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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Burean Forerast.) Fair and much colder to; est temperature about 40 morrow increasing cloudiness: colder. Temperature—Highest, p.m. vesterday: lowest, toda No. 30,149. Entereqas sece HALL JURY TOLD OF EFFORT T0 BUY WOMAN'S SILENGE Detective Once Employed by Widow Offered Her $2,500, Says Mrs. Demarest. MRS MILLS’ YOUNGER SISTER DESCRIBES KISSES Saw Slain Choir Singer Sitting on Knee of Rector, She Testifies. Br the Aseociated Pre: SOMERVILLE. November 16, Two witnesses were put forward by the State in the Hall-Mills case this afternoon to prove that Felix Di Martini once employed by Mrs. Hal p- i press evidence in ‘he case. Mrs. Mary Demarest of New Bruns. wick, who earlier in the trial had testified that she saw Henry Stevens in New Brunswick on the morning after the slaying. recalled. said that four vears ago Di had| offered her “$2,500 or a little more,” if she would keep her mouth shut. The witness said she ordered the de. tective cut of the house after she had _told him that she wanted “‘none of Dr. | Hall's blood money.” Learns His Name Later. mination Mrs. Demarest | attempt to detective tried to she ni s-e3 she did not know Di Mar tini's name until he had made his of-} fer and been ordered from the house. | when he told her who He was. Peter Sommer. who testified that he was employved by Di Martini. said | that he was instructed to visit cizar stores and pool rooms in New Bruns- wick for the purpose of getting infor mation, including names and ad- dresses, if possible. of person we i ffensive’ thi A This testimony was admitted over objection of the defense. Continuing, the witn was told to get a posi car company where “Freddie” Rein hardt and ‘a man named Gibson' | were emploved. It was brought out that Reinhardt was a brother ol Mrs Mills and “Gibson and FEaston” the husband of Mrs. Jane Gibson. Soni- mer said that he was to get any in- formation he could from “Gibson™ to break down the story of A‘X%r | who | | <ald that he on at a_motor | Gibson of having been an ey of the killinz. Sister Tells of Kisses. That she saw M 1 kies Rev. Edward V s, | hut was assured by Mrs. Mills that re-; lations hetween them were “quite proper.” was the testimony of Mrs. Marie M. Lee of Paterson. N. J.. the slain choir singer's younger sister. Mrs. Mills' insistence that there was “nothing wrong” was repeated in 1921 Afrs. Le- said, but added that in April of the following vear her sister told her. in the presence of James Mills, her husband. that she was going away Mr. Hall The incident of the kiss was de.| eribed by Mrs. Lee as taking place while she was making her home with | her sister in New Brunswick. Enter-} ing the house quietly. she saw the| couple kiss as Mrs. Mills sat on the | minister's knee, she said Mrs. Lee also declared that James Mills was assured by his wife that | che would not do anvthing to disgrace his name, but that when she was; ready to go away with the minister she would tell him Mills Just Smiles. Jim Mills sat forward in his chair} Auring the earlv part of his sister-in law’'s testimony and smiled as she i 51, Full report on page 9. *Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 night. Low. degrees. To- at 2:30 at noon D. Entered as second class matter C. shington, {New Plot Against Mussolini Rumored On Italian Border | BY the Assaciated Prew. | TOULON, France, November 16. —Persistent reports are current that another plat against Premier Mussolini of Italy has been dis- covered. It has been learned that the { Dpolice all along the coast have re { celved orders to be on the sharpest possible watch as a number of Spaniards and Italians belonging to anarchist organizations in New York. Geneva. Paris and other cen- ters are Dbelieved to be trying to pass the frontier and execute some plan in Italy FLOOD MARYLAND Bridges Down, Tracks Wash- ed Out, Traffic Halted. Farmers Hardest Hit. Sperial Dispateh to The Star HAGERSTOWN. Md.. November 16.—Torrential rains have caused tributaries of the Potomac to overflow and the Cumberland Valley is flooded today. Bridges have been carried away, tracks washed out, highways made impassable, crippled. The damage is expected to exceed $500,000. The flood area cen- ters in the valley south of here. Rain began falling at about § o'clock last night, and at 2 o'clock this morning there was a thunder storm, accompanied by a cloudburst. The rain did not stop until early this | afternoon. Train service on the Baltimore and Ohio between Washington and Hag- erstown was halted early today, when several hundred feet of track were washed away between Eakles Mill and Weverton. A special relief train with a crew of trackmen was dispatched the damage and to prevent any fur- ther loss. Reports early this afternoon about | were that there would probably be no | further damage and the workers were hopeful ot clearing the line by to- night. The Baltimore and Ohio’s main line runs ont of Washington to Wey- erton, and there meets a branch line, which goes to Hagerstown. Highways Under Water. Highways in this vicinity were under five feet of water this morning and were virtualy impassable. Traffic was practically resumed this after- noon. Several thousand telephones throughout the valley were out of commission and the only communica tion betwecn here and Weverton this morning was 4 single telegraph wire. Most of the damage is to crops. Re- cently planted wheat and corn not yet harvested have been ruined. J. A. Miler, Government weather ex- T and wire service | from Brunswick in an effort to repair | ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star . WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926—FIFTY PAGES. INCREASEINTAYES ISTHREATTOFORCE TRACTIN MERGER Utilities Body Bill Calls for 2 Per Cent Rate Boost as Penalty for Inaction. | | | REWARDS ARE.PROPOSED FGR VOLUNTARY ACTION Limited Bus Competition, Repeal of Crossing Police and Cut in Pav- ing Levies Are Offered. The principal weapon to be used by the Public Utilities Commission to force the Washington traction com panies to enter into a voluntary merger will be a recommendation that the grossrevenue tax on the car riers be increased frcm 4 to 6 per cent, | it was learned today when the com- | mission completed a tentative skeleton- ized draft of the merger bill which Congrees will be ashed to enact at its forthcoming session. The proposed 2 per cent tax in- crease, accountants of the Utilities i | | I FVERY MAN AND WOMOY IN e DisTReT oF Coumpd | SHULD JOIN TODAY R HE LOCAL SNILITIZENS ASSOGATIONS AND - THI AN Iy A VOICEER%YSEM Y CONDUCT OF THE Districr Goveemery Com o'ee BES N DN THE .\\.\\ A \ \ \\\ Commission have figured. will draw | approximately $400,000 additional each i year from the profits of the Capital | Traction and Washington Raflway and | Electric companies. BUTLER TO RETAIN PO OFCHARNAN Defeated Senator Will Be Actively in Charge of Re- publican Campaign. | | This feature has ! been embodied in the bill as the out | standing punitive measure which the | commission believes will have a de- | cided effect in hastening the com-| panies to agree to a unified operation. | No other measures for punishing the | companies for failing to merge have | | i vet been written into the bill, although |a number of others have been under consideration. Chief among them were i provisions for the revocation of the! charters of the companies and un-| limited bus competition. 1 Carrles Rewards for Merger. The commission attaches have| fromed the tentative bill along lines outiined by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, chairman of the com mission. In addition to a penalty for | failure to consolidate, the measure in | | its present form also carries several | rewards if a voluntary merger is ac-: complished. These include an abso-| lute guarantee against unlimited bus | competition, repeal of the crossing po- | | liceman tax, a reduction in the paving | ‘tax and a modification of the bridge | { repair tax. | The bill will be considered by the | commission .at an executive session Thursday. W eral new features (Continued ge 2, Column 5,) ILLINGIS SHERIFF BY G. GOULD LINCOL! Senator William ~ M. Butler of Massachusettes will continue as chair man of the Republican national com- mittee. Not only will he continue as chairman, but he will play no per- functory part in the shaping of Re. publican plans which will culminate in the campaign of 1925. He will be actively in charge of - the ‘national organization, just as he has been in the past. | ~Senator Butler, who under the law | will serve Massachusettes in’ that | capacity until Senator-elect David 1. Walsh qualifies in the open Senate next month, is a guest of President Coolidge at the White House. Presi- dent Coolidge, within a few days after ¢he elections, made it clear that he pert at Keedysvile, reported that the ! | water this morning was higher than | {at any time since the Johnstown flood | {in 1589, vising to within two feet of | | | L the level reached then. It was a foot | hoped Senator Butler would continue as head of the Republican national committee, It was the President’s view that had Senator Butler been and a half over the bridge at Antie- i tam, he reported. Alexandria Street Caves In. ALEXANDRIA, Va (Speciall.—Hoff's Run, at the head of King street, through which flows a morning. King street on the south side of the 1800 block had caved in for a depth of ahout five inches. The rain abated later. The trestle of the Washington-Vir. ginia Railway over Hoff's Run, over which the electric cars go to Washing- { ton, was threatened as a result of the heavy waters, STORM SWEEPS CITY. Anacostia River Overflows Banks; Many Cars Stalled. The wind and rain storm that swept <aid that her sister. in telling her of ction for the mi was her ‘inteliecty The witness was questioned possihle inference that Mills was not the intellectual equal of his wife, bur | che said this feaure was not brought | out. Her sister, said the witness. de. ccribed Hall as her “idea of a man." Mrs. Lee sald that several vears| before the death of Mrs. Mills and rector. she saw Hall place his h over that of her sister as Mrs. M was operating a motion picture machine at a social gathering at the | New Brunswick church with which | both were connected Mrs. Lee, referring to the last con versation she had with her sister in April, 192 testified “Mrs. Hall and Eleanor friendly and she suspect Clark of telling M which would make her feel A question which might have brought out testimony as to whether there was a duel between Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Hall for the minister's love was overruled It was: “Did Mrs. Mills at any time say in effect that she had what Mrs. Hall never had. and that was the love ' of Mr. Hall” | capt. Harry Walsh of the Jersev City police was called to tell of a visit he made to Lavallette, N. J.. last Au gust 1o see Henry Stevens and ques tion him in connection with the doub slaying. Mrs. Clark Fails to Appear. Mrs. Mina Clark failed as a witness when her called. No explanation was given of Mrs Clark's failure to appear. Previou festimony had pictured her as “spy ing”" on Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills and the State contends she carri storfes of their affairs to Mrs. Hall Henry Mills, brotherinlaw of Mrs. Mills, was called to tell what he knew of the relations between her and the Rev. Mr. Hall. He said they were treg@ently talked about by membe:s of the church and ‘hat even Mr Mille' mother knew of their relations Aptheny Silzer, a s'enographer in the Middlesex County prosecutor’s of- | fice. told of taking statsments by Mrs Hall ard Willie Stevens, and identi fled & sratement of Henry Stevens as one he also had transcribed Guild Members Quizzed. Opening of today’s session was de laved to permit Mr. Simpson to ques. tion, out of court. members of St., Mary's Guild of New Brunswick, to jeayn what they might know of the affelr between Rev. Hall and Mrs, Mills__Women of the minister's New (Continued on Page were not 1 Minna things | that way [ | i | to appear | name was | through Washington last night began aid | to leave this city behind shortly before ! well as the Sheltons and those affili noon today. and by tonight wiil be far {out over the North Atlantic, accord- ing to the Weather Bureau. Although the thermometer will take a decided drop from its recent unsea- sonable heights tonight, it is not pected to des and tomorrow will be fairly tahle. Forecaster Mitchell predicted a ! slow decline, however. until the freez ing point is reached late Thursday or early Friday. Tomorrow may he cloudy. but no rain is anticipated Last night's storm was described as | a secondary disturbance. the wind velocity at no time reaching 35 miles an hour here. It is expected to de- velop, however. into severe gales by i the time it reaches the Atlantic Ocean Land storm warnings are displayed north of the Delaware breakwater. _Swollen by _rain. the northeast (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) FAMOUS BELLS STOLEN. Santa Ysabel Mission in California Suffers $20.000 Loss. N DIEGO. Calif.. November 16 —The famous bells of the Santa valued at $20.000 and SAN ) Ysabel Mission | cast of a gold allov..which made them (vanch near | noted for their beautiful tone, have | President Call been stolen. The theft was reported vesterday at Ramona. 20 miles from the mission by Indians of the Santa Ysabel M sion. who regard the place as a shrine. Several months ago a fire ravaged the mission. but the golden bells were not harmed. The mission was_built 150 vears ago in the davs of Father Junipero. Franciscan priest. ' PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED. | JAVA REBELS ROUTED. New Elections Are Called for in Hungary. shmaaile Star Chie § VIENNA, November 16.—Regent Horthy has sent a letter dissolving the Hungarian Parliament as of to- day. New elections are cailed for from December 7 to 14. The campaign already is in full swing. The government is basing its speeches on the success of Hungarian | reconstruction and hopes to be re-|[aphoen, but were repulsed. One of elected with a large majority. It is thought the Soclalists will ab- stain from voting. . - Radio Progra.r% Page 43. November 16 | part of the sewerage of the nearby | subdivisions. was up to its banks this | elected to the Senate on November 2 he probably would have relinquished the chairmanship in order to give his full time and attention to his duties as Senator, but that as he is now re- tiring from the Senate he will be in a position to “carry on” as head of the national organization. Determination Not New. The determination of Senator But- ler to continue as chairman of th {committee, he sald today. s not new, . Ithough he had planned, had he FES el senclaie Erem | metul i f)s ey sant. sisctlon, N. T, November 16.—ito retire from that office. A change Sheriff Henry Dorris of Franklin of chairman of the natlonal commit- County last night declared that he in- | tee at this time could only be upset: tends to stop armed gangsters coming | Hilg_in a measure. It would place into the county “if it becomes neces. | Charles D. Hilles of New York, the 1 4 4 il vice chairman. at the head of the |sary for me to deputize every able- | ,p\mittee until the committee could { bodled man in the county. | be called together to elect a_new chair- | I am not taking stocl man. But with Senator Butler con- ! side.” the sheriff asserte “I intend | tinuing as chairman, there i3 no need to keep both Birger and his men as|of a meeting of the committee until | December, 1927, whan It will be the ated with them out of this county as | uty_of the committee to select the (Continued on Page | far as is humanly possible. 1 have | ! given all deputies under me orders to | ot !arrest men on either side who come | | e b, e hoe | T SERNOENS EMRENAS ! ) {RATED AS “UNDESIRABLE” { to name additional deputies to stop | gang strife in Franklin County those | First-Year Men Cut Class Before commissions will be placed with men of the county and not with outsiders. Foot Ball Game—Will Be on Probation. The sheriff's declaration was made Br the Associated Preas. | n reply to a statement in a southern CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 16. Tilinois paper purporting to come from the gang of Charles Birger. in —One hundred first-year men at Har- vard Law Scheol, who cut the last THREATENSGAN: Franklin County Officer Warns Gunmen to Stay Out of Section. with either 2 Column 6.) | | | ! which it was charged that Dorris had | given deputy commissions to members | of the Shelton gang. \NOTED MEXICAN REBEL | LEADER BOWS TO CALLES Gen. Gallegos Makes Unconditional Submission Following Defeat by Federals. have been classed as ‘“undesirables” by Dean Roscoe Pound, it was re- vealed today. | The students were warned in a let- !ter from the dean that their future | work would he watched closely with a |threat of immediate expulsion should their studies show any sign of lag- ging. The letter with its disciplinary ! warning was said to be an innovation MEXTCO CITY, November 16.—The | i1 custome of the Law School. prominent rebel leader, former Gen.| The Harvard Crimson, | Rodolfo Gallegos, who - revolted with | orial taking exception to the dean’s 150 men several weeks ago at his|ction, condemns the policy as pater- Celaya. has requested | nalistic. to accept his uncon- i ! ditfonal submission following a defeat inflicted on his forces by federal ! troops in the State of Durango Octo- er 29, Fl Universal says that President Calles has sent a passport for Galle- gos, and has ordered the mllitary authorities to furnish him facilities to come to Mexico City to appear be- fore the authorities, Br the®Assoriated Press | i | | Disputant Over McPherson Story Wounds ex-Policeman. LOS ANGELES, November 16 (#). —Holding a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, a man who had pro- nounced ideas about the merits of the | Aimee Semple McPherson story shot { and probably fatally wounded James { Mansfield. 59, former Boston police- | Communists man, officers learned yesterday. Establish Military Base at Singapore. BATAVIA. Java. November 16 (#). —The East Indian Communists who carried out attacks last Friday night | at various places in western Java, | during which a number of persons | were killed or wounded. have estab. ! | lished a base at Sirigapore for arms | and ammunition destined for the East | Indies. 1l Five hundred men, armed with rifles. | last night attacked the garrison at ! his assailant and another man in a park and had been shot after having engaged in an argument with them over the case. 'He did not seek medi- cal aid at once and blood poisoning developed. Gov. Ross Coming to D. C. v y ming was en royte to Washington, D. C., today uém‘"md a meeting of the executive committ the gover- nors’ conference Fri She is to Yorl . gategat Syracuse soldiers of the garrison was |wounded. It is believed the attack- i b party lost heavily. Laboen is iisolated. Communications have heen cut. bridges destroyed and roads | blecked. | the address the Women Voters' deley ! December 1. class hefore the Harvard-Brown game. ! in an edi- | |HOLDS BIBLE AND SHOOTS | The wounded man said he had met | i 1against | { | recapture | Southern armies. NEW CHILEAN CABINET SOUGHT TO BLOCK ‘REDS’ War Minister Says Communistic Propaganda Has Had ‘“Certain Effect” Among Troops. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, November 16— To check communism's advance in Chile. War Minister Carlos Ybanez. who is considered the power behind the government. has recommended the formation of a new cabinet. Talking to newspaper men, the war minister said the military men of Chile were dissatisfled with existing condi tions. Communistic propaganda had been distributed among the troops. with “a certain effect.” Rather than ‘“receive communism with open arms.” he believed. it would be better to form a new and more ener- getic cabinet.’and he had advised the ministry to that effect. ACCUSED TEACHER BACKED BY BOARD Gen. Frieé‘ Request for Ac- tion on Socialism Article by Dr. Flury Denied. The Board of Education has declined a request from Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of the division of chemical warfare of the United States Army and District commander of the Ameri can Legion, that it take summary action against Dr. Henry Flury, pro- fessor of science at Eastern High School, because of a magazine article on Socialism by Dr. Flury Although the charges against Dr. Flury, preferred more than a month ago, have not been made public, they have been known in Washington school circles for some weeks and it is said that a wave of resentment has arisen over the private, political, or, religious views of a teacher being called into question. No suggestion was made, it was held, that the in structor has aired his private beliefs in his classroom. Acted as Legion Head. The article that aroused Gen. Fries' opposition appeared in the October number of the Forum Magazine. Tt was 1 of 10 editorials attempting to define socialism, and for his manu- script_Dr. Flury won a prize of $5 Gen, Fries called it to the attention of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools here, and asked him to place it before the Board of Educa- tion. Gen. Fries in his letter said that as commander of the District American Legion he objected ‘“‘most strenu- ously” to Mr. Flury's ideas and against any one being retained in the « District schools who held them. Dr. Ballou made a personal investi- | gation of the affair, and laid the facts| before the Board of Education at an| | executive session about two weeks| have relative to all matters of gov. ago. The board took the case under !advisement and sent a letter to Gen. | Fries about four days ago. Although | this letter has not vet been made pub- | lic by the board, it is understood that | the board took the position that prime facie case had not been made out Dr. Flury. Dr. Flury had not received any word from the Board of Education to- | day since the time he was called upon by Dr. Ballou for an explanation. Upon leaving his class at Eastern High School for noon recess, Dr. Flury presented his side of the case (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) - SUN WILL LEAD ATTACK TO RECAPTURE KIUKIANG | Gen. Wu Expected to Assist Move Against Victorious Cantonese Holding City. Br the Associated Préss. SHANGHAI, Sun ChuanFang. Eastern provinces and enemy of the Cantonese, is concentrating five bri- gades of his troops in an attempt to Kiukiang, in _northern Kiangsi, his former base, which re. cently went into the hands of the | FRST TAK REBATE DUEONNARCH TS White House Announces Plani if President’s Proposal | Becomes Law. The individual tax payers of the Nation will receive -their share of | the Treasury surplus which the President proposes to turn back to them when they pay their income tax bills March 15 and June 15 next, | in the event the plan being formu- | lated by the President is enacted| into law during the coming session of Congress. In making this known at the White House today, the President indicated that it is his' intention to go ahead | with his proposal regardless of Democratie criticism and despite the fact that members of his own party have not expressed themselves en- thusastically. The President gave evidence that he is not at all’ dis-| couraged and reiterated his belief that this money should be ®iven back to the tax payers in the man- ner suggested by him instead of through the medium of a revision of the present tax law. While discussing the subject at: the White House today, the Presi- | dent eaid, through his spokesman, that he realizes that there has been some little confusion on the part of ! the public as a result of the use of | so many different terms, such as re- | bates, refunds and credits and the; like. in describing the manner in| which the surplus is to be turned | back. Calls It Reduction. He was represented in this ron~i nection as saying that regardless of the terms applied 1o the procedure, | it is in his opinion a tax reduction, pure and simple. He was repre- | sented further as saying that so far as he personally is concerned the! manner of disposing of the surplus can be called by any term, but there Is no getting away from the fact that | it ic a tax reduction. He believes, | however, the public would have a| clearer understanding of the subject if the term “reduction” is used rather | any of the others. The President stated, through his spokesman, that his plan has not yet taken on any definite form, but inti- | mated that he and those from whom he is seeking counsel are pretty clear in their own minds regarding the working out of the entire proposition. The President. however, will depend | upon the ways and means committee of the House to put the proposal in final form, inasmuch as all legislation | pertaining to the Nation's revenues | must_first arise in the House, and. | therefore, he considers it primarily the duty of the ways and means com- mittee to handle this legislation and to consider it from every angle before presenting it to the House itself. Because of the knowledge members of the wavs and means committee ernmental revenues, and because of the facilities this committee has for collecting information bearing upon questions of revenue, the President (Continued on Page 7, Column 2,) TWO SHOT T0 DEATH THROUGH WINDOW | Assassin Fires Into Group at| Night—Three Others Wounded - | in South Dakota. By the Associated Press. SCOTLAND, S. D., November 16.— Two persons were shot to death and three others were wounded at the John Gross farm, near here, last night by a mysterious assassin, who fired through a window with a shotgun. The dead are Robert Zwiefel, 18, and Mrs. John Gross, 50, wife of the owner of the farm. | i The wounded are Clarence Zwiefel, | Y, 15. brother of Robert; Emmanuel Gross. 25, and Mrs. Solomen Gross, 30. Several other occupants of the room escaped the blast of shot that This information was given out here tod: by Sun's local headquar- ters. Gen. Sun has gone to the Kiangsi front to personally direct the operations. The headquarters a nouncement added that Gen. Wu Pei-fu probably would launch an ai of | tack on Kiuklang from northern and tern Hupeh Province simultan y with Sun's movement. i tack. swept through the window just as the party prepared to sit down to a game of cards. ‘The slayer fired four or five charges from his shotgun without revealing himself. Robert Zwiefel died at the first, shot and Mrs. Gross kil hen she appeared at the door to tigate. o motive was known for the at- | parks jed | 8 T ' service. ) Means A oelfl;nd Press. Cuba Withdraws | Uruguay Minister In League Dispiite Br the Associated Press. H HAVANA, November 16.-The Cuban minister to Urugs has been recalled. A message to Montevideo ordering hiré to em- bark for home at noon today. The action followed Cuba's re quest for explanation of the reported statement off Senor Guani, delefate : to the League of Nations. piblished in South American newspapers, that under the permlne?‘ treaty with the United States, fenerally known as the Platt amfndment, Cuba's sovereignty was rgstricted. R S NEW GOVERNENT ASKED FOR CAPITAL Auditor Donovan Tell§ House Investigators Old Regime Has Been Outgrown. That a real “honest-to-goodness' municipal government for the half million residents of the National Cap- ital should be set up here i1stead of the ‘“‘make-believe” and “s?glm" of local government that exist today was the belief expressed today: by Dis- trict Auditor Daniel J. Donovin as a witness before the Gibson subcommit tee of the House District coramittee investigating the municipal agminis- tration. i Mr. Donovan said that whén the District was wearing swiddling slothes more than 50 years ago the present form of government was set up, which he believes the local com- munity has outgrown.and that, there should now be a modernized unda- mental law instead of the pat ork law at present. The Gibson subcommittee Stoday asked the United States Burjau of Efficiency to make a study #f the District auditor's office and tRe tax collector’s office. It also Chairman Madden of the Ho propriations committee, Chdirman Funk of the subcommittee of Ristrict appropriations and Representative Cramton of Michigan, author ‘of the lump-sum fiscal plan, to appsar be- fore the subcommittee for a disgussion of the fiscal policy, as between the Federal Treasury and the District taxpayers. Budget Plan Proposed. Recommendations from ths Pet- worth Cltizens' Assoclatior were submitted by Gilbert I. Jacksan. Maj. Donovan teld the sgbcom- mittee that as the District Commis- sioners are charged by Congregs with responsibility they should also have necessary authority which théy lack today. He argued that they .sholud have the right to prepare the #nnual budget and submit it to Cdngress direct without intervention af any Federal authority. H He sald that he believed thd local municipality should have a cosjtroller occupying the same position foward the municipality that the cosjtroller general holds toward States, inciuding the District. ; Today the District Commisioners can recommend only for the Annual needs, with the Budget Bureau ilécree- ing just how much of this edtimate shall be submitted to Congreds. As long as the District is operated, as to- day, under a lump-sum plan, he said, he can see no logic in_submitting the | District budget to the Budget Rureau. but that it should come direjtly to Congress. ! Mr. Donovan also argued thit Dis. trict business in Congress could:be ex- | pedited and the vexation of mambers of Congress relieved through the or- ganization of a joint committeeito be in charge of both the budget arfl leg- islative programs. He said this whould be brought in way both houses of Congress could dispose of the entire District business at one time instead of having it3drib- bling through the entire sessior. 1In reply to a_question from Represeata- tive Reid. Republican, of Illinoie as to ‘whether he meant there should b one omnibus bill containing both appro- priations and new legislation. Mr. Don- ovan said that was his thought. § He recommended to the subcommit tee that the fiscal relations betjveen the Federal and District Governrants should be determined by a painstgking investigation, and sald that the: Dis. trict temporary lump-sum planiwas not determined in a way to bring out the respective merits of the obligaions of the United States and the lor‘:' tax- pavers. He said his own opinidn is that a proportionate plan of shiring the cost of Capital maintenance agid of upbuilding is right. Mr. Donovan emphasized thas} jus. tice was not done under the lumpssum arrangement and that there is aa ob- ligation on the United States to rhain- tain the National Capital and to pwar, vear in and vear out, a fair -hn‘a of the total expense. pointing out?that the local municipality must be drassed up and maintained as a capital icicy. When District Pays Bills. He argued that the local gejern. ment ought to have control of the and over all appropristicns made from District revenues.’ He pointed out that in the District ap. propriation bill for the fiscal, year 1927 there is about $4,000,000 t¢hich goes directly to agencies of the.Fed. eral Government without any juris. diction by any municipal officer; In reply to a question from Reprecwnta. tive Reid, Mr. Donovan said tha* the reason the District ought to fax control is “because we pay the Hills." Mr. Reid commented that iif the District people have no say regasding certain Federal activities they cught not be obliged to pay any than the people of his own 3Yome town. He questioned the advisability | of segregating purely municipals fea tures to the District taxpayers: and whatever partakes of a Federalf city to some other agency. Mr. Reld questioned Auditor lono- Capital through a Federal bureau. Mr. Donovan insisted that he must not forget there is a communPy ot 500,000 persons, here, which cannot properly be puf under a Federt] b reau, which would not be respcas: to the local interests and needs! He insisted there ought to be direcy con- tact and responsibility betweenfCor.- ress and the District Commissigners, saying that he does not belisve? Co gress does its full duty when it frans- fers its_responsibility to_any Pther Yésterday’s Circulation, 102,245 nvited e ap- | the dnited | one time. and i1 that; el The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news TWO CENTS. VOICES IN ALLEY BEFORE SCRIVENER CAME, WOMAN SAYS Heard Detective Arrive, Talk Stop, and Then a Shot, Mrs. Stauff Asserts. INDIRECT TESTIMONY BARRED FROM INQUEST Statement of Inmate of Home for Aged Follows Evidence in - Support of Suicide. The long postpemed inquest into Gae | death of Detective Sergt. Arthur B | Scrivener on the morning of Octooer 13 opened before a crowded and cuei- ous audience ir the beard room of the District Building this morning. and after witiesses had testified to facts which went little toward throw- ing further light on the mystery, the inquest was adjourned until tomor- |row at 11 o'clock Technical evidence showing the now well known facts relating to the | position of the body, the bullet wound, |the powder marks on the overcoat, the history of a pistol which had been |given to Scrivener by a brother de- | tective, discovery of cartridges in his |locker, etc., all ‘supported the theory |of suicide, which previously has been | advanced. |, But when Mrs. Annie Stauff, feeble | inmate of a home for dged women near Wisconsin avenue and N street, took the stand she testified that she heard voices in the alley before the |arrival of Scrivener's automobile on | the morning of October 13. Shot Follows Voices. Then, she said, in a voice so low that the jurors had to crowd around |her to hear, she had heard Scrivener put his car away and start down the alley from the garage. The voices stopped, and the next she heard was |a shot. “I didn't know they had Kkilled the | poor man," she said. | 'Mrs. Stauff's testimony interrupted the testimony of Detective Edward J. | Kelly, who had been telling the his- {tory of the case as he found it from his_investigations. When Kelly first started to_testify, Coroner Nevitt sustained an objection which prevented Kelly from quoting | directly the words of those whom he | had interviewed. Such quotations, it was decided, would be hear-say and ir- {relevant evidence and should come | directly from those who are to be {called later as witnesses. The objections came from Assistant | United States District Attorney George D. Horning, jr. After Kelly had described the scene in the alley where Scrivener’s body was found and was about to narrate | the course which his investigation of | the case took, Mr. Horning arose and | specifically noted an objection to his | proceeding further on the ground that his testimony would be irrelevant and immaterial, since the best evidence | should come from those who gave the original facts to Kelly. Coroner Nevitt replied that the jury | could presume that Detective Kelly | had made an investigation, and told the witness that a description of that investigation w be allowed, in so far as the discovery of facts were con- cerned, but that he couid not quote others. | Seeks to Bar Hearsay. “Apparently Mr. Horning is trying to cut Mr. Kelly's testimony off.” in- terjected Assistant Corporation Coun- | sel Ringgold Hart. I “I'm here to co-operate as the rep- | resentative of the District govern- {ment, and T submit Mr. Kelly should | be allowed to testify, inasmuch as he has important facts in his possession, particularly regarding the pistol. I think also, though, that he should confine his testimony to facts.” Mr. Horning thereupon stated that his objection was aimed at eliminating hearsay testimony. “1 submit,” said Mr. Horning, “that | anything he did or saw is admissible, but not conversations.” “We don't want conversations," ‘snnpptd back Hart. Kelly then identified the pistol and |at the suggestion of Coroner Nevitt | related part of its history. While | starting to tell how a pistol similar to this was given Scrivener by Detective Darnell, Kelly mentionéd that Darnell said: “I object,” broke in Mr. Horning. A series of three objections were lodged by Mr. Horning to statements as to what Darnell told Kelly, one be- ing made each time Kelly attempted to quote Darnell. Apparent Scuffie Reported. Coroner Nevitt opened the inquest by the usual routine reading of the police incidental giving the sallent facts concerning the Scrivener death. This report, which was made by Pvt. Alvin S. Bohrer of the seventh pre- net, who found the body, said that Serivener had apparently grappled with an assailant.”” The incidental also sald that Scrivener held in his right hand a tie which he had ap- parently torn from some one's neck. Immediately after Morgue Master Schoenberger had summoned the jury to take their seats he demanded that lall the witnesses leave the room at once. Nearly 30 persons in various parts of the boardroom rose from | the erowd of 250 and filed into the hallway. Mr. Schoenberger then com- manded police officers to shut the doors. Members of the coroner's jury who are serving on the case follow: James . Davidson, Arthur R. Gooding, Earl E. Holmes, Samuel Darragh, Ernest R. Post and Willlam H. Boaze. Fiancee Arrives Early. Miss_Helen Barnes Parker of Mc- Lean, Va., the girl Scrivener was to have married the day he was killed, was one of the earliest arrivals, attired in a brown velvet turban and wine- | 1| colored coat trimpmed in gray squirrel. She entered at 10:30 with Detective Thomas Nally and sat alone awaiting the start of the inquest into the death of her flance. . Miss Katherine Markey, a nurse, the girl who broke a prior engage- ment to marry Scrivener, sat on the opposite side of the room from Miss Parker until they were both sent to the hallway pending their time to tes- tify. Miss Markey wore a gray hat with a gold band, a blue coat with & dark gray fur collar and an orange (Continusd ongbage 2, Columrf1) (Continucd on Page 2, Colui 2