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2 ROOSEVELT BEFORE U. S. OIL GRAND JURY Assistant Secretary of Navy to Tell cf Kis Part in Tea pot Leases. GRIFFIN' ALSO ON STAND Admiral Once Protested Transfer of Reserves. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant sec retary of the Navy, and Hear'Admiral R. S. Oriflin. retired, were the chief witnesses today as the special fed eral grand jury resumed Its inquiry jnto charges of fraud and corruption in connection with the naval oil leases. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt car ried to *ho White House for President .Harding's signature the famous Exec utive order of May 31, 1921, under which Secretary Fall took over con trol of the naval oil reserves and leased them to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward 1.. Doheny. Also at the re quest of Fall, Roosevelt sent marines to Teapot Dome in the summer of 1922 to drive off "squatters" after that reserve had been taken over by Sinclair. A\ ns in I’hargf of Reserve*. Admiral Griffin, formerly chief of t lie bureau of engineers, was in jharge of the reserves for a number of years and was one of the naval officers who protested vigorously to Secretary Dcnby against their trahs fer to the Interior Department. He sought to amend the original draft of the Executive order so as to leave '■ontrol with the Navy, but testified before the Senate oil committee that an amendment he had written into the order was completely changed in the Interior Department. Roosevelt also suggested changes in the original draft, and sfne.e the resigna tion of Dcnby has stated that he op posed the transfer from the first, but kept silent because he did not want to be pul in the position of "running out ’ on his chief. Furnished Sensation. In bringing his brother Archie before the Senate committee last January Mr. Roosevelt produced one of the many sensations in the Senate inquiry. He related that he listened in on a tele phone conversation between his brother and G. D. Wahlberg, formerly private secretary to Sinclair, in which there was a mention of $68,00P sent to the foreman of Fall's New Mexico rancti. Ollier witness*-s before the grand jury loday were Harvey A. Wilcox of El i’aso, Tex.; A, D. Brownfield of Car rizozo, X M. ; Lee A. Gifford, Albu querque. X. M.. and W. C. Mendenhall. K. S. Heald and W. S. Kent of the In terior Department. Wilcox and the New Mexico witnesses were said to have knowledge regarding expenditures made by Fail in New Mexico after his ap pointment to the cabinet. NOTRE DAME CHAPEL DEDICATED TODAY Archbishop Curley Presides at Rites at $500,000 Edifice at Trinity. The new JoOO.OOO Chapel of Xotpe Dame at Trinity College was dedicat ed today by Archbishop Cnriey at a brilliant ceremony attended by prom inent members of the diplomatic corps and church dignitaries. Archbishop Cnriey pontificated at solemn high mass in the new edifice. He was assisted by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Edward A. Pace of the Catholic Uni versity, Rev. Dr. William J. Kirby, Very Rev. Michael J. Carey, C. S. P. The deacons of honor were Very Rev. Dr. John P. Fcnlon, S. S.; Very Rev. Charles p. Aaken, Rev. W. Carroll Milholland. S. S. Over a thousand persons attended the dedication of the new church. The structure is a free rendering of the Byzantine style built of Ken tucky limestone with a roof of Span ish mottled tile surmounted by a stone lantern, on top of which there is a sculptured bronze - cross. Over the portico there is a sculptured fig ure of the Mother of God and the Divine Child. Interior of MarMc. The interior walls of the church are finished in Italian marble, the base of the walls being trimmed in black marble. The dome and naive are tiled with guastavino tile, with gold and erahesque designs. In the dome are icxteen stained-glass windows, repre senting four angels and archangels in prayer. The intervening wall space is_ adorned with symbolic reliefs. The walls of the chancel are of sil ver Sienna marble, with marble col umns and a large number of gold mosaics in figures symbolizing va rious phases of life. Ihe main altar of yellow Brescian marble is dedicated to Xotre Dame, nod is the gift of the alumnae asso ciations of all the schools conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame de xamur. I’he marble altar rails are me gift of the iadies of the auxiliary I'Oard. The sanctuary is of rose and uark green marble, with steps of black marble leading to the altar. The aisles are of Tranni marble. The transpet altar also is of Brescian yellow marble. The altar to the east was given by Trin ity College and the altar to the west by the mother of a former student in memory of her daughter. There are also two shrines in marble ■md mosaic of the Immaculate Con ception and the other of St. Joseph. Windows of medieval design adorn me church. There are numbers of ornamented decorations and chan deliers. A large organ of 10,000 :>ipes is contained in the chapel. The seating capacity is about 1,000. Paulist Choir Slid. The Pauiist choir furnished the music and Bishop Thomas J. Shanan rector of the Catholic University,’ preached the sermon. A letter of congratulation from Pope Pius XI. congratulating the college, was read. .More than sixty priests were in the sanctuary. -Among those present at the cere mony were; Baron do Cartier, ambas sador from Belgium: Sir Esme How ard, ambassador from England; Col. Marquis Vittorio di Bernezzo, of the Italian embassy; Assistant Attorney General Davis; the provincial superior of the eastern province of the Sisters of Notre Dame; the president of Em manuel College, Boston; members of the advisory board of the college; ladies of the auxiliary board and numerous alumnae students and friends. WILL DROP CHARGES. Attorney to Be Freed of Accusation in Kidnaping- Case. DETROIT. Mich., May 13.—Authori iies were advised today by the mar shal of Saco, Me., that Albert C. Doyle. Detroit attorney, would not be prosecuted on a charge of assisting ' in the kidnaping of nine-year-old Jean Thompson last Friday. Doyle, arrested here Sunday as he stepped from a train from Boston, was released on a writ of habeas corpus after being in custody about an hour. It is expected the charge will be formally dismissed when he appears in circuit court on the habeas corpus writ. Hundreds Are Homeless in Floods Sweeping Down Potomac Toward D. C. j <Continued from First Page.' j would be safe ground, but it was said j that shortly before 1 o'clock the i water was beginning to .run into the j first floor and it was feared that i within another hour it would be half I a foot deep there. Overflows la Canal. In many places the waters of the j Potomac and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal have merged and for miles the canal cannot be seen. From Syca more Island to below Chain bridge the towpath has been obliterated. Reports from near rtarpers Ferry an nounced the canal had virtually been ruined in that section. The repairs made after the last flood, a little more than a month ago, have been washed away and no effort will be made to resume traffic up and down that his toric waterway this summer, at least. The seawall in Potomac Park has been covered in many places, and it is probable the water will reach al most to the road in other places when the crest of the flood meets the in coming tide at 3 o'clock this after noon. The river off the Speedway is a mass of debris, and half a dozen runaway launches, torn from their moorings up the river, were salvaged when the reached the broader, quieter waters near Haines Point. Crest Passe* Harpers Ferry . The flood section of the weather bureau announced at noon that the crest had passed Harpers Ferry and the water was subsiding. The high water mark was reached at twenty eight feet, ten feet above flood stage. At Riverton, a few miles below, the measurements showed thirty-four feet. In Washington at 8 o'clock this morning the river was nine feet above flood stage and was expected to go another foot before it begins to subside. Datest dispatches from up the river declared that Cumberland, Harrison burg, Harpers Ferry and other towns will be in darkness tonight as a re sult of dams belonging to electric j power plants bursting. Dam No. 6, I one of tlie largest in the river, was swept away early today. Railroads are making every effort to save their bridges by backing cars loaded with freight upon them. Forty-five cars of coal have been run onto the Shenandoah division bridge at Har pers Ferry, but it is feared it will be swept away. HARPERS FERRY FLOODED. Fourteen Feet of Water Rushes Through Streets. By a Staff Correspondent. HARPERS FERRY. W. Va.. May 13.—With fourteen feet of water, houses submerged to the second stories, electric light out of commis s on and the two main bridges weak ening. Harpers Ferry today present ed a scene of havoc. Since 3 o’clock this morning, when the raging waters of the Potomac and the Shenandoah began to over flow - into the streets, residents have been fleeing to the higher portions cf town overlooking the rivers. Business lias been completely abandoned, all trains have stopped tunning and the writer is now lit »rally sitting in the water of the I’otomac at the office of the Harpers Ferry Paper Company, the buildings of which are inundated by the raging torrent. This is said to be the only telephone in town that is still in' commission. Properly Damage Heavy. Property damage is mounting to the thousands. Tfm waters have now reached a depth of twenty-seven feet six inches above normal, more than six feet higher than the disastrous high water of March 29. The railroad trestle of the B. and O line over the Shenandoah just above I Harpers Ferry is expected to go at! any minute. The water has almost reached the tracks, and officials of the road do not believe it will stand the strain. At 10 o’clock this morning the wa ters reached the stage of twenty eight feet and now seem to be sta tionary. The lower part of town is complete under water. Boats are running through the streets and houses on Shenandoah street are com pletely inundated. The post office and hotel are standing in six feet of wa ter. The post office has opened tem porary headquarters at the Harpers Ferry Bank, water reaching only the lower floor. Auto Traffic Stopped. Driftwood and debris are filling the streets, and breaking the windows of the stores. All automobile traffic in both directions has been stopped. A congestion of automobiles is on the Maryland side as far as Sandy Hook, and the western side as far as Bolivar. Thousands of sightseers from sur rounding towns are viewing the de struction from high points of vantage. No casualties have been reported as yet, although the property damage, on account of the swift current aaid piling up of debris, is said to be mounting steadily. Because of the electric light service being out of commission the town will be In dark ness tonight. On the Maryland side of Harpers Ferry, the river is lashing itseif against the rocks, throwing spray as high as fifteen feet, and overflow ing its banks into the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. At Weverton the river has almost reached the tracks of the BaJtxmore and Ohio Radlroad. MANY FLEE FLOOD. Hundreds of Homes Are Inundated by Rising Waters. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 13.—Re ports from Hancock at noon state ithat the Potomac River is still rising at that point, and the whole west end of the town is inundated from back water up Little Tonolway Creek, which empties into the Potomac at that point, from the bridge as far east as the Methodist Episcopal Church. The residents have been obliged to abandon the first floors of their homes. Both Big Tonolway and Licking Creeks are away beyond their banks east of Hancock, and the National Highway is closed to travel, as the bridges over these streams are cov ered with high water. Lioyd L Shaf- I fer. clerk of the Allegany County cir cuit court, returning from the east. Is marooned at Big Spring Hotel. Rail Traffic Halted. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad east of Cumberland is at a complete standstill, with water over the tracks at many points between Pattersons Creek and Cherry Run. Trains are being detoured over the Western Maryland and Pennsylvania roads. The river began falling here early yesterday evening. The rise east of here is due to the heavy flood poured in by the South Branch, Pattersons Creek, Cacapon River, Sideling Hill Creek and other tributaries. The South Branch, which is itself a good sized river normally, is the highest in many years, and has caused great damage to the Romney branch or the Baltimore and Ohio, besides inundat ing the town of Moorefield. The Western Maryland is still tied up between here and Elkins, but the damage is largely in washing out re pair work from the last flood. The line, it is expected, will be open in a day or two. Reports from Kltzmilier and Blaine state then* places did not suffer nearly as badfr as from the last flood. City in Darkness. The flood here affected the street lights, and Company G, Ist Regiment. Maryland National Guard, was called out on patrol duty last night as the city was in darkness. This la the second time this year the local guard unit has aided the poliefle in patrolling the city. The flood drove about fifty families from their homes on Water and Pax ton streets. Piedmont. The Red Cross has given notice that it is ready to extend relief. Baltimore street, this city, which was swept by the flood again yester day, was much damaged, and a Large force is employed today in cleaning it and restoring the paving for the big parade of the Grand Commandery THE EVENING STAB. WASHINGTON. D. €.. TUESDAY. MAN' 13. 1924. of the Knights of Malta tomorrow, when 3.000 are expected to march. The flood began to recede here late yesterday afternoon, and by 7 o'clock the streets were 'Rear of water. The damage to property, it turns out. was small in comparison to March 29, as people generally took warning and removed their goods. Water from Wills Creek joined the Potomac River water at the Chesapeake and Ohio (’anal break here and spread over a large area, inundating the properties of the Cessna. I.umber Company, the Cumberland Sash and IKxir Company, the base ball park and Footers' Dye Work*. It ii feared the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal below here has been badly torn. Flood Proves (Jon Meeting. A meeting of engineers In conjunc tion with city officials and business men will be held at the <nty hall to morrow to discuss flood prevention. Tills meeting had been arranged through the mayor and city counsel several weeks ago as an aftermath of the flood of Marcli 29. Mayor Koon telegraphed Representative Zihiman at Washington yesterday asking that he use his efforts toward having the War Department send an engineer here for tomorrow's meeting. A re ply came that the matter was taken up and the department promised to send an engineer here Thursday to consult with other engineers and city officials The flood below here Ms now four feet higher than the last flood. Cletus Funkhouser. thirty years old. Winchester lumber Curporatlop foreman, was drowned in swirling waters of Lost River near Wnrdeno ville, W. Va.. today, when he at tempted to cross the stream in i row boat. which capstaed. The body has not been recovered. He was u native of Shenandoah county, Va.. and mar ried. PASSES DANGER MARK. Water From Rivers at Pittsburgh Flood Lowland Sections. By He Associated Press PITTSBURGH. May 13.—After ris ing during the night and this morning the Allegheny and Monongahela riv ers here reached a flood crest of slightly more than 26 feet shortly before noon today. United States weather bureau observers said the waters would begin to recede during the afternoon. The maximum stage was four feel above the danger mark. Parts of the lower north side were inundated and basements of river front buildings along the Allegheny were flooded. Families living in the lowlands near the downtown section were forc ed to leave their homes when the waters reached their dwellings. Fair weather was reported today over the Allegheny and Monongahela watersheds and observers believed the rivers would continue to fall. 29 FEET ABOVE NORMAL. High Waters Halt B Ail Traffic in Shenandoah Valley. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., May 13. j Shenandoah River flood waters caused a large portion of the inhabitants of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., to flee to higher ground early today. P-ack water from the river extends ten miles to the outskirts of Charles town, W. Va.. and is from seven to ten feet deep. The government guage on the Potomac at Harpers Keiry registered twenty-nine feet above normal this morning, the high est since 1359, with indications of another foot rise before receding. Railroad bridges were weighted down with ooal trains from end to end. All main line traffic was sus pended. Water came within a foot of the, Ferry bridge floor on the Shenandoah, thirty-five feet above low water. The Norfolk and Western and Southern railways suspended operations on Shenandoah divisions. Efforts to detour were Im possible. Water was within a foot of the boilers in the Northern Virginia Power Company’s steam plant at Millville The Front Uoyal-Riverton municipal electric plant was buried under water, only the root showing Hydro-electric plants at Harrison burg. Woodstock. Edinburg and other towns were flooded and out of com mission. MAN SWEPT TO DEATH. Much Property Damage Done by Rappahannock Flood. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG. Va., May 13. The Rappahannock River at this city today is in the throes of the worst since the Johnstown flood in 1889, with water twenty-five feet above normal and doing much dam age to the water front. William Lucas was swept to death while trying to rescue a small boat, while several others had narrow es capes from drowning while fording feeder streams. The dwelling house and Gillum’s mill dam at Rapidan, forty miles above Fredericksburg, were washed away, and numerous fishing shacks, shanties, chicken houses, vegetation, trees and other debris are floating down with the swift current. The wharf and warehouses of the Balti more and Virginia Steamboat Com pany are inundated and the Standard Oil plant is nearly submerged. Two thousand railroad ties were washed away from J. W. Master’s lumber wharf, and the Berry Packing Company's plant at Falmouth Is un der wateiv while other damage is re sulting along the river front. The River road, leading to Falmouth, one mile away, is covered by water, and the lowlands for miles are inundated. WATERS STILL RISING. Seven Bridges Washed Away, With Others Threatened. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND. Va., May 13—Al though the crest of the freshest In virtually every river and stream in Virginia was thought to have been reached during last night, the Shen andoah was still rising early today and government forecasters predicted the James river at Richmond would go two or three feet higher before it began to recede. The Shenandoah. Tappahannock, Rivanna and tribn tary streams were reported falling. The James river, after rising to thirty-one feet at Columbia and nine teen and one-tenth feet at Lynch burg, was reported falling at those places today. The greatest damage reported was sustained at Charlottesville where loss was estimated at over $200,000. The Rivanna river was twenty-five feet above normal; seven bridges have been washed away; several manufacturing plants were flooded and others had been forced to shut down and the city was without elec tric lights and street car service as a result of the high waters. In the Shenandoah Valley, where the Shenandoah River Is higher than it has been In fifty years, roads are covered with from six inches to six feet of water. Many stores and resi dences have been flooded. inhabi tants of the low lands spent the day moving their possessions to higher land. Storm warnings were received in time to allow farmers to remove all live stock to safety but agricul tural and garden crops were wiped out. Many bridges along the Shenandoah are reported in danger. Southern and Norfolk and Western tracks are under from four to six feet of water which has risen two feet above the tracks on the Southern bridge. Quake Felt in Munich. MUNICH, Bavaria. May 13.—A slight earthquake shock was felt here yester day. The center of the disturbance is believed to have been fat the middle Alps. The tremors were noted only in the upper stories of houses. FLOOD WATERS ROUT CAMPERS ON POTOMAC iVI / sHK'"'^l ni*jg " <l^tiMß^; Jj The upper pirfure made on the inctnfa shore, alnne Key Brldiff. give* an Idea of the extent to which the river has risen and shown ran van and frame camps partly submerged The lower shows some of the campers who were forced to abandon camp, moving: their effects to higher ground. STRICT LAWS GUARD MARYLAND DOGWOOD | Despoilers Liable to Both Fine and j Prison—Bill Planned for District. The Maryland law prohibiting de struction of plant life without con sent of the owner, which has come into prominence during the cam paign this season for preservation of the flowering dogwood, provides a fin© of not less than .35 nor more than 335, or imprisonment of not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both. While proposed laws for the Dis trict of Columbia and for Virginia are under consideration by those be hind the dogwood campaign, it is be lieved the bill for the District will bs different from the Maryland law In many paxtciulars. The Maryland act became effective June 1, 1918, since which time there have been many arrests and many fines assessed. "It shall be unlawful.’’ reads the act, “for any person to remove, take, cut, break, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, flower, moss or tnrf from the land or premises of an other or cut or attempt to cut, burn or attempt to bum, girdle or attempt to girdle or otherwise damage or de stroy or attempt to damage or de stroy and standing or growing tim ber or trees thereon without the writ ten consent first had and obtained of the owner thereof, or under the per sonal direction of such owner; and any violation of this act shall con stitute a misdemeanor and any per son convicted thereof before a jus tice of the peace or other court of proper jurisdiction shall be punish able by a fln© of not less than $5 or more than 325, or by imprisonment of not less than thirty or more than ninety days, or both. Provided, how ever, that nothing herein contained shall apply to trimming of trees under the supervision of the state board of forestry." PLEASE’ , MS, LEAVE THE -YArT FOR. i lIIIfNJOY FIND GIANT SKELETON OF THE MIOCENE AGE By the Associated Pres*. BAKERSFIELD, Calif, May 13. What are believed to bo the most complete portions ever discovered of a squolodent, a mammal that existed In the mlocene age from one-half million to two million years ago, have been found by Charles Morrioe, a student of prehistoric life, on Shark Tooth Mountain, near the Kern River oil fields. Reconstruction of the squalodent, Morrice said today, has been made in Germany, Australia and England from much less portions of the mammal than he has found. The skeleton weighs 260 pounds and has a head larger than that of an ele phant. Morrice will communicate news of his find to government of ficials. M’CALLUM IN LEAD OF GOLF QUALIFIERS Turns in Lowest Card for Morn ing Over Soft and Soggy Course. Playing over a course soft and soggy from the rains of the last three days, golfers in the first day of the qualifying round of the Chevy Chase Club's annual spring tournament to day found the going heavy. W. R. McCallum of the Washington Golf and Country Club had the lowest score turned In up to 1 o’clock with a card of 79. C. E. Courtney of Chevy Chase was in second place with S 3, while Iceland Harrison was 85. Other scores turned in up to 1 o'clock follow: Horace Green, Chevy Chase, 91; Morven Thompson, Chevy Chase, 93; John 1. Power, Washing ton, 92; H. S. Pope, Indian Spring. 93; Hugh MacKenzle, Columbia, 93; Prank S. Appieman. Columbia. 93; W. B. Hill, Chevy Chase, 95; Harry Wardman. Columbia, 95; Fred C. Clark, Indian Spring, 96; J. H. Mc- Hhenny, Chevy Chase, 96; Major H. Robb, Bannockburn. 96; C. A. Watson, Columbia, 98; John L. Barr, Columbia. 102. Can Lift Balk The golf committee has adopted a local rule providing that a buried ball in the fairway may be dropped without penalty. The ball is not to be cleaned on the putting green. McCallum's score follows: Out- Par 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 McCallum ..5 4436546 4—41 In — Par 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 McCallum ..344 44754 4—38—79 114 GOLFERS START OUT IN QUALIFYING ROUND AT CHEVY CHASE CLUB One hundred and fourteen golfers started out today in the first day’s play of the qualifying round of the Chevy Chase Club’s annual spring golf tournament, knowing that but thirty-two of this number, half the entire field of sixty-four qualifiers, can make the grade when the scores are all in tomorrow night. Prom a glance at the entry list. It appears that thoso men who qual ify today have a harder assignment than those who play tomorrow, from at least three angles. In the first place, the field which starts today Is larger than that of tomorrow. In the second place, the group of low scor ers, first sixteen men, is larger, and In the third place the longer the course,has without rain the faster it will be and the lower the scores In consequence. The course today is slow and soggy In places, with heavy lies the rule and a local rule permitting the ball to be dropped In case It is buried on fair way or green in effect, San and wind may dry up the course today so these rules will not have to be put into ef fect tomorrow. Chevy Chase, as did the other courses, had a thorough soaking Saturday night and Sunday, and will take three or four days of fln© weather to completely dry out. Notwithstanding the rain, the course 5s generally in first class shape for the tournament, with the L ee Plates about in the middle of the tees, de pending on the direction of the wind. Crack Golfer* Entered. Every golfer of note about Wash ington has entered the tournament In one of the largest entry lists the Chevy Chase tournament has ever had—2l6 golfers being scheduled to get away from the first tee in the qualifying round, with hut 64 to qualify. The list includes young Ro land MacKenzie, seventeen-year-old winner of the Washington and Indian Spring tournaments; his father, the middle Atlantic holder; Walter R. Tuckerman. holder of the District amateur title and Chevy Chase crack; C. J. Dunphy. Miller R. Stevinson. Donald Woodward and a number of other Columbia' stars. From out of the city are H. Lennox Bond. 3d, one of Baltimore's finest players; John O. Maxwell of Philadelphia and George B. Robinson of Toronto. lone representative of the group of Cana dians who have for the past half dozen years com! to play in the Chevy Chase tourney. George S. Lyon, sixty-five-year-old Canadian star, won the event two years ago. The field is the finest that has entered in any tournament hereabouts this year in point of skill, and should Roland MacKenzie again win. there cannot be the slightest shadow of doubt about his right to be called the lead ing golfer of the year about Wash ington. Guy M. Standifer, a former District champion, is entered to play in his first tourney of the year. SENATE CONSIDERING APPROPRIATION BILL Phipps Seeks to Expedite Measure and Urge Committee Action on Cramton Proposal. Consideration of the District appro priation bill by the Senate subcom mittee of the committee on appro priations was begun at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Senator Phipps of Colo rado, chairman of the subcommittee, before going into the meeting said that it was his purpose to expedite the bill. The District Commissioners and the auditor for the District met with the committee this afternoon, for the pur pose of explaining the need of in cluding in the bill some of the Items which were eliminated during its con sideration in the House committee of the whole. It was expected that the District Commissioners would lay before the committee also their reasons for their opposition to the so-called Cramton amendment, which does away with the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the District and substitutes a lump sum contribution of $8,000,000 by the federal government to aid in the up keep of the National Capital during the coming fiscal year. Senator Phipps, who is known to oppose the change in the law pro posed by the Cramton amendment, said today that the committee would determine when ill met what course should be adopted with regard to the consideration of the Cramton amend ment. Holds Influence of Near Stars May Cause Great Earthquakes By the Associated Press* SPEZIA, Italy, May 13.—Earth quakes need no longer cause loss of life, according to Prof. Caseili, seis mologist, who claims to have con structed an apparatus, already pat ented, whereby earthquakes are an nounced at least fifteen minutes be fore they occur. The scientist also claims to be able with very slight possibility of error to locate beforehand the cen ters of telluric phenomena, their In tensity and the situation of their most Intense manifestations Claims Poincare Downfall Alone Saved Dawes Plan ( ry the ARSoristcd Press. LONDON. May 13.—The Evening- Standard today says: “Th« Eve ning- Standard is able to reveal the truth about the famous Anglo- Bclgian parley at Chequers Court a week ago last Saturday. In fact, that parley was quit£ fruitless, owing to the intranaigeaut atti tude of M. Poincare and but for the totally unexpected and sweep ing swing to the left of the French electorate the fate of the entente, the Dawes' scheme and a European settlement would have been scaled.” BILL TO GRANT D. C. $4,438,000 HELD BY U. S. IS APPROVED (Continued from First Page.) day said that the citizens of the Dis j trict are willing to stand on the i merits of the case as presented by these two witnesses and on the ac | tion by the Senate. Answer* Blanton Charge*. Maj. Donovan, speaking for the District officials, replied in behalf of the assessors to charges made yes terday by Representative Blanton regarding the assessment for taxa tion on Meridian Mansions, which he claimed was only about one-flfth of its actual market value. Maj. Donovan said that this apart ment house was assessed for $1,500,- 000. Representative Blanton had stated that the present owner told him he had put improvements to the value of approximately $3,000,000 on this properly. Donovan said that the improvements were not in ex cess of $50,000, according to the rec ords of the building inspector's office. He referred to testimony by Bates Warren, one of the largest apartment house operators in the District, given before the Rent Commission at a hearing when property values were at their peak, that the value of Me ridian Mansions was $1,800,000. He also called the attention of the'com mittee to the fact that an owner of one-third of his property had sold at figures approximating this valuation. Maj. Donovan continued his dis cussion of the minority report filed by former Representative Evans, who was a member of the joint special committee. The members of the committee said that Maj. Donovan had satisfied them as to why the ! joint special committee had not gone j back to the year 1872 in making j their investigation, because a pre j vious investigation had covered that ! period and the District of Columbia i had actually paid to the federal gov ernment $2,500,000 as a result of that earlier survey. The members of the subcommittee said that Maj. Donovan had also sat isfactorily shown them, as had also Representative Hardy, why the joint special committee had not included the cost of the Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial and other struc- I ture.s in the National Capital in the (charges against the District account, i These were the two principal ob ) jections on which the Evans minority ; re[x»rt, on which Representative | Blanton is basing his opposition to I recognition of the surplus, was founded. Maj. Donovan emphasized, and the 1 committee members acquiesced, that j there was complete unanimity of I r,[ inion with respect to the surplus I in the report of tho joint committee j with which the controller general < cr-curved and the report of the Treasury Department anti the ac counts of the auditor’s office of the District. Agree I pon Surplus. He emphasized that the joint select committee through outside auditors, the controller general of the States. representing the United Slates, and the auditor of the Dis tiic,t, representing the District, all agreed that above and beyond everv known obligation covered by law there is now in the United States Treasury $4,438,000 belonging to the District of Columbia. Representative Stanley H. Kunz. Democrat of Illinois, moved that the subcommittee make a favorable re porh He said that the attack made by Representative Blanton vesterday was not substantiated by 'him. but that it had been answered to the com plete satisfaction of the subcommittee by Maj, Donovan. Representative Kunz said that no matter what the attitude of the committee might be Representative Blanton would be iri opposition, and even if the full com mittee made a unanimous report in favor of the bill. Representative Blanton would ask lime in opposition. "He always demands an hour, uses up fifty-five minutes of it himself and gives five minutes to other objectors," said Representative Kunz. Ohio Bans Sunday Movies. COLUMBUS. Ohio, May 13.—Motion Pictures were held to be theatrical performances by the Ohio supreme court today and are barred from be ing exhibited on Sundays. The decision was given in the ap peal of W. K. Richards, operator of a motion picture theater at Findlay, from a sentence of SIOO and costs imposed by local courts for operating on Sunday. Three Bandits Rob Bank. WALPETON, X. D„ May 13.—Three robbers broke into the State Bank of Abercrombie, about twelve miles north of here early today, demolished the safe and safety deposit boxes and escaped with $5,000 in cash, $4,250 in iiberty bonds and an unde termined amount of collateral. Stone Dismisses sl-a~Year Agents; Many Prominent A number of widely known men were on Department of Justice rolls as sl-a-year secret agents when Attorney General Stone took office last month, but the last of them have been separated from the service. The list as submitted to the •Senate Daugherty committee to day by the Justice Department in cluded: Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., C. D. Hilles, former chairman of the Republican national commit tee; Federal Judge George A. Car penter of Chicago; John K. Tener, former Governor of Pennsylvania and base ball magnate; former Senator Coleman T. du Pont of Delaware; I. H. Hoover, chief ushers at the White House; Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Re publican national committee, and E. B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post. Signor Caselli's telluric prophecies for last March, which, were deposited with a notary her© some time in ad vance of th© expected disturbances, were confirmed by subsequent events. His studies of the recent earth quake at Abruzzl, he declares, con vinced him that telluric phenomena in their electro-magnetic manifesta tions unmistakably influence animals before the seismic movement begins. Prof. Caselll is inclined to believe the theory, which, he says/ was known to the ancients, that great seimsic movements may be produced by electro-magnetism developed by the stars of our planetary system during the periods of their greatest proximity to the earth. SAYS 34 ESCAPED DRY PROSECUTIONS * Prohibition Agent Tells Probtrs Work Went for Naught After 1921. PAID SMALL FINES ONLY Cites Offer of “Six Thousand” to Pass Whisky Carload. When the Harding administration took office in 1921 prohibition agents were engaged in "cleaning up th liquor situation in Washington," th-' Senate Daugherty committee was toi'i today, but thirty-four persons am! places purveying intoxicants all es caped prosecution. TVils of ArreKls. H. J, Burton, former agent for the prohibition unit, but now in the service of the Governor of Ohio, testified that he was one of the men assigned to the work iale in February, 1921, a few days before inauguration. With five asso ciates and the local police he mad the arrests, ho said, and served the war rants on "bootleggers operating mainly through the hotels.” AM the cases were ■ pood enough for convictions. Burton as- i j serted, but tho persons arrested were i allowed to forfeit small bonds, .••m! jr, I some cases to return to their occupa tion undisturbed. In July, 1921, the yacht Tramjy.i , was seized in the lagoon of the Cleve land Yacht Club with forty-two case of liquor on board, and the said that Chief of Police Christianson .of Jjakewood. Ohio, a Cleveland sui. urb. was concerned in the case j.. December, 1921. the yacht Venice w* seized in Cleveland with nineiv.- cases of liquor. “Capt. Curry p. ■" Burnie and police officers in Lak wood were among those indicted Curry being in charge of both yacht ; As a - result of the two seizure, i Burton testified, the? steward of tt, } Union Club of Cleveland was "pvs' j away" on a conspiracy charge. } ltj . j all the other defendants "were .. ! lowed to plead guilty and pav a mt!’- j fine." i The Armond Drug and Candy Cor j pany of Ohio withdrew 229,000 quar of whisky during the spring an-' I summer of 1921, the witnesses sa,..' j from the Hayner distillery', at Tro. 1 Ohio, and George Beaus, the "whisk', king” of Cincinnati, was in the d*a' !He recited that prohibition agent j picked up a man coming from, tip- I office of Ungerleider & Co., broker? j at Cleveland, with permits for wit; I draw a! of 15,000 barrels of whisk j Samuel Ungerleider. frequently met. j tioned in the testimony, was one i the owners of the brokerage com pany and also of the Hayner d tiilery. Burton said, and on one ■ casion a large quantity of whi? was found at the Ungerleider offic- Claim* Whisky Returned. Burton also (old of seizures • liquor in and around Cleveland. Fr- • Morris Dressier, an associate of Nick- Amstein, 422 cases and ten barrels whisky was seized in August, 19’> j he said, but the case was not pro:- | outed and the whisky was returns, (■'Cheeks” Ginsberg and Benny Gin ( berg worked with Arnstein, ho cor ) tinued, and several shipments o whisky to and from them were int?: copied by prohibition agents duri: the next two years, but there was r j prosecution so far as be knew, j From Schuster & Co., a wholes-* i drug concern in Cleveland. Bur;-' said, he purchased twenty gallons c! liquor as evidence in January, 1921. j "The case was continued and cor ‘tinued.” he said, “but in 1923 the j company compromised without a I criminal prosecution for a paym.cn: of $4,400.” He declared that in March 1924 there were 11,000 permits outstanding in Ohio which allowed liquor sal*?, though in March, 1921, there had bee;, but 3,000 outstanding. Whisky Rilled As Lumber. j William Bressler. an attornc ; stopped Burton in February, 1922, j the Cleveland Federal building, th t witness said, and told him he repre ; sented Ungerleider & Co.. and | that the firm was “willing to pay six thousand" to secure the release of a carload of whisky, billed a? “lumber." which stood at the time the Nickel Plate railroad track? tin | dec surveillance by pr<-hibitio: I agents. ! There was no prosecution. Furt-v ; declared, in the entire Armond drug ! case. The committee adjourned u- 1 | til tomorrow without completing its j questioning of him. GREAT FALLS PLAN LEGAL. SAYS STONE (Continued from First Page » Capital by furnishing a public utility service which modern life makes* con venient and almost indispensable This is the answer made by Attorney i General Stone to Acting Chairman Zihlman of the House District com mittee in reply to an inquiry mad- I by direction of the committee. whiF asked to be advised (1) as to th< ! power of the federal government to ! condemn land for public, use: (2> whether ttie government can occupy and use such land after the con demnation proceeding?* are instituted without awaiting the final Judgment so the court. In summing up the Attorney Get eral says that "the development • ■ water power at Great Falls might 1- incidental to the exclusive authority to legislate for the District of Colum bia, or derived from the supreme au thority over navigation.” The Attorney General’s report a lengthy document quoting many authorities and cases. It says that "Congress alone has power to leg:? late for the District of Columbia by virtue of article 1, section 8, para graph 17. This power is com pie! and unlimited and covers both poll!; cal and municipal questions. “It would seem that whatever Con gress may do with respect to the d<- velopment of hydroelectric power at Great Palls in order to furnish th* District of Columbia with electric en ergy would be subject to the princi pies which have been thoroughly e? tablished in United States versa Gettysburg Electric Company. Th< judgment of Congress that ripariai land and water rights shall be con demned for this purpose should pr vail unless many cases are to be over ruled. Declare* Right Exist?. “When the legislature itself . pressly declared the purpose or u; to be a public one, or what amount to the same thing, expressly authot izes a taking for a use specificall' described, its judgment will be ac cepted by the courts unless the u?r is palpably without reasonable foun dation." g In another place in his report th- Attorney Genera! points out that "it would seem to be appropriate for Congress to provide for the develop ment of hydroelectric energy at Great Falls and dispose of the same. This may be more a question of policy than of power, incidental to the District’s water supply. "As the supreme legislative author ity for the District of Columbia, and having numerous governmental estab lishments which consume large quan tities of electric current, there would be some ground for a declaration bv Congress that such hydroelectric de- , velopment was necessary and expedi. ent. There is no objection to the United States condemning land to conserve its revenue as a busines* proposition.”