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e s THE EV 'GVSTAR'; “"ASTTTNGTO{B{ D. _Q SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1928, 5. SOTBISHBIL - FOR D. C. PASSED, House Approves After Adding $26,300 to Committee’s Proposal. The District the fiscal year beginning July 1 next was passed by the House late vesterday ing $89.781.535. an increase of £26.300 more than was recommended by the appropriations committee when the was reported to the House 8 week The bill now goes to the Senat over the fiscal relations expected 1t in the House the tion whi committee had that none of the appro- the District schools should truction of pupils who > DIStrict, excopting Provi The big Feste appropriations o the bill came lat the ritten dment provi commur Will Consider Fiscal Plans. at this time what do with re; i b taming Na- A when the 2 up. Senator Phipps. while not ready to forecast what will be done in advance of any meetings of the subcom- mittee. indicated he looked upon the u { the division of cost as an Senator Phipps said he probably would call the subcommittee the lattel part of next week to begin hearings on the bill. This will gt vt the * Senate sub- oo A number of members of the Senate have indicated earlier in the session that they were s plea for a more cquitable division of the cost Committee Is Sustained. ittee was sustained by two S ¥ tellers in the commuttee of the whole House, 98 to 95. and again in the House itself. 146 to 13 These voles were taken on an ndment offered by Representative Gambrill, Democrat. of Maryland, to ke out this hmitation. s the bill now stands. it will be necessary for Congress 1o pass a tuition bill opening the District schools to non- resident pupiis on payment of a nom- inal per capita tuition charge. but it does not interfere with the 2,582 non- resicent pupils now in the District schools. Representative Chindbloom, | The Measure appropriation bill for | m. ‘mpathetic to the Dis- | MERGER FEATURE WINS INDORSEMENT OF UTILITIES BODY _(Continued_from First Page) ARBORETUM SITE PRICES ATTACKED !Luce Voices Warning House That It May Be Located Outside D. C. ment of questions on various phases of |the merger plan. Mr. Fleharty like- wise took & prominent part in the {merger discussions, but he left before [ they concluded to make his radio talk. | " Vigorously denying suggestions that junder the merger the street car riders {would have to pay more for traction | electric Mr. Wilson said: “If im- mergs cted—1 do not say th at—vou will have an im- ibstantial increase in fare Ving you won't have it under A METRe; am ing that the cconomic savings of $1.000,000 will obviate the need for an increase and it will be possible to give far better ervice, “If an inel under a a5 comp: otherwise have, " he added. Ison scouted the thought that merger the new company would the busses off the sireets by in- Al as It is necessary to obtain permision of the Public Utilities Com- mission 1o put on new busses, so it would be necessary 1o secure ils per- ion 1o take off. in warning to real estate i&pfl‘('ll tors in the District that Con- | gress may locate the proposed abo- retum oufside the confines of the Dis- trict of Columbia, to avoid being “held up” on land prices, was sounded | terday by Representative Luce of Mas- sachusetis during consideration by the | House of the District nuplrnurlnlhm bill, vl “I may als warn the men con- it Yo crned.” Mr. Luce said. “that if the | hold-up continues, the Government may {see fit to stop any further work in the dredging of the Anacostia River and the development of the land in the upper reaches thereof.” tato A pognant i'm not sed fare becomes nec- merger, it would be by the reading of a provision in the bill for the acquisition of & site for an engine house ‘in_the vicinity of Con- ik e I hecticut and Nebraska avenues, in t would be as impossible {0 drop | (hich the limitation of 25 per cent the Washingion Rapid Transit C0.{ gpoye the assessed value fived for the Dl {o drop the Pennsslvania | pichase price wos under discussion. aven street car hine,” Mr. Wilson | 1 ¢ S i polnting out that from a | Asks Data of Simmons. siandpomt a1t would be un-| Requesting information from Repre- o do so. | sentative Simmons, chairman of the < of foramg a nferger Mr. Wilson | District subcommittee on appropria- acterized as “all bunk, unless it | tions, as to the progress being made !spells sound economics” Congress, he | “on the question of handling pur- it confiscate private | chases of property in the District,” Mr. | prop: rcise of the | Luce said: righ eminent domain. He told the| “1 would explain that my committee committee that he tound no sentiment | duties and other relations bring me in i Washington for public ownership or | touch with the problem and are bring- |ing home to me fopeibly some of the discussion before difticult situations that are arising. La committee by !year we passed a bill, which became r 1s advocatea on the ! for the purchase of land for an arbore- cut to the car-riding pub- tum. By reason of the position ta arty pointed out ihat afier |by certain real estate promoters, we Public Utilities Commission places | were held up in that project. Very {1ts approval on the plan it must re- | fortunately, the bill provided that this ceive the indorsement of the stockhold- land might be that which we had espe- | ers mvolved and of Congress. The most | cially in view, the Mount Hamilton site, | | tangible promise, he said, is for free or it might be elsewhere in or near the | ransfers. but that there was no assur- | District; and it may be well for me Ance that the car fare would remain | now to give notice that the permission he same ot be lowered and there is no 'to go elsewhere in the District or to go fuarantee of the type of service to be |outside of the District may be resorted rendered. {10 if it proves impossible to buy the | Mr. Fieharty pointed out that the |rest of this land at a reasonable price new: company would have relief trom I may also warn the men concerned the special tazes involving traffic cross- | that if the hold-up continues the Gov- ing policemen and paving, amounting |ernment may see fit to stop any further to some $300.000 during the past vear.| work in the dredging of the Anacostia and “relieving’ the car companies from | River and the development of the land | | this will have to be made up by gen- | in the upper reaches thercof. | eral taxatica.” “But I am concerned with two other | Urzes Citizens to Act. situations that 1 think should be the | i lt | Mr. Luce’s remarks were occasioned | | tria’s continued Scientists Ai&ed by Yearly Tree Rings With the aid of yearly tree rings, which are virtually “finger prints of time,” the National Geographic Soclety 18 probing the prehistory of the Ameri- can Southwest in an cffort, now be- lieved to be nearing success. to tle long st events of the region onto the civil- 7ed world's calendar. This was disclosed today with the announcement that the funds to Dr. Albert E. Douglass, director of the Steward Astronomical Observa- tory of the Univer: carry on his studie od to past date The problery aro with the socie Bonito, N. Mex.. where its expeditions, under the divection of Dr. Neil Judd, have uncovered and partly | constructed a remakable early Ameri- i(‘:\n “apartment house” which sheltered e than 2,000 persons. of tree rings as re- in BREAK IS RUMORED | Envoy Departs for Rome to Confer With Duce on Tyrol Situation. By the Aseaciated Pross, VIENNA, February 25 Auriti, Italian Minister to Austria, is leaving for Rome tonight to confer with Premier Mussolini respecting Aus- complaints regarding Ttalian treatment of German subjects in_the Tyrol. His departure has already given rise to rumors of an impending break in re- lations between Italy and Austria. The Tyrolese deputies here insist Austria cannot recede from the firm stand already taken by Chancellor Sei- pel relative to “Italian aggression.” RECALL HELD IMMINENT. Official Confirmation of Reported Move Lacking, However. ROME, February 25 (#).—Although official confirmation is lacking, Popolo Di Roma today says the recall of Ital- fan Minister Auriti from Vienna “ap- pears imminent.” | The paper is inclined to attribute the recent discussions in the Austrian Par- liament protesting the treatment of | brought to the attention of the com- Fleharty said that “it_behooves | mittee. and possibly in view of them the | the citizens to get their views before the | chairman of this subcommittee may | Public Utiliies Commission” on this | help us to determine what ought to be | subject. An increase in fares may fol- | done. i fow, with or without 5 merger. he ~aid, | D ‘::‘m"‘,',,,g“’u:’f,’t. toibe | “In the case of the land that is to be increase. In answer to questioning. Mr. | Dought. two squares at the lower end | Flcharty said he looked for extension | Of the hill. for the new Botanic Gar- of bus rather than trolley service in |den. the bide were opened the other | the opening up of new lines. The policy | of State commuissions, he said. has oeen to protect companies from competition, as is contempiated under normal condi- tions by the merger plan. Mr. Cites Prices Asked. | day and there was not one plece of | property in those two squares that was! offered to us at less than 100 per cent | above the assessed valuation. One of | the more important pleces of property | Republican, of Illinois, offered such an! The people’s counsel called attention | rendment providing for a tuition | to the point that Mr. Wilson has pro- charge, but this was ruled out of order | vided in the plan for congressional ap- | when the point was raised by Repre-lpmm for a metropolitan arca for sentative Zihiman of Maryland that it | Washington to be administered by the was an attempt to graft legislation on | Pubiic Utilities Commission of this city. an appropriation bill | Mr. Wilson interjected to explain that Representative Gambrill lead the fight | the Maryland Utilities Commission with more than 20 members of the would accept the views of the local House making speeches in support of | commission under the proposel law, de- his contention. He read letters to show | claring that Oongress will be asked to that hundreds of District children are fbroaden the powers of the local now being educated in Maryland | commission. schools. | “Congress has the power to exercise Representatives Moore and Montague. | this authority, if it chooses to do so,” both Democrats. of Virginia, argued that | Mr. McAdoo explained. many of the Virginia pupils are children | Discussion then turned to the ques- of men in the military service, and em- | tion ot valuation, and in answer to a mnzd that Virginia is educating free | question from Jesse C. Adkins, chair- dreds of children of officers and men | man, who is also president of the Dis- in the military and naval service who|trict of Columbis Bar Association, Mr. are at various posts and stations in Vir- | Fleharty declined to express an opinion ginia. {on ]lhtlrnz'nessf of r:m sso.%.ogo ’m; “lini | itial valuation for the proposed Capital M‘:‘;':::' ‘:'“?“ etuges | TTORSIE Co. 8t this time. . The §26. 1o the bill includes | 5 " $8.000 to provide quarters for the Dis- | Defends Tractions’ Earhings. trict Health Department clinics. $3.000 10 Wilson took ‘lssue with Mr. Fle- for better funeral arrangemlents at the | panis statement that the Potoma District crematorium and the remainder | Ejectric Power Co. has “carried along for additional sireet repairs. | the Washington Railway & Electric Co.. The bill carries a total of $171.400 10T | incisting that the latter concern is salary increases on a two-year program | “self-sustaining.” to put District employes on & balance | A merger is desirable,” Mr. Wilson with those in ther branches of the de- | ¢ai4 “Washington has a very excellent pertmental service as regards increases ' service under the circumstances, with in salary aliowed under the ciassifica- | the property as it is. To have three, tion act. ! transportation companies in the Dis- Increase of near $22.000 is carried 10r | trict of Columbia is perfectly ridicu- the municipal arcnitect’s office &bove !lous There is an economic waste of the estimates thus providing for 8 reor- | gver $1.000.000 a year. ganization of the office with appoint- ment of an assistant municipal archi- | cul+de sacs leading nowhere, due to Sect uplication ” “An increase in fare would find no pubiic favor,” Mr. Wilson said during For the free public library there is an increase of $32515 over curren propriations, allowing for 10 new po- | the course of this discussion. tions. and 89,190 for establishing and | Mr Wilson then got back on the $50.- maintaining a new branch library in 000000 valuation angle of the merger vacant school on Conduit road. salaries in the free library service on | valuations “is not too high a price to & parity with those in other divisions pay for better public relations.” He of the District government | adde¢ that “it 1sn't in the cards to crease of $12380 for the office | earn 7 per cent on & valuation of $62.- oration counsel is also carried, | 000.000" providing for two additional a nt{ e Fare.” Senivntion coune o bt 800 ‘Willing to Pay 10-cent Fare. teke charge of the more impo eon- | demnation work and the otlier at $3,000 0 assist in work before the Police wil 10 pay a 10-cent fare for first- class service he sald, “but I see no occasion for an increased fare here. There 15 an economic loss of 81,000,000 that can be saved " “The eenter of interest then focused {un the relationship between the Poto- mae Electric Power Co. and the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. and the bill | cuius under the changed conditions 1@ UWhal e Wilwon denied that the new trans- a of portation company would have to pay Of new Warkers more for power than does the Wash'ng- B9 wsked 1or W0 50, on Rallway & Electric Co., as the plan figy and the acquisi- provides that no higher sum shall be #itex e Bl carries $2.- | pajd He insisted that the power firm L s an increase of $182- wguld get no more for its electricity DL APPrapHIALIona. than )t 1% now getting - tax fund $1660- M- McAdoo sald that electric light onsumers in Washington are geiting [their power cheaper than any ity in the enuntry where electricity 3s minu- tactured by stesin 11 closing the diseussion The aswssors office has Widen ith an additional Other permanent emplo been pro- eid party and One-third for Schools. For schonl tom of sen 612,900, or the Police Department includes provision for sen Fie bl con- s Linst the of | should be house o3 B ones are ik grounds us Mr Wilson perpetual, as the present Lauds Free Transfers, tal hols 80 o the public by the terms of the plan the promise of free transfers be- tween connecting portions of ruliway lines.” said Mr tuik over WIHF brissen W street but the plen pro Tween sUGels cars wnd busses shull be granted under terms und condition pre- {acribed by the Public Utihtes Commis- The plan d Hob conlaln sny s or pro carried s Ul $H28 B L wOdition 10 the waler system 81 tne Distriel ‘Lraining School and for be e street Sy, “Free transters § ary dre 0L promiw n 324 500 is car~ YOUNG WOMAN SAVED BY ARRIVAL OF NIECE Mis Beutrice W 2128 14 gaved from Geath Perterdny luvered . ars old of L UL his herelofore often been sald by southerst, was Proponents of merger thut economies of o Cxpnse Jcident U BORoMBg date would necessunly reduction of fare § do oot edieve under exksting cond)tions Wil respect W eosts of Jubor wnd ni- terials i reduetun of fare fs oat wll kely, with or without w merger 11 vould b eapecting oo much The s ion Vs RISeR U CONCern, however s Wil s merger of View ciable Uik ALAOT U Won operated that the wr, 21 raenin st by gus atbernot, by e Opportuse f Lt Beoyear-uia piece ot Cntiing e BT dio eony Son i G adbed Y g wnd Franeh o opened [AURIETIR P weing her | present of gus s e fron Guilg s Ve B ihiew wide 1he Coor ana 1y e floor sen W he Who summonen s dsnee and Iereue B 4wy br | sepile) sttt wid condition s pot rute of fare g fere fullow?” Al the nuniba s of guines o sppics G aitferent purts of world, g0 that the health value of cach varlely can be sscertalped, ’ s wre belng 1 WMusphy of cmen. Mo The service Is | rather indifferent—it is a system of | ¥ |plan and informed his audience that | 5 starts a program of making the | the 812000000 difference in estimated | 'he people of Washington are fully d that a franchise of this character | be most tengible benefit held out | Flehurty in his | des Lt Lrnnfers be- | Vit car fares will | remain the same o Lhat they will be | Companiies facilities 1o consolidated gny can esrn B fwle reluin at the or will Increased Lister Tustitute i Eogland & was offered to us at between 300 per cent and 400 per cent above the as- sessed valuation. The average of the bids submitted to us was over 200 per cent above the assessed valuation. This, | of course, is nothing more or less than a | holdup of the Government of the United | States and an attempt to extort from the public Treasury money that should not go for that purpose; and, strongly of the hope as 1 am that the Botanic Garden may be speedily removed from its present situation, I for one should be very reluctant to consent to paying any such extortionate prices as are de- manded: and I am ready now, unless { something changes in the matger, to in- | troduce another bill providing a differ- ent site for the Botanic Garden. i “But it seems most unfortunate that | we should be obliged to sacrifice the Yesirable locations for our public im- provements and go to less desirable locations by reason of a system of as- sessment and a system of condemnation proceedings which mulct the Govern- ment every time either is brought into the situation “1 understand a bill has “een intro- | duced for improving the condemnation | proceedings of the District. Will the | gentleman inform us, if he knows, of | any steps that are being taken or can | | the genlleman suggest any steps that | |ought to be taken to meet the condi- | | tions presented by the unfair, unjust, | (and wrong system of assessing property | in the District of Columbia?" “1 think the gentleman from Massa- | chusetts (Mr. Luce) has very well! stated the situation that exisis here in Washington, and that is that under | existing conditions the real estate men are holding up the Government and the people of the District of Columbla in the purchase of sites,” Mr. Simmons replied. “On this ter the gentleman and I are in complete accord. I believe the gentleman is right in nouifying these people that ){ tne United States can- not_buy property at a faiy price in the District, when there are matters that {affect Lhe District, such as the matters the gentleman 1s interested in, then {we ought 1o go outside of the District lor stop the uctivity “We are presented with a strange sit- uauon In the District. Business men, | responsibie taxpayers who ought to be | interested in city development, refuse o serve on condemnation juries, ‘The business men of Washington either nive In this holdup or else do not resis it. I usked the corporation counsel why It was that responsible busines men in | the community were not called upon us | witnesses of value In condemnation cases. He sald the only way he coula | get them was to insist that they come, and that they came only as a personal | favor. The result Is that the District is 1in the hunds of real estate speenlators | and boomers of real estate values. “Condemnation Jurles are made up partly of real estate men who are in- | | terested In keeplug up the price of land in the District Should Serve on Juries, “IL seems to me the District people ought o have interest enough in the velopment of the city o serve on these Jures, and o see o it that the District | and Pederal Government get a square deal W land purchases, 1 The gentleman from Massachusetts asks what }»mkrrn.‘ ix being made i the buylng of lund under the 125 per cent provision “You will find the names in the Lieurings of thice men who went to the nyssesor and Uried to get him o ralse the wssessment 50 that they could thelr Jand o the Distrlet st an crewsed Iuh'r I one Instance the owner hreatened e assessor with the tfluence of w member of Congress that they would get his Job If he did not dnerense the ussessment “We have bought land and aie buy- Ing land under tie 125 per cent it The purchasing officer told me that the money we have wvellable will nearly all be spent “Here ds what happened: ‘The ped refy W sell untl ‘they know C giess 13 nob golng 1o epesl the Per cent proviston “Inoone dnetunce lnst year we could Nl ket the Jund because the news- papers were bombarding the Congiens Lo o away with th When the appropristion bill was ported with the 125 per cent it in 1t | the owner came around and sald, ‘Bays. 1 will take your offer if that ectston * hie mesessor slates that & 126 per cent Imit s w falr one Lo the property wwner wnd the taxpayer. I we can- not huy for evie improvement with that | n- ople B German residents in the Tyrolese prov- ince annexed to Italy to internal party politics Chancellor Seipel of Austria, it says. “knows perfectly well the natural Ital- ian frontiers are inviolable, that nobody | can touch them. no force throughout the carth can modify them. and knows cqually well Italy's treatment of Ger- | man-speaking populations is as equable, | just and humane as could be desirel. | There are only a few scoundrels who | strain themselies to keep alive fantas-| tic irredentism. * °* ° but he knows | another thing full well, ment of Mussolini will never permit in | any case disturbance of the peace and | tranquillity of the Italian people, * * * “Mussolini is a man to make himself understood even by those who say they don't understand Italiar 11 Messaggero is equ AUSTRIAN-ITALIAN of Arizona, to | saplin connection | 8! Giacinto | In Probing Pre-History of Wide Area From the implements and utensils discovered In the ruin, the date of its abandonment was estimated to be about 1,000 A. D. Although an unbroken serfes of the rings deposited annually in growing trees has not yet been as- sembled, only two gaps now exist, and it s belleved that these are small. The rings tend to confirm the estimated soclety has madé a grant of additional | date. Dr. Douglass has found pine trees still living in New Mexico which were when Columbus reached Amer- ica. The rings from old timbers found in the ruins of Pueblo Bonito cover a period of nearly three centuries; but s explorations at Pucblo | there is a gap of unknown width be- tween the latest of these timber ring M. | dates and the carliest of those of v~ ing trees. This gap has almost been bridged by the latest work with tim bers from the most ancient of the exist- Indian Puebl New Mexico. COOLIDGE-HOOVER HARMONY PREVALLS Hope for Split on Flood Con-| trol Plans Is Quickly Dissipated. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. All hope of forcing a political break between President Coolidge and Secre- tary Hoover on the theory that they | disagreed on flood control plans. not only has been dissipated, but there now is every indication that the Presi- dent will use the changed situation with reference to appropriations for the Mis- sissippi Valley as an argument against excessive tax reduction and possibly against any tax reduction at all. Ever since it became apparent that the Democrats in the Senate were get- ting ready to tack a tariff bill on the tax reduction measure when it came out of the House, the talk of a veto of that tax bill has been growing stronger in administration quarters, Mr. Coolidge's original recomendations to Congress did not contemplate extensive expendi- tures for flood control. Question of Expense. Now that the States have objected fo footing the bill, Mr. Coolidge is willing for the first years of expense to be borne entirely by the Federal Govern- ment and then if the economic condi- | tion of the States warrant it he believes a commission can fix the debt of the States on the basis of capacity to pay. Whether Congress will accept the compromise plan remains to be seen, but in any event it places Mr. Coolidge in a position whereby he can modify his position hitherto taken that States should bear 20 per cent and the Federal Government 80 per cent. Mr. Hoover was known to have felt that the Federal Government should the govern- pay the full bill, but when he got back to Washington he did not publicly ad- vocate such a course and when he was summoned to testify before a Senate committee, his political opponents a: sumed he would have to break with | the President on the fssue, But Mr positive that | Coolidge was famillar with the situa- “interfer~ | tion and let it be known that he, too, the | OIL CASE WITNESS DEFENDED BY SON Younger Blackmer Tells Sen- ators He Does Not Believe Father Guilty of Misconduct. By the Associated Press. Loyally defending his father, a miss- ing witness in the Teapot Dome case, Myron H. Blackmer of Denver, told the Senate oil committee today that he did not believe H. M. Blackmer had been guilty, of any gross misconduct in the Continental Trading Co. deal through which millions in profits were realized through a quick purchase and sale of American oll. ‘The younger Blackmer said his father, who was head of the Midwest Refining Co.. had not. told him much about the Continental, in which he was a prime mover, but that he had advised him to | keep the matter confidential. The eld- er Blackmer, he said, had not decided whether to keep the $750,000 profits he realized, as there was a possibility that the Midwest might seck to recover them. Again and again the committee mem- | bers pressed the younger Blackmer for an expression of opinion as to his father’s conduct in refusing to return to the United States to testify in the oil trias, but no derogatory suggestion came from the witness. Says He Owes Loyalty. “I'm my father's son,” he said at one point. “I don't think the com- ! mittee ought to ask me what my specu- lations have been. I love my father and I owe loyalty to him. Idon't think it’s 1, for you to ask me that.” ‘This declaration was brought out by Ik question whether the witr had ever thought the elder Blackmer's absence {from the United States was more to i protect others than himself. | The younger Blackmer said his father had told him he intended to remain away from the United States because {he did not want to “mix up” in the | 0il controversy. Lapping over into new territory, the ofl committee has called officials of the New York branch of the Dominion Bank {of Canada to determine whether that |branch acted as American agent for the Continental Co. and thereby became liable for an income $ax upon the con- cern's $3.080.000 profits which came from sale of oil purchased in this| country. Brokers' Names Sought. | The branch bank officials were sum- moned to give also the names of brokers through whom the bank bought $1.250.- 000 in Liberty bonds. Thus far the committee has not been able to dis- cover whether the serial numbers of those bonds correspond with those of | | the Continental Co.. which it is tracing | in the Fall-Sinclair case. n the meantime Chairman Nye s drafting a resolution by which the Sen- | ate would authorize its sergeant-at- | arms to rearrest Robert W. Stewart. In- diana Standard Ol official who refused ' to answer certain questions. and hold | him until the next session of Congress | in event the courts should finally turn | him back to Senate jurisdiction dur-| ing the Summer recess. Stewart lost his recent appeal for a permanent | writ of habeas corpus to escape the | ! Senate’s arrest. but has appealed to| | the District of Columbia Court of Ap- ! | peals. The case likely will go on to | the United States Supreme Court for | WALLACE IN COMMAND. Colonel Arrives in Managua to Head Marine Regiment. (P).—Rush R. Wallace arrived today from the United States to assume com- mand of the 5th Regiment of Marines. To hasten the transportation of sup- plies to troops in the northern sectors before the rains begin, the Marine com- missary has advertised for 100 addition- al ox carts, These are the only vehicles and for several weeks large numbers of them have ben making forced journeys to Ocotal and other northern centers. ARMY WILL CLOSE TS MUSIC SHoOL Has Fulfilled Purpose and Continuance Would Cost Too Much, Davis Holds. Immediate discontinuance of the Army Music School at Washington Bar- racks has been ordered by Secretary has fuifilled its primary purpose and that further accomplishments of the school wou'd not justify their cost.” Nine warrant officers on duty at the school, six of whom are Instructors and the remaining three students, will be assigned 1o existing vacancies in the service band. The student personnel will be distributed to the Army Air Corps band recently authorized for Kelly Field, at San Antonio. Tex., Chanute Field, Rantoul, Il and to other bands where vacancies exist ‘These changes will take effect March 1 The Army Band. also located a Washington Barracks, is not affected The discontinuance of the school has been under discussion for months. Th institution was a post-war development. being organized in May, 1923, when it became essential to evolve a uniform method of training and provide compe- tent {nstructors and leaders in the pro- cess of reorganizing Army bands. Five existence the school provided a warrant officer band leader for each authorized band. By building up a large eligible list of | band leaders awaiting appointments as vacancies occur the preparatory band leaders' course was enabled to discon- tinue its activities on April 1, 1926. With three courses eliminated the two elementary courses remain. bandman’s course and the soloist's course. The barrack capacity available at the Army War College limits the annual instruction to some 30 or 80 enlicted men in the two courses. This {is less than one man per band year, and the annual cost of this output is held to be prohibitive. SENATORS STUDY POLICE CONDITIONS IN COAL MINE AREA (Continued from P rst_Page.) nassus, in which 12 men were killed. The committee spent some time ques- MANAGUA, Nicaragua, February 25 | capable of negotiating the crude roads | of War Davis on the ground “that it and | and will remain at its present station. | courses were organized. and during its | Italy will not tolerate any ence” with her internal policy. The | Was changing his position as to the paper remarks that Chancellor Seipel | Amount that need be paid at the out- poses as the restorer of Austria, but |Sel. Mr. Hoover told the Senate com- reminds him that restoration from the | mittee that some proportion of the ex- ruin_menacing her after the fall of Pense should be paid by the States, tioning the mine superintendent. J. H A decision. probably after Congress has | Schweinsberg. in an effort to discov | recessed. | whether the dead miners were expe: i N enced miners or whether they were 1 | ignorant strikebreakers. Their records SUSPECT cAPTURED produced on demand. showed all of | $2.000,000 |erected on B street near Delaware ave- the Hapsburg empire would have been impossible without Italy’s generosity. Ttaly. the paper savs, does not expect gratitude from Austria any more than from Serbla, for whom was saved an army destined to destruction. GARY ART TREASURES T0 BE SOLD AT AUCTION| Collection Paintings. Porcelains, Rugs, Fur- niture, Silver and China. ated "Preas YORK, February nouncement that the entire art collec- tion of the late Elbert H. Gary, valued at $2,000000, will be disposed of through public auction by the American | Art Assoclation, Inc, was made last| night by Cortland F. Bishop. president | of the association, before he satled with | Mrs. Bishop on the French liner Paris | for an extended trip abroad. i The Gary sale. Mr. Bishop sald, will| be the largest in New York since the disposal_of the Yerkes collection, in 1910. The Gary collection includes paintings, porcelains, rugs. furniture, silver and china. Among the paintings is Rembrandt's “Warrior Putting on | His Armour,” a Sir Joshua Reynolds, | Duke of Buccleuch and His Brother and Sister,” and two canvases by Sir Thomas Lawrence, “Portrait of | & Lady” and “Portrait of Mrs. John A. | Allnutt” ‘The Barbizon School of | Painters is well represented i Corot, | Rousseau, Maris, Millett, Meuve, Isracls and Daubigny. 25~ MAY ALTER BUILDING. Owner Indicates Willingness Change Apartment Plans. Following a conference with Chalr- | man Capper of the Senate District com- mittee yesterday afternoon, the present owner of the apartment house being to nue, on the south side of the Capitol, Indicated a willingness to muke reason- able changes In the extel of the bullding to conform more olosely to the architecture of the Capitol 8. J. Solomon, who 1s completing the apartment, swid he was not the owner when the butlding was started, and that he i3 glving consideration to changing the exterfor treat of the structure. It Is probable detafled changes will be discussed with David Lynn, the Capitol LIFELONG RESIDENT DIES. Funernl Services to Be Monday for Mis. Herbert Lewlis. Mrx. Marion V. Lewjs, 62 years old, wile of Merbert Losls and & lfelong restdent of Southeast Washington, died &L her homie, 1242 Eleventh street south- cust, yesterday. Funeral services will be conducted ut the residence Mondny afternoon ut 2 o'clock by members of the Balvation Army. crment will be gresstonal Cy ery. Mis. Lewls 13 survived by her huss bund, two dunght Min. Witlinm O'Donnell and Mrs. George Penn, a son Nathan Lewin, 12 grandehildren and 4 great-grandehildien, all of this eity POLISH PAC.T RATIFIED. The extindition treaty with Polund atgned I Wainaw November 23, 1027, was patified yesterday by the Henate Al sccompanying protocol, which did nol requiie ratifen o extends e smdse of the Pollsh g nment o Jmit It 15 not the fau Congrosn bt U AR e fault of those who seek 1o biold up the Distilet and the fuult of the District people,” ' 1 o F o secure ndheience of e Tree oty of Danedig, s 10 I i charge of the torelgn affaiis of the liee eily unider the tieaty of Vermille, | plan | came to the Capitol that the President (b but he did not indicate any detailed A few hours afterward word favored the idea of commission to fixe the expense for later years that the States should bear. Senator Willis of Ohio was a member | the committee interrogating Mr. | Hoover, but he has consistently main- | tained ‘that he was .not in favor of questioning Mr. purpos Hoover for political but merely to get the Sec- | retary’s views on & subject which con- Includes cerns Ohio as vitally as other States | in the Mississippl River system. President’s Position. Perhaps more important than the elimination of what might have become -An- | a political episode in the Hoover cam- palgn s the disclosure of the Pres dent’s willingness to modify his views on the method of paying for flood control. This is really believed to have been the object of Senator Hawes, Democrat. of Missouri in insisting that the Secretary of Commerce be sum- moned. Mr. Hawes as a Democrat isu't In- terested in the Republican presidential contest so much, but he is vitally con- cerned in what shall be done in the Mississippi Valley, and the effect of the calling of Mr. Hoover has beem: to de- velop clearly the compromise plan of the President, something which marks a steady advance for the forces which have insisted that the problem of flood prevention s national and not local. (Confreht 1928 1 G MASK AND BAUBLE CLUB T0 GIVE PLAYS TONIGHT ‘Fnuch Ambassador to Be Guest of Honor at Georgetown U, Program. rgetown Unlversity's Mask and Bauble Club will make 1ts debut tonight in he Golden Doom™ and “Allison's Lad.” w specially arranged program in honor of M. Paul Claudel, the Ambas- sador of France, who is to be the guest of honor. AL B 30 o'clock President Charles W Lyons, 8. J. and the deans of the uni- versity will recelve more than 500 in- vited guests, including members of the Diplomatic Corps and prominent gov- ernment officiuls. Following the recep- tion the guests will assemble In Gaston HaJl for the Mask and Bauble Club rogram. Mme. Claudel and the Am- assador will mssist in recelving. District Heads Claim $14,786.73 for Replacing Water Main, Corporation Counsel Willam W Bride was (nstructed by the Distriet Commissioners today (0 enter suit aguinst the Capital Traction Co. for 4.786.73, the cost of replacing an old main in U street between Tenth nih streets, over which acks had been constructed. ason assigned for replacement natn wis thist Installation of car had made the old one in- nceessible, ‘The ear company replied that the old main had been i the ground years and was worn out. In answer the Distriet said the life of a cast-lron matn 18 100 years % . Golfers Want Liquor, Correapundance ot Tha Star, LONDON.— Calfers, maintatining that government war-time Hguor restric- tons wre hard on their neives, have 1 to bring about longer hours tor he serving of alcoholle drinks . New Sewer Authorized. The Distriet - Commisstoners today anthorized J. B Gordon, sanitary engl- neer et i trunk sewer from a I Anseoitia toad, sonth of o, (o Bty seeond street ning rond, Wit radinting service sewers. Fle cuat by estimated b gd0,000, | IN MANIAC HUNT| Colored Man Held at Martinsburg, | | W. Va., Denies He Is Guy Hogan, Asylum Fugitive. . Special Thspatch to The Star | MARTINSBURG. W. Va. February 25.—A colored man giving his name as | Harrison Nelson was arrested along | Baltimore & Ohio main line near here | | this morning and is being held sus-| i sected of being Guy Hogan, who escaped | | earlier in the week from an insane | asylum in Maryland and has been the | object of a man hunt in Lovettsville, | Md.. and Harpers Ferry, W. Va. sec- tons for two days. | He denied he was Hogan. said he was | from Baltimore, Md.. had been working | in Keyser. and was en route to Balti- | more. Police held him for identifica- | tion by Maryland authorities and said | he fitted the description given them. | | He was seen in the passenger station | at Harpers Ferry Thursday night. but | escaped. the station agent firing at him. | { Hogan is said to be armed with a i revolver, razor. knives and cartridges He created alarm among Short Hill Mountain residents and at Harpers | Ferry. Lovettsville authorities were told Hogan, who was sent to asvlum when he pleaded insanity in defense against incendiary charges. returned to Lovetts- iville and had threatened the life of a brother. '6. 0. P. DELEGATES NAMED Alexandrians Prepared for District | | Convention Tuesday. Special Diopateh (0 The Star i ALEXANDRIA, Va. February 25.— The city Republican committee last | night named its delegates and alter- nates to the district convention which will be held here next Tuesday and the | State convention to take place at Roans oke March 17. Delegates to the dis- trict gathering are John Barton Phil- lips. F. Clinton Knight, Martin E. Greene, Richard B English. Charles A Strauss and M. W Gaines The alternates are Mrs. E. P Baldwin, R R. Gillingham. R. E Grover. Charles Welch, R. Wallerstedt and Mrs. Charles | A. Strauss PLAN COAST FLIGHT. Frenchwen Will Resume World Tour in Air, MITCHEL FIELD, N Y. PFebruary 5 (). Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix, French round-the-world fiyers. | announced today that they would take ! off tomorrow on & short trial flight to fest the new motor installed - their Hlnn.- Nungesser-Coll, i which they | lew over four continents i thelr globe- | elreling tour, | 1 weather conditions ave favorable, Lo Brix sald, they will leave New York by the end of next week in & crosss v fight to San Francisco. Thewr Atinerary for the flight, he sald. s not plete The fivers are scheduled to sail from San Franetseo on March 15 for ‘Tokio hence they will resume thelr flight retuning o Parls by way of China India, Persia, Turkey. Greece and Ttaly The Frenchmen arvived heve Feb- ruary 1 MRS. LILY BUSCH DIES. | Philanthropist, Widow of Brewer, Was 83 Years Old. PASADENA. Calif, February 23 (8 Mix LAy Buseh, wealithy phitlan (ropist and widow of Adolphus Buscly, founder of the Anheuser Huseh Hrew- g Cooof B Louts, i heve Lday Mis, Busch waa 83 yoaras wld, | | tons tor them to have had from 5 to 15 vears' experinece mining coal. Company Official Refuses to Answer. The first snag struck by the subcom- | mittee in its investigations a vesterday when H M. White. g?":;tg ager of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. at Moon Run. was answering questions by Senator Senatar Wheeler wanted to know the cost of mining a ton of coal and Mr. White declined to anwser, You know the Senate will require an answer.” warned Senator Wheeler. “We'll be ready to give sald Mr. White. Later Chairman ing asked White for his obiectior answering the question. and Mr. White NEW OBLIGATION BANNED AT GENEVA League Security Committee Decides Guarantees Must Be Separate Pacts. | e the Assciatod Proes GENEVA, February 25—The Le of Nations security committee, stat | that it is impossible at present tn add to | the obligations ot nations assumed der the League covenant. today decided that nations which require greater guar- | antees of security should seck them in | the form of separate or colle agree- | ments. ‘Three types of such agreement were suggested by Nicolas Polits, Greek | durist. who was intru#ed with the task of drawing up a memorandum as a bas for_discussion. for which Politis ex is a complete treat principle of non-aggres pacific_settlement of all disputes and mi second omits m the third cont: non-aggr t these treaties fve or bilateral also being used in_the discussion Dr. W. A Riddell. representative. protect word “collective” more than two par ment and said the Canadian could not fes of mil OBJECTOIN TO POOL LOCATION DROPPED: i School Board Withdraws Opposi- tion to Swimming Tank on McKinley Land. 2 0f e Follewing a conference today between Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and school au- thorities, including the Board of Edu- cation’s committee on buidings, grounds and equipment. the Board of Education voted to withdraw its objec- tions to the location of the municipa | swimming pool on ground pur- | chased for the new McKiniey Techni- | cal High School and the Langley Junior | High School. Following the recommen eet: patched a me: of the Boare { city to obt. i i 1 jon of the m | to the members cation around the signatures m & special poll voicing the approval of the withdrawal of th previous objection. | President Charles F. Carusi was out of the city and could not be Pollowing the closed se: iearnea at Frank!in School lots in the immediate vici: jomnt high school and school round purpos schoo! au 1s w nd equipme; that the board's opjection be wi for the location of the pool o Kinley site, where it airea started. ' HOOVER AND WILLIS FILE FOR PREFERENCE BALLOT IN OHIO told him that nobody wanted to broad- | cast figures on cosis of products any commodity. and that in addition another office of the company with which he is not connected handied such matters. The comm! press for an answer. cated that the figu: coming if the Sena From Joe Lubreskt, the committee heard 3 of the one death whi erally attributed to the evict miners from their compa: owned homes. He wept freely as he described an illness which hi wife, to bed a few days had been ordered to leave, ber 15 last, their They move with furnishin at the un them sick and with no few days later his w monia. He has eat or foud. e died of been left with | children. the youngest 9 and the His story is well known in Py burgh. where it was prominent!; played two months ago i all the new papers. But Joe still cries when he tells about it. Rejected Radical' Aid. Lubreski, Smiley per told the committee of the r ccept atd from Reltef Soctety. whi as & radical org the strikers to pieket i masses resist injunctions. and which h PIAtform for nationalization mines, & Me-hour-six-day miners and a labor past Henrlel told of 1. W, W had been intevested tn of the rellef soctely The committee received furthne te: mony vesterday relating to the per centage of negro labor in the non-unt mines and t) after d aders Wi the formaton etions thdebtedne | companies. Woman Freed in Mau's Death. ATLANTA, February 28 (8 —A B returned by the Fulton Count Krand Jury late vesterday freed Ars. Aline Blood from the county sall wh she had been held 1 connection Wi the death 10 davs ago of Francis & Price. chiet photographier of the Atlan- ta Constitution, far a soore of RLUNES TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS Ne 18 Tavpayers are advised by the Rureaw af Internal Revenue carcfully o prws sent their clalms wWith regard to dedpe- hnses To be allowed. sied clams must contorin clsely o the | wonding of the satite Loses ate de ductible 1 mewried e tavpavers | rade oF busiiess. oany iransaction entered i G prot though Bot vens | wected WHR e tgnpaers trade o | Dusiness, o 1 Atising (o fes, storms | slipwieck or other casualty, or by theft and 1f not compensated for by msue- | ance or otherwise. i Business losses result usually from the prchase and sale of merchandise el loses are wsually aseertaimed by | mennn b lventories. which are s QUIred WHenever. e optiion of the GOSN Of el vvenie el We I8 neces MY o determine the s e of any laapaer, . his WO woman delegates a The Hoove Wood candidajg o : an Kagle. who was the Wood n B of the Prodabdly . 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