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PLANS T0 PICTURE * GROWTH OF CITY Inaugural Committee to II- lustrate Advances Made for Benefit of Visitors. A visual picture of the growth of the Federal City, from the day Gen. Wash- ington commissioned Maj. Charles Pierre L'Enfant to draw up a plan for ‘Washington, down to the present, and 'as it is projected in the future, will be presented for the thousands of visitors to Washington during the Hoover in- augural, Believing that a proper con- ception of the plan and growth of ‘Washington is a necessary part of the education of the people of the United States to the end that they may re- alize just what Washington is, the in- augural committee has appointed a special group of the entertainment com- mittee, under the chairmanship of Claude W. Owen, to work out plans for a proper representation of the Capital City of the past, present and future. Serving with Mr. Owen on the group, to be known as the Washington exhibit committee, are Maj. Carey H. Brown, Robert Beresford, Joshua Evans, jr., A. L. Harris, Charles H. Hillegeist, Arthur Middleton, Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, Vernon G. Owen, Irwin H. Porter, Horace W. Peaslce, Monroe Warren, Ivan C. Weld and Waverly Taylor. Exhibit to Continue Five Days. ‘The exhibit_will be located in the Washington Building, at Fifteenth street and New York avenue, and will continue for five days. Special supple- mentary attractions, including two -laborately illustrated lectures by | Charles Colfax Long and special films of Washington to be shown in the mo- tion picture houses, will accompany the H -exhibit. A subcommittee on research, special- {zing on Washington of the past, is composed as follows: Arthur Middleton, chairman; Glenn Brown, Charles H. Callahan of Alexandria, Henry C. Fair- man, arts curator of the Capitol: W. B. McGroarty of Alexandria, Chairman -Charles Moore of the Commission of Fine Arts, Vernon G. Owen and John Clagett Proctor. ‘The committee to resent Washington of the present day Pncludes Waverly Taylor, chairman; Robert Beresford, A. L. Harris, Joshua Evans, jr.; Charles H. Hillegeist, Capt. Arthur E. Nesbitt and Monroe Warren. This committee will emphasize the “merit of Washington as a home city -and as an educational and art center; -and will also stress its natural features of beauty. Maj. Brown Heads Committee. .. Maj, Carey H. Brown of the‘office of ‘public buildings and parks, who is inti- mately connected in an official way with | the growth of the Capital, is chairman of the future Washington committee. “Serving with him is Mr. Peaslee. This exhibit will be most pretentious and will include models, maps and drawings of bridges and driveways, the p: National Museum and will outline graphically the new Federal building -plan. south of Pennsylvania avenue. > Arrangements have been concluded by -the inaugural committee for participa- tien in the parade as a guard of honor to the new President of 10 veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. JWJudge Hosea B. Moulton, who was designated to make the choice of the i veterans, named, in addition to him- self, the following: Maj. Gen. John H. Clem of Washini ;_Capt. E. L. Hawk, : Sacramento, f.; Francis A. Walsh, Milwaukee; Samuel G. Mawson, com- mander, Department of the Potomac; E. D. Godfrey of Washington, Henry A. ‘ashington, -Johnson of Wi , Gov. Samuel :R. Van Sant of Minneapolis, and Dr. Charles V. Petteys. . Corcoran Gallery Open to Visitors. ‘The Corcoran Art Gallery will be kept open Saturday evening, Marc] for the benefit of visitors to the Capital, ‘who will be assessed the nominal charge -of 25 cents. The committee announced today an erroneous imj on has been con- veyed as to the prices of Square facing the official stand in front L AR I THE E INCREASE THE LUMP SUM! From Argument Accompanying Pel That Lump Sum Payment on to Congress Urging Be Substantially Increased While It Remains Temporary Appropri- ation Practice. We of Washington urge: (1) That existing substantive law authorizes increase of the nine million lump- sum payment up to an amount equal to 40 per cent of the total sum car- ried by the bill if the appropriations subcommittee and committee wish to recommend it. (2) That the amount of the annual lump-sum pavment should be increased in some roughly approximate relation to the increase of the District budget. If justice re- quires the Nation to contribute so much when the District’s annual bud- get is o much, the same justice re- ouires it to contribute more when the District budget is doibled. The prac- i tical suegestion is that the amount of the fixed pavment should be read- justed if there is any mnotable increase in the National Capital's annual ex- venditure. An immediate increase of the basic lump-sum appropriation of | nine millions would, for example. be in just relation to the steadily increas- ing current taxes and annual expend- itures. Increase Specifically Lump Sum. (3) The amount of annual payment should be increased specifically in proportion to National projects includ- ed in the District appropriation bill. ‘Whether or not there is a general re- adjustment of the lump sum contribu- tion there should be specific increases |in that sum representing in each year the placing in the District budget of primarily National projects which it is conceded should be paid for wholly or in part from the National Treasury, btut which by inclusion in the District bill and under the lump-sum payment plan as practically applied are vaid solely by the District taxpayers from current taxes. A separate and distinct increase of the basic nine millions should be made to prevent Congress from vio- lating its own statutory provisions that the Nation shall contribute in large and definite proportion to the appro- priations for certain great National or semi-National projects, as for example the appropriation for expendi- tures under the jurisdiction of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The law provides in re- spect to_aporopriations for this con- tion shall pay its definite proportion of total expenditure. If Congress makes aporopriations for this National project without nroviding for National narticipation in the cost on the sixty- forty basis, which is the existing statutory ratio of substantive law, or by making a specific lump-sum in- crease of the basic lump-sum appro- vriation in lieu of the definite propor- tion which the law directs, both the letter and the spirit of the Jaw will be violated and the inequity will result of exacting entirely from the local tax- pavers funds for a National project, which may, in the discretion of the commission, be expended outside of the District in Maryland and Virginia. fessedly National project that the Na- ] which will limit appropriations of District money by Congress (the Dis- trict’s 'legislature, in which it is not represented) in the same way that Cap- ital expenditures of National tax money are limited under the lump-sum pay- ment plan. When the appropriations of local and National tax money for the Capital were by law and in practice in definite pércentage relation, this limita- tion automatically resulted, and this check upon the appropriation of District tax money, unless accomvanied by a related expenditure of National tax monev, was the main benefit derived by the District from the definite propor- tionate contribution plan. ‘When for the latter plan, at the in- stance'of the House appropriations com- mittee. the lump-sum payment plan was tentatively substituted. it was suggested that loss of this limitation upon Dis- trict expenditures and taxation would be cured by permitting the District to participate so effectively in the raising and exnenditure of its tax money that it could be extravagant or economical, as it pleased. But, in fact, the District has no more to say about its taxation and the expenditure of its taxes un- der the lump-sum vayment plan than under that of definite proportionate contribution. And.under the inflexi- ble lump-sum payment plan Congress limits itself concerning expenditures on the Nation's citv of tax money con- tributed by the Nation, which it repre- sents, but removes the limit uvon the raising and expenditure of the tax money by the District. which it does not represent and to which it is not at all responsible, And as a result we have aporopriations from the District tax money abnormallv swelling to meet whole-cost exvenditures on National and semi-National projects. To prevent obvious injustice Congress <hould either (1) increase equitably the basic lump-sum payment, or (2) ex- clude great National or semi-National vrojects from the District bill and finance them on some ather sunply bill, so_wording the items thus excluded as 1o set forth the exact method of financ- in® in relation to the amounts of con- tribution by Nation and Capital that is thought to be just. or (3) provide for a local »s well as a National maximum of contribution, or (4) by referendum or otherwise permit the local taxpayers to have some effective say in regard to the amount of Jocal taxes and the nur- poses for which the tax money is to be exnended. In anoropriating and in legislating our legislators are urged to recognize by the wording of the law. and in con- struing and apolving it, that since the Nation is in exclusive control of the raising and spending of all Capital rev- enue. includine the District tax mopey, the United States is the primary and the District only the incidental con- tributor, and not vice versa. as the present lump-sum payment plan seems to assume. District Only Incidental Contributor. Protection was afforded the local tax- payer under the 1878 law not only by Y ; h.'r'tlxe‘ fiflfi:; 3‘1’1’3’?‘:‘% ,°{..:“h‘;§5 the provision that the Nation would con- ized as supplemental and extraor- | tribute 50 per cent of the total appro- %‘ambf"”;':"i‘“m by I;sl;! m’,mc; of | priation, but also by the assurance that lumbia rk Commission law, are|the local directed by the law itself to be DAL | pees b LDAYers Would not be com- “from the revenues of the District of | Pelled to contribute more than 50 per Columbia and the general funds of the | cent of the total. So in the law of 1922 Treasury in the sume provortion as | the effect of the statute was to pledge oMr exver of the District of | the local taxpayers that not more than Colnmbia nses 60 per cent of the total tax would be The current ratio is 60-40, fixed in | €Xacted from them. When the lump- the substantive law by the new or- | $UM Dayment plan was substituted ten- ganic act of 1922, and still unrepealed. | atively for the 60-40 ratio this pledge The wholesale exceptions to the 60-40 | ¥2s Suspended, but it was suggested that ratio involved in the temvorarv lumn- | 81 effective substitute for this pledge t plan of 1926 and 1927 merely | W8S found in the declared determination suspend the substantive law of 1922 for the year dnring which the excep- tions avply and do not repeal or per- h 2, | manently amend the substantive law. Add $400,000 o Basic Lump Sum. ‘The Park Commission law clearly contemplates (and provides) that the authorized annual aopropriation of a million dollars shall be made. $600.000 from the District revenue and $400,000 from the National Tressurv. If the District appropriations for 1928 were to be made at the 60-40 ratio in ac- rordance with existing substantive law, of the White House. ‘CANNON AGAIN HITS MELLON RUM STAND Bishop Declares He Would Advo- cate $100,000,000 Fund if Found Needed. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, February 2.— ~Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Méth- odist Episcopal Church South last night ! told the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey that he “would not hesitate to ‘~advocate the appropriation of $100,000,- 000 annually to carry on an adequate . “program of prohibition law enforcement “‘were the President-elect to find it neces- sary to call for that amount to work ~‘out his proposed constructive program.” Speaking at the annual State rally ,of the league here, the bishop said it “'was “exceedingly significant that in the -vote on Thursday in the House of Rep- . resentatives the ‘wet’ Tammany dele- gation and its affiliated mu? in other * cities lined up against the $24,000,000 appropriation.” . Bishop Cannon criticized Secretary . Mellon on the ground that he had “ stated the prohibition department needs strengthening and had failed to ask for the necessary funds, but he denied that e is qpposing Mr. Mellon’s retention in the cabinet. “TOTALS OF $800,000 "~ SEEN ON FIFTH DAY OF CHEST CAMPAIGN (Continued From Pirst Page.) Mre. Ord Preston, Mrs, C. A. Stedman, Dennis Upson and Weaver Bros. Helen Jones, $800; Helen Nicolay, . 8750; Fred S. Gichner, $650; Southern - Dairies and Miss Frances Young, $600. - _Five-hundred-dollar gifts: Mrs. Mary Ruszell Amory, Arcade Sunshine Laundry Co.; Louis Bush, the Continental Baking Co.; F. P. Avalear, Mr. and Mrs, Jacob S. Gruver, anonymous, Frank R. Jelleft 7 (83500 more bringing his pledge to $3,000) ; E. Lee Jones, Mary S. Lawrence, A. Loffler Ca, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam K. Quinter, W. H. Rapley, Mrs, Margaret L. Reed, Janet Richards, Joseph Senders, Jacob B. Shapiro, W. A. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wagga- . man, Dr. and Mrs. Reginald Walker, W. - H. Walker, M. and G. Warren and John - H. Wilkins Co. MRS. MARY CONNELL DIES. Widow of Charles M. Connell Sur- vived by One Son. Mrs. Mary A. Connell, 73 years old, widow of Charles M. Connell, died at her home, 1013 Seventeenth street, yes- terday after an illness of about five months. Mrs. Connell was a member of Di- vision No. 2, Ancient Order of Hiber- nians. She is survived by a son, Jo- seph Connell, this apportionment of the parks ex- nenditure would result automatically. But since, tentatively and for only the year. a lump-sum pavment is to be substituted for the National 40 per cent contribution, the Nation's contribution of $400.000, or thereabouts, ought law- fullv and equitably to be added specif- ically to the nine millions of basic lumn-sum vayment. ‘The Park Commission appropriation is made unmistakablv as a supplement to the current maintenance and de- velooment abpropriation, with its nine- millions of Jump-sum pavment in ac- cordance with the orieinal tentative precedent. If the 60-40 ratio is not aoplied to the whole appropriation and if the lump-sum payment is not in- gested, it is generally Commission’s million dollars per vear (or wi part of this amount is approvoriated) will come from the Dis- trict taxpayers, Congress will not permit anv tenta- tive juggling with the ratio of National and local community contribution to- ward Capital development to throw the whole burden of Park Commission expenditure upon the local taxpayers. 1. The law specifically forbids this procedure by directing a division of the cost. 2. The project is broadly National. The terms of the law suggest the patriotic interest in it to the extent of Congress under the lump-sum pay- ment plan to give the local taxpayers a certain control over their own tax rais- ing and tax spending, involving the povier to be extravagant or economical, and to spend as much or little of their own tax money as they pleased. But Congress in fact limited its power to expend National tax money, and left undetermined the amount of local tax money that it could expend. And it has exercised this power without regard to the wishes of the taxpayers to raise and spend local taxes not only for strictly municipal purposes, but for semi- National and primarily National projects. correct this condition that It is to Washington now urges the appropria- tions committees and Congress, either to abandon the lump-sum unjustly one- sided experiment, or to make the Nation’s Jump-sum contribution flexible and to increase it, or to.,permit the local taxpayers to have an effective voice in deciding how much they will raise in taxes and how they will spend the taxes when raised, or to restrict the kind and amount of appropriations on the Dis- trict appropriations bill, with the result of limiting arbitrarily the amount of the local contribution toward Capital up- building on the same lines as under the lump-sum payment plan the National contribution is limited. PLEA FOR INCREASE IN LUMP SUM TO-D. C. MADE TO SENATORS - (Continued From First Page) ciples, thus modified, was announced by the executive committee of the citizens® joint committee October 31, 1923, as follows: We contend, first, that the United States' should contribute largely to the maintenance and upbuilding of the Na- of a cent a year contribution of every man, woman and child in the Republic. Congress will detect the gross perver- sion of law and equity which results in a denial to 0.000 Americans of all participation in the patriotic priv- ilege of parks contribution and exacts the entire 110,000,000 pennies, repre- senting the whole Nation, from the half-million Americans (at more than $2 annually per head) of the District of Columbia. 3. The title to all the land purchased by the Park Commission is vested in the United States. The Park Commis- sion can purchase land in adjacent Maryland and Virginia as well as in the District. It the whole cost falls upon lncal taxpayers, their tax money will buy for Uncle Sam exclusive title to land outside of the District in Mary- land and Virginia. If there is to be a lump-sum pay- ment contribution for 1929, approx- imately $400,000 should clearly be added to the basic nine million lump-sum payment. There are several other National or semi-National projects which, as a result of appropriations on the District bill to finance them. with an inflexible lump sum National contribution, have been in effect paid for solely by Di: trict taxpayers. Included in this list are the appropriation of the accumu- lated surplus of local taxes, without any corresponding contribution of any kind or, amount from the National Treasury, and the appropriation solely from local taxes of the money to com- plete the parkway connection between Potomac and Rock Creek Parks. Exclude National Projects. 4. It the lump-sum payment can- not be equitably increased to provide { for sultable Natianal participation in financing these National or semi-N; Funeral services will be conducted in 8t. Margaret's Catholic Church Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. which the law be specifically provided. 6. And, finally, some tional projects, then the appropriations committee is asked to exercise its power to exclude these appropriations from the District bill, where their Inclusion results in obvious inequity, and to finance them in some other supply bill, where the sharing of the expense, equity demands, ean “action s asked . tional Capital; second, that this con- tribution should be a fixed and definite proportion; third, that this proportion Ishould be sixty-forly—sixty by the Dis- trict taxpayers and forty by the United | States. While Congress has refused all prop- ositions to amend the definite propor- tionate contribution provision of the law of 1922, and while the sixty-forty provision i3 the existing substantive law, Congress in 1924 provided as a temporary provision on the annual ap- propriation act for the fiscal year 1925 a lump-sum payment contribution, in lieu of the forty per cent contribution provided by substantive law, and has renewed this exception to the provisions of substantive law in each annual ap- propriation act since that date. The citizens’ joint committee urges a return in appropriation practice (o the sixty-forty definite proportion ap- rropchtlan plan, as provided by exist- ing substantive law. for the reasons set forth in the argument appended to and made a part of this petition. Your petitioners further respectfully represent that as long as a lump-sumn payment is the appropriation practice temporarily on annual appropriation acts immediate correction should made of some of its grosser and more obvious injustices. To prevent glaring Inequity, | your petitioners therefore urge, for reasons stated in the argument hereto attached as part of this petition, that Congress should (1) increase substantially, both on general and specific grounds, the basic lump-sum payment; (2) exclude great National or semi-National projects from the District bill and finance them on some other supply bill, so wording the items thus excluded as to set forth the exact method of financing in rela- tion to the amounts of contribution by Nation and Capital that is thought to be just, or (3) provide for a local as well as & National maximum of con- tribution, on the assumption that it is the impotent local partner who needs this protection, or (4), by referen- dum or otherwise, permit the local tax- payers to have some effective say in re- be | Minn., across the b ING STAR, WASHINGTO IPOINGARE CHARGES GERMAN INFLUENGE | Alsatian Autonomy Move Had Inception “East of Rhine,” He Says. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 2.—Charges that the autonomist movement in Alsace had its inception “east of the Rhine” were before the French people today. In a 10-hour speech before three sit- tings of the Chamber of Deputies yes- terday Premier Raymond Poincare made this accusation and declared that he was going to Parliament and ask for power for France to “arm itself” against the movement. In the course of his speech even the autonomist deputies protested his quota- tion from a German review that Al- satians had banished France from their hearts, and when he had concluded he was given an ovation in which only the Communists and some of the autonomists abstained from cheering. Hundreds Gather in Strassburg. Meanwhile dispatches from Strass- burg, one of the most important cities in the province, told of hundreds gathering to hear reports of the pre- mier’s speech. Discontent with the French regime, it was said, was mani- fest, and there was free interchange of expression that Alsace had had enough of speeches and was suffering from a dearth of constructive acts. In an_interview after the premier's speech, Rev. Chanoine Muller, a Sena- tor, and autonomist leader, declared that M. Poincare was sincere but badly advised by persons totally ignorant of the situation. “An Alsatian policy framed by 500-odd Deputies from vari- ous other provinces of France will not settle the problem,” he said. ‘“Alsace wants to be a self-governing province within the French republic.” Cites Press Reporis. In his statement that the government would ask Parliament for authority to “arm itself” against the autonomists, Premier Poincare did not say what manner of arms he had in mind, but 2 did add that he hoped, having once obtained them, it would never be neces- sary to employ them. In proof of his assertion of German background for the autonomist move- ment, M. Poincare cited articles appear- ing in Brittany and Corsica. News of the same character, he said, had been disseminated by certain German papers. He referred to large sums of money from “unknown sources,” which part of the press of Alsace was alleged to have received. It is necessary, he insisted, that the government have the means of putting an end to “these odious campaigns.” COURT RECESS GIVES NORTHCOTT A RESPITE Accused Slayer in Jail Resting for Renewal of His Battle for Life. By the Assoclated Press. RIVERSIDE, Calif., February 2.— Noticeably pale and worn after four and a half weeks of active court battle to escape the death penalty, Gordon Stewart Northcott remained in his cell here today, taking advantage of a week end recess to muster the rest of his de- fense against charges of slaying three boys. Just what further testimony he will endeavor to adduce and from whom he has not made clear. Mrs. N. H. Wins- low of Pomona, mother of two of the boys who are alleged by the State to have been murder farm victims, has been subpoenaed by Northcott, but is ill and has not yet appeared. Northcott took the stand agaln yes- terday to testify furtther regarding family affairs. While on the stand he was interrupted by a juror, who asked information about *I and ‘Thompson case.” Sanford Clark, nephew and witness against Northcott, told a story of a grave being prepared at the latter's ranch for Mr. and Mrs. A. Dahl of Los Angeles, and the Dahls them- selves related from the witness chair circumstances surrounding a visit to the farm, John J. Thompson of Culton, Calif., was a State witness who charged that Northeott once attempted to kidnap his young son. FINAL ARGUMENTS ON IN KEYES TRIAL State Closing Case of Former Dis- trict Attorney and Others on Bribery Charges. By the Associated P LOS ANGELES, .February -2—Trial of former District Attorney Asa Keyes, Ben Getzoff and Ed Rosenberg on bribery and conspiracy Chlm.!‘ was drawing toward its close today. A short court session was provided for the State to_complete arguments to the jury. William J. Simpson, deputy " district attorney, demanded the conviction of the trio in a short address to the jurors yesterday. He declared the State haq proved eight overt acts in which the former prosecutor was charged with having received, through Getzoff, sums of money to influence the outcome or fraud cases which Keyes was conducting against Rosenberg and others. Summing up the State’s contentions, Chief Deputy District Attorney Robert P. Stewart pictured Keyes to the jurors as liviig a life of luxury as the result of an “illegal harvest of money frol those he had accused, but never con- victed, of crimes.” MARRIAGE COST REDUCED. Licéense Price Cut by Superior, ‘Wis., to Get More Fees. SUPERIOR, Wis., February 2 (#).— Marriage license prices in this county have been reduced from $1 to 50 cents by County Clerk A. R. Cole in an ef- fort, he explained, to get some of the fees that have been going to Duluth, ay. ‘The Duluth price is $2.25. The Min- nesota city, however, has one advan- tage, in that marriages may be per- formed immediately following issuance of licenses, whereas in Wisconsin five days must elapse. BAND CONCERT. By the U. 8. Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock this evening. John 8. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “The Blue Devils”. +.Levy Overture, “Queen of Autumn”,..Bigge Grand fantasia, “The Evolution of Dixie” Scenes from musical comedy, Merry Widow” .. Fox trot, “Happy” Valse de concert, Von Weber gard to the amount of local taxes and the purposes for which the tax money is to be expended. 3 r Dance” ...... '‘Get Out and Get Under the A aktes Jerome “The Star Spangled Banner.” EXACTING LABOR FACING HOOVER Goes Fishing Today, Pre- paratory to Several Days of Hard Work. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Stuff Correspondent of The Star. LONG KEY, Fla., February 2.—De- termined to make the most of the last day of his second fishing expedition off the Florida Keys before returning to Belle Isle tonight, where two or three days of exacting labor await him be- fore he again puts everything aside to indulge in his favorite sport, President- elect Hoover headed for the Gulf Stream at 8 o'clock this morning. He is making the best of these briel fishing expeditions. He knows that these carefree days are to come to an end very soon. ‘He has given no indication when he proposes to head back for Washing- ton. To speculate on the probable time of leaving would be but mere guessing. Urged to Stay Late. Some of those about him think that he will bring this vacation to a close about February 20. Others think he will stay on down here until the last minute, arriving in Washington on the eve of his inauguration. It is known that he is receiving many importunities to do so. While he has been putting his heart and soul in his play and rest he has not neglected the work he had cut out for himself while on this va- cation. Besides the answering of cer- tain letters this has included the com- pletion of his cabinet making, the writ- ing of his inaugural address and the drafting of the message he will submit to the Congress when it assembles in extra session. Also he has arranged conferences and has endeavored to keep as closely in touch as possible with all that is going on back in Wash- ington. Conferences Scheduled. What is expected to be the most im- portant of the conferences he is to hold down here will be with Senator Smoot of Utah, who is scheduled to arrive at Belle Isle tomorrow and remain as a house guest until the following day. Others with whom he will talk at Belle Isle tomorrow are Mrs. A. T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Repub- lican national committee, who was be- ing prominently mentioned for appoint- ment as Secretary of Interior when she eliminated herself several weeks ago; Col. Henry Anderson of Richmond, Va., one of the outstanding Republicans of the Old Dominion who figured promi- nently in the successful fight in that State during the last campaign and who has been mentioned in connection with & cabinet appointment; John Hays Hammond of Washington and Massa- chusetts. Mr. Hammond, frequently in the past, has been included in cabinet speculation, but it is not thought that he has any such aspirations at this time or that he is being suggested in that connection. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who arrived at Miami yesterday, is to be a dinner guest of the Hoovers tomorrow. Col. Lindbergh is to open the new air line between Miami and Cristobal, Panama, on Monday. He is a guest at the Adams estate on Belle Isle, which adjoins the Penney property. OLD FRIEND DEMANDS BUCKLEY CONVICTION Ohio State Treasurer Faces Politi- cal Associate in Beer- Bribe Charges. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, - Ohio, February 2.— State Treasurer Bert B. Buckley an- swered questions put by one of his old- est friends, when he confessed illegal conduct in the Cincinnati beer con- spiravy to Haveth E. Mau, Federal pros- ecutor and his fellow townsmen, during cross-examination in his trial here on liquor conspiracy charges. Buckley and Mau are political asso- clates from Dayton of long years' stand- ing. In the course of their careers they have repeatedly worked side by side for the same causes, Mau spoke of their long association In his argument to the jury, telling them “it is not a pleasant task,” as he charged Buckley with greed in seeking a share of the protection fee to be pald by the brewery and demanded his con- viction. In his answers Buckley denled offering John F. Eckhart, acting essistant pro- hibition administrator and the chief witness against him, a $300 bribe for tips on inspections of Cincinnati brew- eries or of criminal desire to aid him in his political ambitions, but admitted his conduct violated the law. COASTER BADLY HURT. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., February 2.— Austin Devilbiss, 9-year-old son of City Policeman Charles Devilbiss, is in the local hospital in a serious condition as the result of injuries sustained in the first coasting accident of the season Te. He sustained a fractured skull and other injuries when his sled, which he had attached to an automobile, was hurled into another parked machine. His scalp was torn off by the impact. n Motorist Held 3 Times More Deadly Than Male Scientist Believes Athletics Will Make Them as Ef- ficient Drivers as Men. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 2.—In- creased participation of girls in ath- letics, in the opinion of a scientist of the University of Pennsylvania, is likely to make the woman of the next genera- tion as capahlé as man in driving an automobile. A survey by Dr. Morris S. Viteles, assistant professor of psychology, has shown that at present women are three times as apt to have traffic accidents. He studied the records of 150 women and 2,000 men employed driving taxi- cabs. In 11 mon women had .757 accidents in each 1,000 miles; men averaged .257. The survey showed women to be overcautious. “There apparently is some ground for the theory,” Dr. Viteles said, “that the more .widespread and thorough training which men receive in athletics in early age and which is reflected generally in improved co-ordination, has made men superior to women thus far in the driv- ing of automobiles. “With the increased tendency of women to parlicipate in athleties dur- ing childhood, the situation probably will be changed to some extent, and it would not be surprising if the average woman of the next generation proves herself just as capable as the average man when it comes to driving an auto. / ) The Community Chest BY E. M. CLEMENT, Honorable Mention in The Star's Community Chest Essay Contest. and kind. Experience has proved that the Community To be satisfactory, relief must be prompt, discriminating Chest, administered by men and women whose hearts and heads have learned to do intelligent team work, comes as near as is humanly possible to realizing that ideal. It protects the community from unscrupulous adventurers, trading on the nobler impulses of mankind, fleecing the rich and defrauding the poor. These jackals never thrive where the Community Chest is a well recognized institution. The first object in giving should be to give those in dis- tress “not alms, but a friend.” The greater the resources, the wiser and more powerful that friend, the more certain we may be that the type of relief given will be of the best possible character, worthy the name of friendship. The city’s philanthropies are many, but often unknown to those in direst need. A central office brings the demand and supply together quickly—which is generally of the first importance to the applicant for aid, who is our main con- sideration. needed as much as food or coal. Poverty seldom comes alone. It often follows Here one agency is in touch with _every form of relief, and if, as sometimes occurs, it is not financial assistance, but advice and information that is needed, none is in a better position to act as “first friend.” Because it is qualified to know conditions, to act wisely and promptly the Community Chest deserves the support of the entire city. Every dollar given may be counted upon to ive its utmost for the comfort and assistance of the un- ortunate. I i I | il i unemployment, sickness or death. A Visiting Nurse may be | TWO GO OVERBOARD AS ICE CAVE-IN RAMS BYRD SHIP (Continued From First Page) stern. How he kept afloat is beyond his understanding. By clutching at small ice cakes which slipped away from him and turned over he sputtered his quick cry for help which was answered by Byrd and then his head disappeared in the broken debris from the barrier. Byrd could have reached him easily when he first tried to jump over and life saving is not new to the commander. He has medals for saving five men from drown- ing. But when he did jump the ice had floated between him and Roth. ‘The ships settled back to an even keel and it was seen that they were not sinking. Brown, captain of the Bolling had leaped aboard his ship so that he might maneuver both vessels. Men were anxiously watching Byrd as he tried to force his way through the ice. He was lightly clad for he had been in his room talking with Mc- Guinness and the water, below the freezing point, chilled by the greatest ice field in the world, swiftly gripped and numbed him. Byrd is a strong man, an_athlete, but for the next 10 minutes he fought the fight of his life. Roth could be seen struggling silently but desperately as he went father away. The sun was in the South and shone so brightly on the ice and water that it was difficult to see him in the danc- ing light. Sometimes a dark speck could be seen in the midst of slush, grasping at cakes which slipped from him, and then it would disappear, and we thought he had gone. It was heart-rending to see his brave efforts to keep afloat and we unable to reach him. His. movements became slower and slower as he tired, and his heavy clothing dragged him down. He threw one arm wearily over an ice cake and managed to hold on, and just then another small cake came up on his other side and he threw over that other arm. hr!l.s clothing froze to the ice and held m. Swift Action on Ship. On the ship there was swift action. Joe De Ganahl on the Bolling had seen Harrison fall from the edge and land on the ice cake. A plank from the barrier come floating by and Joe went overboard, straddled started to paddle But the current swept him out also. and Harrison might have followed if @ rope had not been thrown down. He grasped it and was hauled part way up, where he was stuck by the overhang. So Joe tried to reach the commander, but failed and went past in the swift rush of water and ice. It was not known how many men were overboard, and those on deck feared that there might be some who had been struck by ice as they fell and were held under the ice cakes. Anxious eyes scanned the debris-covered water. A small boat was picked up by a dozen men and dropped over the side where it landed right side up with only a little water in it. Three men, one of them Hanson, chief radio engineer, who had on a life belt, jumped into it. It was nearly 10 feet down to the boat. but with all their burry they landed on their feet and did not upset. The little boat was full and almost down to the gunnel when another man dropped into it, and Hanson, immediately realizing that there were too many and that the boat would be useless and full of water in a moment, rolled over the side. It put off after Roth and on the way came near the commander. In Water Nearly 10 Minutes. “Don't mind me, I am all right,” said he, “go after Roth, he can't swim.” Byrd by this time had turned and was more and more slowly swimming back to the ship. He had been in the water almost 10 minutes and his strength was nearly gone. This water paralyzes anl numbs the muscles and brain tself. It is amazing that he kept swimming so long. Only & man in perfect condition could have done it. Those in the thoat could not see Roth. The light shining in their eyes made a brilliant, but ob- scuring trap in which objects were lost. Men on the barrier, working to get Harrison up, halted a moment and pointed to the far side of a big ice cake. They rowed rapidly around and could see Roth holding grimly to his two cakes of ice. “Take your time fellows,” he sald cooly. “Don’t run me down.” The men in.the hoat:were much more excited than this plucky Army airplane me- chanic, who has become one of the best liked men on the expedition because of his thoughtfulness for others and wil- lingness to help any one. They finally reached him and hauled him aboard. He was so benumbed that he fell flat on his face in the boat and they had to lift him and help him to sit while they rowed back. “T wasn't cold all over until I got out of the water,” said Bennie. “But then I couldn’t move. And the first thing I sew was Harrison hanging on that rope and it struck me as funny for some reason. But it wasn't funny for Harrison.” Byrd Clings {o Rope. Just as the hoat reached Bennle the commander also reached the stern of the Bolling. Ilanson had swum around there to help his chief if possible, but & rope had already been dropped over the rail and Byrd was clinging to it with all the strength his exhausted and nerveless muscles could exert. There was no feeling in his hands and it was all he could do to hold on as he was pulled up to the deck. He was helped over the side and to his room where his wet clothes were stripped from him. ‘Have they got ?" he asked. “Yes, he is all right, Commander,” he was told. “Thank God.” he said, and relaxed for the first time. In a2 moment he lifted himself again. “Are the others all right?” he asked, and was reassured, but it was evident that he was still fearful that some of his men were unaccounted for and might be under the ice. Joe De Ganahl had paddled his way to a big chunk of ice and had managed to crawl out on top of it. He for some reason and sat there calmly with his knees drawn up and his hands fold- ed around them, much as though he had been sitting on the floor at home contemplating an open fire. time the tension had relaxed to some extent, and Joe’s nonchalance amused even those who were worried that he might suffer from exhaustion due to the cold. A boat was put over the side from the Bolling, and he was soon picked up, and he and Roth taken down to the engine room, where they were stripped and massaged until they were again warm. Harrison had been all this time swinging from his rope. For at least 10 minutes he hung by his hands and then Coman made a loop in another rope and droj it over so that he could put his foot in it. He was com- paratively safe then, But that 10 minutes had seemed ages to those who watched him quietly swinging there, not at all excited and shifting his grip occasionally so as to ease the strain on his hands as much as possible, Drag Harrison Up. ‘Thawley, one of the Bolling’s engi- neers, put a loop around his ankles and while two held him and two held Har- rison he worked his way to the over- hanging edge. The men above had dragged Harrison up until his head was Jammed against the hard snow into which the rope had cut for three feet. “Hey. Quit hauling him,” he yelled. You will push me off.” Thawley, by this time had reached a point where he could lean far over and reach down to grasp Harrison's hand. He got a good hold, the old Cancus grip of the wrist, and called back to those behind to haul away. By exerting all his strength he managed to swing Harri- son out and up and hauled him to safety. He coolly reached in his pocket for a cigarette, lit it, sald “Thanks,” and walked away. He was probably the most unconcerned man of the lot. Byrd had given orders that the ships be backed away from the barrier as soon as all the men were aboard and the roll was called to make sure that all were safe. When he was assured that nobody was missing he smiled for the first time. “I guess you know who is the happiest m;’n in ;h:h:/or:g?" he asked. e an others quickly recovered from the shock of the icy water and in a short time the commander was on deck giving directions for the unloading of the remaining small mate; on the New York, but which he ordered done out in the bay. The whole thing from the time the ice broke until the last man was aboard had taken hardly more than twenty minutes but it seem- ed hours to those who watched help- lessly. Byrd had taken the chance which had been forced on him by ne- cessity, had seized the only opportuni- ty for getting his heavy material ashore, and had won. (Copyright by the New York Times . Louis Post Dispateh. All ri publication reserved throughout GHAINED TO CANNON AND BLOWN TO BITS Inhabitants of Kanahar Ordered to Witness Spectacle to Break Up Looting. s "ot the' world.) By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 2.—The Daily Express in a dispatch from Karachi, India, says that Amanullah has taken stern measures to suppress:looting by tribesmen between Chaman and Kanda har, in his native country, Afghanistan.s ‘Tribesmen caught attacking a cara- van were brought in chains to Kanda- har, where they were tied to the mouths of cannon and blown to bits. All inhabitants were ordered to wit. ness the spectacle. A Moscow report late yesterday sal that the Afghan Ambassador at that city, Ghouliam Nabi Khan, had advised the Soviet government in behalf of Amanullah~that he had resumed the temporal power in Afghanistan and had proclaimed himself head of the national government with temporary residence at Kandahar. Gt DEATH OF RICH WIDOW TO BE INVESTIGATED Physicians Puzzled, Daughters Ask Chicago Police to Start Inquiry. b By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February. 2.—Circum- stances surrounding the death of Mrs. Selma Burnham, 44, were being sifted by Coroner Bundesen today. Death of the wealthy West Side widow yesterday puzzled physiclans and two daughters, Mrs. Josephin en, ne Go Chicago, and Miss Isabelle Burnham, Detroit, have demanded a police inves- tigation. Edward T. Riley, partner with Mrs. Burnham in the Burnham Gum Ma- chine Works, said she had turned over 55 per cent of her estimated estate of $500,000 to him prior to her death. MAYER DENIES RUMOR. Californian Not Offered Envoy Post by Hoover, He Says. LOS ANGELES, February 2 (#).— Denial ‘of a report that the post of United States Ambassador to Turkey had been offered to Louis B. Mayer, vice president of the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Motion Picture Corporation, by President-elect Hooover, was made by Mayer late yesterday in a statement to the Los Angeles Times, “I am not a candidate for public office of any kind,” Mayer's statement sald, “and even were I a candidate Mr. Hoover is not yet President and to discuss such a thing would be decidedly this premature until he takes office e~ STRESEMANN ASKS ELLOGE PACT AD German Foreign Minister Makes Vigorous Plea for Ratification. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 2—Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German foreign minister, opened the debate in the Reichstag this morning on ratification of the Kellogg antl-war treaty. g He lauded the international instru- ment as tackling the problem of peace | from an entirely new angle, but he ex= | pressed regret that some governments apparently failed to draw from it its necessary corollaries, such as interna- tional disarmament. Dr. Stresemann pointed out how American ideas with respect to the treaty coincided with Germany's general peace policy. He denied that diplo- matic negotiations prior to its signing - had tended to weaken it, adding: “If the treaty is to become the introduction to a new epoch, international law and relations must be brought into cone sonance with the ideas underlying it." Sees Far-reaching Importance, “From the moment it became known that the original idea of the Franco- American peace pact had through the decision of the United States Govern- ment been changed into the idea of & general world peace pact,” Dr. Strese- mann said, “the German government realized its far-reaching importance. “The great problem of devising an international pacific order was here tackled in an entirely new manner—in a manner independent of all other attempts of recent years to secure peace and one which created an elementary extensive foundation for achieving this aim. “Added hereto was the fact that the great mighty overseas state which had not been identified with earlier guaran- tees of peace, and especially did not be- long to the League of Nati took an active hand. A “There could be no doubt as to Germany's attitude. It could rightly and honestly be said that the underly- ing ideas of the American pact draft were identical with the guiding princi- ples of German foreign policy. “The German government, therefore, did not hesitate to be the first govern- ment to agree to the American draft without reservations,” he said. No Conflict Seen. ‘The foregin minister expressed the opinion that the Kellogg pact did not conflict with the constitution of the League of Nations, nor with the Lo- carno pact. On the contrary, he said, the pact “is calculated to strengthem the basic principles of those agree- ments,” The foreign minister then asserted that Germany’s quick and decisive reply and her later attitude helped lead to developments which culminated in the signing of the pact. The foreign minister’s speech de- manded the respectful attention of the entire House, except when he referred to the necessity of disarmament as a corollary to the renunciation of war. At this point the Communists inter- rupted, shouting: “Hypoeris; - Dr. Stresemann parried this, however, replying: “That's what the Communists shout at'the very moment when Soviet Russia is anxiously endeavoring to hur- ry its adhesion to this pact.” There was only a short debate by members of the Reichstag, and the bill for ratification of the pact was referred to the foreign relations committee. PARENTS DESERT SIX CHILDREN IN SHACK Youngsters, 1 to 9 Years 0ld, Found Without Food or Fire on Edge of Lake. By the Assoclated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich.,, February 2.— The story of how the parents of ~ix children, ranging in age from 1 to 9 years, deserted their brood and left them without food or fuel in a shack on the shores of 'Mona Lake in Muskegon County, was told here yes- terday when two of -the children a rived at University Hospital for treat- men: for rickets, due to under nourish= ment. ‘The children, five boys and a girl, were found in the cottage by neighbors, ‘There was no fire and had been none for some time. The children were cry- ing from the cold and huddling in corners to escape the chill winds which swept through the flimsy dwellin; Two boys, 5 and 7 years old, were found to be suffering from rickets. They were sent here while the other children were taken in by warm-hearted neighbors. The year-old baby may lose toe as a result of having his feet and hands frozen. s Information obtained by county aus thorities was that the father of the children had left several months ago for Chicago and the mother had fol- lowed a few days ago. ELECTIONS COST HIGH. $2,208,656 Spent by Board in New York City in 1928. NEW YORK. February 2 (#).—~The New York city board of elections re< ported yesterday that its expenses for 1928 totaled $2,298,656, which is more dollars than there were votes cast here for all the presidential candidates in the November elections. There were 1,973,758 such votes. ‘The money spent by the board of elections, however, cannot all be charged up against the one election, almost $85,000, for instance, being spent for new voting machines, which will serve in future elections also. ‘The largest single item was $723,249, the pay for election officers. Sample :?;zfimml ballots ‘oesb pg’nm h‘;: .211 was spent for tograj register books when it became neeuuryp to split some of the districts because of the larger registration. MAN AND WIFE DEAD, Pneumonia Claims Two'in Ten Hours in Alexandria Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 2.— Within 10 hours yesterday Edgar M. Farr, 56 years old, and Mrs. Mollie V, Farr, 63, of 523 South Lee street, died of penumonia after being ill only a short time. 2 Mrs. Farr expired at her home and her husband died at the Alexandria Hospital, mth&u:mmm. been informed * Funeral services 2 for Mrs. Farr 'b; hrlg' at lmoe‘:lock this uumoon“t:v:: e late residence, and the body will taken to Montrose, Va., toms 3 > rangements for Mr. Farr's funeral have not been completed. AL Gl - N Colored Worker Suffers Stroke. While at work in the plant of the Potomac Eleetric Power Co. at Benning yesterday afternoon, Hiram Haywood, colcred, 50, Forty-ninth street and Sheriff road northeast, suffered a stroke of paralysis. He was taken to Casualty Hospital and treated by Dr. Louis Jimal, ‘who reported his ition