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SENATORS TO QUIZ DISTRICT NOMINEES Subcommittee ' to Question Childress, Adams and Fleharty Tuesday. After having been in executive ses. #lon for more than an hour, in the erourse of which five ‘local citizens gave testimony, the special Senate subcommittee considering the nomi nations for the new Commission postponed action until next week The subcommittee declded to ask John W. Childress and Benjamin F. Adams, nominated to be members of the commission. and Ralph B. Fle- harty, nominated for people’s counsel, to attend the next meeting of the sub- committee, at 10 o'cluck Tuesday morning. - Citizens Before Committee. Those who wers heard at the exec utive session today were Charles W. v, Fred S. Walker, Charles 1. Sten 'Maj. Clayton Emig and Willlam {. Clayton. M(‘lll‘ is understood that Mr. Clayton. who was put forward by the citizens associations for the position of peo- ples’ counsel, was requested to attend the meeting. According to reports, he was questioned not only concern- ing the qualifications of the nominees, but also concerning the )!\lll\_ll utili ties situation generally in Washin- on. i Although the meeting was execu- tive, it is understood that the others who appeared made no charges of any kind against any of the ap- pointees, but urged the subcommittes to give careful consideration to the qualifications of the nominees. Time for Confirmation. Mr. Walker is a member of the Citizens' Advisory Council, but it'was learned that he attended the hearing in his capacity as an individual citi- zen. Mr. Ray is president of the Brightwood Citizens’ Association. Mr. Stengle and Maj. Emig also are active in citizens' association eircles Although the next meeting on Tues- day will be within four days of the adjournment of Congress, it is be- lieved there would still be ample time for the confirmation of the appoint- ments if the subcommittee reaches a decision at that time. e PRESIDENT APPROVES M’FADDEN BANK BILL Public Utilities | THE EVENING IDAWES WIELDS GAVEL STEADILY SCENES Sits In on His First Wind-Up and Is Kept Busy by Uproar. Many Bills, Resolutions and Deficiency Measure Mark Strenuous Session. By the Associated Press Sitting in on his first windup of Congress, Vice President Dawes had a strenuous time yesterday interpret- ing Senate rules and undertaking to preserve some semblance of order. At one time he had on his hands a couple of concurrent filibusters: twice found the Senate sustaining his rul ings and frequently resorted to the use of his gavel in quelling some of the wildest scemes presented in the Senate in vears. Out of the welter of discussion, par- liamentary inquiries, points of order. motions, quorum calls and appeals from his decision, emerged these con- crete actions in the six hours of the session Passage of 17 bridge bills in minutes: adoption of a Mexican res lution; approval of a conference ve- port on the deficiency bill and passage of a measure to establish a maval ar- senal at Hawthorne, Nev. Two Cloture Petitions. Two petitions to invoke the cloture rule, limiting debate, were filed while the day’s confusion was approaching its peak, and Gen. Dawes lost no time in ruling them in order over violent protest, since they were intended to cut short filibusters. After the second petition had been filed. Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, held the floor in a filibuster against the Boulder Canyon Dam bill, although the Democratic leader, Rob- inson of Arkansas, sought to get him Off his feet because the emergency of- ficers’ retirement bill had been laid be- fore the Senate. Ashurst held his ground and Dawes ruled that he had a right to do so, although he was not taiking on the subject before the Senate. “There is nothing in the rules ahout relevancy,” thundered the Arizona Senator. “Unfortunately, there isn" re- torted Dawes, as Senators and the crowds in the galleries roared. Rules Thrown to Winds. The filthusters for the day were on the Boulder Canyon and emergency 3 Measure Regulating Branches and Extending Life of Federal Re- serve System Is Signed. By the Associated Press. The McFadden branch banking bill was signed today by President Coolidge. The bill provides for the renewal of the charters of the Federal reserve hanks and allows the establishment of branch banks of national banks in States where local legislation allows it. Figz, = HIGH SCHOOL CADETS’ HONOR GUARD IN TEST “Three Companies dhoun by Com- petitive Examination Will Make Final Showing Monday Selection of the guard of honor com- pany in the high school cadet corps will be made Monday at Thirteenth and Euclid streets, it was announced today by Col. Wallace M. Craigie, pro- fessor in charge of miiitary seciences and tactics. After strict competitive examina- tions among the 24 compagies a com- pany bas been chosen to represent each of the three regiments. It is from these three companies that the guard of honor company will be picked Monday. The three companies are: Company F. Central, 1st Regiment. Capt. Rod- ney Hatcher; Company B. McKinley, 2d Regiment, Capt. Hugh Husser, jr. and Company H., Western, 3d Regi- ment, Capt. Samuel Sugar. Those on the board of judges will be Col. Craigie and his three assistants, Maj. John G. Donovan, Maj. Raymond gil Payne and Capt. David B. Van t. RN HONOR MISS DEAN. Belected Head of Local Branch Ohio U. Alumni. Miss Minnie ‘Dean was elacted pres- ident of the Washington branch of the Ohio University Alumni Associa- tion at the annual banquet at the Grace Dodge Hotel last night. Other officers elected were: Dr. James Lyon, vice president, and Noble C. Shilt. secretary and treasurer. ; Commissioner I. M. Foster of the “United States Court of Claims, former. 1y Representative from Ohio, acted as_toastmaster. Dean E. W. Chubb of the Arts Col- lege, Ohio University: Strickland Gilli- lan of Baltimore. Ed McWilllams, sgraduate of the university, appearin, at Keith’s' this week: CI: E. Wil liams, traveling alumni_ secretary of the university; former State Senator D. H. Moore and Dr. James Blake of Baltimore spoke. 0TTO A. SCHLOBOHM DIES. Attorney, Native of New York State, to Be Buried Here. Otto A. Schlobohm, 32 years old, partner in the law firm of Gelger & Schlobohm and practicing attorney of this city for several years, died at his residence, 1465 Columbia road, yes- terday, after a short illness. Born in Yonkers. N. Y., Mr. Schlo. bohm was graduated from George ‘Washington University, obtaining an A. B. degree there, afterward attend- ing Georgetown University. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Veronica Taaffe Schlobohm: his moth- er, Mrs. John H. Schlobohm, and sev- eral brothers and sisters. The body was taken to Yonkers yesterday, where funeral services and interment will be held Sunday. officers’ bills, and when they subsided by parliamentary limitation there was an effort to get up the alien property return_ hill. Replying to questions, the Vice President ruled that the Boulder Can- yon bill would automatically become the Senate’s business at 1 p.m. Satur- day, even if temporarily sidetracked beforehand. Several Senators threw rules to the winds as they discussed back and forth whether this was so and whether, it being so, Gen. Dawes had a right to give an opinion so far in advance of the event. Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wis- consin, interrupted to serve notice that he would bring up the public buildings bill as soon as possible. and the Republican leader, Curtis, Kan- sas, asked unanimous consent to take up the conference report on the de- ficiency bill. Reed and Lenroot insisted on pro- tection for their metions, and then Senator Johnson, Republican. Califar- nia, author of the Boulder Canyon hill, demanded to know where he stood. Agreement finally was reached to dis- pose of the deficiency bill report with TO END WILD SENATE Boulder Canyon still holding the right of way today. Immediately after the Boulder Can- von bill was lald before the Senate in midafternoon yvesterday Senator Ash- urst took the floor. Semator John- son then left his desk to circulate his petition for cloture, getting signatures from both Republicans and Demo- crats, Ashurst Refuses to Yield. Within a quarter of an hour the fighting Californian advanced down the center aisle, waving his petition and demanding recognition from the presiding officer, Fess, Republican, Ohio. Ashurst declined to yield at the mo- ment, but said he would later, though Johnson held in his hand “the sword that will Kill my cause and my State." Fess ruled that Ashurst did not have to vield, but just then \'ice Presi- dent Dawes, archfoe of the filihuster, rushed into the chamber and before taking his seat took the petition from Johnson and immediately recognized the Californian. Dawes conld not be heard, however, above the shouts of urst and his colleague, Senator Cameron, who had leaped to his feet on the Republican side. oBth hammered their desks and velled at the top of their voices. Having settled himself in the chair, Dawes with equal vigor, hammered his desk with the gavel and finally made known his ruling. Ashurst's Appeal Fails. Ashurst immediately appealed from that decision, but the Senate outrode him, 46 to 30. As quickly as the re sult was announced the Arizonian continued his address, warning that the Senate was on the way to strangle the youngest of the States unless the Supreme Court intervenea. “Let us not forget,” sald Ashurst, “that this cloture is moved and flled by the senior Senator from Caiifornia, Mr. Johnson, who for vears has gone about the land like a bifurcated, peripatetic voleano, in perpetual erup- tion, belching fire and smoke from his agonized howels in opposition to any cloture. But now, when a mat- ter concerning him is involved, he arises above principles and advocates cloture.” The giant Arizonian then waved his arms as he dramatically told the Sen- ate that if cloture were adopted and the bill passed it meant the up” of resources in Arizona. He sald the fight would not end with the Sen- ate, but would be carried to the high- est_court. Even after the cloture petition was put in Johnson sought to keep his bill before the Senate.~ He urged that it be kept as the unfinished business of the Senate “until the very last mo- ment of the last day shall have heen exhausted in the endeavor to hava it passed by the Senate.” AGREEMENT IS NEAR ON-ARBORETUM BILL Conferees of Senate Oppose House Limitation on Payment for Land to Be Bought. Senate and House conferees in ses- sion this afternoon expect to reach an agreement on the national arboretum bill, which provides for establishment of a great outdoor, scientific labora- tory here for the Department of Ag- riculture. The Senate confereex are prepared to make a stubborn fight against the limitation in the House bill against payment of more than 25 per cent in excess of the assessed value of the property to be acquired. It is heped that the House conferees will recede on this, as the Senate conferses are ready to yield on the two other changes made by the House. One of these reduces the limit of cost from $500,000 to $300,000, and the other strikes out the park and recreational provision so as to give the Department of Agriculture striet control to prevent interference with scientifie studies. The Senate conferees are Senators McNary, Norris and Smith, and the House conferees are Representatives Haugen, Purnell and Aswell. MAN AND WIFE BURN 70 DEATH IN PLANE RUINS Pilot Is Injured When Craft Falls in Florida, But May Recover. By the Associated Press TAMPA, Fla., February 25.— Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Glos of Chicago were burned to death here today when an airplane in which they were riding o the ground. H. J. Brady the body and suffered internal injuries. Physicians said he might recover. Corporation, was en route to ways Shortly after it took off, en- Miami. gine trouble developed turned back to the airpert. He had | proceded only a short distance when dropped suddenly. The plane struck a telegraph pole, careened through the wires, then hit a tree and crashed to the ground, burst. ing into flames. Glos and his were caught in the wree! Deficiency Bill to President. The first ~fciency appropriation bill, carrying $185,000.000, is ready to be signed by the President, the Sen- ate having agreed yvesterday to the conference report previously approved by the House. The measure includes a large item for tax refunds. Bebe Daniels Hurt Fencing. HOLLYWOOD, Calit, February 2§ (®).—Bebe Daniels, screen star, ap- peared at her studio today wearing a seat bandage about he: forehead. The ctress, while fencing with her in. ructor vesterday between sce in a flm which she is making. received an ugly eut over her right eye caused by ¢he polnt of hex Qv foil managed to crawl from his seat. Bod. ies of the victims were charred almost beyond recognition and the plane was destroyed. ARRAIGNED IN ATTACK. Jackson's Case for Beating Mrs. Welling Continued. wife ge. Brady The plane, owned by the Florida Air- | and Brady ! the engine failed and the mlrhlnv‘ Phillp Jackson, colored, alleged as- sailant of Daisy Welling February 1% in the Capitol grounds, was taken be- fore Judge John ¥. McMahon in Po- lice Court today criminal assault, robbery and and the charges of Asanlt Telephone Fright In Talking Across Ocean Affects Some By the Associated Press. LONDON, February —"“Tele- phone fright” is preventing some persons from hearing well and speaking clearly when telephening across®the Atlantic. It is akin to stage fright, the thought of speak- ing 3.000 miles over the ocean being just as befuddling to these persons as appearance hefore a large audi- ence. ‘When telephones first came into use in England it took a long time for some customers to get ov “phone fright.” phone officials jestingly charge that Rudyard Kip- ling and old-fashioned folks who refuse to have telephones are still suffering from, the ailment. AUTO TAG TIME LIMIT EXTENDED TO APRIL 1 District Gives Kentucky Firm Con- tract for 41,800 More Pairs to Fill Needs. For the fourth time the District Commissioners today extended the time limit for the use of 1926 aute. mobile identification tags which was scheduled to have expired next Tuea- da: The new order will give an additional month of life to the old tags, or until April 1. ‘The Commissioners at the same time awarded a contract for furnishing the District with 41,800 pairs of 1927 tags, the number needed to complete dis- tribution for the current year, to the Natlonal Colortype Co.. of Rellevue, This firm offered to furnish the tags for 15 cents a pair and promised to make an initial delivery of 15,000 pairs 10 days from the date of recelv- ing the contract, A few hours before the contraet was awarded Wade H. Combs, super- intendent of licenses of the Distriet, received the final shipment of 15,000 pairs of tags from the Chicago firm which defaulted on the original eon- tract. Mr. Combs does not plan to resume the i{ssuance of the new tags, however, until the first shipment is received ' from the Kentucky firm. HOUSE DEFERS ACTION. $876,398 Botanical Garden Item Goes Over Under Objection. Chairman Luce of the committee on the library called up un unani- mous consent today the Senate bill to authorize construction of new con- servatories for the United States Ro- tanic Gardens, which carries an ap- propriation of $876,398, The measure was set aside on ob- jection by Representative Black, Democrat, of Texas, who said that there would ba “plenty of time later” to consider this bill. PSR AL SR BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. with a dangerous weapon wers con- tinued until March 13. Following his appearance he was turped Lo wildb T isgUs ROy By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmerman, lead: or; Bl A Bonstad l&h STAR, WASHINGTON 15 MORE STREETS 0 GET NEW LIGHTS Commissioners Approve Sup- plemental List—Most Now Equipped With Gas. A supplemental list of streets on which the new high-powered electric lights will he installed was approved this afternoon by the District Com- missioners on recommendation of Maj. W. E. R, Covell, senlor Assistant En- gineer Commissioner. Several days ago the Commissioners approved a list | of 17 streets recommended for im- proved lighting and the additional list indorsed today contains 15 streets virtually all of which are now lighted by lamps. ¥ hece slactric light installations will he made during the next fiscal year beginning July L. %ha ld‘f"lhwnnl streets slated for the | electric lights In the supplemental list follow: R street from Massachusetts avenue to Second street northeast. Second street northeast from R street to S street. S street northeast from Second to Fourth street. Fourth street street to T street. R street from Twenty-eighth street to Wisconsin avenue. ' P street from Connecticut avenue to Thirty-sixth street. Monroe street from New Hampshire avenue to Seventeenth street. street from Seventeenth . to ixth streets. street from yv-sixth streets, ; street from Twentieth street to Virginia_avenue. Twelfth street northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Monroe street. Thirty-fifth street from Prospect street to Wisconsin avenue. Prospect street from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-ifth streets. Thirty-fourth street Prospect streets, Twenty-ninth street-from M to R streets. BUCKNER 10 QUIT AS .. ATTORNEY Announces Plans in Opening Summation in Daugherty- Miller Case. northeast from S Seventeenth to from M to By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 25.—An- nouncement of his intention to resign his office as United States attorney for this district was made by Emory R. Buckner this morning at the opening of his summation in the Daugherty- Millar conspiracy trial. Buckner set the date for his resig- nation twe months from today. He has held the office about two rs and has several times during that period intimated that he could not stay away from private practice longer than about that length of time. His Answer to Charges. He made his announcement today in reply to a charge yesterday in the summation of Aaren Sapiro, counsel for Thomas W. Miller, former lon property custodian, that the conspir- acy prosecution was brought about by “a difference of viewpoint between Washington and New York politie: In announcing his intention to re- sign, Buckner asserted that he is nat a politician, has no political axes to grind and that his action in resigning is in accordace with an arrangement made when he assumed office. Buckner in his summation faced the task of refuting deniala of defense at- torneys that the defendants had ac- cepted Liberty bonds as bribes. The case is expected to go to the jury Monday. Fifty thousand dollars of bonds which the Gevernment contends have heen traced from Richard Merton, German capitaliat, te former Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller for fllegally allowing transfer of $7,000,000 American Metal Co. im- pounded assets to the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux were not a bribe, according to Miller's counsel, Aaron Sapire, in his summation yes- terday. How Miller Got Bonds. “They were given Miller by the late John T. King. former Republican na-. tional commiiteeman from Connecti- cut, as reimhursement for funda spent in a Delaware political campaign, Sapiro maintained. Harold H. Corbin, counsel for for- mer Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. co-dafendant’ with Miller. voiced a reason for Daugherty's al- leged burning of certain records of the Midland National Bank of Wash- ington Court House, Ohlo. The Gov- ernment claims these showed deposits to Daugherty’s oredit from the sale of Liberty bonda which had come to him from Merton as & bribe. “They (the investigators) wanted to know what those records showed,” sald Corbin. “They were the records of a political fund. He was heing hounded, heunded, hounded. So he burned them." Gullty Verdict Fatal. Corbin's saummation for Daugherty contained a warning to the jury that a gullty verdiet would cause his client to “die on the spot on which he hears of his conviction, Another point in Corbin's final speech was a hint that Jess W. Smith, Daugherty's intimate friend, had been the gullty one in the pa) ment by Merton of a $441,000 “fe. for allowance of the Soclete Suis claim, if there had been any wro doing. ‘The “still small volce of co { invoked selence” may have caused Smith's suicide ‘Washington in 1923, Cor- bin suggeste Kellogg Out of Sick Room. Secretary Kellogg, who has heen ill, was improved today and was able to attend the regular eabinet meeting at the White House and to spend some time at the State Department. TributetoU.S. Navy Officers by France Blocked by Blanton Beéause Franee has not pald her war debt to this country, Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, last night blocked passage of two bills which would have au- thorized twe naval officers to ac- cept decoratiens from the French vernment. . France to know,” Blan. it noth- “that we meoney are Comdr. Raebert The offict E. Todd, Naval Reserve, and Capt. - D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY HISTORIAN FERRERO IS HELD VIRTUAL PRISONER IN ITALY FLBUSTER ALK FLLSCAPTOLAR Present Congress Nearing Close in Atmosphere of Unusual Intensity. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The air is full of threats of filibus- r, talk of the danger of an extra session and rumors of powerful last- minute lobbying. . Comparisons are always difficult be- cause circumstances differ, but the at- mosphere in these last few days of the sent session of Congress appears to more than the ordinary inten- The effort to kill certain legisla- at all costs and tha drive to get other measurcs throtigh started sev eral weeks ago with various trades and deals. The cloture rule has been on at least two importan occasions. Altogether the events of the next five days well have a pro- found effect on the political situation, for thera are many conspicuous issues wrapped up in the billy under consid- eration, Whisky Bill Opposed. The bill regulating the sale of medicinal spirits has stirred up the retail druggists who say the grant of authority to a few distilleries will in fluence prices and emburrass them. The Boulder Dam issue has aroused the power interests of the country, who fear the Government's entry into the power business. : situation still affo controversy and the administration is trving hard to squelch the idea of ar itinerant investigating committee in Latin America composed of members of the Senate, As has happened hefore, however, action on all these things in the last few days can be prevented by dilatory tactics of debate. The flibuster against the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate is the strongest that has vet appeared. FEven if cloture should he invoked. the individual Senators will use up their allotted time in speaking against the measure. It is probable that a strong fight will be made to amend the bill in such fashion that the conference committee will have to take considerable time to work out the differences of opinion, and then the filibustering against passage of the conference report may develop anew. Situation Is Spectacular. Altogether it is a spectacular situa- tion because the sponsors of impor- tant legislation are using the cloture rule more effectively than Vice Presi- dent Dawes ever dreamed of. The President's fight to naval expansion has resulted in a compromise. Although funds were authorized to start huilding the thres cruise the appropriation was cut 00,000 to $450,000. Coolidge would have pre- ferred waiting till the conference on limitation of naval armament is held. but inasmuch as the Japanese are go- ing ahead with their construction and 80 are the British, the pro-Navy group won the day in the House. The Sen- ate had already voted to spend the necessary money to start construe tion. prevent (Conyright, 1927.) WOMAN LOST LIFE IN SHIP SINKING Baltimore Resident Had Room on Annapolis in Path of Richmond’s Prow. By the Associated Press. RALTIMORE, Md., February 25.— Federal investigation into the sinking of the steamship City of Annapolis by her sister ship, City of Richmond, in Chesapeake Bay, off Smiths Point, Va., began early this morning. One life was lost of the more than 200 that were imperiled. ‘ Miss Virginia Starkey of Baltimore, returning to Annapolis from a visit to friends at Almonds Wharf, Va., occupied a stateroom on the City of Annapolis directly in the path of the Richmond's rending prow. She missing passenger lists were checked and her bhody is believed to be in her cahin on the sunken steamer, which lies in 70 feet of water. Captain Saved Many Lives. Capt. Paul H. Tyler, hull inspector, and David C. Young, boiler inspectar, comprise the board Investigating the eollision, “From our preliminary investigation of the City of Richmond after she docked here, we learned nothing to in- dicate that_any one was at fault,” said Capt. Tyler, before the inquiry was opened. ‘“‘Stories of survivors show that Capt. Welling, master of the City of Richmond, saved many i by keeping the bow of his ship ih*the hole she had torn in the ether ship.™. i . ‘The City of Richmend brought the survivors ef the Annapolis to Ralti- more yeaterda The latter veasel satled from Weat Point, Va., Wednes- day evening, the Richmand, plying be- tween the same ports, colliding with her in a dense fog a mile northwest off Smiths Peint about 2 a.m. yesterday Miss Starkey, who waa an employe of the United States Fideltly & Guar- anty Co. here, waa last seen alive by o 3} Rradshaw, a soldier of the Coast. Artillery. Rradahaw said he and Mias Starkey were old acquaintances. They promenaded the deck of the City of Annapolis for ahout two hours the night of the crash hefore going to their staterooma. He was unable to find her after a search of the City of Riohmond for her, he sald. Yeaterday's accident was a second in three years In which Miss Starkey had figured. On May 9, 1924, she waa taken, with other passengers, from the Merchants & Miners’ steamer Ontarlo, which burned off Block Island, while en route from Raltimore to Boston. LIEUT. C. H. SMITH RITES. Officer in Army Signal Corps Buried in Arlingten. First Lieut. Chester H. Smith, Army Signal Corps, who died at Fort Ha Columbus, Ohio, Wednesda: was burled today In Arlingten tional Cemetery with military honor: Lieut. 8mith was born in this city February 18, 1883, and entered the Army as a private In Company H, Signal Reserve Corps, in 1917. During World War he served overseas as corporal in the 305th Fleld Signal Battalion, 80th Division, and was commissioned a first lieuten- ant in the Regular Sigi C 1, 1920. His widow, ters Smith, resides at 202 northeast. E street T e Thirten Esca; Ship Burns. - MIAMI, Fla,, February 25 (®.—The crew of 13 men escaped in a singl lifeboat when the freighter Artemi oyt of Tampa for Cuba, burned te the water's edge 25 miles southwe 't 84 1927. 25, Refused Passport for: Tour tq Lecture in U. S., He' Writes Manager. Silence on Fascism Cause'of Restriction, Is Opinion Latter Advances. By the Associated l'n.v' h YORK, February tually a prisoner In Italy,”-Guglielmo Ferrero, noted historian, has canceled a lectire tour of the United States. Charles 1. Reld, lecture manager, today made public a letter from the historian saving that’ Musselini had asked him “as a personal favor not to insist for the momemt on goi a ng to America. i “Vir- v The government,” the letter said, seems o fear my passing the fron: tier. For the moment, therefore, 1 &m vVirtually a prisoner n Ital Ferrero's silence on Fascism in his current writings is regarded by Reld as indicating that relatins between the historian and the Fascist govern- ment have not heen the most cordial. You can judge hence what rich fruits have been reaped for our liberty by the great war,” Ferrero's letter concludes. I will watch the situ- ation closely and will selze the oce CLINEDINST GUGLIELMO FERRERO. sion of any change, always possible, to obtain the desired passport, but it is not possible to make any guess as to the epoch in which such change is likely to take place. Last December passports were re- fused Ferrero and his wife to visit Geneva. He had been scheduled to address 40 universities and clubs in this country. CONFEREES AGREE i ON DISTRICT BILL CARRYING$36,282,385 (Continued from First Page. Thirty-sixth street, Reservoir road 1o T street. Lowell street, sixth. Forty-fifth street, Lowell to Cathe- dral avenue. Cleveland avenue, Twenty-ninth street to Thirty-third place. Forty-second street, Garrison Jenifer street. Eighteenth street, Lawrence to Otis street northeast. thrl('n street, Blair road to PFifth street, Grading of Audubon terrace, Lin- nean avenue to Broad Branch read. Includes Connecticut Ave. Widening to 80 feet and repaving Connecticut avenue from Dupont Cir- cle to Florida avenue. Widening to 70 feet and repaving Thirteenth street, I street to Massa- chusetts avenue. Seventh atreet, Hamilton street. Hamilton styeet, Seventh street to Illinois avenue. Eighth street, | Hamilton street. Gallatin street, Fifth street to Illi- nois avenue, Illinols avenue, Gallatin street to Hamilton street. Emerson street, Kansas avenue to Tiineois avenue. Fourth street, Decatur street, Hawthorne street, Forty-fourth street to Forty.fourth place. Decatur street, Fourth Fifth street. Taylor street, Twelfth street to Michigan avenue northeast. Thirteenth street, Michigan avenue to Upshur street northeast. Twenty-second street, Monroe istreet to Otis street northeast. Thireenth street, S street to Good Hope road southeas West Virginia avenue, Penn street to Holbrook terrace northeast. Many Grading Projects. For grading, including necessary culverts, drains and retaining walls, the following: Tennyson street, Thirty-third street to lot 28, square 2008, street, Fortyfourth street to Forty-fifth to Forty- to Decatur street to Emerson street to Buchanan street to treet to Evarts street, Third street to Fourth street northeast. Forty-fourth street, Windom pilace to Yuma street, and Yuma street, Forty-fourth street to Forty-fifth street. North Dakota avenue, North Capitel street to Third street, Spring road, Tenth street to Thir- teenth street. Fifty-Afth street, Foote street Saint Catherine street nostheast. Grant stre Fiftieth street Kastle place northeast. Sixteenth street. between Kalmia road and Distriet lin For paving, repaving and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Alaska avenue, Sixteenth street to Georgia avenue. Twelfth atreet, Rhode Island ave- nue to Monroe street northeast. Nichols avenue, Fourth street to Upsal street southe, Thirty-eighth street, Alabama ave- nue to Suitland road and Suitland road, Thirty-eighth street to the Dis- trict line southeast. D street, Twenty-firat Twenty-third street. Twelfth street, E street to Water street southwest. Massachusetts avenue, Sixteenth street to Eighteenth street souheast. West Virginia avenue, Eighth street to Florida avenue, northeast. Fourteenth place, North Carolina avenue to D street, northeast. to to street to Southeast Projects Listed, A street, Eighteenth street to Nine- teenth street, southeast. Admiral Barney Circle, Kentucky avenue to Seventeenth street, south- east. D street, Twelfth street to Four- teenth street, southeast. H atreet, Sixteenth street to Seven- teenth street, southeast. Ives place, Fourteenth street to Fif. teenth street, southeast: Sixteenth street, Massachusetts ave- nue to [ street, southeast, Seventeenth street, A street to B street. southeast. 4 S street, Nichols avenue teenth street, southeast. Farragut street, Fifth street to II- linois avenue northwest. Van Buren street, Georgia avenue to Piney Branch road. Laurel street, Kastern avenus to Second street. Second street, Laurel street to Van Buren street. to Six- Bombing Planes Rout Rebellious Yaquis in Mexico By the Associated Prees. MEXICO CITY, February Gen. Manzo, military commandant in Sonora, has reported that 300 rebellious Yaqui Indians, who at- tacked a ranch near Cumuripa, were severely punished and dis- persed by airplanes, which turned machine gunk and dropped bombs on them. Dispatches from Iguala, state of Guerro, tell of the execution of Nicholas Zavaleta, Jesus Robles and Severo Gaytan, rebel leaders, after a court-martial. Argonne place, Harvard street to Lanier place. Sixteenth street to Blagden avenue, Upshur street, Sixteenth street to Arkansas avenue. Fifth street, Emerson street. First street, Whittier street to Van Buren street. Crittenden street, to Seventeenth street. Klingle street, Forty-fiftR street to Firty-sixth street, Gallatin street, Piney Branch road to Bixteenth street. Fourth street, Butternut street to Cedar stree! Newton street, Eighteenth street to Twentieth street northeast. Twenty-second street, Otis street to Quincy street northeast. Otis street, Rhode Island avenue to Thirtieth place northeast Bridge Approach on List. Resurfacing the granite block road way on the south approach of the Highway Bridge within the limits of the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Widening to 48 feet and repavin; Twelfth street from E street to Penn- ylvania avenue. Widening to 60 feet and repaving Fifteenth street, west of McPherson Square, from 1 street to K street, and widening to 70 feet and repaving Fifteenth street from K street to Massachusetts avenu The only street items subject to con- ference that were stricken out by the conferees were: ) Repaving of Decatur street to Sixteenth street Connecticut avenue, Calvert street to Cathedral avenue: Ogden street, Fourteenth street to Spring place; S street, Thirty-fifth to Thirty-sixth street, and the proposed widening of Connecticut avenue fi M street to Dupont Circle, which left out to give the authorities time to decide what effect the widening would have on the two triangular park areas in which statues have heen located. MRS. J. E. CARPENTER SENDS THANKS FOR GIFT Writes to The Star in Appreciation of Donations Readers Con- tributed. Mrs. J. Edward Carpenter of Rison Md., whose hushand was shot and killed by bandits near the Indiun Head Proving Ground several months ago, has written 1o The Star asking that her appreciation be expressed to |all those who contributed so gener- ously to the fund raised in her be. half, 5 Checks to the amount of $1,114, con- tributed by readers of The 'sm were forwarded to Mrs. Carpenter, who is the sole support of seven children, ranging in age from 12 y to 14 months. Mra. Carpenter assures those whe alded her that “their kindness and consideration will never he for. gotten.” Through other gifts from residents | of Rison and Government employes at: Indlan Head, Mrs. Carpenter has heen able to make puyments on her home. The amount forwarded from The Star, she explains, she hopes to be able to preserve for the education of her children. FILM DIRECfOR A SbICIDE. Friends Say Quarrel With Wite Preceded Shooting. LOS ANGELES, February 25 (#).— Lynn K. Reynolds, 32-vear-old motion picture “director, died in a hospital here of a self-inflicted wound in the head. Two guests al Reynolds' home told deputy sheriffs the suicidal shot eul- minated a protracted quarrel last night between Reynolds and his wife, Wy the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 25.—Mrs. Net- tie Heneau, 43, and her 18-moth-old baby, were found dead in their suite in a fashionable apartment hotel on l'v:o North Side today. Death apparent- ed by fumes from a fumi- rial afterward the bedy of John was found a coal plle In the beller reom, ::"klenll,\' a suiclde in remorse. Rich retired to his rooms after he was told of the two deaths and was not peen again uny mfl employes found his pajama-cigd in the basement wit a pistol his side. 0 Liquid jevanide of potassium had been usedito fumigate an empty apart- jort yeutert Sumen t Woman and Baby Killed by Fumigation In Hotel; Manager Ends Life in Remorse The grit dsy, but so thiek were the | for Iu- s | REDS, SEEINGRIFT, TAKE LONDON CASH $15,000,000, Withdrawn From Bank by Soviet Trade Envoys, Sent Abroad. RY CONSTANTINE BROWN By Cable to The C] i S o copyright 168" Dol TONDON, February 25— Fifteen million dollars has been withdrawn by the Soviet trade delegation from n London bank and transferred abroad in view of the possible severance of Anglo-Russian_diplomatic relations. Most of the die-hards are dissatisfied with Foreign Minister Chamberlain's note, which they regard as ton weak and the situation was further dis cussed at Thursday afternoon’s cabinet meeting. Several ministers urged that however satisfactory Moscow's rep! may be, the government should re verse the status of Soviet representa tion in England from a diplomatie to w trade mission and consequently de prive most of the members of special diplomatic privileges granted here ore. PROTEST GOES TO MOSCOW, Foreign Office Does Not Expect Reply for Week. LONDON, February 25 (#).—¢ Britain’s stern protest to Ru forwarded to Moscow this morn M. Rosengolz, Soviet representative in London. The British government has threatened to break off relations with the unfon of Soviet Socialist republics If Russia does not mend her ways and cease permitting the spread of propa ganda and denunciation against the British empire. The foreign office does not expect Russia to reply for a week or more, and among officials there is a feeling of futility with regard to any fmme. diate definite resuits from the note. General English Feeling. The general feeling, however, i« that the government acted properly in administering a grave warning, so that if uzrelk comes the Soviet gov ernment dannot say it was not warned Ramsay MacDonald, labor premler, in a ement yeste: day emld: “The real question in whether this is a first step for elimi- nating grievances, or the first step t ward breaking off diplomatic relations. If the latter, I solemnly warn the government and the country that it is only going to lead to great dim- culties and to increase the liberty which mischief makers now have to damage Great Britain in every part of the world. LOWER TEMPERATURE TO FOLLOW RAIN TONIGHT Tomorrow Will Be Fair Weather, Bureau Forecasts for Dis- trict. Fair and colder weather here to. morrow, following rain this afternoon and tonight, Weather Bureau officlals predicted this morning. Rainfall was in prospect for late this afternoon. the showers contin. ning probably into the night. A tem. perature of about 30 degrees was forecant. Falling temperature and clear ski are expected tomorrow. Weather me: stated that the colder weather would not come on suddenly, but that the next day or so will be decidedly cooler than the balmy weather which has prevailed the past few days. Winter is by no means over, it was stated, and some cold weather may be anticipated in March. MUSCLE SHO.ALS TITLE CLAIMED BY ALABAMA Gov. Graves Presents Memorial to President and House Committee. the former By the Assaciated Press. Alabama's claim to title to and juris- diction over that part of the Tennes- see’ River within the State, especially that known as Muscle Shoals, was as. serted today Gov. Bibb Graves be- fore the House military subcommittee, The governor read a memorial pri sented yesterday to President Coolidge maintaining that with the exception of Federal control over navigation and war facilities, the river is the property of the State. So long as the Government permits the Shoals to be used in the interest of the Nation to manufacture nitrates and fertilizers, Alabama will have no objection, he said, but “we do not pro- pose to permit the growing of a pri- vate melon there by development of only hydroelectric horsepower." W. L. KIDWELL, 57, DIES. Was Retired Navy Yard Worker and Spanish War Veteran. Lee Kidwell, 37 years o avy Yard employe. died We day at his residence, 4834 Sixteanth street. He was a veteran of the Span- ish-Amer fean War. having served aboard the U. §. 8. Buffalo as master painter. He was emploved at the Navy Yard 20 years and was well-known as & breeder of several orld-famo: pointe, Mr. Kidwell is survived by his moth. er, Mrs. Ida E. Kidwell; four brothers, Frank, Harry, George and Altheus, all of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Roberts of Chicago and Mrs. Mary Hurdle of Florida. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the home, followed by burial with military I:nnors. at Arlington National Ceme- ery. QUITS U. S. OIL BOARD. Charles W. Waterman Takes Sen- ate Seat March 4. Charles W. Waterman of Coloradn, who March ¢ succeeds Senator Means in the Senate, today submitted his resignation as general counsel of the President’s oil board, a pesition he has held for two years. had_difficulty the In reaching t lay nager of a branch telegraph offi when he re- turned home shertly after midnight, No_other guests were affected by the fumes, although some of them id they previousiy had been made tly ill and had objected to use of the fumigating agent. Rich, who was 40 years old, slipped down to the boller room without com- ment to his wife and two adepted children. man the Rogers Park nel}h State Senator James J. Illineis, the owner. stricken Reneau was held tioning, but later was res t borhood, for Barbour of Secretary Work expressed appre- ciation for “the sound and co tive eounsel rendered at all times." “Though your counsel and personal services will be a distinet loss to this board,” the Secretary wrote, “the fact hat you become a member of the mited States Senate of March 4 next affords knowledge that the Govern- ment will not deprived of your keen insight into national affairs, and this in a measure compensates for the severance of your officlal relas tions with this board.” Moroccan Revolt Reported. RABAT, Moroceo, February 26 (). ed the hotel, in!|-—An outbreak among dissident tribes is reported from the Spanish zone. It sald the Ktama tribe forced the Spanish auxilisgies occupying Bab Silb after are to evacuate the locality t \