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v iy Cloudy, night and cool Highest, 64, est, 50, at 4 a.m. Full report on page tollowed by tomorrow; at 2 pm 1 R a. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 WEATHER. . Weather Bureau Forecast.) rain not late to- quite =0 n. yesterday: today. £ h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Sar. “From P The every city bl as fast as th Yesterday's ress to Home Within the Hour” Star’s carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes e papers are printed. Circulation, 98,338 \ v Entered as sec post office, No. 29,997, Washington, ond class matter i WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926—FIFTY PAGES. (®P) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. T5KILLED IN CRASH OF PENNSY FLYERS: SCORE IN HOSPITALS Cincinnati Limited Plows Into Rear End of Express Train Bound for Washington. SCREAMS OF THE DYING' CAUSE WILD CONFUSION Passengers and Crew Toil Through Night to Rescue Injured Trapped in Debris. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH. Pa.. June 17.—Fif- teen persons, 4 of them trainmen and | 11 pa: njure engers, were killed and a score in the wreck of the Washing- ton Express and the Cincinnati Lim- | fted near Blairsville Intersection, the Tennsylvania Raflroad officially an nounced today after a careful check of all Latrobe, which pl The crash came when plowed into the rear of the express, Which had stopped when an air hose parted. The two locomotives of the limited and the club car, immediately following them, as well as two express sleepers, were badly wrecked. Three enzinemen and a baggageman and 11 passengers on the club car of the lim- Derry and Blairsville. to aces the bodies were removed. fted and the two sleepers of the ex- | press met death. A mass of twisted steel was mute testimony of the terrific crash. The express sleepers were telescoped their full length. The twin locomotives on the limited left the rails and upset.! while the club car, crushed in on the fore end, shot into the air and stood upright. All other slecpers on the two trains, totaling 11, were derailed. List of the Dead. The official list of the dead follows W. §. Gordon, Derry, Pa., engineer of the fi locometive hauling the Cincinnati Limited. Hollingsworth, Greensburg, on’s fireman. Connell. Altoona. Pa., of second limited McLees, New York City, gagzemaster of the limited. Edwin G. Donaghay, Pitts passenger. T. I. Farrell. 144 North Walnut | strect, Orange, N. J. a passenzer. ¢. S. Bowman, Columbia Building, | Columbus. Ohio, general agent of! e Railroad | . B. Carter, Pittshurgh, Mel- lon Institute earch expert. A. R. Dismore, of the Gulf Refin. ing Co., Columbia, S. C. Peter Spanos, 14 Farragut street, Massillon, Ohio. Mrs. William Brooke Dunwoody of | ‘Wilkinsburg, Pa. Two small daughters of Mrs. Dun- | woody. | Thomas L. Porter. avenue. Washington. Pa. Claude Smiles, Cincinnati. Ohio. Some of the Injured. A partial list of the injured follow TN. H. Jone: 31 Ormshy street, | Cincinnati, Ohio, lacerations. | M and Mrs. Ray Haelcher, RHL,} Y.. lacerations, es Robinsom, rgh, broken lex 4 . A N . Go engi. hag- burgh, a ! Locust | 396 negro porter, | | Sast Fifty-fifth | broken leg. 662 West Cha Pittsbu Peter Johnson, street, Cleveland. Clarence Heiple, ktreet, Erie. bruises. Carl Russell, 185 Prospect Rutherford, N. J., bruises Mrs. Essie Bryan of Owentown. . amputation one les, condition critical. Joseph Wise, 12 Philadelphia, bru Veak Speed, a Pullman porter, bruises. Speed, 32 i and of a domes- k S. Westbrook, 8826 McKinley street. Sidney Hess, 116 West w York, bruised about head. 8. H. Braunstein, Pittsburgh, in- Jured neck. W. Netzel, Marlboro Apartments, Baltimore, Md., ankle sprained. Phil 8. pkin, 3285 Desoty street, Cleveland, right foot injured Ray B. Hubbs, 16 Sycamore avenue, ¥Floral Park, Long Isiand, eye hur Charles Haas, 3570 Washington ave- nue, Avondale, Cincinnati, right arm hurt. Miss etreet, Paris, K Augusta Andre stredt, Raleigh, Tenth place. ver West High street, Elizabeth Clay, 611 . head bruised. 105 East North €., head bruised. G. 8. Kelly, 325 East One hundred and ninety-fourth street, New York, extent~of injury unknown. Signal Flares Lighted. When the express stopped. the flag- man, O. S. McDonald, it was said, went back and burned flares. About 10 minutes later. the limited, hauled by two locomotives, came thundering out of the night and plowed into the rear end of the standing train. The terrific impact could be heard throughout the quiet farming com- munity. Passengers who escaped with slight hurts told of the wild scenes attend- ing the wreck. The moans of the dving and the terrified screams of the injured pinned in the debris added to the confusion. Those who were able to do so struggled from the Pullmans which, while not wrecked, were thrown from the rails. Most of them were in night clothes. The only lights avail able were the dim lanterns of railroad men. Cool heads among -railroaders and paseengers soon brought some sem- blance of order. Men were sent afoot to Blairsville intersection to summon mid. These who remained at wcene tried to aid the sufferers trapped in the twisted wreckage. But the strength ‘of the human could not combat the steel of the cars. Darkness Hampers Work. The rescuers succeeded in bring- ing out only a few of the victims, their work being hampered by the lack of light?and working equipment. Shortly after the report of the wreck was flashed to division head- quarters at Pittsburgh, wreck trains were moving to the scene from this city, Altoona, Johnston and other points bearing doctors, nurses and rallroad officials. Automobile ambu- lances were ordered out and, just be- , fore daylight, the forerunners of the recculng crews reached the srene. High | undertakinz establishments in the limited | ocomotive. | Washington, D. C..| Forty-fifth | the | ;Sale_ of White Star fLine to British for 1$35.000,000 Is Voted | By the Associated Press. \ NEW YORK, June 17.—Sale of the White Star Line to Furnes: Withy & Co. and other British interests was approved today by stockholders of the International | Mercantile Marine Co. for between !‘ L7.000,000 and £7.500,000, | | | 200000 WELCOME EARUIN@NZANU Michigan Boulevard in Chi- cago Lined for 3 Miles in Greeting to Prelates. | | | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 17.—More than 200,000 people, massed for 3 miles alonz Michizan boulevard, gave Car dinal Bonzano, papal legate to ne | week's Euchar Congress, a roar ing and colorful welcome to the Mid | dle West today, As the brilliant procession. of which | the legate and eight other cardinals | were the central figures, passed down | the weaving lane of humanity from the Illinois Central station to the Holy | Name Cathedral, the crowds were or. derly, save for an occasional outburst | of excessive enthusiasm, when groups | i swept through the lines in attemp | to get near enough to the representa- i tive of the Pope to kiss his ring. So dense were the throngs ip Michigan boulevard as the procession left the railway station that the line | was halted several times to give the { police cpportunity to regain control jof the cheering hosts. , | | | I Scores Fall to Knees. More than an hour and a half was j required for the car bearing the papal | |legate and Cardinal Mundelein to| | move over the threelmile route to the | | Cathedral of the Holy Name. Thousands doffed hats as the pro- | cession passed. and hundreds bowed | to receive the pontifical blessing. A | {half dozen times the lezate’s car was | stopped until the crowds were satis {fied. Scores fell on their knees be side the car. Many besieged the ma- {chine in an attempt to kiss the je-| gate's rinz. Four motor cycle police | | unding the car were unsgual to the crush of enthusiastic fen and | | women who struggled fef the privi lege of touching the searlet robes of | the legate. Priests in blagk cassocks, bishops | in purple and several hundred lay men, including city officials. in formal dress ang“silk hats, greeted the car- dinals, fobed in their ecclesiastical red, as they alighted from the train. Met by Acolytes. In the sea of humanity surrounding the station were thousands of flags in the papal white and zold. set off hy as many emblems of the Stars and Stripes. More than a thousand white-gloved firemen. a detail of mounted police and a unit of more than 1,000 Fourth Degree members of the Knights of Columbus. in full ceremonial uniform. preceded the cardinals’ cars through the surging lanes to the cathedral. At the entrance of the Cathedral, Cardinal Bonzano was met by four, white-clad acolytes. who carried a gor- | geous canopy over the legate as he| walked solemnly through the crowded | nave to the sanctuary. where he gave | thanksgiving for his safe arrival from | Rome. | Behind the cardinal in the Cathe.| dral_procession was Leopold Zunini the Italian consul general in Chicago. After escorting the vicar of the Pope to the cardinal’s throne to the right of the altar. Cardinal Munde. | lein entered the pulpit to extend his formal welcome. So dense were the crowds and so | excited were the cheering thousands, that the police lines crumpled for nearly two blocks in the vicinity of the Art Institute as the procession of cardinals and their escorts moved northward along the boulevard be- decked with the papal colors of white | and gold and the national colors of red, white and biue. | When the police cordon broke, the | throngs flowed into the boulevard, | halting the parade. The spectators. like waves, rushed forward to the | middle of the street, all apparently | intent on approaching the car of the | papal legate as close as possible. | Only the brandishing of police clubs | in vigorous fashion and the smashing | of a few straw hats put the police in | control again and cleared the way for the procession. | At the cathedral Cardinal Munde- lein * welcomed the papal legate as the first personal representative of the Pope ever “to place foot on the shores of the United States.” “We welcome you because you rep- resent the successor of St. Peter in person during these great and joyous days of the Eucharistic Congress; but we welcome you, too, for your own sake and the place you hold in our affection and our regard.” Cardinal Mundelein addressed the legate with ‘the title “Most eminent lord cardinal legate.” | Cites Spirit of Friendship. “The time is drawing near for which we have been preparing for many months, the hour when we open the greatest religlous ceremony this | country of ours has even seen. In.| deed, there is no event of greater importance that can occur in our | midst, even in the future, for it, marks Christ's triumphal entry for | the first time into an American city. | 1 | 1 i & “To add to the solemnity, our breth- ren from the ranks of the hierarchy and clergy, as well as the laity, have come to take part in our celebration. Even those not of ‘our faith have put aside all selfish or partisan considera- tion and have accorded to us and to {our guests a friendliness and cordi. | ality such as has never been evidenced | before in our history. Pleased With Coming. “Yet there would have been some- on this occasion were it without the active participation of the head and father of the great Cathofic family, of him who is Christ’s vicar here on earth. “I need not emphasize the satisfac- tion your coming here as the legate of the Sovereign Pontiff gives to my own people. No history of the diocese of Chicago can ever be written in which the name of Cardinal Bonzano will not find a lasting remembrance.” After bestowing his blessing upon the wi Bonzano Dawn d|cr‘|4\§fl' lhtf n\(fn\l of the " (Continued @B Page 3, Column 3.) 4 thing lacking to our joy and festivity | HERROT WATIG T0 FORM CABINET I BRAND FALS Participation in Ministry Lat- ter Seeks to Assemble Is Considered Unlikely. CONDITIONS LAID DOWN BY POINCARE OPPOSED Probably Will Keep Him From Ac- cepting Post—Premier May Turn From Radicals. Br the Associated P PARIS, June Aristide Briand is having such difficulty in recruit- ing his tenth cabinet that the possi- hility of his faflure to ferm a min: |. istry was being considered in the chamber Ichbies today, where it was said that former Premier Herriot | would be most likely called upon if and should renounce the task. | M. B The conditions laid down hoth former President Poincare and for- mer Premier Herriot are such it is now thought probable neither will accept Briand’s new hy that combination. The participation of M. Poincare and M. Herriot in the proposed na- tiohal union ministry was still unset- tled after M. Briand had interviewed each of them fwice, He is to see them again at 6 o'clock tonight, when he expects to be given their final replies. Marin Discusses Situation. Louis Marin, leader of the old ‘bloc national.”’ was one of the early callers at the Quai D'Orsay, and It is understood his eventual inclusion in the cabinet was discussed. Unless, however, Briand is willing to make bis national union cabinet jonly a partial union, to the exclusion | of M. Mavih, Herriot's acceptance is most doubtful. It is understood that M. Poincare is wipting to accept the heavy burden of the finance ministrz, but that he ment will be given full powers to deal with the financial situation so that measures decided upon shall not be continually compromised by interfer- ence in Parliament. “Sacred Union” Considered. In the light of his conferences with Herriot today, one passage in a state- ment made by the premier yesterday assumes new significance. He more than hinted in the statement that if he found a national union impossible | because of the refusal of co-operation by any of the proposed elements he would try for a “sacred union.” rallied around the standard of defense of the franc. “If 1 find it impossible to consti- tute the government I want by union of the parties,” he said, “I shall fall back on the authority and influence of individuals.” This was interpreted in some quar- ters as tantamount to a warning that f the radicals were not willing to give full collaboration he would throw them overboard and go vet farther to the Right for his majority. MOTHERS' PENSION BILL APPROVED ouse Acdepts Senate Changes Carrying Out “D. C. Plan.” H The long-sought-for mothers’ pen- sion bill; which provides for the home care in place of institutional care of dependent children, was finally ap- proved today by the House when Rep- resentati Zihlman of Maryland called up the conference report. The House accepted the Senate amend- ments, which places in effect the Dis- trict plan, which had the unanimous backing of social workers here, and provides for the administration of the law by the Board of Public Welfare, instead of the original House bill, pro- viding the so-called “New York plan,” which placed administration in the hands of a special board. The action of the House today is a direct reversal of its original action when it passed the bill the first time. The expected fight on the conference report did not materialize. As the Senate has adopted the conference re- port, it now goes to the President for signing. “The intention of the House," says the report of the House managers, which consisted .of Representative Zihlman, Representative Houston of Delaware and Representative Norton of New Jersey, "‘was to have the work of extending air to dependent children segregated from other forms of other public social service work, ihcluding cases involving juvenile delinquency and what might be designated as purely charity cases. The Senate, on the other hand, held to the view that, Congress having recently concentrated all of the forms of social service work under the newly created Board of Public Welfare in order to do away with a multiplicity of boards and com- missions engaged in the same gen- eral kind of relief work, it would be contrary to the intent and spirit of such legislation to immediately set up-a new and distinct board to ad- Mminister but one form of socia] re- lief.” THEATER DYNAMITED. Two-Story Building in Los Angeles Partially Destroyed by Blasts. LOS' ANGELES, June 17 (#).—A two-story building located on this city's east side, which housed a west coast chain theater and other busi- ness establishments, was partally destroyed early today by several ex- | plosions of dynamite. Nearby resi- dents, awakened by the blasts, ran | scantily clad into the streets. No one injured and no motive for the ‘dynamiting..was, learned, i o that | portfolios in M. Quarter-Inch Rain Follows Prayer By 200 Persons| By the Associated Press. YORK, S. C., June 17.—Nearly one-quarter of an inch of rain fell here last night following prayer services for rain in the Presby terian Church, in which more than 200 persons participated. $1500.2 NECESSAR To PU MOTOR CYCLE HIT AUTO, RIDER DEAD Coast Guardsman Pinned Under Machine, Which Top- ples Over in Crash. | | | | i | | After speeding past an approaching street car with only inches to spare, a { whnts it understood that the govern- | motor eycle, operated by Thom | Rouse, 22 years old, a United ast Guardsman of Atlantic City | J.. tore head-on into an automohil | erated by Guy Edelin, a marine, of {124 Eleventh street southeast, at Sev | enth and East Capitol streets about 8 | o'clock this morning, toppling the ma | chine over on the motor ecvcle and | pinning Rouse beneath the wreckage. | Rouse was killed. | "'the motor eycla was racing north on Seventh street at an excessive rate of speed, according to the account gathered by police from iwitnesses, The street car was proceeding west, | as was the automobile, with the front | | of the street car and the radiator of | the automobile on approximately the | same line. Fach Tries to Avold Crash. | The motor cvcle shot past the street | car, and Edelin, driving the automo. | bile. swerved to the right in an at- [ tempt to avoid the oncoming vehicle. | The motor cvcle operator also at- | tempted to make a left turn to avoid {a crash, but struck the automobile | just as it was mounting the curbstone at the northwest corner of the inter section. The combined foree of | trom motor cvcle with the unbalanc- | left side with Rouse pinned beneath. Rouse was dragged out and ex- | amined by Dr. Henry W. Jaeger of | 700 East Capitol street, who found | life wag not extinct. Rouse was taken to Casualty Hospital. A few minut after he arrived there Dr. W. C. Cantrell, staff physician, pronounced him dead. His skull had been frac- tured. Both Vehicles Damaged. The motor cycle was severely dam- aged on its right side, where the front of the automobile had dented it. The left front fender of the auto- mobile was curled up over the wheel and the left side of the machine was driven to the ninth precinct under its own power. Edelin was bheing held by police pending the orders of Corcner Nevitt. Police communicated ~with residents of an Atlantic City address found on the person of Rouse after the acci- dent. Among items taken from his clothing, through which identification was established, was a small Bible, with his-name written in it. Tdentity was made certain when the ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) TUGS HUNT FOR DUGGAN. Brazil and Argentina Aid Search for Missing Aviator. PARA, Brazil, June 17 (#).—The tug Pelorus, chartered by La Nacion of Buenos Alres, left today to search for the Argentine aviator, Bernardo Dug- gan, and his companions. who were last seen over Cayvenne, French Guia- na, Sunday morning, on their attempt- ed flight from New York to Buenos Aires. The Argentine foreign minister has telegraphed the vice consul here in- quickly. The Brazillan minister of the navy has ordered the cutter Ajuri- ciaba to join in the search. LOAN RUMOR SCOUTED. Mellon Tells Senate He Knows of No French Requests. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has informed the Senate that the American Debt Commission knows of no requests made of financial houses in this country for new loans to France. The Secretary's letter, which was transmitted this morning, was in re- sponse to a resolution by Senator Mc- Kellar asking the Debt Commission to investigate the matter of possible 1 to France. Inquiry was made, explained at the Treasury to. day, among' the principal financial houses which ‘would know of such loans or requests for them. Radio Programs—Page 43, | ! { the blow | ing effect of mounting the curbstone | served to throw the automobile off | ihe particular caee requires, will not balance and it dropped down on the | only he considered mental patients. smashed. The top of the automobile | was broken and ripped. Bystanders | righted the automobile and it was |charges are correct, just, and neces- | World Strike Call fay Follow Miners Meeting in London By the Associated Press LONDON, June 17 secretary of the federation, announced todav that the International Miners' Federa- tion will meet in London on June 23, possibly either an an interna- tional strike. HINES RESTRICTS NSANTY CASES Veterans’ Bureau Head Orders Only Those Confined Whom Courts Commit. World War veterans suffering from mental ailments are to be divided by the Veterans' Bureau into two great | classes—those adjudged by the courts to be insane, incompetent and in need ofitreatment. and therefore committed to institutions. on the one hand, and on the other, medical patients, suffer- ing from difficulties not sufficiently se- rious to be classed as insanity or men tal incompetency by the couits. Under a general order of great sig nificance issued by General Hines, and disclosed in its full importance today, the bureau will hegin legal proceed ings, which eventually will divide all patients into these twn great classes. Those who are not finally adjudged by the courts to be in need of commit- ment, confinement or whatever status but stitutions where they treated. Disclosure of this new plan of action by the Veterans' Bureau followed RN o e . WeReral: CiaNEL 6F highly technical nature, to guardian- hip officers, which in section 2 reads follows: The reglonal guardianship officer will be responsible for the issuance of will be aliowed to leave the in- now are being 1all authorizations for the commitment of compensable mentally incompetent beneficlaries when the commitment is at the instance of the bureau and is authorized by law. He will execute the administrative certification of vouchers in connection with the ex. penditures to be made under the pre- ceding sentence, certifying that the sary."” The new procedure, it was explained, will make necessary the official brand- fng by the court of many World War veterans who are now under treat- ment in institutions as insane, who otherwise, under the previous pro- cedure, have escaped this court de- cision and continued treatment. But the new plan, it was explained, will throw much greater protection around the patients themselves, as- sure their commitment at the instance of the Government itself and assure them protection from exploitation from outside souyrces. Accedes to House Members' Request. Action by the Veterans' Bureau follows insistence by members of Con- gress at the recent hearing of charges against Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning, that many World War veterans were under treatment in hos- pitals for the insane who were not there by “legal” process of law. This was admitted by officials of the Vet eran's Bureau, with the explanation that a policy had been in operation whereby patients who were suffering could be admitted to institutions with out suffering the stigma which would attach to a court commitment and structing him to charter another tug | {3 1o & 000 The new general order of the bu- reau will be put in effect, based upon section 6 of the World War vet- erans’ act, which said the injured person, among other thing: be furnished with *“such reasonable governmental care or medical gical, dental and hospital se including payment of court costs and fdent to b SURELY. there are 100,000 ( ‘Washingtonians who will | gladly send one dollar or more to honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the District of Columbia who served their country in the armed forces in_the Great War. Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum- bia Memorial Commission, Federal-American National Bank. PRESIDENT ANXIOUS FOR ADJOURNMENT | Deferring of Several Bills In- dicated—June 25 Date Fixed for End of Session. BY J. RUSSELL YQUNG. It is understond that leaders of the Senate and House will get together within the next day or so to try to settle the matter of an adjourn- ment date. It is thought by most of them that as things look now this | session can be brought to an end | by the last of next week This was learned following a con- ference today at the White House hetween President Coolldge and Representative Snell of New York, chairman of the House rules com- mittee and one of the leaders of that body. The latter said the President is anxious to see Congress get through now as soon as possible. He sained the impression that Mr. Cool- idge is in a mood to agree to one or two legielative matters in which he is deeply interested and wanted enacted at this session put aside until the next session, if this will make it any easier for the reaching of an agreement on adjournment. Mr. Snell in reply to the Presi- dent's inquiries as'to the sentiment in the House that down in thefr hearts they want to adjourn and get back home, but some few of the House members may attempt to hold out as a threat to get through some pet legislation at this late hour. Picks June 25 as Date. Irrespective of individual threats and other conditions that must be cleared away in the meantime, Mr. Snell predicted that this Congress would adjourn by Friday, June 25, or the following day. He added, how- ever, that this depends to a large ex- tent upon the manner in which the Senate handles the farm rellef ques- tion. He personally looks for the Senate to dispose of this troublesome matter tomorrow or next day, after which the Senate and House leaders can confer regarding the closing date. Besides the farm relief legislation another stumbling block in the way of adjournment at thel moment is the rivers and harbors bill, which passed the House several weeks ago and which is now being considered by the Senate commerce committee. The champlons of this bill, who carried it through the House, have issued an ultimatum to the Senate to the effect that there will be no adjournment un. less the Senate passes this bill. This has been answered by a considerable group in the Senate to the effect that they will filibuster all Summer if necessary to defeat action on this bill. All of which creates a. troublesome sit- uation that will call for delicate han- dling on the part of the leaders of the two dl';od(es Lo bring about an under- standing and the reaching of a; - ment to adjourn. F e Mr. Snell is among those who feel that the rivers and harbors propo- nent in the House can be placated. President Coolldge is known to look with favor upon the-rivers and har bors bill, at least the general nature of it, and although it has been de. scribed by some of ite opponents as “an out-and-out pork barrell” bill, he has indicated a willingness to sign it. However, he is willing to have this legislation put off until next Winter. | He is known to feel the same way about legislation to regulate the con- trol of the radio industry, which is among the several important matters of legislation pending. May Pass Radio Bill. The President has been advised, however, that it may not-be neces. sary to shelve the radio control legis- lation as a means of expediting an early adjournment. It is thought by some of the leaders that this legisla- tion can be enacted in the remaining of this session if the President will agree to the Dill bill if it is comewhat modified. - It is understood that the White House has been informed that the | situation in the Senate regarding farm ,relief legislation is such as to cause doubt that there will be any- thing of a construgtive nature passed by the Senate at this session. There are enough votes to defeat the | Haugen bill, which is known to be objectionable to the administration, and it is thought unlikely that suff- cient strength can be mustered to put through the Tincher bill, which has passed the House and which has received the sanction of the. Presi- dent. . The President has been given to understand that there is little likeli- hood now_that Senate will act iupon the French debt settlement. stated emphatically | §15,509.906 ASKED BY SCHOOL BOARD Estimates for 1928 Include $5,648,000 for Sites, Build- ings and Repairs. The Board of Education today for- warded to the District Commissioners estimates for $15.549,006 for public school appropriations, with the plea that they be included in the District budget for the fiscal year of 1928. The estimates include $5,648,000 for the purchase of building cites and construction of school buildings in order that the five-year building pro- zram may be brought up to date, and more than a million dollars for re- pairs, improvements and replace- ments needed to help put the older schools in order above the amount asked for these items in the 1927 ap- propriations. The estimates were made public by the Board of Education upon the in- sistence of Charies F. Carusi, chair man of the finance committee, that immediate publicity should he given the estimates unless forbidden by law. Mr. Carusi made his statement at the meeting of the Board of Edu cation yesterday afternoon, and Pres- ident E. C. Graham directed Maj Raymond O. Wilmarth, business man- ager, to communicate with the Com- missfoners at once and ascertain whether they could be permitted to zive the figures out. Gives Chance for Appeal. “1 think we owe it to the public.” Mr. Carusi declared. “to let them know as soon as possible how we have taken care of their desires. By mak ing the estimates public at this time we give them an opportunity to ap peal, which they are denied by hold ing the estimates secret until after they have been acted upon by the Commissioners.” Following are the ftems contained in the fiveyear building program which are included by the hoard in| the 1925 estimates Purchase of land and construction | of buildings amounting to $i60.400 is included for the first division of elementary schools, to cover the fol lowing items: Erection of Heights School. Construction of a gymnasium and assembly hall at the Eaton School. Purchase of site for eight-room Grant Road School. | Purchase of playground site at the | | Jackson School. | Purchase of land at Connecticut lavenue and Upton street. | Purchase of land at Wesley Heights. Purchase of land at the E. V. Brown School. $173,000 in Third Division. In the third division the sum of | £473.000 is included, to cover the fol- lowing items | Carrying on constructfon at the| Barnard School, at Fifth and Decatur | streets. | Construction of a gymnasium and assembly hall at the Takoma School. Construction of the Brightwood Junior High School. Purchase of a plavgroun the Hubbard School. Purchase of a playground site at the Johnson School. | Purchase of a playground site at the | Petworth School. $434,000 in Fourth. In the fourth division $434.000 fs| carried, of which $236,000 is an ac- cumulated shortage to cover construc- tion on the 24-room Adams School. In the fifth division the 1928 esti- mates provide $497,100 to cover the following items: Purchase of site and construction of Langdon sixteen-room school. Purchase of site for school at Rhode Island avenue and Twelfth street northeast. Construction work at the Langley Junior High School. A total of $161,000 is carried in the estimate to cover the following sixth | division projects: Purchase of playground at Benning School. Purc! School. Purchase of playground at Peabody School. Construction of gymnasium and as- sembly hall at the Wheatley School. $215,000 for Seventh. In the seventh division the follow- ing items will be taken care of through the inclusion of $215,000 in the board's estimates: Construction of four-room addition at_the Bryan School. Purchase of land at the School. Purchase of playground at the Ket- | cham-Van Buren School. | In the eighth division $566.350 is allowed in the estimates to cover the following: | Purchase of land adjoining Falirbrother School. Purchase of playground at .the Toner School. The accumulated shortage in this division is $350,900. $364,950 for Tenth. % In the tenth division $364.950 is included to take care of the follow- four-room Potomac d site at | ase of playground at Carbery Cranch the ing: ?1nnslmction of a building at the ‘Wilson School. Purchase of a site at the Garrison School. Purchase of a playground for the Wormley School. Purchase of a playground for the Montgomery School. Purchase of a playground for the Stevens School. Purchase of a playground for the Sumner-Magruder School. In the eleventh division $345.200 is included for the following, of which $116,800 is an accumulated shortage: Construction of the Crummell School building. Construction of the Garnet-Pater- son Junior High School. ' $175,500 in Twelfth. In the twelfth division $175.500 is REED QUESTIONS WAYNE . WHEELER IN'FUND PROBE Anti-Saloon League Counsel Is Closely Interrogated on His Early Career. REPORTER DESCRIBES MAYOR KLINE’S SPEECH Insists Pittsburgh Executive Threatened City Employes With Dismissal. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The spotlight was turned on the Anti-Saloon League and its activities at todav's gession of the Senate in- vestigation of the recent Pennsylvania primaries. With Wayne B. Wheeler, genera! counsel of the league and legislative superintendent. on the stand, Senator Reed, Democrat of Missouri, chair man of the committee, began inves gation of the dry organization whi: 15 credited with having put prohibi tlon across in this country. During the Senate wet and dry hearing Mr. Wheeler appeared only to make the final argument for the prohibition raes and no opportunity was given Senator Reed to interrogate him at that fime. Senator Reed did not at tend the session at which Mr. Wheeler made his argument. Antagonism Is Shown. The antagonism between Senator Reed, who is a leader of the wets in Congress, and Mr. Wheeler cropped out at several points during the ex- amination of Mr. Wheeler this morn Before the dry leader was called to the stand an incident took place which might have astounded the drys who know of Mr. Wheeler's wide acquaintance at the Capitol. Mr. Wheeler, during an interval in the testimony of earlier witness, went forward and spoke to Senator Reed “Am I to be called this morning asked Mr. Wheeler “Who are vou ator Reed with face. “1 am Wheeler.” =aid the and as an explanation of hi he added that he had an = at 11:30 o'clock and wanted it wou'd Le o fe r”"" demanded Sen a blank look on hi | "You had better hreak the |ment.” said Senator Reed | he turned away. ' i Questioned on Recorl. When Mr. Wheeler took the stand nator Reed carried him bacs to the very earliest days when he had work ed for the Anti-Saloon Leazue. Mr. Wheeler testified that he had first become associated with the league in 1803, when the league came into existence. He said that when he started work for the league he received $100 a month and that frequently he didn't get that because the leagie always had a deficit at the end of the vear and he and others interested in it voluntarily gave up their salary. He was a senior in college in Ohio, Mr. Wheeler said, when he began to work for the league. He kept up this work for the league while he was studying law. craduating from a law school in_ 1898, With painstaking detail. Senator Reed asked Mr. Wheler what his pay had been from vear to vear up to the present. Mr. Wheeler testifled that his salary increased in 1898 to somewhere between $150 and $200 a month and that two or three years later it probably went as high as £2.400 a year. . Senator Reed wanted to know if he got it all. Mr. Wheeler said he got most of it. Senator Reed asked how he lived, especially when his salary was only $100 a month and he did not collect but about $33 a month. Later Got $5,000. - expenses on the road in large part,” Mr. Wheeler replied. In 1900 or 1901 Mr. Wheeler became State superintendent of Ohio, at a sal- ary, he thought, of $4,500. This, he said, was raised to $5,000. engage dryiy, ago, he sald, and made general cou sel. At that time, he said, his sal- |ary was from $5.500 to $6,000, and five or six years ago he was made legisla- tive superintendent. Within the last four years, he said, his salary had been raised to $7.000 and a year ago it had been made $8,000 a year. “Do you know approximately the amount of money gathered in by the national organization of the Anti-Sa- loon League during 1925?" asked Sen- ator Reed. “I can't give it off-hand,” replied Mr. Wheeler, “but I should say it was from $150,000 to $200,000. That is just my best estimate of it, however.” “How much was collected in 19262" demanded Senator Reed. “I do not know, but I can get the information for you.” Asks Details of Funds. Senator Reed wanted to know if Mr. Wheeler could get it by wire from the national headquarters at Westerville. Ohio. Mr. Wheeler said that he would do so and Senator Reed asked him to get also the amount of money on hand at present, what bank or banks 1t is deposited in and the amounts of money collected during the years from 1921 to 1926, inclusive, and the names of the banks in which these funds have been kept from year to year. Senator Reed said that If these fig- ures could not be given exactly, he wanted a close estimate. “I don’t want anybody to say that they have got to wait until they close the books before giving this informa- tion,” he said. The report that the general coun- sel of the Anti-Saloon League was to be examined by Senator Reed brought to the committee hearing this morning the greatest number of people who have yet attended any session of the campaign investigation. Reporter Takes Stand. The first witness today was A. W. Brown, a reporter for the Pittsburgh Press, who reported a meeting of city employes addressed by Mayor Charles included to care for the following: Purchase of a playground site at | the Donglass-Simmons School. H. Kline of Pittsburgh the last part of April, at which Mr. Kline made his now famous “bread and butter speech.” | ™, (Contuiued on Page 3, Column 1), | ] . AContinyed on Page 3, Column ¥