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x WEATHER.
Fair tonight and tomorrow, cooler
tonight; inodtrato west and northwest
winds.
Temperature-for twenty-four hours
ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 63, at
11:30 a.m. yesterday; lowest, 55. at *
2:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7.
Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30
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D. C. FISCAL SYSTEM
[ CHANGE IS OPPOSED
IN D. C. BILL DEBATH
Representatives Moore and
Tinkham Lose in Effort to
Block Amendment.
FISCAL RELATIONS
INVESTIGATION PROPOSED
Representative Moore Asks Probe
by Joint Body of Whole System
Between D. C. and IT. S..
'When the District appropriation b/l
ifor the fiscal year beginning July 1
next was called up for consideration
under the live-minute rule t/dayi
after passage of file Rogers I*ll t-> j
resentative Louis C. Cranton, Mic'- !
igan, offered an amendn.;nt wh'ch !
Would entirely change the fiscal re
lations between the federal And Dis
trict governments.
In the first paragraph of th* bill,
here provision was made for pay
■ g the money on a 60-/0 per cent
basis, as between the pistnct rev
enues and the federal T/'-asvry, Rep
resentative Cramton proposed a j
straight contribution of $8,000,000 j
from the federal Treasury. He point- i
eJ out that in this hill contribution ]
from the Treasury amounts to $8,973.- j
•i'!6.80. He held thAt his amendment \
is in order because it is a form of
retrenchment.
Point of Order Made.
Representative R. Walton Moore,
Democrat, of Virginia made a point |
of order against the Cramton amend.
Tnent, contending that it would not
hold under the Holeman rule He
said that eventually the effect would
be to reduce the federal contribution
under $8,000,000 and that it would
reduce to a minimum the contribu
tion from the federal Treasury to
ward the upkeep of the Nation’s Capi
tal.
Representative Moore argued the
point of order at length, and a fur
ther point of order was made by Rep
resentative George Holden Tinkham.
Republican, of Massachusetts, a mem
ber of the subcommittee wnich draft
ed the District appropriation bill. The
point of order was finally overridden
on a decision from the chair.
Point of Order Debated.
The point of order was debated at j
length between Representative Cram- I
ton and other prominent House lead- j
ers. Representative Cramton’s con- j
tention was that this effects a re
duction in the amount taken from
the federal Treasury and that the
Holman rule was designed to pro
tect the fereral Treasury. He ar
gued that his amendment would not
disturb the original provision that
returns or drawbacks to the federal
Treasury should be in the same
proportion as the Wnds were con
tributed hy the federal and District j
governments.
Representative Finis J. Garrett,
Democrat. Tennessee, minority lead
er, argued that this amendment does
not reduce the amount carried in the
bill, while it does reduce the amount
contributed by the federal govern
ment, it increases the amount which
"would be taken from funds to the
credit of the District government in
the Federal Treasury and that there
fore it does not reduce the amount
taken from the Federal Treasury.
Illanton Sees Rate Raise.
Representative Thomas L. Blanton,
Democrat, Texas, remarked that the
Cramton amendment merely means
that the present tax rate of $1.20
would he raised to $1.35 or $1.40.
Representative Hen Johnson. Demo- I
oral, of Kentucky, a member of the !
appropriations committee and former
ehaiman of the House District legis
lative committee, said: "I am the
author of the present law under
which this bill was l>rought in. X was
not for such a law, except that it
was the best thing the government
could get under existing circum
stances.”
He said that he would favor a lump
sum appropriation, but he disputed
as not analogous the claim of Rep
resentative Cramton that in carrying
out this amendment the House would
in effect be doing the same as it
does with river and harbor appropria
tions, -when it reduces the amount
that the federal government shall
pay and thereby increases the amount
‘-Uat a state woyltl have to pay.
Representative Johnson emphasized
that the House must not lose sight of
♦he fact that it is legislating for two
parties, the federal government and
tlie District of Columbia, which is •
exclusively under the jurisdiction of ;
Congress.
Tinkham Backs District.
"You are proposing to violate a
B)iioral contract with the District, be-
in the law of 1920 you oom-
the taxpayers of the District
■ o pile up a surplus so as to get them
B'n a cash-as-you-go basis within five
said Representative Tinkham
Hin arguing against the Cramton
■amendment.
■ Representative James T. Begg of
Hohio, Republican, wanted to know
the people of the District could
■ make any contract with Congress.
■Representative Tinkham replied that
■ "when Congress asserts by solemn
■ law and arrangement for five years
■ such an arrangement should not. be
as you are proposing to
■do, without any hearing and with the
■ proposition offered from this floor
■ w ith only fifty members present.”
■ Chairman Davis of the subcommit
■ tee which drafted the District appro
■ priation bill explained to the House
■ how the provision for piling up a
V surplus to put the District on a cash
I basis within five years came to be
I agreed upon, and Representative
ft cramton supported Representative
■ Davis. Representative Tinkham told
■ Representative Davis in response that
■ there is so much friction between the
I District and Congress because so
I many policies are proposed which are
A repudiated almost as soon as adopted.
■ He challenged Representative Davis
■ and Representative Cramton why two
■ years ago they did not propose what
■is being proposed today and which
they now say is the right thing to do.
Reads Citizens’ Petition.
Representative Davis then read a
petition of the citizens’ joint com
mittee on fiscal relations between the
y/ilted States and the District of Co
lumbia for recognition and appro
priations on a 50-50 basis of the Dis
trict’s accumulated Treasury tax sur
plus, signed by the presidents of '
’ hree local business men's organiza- '
'ions and by the presidents of many
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I BRITISH TO PfOPOSE
DIRECT RELATION
I DEAL WtR BERLIN
i Mac Donal/ Favors Taking
Dawes Flai From Hands
of |7ebt Commission.
FRENCH VIEW DIFFERS,
\ PJINCARE INDICATES
i
. Lmdot to Ask Business Methods
( Be Used as Against
’ Political.
! JJ- (he Associated Press.
i LONDON, May I.—When Prime Min
ister MacDonald meets Minister
Theunis and Paul Hymans of Belgium
| at Chequers Court tomorrow the Bei
■ gir.n emissaries will be told that
I Great Britain desires to put the Dawes
plan into effect by taking it out of
the hands of the reparation commis
sion and dealing directly with Ger
many in a new international confer
ence.
In this conference, according to the
British view, the allied powers will
j meet Germany, not as victors over
| the vanquished, but as hard-headed '
; business men trying to settle the
i gigantic reparations debt hy business
j instead of political methods.
While this plan has not been offi
| cially announced, it is understood
that the British government is anx
i ions to revert to the policy which
I was interrupted when Premier Poin
: care ordered occupation of the Ruhr,
and Mr. MacDonald is expected to
take this Host opportunity of outlin
ing the British desires. «
So far as is known here there are
no indications that France shares the
British desire for a new conference
with the Germans, M. Poincare being
understood to favor turning the ex
perts’ plan over to the reparation
commission for application in its en
tirety.
TORNADO DEATH TOLL
IN SOUTH REACHES 95
500 Injured in Seven States, Lat
est Figures Show—lncrease
Expected.
PROPERTY LOSS, $10,000,000
Women and Children Chiefly Vic
tims of High Winds.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga., May I.—With nine
ty-five persons known to be dead,
more than a score missing, approxi
mately 500 injured, some perhaps
fatally, and hundreds homeless, the
southeast set about today to relieve
its regions stricken yesterday and
Tuesday by the worst high-tension
storms in history.
Tornadoes, descending with devas
tating violence upon widely sepa
rated sections, caused damage esti
mated at $10,000,000 in South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama. North Caro
lina, Virginia, Louisiana and Ar
| Kansas. The last two were the first
I to suffer, being in the area in which
the disturbance originated Tuesday.
South Carolina Hard Hit.
Early today, incomplete reports de
layed by crippled wire facilities dis
tributed the total list of dead as fol
lows: South Carolina, 66; Georgia, 13;
Alabama, 11; North Carolina, 3;
Louisiana, 1, and Arkansas, 1.
With many points in the path of the
storms yet completely isolated, re
ports of additional casualties were
anticipated hourly.
Relief work is proceeding rapidly
under the supervision of the American
Red Cross, assisted by numerous local
fraternal and civic organizations, mu
nicipal _ and county governments and
individuals. Hundreds of thejrnore for
tunate survivors of the storms have
thrown open their homes to the
j sufferers, while in virtually every
! locality in the affected districts tem
i porary kitchens have been set up to
j dispense food to the hungry.
A picture of desolation and wreckage
i was left in the wake of the storm,
which traversed a path roughly
estimated at more than a thousand
miles long.
More Dead in Virginia.
Its destructive force, however,
seemed partly to have been spent as It
spread eastward through Virginia last
evening, no deaths having occurred
there so far as known, and but slight
property damage caused compared
with other sections in which it struck.
Dead and injured and many of those
unhurt were picked up by the fierce
winds and hurled through the air
hundreds of feet. Miles of telephone
and telegraph lines were torn down,
hundreds of dwellings and other build
ings were ripped from their founda
tions and demolished, trees were up
rooted and numerous live stock were
killed, while bridges were washed
away and roads flooded in many sec
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Hamorfs Ambition Was to Make Son
President of V . S., Says His Widotv
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May I.—The ambition of
Jake Hamon, Oklahoma politician
and oil man, was not to be Secretary
Os the Interior—it was to make his
son, Jake, jr.. President of the United
States. This was disclosed today by
his widow on her return from Wash
ington, where she was summoned to
testify before the Teapot Home In
vestigation committee, and then was
not asked to take the witness chair.
"He wanted to be nothing else but
chairman of the Republican national
committee,” Mrs. Hamon said.
“ ‘l’ll get it and I’ll hold It for years,
until Jake, jr., is old enough to take
She Jpenirm .
V, J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1924-FIFTY-TWO PAGES. **
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GOLFING SEASON.
———
TESTIFIES WHEELER
PROMISED PERMITS
Colorado Oil Man Tells Probers!
Senators Said He Would
Handle Land Grants.
RECORDS REFUTE CHARGE
Land Oflice Head Denies Montanan
Appeared in Case.
The special Senate committee in
vestigating the indictment of Senator
Wheeler in Montana was told today
that the senator had promised when
ho came to Washington to take care
of the land permits in which his
client, Gordon Campbell, was inter
ested.
W. W. Rhea, a Colorado oil man,
testified that he heard such an as
surance given to Campbell in Janu
uary, 1923, and that Campbell had
told him Wheeler was to be paid for
it. The Montana indictment charged
that the senator took a fee for ap
pearing before the Interior Depart
ment in the matter. S
Witness Sticks to Story.
Under a severe cross-examination,
the witness stuck to his story hut
said he first had made these state
ments within ton minutes after, he
had met Blair Coan, sent tp Montana
by Secretary Lockwood of the Repub
lican national committee, although
he did not know for what purpose
Coan wanted the information.
Prior to Rhea’s testimony the com
mittee had received from Commis
sioner Spry of the general land office
a letter saying the files of his office
failed to show that Senator Wheeler
over had appeared as an attorney
there in land matters.
Colorado Man Tmlififn.
At the outset Chairman Borah read
a letter from Commissioner Spry, of
the general land office, saying that
a search of the files of his office
failed to show any appearance as an
attorney hy Senator Wheeler before
that office in the matter of land
permits.
W. .W. Rhea of Idaho Springs, Colo.,
who identified himself as oil man,
was the first witness. He said he
had met Wheeler at the Rainbow
Hotel,' in Great Falls, on January 15,
1923, at a conference at which Gordon
Campbell and H. C. Glosser also were
present.
“The main conversation,” he said
“was in regard to the Phil McGowan
permit. Mr. Campbell said It would
be fixed up when Mr. Wheeler got
to Washington.”
“What, If anything, did Senator
Wheeler say?” asked Senator Borah.
“He said we didn’t need to worry,
that this would all be taken care of
when he got hack here."
Says Wheeler Promised “Slice.’*
Rhea said he had an interest in the
Phil McGowan permit, and that Camp
bell declared if the permit was “fixed
up," they would give Wheeler “quite
a big slice out of it.”
“Did Senator Wheeler make any
statement when there was talk of
slicing up the permit?” asked Senator
Borah.
“I don’t think he said a word,” was
the reply.
Rhea testified ho never paid any
sum to Wheeler in connection with
th© permit, nor did he have any
knowledge that Wheeler appeared in
the land office either in Washington
or Montana in connection with it.
Senator Borah developed that Rhea
had made an affidavit in connection
with the Rainbow Hotel conference.
“To whom lid you first narrate this
matter?” asked Senator Borah.
“To Mr. Coan.”
Rhea said he had met Coan at Den
ver on invitation of Glosser, who for
merly was an employe of Campbell.
After Probe Started.
“AVas this after the investigation of
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
it over,’ he told me,” she said.
" ‘Then I’ll make him chairman in my
place and let him hold it until he is
wise enough and old enough, and
when that time comes I’ll make Jake,
jr., President —the youngest President
of the United States.’ ”
Hamon swung his support from
former Gov. Lowden of Illinois to
Warren G. Harding In the 1920 Re
publican national convention at her
request, Mrs. Hamon said. Harding,
she explained, was a distant relative
of her family.
Then the widow, who was married
to a Chicago man and divorced since
Hamon’s death, paid a tribute to the
deceased.
“I want to be known by his name;
I shall have no other. I shall hence
forth be known always as Mrs. Jake
Hamon.”
Senators Taken
From Hearings
To Get Quorum
There were so many investiga
tions and hearings in progress at
the Capitol today that the Senate
sergcant-at-anns was forced to
invade some of them to round up
a sufficient number of members
to carry on business on the floor,
where the tax bill is under con
sideration.
Hoping to get an early start
on the tax bill, Chairman Smoot
of the finance committee had ob- !
tained unanimous consent to eon- !
vene an hour ahead of regular
meeting time. Two roll calls
counted only forty-two senators
present, however, and the ser
geant-at-arms was dispatched to
get seven more.
After a few minutes a quorum
was numbered and business pro
ceeded.
M'CRAY ENTERS CELL
WORN, BUT SMILING
| Former Indiana Governor Will Be
Finger-Printed at Atlanta
Penitentiary.
COMPANION PRISONER FLEES
New State Executive May Probe
All Departments.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga., May I.—Sympathy
for the tornado victims in the south
was expressed today by Warren T.
McCray, former governor of Indiana,
just before he was committed to the
Federal penitentiary here to serve a
term of ten years for using the mails
to defraud. "My heart goes out to
those who lost their loved ones and
their homes,” he said.
The former governor made this
comment at Rome, Oa., early today,
during a brief stop of his train, on
which he came from Indianapolis. He
had nothing to say directly about his
case.
Looks Worn, Bnt Smiles.
McCray looked worn, but greeted
newspaper men with a smile. His
guards were Harry Wertz, deputy
United States marshal, and E. J.
Pogerty, warden of the Indiana state
prison.
Robert Lambert, another prisoner
being brought to the penitentiary by
the same deputies, escaped from the
train early today, near Shelbyville,
Tenn.-, by jumping through a wash
room window. He was ponvicted of
automobile theft. \ There were five
other prisoners in the party, in addi
tion to McCray.
No extra preparations had been
made to receive McCray at the Atlan
ta penitentiary, officials stating he
would go through the same routine as
any other prisoner. After being
photographed and finger-printed, he
will be given a blue denim uniform
and assigned to a cell. He will re
ceive a physical examination either
this afternoon or within a few days.
OFFICIAL CLEAN-UP SEEN.
New Governor of Indiana Urged
to Reorganize Departments.
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May I.—While
former Gov. Warren T. McCray was
,en route to the federal prison at At
lanta, Oa., today, to begin serving his
ten-year sentence for postal law vio
lations, Emmett F, Branch, the new
chief executive of Indiana, began a
survey of state departments to deter
mine If a reorganization of the ad
ministrative body is necessary.
At a conference last night, attend
ed by Gov. Branch, Clyde A. Walb,
Republican state chairman, and other
party leaders, the question of investi
gating state departments which were
under the control of McCray was dis
cussed, it was said. Little informa
tion regarding the meeting was
given out, however. Gov. Branch said
any action he may take will be deter
mined later. •
Walb Waata Cleaa-L'p.
Chairman Walb, who was said to
favor a thorough Investigation of
state departments, after the confer
ence said the statehouse must be
purged of any suspicion that may
exist. He called attention to a state
ment Issued at the time that he de
manded McCray’s resignation. In this
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CITES VITAL NEED
FOR U. S. BUILDINGS
Fernald Pleads Cause of $50,000,-
000 Construction Program
Here at Once.
MORE WORKERS COMING
Says Bonus Bill Will Add 2,000
to Pay Rolls Here.
With 2.000 additional government
employes necessary in Washington for |
the administration of the soldiers’ !
bonus law, the enactment of legisla- j
tion authorizing a comprehensive j
building program by the government i
in the District of Columbia has be- j
come vitally necessary. Senator Fer- I
nald of Maine, chairman of the com
mittee on public buildings and i
grounds, said today. •*
’’The bill authorizing the expendi
ture of $50,000,000 for the erection
of public buildings in the District,
which was ordered favorably report
ed by the committee on public build
ings and grounds yesterday, should
be put through at the present session
of Congress." said Senator Fernald. !
He said that he was hopeful of get
ting favorable action on it before
adjournment.
, Asked hr President.
President Coolidge, he pointed out,
recommended such legislation to Con
gress in his annual message last
December. Senator Fernald said that
he believed the budget bureau also
would approve. It is planned, he
said, to expend about $10,000,000 a
year for the construction of buildings
here during the next five years.
‘‘As a matter of business,” said
Senator Fernald, “it is of great in
terest to the government to begin
this building program in Washington
without further delay. The govern
ment pays about $700,000 a year rent
for buildings in the District now.
Unless new buildings are erected this
rental b*M will increase.
"The employes who will be neeedd
here f( r the administration of the
soldier bonus will number from 2,000
to 2,200, I am told. It is estimated
that they will require about 95,000
square feet of floor space. I do not
know where they are to be housed.
The government has not space in its
buildings and it will be difficult to
rent quarters for them.
Like Dou Keaneln.
“We have government employes
here today working in quarters that
are- little better than dog kennels.
Something should be done without
delay to relieve these conditions,
"The development of Washington
along artistic and beautiful lines
should be carefully guarded in the
construction of the proposed new gov
ernment buildings. However, ade
quate buildings, considerably less or
nate than those demanded in the past,
can well be erected to house the
working forces of the government
here.”
Senator Fernald also expressed the
hope that the Congress would at this
session enact legislation providing for
the construction of the proposed me
morial bridge across the Potomac
River from the vicinity of the Lin
coln Memorial to Arlington.
Senator Fernald la, writing a report
on the public buildings bill for the
District, which probably will be sub
mitted Saturday or Monday.
BUI Ordered Reported.
The bill authorizing the expendi
ture of $50,000,000 for the erection of
public buildings in the District of
Columbia was ordered favorably re
ported to the Senate .yesterday by the
Senate committee on public buildings
and grounds.
The bill provides that not more
than $10,000,000 shall be expended in
any one fiscal year. It provides also
that the public buildings commission
shall make a thorough study of the
situation and determine how the
money is to be expended.
The bill carries out the recom
mendations made by President Cool
idge to Congress In his annual ad
dress last December. The bill was
drafted by the public buildings com
mission, of which Senator Smoot of
Utah is chairman.
The bill will be reported to the Sen
ate within the next few days, according
to Senator Fernald of Maine, chairman
of the committee on public buildings and
grounds, and placed on the Senate
calendar.
Leaps From Liner Into Sea.
NEW YORK, May 1. —A passenger
aboard the Royal Mail liner Orduna,
believed to have been Thorndike Hil
ton of Chicago, jumped overboard in
midocean Tuesday evening, according
to radio advices received today at the
offices of the line.
The message said that the liner
halted ajtd circled the spot for some
time without'finding the body.
Fear U. S. Globe Flight Chief
Is Victim of Alaskan Storm
Searchers Find No
Trace of Martin
in Chignik Hop .
Islands Combed by
. Wireless and Ships
as Cede Abates,
By (h* Associated Press.
CORDOVA, Alaska, May I.—No
word had been received at 2:25 a.m.
today at this station, which Is in con
stant wireless communication with
the north Pacific region, concerning
the fate of Maj. Frederick L. Martin.
Radio transmitters at cannery sta
tions along the Alaskan peninsula
and the Aleutian Islands westward
from Chignik, whence Maj. Martin
flew at 11:10a.m. yesterday, were ex
pected to open at 9 o’clock, and it
was hoped that some news might
come then.
Ship* Asked to Search.
Vessels that have come north for
the annual Alaska salmon pack were
asked to take up the search. Maj.
Martin has been experiencing diffi
culty ever since the expedition of
four planes left Santa Monica. Calif.,
March 17. Very few of these boats
are equipped with wireless, and the
number of such craft in the region
between Chignik and Dutch Harbor
is small.
The cutter Algonquin of the United
1 States coast guard, at Pirate Cove,
; about half way between Chignik and
; Dutch Harbor, sent a message stating
i that she would be in communication
! with cannery stations as soon as their
I radio opened and that she would
! endeavor to communicate with all
cannery vessels.
The message from the Algonquin
expressed the hope that Maj. Martin,
■whose sole companion was his
mechanician, Sergt. Alva Harvey,
might have alighted at a cannery
station for the night.
FISHING BOATS SEARCHING.
Badio Says No Trace of Martin
Reported on Peninsula.
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. Wash., May I.—Radio
j advices received at 5 a.m. today from
' the Alaskan Peninsula stated no trace
j has been fobnd of Maj. Frederick L.
| Martin in the flag plane Seattle,
j which left Chignik yesterday for
M’CARL’S AUTHORITY
UPHELD AND DERIDED
Representative Madden Would
Clarify Controller General’s
Powers.
OPPOSING BILLS ARE ARGUED
Saving of $1,000,000 Claimed by
Decisions of Official.
Controversy over the power of the
controller general of the United States
was carried before the House judiciary
committee today, which opened hear
j ings on a bill by Representative
j Madden, Republican, Illinois, to
j clarify, and a bill by Representative
| Dallinger of Massachusetts, to restrict
the controller general’s authority.
J. R. McCarl. the present controller
general, was praised by Mr. Madden
as the “eyes of Congress” and assail
ed by Mr. Dallinger as “dictator of
the United States.”
In the course of his discussion of
the controller’s powers Mr. Madden
indicated he was opposed to the entire
system of making , payments for
claims against the government and
that he shortly would introduce a
bill to provide that all payments
should be made by the Treasury De
partment.
Recovery of $1.000.000.
At the hearing were Mrs. Bessie T.
Biueggeman, chairman, and other
members of the United States em
ployes’ compensation commission,
which has been in a long-drawn-out
controversy with the controller.
More than $1,000,000, Mr. Madden
said, had been recovered within two
years on transportation bills for the
War Department. The loss of inter
est to the government, Mr. Madden
declared, had been $126,000.
Criticising the War and Navy de
partments for refusing to co-operate
with the controller general in an or
der calling for audit before payment
of transportation accounts, Mr. Mad
den said that all other departments
and establishments of the govern
ment except these two were co-oper
ating willingly.
Abuse* Are Charged.
Representative Montague of Vir
ginia, member of the committee,
pointed out two instances in which
he asserted the controller had ex
ceeded his authority.
The Madden bill provides that “dis
bursing officers shall make no pay
ments of any claim or class of claims
or on any account whatsoever wher
ever the controller general of
United States has by regulation or
decision otherwise directed the
method of payment and all branches
of the government are hereby re
quired and directed to comply with
such regulation or decision.”
Representative Dallinger charged
that the controller general had ex
ceeded his authority and that under
the Madden bill there would be
nothing to prevent him from hold
ing up the pay of a member of Con
gres» or from stopping the sailing
of n Navy dreadnaught or the move
ment of troops.
Would Review Decision.*.
Representative Dallinger said he
had voted for the budget and ac
counting act and believed In the sys
tem in general. But he had con
cluded that the controller’s powers
should be subject to review.
The Dallinger bill, he explained,
provided that the decisions of the
controller general In case of dispute
should be reviewed by the Attorney
General. The present controller gen
eral, Representative Dallinger charg
ed, pays no attention to the Court of
Claims or to the Supreme Court of the
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MAJ. FREDERICK h. MARTIX.
Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island. Fish
ing boats are searching for the miss
ing plane.
FEABS FELT FOR SAFETY.
Terrific Gales Reported on Eastern
Point of Unimak Island.
FALSE PASS. Unimak Island, May
1 (By wireless to the Associated Press, j
via Bremerton, Wash.). —Fears are !
expressed here for the safety of Maj. i
Frederick L. Martin, commanding a |
United States Army squadron encir- |
cling the globe, who left Chignik, !
Alaska, at 11:10 a.m. yesterday for
Dutch Harbor. Unalaska Island, and
who ha;; not been reported passing
any points.
Residents at the small cannery sta
tion here, located on the southeastern
point of Unimak Island, near Ikakan
Bay. have just passed through the
worst five days ever known for this
period of the year.
The North Pacific Ocean has been
lashed by terrific gales, the wind fre
quently reaching a velocity of 100
miles an hour. The air at the wire
less station has been filled all day
with snow blown from the mountain
sides and neighboring peaks.
Even the seagulls making their
home here did not try to fly. seeking
sheltered nooks and staying out of
the cold wind. The temperature has i
ranged from CO to 24 degrees above
zero during the storm.
The residents all believed that a
mistake was made attempting the
400-mile flight from Chignik to Dutch
Harbor during the gale.
LEAGUE FOR PEACE
SESSION OPENS HERE
Jane Addams Apologizes for “In
tolerance" Toward Women’s
World Group.
SAYS U. S. FAVORS AIM
Tells Delegates From 22 Countries
Americas Against War.
Apologizing to the delegates to the
fourth international congress of the
Women’s International Leag-ue for
Peace and Freedom for ’’certain cur
rents of intolerance" they have en
countered in America, Jane Addams
told the inaugural assembly of the
congress today that perhaps it should
have acceped an invitation to meet
in London, "where free speech and !
free assemblage are once more firmly
established.” t
The congress convened shortly be
fore noon in the hall of nations in
the Washington Hotel, to remain in
session for a week. Delegates from
twenty-two countries answered the
roll call and in addition there were
present guests and visitors from all
parts of the world, including mem
bers of patriotic organizations direct
ly opposed to the peace and freedom
program of the league.
Apologizes to Delegates.
At the outset Miss Addams declared
♦.hat in speaking in the dual capacity
Os international officer of the league
*nd an American citizen she did not
consider her position in either place
conflicted. "I do not believe.” she said,
•that devotion to international aims
Interferes with love of country any
more than devotion to family detracts
from good citizenship. And»l am sorry
now to speak a word of apology.
"Ever since you landed some of you
must have felt certain currents of
intolerance never before encountered at
our previous congresses. May I assure
you that Americans are not by nature
and training less tolerant than the
people in those other countries who
treated us with such fine and unvary
ing courtesy. But a survival of war
psychology Is an unaccountable thing; j
it constitutes a new indictment of the
devastating effects of war upon human I
character.
“Perhaps it was too soon to hold
our congress on American soil. Pos
sibly we ought to have accepted the
Invitation of our British section to
meet in London, where free speech
and, free assemblage are once more
firmly, re-established. But I beg of
you not to take this situation too
seriously. One thing I would very
. much deprecate: I should be in de
spair if you were frightened and in
hibited so that, instead of a real con
gress with a genuine discussion, we
should have a sort of dress parade
congress, with a pretended discussion
and -an expression of half convic
tions.”
Demand for End of Wars.
Miss Addams told thedelegates
that if they spoke "from the depths of
your hearts” they would find a tre
mendous response throughout the
United States. ”ln churches, in col
leges, in cities and on farms there is
at last arising an overwhelming de
mand.that war shall cease,” she said.
“And, more than that, that the United
States shall lead in a movement to
this end. This beautiful Capital city
of ours does not always know what
the people want, although it tries so
hard to find out!”
Miss Addams announced that Presi
dent Coolldge would receive the dele
gates at the White House at 12:30
o’clock next Wednesday afternoon. It
would be necessary, however, for
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TWO CENTS.
HARDING APPROVAL
OF NO. 2 OIL LEASES
DECLARED LACKING
Search of Records Fails to
Show Fall Authorized to
Make Coast Deals.
TITLE TO 3,000 ACRES
MAY BE FOUND INVALID
Remainder of California Reserve
Contracted for Under Work
at Higher Royalties.
Turning its attention for the first
time to Naval Reserve No. 2, in Cali
fornia, the Senate oil committee was
advised today by Assistant Secretary
Finney of the Interior Department
that a search of the records failed to
show the necessary presidential ap
proval of the lease of over 3,ot"i
acres in that reserve to the Honolulu
Oil Company.
The lease was not valid, the wit
ness said, unless approved by tlv
j President, because Secretary Fall had
| no authority of his own to make su. h
a contract.
Nearly Whole Area I,eased.
| All of naval reserve No. 2 had been
leased by Fall, with the exception of
| 1.280 acres, he said, and since Secr*--
i tar >’ Work came into office the re.
; mainder has been leased at the re
quest of the Navy Department. Th..
leases made since Fall resigned carry
i in royalties from 01 to 50 per ceni,
he said, which were much higher than
those under Fall.
At the conclusion of Mr. Finney’s
testimony the committee took a re
cess.
Gets List of Leases.
Mr. Finney gave to the committee
a complete list of- all leases made on
the Buena Vista reserve and re
viewed the history of each. This re
serve is known as the "checkerboard”
reserve, because the lands held for
the Navy were in ipost instances al
ternating sections, with the interven
| ing sections under private control.
Many of the early leases, Mr. Finney
| showed, were tor offset wells, granted
to protect drainage by wells on adjoin
ing properties. While authority for
making the earlier leases rested in the
Secretary of the Interior, the witness
said. Secretary of the Interior Payne
in all instances referred applications to
Secretary-of the Navy Daniels and made
no leases without the latter’s approval.
Some Made Under Payne.
Some of the leases made under Sec
retary Payne were to prevent the in
trusion of water, Finney said. The
early leases were made by act of Presi
dent Wilson, upon written reports by
Secretary Payne.
Most of them were for producing
] wells. The first area leased by Mr.
I Payne went to the Consolidated Mutual
| Oil Company and covered 120 acres.
First Lease By Kail.
1 Secretary Fall later granted ‘‘area”
leases, the witness said, to cover
areas in which his predecessor had
granted "well'* leases to producing
wells on mining locations. The first
“area” lease by Pall was for 160
acres on naval reserve No. 2 to the
Boston Pacific Oil Company.
’’Secretary Fall took the view.”
Finney said, "that on account of the
large area of patented lands and
wells upon them it was impracticable
to maintain the reserve as a reserve
and the lands should be leased. I
heard him express that opinion.
About that time he was considering
a plan of exchanging crude oil for
i naval oil in storage.”
The development of the Pall policy
with respect of naval oil reserves
was then reviewed by Finney, who
said the first discussion of the “ex
change” plan was between March and
June, 1921. In July Pall went west
and was absent two or three months.
On December, 14, 1921, the lease to
the Boston Pacific Oil Company was
approved and it was followed by
other area leases.
(tnliird On Reserve No. 2.
The history of the lease on naval
oil reserve No. 2 to the Honolulu Oil
Company by Secretary Fall was ex
plained at the request of Senator
Walsh, who said that by resolution
of the Senate the committee had been
directed to go into that matter spe
cially. Senator Walsh added that he
wanted to obtain from Finney a foun*
dation for such inquiry as would b’
made later.
Fall had authorized the lease to the
Honolulu Oil Company, Finney said,
and it was not approved by Secre
tary Denby. He had been unable to
find any record to show that Presi
dent Harding gave his approval. Sen
ator Walsh read from the law to sus
tain his conclusion that the lease
was invalid unless approved by the
President, and Finney agreed.
Fall granted the lease to the Hono
lulu Oil Company after his predeces
sor, Secretary Payne, had denied a
patent to the company, the witness
said. Land covered was slightly in
excess of 3,000 acres.
DEMPSEY TO MEET WILLS
FOR TItLE IN SEPTEMBER
Rickard Announces Match Ar
rangements; Bout to Be Held
at Boyle’s Thirty Acres.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May I.—Tex Rickard
announced today he had matched 1
Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills for
a world heavyweight championship
fight at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, Jersey
City, on September 6.
So far as Wills is concerned the
match is contingent upon a victory
over either Quintin Romero, Chilean
heavyweight, or Ermlnio Spalla, Ital
ian holder of the. European heavy
weight title, some time in June at
the Jersey bowl, Rickard said.
Wills already has signed for both m
contests and the promoter said In- fl
had obtained the agreement of Jack 9
Kearns, Dempsey’s manager, to the 9
title match with the negro. At the 1
same time Rickard announced that h» I
had definitely abandoned all further m
negotiations with Luis Angel Flrpo, ■
following the latter’s rejection of ■
the promoter’s latest bid for bis ■
services, and insistence that he will ■
retire from the ring. Rickard has In- I
structed his Buenos Aires agent, I
Juan Homs, to return to this coun- '
try.