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A2 GUARDS OPEN FIR ( Several Shot in Concerted Attempt to Escape From Prison. (Gontinued From. First Page.) volt_was demonstrated at the noonday | meal time, less than two hours after the shooting, when the mutinous con- wvicts were lined up between State troops and forced to march in orderly fashion to the mess halls. A machine gun mounted on_ the chapel - building, where Col. Haubrich established National Guard headquar- ters, surveyed the marching prisoners and kept them in Warden Thomas called for outside ald last night and Guardsmen entered the prison for the first time. Tear gas bombs weré last night when it was reported the con- victs were about to shut off the power. Prison officials said the prisoners had concealed themselves in a tunnel con- taining the electric light wires and heating lines. The guardsmen, led by their commander, Col. Robert Haubrich, searched the tunnel, but found no trace of the men. Night Clpt H. E. Laukhart said he was certain the prisoners were there when the soldiers first entered. Tear Gas Bombs Dropped. “# Another group of soldiers cut & hole In an attic of one of the cell blocks from which it was reported the men planned to escape, After training searchlights into the darkened attic, the guardsmen dropped in two tear gas bombs as & warning to the prlsoners that the roof was guarded. No prisoners were affected by_the bombs. Reports that the convicts tunnelled through a concrete wall to reach the g:wer lines were denied by Col. Hau- Gov. Myers Y. Cooper was expected to lose no Mme in lwdy!n( the report on the fire investigation prepared for THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1930. BICENTENNIAL “GREATEST CELEBRATION ON OO CONVICTS | washingeon Center " DECLARES FESS From Which Senes of Events Will Radiate Through- out Country. This is the first of @ series o A4 vlans, now beise Jorm e oussices o ing redetsi o T aininglon Dieentennial celee ,, BMeh, s eponsors decare, il celebration thus 1t is it w ment, Gé will occur. tomorrow BY DONALD A. CRAIG. “The greatest celebration thus far known in history—the most ambitious celebration ever undertaken in honor of an individual.” ‘When Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio—former educator and college | ¢h: president, with a reputation for speak- ing conservatively—uses language such as this, it is perhaps excusable if or- dinary folks get a bit excited. Especially might the residents of this city be justified in becoming stirred up, since the National Capital is to be the center and principal stage of this Nation-wide, year-long celebration. The language just quoted sums up the way Senator Fess envisions the celebration, or, mou pl'opeflflI the series of celebrations tha planned ernment to occur throughout the year 1932 in observance of the 200th anni- versary of the birth of George Wash- ington. Fess Heads Commission. Senator Fess s the active head of the George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission, whose ex-officio chairman is President Hoover. Senator Fess holds the official titles of vice chairman of the commission and chairman of the ex- ecutive_committee. submission today by his board of in- quiry. The investigation was oumnlmd last week and contains testimony from guards, prison officials and conviots., Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade, was named the fourth member ol the [anmvu oitizens’ committee of a survey of the which is to make wl B'-lu'l I.nxuhlflon with a view to im- prove housing facilities. LOBBY PROBE HALTED BY LACK OF QUORUM {Senate Inquiry Committee Defers Questioning of Anti-Prohibition Leader Until Tomorrow. - By the Associated Press. Unable to obtain & quorum, the Sen- ate lobby committee today deferred until tomorrow its examination of Wil- liam H. Stayton, chairman of the board of the Association against the Prohle bition’ Amendment. Senator Robinson, Republican, In- diana, was the only member of the com- mittee who appeared today. He ex- plainéd that other members were un- able to be present. will ht questioned about the activ of the association in advo- uun' xepe-l of the H. Curran, ent of the asso- e.huan. has been juestioned seven days by the eommmu sentative Tinkham, M- Mu-ehuntu. s wet, rges M the Bosrd of Temperance, Prohibiti Public )lonll.p'the l’Ieedez-ual cou‘;: 'n‘ Churches and the Anti-Saloon neuue %wen profnised an opportunity to GEOGRAPHIC GROUP ELECTS HUGHES|E :Dr. George Burgess and Capt. R. 8. “Patton Also Named as Directors. Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has 1been elected a trustee of the National Geographic Soclety, it was announced Dr. G - m;ym ubm Grosvenor, presi They succeed to places left vacant by the deaths of Edwin P. Grosvenor nnbz S Tumtiee ustice Hulhel succeeds the late Chief Justice Taft, for man; & trustee of the soclety and ld!ntlfled with its work for 25 years. Dr. Burgess, an eminent phsnclsg has been associated with ureau _ of Standards since 1903, And before that mms Massachusetts Institute logy. He is noted clally «lor his pyrometric and metallurgical re- Beal irches. Capt. Patton has been associated with the Coast and Geodetic Survey since 1904, during which time he commanded survey vessels, later e chief of the coast pllot section, and has been in charge of chart production and correc- tion since 1919. He became director of the bureau following the death of Col. E. Lester Jones, who was also a trustee of the National Geographic Society. Capt. Patton served as a lieutenant. commander of the United States Navy in 1017-19. He is the author ef the United States coast pilot surveys from Yukutat Bay to the Arctic Ocean. CANAL PROJECT TOPIC Nicaraguan Minister to Broadcast Address Sunday Afternoon. Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, mctrlg\nn Min- ister to the United Sta will discuss “The Nicaraguan c-nll Pro]oct" Sun- day afternoon, May 4, in the Conclave of Nations yrotnma over the Columbia Broadcasting Sysf The bromeut wfll begin at 2:30 o'clock, with a short promm of Nknn- o musical selection: Sacasa l]Ao tell of the internal lflnlm ot yuntry, which in recent months hne been disturbed ‘1th civil strife. Temple Tower Approved. President Hoover today signed the bill to permit the erection of a tower higher than permitted by the moning regula- tions on the Masonic Temple which is proposed to be erected on Temple Heights. The bill which became law with the President’s signature is in the {:rm of an amendment to the zoning w. —— Book to Be Presented. Members of the commission, which lnchldu mmlnent ndenl offcials and widely _known prlvnu me. vm.n mmy ol whom a rep- resentative The has talked, realize that eelem'lfinm o! various kinds ‘Washington City, witnessing events oI national and international imj nncemthe Government first moved Mn But they are convinced that this 1932 affair is going to be something 2 different from all the others. int from which the series of cele~ rations will radiate to every cranny of this country and many foreign coun- les, It 18 to cover more territory—with ‘ashington as its center—than any former celebration. It is to last longer. It is to be on a grander scale. It is to bring more visitors to thingwn dur- lng the perlod of ten months in which fficial celebrations will be held. It s en! , especially, spiritual —than of the klnt{ that has e before it here or elsewhere during world’s histéry. Those aré some of the forecasts. Something to Remember. “It is right,” sald Senator dis- Buulnl the matter informally with The ve a or two "zthmla be g:{h an obl:f"o under the auspices of the Federal Gov- | ing. of Washington—if the tentative plans are carried out in anything liké their muent form—can be main outline. But the Bicenetnnial Commission has purposely kept away from anything that might savor of com+ mercialism in connection with thé plans that are being made. That is the far- thest thing ible from the motivating thought behind the celebration. That fact is one reason why the idea of & world's fair was definitely discarde But the responsibilities incumbent pon_the residents of thll city, from flle hllbelt to the lowesf for the entertainment of of thousands of extra visitors that are expected fo come here in 1932, are hard to ofrup Up to date thm local arrangements, oo~opetman with the United stc'a Commission, have held only &reumlnn'y conferences with the associaf and it has been possible for them only quite récently to even begin to fr what all this may mean to the city. People Held Responsible. “While entertainment of & ‘yub nature will be provided by the ited tates Commission,” says & statement issued at the national within the last few days, “the rupmul- bility for seeing that all are properly provided for rests with un people of the District of Oolumuh, through their own ission.” wuhout delay the membcn of District Bicenténnial Commission, fol- lowing a luncheon and conference last week with Lieut. Col. Grant and sentative Bloom, have begun, under the leadership of Cuno H. Rudolph, local chairman, to lay the groundwork for the entertainment of the vastly in- creased influx of visitors expected two years hence, “The associate directors of the Géorge Washington Bicentennial Commission,” says another official statement from national headquarters, “were assured by rinci] d’l P! i Chairman Rudolph and the mémbers of the commission that machinery would be set up immediately to carry out the gnt program which they have under- ken, and from nhow on there is to be close eo-openuon in order that no time may be lost in formulating all the plans for the Dl&fln of Columbia’s part I the ocelebrati In & later mlc]elhnpmvmchme District will play in the célebration will be considered more in detail and the lans that have been made, or are con- mplated, will be discussed. As the various articles follow one an- other the vast scale upon which the celebration hag been conceived and is being worked out will become more apparent. The plans thus far, of course, except for the permanent memorials that have been approved by Congress, are in the embryonic stage. The asso- clate directors, however, believe they will materialize and that the proposed great series of celebrations here and throughout the Nation will be a success. Confident of Appropriation. 'A'hey are confident that Congress will grant the necessary money. as it has already made a start in that direction, and lhcy feel certain that the State wernments and the people of the nited States and of foreign countries join enthusiastically, once uny discover how they can best help, in making the 200th year after the birth of George Washington one that will stand out large when the history of the future is written. Thé members of the United States this | Commission and the associate directors endous g:n from many ve llre_ndsp-bqu “revolve” mna t.ha cm o{ nl- wn as the center, vlll bo held, on all hol dufln lidays 'y Sro nulnvhlchuu Presi( enc of tha highesf carry d_States md the Oovemm pa nwo whte the dent says in his public addresses the try and will as much as it is here. Work Speeded Up. ‘The work of planning the actual, con- crete events of the numerous 1932 cel- ebrations has begun. Since The Star published an article a few weeks ago, pointing out that the Bicentennial Com- mission had been in existence since December, 1924, without having got be- yond authorizing three splendid perma- ment memorials to Geo':%e ‘Washin| '"?."'grm«'"' ca %o Fiold under the susp under the auspices { the Federal Government in 1932— there has been a great deal of activity. A force of men and women, occupy- mlalu:eluluofmmm hhennv ot what Soas. !he nucleus of what 'fll Dmbl ly be & much larger organization that will be bullt up during the next two years, has already begun the herculean task of forming contacts with Stad in, ‘Jl::g:wm sior patriotic, and every other sort of organizations in thl country, working out the details of &er radio movie and other kinds a! publ ity, planning programs and do- & thousand and one things neces- n.ry to make the celebration a success, nu of which must now be crowded into less than two years that remain be(on the bicentennial year dawns, High-Power Directors. ‘Two high-power directors have been placed in charge of the bicentennial ar- rangements of the Federal Government. They are Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, who, -mmm his other multitudinous duties, 18 director of public buildings and puhuc parks of the National Cap- ital, and Representative Sol Bloom of New York, who began to learn how to conduct celebrations of various kinds when most of us were children. While this phase of the subject_will be explained more in detall in a later article, it might be advisable at this point to state that the George Wash- ington bicentennial celebration is to be a world’s fair in any sense. The purpose behind everything the Federal and State commissions and the two national directors are doing, and propose to do, is to impress upon the minds of the people of generation, and especially of the next generation— the children who soon will take charge of the world’s affairs—the real meaning of devotion to duty, courage in the face of disaster, fish stal P, commuuanu "ovemment and the| ., wpoint, as ex lifled by Omrn ‘Washington, who built not for himself nor for his own generation even, but for the future. The character and achievements of George Washington are to be the key- note vt the celebration everywhere. Tentative Plans Stagger. 8o staggering are the tentative which have been sketched in outline to a representative of The Star bers of the commission and the directors that they challenge one's mdum,y at the same time that they stir and ap- NEW YORK, April 20 (#)—John ,Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, in 1640 'wrote a book on the possibility of a fourney to the moon. It will be pre- sented tomorrow to the Amflcln Muuum of Natural History. { e present will be a descendant, ccp .. Elnn-fwnxhu. Folar explorer, peal to the ination. 1f only half of them are carried into effect, the sweeping statements made by Senator Fess at the opening of this article will be doubtless justified. What & series of celebrations, on such a stupendous §cale as that vhun has ‘been planned, VAT mean o mem- | The have already received evidences of sup- quarters. n to come in from are in charge of the arrangements for the bicentennial year without becoming imbued with the superlative brand of enthusiasm that is apparent in every- thing they say about it. It will be the purpose of these articles not to make predictions, but to report as hlth!ully as possible what has been done, what is being done and what is planned, for the most part permitting those directly | 88 in touch with the lrnnnmenu to speak for themselves concerning the g:;m for “this greatest ulemum thus known in history.” —_— ost| NEGRO TUBERCULOSIS WARNING IS SOUNDED High Death Rate Is Due to Bad Environment, Doctors Assert in Addresses. Dr. R. Prank Jones, president of me Medico-Chirurgical Society, and Dr. ‘warning | conscious action, com Metropolitan Baptist C! h tuberculosis denm rate of the Negro race in Washington largely is due to bad environment and the con- sequent lowering of bodily resistance to_disease germs. Dr. Jones stressed the necessity of better economic conditions and better wages for the manual workers as the starting point toward a reduction in the mberculul.s death rate. Both speak- ers urged alike the importance of an elrly dlumm. especially for children in order to prevent by proper heaith habits t.ho agvalupment of the disease t.n later life. They also voiced the need l children’s sanitorium and t Congress would de for rundn for immediate 't of work for m construction. owing the addresses, & new mo- |emre was shown emmed “Tuber- cu and How It May Be Avoided,” in which the method of treatment were explained and the daily life of chlldren In a modern unlwrlum ‘was exhibit WILL HAYS TO ADDRESS MOVIE CONVENTION HERE Four-Day Session of Motion Pic- ture Engineers Expected to At- tract 500 Experts to Capital. Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors’ As- sociation, will address the ing meet- ing of the Soclety of Motion Picture Engineers, which convenes here May 5 for a four-day session at Wardman Park Hotel, Mr. Hays' ntl;eu will be delivered at '.‘l"n: :_’nnull dinner Wednesday night, d'am speakers will be J. I. Crabtree, president of the society; C. Francis .n-.nklnn of Washington, inventor of mo- icture and television equipment, a presentative W. P. Connery, ir., of Massachusetts. wm be broadcast over the Columbia casting System. Five hundred engineers and scientists are expected to attend the convention. New Low-Wing Plane Here. ‘The arrival at Bolling Pleld of a new ive plans fiywotnl-mhlmmownfl u'-'lnl lane, Wfll in Afllnu ped lllt Oroemborn, 0. Meul mmm 100 Cmmunim Arrested. RIGA, Latvia. 1 20 (#).—More 100 communll have b-en arrest- 1 Sip Giving e et demon- My days quickly grasped has bee: i f d. mei &‘-’zm i based. m ‘The hich would o thrmlg headquarters | kjlometers, visitors effe the Repre- mi o PLANET DISCOVERY CALLED ACCIDENT Brown of Yale Says Truth of Lowell’s Prediction Was Coincidence. (Continued From First Page.) WATER RATE RAISE CUT FROMD. . BILL Senate Committee Strikes Out Increase Ordered by the House. +__(Continued From First Page.) tect the orbital motion of the earth in rélation to the supposedly fixed ether, fi repeated many times and al- ways with a negative result. It is known that the earth movés around ‘the sun at a speed of 30 kilometers a second. This cannot be shown with the inter- ferometer, measuring the speed of light through the ether in the direction of the motion the earth and at right to it. It was upon the original “ cluve result that the theory of rela- y was one exception, he said, was that ot Prof. Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland, who has found a difference of time account for motion at the rate of 10 kilometers a second. he said, has not claimed that this is due to the velocity of the earth around the sun, but to the constant velocl‘ of 200 kilometers & second with way, is sumed to produce only the effect of 10 But, he declared, nobody else has been able to obtain even this slight positive ‘ect. 'The most del!cnm polll le ap- ptnm 4t _the Mount Wilson observa- shown no effect. other than be by observational errm', in 30,000 observations. Just as delicate apparatus constructed on an- nn iple at the California Insti- Toehnolot;;ho has given only lceo\mndl other tute negative results delicate that an ether drift of éven 10 kilometers a second would give an efféct 10 times greater than the least observ- able value. ing Miller's results in faith, indicated that they must be due to some factor of error which can- not now be deteced since just as care- ful experiments many times repea disagree with them. Explains Attack on Validity. seeond attack on the theory of l’ehuvlly. St. John said, concerned the validity of the observations of the bending light from & star when it comes within the gravitational fleld of the llll’\ This never had been observed be: Einstein predicted it as inevitable if O.he relativity theory was true. At the next eclipse it was found to take place. But, 8t. John said, some question: whether astronomers actually saw the starlight bend as it passed the sun and held that the apparent bending mlqm take place as the H‘ht anhend the at- mosphere of the earth. If this were m it would have sn effect on the Dr. of the moon’s image as it cove ered the face of the sun during a total eclipse. oblerv-uona have shown that of the kind takes place. er postulate of '.he theory of rel-umy is the shifting of infra-red lines in the spectrum of the sun. This takes plwu but not in quite the amount calculated by rel Iltlvlty. It has been held that the shifting is due only to conditions in the unstable outer layers of the sun, But the same effect has been better observed, Dr. St. John said, in the spectrum of the nmnn compan- jon star of Sirfus, which is 85 per cent as heavy as the sun, but only $ per cent as large, which makes it about 60,000 umu heavier than the same mass of water. Hers the shift would not be af- fected by the conditions in the star's atmosphere. This accumulation of ex- perimental evidence, he said, seems to qualify nmmey. 'eird as are its con- clusions, as one of the ordinary work- ing_tools of mnum‘m Now science is seel ratus of the personality as a whole. nothln Dr. Herrick Speaks. It's the mysterious “something” re- sponsible for individuals m(fl as uuy do. ‘The quen was_outlin n{wrmy of Chicago. He ins that the behaviorist psychologist's ex- pllmflon of human and animal actions accidentally combined tgr J‘u of reflexes is not tenable in ht of recent experimental nee. ‘Take, for example, the knee jerk, Dr. Herrick sald, It is independent the individual. Every he knees of patients to find out whether they are crazy. The tap on the tendon nv.l up & nerve current. It moves alone one nerve fiber to the spinal column, where it forms a jun with another nerve, which carries it back to the knee muscle and causes the well known “3 k. & reflex action, one of the nmplut o{ l)l because only two nerves are traversed between stimulus and re- sult. But the behaviorist extremists hold that all behavior works in the same way—except that thousands of nerves may be involved in & single red with two !or the knee jerk. ce a stimulus has passed over & network of nerve fibers the direction it takes beis dental, the same stimulus tends low the nnu thy again, and habits, condif responses and com- lex “lnluncu" are bullt up. There no room left for a directing force. Left With Specific Jobs. But, Dr. Herrick said, there is creasing evidence that local reflexes are not the elements out of which more complicated behavior is built up, but are themselves products of a general pattern which exists, but not as a !o- calized function, in the cortex of the brain, The personality of the individusl, or characteristic way of reacting to stimull. he sald, exists as a constanti ! changing whole and not a sum total of independent parts. The _“organism-as-a-whole” creates the reflexes and then leaves t.hun with their specific jobs. Sometimes it pro- duces specific nerve centers for t.hem, like the sight and hearing centers in the brain or the breathing center at the top of the spinal cord upon which life depends. But the organism as a whole seems to have no specific center for it« ul{ but 15 diffused through the undif- rentiated nerve tissue. "TM.I " sald Dr. Herrick, “is the ent tissue from which the mech-n of all higher nervous functions are dif- tarenmud — correlation, _ association, learning, memory and intelligence. This :ppunul of fhz penonnllfiy as o whole has location but the of this )ocmqtum is radically di flerent from that of specific reflexes and formance is differen t" ick believes that eventually the workings of the apparatus of the personality as & whole can be explained on & mec basis, rather than as the result of lph-uu-l manipulation from outside, but "i will uld. must_exist in nervous tissue in the beginning. These by the stimul ation of ry to conceive, he said, mechnnlnn capable of changin teelt response to environment an producing courses of action pu'lllel to these changes, “like a no:nph which first makes its own rec then plays it.” The evidence was supplied by Dr. E. Oothul of Lho Wistar Institute fmm observations of the movements of un born salamanders. They swim at Nrth m mov-mvnu seem instinctive, or of chains of reflexes. But he found t the pattern of acting in that WAy Was pruen before the reflex movn- me nd that they were the product n of this pattern, derived l.n’ from the spread of nerve path- wny- rom the first muscular contrac- Uom of the embryo egg. %l; Aluludu on_men Hehder- oried :’, 'QM f!gfl is mechanism is so | 87 ed | the total appropriations be m more o are added, plus the deficiency and in- definite appropriatoins, a $2 tax levy would be necessary.” Sketches Growing Cost. Donovan also sketched the growing cost of operating the municipal govern- ment in recent years as well as the in- creasing cost of ordinary annual im- provements. In 1929, he sald, ordinary annual improvements cost $8,500, 000 whereas in 1931 on the basis 6f the House bill, the figure would amount to $9,000,000 exclusive of the appropria- tion for the municipal center. “Thus the £9,000,000 lump-sum con- tribution of tfe Federal Government.” he declared, “is only sufficient to meet annual recurring improvements. What is the result? “The $1.70 tax rate will not raise suf- ficlent nvenne to rozo the rising ex- penses, and $! 000 lump-sum contribution ot me Federal Government is not sufficlent to provide the normal annual improvements. It is self-évident that by 1932 if the standards established in the 1931 House bill are to be mairi- tained, an increase in the tax rate ap- pears to be inevitable. Raise Depends on Budget. “The amount of the increase, of course, depends entirely upon the 1932 budget approved by the Commissioners, the action of the Budget Bureau and the amount finally approved by Con- ess. Of course, it is problematical whether it will be necessary to submit a budget in 1932 as large as thé amount in the 1931 House bill, “An increase from $1.70 to $1.90 in the tax rate during the five years be- ginning in 1932, it is estimated, will produce approximately $3,000,000 a year over current revenues or about $43,000,- ted [ 000 a year, including the Federal con- tribution of $9,000,000. That amount is only sufficient to pay the total of tbt amount chargeable -nln-z the revenues as carried the 1931 bfl! So all the Distrit “So al e t can do on a $1.90 tax rate in the next five years is to maintain the standard of total appro fore | Priations established by the 1931 a) propriation bill as passed by the Hous ‘The bill, as reported out by the Sen- ate appropriations committee, reduces jeable to the general revenues nearly $1,500,000 permitting that amount to remain in the surplus revenues. To this would be added the $3,000,000 increase in the :fd"'% conmb&l‘on. ‘provminz a sur- us of more n $4,500,000 at the start of the 1932 fiscal year. ‘Water Rates Are Rejected. ‘The higher water rentals, which the Senate committee turned down follow- ing discussion of the subject in the ex- ecutive hearings cn the bill, were: For metered service, affecting about 70,000 consumers, from $6.36 to $8.75; for unmetered service, from $7.03 to $9.85, and for business places not re- quired to have meters, an increase of lpg.h ximately 40 per cent. e Senate committee at the ums time struck out the accompanying crease from $2 to $3 per ltnnr Ioot. in the assessment for laying new water mains, The complete text of the executive hearings conducted by the Senate sub- comimttee reveals that Senator Robert B. Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, ;bfl 'l; at one e one time water oner of Omaha, went before the lub- committee and to consumers of water and recommend- a!d instead b'.:m pnfin nlf“t;he water sys- 'm needs met Cl ging propert; owners for fire pi “ rotection. = 2 The subcommittee took no action on Senator Howell's new proposition, the hearings indicating that the members regarded it as legislation that would be subject to a point of order. They did, however, foll his recommenda- tion of dropping from the bill the in- creased rates on consumers. Howell States Position. Benator Howell took the position that a water plant performs two distinct functions; 1, to supply water for con- sumption, for which he felt the con- sumer should pay; 2, to suppl 1‘701; fire p\:rhpolled: for which, he geuevu. Pfl"»y ould pay. ther members of the subcommittee debated with Senator Howell the wis- dom of attempting to ulloe-te to prop- my the cost of water for fire protec- Senuwr Kendrick, Democrat, of Wy- oming, ed “You realize that in most cases the consumer, as you refer to him, and the man receiving the fire protection, is one and the same person, you not?” "No, that is not true,” Senator Howell rgued. “A great buflding down in this clty ought to contribute $1,000 & year for fire protection, and it is contributing nothing; whereas, if you levied a tax for fire proteotton the consumer living in a five-room house that cost $4,000 might, as in the cuem of ':he city of Omaha, have to pt cents a year.” “Is not :fie consumer in the big build- ing ual.n‘.an enormous amount of water for which he is ptyln ?" Senator Ken- drick came back. ibly he also has a residence which is aerved by the city water, and he pays on that. It would just be a charge of the same amount under another name, it seems to me. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, pointed out that there would be a gre variety of ncwr- to be considered undcr such & proposal Vacant m Are Bought Up. “For instance,” he said, “here is a man who has a fireproof building. He does not need any fire protection. Here is & man who owns a fire trap.” Senator Bingham suggested as a fur- ther complication, the quuuon of what would be done with regard to the own- ers of vacant lots. Benator Phipps, Republican of Colo- s | rado, and former chairman of the Dis- trict subcommittee, pointed out that owners of residences not only pay water rent for the number of rooms in the house, but also for the water used in sprinkling lawns. “Now you propose to tax him a sec- ond time for irrigating his lawn,” said Senator Phipps. Senator Howell dis- agreed with this saying he was contend- ing against raising tes for irri- gating lawns. Senator Glass observed that “water ought to be the freest thing in the world hy do you not give consideration to the Federal Government, with its consumption of water,. '""Enf"' no return whatever?” Senator ipps in- juired, and Senator Glass added that e Pederal Government has fire pro- Mcuon for its public buildings. Senator Howell said the Government contributed $11,000,000 to the water plant. He said if that amount were borrowed by the District at 4 per cent it would amount to $440,000. Says U. S. Pays More. “Let the Government pay $80 a mil- lion for all the water it uses, and it amounts to only $376,000," Senator Howell continued. ‘“Then you have the difference between $276,000 and $440,- 000 that the Government is contribut- ing, and it is hydrant in this city. Government is concerned, ntributing every ym far opposed raising the rates | tied. COLUMBIA PLAYERS IN “HEROD” Grace Meyer (left), who pla as Salome, in “Herod,” 'hlehp r Theater by the Columbia Players. U. S. IS PLANNING TO LAUNCH DRIVE ON RACKETEERS (Continued From First Page.) tration leaders, and it is felt that there lhould be no lon;er delay in taking off ‘ederal prisons. Mpubuan congressional leaders be- lieve there is still ample time left for the enactment at this sesslon of the more important of the five law enfores ment measures asked in the Presiden :p:cm message to the National Legis- ature. For the present they are caught be- hind the tariff and the controversy over the nomination of Judge John J. Parker 48 an associate justice of the Supreme Court. How much more time these two issues will demand cannot be foretold, but the majority spokesmen believe there will also be an Wponunuy for the eomldentlan of the proposals sponsored by the President, Five Proposals Stressed. The five which he stressed in his message of yesterday were the transfer of the prohibition unit from the Treas- ury to the Justice Department, the re- lief of court congestion, the extension of Federal prison facilities, the con- solidation of the border patrols and a strieter prohibition enforcement law for the District of Columbia. ‘The transfer proposal has been ap- proved by the House and is now before the Senate judiciary committee, which is ready to report It out as soon as one more disputed point is set- . The bill has bem given back to a subcommittee for the modification of a provision transferrs employes of the dry unit to the Justice Depart- ment. Some members of the committee are opposed to this, belleving that At- tomey General Mitchell should be left free to select his own personnel. Prison relief bills have been passed by the House and have been lppmved by the Senate judiciary committee. They now await only the approval of the Senate before being transmitted to the House. White H ‘The question of Federal Court con- gestion is now before the House judici- ary committee. Considerable opposition was aroused by the administration plan of extending the powers of United States Commissioners so that they can conduct juryless trials of minor infrac- tions of the prohibition laws. The com- mittee is now working on a substitute plan, under which a large number of additional Federal Court judges would be lp'polnted as a means of reducing House cemmmees are also working on the two other points emphasized by the President—Border patrol consolida- tion and the enforcement of the dry laws in the National Capital. P —— took the view that owners of buildings are paying for fire protection “in pay- ing their tax for the maintenance of the Pire Department.” Capt. Hugh P. Oram, Assistant Engi- neer Commissioner, in response to ques- tions by Senator Howell, said t.he cost of fire protection is generally figured as 25 to 35 per cent of the annual gross revenues of a water plant. On the basis of 25 per cent of the cost in Washington, he said it would make a fire hydrant charge of $60 per hy- drant, and there are 5,100 hydrants. “Have you compared that to the amount that it is proposed to raise by an increase in the cost to the con- ¢ | sumer?” asked Senator Kendrick. “That would mean that we would raise by additional water rent $102,000 and we would raise by fire hydrant rental $255,000,” Capt. Oram answered. He explainéd that in this computation he used $50 per hydrant. This prompted Senator Glass to ask if residents of Washington should taxed for public school purposes ac- cording to the number of children each man has in school, and Capt. Oram said he did not think so. Ladue Sums Up Question. Summin &,up the water rate question, Engineer Commissioner Ladue told the Senators that the Commissioners found more money would be needed for the w-ter Department and, after consider g the several theoretical ways of rais- mg additional revenue, they decided to suggest the Increase in water rates. ator nmgam said today the ques- tion of how the needs of the Water Department should be met will be one to be threshed out with the House in conference. Senator Bingham also explained to- day that the Senate committee added to the school salary allowances to provide personnel for the proposed teachers’ St ached Tast year i Tegasd to s reac] ast year in regar mln this added facility for local nannll u:hool students. ‘The Senator recalled that last year the committee felt it was not right to 1imit the list of applicants for teachers’ itions here to local graduates, but t qualified applicants from elsewhere | sa( should be permitted to apply. He sald the school authorities here offered no objection, provided local normal school students were given teachers’ colle, which are available elsewhere, so t they could compete on even terms with applicants outside the District. The Senator sald the House did not allow a sufficlent amount for teachers and dents of teachers’ colleges, and the ate committee _thought these amounts should be added. Senator Bingham, Repubhcln, of Con- necticut, in c rge of local WP tions, plans to bring the local hul' u) the Senate as soon as taken up until the early next week, pria- | supply !.hn ™ ible, | any other recognition of his cations are that it cannot be | birthday tom end of this week Marianne, wife of Herod, and Helen Burton be given next lfldly at the Wardman Park —=8tar Staft Photo. APPEAL IS [SSUED 10 KEEP DOGWOOD Organizations Ask Public Not| Cuba, to Break Branches of Flowering Trees. With the flowering dogwood now in full bloom in Washington and vicinity, the annual appeal for its conservation was issued today jointly by the com- mittee of the National Capital, of the Garden Club of America and the Wild- flower Preservation Society. For several years a campaign has been carried on each Spring by these two organizations, with a view to pre- venting what formerly was wid rend and ruthless destruction of this tiful flowe: tree in this vicinity. Before troduction of the preser- vation movement here, it was common for whole trees to be torn down by overenthusiastic so-called nature lovers, who were thus rapidly destroying one of the most plcturelque of the native lue wlt.h the renewal each year of the appeal for conservation, there has been an increasing respect shown for the dogwood, according to those behind the campaign, and it is hoped that this year visitors to the countryside 'fl.l refrain completely from breaking off any of the dogwood branches. The flower fades nmdly after being broken from the tree. , prepared by P. L. nnuonuly distributed, declares of our attractive flowering plants has been subject to such n| eu destruc- tion as the dogwood. most places during the floern perbd wmch varies from April to Mn according to latitude, a majority of ‘automobiles returning home on a pleasant Sunday will be found loaded with the flowering branches. Often on reaching home the flowers are badly wilted, do not readily revive and are thrown away. Effective educational campaigns have con- ducted in many places for the protection of the dogwood, using motion picture films, lantern slides and newspaper ar- ticles, cuts and cartoons.” The society also asks the public to preserve the Judas and wild cherry trees. i S THREAT OF MUTINY OF SEPOY SOLDIERS IS SEEN IN ENGLAND . (Continued From First Page.) ously injured today near Nasik in a flerce encounter between seven Pathans and vfl.\llfm from Nangaon. The vil l{’e‘n turned out in large num- bers whe nthe alarm of “Robbers!” was raised. The Pathans, who are M'hm hillsmen, were armed with knives and lagers hemmed them in used long-range slingshots with deacly GANDHI FORFEITS PRESS. Principal of Mahatma’s University Is Put Under Arrest. BILMORE, Bombay, April 29 (#).— It was understood here today on arrival of Mahatma Gandhi from Karadi that he had directed the publishers of his newspaper. Young India, to allow his press to be mmua by the lmemment rather than deposit the securit; manded under the new censorship. press is known as the Navjivan nnd rints also the Navjivan vernacular . ‘The new censorship or rnng is the old measure of 1910, re- invoked by Viceroy Lord Irwin to meet A&mnt situat; his arrival here Gandhi received Test of Kakn Halelkar. the primcipal of e o his university at Ahmadabad and one of his mosg trusted lieutenants. LAD BITTEN BY DOG Representative Huddleston’s Son Is Treated at Casualty Ee-mnl .onueo Huddluwn Jr -ym-old dleston o( m 'u hu:! at cu- ualty xo-mm yesterday afternoon for wound.s ot the left arm and groin in- log while the boy was at {lln '.he nrd of his home, 608 Mas- usetts avenue northeast. rounnuu condition was nounee t serious after treatment by ® staff physician at the hnlplul and he ‘was removed to his h lice to be ir of 1216 Quhw street, was turned over to Health Department officials for observation. sy Recognition Is Spurned. VIENNA, April 29 (#).—Because the state opera woud not present one of operettas, Franz Lehar, compom- of ‘Merry Wido has frowned on ro- | bl sixtieth | al drrow. He believes the or'opera house is\interested only in dead AOMPOEEI S, BARNETT FUNERAL SERVICE ARRANGED Private Rites at Home to Precede Those at Epiphany Church. Funeral services for Maj. Gen. George Barnett, former commandant of the United States Marine Corps and pos- sessor of a long and distinguished record in the service, who died in the United States Naval Hospital Sunday, will be conducted at the Church of the Epiph- any, Episcopal, tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Z. Barney Phil- lips, rector, assisted by Rev. Sydney K. Evans, chief of chaplains of the Navy, will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery in the plot reserved for Naval Academy class of 1881. The following members of the class of 1881 of the Naval Academy will act as pallbearers: Former Senator O. E. Weller of Maryland, Capt. William H. Stayton, W. Russell, former Min- ister to Santo Domingo; H. L. Ballen- tine, James H. Colwell, W. W. White and Sinclair Weeks, the son of the late John W, Weeks, former Secretary of ‘War, who will represent his father, Gen Barnett's room mate at the Academy; Admiral Hugh R. Rodman, Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson, Maj. Gen. A. W. Brewster, Maj. Gen. Willlam D. Connor, Senator Swanson of Virginia, Brig. Gen. George Richards, Brig. Gen. B. H. Fuller, Brig. Gen. Hugh Matthews, Brig, Gen. Rufus H. Lane, Col. Paul St. C. Murphy, Dr. Leo 8. Rowe, director gen- eral of the Pan-American Union; Wil- mott Lewis, W. D. Davidge and A. R. Addison. Brig. Gen. John T. Myers of the Marine Corps will command the mili- tug escort. 'receding the church services, pri- vate services will be conducted at the residence, 1712 R street, in the morning at 10:15 o'clock. This service will be attended only by the members of the immediate family. Gen. Barnett’s associates and other friends who wish to view the body may do so0 at the residence this afternoon and evening. Gen. Barnett, who was 70 years old, was a native of Lancaster, Wis. Fol- lowing his graduation from the Naval Academy he served at practically every Marine post in the United amu, spent many years aboard the fighting of the Navy and saw service at Marine in Panama, the Philippines, China and Porto Rico. He was awarded the Legion of Honor Medal of France and the United States awarded him _the Dllttnmlllhed Service Medal for his services in the World War, ———— CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Church Women’s Meeting to Fea- ture “Old Maids’ Convention.” Presentation of a play entitled “The Old Maids’ Convention” by the Trilla B. Young Class of Western Presl Church will feature the meeting of the Business Women's Council to be held this evening at the Church of the Cove- mnc oormecdcuc avenue and N street. ti&mu pg lé’g l‘e::dl:’. vo T tion of the phyp NAVAL DELEGATION LANDS IN NEW YORK WITH ARMS TREATY: (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) naval limitation leads to mutual con- fidence, and confidence leads to further ll.miumn in the future. Each process runs in a circle, but one is a vk,lmu circle, whlch leads ultimately to war, and the other is a beneficent clnu, which leads toward permanent “We eel that we have accompl step on this road to peace. trnt&vmch ‘We bring home oompetmon completely ended between the navies of the three greatest naval pow= ers of the world—America, Britain and Japan; and with the other two powers— France and Italy—we have also reached agreements which though not complete, i’\;’ee ntllel:.ldlm’ in mme same direct! loni ly, we hope, competition will be abolished between all fle: “I am glad to tell you that with fairness and goodwill from all the other delflluom of the different powers. The t of the conference was one of its est attributes and is one of the most hopeful results of our meeting. Naval limitation is necessarily a continuing process, and we feel that the conference Wwhich we have just left will lead to further progress along the same road. No Sign of Division. “For the American delegation I need the. besk ‘ot our our *l:ldlym ‘.l;?eu bt" been m us no gn of par since “sl.un these shores. 7 on returning we represent no party in American politics. We went d6ire"Gt The Natlon Tor Frendsnty witn for e all the world.” SR Senator Robinson said the American delendon to the conference “feels justi- in asking the favorable judgment ot the Senate and the public on the “There was a time,” he said, “when the delegates from the United States were not assured that it would be safe t&;e:.mg”ggr 'gnmude for this reeep- ‘express.” and Adams are entitled to uluu of 17 guns, Imt their position -: plenipotentiaries London entitles escort of motor cycle he y e - sl t.h. nmylvnnh Rail ton, where Secref sent w the ‘London h‘ent.y which he copy o ce | bassador Morrow planned to take leave of his moehmpln New_York md m)? over at his home in A delegation of m Sup- rs of nu candidacy for the United tates Senate arranged to meet him at the New Jersey end of the Holland tun- nel fo. a pubuc reeepuon in Journal Juare, Jersey en the dlr Le dropped liner. ht in the wires of the than's radio antenna, from where it was lowered without damage to the equipment. ~The mail included a message of greeting to the delegates from the commander of the Navy's air- lhlpn Secretary Stimson radiced his ‘While members of the delenum -nd other passengers crowded to to watch the destroyer escort m-mnver into_position alongside the Leviathan, the liner’s siren sounded an unexpected iast, signaling “I am turning to star- Ship's officers discovered at once that Mrs. Ernest St. George Lough, sister- in-law of Rear A Arthur J. Hep- by accidentally trol. destroyers to_disregard uq:ur- Delegates to the undm Naval Con- burn, & adviser with the dele- gation, had unwlm:uln lo\mdod the the siren conf The Leviathan immediately board” signal md tha Nn as- sumed their positio it 'w !mnu left New York for Washi: X n the