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cloudy and warmer, probably rain.
Temperatures—Highest, 39, at 4 p.ni.
yesterday; lowest, 26, at 6 a.m. today.
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HOUSE BODY VOTES
SWEEPING SURVEY
OF DRY CONDITIONS
Liquor Traffic Committee
Unanimously Votes to Study
Prohibition Effects.
PLAN FOR PROCEDURE
TO BE MAPPED SOON
Backers of Proposal Think They
Have Right to, Act on
Own Initiative.
Jb- tii» Associated Press.
The House alcoholic liquor traffic
*. «ommittee voted unanimously today
to undertake an inquiry into condi
tions under prohibition.
The committee will meet next Mon
day to consider a plan of procedure.
The members expect a thorough sur
■v ey of all aspects of the prohibition
situation.
The meeting today was in execu
tive session. The House rules com
mittee has failed to take up a resolu
* tion sponsored by the alcoholic traffic
committee asking specific authority to
conduct such an Inquiry, but a num
ber of members believe there is au
thority under the House rules to pro
ceed regardless.
Committee Long Idle.
In recent years the alcoholic liq
' iiors committee has been virtually
inactive, although before prohibition
it handled much Important legislation
dealing with the licensing and regu
lation of the liquor traffic. Prohibi
tion legislation has been in the hands
of the judiciary committee.
The resolution presented to the
rules committee declared -a survey to
be warranted in view of frequent
charges that there was no material
decrease in drinking under dry law
enforcement and that the morals of
the youth of the Nation were being
corrupted by prohibition.
Will Recommend Action.
This resolution was used as the
basis for'today’s action. After the
inquiry the alcohol committee con
templates recommending any remedial
* legislation that may be necessary.
Besides this resolution, the rules
committee also has before it a pro
posal by Representative Britten, Re
publican, Illinois, to investigate the
Anti-Saloon League, and yesterday
Representative Tillman, Democrat,
Arkansas, introduced a resolution to
Investigate the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment.
“LITTLE ITALY” GANG
KILLS 41 ST VICTIM
Slaying Follows TJ. S. Raids on
Chicago “Bad Lands."
Deportations Asked.
My the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 24. —As immi
gration inspectors prepared deporta
tion proceedings against a dozen
aliens taken In raids on “Little Italy”
and planned to renew their round-up
xiext week, a man, identified as Bal
delli, the-Eagle, was found shot to
death in an alley today.
He was the forty-first victim of gang
warfare in recent years.
The man had been shot and appar
ently carried to the spot in an automo
bile. In his clothing was found a no
tice that his application to be a po
liceman had been filed.
A card found in his pocket was
’ that of a partner of Orazio Tropea,
ihe "Scourage,’’ whose assassination,
climaxing others, precipitated the
action of the immigration authorities
to weed out undesirable aliens.
Police called attention to the fact
that, despite the drive, a lull of only
-one day had brought a killing. The
immigration Inspectors, after arrest
ing 121 in raids Monday night, sus
pended further round-ups until next
week
The officials made it plain they were
not working against law-abiding citi
zens of any racial groups, but rather
against certain undesirables Whose
operations brought disrepute to their
•countrymen.
The president of an athletic club
and a chauffeur told the police they
thought the assassins’ victim was
Baldelli. An examination disclosed
he had been given a terrific beating.
* The police thought the slaying had
no connection with an earlier shoot
ing affray between two rival gangs
in automobiles, which raced on a
West Side boulevard while occupants
exchanged some two dozen shots. One
man, giving his name as George Far
rell, was captured when he jumped
from one of the automobiles and fled
into a residence, begging to be saved.
WANTS MINISTER’S
ACTIVITIES PROBED
Wheeler Asks Inquiry Into Work
of Hungarian Envoy in
Karolyi Exclusion.
i My the Associated Prc«f-.
Investigation of the activities of
the Hungarian Minister to the United
States and a detective agency alleged
to have been employed by him, in con
nection with the exclusion from this
country of Count Karolyi, was asked
today by Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana.
The resolution, which was referred
to the foreign relations committee,
alleged that the Hungarian Minister:
had paid a private detective agency
$20,000 to “hound” the Count and
Countess Karolyi.
Charges have been made, it was
•aid, that the count’s "exclusion'’ re
sulted from the forging of documents
which tended to connect the count
with undesirable political organlza
„ * ions with Witten tne United Slates j
not yu itqdij jciiu?.
CHURCH TO TRY TEACHER ACTIVE
IN RECREATION AS ‘TOO WORLDLY’
Indiana Case Will Show Modernism Is Not Irreligi
ous, Says Defendant, Who Allows Athletics,
Checkers and Dramatics in Community Hall.
By the Annotated Pres*.
PALMYRA, Ind., February 24. —
Because he organized basket ball and
foot ball teams, encouraged roller
skating and band practice on Sunday,
and built a community house, where
he allowed checker playing and ama
teur plays. W. Clyde Martin, 40,
farmer, educator and athlete, must
face trial at the Church of Christ here
next Sunday on charges of recrea
tional practices unbecoming a church
worker.
Martin, a native of this village, re
turned here after graduating from
Winona Agricultural College, where
he played foot ball and basket ball.
He became principal of the local high
school. Immediately he had the
board of trustees tear out a partition
of the school, which he turned Into a
gymnasium. The school then began
turning out basket and foot ball
teams and also an orchestra.
The people of the town did not ap
prove of his recreational activities
SMOOT CALLS OP '
TAXES IN SENATE
Approval Expected for Bill,.
Which Passed House by
354 to 28.
The conference report on the tax
bill, which was adopted by the House
yesterday, by a vote of 354 to 28, was
called up in the Senate for considera
tion this afternoon by Senator Smoot,
chairman of the finance committee.
Favorable action on the report by
the Senate is expected. It lops a total
of $387,811,000 off the 1926 tax bill of
the American people.
Senator Smoot explained in some
detail the action of the conference
committee and urged the adoption of
the report, so that the bill could be
enacted into law in time for the peo
ple to benefit by Its provisions when
they make their first income tax pay
ment, March 15.
Smoot Explains Bill.
Senator Smoot said the bill had gone
to conference carrying 206 Senate
amendments. The House, he said,
had agreed to 145 of these amend
ments. and the Senate had receded
from 19 of its amendments. The other
42 had been agreed to with certain
modifications.
The bill as it passed the Senate
would have brought about a total-re
duction in revenue for the year 1926
of $456,261,000.
The conference bill. Senator Smoot
said, reduced this loss of revenue by
$69,000,000. While it provides for
$60,000,000 more reduction in revenue
than when the bill first passed the
House and $35,000,000 more than when
reported to the Benate, Senator Smoot
laid the conferees were relying on the
prosperity of the country and increas
ing business to make it possible to
meet the budget requirements. He
added that the margin of safety may
have been exceeded, but he reiterated
his confidence that the economic con
duct of the Government’s business
and the taxes raised upon increasing
business of the country would safe
guard the people.
Two principal matters had been at
issue in the conference, he said, the
amount of reduction in revenue and
the proposed repeal of the estate tax.
In order to make it possible to enact
the bill into law in time for the March
tax payment. Senator Smoot said it
had been necessary to compromise in
conference. He then described those
compromises.
Early Approval Seen.
The bill, passed by the House by
a 354-to-28 vote, is expected to get to
th<» White House before the end of the
week for President Coolidge’s signa
ture. . *
As in the House debate yesterday,
the inheritance* tax is expected to be
the center of discussion in the Senate,
which twice voted by substantial mar
gins to repeal the levy- House con
ferees forced restoration to the hill of
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TYROLESE ASK BORAH
TO AID THEIR CAUSE
Pray “a Noble Friend of Peace to
Bear in Mind” That They Are
Being “Tortured."
j
By the Associated Press.
INNSBRUCK, Austrian Tyrol, Feb
ruary 24. —After a mass meeting, at
tended by 3.000 persons here last
night, a cable message was sent to
Chairman Borah of the foreign re
lations committee of the American
Senate, asking his assistance in be
helf of Southern Tyrol, the former
Austrian territory which was given to
Italy after the World War. The mes
sage said, in part:
“Representatives of Tyrol pray a
nobl« friend of peace to bear in mind
that’ Tyrol, which Mussolini has of
ficially threatened with a Fascist In
vasion, and whose southern portion is
ruled by Italy, is tortured by inhuman
cruelties.”
It points out that President Wilson
in his memoirs referred to the trans
fer of Southern Tyrol to Italy as the
gravest error in the peace settlement.
Thousands of Birds Starving to Death
In Snow-Covered States of the North
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, February 24.—Thousands
of birds in the snow-blanketed North
ern States, fighting a desperate battle
for life, with their food buried deep
under the snow, will have died of
starvation when Spring comes.
Massachusetts is distributing free
grain to responsible persons and to
rural mall carriers to save them.
W’inthrop Packard, secretary of the
Massachusetts Audubon Society, de
clares the situation is the worst in
years.
©he lEhetiitra §?kf.
J V V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1926-FORTY-TWO PAGES. *
and at the next election voted to put
back the partition.
Martin then constructed a commu
nity hall, paying for it out of his own
pocket, which soon became the center
of the young social life of the town.
Dancing was not permitted in the
house, but plays were given on the
community stage by local talent.
Checker boards were in the place, but
card playing was not allowed.
When he allowed the plays, one of
the deacons of the Church of Christ
demanded he be excluded from tak
ing an active part in the church, say
ing he was too worldly.
Martin demanded a public trial.
Three Judges, one selected by Martin,
one by the church and one by his ac
cuser, will preside.
He announced he will conduct his
own case, saying he will prove from
the Scriptures that modernism isn't
irreligious.
“The trial will be of great value in
spreading some ideas of recreation,"
Martin declared.
TWO SHOT DOWN
IN MOLD#
Four Baltimore Bandits Es
cape in Auto After Get
ting Dairy Pay.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md., February 24.
Four bandits escaped with $16,300 this
morning after shooting down Eman
uel Berlin, paymaster of the Western
Maryland Dairy Co., here, and a police
man, Patrick Durkin, who acted as
his bodyguard.
Berlin and Durkin had just stepped
out of the dairy and were crossing the
sidewalk to board an automobile when
four men, who had been standing at
the curb, advanced. Without warn
ing, the bandits opened Are and
snatched the satchel which Berlin
carried. Rushing to an automobile,
waiting with motor running, they
drove off, whirling around a comer
and disappearing before either of the
victims could recover and draw a re
volver.
The victims staggered to their feet,
assisted by pedestrians and employes
of the dairy, who rushed outside upon
hearing the shots. Both were taken
to a hospital, where It was said their
wounds are dangerous, but not neces
sarily fatal.
Pedestrians told the police the ban
dits* automobile sped northward. It
was last seen moving at a lively rate
through the northern outskirts of the
city. Descriptions of the bandits
were sent to the police of cities near
Baltimore and a blanket lookout was
established. ,
Though the four bandits who robbed
the Western Maryland Dairy Co. pay
master after shooting him and his
bodyguard this morning took a north
ward course in their flight, Washing
ton police were asked to be on the
lookout, as they might swerve south
ward in order to thwart pursuers.
Armed with rifles, headquarters de
tectives Kelly, Sweeney, and Waldron
covered roads leading into Washing
ton from Baltimore. The Baltimore
dispatch informed police that the ban
dits were well armed. t
LIBRARY BILL IS GIVEN
HOUSE COMMITTEE’S 0. K.
Measure, Passed by Senate, Ordered
Favorably Reported—Will
Come Up March 15.
The measure which has already
passed the Senate rewriting the or
ganic act of the Free Public Library
and reading room in order to give au
thority by law for continuation and
expansion of the library work, includ
ing school branches, was ordered
favorably reported by the House Dis
trict committee today. This measure
now goes on the District calendar to
be taken up on Monday, March ?5.
Representative Blanton, Democrat,
of Texas, reserved the right to llle a
minority report.
FARM BODY COMING.
Conference Executive Committee to
Seek Stabilizing Legislation.
DES MOINES, lowa, February 24
UP). —Twenty-two representatives of
the eleven corn belt States, organized
as an executive committee of the
North Central Agricultural Marketing
Conference, will go to Washington
next Sunday in an effort to obtain
legislation to assist in stabilizing ag
riculture. On Monday committee
members will meet with the congres
sional delegations of the 11 States
and on Tuesday they will confer with
the Senate and House agriculture
committees. Wednesday the delega
tion will confer with "President Cool
tdge and Secretary Jardlne.
Doumer Going to London.
PARIS, February 24 (A s ).*— The
minister of finance, M. Doumer, will
go to London to reopen discussion of
the war debt question as soon as
the financial bill has passed through
the Senate and Chamber, it was
announced at the finance ministry
today.
of food In Wollaston, almost in Bos,-
ton, he said.
Hungry robins have haunted many
communities throughout the Winter
at Princeton, wild pheasants have ap
peared in the streets, the crow and
ruffed grouse are hunting food about
farm yards. The ground-feeding birds
are hardest hit. These include such
well known species as juncos, tree
sparrows and meadow larks and quail,
partridges and pheasants, and the mi
gratory robins and song sparrows who
dallied in the North too long and ware
caught wfeeu tfie Ml*zar<U 9MRfu
CUT IN FUND BILLS
TO MEET TAX SLASH
ASKED BYCOOLIDGE
President Counts on House
and Senate Leaders to
Prune Appropriations.
MAKES PLAIN HIS OPINION
ON REVENUE REDUCTION
Apprises Tilson of Danger He Sees
in Running on Too Close Finan
cial Margin.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Coolidge expects Congress
materially to reduce some, if not all,
of the pending appropriation bills to
offset the big slash made In taxes by
the revenue-reducing bill which is ex
pected to become a law before the end
of the week.
The President has made known his
feelings to party leaders in the Senate
and the House regarding the tax re
duction, which he has no hesitancy in
declaring is considerably larger than
he thought was practicable or pos
sible. He has directed these party
leaders to use their influence In dis
couraging increased appropriations
ind where possible to effect reductions
Word to this effect was carried
away from the White House today by
Representative Tilson of Connecticut.
Republican leader of the House, and
several days ago the President gave
his views to Senator Reed Smoot of
Utah, chairman of the finance com
mittee of the Senate, and asked him to
handle this matter In that body.
Will Sign Tax Measure.
Representati\e Tilson did not get
the Impression that the President
would refuse to sign the tax bill be
cause it is so much greater in
amount than he wanted, but he did
get the impression that the President
is very' insistent that Congress trim
down the appropriations. The Presi
dent. he believes, considers the $387,-
000,000 tax reduction as being so large
as to cause serious reflection, especial
ly so If there Is any advance indica
tion that there Is to be a falling off in
the Government’s revenues which are
being counted upon to make this re
duction possible. The President has
said on more than one occasion that
it is not wise for the Government to
operate upon a dangerously low
margin such as he contends is likely
to be the case as a result of the pres
ent tax reduction.
Among some of the appropriations
that are likely to bear the brunt of
this pruning process In the House and
Benate are the public buildings bill.
Increased pensions for veterans, espe
cially those of the Spanish War; good
road development and rivers and har
bors improvements. Besides these
there are any number of items in the
regular supply bills which call for
appropriations either larger In size
than the amount of money approved
by the Budget Bureau or else not at
all approved by it. These, if totaled
up, run up into the hundreds
of millions, and, in the opinion of the
President, could be reduced greatly.
Many of these items, he contends,
could be very well eliminated entirely.
Would Ban Small Bills.
Added to these money-spending de
vices there are many Individual bills
calling for large and small appropria
tions or authorizations. These the
President has let it be known should
be put aside entirely.
Representative Tilson did not say
whether he agreed fully' with the
President regarding this wholesale
trimming of appropriation bills, but
he did intimate that he considered it
advisable to enact the public buildings
bill this year. Tills measure already
has passed the House and he thinks
it eventually will be passed by the
Henate. He would make no comment
About the other more or less Impor
tant appropriations which were men
tioned by the President during his
conference.
Representative Tilson declared that
during his talk the President was very
complimentary In referring to the
business-like manner in which the
House has progressed with its regu
lar business. But at the same time
he was plain in making known his
disappointment at the size of the tax
reduction bill as it was finally passed.
Those who are close to the Presi
dent, however, feel very certain
there is not the slightest Intention
on his part of declining to sign the
bill, although it impresses him as
being a trifle large in its tax cut.
It was explained that the President
favors tax reduction and wants to
see as much of the burden lifted
from the taxpaying public as possi
ble, but he at the same time does
not want to jeopardize the fiscal con
ditions of the National Government.
Fears Contingency.
The President’s Intimates say that
his only fear is that a slumo in
the business of the country might
present itself during the year, with
the result that there would be a
followfcg decrease in the revenues, in
which event the present reductions
might bring about a deficit.
During this conference Representa
tive Tilson went over briefly with
the President the legislative situation
In the House. He told the President
that the body of Congress has reached
the point now where it could adjourn
by the first of May.
ATHLETIC CLUB OFFICIAL
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Paymaster of Coal Company Lying
Dead in &oom4-Suicide Is
Indicated.
By the Auociated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February’ 24.
—Albert L. Cobb, president of the
Birmingham Athletic Club and pay
master for the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Co., was found dead to
day in his room at the recently com
pleted building of the athletic club.
A pistol was found by his side.
His body was found by a maid. He
had been in 111 health for some time.
Coroner J. D. Russum was summoned
and immediately started an Inquiry
to determine whether it was a case
of self-destruction, as reported to po
licy headquarters.
4UNTIE.
YEAR’S DELAY SEEN
ON WORLD COURT
Reservations May Tie Up U.
S. Entry to Extent of
Reopening Issue.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Although the United States Senate
voted to permit entry into the World
Court, It may be a year or longer be
fore the American Government Is a
member. The correspondence between
the Department of State and the va
rious governments which are mem
bers of the court promises to be long
drawn out. The reservations tacked
on by the Senate must meet with the
approval of other governments or else
the latter must Indicate their passive
acquiescence by making no comment.
Jußt what constitutes a reasonable
time for other governments to say
whether they accept the American
reservations is difficult to estimate.
Id some instances governments have
felt that a diplomatic note was still
under consideration if it was ac
knowledged and an answer given
within a year.
Hardly Before November.
Certainly it seems probable row
that when the congressional elections
are held next Autumn and the anti
court speakers are upbraiding the
Senate for its action, there will be
considerable doubt whether America
will or will not have joined the court.
Officials who are familiar with the
time it takes to get action from 40
or more governments say the task
could not be completed before next
November.
The World Court issue, however, as
developed by Senator Borah and oth
ers, does not involve so much a crit
icism of the supposed ill effects of
American entry into the court as it
does an argument against possible
entry into the League of Nations. The
Idaho Senator has let it be known
that he will not aid any Republican
Senators who voted for American ad
herence to the court and who are
up for re-election next Fall. He does
not say he wdll campaign against
them, but in some cases he will as
sist their opponents. Mr. Borah plans
to speak in New Hampshire in behalf
of Senator Moses, one of the irrecon
cllables.
He has made (speeches in Illinois
where quite a World Court agitation
has been started in the hope of de
feating Senator McKinley, who will
seek renomination in the Republican
primaries.
Administration Works Quietly.
Opponents of the court concede that
the reservations may tie up the ques
tion of American entry to such an ex
tent that a revision of the reservations
may yet have to be worked out and
that the question may have to be
brought up again if the foreign gov
ernments do not accept the changes
as made. The administration is trying
to smooth out the wrinkles quietly and
without public discussion as the mat
ter is complicated enough by the ne
cessity of action by foreign offices and
in some cases by parliaments.
Some of the friends of the World
Court, particularly the Democrats,
have been inclined to raise the League
of Nations issue with a proposal for
some form of associate membership
in mind, but the chances are against
such a step getting very far at this
time.
(Copyright. 1926.)
Asks Haynes O. K.
Beer Shipment to
Congress Members
By the Associated Press.
Permission for the Schlitz Brew
lng Co. of Milwaukee to ship a
case of pre-prohibition beer to
each member of Congress to deter
mine whether it le intoxicating
was asked today of Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes by Repre
sentative Hill, Republican, Mary
land. *
Mr. Hill said that transporta
tion of the beer, in his opinion,
would not be illegal, because It
would be used “for the purposes
of inspection, investigation and ob
servation” by members of Con
gress. To prevent any questiqn
arising, however, he requested
that "you telegraph permission to
make the shipments."
A copy of a recent telegram
from the Schlitz Co. offering the
beer for Inspection was inclosed by
Mr. Hill- ,
Radio Programs —Page 26.
McKinley Asks Aid
Os G. O. P. Leaders
In Illinois Race
By the Anaoctated Pre.».
Senator McKinley, Republican,
Illinois, who has announced his
condidacy for re-election, said to
day, after a conference with Pres
ident Coolidge, that he hopes
spokesmen for the administration
would be sent into Illinois to
counteract attacks made by Sena
tors Borah. Republican, Idaho, and
Reed, Democrat, Missouri, and
others.
Secretary Hoover has an engage
ment to speak in Chicago March
9 and Senator McKinley thonaht
it likely that other Cabinet mem
bers and supporters of the Cool
idge administration would deliver
addresses In State before the
April primary.
Reporting to the President on
the effect of the. Borah and Reed
speeches In Chicago, Senator Mc-
Kinley said he thought "tbs
thinking people of Illinois resent
the idea that a Republican Sena
tor from Idaho and a Democratic
Senator from Missouri should try
to tell them how to run their
affairs.”
COUNTESSIS DENIED
NEW HEARING HERE
Case Must Be Decided in
Court, Labor Department
Heads Say.
By the Associated Preaa.
A new hearing for the Countess of
Cathcart, on the order for her exclu
sion from the United States was de
nied today by the I>abor Department.
In the opinion of Acting Secretary
White, the case now can be decided
only by the courts. A Judicial deter
mination as to whether moral turpi
tude is a crime and constitutes a bar
to the admission of aliens admitting
acts of that sort, it was said, is de
sired by the Labor Department.
Mr. White, after a conference with
Assistant Secretary Husband and
Solicitor Theodore Risley. notified Ar
thur G. Hays, attorney for the coun
tess, who had requested that the case
be reopened for the submission of new
evidence, of the decision.
Mr. Risley said cases similar to that
of the countess were continually com
ing before the department, and he
hoped the court action growing out of
the habeas corpus proceedings insti
tuted by Mr. Hays would define for
the department a course which it
would follow in the future.
The solicitor added that he had or
dered the release of the countess from
Kills Island for a 10-day period, under
bond, only after he had conferred with
various departmental officers, who ad
vised that the case be decided by the
courts and the countess given freedom
while it was in the process of final
adjustment.
The Labor Department, Mr. Risley
said, considers the detention of the
countess was correct under the laws
regulating the admission of aliens to
this country. The order for her ex
clusion, he added, would be defended
In court, probably by legal officers
from the department's own person
nel.
In denying a new hearing. Acting
Secretary White said close adherence
had been given to departmental poli
cies.
"Under the practice of the depart
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McCarl Stops $25,000 Prizes Offered
By Navy for Airplane Landing Gear
Proposed expenditure of $25,000 by
the Navy for prize money to the de
velopers of “designs for amphibious
landing gear suitable for application
to the SC type airplanes" has been
stopped by Controller General McCarl.
Declaring that such expenditure
would be Illegal, Mr. McCarl suggested
that if the Secretary of the Navy
found that “none within the Navy
Department can Initiate, develop or
produce such a design, then there
would appear need to submit the mat
ter to the Congress, so that it may
express Its Intent thereon.”
At the Navy It was pointed out
that the proposed departure from past
practice in the matter of experimenta
tion had been with a view to encourag
lng the private airplane Industry.
The Navy proposed, according to the
McCarl dvoMen, to spend the money
lA>) Means Associated Press.
5-YEAR ARMY AIR
PROJECT DRAFTED
Proposal, Similar to Navy
Plan, Will Be Laid Before
Congress Soon.
By ths Associated Press.
A five-year continuing - aviation de
velopment program, similar to the
naval aviation project now before
Congress, will be submitted to the
House military committee by Secre
tary Davis of the War Department
next week.
The project provides for a propor
tionate increase in aviation as com
pared to other branches of the Army,
it was described at the War Depart
ment today as designed to strengthen
the Army Air Service materially 'n
equipment, although it was Indicated
that the plan would not involve as
great an expenditure as the $100,000,-
000 in the five-year Navy plan.
The program was worked out as a
result of the study Secretary Davis
directed be undertaken of all the tes
timony at recent congressional and
other aviation hearings. Maj. tier.
Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Air
Service, co-operated with other
branches of the Army in its prepara
tion.
The project was described as in the
nature of a phase of the Lassiter
Board program which contemplated
a 10-year expansion to 2,500 planes,
but modified to make expenditures
reasonable and conservative and also
to conform with the recommendations
of the President's Air Board.
MRS. COOLIDGE STILL ILL.
Physician Expects Full Recovery
in Day or Two.
Mrs. Coolidge was confined to bed
today by a heavy" cold, which caused
her to cancel arrangements to attend
the dinner given last night by Attor
ney General and Mrs. Sargent in
honor of the President and herself.
Dr. James F. Coupal, the White
House physician, reported that Mrs.
Coolidge was resting comfortably arid
would be in usual health in u day or
two.
CALVERT GIVEN DIVORCE.
Wife of Mount Rainier Man Now
in Cairo, Egypt.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ITPPER MARhBORO, Md.. Feb
ruary 24.—8 y decree of Circuit Court
for Prince Georges County, signed
yesterday - , Charles Benedict Calvert
of Mount Rainier was granted an ab
solute divorce from Lola M. F. Cal
vert on the ground of separation for
more than three years.
Mrs. Calvert has been living in Eu
rope for more than a year and is now
in Cairo, Egypt. She was formerly
connected with the motion picture col
ony at Hollywood, Calif.
COURSEY CASE VENUED.
Charge of Beating Son to Death
to Be Heard at Towson.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md., February 24.
A change of venure was granted by
Judge Stein here today in the case
of Ralph Coursey and wife, charged
with beating to death Mrs. Coursey’s
5-year-old son two weeks ago.
The case will be tried at Towson,
Md., Herbert R. O’Connor, prosecutor,
to arrange the date at a conference
with court officials there.
as $15,000 first prize and SIO,OOO sec
ond prize out of an appropriation for
“continuing experiments and develop
ment work on all types of aircraft” in
the Bureau of Aeronautics.
“The designs to be submitted,” said
Mr. McCarl in denying the use of such
funds for prize money, "evidently are
not now In existence; neither are they
to be produced under and in’ accord
ance with prescribed Government
specifications. Therefore the proposed
transaction cannot be regarded as a
purchase or construction contract.
And while It involves, primarily, per
sonal services. It cannot l>e regarded
as the employment of personal serv
ices either by contract or appojfit
ment. Reduced to its final analysis, I
fall to see how the proposition, can be
regarded as other than the offering
of a reward or prize for the first and
second best design or conception of a
landing gear.”
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour n
The Star’s carrier system cover*
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington home*
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday's Circulation, 105,141
TWO CENTS.
THREEGRADESGET
POOREST TEACHERS.
EXPERT DECLARES
Arouses Controversy by
Claim That Schools Main
tain Dumping Ground.
FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH
YEARS HELD NEGLECTED
Prof. Earhart Says These Often
Constitute Pupils’ Last
Schooling
Charges that the fourth, fifth and
sixth grades of schools in the United
States are becoming ‘‘a dumping
ground for Incompetent teachers.’
were made by Prof. Lida B. Earhart
of Columbia University today at a
gathering of women educators holding
administrative posts In connection
with the fourth days’ sessions of the
Department of Superintendence, Na
tional Education Association.
The educators, comprising members
of the National Council of Adminis
trative t'ornen in Education, and rep
resenting 15 States, appeared sur
prised at Prof. Earhart’s charge and
several of them denied the accuracy
of her statement. Others reluctantly
admitted there was much truth in the
assertion. The debate on the question,
together with discussion as to the best
means to remedy the situation, was
spirited.
Are Important Grades.
Prof. Earhart reminded her fellow
educators that they have so long
concentrated their efforts on kinder
garten and primary grades and or.
junior high school systems that the
vital intermediate elementary grades
four, five and six, have been ignored.
She called atten ion that at least one
third of the children of the country
do not go beyond the sixth grade and
this trio of units in the 6-3-3-plans
should be the strongest instead of the
weakest.
Prof. Ella Victoria Dobbs of the
University of Missouri, admitted there
was less attention given the 4-5-6
grades than the others, but appeared
to disagree with the unqualified state
ment of Prof. Earhart.
Need to “Get Busy.”
It was agreed, as the meeting at the
Raleigh Hotel progressed, that edu
; cators must “get busy" on these three
I grades.
While this unexpected outburst was
going on at the Raleigh the members
j of the department of superintendence
were confining their morning session
at the Washington Auditorium to
papers on “A Junior High School.
Consisting of Grades Seven, Eight and
Nine.”
Promptly at 11 o’clock the bailor
boxes at the auditorium were opened
and members of the department of
superintendence began voting for a
president to succeed Dr. Frank W.
Rallou.
While ail of the four candidates for
the presidency are considered able
educators, it seems to be the con
sensus that the election will go to
Edwin C. Broome of Philadelphia, who
is playing such an important rolo in
the revision of the curricula, or Ran
dall J. Condon of Cincinnati, who for
many years has made his presence fei
nt the 'National Education Associa
tion.
Southern Men Boomed.
It Is known, however, that the
members of the department from the
South and Southwest are waging a
vigorous fight in behalf of their can
didates, E. E. Oberholtzer of Houston,
Tex., and Charles B. Glenn of Birm
Ingham, Ala. It has been agreed for
some time that the South should bo
served by a presidency in the depart
ment, but as yet they have not polled
sufficient strength to swing an elec
tion.
The Texas delegation of ITS are
exceptionally active in behalf of Air
Oberholtzer. and they held a break
fast In his honor yesterday which
was attended by scores of the edu
oators. Houston also will make a
bid for the 1927 convention of the
department. ,
Praise of Schools Here.
A resolution voicing ‘‘gratification’
over the status of schools of the Na
tional Capital, expressing the belief
that they are "coming rapidly to a
position that promises educational
leadership.’ and predicting they “ma\
finally be found a model system of
education worthy the emulation of
everv American city,” is expected to
be submitted to the department of su
perintendence for adoption at tomor
row's final session. The resolution also
is expected to state: “We are happy to
observe that the wise directing mind
and the skilled administrative hand in
this undertaking are those of our co!
league. President Frank W. Ballou.”
Other resolutions known to be tin
der consideration by the resolutions
committee for presentation to the de
partment deal with the following sub-
I Jects: _
1. Appreciation over the George
: Washington address made before the
j convention Monday night by Presi
dent Coolidge.
2. Thanks for the courteous co
operation afforded the convention by
cittzens, officials and teachers of
Washington as well as the high schor l
cadets who acted as ushers and aides.
Attitude on Child Labor.
3. Affirmation of the position oi
the department on the subject ot
child labor and passage of legisle.
tion "preventing the exploitation ol
the children of America.”
4 Requesting public support in the
campaign to eradicate illiteracy.
5 Passage of legislation clearing
the title to lands granted by Con
gress for the benefit of common and
public schools.
6. Recognition of the “.wnite" rural
school situation and a plea for its
correction. . _ ,
7. Suggestion that the February
date of the meeting of the depart
ment be changed.
8. Support of a health program in
the schools.
9. Opposition to Legislature* die
tuibing the school curricula In the
light of the Tennessee anti-evolution
law.
Urging that economy not be In
voked too far in education. Herbert
S. Weet, superintendent of
Rochester. X. Y., In an address bs^
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