Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1929, Page 2

Y. 435,478,475 ARMY BILL IS REPORTED Soldier Pay, Flood and Avia- tion Iltems Increased in House Fund Measure. By the Assoclated Press. Carrying large increases for flood control, Army pay, aviation expansion and new construction at military posts, the Army appropriation bill was report- ed today to the House. Calling for the expenditure of. $435,- 428,415 by the War Department during the next fiscal year, the measure was the fifth of the nine regular annual supply bills to come before the House this session, four having been passed before the holidays. The total, 'providing $328,338,815 for national defense and $107,089,600 for non-military purposes, represents an increase of $35,111,77¢ over the current fiscal year appropriation and -an in- crease of $256,608 over budget esti- mates. $133,550,368 for Army Pay. The largest military item in the bill 45 $133,550,368 for pay of the Army. This is an increase of $3,215995 over his year's pay fund and is recommend- ed to take care of 200 additional second lleutenants, for the Air Corps, advance- ment of officers to higher pay periods, Jongevity increases and retired list ex- pansion. The measure contemplates no change in the'enlisted strength of the Army, now 118,750, but would raise the officer strength from 11,738 to approx- imately 12,000. In the non-military provisions, $50,- 000,000 is included for maintenance and improvement of more than 500 rivers and harbors works, while $30,000,000, IFRANCE WELCOMES GILBERT'S REPORT Press Is Jubilant Over Find- ing That Germany Can Pay Her Debts. ! BY LELAND STOWE. | By cable to The star. PARIS, January 3.—The annual report of S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparation payments, made public in Berlin, is acclaimed highly on virtually all sides and by all sections of public opinion in France. It is accepted not only as irrefu- table documentary proof of Germany's economic recovery and the remark- able practicability of the Dawes plan, but also as the most important point of departure” in the efforts of the rapidly approaching - experts’ con- ference to fix reparation definitely. Told bluntly, in French eyes Mr. Gilbert's report means more than all else, one thing: “Germany can pay.” The immediate reaction from the press demonstrates this belief thor- oughly. ‘With almost undisguised pleasure Parislan newspapers assert that now the highest authority has established the truth of the conten- tion that the French people have held all along. Debt to U. S. Bobs Up Again. Mingled with this sentiment there is unrestrained praise of Mr. Gilbert's overseership of reparations and the unquestioned authority with which he speaks. There is also a recurrence of the familiar note that now more an increase of $20,000,000, is provided for Mississippi flood control. An addi- tional $800,000, previously authorized as an emergency fund, is appropriated for repair or maintenance of flood con- trol works on the Mississippi’s tribu- taries, and $1,00,000 is provided for flood control on the Sacramento River 1o California. A new item of $4,370.- 000 is included to be returned to Cali-| 4y, fornia as a result of a recommenda- tion by the California Debris Commis- sion that the Federal Government share jrd instead of one-sixth of the ex] of the Sacramento project. Fop/operation of dam No. 2 at Muscle $270,000 is provided. The projects to be covered by the $50,000,000 rivers and harbors item are the same as thosz submitted to Con- gress by the chief of Army engineers and made public December 3 last. Other Items in Measure. Other big items in the measure in- clude $24,374,552 for Army subsistence, $14,441,950 for construction at military posts, $3,408,002 for seacost defenses, $33,578,683 for the Air Corps, $32.319,- 798 for the National Guard, $5,533,129 for the Organized Reserves, $5,418,975 for civilian military training camps, $10,011,000 for the Panama Canal, $8,- 091,600 for the National Home for Dis- abled Volunteer Soldiers and $356,278 for national military parks. ‘The Alr ppropriation, an in- Army ,planes next year for the regular branch, nized Reserves and National Guard, |in Orga 22 of ;which would go to the latter and be paid for out of guard funds. This would: bring the five-year construction pw up to within 106 planes of the planned. For seacoast defenses, provision Is made toward the installation of 16-inch guns and for completing construction of emplacements for a number of 240- millimeter howitzers in Oahu, Hawaii; for continuing construction of emplace- ments for 16-inch guns at Bruja Point, Canal Zone, as well as for certain minor armament in the Canal Zone, including anti-aircraft batteries. Guard Increase Provided. . ‘The National Guard item provides for increasing the authorized strength by 2,000 to 190,000, a total of $97,000 for construction at guard camps, and $11,- 541,168 for drill pay. For the Reserve Officers Training Corps, the appropria- tion is based upon an average enroli- ment of 127,141 next year, an increase of 2,000 junior students. Approximately 35,000 boys attended civilian military | training camps this fiscal year and the figure for this branch is based upon training a similar number next year. Of the Panama Canal appropriation, $1,000,000 would go toward continuation of the Alhajuela Dam project. The measure provides only $325,134 for =augmentation of ammunition, as -against $505,262 this year. In this con- nection, the appropriations committee called attention to an’exhaustive study it had made a year ago into war re- serves of ammunition and requested the House to give careful consideration to the advisability of creating a cefinite reserve looking to the wiping out of an- nual losses through deterioration. To initiate a program to provide the Army with a reasonable number of tanks, the bill carried an item for pur- chase of between six and eight light tanks of a “newly developed and quite superior type.” Fund for Light System. ‘The bill provides $5,233 for installa- tion of a night flying lighting system at Pope Field, N. C. It also provides for the following: Fort Benning, Ga.—Non-commission- od offices’ quarters, $130,000; officers’ quariers, $370,000. . Fort Bragg, N. C.—Barracks, $186,~ 000; non-commissioned officers’ quar- ters,. $102,000 and officers’ quarters, $212,000. Fort Humphreys, Va.—Non-commis- sloned officers’ quarters, $180,000. Langley Field, Va.—Non-commission- ed officers’ quarters, $300,000. Camp McClellen, Ala.—Non-commis- slongd officers’ quarters, $48,000; officers’ quarters, $225,000. Fort McPherson, Ga.—Addition of 75 beds to hospital, $150,000. Fort Monroe, Va.—Officers’ quarters, $268,000. Camp Leonard Wood, Md.—Non-com- missioned officers’ quarters, $150,000; officers’ quarters, $250,000, and hospital, $150,000. f the Southern branch, at Hampton Va., of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers, the measure provides ‘$701,000, and for the mountain branch, at John- son City, Tenn., 760,500. $38.342 for School. ‘The bill provides $38,342 for the Army Infantry School at Fort Benylng, Ga.. and the following amounts for national military parks in the South: Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Tenn.- Gay, $54.000; Guilford Court House, N. ©, $830( Moores Creek, N. C., 3,980; Petersburg, Va., $50,000; Shiloh, $35,000; Stones River, Tenn,, ,000; Vicksburg, Miss., $23,148. Cal. W. S. Gibson, testifying before the/committee which framed the meas- ure “explained that the $50,000 for the Petersburg Park would be used for pre- a definite plan for the park’s establishment and to begin work upon it. @he park, he said, will consist of a roadway around the defense lines and a ogrtain area on either side of the roadway to take in other positions of mil importance. There will be about 20 miles of roadway and a cor- responding small area on either side of the'road. : XKnapp, Ex-Legislator, Dies. LOWVILLE, N. Y., January 3 (®.— , | intentions: the first is known ‘and satis- than ever must debts and reparations be finally linked, and that Germany’s period of glyment cannot be reduced to 30 or 35 years unless some equiva- lent time reduction 1s made by the United States in allied debts. But above all else, the latest Gil- bert report promises to become the French reparations Bible, to which French government will de- terminedly pin the assertion that Germany can afford and ought to continue paying the present full an- nuity of 2,500,000,000 marks (about $595,000,000). It xp.lm that it will require the harde bargaining and the most tempting assurance of acceleration in the Reich’s payments to pry the Prench, British and Belglans .from this position, particularly after Mr. Gilbert's findings. German Intentions Questioned. Perhaps the most significant re- mark in any French newspaper yes- terdey was that in Le PFigaro, which says in connection with the report: “The fate of the experts’ negotiations depends much less on the material state of Germany than on her political factory, while the latter are uncer- tain.” In its resume last night the semi-of- ficial Temps says: “Mr. Gilbert's re- port comes to aid the thesis of those who consider Germany to be in a con- dition to fulfill her obligations and therefore ‘that she should acquit herself full measure in equity to demands. “It would be veritable deflarice to all good sense and all elementary justice if one would impose new sacrifices on the nations. which yere .unfortunate. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D C. BOYS SLAIN, FATHER HELD! Children Shot During Quarrel Be- tween Parent and Uncle. BELLEVILLE, Ontatio, January (#).—A father was in jail today charged with slaying his two small sons. Ken- neth, 11, and Colin, 9, sons of Charles H. Twells, were killed in their farm home, near Consecon, Ontario, during an argument between their father and his brother-in-law, Arthur Corfield, who was wounded. Police said Twells and Corfield had quarreled over the division of property on the farm, which they worked on shares, and that Corfield had gone to the farm to discuss their differences. How the boys were killed was not ex- plained. BOLLING FIELD SITE CALLED TERRBLE Permanent Construction There Not Justified, Davi- son Tells House Group. Although .$100,000 is carried in the Army appropriation bill submitted to the House today for improving the landing way at Bolling Field, Assistant Secre- tary of War Davison told the appro- priations committee during the hearinzs that the present field was “terrible” and that the Government would not be jus- tified in putting any permanent con- struction there, but that it is contem- plated to eventyally move the air field just south of the present site. In discussing this with the commit- tee, Mr. Davison said: “The existing Bolling Field, of course, is terrible, and always has been and always will be as long as we stay in that particular site, because it is so near the level of the river, and it is very poor from the standpoint of living con- ditions for the personnel on the post. “An authorization passed the House, and I think it is pending in the Senate now, to acquire the property that is just south of Bolling Field. Beginning from a line of trees at the end of the field, on down for quite a distance, the land is much higher, and it would make a very fine location. It averages 25 to 30, feet above the level of the water, in- stead of 6, 8 or 10 inches, the way the present Bolling Field does. Inland from the river there is high ground which would make an ideal location for bar- racks and quarters, and we are very strongly in favor of obtaining that new site. Bolling Field never can be a sat- isfactory site for a military post. “We certainly would not be justified in 'putting any permianent construc~ tion in there, or doing anything to the field other than to make it usable over the period of time between now and when we can get the new site. I think, of course, that field always needs at- tention. I think we ought to have runways in there during that period. I should think two or three years would be the shortest possiblé time before we could get into the new site, and mean- while we must have the field in such condition that the planes can land and take off there and not crack up, nose over, etc. The expense of a runway is comparatively small, and the ex- pense of washing out a bomber wipes out the expense of the runway ai one clip, generally speaking. But, aside from temporary expedients to make Bol- ing Field as useful as possible, we cer~ victims™ of the r, ‘while "those " who were respnosible Wguld obtain favorable treatment which nodr:m t'.‘?“ of | their nat Y.} “It Gegmly. Now appears i, can pay the full Dawes plan annuities without lxmm'mfl.lln: her own means of existe and paralyzing the develo] ty, tkere is no rea- emanding of her that she loyally. satisfy her obligations. Sees No Excuse for Default. . “In any -case, our thesis demanding Settlement to cover the debts we con- tracted during the war must be mln-' * tained with greatest firmness. Mr. Gil- bert's conclusions are sufficient to con- vince every impartial mind that the Dawes plan takes full account of Ger- many’s capacity to pay and that in de- fault of a complete definite settlement, Germany will have no excuse if she should fail deliberately to fulfill this plan as it now exists.” Jum;fl the monarchist histos , states in the Fascist Liberte Cermany's capacity to pay need only to take the statistics and facts which Mr. Gilbert presents in his report and after that simply deside the length of time of Germany’s payments. He adds: “Whether one likes it or not, it is necessary to adapt the repara- tions debt to war debts. Germany wants reparations payments to last no longer than 30 years, and the United States demands 60 annuities of the allles—30 years on one side and 60 on the other— the difficulty is there. U. S. Attitude Criticiz>d. “It is necessary to put ether all debts, and it is necessary for the United States to depart from its irreconcilable attitude. Otherwise the Americans force the allles—Great Britain just as much as France and Belgium—to what one calls in French ‘paying .themselves' however they can. s is not the way the liquidation of the war.” Le Journal des Debats, while lauding Mr. Gilbert’s “good news” and his im- Elrtllmy, fi..ds Presidert von Hinden- urg’s speech on the “unfortunate de- ception” and the Germans in regard to Rhineland evacuation and the other German demands as lacking any trace of good will toward Germany's creditors. Everything, declares this newspaper, depends upon Germany's attitude dur- ing the coming expes discussions, since Mr. Gilbert has sup‘r ied the facts upon which reparations’ fixation can be achieved. (Copyright, 1920.) GEBRMANY CHARGES BETRAYAL. Gilbert Declared Political Partisan and Agent of Allies. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. ws. Copyright, 1929, BERLIN, January 3.—"Another Wil- son.” “Germany for the second time is betrayed by. an American.” ‘“Never in recent years has it been so apparent S. Parker Gilbert is & po- litical partisan and the agent of a cred- itor nation.’ . These are typical of the remarks slung at the agent general for repara- tions following the publication of his annual report. The Germans are sim- ply thunderstruck. The Nationalist press speaks of a per- sonal betrayal and implies that personal motives are behind Gilbert's portrayal of German prosperity. Even his Ger- man friends are almost tearful in their search for “Gilbert's real motives.” “Victim of Allied Influences.” No one questions his figures, but the Democrats ask why such a report should be issued just now and imply that Gil- bert has fallen & victim to “allied po- litical influences.” The , Vossische Zeitung remarks that Gilberf would have had another im- pression of Germany's wealth if instead of spending his time among figures he had frequented the' homes of the Ger- man middle class socially and seen just how the people live. ‘The Germans unanimously deplore the fact that Gilbert compares the pres- that the experts in order to determine | Ohlo to advance the peace of the world nor |, By Radio to The Star and Chicago Dml»l R tainly would not be justified in sinking any large amount of money there.” AUTO TAG VIOLATOR MAKES ESCAPE AFTER . KIDNAPING OFFICER (Continued From First Page.) Ninth and F streets. ‘The early theater crowds were just leaving the playhouses and the street was jammed with the usual early evening traffic. A small, dull-colored coupe approach- ed from the west and the driver slowed down to inquire for directions to Rhode Island avenue. Lassiter indicated the gmper direction with a wave of and and told the stranger to drive to the middle of the block and turn. As the car passed he hoticed it bore 1928 tags. Asked About Tags. When the driver returned for the hight-hand turn Lassiter stopped him | and questioned the legitimacy of the tags. The driver could not offer a| satisfactory explanation and the g_ahce- man asked him to drive to the Traffic Bureau. “Certainly,” the driver responded, smiling, “won’t you get in?" Lassiter said he walked around the machine and -stepped in through the door which the driver had opened for him. As he sat down the driver poked the muzzle of a .38-caliber automatic against his side and ordered him to hold his right hand against the door, away from his service revolver. | So smoothly did the stranger execute ; his maneuver that the attention of sev- eral persons standing a few feet away was not attracted. ‘The kidnaper promised not to hurt him, Lassiter said, if he made no out- cry and appeared willing enough to talk as they drove along. { “Don’t feel bad, buddy” the kid- naper said, “I've done this before and some of the others were tougher than ou.” ¢ Keeping the policeman covered with the pistol in one handMthe driver ma- nipulated the gear lever and steering wheel with the other as they proceeded in an easterly direction. Lassiter said he had tried to persuade his abductor to drive past one of the intersections where another officer was stationed, but the supposed stranger apparently was familiar, with the city and avoided all these danger spots. At one peint, Lassiter said, he tried to get the man to stop for a moment, intending to back out of the car and shoot him with his service revolver, but e mention of the darker side of the Ger- | man situation. The chief material arguments against Gilbert's view of the situation are: 1. Germany is paying by selling out to foreigners. 2. Germany prosperity is based on borrowed money. 3. German economy is burdened not only by reparations, but by exorbitant interest in borrowed money. 4. The cost of money in Germany is too high. 5. While France exports capital, | Germany must still borrow. Report Proves Senmsation. The German newspapers say that Cilbert failed to note the bad situation of agriculture, spoke not a word against high foreign tariffs, which prevent German exports, draws too many con- clusions from the fact that exports and imports balanced only in the single month of September, 1928, failed to report the difficult situation of the rail- roads, and overlooked possible transfer difficulties. The report is the sensation of the day and crowds out all other forms of news; aven in the popular newspapers. All Americans are somehow responsible for Gilbert’s views and rumors are thick ent Germany with the ruined country Charles Luman Knapp, 81, former Representative and consul general at Montreal during. President Harrison's w@dministration, dlec today, " of 1924, rather than with the flourishing Germany of 1913, and_serious critics, while -admitting that - Gilbert's figures are correct, believe that he omitted (hat if Gilbert's views prevail among the experts at the coming reparations conference, Germany had better .refuse the experts’ report and lgq‘flm 'to remain as they are,* RAIL VALUATION BEFORE HIGH COURT Nine-Mile Line Challenges I. C. C. Methods Before Supreme Tribunal. By the Associated Press. . A nine-mile raflroad threw before the Supreme Court teday a challenge of the Interstate Commerce Commission’s valuation ‘methods while the railroad and shipping world looked upon the impending battle as one of the most important in the history of American transportation. The St. Louis & O'Fallon Railroad came into court to argue its contention that the commission's procedure in at- tempting to recapture cxcess earnings was invalid. Three men who served in the cabinet of Chief Justice Taft while Mr. Taft was President are among the counsel in the case—Walter L. Fisher, George W. Wickersham and Charles Nagel. Fisher and Wickersham are on the side of the Government, while Nagel is a member of the railroad’s counsel. Wide Attention Drawn. No controversy in recent years has attracted wider attention in business circles where the controlling influence of valuation as the basis for Goverment regulation of rates is of vital impor- tance. Recognizing the magnitude of the issue, the court set aside six and a quarter hours for argument, and, in compliance With a Senate resolution, permitted Donald Richberg, general counsel for the National Conference on Valuation of American Railroads, to file a brief and to participate in the oral discussion. Among lawyers in the case there is a sharp difference of opinion as to wheth- er the railroad, in view of the lower court decision in favor of the Goyern- ment, can present a case which will bring a sweeping decision on the whole valuation fabric of the commerce com- mission. Government and commission counsel in their briefs asserted that should the railroad succeed in its contention with regard to the method to be followed in the valuasion of its.property for rate making and other regulatory purposes, there would be a marked increase in railroad rates generally, but this was flatly denied by the railroad, which de- clared that rates were necessarily lim- ited by what the traffic could bear. Injunction Is Refused. ‘The St. Louis & O'Fallon, after hearings in 1924 and 1926, was directed by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to pay over to the commission part of its earnings during 10 months in 1920 and during the calendar years 1921, 1922 and 1923, found by the com- mission to be excessive under the re- capture clause of the transportation act. The railroad promptly sought an injunction, contending that the valua- tiolx‘ld used by the commission was in- valid. A three-judge, Statutory Court at St. Louis refused to enjoin the com- mission, holding that on the basis of the valuation of $1,350,000 placed by the railroad itself on its property the earnings it was - permitted to retain| exceed 8 per cent, adding thati with such earnings there could be no con- fiscation. The contention of the railroads as advanced by the St. Louis and O'Fal- lon was that the commission failed to give proper consideration’ to the cost of reproduction anew, at prices prevail- ing during the years when the valua- tion was made. The Government and the commission both insisted that proper consideration was given to the cost of reproduction anew as an element in reaching the valuation. the kidnaper laughed and told him to “Shut, up.” b A few minutes later they approached the District Jail and the driver turned down a side road which led to a va- cant lot. Parking his car, the kidnaper seized Lassiter's gun, crawled out through the left door and ordered the policeman to follow him. Lassiter said he tried to keep away, but the other man slipped up behind and struck him on the head with the butt of the pistol, inflicting a scalp wound. The man stepped back after the blow, Lassiter said, and waited. “Aren't you going to faint?” the policeman quoted the other man as asking. Lassiter said he replied that he was not, and the stranger then ordered him to remove his necktie. The officer expostulated with him, but his kidnaper was in- sistent. Fearing he was to be trussed un and beaten to death, Lassiter said, he ued his néckpiece in a loop before handing it to the other man. The kidnaper re- ceived it only to throw it down. As Lassiter stooped over to pick it up the man fired oue shot at his feet. Straightening up, the policeman backed at . “I don’t know what to do with you,” the stranger sald, “I guess you. had better run.” Lassiter sald he thought it over and decided this was the best thing to do. He started off, running in a zig-zag fashion. The kidnaper fired one more shot, which missed its mark, and Las- siter stumbled and fell into a clump of bushes. When he looked around his assailant was driving madly down the road in the machine. ‘The policeman was taken to Casualty Hospital by D. A. McDonald, 517 Sa- vannah street, whose attention had been attracted by the shots. Lassiter was unable to account for the strange conduct of the kidnaper. He said the man was sober and did not appear insane. The best description he could give was that his abductor was “tough.” Returning to the scene of the assault this morning, Lassiter found the neck- tis, but his pistol was gone. Lassiter, who was not seriously in- jured, lives in Lanham, Md. He will resume duty tonight. T. S. Steamer Damaged. TOKIO, January 2 (#).—The American Shipping Board steamer Han- over had a hole stove in her side in collision with the small Japanese freighter : Kimigayo Maru Sunday afternoon during a storm in the Inland Sea. There were no casualties and both ships made port under their .own power. ‘The Hanover left Galveston, Tex., on October 24 and San Pedro, Calif., on November 28 for Yokohama, (Prom Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The Star.) D. C. HEADS SCORED AS SHORT SIGHTED Bureau of Efficiency Deplores Placing of Light Standards on Closed Street. The District Commissioners today re- celved a report from the Bureau of Efficiency taking the city heads to task for their “shortsighted” policy in plac- ing 22 electric light standards and lay- ing electric power cables on C street between New Jersey avenue and First street northeast, which pending legis- Jation proposes shall be closed to traffic and placed under jurisdiction of the architect of the Capitol for inclusion in the Capitol Grounds enlargement scheme. The report, written by William E. Mickey, associate chief investigator.of the bureau, and transmitted by Herbe:t D. Brown, chief of the bureau, states the Commissioners on August 3, 1928, signed an order requisitioning the Poto- mac Electric Power Co. to place 39 elec- tric light standards on C street between First street pormwest and Fourth street northeast. All Cables Reported Placed. The investigator reported that all the cables have been laid on C street, and practically all of the 39 light standards placed in position. The company has placed 22 16-foot light standards on C street between New Jersey avenue and First street northeast, and the remain- ing 17 on other sections of C street. A bill passed by the House on May 28, last, and now in the Senate com- mittee on public buildings and grounds and expected to be enacted at this ses- slon authorizes the commission for the enlarging on the Capitol grounds to close C street to vehicular traffic be- tween New Jersey avenue and First street northeast, remove Street car tracks from C street and relay them in a subway passing under Delaware avenue, and transfers the control of the land mentioned from the District of Columbia to the architect of the Capitol. “1t is difficult,” wrote Mr. Mickey, “to comprehend the action of the District government in ordering the placement of 22 light standards on a street which is proposed to be included in the Capital grounds enlargement scheme. The tak- ing of this action in the face of pending legislation indicates ‘a shortsighted policy on the part of those Tesponsible for this improvement. Ask Discontinuance of Work. “It is suggested that the Commission- ers be urged to issue an order directing the discontinuance of any further work on the 22 light standards placed on C street between New Jersey avenue and First street northeast. = The District should continue to use the old light standards now on C street until this area has been turned over to the Fed- eral Government.” In another part of the report, speak- ing of the contract between the District and the power company, Mr., Mickey wrote: “The contract provides that the pow- er company shall perform all work necessary to changing the locations of standards without cost to the District. Information obtained from a repre- sentative of the power company dis- closes, however, that should the Dis- trict request the company to change the locations of standards within sev- eral months after their erection, the District pays the company ‘about $5 for each light standard chunged’ and also for the cost of the concrete. I am in- formed by: representative of the company thab sueh reinbursement is always made by the Distriet, notwith- standing thdt the contract does noi hold the District liable.” SKY PARADE PLAN | CONSIDERED AS PART OF INAUGURAL PROGRAM (Continued From First Page.) augural week. The other members of this committee appointed are George Rothwell Brown, vice chairman; Irwin Laughlin, Mrs. George Barnett, Mrs, E. A. Harriman, John Clagett Proctor, Ausn C. Clark, Charles W. Eliot, C. Melvin Sharpe, E. D. Merrill and Maj. Cary H. Brown. Townsend Accepts Post. Announcement also has been made that T. Lincoln Townsend, secretary of the Republican State committee in the District of Columbia, who has heen identified with several inaugural com- mittees of the past, has accepted the chairmanship of the membership com- mittee, Gen. Mason M. Patrick, John G. Scharf and Charles E. McCullough have been added to the general in- augural committee.® Additional donors to the inaugural celebration fund made public today follow: Lansburgh & Bro, $1,000; E. M. Amick, $150; C. B. Asher, $100; Bank- emerio Corporation, $500; Y. E. Booker Co., $200; Brewood, $100; Alex Brown & Sons, $1,000; F. B. Burrough, $50; Walter C. Clephane, $50; Edythe Patten Corbin, $50; Oscar Coolican, $100; B. G. Deat, $50; Eastman, Dillon & Co., $1,000; William J. Flather, $200; Lewis Flemer, $20; Julius Garfinckel & Co., $1,000; Guaranty Co. of New Yorl $1,000; John Hays Hammond. $1.000; Harriman & Co., $1,000; R. Harris & Co., $1,000; J. Thilnan Hendrick, $500; W. B. Hibbs & Co. $1,000; Joe,High, $5; Hilleary G. Hoskinson, $100; F. B. Keech & Co, $1,000; Raymond G. Marx, $50; Merchants’ Transfer & Storage Co., $300; G. M. P. Murphy & Co., $1,000; National Electric Sup- })ly Co., $500; A. M. Nevius, $100; Nor- olk & Washington Steamboat Co., $1,000; Nelson B. O'Neil, $50; E. A. Pierce & Co., $1,000; Potomac Electric Power Co, $1,000; Powhatan Hotel, $500; Raleigh Hotel, $1,000; George F. Rainey, $50; W. F. Roberts Co., $1,000; 1. J. Roberts, $100; H. L. Rust Co., $1,000; Sanitary Grocery Co. $1,000; F. H. Smith Co., $1,000; Mrs. Virginia White Speel, $100; Col. David S. Stan- ley, $250; Stroud, Kurtz & Co., $1,000, Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., $1,000; A. P. Thom, $500; George O. Vass, $100: Washington Gas Light Co., $1,000; Washington Hotel, $1,000; Washington Railway & Electric Co., $1,000; Weaver Bros., $1,000; Harley P. Wilson, $1,000, and Willard Hotel, $1,000. VDon’t be too late with your Star Classified Ad. Each page of The Star has a scheduled time to close just as each railroad train has a time to leave the station. No one can put you on a train after it has left the station. So it is not mechanically possible for any one to insert your ad in The Star after the page THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929.° 134 DIE IN TORONTO. Deaths in “Flu” Epidemic Swelled by 22 in Two Days. ‘TORONTO, Ontario, January 3 (#).— Twenty-two persons died of influenza in Toronto in the past two days, bring- ing the total deaths in the epidemic to 134. . One thousand cases have been reported, 543 of them being among employes of the police and fire depart- ments and telephone and transportation companies. . COOLIDGE AT DES: SNELL PAYS CALL House Legislative Program Outlined to Executive by Rules Chairman. Greatly refreshed after his vacation of a week in ‘the South, President Coolidge was back at his desk at the White House at the customary hour this morning. To several of his callers he spoke enthusiastically of his stay on the sea islands off the Georgia coast, and went into some little detail regarding the shooting expeditions during his va- cation. One of his early callers was Repre- sentative Snell of New York, chairman of the committee on rules, who out- lined to him the legislative program for the House es it appears al this | time. He told the President there is little likelihood of any legislation being passed during the remainder of the short session other than the regular appropriation bills. He said the House is in good shape, but that the prospect was small of doing more business because of the difficult position in the Senate. KEEFE BROTI.-IERS DIE SAME DAY IN CHICAGO Former,, Shipping Board Member and Retired Capitalist Succumb. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 3.—Daniel J. Keefe, 76, former member of the United States Shipping Board, and his brother, Thomas J. Keefe, retired capitalist, are dead here. Daniel Keefe, for many years vice president of the American Federation of Labor and commissioner general of im- migration under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, died athis home in Elmhurst. a suburb, and Thomas: Keefe, who started his career with Marshall Field & Co. and later entered the investment business, died two hours later. ‘Thomas Keefe is survived by a widow. CHARGED WITH THREATS. Postal Clerk Held as Police Report Finding 1,200 Notes in Home. NEW YORK, January 3 (#).—Ac- cused of sending threateni..g letters to many persons prominent in public life, Abraham Rosenberg, 27-year-old postal clerk, was being held by post office au- thorities today. They said more than 1,200 threatening letters were found in his home. Many of the letters, some of which contained an acid, were signed with the name of Warner Feddern, a brother-in- law to Rosenberg. Several months ago Feddern was arrested on a charge of sending the letters. He was held in jail three days, but was acquitted. Later Rosenberg’s sister was arrested, but she also was later acquitted, . It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtained through them. ‘- 2. STORES MULTILATERAL PACT AND PROTOCOL GIVEN 0. K. BY COMMITTEE (Continued From First Page.) ‘tion provides that any signatory of the general arbitration treaty “may at any time deposit with tre Department of State of the United States of America an appropriate instrument evidencing that it has abandoned in whole or in part the exceptions from arbitration stipulated in the said treaty or the res- ervation or reservations attached by it thereto.” Rights Are Guaranteed. In asserting that no reservations would be attached by the United States beyond those incorporated in the treaty itself, Charles Evans Hughes pointed out that the conference had no power nor mission to alter international law or to amplify or restrict its scope. Referring to the reservations which various delegations had indicated they would make regarding the jurisdiction of domestic courts and the obvious im- plication of this regarding pecuniary claims, Mr. Hughes recalled that 12 American states already had ratified the Buenos Aires 1910 convention pro- viding for the arbitration of pecuniary claims. He said he hoped that more countries would ratify the same instru- ment. Mr. Hughes disclaimed intention to discuss the reservations which the in- dividual states might want to make to the treaty, since it was their sov- ereign right to do so, but contended that the treaty would not deprive any country of its rights under internation- al law, nor would relieve it of any of its obligations. Therefore, he said, if any reservations which were made ran counter to international law and the practice established thereunder, the res- ervatfons wou'd be ineffectual. Boilvia’s acceptance, with some slight changes, of the draft protocol of con- ciliation of the Bolivia-Paraguay dis- pute was communicated here today and a meeting of the special Pan-American Conferencs committee handling it was called at once. Bolivian Minister de Medina was’ in- formed by his government that the pro- tocol should b2 revised in some degree, but he declmed to d'cuss the proposed changes. Signatures Seen Soon. Final conclusion of the protocol has been held up for two days awaiting word from Bolivia as to its attitude on the last draft ¢f rBe conclliation instrument made by the arbitration conference through a special subcommittee. Agree- ment app-ared reached on New Year Eve when ‘he protocol was altered in its phraseolog” to meet requirements made by both Paréguay and Bolivia. Should tiie new changes which Bolivia wants made in the protocol prove agree- able to Paraguay, signature of the docu- ment and appointment of a special con- ciliating board would quickly follow. MISUSE OF PUBLIC AUTOS IN DISTRICT CHARGED IN REPORT (Continued From First Page.) by the District government, should de- cide what activities require motoriza- tion and the ones that do not. *“The automobile board, organized last year, has rather broad powers over the preparation of specifications and in the recommendation of awards,” the report added. “An analysis of these stated powers show that it exercises little real control over acquisition of motor vehicles for the city and no con- trol whatever over their use or service- ing. “The finctions of the automobile board should be specifically confined to review sepcifications for the purchase of motor vehicles, including fire appa- ratus, and to recommend purchase awards on these vehicles. Any other duties assigned to the board should not be executive functions. . ““This board cannot function effective- ly in an executive capacity nor should it be permitted to supervise or con- trol the recommended executive powers &( the controller of motor transporta- RESTLESS NIGHT 1S SPENT BY KING Reports Held Encovuraging. Bulletin Says Condition (s Unchanged. By the Assoclated Press. s LONDON, Janfary 3.—With Kini George entering the seventh week of h! serious {llness word came from the royal bedsig2 today which was encouraging in ¥s general tone, although it con<" tinued to indicate his road to recovery" was_likely to be a long, hard one. ‘The morning medical bulletin report- ed no change in the King’s condition. His night was a restless one and to this. fact his failure to continue the im- provement reported last night presum= ably might be attributed. ‘There was no apparent disposition to view the situation in any way differently from yesterday when cheering predic= tions of the monarch's sure if slow emergency from his prolonged ordeal came from authoritative quarters. Not Held Unsatisfactory. It was indicated in palace circles that today's bulletin was not regarded as un- satisfactory. Although the King for the second time in succession spent a reste less night, there has been no definite ak\mck in the progress he has been mak= 8. ‘This, it was noted, would appear to' indicate that his majesty has a slightly better reserve of strength upon which to draw. The King's doctors at 11:15 a.m. to- day issued this bulletin: “The King has pdssed a restless night and there is no change to report in his majesty’s condition. (Signed) “HEWETT, RIGBY, DAWSON.” New Method of Treatment. It was understood that the calcium treatment was to be continued. An: official on the medical side of a big manufacturing chemist’s establishment, said of this “it is a new method of treatment not yet recorded in the medical textbooks.™ The official laid stress on the point that the calcium treatment must not be mistaken for anything in the nature of last resort. § o T —_— MILTON KRONHEIM, IR., HURT IN AUTO CRASH Washington ' Students Injured® When Car Is Forced Off Road v Near Alexandria. Milton S. Kronheim, jr., 1764 Lenier place, is in, an Alexandria hospital suf- fering from a fractured skull as a res sult of the overturning of his automo- bile 4 miles south of Alexandria late yesterday. Jerry_Ullman, 18 yesrs old, who was driving the car, is at his home, at Eighteenth and Columbia road, suffer- ing from shock and bruises. Kronheim, son of a Washington bendsman and a student at the Staun- ton Military Academy, was returning from a trip to Fredericksburg with Ull- man. Hospital authorities were told when he was taken there unconscious that an automobile in passing them on the highway forced them off the road, causing their machine to overturn Passing motorists took them to the hos- pital. Kronheim's condition today was reported critical. Archbishop’s Recovery Retarded. CANTERBURY, England, January 3 . (). —A recurretice of the inflammation with which he suffered has retarded the recovery of the Archbishop of Can- terbury, who has been ill for some days Dr. Whitehead, the archbishop’s physi- cian, issued a bulletin today saying that it will be necessary for his patient to spend a further period of rest in bed. 21 CITIES | KAUFMANNS ANUARY CLEAPANCE 18 Months to Pay 20 OFF Entire Stock of CHARACTER FURNITURE A Legitimate Reduction has been closed. Classified advertisements for the Daily Star are received at the main office up to 11 p.m. day before issue, and for the Sunday Star up to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. 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