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DEFENSE HIGHWAY 10 BE COMPLETED Private Funds Will Pay for Finishing Washington-An- napolis Road. €pecial Disnatch to The Star BALTIMORE. June 9 - The De. fense hizhway. giving a direct route hetwesn Washineten and Annapolis, and shorteninz the present distance by ahout eight miles, will he completed this vear by private funds. according to John N. Mackall. chairman of the State Roads Commission. Bids for construction of 2.97 miles of concrete. the final section of the road in Anne Arundel County, were opened yesterday hy the commission. Funde to finance thic work have been ralced by a group of Anne Arundel County citizens, Mr. Mackall caid. A commitiee headed by James A. Walton has assured the State Roads C‘ommission that it will furnish $100.000. Other membhers of this com- mittee are William F. Cochran. Ridge ley . Melvin, William A. Strohm Thomas R. Bond. Jogeph M. Arm stnz and Andrew D. Porte Due to exhaustion of the appropri- ation for the Defense highwayv con struction. it was feared that the road uld not he completed until after the next season of the Legislature, in 1927 Completion of the Anne section leaves a gap of Prince Georges Cennty which is not under contract. Mr. Mackall said that funds to complete this section are axpected tn he made available by Prince Georges County residents in me manner as funds for the Arundel section. Defense highway will make a 15font-wide road of concrete for 2% mijes from Annapolis to Washington. The distance hetween the twa clties by the present ronte through Upper Marlbore is 34 miles. Other hids for read work in Prince Georzes and Montgomery counties opened and low hids were as follows Two miles of concrete in Mont- gomery County at Damascus. M. . Grove Lime Co., $38.897.20: 0.76 mile of gratvel road in Prince Georges County reh Ruena Vieta, F. R. Jarhoe, £6.235.70. Arundel miles in PINCHOT EXPENSES REACHED $161.000. COMMITTEE FINDS (Continned from Firat Page.) S ®aloon Leazue had contributed to his campaizn The witness replied that,the league had nat Aone so, and thatiit had not | heen active in his campaign. nor had any of it gensral officers taken an active part. The W. C. T. U., he| sald. had worked for him, although it | did not give any financial support to | his campaign committees. nor had, kiz committees turned over funds to the W. C. T . except for campaign expens g Zenator Reed asked if the Anti Saloon League had net sent out a letter urging the drys to vete for the candidate who had the greatest rength againet Vare, running as a ‘wet.” and if it had net followed up this letter.with another picking Pep- per as the strongest candidate. Gov. Pinchot said that the first letter referred to had hean sent out, hut that he did not know of a second | letter urging the voters to support | Pepper heing sent aut by the league. He caid he thought he did recall some local dry organization sending - out sugh a letter. False Registrations Thrown Out. Gov. Pinchot sald that his cam- paign committeex had not. to his knowledge, contributed any funds to the laher organizations supperting him. Turning to vaizn frands. recalled that a statement had heen | made by Gov. Pinchot to the effect that 18.000 persone were falsely regis- tered in Pittshurgh | Gov. Pinchot sald that hir statement | had mentioned 7.000 such false regis- trations. Hie attention had been call a4 this matter, he said, by the rezistration commissioners. The poll | tex list and the registration list had | been compared and many of these falce registrations had heen thrown ent, he said Charges Votes Were Held. After Gov. Pinchot had mentioned to the committee the newspaper re- ports of alleged election frauds in Pittshurgh. pointing out that these re- ports declared that the returns and hallots had been taken into the offices of the county commissioners and held there for two days, Senator Goff of West Virginia asked if the yote had heen announced in the meantime. It was not,” he replied. In veply to another question the Governor sald that the commissioners were friendly 1o Senator Pepper and unfriendly 1o himself. Tt was bronght out that the hallots and returns were supposed to be in | the hande of these commisaioners. hut that the returns had in be placarded tmmediately after the hallots counted at the polling places. Go Pinchot ¢ald that this had haen don: hut that many placarde had heen tak- en down and destroved immediately. He =ald it was reported that the renresentatives of aome of the can- didates were refused permisaton to examine the returns in the court- hans; the question of cam- Senator Reed said he | re Any of vour representatives refused such permission?” asked Senator Reed. Gov. Pinchot sald they were not, but that he understood representa- tives of Mr. Reidleman had been refused Senator King wanted to know If Beidleman had not lodged a coniest "oon, afterward. Yes, [ understand there was com- plaint of frand.” replied the governor. “1t was later dismissed or terminated b mutual consent. 1don't know the details.” nator King called attention to | the fact that the list of contributions | to the Pinchot campaign fund | showed large contributions by Cor nelia B. Pinchot, Mre. Charles E.| Tood and George W. Woodruff. The governor explained that the firat was hie wife. and that Mrs. Wood, who makes her home in Washington. was his aunt. and that Mr. Woodruff wag a classmate of his at college and a close friend. The statement showed there were twe contributions of $25,000 each by Mrs. Wood. Amos Pinchot, brother of the gavernor. contributed £10.000 and Mra. Pinchot, wife of the governor. $40.000. The committee will resume its hearings at 2:30 o'clock this after- noon. Rebels Leave Nicaragua. MANAGUA. Nicaragua. June 3 (#).— President Solorzano announces that the revolutionary leaders who re- cently were active on the Atlantie coast of the republic have left the {88 C. | nald A, THE EVENING STAR. [Docutns i i BRIAND DECLARES EDMONSTON SENATOR FI CABINET 1 SECURE Premier Quiets Rumors Due to His Return From Geneva | i \ | Conference. ' By the Associnted Press. PARI at least for the present. The tensiol caused by the thousand and on rumors of changes or resignations i the ministry appears session of the cabinet sided over by President at the Elysee Palace. On coming from the meeting th various minlsters declared there wa: no question of a cabinet crisis, council Doumergu; June 9.—The ninth govern- ment of Aristide Rriand stands united, to have heen lightened after a meeting of the cah. inet this morning, preparatory to a pre- Pre. WASHINGTON, D. C. Pre-Nuptial Contract Shows Bride Ellen Marjorie Gray, the nurse who recently married Fulton R. Gordon, wealthy real estate owner, will not receive a dower interest in his estate by her marriage. By the fling yesterday in the office of the recorder of deeds of a pre-nuptial con- tract hetween her and Mr. Gordon it was discovered that she walved her dower and accepted in its place an annuity in the event of her widow. hood of $3,000, pavable in monthly installments, as long as she remains unmarried. The contract was executed May 28 last and recited that a marriage was sbortly to he solemnized hetween the parties who made the contract in consideration thereof and of $10 in n e n | Of F. R. Gordon Waived Dower Right money. Mr. Gordon by the terms of the agreement disavowed any interest in_any property, real or personal, which may he owned by the prospec- tive bride to which he might he en titled as tenant by courtesy or by any statute of distribution. In turn, Miss Gray agreed to waive all right of dower and agreed to sign all deeds or necessary papers for the transfer of property owned by Mr. Gordon. The payment is not to be a lien on his real estate, Mr. Gordon provided, and i% not to interfere with the transfer of any of his property. The agreement was witnessed hy Attorneys Charles W. Darr and Sefton Darr and was acknowledged by both parties hefore H. ( Espey, notary public, : GRADE CROSSINGS BILL HIT BY ROADS . e s - mier Briand, who upon his arrival TUCKERMAN LEADS OLF QUALIFIERS First Day of Tourney at Columbia. Seor first q1 Country today ran hizh in the morning play of the lifving of the Columbia Club Spring golf tournament An $4, turned in by Walter R. Tuckerman, who won the champlonkhip of the Chevy Ch: Club last week, was the lowest score made up to early this afternoon. C. Fuller, also of Chevy an %6, the same score as that of John W. Brawner of Columbia. With 340 entrants and only 96 to qualify in six flights. §t s probable that ne score aver 82 will qualify in the first flight. R. T. Harrell. the Congregsional Coun- try Club champion. tore up his card. Other early scores follow: F. I Gray, Manor. 87: E. Lodge Hill, Co! lumhia. 87; F. H. Thompson, Argyle, B. Hatch. Columbia, 88: H. S. Pope. Indian Springs, 89: R. R. Liv Baltimore, %2: W. F. Purton. Bannock burn. 93: R. (. Heath, unattached. 93 H. A. Mihills. Indian Spring, 93; F. L. Hudson. indian Spring, 93; F. B. Ty Columbia, 98: & B. Hardwick, Wash. ington, 98; W. L. Heat, Indian 101; C. M. Noetzel, Argyle, 0 Harmon. Congressional, 103 P Grier, unattached, 106; K. I. Steward, Columbia, 112 More than 170 plavers. many of them leading golfers from clubs ahout Wash- ington and Baltimore, were paired in the firat half of the qualifying round, while an even more select field in pof of skill will leave the first tee tom row. Match play starts Friday morn- Any day. ‘The field of 320 entrants announced cexterday was augmented hy about a acore more plavers, making the field | the largest ever to compete in a local tourney. The tourney hegan over a Columbia course in the hest possible condition, aided by recent rains. and thoroughly groomed under the direc- tion of the greens committee for the classic which began today. Local rules, involvirg a penalty of only one stroke for lost ball and ball out of hounds, will prevail through the tou ney, instead of the usual stroke and distance penalty cailed for in the rules of the United States Golf Association. Walter R. T this morning. paired wit Fuller, last vear's Chevy champion. Other prominent in the large fleld which started today included Harry G. Pitt and A. | Houghton of the Manor Club; Page Hufty of Congressional, holder of the North and South championship: Regi- Loftus of Chevy Chase and . B. Hatch of Columbia. George J. Voigt of Rannockburn, Miller B. Stevinson and J. . Brawner of Columbfa, all of whom have won tournaments about Washington and Baltimore this year, will start tomor- row. Voigt is favored to win on the strength of his showing in the Indian Spring, Chevy Chase and Middle At- lantic tourneys, although the Ban- nockburn golfer will have to show his . Ashmead event. The tourne. ear by Roland R. Mac| was won last ie of Colun entrants will them a group of 15 ers from Baltimore and a large delegation from Norfolk. None of the out-of-town competitd in favored over the locul players. MOOR TRIBESMEN KILL RIFFS AND TAKE CITY Sheshuan Captured by Kaid Ould- far—Ends Alliance of Na- tive Groups, By the Associated Preas IONDON, June 9.—A dispatch to the Dally Mail from Tangier, Morocco, saya Djebela trihesmen, headed by Kaid Ouldfar and Kald Bagdadi, have captured Sheshuan, the “holy eity,” from which the Spaniards retreated with severe losses in 1924. The df patch adds that the two kaids escaped from the custody of the Riffs, gath- ered tribesmen together and stormed the town and killed all the Riffians in it. The victory, says the correspondent, terminates the Riff-Djebala alllance and will remove one of the chiet diffi- culties to Spanish pacification of the country, e DISMISSAL PLEA FAILS. Provident Relief- Association Re- ceiver Case to Be Heard. Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the District Supreme Court has refused the motion of John Rrosnan, jr., and others interested in the Provident Relief Association to dismiss the suit for a recelver brought by Mrs. Cath- erine Vernon and another stockhold- er of the corporation. The court held that the bill of complaint makes out a prima facle case- of a charge of insolvency against a domestic corpo- ration and calls for an answer from the defendants to the tharge. Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner ap- peared for the plaintiffs, while the defendants were represented by At- torney W. Bissell Thomas and Rep- resentative Reid of Illinois. The case will now be heard on fits merits. —— POISON GAS OPPOSED. Senate Approves League Treaty. A Teague of Nations treaty to out law use of polson gas in war was ap proved today by the Senate foreign re lations committee. It is oppoged b country. Coast garrisons have been strengthened apainst possible sur. attacks. | Chairman Wadsworth of the military committee and others. 1 Forelgn Relations Group | |tween Geneva and Paris, emphasized “there is no reason for excite- i Chase, turned in | ing and will continue through Satur- | | the current kerman started early | Chase Club | entrants best brand of game to come through | the fine field entered in the Columbia | | | | | | | | | from Geneva this morning fairly his welcomers in his an |through the crowd of journalists and {notables on the station platform, for- | eetting to shake hands with most of | haste to Represented at Hearing Be- straighten out the rumors flying he- | that ment."” Peret Will Not Resign. “Do you expect me to fall into a new | crists every time | International conference Finance Minister Peret, whose resignation reached return from a he asked changes of the portfolios were ters would issue a M. Durand. mini the eahinet was These assurances hy completely the ministers d not preclude additions to the cabinet | 80 a8 to enlarge it into a “ministry of | national union” to deal with the finan- clal sitnation. Restrictions Not Adopted. The committee of four ministers in | charge of restrictive measurea for th rehabilitation of the French financial situation, is reserving detaiis of its In- tentions until after a conference with oth, mbherx of the cabinet The committee members have serted most emphatically that never had heen any question of apply ing the war-time restriction methods, with the attendant cards, to the present situation. will be no war and other nec bread and suga saries of life. notably copper and lead, by a bette organization of methods for distribu tion, so that not an ounce more shal be brought into the country than i absolutely needed by manufacturers. The measures have decided on will be such as can hey are said to ba of a nature which wiil not interfere with fndustry and trade. he immediately put into force. ‘The Chamber of Deputies, fearful o retaliation by the voters, late las night rejected a bill under which the | salaries of deputies would have heen raised from 00 francs to 4 francs, which is less than $1,300 a rate of exchange. HARMON GREEN ELECTED FALLS CHURCH MAYOR rumors of Geneva vesterday, afirmed that all reports of nn. founded. He promised that the minis. definite statement after their meeting with the President. | ter of interfor, sald united, am- there There ime rationing of food The ministers aim rather at reducing im- ports of foodstuffs and raw material, consumers and fore Senate Committee. Counsel for the Raltimore & Ohfo and the Pennsylvania Railroads fold the Senate District* committes this | 0on that in their epinion a new to provide legislative authority for the elimination of the remaining railroad grade crossings in the Distriet i* unnecessary. F. D. McKenney, attorney for the Pennsvivania, contended that the Union Statlon act of 1903 contains ample legislative authority for the construction of viaducts when specif cally provided for by appropriation. He ‘said the pending bill is largely a reiteration of that law and that it Is in part inconsistent in that it changes alightly the method of dividing ¢ hetween the District and the roads. Mr. McKenney also submitted fig- ures to show that traffic and pedes trian travel is not very heavy across the tracks at Quarles street northeast, which i the only point whers a viadict would he consiructed over the Pennyyivania fracks. Fdmund Brady of the Baltimore and Ohio {urther called attention 1o the requirement in the pending bill that the railvoads pav for lighting thy ducta. Ke reminded Senator Rackett. who conducted the hearing. that similar pravision was stricken from the recent Gill for the elimination of the Michigan avenue crossing. Mr Brady also said the word “approaches’ to the viaduct should be more clearly defined, contending that the railroads should only be required to pay half the cost of the viaduct actually pass ing over the tracks. Senator ckett explained that the reason the missioners wanted a law specifving where viaducts should be erected in eliminating grade cross- f [Ings was so that they t |in advance how the streets in vielnity of such crossings laid out and developed. n ol 'S r r 1| . the hould be he com- 000 | mittee took the bill under advisement. Ly WO0ODS HITS LEAGUE OPIUM COMMISSION Gets 156 Votes for Office in Keen | Dec}ares Only Way to Control Drug Balloting—Council Members Are Named. Special Dispatch to The Star FALLY CHURCIH, Va., At vesterday's town election Harmos Green was chosen mavor with a vot of 156; John T. Moling received 4 votes and H. H. Anderson 43. 'Thi: was the largest vote ever town election. In the first ward W received 224 votes for the June 9.— cast in a | Traffic Is to Limit Manu- facturers. By the Associated Prase GENEVA, June 9.—Arthur Woods f New York scored the League of fons opium commission at an ex- iting meeting last night for refus- ing to insert hix recommendation for n e 0 s ‘The commission had council, with no opposition; in the failed to Incorporate his suggestion cond ward R. E. 9 votes and the third ward I votes and J. O. Martin 93, . Turner 110; DOTY TO BE DEFENDED BY BEST LEGAL TALENT| | American Held by French for De- | serting Army in Syria Pledged Fair Trial. By the Associated Pre PARIS, June 4 Memphis, Ten Ire Forelgn Legion Clare, will have the hest available in Damascus Bennett J. Doty of asx Gilber| legal talen when endrick received e i’ 133 manufacturers on measures to pre . Who enlisted in the was considerably to convoke a conference of narcotic {vent fllicit trafic, and his declara- tlon that fllegal trade could not he ' suppressed unless narcotic factories are owned or controlled by govern- ments. M. Van Kettum. Holland, protested againat Mr. Woods' remarks. s it was wrong for a newcomer to try 10 tell old members of the commis | sion what to do. President Bourgeois | promised that resolutions satiafactory to Mr. Woods would be drawn up. The commission passed a resolution saving that illicit trafic was great and that the situation was serious, as the manufacture of narcotic drugs in excess of medi cal and scientific. requriements, f t t he is ought before a court-martial there. MELLON ASKS ACTION on charges of desertion and mutiny. This assurance was given Amer by Do the Arrangements for have heen made by and H. Keeley, jr. he trfal may begin within three | or four days. Today in Congress Senate. Following routine morning busi- ness, the Senate will go on with farm rellef legislation. Special Senate committee began its inquiry into primary campaign expenditures, the opening session being devoted to the Pennsylvania prima Judiclary committee held meet- Ing to pass on the report hold- ing that the President was within his rights in authorizing State officers to act as prohibition agents, Senator King prepared a minor ity report. inance committee held execu- tive meeting to consider the French debt settiement. District committee is holding hearings on the elimination of railroad grade crossings. Foreign relations committee held executive session. Conferees on home care for de- pendent children in the District will meet late this afternoon. House, " This is calendar Wednesday in the House and the call rests with the public lands committee, House District committee orders favorable report on bill which already has passed the Senate for a new bridge at an estimated cost of $250,000 to replace the M Street Bridge across Rock Creek. House District committee fili- busters on Policewomen’'s Bureau bill and then goes into executive seasion. A special meeting s called for tomorrow morning to consider this measure. Subcommittee of appropriations commitiee In executive session on cond deficiency bill. Interstate commerce committee holds hearing on raflroad consoli- dation. Public lands committee conducts hearing on Northern Pacific land grant. the san embassy today after a con- ference with the French foreign office. s, defense | gonate Finance American | consul at Reirut, Paul Knabenshue, the consul at Damascus, James ON FRENCH DEBT PACT Committee Con- tinues Hearing While Await- ing Paris 0. K. Although no attempt will he made to get Senate ratification of t French deht agreemeny until the French Parliament acts. the Senaie finance committee today decided to | go_forward with hearin; Secretary Mellon appeared ax the first witness, and submitted the same report he made hefore the House committee, in which he recommended acceptance of the terms of the deht pact. : ‘THREé CHURCHES CLOSED | Mexican President’s Order Affects Catholic Edifices in Cities. MEXICO CITY, June 9 (#).—Preai- dent Calles has ordered three Catholic churches, one each in the cities of Frontera, Morella and Jalapa, closed. One had been abandoned ‘in protest againat the réligious clauses of the constitution. The other two are said to he excess of the number permitted their respective localities. Petition Made for Bus Extension. A petition signed by 51 residents in north Petworth, urging extension of the motor bus service of the Washing- ton Rapid Transit Co. to & point north ot Sherman Circle, was received hy | the Public Utilities Commission toda | It pointed out that north Petworth is | developing rapidly and needs trans- portation service. - 3 R Assigned to Exposition. The 3d Battaliop, 12th Infantry, at For in in bheen assigned to duty in Philadelphia during the Seaquicentennial exposi- tion, | _Early in June work will be started |on the laying of the world's fastest |cable. 1t will lie on the floor of the | Atlantie, and will afford direct com imunication between New York and London, B. and 0. and Pennsylvania’ could plan | ng | ‘Washington, Md., and Troop G,i 3d Cavalry, at Fort Myer, Va., have ! i | Westcott ' fighting the narcotic drug evil in ftx | town ‘annual repol | | i I0E CREAMFAVINE EEN BY STRIKERS Employers, However, Say Plants Are Running and Full Supply Is Assured. Whether Washington will experience an ice cream famine within the next few days ax a result of a strike of union employes at the fonr loeal ice eream plants called yesterday depends piincipally on the point of view, it developed foday. According 10 the ice cream workers, who are memhe the Bakery and Confectionery Warkers' Auxiliary, No. 118, Washington will he as ice.cream. lest as the Sahara within a few days, when the bunkers of the ice cream plants, which have heen filling up during the cool weather recently, are emptied Rut viewed through the eves of the manufacturers here, Washington need fear an fce cream famine abont as much as the Arctic Circle need fear a plague of warm.water alligators. Union Clalms All Are Out. At union headquarters it was an nounced that all hut two workers of a_total 110 were out en strike: that Washington was in for an ice cream famine unless things were straight ened ont immediately: that the plants were shut denw. pickets were on duty at e; The statement was also made that for six years there has not heen an ircrease’in pay granted to the work ers: that one was promised Iast vear, 16 g0 Into effect this year, on condition that business was good and that the Incrense was not forthcoming. The union advocates anneunce the prevail ing wage Ix $6 per day for skille Workers. $4.30 for unskilled rkers and £3.50 for wrappers. The increase Sought is a raise of $1 per day for both skilled and unskilled workers and a0 cents per day for wrappers, accord Ing to union spokesmen W d. Emplovers, however, maintained that the raise sought is to $§ a day for unskilled workers and to $8 a day for skilled workers. They allege there fg A written agreement signed last year which has not expired B FEmployers stata that the plants are now running and from now on will he n as open shops unless union men return immediately: no let-down nployes s planta are closed down far as pro. duction ix concerned, and will be closed until the emplovers come to terms, Drivers of the jce.c te meet tonight 1o strike will be ealled ng their craft #x A result of the expiration of un akreement. They also seek an increase i pay, ate that the am plants are Whether a m ITALY ASKS APOLOGY BY CZECHOSLOVAKIA Threatens to End Diplomatic Re- lations as Result of Prague Mayor's Speech. RBY A. R. DECKE By (‘ahle ta The Star and Chicago Daily News. VIENNA, June 9.—Italy is threaten. ing to withdraw her minister to Prague hecause of a new incident. Deputy Pik. mayor of Pilsen, made peech againat Facist activities in oslovakia. * The Italian minister seems to think some of Pik's re marks were insulting to Italy and Premier Mussolini ed satisfaction from the Czech foreig office, with the indication ths may leave if an apology ix not coming. _ Prolonged and general street fighting is reported from Prossnitz, where leg- fonnaires and progressives held an anti-fascist meeting at the same time A Faseist meeting was held. The anti fascist, considerably the stronger, were getting the hest of the situation when gerdames with fixed hayonets intervened and escorted the Fascists to their homes. Fight were infured. 1Convright, 1976, by Chicago Daily News Co.) MINERS LOSE INJUNCTION. MORGANTOWN, W. Va.. June 9 (#).—The attempt of the United Mine Workers of America to obtain an in- junction against four coal companies to restrain them from operating in alleged violation of a union agree. ment met defeat in Monongalia County Court here today. Judge I. G. Lazelli refused to grant the in- Junction. a forth- Diplf)mat's Told To Guard Against Sacco Outrages By the Associated Press. American diplomatic representa- - tives abroad have heen advised by the State Department to take ade. quate precautions against further outrages by sympathizers Wwith Sacco and Vanzetti, the two Ital- ians under death sentence in Massachusetts for murder. The warning called attention to a circular the department dis- tributed in the diplomatic service two vears ago, containing a history of the Sacco-Vanzett! case. The diplomats were instructed to he on the alert against attacks by Com- munists and radicals as the date for execution of the two men ap- proaches. Since the conviction of the Italian gunmen six American diplomatic missions—at Paris, Sofia. Lisbon, Zuricn, Buenos Aires and Monte- video—have heen hombed or threat- ened. In the several instances em- bassy and legation buildings have been damaged, but there has been no loss of life to the American per- sonnel. fhat there will be | He has demand | he | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. HOTHERS AD PN CONPROMISE SEE House Conferees Said- to | | Agree to Senate Bill if | Board Is Divided. Reports were current at the Capitol today that the House conferees are planning to propose a compromise on the bill to provide home care .for de. rendent children in the District. Tre conferees will hold their first mest ing at 4 o'clock this afternonn. but it | i= uncertain whether they will be able to reach an agreement today. A passed by the House, the bill would create a separate hoard to-ud- minister the extension of financial axsistance to dependent childven whose mothers are fn a position:to keep the children at home. “This pray posal for an independent hoard was strongly opposed by the welfare or- ganizations of Washington and the neople of the city generally. ‘The. S ate, in response to the appeal of local intereats, passed the hill embodying the Cappe under the Roard of Public Welfare, which was provided at thix ses sion of Congress for the very purpose of bringing together in e agenc welfare work formerly divided several hoards. It is understood that the wuggestion which the House conferees have in mind I« that the home care for chil dren he placed under the Board of Public Welfare, hut that two or three membera of that hoard he especially Aesiznated 1o devote their time the administration of thix one fune tion Whether sich a proposition will he made was not known definitely, hat there were presistent reports to that effect The Senate conferees will he Chair- man Capper of the Senate Distriet committee and Senators Jones of Washington and King 'of Utah. “The I{ouse conferees will he Chair- man Zihiman of the District commit- tee, Representative Mary T. Norton of 'New Jersey and Representative Honston of Delaware. PERMIT RENEWAL PLANS BEING MADE " plan of placing this law | among 10| | 1 | Upper: Kelvin L. Nutting. Fower: Edward S. Carmick. These two, with Madison C. Love, another Capital boy, now serving as! enlisted men in the United States Navy. have s inations which give them the ane_huundred appointments to the United States Naval Academy allowed nlisted perso They will report Ju: the. Naval Academy to hegin in their receiving mmissions in the Navy. They now are stationed at the. United States naval training sta- Stagger System for Issuance tion »t Hampton Roads. Va. Is Arranged to Begin About July 1. Preparations to hegin the renewal of automobile drivers’ permits abont July 1 were made today by Traffic Director M. O. Eldridgs fn anticipa- tion of the early passage by Congress of the bill amending the District traffic code, which makes provision for three-vear period. The bill w by the Senate last night and sent back to the House for conference. Mr. Eldridge has definitely to stagger the jssnance of the new permits over a period of a year, tak- ing the applicants in alphabetical or- der. All drivers whose =surnames hegin with the letters A. B and € placed in the first group to receive the permits, and they will he requived 10 make application before August Those whose . D and K will be in the second oup, and they will have until Octo b 1 to renew their permits This provedure will be fol 1 until the alphabet ix exhuust Unless such a plani is adopted, Mr. Eldridge explained, some drivers would wait until the end of the vear to_renew their permits, and others wauld be in such a hurry to get them that they would jam the Traffic Bu- reau as soon as the work of reis suance is started. Under a staggered system, he helieves, the task will be carried out in an orderly and sys- tematic way that will cause the leas amount of inconvenience to the Traffic Burean and motorists, he design for the new permi has been drawn and wili he sent to the printers just as soon as the | amended traffic bill is signed by Pres. ident Coolidge. \ little change has been made in the card from the ones which have been issued since the creation of the Traffic Depart- ment. Instead of writing the date of expiration on the cards, arrangements have been made to punch the date xo that it will not be change it without immediate tion. Asx soon as the traffic bill hecomes Plaw & number of clerks and employes will be appointed to reissue the thousands of permits. Funds for their salaries have been the appropriation bill. IMOTOR CYCLE OFFICER LOSES DAMAGE SUIT 'Wll]inm T. Griffiin Fails to Get | Award for Injuries in Trafic Mishap. | A jury before Justice Hitz in Cireuit | Court rendered a verdict in favor of | Mr. and Mrs. M. Carter Hall day afternoon in the suit for §20, | damages brought by William T. Griffin for personal injuries. The case | has been on trial for nearly a week and involved a claim of Motor Cycle | | Officer Griffin June 8, 1924, for severe personal injuries received in a colll- | Sion between his motor cycle and the | machine operated by Mrs. Hall. Mr. Griffin ¢laimed thit as he pass. ed in front of a street’ car at the in- tersection of Vermont avenue and H street, he was struck by the automo- hile driven by Mrs. Hail and thrown to the ground, suffering a double fracture of the right leg from which permanent _injuries resulted. The plaintiff was represented by Attornevs Newmyer & King, and Mr. Hall, who is a member of the firm of Carlin, | Carlin & Hall. was represented by | Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and | Douglas, Obear & Douglas. other | provided in } | | the reissuance of the cards for a | s passed | decided | | | will be | | L|ins | | | nations | Mo | 1. | BISHOP . A. GREGG HOWARD PRESIDENT Elected From Field of More Than 30—Is First Negro to Hold Office. For the first time since its found ing. in 1562, a negre, Rishop .ohr A. Gregg of the African Methodist Fpiscopal. Church, was elected pres dent of Howard University at a meet- i the hoard of trustees late ves. terday afternoon in the Carnegie Li hrary. on the university campus Rishop €regf's - election came afier move than 30 candidates had been eliminated by & commitiee on nomi hea Theodore osevelt of Dr £ a s served as president of Wilberforce University, Wilber- force,: Ohio, and of Edward College, in Florida, coming to How. ard with a wide educational experi- ence. <Repurts Are Presented. Stanley Durl president. and Emmett J. Scott, sec- retary-treastver, presented annual reports of the administration officers. Dr. Charles R. Brown. dean of the Yale Divinity School. -presided over the six-hour session of the hoard. Dr. Durkee ‘outlined the actomplishments of eight vears of administtation. Dr. Scott reviewed the financial condition of the university. - Resolutions were adopted ‘on the re- cent death of Charles I. Corby. bher:of the beard of trustees. elected to serve for three \ and to fill_vacancies on the b were: Dr Diimas, Dr. Jesse York . Moor- DE, L ee. retiring ustees Jones uf New land. Dr. Mar Newport, | ville, and br alumni trustee, Other T Other trustees elected were: Dr Dillard _of Charlottesville, Va orge Wi-Crawford of New Haven, onn.;; .(leorge Foster Peabody of Saratega«Springs, N. Y.; Dr. Peter Murray of.New York and Rabert' V Fleming. <% Lieut. -Comdr. the Unitpd was electe: Napier of Nash- W. Brown ax istees Klected. H. Bloedorn of Navy Medical Corps o fill the chair of -med: icine “made. xacant by the death. of| Dr., Henrd:P. Parker. <He was fér- merly head. of .the department of in- ternal medicine of the TUnited States Navai © Medical School, and is- at present. chief medical ‘aid’ Admiral SHT. surgeon general of the Na BRITAiN QUE G | Requests Explanation of Rumored Seizure of Rum Boat. MEXICO CITY, June § (#). -1t was learned today that the British lega- tion has sent a note to the foreign office requesting information regard- ing the capture of an alleged (¢ nadian ;v orunning boat off the coast of Lower California. It i= said" that the Mexican govern- ment will.reply that the liquor-smug- &ling treaty hetween Mexico and the United Stater reduires Mexico to as- sist the United States authorities in preventing rum running 'Tests Show, 911, Per Cent of Pupils | mxamination of 2,614 puplls in the | Kindergartens and first grades of the | District public schools showed that Lam per cent of them were suffering | from some physical defect, the Dis- :mn Health Department announced | toda¢ a means of giving support | to the movement of the parent-teacher organizations advocating a physical test for all children before entering school. | The outstanding defects found wers listed as defective teeth, enlarged ton- sils, enlarged cervical glands, poor nutrition, defective nasal breathing, defective’ vision, orthopedic defect. nervous defects, speech defects, pul- : In Early Years Have Physical Defects monary disease, defective hearing and cardiac.disease. & - “It i8 evident from these findings that a large percentage of the pupils entering schools ave seriously handi- capped by physical defects urgently in need of correction,” said a statement issued-by the Health Department. “In addition to these defects many pre- school children are handicapped by improper health habita and fmproper dietary habits. . Every pre-school child should be carefully” examrined by a competent physician and ‘all defects found corrected before entering school. ““The Health Department is offering the sefvices of the child hygiene cen ters in the phrsical examination -of | children under 6 years. of age. » cessfully passed exam. | three of their - four-year terms, which will culminate Waters | mem- ; to. Rear | RIES MEXICO. | 1.0 TWFBLL PASSED BY SEMTE. |Fully Expected to Become Law Before Adjournment of Congress. The new District traffic hill. which | will permit installation of automa.c siznal lights on ali main thorough tares, clear up the situation with re gard 1o renewing eperators’ permits and make a numbher of other needed improvements in the original law. passed the Senate last night and i { today ready for the final stage of en actment. In view of the amendments made by the Senate, the House prohahl: will ask for a conference, hut it is confidently expected conferees will he able to agree in time to make the measure a law hefore adjournment Through a misunderstanding. the hill was about to he passed over wit out action last night, but Chairman Capper of the District commitiee and Senator Jones of Washington had it taken up on a motlon for considera- ton. Senator RBlease, Democrat. of South (arolina, and Senator King. Demoerat, of Utah, made hrief speeches in which they took excep tion 1o certaln features of the hill hut neither Senator sought to block actfon and it was passed without a | record vote. What Bill Accompl At a previous session of the Senate several amendments had heen made at.the request of Senator King and Senator Dill. Demoerat Washing ton. The following is a summary of what the hill daes Rroadens the definition of traffic to r all applianees on the highway, including streat cars, draft animals and heasta of burden. Senatar Dill siceeeded in having pedestrians ex cluded from control under the defini tion of traffic. Provides for the renewal of all outstanding operator permits on a $3 | fee. good for three vears, and allown | the director 12 monthe in which tn | make the renewals, since there are close 1o 15 00 permits. The Distriet ppropriation aet. already passed, provides that the money derived from permits, up to a Hmit of $345 he used to install automa lights, similar to these on S | street, an other tharauczhfaree Gives the trafe director or his as sistant diseretionary power tn sus pend ar revoke virivers’ permits. kx isting law permite reveration only | following conviction of certain se i rous traffie violations. Under the Senate lanzuage a permit could he evoked with or witheut hearing. hut he reason for revoecation wonld have {10 he stated in the order. Provides that any person whose per- mit has been revohed may, within 3 lavs, apply to anv justice of the Court A Appeals for a Wit of efror 1o re ew the action of the trafic director. The decision of that court would he ! final. hut application for the writ would not act as a s f the di- rector order pending d on | Places all traffic prosecutions under ! the carporation counsel fn the District Ihranch of the Police Court. ghereas { under existing law some tri e of. { fenses are under the U'nited States at {torney in the Federal hranch of | Police Court Restrictions of Speed. Makes definite the pawer | trafe director to increase the 22 mile {speed limit where he deems it desir {able on highways. and remaves all doubt as to his right to make proper | speed restrictions on hridges and in | alleys, well as on streats, | hes. of the The Senate committee struck from the bill the House section designed to prevent taxicahe from having stand- ni privileges i front of hotels and Union Station. { i imprisonment for conviction of | driving withowt & permit was reduced by the Senate from one year to six { months he Nenate bill requires the Police {Court judges to make notations of | certain’ convictions on the permit jcards of drivers. In the brief debate last night Sen { ator RBlease said he thought the | measure gives “ton much authority [te ene man." He also complained of the practice of motorists in making fa right-hand turn inta the path of | pedestrians wha have started across ithe street at an intersection. i Senator King again stated his oh. i jection to what he termed the dual | authority existing over traffic and i gued traffic should he under the [ superintendent of police, with an | assistant superintendent in direet | charge of the problem. He said he did not feel the hill was perfect, but ! vealized that, in view of the existing | situafion with regard to all permits, { which expired two menths agoe, it was necessary to enact the measure fat this sessioh. { DANCE CONTEST TONIGHT. { Virginia Reel and Charleston Advo- cates to Settle Issue. i | A contest hetween followers of the ]* Virginia reel and the Charleston will | he staged tonight as a closing fea i ture of the Lyon Village Citizens' As { sociation carnival. which has heen | running for several dave. Prizes will { e offered tn the winners of each a committes of {type of dance by | Judges. The contest alko will embrace | & competition for the hest Charleston | dancer in Arlingten County. | Fight exponents of the dance, pick ed in the elimination trials each suc | ceeding night, will compete for prizes totaling $30, donated by Lyon & | Fitch. K. H. Harris and Amos C. Crounse of the Lyon Village Citizens' Associa- tion have contributed prizes for the Virginia reelers. There will be many other features at the citizens’ carnival tonight, but none more engrossing than the big cateh-as-catch-can death struggle be. tween the oldtimers and the rising generation. FASCISTI PROBE IN U. S. An_ fnquiry Into the activities «f the Fascisti In the United States will he undertaken hy the Burean of Nat uralization, Dr. Charlee Fama of New York announced vesterday after a conference with T.ahor Department officials. Legislation to curb thelir al leged interference with the American | izatlon of Itallan immigrants, he said, | will be pushed by a numbher of rep resentatives, if it is found thht pres. ent laws are Insufficient. Dr. Eama charged that Masons en ed at Italian consulates in this country are heing discharged to make that Fasclst! uni- have been started at Phila delphia. Chicago, New York and Ros ton, and that the majority of - the Itallan papers in the United States are subsidized by the Mussolini gov- ernment. THREE BURN TO DEATH. June 3 (P Jame Stumm an daughters, aged 11 and % were burmed to death and Mrs. Stumm and 2 haby boy suffered evere hirna when fheir cottage was destreaed by fire early today. HERRI)