Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 5

PRESIDENT SIGNS D. C. TRAFFIC BILL Improvement in F{egulationsj Made Possible Under New Provisions. | Marked improvement in ihe vegu ; lation of traffic in Washington in the near future possible | by Congress enacting the | vew traffic bill, which was signed by the President in the closing hour « the session The three main featy are w provision for the renewul of the more than 100,000 drivers’ permits that expired March 31: granting of authority to the tratfic director to sus pend and revoke permits without waiting for conviction in court. and authority to use not to exceed $350. 000 of the fund irom fees for permits in extending the electrival taflic six- | nal light system. Control Given Ove The first section « detines more clearly hicle” to make it cover moved over a highway traction tread. including and draft Is. The doubt as to the dired horses and street cars The term “traffic” is | tnde pedestrians Under the new law ail oulstanding | operator permits will have be ro. newed at o fee of $3 and the new per wit will be good for three years. It is this revenue the director will use to extend the signal light system now in operation on Sixteenth street and Massachusetts avenue. It is planned gradually to install similar lights on t of the main trafflc arteries under ne system that already has been chartered. The appropriation act for this year authorizes this work to be has been made vesterday in the act Horses. the new the term any appl on wheels « street cars old law left control over ondened to in for applications fuor tie new are ready to go to the print- and other arrangements com - the tremendous task of uing the drivers' cards. Mv. Eldrid: nnounced that he has abandoned hi riginal idea staggering the reis suance of the permits under an al permi tribute the applications at the various police precincts, American Automo bile Association, the National Press Club and other organizations. wh motorists may procure them and le: the necessary 3 for the permit permits will mailed to the appli- cants be Permits Reissued July 15. The traffic director expects to begin the reissuance of the permits abo July 15, and believes that under the new plin it will be possible to dis- tribute the new cards in about three months. Under the staggered plan it was estimated that it vould have taken a_year. Mr. Eldridge emphasized ths traffic records of all motorists apply- ing for the new permits would be carefully examined before a new card is issued. Those whom he regards us unfit to operate a car because of their past_records for traffic violations will be denfed a new permit. Before attempting to enforce some of the major provisions of the new traffic code, Mr. Eldridge indicated that he would confer with the District Traffic Council, the trade bodies and other interested orsanizations and citizens. he old law provided for the revo- cation of permits following conviction on certain serious charges, The new law gives the director the power to suspend or revoke an operator’s per- it for any cause deemed sufficient, with the following limitation inserted Ly the Senate and agreed to in con- ferenc “Provided, that in each case where & permit is revoked or suspended the reasons therefor shall be set out in the order of revocation or suspension; and provided, further, that such order shall take effect 10 days after i fssuance unless the holder of the per- mit shall filed within such period written application with the Commissioners of the District of Co. lumbia for a review of the order of the director or his assistant; if, upon such review, the Commissioners shall sustain the order of the director or his assistant, such order shall become effective immediately; but if upon such review the Commissic shall reverse the order of the director or his assistants, such order shall there" upon be vacated.” Provision for Appeal. In addition to this appeal to the Commissioners, the law provides that any individual whose permit is sus pended or revoked may within 30 days “after such denial, revocation or sus- pension is ordered, if application for a review by the Commissioners of an order for revocation or suspension his not been filed, or in case such uppli cation has been filed within 30 days after decision of the Commissioners,” apply to any justice of the District Court of Appeals for & writ of ¢rror to review the order of the traffic di rector or the decision of the Commis- sioners. The appel court 10 make rules governing the handling of such writs and the decision of said court shall be final. It is stipulated that the application for i writ of er- ror shall not operate as a sy of the order of revocation. Another provision written into the law at the last moment states that nothing contained in the act shall le. prive any person of the vight of 1rial by jury The ~ law prosecutions in_the of the Police Court the old act traflic cases were divided hetween that branch and the United States Branch of the Police Court. RUM PRISONER FREED. Deputy Jailed in Daniels Case Re- the i empowered is 211 traffic District Brinch whereas: under consolidates leased on Parole. LEAVENWORTH, Ka July (®).—Willam J. Kinney, former deputy revenue collector under Arnold | J. Helmich, St. Louis. Mo., and one of e 16 persons convicted in connec- | tion with the theft of whisky from | the Jack Daniels’ distillery, will be | 1 | released on parole tomorrow from the Federal penitentiary herc Kinney was received at the prison January 5 last under sentence of 18 | months. He served the minimum time necessary for parole. He was one of the few defendants who did rot apply | for bond pending appeal to the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals. Demand for opium grown in 1s unusually great this year. URELY, there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will zladly send ome 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, biistrict of Colum bia Memorial Con E:dprll -American National oy iona; | department, 181,228,656 in Second Deficien In the second deficlency appropria- | | sy (Continued from First Page.) road grude crossings whenever ap- propriations for the purpose are made passed the Senate Friday night, but the House has never taken up this measure. Appropriation Bill Best. Although Congress continued the I practice of arbitrarily setting a lump- sum the ¥ t contribution of $9,000,000 from ‘ederal Treasury and providing all the remainder of the funds { vequired for support and development of the National Capital must be taken out of the taxes paild by property owners in the District, more adequate funds have been provided for main- ning the various municipal activi- ties and for extensive public improve- ments. This has resuited in an ex- pected increase in the tax rate. The District appropriation bill was lone of the best ever passed by Con- gress, It contained a total of ap- ximately $34,000,000. Among the t important items in this bill are: 'or public schools, approximately $11,000,000; charities and_corrections, arly $3.500,000: for the Metropolitan police, more than $3,000,000; for treets and road improvements and repair, nearly $3,000,000: for the fire nearly $2,225,000; for sewers, $1,500,000, and for increasing the water supply, $1,500,000. Bill ion Dill, which passed Congress last week, there was a total of $1,228 636.87 for the District government, including 600,000 o complete the ac quisition of land to connect Rock Creek and Potomac Parks. $275.000 for @ new wing at the District Jafl 00 for reconstructing roof a - stories of the White House Aside from the strictly municipal appropriations. the session of Con aress, which has just closed, provid ed for the biggest development toward carrying forward the Washington and L’Enfant plans as enlarged by the mous McMillan report to meet the rapidly growing needs of the city and wodern conditions. Conspicious in this development is the appropria- tion $5.750.000 immediately avail able and authorization to make con- tracts for $34,550.000 In the second deficlency appropriation bill just passed art on the $50,000,000 tive vear public building program. This means five new public build- ings, two of which are of monumental pe, and one of which, for the De. partment of Commerce, costing $10.- 000,000. will be second only in size to the Capltol. Besides these five new buildings funds are available for pur chasing a building which the Depart- ment of Agriculture now occupies under lease and for extensive addl- tions to the Liberty Loan Building and Government Printing Office. By the erection of a National Archives Building enough office space will be released in other Government build- ings to correspond to a building the size of the Treasury. Step in Capital Improvement. This public building program is Im portant ako in that it is a step to- ward improvement of the triangle on the south side of Pennsylvania ave- nue, which has long been an eyesore and on which development has been retarded because the Government laid a dead hand upon this area nearly 25 years ago by declaring its intention to eventually acquire this area for public_buildings. Another big improvement comes with the purchase of the land be- tween the Capitol and Union Station, which the Government some 15 years ago, in specific legislation, announced its intention of acquiring. About half of the area desired in 12 city blocks was purchased more than-10 years ago. During the war the so-called Government hotels were built to house war workers on land owned by the Baltimore & Ohio Rall- road. These dormitories have been occupled longer than was ever in- tended and give an unsightly outlook to visitors who get their first glimpse of the Capital City from Union Sta- tion. The Federal Government just completed purchase of the 12 squares by a payment of $3.120597.64. Of this amount $1,793.139 was available in the Federal Treasury and the bal- ance ws ciency bill. As a result of this Government hotels will be removed, the Capito! grounds will be extended through 2 formal park deveiopment to the Union Station and a new ave- nue the same width as Pennsy! avenue will run_from Union to connect with Pennsylvania avenue at Peace Monument. B Street to Be Straightened. Linked in with this development is the extension and straightening of B street to run from the north side of the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and across the new Arlington Me- morial Bridge to Arlington National Cemetery. Legislation to acquire three squares on Pennsylvania ave- nue to provide for the straightening and extension of B street is under consideration, and assurance has been given that it will be acted upon at the next session of Congress. With the extension of B street a park be- tween B street and Pennsylvania ave- nue at the foot of Capitol Hill will be provided, and in this improvement a4 number of the unsightly small stores on this site will be removed. Linked in also with this develop- ment surrounding the Capitol is the proposed relocation and enlargement of the National Botanic Garden. This measure has passed the Senate and action was expected in the House up to the very last moment, but it failed to receive consideration in the final jam. The velocation of the Botanic Garden is considered by the Capitol planners to be very impor- tant for the improvement of the Mall and to allow this development to pro- ceed. The famous Bartholdi foun- tain is to be removed to the proposed new site of the Botanic Garden con- cervatory, covering the area between Maryland avenue, Canal street, First Second strecis. The plan con- 1 | templates extending the Botanic Gar- den along the old James Creek Canal and 1o oceupy a large area south of the Capitol toward the river, which will link-in with the proposed park- - entirely surrounding the Capital ity $5,000,000 Surplus Depleted. The appropriations carried in the trict appropriation bill for new hool buildings and sites has en- tively depleted the nearly $5,000,000 curplus which the District taxpayers +d piled up in the Federal Treasury Through these appropriations an e collent start was made on giving more adequate housing to the school sys- {em of the National Capital. The last £600,000 of the surplus is sppropriated in the second deficiency hill for completing the purchase of land for a connecting parkway be- tween Rock Creek and Potomac Parks. When this measure was be- fore the Senate Senator Phipps of Colorado, chairman of the subcom- mittee on_ District appropriations, sought to have it amended so as to require the Iederal Government to bear half the cost of completing this parkway, in view of the fact that practically all of the previous appro- priations for the project had been divided hetween the United States and the District. Ie was not successful, however, and. rather than delay the \rrving out of the pian, he agreed the e of the surpius. The development of this Di parkway . section, but-will afford ajsa.yery; gy and recreation center through what is now for the most part an unsightly | the Board of Public Wel carried in the second defi- | legislation the | was not carried in | duced to $275,000 when will give not only an atiractive drive | cial equipm THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 'TRAFFIC, POLICE COURT AND UTILITIES BILLS ARE PASSED portant rellef for trafic from the northwest section to downtown. This will alse link in the parkway system with the Lee highway, the main tour- ist route from the South and West, the proposed Mount Vernon boule- vard and with palisade drive on both sides of the Potomac to Great Falls and to the new Shenandoah National Park. The present session of Congress also passed an act providing for a National Capital park and planning commission for comprehensive de- velopment of the park and play- ground system of the Natlonal Cap- ital and to acquire sites in the en- vironment of the Capital in the States of Maryland and Virginia to preserve the flow of water in Rock Creelk and to prevent pollution of Rock Creek and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and to preserve forests and natural scenery in and about Wash- ington. This commission s charged with the duty of developing and maintain- Ing o comprehensive, consistent and coordinated plan for the National Capltal and fts environs. Board of Public Welfare. One of the pieces of constructive legialation pnssed by the outgoing sessfon of Congress has established re to take over the duties of the Bonrd of Chari- ties, the Board of Children's Guar. diatis and the trustees of the tional Training School for Girls Under this Poard of Public Wel- fare has been placed the administra- tion of tha fund to provide home cive pendent children, commonly e maothe aid After which 1 powe York City attemp the District adminisiering that e lida der for de as ficht i by from New impose vpo i t board for fund at the ve were heing made such welfare activities u new ¥ ponsored by 1hi s 1 the time 1o cons council of leading weliare workers in the National Cap- ital, who had advised with an expert from the Russell Sage Foundation, was adopted by Congress. The first appropriation of $75.000 for home are of dependent children is carried i the second deficiency approprii- tion bill. Capper Fight Wins. The most exciting battle of the e tire session on District matters o curred in the Senate over the ques tion of whether home care for depend ent children should be administered by this board or by an independent agency. [The people of Washington were practically unanimous for plac ing it under the centralized authority of the welfare board, but out-of-tow sociul workers had made strenuous efforts to put through the idea of segregating this activity. When the vote in the Senate the District's own plan lost by the narrow margin of one vote, but Senator Capper, chair man of the District committee, con- tinued to fight for the bill he knew the people of the city wanted. Sena tor Blease of South Carolina afforded the chance for a second vote by mov- ing a reconsideration and the Capper plan finally succeeded. The House had already agreed to the bill for a se arate agency, but a satisfactory com- promise was reached by providing that a standing committee be created within the welfare board to handle this problem. Senator Capper also worked strenu ously in steering the traffic bill through the Senate, where several members objected to certain features. After several days of constant effort he got the bill in shape that was acceptable to those who had op- posed it. As an important aid in the educa- 1l work of the National pital, Congress passed an act giving com- prehensive, substantive law for the free public library and reading room with provisions so that the benefits of the library system could be ex- tended to all parts of the Capital City and to make it an effective supplement of the public educational system of the District. Bathing Pools’ Appropriation Lost. The measure providing for estab- shment of two artificial bathing pools or beaches in the District be- came law on Mayv 4, but the $345.- 0u6 authorized to be appropriated the second defi- ciency appropriation bill, hecause the location of the pools had not been definitely determined and at a re- cent meeting of the Park and Plan- ning Commission a resolution wi adopted favoring a distributed sy tem of bathing pools to be located in proximity to the large centers of population in connection with other recreational facilities rather than tha a construction of two large municipal | pools involving long transportation. On May 22 an act was approved providing for establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in Vir- ginia. THe Secretary of the Interior fs authorized to accept title to the land, which is to be purchased with §1,200,000 subscribed by the State of Virginia and the Shenandoah N¢ tional Park Association. The mini- mum area for the Shenandoah N: tional Park, to be administered by | the National Park Service, is 250,000 acre: The act providing for an additional wing for the District jail, which carries an authorization of $300,000 to be appropriated, was approved on May 22. This amount was re- the second deflciency bill was passed. Police and Firemen Rewarded. An act providing for the payment to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments of the Dis- trict a balance on pensions due and unpaid from January 1, 1911, to July 30, 1915, amounting to $68,425, was approved on April 13 and the funds were carried in the second deficlency appropriation bill. ‘An act authorizing the Secretary of War to permit delivery of water from the Washington Aqueduct Pump- ing Station at the Dalecarlia Reser-| voir to the Arlington County sav tary district, across Chain Bridze, was approved on April 14. This means a considerable revenue to the District from sale of this water and insures to the residents of Arling- ton County a safe water supply One of the most important bills recommended by the District Com- missioners and which became law on May 28, provides for condemnation of land for the opening, extension, widening and straightening of streets, avenues, roads or highways in ac- cordance with the plan of the per- manent system of highways for the District. This legislation was necessary be- cause under previous law benefits had to equal damages in condemn- ing streets. There were a number of important highways that could not be extended because of that re- quirement. The new act provides that in cases where damages exceed benefits the difference shall be met by appropriation. A measure providing for acquisi- tion of property at Cock Pit Point, Prince Willlam County, Va., a part of which the District has been occu- pying under lease, and on which an expensive municipal garbage dis- posal plant_had been erected, became a law on May 26. An act granting to relief the | Metropolitan Police and officers and members of the Fire Department | furnishing uniforms and other offi 1t became law on May not tp exceed $75 per An 'appropriation of It allow nan annually. ,009-for uniforus and-equipiient of the condemned men, uestion first came 1o a | ! iissioner nd | dis e} the contr lic Welfare Board, the plan | BACHRACH. SENATOR WESLEY L. JONI for the police and $32,000 for fire- 'n was carried in the second defi- clency bl | An act providing for transfer of Jurisdiction Distriet of Columbly v oof War to the W Approved leav 19 lines of the road of the Wir Department | in connection with supervision by the War Department of the conduit nnder the’ rond. The purpose of the iw was (o bring abutting properts | owners within the jurisdiction of the manicipal laws and regulations, especially those covering assessments which niay be levied for public im- provement, the same as other private projper in the District Anacostia Park Transfer. An act to amend the District code by giving married women power “to make contract as surety or grantor or as accommodation. drawer, ex- ceptor, maker of endorser’” was ap- proved May I8 On May 7 authorizing tion of the ver Condult road in the | from the Sec- District Co: May 3 wide ! under This law within th, « a strip 4 law went into force transfer to the jurisdic: District Commissioners of a certain portion of the Anacostia Park for use as u tree nursery act providing for expenses of of recorder of deeds and register of wills was approved April 4. This legisiation is the last step in abolishing the fee svstem for sup- port governmental agency in | the It provides that fees be deposited in the T beginning with the fiseal vear 1928, expenses of the recorder of deeds’ office shall be esti mated as for all other Federal and Districe Government agencles. This measure also authorizes appro priations for a_suitable record huild ing for the office of the recorder of deeds to protect the valuable land ree- ords from fire r The appropria- tion will be asked for in the next D trict budget The half-cent toll for each car rider crossing the Highway and Francis Scott Key Bridges was abol ished under legislation approved June 7. Street Widening Approved. e widening of Harvard from the Zoological Park to Pleasant street is autborized under legislation approved June 7. This gives a straighter and wider entrance | to the Zoological Park at one of the principal entrances The widening of First street north- | east hetween G and Myrtle streets was specifically authorized in legisla tion approved March 11. This had previously been blocked by the fact that sufficient damages could not he assessed against abutting property owners to meet the cost of the project, and the measure was passed author- | izing this work to be done regardless | of the amount of damages that might | be sed as benefits | Two new provisions of far-reaching | effect were enacted into law as part of the Distriet appropriation act. One | required the commissioners to make | @ 123y per cent increase in the price of water to meet the cost of a large program ot extensions of mains. The other prohibits the. Commissioners fien nawifie tes thin W05 e a in excess of assessed value for school building sites. The act further pro- vided that of the $600,000 appropriated for park purchases $450,000 shall be ! spent under the same limitation as to price, leaving $150,000 to be spent without limitation. Park Police Bill. Among the measures on which con- gressional action was completed by cither the House or Senate during the closing hours, and which were signed | by the President ara: A bill putting members of the park | police force on the same status as| the members of the Metropolitan | police force as regards disability al- lowance, and one day leave each| week. This measure authorizes ex- pansion of the park police force when an appropriation becomes available. An act regulating the manufacture, renovation and sale of mattresses and other bedding materials in the Dis. trict, as a protection to public health, n act authorizing the grant of leave to ex-service men and women employed by the municipal govern- | ment of the District of Columbia to attend the American Leglon conven- tion in Paris in 1927. An act prohibiting taken to the shall reet Mount appeals being District Court of Ap- peals from interlocutory orders in criminal cases in the District. The Court_of Appeals decided that it has jurisdiction to entertain such appeals. The judiciary committees declared this practiec contrary to the fundamental principles of the law relating to ap- | peal and contrary 1o the general prac- tice in criminal cases. An act fixing the fees of jurors and witnesses in the United States courts, including the District of Columbia, be: came a law May 1. Bass Transportation Law. Of consideratle local interest was | the enactment on May 20 of a law | regulating the interstate transporta- tion of black bass. On June 7 the act permitting the Washington Market Co. to lay a conduit _ for refrigeration purposes across Twelfth street southwest was | approved. | On April 16 approval was given to an amendment to the zoning act to permit a roof garden to be constructed on the new National Press Building at Fourteenth and I streets. An act regulating the sale of kosher meat in the District of Colum- bia was approved April GERMANS IN PARDON PLEA Bay State Action Sought by Them in Sacco-Vanzetti Case. BERLIN, July 3 (®).—Leading Ger- man Socialists and Democrats, includ- ing Paul Loebe, president of the Reich- stag, have sent an appeal to Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts, asking par- dons for Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted of murder. Maximillian Harden and other well known writers are joining in the appeal. The General Federution of | German “T'rade Unions aiso ha- urged | the American Federation, of Tabor to intercede with Gov. Fuller in behalf ) | tr | with the belligerents. lan intelligent and patriotic man from | | maintain SEMTE NODRSES SHPPING INQURY Orders Government to Sub- mit Plans for Permanent Merchant Marine. The Shipping Board and the Depart- ment of Commerce are called upon to submit plans to the Senate on January 1 for the maintenance of a permanent American overseas merchant marine in & resolution introduced by Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington and adopted yesterday by the Senate. The two Government agencies men- tioned are directed also to conduct & Joint inquiry into the shipping situa- tion before making their report to the Senate. The present merchant marine, Sena- tor Jones declared, is falling into de cay and unless steps are taken to re. place it, the American flag may dis- appear from the overseas trade. “When the World War broke out, said Senator Jones, urging the pas- sage of the resolution, *‘there were only 156 vesels under the American flug of over 1,000 gross tons engaged in the overseas trade.” 7 Injury to Commerce Cited. He pointed out the Injury done to Amcrican _commerce and the hard: | ships which fell on business man mul' farmer alike after the World War be . because the foreign tonnage, coded 1o transport Ameriean prod ucis, was withdrawn to be used for > 8 or was tied up in German por As a neutral power.” mes, “we sald S had the right to They all sought our products. We had few ships of our own. We had to depend largely upon the ships of the warring nations for the carriage of our products and 5o our products had to face the dan xer of these sldps. The inevitable| happened. With an extreme demand | for our products and with shipping | facllitien greatly reduced, rates in-| creased by leaps and bounds, “*Agriculture was the greatest <ufferer. The farmer is most vitally interested in having adequate ship ping for his surplus products. They | are perishable and cannot remain long | in the warehouse or on the dock with- out loss, nor can the farmer pass the increased carrying charge to the buver or consumer, and so high freight charges are reflected gen; erally in the low prices to the pro duce “Business was taxed approximately a billion dollars in increased carrying | charges, solely because we did not have an adequate merchant marine when the World War began. This was a double loss in that it went largely to forelgnes The farmer pufd much of it, because he was less able than any one else to recoup him- self ““The loss by deterioration from eon gestion and delay at our shipping ports can safely be put at not less than $500,000,000 and here again the farmer was the greatest sufferer. | Loss Cannot Be Measured. | 0 one can measure the injury to can be traced directly | sck of ships. but it was doubt- s in excess of $300,000,000. “These ships that cost so much are wasting away. They will soon bel gone. What will we have to show for | them? Nothing! The ships that cost | over $3,000,000.000 are estimated to be worth now only about $200,000,000 judgment, that our lack of ships m’. the beginning of the World War has cost our people more than $7,500,090,- | It is a conservative estimate, in my 000, What more is needed to show | the financial side alone that we can well afford to pay out $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 a r for new ships und! ald in the construction of new ships | and_their operation? he ships that cross the north Atlantic, except two, are from 15 to 20 yvears old. They will soon have to be replaced. The real problem con-{ nting us is that of continuance of | the service and the vital phase that is replacement. Time for Congress to Act. ke time is fast approaching when an people through its! Congress must determine whether it | is going to have a merchant marine { or whether it is going to surrender the field it was forced to enter by war necessities and which, as a great | commercial nation with an ocean on each side of it, I think it should continue to occupy. “To have a permanent American merchant marine we must adopt a | policy that will induce private capital | not only to take over services but to them by replacing the present ships as they wear out with | the most modern and efficient ships afloat, or else the Government must make provision by building ships to | replace the present ships and so se- sure business men that the service will be maintained, or else we must frankly confess our inability to main- tain a merchant marine and surren- der_this to our commercial rivals. “I want to see the merchant ma- rine privately owned and privately operated. T am sure that such a merchant marine will be more cheap- 1y built and more efficiently and eco- nomically operated than a Govern- ment merchant marine and gladly support any measure that will insure such a merchant marine.” SUITS JUMP IN FRANCE. Best Tailored Clothes for Men Go to $70. PARIS, July 3 (#)—Not only does the high cost of living in France in- clude foodstuffs, but men's suits have taken a jump in price in recent months. Before the war the best tailored suit in IFrance cost in the neighbor- hood of $25, but now the same suit will cost from $£50 to $70. Those who claim to have investi gated the clothing business declare that many woolen mills in Krance manufacture for English firms. The cloth is shipped to England and then back to France, the duty and ship- ment cost coming out of the pocket of the man who buys the suit. | Stainless Pots and Pans. MANCHESTER, July 3 (®.—A kitchen boon to housewives is prom- ised in announcement that stainless pots and pans soon will be on the market. News regarding possibilities of stainless iron for numerous articles was given by Dr. J. Barclay, of Man- chester, at a conference of the Insti- tute of Water Engineers here. In his opinion stainless iron will prove to be one of the greatest discoveries since iron itself. vN;w Steel Alloy. SHEFFIELD, England, July —Discovery of a new steel allo; nounced by ir Robert Hadfield, head of Hadtields, Ltd., steel masters, So high a temperature will it with- stand that a gas turbine has been constructed to at the speed of 000 revolutions 2 minute, at a work- ing temperature of 1,650 degrees Michines made of this steel, it is stated, can be worked at a bright red [ a right to do so. JULY 4, 1926—PART 1. IMPORTANT D. C. LEGISLATION Here are the important pieces of legislation of interest to the people of Washington passed at the session just ended: Appropriated total of approximately $35,000,000 for running District government during next 12 months. A $50,000.000 program of Government bulldings to be erected in ‘Washington, toward which more available. . Completed the purchase of the Unifon Station plaza, to be c verted into a park between the Cap An act increasing the annufti and salar Creation of a Board of Public Welfare, co-ordinating all welfare activities of the District governme A law to extend financial aid t for which $75,000 was appropriated park and planning agency to map the future. The bill creating a separate Senate and House in the closing by the President. Provided $600,000 for purchase of land to complete the link between Rock Creek and Potomac Parks. Passed laws authorizing new the District jail and the Police Cour! conditions were found to exist la a __ Enacted new substantive faw Free Public Library systeni. A new traffic law. putting m providing for extensive installation of all drivers’ permits. A liberalized law retivenjent the District Time Before Adjournment Too Short to Make Re-| quired Changes, But aising the employes’ contribution from Reorganization of the National (‘apital Park Commission than $5,000,000 is immediately n. pitol and the depot. es of retired Government employes 21 to 3l per cent of nt in one agency. o mothers with dependent children, d for the first yeur. into a out an orderly plan for the city of Public Utilitles Commission rush, but has not yet been passed signed buildings to relieve congestion at {, where crowded and unsatisfactory survey by The Star. for the proper development of the ore teeth in the present act and of wutomatic lights, and reissuance {1em v | veterans TILSON APPROVES SESSION'S RECORD Declares Farm Problem Was “Tackled With Patriotism,” Despite Failure. By the Associated Press While congratulating Congress on its record of things done since last December. Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican leader. observed in the House vesterday that “a3 we adjourn the problem of agricul ture overproductlon is still unsolved.” ut we can at least congratulaie ourselves.” he suld, “that the prob as tackled with earnestness and patrivtism.” He ineluded in “a brief digest of tha ore Important legislative activities” the $330.000,000 tux reduction law, the £163.000,000 public buildings program. the Watson-Parker act to settle rail road labor disputes, the administra tion proposal to create a division of co-operative marketing in the Agri culture Department, ratification of all debt settements except for enate ac tion on the French agreement and and reclamation legislation Has Favorable Record. “The first seesion of the Sixty-ninth Congrege.” he asserted. “has made a record which compares favorably with anv session In onr national history for the public school teachers of 'PRESIDENT FAILS TO SIGN BILL. FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES B()ARD; Funds Also Lacking to Pay Members, The President failed sign ves terday the bill providing for a new Public Utilities Commission, distinet from the Board of District sioners. The Senate made important amendments to the bill as it passed the House, and the House concurred in the Senate amendments. This action came within an hour of ad- Journment. The faflure of the President to sign this measure and the fact that no appropriation was carrfed for pay- ing the salaries of the two civilian commissioners gave rise considerable speculation. Auditor Donovan ruled that if appointed promptly by the President the two new commissioners could not serve until funds were provided for payving their salaries. Question of Signing Later. When the President did not sign the measure the question was de- bated as to whether he had 10 dayvs in which to sign it. In this connec- tion it was recalled that President Wilson signed the water power bill several days after Congress had ad- journed, on advice of the then At- torney General Palmer that he had This question has ided. 1t was never been fudicially des Commis. | new | | also recalled that once President coln signed a bill after Congress hu | quit, and that when Congress re assembled the judiciary committee formally decided that he had no right 1o do 80, but the law had been put on the statute books and executed. In regard to the new public utill ties commission measure. however, there is no perplexing problem in- volved. The President didn’t «ign the Bl for the very simple reason that | it never reached him Retains Status. lie clerk of the House. although doing his best in the short time al lowed, was not able to get the changes in the bLill properly engrossed on parchment in time before the gavels fell in House and Senate. The bill does not lose its status. but will be sent to the President for his signature as soon as Congress reassembles in December. The failure to complete enactment through formal approval of the bill really works no great hardship, be- cause, as previously stated, funds are not avatlable for paying the salaries of the two new commissioners yvet to | be named by the President, and so | they could not serve any way. JUDGE GIVES SCOTT TIE FOR APPEAL Sentenced to Hang October 15 to Let State Supreme Court Review Case. ciated Press CHICAGO, July Russell onee a Canadian financier who turned robber and killed a Chi drug clerk, today heard the date for his execution fixed for the fourth time. Judge Marcus Kavanagh. whom u jury last week found Scott sane, today denied a motion for a new sanity hearing and sentenced Scott to hang October 15. The date was fixed far enough ahead to permit time for another appeal to the State Supreme Court, which Scott’s attorney contem plates. In sentencing the Kkiller of Joseph Maurer, a clerk, who time after time has escaped the noose through new trial, appeals and gubernatorial re prieves, Judge Kavanagh recommend ed that the case be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Called Unusual Procedure. “This is a new and unusual pro cedure.” Judge Kavanagh said, “and because it is the first of its kind in Mlinois, I think the Supreme Court should be given an opportunity to re- view it in its entirety.” Becau Scott is without funds Judge Kavanagh granted a motion by William Scott Stewart, defense attor- ney, to have the State supply him with the record of the proceedings to be presented to the Supreme Court. Scott, clean shaven and well dressed, displaved the first interest he has shown in the proceedings. 1le listened interestedly and intently to Judge Kavanagh's decision and state ments. He, however, refused to com ment. Wife Plans to Fast. Meanwhile plans were progressing in Detroit for Mrs. Catherine Scott. his wife, to stage a public fast in a glass box to raise funds to aid her husband. Police refused to permit her to stage a similar exhibition in Chicago. Scott was recently returned here from the Chester Asyvlum for the Criminal Insane, where he had becn an inmate since a jury found him in- sane and saved him from the =allows. Three State alienists recently exam- ined him at the request of hospital authorities and found him sane. Last Saturday a second jury of laymen judged him to be sane. Scott's com- mittment to the asylum provided that he should be returned to Cook County and hanged in the event he regained his sanity. 3 Scott a g0 Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 36 weekly: $10.50 roome. 38; ot, shower and lavator 1 80% more. Rooms like Mother MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves “th St. Wharf Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢c Admission, 25¢ Cafe nnd Lunch Counter on Steamer Mt. Vernem not open on Sundays before | KANSAS FIRST OBSERVED 4TH OF JULY IN 1804 Records Show Lewis and Clark Celebrated Day on Creek They g Named Independence. By the Associated Press. ATCHISON, Kan., July 3.—The first celebration of the Fourth of July in what is now the State of Kansas was held near here in 1804 by the Lewis and Clark expedition sent by Presi. dent Jefferson to explore the Lousiana Purchase. Records show that the explorers started by the Missouri River Ma 10, reaching the present site of Ka sas City, Kas. June 26. Three days later they ck off west and on July 4 reached a creek mnear here which they named Fourth of July. The “celebration” of the expedition began at Fourth of July Creek and apparently they still were in a holiday mood when they crossed the next creek for they named it Independence Creek. Lahore, India. is to have an indus- | trial exposition next December and January and special trains will be run from ail parts of the Punjab. I e complimented his Demoeratic colleagues for “iniversal courtesy and [ pireonal frienc adding I e friend. the distinguished I minority leader, Mr. Garrett of Ten neswee, | am indebted for his co-oper atton in all things, save oniy strieth ires.” Garrett, by us’ measures. particu tax law. “sfmply be party favors them 0 for the Democrats e difficult to attack » in opposition.’ Gives Proponents Credit. ng farm relief proposals. the Republican leader said that advo cates of the equalization fee proposal | for disposing of the surpius crop | problem were “entitled to eredit for fan honest and sincere effort to solve ! a great economic problem.” | " Even though Congress failed to ap prove this plan, he added, a “step in the direction of at least partial relief was made” in the co-operative act. The Republicans, he added, have enacted fn the last six years ‘“‘too many laws in the interest of agricul ture to be now charged with an un | friendly attitude toward the indus ey CHICAGO AI.RMML HUB. | Many Lines Run Out of Middle | Western Metropolis. | CHICAGO, July 3.—To its old clatm < the world’s greatest raliroad center. Chicago s adding that of the world's | greatest airmail center. Daily airmail service now goes in all_directions, except southeast. and | this line ix under advertisement await- ing bidders. Twenty-four hour serv ice to San Francisco. and ten or eleven | hour service day and night to New | York, have become familiar. Twelve- | hour " daylight service to Dallas has worked steadily for a month. The three-hour route to Detroft the only one which does not include most {of the principal cities along the line. | All but the East-West routes are | “contract” routes, privately operated. {and each has its own landing station {several miles from the Government airmall field and factory at Maywood Yet for arrival and departure of the mail, all planes leave and arrive with |thetr mail cargoes at Maywood. 8o | that pouches received from one direc. ‘tion can be immediately transferred to fany other direction. | " One acident on the Middlewest se [ tion of the East-West route, one on the Detroit_route, and one on the North west rolte. have heen listed and only | rarely do weather conditions affect the “on time" record of Maywood head quarters party me He said N ing “‘merit larly the new seauke another | had made a recc that was “far than if he had st not appes School children of Northern Ireland number 202,000, according to latest | The SWAN BOAT is operated 1 for the benefit of THE CHILD WELFARE SOCIETY Every ride you take is a con- tribution to a deserving charity. (Tidal Basin at 17th St.) t the quired once a mo save each Y ing has in relation to cha nized the immense v gs accou! ST.-\RT a sa Bank, which pays 5 PLAN 1408 H article for metropolitan pa- pers, says that in the Big Brothers movement relat; to Australia, the young man is re- to his parents and his “Big Brother™ TTHESE level-headed “Big Brother™ Australians recog- 5% annually on savings deposits. THE MORRIS Under Supervision of U. S. Treasury PHILIP 3 GIBB yndicate Sll{ wri a g to emigration of English youths 10 sign a promise to write onth, and also a prom week a part of his wages. value which the habit of sav- racter-building. nt tomorrow in this Savings interest. compounded semi- BANK Street N.W,