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generally fair and tomorrow fair. at 3 am. today. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Showers this afternoon followed by Temperatures—Highest, 84, at 3:30 pm. yesterday; lowest, 64, Full report on page 9. ° cooler tonight; to- ch ', No. 31424, post _office Entered as second class mat Washington, ter D. C WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. El ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Sfar. service. Yesterda FTT) (B Means Associated ’s Circulation, 114,729 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news TWO CENTS. Press. ADANIS SAYS PACT 1S ADVANTAGEOUS TOAMERCANNAVY Secretary Declares Treaty Based Solely on Combat Strength of Nations. JAPANESE AGREEMENT CALLED EMINENTLY FAIR Senator Hale Bombards Witness With Many Technical Questions. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. “As Secretary of the Navy I am clear that the treaty is an advantage to the Navy of the United States,” said Sec- retary Adams in his open statement to the naval affairs committee of the Sen- ate today on the London naval treaty. Secretary Adams told the committee that the treaty looked to an orderly plan for the development of the United States Navy. He said that he had no doubt_that the treaty provided parity with Great Britain in every category of naval vessels. In attempting to reach parity with Great Britain, the only method adopted had been to compare the actual naval combat strength of the United States and Britain. “That was the only possible way of reaching an agreement,” said Secretary ‘Adams. He added that if an effort had been made to take into considera- tion the size of the British merchant marine as compared to ours, or the number of naval bases of the British it would have been necessary to con- sider also other national assets, includ- ing the size ot the population’ of each country, the ability of each to produce food and other necessities. Under such circumstances, Secretary Adams said, an agreement would never have been reached Praised Japan Pact. Secretary Adams also praised the ment entered into finally between the United States and Japan, Whichw he said, he considered eminently fair. Secretary Adams was bombarded with questions by Senator Hale, chairman of the naval affairs committee, in regard to many technical points involved in the treaty. The chairman of the naval affairs committ-eebse:ged Amw see ad- vantages vielded by the ericans to the Japanese and to the British in a number of instances. Secretary Adams defended the treaty and called Comdr. Harold C. Train, U. S. N, to give the committee answers to some of these technical questions. Secretary Adams told the committee that it would cost in round numbers 000,000,000 to carry out the naval 4 of Lh!" United States under he Trndon treal oenator mgmu &ut that all of this expenditure must not be set down to new construction. Some, he said, must go for maintenance and some for replacement. ,May Delay Building. Secretary Adams indicated that pos- sibly it would not be the plan of the Navy Department to go ahead with the construction of all the six-inch gun cruisers authorized for the United States, admitting thereby that this country might be satisfied, as far as that class of vessel were ‘concerned, to a paper parity with Great Britain. ‘The Secretary said that the general board of the Navy had estimated that this country needed 21 8-inch gun cruisers for national defense and the defense of American commerce. He in- dicated that he did not entirely agree with the general board. It was brought out that the insist- ence of Japan and Great Britain had reduced the number of 8-inch gun cruisers alioted the United States from 31 to 18. At the outset of the hearing, Senator Hale read a prepared statement to the committee and to Secretary Adams setting forth the purpose and intent of the foreign relations committee in hold- these hearings on the London naval treaty although that treaty is not be- fore the naval affairs committee, but is in the hands of the committee on foreign relations which today continued its hearings with Secretary Stimson, head of the American delegation to the Naval Conference, again before it. Attend Other Hearing. Some of the members of the foreign relations committee have looked with a measure of resentment upon the in- sistence of Senator Hale on holding hearings simultaneously with the foreign relations committee. ~The two mem- ers of the naval affairs committee who are also members of the foreign rela- tions committee, Senator Robinson of | Swanm“ of | ear- Arkansas, and Senator Virginia, both today attended the ings of the foreign relations committee. In his statement of the purnose of the naval affairs committee in holding the hearings, Senator Hale said: “The purpose of these hearings which we are about to hold is to briug out for the use of the Eenate and for the STIMSON DEFENDS Named Chief Justice l JUSTICE ALFRED A. WHEAT. PARITY PROVISION Driving Attack, Led by John- son, Is Launched in Questioning. By the Associated Press. Secretary of State Stimson today de- fended agairist senatorial attack the British-American-Japanese naval treaty | signed at London. Secretary Stimson, under a driving succession of questions by Senator John- son of California, told the foreign rela- tions committee tha. the nebulous American proposal for a new battleship | merely was a “trading point” at Lon- | don; that the cruiser settlement was | the best obtainable, and that no offi- cial records of most of the negotiations were kept because none was necessary. He emphasized the difficulties facing the London Conference and insisted the United States got all that was hu- manly possible out of the negotiations. “You can’s blame the delegation lur( not handing you parity right hot off the griddle,” said Stimson, “when we ! started with only two cruisers. All we could do was lay the framework for future equality. Concluding three days before the for- eign relations committee, Secretary Stimson agreed with hostile questioners thit parity in British-American cruiser strength would not be reached until | after 1936, but argued that nothing bet- ter could be expected. Admiral William V. Pratt, commander of the Battle Fleet, followed Stimson with a declaration that the treaty was “very satisfactory,” and that, although he was on record as favoring elght- inch gun cruisers, he would rather have the variety of big and little guns pro- vided by the new agreement. He described the six-inch as prefer- able in bad visibility and added that “you 't have good visibility in the Pacific.” Treaty Satisfies Pratt. “Is this treaty satisfactory to you?” ssked Chairman Borah. “Yes sir; it suits me and when I say that I know if we had any fighting now I would have to do it.” Borah asked Pratt if he had changed his mind on the eight-inch and six- inch cruisers. I have a very definite rea- son which has just come I;&zwhs 1 prefer a six-inch, but I would to tell you that in private,” said the admiral. Johnson Starts Questioning. Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- fornia, started the questioning. He asked if Mr Stimson thought this coun- tyr should kuild up to its full strength under the treaty “That is a question for the Budget Bureau,” said the Secretary. Senator Johnson remarked he had heard that the British battleships Rod- ney and Nelson alone “could wipe out the whole American fleet.” “I have heard that, but not from American sources,” replied Mr. Stimson. “There was unanimity among our naval experts that the American Battle Fleet was equal to the British under the treaty.” “Did you propose the construction of an_additional battleship?' Mr. Stimson replied: “There were two ways of making our fleet at least the equal of the British fleet. One was |to modernize our vessels and the sec- ond, more drastic and more expensive, was to build an additional vessel like ‘he Rodney or the Nelson. “It was a matter of negotiation. As a result, we had no difficulty in getting consent for the first method.” Stimson Explains Cruisers. “If we went ahead and built the cruisers that we could build, we wouldn't reach the total of 16 crulsers 1 (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) EGGS CODDLE ON ACTRESS’ HEAD AS SHAMPOO COOKS IN HOT WATER Jack Buchanan, as Leading Take a Stove to By Consoifdated Prees. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 14.-~They got altogether too synthetic here today, with the result that Jack Buchanan paced the floor while Jeanette Mac- Donald spent a couple of hours with her head under a faucet. It wasn't really anybody's fault. How would a mere man director known that you don't need a stove to make an omelette? Jack Buchanan, the “Maurice Chev- alier of London,” is playing opposite the blonde soprano in a film being shot at Paramount. He is the 6-foot Scot who scored an instantaneous hit in* the first Charlot Revue and subsequently threw New York into an uproar with the trousers known as Oxford bags and | with the song about how they wear them in_Glossup. He threw the movie lot into an up- roar today, but with a difference. A wassup itself could hardly have precipi- tated more consternation. “I never before gave anybody a sham poo!” said Buchanan, and flung up his hands as if that explained everything: which, indeed, it did. He added with & groan: “1 never will again. ‘1 was ab solutely stunned.” He had nothing on the rest of the tast, including the soprano. In this piece rchmln disguises himself as a hair- Man, Finds That It Doesn’t Cook an Omelet. | dresser in order to be near his lady | love. The disguise was O. K., but the | hairdressing wasn't so good. It might have been all right if the | director hadn't decided that veritable | soapsuds wouldn’t glisten enough in the | film. Synthetic soapsuds, concocted of a dozen eggs beat up to a splendid, | glisteny foam, were substituted. An egg | shampoo is among the best things in the world for the hair, as every blonde | knows, but they didn’t think to tip off Buchanan about the water. He used hot water. Nice and hot. | Oh, not hot enough to blister the scalp, ‘nul. it doesn’t take very hot water to; give an egg a thrill. The water cooked the eggs. With horror, Buchanan saw them beginning to cook, yet you couldn't ispoil a thousand dollars’ worth of film footage to call the director’s attention | to the fact. In desperation Buchanan | poured on more hot water and by the | time the seene was done, so were the eggs. Thoroughly. Ten minutes the life of an egg, especially in plenty of hot water. 15 a long, long, time. When the direclor called “cut!” Buchanan was a nervous, and Miss Macdonald a hirsute, wreck. Miss Mac- Donald spent the next 2 hours and 25 minutes in a nearby beauty shop, and for many weeks to come Buchanan is going to look embarrassed whenever anybody mentions an omlette, (Copyrizht. 1930.) { | purpose of handling land condemna- | Beaver Dam Country Club Entry WHEAT ELEVATED 10 CHIEF OF D. G SUPREME COURT White House Not Yet Ready to Name Successor to Justice. HAS SERVED ON BENCH HERE SINCE LAST JUNE New Head of Tribunal Succeeds Judge Walter I. McCoy, Who Resigned Post. Alfred A. Wheat, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. was today named by Presi- dent Hoover to be chief justice of that court, succeeding Walter 1. McCoy, who resigned last December. ‘The nomination was sent to the Sen- ate this afternoon. In making this announcement the White House said it is not yet in a position to appoint a successor to Mr. Wheat as associate justice. Judge Wheat has been a resident of the District of Columbia for a number of years and at the time of his appoint- ment to the local Supreme Court bench by President Hoover, last June, he was one of the special assistants in the solicitor general's office of the Depart- ment of Justice. He specialized in land condemnations and tax cases and was appointed to the additional judgeship created by Congress principally for the tion cases. Has Shown Marked Ability. Although Mr. Wheat has been on the bench but a short time he has shown marked ability in the handling of his court and has won a high place in the Federal judiciary. Moreover, he has earned the high regard of the local bar, and it 1s because of the record he has established since being on that court that President Hoover elevated him to be_the presiding justice. Because of his seniority, Associate Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford was expected by many friends in Washing- ton to be named as Chief Justice Mc- | Coy's _successor, but it is understood that Justice Stafford recently let it be known that he preferred to remain in his present position rather than be made the chief justice. | Associate Justice Hitz also was rec- ommended to be the presiding judge, but he, too, it is understood, had no preference for it. — Considered Six Months. For nearly six months the Attorney General has been considering for the President the matter of selecting a suc- cessor to Chief Justice McCoy and the filling of the necessarily vacant upon the bench in the event one of the present associate justices was elevated. Both the White House and the At- torney General have been anxious to have the appointment go to a man familiar with local laws and conditions, but, however, consideration of available men_has not entirely been confined to the District of Columbia. Justice Wheat is a native of New | Hampshire, although he has been cred- ited as being a New Yorker. He was educated at Dartmouth College, being graduated there in 1889, when he came to Washington to study law at the Co- lumbia Law School, which has since become the George Washington Univer- sity Law School. ‘While studying at the local institu- tion Justice Wheat taught a business course at Central High School. He or- ganized the business department of Central High School. GRUNDY AND DAVIS EXPENSES PROBED Senators Nye and Wagner on Pennsylvania Tour of Inquiry. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 14.—Pre- paring to investigate charges of exces- sive expenditures in the campaigns of Senator Joseph R. Grundy and Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, two members of the Senate campaign funds committee will arrive here tomorrow. They are Sena- tors Nye of North Dakota and Wagner, New York. The Grundy and Davis factions have charged each other with excessive ex- penditures. The Federal and county prosecutors here were asked to aid the Senate investigators in probing condi- tions and have pledged their co-opera- tion im the attempt to prevent corrup- tion at the primary, May 20. Senator Nye was in Philadelphia to- day to make an informal survey of po- litical conditions there affecting the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania. MOORE LEADS FIELD IN QUALIFYING GOLF Shines in Chevy Chase Round. W. Bion Moore of the Beaver Dam { finals in_the afternoon. Country Club led a field of more than 100 golfers early this afternoon in the qualifying round of the Chevy Chase! Club invitation golf tournament with a | score of 73, four over par for the course. With the advantage of good weather Moore was out in 39 and back in 34. Shortly after noon rain clouds, which had hovered over the course during the morning, broke and drenched the lay- out, making conditions for the later starters more difficult. Other early scores follow: Hugh Reid, Toronto, 79; Donald Parson, Chevy Chase, 77; W. C. Baty, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, 81; P. W. Calfee, Washington, 81; Rob- ert Stead, ir,, Chevy Chase, 83; Thomas Pitt, Argyie, 84; J. W. Harvey, jr, In- dian Spring, 84; E C. Gott, jr., Colum- bia, 85; Major H. Robb, Bannockburn, 86; Ray Farrell, Manor, 86. o Porto Ricans Have 18 Children. SAN JUAN, May 14 (#).—The census reveals that one Porto Rican couple has 18 sons, all living at home, and that another has had 31 childrep by 3 mar- ringesa 3 COLLETT DEFEATS BRITISH CHAMPION Helen Hicks Advances to Sixth Round—Maureen Orcutt Is Beaten. By the Associated Press. FORMBY, England, May 14.—Helen Hicks, long-hitting New York girl, was the first erican to advance to the sixth round of the British women's championship, winning her way through a defeat of a fellow countrywoman, Mrs. Leo Federman, also of New York, 4 up and 3 to play. Glenna Collett won an easy victory from Beryl Brown, 7 up and 6 to play, and followed Miss Hicks into the quar- ter finals of the championship to be played to morrow morning. Miss Collett defeated Miss Molly Gourlay, the Eng- lish champion, in a 21-hole match in the fifth round this morning. i el by e, g ., of Miss Collett plays Hilda*® Cameron, an accomplished Scotch golfer. May Meet in Semi-Finals. If the two Americans negotiate the hurdles ot the quarter-final play of the morning they will meet in the semi- Miss.Orcutt was eliminated by Miss Wilson, former English native cham- pion, 6 up and 4 to play. The New Jersey girl could not cope with the brilllant golf*played by her opponent, who is rated as the most formidable British player left in the competition. The day's play found five Americans eliminated. Miss Virginia Van Wie, Mrs. Stewart Hanley and Miss Edith Quier were defeated in the fourth round and Miss Orcutt and Mrs. Federman in the fifth Miss Collett, American champion fought an epic battle with Gourlay in the morning round. The Amer- ican girl was 2 up at the fourteenth, but saw her lead shot away. With the issue in doubt after the eighteenth was played, the two champions halved the nineteenth and twentieth holes before Miss Collett could negotiate the victory at the third extra hole. Miss Hicks, was carricd to an extra hole, eliminating Mrs. Percy Garon, 1 up, at the nineteenth. Miss Van Wie was eliminated at the‘ nineteenth hole by Kathleen Macondla of Scotland in the morning’s most sur- | prising upset. Mrs, Stewart Hanley of Detroit was beaten by Dr. Marion Alex- | ander, another Scotswoman, 2 and 1. | Edith Quier of Reading, lost a close match to Daisy Fergus land, 1 up. 2,000 Follow Collett. Nearly 2,000 persons were gathered at the first tee as Miss Collett began her | all-important match with Miss Gourlay. Miss Gourlay missed a 5-foot putt at the first hole and went 1 down as Miss Collett holed out in par 4. Miss Collett conceded an 18-inch putt to her opponent at the second, which was_halved in 4s. The English girl (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) WOMAN IS HUNTED IN RICHMOND DEATH Arrest Is Expected in Shooting of Harry Rohm as Police Con- centrate on Probe. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., May 14.—Police, informed that a small woman dressed in dark clothes was seen running from the vicinity of the home of Harry Rohm, 45, leather dealer, mysteriously shot to death at his residence Monday night, said an arrest in connection with the slaying was expected. Coroner James M. Whitfield, after an IAuwpsy‘ withheld a verdict, but said it “appeared Rohm had been shot by other hands than his own.” The homicide squad of the Richmond Police Department was working on the theory that the “small woman,” whose name was closely guarded, could furnish information regarding the shooting. Detectives were told the woman tried to avoid passersby, and when observed ran up a side street. Officers refused to divulge the iden- tity of a suspect questioned. HEADS BOY SCOUTS NEW YORK, May 14 (P)—Walter W. Head of Chicago was elected presi- dent of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America for the fifth consecu- tive year at the closing session of the twentieth annual meeting of the coun- cil_yesterday. President Hoover was re-elected hon- ovary president, as were the four hon- orary vice presidents, Calvin Coolidge, Colin W. Livingstone, Daniel Carter Beard and Willlam 5. McAdoo. Other officers also were re-elected. Radio Programs on Page C-4 14 GLENNA COLLETT. CANNON MAY REPLY 10 STOCK CHARGES Daniels Urges Trial to Clear Up Accusations Against Bishop. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., May 14.— Bishop James Cannon, jr, of Washington to- day was expected to go before the Episcopacy committee of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South to defend himself against formal charges of actively “playing” the stock market. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C. mer Secretary of the Navy; F. T. Fitz- hugh, Memphis, Tenn., and Judge James P. Woods of Roanoke, Va. a former Representative, last night ap- peared before the committee and urged holding of a trial to clear up the ac- cusations. Much secrecy surrounded the pro- ceedings, as well as decision on com- plaints, if any, against the character of other members of the College of Bishops. Fitzhugh announced that in addi- tion to himself, Daniels and Woods, 17 Methodist_laymen signed the charges. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BANDITS WHO ROBBED DEWEY ARE CAPTURED Jewels Belonging to Czoembeck and Part of Money Are Recovered. By the Associcted Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 14— The entire gang of bandits who attacked and robbed Charles S. Dewey, American adviser to the Polish government, and Carlos A. Davila, Rumanian Minister at Washington, recently near here, were |, captured near Mogosoala during the night. Most of the jewels belonging to the Countess Czoembeck, wife of the Polish Minister to Rumania, who also was with | the two men, were recovered, as was also part of the money taken from the party. The bandits were old offenders. Game Called Off At Griffith Field Because of Rain Rafn today prevented the pl ing of the second base ball game of the series between the Na- tionals and Indians at Griffith Stadium. The clubs are to meet tomorrow in the final of the set. Today's postponement will be played off when the Indians make thelr next visit here in June, , for- | Countess | [EADERS AND ARNS ARESEED I O Wholesale Arrests Are Made as Curfew Is Invoked in Sholapur. By the Assoclated Press SHOLAPUR, India, May 14.—Whole- sale arrests of civil disobedience lead- | ers, including two men suspected of the | murder and burning of two constables, occurred here today. Troops of the Royal Ulster Rifles,| aided by civil police, began combing| the city for Gandhi followers, Dur-! ing their cleaning-up operations they came upon a veritable orsenal of swords and spears in a private house. Before dawn more than 200 natives had been arrested in connection with the curfew order which last night for- citizens being abroad n the streets | between 7 p.m. and 6 am. Some of these were released with a warning. Others were held on suspicion of being ringleaders in the campaign of kill-| ings and arson of last week. It was stated officially that those not brought before a military court would be given civil trials for minor offenses. Inhabitants Leave. An exodus of Sholapur inhabitants today followed the curfew proclama- tion and the earlier institution of martial law. Trains leaving the city were crowded to capacity. | *The martiallaw regulation prohibited | | the display of congress flags among other things. It provided that no per- | son “shall commit any act or be gullty |of any omission” prejudicial to good | order, or public safety, or Ctlc\llgfbd to hamper or mislead the troops or 'which | that a person is performing or pretend- that a person is performing of pretend- ing to perform any duty or duties nor- mally performed by persons in author- ity.” ‘The punishment provided is 10 | years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine. | ™3 spite of promises by the authorities | of protection the Sholapur mill owners today refused to reopen their mills until Saturday, expressing the fear that there still were a number of disturbers who might cause trouble among the workers. | Farmers Form Courts. | Parmers of the Karod division of the Bardoli revenue district are forming courts of their own in a campaign to ignore governmental tribunals. In | these courts they will settle their own disputes, as a step of civil disobedience. They intend creating village courts, or | arbitrations councils, in every village |of the division and a national court of appeal to hear cases sent up from the villages. | The farmers, it was announced by | Congress leaders today, have decided | not to pay their land revenues and to boycott with the utmost rigor all gov- ernment servants and government sup- porters. CHILD DIES, TWO ILL ON AUTO TRIP South Carolinian Sent to Baltimore | Hospital With One of Family. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., May 14.—Motor- ing here from South Carolina, Robert Demsky and his family arrived early today with one child dead and | the father and another child so ill of | an updiagnosed malady that they were taken to a hospital. | The child, Elmer Demsky, 6, died en | route from Petersburg, Va., police were told. Demsky, coming into Baltimore, stop- ped his car and called a policeman, |“I have a child dead.” The policeman | called a patrol and sent the child and | its mother to a hospital. | The patrolman then saw the man waver and fall to the sidewalk and T | Demsky, too, was sent to the hospital. ‘The patrolman then decided physicians should examine Marion, 8, the other child, and sent Mfim to the hospital also. Demsky told the patrolman before he collapsed that they had left their home in South Carolina to visit a sister here. A rash appeared on the children and a doctor was consulted en route at Petersburg, Va. The children were | given some pills to take, he said, and | nothing more was thought of the matter until after midnight, when Elmer died as the family neared the city. dograias | Jilted Suitor Kills Self. | CHICAGO, May 14 (#).—Two weeks HEARING ORDERED ON MOORE'S BILL FOR FISCAL STUDY District Committee Indicates Approval of Plan to Set Up Commission. STREET CAR MERGER DISCUSSION DELAYED City Officials Move to Settle Claim Against Surety Company Is Referred to Group. 4 The House District committee today showed its approval of the bill spon-| sored by Representative Moore of Vir- ginia, for the appointment of a com- mission to determine and recommend periodically to Congress the amount of contribution the Federal Treasury should pay toward the expenses of the District of Columbia, but at the re- quest of Representative Tarver, Demo- crat, of Georgla, went into executive session and decided to hold a hearing on this measure next Tuesday in order that Chairman Simmons of the sub- committee on District appropriations, or any others who have stated that they are opposed to the legislation, might have an opportunity of expressing their objections. E. W. Thomas, representing the corporation counsel’s office, explained to the committee the bill submitted by the District Commissioners for author- ity to_settle for $7,000 a claim against the Globe Indemnity Co., surety for the Commercial Coal Co., which de- faulted on a bond in December, 1916, to the amount of $19,800. He explained that it cost the District $54,000 to buy its coal in the open market. The meas- ure was referred to the subcommittee on the judiciary for further study. Merger Hearings Continued. Representative Reid, Republican, of Illinois, moved that hearings on the street car merger measure be continued a week from today and this was agreed to by a vote of 8 to 4. Representative Moore explained his bill for creation of an unsalaried com- mission of nine to study the fiscal re- lations and to report periodically to Congress how the expenses of the Na- tional Capital shall be shared. His bill proposes that this commission be composed of thy chairmen of the Dis- trict legislative committees in both House and Senate, the chairmen of the appropriations committees of both House and Senate, one of the District Commissioners, the director of the PLEA FOR INCREASE OF U.S. LUMP SUM MADE T0 CONGRESS Petition and Argument Laid Before Vice President and Speaker by Committee. SET FORTH DEMANDS FOR FISCAL REFORMS Unless Proportionate Share Is Re- Established U. . Allotment Should Be Enlarged. Congress was urged today by the Cit- izens’ Joint Committee on District of Columbia Fiscal Relations to restore the 60-40 basis of fiscal relations be- tween the District and Federal govern- ments, as provided in substantive law, or to increase the lump sum in relation to the increase in the District budget. As the Senate bill increases the lump sum by $3,000,000, the petition was, in effect, a plea that the Senate provision be adopted by the conferees. ‘The plea was contained in a petition submitted to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Longworth of the House by a delegation representing the Citizens’ Joint Committee, headed by Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the committee and vice chairman of its executive com- mittee. The others were George Plitt, president of the Board of Trade, Ed- ward D. Shaw, executive secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation; Charles W. Darr, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Charles I. Stengle, chairman of the finance committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and Robert J. Cottrell, secretary of the Citizens’ Joint Committee, Curtis Gives Opinion. Vice President Curtis, the first to be called on, told the delegation he would see that the petition is “properly pre- sented” and declared that personally he is in favor of a return to the 50-50 ratio of fiscal relations between the Federal and District governments. While serving Kansas in the Senate, Mr, Curtis said, he was chairman for several years of the committee which had charge of the District appropria- tion bill and he advocated then the 50-50 principle. “I am just as strong a believer now as I was then,” he de- clared, “that the United States should | share one-half of the expenses of the Nation’s Capital.” He later presented | the petition to the Senate. It was re- ferred to the appropriations committee. In presenting the petition Mr. Colla- i day referred briefily to the ineq) Budget Bureau and three actual resi- dents of the District of Columbia of capacity and experience, who are will- ing to serve without fin nsation and ;vhoLnnll be appoin E; the Presi- en! Moore Reviews History. Representative Moore reviewed the history of the fiscal relations between the Federal and District government, pointing out that in 1874 the 50-50 pro- portion was determined by act of Con- gress, and that in 1921 the proportion was changed to 60-40 in an appropria- tion bill with legislative effect, and that later rigid lump-sum appropriation of $9,000,000 was carried in the appropria- tion bill. Representative Bowman, Republican, of West Virginia, emphasized that this lump-sum appropriation “is in violation of a statute.” Representative Moore confirmed _that opinion, and Repre- sentative Bowman expressed a desire that the bill under consideration should carry a provision which would hereafter prohibit the House appropriations com- mittee from continuing to thus violate a statute. Representative Moore reviewed the lump sum item in the pending District appropriation bill, where the House has written in *$9,000,000 lump sum and the Senate has changed that amount to $12,000,000. Mr. Moore raid that he does not see how it will be possible to reconcile the difference between the Senate and House and to be fair to the people of the District without a fact- finding hoard as provided in his bill. He is unable to see how any claim of unfairness can be made considering the proposed make-up of the commission of nine who would make the study. Reid Wants More Members. Representative Reid argued that there should be more members of the House and Senate on the proposed commission since it would be the Congress which finally would take legislative action as a result of the study to be made. Mr. Moore replied that he was not concerned with the personnel of the commission, but to have a fair study made of the facts, with an authoritative report to Congress. He declared that he has no convic- tion of his own as to what particular percentage of Federal contribution there should be and that his main objective is to get a consideration of the fact on which to base a fair and just decision, He told the eommittee that the citizens’ associations generally are demanding some study and that there s no known objection to his plan, which has been widely approved. Representative Bowman declared that the $9,000,000 lump sum is “absolutely ridiculous” and that there is nothing to show why the Federal contribution should be $9,000,000 rather than any other amount. He called attention to the objection made by Chairman Simmons of the subcommittee on District appropria- tions against the bill to increase the salaries of police and firemen in the District which has unanimous support from the missioners, the Federation of Citizens’ Associations and the Busi- ness organizations of Washington. He pointed out that Mr. Simmons had is- sued a fiat that the increases in salaries | isting under the present lump sum pla | pointing out that in 1924, when the ap- | propriation for the District amounted {o $30,000,000, the Federal Government | contributed $9,000.000, whereas the ap- | propriation bill for the 1931 fiscal year carries a total of $44,000,000, and the ! House voted to have the Federal Gov- ernment _contribute the same amount. ‘The Senate, however, he explained, added- $3,000,000 to the Federal Gov- ernment’s share, Hopes Senate Will Be Firm. “I hope,” Mm Colladay said, “that the Senate will stand firm on this in- crease when the District appropriation bill goes into conference.” “On behalf of organized Washing- ton,” Mr. Colladay said in handing the petition to the Vice President, “I am delegated as head of this group to present to you a petition by the citizens’ Joint committee on District of Columbia fiscal relations. In brief, we present a petition to have the $12,000,000 lump sum carried in the District appropria- tion bill for 1931 as it passed the Sen- ate—an increase of $3,000,000 over the amount appropriated by the House—re- tained in the bill.” Asks Return of 60-40 Ratio. ‘The petition sets forth that the defi- |nite proportion contribution provision of 1922 is the existing substantive law, but that Congress since 1924 has pro- vided annually for a lump sum in_lieu of the 40 per cent fixed as the Fed- eral Government’s share of the Dj | trict’s expenses. It then renews an peal for return of the 60-40 ratio, and raises the following points in support of an increase in the $9,000,000 lump-sum contribution pending restoration of the substantive law rrh’\dple: |""To prevent glaring inequity, your pe- | titioners 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, basic lump 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 relation to | the amounts of contribution by Nation | and Capital that is thought to be just, or (3) provide for local,‘as well as a national maximum of contribution on | the assumption that it is the impotent local partner who alone needs this pro- | tection, or (4) by referendum or other- | wise, permit the local taxpayers to have | some 'effective say in regard to the | amount of local taxes and the purpose | for which the tax money is to be ex- pended.” Arguments Embodied in Petition. | Arguments advanced by the commit- | tee in support of its position are em- bodied in the petition. The petition bore the signatures of Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the ex- ecutive committee; Mr.Colladay, Mr. Plitt, Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations: Mr. Darr, Mark Lansburgh, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association; Mr. Shaw, Ross P. An- drews of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association; Mr. Stengle, John A. Petty, executive secre- tary_of the Washington Real Estate (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) “TRYING TO STEAL A CAR IF I CAN,” POLICE TOLD BY TRUTHFUL MAN Officer’s Smile Displayed Each Tooth—A Witty Young Fellow He Was Forsooth—Witty or Not, Told Truth. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 14.—A thief may be a thief but not necessarily a liar, and i there 15 evidence to support it. A police officer patrolling near the ! North Side stopped to view with ago Miss Jghel Swanson, 19, jilted | Henry Darff. Early today Darin, 22 | years old, in front of her home and killed himself. suspicion a man who was having trouble unlocking an automobile parked at the curb. “What,” inquired the officer, “are you doing?” “I'm trying to steal this automobil® f I can ever get it unlocked,” said the young man. “Ha, ha, ha,” laughed the officer, asd strolled on. If you think the young man_was telling a story, ask Miss Ellen Root, for it was her car. “Was" is right, It's gone now. e n,