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unday Stae WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, possibly light rain in morn- ing; warmer this afternoon; tomorrow fair and colder. Temperature—High- aet, 4l at midnight; lowest, 20 at “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. ' Telephone Main 5000 pm. s Full report on Page 7. and service will start immediately. he ASHINGTON Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1,142—No. 30,231. .,, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1927.-106 PAGES. ¥ FIVE CENTS. (P) Means Associated Pre U. 5. WOULD AVERT SHANGHAI DISASTER BY NEUTRALIZATION Kellogg Springs Surprise in| His Appeal for Immunity of Foreign Settlement. RECEPTION OF PROPOSAL BY FACTIONS UNCERTAIN Britain Gets Backing of Mussolini in Protective Policy for For- eigners in China. By the Associated Press. A formal proposal by Secretary Kellogg to the warring factions in China for elimination of the interna- tional settlement at Shanghai from the theater of hostilities has injected a new element into the tangled Chinese situation. The proposal has been forwarded to Minister MacMurray at Peking for textual delivery both in Peking and Hankow. Pending its receipt by the leaders of the two factions, publica- tlon of the text was withheld at the State Department. The only information given as to its nature was the statement that it con- templated the exemption of the Shanghai international settlement from the thea of military opera- tions in the inese civil war. So far as could be learned, the immunity from attack or incidental damage to foreigners and their property would be confined strictly to the international settlement and not extended to in- clude any zome or territory outside the boundaries of the settlement, which would be neutralized. Move Comes as Surprise. [or that reason State Department officials drew a distinction between the Kellogg proposal and repoits that he had suggested a neutral zone agree- ment to the Chinese.leaders. The new American move to protect American and other foreign nationals in Shanghai and their property from violence camie as a complete surprise. | There was no previous intimation that | an effort was contemplated to get the | northern and southern leaders in China to agree to a course tha: would make unnecessary the evacuation of hai by forelgners or require ¢x- tensive landing operations by foreign naval forces to guarantes protection, btedly the Kell s is fbm u.v‘on the nple‘al-?gubpu‘:' dec- the o ng, that both stdes %flmtm had no now a of gners at Shanghal. numbemflma‘ Minister MacMurray has R@m[ ready taken steps to present pro- | posal directly to Chang T'so Lin, Man- | churian war lord and the dominating figiire n the alliance of northern pro-| vinclal military governors, which is | to the Cantonese effor: to " the power of that faction over northern China. ‘Unusual Procedure Followed. The government machinery at Peking has no firm constitutional background ‘which would justify the usual methods of diplomatic - ex-| ghanges being relied upon exclusively. At Hankow, however, which is now headquarters of the Cantonese regime, it is assumed that Foreign Minister Chen has sufficient authority to <om- mit the Cantonese government to a course of action such as Mr. Kellogg | has proposed. In the absence of the proposals themselves or of the detailed negotia- | tions which their acceptance by both | sides probably would involve, it is not possible to state what steps toward insuring the protection of the inter- mational settlement might be required by foreign naval forces concentrated | in that vicinily, The line of de- markation between the settlement and the native city is no more than a nar- yow street running through a,-con- gested center of population with houses and buildings on both sides. Just how the two Chinese factions will receive the proposal Washington officials refuse to predict. them doubt that this plan w cepted, as they belleve there is too much at stake at Shanghai for the Northerners to surrender control they now exercise or for the Southerners 1o abandon their efforts to capture thia huge commercial cente Others More Optimistic. Other observers, however, are in- clined to believe that by limiting the proposed exemption s tly to the international settlement Secretary Kellogg may have paved the way for an acceptance, due to the desire of bot Chinese groups to avoid any actual clash with the forces of foreign government: They point out that, in any event, should the Cantonese drive, now a hundred miles or more south of Shanghal, continue and the troops of Sun Chuan Fang, provincial gover- nor of the Shanghai area and ally of | Chang Tso-Lin, be forced to retreat upon Shanghai itself, they probabiy would not permit themselves to be cooped up in the city itself, but would ack farther to the itions in itself would be a difficult point to hold in a military sense. Whether the Kellogg proposal in- cludes provisions for patrol of the in- ternational settlement-boundary by fo elgn naval forces to insure protectio of the settlement from rioting, swarms of Chinese refugees from the battle zones and possible attempted looting of troops of a defeated army has not heen revealed. All of the possibil- ities have figured in the apprehension of the Washington Government over the security of its nationals at Shang hai, however, and prompted-the con- centration of warships and Marines elther at Shanghai or at points from which they could be called quickly to the Shanghai area in an actual emer- geny LONDON SEES LULL IN CHINA. Cabinet, However, Carr, Policy as Outlined. LONDON, February 5 (#).—With the cabinet committee in practically continuous session on _the Chinese Out " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4) | - . . Restriction of Serv1 Double-deck busses of the Washing- ton Rapid Transit Co. may be pro- hibited from operating on any but the widest streets in Washington as a result of the mysterious trimming of more than 50 Norway maples on Thirteenth street between Iarvard street and Park road, it was indicated vesterday afternoon at the District Building. The trees, it was said, were mutilated by employes of the bus company without the knowledge or ap- proval of District officials, and steps already have been taken to prosecute them. Maj. W. E. R. Covell, senior assist- ant engineer commissioner and public utility commission attache, has been instructed by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, chairman of the com- mission, to make a thorough investi- gation of the width of the streets over which the double-deckers now run, and also the condition of the trees along the routes. Proposed Ban Not Penalty. This information will be used by the commission in the preparation of an order prohibiting the busses from run- ning on streets where they might en- danger trees. Officials of the: commission point out that the proposed ban on the dou- ble-deck busses is not a penalty against the company, as its officials have de- nied any responsibility for the tree- trimming episode. The blame was DOUBLE-DECK BUSSES FACE CURB AFTER MYSTERY TREE TRIMMING Considered as Result of Lopping of Branches of 13th St. Maples. ce to Widest Streets placed on an “overzealous employe,™ The trees were cut by a person un- ar with the work, and the sym- of a number of them was de- stroyed, according to Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings. t is apparent, he said, that the trim- ming was done hurriedly, as only | parts of limbs were sawed, and then | | wrenched off. An act of Congress prescribes a penalty of a $50 fine for mutilation L of trees on public property and evi- | dence is being prepared by District of- ficlals to prosecute the person who damaged those on upper Thirteenth street. Long Source of Trouble. Operation of the double-deck busses | on streets where they interfered with the trees has long been a source of trouble to Mr. Lanham. A number of times the trees along Sixteenth and other streets where busses run have | been trimmed by Mr. Lanham's forces at the request of the bus compan | Each time a flood of protests came from the residents along these streets. The low branches on the trees also have cdused injury to several pas- sengers and there is one lawsuit now pending against the company over such an occurrence. Commissioner Bell indicated that upper Thirteenth street _probably would be one of the thoroughtares on which the“busses would not be per- mitted to operate. Maj. Covell's in- vestigation will indicate the others. Tt is likely that double-deckers will be confined to Sixteenth street. 2 RALROALS G 51000 WACE RASE Eastern Lines’ Increase for Firemen and Enginemen “Is 7 1-2 Per Cent. By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, February 5.—Thirty- one thousand firemen and enginemen on 27 Eastern rallroads and their sub: sidiarfes will find their wage envelopes swollen next pay day as a result of a settlement reached today between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, granting a 7% per cent increase in pay. ‘The settlement, modeled closely on and Wallace W. Hanger, member of the United States Board of Mediation, and is said to be the first agré®ment of ‘this magnitude to be reached through mediation. ¥ Under New Rail Law. It was brought about wunder pro- visions of the Watson-Parker law, which provides for mediation, and that failing, for arbitration, and final- Iy for an emergency board created by the President of the United States The original demand of the firemen, calling for a flat increase of $1 per day and up, involved an amount of $13,000,000. This was withdrawn and a new agreement reached for an in- crease on the “sliding wage scale,” which will call for an outlay of 5,000,000. The settlement came as a result of two weeks’ conference between Mr. Hanger in_the capacity: of mediator and D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and John G. Walber, {chairman of the committee represent- |ing the railroads. Agreement for Year. _The settlement is effective from Feb- ruary 1, 1927, and the agreement is operative for one year. Certain minor requests of the fire- men were granted or modified, Mr. | Hanger said. The request for allow- {ance for overtime, meals, lodging and expenses when train crews were away {from home was withdrawn without | prejudice. Among the larger roads affected are the New York Central, Pennsylvania, i Reading, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Erie, Lehigh Valley, Mich- igan Central and Baltimore and Ohio. Thirty-two subsidiary lines are also {affected. KILLED IN FIRST FLIGHT. Employe Dies, Hurt in Crash. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February 5 | P).—A. C. Tunner, 23, of Lewisburg, {Tenn., was killed and Vivian Jones, former Army aviator, was severely in- | jured when the airplane piloted by | Jones crashed from an altitude of | of 1,500 feet, here late today. Turner was an employe of the engi- neering department of the Birming- ham Electric Co., and was making his Electric Aviator | Witnesses were unable to account | for the crash ! Jones recovered consciousness shortly after he was taken to a hos. | pital. Turner's body Is being held | pending instructions from relatives in ennessee. FLYER OFF TO FIND ARGTIC BLIND SPOT Capt. Wilkins Will Claim 800,000 Square Miles for United States. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February b.—Prepared for an expedition of a few weeks of airplane flights or two to three years afoot on polar ice, in the event of mishap to the planes, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins left here today on his second quest for land and further knowledge of the 800,000 unexplored square miles north of Alaska. The the . Detr Ofve-the conductors “trainmen ro. | News: cently effected, was made before G. staft News. Most of his personnel planned to meet him at Seattle. Thore were no formalities at his leave taking. Capt. Wilkins and his party expect to reach Fairbanks, Alaska, on Tues- day, February 27, going by way of Seattle, Wash., and Seward, Alaska. At Seattle he will be joined by Carl B. Eielson, chief pilot; Howard Mason, radio operator;, Orval H. Porter, me- chanic, and an assistant radio opera- tor. Two Planes on Way. The two Detroit-made airplanes with which Capt. Wilkins plans to make his flights into the Arctic “blind spot” already are en route to Seattle for trans-shipment to Fairbanks. Al- ger Graham of Detroit, chosen as sec- ond pilot of the expedition, will leave here next week in time to receive the planes at Seattle. A second mechanic is to be engaged at Fairbanks, where the first real test of the planes will come in the flight over the Brooks Range to Point Barrow, 600 miles north. A third plane, one of the large Fokkers used by Capt. Wilkins in his explorations last year, is at Falr- banks and also will be taken to Point Barrow. It is planned to have all (Continued on Page 8, Column 5.) CALLES INCREASES | DUTIES ON IMPORTS | Adds 5 Per Cent Ad Valorem on Virtually Everything Brought Into Mexico. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, February 5.—Pres- ident Calles today decreed increased import duties of 5 per cent ad valo- rem, effective 30 days hence, upon virtually everything imported into Mexico. The purpose of the decree is to in- crease government revenues, presum- ably to offset the actual or prospec- tive diminution of oil tax revenues resulting from the decreased ' opera- tions of foreign producers under the new petroleum law. The President’s proclamation lists | 717 classifications subject to increased | duty, Including almost every kind of food, drink, clothing, cloth, raw ma- terials and manufactured products generally. Tt is expected that the new duties will increase the cost of living, which already is high, and is coupled with considerable unemployment and gen- eral business depression, 'Ambulance Plane Rushes Officer | 250 Miles to Hospital infiRecord Time By the Associated Fress. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., February 5.— Landing at Fort Sam Houston late ! 7 . Fraser Richardson, ry, who was | Fort Ringgold on the Mexican border, |a Kelly Field aviator completed prob- |ably the lance run on record. from San and back was made by Master Sergt. E. F. Nendell in the Kelly Field aerial 100 miles an hour. accidentally, he underwent an operation tonight. A call for help was injured at longest and fastest ambu- | The dash of approximately 600 miles ambulance at a speed of more than Lieut. Richardson, whose skull was fractured when a gun was discharged was taken to the base hospital at Fort Sam Houston, where morning, and Sergt. Nendell took the | air shortly before noon for Fort Ring: gold. He started the return journey at 2:30 p.m., battling head winds and | a rainstorm, but brought the plane to the ground at Fort Sam Houston shortly before 5 p.m. . a Douglas 0-2 plane, igned. The patient lies In a stretcher swung in the fuse- lage and protected from the weather. The stretcher is placed in the plane through a long door on one side, and the medical attendant enters the other side and is seated beside the sick man, The pilot sits in the cockpit in front. Originally built to pick up aviators AGTON TONORROW TOPUTFINAL . ON TRANGLE BIL House Expected to Approve Plan 25 Years Old Under Rules Suspension. IMMEDIATE ACQUISITION DECLARED NECESSARY $100,000,000 Increase for Federal Buildings Outside District Also Hoped For. BY WILL P, KENNEDY. The acquisition of the entire triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue to the Mall, between the Capitol and the Treasury, which has been urged for 25 years as sites for Federal buildings in an orderly and co-ordinated group, is expected to receive final legislative approval tomorrow. Under suspen- sion of the rules, Chairman Elliott of the House committee ‘on public build- ings and grounds, will call up the Smoot-Underhill bill that has already passed the Senate, authorizing an ex- penditure of $25,000,000 to purchase all of the privately-owned land in this | triangle, on which to erect the new Federal buildirigs under the $50,000.- | 000 five-year program which passed | Congress last session. { As an amendment to this §25,000,- | 000 triangle bill, the Reed bill, which proposes to add another $100,000,000 to the $115,000,000 already authorized for post office buildings all over the country, will be offered by Mr. Elliott. Both Projects May Pass. ‘While there is some opposition from members of Congress who desire to get Federal bulldings for small places in their districts that cannot qualify under the program of the Treasury and Post Office Departments, there is little doubt but that both the $25,000,- 000 for acquisition of sites in Wash- ington and the $100,000,000 increase for buildings outside of Washington will be passed. ‘The report made by Mr. Elliott on the $25,000,000 bill, is as follows: “The public building act approved May - 25, 1926, authorizes a public- building program within the District of Columbia for construction of Gov- ernment buildings to the amount of THUS ENDETH COLED BN ROBER SO N HEREEL Girl Begs to Have Burglary Attempt Kept From Widowed Wother. By the Assoctated Press. VERMILION, 8. Dak., February 5. ~Desire for a university education— a pressing need of $24 for freshman tultion fees—led a 19-year-old Univer- sity of South Dakota co-ed into an un- successful attempt to rob the First National Bank here today. With stolen tools Miss Marion Meyers forced entry -to the bank in the early morning darkness, only to ‘B0.0&:.MO. such h:.lfldlnlfld"lu b; erected ai, an annual expenditure of 1 ear until the sum of 000,000 ¥ e aiten of May 25, 1926, contains the £ ng proviso: “w-me from land that may be acquired for a site for a building C ued on Page 6, Column 2.) JONES STRICKEN AT THE CAPITOL Senator From New Mexico Is Seriously Il at Emer- gency Hospital. By the Associated Press. Stricken with a heart attack yes- terday afternoon in the Senate barber shop, Senator Jones of New Mexico is in a serious condition at Emergency Hospltal. Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the attending physician, expressed hope that the veteran Democratic legis- lator would recover from this attack, but added that he was a very sick man. Had Attack Last Session. Senator Jones, who is 65 years old, has suffered from angina pectoris for several years and once during the last session of Congress he was obliged to give up work for several weeks. The Senator has been laboring for several weeks over the alien property return bill and made a brief address yesterday to the Senmate in explana- tion of that measure after it had been reported by Chalrman Smoot of the finance committee. Friends of soon after the sesslon opened that he was in rather bad physical shape. After his address, he had luncheon and later went to the barber shop to get a shave. | Placed on Floor. The barber was half finished when the Senator suffered an acute heart attack. Senator Copeland of New York, & physician, was hurriedly sum- moned and had the shop attendants being no couch handy. There was a generous response to a hurry call for whisky sent out by Dr. Copeland and this and other restoratives were ad- ministered gradually. Meantime Admiral Grayson, who has attended Senator Jones for some years was summoned. The patient’s condition was such that he could not be moved immedi- ately, but as his pulse gained strength he was taken to the hospital two hours after the attack. Contract Bridge The Newest Game An advanced feature of Auc- tion, which has swept Buropean countries by its popularity. Twelve lessons in this latest craze will be given daily by . V. Shepard, authority on the game, in Senator Jones noticed | place Senator Jones on the floor, there | meet failure and arrest. Just as she was about to apply en electric drill to the bank's vault door, is rounds u'armel A few minutes. later they found her, huddled in fright, on a rear stairway. Her courage gone, broken and racked by sobs, she cried herself to sleep tonight in the county jail, where she will remain until her pre- liminary hearing Monday on a charge of attempted robbery. Wants Mother Spared. “For heaven's sake, don’t tell mother,” was her constant plea, not knowing that her widowed mother, Mrs. M. L. Meyers, was expected here from Woonsocket, S. Dak., where she works in a restaurant. ‘While State’s Attorney H. O. Per- kins and other officials sought for evi- dence of male accomplices, vhe girl steadfastly insisted that she had heen alone. The finding of a boy.sh cam- pus hat with her name printed on the brim, led to her identification. Telegraph wires in the alley behind the bank and telephone wires within the building had been cut fn a man- ner that officials believed pointed to the participation of accomplices. Prof. C. C. Josey, in whoso home the girl worked for her board and room, sald she had been a little “queer,” but had no criticism of her previous work or behavior. Claim Dresses Stolen. One phase under investigation was the insistence of several sales girls from a local store that a number of dresses found in Miss Meyers' room had been stolen from the store last October, Questioned by Perkins, Miss Meyers declared her need of the tuition money for the second semester’s freshman work was her only motive in attempt- ing to rob the bank. She intended, she sald, to take only $24 and to re: pay it when she could. Tools used by the girl were stolen from a local garage last Monday night, including the electric drill, and she carried them to the bank in a suitcase, One of the rear doors of the main banking room was “jimmied” to gain admission, after she had tried unsuc- cessfully to climb through a transom. She had connected the drill with a [light socket when Patrolman Denny Sullivan peered into the room and saw the tools. The girl had fled at his approach. Betrayed by Sobs. With another patrolman, Sulivan went around the building a few min- lutes after his discovery, found a {broken window, and soon the girl's ! obs led them to the stairway where { she crouched. Dr. Josey said he had given the girl a place in his home at the request of her mother, who came here with the |girl from Valley City, N. Dak.. last Summer to get her started at the uni- versity. 7 “So far as T know, she did not have any boy friends,” Dr. Josev said to- night. “I insisted on her being | house by 10 or 10:30 each nigh*. did not seem to have any intimate friends, either boys or girls Word recelved today from Vailey City was that Miss Meyers graduated from the Valley City High School, and while there worked for her room and board at the home of a prominent Her conduct ther> was re- and she “was a according to the prominent student information. EVOLUTION IS BANNED. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, February 5.— Teaching evolution in the public den by Thomas H. Harris, State su- The Evening Star injured in accidents in_the vicinity of the field, the ambulance has been used on several occasions for other at|emergencies, but today’s trip was the Corps Area headuufiru:%hw in the longest ever And The Sunday Star Beginning Today on Page 13 perintendent of public instruction. The order was issued without public ANOTHER CHANCE {Army and 'n‘;vny.‘l News] 10. stric nard— 0. vetemn-% Great War—] : schools in Louisiana has been forbid-} Brandt FOR TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—46 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. Spanish War Veterans—Page 23. Parsnt-Teacher Activities—Page 32. The Starry Skies in February—Page 33. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 33 News of the Clubs—Page 34. Radio News and Programs—Pages 38 and 39. At the Community Centers—Page 40. Around the City-—Page 41. Girl Scout Ne —Page 41. Financial News—Pages 41, 42 and 43. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 46. PART TW0—12 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features, Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Winter Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Am‘usemems—'l‘healeu and the Photo- pla; Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7 and 8. 3 Fraternal News—Page 12. e Civillan Army News—Page 13. PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 2. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Boy Scouts—Page 7, Serial, “The Murder of Roger Ack- royd"—Page 7. D. A. R. Activities—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs,; High Lights of History. PRESIDENT GUEST OF BOARD OF TRADE First Annual Banquet of Or- ganization He Has Ever Attended. President Coolidge last night broke from his wonted custom and headed a list of honor guests attending the annual Midwinter dinner of the Wash- ington Board of Trade which was held in perhaps the most pretentious style in the history of the organiza- tion, at the Willard Hotel. It was the President’s first attendance at a meet- ing of the board, The banquet was attended by more than 750 members of the Board of Trade, and special guests included, besides Mr. Coolidge, members of his cabinet, Congressmen, the District Commissioners and other civic Jeaders. President Coolidge arrived at the ballroom of the Willard a half-hour ahead of the scheduled time and was accorded an enthusiastic welcome that was prolonged several minutes. The President remained more than an hour during the banquet and the entertainment program that followed. Fdward C. Graham, president of the board, presided, and John Saul, chair- man of the entertainment committee, delivered a welcome to the guests. Ad- hering to tradition, however, there formal addresses, the entire A CAMPAIGN FARM BILL NEARING VOTE, WITH RESULT VITAL T0 COOLIDGE Passage of McNary-Haugen Measure Might Change His 1928 Prospects. EAST IS EXPECTING VETO; WEST WOULD RESENT IT Majority in Both Houses Indicated Now, But Test May Show Different Qutcome. BY G. GOULD LINCOL) Loaded to the guards with political dynamite, the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill may be voted up or down in both Senate and House this week. The passage of the bill, if it hap- pens, as now appears probable, will lay on the White House doorstep a ISSUE. DRNING 10 LEF WASTS STREET Dangerous Condition Here Makes One-Third of Road- ways Useless. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. A mass of automobiles in a struggle for the left-hand traffic lane, frequent- 1y straddling the car tracks, is wasting one-third of the space provided by the National Capital's magnificent highway system, slowing up the motor stream and thereby creating the manifold hazards that result inevitably from traffic torpor and congestion. Such is the picture of Washington's automobile driving today. It will be clear to any one who observes that thousands upen thou- sands of local motorists have a fixed habit of driving to the left or, in other words, in the center of the street, leaving a wide area near the curb desolate and unused. It may be the narrow side street in an older section ef the city, or a wider thoroughfare in one of the newer residential areas or it may be one of the arterial highways that daily brings its deluge of motor vehicles Into the heart of the city. It makes no difference which it is. Regardless of the width of the street, the traffic stream flows down the center and the valuable space on the sides is wasted, thrown away as if it were utterly worthless in the traffic scheme of things. Present Code Specific. Washington's present traffic code takes full cognizance of the thought that congestion is one of the factors in trafic danger. The code has been buflt thoughtfully and thoroughly to- ward the end that congestion be pre- vented whenever and wherever it is possible to prevent it. To that end, speed limits have been raised, although the regulations do not specify that a man must drive up to the sped limit at all times. He is, however, legally 'bound to keep over to the right curb if he prefers to take it slowly. But, ob- servers have noted, he does not heed the regulation. He drives in the center of the street, regardless of the spepd he may be making. He stays there, come what may. To keep within the law, one must pass an overtaken vehicle at the left. With a torpid driver in front and as far to the left of the street as possible, passing on the left is impossible unless one is venturous enough or foolhardy enough to cut head-on into the traffic stream' ap- proaching from the other direction. Passing on Right Frequent. Under present conditions traffic in opposite ~ directions passes almost fender to fender on streets where there are no car tracks. On others motorists are found to reveal an al- most unanimous inclination to hug the street car tracks so closely that legal passing is made dangerous if not actually prevented entirely, Thus, one is presented with the alternative of passing on the right or not passing at all. In other words, one must violate one of the rules of the road as specified in the District traffic code, or one must stay behind the dallying driver until he chooses to desert his unfairly and illegally held position. Many drivers do pass on the right. For the thousands who strive to keep the letter as well as the spirit of the law, however, there is no alternative but to stay behind. That it ever is necessary to pass illegally on any of the wide arterial streets, is patent evidence that ap- proximately one-third of the surface of the highway is wasted—an area on Page 4, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. “Slave Market” Jury Convicts Sheriff And Four in Texas; Four Others Freed By the Associated Pross. CORPUS CHRISTI, - Tex., Feb- ruary 6.—Five men, including Sheriff Rlvm;ndn"l’dlarmvt by o were found gulilty of peonage a Jury in Federal court here tonight. ‘The others convicted were Justice and former de sheriffs, and L. K. Stockwell, a farmer. All five were found guilty on several counts. The law provides cgmnyofflvaymonuoh .y . F. Robinson, county atf R. G. Reisdol and Liloyd Bt ‘Willacy - County, | tried, men that they had Leen arrested i Raymondsville, Tex., on vnmnc; charges, but that instead of bein; b w‘:ru't&r;m‘l to’cotum flelds forced 01 or farmers under a armed guard, “Their “fines” were . ducted from their pay along with 75 cents a day for meals, they said. the Go the cot- that the county they were per- nsients problem that may prove the most embarrassing President Coolldge has encountered since he became Chief Executive. In that event the Presi- dent will be called upon to approve or to veto this measure which has the backing of many of the big farm organizations of the country and which, on the other hand, has been denounced in the East as price-fixing and class legislation. | The course adopted by the Presi- dent, if the bill reaches him, will carry political implications that will figure, perhaps decisively in the 1928 Repub- lican nomination fight. Might Assure Nomination. If he signs the bill, the President will have eliminated the one and only real threat to his renomination—if he desires to be renominated—as things now stand. The President, in the opinion of some of the supporters of the farm bill, will be “on top of the world” so far as the political situation i concerned. Conversely, it he vetoes the bill, he will leave open a breach through which a Lowden or Dawes attack may be made on any 1928 plans he may thl.‘ve. e From the int of view of op of the McNary Haugen bill, with its equalization fee, the President will weaken himself in the East if he signs: the bill. But it is doubtful that his ! approval of the measure would lead i to any serious revolt against him in the East, whereas his veto of the bill ‘might bring a real revoit in the farm Haten of the Middlewest and West. IMM\ & k what the Prest- dent will do, with respect to approval or of, the bill, if it is sent to him [ . Some of them are hoping hope that some- thing will happen to keep the bill on Capitol Hill and away from the ‘White House. s o Chances ‘in Two Houses. Today it appears there is a majority in favor of the farm e House owev ::{;k‘: of a short session of Congress. Many things may happen to ha.l(l: bill in mid career. Here is the legisla- tive situation of the bill as it S ht. hjitnnglo House a rule for consideration of the farm hm_ has been drafted, providing 12 hours’ d bate. This rule will be presented as early as possible this week. Tomor- row is suspension day. Tuesday may be taken up with tHe further con-- sideration of the Jegislative bm‘. Wednesday is calendar ‘Wednesday. So the farm bill may go over until Thursday. 1f it does that may polt; pone a final \'otokin the House until e following week. m'ln the Senate the farm bill is the unfinished business, made so by an overwhelming vote due to the coali- tion of the McNary bill and McFad- den banking bill adherents, both groups seeking to force an early vote on their pet measures. Several speeches on the bill are in prospect for tomorrow. Semator Curtis of Kansas, who has a substitute meas- ure to present; Senator Fess of Ohio and Senator Shipstead of Min- nesota, Farmer-Labor, are among those who wish to be heard. Cloture May Be Sought. Another effort is likely to be mada by Senator McNary during the day to obtain unanimous consent to vote at designated hours on both the farm bill and the banking bill. If such con- | ¢ent is mot given, then in all prob- | ability petitions for cloture on both these bills wil be filed in the Senate. These petitions have been signed by 62 Senators, almost two-thirds of the entire membership. It requires a two-thirds vote to impose the Senate cloture rule. Cloture seems sure if it is sought. Yesterday managers of the farm bill were engaged in conferences to jron out differences among supporters and near supporters, so as to bring about the greatest measure of strength. In the Senate it is prac- tically agreed to accept the Harri son amendment providing for a sys- tem of insurance against losses due to price fluctuations. Senator Har- rison of Mississippi sets great store by the insurance proposal, believing it will be a far better instrument to aid the cotton farmers than the equalization fee. It it is included in the bill, it will be an additional piece of machinery to aid the farmers besides the equal- ization fee. Some of the cotton States Senators are seeking to have the im- position of the equalization fee on cotton postponed for a year or two. But whether such an amendment will be adopted remains to be seen. Sug- gestions have been made that the im- position of the fee on all the com- modities mentioned in the bill be d ferred for a year or perhaps two years. Politicians Wateh President. To get back:to the political aspect of the farm rellef legislation, if Pres- ident Coolidge should sign the vex- ing farm bill, his act will be inter- preted by politiclans far and wide as an announcement that he is {o be clared his Haugen bill by name, though h opposed any . legislation that put the Government in the business of buying or selling or price fixing. There is a great n-u;: