Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1928, Page 1

{ . Differing Opinions Prevail Over e ——— ] —_— WEA S. Weath th lowes i . tomorrc llowed day. Temperatures. today; lowest, 30, Full report on page 9. by rain at night and Thurs- I'HIER. Bureau Forecast.) t temperature about ow cloudy and warm- Highest, 40, at noon at 6 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Slar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers evary citv block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 107,550 Entered as seco ond o h WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, OVEM ;fi R 2 7, DENIAL IS ISSUED Anxiety Prevails, Although King’s Condition Is Not Declared Worse. CRISIS BELIEVED DUE WITHIN SEVERAL DAYS Progress of British Monarch in Present Illness. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 27.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Cape Town says that a cable received from Dodoma, Tanganyika, states that a code m sage reached the provincial commis- sioner there shortly after 10 o'clock this morning and a fast motor car was sent immediately to meet the Prince of Wales, who is coming in from his camp. The dispatch said it was believed the message contained instructions for the prince to return to London. Association stated later (hggl it ‘;r';:s officially informed at. St James' Palace today that the Prince of Wales has not been recalled to Eng- land, as had been reported. It was sum;g that, tbe pr rrive this a i e ika. in accordance with plans made some time ago. At this point he prince was will be on the telegraph line and on | a railway and it is probable that he‘ will stay there for a few days. { Anxiety Continues. \xiety over King George's illness et greatly relieved this morning when his physicians issued what might be characterized a non-committal bul- jetin. ‘The physicians, Sir Stanley Hewitt and Lord Dawson of Penn, in- formed the public that their royal pe- tient had passed the night more rest- fully and that his feverish condition had abated somewhat. The bulletin did not actually give the King's tempera- ture and summed up everything else, stating that conditions otherwise were anged. ““gz‘ To5 ot the disturbing bulletins of the past few days, which have indicated | that the King is very sick, today's re- port did rot tend greatly to relieve anx- jety among his subjects over the even- tual outcome of the att.acllt. wrx«;};\khnfl now been in progress nearly a g wlv; b:\?u r:?zliged that the King’s| stemina was undergoing a severe strain owing to constant pain from pleurisy ang the lack of rest and sleep that at- terflied it. Text of Bulletin. The text of the official medical bul- Jetin was: “His majesty the King has had a mcr!: resm’n night and the tempera- fure is somewhat lower. The condi- tions are otherwise unchanged. “The doctors were early at Bucking- ham , arriving -sho) F o'clock, but it was mot wel - ward noon that their attendance on his majesty dwas concluded and the v issued. b-\‘?lel"emKing's physicians leit the palace soon after the morning bulletin had | issued. i bee ehold officials regarded the low | temperature mentioned today as 2 favorable sign indicating that the bac- teriological infection was no ‘worse. Later at the palace emphasis was laid on the fact that all bulletins issued thus far mentioned that the King's strength is maintained. This is inter- preted as meaning that the King's consmuu;‘m d‘i:e making & good flghr‘ st the disease. ! ag’?“t’x‘ere were hundreds -of persons around the palace when the bulletin of 2he King's physicians was posted. When it was hung in the frame on the rail- ings the crowd surged forward, eager to read it. No Change for Worse Seen. Quick to seize on anything with a hopeful sound, the crowd seemed Te- lieved at least that no change for the worse in the King's condition was in- dicated and that h> appeared to be | more comfortable than during the last few days. The Queen and Princess Mary left Buckingham Palace in an automobile this afternoon to make some personal visits. It was noticed that the Queen was smiling and looked well, which was taken as an indication of further good progress which his majesty was reported to be making. digariier the afternoon Princess beth, the little daughter of the E e and Duchess of York, arrived at palace with her nurse, making her first visit since the King’s illness. The Duke of York, meeting of the British Poster Advertis- ing Association today, said: Dodoma, | i Toom after the shooting speaking at a | ! Or. Edward Francis ls‘ Stricken From Work in | His Laboratory. (Falls Victim to Malta Dis- | ease, Hitherto Only Asso- ciated With Cattle. | Dr. Edward Francis. renowned scien- | tist of the Public Health Service, whose investigation of tularemia, the fever contracted from handling rabbits and | other animals, has gained for him a world reputation, has fallen a victim to his laboratory experiments and lies in the Naval Hospital here suffering from Malta fever, a disease hitherto asso- | ciated only with cattle, which lasts over a period of three to five years. | Dr. Francis contracted the disease | from cultures in his experiments at the | hygienic laboratory of the Public Health | Service, which is operatcd in connec- | | i | tion with the Naval Hospital, it was | learned today. | In his experiments i stricken Dr. Francis had discovered that | malta fever may be contracted by h mans through the consumption of Taw milk. The disease. according to Dr. C. C.| FIVE-YEAR-FEVER ATTA " FAMED TULAREMIA SCIENTIST CALLED TOLONDON; before he was W CKS | EDWARD FRANCIS. -Underwood Photo. DR. Public Health Service, was contracted | in the laboratory from cultures. Dr, Francis was cngaged in the work of| ating the germ. Dr. Pierce said tha hile the disease has not a high mor- | tality, it is principally distinctive for a | course which it runs from three to five | years. It was explained that it was not con- | tinuous for that period. but comes in | ~(Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) | | Pierce, assistant surgeon general of the 8 MANUS GIVES LP: HeLD WITHOUT BAL | | |Arraigned on First-Degree | Murder Charge in Death of Rothstein. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 27.—George McManus, whose overcoat was found in the hotel room in which Arnold Roth- | stein was fatally wounded, surrendered | today after police had sought him for three weeks in vain. He was arraigned this afternoon on a short affidavit charging him with murder in the first degree and ordered held without bail. Hearing was set for Friday after Mc- ( Manus pleaded not guilty. | The first announcement that Mec- detectives had picked him up in a | Bronx street, but it developed that Mc- | Manus had arranged the meeting and | the population had time only to save ; A national salute of 21 guns was fired was accompanied by his lawyer. Questioned by Banton. He was taken to the district attor- ney's office, where he was questioned by District Attorney Banton. On the ad- vice of his counsel, James Murray, he refused to answer questions. Banton arraigned him before General Session Judge Mancusco on the murder charge. in was shot in a room at Park Central Hotel, to which he went on November 4 after receiving a tele- ‘phone- invitation-from -some- one who said he was McManus. McManus had long ‘been an intimate friend of the gambler, and the first police theory was that he had invited Rothstein into the hotel room in the rcle of peacemaker in an effort to settle differences arising out of a card game at which Rothstein gave | 1. O. U’s. for more than $300,000, which he later refused to honor. | Overcoat Found. When police first entered the hotel | y found an | overcoat with McManus’ name in it but when they went to his home th!)'1 found that he had disappeared and | they had sought him since in vain. Five other men were held in connection with the investigation of the shooting yes- terday, but no charges have been placed against them, it being announced that they were wanted merely as material witnesses. Three shadowy figures—one of them | a woman—loomed today in the grumll jury investigation of the Rothstein case. ‘Their identity is hidden under legal phraseology as “Jane Doe, John Doe and Richard Roe.” The first intimation that a woman was suspected of having had a hand in the slaying of Rothstein was con- tained in a document filed late yester- day when the State asked the deten- | tion as material witnesses of five fricnds {of the slain gambler. | It was headed: “The people of the | State of New York against Jane Doe, John Doe and Richard Roe.” | “Yes, there is a woman in the case and she is very important.” said Dis- | ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5. | . H. M. BLACKMER WINS | EXTRADITION BATTLE | By the Associated Press. | wholly or partly under water. H Manus was in custody indicated *hat | “I am glad to be able to tell you! there is a slight improvement in the King's condition this morning.” “Some of you will know what pleurisy 15 and how depressing it can be,” co tinued the King's second son. “There are two things to be remembered. From the nature of the illness progress mu: be slow, downs, but progress has been made.” ‘The announcement was received with prolonged cheering. Taken. A pessimistic view of the King's con- dition_expressed by the Daily Mail to- day did not appear to be shared by the ther morning papers. The Mall print- ed this comment on the King’s condi- tion: “We regret to state that hopes enter- tained two days ago have not been ful- filled and that up to the present there toward recovery. at the King is engaged ght and that his con- g put to a severe tes infection persists and, circumstances Pessimistic View It is in a hard upht stitution is bein “The general in the most favorable < the battle must be of a prolonged and anxiolis nature. The condition of any one at the age of the King (60 years) suffering from such an illness must be considered serious.” It was generally expected by medical men that the crisis in the King's ill- ness might be reached about tomorrow or Thursday and until then no definite opinion could be formed. Some of the details concerning the X-ray examination of the King on No- Yember 23 became known today. A portable apparatus was used by Dr. H. Graham Hodgson of King's College #MHospital, who conducted the examina- tion and made successful radiographs. Development of these was carried out in a Red Cross car adapted to the pur- pose. By this means it was possible to produce the photographs in the re- markably short time of two hours after s swumons to the palace Lre » RN and there must be ups and | i France Refuses to Honor U. S. Re- quest for Return of Teapot Dome Witness. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 27.—France, on | the advice of the court of indictment ! today decided not to honor the extra- | dition request of the United States for | | H. M. Blackmer, missing Teapot Dome | witness. His delivery to American of- | ficers was sought on an Indictment | ! charging him with making false income | tax returns at Denver, Colo. | The second hearing in the case was| had today and the court’s opinion was | then sent to the ministry of foreign | affairs. Mr. Blackmer was immediately { ordered liberated. | " The French government attorney ad- | !vocated refusal of the extradition on the ground that the offense was pri- | marily political. | | Rhine were raging torrents. FLOODS INUNDATE o0 BELGIAN TOWNS Country Suffers Its Worst| Natural Calamity in Half a Century. BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 27— | Floods resulting from the tremendous gale and heavy rains that accompanied it are proving to be the worst calamity that Belgium has suffered from nature | in half a century. Fifty villages are The entire Antwerp garrison was today put to work repairing dikes of the Sheldt, Rupel, Dender and Nethe Rivers, which gave way at a dozen places under the pressure of tidewater. Hundreds of hothouses were de- molished and communications by road and rail were cut. It all happened without warning, and their lives. | Shipyards, metal works and brick- ! yards along the banks of the Sheldt in the neighborhood of Antwerp, Ter- monde and Hoboken, suffered severely. Many houses also collapsed in those districts. Brussels and Antwerp received no milk or fresh vegetables this morning. In the latter city the water works were inundated and the burgomaster warned the people that they must bofl all drinking water for an indefinite period. At Blanckenberghe several houses on the seafront collapsed and the entire coast from the French to the Dutch frontier bore testimony in the way of shattered piers and promenades to the havoc wrought by the tempest. FLOODS RAGE AFTER STORM. Waters Rise After Gale Which Cost | 20 Ships and 100 Lives. LONDON, November 27 (#).—Floods today followed in the wake of a four- | day gale which caused the loss of a score of vessels of substantial tonnages in Western European waters and possibly took a toll of 100 lives, From Belgium north to the Frisian Island, lowlands were flooded as the sea was driven in upon them by raging winds. Dykes and sea walls buffeted by heavy seas gave way to the rush of waters. Police, soldiers and civilians were working frantically in Antwerp to re- pair broken dykes there and on the opposite side of the Scheldt. The city water and gas pipes were undermined and gave way. The suburbs were flooded. Industrial plants in Hoboken and else- where were closed. Railroad bridges were damaged and telephone and tele- | graph lines down. Six persons were missing and it was feared that they were dead. A hole 60 yards in circum- ference and 6 yards deep was made in the Grand Palace at Antwerp. At Ostend, Belgium, the water from | the seas ran down streets and inun- dated the grouml floors of buildings. The Flanders villages of Grembergen, Moorseele and Termonde were evacuated by their inhabitants as the sea rushed through a break 20 yards wide in the dykes. Houses Abandoned. A number of houses in the neighbor- | hood of Rotterdam, Holland, were also ! abandoned. At Bergen-op-Zoom, Hol-' land, a 130-foot dyke broke with| a tremendous crash, letting in the sea. Sylt Island, one of the Frisian group, | was inundated and dwellers on it sought | safety on the highest points. At Helgoland the sea wall was torn away | and sand dunes were leveled. The river Elbe was backed up by the sea and low- | lying streets of Hamburg were flooded. | Rivers in the Vesges Hills were rising with alarming rapidity. The Moselle | was also rising and tributaries of the Houses along the banks of the Ruhr at Mul- heim were evacuated and the shipping on the Saar was at a standstill. Cuxhave Roads, Germany, was full of disabled shipping. One incoming vessel reported that it had sighted five wrecks | in the North Sea. The liner Carinthia, arriving at Liverpool, England, reported that it had picked up 16 S O S calls, | all of which were subsequently canceled. | ‘The French freighter Cesaree sank off Algiers and 15 of her crew of 19 were (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | | I By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 27.— A kitchen maid who got unlimited credit from trades people and many loans from neighborhood gentry who believed that she was “Princess Margaret of Prussia” faced a criminal trial at Erfurt today. ‘The accused woman is Marta Barth. She is 41 years old and she induced a number of persons to believe that she was a daughter of Queen Sophia of Greece, that she had bene married to King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and that after that union had been annulled she | ! had been married morganatically to the | former Crown Prince of Germany, It | S o b Kitchen Maid Dupes Prussian Gentry Into Thinking She's Princess Margaret was from this last imaginary union that she claimed the right to call herself “Princess Margaret of Prussia.” ‘The woman had seen service in sev- eral noble families before she arrived at Erfurt and her evident first-hand knowledge of happenings among the nobility gave credence to her tales. Particularly were duped two -elderly ladies who own a small millinery shop. They virtually ruined themselves by lending her money. ‘The swindle was revealed when the milliners, during a visit to Potsdam. found the “princes<” talking to former fellow servants ia a stable yard, 4 0 1 | his party at La Union, Salvador, all 1928 — l-‘()R'l'\'-]il(illr'l' PAGES (#) Mezns Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. END OF INTERNAL NCARAGUA STRIFE. HAILED BY HOOVER Diaz, Moncada and Cha-| marro Are Luncheon Guests | Aboard Maryland. SALUTE OF 21 GUNS FIRED BY BATTLESHIP| | Corinto Is Gayly Decorated With | Flags, Bunting and Wel- coming Signs. By the Associated Press. | U.S.S. MARYLAND, OFF CORINTO. NICARAGUA, November 27.—Congratu- | lations upon Nicaragua's settlement of its internal disorders were extended to- day by Herbert Hoover to retiring Presi- dent Diaz of Nicaragua, President-elect | Moncada and former President Cha- | marro who were luncheon guests aboard | the Battleship Maryland. The three political leaders of the republic came aboard the good will ship | soon after it arrived off this port early this morning and to them President- elect Hoover delivered a brief extem- poraneous address in lieu of making a speech ashore. “I feel greatly honored,” Mr. Hoover | said, “that T should have on this occa- sion been welcomed not only by the President of Nicaragua, but by the| President-elect and the former Presi- | dent. ) “Representing the political parties of | Nicaragua who have been lately in con- flict, this occasion becomes one of much more than ordinary interest. It repre- sents the growing unity of the Nicar: guan people. It represents the consoli- dation of the forces of domestic peace. It demonstrates that the difficult na- | tional crisis into which my own country | has been drawn has now reached a basis of solution which merits the deepest thankfulness of all our peoples and for which I wish to congratulate the leaders of the Nicaraguan nation.” Lunch on Maryland. The presidential group lunched on ; the Maryland's quarter deck, which had | been decorated with greenery for the occasion. The battleship arrived at 7 o'clock to | find the anchorage shared by the| American cruisers Rochester and Tulsa. | by the Maryland as it came to a halt. | Greetings from Diaz, Moncada and| Chamorro were sent aboard and the | Rochester sent its launch with a party of officers to the Maryland. Nicaragua is the third country to be visited by the Hoover good-will party, | which came here from Honduras and | San Salvador, where Mr. Hoover yes-| terday delivered the first two speeches of the trip. Mr. Hoover landed at 10:55 a.m. The town of Corinto was gaily decorated with flags, bunting and welcome signs. President Didz, Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, American Minister Charles | C. Eberhardt, .Brig. Gen. Logan | Feland and Lieut. Col. E. R. Beadle arrived in Corinto by special train from Managua yesterday. They | took up residence at the home of Rob- ert J. Jordan of Minneapolis, col- | lector of customs, who Las turned over | his house as the reception headquarters. | Moncada arrived Sunday and ex- changed official calls with Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, who has been here several days arranging the program. A feature of the train trip of the presidential party were the loud cheers for former President Chamorro, who ac- companied the party, sympathizers greeting him en route. There was also l&glause for Gen. McCoy, who super- vised the recent presidential election. One - feature of the reception plans | called for the appearance of “Miss Nicaragua,” a recent beauty prize win- ner, as the Statue of Liberty, on a| pedestal at the Corinto waterfront. | At least 10,000 persons had crowded ( into this little port to welcome the President-elect. The American flag was flying from numerous buildings. | An interesting sidelight of the gather- ing here was a dinner at which Presi- | dent-elect Moncada was present with| President Diaz and former President Chamorro, against both of whom he h;‘2;7 fought in the struggle of 1926 a!’ldl 1927, Busy Hours Ahead. Four busy hours were on the program for President-elect Hoover exchanging an official visit and attending confer- ences with various American and Nica- raguan officials. Recently President- clect Moncada said that he would dis- cuss the Nicaraguan Canal, prospects for a new loan, a railroad on the east coast and an increase in the National | Guard, if time permitted. WINDS AND SEA SUBSIDE. Hoover Party Sails From Salvador for Corinto, Nicaragua. U. S S. MARYLAND, November 27 (#).—Winds and heavy seas whicn threatened to hold Herbert Hoover and night subsided and the party returned to the Maryland at 1:30 a.m. this morn- ing. Shortly after the' President-elect and his party were aboard the Maryland weighed anchor and sailed for Corinto, Nicaragua, 70 miles “around the cor- ner.” ‘There officials of the third republic on the route of his good-will journey waited to greet Mr. Hoover. A strong wind made landing of the Hoover party at La Union difficult and | held him at the port hours behind the | time set for his return to the Mary- land. When the heavy seas subsided naval officers accompanying the Hoover party decided it was safe for the Presi- dent-elect to make the trip by launch (Continued on_Page 4, Column 7.) p—— “The Melancholy Humorist” BY WILLIAM E. BARTON New Lincoln material which will be a valuable contribution to history IN THE MAGAZINE OF Next Sunday’s Star | | LANSAKES! SeEMS LIKEY | SPEND MOREZ AND GET J LesS EACH CAMPAIGN GAS REVALUATION DISMISSAL ASKED Fleharty Wants Company to Abandon Appeal From 1917 Ruling. People’s Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty jmoved today to dismiss the application of the Washington Gas Light Co., for a revaluation of its property unless the company would agree to abandon its | appeal from the first valuation made in 1917 now before the District Supreme Court. Fleharty's motion led to heated dis- cussion among lawyers for the company and the commission and Chairman John W. Childress of the commission at one point threatened to start the whole proceeding over from the begin- | ning and give Byers McK. Bachman, commission accountant, time to make an investigation of the company’s books | from 1848 to date before being called | to_testify. Decision on Fleharty’s motion was re- |served and referred to Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, the commis- | sion’s general counsel for decision. | Fight Bachman Testimony. At for the gas mmnu}y edrlier in day made a determined ef- fort to withdraw from the records of the hearing before the Public Utilities on the company's valuation, all testi- mony by Bachman, who testified yes- ! terday that he set the value of the plant’ at $12,896,003. R. O. Luqueer, first witness for the company, had es- timated $27,444,810. The commission reserved its decision on the protest. When Mr. Bachman completed his | direct testimony on the “historic” cost of the gas company, Assistant Corpora- | tion Counsel Robert E. Lynch moved to have Bachman'’s veport entered into | the record as an exhibit. 1 George B. Hoover of counsel for the company objected to the report being received. His objection was based on the fact that the report took as its starting point January 1, 1914, and re- lied for its information on the years prior to this date on an investigation made by Andrew Sangster, an account- | ant employed by the commission in 1914 | to assist in making a valuation of the | company. Mr. Hoover said that there were cer- | tain infirmities in the report which the | company desired to attack and which they were debarred from doing by rea- son of the fact that Mr. Sangster had not been produced in person to testify concerning his report. He opjected on the further ground that Bachman's analysis of the “historic” cost of es- tablishing the company was made in | part on an investigation of the books | and in part on certain deductions made | from independent investigtions. This composite eharacter of the report made it objectionable. he said. Lynch, in arguing the point, said that the Court of Appeals had ruled that a physician could probably testify Champion Raiser Sets Corn Record With 1,762 Bushels By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 27. —Breaking his own three-year re- cord as world champion corn raiser, Ira Martin, Hardin County, produced 1,762 bushels on 10 acres this year, it was announced by the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University today. His highest previous yield was 168.66 bushels to an acre in 1926. OBJECT T0 PAYING FOR MOVING TRACK | Traction Officials Also Op- pose Proposed Routes Near Capitol. Washington's two street railway com- panies will object to being required to pay the cost of the street car track changes that will be necessary under the bill pending in Congress for the ex- tension of the Capitol Grounds to Union Station. William F. Ham, ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co., and John H. Hanna, head of the Capital Traction Co., have made known their position to officials in charge of plan- ning the improvement, and have indi- cated they also will take up the matter with the Senate public buildings and grounds committee when Congress meets. Passed by House. The bill passed the House at the last session and is to be taken up by the Senate committee at this session. It was learned also today that the companies do not regard the routes that would result from the track changes in the vicinity of the Capitol as the most satisfactory that could be arranged, and a conference is in prog- ress, this afternoon between company engineers and J. L. Parsons of Chicago. member of the firm, which designed the proposed plaza parkway. Under the plan now pending car tracks would be taken off of Delaware avenue between the station and the Cepitol and moved to First street northeast. Tracks also would be re- moved from B street between Delaware avenue and First street northeast. Existing tracks on C street would be lowered into a tunnel in order to give to the condition of the patient by using information given him by the patient. even when the patient could not be produced in court for cross-examina- a clear vision from the Capitol to Union Station and extended east on C street to First street, east. It is under- stood the companies are somewhat con- president of the | tion. Mr. Hoover held that the cases|cerned about working out the grade at were not at all parallel. Lieut. Col. Harrison Brand, jr., vice chairman of the commission, said that the Sangster report had been adopted by the commission as part of its formal order in the valuation case of the com- pany in 1917. ‘Do you mean to say,” Brand asked, pick up the thread at ed on Page 2, Column 2.) | $666,666 AWARDED T0 GLORIA CARUSO Given Two-Thirds of Royalties on Father's Records in Jersey Ruling. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, November Gloria Caruso, young daughter of the late Enrico Caruso, was today awarded two-thirds of the royalties, now esti- mated to approximate $1,000,000, from the_reproduction of her father's voice 21— on Victor talking machine records, not- | withstanding that by a decree of the Italian _courts Gloria was awarded only one-half of the New Jersey estate. The remaining one-third of the estate was divided among Mrs. Dorothy P. B. Caruso, Glovanni Caruso, a brother of the late tenor; Enrico Caruso, jr., and Rodolpho Caruso, two sons, under a ruling of a vice chancellor. Disposition of the New Jersey estate has been in litigation for several years. In a former decree the chancellor, pend- ing outcome of the partition proceed- ings, fixed sn annual allowance of $12.000_for Gloria. The Ttalian decree was questioned by the Victor Co., which asked a ruling by the New Jersey courts on its legality. ! which the cars would enter and leave | the sunken: passageway below C street. , They also have suggested that the | tracks now on B street could be ex- (tended west to First street west to better | advantage. ¢ Benefits Denied. | With regard to the question of cost, officials of the companies take the ! position that the Plaza project is pri- { marily for the beautification of the | Capitol and they contend that the itrack changes will not benefit the car | riders. | For these reasons, they argue, the | cost should not be assessed against the ! companies. They point out that the improvement is a Federal project. ‘ ‘They ex‘)llmed that they are not opposing plans of the Government to | beautify Washington, but felt they | should not be assessed the cost of mov- {ing tracks for that purpose. Officials of the companies have made ! known their view of this problem to David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. | DISTRIT BUDGET 5 FINSHED R COERES ACTON $500,000 for New Business High School Is Included. ABOUT $40,000,000 SET FOR FISCAL YEAR TOTAL RETREMENT LAY ACTONHELDSIR | Dale-Lehlback Civil Service | Bill Believed Due for | Early Consideration. Early action in the coming short | session of Congress on the Dale-Lehl- | bach bill to liberalize the civil service | retirement law seems assured, accord- | ing to members of the rules and Civil service committees as they return to the Capitol. The Dale bill has passed the Senate and been substituted in the House for the even more liberal Lehlbach bill. | Following hearings at which a majority of House members appeared in support of the bill, Chairman Lehlbach of the | civil service committe appeared be- | fore the rules committe. urging ll.at a special rule be reporte.. -iving this legislation preferential status for ac- tion in the House. This rule was ordered by the rules committee, but never called up in the House by Chair- { man Snell, owing to a reluctance on the | part of President Coolidge to have the | measure passed at that time. While Chairman Snell refuses to make a statement regarding the prospects of the retirement bill at this session, it is stated by other. members of the com- mittee who have been in conference with him that he will do nothing to impede passage of the liberalzed meas- ure and that it will come up early in the session. | Those who have been pressing the | measure have heard no outspoken op- | position; and with practically the en- | tire membership of the House on record | in the hearings as urgin; | there seems pass by acclamaticn, it is said. | Early next week the joint committee | on retirement, representing the various | tranches of Government employes, is to | confer with Chairman Lehlbach and | other members of the House civil service | committee. | TRAFFIC IS TIED UP i BY STREET CAR FIRE | Hundreds of Bureau of Engraving | Employes Forced to Walk Part [ of Way to Work. Hundreds of employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and other ! Government departments were forced to walk a part of the way to work this ! morning when cars of both the Wash- | ington Railway & Electric Co. and | | Washington-Virginia Railway Co. were | tied up by a fire on a car of the latter | line. | The car, which was bound for Lacey, short-circuited on Fourteenth street just north of B street southwest. 16 Engine and 3 Truck companies re- sponded to a call for assistance, but the blaze was so stubborn that a half hour was reguired to extinguish it. The | car was badly damaged in the interior. More than 40 cars were tied up be- | tween the Highway Bridge and Po- tomac Electric Power Co. and many Virginia commuters were forced to walk from the bridge to the city. There were no passengers on the car that caught on fire and the crew escaped without injury. Downtown Houston Blaze Causes; Damage of $125,000. HOUSTON, Tex., November 27.—Fire which shortly after midnight threat- ened a wide area in the downtown busi- ness district finally was brought under control early today after causing an | estimated damage of $125,000. Half a dozen firemen, including As- ued after being trapped on the roof | | re the height of the blaze. "of a building a By the Associated Press. Governmental employes are being fingerprinted by the Civil Service Com- mission with the announced objective, “To keep out the crooks.” The commission has made known plans of installing a fingerprint system in apporximately 250 cities of the coun=- try, including Washington, and is en- every governmental employe who comes | under “the civil service. The finger- prints will be compared with the finger- print, records of the Department of Justice. In New York City post office losses » {U. S. Employes Being Finge printed ! In Hope of “Keeping Out the Crooks™ deavoring to take the fingerprints of | poi have been reduced 50 per cent by the fingerprining of temporary employes taken on during rush seasons. The commission said that at Cleve- land and Philadelphia two fugitive criminals were caught when they ap- plied for Government jobs. “When it is generally known that fingerprints will be made of all :&- intees,” sald the commission, *I criminals will quietly disappear” from among tle applicants for Government positions. g its passage, | little doubt but that it will | | Va., caught on fire when the plow | Nos. | \TRAPPED FIR.EMEN SAVED. | Reduction of $6,500,000 Made in Funds Sought by Various Departments. The District's budgetary estimates for the next fisca! year, calling for appro- priations totaling nearly $40,000.000, were put in final shape at the Bureau of the Budget today for transmission to Congress. While the total amount of the funds allowed by the bureau is close to the limitation of $39,962,000 fixed last Sum~ mer by presidential decree, a number of the items originally included in the | budget are understood to have under- gone radical changes, and some of them were eliminated entirely. In the place of those removed, however, the bureau | is said to have substituted items orig- inally in the list submitted by the Com- missioners under the designation of “supplemental estimates.” One of the principal so-called “sup= plemental” items which the budget bu- | reau is said to have transferred to the | regular estimates provides for beginning construction of a new Business High Ismool, School officials and the Com- | missioners had fought for several years to get a $500,000 item in the regular budget to start work on the $1,500,000 structure. ! The Business High School item was reported to have been placed in the regular estimates at the sacrifice of an item for the erection of an addition to the Park View School. The pro- posed Park View addition was appro- priated for several years ago, but it was never constructed because of an objection by the community to the plac- ing of a third-story addition on the i present building. ) Airport Omitted. The budget, in its final form, it was reported, does not contain items for 4he proposed municipal airport and civic center, these having been omitted pending enactment by of legis- lation providing for their establishment. Bills authorizing each of these import- ant projects were introduced in Con- gress at the last session, and the Com- missioners have every reason to believe they will be pushed vigorously at the coming short session. A few major alterations made in the estimates by the bureau, it was said, involved the budget of the Board of Educauo& which ;nu!fl&r:d serious trim- ming at the bands before it finally reached Budget Direc~ | tor Lord. The original estimates of the school board aggregated slightly more than $14,000,000, but the total figure now is understood to be approximately $11,500,000. Most of the cuts, it was | indicated, were‘made in the items for | the purchase of school sites for future use. | | Deductions Made. Aside from the school budget. slight | deductions also are reported to have been made in the estimates of a number of other municipal agencies. As a whole, however, the bureau is said to have been generous to these departments. ‘The total budget of nearly $40,000.000 | represents a reduction of slightly more than $6,500,000 in the funds sought by i the heads of the various departments of | the District government. It is predicated upon a $9,000,000 lump sum contribu- | tion by the Federal Government and i continuance of the existing tax rate of | $1.70 on $100 of assessed valuation on | real estate and personal property. ‘The bureau’s allowance to the Dis- trict, however, is slightly in excess of the amount urged by the Citizens' Ad- | visory Council and about $1,300,000 un- jder the figure recommended by the ‘Washington Board of Trade. The coun- !cil suggested a budget a little above 1$39,000,000. The trade organization's figure was $41288.000, but it was pred- |icated on an increase in the Federal { Governme: lump sum contribution to $10,788,000. ! from $9,000,000 | CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION BEQUEATHED $275,000 { ‘Protestnnt Episcopal Organization | Ultimately Will Get Miss Davis' Estate. The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral | Foundation will ultimately benefit to {the extent of $275,000 under terms of | the will of Miss Josephine Davis, sister ;of Henry E. Davis, prominent lawyer, j who died November 6. Miss Davis leaves an estate composed of stocks, | bonds, real estate notes, cash and I household effects totaling $282,358.79, according to the petition of the Na- tional Savings & Trust Co., her execu- tor, for the probate of her will. ‘The will directs that the trust com- pany hold the entire estate during the life of Mrs. Harriet Riddle Davis, sis- ter-in-law of the deceased and widow of Henry E. Davis, to whom the net income is to be paid. On the death of Mrs. Davis specific bequests of about $5,000 are provided and the rest di- rected to be paild to -the Cathedral Foundation. PR LRI HALF-HOLIDAY UNDECIDED President Leaves Question for De- partment Heads to Settle. If Government employes are to be given half holiday or excused in ad- vance of the regular hour tomorrow it will be due to the orders of their re- spective departments or heads. President Coolidge has not issued an executive order extending a half holiday on Thanksgiving eve, nor has he communicated with the departmental heads his wishes in the matter. Lindy at Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn. November 27 Radio Programs—Page 36 g S ).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at McConnell Field at 11:33 today, having flown here from Memphia B