Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 2

1.2020.5. WORKERS IND. . DROPPED Commission Reports Reduc- tion of Personnel for Last Six Months of 1926. eduction of civil service dulr‘stv:l; the last six months of 1926 resulted in dropping 1,242 employes © in the District of Columbia, according to figures made public today by the Civil Service Conmimission. During the same period 14,364 employes were dropped throughout the country There were 60,811 civil service em- ployes in the District June 30, 1926, i the figures show. December 31 there were 59, The. national totai June * 30 was 560,705; December 31 it was 546,341. The reduction in the District for the whole of 1926 was 1,940. Both District and national totals are lower now than they have beenat v time since the armistice. At that time there were 117.760 civil “service em- in the District and 917 ir Since then th as been 3 The figures. hc i ever, are still higher than the p totals, whieh showed 442 fo District and 438,057 for the oountry The Post Office Department is largest emplc 1 { tional totai but this figure tion decline rces by de- 6 were of service f at the close of 1 wing strength House, 45; State, 562; 7 ar, Justice, 760 ,380; Interior, Commerce, overment print- mithsonian Institu- ate Commerce Com- mission, Service Commis- sion, 319; Bureau of Efficiency, b1; Federal Trade Commission, 302; Ship- ping Board, $30: Alien Property Cus- 2 Tariff Commission, 201; s Compensation Commission, 68; Federal Board for Vocational Edu cation, 69; Panama Canal, 74; Public Buildings and Parks, National Capi tal, 2,274; General Accounting Office, 1,984; Veterans' Bureau, 4.466; Rail- road Administration, 91; Commission of Fine Arts, 2; War Finance Corpora- partmen the fol White ‘ing office, tion, 488; personnel | exchange with reference to the actual support TRADIE' IS BRSK ON CAPTOLHLL Many Moves Szen to Substi-| tute Compromise for Stubbornness. - BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Never has there heen in recent vears so much talk in the corridors of Congress of legislative trades and deals. Possibly its because the ses- sion is bound to end March 4, and unless compromise is substituted for stubbornness virtually nothing con- structive can be done. But the number of bills that are zetung a place on the calendar is off- set by those which are being side- racked. For example, the President’s recommendation that coal regulation be instituted, so that the Govern ment may use its influence to prevent oal strikes, is practically shelved for he sescion. And the rumors are that he advocates of the McNary-Haugen bill went to the group who wanted ‘cal legislation killed and persuaded her to help the farm relief bill, in for which the coal pro- 15 would not be pushed. Tihe trade that was made in the Senate to get the farm relief voted o did not have in it any pledges ¢+ opposition to specific measures But the agreement has been carried out in one of the most curious ways that legislation has ever been ad- vanced. The men bhehind the Mc- Padden branch banking bill were convinced that nothing they could do could prevent the passage of the MecNary-Haugen bill if it ever came to a vote. Seems Sure of Majority. They also saw that the McNary- Haugen bill sponsors would deliber- ately prevent the passage of the all- important branch banking bill. How- ever, when the Senate voted 66 to 14 to make the farm relief bill the un- finished business this does not mean that 66 votes will be cast for the measure itself. It seems certain, though, that the bill will command a majority. This very fact had a good deal to do with the attitude of the champions tion, 48; National Advisory Commit- tee of Aeronautics, 24; Federal Re- serve Board, 184; Board of Tax Ap- peals, 109; Board of Education, 37. FIGHT TO RESTORE DISTRICT ITEMS MADE IN COMMITTEE (Continued from First Page.) Mr. Blanton said yesterday: “When the time comes, Congress will order him to do it in a bill. I am glad I have found out beforehand how two- faced Commissioner Dougherty has been.” Capt. Headley was not mentioned by name in the amendment, but the ap- propriations committee understood fully that the $660 increase was in- tended solely for the police officer. It is possible that Representative Zihlman of Maryland, chairman of the District committee, will m2ke another fight for restoration of the $121,000 appropriation for 74 additional school teachers when the biil comes out of _committee of the whole. This amend- iment was beaten by a decisive vote| {vesterds Maryland. Wins School Fight. : The main fight yesterday was ‘waged over an effort on the part of Representauve Hudson of Michigan to bar from the District schools all _outside students now attending the i8chools free Delow the ninth grade. iThe resutt of the fight ended in an- other victory for the Maryland dele- ‘gation, which ‘had put through sev- ‘eral items during the day. { Mr. Hudson based his plea for the ‘prohibition against non-resident pu- :pils attending District schools on the jground that the local elementary schools are overcrowded and that Dis- trict taxpayers should not be com- pelled to pay for the tuition of more ‘than 3.000 outside pup! Consider- .ing the teachers alone, he declared, it ‘was an annual charge of more '$270,000. . Aa +_ Representatives Hill 2nd Zihlran of ‘Maryland and Mr. Blanton made points of order against the Hudson amendment, but these were over- sruled by the chair. _The fight to bar Maiyland and Vir- ginia pupils drew support from Rep- resentative ' Byrnes of Tennessee, who declared it was unjust to tax District residents because Maryland and Virginia have inadequate ele- mentary school facilities. “I have no interest in this matter,” he said, “but I do know there are people in the District who object very seriously to being required > pay out of the Treasury money to cducate the ‘children of those who live in border States. They do not have to live there; they can move back here. If they live in Maryland and pay taxes there, then Maryland should provide school facilities for them.” Tincher Joins Fight. Representative Tincher of Kansas, opposing the amendment, declared hat if a man is employed by the Government, werking in the District, he should not be penalized for going sutside the border and trying to live within his means. “Is it not a fact,” asked Mr. Hud- son, “that in communities just over the District line where there are «lementary schools with room enough for the puplls those very pupils are not attending those schools, but are coming into the District: schools, where they have part time?” “I do not understand that to be the fact,” replied Tincher. “That is true” said Hudson. “I live next to the District line and I know,” Mr. Hill pleaded that the present rule permits the children of officers and men of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and other Govern- ment employes to receive free tuition in the District and this should not be discontinued merely hecause they reside outside the District. He cited the case of children at Fort Myer and the Agricultural Experimental Station, who would be denied tuition here if the Hudson amendment pre- vailed. * Mr. Hudson won his amendment on the first vote, when it was adopted, #0 to 37. Representative Linthicum of Maryland then demanded a teller's vote and the amendment was defeat- ed by a vote of 52 to 49, after a quo- rum had been assembled. Barkley Scores Schools. Senator-elect Barkley of Kentucky then took the floor and denounced conditions in the schools. With ail the money that is being spent here to beautify the Capital, he said that the schools, with the exception of Central High School, do not “look much bet- ter than livery stables.” “If the Fine Arts Commission ap- proves of the designs,” he sald, “then there is no such thing as a fine arts commission.” Mr. Zihiman told him, however, the Fine Arts Commission had only to do with the sites, but Mr. Barkley main- tained his purpose was to tryv to get of the McFadden banking bill. They do not regard it as the viclous measure from an economic viewpoint that the original McNary-Haugen bill was sup- posed to be, In other words, some of the men who will vote against the measure on principle are willing to see some farm relief plan tried out .and the agitation ended, temporarily at least. Had the McNary-Haugen bill contained provisions which were dis- astrous in an economic sense, the usual filibustering tactics would have been employed. and the McFadden bill's chances for passage at this ses- slon forfeited. Many Views on Banking. So far as the farm group is con- cerned, it had no real interest in pre- venting the branch banking measure from going through. There are all sorts of viewpoints on the branch banking problem, but here, too, the farm bloc was ready to let the legisla- tion go through and an experiment be started on the new plan. In some cases the McFadden bill enlarges the powers of national banks to an extent that will be welcomed by | them, though it does put them some- what in competition with trust com- panies on real estate loans, which hitherto could be made for a year, and now can be made for at least a three- vear period, A limitation is placed on the: amount of capital that can be used for real estate loans, but the present provisions have not been con- sidered helpful, and it is contended the national banks will have a greater in- centive to lend their money in this respect than heretofore. ‘There has been talk of a legislative trade on the Boulder Dam bill in the House, but the interests are so com- plicated that it was said to have been abandoned, although a last-minute re- vival of the effort to get the Boulder Dam proposal through the House this time may yet be made. (Copyright. 1027.) —— SENATE WOULD USE SURPLUS ON DEBT; VOTE IS 46 T0 33 (Continued from First Page.) consideration of a tax-reduction bill .n the remaining days of this session He said the Democrats would even help to appiy a cloture rule in order to_pass a tax bill. In_closing the debate in favor of the Norris plan, Senator Smoot, Re- publican, of Utah, and chairman of the finance committee, said he would over- look the political aspects of the ques- tion and appeal to the Senate to look at this problem of Government as business men. Any man in private | business, he sald, would see the wis. | dom of using any surplus he might have toward payment of his debts. He reminded the Senate that in 1928, $2,500,000,000 of Government bonds will fall due, adding that some of these bonds already have been bought in by the Treasury. The public debt, he said, has been materially reduced in recent years by ‘using surplus tax money in addition to the sinking fund. Sees Reduced Surplus. “Some of you say, ‘let the coming generation pay the debt! The coming generation, I rear, will have all they can bear to take care of and we should reduce our public debt while the Na- tion is prosperous and we can do it. Senators have not stopped to con- sider that in the last six months of 1926 the surplus was nothing like what it was for the first half of last year." Senator Smoot concluded by saying that no man in the country can tell with any degree of reliability at this time to what extent taxes could be reduced. He said that when the full effects of the last tax reduction bill are known, Congress will then be in a position to decide whether taxes can be further cut. The proposal of Senator Harrison was characterized as nothing more than a gesture by Senator Killette, Republican, of Massachusetts, in the Senate today. “It is a palpable and bare-faced at- Mississippl to transfer to himself and | {his assoclates some of the popularity | coming to this administration as the | result of previous tax reduction,” Sen- ator Gillett declared, “Those tax re- Auctions were brought about by the coxercise of stringent economy on the part of the administration, and now {he opponent wants to take some of the credit. This same gesture was made in the House, which was the lonly place it could have any effect, |and it fafled.” Swanson Reported Better. Senator Swanson of Virginia, who has been absent several days from the Senate from an infection of the ear, was reported today as improving, with prospects of returning to the Senate Monday. BAND CONCERT. { tempt on the part of the Senator from | " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927. VICTIMS AND WRECK IN KENSINGTON’S GRUESOME GRADE-CROSSING TRAGEDY Upper: Remains,_ of auto in fatal crash at Kensington. Lower, lett to right: Walter Twombly, Mrs. Walter Twombly, Paul Twombly and Miss Elizabeth Twombly. OFFER CAARCE NSULTATNORFOLK Coast Guard Chief Calls Fail- ure to Receive Lunch In- vite “Discourtesy.” By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., February 4.—~Be- cause the commandant of the Norfolk Coast Guard division or a representa- tive of the office was not invited to attend a luncheon held on hoard the United States Lines steamer George Washington at the navy vard Monday afternoon, Capt. F. S, Van Boskerck, Coast Guard commandant at Norfolk, has made an official report to head- quarters, Washington, in which his failure to receive an invitation to the affair was determined as a “dis- courtesy."” “As F. 8. Van Boskerck, my fail- ure to receive an invitation to the affair is of no consequence, but as Capt. F. S. Van Boskerck, comman- dant of the Norfolk Coast Guard di- vision and port captain, the apparent ‘official discourtesy’ is another thing,” {he said. Every Government Agency There. Practically every Government agency at Norfolk except the Coast Guard Service was represented at the gathering on the George Washington. The Army, Navy, Post Office and cus- toms services were represented. Capt! Van Boskerck took the mat- ter up with G. F. Blair, district man- ager for the Shipping Board, who helped make arrangements for the Juncheon. Mr. Blair stated that Capt. Henry. Williams of the navy yard staff was assigned the task of ‘nvvib ing officers to the affair. Capt. Wil- liams in turn stated that he had noth- !ing whatever to do with inviting any- body but naval officers. Explains It as Oversight. Mr. Blair said he greatly regretted the fact that the Coast Guard was overlooked in sending out invitattons and that the failure to invite Capt. Van Boskerck was entirely an over- sight. Coast Guard headquarters here to- day had not received any official re- port on the failure of Shipping Board officials to invite Capt. F. S. Van Boskerck to the dinner. It was point- ed out at Coast Guard headquarters, however, that while Capt. Van Boskerck was In charge of all port matters there, the quest.on of inviting him to a dinner aboard a Shipping Board vessel was a matter for the Shipping Board, and not one for the Coast Guard here to take up. They thought it possible that some one charged with the duty of inviting offi- clals had just made a slip, and that it was only through an inadvertence that the Coast Guard division com- mander’s name was left out. SUIT IS DISMISSED. Mrs. Mildred M. Haz;rd Agrees to End Wardman Case. Mrs. Mildred M. Hazard, who re- cently sued the Wardman Construc- tion Co. for an injunction to prevent the sale of Cathedral Mansions South, today agreed to the dismissal of the 5 An _order of ~dismissal was signed by Justice Bailey with consent of Attorneys Wilton J. Lamberi and | Charles S. Baker, representing the plaintiff. It is understood that an agreement was reached out of court, | ana deeds to certain properties in con: | troversy between the litigants were filed with the recorder of deeds. The Cathedral Mansion South was so0ld at auction for $350,000 in excess of the first deed of trust, and was purchased by Robert L. McKeever of the firm of McKeever & Goss. Attor- neys Daniel Thew Wright and Philip Ershler appeared for the Wardman Co. Capt. H. P. Perrine Dies. The War Department ‘has just been advised of the death at Atlantic City of Capt. Henry P. Perrine, U. 8. A. He was graduated from the Military Academy in 1869, served.in the Cav- TOMORROW. the school officials, the Commission- ‘ers or the municipal architect By the United States Soldiers’ Home alry in varibus Indian campaigns and was reiired for disability incident to One of the most drastic prohibition bills ever presented to Congress was introduced yesterday by Represent- ative Sproul, Republican, Kansas, who proposed the stationing of assistant Federal district attorneys and prohi- bition commissioners in every county and city with a population of 25,000 or more, mandatory jail sentences for first offenders and penitentiary sen- tences for persistent violators. The bill also would prohibit the manufacture and sale of medicinal liquor and would require prohibition law violators, in addition to serving Drastic Rum Regulations. Patterned After Kansas Law, Proposed by Sprqul prison sentences, to pay heavy fines, which would be used to defray the cost of administering the new law. “My bill,” Sproul said, “is fashioned to a large extent upon the Kansas bone-dry law, which has proved par- ticularly effective and has been well enforced.” Denying the need for medicinal whisky, he asserted that “among the foremost physiclans and surgeons of the present day it is the general agree- ment that in the practice of medicine and surgery intoxicating liquors are in no way necessary.” LACK OF PERMITS HALTS BUILDING Inspector’s Office Runs Out of Blanks—Fight Held Responsible. More than a score of building opera- tions have been delayed in the District this week because the building in- spector’s office ran out of building per- mit blanks, it was learned today at the District Building. The supply of blanks which au- thorize builders and contractors to proceed with their work became ex- hausted Monday, and all applications for permits filed since that time have been held up pending the delivery of a new allotment, for which a contract was awarded to a Baltimore printer January 27. Fight Over Funds The lack of the permit blanks and the resultant suspension of building construction, it was pointed out, is due to a controversy between the auditor's office and the building inspector's of- fice over the allotment of funds. Anticipating the need for additional permit blanks, John W. Oehmann, building :nspector, sent in a requisi- tion November 27 for 20 books con- taining 6,000 permit blanks, A Wash- ington printer had submitted a bid of $205 for supplying the books and Mr. Ochmann recommended that he be given the contract. The auditor’s office, however, declined to approve the requisition on the ground that funds to the credit of the building in- spector’'s office were insufficient. The building inspector then urged that the contract be awarded to the lowest bidder. The auditor’s office, it was said, then indorsed the requisition, but before the award was made the order was lost. As a result new bids were called for, and because of this delay the con- tract was not awarded until Jan- uary 21. Inadequate Appropriation. Mr. Oehmann explained that inade- quate appropriations have handicap- buttons, the adopted badge of elevator operators, less expensive cards are being issued. The car-token allotment to building ihspectors, he said, also had to be reduced from 50 to 35 a month, forcing these men to use their personal funds for carfare, The appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses for the building inspector’s office for the cur- rent fiscal year, Mr. Oehmann point- ed out, amounted to $1,800. Out of this must come $550 for the purpose of car tokens, $150 for postage, print. ing and other incidental expenses. JOBLESS WORRY FRANCE. 2,000 Seeking to Question Poin- care Dispersed by Police. PARIS, February 4 (#).—Two thou- sand unemployed porsons gathered this afternoon outside the Chamber of Deputies, where Premier Poincare was expected to reply to Interpelia- tions on the lack of employment. The crowd was dispersed by the police. The Leftists accuse the government of underestimating the number of un- employed in the country and of doing little to relieve the situation. the service in July, 1891. He was a or | Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 | native of New Jersey, and his widow, “whoever i responsible” to design de- | p.m.; John 8. M. Zimmermann, leader; | Mrs. Louise S, Perrine, 1s a resident cent looking buildings. Emil A. Fenstad, second r. ot Trenton. . B oo An electrically operated toothbrush has been invented. . s ped his office in other ways. Instead of | PLOT AGAINST KING OFTALIANS DENID Ambassador Says Rumor Originated With an Adven- turess in Europe. ~The Italian embassy today formally denied a dispatch from Paris yester- day relating ‘‘strange rumors of a Fascist plot” to depose King Viector Emmanuel and Crown Prince Hum- bert. The rumors originated in a bol- shevik agency, the embassy stated. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, the Am- basador from Italy, sent the following telegram to The Star: “I have seen in tonight's (vester- day's) Evening Star a story of a Fas- cist plot against the King and Crown Prince of Italy. This story is abso- lutely false and has been widely spread by a bolshevik agency in Russia. It was originated by an adventuress who invented the plot with: the idea of get- ting money. Identified and arrested, she has confessed her mystification. Y will be grateful to you if you will give publicity to this telegram.” The Russian adventuress, it was said at the embassy, had threatened to embarrass the Fascist government with the widespread publication of an alleged plot unless it paid her tremen- dous sums of money. When the threat was ignored, it was said, the woman sought to carry it into execution through the medium of the Bolshevik agency, which set the rumors afloat in Paris. These rumors persisted so consistent- ly that newspaper men picked them up and cabled them to all parts of the world. The Star's story was from Paul Scott Mowrer, prominent Ameri- can journalist, who said it was report- ed that King Victor Emmanuel did not approve certain of Mussolini's more drastic laws, -including re-establish- ment of the death penalty and sup- pression of the opposition press. A U. S. TRIBUTE OF SILVER. Wreath for Japanese Emperor's Funeral Sent to Imperial Palace. TOKIO, February 5 (#).—America’s wreath to the funeral of the late Em- peror Yoshihito was taken to the im- perial palace today. It is made of solid silver, is 80 inches tall and has an oak leaf design. Later, when the funeral is held, February 7, it will be removed to the Shinjuku funera! pavilion and there presented by American Ambas- sador MacVeagh in the name of Presi- dent_Coolidge. All of the wreaths being sent by the various governments are of silver, but are of varying designs. After the fu- neral they will be preserved in the imperfal museum. SLAVER COFFEY GETS LFETERM Pleads Guilty to Slaying Woman to Whom He Was Bigamously Married. By the Associated Press. LANCASTER, Wis, February 4.— William N. Coffey was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Waupon Penitentiary today when he pleaded gullty before Circuit Judge Sherman D. Smalley to a charge of murdering Mrs. Hatfie Hales, to whom he was bigamously married. . Coffey, 'who had engaged no legal ddviser, told county officials that his signed _confessions contained all de- tails of the crime. Blames Infatuation for Widow. An infatuation for a gray-haired widow and the coveting of her mod- est fortune led Coffey first to bigamy, then to murder, and finally to the forgery which caused his arrest. ‘When he met Mrs. Hales, 51, of La Crosse, he forgot his wife of 23 years in Madison and their three children. After a swift courtship Coffey married her at Winona, Minn., se/l:::amber 15, 1926. er a four-week honeymoon Coffey, having obtained mo’;t of Mrs. Hales' funds, decided upon murder to hide his bigamous mar- riage, The slaying took place in a woods n¢ar here, A base ball bat and a hammer were us;d. g 0 aliay the suspicions of Mrs. Hales’ family, Coffey sent them 1:- ters purporting to have been written by his wife, signing them with a rub- ber stamp in imitation of her signa- ture. While he was practicing this deception, Mrs. Willlam S. Holdridge, a sister of Mrs. Hales, was quietly working with & brother to bring Coffey to justice. Coffey was induced to return to Wis- consin from Asheville, N. C., by the prospect of obtaining more ‘of Mrs. Hales’ property. Forgery of her name to $5600 worth of stock led to his ar- rest. Then followed three confessions, with Coffey eventually leading officers to the graves in Riter's Woods, Changes His Story. Coffey first said he had accidentally killed Mrs. Hales when she attacked him with the bat. He said he threw her body into the Mississippi River, Later he admitted that the killing had been deliberate. ‘While Coffey led officers to the burial place, Mrs. Coffey filed suit for divorce at Madison, Coffey was born in Iowa. An affair at the age of 24 with a woman many years older than himself led to Cof- fey's conviction on a larceny charge, and he served a three-and-a-half-year sentence in the Iowa State Prison. His first marriage took place four vears later at Lawrence, Kans. For many years Coffey was engaged in prison reform work, ~Later he was | an advertising solicitor, a collection agent and a bond salesman. e ‘Woman Held in Robbery. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., February 4— In arresting Maggile Harris, colored, of Halls Hill early this morning county police authorities believe they have cleared up the robbery Wednes- day night of thé home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Moss of Aurora Heights, when clothing estimated at $200 was stolen, She was seen.in the vicinity of the Moss home Wednesday night, Sherift Howard B. Flelds went to her home and found goods identified as those taken. He also arrested Bessie Page for investigation. Boy Refuses to Sit With Girls at School, So Truant Officer Meets His Ultimatum By the Associated Pr HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., . put my seat right with the girls. The | February | girls in my room at school write me | 4—Girls worry him, write notes to| notes and pull at me all the time, and him and pick at him, and he isn't golng to school because of that, an 8-year-old Belmont youngster the truant officer herg yesterday. The youthful misogynist refused positively to return to school until his seat was changed. “ “I don’t like my teacher because she 1 just ain’t going to school as los 1 have got to sit with the girls, told | said, in giving his reason for being absent from school two days. Miss Moy Martin, truant officer, said that sfice the youngster had is- sued an tum, his conditions | Declare 1,800,000 Rounds Were Seized. | can ‘Marines in Nicaragua of 1,800,000 | gram, which was from Dr. Espinosa, tal A LEADER, JALED Conservative Government| Says Compromising Papers Were Found on Him. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, DXMicaragua, Februa 4.—Gen. Crisanto Zapata, Liberal com- | mander, whose capture was announced | several days ago by the Conservative | government, has been brought from Granada. to the Managua Penitentiary, | where it is stated he will be kept Conservative government de-; clares that compromising documents | were found on the person of Gen. Zapata. The general, the Conse tives explain, had evaded the Con servative forces for a long time. He was finally cornered with four com panfons near Nandaime and attempted to escape. A bullet in his arm caused him to fall from his horse, and he was obliged to surrender. LIBERALS ACCUSE MARINES. Protest to State Department. Seizure and destruction by Ameri- rounds of ammunition belonging to the Sacasa liberal faction was charged last night by Dr. T. Vaca, repre- sentative here of the Sacasa group. Dr. Vaca sald he had been informed by cable from Puerto Cabezas that the ammunition was dumped into a river Thursday a week ago. The cable- foreign minister in the Sacasa _cab- inet, said a protest and demand for reparation had been made to the State Department through the United States consul at Bluefields. In making ‘public the message Vaca reiterated that Sacasta was willing to resign his claims to the presidency in favor of a third candi- date to be agreed upon by the Diaz and Sacasa factions. Vaca, said he had accepted, on be- half of Dr. Sacasa, the reported mediation offer of Secretary Kellogg, and had ihformed the Secretary of Sacasa's “real attitude.” e XA DELEGATES FAVOR ' B-CENT GAS TAX Maryland House Members Decide i at Meeting to Support i Bills. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 4.— Members of the House ways and means committee at a meeting late yesterday indicated they favored an increase in the gasolire tax from 2 to & cents. The Senate finance committee, it is understood, will recommend a 4%3-cent rate. Favorable reports on the two pending measures will be made by both committees, assuring passage, with doubt as to whether the 4% or 5 cent ! rate will be finally adopted. | IRREGULARITIES CHARGED. Alleged Inequalities and irregulari- ties in proposed’ app! ons for public schools in divisions 10-13 were attacked in a resolution passed by the Washington Commercial Association at a meeting held in the Prudential ‘Bank Building last night. The resolu- ! tion provided that the chairman of the Senate District committee be noti- fled of the action of the association. The newly elected officers took office as follows: President, C. W. Banton; vice president, J. A. Lankford; secre- IAPATA, LIBERAL ANTIFISHINGBILL | { | { | | | STIRS JAPANESE California Measure Basis for Fresh Anti-American Prop- aganda in Japan. BY J. RUSSELL K By Radio to The Star and ( News. Copyright, 19 TOKIO, February 4.—An ing bill introduced into the California State Legislature becoming tk basis for fresh anti-American propa ganda among the Japanese masses whose antagonism is easily aroused Japanese newspapers charge tha “America is trying to rob poor Japa nese residents while Japan's attention is occupied in Chin: It is regarded as a portentious movement by outsiders to stir up sen timent which has been gradually sub siding since the exclusion act was by Congress nearly three years EDY icako Daly ti-fish is The anti-fishing measure before the California * Assembly mentioned as having been used as the basis of anti American propaganda in J. similar to laws which have been in force in Washington, Oregon and Brit ish Columbia for some ti It would forbld fishing in Stat aliens. ineligible to cit aimed at Japanese in C: have extensive inte Port of Los Ange ests at Monterey points in the State. ure has been introduced in the ( fornia Legislature at previous sions, but was not pushed strongl; enough by interested groups to se cure passage. TAYLOR SECRETARY ASSUMES BLAME Senate Committee Hears She Took Responsibility for Letters Under His Signature. and By the Associaibd Press Responsibility for letters under the signature of Representative Taylor, - Republican, Tennessee, to postmasters in his State sollciting campaign funds was assumed before the second grand jury at’ Nashville by Miss Dorothy Schultz, Taylor's secre tary, a Senate judiciary. subcom mittee was told today. W. H. Lindsay, assistant prosecu tor at Nashville, who presented the charges against Taylor to the grand jury, told the subcommittee hearing rotests against the reappointment of District Attorney McLane that Miss Schultz said she returned the money on instructions from Taylor. Under severe cross-examination by Senators «Ca vay, & s, and Overman, North Carolina, Democratic members of the committee, Lindsay said he did not think Taylor “‘techni cally was guilty.” He said he had told McLane that before he was assigned to the case, but added that MecLane held a contrary view. “ written DEATH OF 5 IN AUTO IS BLAMED ON RACE | FOR RAIL CROSSING (Continued from First Page) - Paul street was deserted today. Neigh bors maintained a fire in the furnace, , W. R. Wilks, and treasurer, A. Mitchell. President Banton announced the fol- lowing committee chairmen: G. B. Reid, street illumination; A. W. Mitchell, public schools; J. A. Lank- ford, new enterprises, and Lieut. Col. West A. Hamilton, membership. Today in Congress SENATE. Harrison resolution to put the Senate on record in favor, of tax reduction at this session was taken up, with an agreement to vote not later than 2 o’clock. Senate will vote at 4 o’cloék on the Lenroot bill to regulate the im- portation of milk and cream into the United States from Canada of other foreign countries. Senate agreed to hold a special session from 5 until 7 o'clock this evening to act dbn appropriation bill for. the War Department and for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor. Senator McNary, in charge of, the pending farra-relief bill, may’ deliver the opening argument for the measure today. District of Columbia subcommit- tee will hold a hearing this after- noon on a street-extension bill. Investigation of the bread indus- try by the Federal Trade Commis- slon was the subject of further hearings before a judiciary sub- committee today. Special Senate committee con- tinued hearing on Tariff Commis- sion. Senator Cameron of the military affairs committee made favorable report on the bill for the establish- ment of a national military park on Civil War battlefleld near Fred- ericksburg, Va. HOUSE. The House today accepted the conference report on the urgent deficlency appropriation bill. House continues consideration on District of Columbia appropri- ation bill. Gibson subcemmittee of House District committee continues hear- ings tonight with discussion of controller general's report on St. Elizabeth's Hospital, House committee on public bufld- ings and grounds reports” new House office bullding bill and tables District armory bill. Appropriations subcommittee in executive session on second de- ficiency bill. Naval affairs committee holds regular meeting in executive ses- sion. : Veterans committee in executive session on omnibus hospital bill, Banking and currency commit- tee continues hearing on stabili- zation. Committee on coinage, weights and measures conducts hearing on bill to create grades and stand- ards for farm products. and discussed in hushed tones the tragedy, while they awaited the ar- rival of the only surviving son. Meanwhile co-workers of Mr. Twomb ly at the Federal Trade Commission were ralsing a fund for flowers, the funeral probably will be held Monday The touring car in which the Twom- blys and Mrs. Holland rode to their deaths was demolished, its top torn completely off, and its frame and body crushed and bent beyond recog nition. Apparently the speeding en gine struck the car about in the mid. dle, crashing through the rear. Ths side curtains were up on the car, ad ding to the difficulty of vision and o hearing the warning: bell. Twombly Born in Boston. Mr. Twombly was born in Boston April 11, 1869, coming to Washington from Chicago in 1904 as an employe of the Bureau of Corporations, which -'was absorbed by the pr nt Federal Trade Commission in He was an expert stenographer and was private secretary to Edward N. Hurley when Mr. Hurley was a member of the commission. Ranked as a special agent, he was also classed as an economist, and traveled a good deal on the various investigations under taken by the commission. Paul Twombly was a_ graduate of Gonzaga High School and the Foreign Service School of Georgetown Uniyer sity. He was employed at the Univer. sity, in the office of the Mrs. Twombly was i few days ago as the grand regent of Forest Glen Court, No. 961, Catholic Daughters of America. abeth Twombly would have ated from Holy Cross A in June. She be dent there for more than two y whose age was given ved by her hus daughters — Clalre, aged 18; Marjorie, aged 14, and Elline, aged 10. Mr. Holland was prostrated today by the tragedy. Miss Claive Holland also attended the card party, but rode home in another car. Mrs. Holland was & member of the Kengla family of Georgetown. Council Urged Protection. The Town Council of Kensington, it was sald today, hus repeatedly asked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to provide adequate protection at the crossing, either. in the form of flash ing lights or a fulltime watchman The railroad, according to the resi- dents, has not been’ receptive to = proposal to spend a large amount of money at the crossing. Under plans approved several years ago, the cross- ing would have been eliminated by carrying Connecticut avenue in a straight line at a point 200 yards north of the present crossing, through the town to a junction with St. Paul street. Fire Chief Raney and members of the ‘volunteer department had been attending a county meeting in Rock- ville last evening and had just put the fire truck in its garage when the crash came, They rushed to the scene of the accident. A month ago an automobile driven Committee on insular affairs conducts hearing on Philippine Islands. Post office committee continues hearing on future policy of Post ‘Office Department, Rules committee continues hear- ing on Harriman resolution on 4 geographic code. Rivers and harbors committee continues hearings. % Military affairs committee in session on Muscle jxecutive by a boy named Phillips was struck by a freight train on the same cross- ing. . Phillips escaped uninjured, but his car was demolished. The acci- dent_early today was the third at the Kensington crossing in 20 years, according to residents of the town. Several years ago a_woman pedes- trian was killed when she stepped from behind a freight train into the path of an expres: B Gold mines of South Africa have a 1s. labor shortage. '