Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1927, Page 1

\WWEATHE (U, 8 Weather Burean Increasing cloudiness temperature, followed by row. Monday cloudy. Temperatures: Highest, today: lowest, 1 Full report on page 4 at 2 am R. Forecast,) with rising rain tomor 40, at 4 p.m today e Sundiny Stare WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 60 cents Question of Occupation of Vilna Still Contested—Pilsudski Spectator at Sessicn, By the Ass GENEVA jand, December 10.—Poland and Lithuania formally declared themselves at peace at a spe cial session the Council of the League of ¢ tonight. Th agreed to enter into divect negotia tions with each other for the settle. ment of their differences. This prob. ally means that full diplomatic rela tions will be restored shortly Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania and M. Zaleski, Polish foreign minis ter, announced lefore the Council that they accepted the Polish-Lith uanian_ settlement Jonkheer laerts Van Blokland n minister, submitted | ) tonight his re- at Poland and the Dutch for 10 the Council at 1 port recommending t Lithuania, having declared that peace exists hetween the two countries. | should enter into direct negotiations | to restore good relations. The report | was adopted by the Council | With other things the report rules that the Lithuanian protest re- gurding Poland’s treatment of m norities shall be examined by a com mittee of the League Council. Marshal Pilsudski, Poland premier, was in the spectators’ section. Many members of the council came from hu dinners in their evening dress, Pilsudski was in a black business suit, and Waldemaras, who sat at the council table, wore a black cuta- | Sir Austen Chamberlain, Brit- | way. ish foreign secretary, and other council members invited Marshal Pilsudski to an official seat, but he preferred to remain a mere spectator. The settlement was reached in one of the briefest and most suprising meetings the council ever held Called hurriedly from all kinds of social functions, the members sat | together for a brief 15 minutes. There was much handshaking and ex- change of congratulations when the announcement” was made that Po-| Jand and Lithuania had come to-an | amicable understanding. ~The council members as hurriedly - persed to resume their interrul soclal and carnival festivities. i Outside, well dressed crowds er: occupled with the carnival fetes, an Very few of the general public mt::u happily engaged had taken ihe trouble 10 trickle into the council hall where such an unusual and memorable meet- | ing was held. Agree to Negotiations. ¢ Pilsudski and Waldemaras P e eed to enter nto direct nego tiations us soon as possible in order to establish relations between their two tates which will “insure a good un- @erstanding between the nations,| upon which peace depends | The League Council is to name the committee _which will examine into Lithuania's complaint that Lithua- pian minorities have been wronged by | Poland.. In case there is any incident or threat of an incident between Po- Jand and Lithuania, the secretary- goneral of the League and Jonkheer Beelaerts Van Polkland, the official reporter, shall be advised and shxll consider steps necessary to bring about a better feeling. This arrangement supersedes l?m suggested plan for a control commi: sion to patrol the Polish-Lithuanian boundaries. The agreement Pilsudski their hetween and Waildemaras provides that i} action “in no way affects questions on which the two governments have Gifferences of opinion.” This mea {hat the action tonight does not affect Toland's occupation of Vilna, which | nia contests. 2, | L e was no debate in the session which brought the Baltic struggle to| such a coneluson The League Council other meeting Monday, conclude the present NEW SHIFT MADE IND. C. COMMITTEE ‘White Notifies Leaders He Does Not Wish to Serve—Hall w vhich 1 fon. | Named. | e Republican committee on com m:‘:lhae~ m‘ a ence lat yesterday made another switch in the assign- ment of members to the House District rommittee when Representative White | St Maine, slated to fill one of the two Republican vacancies, notified the committee that he did not desire to gerve, Representative Hall of Indiana thereupon wa wpointed Representa- tive Jenkins of Ohio is slated for the bither Republican vacancy, and this is | expected 1o compl: the makeup of | the District committee until other shifts are necessary in filling in as enments to other House committees on expendit has necessi :',‘.l‘:;ea careful revision of the roster of most of the House committees in an effort to draft the best possible man for positions on committee system. 1 ¢ this new important QUAKES SHAKE ALASKA. .Severe Shocks Tock Lake Kenai District, Near Seward. December 10 (#) SEWARD, Alaska _The Lake Kenal district, 20 miles northwest of S.ward, ‘and the yate Tay 10 big game country, was severely Mhaken by three earthquake shocks yesterds abins swayed in the Jarth movement. hut as the country is sparsely seitled no dama was Aol tracks of the Alaska Govern ent railroads skirt the shores of the Jake for 20 miles. No damage to the ks was reported. however, and no h | documents,” the Ambassador added. | »and Flyer Studies Two Routes. Decision Depends on Weather. Air Hero, on Floor of House, Is Voted Congressional Medal of Honor. Charles Col. A. Lindh h, intrepid | aviator, who thought he had received | every honor an admiring and grate ful America could b at the Capiiol yestery ed with the Co ional Medal of Honor voted him by the House, and the plaudits of its members rinzing in his ea The unprecedented ovation at the Capitol was followed by the definite announcement later in the day that Lindbergh will launch his 2,000-mile, non-stop flight from Washington to Mexico City next Wednesday, weather permitting. Complete plans for the flight have been drawn up by the v and depart ow, dropped in | Speaker Ietting Col when he v Perhaps he is telling the aviator that | he is about to rec of the House Loungworth | Lindbergh in on a_secret ve the Congression- | al Medal of Honor, for that is what | | Ohio. have taken on ad; Possibility of Curtis Becoming Formidable Candidate Seen Aided by Kansas City Choice. OULD LINCOLN. BY ¢ Shifting political breezes have hlown with vigor during the last week President Coolidge and Charles Evans Hughes of New York have eliminated themselves from the Republican presi dential picture. The presidential hooms of Secretary Herbert Hoover of the Department of Commerce, for- ded life. mer Gov. Frank O. Lowden. Vice | President Dawes, Senator Curtis of Kansas and Senator Willis of Ohio, | inot to mention Speaker Longworth of As many of the Republican leaders | the House voted immediately after- |<¢€ it today. the race is narrowing to {a final contest between Mr, Hoover | —— —————————— |and Vice President Dawes. This pre- | Army Air Corps officers at Bolling | Supposes the eventual defeat of Mr. Field. and with the oxception of the |Lowden. a defeat which his friends in- choosirg of two alternative routes | everything is said to be in readiress for the flight, which is in the nature of an offieial call upon President Calles of Mexico City, who extended the invitation for the flight to Col. Lindbergh, | Spontaneous Acti n. The House, in voting Lindbergh the most coveted decoration in the United States, did not bother even with ths formality of a ballot—so obvious to every member was the appropriate- ness of the Th " (Continued on Page TELLEZ QUESTIONS SENATE SUUBPOENAS { Mexican Consular Officials Immune as Diplomats, Envoy Declares. By the Associated Pre Authority of the special Senate com- mittee to summon Mexican consular {officers in its investigation of charges in the Hearst newspapers that a fund of $1,200.000 was raised for four United tates Renators was challenged last night by Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington. The Ambassador's statement was made after he had been advised un- officially that the ‘committee was plan: ning to summon Arturo M. Elias, Mexican consul general at New York and half brother of President (a'los, between whom most of the purortad correspondence rela‘ing to th: Sen- ators appeared to hava passed. “In my opinion, Eiias will not come to Washington at the Senate committee,” Ambassador Tellez said. “He will not be obligated to do o because he can stand on his rights of immunity under interna. tional law." Immunity Ts Claimed. The Ambassador said that while there was no treaty of commerce and amity between the United States and Mexico, which usually contains a pro- vision giving vonsular officers immun- ity from court processes, it was an established practice under tional law that such officers were immune from subpoenas. “The embassy has made two for- mal denials of the authenticity of the further comment to The Senate has del- has no make thereon. | egated itself to investigate the docu- ments and as far as I am concerned, | this is purely an affair of the Senate.” | the summons of | interna- | FOUR BRAVE STORM - T0 GET SHIP A Saiiors on Grea! Lakes Tell| Grim Tale of Battle 'With Blinding Gale. reached here tonight after a heroic battle through pounding ice-clogged waves (o shore from whence they trekked nine miles through three feet of srow to the Copper Harhor light- | house. The men brought here from | Copper Harbor on sleds were badly | injured and described the predica- ment of their 21 companions on the Altadoc as perilous. The crew, they | said, is without food and many are in need of medical attention. The| Altadoc, the men declared, will be a total lo The men, Engineer Roy Hardman and three sailors, said the Altadoc drifted helplessly across Lake Su- perior when her steering apparatus { | was smashed in Tuesday's gale, and finally was driven aground a short distance from the wreck of the steam- er City of Bangor, which was driven on a shoal last year. | pounding the freighter received from mountainous waves when she went aground. He and his companions came ashore to obtain fresh supplies of food and medicine. The four sailors’ hardest battle came in attempting to reach land with their frail craft which at times | Altadoc cleared from Owen Sound for | | Flower State for sist will not materialize, for the Vice Pr a th ndidate for the momination and he is for his friend, Mr, Lowden, Still others take the view that the situation is developing so as to make of Senator Curtis, the Republican leader of the Senate, a formidable can- didate for the presidential nomination. The fact that the Republican nation- al convention is to be held in Kansas City, Mo., territory which is res ed as particularly friendly to the Kan- sas Senator, may help Mr. Curtis, it is sald. He will go into the convention with the Kansas delegation solidly be- hind him, and with friends in many of the other State delegation: Hoover Tooms Stronger. But more and more strongly does Secretary Hoover loom as the probable nominee of the Republican party. Ad- mittedly Mr. Hoover s strong with a large number of voters in this coun- try. He has made friends in the South, particularly in the Mississippi River Valley, through his flood relief work. And many of these Southern States, it is believed, will send delegations fayorable to him. The argument is being advanced hy some of his friends that if the Democrats nominate Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Mr. Hoover might well carr: a State or more in the “solid South™ | where Smith is by no means popular and where prejudice runs against him By the Associated Press. because he is a wet and a Catholic. CALUMET, Mich., December 10, | Whether Mr. Hoover could actually —Four members of the crew of | CATry any of the Southern States In o 2 a large question, But it is certain l.h'k’"fl"‘:;d ';;","" A{“"";f' i ‘:" he would receive more votes than rocks o eweenaw =~ Peninsula, | g,y “gther Republican has ever r ceived in that section of the countr it ha be nominated for President against Goy. Smith. The drift to Mr. Hoover is evident. Already Republican National Commit- teeman Creager of Texas has come out flatfootedly for the nomination of the Secretary of Commerce, and so has Galen L. Tait, the chairman of the Republican State committee of Maryland It is reported that tional Commilteeman Clarence C Hamlin of Colorado is strongly back- ing the Hoover movement. Despite the strength of Senator Curtis in Kan- sas which will surely give him the State delegation to the convention, there is much sentiment in the Sun Mr. Hoover, where some of the progressive group, includ- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) Flyer Dies as Motor Explodes. 4 DENVER, December 10 (®).—lack Many Hurt by Poundin Taylor of tena, Calif., was killed Hardman said many members of | (Onight wher the engine of his West- the crew were injured in the terrific |ern Air Express plane exploded in the alr near Lowry Field, airport here, and the plane burst into flames as it struck the ground. TODAY'S STAR was nearly swamped in its short o (E—60' PAGE journey of less than a quarter of aj . PART ONE—60 FAGES. o mile through the huge rollers. The | SGaSF0 B chools and Colleges- State Department officials appear | Fort William, its home port, on Sun- ‘ 2 to hold with the Ambassador that|day morning. Although weather con- ;,fi.‘,"’-‘(’.f,‘,‘{“\-?,.‘;“'l there is every rule of international |ditions were not " favorable the |Gy ool NpSTH custom and practice against sum- |freighter plodded on until struck by | e R moning consular officera before even |a ° terrific northwester Wednesday | Dptrict of Columbia Naval Reserve— Senate committees, but some Sena-|night followed by a blinding snow-|w “C°1 "1 Notes—Page 38 tors are known to disagree with that |Storm, which made it impossible to g G U, Notos—Page 38 proposition, and it was indicated ves- terday that the committee would seek to obtain the presence of Elias. Subpoenas Reported. special Senate committee, Both the identity and the number of persons for whom summonses went | out were withheld by the committee, | ator Reed, Republican. Pennsyl-| “We could not tell where we were vania. the chairman and author of funtil late that morning.” said Hard- e resolution of inauiry rg man. “Suddenly the storm lifted ontinued on Page 2, Column 1. A flock of subpoenas were reported | to have been issued vesterday by the | penetrate the Lake Superior fastness for more than 200 feet. In the height | of the storm the steering apparatus | gave way and the big ship became ||~II[yXPNJl before the onslaugnt of the | | zale. lown ahead of the wind from the Canadian shore, the ship drifted from 1 o'clock Thursday morning until she grounded nearly six hours later, hav- | ing ecrossed completely over the lake. (Continued on Page 4. Column 6.) Migration 2,000 Years Ago From Asia To Africa and Madag_asic“ar Discovered By the Associated Press. CHICAGD, December 10.—Dr. rounding out the budget| Ralph Linton, of the Field Museum of . announced today he Natural Histor has evidences of a hitherto unknown migration of people of an Asiatic ori- gin to southern Africa and Madagas- car. Dr. Linton from a two.year tour of Madagascar, | where he assembled bits of informa tion that enabled him to ancient migration, believed to taken place some 2,000 vears ago. The import of the discovery, | Linton said, is that it gives {2 problem the racial strikin: Dr. resemblance of recently returned trace the have clue 1o t has vexed scholars in e for many vears on the | atives of the nated from the region of Java, Borneo and Sumatra when tribes of savages _|invaded the homes of the inhabintants, tives took two direc- tions,” he s: ‘One group braved a | perilous voyage westward some 3,000 miles to Africa and Madagascar, prob- ably undertaken In outrigger canaes. The second group went northeastward ~+» the Pacific, settling in the Philip. pine Tslands.” Dr. Linton said he found evidence of a bitter struggle between the natives, who fled to southern Africa and Madagascar. and the origlnal in- habitants of the territory. The in. vaders gained supremacy. however, and forced the aborigines back Into the fungle, he said. Dr. Linton offered in support of his contention. a claim that the present habitants of Madagascar. the Pa- ific_lsiands and Madagascar, de-|cific Islands and southern Africa hve | spite the wide separation of the is-|& culture purely Asiatic, and not nds. African. It is a culture developed in In tracing the migration. Dr. Lin-|southern Asia more than 7,000 years ton found that the movement origi- [ak0, he said. with a vestige of the Siome Age still persisting. {Radio News and Programs—Pages 47 Cross-word Puzzle—Page 39. W. C. A. News—Page Fraternal News—Page 4 Veterans of the Great War—Page 44 48 and 49. Distriet National G Around the City—Page 51, Parent-Teacher ‘Activities—Page Clubwomen of the Nation— At the Community Financial Ne: Army and N ard—Page 50 PART TWO0—20 Editorials and Editori Washington and Other Soc Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Winter Hooks—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 12 PART THREE—10 PAGE Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music—Page 5. Motors Serial, Page 9. Spanish War Veterans—Page 9. PART FOUR— PAG Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—19 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Civilian Army News—Page 8. D. A. R. Activities—I" Marine Corps No GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff: Reg'lar Kelle Fea- ational Guard | dent has frankly stated he is rot | | i | | Mr. | wor and Mrs; lewmms of History, "~ (Continued on Page | ready to vote for an — Pa] =] A 477 THE. Y ‘EATURES OF ‘\ | ARCHAEOLOGISTS THE A SQUARE] DEAL [\ N AN, GRIDIRON OPERA €] Chooso Non Ruwou FALL DINNER OF THE Né. 1,186— No. 50,539 Eusrst a» ewond ciass mutter WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING., DECEMBER 11, 1927—128 PAGES. # P Means Associated Pre | 1 i e - POLISHLITHUANIAN ™ F36E Fo Mexico wepnesoay JOOM FOR HOOVER . B g : i A = SR AR PEACE ANOUNGED LEADS AS OHERS Y S e T0 LEAGUE COUNCIL - TAKE ADDED LIFE N Ce Agree to 'ErnTerri Into' Direct Final COn-tersrtWB;t:/veen Sec- \ f / *’v/\z“fi ~ oA | Negotiations to Settle | retary and Dawes Seen by | il li N 3R \\;\’ Z Differences. Many GLO._F‘.Leaders. AR | %figfie T -" gg;{ COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE (COOLIDGE AND HUGHES | e I 2 I | PROTEST ON MINORITIES| HELD wi PlCTURE% g’;{.‘fl;;;s = ; CLUB. GRIDIRON CONGRESS T0 PUSH BUILDING PROGRAM Elliott Bill for Purchase of Ground Here to Get Early Attention. Congress will act just as soon poasible to expedite the public build- ing program, both here in Washing- ton and throughout the State: The first legislation to be taken up by the House commiltee on public buildings and grounds as soon as its membership is filled by the Repub- lican committee on committees wiil be the Elliott bill authorizing an ap- propriation of $25,000,000 to acquire the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue to the Mall, and the Reed bill to increase the Federal building fund another $100,000,000 and in- ercase the amount that can be spent each year from 325,000,000 to $33. 090,000. Representative Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Republican con- gressional committee, who is also a prominent member of the House ap- | propriations committee, is especially anxious to have the $100.000,000 in- ase made and Lo increase from 000,000 to $50,000,000 the. amount to be expended next yi S0 as o get caught up on the building pro- gram that was held back for one year by the failure of the measure behind the filibuster at the close of the last session of Congress. House Ready to Approve. tha House is increase within reason and not o word has been heard in opposition to such legislation. The only fear is that it may not be in harmony with the financial policy of the Prosident, whose budget message showed that the recommendations for appropriation (§: 7,081) run _un- y se to the prospective $3,809 - 497,314 revenus leaving a safety bal ance of only §: The building p thorized is for $16: $100,000,000 is thro: States as a whol National Capital The membership of already au- 000, of which ut the United 0,000,000 in the $15,000,000 to nd rry out the building program of 1913 o which was delayed hy the war, costs of construction incres 1t provided that no more than §: 000,000 should be spent in any one y with and set a limit on the amount to be spent in any one State. This v £10,000,000 throughout the £10,000,000 in Washington 000 to ‘carry along the left-over work from 191 Under the Reed bill, which made rider on th 000,000 ition of the Avenue triangle the last Congress and failed only ause of the Senate filibuster, the mount te be spent annually was to be inereased to $35,000,000, of which £20,000,000 would be for general use throughout the country. $10,000,000 Vashington nd $3.000,000 for until the 1913 program was completed, when the fund to be spent annually in the States would be i d to § 000,000, Chairman Madden of the House ap- propriations committee clearly ex- plained the public buildings situation in presenting the urgent deficiency bill which has already passed the House, carrying $8,131,583.56 for the public building fund The failure of the public bulldings appropriation bill has postponed for practically a year the entrance upon the program designed to relieve the congestion and inadequacy which exist in facilities of the Government for the transaction of the public bpsiness throughout the country. The bill con- ined approximately $20,000,000 for carrying work under this program. In the deficiency appropriation bill there is included §8,131,583.56 for pub- lic buildings, the sum of $5,306,583 56 for the continuance of work on build- ings nuthorized in 1913 (now u contract or ready to be placed un: contract), §725,000 for four projects au- thorized prior to the enactment of the act of May 25, 1926, and $2.100,000 for the_District of Column §,) for cquis |Sentenced to Die [Twice, Chicago Man | Acquitted by Jury By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, December 10.—Twice previously sentenced to death as the slayer of a woman, Ralph Reno today was acquitted by the third jury which held his fate. Reno was found not guilty after several hours of deliberation although the State again demanded the death pemalty. GRIDIRON GRILLS 198 CANDIDATES | Notables Raked by Satire at Annual Banquet | of Club. | Presidential possibilities for 1 re- | ceived their baptism of fire last night |on the white-hot grill of the Gridiron | Club. Many of the leading candidates were listed among the distinguished | guests at the club’s annual Winter | dinner at the Willard. Present or ab- nt, there was no escape from a | | Receptive or silent eandidates were satirized through formal presentation of a medal for bravery to Senator Cur- tis of Kansas for his having come out | boldly with an announcement. Present also were Vice President Dawes, Secretary’ Hoover. former Gov. nk O. Lowden of I".no0is, Senator Willis of Ohio, Spea'er Longworth, former Secretar of Agriculture Ed- win T. Meredith of lowa, Senator Reed of Missouri and Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. An experienced ex-candidate, John W. Davis, Demo- cratic nominee in 1924, was called to | address them. | Puts | de Crown. The plight of the Republican party was set forth in a musical Julius Caesar,” in which the * and silent Emperor. Julius Coolidge. put aside the crown. The Democratic situation was set forth in an effort by “Miss Democracy” to find a pilot for storm “from the West" revealed two Roman citizens mufling their {ogas about them. A herald approached. “Look! Herc cometh one in sore agitation,” said the first en. “Why it is Secretar pio Sanders.” i “Citizens, T have terible news," an- nounced Scipio Sanders. “Julius Gool. idge hath put aside the erow: Come With Diadem, Following thie stupendous annour ment, a delegation of Roman arist crats—otherwise Republican leader appeared, bearing an enormous gold crown resting on a scarlet cushion. (Continued on Page 12, Column 1. scorching comment of songs and skits. | her battered and patched plane, “Spirit_of Discord,” on a *non-stop flight from Political Oblivion to the White House.” | In the Republican skit, a violent AL SITE URGED FOR FARM MARKET Temporary Location Sought Until Commission Men De- cide Where to Move. The farmers’ produce market may be located temporarily on Federal-owned property in the Mall until the commis- | sion merchants determine where the: | will go when osted from the Pennsyl- {vania avenue triangle by the $50,000, 000 public building program. The District Comuaissioners, it was learned yesterday, are meriously con- sidering recommending to Congrgss that authorization be granted for tem- | poramy use of some of the Mali prop- |erty for the farmers' market. The site they have in mind, it was said, is just off B street hetween Seventh | and Ninth streets, facing the Center Market. The Mall property, it was pointed {out, could be used without expense to the District government. Moreover, this location would keep the farmers' | market in close proximity to the Cen- ter Market and the commission hou which District officials regard as high- |1y desirable. Report Is Prepared. The Commissioners devoted a major ‘ portion of their time vesterday pre- paring a report on the farmers’ mar- ket situation in accordance with the action of Congress at the last session | directing that a recommendation for a new site, not to exceed $600,000 in cost, be submitted not later than December 15. This report then must 0 to the Capitol not later than | Thursday. | A thorough sur and study of | the relative merits of the eight | privatel: owned sites advocated for | the farmers’ market has been made ! by the Commissioners, but they are not prepared, it was said. to recom- | mend the purchase of any one of | them, until it is definitely determined where the commission houses are to |locate. The Commissioners are repre: sented as feeling that the farme market is an integral part of the com- mission houses and that they should | be kept as closely together as is prac | ticabte. | The present Farmers’ Market, under | | the latest edict from the Treasury | Department must vacate the property |it occupies either the latter part of January or early in February. Should authorize the use of the site tempora . It was pointed | out, it would require but little time | to re-establish the market. Other- | wise the farmers would be without | a place to do business until an ap- propriation for a permanent site is forthcoming, as no provision has yet | been made for them when the sheds |on the present site are dismantled | and the Government begins excava- tions for the new Internal Revenue | | Building. | Two in Ee | Of the eizht privately owned sites | urged for the market, all but fout of | | them, it was said, have been eliml- | nat from _tu consideration Child, Mother Dead. A little girl In Pennsylvania has written to “Uncle Sam, War Depar ment” asking as a favor that *if there are any more wars please do not muke my daddy and Uncle Oliver go, as my mother is dead and I have only my daddy, except my aunts.” It he would do that for her, she said, she would appreciate it ve much. Sectetary Davis, to whom the letter was delivered, was so much touched by the childs appeal that he wrote her a personal letter in reply. “Our Uncle Sam ™ sald he. lskvdix to answer the letter “has | you' Asks Uncle Sam | development “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at r month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. FIVE CENTS. RESIDENTS PAYING LION'S SHARE T0 SUPPORT CAPITAL Results of Survey to Be Laid Before Trade Board Group Tomorrow. PER CAPITA TAX LEVY SECOND HIGHEST IN U. S. Comparatively Low Rate Offset by Tremendously High Assess- ment on Real Estate. A picture in black and por (raying the taxpavers of the District of Columbia as bearing their full bur den as residents of an American municipality as well as contributing the lion's share for ma‘ntenance and of the Capital of the United States will ba presented to a full meeting tomorrow night of the Board of Trade by its mu ipal finance committee. The report will be presented by Joshua Evans, Jr chairman of that committee. The picture. drawn from numerous data and tabular sta s concerning Washington's tax-produced revenue in relation to the revenues of com parable American cities, shows, with other things, that (1) With only 60 per cent of its real estate taxable, Washington has the second highest per capita assessment of any city in the United States, ex- ceeding by $668 the average annual salary of the 834,853 Federal employes on Uncle Sam’s pay roll in the District of Columbia. Realty Assessments High. (2) While Washington's tax rate | may be low, its real estate assessment is tremendously high, the increase of $204,000,000 in assessments last year alone being greater than the combined increases during the last three years in the assessments of any of 13 cities of comparable size. Since 1924 Washington's real estate assessment increase exceeds by $40,000,000 the combined total realty assessment in- creases of 10 of 13 cities chosen for comparison. One of the cities, Balti- more, shows an increased assessment in the last 3 years of $226,000,000, but this has been offset in some degree by a 51-cent reduction in the tax rate. (3) That the cost of maintaining and operating the municipality of Wash- ingtoun, when considered in relation to the budget for the District as a whole, is proportionately far in ex- cess of that of other cities because of the demands placed ypon local gov- ernment by the Federal establish- ment (4) That the 70,000 owners of real estate in Washington are carrying the greater portion of the 75 per cent of the cost of maintaining and develop- ing the Capital drawn from District revenues. leaving with the remaining 125,000,000 citizens of the United States a responsibility for Capital @e- velopment and maintenance expressed through a contribution of less than 2. per cent. Survey Shows Situation. Figures bearing out the findings re :ited above were secured by the office | of the secretary of the Board of Trade after a survey last Summer, con- ducted by sending a prepared que: tionnaire to the Chambers of Com- merce and the Boards of Trade of more than 100 American cities. This undertaken upon the sug- Brandenburg, general counsel of the Board of Trade, who proposed that thé data upon which the board has heretofore based its conclusions rolating to municipal finance and its contentions concerning apportionment of expenditures be- tween the District and the Federal governments be revised and brought up to date. In exhaustiven the survey is comparable only to the work of the Joint ens’ Commitiee on Fiscal Relations between the District and the United States, undertaken in 1915 by that bod nd which was suc- cessfully used to disprove charges of low taxa* in the District and to bring about retention in law of the fixed ratio of apportioning expenses between the District and the Federfy Government. The work undertaken by the secre- ta office of the Board of Trade was based on the understanding that the remaining taxable property in Washington, now reduced to 80 per cent of the total, is subject to further and _ further en- hyv the Federal Govern- while this encroachment will increase. the limits of the city are specifically established: that after departing on a vear-to-vear basis from the statutory 60-40 ratio of appropri- ating for the Capital, the Federal Government has annually decreased its proportion so that in the present fical year it Is less than a divi- sion of costs, and if this decrease s maintained in the face of increasing costs of Capital maintenance, the Ked- eral contribution will become almost negligible. And finally. by being the <eat of government. the Capital de- prived of that source of revenue lying in the industrial establishments which have brought wealth and prosperity to American communities comparing in size to Washington. croachment nd ment, Text of Questionnaire. The questionnaire distributed by the follows: 1. Name of city. Povulation. Total true value of taxable real estate. 4. What is the tax rate per $100 as- sessed value on realty? 5. F mtuch revenue does this pro- duce annually? 6. What is the total assessed “(Continued on Page 4, Column Not to Take “Daddy“ in Future Warl GRAYITY CHECK CLAIMED. | sent him urging him not to m:\ke‘ your daddy and Uncle Oliver go to war if there are any -more wars. Uncle Sam hopes from the bottom of | his heart that there will not be any more wars and he will do everything he can to prevent them. He sald to tell you not to worry, but to keep your daddy and Uncle Oliver out of mischief at home and he would try to keep the country from getting into trouble abroad. He was very glad ta get your letter and to note the good care you are taking of your family. Inventor Says He Can Suspend Weight in Air. NEWARK, N. J., December 10-(4) —The invention of a machine by which the force of gravity is neutralized was announced today by Bernays Johnson a radio engineer, who claims that if the machine can be developed to a commercial stage air flights from New York to Paris can be achieved in five or six hours. At his laboratory Johnson said he had actually suspended a miniature Uncle Sam sends his best wishes to you. . plane in the air by reutralizing grav ity. and also that he conld suspend & S0-pound weight in the air,