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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.y Partly cloudy and colder today; to- morrow fair and colder, yestes terday. 5 — Telrlferzmre—mghest. 50, at 5 p.m. ay; lowest, 32, at 6 agn. yes- Full report on page 5. he Sundiy Stae, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,236—No. 30,889. PRESIDENT PLANS FINAL ATTEMPT FOR WORLD COURT. 0.K. Chief Executive Will Strive for Ratification of Reserva- tions by Other Powers. HEAVY LEGISLATIVE SLATE FACES CONGRESS Extended Debate Is Expected to Develop With Start of Session December 3. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. fhe Seventieth Congress will meet fov its final session one week from to- marrow. It remains to be seen whether infthe three months of the session the legisiative program can be rounded out i such a way as to avoid a special sesplon of the new Congress, which| comes ifto being March 4. The legislative program was the sub- Ject of discussion at an informal break- fast at the White House yesterday, at- tended by more than a dozen Repub-| lican Senators. President Coolidge, it is understood. will make a final attempt to bring about rétification of the Senate reservations to the entry of the United States into the World Court. This was disclosed, | it is said, during the White House breakfast. Actisn Up to President. The Senate, as a matter of fact, has nothing further to do with the treaty of adherence to the World Court. Any steps that may be taken seeking to bring theflrov:ers to agree to the reser- vations adopted by the Senate when it ratified the treaty of adherence must necessarily be taken by the Chief Executive. It is true that Senator Gillett, Republican, of Massachusetts, sought at the last session to have a resolution adopted by the Senate ex- g it as the sense of the Senate t steps be taken to obtain the con- sent of the nations now members of the World Court to the adherence of the United States to that tribunal with the Senate reservations. That reso- lution is still pending before the Sen- ate foreign relations committee. In view of the suggestion now advanced that the President plans to make over- tures to the other powers for such agreement to the Senate reservations, it is not likely that the Gillett resolu- tion will be pressed for action when the | Senate it was sdid last t. The understanding of members of the Senate who attended the White House breakfast is to the effect that President Coolidge will send to the Senate for ratification at the coming session _the Kellogg treaty renouncing wer. Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, is entirely friendly to this treaty and will do all ip his power to bring about speedy ratification. 1t is now approaching three years since the Senate, by a vote of 76 to 17, adopted a resolution looking to the adherence of the United States to the World Court, with reservations. Only five nations, “Albania, Cuba, Liberia and” Luxemberg, have agreed to American entry into the court with those reservations. Twenty-three have found fault with reservation No. 5, which was: “That the court shall not render any | advisory opinion except publicly after due notice to all states adhering to the court and to all interested states and after public hearings or opportunity for hearing given to any state. con- cerned; nor shall it, without the con- sent of the United States, entertain any request for an ad opinion touch- ing any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims to have an interest.” Borah Fought Adherence. Some seven or eight other nations have merely acknowledged the receipt of the message from this country say- ing that it would become a member of the court with the Senate reservations. The adherence of the United States was opposed strongly by Sénator Borah and by some of the other Senators who had stood out against adherence to the League of Nations. The argument was used that the World Court was merely an adjunct of the League; that the ad- herence of the United States to the court, was a kind of back-door entrance into the League. This was emphatically denied, however, by Senators support- ipg the adherence of the United States to the court. It now appears that the President is tp ask Secretary Kellogg to undertake further communication with the pow- ers in an effort to bring acceptance to the Senate reservations, and particu- 1y reservation No. 5. It also is derstood that Senator Borah will seek to interpose no objection to this course. His attitude, it is understood, will be that the matter is now one en- tirely for action by the executive and that it has passed from the hands of the Senate. Practically all of the Republican Senators who have returned to Wash- ington were guests at the White House Preakfast, including the Vice-President- elect, Senator Curtis of Kansas. The discussion of the legislative situation called attention to the fact that at the close of the last session the unfinished business of the Senate was the Boulder Dam bill, and that this measure con- tinues in that strategic position. Next on the list is a bill to restrict the transmission of convict-labor-made goods from one State to another. Third is the Jones bill to increase penalties in certain violations of the dry laws. And fourth comes the $274,000,000 naval construction bill, generally referred to &s the cruiser bill. Extended Debate Expected. All of these measures may lead to extended debate, Certainly that is to Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Plane in Trouble on Lindy’s Route Object of Search Brownsville People Fear Craft Believed Forced Down Was Colonel’s. By the Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Tex. November 25 (Sunday).—Three airplanes will take off here at 5 a.m, today to search for a plane believed to have gone down last night about 14 miles south of Matamoras, Mexico. The searchers fear that the machine was that of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who left Tam- I pico vesterday to fly back to the United States. The station men said they watched the plane, which was carrying lights, progress about 6 miles and that it sud- denly seemed to develop engine trouble, made a “half turn.” headed back toward Mexico, and then was lost to sight. After all Fort Brown planes had been checked, and found safely in their ‘hangars. an effort was started to have called out the Mexican garrison at Matamoras, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. A search also was |started for a searching _airplane equipped for night flying. ‘Those at Fort Brown are not so equipped. The distance from Tampico to Brownsville by which Col. Lindbergh had intended to fly on his return is (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) HARVARD'S ATTACK ROUTS YALE, 170 Lateral Passes Responsible for Victory—Eli Never Had Chance to Score. BY BRIAN BELL. Assbciated Press Sports Writer. YALE BOWL, NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 24.—Johnny Harvard got his gun today and using his lateral pass for ammunition, shelled Eli Yale out of his own bowl with a 17-to-0 defeat. Johnny's gun was loaded from first to last, while the defending home team had nothing with which to shoot. A record-breaking crowd estimated at 78,000, saw the Harvard triumph.. The defeat was as bad as it sounds. Harvard today was at least two touch- downs and a field goal better than Yale. The Elis never had a chance to score. Harvard was off in front with a touchdown in the first period and there was nothing Yale could do about it then or later. A second touchdown in the third period was topped off by a field goal in the fourth. Harvard in- troduced E. T. Putnam, jr, a Boston boy, who can kick, to add two points after touchdowns and then kick a goal on his own account, a high standard of kicking in a foot ball age when kick- ing seems to have gone out of fashion. Take Charge of Bowl. Immediately after the victory Har- vard undergrads and alumni took charge of the Yale Bowl. With red flares light- ing the gray shadows of the big field the men of the Crimson Snake danced to the goal posts and began a de- termined assault on the uprights. Set in concrete the emblems of supremacy of- fered a stubborn resistance, but the osts really had no chance. They were ing attacked by men, young and old, who had had no chance to do any mflnf'gg of goal posts in a Yale game ce . Swarming like sailors up the rigging of a ship the younger men went aloft to attack the posts from above while the older men with red feathers in their caps waited at the bottom for the youngsters to get in their work. The posts finally fell and were carried at the head of a wild parade, in which every one was seeing red. Guarnaccia and French did the bulk of the ball carrying for Harvard, using the lateral pass as the foundation of the attack. Time after time Guarnaccia or French started on a slow lope toward the side lines with the ball under his arm. As the Yale man charged at the ball carrier he was the ball carrier no longer, snapping it to the other member of the lateral pass twins, who was always able to gain some ground. Yale threw all its aces into the fray without avail. Hoben and Garvey, who did not start, were rushed in, and al- though Hoben ran a kick-off back to midfield from his 10-yard line and Gar- WASHINGTON D 0, SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER HOOVER DELAYED FULL DAY BY GALE OFF LOWER MEXIGO President-Elect Calm in Face of Storm, but Suite Is Flooded by Waves. MRS. HOOVER WORRIED AS BUOY FIRES FLARE Entire Schedule for Good-Will Trip Set Back 24 Hours as Result of Roughness. BY REX COLLIER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ABOARD U. S. S. MARYLAND. November 24.—The future commander- in-chief of the Navy was calm when the Maryland was suddenly caught in the fury of a gale in the Gulf of Tehuantepec off Lower Mexico early today, although his suite was flooded when water poured in through open ports as the ship first struck rough water earlier in the night. Hoover, unaware of the extent of thy storm, retired as soon as his rooms had been mopped up, and slept through most of the exciting night while the crew and officers secured deck equipment against the raging gale. In the morning (he battleship was forced to heave to, while the crew fought frantically in an at- tempt to save the loosened seaplanes, which caused a 24-hour delay in the Maryland’s itinerary, Mrs. Hoover Worried. Mrs. Hoover was also composed, al- though she became somewhat worried when a copper lifebuoy, which was carried overboard, set off an automatic warning flare. She inquired if her son Allan, who, with other members of the party, spent the night on cots on the quarterdeck, was safe. He was, al- though he got little sleep because his room was flooded with water from the open ports. The huge 33000-ton battleship quivered and tossed all night and mos? of today as a 40-mile wind whipped across the isthmus and chopped the smooth Pacific into a foamy maelstrom. There was no rain. but the decks were raked with a Niagara-like spray. A warning of the pending gale was received from a Danish ship last night, and the first evidence of the gale came when a big wave which washed aft during the movies drenched part of the audience. Most of the good-will party, which had ! sought cool slumber on cots en the | qu-lroekrd;yck‘,h “rfi, dawaflkened ab 1:30 o'cloc e wind and soaking spra; and made a grand rush below. gk Captain Takes Bridge. The wind increased and the sturdy sl-ufi pounded ahead. Capt. Kimberly took the bridge and ordered all hands to seal the hatches, ports and venti- lators. At about 3:30 o'clock the sea- plane on the port side shifted against the turret, damaging its stabilizer, Two officers and members of the crew braved the wave-swept deck to tie the plane. One man was knocked down and another barely escaped being swept overboard in the attempt. The captain then ordered the ship stopped and swung 0 lee so that the men could make the plane fast. A portable steel moving picture pro- jector slid around the deck and was jammed into a hatchway, and the golf putting course of wood and canvas was smashed to pieces. Few got any sleep abroad, although the ship was at no time in danger. Several members of the Hoover party and of the crew were seasick today, but Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were in good shape and climbed to the bridge to enjoy the unusual sight of watching the sea breaking over the boat. Mrs. Hoover (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) AR U e DRIVER, LACKING MONEY, IS SLUGGED BY BANDIT Colored Hold-Up Man Escapes After Striking Motorist as Car Climbs Hill. Marshal A. Pickett of 409 Emerson street was held up yesterday afternoon by a colored man, who jumped onto the running board of his automobile as he was driving in second gear up a hill on the Chain Bridge road near the Mary- vey gained in a few running plays, Yale sFent most of the afternoon so deep in its own territory that it had no chance to start a drive with hope of sustain- ing it Many Yale Passes. ‘The Yale passes were numerous, but the Harvard backs seemed to have fully as accurate an idea of where they were going as the Yale receivers, The game ended much as it was played. A Harvard punt was grounded six inches from the Yale goal line, and the Blue began to throw passes from behind the goal line. Two were ground- ed and the third was intercepted by a Crimson back. Harvard took advantage of a Yale lapse to score in the first period. Yale kicked off and Harvard punted after failing to gain. Yale rushed a first down and then evidently decided to beat Harvard to the lateral pass. The effort was a dismal failure, the ball Continued on Page 2, Sports Section): Near Conduit Road Mystery surrounds a box of men’s clothing saturated with blood found be expected in connection with the shortly after noon yesterday on the Boulder Dam bill. That measure, it is| fitration plant property at the District said, may be modified in accordance|of Columbia line in ‘the vicinity of with a rTeport of the engineers|Conduit road. The clothing was requested to look into the project, Who| turned over to the Montgomery Gounty have submitted a preliminary report.|police, but they have been unable to The convict-labor-made goods bill has|find a clue which might lead to a its opponents, as well as the bill in-|solution. The clothing, apparently creasing penalties for violations of the that of a laborer, had been slashed in dry laws, There also is a group of|the region of the heart. Senatorr who strongly oppose passage| Thomas E. Ferguson, overseer of the of the naval construction bill. However, | palecarlia reservoir, and a negro it was disclosed at the White House|nelper came across the clothing in a breakfast that it may be possible to get |large white cardboard box lying on the all these measures disposed of. ground in the property yard of the There was no discussion, it is said, of | filtration plant. Ferguson called his the proposed agricultural aid bill, which | con, Roy Ferguson, the Conduit road Senator McNary of Oregon. chairman |patrolman, who turned it over to the of the committee on agriculture, is|Montgomery County police, by whom it framing for introduction as soon as|was taken to the Bethesda police Congress convenes, although he was|station, where it remained last night, smong those present 2t the breakfast. | while the county poljce force instituted T GSentinusdon Pale 4 C~imn 6) an investigation. land State line and placed a gun at his temple, demanding his money.guwhen Pickett said he had none, the man struck him on the head with the butt of the gun, leaped from the car and escaped. Police sent a description of the bandit to all precincts, but he had not been apprehended at an early hour this morning. Pickett, only slightly injured by the blow, refused hospital treatment. He drove his machine to the seventh pre- cinct and reported the affair. i LTl Injury Year Ago Is Fatal. LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 24 (&). —More than a year ago Frank Emery, 46, local Big Four Railroad chief clerk, walked into a basement door, ramming a pipe he was smoking down his throat. Today he died of trachoma, said. by doctors to have resulted from the ac- cident. Discovery of Blood-Soaked Clothing Spurs Police Inquiry The box had apparently been placed there within the previous few hours, and Mr. Ferguson said that it was mot there two days ago when he made a trip to the property yard. There also was found in the box a cork float such as is used by fisher- men. In the box were a pair of cor- duroy trousers, a union suit, a pair of garters, a pair of broad-toed, tan, low shoes. While not new, the shoes indi- cated they had not been used in rough work. There also was a vest, but this did not show the long jagged hole which was cut in the left side of the under and outer shirts. While the shoes were small, about numtgr 6, the size of the heavy leather belt, sNowed that the wearer had a large girth. Cut through the leather on one side of the belt was the letter “E,” while attached to the other side was a brass letter “S.” There also was aunchtu{hm :};e belt a flattened but- ton, of the style worn on uniforms {/of ‘enlisted*men of the Am"wa swept overboard in the freak storm | (7 g ¢ 1928 —116 PAGES #) Means A ( POWERS INTERVENE 10 PREVENT WAR | | England and France Unite in Demand That Bulgaria End Uprising. By the Assoclated Press. .SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 24.—The European powers today intervened in the critical situation in Bulgaria. caused by the continued bloody Macedonian feuds, Great Britain and France were reported to have jointly demanded ces- sation of the strife, as nof only menac- ing Bulgaria. but jeopardizing the peace of the Balkans. Foreign Minister A. Buroff, while not attempting to disparage the gravity of the situation, replied that the gov- ernment had sufficient troops to sub- due Ivan Michailoff, but that it' was most difficult to capture him and his thousands of well-armed Macedonian revolutionaries, who, when confronted with danger, flee to inaccessible moun- tain retreats. 2 Want to Avoid Battle. Buroff declared that while regular troops are within reach of Petrich, the Michailoff stronghold, the govern- ment desires to give the revolutionary leader a last chance to capitulate be- lur"eu giving the order to engage him in e. The government dispatched a per- emptory demand to Michailoff this aft- ernoon, saying that the sanguinary fueds must cease immediately or he and his partisans will be captured. Undaunted, the Macedonian chieftain hurled back the deflant reply, “Any gov- ernment official who signs a decree ngl{nst me, signs his own death war- At In ministerial circles it was said that ‘War Minister Volkoff was in disagree- ment with the rest of the cabinet and that the Liaptchieff ministry. had been weakened by the vigorous diplomatic representations made by Great Britain and France. Three Slayings Reported. The vendetta between the Macedon- ian factions has claimed fresh victims. It was learned today that two men, Apostoloff and Popoff, had been slain ' here a few days ago after leaving a| meeting. They were said to have op-| posed the Michailoff faction. Another killing was reported at Kustendil, Bul-| garia, where the mayor of a village was assassinated. In contradiction of these reports were statements by Finance Minister Moloff and the Bulgarian News Agency. The | finance minister categorically denied any serious troubles had arisen from the Macedonian disputes and said that rumors had been spread with the sole TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—40 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Army and Navy News—Page 24. Schools and Colleges—Page 24. News of the Clubs—Pages 25 and 26. D. C. Naval Reserve—Page 26. Spanish War Veterans—Page 26. Civillan Army News—Page 30. Army and Navy Union—Page 30. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 30. Radio News—Pages 30, 31, 32 and 33. At Community Centers—Page 36. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 36. District National Guard—Page 36. Financial News—Pages 37, 38 and 30. Marine Corps News—Page 40. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4. PART THREE—18 PAGES. Society. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 11. D. A. R. Activities—Page 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Pages and 14. Around the City—Page 15, PART FOUR—14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and 13 Screen Yesterday’s Grid ames Are Marked By Usual Upsets There was a good deal of scrambling in the foot ball realm vesterday with the usual number of upsets. New York University spoiled Carnegie Tech’s clean record, 27 to 13; Navy heat Princeton, 9 to 0, and Minnesota knocked Wis- consin out of the Big Ten title by winning, 6 to 0. Michigan wrecked Iowa, 10 to 7, and Illinois, by defeating Ohio State, 8 to 0, took the Western Conference honors on a percent- age basis. Maryland defeated Washingtcn and Lee, 6 to 0, and Gallaudet downed Bridgewater College, 34 t0 0, in games here, while George- town was defeating Fordham in New York, 27 to 7. Southern California stepped into the Pacific Coast Conference honors by smothering Idaho, while California and Stanford were battling to a 13-13 dead- lock. In an intersectional battle, Army trimmed Nebraska, 13 to 3. ACCIDENTAL SHOT KILLS BOY Sc0UT Auto Trip From North Beach to Hospital Here Made Without Whimper. Fully conscious, with a gaping hole from a shotgun charge in his right side, just beneath his shoulder, Noble Kane, 14-year-old Boy Scout, son of James Taylor Kane, 5414 Eighth street northwest, yesterday morning lay in the tonneau of an automobile without a whimper while being driven at a mile-a-minute clip to Washington. He lost consciousness shortly after he was taken to Sibley Hospital, where he died yesterday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. The boy accidentally received a charge from his own gun when he threw it, stock first, on the fishing pier at North Beach, Md., yesterday morning on his return from a duck-hunting trip. He went to North Beach Friday after- noon to visit a vacation chum, Walter Delp, 15, whose parents live at North Beach. The lads got up early yester- day morning and in a small boai went out hunting. They had bagged several ducks and were returning to the Delp boy's home. Tosses Gun on Pier. After tying up the boat to the fishy ing pier the Delp boy jumped out o the boat, taking his gun with him. The Kane boy stood up in the boat and tossed his gun onto the pier, stock first. The trigger is believed to have caught on a projection on the decking of the pier. The muzzle was only a few inches from the boy’s chést when the gun discharged. The Delp boy carried his wounded comrade to the drug store of R. D. Ground nearby. First-aid treatient was given by Dr. John Smart and then the injured boy was put in Grund's car and driven to Washington. Only One Stop Made. Fifty minutes after leaving North Beach the boy was being carried into Sibley Hospital. Only one stop was made on the way up, at Marlboro, where Mr. Grund complied with the boy's request for a drink of water. Mrs. Grund accompanied her husband, and the wounded boy on the trip to the Capital. . “T never saw such a game youngster,” Grund declared last night. “All the way on the trip up,” he said, “he never whimpered, and he kept urging us not to cry, saying that he would be all right.” He didn't cry once, and we could see that he was in terrible pain. He was conscious during the whole trip to town, and only lost consciousness after he arrived at the hospital.” Noble is a pupil at the new Bright- wood School, in the sixth grade. and Music. News of the Motor World—Pages 6, 8 and 9. Col. Lindbergh’s Story—Page 10. Aviation Activities—Pages 10 and 11, Fraternal News—Pages 12 and 13, PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified_Advertising. Serial Story, “The Tule Marsh Mur- der"—Page 8. Veterans of the Great War—Page 8. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magezine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. World Events in Pi es. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. COLDER SPELL FORECAST Temperature of 25 Degrees Pre- dicted Tonight and Tomorrow, With freezing weather forecast for ‘Washington tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau which predicts the coldest spell of the month with a pos- sible fall in the mercury to 25 de- grees, wary motorists will take precau- tions to protect their radiators against damaging temperatures. Snow may also accompany the cold COLOR SECT! —4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr, and Mrs: High Lights of History. spell, it is predicted, with fresh north- west winds prevailing tonight and to- morrow, but Tuesday will be warmer, with a steadily rising temperatures ' g g FIVEDAY WEEK THIED UT HERE 'Building Trades Affected. Wardman Co. Gives Up Open-Shop Policy. Two important experiments in deal- |ing between employers and organized | workers in the building industry which | are regarded potentially as having far- reaching effects are being tried out in Washington, it developed last night. One is that the Wardman Construc- tion Co. for a number of years the largest single local building organiza- tion which has maintained open shop on all its operations, has swung over to the union shop policy on the several large projects now under way here, The other is that the five-day week, which has been championed by the American Federation of Labor for the last two years, has been instituted in Washington, affecting five groups of building trades workers. Effected Through Co-operation. These changes in policies also mark a radical departure in the relations be- tween employers and workers, it was pointed out, in that they were brought about through voluntary and amicable agmeement, between the two mllfl. ‘This, it was explained, is in conformity with the announced policy of organized labor to seek desired industrial changes through “co-operation” rather than a threat or resort to labor's weapon, strike. Thomas P. Bones, vice president of the Wardman Co., which has adhered to an open shop policy since 1906, con~ firmed a report last night that his organization had made a verbal agree- ment with representatives of the Build- ing Trades Council providing for the men on large operations now in progress in cases where employes affected are affiliated with the local council. ‘This union shop policy thus concerns some 400 or 500 building tradesmen en- gaged in the construction of the new British embassy on Massachusetts ave- nue near Observatory Circle; the Shore~ ham Office Building on the northwest corner of Fifteenth and H streets; the new unit of Casualty Hospital, Massa- chusetts avenue and Eighth street northeast, and a building on Third street near Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. Bones said it was the intention of his organization, provided the experi- ment proves satisfactory, as expected by the labor interests, to continue the pol- icy on all future operations. Seventeen building trades are members of the Building Trades Council, including the bricklayers, who last Spring made a sep- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) RESERVE FUND BILL IS FILED IN BOSTON Embodies Plan to Find Work for Citizens on Public Works During Depressions. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 24.—A bill em- bodying the plan proposed at the recent governors’ conference at New Orleans by Gov. Brewster of Maine at the re- quest of President-elect Hoover, was filed with the clerk of the Senate today by Senator Henry L. Kincaide of Quincy. Under its provisions a State reserve fund would be established and cities and towns would be authorized to appropriate and borrow money for re- serve funds for the purpose of employ- ing citizens on public works in times of business depression. The State fund would be controlled by the State treasurer and would be set up through appropriations by the legis- exclusive employment, of union work- | the Main 5000 to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone start immediate delivery. iated . sociated Press. IN WAS! GTO EDUCATION BOARD HAS BIG PROGRAM FOR PRESENT YEAR gPlanning of Proposed Second Five-Year Building Project Heads List. IMPROVED BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIED Better Instruction and Increase in Facilities for Abnormal Pupils Sought. ‘The most comprehensive program for constructive work in its history faces | the Board of Education for completion during the 1928-29 season. Entirely aside from the routine busi- ness which the normal administration of the schools lays upon their desks, the board and school authorities are con- fronted with a formidable array of problems involving the institution of new projects and standards for the gen- | eral improvement of a school system which, in some instances, has been tried by the years and found wanting, and {in others simply has outgrown the old | order. But while the task ahead is great, it is not confused, for the program which Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, has outlined for the Board of ! Bducation and his own staff of officers is in good order and cognizant of the | minute details in each general item, Four Main Divisions. | For quicker understanding, the pro- |gram may be considered in four broad | divisions, embracing (1) the planning |of the proposed second five-year build- ing program, (2) the improvement of the management of the schools’ busi- ness affairs, (3) the improvement of instruction in the schools and (4) the establishment of better facilities for the education of abnormal children. Of these, the new building program is perhaps the most important to the majority of Washington’s parents, for through it and the first five-year pro- gram, which, it is hoped, will be com- pleted in the near future, the part-time classes and portable school along with any other result of the lack of school facilities will be obliterated. The first five-year school building passed egebmnry 26, 1925, and was schedule grounds initial program, and today it i8 approxi- mately 55 per cent completed when it should be 80 per cent appropriated for. Even when completed with the ex- penditure of its authorized $20,000,000, the first five-year progrmm will not af- ford the District adequate school f: cilities. Cognizant of this fact, the Board of Education announced last Spring that a second five-year program would be sought, and on April 17 of this year it met in conference with rep- resentatives of the various civic groups to receive suggestions as to the needs for lands and buildings in the various| o areas of the city. Urges Expeditious Procedure. Dr. Ballou already has recommended | pjin, that the Board of Education ask its committee on legislation to proceed “as expeditiously as possible in the prepa- ration of a second five-year school building program.” It is this task which board has before it now. In its consideration of the second building program, the Board of Edu- cation will undertake to answer a se- ries of questions which Dr. Ballou com- plled for its guidance. These are: “What buildings should be aban- doned?” “What buildings can be enlarged “dWhnt new buildings are needed,” an “What shall be the policy of the Board of Education in the acquisition of land about the older buildings.” To assist the board in deciding on the abandonment of old buildings, Dr. Bal- lou will suggest that a committee of three persons possessing technical knowledge of school needs and school architecture, be created by the board for the purpose of answering the first uestion. He recalled that in 1908, when similar information was desired by Con- gress, a commission consisting of the superintendent of schools, the supervis- ing architect of the United States Treasury and_the Engineer Commis- sioner of the District of Columbia, was appointed to make the research. Dr. Ballou suggests that a like personnel compose the board’s commission in its present consideration. Vsith ite present policy of construct- ing 16-room buildings for elementary schools in force, the authorities plan to increase the ‘capacities of the old, smaller buildings to that of the new structures. In deciding what buildings can be so enlarged, the needs of the community and the number of rooms in the original unit will be studied. Discussing this recommendation to the Board of Education, Dr. Ballou recalls that this general policy was indorsed by the Bureau of Efficiency in its sur- vey last year. Modernization to Be Studied. Recognizing that many of the old buildings are sufficiently serviceable to continue to house classes, the superin- tendent suggests these might be recon- ditioned to more nearly approximate the modern structures, and the board now plans to study the fleld with a view to ordering the modernization. New buildings will be needed, Dr. Ballou has pointed out, in those com- munities which now are developing as residential territory, and therefore the lature, the governor and council would be authorized to expend the money when they deemed it advisable. nite program for the inauguration of an incoming President that would be permanent in nature and make it un- necessary to determine every four years what form the ceremonies should take, was suggested yesterday by Senator Sackett, Republican, of Kentucky, as a proposal worthy of consideration. While the Senator has not discussed the proposition with any of his col~ leagues in Congress, he said that he personally would be in favor of such a plan. Senator Sackett said that if Congress fixed a permanent plan for the - t of the inauguration, it “-‘534 school board’s tasks this year will enter (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Permanent Program for Inauguration Of All Presidents Urged by Sackett Establishment by Congress of a defi- lieve the President-ejpct every four years from determining what kind of inaugural ceremony should be held. He said another effect would be that every President would have the same charac- ter of inaugural celebration, which, he thought, would be desirable, “We have congressional committees every four years to make arrangements for the exercises at the Capitol in con- nection with the inauguration,” Sena- tor Sackett sald. “It might be a good plan to have Congress also to specify what should constitute the remainder of the celebration, such as the parade, and whether there should be an in- augural ball.” FIVE CENTS AND SUBURBS building program act, it will be recalled, was TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE A0 MORE ARE HELD N GANBLING RAIDS WITHOUT WARRANT { | Last Night’s Arrests Lift Total Made in Hesse’s Drive to 83. POLICE GET REPORTS EQUIPMENT WAS MOVED Games on L and P Streets Were Broken Up, Police Report. Making good his threats to raid sus- pected gambling establishments with- out search warrants, Capt. Guy E. | Burlingame of the second precinct fast night led a detail of police into two places where, he said, the gamblers had set up new quarters following the pick- eting of their regular establishments, broke up the games in progress there and arrested 40 persons on charges of disorderly conduct. Last night's raids brought to 83 the persons arrested yesterday and |last night in Maj. Hesse’s intensive campaign to break up gambling. Early in the afternoon police of the first precinct, accompanying a fireman on ‘a regular tour of inspection of fire escapes, raided 1014 H street and ar- rested the proprietor of th: Radin Social Club and 42 occupant: of the club’s two rooms. The raids last night were conducted on places in the 600 block on L stree: and the 1400 block of P ctreet. Thev were followed by reports from the pe- licemen picketed before tvo known es- tablishments in tie 1600 block of Four- teenth street that. shortly after mid- night all the gambling equipment had been moved out of the places and car- ried away by the operators, who locked the doors. Liquor Raids Made. Capt. Burlingame did not confine his clean-up last night to gambling. At midnight 150 persons had been booked at the second precinct station as the result of a dozen or more raids on lig- uor-selling establishments and dis- orderly houses. to be completed Jume 30,1 1In the L street address, 22 we: prmprmiom for buildings and gt rom year to year, however, have not been sufficient to complete the | Burlingame, both places arrested and 18 were arrested at the P street resort. According to Capt. pear tg have been recently fitted up :rth ml'e‘phm! facilities for receiving racing informa- tion. He said blackjack games were in progress at each club operated by the same dealers who formerly con- ducted the now closed establishment on Fourteenth street. patrons who were arrested are known to have frequented several of the other Fourteenth street houses of chance. ‘Twenty-four colored persons also wer> taken into custody shortly before mid- night in a series of liquor and gaming r?xi;:? staged by police of the eighth pre- Harry A. Bazmore, colored, 1811 Sev- enth street, charged with sale and pos- session of liquor, and running a gam- g game, was arrested, and 11 other colored persons found in the house were brought along on charges of dis- orderly conduct. Twelve were arrested at the home of Ella Jackson, colored, 19071, Ninth street. She was charged with sale and possession of liquor and the others with disorderly conduct. Helen Coffee, 1804 Fourteenth street, was taken in the third raid on charges of sale and possession of liquor. Maj. Hesse drew new hope in his fight from a conference yesterday with Chairman Gibson of the special sub- committee of the House District com- mittee, in which Mr. Gibson promised assistance in legislative proposals which would provide for the immediate and automatic padlocking of a club fol- lowing a conviction on a gaming charge. Action is Promised. Mr. Gibson assured the major that if he will have his outline of a suit- able law drawn up by the office of the corporation council and submitted through proper channels, he will either introduce it himself in the House or some other member of the District com- mittee will do so. While unwilling to say that he in- tended to resort to any further steps not already taken to suppress gambling in Washington, Maj. Hesse discussed at length yesterday the advisability of resurrecting a law passed by Congress in 1861, which empowers the superin- tendent of police to issue search war- rants upon the sworn statement by two persons that they have knowledge and belief that an offense t the United States is being committed in the premises. Inactive Many Years. For many years the law has not been taken advantage of, although it never has been removed from the statute books. Within the last decade no such warrant has been issued. If again brought into use it would prove a powerful weapon against the gambling houses, Maj. Hesse thinks, since it would obviate the difficult pro- cedure now necessary to obtain a war- rant necessary for a raid. Under the present system of law enforcement an informer must swear that he had placed a bet in the establishment before & w:ms: wu}’mtl,\e. el nother effective legal weapon wi Maj. Hesse discussed yesterd: Nl:’“hlfi law against conspiracy. Although he has not investigated the matter, it is possible, he said, that patrons, as well as proprietors, may be arrested and all charged with conspiracy to violate the law. Police Are Surprised. ‘When the police opened the door of one of the rooms on the second foor at 1014 H street they were as surprised as the roomful of occupants, who were said to be indulging in games of “black Jjack” and placing bets on race horses. A hurried visit to another room on the third floor resulted in a general round- up of a man, declared to be the pro= prietor, and 42 witnesses. Chester C. Burns, 28 years putedly the propristor, and nesses were loaded into five patrol wagons, which responded to the call, and taken to No. 1 station. Burns posted a real estate bond of $2,000 for his appearance in Police Court tomor- row to answer to the charge of keeping & gaming house. A number of racing sheets and slips were seized by the police as evidence. In the meantime the line-up at the police station lasted fully an hour bee ~(Continued on Page 3, Columa 89 o g old, re- the wi