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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; not so cold; minimum tem- perature about 30 degrees tonight. Temperature—Highest, 38, at noon today; lowest, 32, Full report on Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,533. post_office. IN 707H CONGRESS: ACTION 1S DELAYED ON VARE AND SMITH Senate, by Unanimous Con- sent, Postpones Debate Un- til After President’s Mes- sage Is Read Tomorrow. GARRETT ATTACKS RIGHT OF BECK TO HOUSE SEAT Tusurgents Set to Launch Drive in Upper Chamber Unless They Are Promised Votes on Farm Legislation and Other Major Problems. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. With storm signals flying, the Seventicth Congress assembled today for its first session. The battle in the Senate over the seating of Senators-clect Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania was postponed “m.- porarily by unanimous consent until the President’s message has been read tomorrow. That Smith and Vare eventually will be denied seats in the Senate is the beliecf of both Republican and Democratic leaders. The contest over permitting them to be seated immediately may require many days of debate, however. The Sen- ate at its last session declined to per- mit Mr. Smith to be seated when he appeared as an appointee of the Governor of Illinois, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the late Sen- ator McKinely. Senators regard the case against him as an elected Sena- tor as far stronger than the case against him as an appointee. i gF\'iel’n:ls of Mr. Vare and Mr. Smith continue to insist, however, that they have made inroads into the opposi- tion and that eventually both Sena- tors-elect will be seated. Beck Is Challenged. In the House there was an echo of the contest over the seating of Sen- ators-elect Vare. The right of James M. Beck, Representative-elect from Pennsylvania from the district for- merly represented by Mr. Vare, to be seated was @hallenged by“the Demo- cratic leader, Representative Garrett of Tennessee, on the ground that Mr. ,?eck was not a resident of Pennsyl- «¢:nia and the district from which ‘was elected. Longworth Is Re-elected. Mr. Beck, former Solicitor General of the United States, has vigorously defended the right of Mr. Vare to be seated in the Senate on constitutional grounds. He was recently elected to the House in the :‘go v:r(eudml&l::. following the resignation r. lett, v‘v:t;b hulnbeen elected to the Vare seat 6 House. ‘When the Pennsylvania delegation was called to take the cath of office in the House, Mr. Beck’s right to be sworn in was challenged by Repre- sentative Garrett, the Democratic leader, and Mr. Beck was asked to stand aside until other members of the House had been sworn. He did s=o, after Representative Snell of New York, chairman of the rules committee, had made the state- ment that he stood aside without prejudice to his case. Other than this incident the organi- zation of the House proceeded quietly and in regular order. Speaker Long- worth _of Ohio was reelected by the Republicans over Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, whom the Democrats put forward as their can- didate. ‘When the names of Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare were called to take the cath of office, Senator Norris of Nebraska, Republican Progressive, rising to a question of highest privilege, offered resolutions attacking the right of the Senators-elect to be seated on the ground that their nominations hal been tainted with fraud and excessive expenditure of money. Others Are Sworn In. Senator Curtis of Kansas, Repub- lican leader, in accordance with pre- arranged plans, requested Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare to stand aside temporarily until the other Senators- elect had been sworn in. Immediately after the other Senators-elect had been sworn, the Republican leader asked wunanimous consent that the Smith and Vare cases go over until tomorrow. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Demo- cratic leader of the Senate, announced there would be no opposition from the Democratic side. Senator Curtis included in his re- quest an agreement that no business would be transacted today, except the adoption of resolutions notifying the President that Congress has assembled, and fixing the hour of meeting of the Senate at noon each day and the elec- tion of a chaplain. In this way, the Senate not only postponed for today the bitter fight which is to come over the seating of £mith and Vare, but also all questions of organization of the Senate, includ- ing the election of Senate officers. A small group of Republican insurgents and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, the farmer-labor Senator, have threat- ened to make it impossible for the Republicans to organize the Senate un- less they were promised votes in the Senate on farm legislation, legislation custailing the power of Federal courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and on a resolution for an inquiry into the administration’s policies in Mex- §co and Central America. Could Bar Organization. This group of Republican Senators ‘meting with the Democrats could pre- went the organization of the Senate Py the Republicans. The new Congress faces not only ‘struggles over organizations in the Benate and the seating of Senators- elect Smith and Vare, but also a legislative program of great im- portance. Farm legislation, floow re- jiet and flood prevention. and the further reduction of taxation are among the subjects with which it must deal. at 4 a.m. today. page 9. Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. T WASHINGTON, ONE SLAIN, 7 SHOT IN BATTLE STORMS THREATEN STAGED ON CAFE DANCE FLOOR Two Women Among Wounded as Six Bandits Attempt to Hold Up 200 Guests in Chicago Cabaret. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 5.—An attempt to hold up 200 guests at the Parody Cafe, 1201 North State street, at 2:45 am. today, turned into a sensational gun fight, with the dance floor as the battleground. The casualties were: One man shot dead. Five men and two women wounded. There were six robbers. Two, carry- ing pistols, entered the main entrance during an intermission in the dance program and ordered all hands up. Behind them came two others, carry- ing sub-machine guns, the rapid-firing automatic weapons frequently em- ployed in gangster raids. Behind these four came a man in a black mask carrying an automatic shotgun, This robber, the leader, stopped in the middle of the dance floor, whirling about with the weapon so as to command the four sides of tables at which sat the guests. Fires Shot Into Ceiling. The man in the mask fired one shot into the ceiling as he commanded all to keep thelr hands above their heads. John Fried, a policeman attached to the city prosecutor’s office, who was a guest, opened fire on the man, an easy mark in the center of the polished floor. The robber pivoted around to meet the attack, fired one shot and his weapon jammed. Fried emptied his revolver and the bandit chief dropped with four bullets in his body. Later at a hospital it was said he probably would not recover. ‘When the robbers first appeared, Harry Smith, a waiter, attempted to slip out a rear exit. He was shot dead by a lookout, the sixth member of the robber band. KANSAS CITY WINS FAVOROF BUTLER G. 0. P. Committee to Pick Convention Scene Wednesday. . Chairman Butler of the Republican national committee favors Kansas City as the meeting place for the Re- publican national convention, it was declared this afternoon by Emil Kuntz, national committeeman from Louisiana. Mr. Kuntz announced that Mr. But- ler had authorized him to make public the latter’'s preference with regard to the proposed convention cities. dacy” of the Missouri city. he {already received assurances of support from a number of other infiuential members of the committee, the Kan- sas City delegation now feels confident mt their efforts will result success- Iy, & Other Claims Rushed. San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit have been close rivals of Kansas City in the early bidding for favor of the committeemen, and rep- resentatives of those cities are expect- ed to be on hand here Wednesday, when the final declsion is scheduled to be reached. Chicago and Cleveland advocates opened headquarters here today, with the announced purpose of pushing their respective claims before the com- mittee Wednesday. Most_of the committeemen already are in Washington, and the executive committee of the national committee held a session today for the discussion of routine matters. By the Associated Press. Having spent several days on spec- ulation bearing on the next presiden- tial campaign, the Republican national committee settled down seriously to- day to reach a decision on a conven- tion city. The decision on a meeting place is to be made by the Republican national committee here Wednesday. Most of the committeemen are already here and the executive commitfee of the na- tional committee held a session today at which routine matters were dis- cussed. The controversy which is being waged for the seating of Representa- tives of the committee from Alaska was sidetracked because Representa- tives of the two contesting committee- men were absent. The executive committe also laid aside the request of a faction of Flori- da Republicans to give authority to two contesting Republican chairmen in the State to get together on calling of the Republican State convention. It ‘was decided that the commitee had no jurisdiction as it already has recog- nized the chairman of one of the fac- tions. Powe to select the temporary chair- men of the national co-vention was given to the committee on arrange- ments. To Talk Politics. ‘While the main business of the com- mittee session concerns selection of a convention city, there is every in- dication that the members will thoroughly talk over a general polit- ical situation before they leave Wash- ington. There was still a great deal of speculation regarding the Black Hills statement of President Coolidge, but the feeling had seemed to settle over a great bulk of the committee- men that no amplification of the Pres- ident’s statement could be looked for very soon. . The committee members, number- ing approximately 40 men and 20 wom- en, will be received at the White House by the President tomorrow aft- ernoon, and while he will make an ad- dress, he is not expected to amplify his “do not choose to run” statement. —_— FRENCH RELEASE DOTY. MARSEILLE, France, December § (#®).—Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss., was released unconditionally from the French Foreign Legion by the French military authorities today. Doty went immediately ‘to the American consu- late general, once more a free man after adventures in the Foreign Legion that had carrfed him to the verge of execution as a deserter. He expects to leave as soon as possible for Paris and then return directly to the United States. The coming national political cam paign threatens to make its in- . WContinued on Page 2, Colymn 4.) Radio Programs—Page 36 ) lfion of the Fried's action in opening fire threw the place into confusion. Several police officers, oft duty but present as guests, began firing. The single shot the bandit leader let go in Fried's direction struck June Griffith, 20, an entertainer, in the left side. She may die. Miss Fannie Hillsdan, 28, a guest, was shot in the hand as she held it high above her head. Police Sergt. Cohan, seated with Mrs. Cohan at a table, began firing. He was shot in the left side either by one of the robbers or in the cross-fire from policemen across the dance floor. Two Others Shot. Charles Silverman, another guest, got a bullet in the left hip, and Wil- llam F. Malone, seated at one of the tables, was shot in the body, though not serfously. Archie Schaffer, with a shot in the lung, reported at a hospital later, but said he had been shot some distance from the Parody. His story was be- ing checked. Miss Griffith and the masked man, who refused to give his name, were the only persons shot whose wounds may prove fatal. There was one arrest within a few minutes of the shooting. Meyer Go- land, 28, was taken for questioning. He was found in the cafe when the police squads arrived, and none of those present remembers seeing him there before the robbers appeared. The bandits, except the leader, had crossed the dance floor, seeking the table at which sat the proprietor, Dave Palinsky, from whom they hop- ed to get the receipts of the week end business. The outbreak of firing, however, turned offense to defense, (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BRITISH ANDSOVIET CONFERENCE FALS Hour’s Discussion of Rela- tions Ends in Deadlock at Geneva. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, December 5—It was not found possible to reach any basis of agreement, says an official commu- nique issued by the British delegation at the conclusion of an interview this afternoon between Sir Austen Cham- berlain and Maxim Litvinoff, arranged to discuss Soviet-British relations. Thet ull text of the British commu- agreed {6 by Litvin- off, who is Soviet vice commissar for foreign affairs, read: “M. Litvinoff, having asked Sir Aus- ten Chamberlain for an interview, the meeting took place between them at the Hotel Beaurivage. “The meeting gave occasion for a frank exchange of views upon the re- lations between the Union of Soviet Republics and the British govern- ment. “It was not, however, found possi- ble to reach any basis of agreement within the course of the interview.” Litvinoff Is Silent, The interview between Litvinoff and the British foreign secretary lasted about an hour. When it ended Lit- vinoff hurried down the staircase and left the hotel, refusing to make any statement. Subsequently, a British spokesman announced that the statement issued by the British was “an agreed commu- nique.” Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, stood out today as the chief negotlator for peace through a united continental Europe. The Russian delegation is under- stood to have given him assurances of co-operation whenever possible. M. Briand asked Litvinoff and Anatole Lunarcharsky, Soviet representatives, to sta, actively in the European con- cert and felicitated them on their participation in the disarmament dis- cussions. He also broached Joseph Paul-Boncour’s plan for a continental security pact, with Russia included, in the belief that this would improve the chances of success of the disarma- ment conference. ‘The meeting of the preparatory commission on disarmament ended Saturday. Rusgians attended that meeting, but gave notice they would (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) o. MAN AND 4 PIGS KILLED AS AUTO WRECKS HOTEL Three Other Persons Injured When Car Hits Drove on Way to Stockyards. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 5.— An automobile ran into a drove of pigs on the way to the stockyards be- fore daylight here today, killed one man, seriously injured three more, wrecked a small hotel and brought death to four of the pigs. The dead man is Willlam J. Ander- son. After the machine carrying the four men struck the pigs it swerved from the street and into the hotel, a wooden structure. It did not stop until it had crashed its way clear into the interior of the building. Bricks toppled from a demolished chimney killed Anderson and injured the others. LOSES BOUNDARY FIGHT. New Mexico Ruled Against in Dis- pute With Texas. New Mexico lost in the Supreme Court today its boundary dispute with Texas. The effect of the decision will be to leave in Texas about 24,000 acres of valley land near El Paso. The dispute involved the proper iocation of the Rio Grande River as a part of the boundary between the two States.. The court sustained the con- tention of Texas that the line should run along the western side of the Rio Grande Valley. It set aside the claim of New Mexico that the proper loca line wgs controlled by accretions which have changed the course of the river since 1850, ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SINCLAIR DEFENDS HIRING OF SLEUTHS 10 WATCH JURORS 0il Magnate and Burns File Answers in Contempt of Court Case. i SAYS HE TOOK ACTION TO PROTECT HIS RIGHTS Day Admits Employing of Agency. Burns Upholds Work by Detectives. Conspicously quiet for many weeks while the Government piled up allega- tions that they sought to influence the verdict of the Teapot Dome trial jury, Harry ¥. Sinclair, New York oil mi lionaire; William J. Burns, noted de- tective, former head of the United States Bureau of Investigation, and their four associates, appeared before Justice Frederick L. Siddons today in the District Supreme Court in answer to.his contempt of court rule, made a sweeping denial of the serious charges set forth in the contempt petition, de- fended their right to shadow the jury, and declared that the alleged facts in the petition are insufficient as mat- ter of law to constitute criminal con- tempt. Immediately after attorneys for the six respondents filed their returns to the court's order calling upon them to show cause why they should not be cited in contempt, Justice Siddons de- clared a recess until 1 o'clock this afternoon in order to study the law aspect of the case. ‘When court convened at 1 o'clock arguments on the motions of three of the six respondents to discharge the contempt rule and dismiss the Government's petition were begun, and Indications were they would run into tomorrow’s session. The argu- ments were on the law of the case. Daniel Thew Wright, counsel for Henry Mason Day, vice president of the Sinclair Exploration Co. deliv- ered the first argument. Admit Employing Detectives. Frank admission by Sinclair and Henry Mason Day, vice president of the Sinclair Exploration Co., in their returns that the ofl magnate ordered the employment of the Burns Inter- national Detective Agency to shadow the jury positively established the source of the employment of the de- tectives for the first time. Beyond this was the “motive” for such em- ployment, which Sinclair himself de- clared was to keep the jurors under close surveillance “to the end that he might know if any person who might be desirous of seeing him convicted of the charges against him should en. deavor in any way to seek contact with any of sald jurors.” Day, in explaining the motive, told the ecourt that both he and lair had reason to belleve that the trial of the Teapot Dome case attémpt would be made during recesses of court and while the jurors were sepa- rated and out of the presence of the court to unlawfully influence and tamper with the members of the jury “for the purpose of producing an un- Just verdict.” The Government, on the other hand, charges the jury was shadowed by Sinclair to bring about a verdict for the defendant or a mistrial by spying, bribing, intimidating and influencing the 10 men and two women who con- stituted the panel. Besides including a motion in the return for dismissal of the contempt rule against him, Sinclair declared that “the prosecution of him by the Government of the United States has been conducted in a manner not in accordance with the usual procedure perui_l:llnz to the trial of eriminal cases. Complains of Prosecution. o He pointed to the Senate joint reso- lution approved by the President ap- pointing spectal oil prosecutors, and added that he has been made “the ob- Jject of a special prosecution initiated, sponsored and nurtured by the Con- gress of the United States in a man- ner and to an extent never before visited upon a citizen of the United States.”. Sinclair declared that Congress, by enacting special legislation, has de- prived him of the right to have his appeals either heard or decided, and that additional special legislation was sought by special Government counsel during the last session of Congress for enactment of other special laws making radical changes in the crim- inal procedure of the United States and specifically directed at his prose- cution. He also charged that during the greater part of the past four years he has been subjected to surveillance by agents whom he has every reason to believe were in the employ of the United States Government. These agents, he added, have watched and shadowed him not only in his place of business, but also in and about his home, and in addition have made numerous examinations of his books, records and documents and have, in short, “pried into all his activities (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) PACIFIC COAST QUAKES PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT Italian Prognosticator Says Seismic Disturbances Are Due in Many Areas. By the Associated Press. FAENZA, Italy, December 5.— Ra- phael Bendandi, earthquake prognos- ticator, from his observatory has com- municated the following predictions to the Assoclated Press: “Seismic disturbances are imminent in Southern Europe, especially in the Mediterranean basin. Earthquakes will begin tonight, the center being about 200 miles from Faenza, and shocks will be registered at all obser- vatories December 11, when the center is in Northeastern Asia, “Simultaneously there will be con- siderable shocks on the Pacific Coast, in South America, the Greek Archi- pelago and Albania.” . Cancer Fund Raised. NEW YORK, December 5 (#).—A campaign started a year ago to raise $1,000,000 to fight cancer has been suc- cessful. The American Soclety for the Control of Cancer will use the en- dowment, amounting to $60,000 year- 1y, to continue important research and educational work. P SENATORIAL SLEDDING SEASON ON CAPITOL HILL. 202,000,000 ASKE INDEFICIENGY BILL Many D. C. Items in List to Be Presented to House Tomorrow. The urgent deficlency appropriation bill made up from 13 documents sub- mitted by the President, covering esti- mates of appropriations which total $205,000,000, will be reported to the House tomorrow by the House appro- priation committee. Many important items in this list are for the District of Columbia. Eleven of the documents submitted by the President relate to judgments, audited claims and damage claims, making a total of about $10,000,000. One document covers the urgent deficiency needs of the executive of- fices, including the municipal admin- istration. This document presents es- timates which total $194,000,000, The other executive comniunication covers the supplemental and defic- fency items for the legislative estab- lishment amounting to approximately $1,000,000. Police Court in List, In the list for the municipal gov- ernment is includ the following items: Police Court, fiscal year 1926, $431; fees of jurors, Supreme Court, fiscal year 1926, $1,985; support of convicts, fiscal year 1926, $890; writs of lunacy, fiscal year 1926, $783.28; Board of Children’s Guardians, main- tenance of feeble-minded children, fiscal year 1926, $1,356.62; board and care of children, fiscal year 1926, $1,- 096.40; moaintenance Columbia Hos- pital for Women, fiscal year 1926, $565.45; license bureau, fiscal year 1927, $1,644.56; condemnation of in- sanitary buildings, 1927, $120.75; con- tingent and miscellaneous expenses, 1927, $2,085.44; salaries of the Supreme Court, fiscal year 1927, $7,500; salaries and expenses Court of Appeals, fiscal year 1927, $5,750; printing and bind- g, District Supreme Court, fiscal year 1927, $1,620.96; division of child welfare, fiscal year 1927, $40,000; work- house, fiscal year 1927, $12,764.71; medical charities, fiscal year 1927, §8,- 300.40; Hospital for the Insane, fiscal year 1927, $214,162 executive office of the District, fiscal year 1928, $1,250; employes’ compensation fund, fiscal year 1928, $21,500; office register of wills, fiscal year 1928, $4,000; refund of erroneous collections, fiscal year 1928, $2,000; eontingent and miscel- laneous expenses, fiscal year 1928, $25.000. Excavation work now in progress for the new Department of Commerce Building has compelled the removal to temporary unsuited locations of the Health Department Clinic and re- quires the removal at the earliest practicable date of the activities of the House of Detention, the President told Congress. The Traffic Bureau and the District Employment Service also will be required at a somewhat later date to move to a new location. The purpose of this contingent fund for the District is to provide for the rent of buildings in which to house these activities and also provide for such repairs, alterations, equipment, fuel and other expenses as may be necessary. Other District Items. Other important District items in- clude: For street and road improve- ment and repairs 1928, $100,000; repair and maintenance of bridges fiscal year 1928, $40,000; the Chain Bridge was closed to traffic last Spring, owing to a_dangerous condition of the Virginia abutment. Careful estimate indicates the need of an appropriation of $40,- 000 to place this abutment in a per- manently safe condition, the President told Congress. It is proposed that authority be given to the District Commissioners to have this work per- formed by day labor in the event that the Commissioners decide it may be performed more economically in that way than by contract, Other District items include: Refund to Charles Schneider Baking Co., $442.44; public schools, fiscal year 1928, The new assembly hall and m"” for the West School and the one for the Petworth School have been completed and will be ready for occu- pancy as soon as the necessary equip- ment is supplied. The purpose of the $6,000 estimate is to provide $3,000 each for these assembly halls and “gyms,” so that they may be occupied at the earliest practicable date. For the police and firemen’s relief fund for the fiscal year 1928, $120,000 is asked; for the additional building at the jail, fiscal year 1928, $13,000 is asked for the purchase of necessary equipment; for support of prisoners: fiscal year 1928, $6,125; reformatory fiscal year 1928, $13,000; sites for high service reservoir, fiscal year 1928, $34,000; awudited claims, $2,661.18; judgments ainst the District, $6,817.12. 'or _the legislative establishment, [Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Slar. * Posting of Names Of Owners Urged To End Slum Evil )y the Associated LONDON, December 5.—A new remedy for slums—Ilabeling all tenement houses with the names of the owners so that everybody could read them—is advocated by the Bishop of Southwark, Right Rev. C. F. Garbett. Speaking last night on the dan- gers of slum conditions, he said: “In London ‘there are 100,000 peo- ple living in insanitary conditions and in some cases in houses unfit for human habitation. In Liver- pool, Sheffield and Glasgow tens of thousands are llving in vile conditions.” _ CHERRINGTON GETS WHEELER SGEPTER Leaders Agree Upon Ohioan to Direct Activities of Dry League Here. The scepter of Wayne B, Wheeler today was delivered into the hands of Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington of Wester- ville, Ohio. Anti-Saloon League leaders, who for the past 48 hours had been trying to soive the problem left by the death of ‘Wheeler, today were agreed on a plan of reorganization which will bring Dr. Cherrington to Washington to direct the league's activities at the seat of Government. The reorganization plan, which is due to be officially confirmed by the board of directors, in session at the Mayflower Hotel today, will create a new department of “publicity and ed- ucation,” which will direct all pub- licity and legislative work here. Dr. Cherrington will be named director. End Long Contest. This plan ends the long contest be- tween Dr. Cherrington and F. Scott McBride fop<league leadership. Dr. McBride 1 remain general superin- tendent, but league leaders said today that the real head of the organization would be Dr. Cherrington. ‘Wheeler's position of legislative superintendent will not be filled, it was declared, but the work of the office will be carried on by Dr. Cherring- ton’s department. E. B. Dunford, who was Wheeler’s legal assistant and has been carrying on his work as attorney since his death, will be named official- ly general attorney. Other officers are expected to be re-elected, including Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit as president. The reorganization was said to mark a return to the league's orig- inal policy of appealing primarily to public sentiment. It was said that the great legislative task of getting over the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act which Wheeler ac- complished, left the league with its main task for the future to be keep- ing public sentiment behind the amendment. Educational Policy Planned. The reorganization was declared also to be a repudiation of the more violent policles of Dr. McBride. The future policy of the league, it was said, will be educational, rather than political. It was admitted by league leaders that no man could be found to fill Wheeler's shoes, and that the Anti-Saloon League of Wayne B. ‘Wheeler was a thing of the past. Dr. Cherrington in point of service is one of the oldest men in the league. He has been general manager of the league’s publishing interests since 1909, is secretary of the executive committee and a member of the legis- lative committee. He is general sec- retary of the World League Against Alcoholism. He is 50 years old. In a statement issued today, Dr. Cherrington said that although he be- lieves in enforcing all laws and in “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers —— —_— MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927 FORTY-TWO PAGES. (P) Means Associated Press. are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 99,346 Sunday's Circulation, 111,491 TWO CENTS. D. . HEADS PLEAD FOR 6040 PLAN IN CONGRESS REPORT Lump Sum Contribution of $9,000,000 Held Inade- quate for City. EVER-INCREASING BUDGET OF CAPITAL EMPHASIZED Five-Year Building Program and Library Extension Plan Stressed by Commissioners. The District Commissioners signal- ized the convening of the new Con- gress today by opening their cam- paign for restoration of the 60-40 basis of fiscal relations between the Dis- trict and Federal Governments. An emphatic plea that the appro- priations for the next fiscal year be made upon the 60-40 ratio instead of the Jump sum contribution of $9,000,- 000 is the dominant keynote of the a0 DISTRIGT BILLS ARE FILED INHOUSE Zihiman Measure for Fiscal Relation Plan Leads in annual report of the Commissioners, which was transmitted to Congress as soon as it convened. The report calls especial attention to a provision of the substantive law fixing the 60-40 ratio of maintaining the District and carefully pointed out that it is still in effect, although con- tributions by the Federal Government in recent years have been in the form of a $9,000,000 lump sum. Stress also 18 laid on the ever-increasing budget of the District, which has to be met with- out additional aid from the Federal Treasury. Urge 60-40 Basis. “The Commissioners earnestly be lieve that appropriations for the next fiscal year should be upon the 60-40 basis instead of the lump sum con- tribution of $9,000,000,” declared their report. “It is clearly evident that the Importance. More than 50 bills covering prac- tically every phase of legislation for the District of Columbia, are included among upward of 5,000 measures that already have been presented to the clerk of the House for consideration by the Congress which assembled today. In the big batch of general bills are only about 500 so-called public meas- ures, the big majority being private bills, generally with reference to pen- sions for individuals. Fiscal Relations Bill Of outstanding importance among the District measures is the Zihlman bill, which aims to restore the definite proportion principle in fiscal relations between the Federal Government and the District taxpayers, which Mr. Zihl- man has promised will be urged for prompt action before his committee, which has not yet been organized. Among the other District bills are: Mr. Zihlman also introduced nine other measures, as follows: To exempt the American Institute of Architects from taxation on the Octagon House; to grant exemption to enlisted chauffeurs from payment for motor drivers’ permits; to prevent is- suance of fradulent securities; to es- tablish a board of chiropractic exami- ners; to provide for acquisition of land for public buildings and parks in the District; to enable the Park Commis- sion to co-operate with commissions representing Maryland and Virginia in the acquisition of park sites, with an authorized appropriation of $200,000; to provide for preservation of the Great Falls of the Potomac as a pub- lic park; to amend the act providing for bathing pools so as to authorize the construction of 12 neighborhood polls; to authorize the Commissioners to settle the suits for damages as the result of sinking of streets above the First street tunnel. These suits ag- gregate $58,198, principally against the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Commissioners would be authorized to compromise for not less than $30,000. By Representative Blanton of Texas, to prevent breaches of the public peace in the District of Columbia caused by picketing. By Representative Fitzgerald of Ohio, creating the District of Colum- bia insurance fund for the benefit of employes injured and the dependents of employes killed in employment, providing for the administration of such fund by the United States Em- ployes’ Compensation Commission and guthorlzlng an appropriation there- for. By Representative Fitzgerald of ©Ohio, amending so much of the sun- dry civil act of June 30, 1906, as re- lates to the disposition of moneys be- longing to the deceased inmates of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. By Representative Gambrill of Maryland, providing for the widening of the present Defense Highway from Bladensburg, Md., to Parole, Md. Fort Appropriation. By Representative Linthicum of Maryland, to authorize an additional appropriation for Fort McHenry, Md. By Representative McLeod, Michi- gan, to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia. By Representative Morin of Penn- sylvania, to readjust the pay and al- lowances of commissioned and enlist- ed personnel of teh Army, Navy, Ma- rine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Public Health Service. By Representative Oldfield of Arkan- sas, defining co-operative non-profit life benefit associations with répre- sentative form of government; provid- ing the terms under which such asso- ciations may do business in the Dis- trict of Columbia; providing for the incorporation of such associations, manner of taxation, suits, etc., regu- lation and control of the business of such associations in the District of Columbia,” and providing the condi- (Continued on.Page 2, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Report Shows How District Share Of Cifiy Expenses Has Mounted The following table, which shows the actual appropriations of the District from 1922 to 1928, inclusive, and the proportion contributed by the United States, is one of the features of the annual report of the District Commissioners, which was transmitted tp Congress today: = Apprepriations, . sparmaLLel 3304832 34691175 o Amount charged to D. C. revenves. 13,784,647 76 Percen Amount Ay% ."‘Kajs‘é;' Haag it total budget of the District of Co- lumbia has been annually increasing while the Federal contribution has re- ma‘;med substantially stationary. “In _considering the proper basis of contribution by the Federal Govern- ment and the District of Columbia for the maintenance and support of the Capital there are certain items which may be viewed upon a mathi basis. ~ However, it would seem not unreasonable to suggest that there is a further rather intangible element which should prompt the Federal Government to contribute an addition- al sum. Expenditures in the District are made on a larger scale, by reason of the fact that it is the Capital of the United States, than would be the case if this were not so. “Municipal structures must be made more ornate, under the advice of the Fine Arts Commission, streets must be wider, greeater police expenditures are necessary, and, in fact, the bud- get, taken as a whole, 1s upon a scale of expenditure which represents an mcrmms- o:u- that .‘mfl:rhhh would be nec in a not Capital of the Nation.” ol has Proportions Shown. Several statistical tables are in- cluded in the report, one showing the actual appropriations from 1922 to 1928, and the proportion contributed by the United States, and the other the amount of taxable real estate, which under the present rate of tax- ation of $1.70 per hundred will yleld $19,211,583.75 during the current fiscal year. The latter table also shows that the tax-exempt property in the District is valued $594,000,000, of which $470,000,000 is owned by the Federal Government, $4,000,000 by foreign governments, $50,000,000 by the municipal government and $70,- 000,000 by charitable, educational and religious organizations. The Commissioners also placed em- phasis in their report on the proposed five-year building and extension pro- gram of the Public Library, and sug- gest that Congress give serious con- sideration to the question of financ- it. “The Public Library is its or- ganic law declared to be a ‘sz;ylemem of the public educational system’ of the District,” said the report. “It is important that public library facili- ties should be provided in some sys- tematic way. The board of trustees believe that steps should be taken promptly to meet the requirements of the law that the “library shall consist of a central library and such number of branch libraries so located and so supported as to furnish books and other printed matter and information service convenient to the homes and :énctes of all residents of the said Dis- ct.” Services Reviewed. “The services of the two educational branches—public schools and library— are different, but both are essential. The school covers intensively a period of from 5 to 17 years in the pupil's life; the library covers the entire period of life and the whole range of knowledge. It is imperative in a rapidly changing world to afford edu- cational opportunities for all of the people of the community. “Recognizing the obligation placed upon them to find ways to provide the more adequate library services called for by the library’s organic dct, the library trustees adopted a five-year building and extension program, which was introduced as H. R. 16953 at the last session of Congress by Repre- sentative Ernest W. Gibson after hear- ings before the Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee at which the program was presented by the trustees and librarian and indorsed by representatives of various civic or ganizations. “It is estimated that the outside ex pense of providing sites and buildings for 12 branches, remodeling of the Conduit Road School when abandoned and enlarging the central library build- ing, including equipment, will be $1,- 796,500, “The Commissloners believe that the program is generally sound, that it represents a scientific study of pres- ent and future conditions as far as they can be forecast, and that it fits in with.the other programs for the de- velopment of Washington, notably those for the public schools, the parks and playgrounds and the proposed municipal center. The question that the Commissioners believe should be given consideration in this connection is that of financing the proposed li. brary-extension program. The Com- missioners hope that Congress will adopt a definite financial program cov erlna this and other municipal better ments. Growth Is Reported. ‘The library trustees report gratify- ing growth in the work of the pres- ent library organization. Books to- (Continued on Page 6, Column 3)