Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 2

MANY MAJOR BILLS FACING CONGRESS Big Issues Are Added to Usual Appropriation Meas- . ures on Heavy Calendar. By the Aseociated Press. The last week of the congressional recess winds up with enough work in Sight to keep the short session, which | from the firs -ninth Congress begins Monday, bus day until the Sixt h 4. on 1o action on the annual crop of bills to provide funds for the various exccutive departments and agencies, a big job in itself, the House will be ‘confronted with prohibition, radio, taxation, alien property, Muscle Shoals and farm relief proposals, along. with the usual deluge of minor bills Many, if ot all, of the major bills will reach the Senate at one stage or another of the session, and it already has a number of intcrnational prob- lems to face, election contests in prospect and, like the House, a heavy sheaf of measures having only or regional i Beginning without delay, it also will have to consider nominations from President Coolidge to fill more than pointive off Prohibition Is Prominent. To ameliorate tha situation some- 1,000 ap- what the staff that takes care of the Capitol has not been kept in ignor ance of the impending session, So everything s shipshape ‘'in_the big building on the landscaped hill. When members of the House take time to get a bite to eat, for instance, they will even find new plated table silver in their own restaurant, and the news correspondents who sit in at the £oings on will have a fine, fancy ne green carpet to ease the passige of their feet to and from their seats in the press gallery. While plans to get quick action on legislation to bring order into the radio broadcasting situation are be ing pressed on both sides of the Capitol and preparations are going forward to expedite action on the allen property bill, members who are prominently identified with one side or the other on the prohibition ques- tion are making ready for a resump. tion of the heated debates which that issue pre last session. Andrews’ pro- ture under Gov- 3,000,000 gallons s the indorse- drys of the po 4 ernment control of of whisky already ment of tw leading House, Representatives Cramton and Hudson, Republicans, of Michigan, and apparently has aroused little or no antagonism in the wet camp. The wets, however, have made plans to do evervthing in their power to block all legislation to tighten the prohib tion law and are preparing to concen trate on a umfied program for modi- fication Plans Flood Control Bill. Littie attention apparently is being given the taxation question in the cieventh-hour pre-session confer- ences, although the opinion seems to be spreading that nothing will be ac- complished at the sessioh efther in the way of enacting the administra- tion’s tax tit proposal or the project for permanent ston of the rates in the ent law. : mong the bills the House will be -d upon to consider, in addition to those already listed on the tenta- tive program worked out by the party leaders, is a m » which Repre- sentative Rainey, Democrat, Tllinois, Intends to press, calling for an annual uppropriation of $2,000,000 to provide for flood control work on the Des Plaines River in Illinois under the di- rection of the Mississippi River com- micsion. Twelve of the 15 members of the flood control commttee and 18 of the and harbors commit- has announced, have as- they would support the VARIETY OF COLORS IN LICENSE PLATES Color contrasts seem to be the pre- dominating vogue in the 1927 auto- mobile identification tags. Those that will be displayed in Washington most prominently will be a riot of color, judging from the advance samples received by Trafic Director M. O. Eldridge. he District tags will embody the same color scheme as those of the present year—chrome vellow and black—except that the colors will be reversed. Instend of black figures on a vellow background, the new tags will have yellow figures preceded by a letter a black background. Mary will be done in the conser ek and white— black figures on a w background Virginia, howeve thing new in a colo: some- combination. The n a vivid scarlet, ground. MORSE TRIAL JURY STILL SEEKS VERDICT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 4.—The Jurors in the Morse mail fraud trial resumed deliberations today after belng locked up for the night, when they were unable to reach a verdict. The case was given to them yester. day at 1 pm., after a trial lasting eight weeks, Benjamin W., Erwin A. and Harry A. Morse, sons of Charles W. Morse, and Georze A. Burdett, Rupert M. Much and Henry E. Boughton are use of the mails to ged fraudulent scheme charged with promote an a for saies of stock in the various Morse companies. Twenty-five persons were original indicted, but the charges inst all but six were dropped in the last few months. DIES IN BALTIMORE. Mrs. Johanna Bieber, 86, Expires While on Visit. { Mrs. Johanna Bieber, §6 years old, | widow of Samuel Bieber, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs, Myer Rosenbush, in Baltimore, last night. Mrs. Bieber resided in this city with her son, Sldney Bieber, and went to| Raltimore several months ago to visit her daughter, at whose residence she died. Her husband for many years was a prominent merchant her died five vears ago. nkfort,on-the-Main, Ger- r came to this coun- short while in Va., but spent the greater part of her life in Washington. Besides her son and her daughter, in Baltimore, she leaves two other daugh <, Mrs. Isadore Kaufmann and Mrs. . Wolf, both of Washington. uneral services will be conducted at the son’s home in the Presidential apartments tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rabbi Abram Simon will of- ficiate. Interment will be in the Wash- LUCIA AMES MEAD SPEECH IS BARRED ! Decatur, Ga., Coliege Action; Is Due to Opposition to Her Associates. By the Associated Press, | "ATLANTA, Ga. December 4.—An {address By Mrs. Lucia ames Mead of Boston before the student body |of Agies Scott College for Women lat Decatur, a suburb, scheduled for | | today, was cancelbd because city fathers, “including the mayor, and| members of the American Legion are 1 “opposed to the people she runs with.” I “Mrs. Mead, e president of the | National Council for- Prevention of | War, with headquarters at Washing- ton, was to have been the guest of | I the students at their chapel exes {and to have spoken on international peace. Dr. J. R. McCain, president of the college, canceled the invita- tion in a telegram from Jackson, Miss., where he is visiting. No Personal Bias. Charges that Mrs. Mead favor: Bolshevism rumbled about the little town, and finaily Mayor Scott Candle! announced that while the American Legion post did not object to Mrs, Mead personally, it did object to “the people she runs with” and certain of her ‘‘radical policies. Asa Warren Candler, W. Candier son of Asa is president of the Legion post. Trustees of the college are un- derstood to have joined in the re- quest that the date be canceled. Mrs. Mead described as “vicious and false” thé accusations against her. States Her Position. She addressed the Decatur League of Women Voters vesterday afternoon on the same subject she was to have discussed at the college, and members :4x d she did not express any radical views. The college denied that the stu- dents planned an indignation meeting and scoffed at reports that the faculty would resign unless the invitation was renewed, Mrs. Mead said: “T cannot see that ‘ognition of Russia by the United would mean approval of either tic or communistic govern- went. ““The idea that I take a contrary view is preposterous.” ANTI-WAR PARLEY OPENS TOMORRD Hundreds Registered for Conference on Cause and Cure for Armed Conflicts. Several hundred delegates to the second Conference on the Cause and Cure of War registered at headquar- ters today at the Washington Hotel in preparation for the beginning of the conference, which will open to- morrow afternoon with - a public mass meeting at the Belasco Theater. Week-day sessions, all of them open to the public, will be held at the hotel. Mrs. Franklin D. Rosevelt of New York, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Harrisburg, Pa., and Mrs. Maud Swartz of New York wero among those registered for the National Woman's Trade Union League. Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes of Chicago, chair- man of the department of interna- tional relations of the General Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, will be in attendance, and Mrs. Lewis H. Lapham of New York will come as a representative of the national board of the Y. W. C. A. Acceptances were recelved vester- day from members of the National Business and_Professional Women's League, the Women's Department of the Catholic Welfare Association and the Temple Sisterhood, who have been invited to attend the conference as observers. Washington women who registered at the conference yesterday are Mrs. Robert L. Lansing, Mrs. J. Jerome Lightfoot, Mrs. H. Pitcher, Mrs. Kate Trenholme Abrams, Miss Emma Pettijohn, Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift, Mrs. C. W. Richards, Mrs. I). O. Kins- man, Mrs, Lyman Beecher Sworm- stedt, Mrs. Fred T. Dubols, Mrs. Wil- liam E. Chamberlin, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Miss Bertha IHenderson, Mrs. B. Youngblood, Mrs. David O'Mears, Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mrs. W. A, Slade, Mrs. Johun J. O'Connor, Mrs David Robertson, Mrs. A. Graupner, Dr. Lois Rayden Meek, Mrs. Raymond Morgan, Miss Eleanor Boswell, Mrs. J. K. MecClintock, Miss Alice Deal, Miss Margaret Lambie, Miss E. M. Gaver, Mrs. John Mej, Miss Elizabeth ¥. Pearce, Mrg. Fred E. Wright, Mrs. Luke Wilson, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker and Miss Elizabeth Eastman. CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE IS APPROACHING MILLION More Than 750,000 Already Taken, With Many Reports Still to Be Tabulated. : Continued demand for the Christ- mas heaith seals of the Washington Tuberculosis Association is shown by the cash receipts from seals sales at Social Service House up to noon tod represent- ing the sale of over three-quar- ters of a million of the little health token This does not include all of today mail re- turns Nor does it reckon any of the private schools which have start. ed intensive sell- ing campalgns of their own, nor the enthusiastic sale begun by the pa- tients at the Tuberculosis Hospital with a goal of 100,000 seals this year. The growing popularity of the Christmas seal in its fight against tuberculosis has now won the sup- port of golfers in the arrangement of the national golf tournament to be played at the Seaview Club, Atlantic He | City, next week, in which many fa-{and information, thus eliminating de- mous golf stars are aiready entered. The idea was sponsored by Jess Sweetser, the winner of the British open golf championship, who is now in a sanitarium at _Asheville, N. C., making his own fight for heaith. Sporting writers in all parts of the country are giving this contest at- tention just to boost the Christmas seal sal Dies as He Watched Boxing Bout. HUTCHINSON, Kans., December 4 (P).—Henry Davis, 60, died from a f Upper, left to right: Commissioner Bell, Mr. Taliaferro, Comm:issioner Ru- dolph and Commissioner Dougherty. Lower: Commissioner Rudolph and his successor, Mr. Taliaferro. NEW MONEY CRISIS S PICHING FRANCE Some Factories Closing as Currency Value Rises. Americans Are Hit. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily N Copyright. 1926. News. PARIS, December 4.—First signs of an economic crisis are beginning to ap- pear in France. Prices have reached world levels. Americans, here now have to pay for most things about a much as they would pay in the United States, and for some things they have | to pay more. Exports are declining and interior markets are languishing because of high prices. Factorles are beginning to restrict production and discharge part of their personnel. All the economizing classes except the peasants have suffered huge losses on the Bourse, where practically all stocks have dropped. All this phenomena are due to the government policy of forcing improve. ment of the value of the franc. Ac- cording to the government, this fm- provement must be carried still fur- ther. There still is no definite sta- bilization program. In most particulars Premier Poin- care’s ultimate financial aim remains a mystery. A certain amount of cap- ital recently has returned to Francs and the treasury situation is good, but the floating debt has increased, and the future still is uncertain. URGES FIRE STATION IN TRIANGLE AREA HOUSING FOUR UNITS (Continued from First Page) engine houses, eight truck houses, one fireboat house, and one repair shop, a total of 39 different buildings. The personnel consists of a uniform force of 863 men, a civilian force of three and nine per diem mechanics, making a total of 875. Chief Watson in a serles of recom- mendations to the subcommittee said he hoped that a drill tower and fire college for proper training and fin- struction of officers and men would be provided this year. He recom- mended an increase in the number of men, so that members may attend drlil tower and fire college without losing their time off. He suggested an additional engine and truck com- pany of 18 men each, which would make a cost of about $35,000 a year. Urges Increased Pay. Chief Watson also recommended an adjustment of pay of privates so as to provide for a minimum of $1,900 and a maximum of $2,400 per year, with a corresponding adjustment of salaries of officers, so as to provide commensurate increase in compensa- tion for increased responsibility. He also asked the committee to support legislation authorizing an allowance of $10 per month each to engineers, increase of an assistant chief clerk and one stenographer in the civilian force and for six additional inspec- tors in_the Fire Prevention Bureau. He discussed the needs for high pressure service and urged actment into law of a bill now pending before Congress providing for fireproof construction of build- ings occupied as hospitals, sanato- riums, homes for the aged or infirm, asylums or other institutions ping quarters are pro- vided for children under the age of 16 or persons rendered helpless or partially helpless by reason of age or mental or physical infirmity. TALIAFERRO, NEW COMMISSIONER, TO TAKE OATH TODAY Page) (Continued from Fir: greed that if Mr. Taliaferro would ac- cept his appointment would be a splen- did one. Other prominent citi were asked regarding this and all were unanimous in agreeing that the President would be fortunate if he could obtain the services of this young attorney The matter finally was brought to the attention of the White House by Mr. Littlepage and later by one of two others, and vesterday Mr. Talia- ferro’'s consent was obtained. Mr. Taliaferro will enter upon his new duties with an open mind, so to speak. While he has been a close observer of District activities, he has taken no active part in civic'or or- ganization work closely related to the District government. While he has no fixed policies at this time, he has great faith in the people of Washing- ton and in the future of the Capital. He is proud of its beauty and is en- thusiastic over its possibilities. He will do ail in his power to advance the interests of the city and to carry out its development upon the lines which have been so carefully laid out. When asked for an expression he said that he hardly knew enough about the duties confronting him to make any comment, but that he would endeavor to perform them to drivers and tillers on trucks who are obliged by detail to carry additfonal responsibility in getting ~their com- rades and costly apparatus to a fire. He advocated provision for a full 0 days’ annual leave to firemen as is allowed other IFederal and Dis- trict employes. The firemen now get 20 days. Needs of Department. Chief Watson told the subcom- mittee that the department needs three additional companies to cover the growth of the city in recent vears. One engine company in the vieinity of Connecticut and Nel avenues; one truck company the vicinity of Eleventh and W streets, one rescue squad company at No. 6 truck house to cope with the enor- mous life hazard found in the Northwest section of the city. He sadd that additional motor ap- paratus is needed to replace that which has become obsolete and un- dependable by reason of its length of service and to create a reserve to take the place of apparatus which may be temporarily disabled. He also asked for an additional rescue squad wagon. As one of the important and pres: ing needs of the department, Chief Watson urged the installation in fire alarm headquarters of a tel-auto de- vice connected with the various quar- ters of the department for expedit- Ing simultaneous issuance, of orders pendence upon the telephone. New Sites Advocated. He said that the new site and build- ing_for No. 4 Engine Company, now on Virginia avenue between Four-and- a-half_and Sixth streets southwest, should be provided with the new location in the vicinity of /Third and E streets southwest. He also asked for a new site and building in the vie- inity of Fifth and H streets, for No. 6 Engine Company, now on Massa- chusetts avenue between Fourth and the best of his ability. He appeared deeply appreciative of the honor con- ferred upon him by the President, and hoped he would have the support of those in the District Building and all other citizens of the city. Described as Worker. The new Commissioner is what his associates and friends describe as a 'worker and a plugger and not a talker.” He has worked hard all his life, having been compelled to leave school at an early age following the death of his father, and he attributes considerable of his success to the e: perience that he acquired while work: ing as a boy. His first employment was that of office boy in the Norfolk and Western Railroad at Roanoke. Later he became a clerk in an insur- ance office in Washington, where his family had moved, and by serious ap- plication he worked his way up until he became secretary of a local com- pany. All the while he was not neglecting his education. After attending a night the en- | school he entered upon the study of law at Georgetown and a few y after his graduation and admi: to the bar he was honored with the {appointment as as ant professor of law at Georgetown. Mr. Taliaterro is tall and built like an athlete. Ile is a devotee of golf ":md never los an _opportunity to get in a few hours’ play on the links when his work will permit. In 1916 {he marired Miss Elizabeth Kirkwood Fulton, a native of Glascow, Scotland, who was making her home in this city with her uncle, the late Daniel Fraser. Plans Only Tentative. The long desire of Mr. Rudolph to travel and “play,” which caused him to resign before the expiration of his present term, will be realized in Jan- uary, when the Commissioner and Mrs. Rudolph plan to sail for Ber- muda. They expect to stay there about a month and probably will leave then for a trip to Iurope, although the Comm ner said his’ plans are only tentative at this time. Mr. Rudolph is now rounding out almost 10 vears of service as a_Com- missioner and president of the Board of Commissione His retirement brings to a close one of the longest records of service rendered by a Dis- trict Commissioner. He has been one of Washington'’s most popular Com- missioners. It is doubtful, too, if any municipal officer ever devoted himself more attentively to city problems than he did. Has Seen Rapid Growth. Having served on the board both be- fore and after the war, Mr. Rudolph had a rare opportunity to realize the rapid growth that has taken place in ‘Washington in the last decade. And this unusual development following the war gave rise to many municipal problems, which he helped struggle with, such as the necessity for greatly increased expenditures for school build- ings, street paving, sewer construc- tion, water mains and similar im- provements. One of the things that will stand out most prominently in the record of Mr, Rudolph was the part he took in the establishment of the municipal play- grounds, He had always tuken a liv ly interest in the playground mov ment, opening the first one in 1901. Then he served as chairman of the committee for playgrounds and paid annual deficits until Congress in 1906 began appropriating for their mainte- pance. It was during Mr. Rudolph's first term that legisiation for the creation of the Public Utilities Commission was drafted. Another event of his first ad- ministration was the opening of the District workhouse.at Occoquan, Va., which since has developed along such advanced lines that prison officials from all sections of the country have come to inspect it from time to time. MRS. HEITMULLER DEAD. Mrs. Pauline Heitmuller, 74 years old, wife of Alfred Heitmuller, a rest- dent of this city since she was a girl, died at her residence, Brentwood road and T street, Thursday, after an ill- ness of 10 weeks. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ipterment will be private, U. S. Commissioner Told of “Emergency™ Corporation Formed to “Fix™ Witnesses By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 4.—Exist- ence of an organization, with offices on Broadway and duly incorporated by the Supreme Court, which offered an “emergency service,” including the fixing of witnesses, to persons who ) foul of the law. was charged be- fore United States Commissioner O'Neill yesterday. Max Koenig, & former prohibition agent, was held in $5,000 bail after Assistant United States Attorney Stevenson had told of the alleged “fixing”” company. Fifth streets, and a new house for ington Hebrew Congregation Seme-|heart attack while witnessing a box-|the fire boat on the water front. tery, ing bout heve last Righia 5 Chief Watson reconuuended g ' ) Stevenson preduced an affidavit signed by Ed Holmes, a defend- aat in the doctorg and drug- + gists’ conspiracy case, alleging that he had paid Koenig $30 in considera- tion of a promise to influence the testimony of Government witnesses in his capacity as president of the Modern Business Protective League. A circular bearing the name of the “protective” organizgtion was ex-. hibited, in which various promises are made to “members. Bonds were promised charges “in all cases of emergenc Legal advice and letter were promised free. ‘without forms also Increased mem- bership was urged on the, plea that “large hmexgb‘er;hip d:xeans greater strength and independence personally and politically,” - 135 ARE INDICTED . IN“POOL” INQUIRY Gamblers Said to Have Given $15,000 to New York G. 0. P. Campaign Fund. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 4.—After an in- vestigation of base ball and clearing house pools 36 defendants resident in | Massachusetts and New York were junder secret indictment today on charges of conspiracy to ship lottery tickets between States. The Federal grand jury had been investigatiyng the so-called Albany and Hudson pools for two days. Federal authorities claim to have found evidence that the pools con- tributed $15,000 to the Republican campaign fund in the recent New York State election. Other Pool Listed. Investigators also said that another pool with headquarters in Albany, N. Y. was believed to have con- tributed to the Democratic election fund during the New York State cam- paign, and expressed hope that in- formation regarding the activities of the organization would be obtained from persons now urdder indictment. While the names of the defendants listed in_ the indictment were not made public pending their arraign- ment, it was made known that six were residents of Albany and other places in eastern New York, while 30 were of Massachusetts citles. Got $75,000 in Four Citles. The pools handled ‘“staggering sums” in weekly lotteries on base ball and clearing house statistics, Federal officials said. In four Massachusetts cities sales of tickets totaled $75,000 weekly, while the total prizes awarded were $7,000. During the investigation, the corri- dors of the Federal Buflding were thronged with witnesses, who includ- ed detectives and police officers from western Massachusetts and northern New York, as well as many buyers of tickets. Federal officlals indicated that the new grand jury, which convenes next Tuesday, might begin a second in- vestigation based on information ob- tained during the inquiry just com- pleted. MINE WAGE CUT HELDVITAL IN OHI0 Chamber of Commerce Says Reduction or Open Shop Must Come. By the Associated Press. OOLUMBUS, Ohio, December 4.— An open shop or a voluntary agree- ment to a wage scale reduction by the miners are the only alternatives open if the Ohio coal industry is to return to its former relative status when the Jacksonville wage scale agreement expires next April 1, are conclusions reached by the unofficial fact-flnding committee of 20 appointed by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. The findings, made public today, while not making specific reference to the likelthood of a strike, draws the inference that there will be a strike in the Ohio district April 1 if the operators and miners continue to pull apart against the interests of the general public. The committee, for the most part, was made up of bank- ers, business men and chamber of commerce officials. “The real trouble with the present Ohio coal situation,” the commlittee reported, “is lack of discipline, poor efficlency and a non-competitive wage scale.” “If the miners’ union will not ad- just its wage rates so as to meet this economic condition, then the open | shop is the only alternative to permit the Ohio coal industry to function. “The unreasonably high labor rates in the Ohio mines awe responsible for the unnecessary burden on the public. It will be in the public interest that operators of Ohio mines stand to- gether as a unit in bringing this wage rate situation to a comparable basis 80 as to protect the public from its unreasonable burden.” SPAIN'S NEVi ASSEMBLY TO BE NON-POLITICAL National Body to Succeed Cortes, Dissolved Three Years Ago, De- prived of Partisan Complexion. By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 4.—The Na- tional Assembly which is to succeed the Cortes dissolved by Primo de Rivera three vears ago will, it now appears, be deprived of all political complexion. The plan to have the members chosen by the government has been abandoned, and the nominations will be made by recognized scientific, educational, labor, commercial, ship- ping and farmers’ organizations. Neither the senators elected for life by the crown nor the provincial presi- dents of the natriotic union, Primo de Rivera's own party, will be members, as was first suggested. The assembly will pass upon meas- ures drafted by the government, and the legislation so enacted will be sub- ject to governmental approval. The new body will be convoked early next year, probably February 1. OLD RESIDENT DIES. Rites Are Held for Mrs. Josephine Fountain Smithson. Mrs. Josephine Fountain Smithson, 75 years old, widow of George W. Smithson, one of the pioneer settlers of Southwest Washington, died at the residence of her son, George ©. Smith- son, 3820 Fourth street, Wednesday. She was a lifelong resident of this city. She was a_member of the Re- bekah Assembly, I. 0. O. F. Funeral services were conducted at the Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. C. E. Hawthorne, pas- tor, officiated. Interment was in Con- gressional Cemetery, with special services conducted by the Rebekah Assembly at the grave. Besides her son, Mrs. Smithson leaves two daughters, Mrs. George Jeffries and Mrs. J. R. Holcer, and five grandchildren. Senator’s Mother-in-Law Dead. Mrs. John Stafford “of - Pasadena, mother of Mrs. Lynn J. Frazier, wife of the Senator from North Dakota, died at home in California Thurs- day, to dispatches received here, Was i8 years old Murdered Girl and Missing Sweetheart Clara Olson of Mount Ster- who had been missing from many weeks and whose body was found in_ the swamps at Prairie du Chien, Wis., and (below) Erdman Sanford Olson, for whom a murder warrant has been issued charging him with the crime. Taliaferro Name Pronounced as if Spelled “Toliver” The new ComniTssioner pro- nounces his name as if it were spelled “Toliver.” The name Taliaferro, an old and well known one in Virginia, is of Italian origin. Mr. Taliaferro. He is descended from Capt. John Tallaferro, a distinguished English gentleman of an ad- venturous disposition, who came to the Virginia colony in 1638 and who was to be renowned through- out that section. Capt. John soon was followed by his brother Richard, who also distinguished himself, and at the present time there are many families in Vir- ginia and other sections of the South who trace genealozy them. THOMPSON IS HERE T0 PRESENT REPORT President’s Philippine Investigator to Call at White House This Afternoon. By the Associated Press. Carmi Thompson of Ohio, who made a study of Philippine economic condi- tions for President Coolidge, arrived in Washington today to submit his re- port to the White House. Col. Thompsen said he would make no statement as to his findings in the islands except to the President, and that the conclusions, if made public, would be given out there. The report probably will be dis- cussed with President Coolidge during the afternoon. Col. Thompson will he a guest at the White Houge this eve- ning. TWO HUNTERS KILLED WHILE SEEKING DEER One Slain Near Chambersburg, Pa., ‘When Mistaken for Game—Sec- ond Victim Leaned on Gun. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOW Md., December 4—The deer-hunting season has claimed two victims here in the past two da Maurice Rhoades of Chambersburg, Pa., a member of a deer club near Caledonia, a few miles from here, was shot and fatally in- jured this morning when a hunter a quarter of a mile away fired at him thinking he was a deer. The bullet, from a high-powered gun, shattered his leg and he died from loss of blood before help reached him. The second_hunter killed was Irvin Jacobs of, York, Pa. member of another club near here, who wa wounded yesterday by his own gu He was leaning on the muzzle when it was accidentally discharged. He died several hours later in the Cham- bersburg Hospital. He leaves a wife and nine children. AUSTRIAN MINISTER HERE MAY ACT IN FRAUD CASE Chancellor at Vienna Cables Him to Compel Ex-Finance Minister to Return There. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1626, VIENNA, December 4.—Chancellor Seipel of Austria, who also is foreign minister, has cabled the Austrian Min. ister at Washington to seek to com- pel former Finance Minister Jacob Ahrer to return to Austria and testi- ty before a parlfamentary committee soncerning a loan made during Ahrer’'s term of office to the Vienma banker, Siegmund Bosel, by the Austrial pos. tal savings bank. This loan resuited in enormous losses to the state and caused a financlal scandal which for little Austria is more important than was the Teapot Dome scandal in the United States, When Seipel resumed the chancel lorship and began cleaning house, Ahrer left the country and is thought to have gone to America. Musk oxen are more closely related o sheep than to cattle, g - GIRL'S DEATH CLUE SOUGHT IN MORGUE :Suicide's Body Resembles That of Youth Hunted in Wisconsin Mystery. | | I | | ! By the Amsociated Press. PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, cember 4—TIn a settin with all the starkness of an Ibsen drama, authorities today sought to tear away the veil of mystery sur- rounding the slaying of Clara Olson, Norse farmer's daughter Three pathologists were summoned to view the clay-cloaked body of the 22-year-old girl in an effort to deter mine how she came to her death. Her body was found in a shallow hillside grave overlooking the home of her missing sweetheart, Erdman Olson, who has been charged with her murder. Meanwhile the unclaimed body of a suicide in a morgue at Chicago be- ame a new focal point in the search for the boy who wrote in a farewell letter to his parents that “I woul rather take death than captivit Officers found the youth, who killed himself in a hotel four weeks ago, to be closely similar to Olson. Many Clues Offered. Investigation also turned to Grea lls, Mont., for a clue, through dis {closure that relatives there recentl had transmitted to a communication ‘h it was thought might have pertained to his | whereabouts. From surrounding | States came messages reporting the arrest of suspects, as the State made the first move to discover whether firearms, club or poison. When this is accomplished the tate will seek evidence to substan- | tiate the warrant charges against the girl's sweetheart, who has not been een ssince he quit Gale College of eptémber 27, the day after Clara ither threatened him with arrest un- less the girl was found. Wis., De. endowed Four years younger - than Clara, Erdman had “kept compd with her for more than a year, but had de clined, according to the girl's father to marry her, despite the knowledze that she was about to become a mother. Will Call Dozen Witnesses. The State today designated a dozen witnesses who will be called befora a coroner’s jury Monday to establish whether offi were justified in the unusual procedure of charging Olson with the murder before discovery of the body established that’the girl was dead. Among the principals who will be called Monday are Christ Olson, father of the girl; Erdman's famil, Christine Anderson. said to have danced with the vouth the night the girl vanished; others at the dance, and neighbors. Detectives emplayed by Christ Olson held that the girl was lured by a promise of marriage, taken to a lone- Iy logging road, slaln and hastily buried by young Olson. The youth's father, however, main- tained that his son had nothing to do with the girl's death, and expressed the belief ihat the body was placed on Rattle Ridge to direct suspicion to the boy. MOTORISTS WILL GET TIME TO PUT ON TAGS Extension After January 1 Will Be Granted—Duration of Period Undecided. Although District motorists will not Dbe permitted to put 1927 automobile identification tags on their machines until New Year day the Commission- ers announced today that an exten- slon of time would be allowed for the use of 1926 tags after January 1. The Commissioners pointed out that it would work a hardship on the mo- torists to require them to change tags on the stroke of midnight December 31 and further, due to a delay in the arrival of the plates, it is doubtful it all motorists will be able to procure them before the new year. Just how long the 1926 tags may be used fn 1927 will be decided later. The order forbidding the use of 1927 tags before January 1 was issued by the Commissioners on recommenda- tion of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super- intendent of police, who thought that confusion might result if the old cus- tom was followed of permitting mo- torists to place the new tags on their cars as soon as they were issued. The District probably has been the only place in the United States where the use of a new year's tags was al- lowed before a new year, it was pointe ed out by Col. 1. C. Moller, assistant traffic director, and ¢onfusion has re- sulted not only locally but in outside jurisdictions where District cars have gone. When issuance of the new tags is started next week the Trafic Bureau has arranged to erect a temporary office on the basement floor of the District Building where motorists may file applications for new drivers’ per- mits when they call for the 1927 tags, FUND FROM PARTY WILL AID LA PLATA $85 Received for Relief of Storm Victims From Mrs. Mar- schalk’s Affair. La Plata’s sufferers still receive aid from Washingtonians who contributed to the relief fund compiled by The Star. Eighty-five dollars was received this morning for addition to that fund. That amount represents the proceeds of a card party given by Mrs. E. Bruce Marschalk at the Northeast Masonic Temple Saturday, November 27, This amount will be turned over by this newspaper to the Red Cross for its relief work in the storm area of Charles and Price Georges Countles and it will permit the work of that organization to be done even more completely than the amount for which the Red Cross asked in its dire need. Contributions received to date by The Star are as follows: Previously acknowledged....$3,509.72 Proceeds of card party in Masonic Temple, northeast, conducted by Mrs. E. Bruce Marschalk .. Total ESKIMO COLD IN JERSEY. NEWARK, N. I., December 4 (#).— Tkwa, an Eskimo from Pethal, Alaska, went into cold storage yesterday ta get warm. Ikwa, in the role of Santa Claus for a local department store, has been huddling near radiators, and he_explained that the cold of Alaska was dry, whereas here it was wet. He spends an hour a day in the fur storage room to find climate compge Fable 1o that in his home town