Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1926, Page 2

. eises 9 * TERMINAL HACKERS HIN POINT INCOLRT Justice Siddons to Hear Argu- ments on Their Claims at Union Station. While sustaining the richt of the Washington Terminal Co. to allow special privileges at Union Station to and White Taxi h Co. a contract, Justice Frederick ddons of the District Supreme questions the right of the go- jons which em- wiylly oceupy in front of the station to desiring 1o erect obstruc ss cah drive the hack ion in wer calls r services The court day denying pany to dismi for an injunction Fowie, a public hs the amendments Smportant questkons chis of the public th of hix opi The de nd hing passengers of rendered an opinion to- + motion of the coni dments to a_suit ht hy W. E. cker, and allowed he filed so that concerning the hacker may be n Justice ndant com: . clear right «to prevent kers from soliciting trade ness in and upon the Union hut whether it ean go further a contract lawfully deny of th ihlic, including & per engaged in public cking. the rizht of equal access a0 serv nreaching the station oy the purpose of either discharging passengers intending to take trains leaving the station, or passengers leaving such trains, i a eevious question ‘It {s alsn a question whether it can abstriet publie hackers whe are law fnlly nccupying the public hackstand tablished in front of the station from reiching the station to respond to calls ¢ passenzers leaving the statlon, for ¢ that be the effect of what the com- ny does pursuant to its contract th the taxicab company, such con- tract may he in at least partial re. ctraint of interstate commerce and be in violation of the Sherman trust act and amendments.” court points ont that it is con that the nearest alsle in the entrance 1o the station is cupied exclusivelr hy the taxicab mpany mentioned and that no one w can use it in arriving or leaving the station. Other members of the public are required to use the middle s d and the farthest aisle own cars or cars of the and all such members ~ are required to cross the in front of the cabs vileged company. e also charges, savs the court, the Terminal company has re cently erected obstructions hetween the hackstand h emba ackers in answering to the station In the course 1do pany public ind bu Station nd under to 1he person or v or receivin ceded astern to unla «f the puhl ecal GROUND IS BROKEN FOR NEW TECH HIGH Officials of City and Board of Edu-| cation at Ceremony for Mc- Kinley Manual School. Ground breaking exercises wore held at the site of the new £2,000.000 Me J" Manual Trafning School. Sec and T streets northeast, early this fternoon ile work actually was egun on the project by Parsons & ivman, contractars. yesterdav, it for. mally was started roday. Those whe took parf In the exer were 1 Graham. president Foard Sducation: Engineer o inlilin Bell, Muniei- | arris, Dr.” Frank endent of schools; Schonls Stephen Daniel, principal, vresident of the ion. cording to ict, will be com. today. The pres. of ihe MeKinlev Manual Ning Schonl will red junior h school when the Tech is Aniched FIVE HELD FOR PROTEST BEFORE U. S. CONSULATE Mexican Police Arrest Men Who Staged Demonstration for mer. 1 anville © he o Saceo and Vanzetti. Ry the Ascnriniad Prase INICO CITY, Jun particin ore tha Five men demonstration ates consulate ht in protest i of and “chusetts have heen ulio Antonio the Association of unde 1 connec incident. and re neral inst nuetti Saeco seted rowing snger strike obtained mitie demon- or of Sacen and Van ix. about 100 persons “ireets Snnday afiernoon onpel hefore the con- the members de wa an others wers e moh offored no vielence ¢ the demonstrati ARREST OF AKMOUR CO. OFFICIAL IS ORDERED Arzentina Seeking Secretary of La Plata Charge of Sending False Wheat Report. the Associated Pr BUENOS AIR June The Argentine atiorney gener: as s <ued an order for the arrest of Louls Mecauley, secretary of the Armour Packing Co. of La Plata. as a sequel he dissemination of alleged false last Winter concerning the Argentine wheat crop. The government charges that Mr. MeCauley, who is believed to be in the United States at present, made falee statements to the effect that of- ficials of the Argentine government had speculated in the grain market in connection with a government crop forecast. The statements are alleged to have been cabled to an official of the Armour Grain Co. of Chicago. The order for his arrest follows a searching investigation instituted soon after the alleged false informa- 1ion was made public in Chicago last December. Concern on B Fire Damages Storeroom. Fire of undetermined origin was discovered in a storeroom for mill- work on the premises of Sidney L. Hechinger, at Fifth street and Florida avenue northeast, shortly after 6 oclock this morning. Firemen qulekly extinguished the blaze. Dam- 1e to the building and contents was mated at $300. ) of and the station | from passengers, | erted into | < for this that | Quits Chilean Post DR. JOHN LONG, Assistant United States Surgeon Gen- eral, blames lack of mative co-opera- tion for resignation. DR, LONG RESIGNS CHILE HEALTHP0ST | Lack of Co-operation Blamed *‘ by Assistant United States Surgeon General. i By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily SANTIAGO, Chile, June |ing to recelve the support and co | operation of the Chilean administra- tion In enforeing the new ant surgeon general of the United States, has tendered his resignation as Technical Director, effective at { once. | Dr. Long was borrowed from the | United States to reorganize the na- | tional health service. {in having guarantee clauses written into the new constitution last fall, | but petty opposition by members of the Figiero (‘abinet and secret op- position from the property owning classes, who would have heen forced | to make tenements livable and sani- have practically blocked the ce. None of the medical staff has been | pald since October, as the finance minister has refused to recognize ap- ! pointees of the service. Dr. will sail for home with his Aaughters on July 14. Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) 'FATHER IS CHARGED two i 5 Raymond Freeman Dies Follow- ing Fight at Home, In- volving Mother. Raymond Fresman. 25 vears old. | dled about 5 'clock this morning at | Gallingar Hospital from a wound re | cefved in a quarrel in which he and | his brother Clifton. engaged with their father. Daniel { Sunday afternoon at 265 Seventeenth street xoutheast. !father will face a coroner's jury {morrow. He was arrested after the quarrel, in which Clifton also received stab wounds, with which he is still confined to Gallinger Hospital, and the father was slightly injured. The vounger son dled from a stab wound neac the heart. A formal charge of murder was preferred | against the father after his death. The quarrel fs said 1o have started | when the elder Freeman, who is the [ father of 12 children, resented what {he described as abusiveness to their { mother on the part of Raymond and | Clifton. When the father ordered | them from the house. it is stated, they I attacked him. After Raymond struck | his father with a lamp. according to | the police, the latter attacked his sona { with a knife. TWO D. C. ATTORNEYS OPPOSE EXTRADITION Maurice and Benjamin Kay Argue Against Removal to Omaha to Answer Indictment. A thefr home at The I ! preme Court yvesterday heard argy ments of counsel on the habeas cor- | pus writ by which Maurice Kay and Benjamin Kay, Washington lawyers, seek to prevent removal to Omaha, | Nebr., to answer an indictment charg: !ing illegal use of the malls | took the matter under adyvisement. | The brothers were indicted April 28 last at Omaha and charged with | having written a letter July 16, 1924, to Mrs. Sarah H. Josiyn asking a fee | of $136.240.75 for their alleged efforts {in obtaining a refund of $434.135 of | Fedaral taxes to the estate of her hus. ! hand. George A. Josiyn. [United States Commissioner Turnage held the broth- rs for removal, and through Attor | neys Fasby-Nmith. Pine & Hill and | Newmyer & King they sodgitreieasa| {under habeas corpus. The men were { permitted to remain on bail of $5.000 each pending decision by Justice Hoehling. Assistant United States At. torney Neil Burkinshaw opposed the release of the accused. BEQUESTS TO CHURCHES. The will of Mariette Little, who | died June 14, was filed today for pro- bate. She leaves a number of specif- ic articles to friends, and directs that the rest of her personal and_house- hold effects be given to the District | of Columbia branch of the Salvation Army. The rest of her estata is to be di- vided into four parts, and one each given to the Presbyterian Home of the District: the Roard of Ministerial Rellef of the Preshyterian Church of Philadelphia and the Central Union Mission. The fourth portion goes in equal shares to F. C. Ballay of Ka- sota, Minn., and Helen Larsen of Fau Claire, Wis. The Washington Loan and Trust Co. 18 named as executor. Auto Victim Succumbs. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June ‘22.—Fred Jewell, jr., one of four men injured when an_automobile crashed into a pole Sunday while trying to avoid a collission with a taxicab, died in a local hospital early teday. James Tiller, Carl Hite and George Hollis, the latter driver of the car, were others hurt. ———s Capt. W. 8. C. Stephens, a former sirman, recently arrived in Nov Scotia from England to be ordained a priest. Natfonal | Health Code, Dr. John Long, assist- | He succeeded | Long ! iWITH FATAL STABBING to- ! Justice Hoehling of the District Su- | The court | THE EVENIN FOURFLYERSOF TO WELCONE BYRD Explorer’s Ship Expected in New York Early To- morrow. Comdr, John Rodgers of waiian flight faine, and’ Lieuts. Con- ant, Cuetin and_Councill, all of the Navy. left the Naval Air Station at Anacostia this afternoon en route to New York, preparat » conveying back ‘to Washineion tomorrow Iieut. Byrd, Jr., will bring with Floyd Rennett, to the North Pole, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson, who will welcome the fiyers hack to the United States on behalf of the Navy. lanes them Aviation ‘ho accomps Ship Due Tomorrow. Byrd's polar ship, the Chantier, is due to arrive in New York harbor 1y tomorrow morning. A Navy de- ver will meet the ship and trans. port the fivers ashore, whence they Will be brotight to the Capital by the offieial air convoy Comdr, Byrd will arrive here prob- ably late tomorrow afterncon and at 8 w'clock he will go to the Washington Auditorium to recefve from the hands of President Coolidge the Hubbard }xold medal of the National Geosraphic siety. Bennett also will receive a aphic Soclety medal from the A pretentious reception will be ac- srded the conauerors by air of the orth Pole upon thelr return to New York. Mayor Walker has appointed A spetial committee of welcome, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Commanding the 2d Corps Area, rep. resents Secretary of War Davis on the committee. Comdr. Byrd probably will remain in Washington tomorrow night and then will go to Richmond Thursday morning for a big reception in h honor staged by “the home folka.” He will return to New York Friday night for a celebration in Carnegie Hall. RELATIVES TO GREET BYRD. " and Mother Go to New York From Virginia Home. WINCHESTER, Va. June 22 (®) Harry and “Tom™ Byrd left here today to welcome their brother “Dick™ on his arrfval at New York tomorrow from his North Pole aerial | expedition Harry Kovernor of Virginia, and his yvounger brother, Capt. Thomas Bolling Byrd, were ac companied by their mother, Mrs Richard Evelyn Byrd, ar. ' Lieut. Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd, jr., is due to arrive at New York aboard the | | steamship Chantier tomorrow morn- | ing. | ile will go to Washington during the afternoon and in the evening | will be presented with the Hubbard | Medal by President Coolidge at ex-| ercises under the auspices of the | National Geographic Soclety. Next day the Byrd family will leave for Richmond to be guests of the| gove at the executive mansion | and Thursday evening the aviator-| {explorer will give his first public {lecture on his nerial trip over the| | pole. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Richmond News- Leader. | AIRPLANES KILL FOUR " WITHIN TEN DAYS Freeman. 4%. ! { | Claude J. Coley Dies in Hospital, Second Victim of Crash at Norfolk. | By the Associated Pre NORFOLK. Va., June Claude | 7."Coley, owner and pilot of the air- plane which crashed yesterday near { the naval base. instantly killing | George H. Hudnell. a passenger, died | today 1n a haspital. | Coley s the fourth man.to die in 10 days as the result of alrplane ac- | cidents at the Kast Camp flving flald. Lieut. Stiles and IHerbert Fentrees, two local men, were Killed June 13, when their plane was wrecked near the point where yesterday's tragedy occurred. {PLAYGROUND SWIMMING POOLS OPEN THURSDAY Will Remain in Use Throughout Summer From 9 A.M. Till 7 P.M., Under Present Plan. The school playground swimming pools are to be officlally opened Thursday morning at 9 o'clock and will remain open through the Summer from that hour In the morning until 7 o'clock each evening. it was offically announced at the office of Miss Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of play unds, today. G 'he pools are located at jthe Rose- dale playgrounds, Seventeenth and Rosedale streets northeast; George- town playgrounds, Thirty-fourth atreet and Volta placé, and at the Howard playgrounds, colored, Fifth and W streets. The Georgetown pool will be open for girls on Tuesday. Thursday and { Wednesday and Friday. The Rose- | dale pool is to be open for bovs on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and for girls on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Howard pool will have the same schedule as Rosedale, it is annouhced. Ha- | | Saturday and for boys on Monday, | G Seated, left to right: Mrs. Hugh S. seorge M. Kober. Standing, left to righ comb, Michael M. Doyle, Commi: CHANGEINSEHOOL HOURS IS OPPOSED Three Meetings Go on Record | in Favor of Retaining Present Schedule. hours | reg- | votes | satisfaction over the school now in force was unmistakably istered in almost unanimous taken by one cltizens tlon and two parent-teacher | tions yesterday on the Board of Edu- cation questionnaire proposing length ening of the school day in order to decrease or eliminate home work. The Piney Branch Citizens' Asso- cintion fnstructed itx secretary to | record the assoclation as unanimous- Iy opposed to the proposed changes ‘Thirty-five persons were present At the meeting, which was held in the Hamline M. E. Church, Sixteenth and | Allison streets. 200 Go On Record. After brief discussion 200 per: attendance at the meeting Parent-Teacher Association of the | | Cooke School opposed the school day | lengthening and by separate action | placed themselves on record in favor | of home work for the pupils. | | W. I Ross, president, presided over | the meeting. which yas held in the school auditorium | A practically unanimous vote also! wis taken at A meeting of the Parent | Teacher Assoctation of Langley Ju | ntor High School, where all 62 members | opposed longer school hours in the |elementary and junior high schoals and 61 of the number opposed longer in the senlor high | ns in | the school hours | =chools. | Availing themselves of the oppor. | “unity of individually registering their | vote in the Board of Fducation's ref- erendum on the proposal o lengthen the school day in order to decrease or | | abolish home work, Washington par | ents today began to send fn the bal-| lot which was published in The Star | vesterday and which will be repeated | the balance of the week. | | “while sufficient ballots are not in| hand as vet to justify an ana it | 18 evident that there are some parents who favor a longer school day, partie: | ularly in the high schools. | Three ballots recording such an| opinfon were noticed in the first mail today. One of them is from C. W. | Williams, 630 Randolph strest, whe says he has four children in the achools and believes there should be | a longer school day in the senlor high | and normal schools, but mnot in the | elementary or junior high sehools. Two others who have placed them- eelves on record as in favor of iength- ening the high achool day from 2:30 to 4 are Mrs. C. T. Ellsworth, 1615 Kenyon street, and J. C. Letts of 803 Quintana place. COL. JOEL R. LEE BURIED. Funeral Services for Retired Of- ficer Held at Arlington. Funeral services were held at Ar- lington National Cemetery this after- noon for Col. Joel R. Lee, U. 8. A retired, who died at Atlanta, Ga., last | v. He was born at Fort De- | posit, Ala., April 18, 1872, and served in the ranks of the Army for seven vears hefore his appointment as a second lieutenant of Infantry in April, 1899. e took part in the Spanish War, the Philippine insurrection, the |eMexican punitive expedition and in | the World War and was retired in March, 1924, with the rank of colonel. He served several details in the Quar- termaster Corps and was a division quartermaster in the operations in France and Germany. The Star, co-operating with ‘Washington parents to fill out th referendum: 1. In favor of dispensing with al Tn the first six grades? Tn the junior high scheols? In the senior high scheols? schools? In the normal Tn the junier high schools, In the senior high schools, Aye you a member of a clation? Yes.. No.. Signed.....cooue Address. . NOTE.—Cut out and malfl All ballots after being register: REFERENDUM ON LENGTHENING THE SCHOOL DAY IN ORDER TO DECREASE OR ABO!JSH HOME STUDY In faver of extending the school day— In the first six grades, from 3 to 3:45? Yes Do you favor school on Saturday mornings? Y How many children have you in school? .... the Beard of Education, iInvites e following ballot in this important ! home study of pupils— Yes...o..u. Yes.. No..cooons Yes........ Neo.... Yes........ No Ne...... ieee Nooooo., from 8 to 3:45? Yes.. from 2:30 to 47 Yes Parent-Teacher eor to Educational Hditor, The Star. Commissioner Frederick joner (' lof p Mra. |2 ‘ed_will be turned over to Harry Hine, Becretary of the Board of Educatien. (.. TUESDAY, HOLDS FIR Cu insion » H. R John Joy Edson, Mrs. Emmett 1926. 1 20 TEAANS INIRED 6. . WILSON MADE ING. 0. . MEETING Wurzbach and Creager Fac-: | 22 JUNE ST MEETING pner J. Franklin Bell, Edward J. New- illan and Frederick W. McReynolds. 'PURCHASE OF STATION PLAZA IS GIVEN APPROVAL OF HOUSE Borland Law Amended to Free Property Owners of Reassessment for Paving of Streets—Other Measures Are Passed. Provision for a fitting entrance to the National Capital which will prop- erly frame the Capitol Bullding for the first view of visitors, and relief sperty owners from the inequita Me hardships of the Rorland law. which assesmes cost of street replace- ment against abutting property own- ers, are the outstanding features of a number of measures of particular interest to District residents on which the House acted yesterday. On a record vote the blll providing for completion of acquisition by the ment of land hetween the (‘api 1d Union Station, which has al ready y ed the Senate, was ap- proved by a vote of 202 to 67, under suspension of the rules. So this meas- ure now goes to the President for his signature. Not only does it mean one of the largest land purchase in the District of Columbia by the Federal Government in many vears, but it in- cludes removal of the unsightly called Government Hotels erected du ing the war period to house war- workers, means the extension of the Capitol grounds in a formal park and plaza development nd the creation of A new avenue the same width as Pennsylvan: tion to Peace Monument on Pennsyl vania avenue at the:foot of Capitol il ol Proposed in 1910, This enlargement of the Capitol ounds and heautification of the pl 1x been unfinished work hefore 'on. ress for 16 vears. An appropriation act on June 35, 1810, declared 1t to he the purpose of Congress to ultimately uire all of 12 squares in this i The Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the superintend ent of the Capitol Building and unds, now known as the architect of the Capitol, were authorized to ac quire the premises hy p con demuation herwise, and to ex pend for that purpose not more than $300.000 in any one year, commencing With the year 1911, No limit of cost was stated and $300.000 was appro- priated for the first year In the 12 squares originally intended acquired there ia a total of 1,325,204 square feet, of Which the Government has already acquired 639,467 square feet, and the Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad Company and the Real Estate and Improvement Com- pany of Raltimore City, which is a | land-holding company for the railroad, own 635,737 square feet. The architect of the Capitol has submitted an estimate of the value of this property based on assessments taken from the District's hooks amounting to $1.012,720. The raflroad company has submitted an offer to sell based on a condemnation award 13 vears ago for $3,{29.5 There i% ‘an unexpended Treasury of $1,79: Leased Since 1922, At the time the United States en- tered the war with Germany this land was used for bullding the Govern- ment Hotels. A portion of the land, owned by the railroad company, was occupled by the United States under a contract providing that the occupancy was to terminate and the buildings to be removed at the expiration of 12 months after the final ratification of treaties of peace. the railroad com- pany to receive no consideration ex- cept relief from taxation during the period of Government occupancy. The time under the contract expired November 14, 1922, and from that date to December 31, 1925, the prop- erty has been leased by the Govern- ment at approximately $75,000 annu- ally. Repairing Charge Removed. The long-desired amendment to the Borland law, which assesses one-half of the cost of repaving a street against abutting property owners, was acqulesced in by the House after the proposed change had been attacked by Representative La Guardia, Pro- gressive-Socialist of New York, and Schafer, Republican, of Wisconsin. The equities in the change were ex- plained by Chairman Zihiman of the District committee and Representative Undersill, Republican, of Massachu- setts, The committee report favored -ex- empting property owners from re- assessment after a street had once been laid and pald for, for a period of 20 years. Mr. Underhill fathered an amendment which struck out this 20-year limit and exempted the prop- erty owners from reassessment for all ‘time to come. The bill as passed readg: “That no frontage of abutting property, on nich a legal assessment for paving or repaving has been levied and pald hereunder, shall be liable to any further assessment hereunder on ac- count of the replacement of such pavement.” Mr. Schafer injected a censure re- garding the practice of selling space in the streets adjacent to hotels to taxicabs in especial view of the fact that the people as a whole, who are not permitted to drive their cars in this part of the public streets, really pay the major part of the cost. Representative Hudson, Repub- lican, of Michigan, protested that the overloaded trucks of -building con- avenue, from Union Sta- | tractors are “destroying more pave- ment in this city than any of a | dozen other sources” and he empha- sized that there should he some safe. guard against this. In support of his exemption amend- ment Mr. Underhill argued, as fol: lows: “At the present time an abutter is assessed for the pavement in front | of hix home, his residence, his place L of business, or wherever he may own | property in the City of Washington In some new developments those w are developing the property lay out the property and build the roads them- selves. Now, what happens? You go up Massachusetts avenue or Sixteenth street where crosssireets have been made one-way streets; the property hie pavement, and they have made the | sireet a one-way treet, so that it |ix only used about 50 per cent or less. | The street next to it i getting double trafic. The consequence is that the pavement on two-way are reasseased for the laying | new pavement “My contention fs that after the abutter has paid once for the pave ment in front of his home he has { discharged all of his obligations tc | the city and the District, hecause the pavement is not injured or destroyed by the ahutter: it is destroved entirely by traffic passing by, and the more trafic that goes hy the more the value of his property is depreciated | "“We have instances of that on file in my office, where an abutter has paid for the paving and the city has | come along in two or three years.and put in a heavier sewer in order to accommodate sections bevond the resi dence of the abutter. \When they be. gan to repatch they found they could not make the pavement permanent. It would sink every time they built it up. and the cons tence is the abutter has to pay for a new pavement in side of five years |1 want the people of the City | Washington to have the same kind treatment that I understand 18 accord. ed to residents of practically every other city in the United States, that after they once pay for the paving of the street in front of thelr hom they are not assessad for 20 years or 0 vears for repaving.” Action in Senate Sought. This measure now goes to the Sen- ate, where a persistent effort wili he made to get action before adjourn- ment. Other bills which were passed by the House vesterday, and which have already passed the Senate, include the following: Transferring a portion of Anacostia Park to the jurisdiction of the Botanic Gardens to be used for a tree nursery; incorporating the organ: ization now known as the Trustees of St. Joseph's Orphanage; transfer- ring from the jurisdiction of the direc- tor of public buildings and parks to the District Commissioners the Dis- trict sewerage properly known as reservation 24§. The House also passed the House bill to change the name of Dent place northwest, between Forty-fourth street and Foxhall road to Greenwich park- way. This measure now goes to the i Senate for action. A bill providing for construction of a power plant building at the Bureau of Standards also was passed. A very important measure in which the District is much interested and which was not reached on the con- sent calendar vesterday was the one favorably reported from the mili- tary affairs committee which would authorize the National Capital Park and Planning _Commission to pur- chase Fort Hunt, Va., and Fort ‘Washington, Md. Bills which fatled objection were: A bill to move the Botanic Gar- dens from the Mall to land south of the Caplitol. A Senate bill creating the offices of Assistant to the Secretary of La- bor to handle immigration and natu- ralization work. Other measures are: Two bills to amend the classifica- tion act in minor respects. The Moore bill providing for transfer by the District of its sover- elgnty over a tract of land reclaimed by dredging at Battery Coye, near Alexandria, Va., to the State of Vir- ginia. A bill authorizing refund of $25,000 to Columbia Hospital for Women. Also a bill_authorizing constructic ufla nurses’ home at the same hospi- tal. The Zihlman bill enlarging the Public Utilities Commission and pro- viding for appointment of a people’'s counsel. A bill to regulate the manufa ture, renovation and sale of mat- tresse: of f to pass over on the calendar Taft Delays Trip to Canada. Although Chief Justice Taft con- tinues to show improvement, he has postponed departing/on his vacation for a few da: His physician be- lieves he may be ablg to leave for his Summer home, In ada, by the end of the week. Haction headed by Na | be tt, Dr. | heen assessed for the layving of | streets ix rap- | idly worn ont, and then the abutters of aj tions Clash Over Issue of Patronage. | ted Presa. Texas, June 22.—A unty Republicane, including one woman, today nursed bruises received in a melee at an ex- ecutive committee meeting iast night at which supporters of Harry M. Wurzbach, Texas' only Republican Congressman, emerged victors over a fonal Committee- in a dispute on score of Bexar man R. B. party patr The W1 Creager nage. 71 ents triumphed after 14 irated _the com- batants in numerous fist fights and ejected several participants from the room. * The meeting continued under the surveillance of policemen. The outbreak climaxed an iment between Wurzbach and Creager face tions following a charge by Wurzbach that the Creager forces abused pa- tronage privileges. Report Starts Outbreak. the on report of the appointed majority resohitions A. R Holzschuhr, a ent, had been rejected by the meeting and Holzschubr had ruled that a motlon to substitute minority report on 4 viva voce had 0 defeated, the assembly was thrown fnte an up br. A, A. Luter lower, leaped to hix feet, dec Mr. Holzschuhr was not conducting the meeting accor@mg to law, and pr posed that the chalrman be rej by A. M. Gray, another Wurzbac herent. Hontilities hetween the op posing camps then broke out and were participated in by about 30 of the delegates. A revolver was drawn Immediately after Representative Wurzbach rose from hix seat, but was knocked from the hand of the holder and disappear- ed through a window. “It was headed my way long enough for me to look down the wrong end,” the Representative sad. Mra. E. P. Butler, a Wurzbach ad- vocate, was bruised when she pre- vented a man from hurling R. B. Coon, campaign menager for Fred Knetsch, Wurzbach's opponent in the from & window 20 | | coming ‘primary, feet ubove ground. When the meeting continued the Wurzbach faction unseated 37 commit teemen recently named, and filled the vacancies from a new lat. No ar rests were made CHILEAN APPEALS FOR CALM N TACNA Edwards Asks People of Dis- puted Province to Show Qood Feeling. | By the Associated Press. ARICA. Chile, June In a procla- I mation fssued to the population of |Tacna and Arica. Agustin Edwards Ileader of the (‘hilean delegation on the Plebiscitary (ommission, appeals for {calm and tranquillity in the disputed provinces. He asks the people to re [turn to work and show good feeling !toward one another, whether they are Chileans or Peruvians. Senor Edwards savs the 11 months of the struggie over the plebiscite has made ravages in the organism of the {local population, and now what is need- led above all things else ix “rest and forgetfulness.” He adds that there- re it is everybody's duty to strive to re-establish a serene atmosphere of normality and make vesterday's ad | versaries feel that under the Chilean flag they can enjoy all advantages and nave all the well being that can be de- sired under other standards.’ The Plebiscitary Commission held a final session yesterday and adjourned indefinitely. This, in effect, dissolves the commission. Gen. Lassiter, the American chair- man of the commission. after farewell calls went aboard the U. S. . Denver, which sailed for Panama. CHILE DEFENDS COURSE. | Negotiations Under Kellogg Now Held TImpossible. Setting forth Chile’s position in the | Tacna-Arica_controversy, the minister of foreign affairs of that country, in a letter made public here last night, de- clared that the direct diplomatic nego- tiations of Secretary Kellogg might have proceeded “with some hopes of attaining results” if the plebiscite had not been abandoned. “The plebiscitary proceedings were brought to an end, not only illegally |but also abruptly,” he said, adding that this having occurred “jt was use- less to think that we could usefully g0 ahead with our negotiations at Washington." BRING WOMAN HERE ON KIDNAPING CHARGE Mary Arnold_,—(;)_r;:t West Vir- ginia, Said to Have Admitted Other Acousaticns. Direct | Mary Arnold, colored, 32 years old of Glen Jean, W. Va., charged with kidnaping the child of a friend, is al- | leged to have admitted before the line- up of detectives in the squad room at headquartcrs today, that she had been | charged with the murder of one for- mer husband and with the shooting of’ two other former husbands. She did not admit being convicted of these charges, however, although Detectivas Varney and Brodle, who brought her and the child back from Weat Virginia, stated that she had made an admission to the effect that she was convicted in the murder case and acquitted in the others. Police are now investigating the | statements to discover whether she is wanted elsewhere. The woman was arrested on a warrant charging that she went away with the Svear-old child: of Sylvia Robinson, colored, while the latter was confined at the District jall awaiting trial. The child was taken to Glen Jean, W. Va., where | the woman was arrested. s = Loses Eye in Fight. Frank B. Parker, colored, 23 vears old, 401 Twenty-first street, suffered the loas of the sight of his right eye last night while engaged in an alter cation in front of 2002 Twentieth street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. Police of the third precinct arrested Emmett Simms, colored, 33 vears, 528 Twentieth streat, and} ged him with mayhem. ’ lof a | of the commission | commission’s WELFARE DIRECTOR Post Under New Board Filled by Unanimous Vote at Organizing Session. . George S. Wilson, secretary of the Board of Charities since 1900, w unanimously nominated to be director of the new Board of Public Welfare at the organization meeting of that body today in the Distri-t Bullding. 'he nomination will he =ent to the Commissioners and his appointment an director of the board is regarded as certain. The board elected John Joy Kdson, chairman Board of Charitles. Other officers chosen are W. W. Millan, vice chair man, and Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, s retary. Mr. Wilson nomi by Dr. George M. Kober, who him a glowing trih “There is no man in hetter qualified or more « serve as the director of | than Mr. Wilson,” he <a son also wag praised by Mr. Mrs. Goldsmfith. Former s of Delaware had been an ac didate for the new position of the new board announced had received communications hini urging his appointment. name, however, was not placed in nom ination. Prior to organizing e bers constituting the re greeted by the District Commissioners in the office of Commissioner Fred erick A. Fenning. Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the d of Comminsioners, pointed ont that the Commissioners never have had a more important board to appoint than the Board of Public Welfare. The new hoard will officially hegir to function July 1, when the Board of Children's Guardians, the Board of Charities and the Board of Trustees of the National Training School for Girls are abolished. The board wiil have complete and exclusive control and management ever the following District institutions The workhouse at Occoquan, the reformatory at Lawton, the \Washing: ton Asylum and Jail, the Nat Training School for i linger Municipal Hospital, the culosis Iospital, the Home fo Aged and Infirm. the Municipal Lod ing House, the Industirial Home Sehool for Colored Children and the District Training School in Anne Arundel County, M4. Members of the new hoard are: Dr. Kober, Mrs. Emmett J. Scott ward J. Newcomb, Mr. Edson Hugh §. Cumming, Mr. M erick W. McRevnolds, M and Mrs. Goldsmith. SIDDONS GIV] Retirement as Legislative Chairman Due to Court Work. The resignation of Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the District Supreme Court as chalrman of the Commigsion on Public Welfare Legislation was announced _toda Commissioner Cuno H. Rudelph, of the Board of District The increasing judicial duties, out in his letter of resignation, makes it almost impossible for him to con tinue to serve on the commission “With the enactmen! into Jaw of nearly all of the measures of legisla tion considered hy the (‘ommission on Public Welfare Legisiation, including the establishment of a Roard of Publi Welfare. the socalled mothers anl law, the act restoring jurisdiction to the institution for feehle-minded «aid Justice Siddone, I feel that I now have a rigl ! to ask to he relieved of the obligations of service npon the commission “More than a vear ago | took up with the president of vour heard (Commissioner Rudolph) the matter of retiring from the commissi at his earnest solicftation [ w a then contemplated resignation, but the time has come, I am convinced, when, if for no other reason, the tnereasing pressure of judicial dutles makes It necessary for me to largely, if not exclusively, confine myself to their performance: and I therefore tender my resignation as a member of the commission, which I trust wiil have your prompt action. The report of the commission which was submitted to you under date of December 19, 1825, fully in formed you as to the various matters under consideration hy the commis sion and their status, and there is little to add save to remind vou that pending proposed amendments to the Juvenile Court law are receiving re- consideration by the commission, and are at the present time in the hands very competent subcommittes with the expecta tion that the commitiee will he able to make their report to the full com- misslen In time for the commission to a and advise you with ref thereto prior to the commencement of the next session of Con nother Bill Pending. “There also remains undisposed a W]l for the proposed regulation of child-caring agencies. Such a bill has been prepared by the commission, and it ix dealt with in chapter \' of the printed report, with copies of which you have heen pro vided, beginning on page 32 thereof. Personally, 1 have felt that with the enactment into law of the bill estah lishing the Board of Public Welfare the most important piece of legisia tion prepared and submitted by the mission has been accomplished. “The papers * ¢ * report the ap- pointment of the. membhers of this board by you, and they represent seasoned and experienced men and women of the District of Columbia, as its chairman f the lic welfare the nine hoard M UPr DUTIES, president Commission press rence | amply qualified to carry out the law establishing the board. I haev every confidence that by the performance of their duties the board will grow in importance and value to this com- munity, and it s, I think, strongly to be hoped, and indeed expected, that subsequent welfare legislation that may be enacted from time to time will be committed to the board for its administration and execution. “I cannot conclude this letter with- out expressing the appreciation 1 feel for the hearty co-operation that has been given to the commission hy you, the community, the press and Congress. Our Natlonal Teglslature, in its consideration of the legiela- tion prepared by the commission, has shown an Intarest quite unmistak- able, and the people of the District have every reason to ha grateful o the National Legisiature for this “I never ean forget the loyal sup port and co-operation that the mem hers of the commission have alwaye given to me. whom they honored by selecting as their chairman, and what ever credit may be due to me in the performance of the work of the com- mission is very largely to be attrib- uted to this same loyalty and co | operation.” Unions Must Pay Farmers. COPENHAGEN. June 22 (®).— The Supreme Court has decided that the Danish Trade Union Council must pay 130,000 kronen damages for malicions 1y interfering with the afairs of a large number of Danixh farmers. It was claimed by the farmers that they suffered heavy losses when they were nnable tn abtain necessary farm handa because of a union boycott.