fail to | Senate, unless some sign should come | from the White House that the meas- ure in its amended form would be satisfactory. Such a sign is not ex- | pected. | Jowa Primary Watched. Some of the supporters of this kind of farm relief legislation are turning their eyes to the Towa senatorial pri- | jes. set for tomorrow, where Sen- - Cummins and Col. Smith W.| insurgent Republican, are | at political death grips. It is true that hoth the candidates have declared for the principles of the Mec Haugen bill. But. nevertheless, the | nomination of Col. Brookhart over | senator Cummins would be regarded a notice to the administration that | ary- | a. the failure of Congress to enact the kind of farm relief legislation which it has demanded. On the eve of the primaries, six | Senators from the Middle West and Northwest, last night issued an ap- peal to the voters of Towa to nomi- nate Col. Brookheart on the ground that it would be regarded in Wash- ington “as an expression of the at- titude of the people of the great Cen- tral West toward the question of farm legislation.” The six Sen- ators signing the appeal are Senators Norris Hlowell of Nebraska, sconsin, all Pro- & Republicans, and Senator Laborite, At the conference of friends of the { proposed . farm relief legislation were Vice President Dawes, Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana, Gooding of Idaho, MeNary of Oregon, and Cummins of Towa, all Republi- cans, Representative Purnell, Repub- | |ltcan, of Indiana, and representatives | other buildings wer of the farm group which has been | active in the campaign for the legis- lation, including George N. Peek of Moline, 11, Chester Davis and F. W. Murphy. , Fund to Be Reduced. 7t was agreed at this meeting to reduce the total of the proposed re- volving fund from $250,000.000 to 150,000,000, of which $75,000,000 is to was agreed also that the equalization fee should apply imme- diately on cotton as well as on other basic commodities covered in the ine. operation of “the equalization however, would be left o the producers of any of these commodi- tes, and would be put into effect only after a referendum. Other amendments would eliminate he embargo and the tariff features which were found in the bill as it appeared in the House and was there defeated. Senator Watson. after the confer- ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) e a conference | | ploded LEGATION BOMBING STILL UNSOLVED Arrest of 20 Radicals and| Severe Grilling Fails to Clear Uruguayan Attack. 2 ated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. June 5. Twenty men whom the police charge with being icals are under deten- tion and have been put through a severe grilling without, however, yield- ing any definite clue to the persons who bombed the American legation here yesterday. All deny knowledge of the outrage, which was committed placed there since a nst the Amer - in Buenos .Aires, were guarding ation e think the plotters fled in an | automobile as soon the bomb ex- Several persons claim to have seen a small car speed off after the explosion. BUENOS AIRES, June 5 (#).—Ad- ditional policemen have been stationed around the private residence of Peter Jay, the Am Argentina. Mr. Jay resides on fashionable Avinda Alvear GRANDSTAND BLAZE CAUSES 40 OTHERS $100,000 Fire Destroys 12 San Francisco Builidngs as Ball Park Stands Burn. g M ) the By the Associated Pre SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.—Be- tween 35 and 40 fires, most of them comparatively small, were started here today by embers from an old wooden grandstand and bleachers which burned at Ewing Field, a base | ball park. Twelve small buildings across the street from the park were destroyed. The’ fire in out during a twilight league game, and is believed to have started by a cigaret. The rain of blazing embers over an area of 30 blocks. Firemen were helpless to combat the many minor fires as alarms came in from corner boxes over a wide area. Citizens, armed with buckets and gar- den hose, put out numerous blazes and kept the roofs and walls of their houses soaked. When practically all the fire ap- paratus in the city had been sent to the scene a new fire broke out in another district and destroyed 12 buildings, burning $100.000 worth of raw hemp in one warehouse. the grandstand broke e ball been damaged. The origin of this fire was unknown. Mayor James Rolph, jr., who visited the fire zone around Ewing Park, sald it was the “worst in San Francisco's history” since the great fire of 1906. No estimate of the loss was available. ATTACK IS A MYSTERY. Police Without Clue to Shooting Up of Dry Agent's Home. TILTONSVILLE, Ohio, June 5 (). —County autherities, after an all- day inquiry, tonight said they had no clue 1o a solution of the attack on the home of Carl Aiken, an unusually active prohibition agent in this dis- trict. The house was riddled with 11 bullets while the family was sleeping today, some of the leaden pellets pass. ing only a short distance above the beds of Aiken, his wife, son and daughter. was exploded near the Aiken home. Divers Brave Tempest to Repair Leaks {Which Would Have of | science and serve as Stepping stones pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW LONDON, Conn., June 5.— Tempestuous seas continue to prevail off Block Island, but divers, risking this handicap, went down to the bot- tom of the Atlantic twice today to pre- vent what threatens to be a catas- trophe to the Navy’'s plans to raise he sunken submarine S-51. One of the divers was making a superficial examination of the sub- marine this morning 130 feet below the surface and noticed gaps in the steel hull in the motor compartment at the extreme aft of the craft. ‘Water was seeping through the holes. This was an upset, for the stern or rear of the submarine previously had heen considered watertight and fl\e] three compartments were supposed to be free of water. » diver reported his Lieut. Comdr. Hilsberg and two viher forward compartments ar divers volunteered to risk the heavy seas and_go down to mend the sub- plugging up the gaps at the stern of the hull. With, good weather there is a pos- sibility’ that a preliminary attempt will be made Monday to raise it. This would mean that the two pontoons at the stern of the boat would be filled with compressed air. Then, aided by the fact that the three rear compart- ments are empty of water, the stern of the hull would be buoyed up so that the nose of the vessel would be point- ed toward the ground and the whole craft would be resting at an angle of almost 60 degrees. Later the six pontoons at the bow of the boat will be blown of water, and then it will be possible for it, if all plans succeed, to go up to the sur- face. The preponderance of pontoons the bow of the boat has been made by the fact that the twe Mled with water, which cannot be forced out be- cause of the large gaps In the hull near the battery compartment. Hammond home | to a_day replete with | an Ambassador to | fell | Eleven | Three weeks ago a bomb | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sunday Star., D. C, SUNDAY ey 1. S-NEXCAN R FEARED: PRESSURE HER I ICREASING Business and Religious Inter- i ests in America Spurring ! Officials to Action. CALLES HAS SYMPATHY IN DIFFICULT POSITION Faces Big Problem in Radicalism Rampant in His Administra- tion of Affairs. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | Mexican-American relations steadily drifting from 0 wol The United States is getting ex: nowhere with its demands for nite guarantees of American pre rights. Correspondence and negotia- tions proceed endless But_cate- gorical requirements by the United States continue to be met with either equivocal or platonic assurances that leave matters practically where they were before. Secretary Kellogg is ex hibiting almost unprecedented patience and indicates no disposition to ter- minate matters abruptly. But au thorities in touch with the unsatis ctory situation hazard the belief that matiers are approaching the zoff point. They zo further and assert that not until that point is actually reached is there any real hope | of securing from Mexico the recogni- | tion of America’s irreducible demans. | | defi The Coolidge administration is b ing subjected to what is probably the strongest pressure for a strong hand with Mexico ever exercised at Wash. | ington during the many vears of strained relations with that country. Two powerful American factors join in the pressure—big business and re ligious interests. In the past it has been largely American property-owning classes and the oil industry that have clamored for action designed to bring Mexico to terms. Now these business groups have an influential ally it the Reman Catholic Church and other American ecclesiastical elements, which are finding their religlous and educational | activities in Mexico practically Flot- ted out of existence. Soviet Influence Seen. The United States Government con- ! tinues to place its faith in President Plutarch Calles as the man who, if | { given time, may work things out to American satisfaction. But it is well known in Washinzton that Senor Calles is not altogether R free agent at Mexico City. The administration over which he presides is honeycomb- ed with radicalism tantamount to Bo'shevism. In certain directions Washington authorities have detect- ed a pretty direct line of common thought and policy between Moscow and Mexico City. All of the new eco- | nomic ideas now prevailing in Mexico | are of the Soviet tinge. The inter- pretation of the 1917 constitution, | which lies at the bottom of all of | America’s grievances in the country, | an interpretation of property right religlous freedom, educational activity | and other issues such as Soviet Rus-| | sia_publicly subscribes to. l President Calles, while himself a workingman by origin and in strong I'sympathy with the proletarian spirit that now rules in Mexico, has been sobered by responsibility and is cor- | respondingly anxious, while propitiat- | inz his radical supporters, to do jus- tice to foreign rights. But he could, and probably would, be overturned tomorrow if he yielded too freely to| such demands as America s putting | forth. Thus far Uncle Sam has had | compassionate consideration for Calles' delicate position and good in-} |tentions. But how long the United | States, with the pressure piling up | in Washington, will feel called upm.“ to accept stone for bread at Mexico's | hands remains to be seen. i 0il Men Discouraged. Senor Tellez, Mexican Ambassador | at Waskington, Is being acquainted { from time to time with this mounting | wave of American resentment and clamor for defensive actjon. The Am- bhassador, who has been stationed at | Washington for a good many years, ix a “Callas man” and sympathizes with the Mexican President’s desire to bring about satisfactory relations {with the United States. Particularly with regard to offensive Mexican a | ||iun toward American religious bodies | {the ambassador is believed to have| done his utmost in the direction of urging more considerate conduct. The latest dispatches from Mexico City re- veal no readiness upon the part of the government to soften its attitude | the ecclesiastics who ai Mexican_law WILKINS GOES BACK | T0 FAIRBANKS BASE| Leaves Barrow to Have Plane Re-| raired—Exploration to Await Fuel Supply. | BY FREDERICK LEWIS EARP, S N FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 5.— Capt. George H. Wilkins, Maj. Thom- as G. Lamphier and Charles M. Wise- | ley of the Detroit Arctic expedition. | arrived here from Point Barrow this afternoon. ‘The monoplane Detroiter | must undergo repairs before it can| make the polar ice flight in search of new lands. ¢ “The explorers flew to Point Barrow from here May 8. Bad weather held the plane at the Arctic settlement until four days ago, and when the clouds began to lift it was found that the motors of the ship were not functioning satisfactorily. The return of Capt. Wilkins does not mean abandonment of the explora- tion into the unknown area, but it may mean a delay of several weeks. { More aviation fuel must be delivered *ut Point Barrow, and this can only be taken in adequate quantity when| ships reach there in July or Augu: Copyright, 1926, by the orth Amertcan Y Ne: Alliance.) - MORNING, JU NE 6, 1926.—108 PAGES. * =<7, & T = THE 1926 GRADUATT and service w The Star is delivered cver Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ¥ evening and Telephone Main 5000 il start immediatcly. (/) Means Associated Press. PARK ACQUISITION ACTION EXPECTED Planning Commission to Complete. Organization Here June 18 and 19. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Years of effort spent in acquiring certain land projects in the National Capital as a part of the park system are expected to bear fruit the next several months, after the National Capital Park and Planning Commis sion perfects its organization at a meeting here on June 18 and 19. An extensive schedule is being planned for the consideration of the new body, including perfection of fts personnel and the consideration of the purch of certain projects with the $600,000 appropriation now available. Two of the projects which understaod will receive first conside tion at the hands of the comm n will be the Patterson t at Fifth and Florida avenue northeast, known also as Camp Meigs. The other is the Piney Branch parkway, starting on the east side of the Sixteenth street bridge, and running in a north easterly direction to Fourteenth and Varnum streets, the original beauty of which, however, has practically been destroyed by builders making it a dump for dirt from their excav. tions in the vicinity. However, it was pointed out that the acquisition of this project is the most imperative, because unless the land is quickly procured it will be possible to fill in the valley right up to the east side of the bridge. It is the purpose at least to provide a driveway under the bridge, and down the Piney Branch Valley to Rock Creek Park, thus making it_possible for traffic to reach Potomac Park and the downtown area without interference from cross traffic on the city streets. Long Before Congress. it is This tract, together with the Pat- terson tract and Klingle Valley, were for years included in one bill which | was kept befome Congress, but never acted upon, and was one of the proj- ects which brought about the estab- ishment of the National Capital Park Commission, which has now been merged into the new commission. It is known that extensive investi- gations have been made and plans drawn for treatment of the Patterson tract in its relation to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, which it ad- Joins, and it was pointed out by those in close touch with the commission’s work, that this tract has a better chance of being purchased this year than at any time since it first was mentioned as a site for a park and playground. It is one of the very few open spaces left in the northeast section, which is short of playground and recreation space, which has been a source of much complaint. In an ef- fort to stop some of these complaints and fill the need, which is admitted, orders were issued by the park and planning commission at its last meet- ing to condemn the land at the north- west corner of Ninth and E streets northeast. However, since the order was issued it was found that plans had been made and contracts let for the construction of an apariment ! there, and the question now s being look into by Government repre- sn(;(tllves as to the liability of the United States if it took this land now. In view of the fact that the commis- sion itself ordered the condemnation, nodaction will be taken further to- ward the condemnation until the facts are again presented to the commis- (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) SIX CHILDREN PERISH AS HOME IS BURNED Mother, Oldest Daughter Baby Escape—Frantic Effort to Save Victims Fails. By the Associated Press. 2 'TUCSON, Ariz, June 5.—Six chil- aren, _ trapped by flames, perished here last night when the home of Colletauo Villa burned to the ground While a frenzied crowd stood help- S by. Ty By sther, her oldest daughter by escaped. e Y s “belleved to have been started by a spark from a stove. The crackling of the = flames awakened the mothér, who attempted frantically to save her family, and who was forced to leave the blazing structure only after she had been badly burned. and TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—41 P Genera! News—Local, N Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages Current News Events—Page Hoy Scout News—Page 30. rl Scouts—Page 30 Veterans of the Great W ernal News—F ational and News of the Clubs The Starry Skies in June—Page adio News and Programs—Page ilian Ar “inancial New ART TWO—11 PAG Is and Fditorial Features. | Washington and Other Society. Reviews of New Books—Page Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. Around the Cit 3 Parent-Teacher Activiti D. A. R. Notes—Page I PART THREE—11 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 4. Motors and Motoring—Pages 5, 6, 7, 8 ard 10. Army and Navy News—Page 10. Serjal, “The Law of the Talon,"— Page PART FOUR—4 PAG Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—10 PAGE! Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGE! World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. v; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mr: Mutt and Jeff. THAW DENIES HE WED EVELYN NESBIT AGAIN Surprised at Rumors on Return From Atlantic City, Where He Dined With Her. By the Associated Press. \PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—Harry K. Thaw made flat denial here late tonight of rumors that he and his former wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, were remarried in Atlantic City today. Thaw-had just arrived at his hotel from Atlantic City when he was in- formed of the reports, He first ex- pressed surprise that stories were he- ing circulated concerning a_rumored remarriage with the former Floradora chorus girl and then declared em- phatically that the reports were not true. “Why, that's all wrong,” he said when asked if he and Miss Nesbit had remarried. intended. 1 don't know why should send out a story like Remarriage is not contemplated Thaw said that he had dined with Nesbit and Russell Thaw in Atlantic City last night. He said he would remain in Philadelphia until some time tomorrow, but did not in- dicate where he was going. i okl SOLDIER’S BONES FOUND IN STOMACH OF SHARK Laundry Mark on Swimming Trunks Identifies Remains of Honolulu Army Private. By the Associated Press. HONOLULLU, June 5.—Bones found | in the stomach of a shark caught off Kahuku Tuesday were identified to- day as those of Pvt. William of Battery B, 11th Field Artiller was drowned while bathing at Haleiwa, May 1. Goins’ home was at Singer, La. Identification was established by a laundry mark on swimming trunks also found within the shark. Goins, who was unable to swim, got beyond his depth and disappeared. The shark was not seen at the time, and it was thought the undertow was responsible for his death. i OVERMAN IN LEAD. Senator Running Ahead of Robert R. Reynolds for Nomination. RALEIGH, N. C., June 5 (#).— Senator Lee S. Overman tonight led Robert R. Reynolds more than two to one for the Democratic nomination to the-United States Senate in the early returns from today’s primary. seventeen precincts out of 1,717 gave Overman 690 votes and Reynolds 276. Mosul Pact Signeé. SALONIKI, Greece. June 5 (#).- The Mosul agreement between Turkey and Great was signed here late tonight. ' THOROUGH INQUIRY 0P DITRT SOUBHT | Congressional ~ Study of Needed Reforms Planned for Summer. | Thoroush and systematic investi- tion of the entire municipal ad- | ministration during the coming recess | of Congress will be recommended by the Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee, which, for the last two mont been con- ducting day and night hearings un- der a resolution authorizing an in- tion of affairs generally in the n hopes to get ac tion before Congress adjourns which will provide o deliberate and careful study of the entire District government .and administration may be made by a joint committee of Con- | gress this Summer, so that a report may be ready for Yemedial legisla- tion early gress. - Specific Needs Cited. The subcommittee report will state that the investigation thus far made, “'has only scratched the surface,” but tive of conditions that must be im- ! interests of municipal economy and efficiency, and in justice to the tax. payers, The conditions surrounding estate transactions which -multiply and pyramid costs for search and research on each failure to send out real estate tax bills and to notify a delinquent prop- erty owner before the property is sold for arrears of taxes; the neglect to press cases in court against corpora- tions that owe millions of dollars in taxes to the District, some of which claims have been running for re among the things the Gib- bcommittee will censure. Six Bills Submitted. Six bills_providing remedial legisla. tion have been introduced as a result of these hearings, and one of these: for a new Police Court building—has passed the House. Others would set up a new system of commitment to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the In- sane, with habeas corpus proceed- | suardian may have with non compos mentis cases or minor children, and limit the commision such guardians may receive. The Gibson subcommittee also will recommend a new division of probate in the Distnict Supreme Court to han- dle estates, guardianships and divorce cases, and the appointment of one or two_more judges. While the Gibson subcommittee would like to consider its hearings closed, and while it is agreed that there will be no further extensive hearings by this subcommittee, there are some tag ends of testimony that will be collected before the report is formally made to the full District committee. POEM afies MAIL BAN The New Masses Barred Perma- nently for Printing Lewd and Obscene Verse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—A poem by Hal Saunders White, an instructor in the English department of Yale Uni- versity, in the May issue of the New Masses, published in Greenwich Vil- lage, has been adjudged “lewd and obsoene” by the postal authorities. An order barring this and subsequent numbers of the magazine from the mails has been issued, it became known toda: The order, however, failed to pre- vent the May and June numbers from reaching their subscribers, as it was not issued until after the magazine had been distributed. (hmplaint to the Post Office De- partment was made by several wom- en’s organizations against the poem “Soft Little Women,” by White. The New Masses, successor to the Liberator, made its initial appearance on the newssetands April 22. Trolleys Crash, Six Hurt. CHICAGO, June 5 (#).—A shower of glass caused by the collision of a Chicago street car and a Kankakee interurban resulted today in serious | injuries to minor cuts p a score of others. street car, containing _twenty-foir versons, was knocked off the track. A derallment caused the accident. in the next session of Con-| will cite specific findings as illustra- | proved by remedial legislation in the | real | 0| ings; limit the number of wards any | ON LIBERAL MAGAZINE | FIVE CENTS. FERNIG HEARN COSE BLOGKED B DANKIN HANELVER Democrat Makes Sudden Re- quest to Examine Accused. Gets Chance Tomorrow. HEADLEY TAKES STAND TO DENY ALLEGATIONS Says He Did Not Want Eldridge Post and Did Not Refuse to Co-Operate. As the curtain was about to descend ifternoon on the House subcommittee’s investiza- the Blanton impeachment s against Cominissioner Fred- A. Fenning, a last-minute re- quest was received from Represent tive Rankin, Democrat, Mississip for permission to cross-examine Mr. Fenning on the World War veteran guardianship of the ions, and in nting it Chairman Dyer, Re- publican, Missouri, was forced to con- tinue the hearing until tomorrow. Upon the cempletion of Mr. Ran- kin's quiz of the Commissioner, the { testimony w »d and the case | will Le taken under consideration b: | the special body for report to the f { committee, which in turn, under held. The duty of the two bodics wil to determine if the sented against th | Representative Democrat | Texas, and the defense as offered by Frank J. Hogan, Thomas P. Little page and Levi Cook, Mr. Fenning's attorneys, does or does not prove “high crimes and misdemeanors re- quiring the interposition of the con stitutional powers of this House.” which the inquiry b Ranl Move Unexpected. Although Mr. Rankin has taken no part in the proceedings, even to the extent of occupying Yhe role of spec- tator, he met Mr. Fenning across the witness iable during the House World | War veterans' legislation committee investigation of the guardianship practices in the District and had one ous clash. Mr. Rankin's offer ‘e as proponent came after Mr. Blanton unexpectedly withdrew and after Representative Gilbert, Demo- at, Kentucky, who, according to Mr. Blanton, was willing to take over the duties if invited, had refused when finally approached by Chairman Dyer The cross-examination by the Mis- sissippian will even up the procedure to certain extent, although Mr. Fenning, aside from infrequent ques: tions from the committee during his direct testimony, will have no cross- examination on’ the other specifica- Mr. Hogan rested his case at noon vesterday, and in the succeding two- ¢hour session, interupted for an hour by a luncheon recess, the tribunal was given over to hearing both sides of the Headley demotion incident, which soon will be a year old. While the Commissioner was on the and “cleaning up odds and ends” that had been inserted in the record by Mr. Blanton and which Mr. Hogan declared had no relation to the charg es, although admitting they must not go unanswered, Capt. Headley en- tered the committee room and de- { manded of the sergeant at arms of the House, Joseph Rogers, that he be siven a hearing. Mr. Rogers com municated with Chairman Dyer and the latter granted the request Testimony Brought Move. Capt. Headley's appearance was in ! spired by the testimony offered direct |1¥ and” through documenty Friday {night by Mr. Fenning, which was de igned to show the former inspector n charge of the Traffic Bureau had been reduced one grade because he refused to cooperate with Traflic | Director M. O. Eldridge. This was the first official statement on the mat | ter, and was offered in defense of Mr. | Blanton's charge that Commissioner | Fenning “‘wrongfully” demoted In | spector Headley. { The captain took the stand and |summed up the entire letter with | this statement: “There isn't a single i thing true in it.” Mr. Eldridge then was called and swore that at the time the letter was | written the statements embodied | hereln, although “hearsay.,” were true. land that, his own assertions were ac | curate and authentic. He offered to | furnish the committee a list of per sons who, he said. would bear out the facts. but Chairman Dyer declared he was only interested in whether or not |the letter had been written My | Eldridge. | Capt. Headley appeared on the |stand before and after the luncheon |recess. His testimony at first was |given from the report of Friday night’s meeting as it appeared in a imorning newspaper, the officer ex | plaining he had been unable to ob- tain a copy of the letter in ques tion. At the suggestion of Repre sentative Gorman, Republican, Il nois, Mr. Hogan turned over u copy to him. Holds Reply Necessary. Testifying from the newspaper ac count, Capt. Headley declared “this is the first knowledge T ever had that charges had been preferred against me. For my own protection it is necessary for me to answer them, and in so doing I will step on dangerous ground.” To the statement in the Eldridge letter that he was “disgruntled” be- cause he had not been selected direc tor of traffic the witness declared that | when the Chamber of Comme !the request of the Commi | was relecting a traflic director | called on the teiephone by itudolph | Jose and told he had been chosen by |a vote of 9 to e ed to accept the position. but, the captain said, he declined, explaining he could not afford to give up 30 years’ serv- ice in the Talice Department and his forthcoming pension “for an uncer- tain v He concluded his discussion of this phase of the letter by adding, “T was satisfied with my own job." Capt. Headley answered the alle- gation concerning his failure to vol- unteer the use of six flood lights and an acetylene torch in the bureau's sign shop for use at the time of the Knickerbocker crash by declaring he first learned of the disaster from the Column 4