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WEA (. Weather Partly cloudy temperature, 36 fair and colder, Temperature lowest, 32, report on THER. Bureau F tonigh degree: orecast) minimum tomorrow 36. at noon today. a.m Tig at 6 page ®(losing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Entered as seco post office, Wa No. 30,239 nd class matter shington, D. C. b WAS WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, The only ev service. ening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Saturday's Cireu S HINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927-FORTY-TWO PAGES. (®) Means Associated Pres nlation, 102,652 uday’s Circulation, 113,127 TWO CENTS. FRENCH T0 OPPOSE " 1.5, PROCEDURE N * PROPOSED PARLEY Briand Expected to Submit Reply to Coolidge Plan to Cabinet Tomorrow. MERITS OF PROJECT NOT TO BE QUESTIONED Reservations Probably Will Be In- sisted On by Italy and Japan, Observers Believe. Br tha Assoclated Press. PARIS, February F ply to President Coolidge's navil armament memorandum Wwill rejec the proposed method of procedure, it} 4s maid in the best informed circle Foreign Minister Briand and his col- Jaborators are working on the reply to have it ready for the cabinet meet- ing tomorrow. The reply will omit reference to the merits of the disarmament question. being limited to a discussion of the complications which, it is contended, would result from taking the matter out of the hands of the League of Nations and objections to separating naval disarmament from the general disarmament scheme. PROPOSAL GIV 14 N IMPETUS. Jtaly and Japan Expected to Ask Reservations, However. President Coolidge’s proposal for a disarmament conference on lighter naval craft is receiving added impetus of approbation. \\'hi:’e both a semi-official pronounce- sent from Italy, hitherto silent on the plan, and a statement by the Japanese naval ministry signify ‘;cp:l Will toward the invitation, there is, however, an indication that regofva- tions on the President's plan’ will b: forthcoming in the official replies o the two governments, as both nations claim their na\':l fm’f:: are on a; 3 m basis at present. R H B ehearted support to the Presi-| @ent’s proposal is Voiced in & state ment by the ' Federal Councli’ of Churches in America, and this o v is launching a movement to crystalifue public opinion, -as rep)esfmed b,\l t‘: Tmembers of churches in Great Britan and France, in favor of a new dis armament scheme. Italy to Insist on Protection. ; the preé sémt-offi- | lished hy the preéss, . &€ . cl:lugommun‘!%ue which_does “not in- tend to anticipate the official ansv\er,s_ yeveals that Ttaly will insist upon ret %) ivations for the protection of her| interests. he Japanese. naval authorities | Il hesitdte to participate in evican proposal,’’ is the view of Navy Mnister Tarakabe, in a new paper statement, adding that it was Premature for the official reply of his Fovernment.” But, he claimed, Japan fias reduced her naval forces to “a| mintmum for defensive purposes. "The Federal Council of Churches in | fts statement indorsed the President’s Proposal and calls upon the churches | Pt *Great Britain and France to stand | Cas @ umt resolutely behind” Mr. Coolidge in-his plan. VALUABLE, ROME SAYS. never v the Am lan Will Ilriug’ But Doubts Coolidge Tangible Results. February 14 P.—In gen-! eral terms, the ltalian press asserts| that President Coolidge’s disarma- | valuable s an in- ment proposal 18 valual in-| Vitation fo both the large and small powers to_clear concisely the atmos Phere surrounding the disarmament Problem, but that it does not contrib- | angibl lution. e pres: miofficial com- ic] B asizes the | anique. which _emphasizes ~the | fificultios that se to justify | cepticism. The American invitation, | the communique says, is being studied | My by Premier Mussolini, B siaof £ of -wfls s. ! ROME to a real echoes the aid of Admiral Acton, chie of the Navy, and other expf Fo Insist on Reservations. “Without intend anticipate o official answer,” the com- }n"-‘x‘.:m\. continues, it can be im- ediately affirmed that Ttaly, in view | of her modest naval program, could | Jever consent to measures endanger- | fng even indirectly her vital interests. | Jtis necessary, moreover, to point out | that between 1922 and the present | new facis have presented . such as the failure of the | conference in 1924 of the small} powers and the acceicrated program c to H villages. 3]_)eaths Pass 160 ‘ In Japanese Snow, | Falling for Week j By the Associated Pross TOKIO, February 14.—The toll of death in the recent storms in the northern part of Hondo Island passed the 100 mark today. The home office confirmed that 62 had been killed, 29 were missing and 113 houses were destroyed in Niigata prefecture. In Toyama prefecture there were 40 dead, 18 hurt and 78 houses crushed. For- mer soldiers are volunteering to take food supplies to the stricken areas, The district was reported to be buried under a great blanket of snow, which was responsible for the death and damage. Snow be- gan falling about a week ago and is still falling. The storm is said to be the worst in that vicinity in half a century. CHEN T0 REJECT KELLOGE'S PLAN Sees Ban on War in Shanghai Zone as Aid to Peking Forces. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, February 14.—Eugene Chen, foreign minister for the Can-| tonese government, told the Associat- ed Press today that he expected to | issue a statement shortly regard- | ing the suggestion of Secretary of | State Kellogg of the United States that the Shanghai internationai settle- ment be exempted from the zome of war activity. Chen indicated that he was ab- solutely opposed to the suggestion, considering it as being_of potential material assistance to Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, Shanghai defender. It | was understood Chen bel.eved such & | neutralization would permit Marshal Sun to release troops for use on the battle front which now are being em- ployed to guard the city. “RED SPEARS” SPRING UP. New Groups, Akin to Boxers, Opposes Advance of Chang. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PEKING, February 14—The ad- vance of Manchurian troops into Honan continues under difficulties. The vanguard is expected to enter Chengehow, which is about 270 miles north of Wuchang, the Cantonese capital, today. Several slight clashes with insubordinate troops of Marshal Wu Pei Fu along the Peking-Hankow Railway in northern Horan have been reported. The opposing detachments. were eventually disarmed, but further obstruction is expected, The northern invaders are also meeting opposition from the socalled “Red Spears,” a society similar to the Boxers, formed by the peasantry. The organization was intended to resist banditry, but it recently turned against soldiers of whatever faction that over- ran the members’ lands. A few are armed ,with rifles, others with spears and farming implements. They be- lieve themseives invulnerable. Several Villages Destroyed. The soclety is strong throughout Honan Province. It employs harassing guerrilla tactics, which already have resulted in Chang Tso-Lin’s forces bombarding and destroying several ‘Wu Pei-Fu Is proceeding to Loyang, his old hearquarters, from Chengchow, intending to concentrate all loyal remaining with him in west- arn Honan against a possible Kuomin. chun invasion. Wu Pei-Fu, form vival of Chang Tso-Lin, for control of north Cbina. but now reduced in power and nominally an ally of the Manchurian overlord in the war be- tween the north and south, did not view with any pleasure Chang's de- clsion last week to invade central and south China.. Now, concentrating his loval forces aside from the Fengtien troops’ direct line of march, he is leaving the southward drive entirel to Chang’s forces. NEGOTIATIONS ARE ENDED. v a powerful Agreement Between British and Cantonese Remaius Unsigned. HANKOW, February 14 ().—Nego- believed to have been broken off between the (Nationalist) and British governments for an agreement as to the administration of the British con- cessions at Hankow and Kiukiang. The agreement remained unsigned today after what is believed to have been on the final conference. g The negotiators, Charge d'Affaires Owen O'Malley of Great Britain and Foreign Minister Eugene Chen of the Jor naval comstruction of sever the large and smali powers which face y enter the Mediterranean the communique, which | . officiaily inspired, con- ! firms the opinion in political circles ! s willing 1o show good will | accepting the invitation 1o discuss | the proposal, but with absolute insist | ence on vital defensive The Messus tand would pi ject and Gern posal, rking that ident Coolidge's plan brir already well kno Proposal Called Useful. however, the flording all “their po needs of commenrce nsion. " adds the paper, how it may be each of the wers o of future w se discussions will serve to clarify the international atmosphere, which needs sincerity and light." The Popolo Roma recox proposal President Coolidg natic ability, tactfulness and tuneness, It asserts that the bound to profit by th that whether it succe will do so in case of inereasing its political fortification of Americ: ity and in case of fajlure ng the Republican administr: launching a strong Navy . Radio i’rograms—Page “dipl oppo White House is proposal, and s or fai the former by prestige and 's naval secur- Justif: tion in program. servations protecting her | i s in the 3001w ationalist government, refused to sive any information after the con- ference at the foreign office. Officials at the foregin office were reticent, remarking only: “We have nothing to say. but that does not mean that there is trouble.” A statement is expected to be issued | tomorrow. Dies Addressing Doctors. . February 14 (®)—Sena-| sardo Bianchi, 79. former minister of instruction, died today while addressing an_assembly of the Roval Academy of Medicine and Sur- ry. e had been elected to the { Chamber of Deputies many times and was famous as a scientist. {gone through. [ principle—runs a current of political {have been mentioned as presidential POLITICAL RESULTS ! OF FARMBILL VETO BRING SPECULATION Predicted Action by President | Piaces Him in Boat With Borah and Reed. | | LOWDEN AND DAWES’ FATE ALSO AT STAKE Should Measure Be Passed, Eastl Will Line Up Against West at Polls, It Is Predicted. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. After the McNary-Haugen farm bill —what? ome see a political deluge, with an anti-Coolidge flood riding high. Others see the President immeas- urably strengthened because of his firm stand against the bill, which is dubbed unconstitutional _and only capable of raising prices of foodstuffs to the consumer. These conjectures are predicated upon the forecast by Senator Fess of Ohio, Republican, and others that President Coolidge will veto the Mec- Nary-Haugen bill, One thing stands out clearly andj indisputably. If the McNary-Haugen | biil is lost, either in the legislative jam of the fei remaining days of the bresent Congress or through presi- | dential veto, the Sixty-ninth Congress will adjourn without any farm relief legislation. View of Opponents. Opponents of the bill will declare that the McNary-Haugenites are m} blame for this situation; that if they | had not been so stiff-necked, the Curtis-Crisp bill, or the Asweli bill, or some other measure could have/ They will charge that underneath this refusal to yield a jot on the principle of the Mec- Nary-Haugen bill—the equalization fee opposition to President Coolidge. They will charge that an effort has been made through this uncompromising attitude of certain leaders in the agri- cultural States to grease the way for| the selection of former Gov. Lowden | of Illinols, as the Republican nominee for President. If not Gov. Lowden, | then Vice President Dawes or some other prominent Republican, who has the *“Western point of view” as op- posed o that of the East and New Pe g g 'he supporters of the McNary- Haugen bill, on the other hand, will say to the voters in the agricultural States: b ““We put the bill through. Tt could have become a law but for the oppo- sition of the President. Votes in Senate Interesting. From the point of view of practical politics, the votes in the Senate and the expected votes in the House on the McNary-Haugen bill, are not without interest. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho voted against the bill in the Senate and so did Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, two fore- most figures in the Senate today. Both nosibilities, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. But both are in the same boat with President Cool- idge—if he vetoes the bill—on the farm matter. Both are supposed to be stronger in the Middle West and the West than in the Liast. There were others now in the presidential gossip for 1928 who also opposed the pasage of the bill, among them Sena- tor Walsh of Montana, Senator Willis :i U};‘Io afld Senator Glass of Virginia. Speaker Longworth of Ohio is inst | the bill, too. St Vice 'President Dawes has worked | faithfully to help bring about the pas- sage of the bill. He has sat in many conferences at which differences | among the supporters and near sup-| porters of the McNary-Haugen bill| were ironed out. If Gov. Lowden does not prove available for the political | farm bloc as the candidate in 1928 for the Republiean nomination, then the bloc may turn to Gen. Dawes, who hails, too, from Tllinofs, a great State and sometimes a pivotal State. Then there is Senator Watson of Indiana, assistant Republican leader of the Senate, who voted for the farm bill on the Republican side, and Senator Rob- inson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader. President’s Pl ns in Dark. No one knows definitely whef President Coolldge 18 to be & candidase to succeed himself or not. The discus- sion of the probable veto of the farm bill by himself and the politicat ef. | fect of such a veto is based largely upon the assumption that the Presi- dent will be a candidate to succeed himself. If he is not a candidate then the failure of the farm bill will not be considered perhaps so seriously as a political issue. ¥ If the expected veto and failure of the McNary-Haugen bill is considered | a blow to any political aspirations that President Coolidge may have be. cause of the opposition it may raise in the Middle West and the West, | then will not the support of the measure by Gov. Lowden, Vice Presi- dent Dawes, Senator Watson, and other Republican leaders prove an | even greater obstacle to thelr presi. | dential hopes, because of the opposi- tion to the farm bill in the great States of the T ew York, Pennsyl Jersey, and the New Iing tates welcome a candi (Continued on P: jumn 1) Italy Blames Americ In Smuggling of Anti-Fascists to France neral question | the Associated Press N , Italy, February 14— merican bootleggers, with training ained on New York's rum row, are believed by the police to have partici- pated in the organization of an elab- | orate system for smuggling antl- | Fascists from Ttaly to France. The system was uncovered today <cist militiamen, who had {dhadowed the leaders , for several months. The militiamen, after hold- ing up the sailing of the French liner cophile for five hours, captured scists, stowed away in a cubbyhole in the bottom’ of the i By i 1 tiny hold. an Bootleggcrs leader of the gang: Cesare Savarcse, her assistant, and five men, said to be returned hootleggers The authorities declare n regular clandestine service, by which anti- Fascists have been able to evade the law prohibiting their exit from Italy, has been going on for several months. They allege that various French vessels have carried refugees in their holds, each stowaway paying 500 lire to the wallors and 5,000 lire to the or- ganizers of the system, resident in Naples. An elaborate method of bribery pre. vented the ¥rench police officials from stepping in, it Is stated. The Fascisti militiamen ‘uncovered the systems by They also arrested Maria Hvangel- tl, & young woman bed as the working on the Naples docks as fong- shoremen. 4 i tion of its legislative career MERELY VALENTINES. SENATE FARM BILL GETS HOUSE FAVOR Rules Committee Recom- mends Action, Backing McNary-Haugen Measure. Substitution of the McNai Haugen farm relief bill as passed by the Senate for its companion meas ure now before the House was recommended today by the House rules committee. Heeding the plea of advocates of the bill, the rules committee ap- proved a resolution which would per- mit the substitution and the House will pass upon it when debate is ended on the pending House measure. If the Senate bill is substituted and passed unchanged, no further con- gressional action on the measure will be necessary. Otherwise the.ques- tion would have to go to conference between the Senate and House with possibility that a filibuster might de- feat it. Supporters Confident. While a final vote on the measure, which was passed Friday by the Sen- ate, is not expected to be held in the House before the end of the week, its supporters, confident of its passage, are pressing toward this showdown 8o that the bill can be placed in the hands of President Coolidge by Satur- day. its led by supporters, Chairman Haugen of the House agriculture com- | mittee, a co-author of the measure, however, are planning to bring it to- morrow to a test vote, as an index of its strength, on the parliamentary handling of the bill. The measure, fool ball of Congress for the past three vears, although ad- mittedly in the most auspicious posi- faces an other barrier, erected by its House op- ponents in an eleventh-hour effort for its defeat. These adversaries are plan- ning to burden the measure with amendments so that its return to the Senate for conference will be necessi- tated. There its Senate enemies hope to bury it so there will be no oppor- tunity of a conference report before the present session ends. TUnanimous Consent Sought. Tollowing tho three hours of gen- eral debate, which remain for the measure in the House, Chairman Haugen plans to seek the substitution by unanimous consent. The substitu- tion motion is debatable for two hours and a vote, undoubtedly by roll call, upon it is expected to come shortly after the House convenes tomorraw. If the substitution motion is am proved, as appears likely, considera- tion of the Senate bill, with amend- ments in order will cothmence. At this stage the bill's opponents are expected to make movements to substitute two other measures for the bill as a whole, both onslaughts being anticipated from authors of other farm legisiation. Representative Crisp, Democrat, Georgia, co-author of the Curtis-Crisp bill, is expected to advance that meas- ure and _ Representative Aswell, Democrat, Louisiana, the bill bearing his name. PINED(; “FV!ESUMéSV FLIGHT. Leaves Rabat, Morocco, for 1,000,- Mile Point Down Coast. RABAT, Morocco, February 14 (®). —Commander Francesco de Pinedo. continuing his four-continent air flight, which eventually will take him to South and North America, left here at 7:50 o'clock this morning for Villa de Cisneros, about 1,000 miles down the African coast. He arrived here Sunday afternoon from Cagllari, Sardinia. He expects to cover 60,000 miles in his flight. Quake Rocks Belgrade. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, February 14 (®.—A strong earthquake shock has caused a number of casualties and great damage at Stolace, Herze- govina. The tremor was felt over a Wide area, including Belgrade. House Gets Fine Arts Bill. Representative Roy Fitzgerald of Ohio today introduced in the House the same bill as that fathered in the Senate by Senator Shipstead, giving the Commission of Fine Arts au- thority to pass upon plans for any bullding to be erected within 200 feet of any park or parkway, X | | ! Britain’s Postmen Rejoice at Ban on Saint Valentine By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 14.—Brit- ain’s postmen rejoiced on this St. Valentine’s day, for the Saint was banished by the Anglican bishops from the new prayer book calendar. The postmen remember, but not fondly, the days when lovers' hearts and darts were mailed in such numbers as to nearly break their backs. The bishops’ action came just as strenuous efforts were under way to bring the Valentine custom back to the favor it enjoyed in the time of Charles II. The fashionable men of that sovereign's court gave Jewels to the ladies of their choice on St. Valentine's Day, DAUGHERTY JUDGE * RULES OUT PAPERS Offered by U. S. as Proof| Merton Claims Were Not Properly Investigated. By the Associated Press. FEDERAL COURT, NEW YORK, February 14.-—Testimony. was offered in the Daugherty-Miller trial today to show that at the time $7.000,000 im pounded assets of the American Metal Co. were transferred to one claimagg there was on file at Washington & license for others to mnegotiate with persons in Switzerland for their pur- chase, The license was identified by Paul Smith, head of the corporation man- agement division of the alien prop- rty custodian’s office in 1921, It was issued to Jullan Beatty and Henri Bruere, as representafives of the American_stockholders of the Ameri can Metal Co. Summoned By Miller. The Government contends the license granted Beatty and Bruere permission | to treat with German owners of Amer: ican Metal Co. shares, but did not go into the question of the validity of the claims passed while the license was in effect. Smith testified he was summoned to the office of Thomas W. Miller, then alien property custodian, on April, 1922, and that he found Miller with a reporter of the New York World, which paper was investigating the passage of the claims. On being in- structed to get all the papers in the American Metal case, Smith said he sent instructions to filling clerks to bring the records, and half an hour later had the license. The Government offered this as proof of its contention that the claim made by Richard Merton, as agent for the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux, were not properly investi- gated in the three days the Govern- ment had them under consideration. Legal Tilt Follow Tn a legal tilt following Sm imony, Harold Corbin, repe: (Continued on Page 2, Column_8) 20 ARRESTS FOR TAKING STREET DANGEK SIGNAL Motor Owners Accused of Appro- priating Lanterns Used in Marking Excavations. As a result of the police drive to end the practice of taking lanterns from excavations on the street, gen- erally by motorists who used them for parking lights to save their batteries, 20 arrests have been made and four accused forfeited $10 collateral in Po- lice Court today on the charge of larceny. ‘Those-who forfeited the money by their absence were Robert T. Freder- ick, Jasper Parker, Silas L. Hinton and Rena M. Arnold. Collateral was returned to others when they explained that they had borrowed the lanterns from their jan- itors. One janitor was freed when he stated that the lantern was in. his apartment house months before he came to work there, All ‘lanterns bore the name of the Potomac Electric Power Co. or the Chesapeake Telephone Co. plainly stamped at the base. According to the police more than 1,200 lanterns have been stolen dur- ing the past several months, ARBORETUMBILL GETS RIGHT OF WAY Way Paved for Speedy Action in House—Has Passed Senate. The national arboretum bill provid- ing for establishment of a national arboretum in Washington under ad ministration of the Department of Agriculture was given privileged status today when the House rules committee granted a special rule for its consideration. the legislative schedule for considera- tion on Friday. The legislation has already passed the Senate, but the bill as favorably reported from the committee on agri- culture, has two amendments, one of which reduces the authorized appro- priation from $300,000 to $300.000 and the other eliminates a provision that and recreational facilities. i It is understood that the Senate is | ready to accept the House ate will act promptly when the authorizing act is passed in making appropriations available before Con- gress adjourns. The rules committee also agreed to | meet this afternoon on a rule for sub- stituting the Senate farm relief bill for the louse bill. The committee deferred action on this until the com- | mittee on agriculture had held a meet- ling and recommended the same. | The rules committee also ordered | special rules on the resolution for ap- propriating 000 to defray expenses |of the preliminary conference at | Geneva and agreed to give a rule on | the longshoremen’s bill as soon that measure is ready. 'FIRE COSTS $1,000,000 IN HEART OF BANGOR { Four Large Buildings Destroyed, Including Y. W. C. A.—City Hall Roof Damaged. By the Associated Press. BANGOR, Me., February 14 A $1,000.000 fire that threatened the entire business district of this city ind destroyed four large buildings was brought under control early today after a four-hour battle in which calls for assistanc: were sent (o many surrounding cities and towns. Smoldering embers were all that remained of the Coe Buildng, Y. W. C. A., the Hatch Building and a smaller structure. Both the Haten and the Y. W. C. A. Buildings, which were fourstory brick blocks, had a large number of mercantile estab- lishments on their street floors. The City Hall's ranf was damaged, but the building itself w ved after a hard fight. At the height of the tia_patrolled the streets Al of property destroyed owned by the I Coe estate. SOVIETS IN COUNCIL. Third Session of Parliament Discuss Budget Changes. MOSCOW, February 14 (#).—The third session of the Central Execu- tive Committee, or Soviet Parlia- ment, was opened at the Kremlin to- day. The session will be occupied with a discussion on the national budget | changes in the criminal code and ' other purely domestic matters. blaze mili- was t It has been put on the arboretum is to be used for park | amend- | ments and that both House and Sen-| the | Women in Turkey Use New Freedom I'o Bootleg Rum| ave come rief period of the Turkish eular 14— Many about dur emanci but the discovery bootleggers Inspectors of the government al cohol monopoly unearthed a clan destine distillery whose products they charge are being marketed by Turkish women wéhring belts filled with bottles, hidden by demure shawls and veils of the traditional Moslem costume. The voluminous effect did arouse suspicion. as most Orien! beauties have ample waistlines. SEHATORS ORDER INSULL TO TESTIFY Reed Committee Also Sub- poenaes Others in Slush Fund Probe. 1z the tion of most spe a group operati women the The Reed slush fund committee to- day issued subpoenas for Samuel In- sull of Chicago and other witnesses | who refused to tes in the sena- torial primary investigations Iilinois and Pennsylvania. The subpoenas are returnable Mon- day. The witnesses are to appear be- | fore the Reed committee. They will be given an opportunity again to an- swer the questions which they de- clined to answer before. If they fail to purge themselves of contempt by answering these ques- tiors, then it is the purpose of the committee to seek their punishment for contempt. Call on Senate. In that event, the Reed committee will call upon the Senate itself to act in the matter. Either the Senate will undertake to punish directly the re- caleitrant witnesses or the matter will be turned over to the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia. In ‘addition to Samuel Insull, the utilities magnate who contrit 000 to the campaign fund ol . ank L. Smith in the Illinois Re- publican primary, the witnesses sum | moned by the Reed committee Robert E. Crowe, State’s attorney in | Cnicago, one of the leaders | Crowe-Barrett faction of the Repub lican party in Cook County; Danlel T. Schuyier, attorney for Samuel Insull, in| of “the and Thomas W. Cunninghanf of Phila- | 5640340 1S ADDED TO DISTRICT BILL IN REPORT TO SENATE; T0TAL 336,836,123 Item for 74 More Teachers Is Left Out—Naming of Corporation Counsel by President Is Provided. $€00,000 IS APPROVED FOR PATTERSON TRACT Funds Voted for Purchase of Sites for 3 More Schools &nd $50,000 for Plans Made Available Imme- diately—Measure Is Largest in History. After reconrmending a heavy in- crease of $640430 above the House figures, the Senate appropriation committee reported out the District | appropriation bill today, carrying a |total ~ of $36/ the fargest {amount ever provided in a local sup y measure. The Senate committee made no provision for the 74 additional school jteachers asked for by the school au- | thorities, and which item also was turned down by the House commit- tee. One of the most important Senate | committee additions is an item of 1 $600,000 for purchase of the Patter on tract on the north side of Florida renue northeast, which local orga ations have advocated for many years as a new link in the park sysiem. Another impertant provision is that the corporation counsel of the District, an office now held by Francis IL ephens, shall be appointed by the | President with the approval of the Senate instead of by the District Com- missione Text of Clause. rted by the Sen follows: who shall be ent, by and nsent of the The new clause ins ate committee r Is a “Corporation counsel i appointed 1 {with the advice and e Senate, and who shall also act as the seneral counsel of the Public Utilities ommission, $7.500, and other personaf services in accordance with the clas | | delphia, treasurer of the State Repub- lican committee, who testified that he gave $50.000 to the primary campaign fund of William 8. Vare, Will Call Witnesses. A report was submitted to the Sen- ate last week by Chairman Reed of | the slush fund committee, laying be- | fore that body all the facts and the testimony of the recalcitrant wit- nesses. It was then announced that a resolution would be brought into | the Senate today by Senmator Reed of Missouri, and it was understood that | olution would then call upen | nate to deal with these A meeting of the | . however, it was | termined first to call the witnesses {before the Senate committee, and | determine whether they were | ready to answer the questions v several weeks, since the decision of ‘ourt in the Mal Dau & the power ¢ nate commit ees to summon witnesses, the mem { the Reed committee have been what action should be Insull and the others last vear to testify be t committee. It has heen free- v stated that the committee would | nove against these recalcitrant wit nesses and would ask their punish- | {ment if they did not purge themselves f the alleged contempt | com | mittee upreme }e ME BALLOTS MISSING. 1,335 Allegheny County Boxes Will| i Arrive In Capital Tomorrow. ‘ BURGH, Pa., February 14! Three Baltimore & Ohio Raiiroad | express cars were loaded to capacity today with 1.375 Alleghemy County bal- | lot boxes, for shipment to Washington, | where they will be used by the Senate ! campaign funds committee, in its in-| vestigation of the November senator election in Pennsylvania. A special deputy sergeant-at-arms of the Senate will guard the cars until they are at-! tached to a fast train tonight. They | will reach Washington tomorrow | morning. J. J. MeGrain, Senate representative in charge of gathering the boxes, said that 20 of the ballot containers had not been turned over to him by alder- men and justices of the peace in whose care the boxes are placed. These | custodians were notified by registered letters to deliver the boxes under [court order. McGrain said that those who failed to do so would be charged with contempt of court. Two of the Allegheny hoxes are! missing. In one case an alderman has | been indicted for failing to take proper e of the container. District At-| torney €. . Gardner of Allegheny County will retain six of the ballot boxes for use in prosecuting more than a score of district election officers and others who are charged with con- spiring to make false returns. According to Senate representatives, some of the ballot boxes were in bad ! condition, contalning no locks or seals, and ‘were unmarked. b i By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, February 14.—After spending several hours in an effort to locate what was at first believed an explosion of a powder arsenal, police today concluded that the disturbance was caused by a meteo) They received hundreds of calls from persons in various parts of the city, wiy re awakened by the crash. Powderf mills and fireworks factories througlut the section were checked Violent Explosion in Cincinnati Believefl Meteor Crashing to Earth| 1 and reported no accident had occurred. | Joseph White, an employe of a morn- | ing newspaper, apparently cleared up the' mystery He told police he was walking to his home in Covington, Ky., when sudden- 1y a luminous body .came out of the heavens. He said it was traveling at terrific speed and must have been a meteor. He sald it struck with a re- sounding crash. White, as far as po- lice knew, was the only person to see the unusual phenomenon. wit | de- | herty case, up- | ! must be acqui | Patterson lor unreasonable prices I portance to all | pamphlet sification act of 1923, §34,860, making in_all $42,360." The above language was inserted \in | slace of the usual provision providing {Zor a corporation counsel at $6.000 a cear. If this change is adopted when | he appropriation bill becomes law, it | ¥ould give the President authority to say who shall be corporation counsel Would Provide $50,000 at Once. | In increasing the school building | program_total from $2,749,500 to $2, 1757,000 the Senate committee provided that $30,000 should be immediatels lavailable for the preparation of plans {for buildings in order to expedite the | work. Otherwise this money would not _be available until July 1 The Hou ted that the last $3 now remaining in the District’s old surplus revenue T d should be d toward meetin the school building program. The Senate committee has changed to provide that this balance in surplus be devoted toward the $600 MO0 item inserted by the Senate com mittee for the pure of | terson truct for |east. This change 18 b Iv on the theory that more e | surplus should be used for parks. T {law under which the surplus was | made available several vears ago di | rected that it should .be spent for both schools and While the Senate committee did not repeal in its general application the requirement that school and park sltes -d within 25 per cent above the assessed value of the land, it made a special exemption in the case of the Western High School ath etic field. The Semate committee recommends that the 000 con tained in the District appropriation act of 1925 for this athletic field shal remain available u June 30, “without limitation as to price on assessed value May Reduce Senate committee also Commissioners more le ay in han |dling the House items for the pur chase of land adjoining the site pur- r v owned by the District on nt jroad. The Senate ittee provides that if this land cannot be purcha at a pri satisfactory to Com missioners, they may sell or exchange the land they already own. and In such event they may use not to ex ceed $20,000 plus the proceeds of the ale for the purchase of a school site in the vicinity of Thirty-sixth and Davenport streets In providing for the purchase of the trac ining about §1 acres, the Sen; ommittee author iz e Park Commis: to reducs the area to be acq when_ by reason of improvements constructed sked, or for nent the pub now 19 based gave the other reasons, in its jud lic interest may require Another change made by the Senate committee which will be of great im property owners, ii ined, would require the collector of taxes to give a more adequate notice to persons whose property s about to be sold public sale fer non-payment of taxes. Heretofore it has been the custom to print a large pamphlet containing the list of all delinquent property, but the taxpay- ers have been required to go to the District Buijding or buy a copy of the in order to find out it at any time they have neglected to pay their taxes on time. susta Would Discontinue Pamphlet. The Senate committee provision would require the discontinuing of this pamphlet and direcls Tt & st of the property to be sold, showing the amount due on each parcel, shall be advertised in one morning and one evening newspaper in the District. It is further provided that hereaftor the usual notice that is carried in the newspapers for three successive weeks shall state that the detailed list of property to be sold has been published in twe newspapers, giving the name of each and the date of publication of (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. L