Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (TU. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers this afternoon ably tonight; colder tonight; tomor- row fair and much colder. ‘Temperature—Highest, 70, at noon lowest, 57, at 1 a.m. today. toda: report on page 9. * Entered as seco: post office, STATE AND HALL - DEFENSE BATTLE ONFINGERPRINTS Value of Rector’s Card as Evidence Attacked at Murder Trial. FRESH SUPPORT GIVEN STORY OF PIG WOMAN No. 30,142. Witness Says He Saw Animal Tracks at Spot Where Mrs. Gib- son Says She Tied Her Mule. By the Associated Press. COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, J.. November 9. ith only two w nesses testifying. a calling card of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, found near his hody. was the basis for practically the entire discussion of the morning ses- slon of the Hall-Mills case today. Two of the State's expert finger. print witnesses, Joseph A. Faurot of New York and Edward Schwartz of Newark, repeated under cross-exami- nation their testimony given on di- rect examination that a fingerprint on the card is that of Willie Stevens, A defendant in the case with his mister, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, and brother, Henry Stevens The defense, by stressing the his- tory of the card before it was sub- mitted to the fingerprint processes, left an impression that it would claim that the card was not altogether in condjtion to be finger-printed with the Best results. Pig Woman's Stery Backed. Schwartz was permitted to qualify in a_measure as an authority of sorts af hoof prints as well as finger prints. _As a surveyor, he visited the scene of the slaying of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills and was permitted to say, after objection by the defense counsel, that he saw what appeared to be hoof prints near a tree, where Mrs. Jane Gibson. “pigwoman,” has said she tied her mule. The State expects Mrs. Gibson to sestity. when she recovers from an illness now confining her 10 a Jersey City hospital, that she tied her mule tn A tree at this spot. Faurot had not completed his tes- timony at the luncheon recess. The | presecution revealed during the luncheon recess that a lifesize wax figure of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills would be brought into court today or tomorrow to be placed in the position the State contends she oc- cupied when she met death. A por- tion of the slain woman's neck. in a gealed glass case, will also be brought | 40 court, it was said. | These exhibits will he used during the examination of Dr. Otto Schultz. New York physician, who nerf:fimd an autopsy on the hody of Mrs. Mills Rain Reduces Crowd. i Overcast skies, with rain falling part of the time, reduced somewhat the size of the crowds that each ! morning gather outside the court- house doors in the hope of gaining admission. The small courtroom, however, was not big enough to hold | all those who even today sought to get seats Mrs. Hall and her brothers. Willie and Henry Stevens, arrived in court weveral minutes before it resumed. Mrs. Hall wore black. as usual, the| Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 ‘Washington, and prob- nd class matter D. C SCHOOL IS BLOWN DOWN; The, public schoolhouse at La Plata, Md., was blown down by a windstorm this afternoon. Many children are reported ‘Efforts to obtain confirmation of the extent of the disaster The telephone operator declared that children” were injured, but that she understood none. was killed. were unavailing. From the hotel at La Plata, as 20 children were killed and that they were “bringing the in- jured in here now.” Fort Washington was sendi the National Red Cross was mobilizing a first-aid truck to di patch immediately. The WASHINGTON to have been buried in the ruins. many Md., it was stated that as many ng assistance this afternoon and MUSSOLINI MAKES APOLOGY TO PARIS Hands Wrilten Regrets for Attack on French by Fascists at Border. Br the Associated Prese PARIS. November 9. Formal writ ten expressions of regret for the anti French incidents at Ventimiglia and Benghazi were handed to the French Ambassador in Rome today by Pre- mier Mussolini in the form of an “aide memoire." The French foreign office announces that, in view of this action and the satisfactory nature of Foreign Min- ister Briand's talk with the Italian Ambassador in Paris vesterday, the government considers the incidents “closed."” This visibly eases the situation be- tween Paris and Rome, as the Ric- ciott] Garibaldi affair, involving anti- Fascist activities on the R ra and the participation of Italians in the recent unsuccessful Catalan plot on French soll, are considered purely police matters. Action Largely Voluntary. Mussolini's action In giving a writ- | ten declaration to Ambassador Bes- nard was largely spontaneous, the French government having refrained from making any pressing demands in connection with the anti-Freych incidents. 7 M. Besnard called on the Ttalian undersecretary of foreign affairs ves- terday in reference to reorganization of police arrangements at Ventimiglia, which is a railway station town on the Italo-French horder. The incidents at that place and at Renghazi, in Tripoli. ciosely foliowed upon the attempted assassination of Mussolini a week ago Sunday at Bologna. At Ventimiglia French railway em ploves were beaten by Fascists, who resented the Frenchmen's failure to uncover during the playing of the Fascist hymn. Later a Fascist crowd staged a demonstration in front of. the French consulate and one man mount- ed the balcony of the consulate and from it delivered an anti-French speech. Orders Offender Tried. MARIE DEMANDS BICKERINGS STOP |Loie Fuller, Secretary and Press Agent to Leave Train in Few Days. Br the Assoctated Press. QUEEN MARIE'S TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO DENVER. November 9.— Renewed efforts toward peace and harmony, at the demand of Queen Marie herself. were made aboard her train today as it traveled across Wy- oming toward Denver. Although she has declined, stead- fastly to take any public part in con. troversies and bickerings between fac- tions aboard her train, it was under- stood today that it Is with her consent that remaining members of the party of Samuel Hill, millionaire, who was host to Marie on her Far Western trip, | are to quit the train during the next | few days. They are Miss Loie Fuller, war-time friend of Marie: her press agent, Miss May Birkhead, and her| secretary, Miss Gabrielle Bloch. Miss | Birkhead, who became il vesterday after a series of conferences with Col. |John H. Carroll concerning her ac- | tivities“on the train, probably will be iplaced in a Denver hospital. Mise Fuller and her secretary are ex- |pected by Rumanian members of the party to leave at Chicago, although Col. Carroll, in announcing that Miss Fuller was now his guest instead of | the guest of Queen Marle, said she could stay on the train as long as she desired. n agreeing to the departure of Miss | | Fuller and- her assistants. Queen | Marle is said to have believed that; | troubles aboard her train began when | the Hill party joined the entourage at | Spokane. She was described as reluc- | tant to take even an unofficial part | in the disturbances, but felt that for| her own peace of mind and harmony | aboard the train she should take a'! and. | Whether J. B. Ayres, Ford Motor | Co., representative, who was ordered ' from the train in Seattle, when Col.| Carroll objected to newspaper stories quoting him, would be allowed 1o re- | turn to the train at Denver. was a! matter of speculation today. although | Col. Carroll indicated that Ayre: would not return. He had no objection, ! {he said, to Ayres' continued handling| of the motor transportation at cities | | where stops are made. ) ! ment i which RIINY WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, TUESDAY, PRESIDENT WANTS PARTY LINES LEFT OUT OF TAX PLAN Hopes to Get a Non-Partisan Consideration of His Re- duction Program. HASN'T ANY INTENTION OF ABANDONING SCHEME Expects to Confer With Members of House Before Reaching Definite Conclusion. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge hopes for non- partisan consideration of this tax reduction program. He would con sider it most unfortunate if Congress at its coming session became involved in any real dispute over his plan looking to the return to the taxpayers of the country the surplus that has accummulated fn the Treasurv dur- ing the past year. The Preeident, while he realizes that there will be some opposition to his proposal. not only on the part of Democrats but from some of his own party, made it very plain while dis- cussing the proposition at the White House today that he has no inten- tion of abandoning it. He agrees that his idea, as it now stands, {s neces- sarily indefinite and that it is quite natural for members of the House and Senate who have not given it any great amount of study to be under some misapprehension, but he feels satisfled that when the idea has been put in conerete form it will he looked upon generally as sound and logical. Seeks Figures From Treasury. The President admits that his plan has not taken any final form and will not until has prepared figures to calculate results. Inasmuch as the President con- siders questions of raising revenue such as the levying of taxes peculiar- 1y a function of the House of Repre- sentatives, he wants to confer with members of that body. more especially the members of the ways and mea committee which handles tax legisla- tion, hefore reaching any definite con- upon | clusion regarding the working out of his plan. Moreover. he is extremely anxfous o see party lines withdraw, such as was the case last sewsion when the present tax law was passed The President indicated that after all arguments againat his plan hav been offered, it may not seem feasihle. There {s no doubt in his mind now. however, ahout its feasibility. He is satisfled that the plan is simple in its nature, It would require only a short bill or resolution, and he sees of time to pass Congress. Would Avoid Long Fight. If for no other reason than speed. there should be no long-drawn-out battle over his proposition. He point- ed out that the coming session is a short one, and if son to feel that ft will fail to zet through Congress before it adjourn: Mussolini told Ambassador Besnard | Queen Marle arranged today to take | This possibility should be avoide that he had ordered the authorities | Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming | the President contends. at Ventimiglia to set judiciary ma- chinery in motion and speed up the only lighter touch to her clothing be- ing a small white collar. Although Willie and Henry Stevens are in fail| pending the trial, they apparently | are paving strict attention to their | laundry, appearing each morning | wearing newly starched collars and | lnoking as though they had come di- | veetly from their homes 1 Defense Counsel McCarter. continu- | ing his cross-examination of Schwartz, | in a few questions drew from the wit- ness the statement that detectives in seeking ta apprehend criminals by | fingerprinis, alwavs tried to get tn the scenes of crimes as soon as possi- | :fle to get fingerprints while they were | rech i Testerdav the defense attorney had brought out. through Schwartz and | another fingerprint expert, that the | alleged prints of Willle Stevens’ finger | on a calling card found at the scene of the slaving had been kept several months in A desk. later taken to a| newspaper office in New York City, | and finally turned over ta the investi. | gators whose work resulted In the | present trial. Methnds Are Described. “When you get fingerprints, do vou hurry them to the office and place | them under glass” asked McCarter No," faid Schwartz. “A man usu. ally goes to the scene of the crime and makes a copy of the fingerprits there.” ‘Because that impression may he ! »radicated by time and weather>" Yes.” answered the witness | To bring out whether the heavy | Zrasping of an object makes a strong- | ar fingerprint that the light grasping | nf a calling card. McCarter dropped | ® card on the floor hefore the jury several times and picked it up repeat- edly, apparently to let the jury itself decide whether the expert's statement | was Iogical The sharp tongue of Prosecutor Simpson cut a new description of Me- | Carter today. The latter had chuckled | when he thought Simpson falled to ! establich a point he was endeavoring tn prese on redirect examination of | Schwartz. | ‘] suppose 1 rouldn’t try this case | without_ those chuckles.” ‘said Simp- | son. Sergt. Buzfuz seems to be at his best today 1 Omit the personalities.” ordered | Judge Parker. A On redirect examination of Schwartz, Simpson laid the foundation for an other support of the testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson. the alleged eve- ! witness of the killinge. Robert Ehrling vesterday testified. | in his mumbling way. that_he ha =ean Mrs. Gibson in dark De Russey's lane near the crabapple tree where the bodies were found. Animal's Imprint Revealed. Today, over the objection of the Aefense. Simpson hrought from Schwartz the statement that when the latter entered the case as a civil en- gineer 44 davs after the killings he . had found the imprint of an animal’s hoofs near the spot where Mrs. Gibson asserted she had tied her mule. Defense argued that this testimony | could not he presented unless preceded | by proof that the condition of the | 2round had not heen changed in the intervening 44 days. Tt is the defenss (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) | Interview trial of 2 man named Vauvin and | others who might be responsible for | QLD §PEL|: DUE | the attack on the consulate. Regarding the incident at Benghazi Tripoli, Mussolini told M. Besnard he | had admonithed the colonel of Cara bineri, who, according to report, forced the French consul to hoist an Italian flag alongside the French col- ors on the consulate. The premler added that orders had heen {issued to repetition of the two affairs. 130 BCDIES RECOVERED. MANILA. November 9 (#).—One hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered in the towns of Batangas and Bauan and 70 persons are still missing following Saturday’'s typhoon. Some dealers estimate that 5 per cent of the world's output of coco- nut has been destroved. rigoro! preven |FIVE DIE IN TRAIN WRECK. HOUSTON, Tex., November 3 (#).— Five persons were killed and nine in- jured this morning when a Southern Pacific passenger train struck a truck at a crossing near here. The truck was Joaded with laborers ng en route to an oil refinery. The train operates between Houston and the Gelena refineries. aboard her train at Casper. WITHIN 24 HOURS| | Clear Weather, Starting Tomorrow, | Expected to Continue | ¥ All Week. ] i Keep your overcoats and fur wraps | close at hand—much colder weather is due here within 24 hours, Fore- caster Mitchell warned today, after| a scrutiny of barometric reports from ; the Middle West. The unduly warm weather that de- scended upon Washington last night, accompanied by high humidity, will begin to give way to cold by late tonight. Tomorrow will be cooler and | clearing. with near treezing expected by tomorrow, night, the weather man ys. S howers are expected this after-| noon. but indications are that the re. mainder of the week will be clear and spiey. The steadily climbing mercury | this morning had reached 62 degrees shortly before 12 oclock. but Mr. Mitchell said a_decided reaction was to he expected by night. |Radio E;ggrams—!;age 42, { FIVE-DAY WEEK COLD BUSINESS. NOT PHILANTHROPY, SAYS FORD Policy Permanent Var.nd Wilere Adhered to No Matter Ordcrs Gl’OW. He Says. the Arat a! three ariicles ireek ax inaugurated by Henry Ford . Orher aspects of the mer ity uill be discussed tomorrov n & Continuation o “the “interview granted v "Binder by Mr. Ford and his erecu- tves BY CARROLL BINDER. Spacial Dispatch to The Star DEARBORN. Mich., November 9.— The five-day week is a cold business proposition with not the slightest pre- tense of philanthropy. Henry Ford told told me in the course of a two-hour in his pleasant office and Iaboratory here. The innovation which has ereated world-wide interest is dic tated by sound husiness experience and was arrived at after vears of de- liberation. the motor magnate de- clares, Already it has proved its wis- dom. he added. Mr. Ford expressed annoyance with those who attribute his new policy to an alleged decline in the popularity of Ford cars. “This {s a permanent policy which we chall adhere to no matter how many monthe ahead our orders are booked,” he said. “Incidentally, you i Nate—The on’rthe Areas - | Dearborn Country Cluh that HOW Advancc = | might tell those critice that we are | making more cars today than we ever | made.” N | 1f Mr. Ford has been losing sleep | over business conditions, as is af | Armed by his rivals whose sales have teen mounting steadily, he does not show it. He is bronzed from his re- | cent trip through the Southern moun- {tains and he radiates cheerfulness. | He chatted as if he had not a care in the world save the dance at the night |and the morrow’s quest for antiques | over the Michign countryside. There is an unlimited market for motor cars | here and abroad and the Ford com- | pany expects to get an even larger | | share of the business, the motor mag- nate assured me. | It is absurd to attribute our five- | day-week policy to poor business,” Mr. Ford said. “We are making more cars than we ever made and when we are completely on a five-day basis we | expect to double our output. We will get more business as a result of the |shorter_work week just as we got | “(Continued on Page 5, Column 2. ] He 1ike to gee the leaders of both parties jin the House and Senate get togeth- er on this subject. and follow the course adopted when the last tax bill was up, and when party strife gave way to co-operation and har- mony. He recalled that the Democrat members of the ways and means com- mittee and of the finance committee of the Senate were called in by the Republican members of those commit- | tees to assist in framing the tax bill then being considered and to aid in its passage. The President recalled aleo that so well pleased was he with this epirit of co-operation that he several times publicly commended it and praised it in his President Coolidge said. his spokesman, that the plan would give general relief to the whole ecountry. He cited the present bill. which brought about a reduction in the tax on capital stock, and then, to offset this loss of revenme, in- creased the tax on corporation in- comes. He pointed out that 20,000,000 se- curities holders in “the country are affected by this increase of the cor- poration income tax and through the medium of his plan they would be afforded some form of relief. There is no question in the President's mind but that Congress, if it had known what the result would have been at the time, would not have increased the corporation income tax. WARNER LANDS SAFELY IN FLIGHT TO NORFOLK Assistant Secretary in Charge of Navy Aviation Makes Test Trip in Plane. By the Associated Press Assistant Secretary Warner, in charge of the Navy Department's aviation activities, flew from Washing- ton to Norfolk today on a test flight, | landing safely there early this after. noon. Some fear was expressed for hi safety for a time because of his fall ure to land at the expected hour. 12 PEI-SONERS ESCAPE. One Under Life Sentence Among Group—Bars Pulled Out. CATLETTSBURG. Ky., November 9 (P).—Twelve prisoners, one under lite sentence for murder, escaped from the Boyd County jail here early today by using a chaln to pull bars of a window on the second floor. Al atill are at large. French to Study Budget. PARIS. November 9 (#).—Imme- diate discussion of the budget and postponement of all interpellations will be made a question of confidence when Parhament reconvenes on Fri- day. This decision was taken today at |a ministerial council, held under the | Mu; chairmanship President Dou mergue. of NOVEMBER 9, B & 1926—FIFTY PAGES. s Star. The every city bl () Means Associated Pre: RACKING | O WATCHY NEMALLY N AN 3, V. the Treasury Depart-| :1in gold will no | reason why it should take any length | the tax question | hecomes involved there is every rea- | would ' last annual message. | through | tax | | ! Great Flow of Capitql Shows i U.S. Replacing Britain as | Money-Lending Center. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK. November 0.-—The |great strides, which Wall Street, financial seat of the United States. has made in supplanting London as i the world's money lender, were meas- i ured today in an estimate by bankers | here that well over one billion dollars he lent to forelgn bor by the American a | rowers in 1926 people, | This golden stream. which once ceepnd principally from sources along the Atlantic seaboard. now flows in | the reservolr of ilarge volume from Midwest and savings in the great Pacific Coast. Out of this vast sum Europe will fashion a financial cruteh to support | the final work of restoration from the World War., American loans to the world are now said to exceed $10.000. 000,000 and it is this pecuniary inter- est that is fast giving the people of the United States what bankers call the International mind. Nearly $4. 000,000,000 has been lent in alien lands the last three years. France Likely to Borrow. France 1s expected to come into the American money market early next vear for large sums to aid in pegging the frac at some undetermined stab- flization point and to replenish work ing capital for her industries. and bankers are trying to forecast the amount of France's new borrowinge The total may reach several hundred million dollars of which probably a third will he for governmental pur- poses and the rest for corporations ance will not he permitted to borrow hers until the debt agreement {has been ratified by the French | Chamber of Deputies, but the echoes | of that last roll call will hardly have | died away when Wall Street believes ! there will be offerings of {loans her: “The Morgan syndicate that floated ! the recent Belgian stabilization loan [ nf $30.000.000 will, it is anticipated. | handle the major financing of the | French Republic. The groundwork | for these loans has already been sur | veyed. The recent sharp rise in French government dollar bonds is said to be something of a window dressing operation for the floating of future loans. s anks, insuranc vh?ime:nng class are the purchasers of these foreign securities, the in terest of which Is vearly returning here in rising volume. Dealings in these securities on the New York Stock Exchange have reached a daily total of $7,000,000. | wal Street banks and allled insti- tutions in all parts of the United States have made millions in the mar- keting of foreign bonds. The margin | in this profitable business, however, is | Aiminishing. Borrowing nations of | Europe have had to pay a stiff toll for | money accommodation, for the Ameri | can public had to be educated to pur chase this class of securitfes. The bankers and distributors of . the | recent $50,000,000 Belgian loan are | reported to have made approximately | $2.500.000 less the costs of overhead and distribution. | | Division of Profits. These banking profits are divided ! among the original terms group. made {up of one or more leading banking firme. which negotiate directly with the borrowing government: the bank- ing group. which takes the bonds at a small advance from the terms | group and the selling syndicate com- | posed of leading banks and other dis- | fributors which acquire the bonds | from the banking group. " The terms group pays the foreigm | government for example. 83 for 7 per | hent bonds: the banking group obtains |them for 90 and the selling syndicate | secures them for 31'3. The investors {then pay 8. As members of the companies and | terms group are also members of the | ! other groups their profits are large. | Belgium is understood to have re | ceived about 83 for her $50.000,000 i 1oan, for which the public paid 94. | e Italy Protests Raditch Speech. BELGRADE, Jugoslayi{, Novem- ber 9 (#). | made vigorous prow3t to the foreign | office for a pubfic speech in [which | Stafan Radjse is alleged to have called Premier godlini “an irresponsible fool” and have declared that the “Ttalian pee- ~+< ple are gagged and enslaved,” 1976 LOANS ABROAD 10 EXCEED BILLION French | , minister of education, | | | | | The Italian finister today |80ing on for many years. Up to the {Declares Service at Cost | denounced | tion as a last resort to bring about a | pal Youth’s ‘Amen’ Too Loud in Church, He| Is Jailed and Fined By the Associated Prese FERGUS FALLS. Minn., Novem- ber 9.—For saying “Amen” too loudly in church Arthur Isaacson of Deer Creek was arrested and fined $20 in Municipal Court here. Isaacson attended Union Church in Oak Valley with several other vouths. During the sermon they hecame enthusiastic. interrupting the parson with loud and frequent “Amens."” Tsaacson pleaded guilty turbing the peace. It w: out in court that fervenc ume, ceonstituted a proper RUDOLPH OPPOSES FARE CHANGE PLAN to dis- pointed ot vol- amen.” Would Result in 12-Cent Rides for Canital. o Serviceat-cost plan, whereby rates of fare would be regulated au- tomatically. which the traction com- panies of Washington have insisted should be one of the cardinal prin- ciples of a merger agreement, was today by Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, president of the Board of District Commissioners. The Commissioner also announced that he would oppose any movement designed In the interest of public ownership of the transportation systems. + A serviceat.cost plan, Mr. Rudolph pointed out, would undoubtedly re- sult in a 12-cent street car fare just | as soon as a unified operation of the traction companies is effected. “T am satisfied that the public will not favor any increase in fare, and a merger of the railway companies on the basis of a service-at-cost prop- osition most certainly would bring a 12-cent fare,” he added. Bell Opposes Plan. Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, chair- man of the Public Utilitles Commis- sion, already has indicated his oppo- sition to a service at cost plan if it is based, as the traction companies de- sire, on a fixed valuation of the merged company. And while not an advocate of public ownership of the | transportation system®, Commissioner Bell intimated that it might become necessary to suggest such a proposi- consolidated operation. The Utilities Commission. Chairman Bell explained. will not take the ini- tlative in urging public ownership and operation of the transportation lines. | | Consideration will be given this ques- tion, however, he said. and there is a possibility that it might form the foundation of an alternative bill to be sent to Congress along with the legis- lation the commission is preparing to force the traction companies to unite voluntarily. Expects Study By Congress. “Regardless of what position the commission taki ownership.” said Commissioner Bell, "I feel certain that this subject will be discussed by Congress during consideration of the proposed merger | legislation. [ am not a Government ownership advocate to any extent, but I feel sure that if no results come from the present move to compel the companies to enter into a merger agreement, that the question of muni- cipal ownership and operation of our transportation systems will come to | the forefront.” Just as long as Commissioner Ru dolph remains on the utilities comm sion. however. he said he would res most vigorously any attempt -to in- ject municipal ownership into the merger controvers; TREASURY LOOTED. gentina Probe. BUENOS AIRES, November 9 (). —A large shortage in the treasury hag been discovered. The police asser< that peculations have been present the amount stolen kLas not been- definitely established. Bartolome Varavi. treasurer, and other high officials of that department have been arrested. One man alleged s in regard to munici- | | | | |and | new model Municipal | such sites now, PROBERS PROMISE TOHEARD.C.HEADS House Subcommitteemen’s ! Pledge Concerns Reply to McCarl’s Charges. Chtirman G:gsnn and Representa- tive Houston of the special subcom- mittee of the House District commit- | tee investizating the municipal admun- | istration with a view to a program of | remedial legislation, were in confer-| ence this afternoon with Engineer | Commissioner Bell regarding a reply | from District officials to the charges in Controller General McCarl's report on the Western High School and the purchase of a site for a school build-| ing to replace the Adams and Force Schools and_criticism of diversion of funds for the Bell School to travel accounts. . The twe committee’ members as- sured the Engineer Commissioner that whatever reply the Commissioners de- sire to make will be included in the stenographic report of the hearings. The public hearing this afternoon was devoted to cleaning up the recom- mendations made in writing by the| various citizens' associations. all of which Chairman Gibson explained are “being thrown into a hopper to be! studled later by the committee in de- | termining its program for public hear- | ings which will consider each subject | separately and systematically.” { Colored Spokesmen Heard. Spokesmen for eight colored assocta- tions were heard this afternoon. The | spokesmen were selected on recom.| | mendation of Huver I. Brown, secre- tary of the Federation of Civic As-| sociations and the Association for the | Advancement of the Colored People. Mr. Gibson announced that repre- sentatives of all outstanding colored organizations would be heard. A petition in behalf of the colored people as presented by Mr. Brown ask- ed that claims to representations 1n! the District government bhe adjudged | the higher standards of civic| and expressed the following | -iews on suffrage, taxes and public improvements i “The ballot should be based on moral | intellectual capacity to repre- sent thought, conscience and responsi- | hility. Colored citizens of the District | constitute a group whose attainments | and material development exceed ! those of any element of similar racial | identity and numerical proportions to ! be found elsewhere in the country, in | educational qualifications maintaining | an average much higher than that of many States where the right of self- government is unrestricted. Plea for Suffrage. | “Therefore, the Federation of Civic ! Associations, sensible of the responsi- | bilities and obligations involved in the | exercise of self-government, declares its conviction and assurance that, wherever and to whatever extent the Congress may deem it advisable to confer the privilege of suffrage on | citizens of the United States resident | in Washington, no individual or group of individuals will demonstrate a high- | er appreciation of the honor conferred | or a fuller preparation for the per- formance of duties imposed than will | the colored element of the electorate.” Special recommendation that the Market be lo- cated in the midcity section, adjacent | to the existing Convention Hall Mar- ket, at Fifth and L streets, was made | By the Central Citizens' Assoclation, | John G. McMahon, secretary. Other | community items also were advocated. The Georgetown Citizens' Associa- tion. through Philip Walker. secre.| tary, laid particular stress on the need | for an equitable and just determina- | tion of the fiscal relations between | the Federal and District Governments | based on careful study of all the ob- ligations involved. He accused Con-| gress of having “violated” the half-| and-half principle laid down in 1578, and said that the present lump-sum | appropriation is ‘“neither fair, just nor equitable.” Against Elected School Board. ! The Georgetown citizens are unal-| terably opposed to the election of a school board based on a popular vote, L S R | saving that the conduct of scheol af-| High Officials Under Arrest in Ar- faire should never become a matter | of_party politics. The Monday Evening Club, through Louisa S. Roberts, corresponding sec- | retary, stressed the need for a health program for 66,000 school children. Charles F. Consaul, until _thi month president of the Mount Plea yant Citizens’' Association, discussed a | limited bond issue. emphasizing that the rapid increase in the value of lands desirable for park purposes make necessary the acquisition of pecially as they will otherwise soon be taken for private building _enterprise. _He cited t Star's | be matntatned, notwithstanding | changes that have taken place in the | James' | development “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 102,892 TWO CENTS. ARTS BODY URGES CAPITAL TO CLING TOLENFANT PLAN Great Damage Already Done to Beauty of City, Com- mission Declares. AID OF NEARBY STATES IN DEVELOPMENT ASKED More Parks, Better Subdivisions and Adequate Roadways Are Stressed in Report. Restating its belief that the L'Enfant plan is and must continue to be the fundamental plan for the District of Columbia and that the McMillan plan of 1901 is a restatement of the au- thority of the L'Enfant plan, together with such extensions of that plan as to make it app'y to and changed condi tions, ational Commission of Fine Arts declared in its annual re- port today that their integrity should the National Capital, and that changes should be made only by as competent authority as designed it. The commission said its members have never held that the plan of 1901 might not, in its turn. require changes and extensions to meet modern con- ditlons. The report goes at great detail into the many factors that have arisen in connection with carrying out the L'Enfant and 1901 plans; takes up specifically the promulgation and ul- timate conception of the public build- ings plan; deals with buildings for the District of Columbia, including schools, police stations, hospitals and other structures, and outlines a metropolitan area around Washington in a circle whose diameter is about 40 miles in width, extending west to Fairfax Court House in Virginia and north to Rockville in Maryland. Past Mistakes Cited. Parenthetically, the commission declares that Washington, potentially | with all the wealth of the Nation at its command and endowed at birth { with a “great and fine plan that com- prises the best ideas and ideals of the world's greatest minds in city planning.” has suffered for the want of steady. persistent and well directed efforts for betterment on the part of her constitutioral rulers. ‘The report deals specifically with the Rock Creek and Potomac Park way plan, the scheme for extension of Sixteenth street to a ‘“northern por- tal” or north gateway to the city, the proposed Fort drive and the rela. tions of the Maryland and Virginia authorities with District authorities and the National Capital Park Com- mission. The report restates the con- | ception of the plan of 1901 ra:ufilnf h the location of public buildings wit! relation to the public buildings pro- gram authorized by Congress at the past session. It goes in detail into the location of the proposed new bulild- ings. insisting that the Capitol area be devoted to the legislative bodies and the Supreme Court of the United States. The report is signed by Charles Moore, chairman of the commission: L. Greenleaf, vice chairman and landscape architect; H. Siddol Mowbray, painter: Milton B. Medary, jr., architect; Lorado Taft, sculptor, and Abram Garfleld, architect. Others who served on the commission during the period covered by the report were John Russell Pope, James E. Fraser, Louis Oyres, Henry Bacon and Wil- liam Adams Delano. Projects Still Demanded. “The principles laid down in the plan of 1901, and the ends sought to be accomplished are as vital today as they were a quarter of a century ago. Many of the larger projects are in- sistent today, as they were then—the boulevard to Mount Vernon and the of the park features along the upper Potomac, to mention two of several,” the report says Reviewing the development of the original plan of Washington up to 1893, the commission say the city had utgrown its original boundaries. ‘Speculators laid out new subdivisions with no reference to the plan of the city itself—misfit subdivisions they came to be called. Thus Vermont and New Hampshire avenues come to an abrupt end at the old boundaries of the city; Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois and other avenues exist only in pieces, being without beginning or end. By an unskilful operation the (wo parts of Connecticut avenue have been pieced together: but the entire region betwen Rock Creek Park and the Anacostia Park is without ade- quate connections and sooner or later east and west thoroughfares will be created at a maximum of expense.” In 1833 Congress authorized the District Commissioners to lay out a permanent system of highways in that part of the District lying outside of cities. “In two vital particulars the act was faulty,” the commission say. “First, it made no provision whatever for park spaces, such as give at- tractiveness to the old city. Anm occa- sional circle might be provided, but no parks or squares. Secondly, al- most no attention—certainly no ade- quate attention—was given to the topography. As a result, the natural beauties of the landscape have been sacrificed to an extent that has now become a recognized disgrace. Efforts to overcome these fundamental errors now must largely be abortive. The only remedy lies, first, in the direct purchase of lands for small parks, and, secondly, in such a revision of those portions of the highway plan as are still susceptible of such treatment: that is, replanning the few remaining areas mnot already subdivided.” Valley Roads Sacrificed. During the time immediately prior to 1593 and since, many of the old and beautiful valley roads leading into Rock Creek Park have been sac- rificed. and the Washington plan has been lost sight of in the rush of build- ing operatious, the commission says, listing at the top of the projects to bs consummated immediately the con- struction of a parkway to form a diag- onal drive along Piney Branch from Rock Creek Park to the Soldlers' Home. “From Tiger Bridge to the beginning of Arkansas avenue at Fourteenth street, the most wanton and least excusable dumping and fill- | ing ever executed in the District of Columbia have been perpetrated,” the . report says. __Taking up the parks and park- 10 have heen implicated has committed sulcids by shooiing. - (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) q © (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)