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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-12-07

Prose Poems---Baudelaire.
Goldberg.
The Vampire and other Poems--
Kipling.
Literature
Guide to Cervantes.=Isaac Gold
berg.
Dante, An Aesthetic View.-Isaac
Essay on Euripides.- Alexander
Harvey.
Essays on Montaigne. Pascal ami
Eoltaire.--Powys.s
Essays on Rosseau, Balzac ard
Hugo.-Powys.
Essays on De Maupassant, Anatole
France and Blake.-Powys.
Essays on De Gourmont and Byron
--Powys.
Essays on Emily Bronte and Hen-
ry James.-Powys.
Essays on Conrad and Wilde.--Po-
wys.
Literary Essays.--E. Haldeman-
julius
Essays on Aeschylus.-Harvey
Essays on Sophocles Harvey.
Significance of Brandes.-- Morlt-
zen.
Literary Stars on the Scandinavian
mament.-Moritzen.
Hundred Best Books.-Powys.
Dante and Other Waning Classics
Vols. l and 2-Mordell
An Apology for Idlers.-steven-
sen.
Aucassin and Nicolete.
England in Shakespeare Time
Finger.
oleration.-Voltaire.
Prince OF Peace.-Dryan.
Chesterfield and Rabelais.-Sain-
te-Beuye.
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Villon.-Stevenson
History and Biography
History of Music.-Sheehan.
History OF Painting
Ibsen.-His Life, Aim and Influ-
ence.-Morit2en.
Life of Napoleon.=Finger
Autobiography of Finger
Life of Jesus.-Renan.
Life of Jack London.
GO ,enpofaiy for.raIts, Vols. l to
frank Harris.
Life of Sterne.
Life OF Lincoln.
Life OF Joan OF Arc.
Thoreau--the Man Who Escaped
from the Herd
Tolstoy: Life and Works.
When Puritans Ruled.
Life of Columbus.
whistler: the Man and His Work.
Life of Bruno.
Cromwell and His Times.
Heart Affairs of Henry VIII.
IS on Swinburne.
Lost Civilizations.
Keats: The Man and His Work.
Constantine and the Beginnings OF
Christianity
Trial of William Penn.
Lohengrin.
Tannhauser.
Das Rheingold.
Philosophy and Religion
Essence of Confucianism- Finger
Theosophy in Outline.-Willis.
Guide to Aristotle.-Durant.
A Guide to Emerson
Essence of the Talmud.
Guide to Plato.-Durant
Buddhist Philosophy.
Guide to Stoicism.
Trial and Death of Socrates.
Eucken: Life and Philosophy.
Idea of God in Nature.=Mill
Chinese Philosophy of Life.
Psychical Research. Vols l and @
-Suggestion-How 1t Works
William ]. Fielding.
Introduction to Einstein-Hudg
lgs.
Puzzle of Personality-Psycho-
Iysis.
Psycho-Analysis- Key to Hn-
ian Behavior.
Eugenics.-Ellis.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
CUT RENT BOARDS
ALLOWANCE $4,000
No Salary Provided for Two Com!
missioners in District Ap.
preparations.

Considerable surprise was occa-
stoned by the fact that the appropria-
tion committee in framing the Dis
trict bill cut the allowance for the
Rent Commission $4,000 under the
current appropriation and S22,5 un-
der the budget recommendation.
Chairman Cramton today explained
that the Rent Commission act expires
at the end of May, 1924. The appro-
priation written into the bill gives
the commission enough money to pay
the salaries of three commissioners.
There are Ave commissioners au-
thorized by law, but only three are
acting, and the committee does not
anticipate that the others will be ap-
pointed.
The appropriation for the Rent Com
mission continues the present pay roll
undisturbed up to the time the act ex-
pires. Some reduction is made in the
item for new furniture, because the
committee felt that with the commits
sion soon going out of business there
was no need for buying more furni-
ture.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
BILL WOULD CONTROL
PLUMBING IN DISTRICT
Regulation Of Gasftting Also Pro-
posed in Measure introduced
in House.

Chairman Focht of the House Dis
trtct committee this afternoon intro
duced bill to regulate plumbing and
gashtttng in the District. It pro-
Vides that applicants for licenses as
master plumbers or gasftters, who
are bona flde residents of the Dis
trict, must be twenty-one years of
age and make application in their
own handwriting. This must be &C.
companied by a certificate signed by
at least three reputable residents. Of
the District, two of whom must be
engaged in the plumbing. or gasfittinE
business in the District. and who
shall certify that the applicants have
had at least four years practical ex-
perience.
The proposed legislation provide,
that non resident applicants must pre-
sent to the Commissioners the certi-
fcate from the examining board of
plumbers or gasfitters in the state in
which the applicant has been doing
business.
The Focht bill provides that the fee
for a license as master plumber or
gasfitter shall be not less than S25 or
moro than $50 a year, to be fixed By
the District Commissioners. 1t would
give the Commissioners power to sus-
pend or revoke any plumbers or gas
filters license for violation Of regu-
lation. after a public hearing.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
STANDARD BUREAU
BILLS PROPOSED
Hoover Sends in Two Meas
ures for Additional Ground
and Power Plant.

Copies of two proposed bills. one
authorizing the acquisition by the
Secretary of Commerce OF additional
land for enlargement of the present
site of the bureau of standards. and
the other authorizing the construc-
tion of power plant on the present
site of that bureau, were sent to the
House yesterday by Secretary Hoover.
The bill for acquiring additional
land directs that this be done by con-
demnation or otherwise, and that GER
tain parcels of land, aggregatfng ap-
proximately 346.234 square feet be
acquired at price not to exceed
$50, 900.
1t stipulates that any direct pur-
chase be made upon the basis OF the
market value as shall be estimated
by the assessor of the District. The
on the east of the main site OF the
bureau of standards, including the
land between Tildenf and Van Ness
streets. and extending along Con:
necticut avenue.
The bill authorizing the construc-
tfon by the Secretary of Commerce
OF a building for aspower plant on
the present site of the bureau pro-
poses that it shall furnish light. heat
and power, refrigeration and general
electrical facilities for investiga-
tional and staSdardizing work, and
for the general use of the bureau of
standards, at cost not to exceed
$500. 600.
The proposed bill provides that the
Secretary OF Commerce be authorized,
without regard to civil service laws,
rules and regulations, to employ such
special architectural and other tech
nical services as he may deem neces-
sary and shall specially order in
WHITING for certain services such
rates OF compensation as he may
consider just and reasonable.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
LIMITS UTILITIES
FUND FOR COUNSEL

A limitation is written into the Dis
trict appropriation bill against the
use of any part fthe contingent
fund of the Public Utilities Commits
sion for the payment of fees for spe-
cial attorneys. This Limitation grew
out of the employment of Conrad
Syme.
Chairman Cramton explained that
"the bureau of the. budget recon-
mended and the appropriation COM
estimated by the board of education
for new land and new school con-
struction that has any immediate re-
lation TO the seating capacity of the
schools"
In regard to sewers, Chairman
Cramton pointed out that, while we
have given less. apparently, than the
budget Tecomme ended, we have given
enough to improve by Is per cent the
standards of sewer maintenance.
Urgent Items Recommended.
In regard to roads. Chairman
Champion explained that the budget
bureau recommended the items that
the Engineer Commissioner thought
most urgent. The Engineer Commits
sioner favored expenditure on the old
arteries leading out Of the District
w
subdivisions wait.
The appropriations committee dis
agreed with the Engineer Commits
sioner. 1t allowed all of the improve
ment work on the main arteries ex-
cept two, Massachusetts avenue from
street to Wisconsin avenue and
Rock Creek Church road adjacent to
the Soldiers Home grounds. 1t
thought thong this these thoroughfsres We're in
bill provision for improving a num-
Der of new small streets where the
people have bought homes on either
side and where It was felt that, be-
ing 100 per cent built up and con-
Meeting with good paved roads, Con-
gress owed 1t to the people who have
bought these homes to give them de-
cent streets. This resulted in an In
crease of $4,000 above the budget
estimates.
For the fire department an item of
S2.200 was to be allowed for gas
masks and helmets. The committee
thought that this was a safety item
affecting both the flre fighters and the
property owners, since the fireman
could be expected to go only so far
as his helmet and mask would pro-
tect him, so the committee put in an
appropriation for $1,000 to fully equip
the hremen in this respect. This
brings the amount $500 above the
Another important change effected
in the bill is to establish a child hy-
giene service under the public health
department. This was done by trans
ferring the $4,000 appropriations
asked for the Child Welfare Society.
Of the Child Welfare Society and the
public health service and puts the
management and supervision with the
latter agency.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
INDUSTRIAL HOME
WILL Be REOPENED
Provision Made for Funds in D. C.
Bill Reported Today to
House.

Probably the one Item in the Dis
trict Of Columbia appropriation bill
which will occasion the most contro-
versy is that which provides for re-
opening the Industrial Home School
on Wisconsin avenue, near the Naval
Observatory, which was closed during
the current year because the board OF
children's guardians had adopted q
general policy of putting the children
in boarding homes.
Chairman Cramton explained that
there are 205 white children who
would be sent to the home. He said
the policy of the committee is to put
the children in a properly conducted
home school rather than farm them
out In private homes, where they
usually are among poor people and
where the children are kept for hire.
The reopening Of the industrial
home, where there is a schoolhouse
on the government-owned property, is
to be effected through a provision IN
the bill which says that no portion
of this appropriation Cor the board
of children's guardians) shall be used
by said board for the board and care
of any child in boarding home, un-
less the Industrial Home School, to
which it is eligible for admission, is
unable to receive it,"
AS there are 205 children and as
the home school is able to care for
only 125 to $50, it will still be neces-
sary for some of the children to be
placed in boarding homes
Evening star., 1923-01-04
SPEED OF BONDSMEN
CAUSE OF AN INQUIRY
Police Chief to Learn How Four
Men Arrived Before Arrest
Was Completed.

Commissioner oyster this afternoon
asked Maj. Sullivan to make an inves-
tigation to find out how five bonds
men reached the scene of downtown
raid last night before the arrest was
completed.
The Commissioner called attent ton
to a similar case which came to his
notice a few days ago. In that in
stance, he said, he learned that a
bondsman reached one of the station
houses at 2 o'clock in the morning to
obtain the release of a man who had
just been brought in.
Capt. Oyster told the major that his
only concern In the matter was to
make sure that no one in the police
department Is putting bondsmen
wise" to arrests that might prove
profitable to the professional bail
providers.
It is known that Maj Sullivan does
not believe the police had anything
to do with the remarkable speed
with which the bond-getters struck
the trail of last nights raid.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
SIMPSON ELECTED
! GRAND Jury HEAD
o. C. Inquisitors Win Serve
for Three Months-Equity
aA Terms Changed.

G. Warfield Simpson, tailor, was Sc
lected yesterday by Justice Stafford.
in Criminal Division /, as foreman OF
the new grand jury which will inVes-
tigate charges of crimes in the Dis
trict for the ensuing three months.
Other members are r. L. Scaggs, ST.;
George II. Markward, George A.
Finch, H. j. Bean, Addison L. Davis.
Arthur H. Tew, Frank c. keefe,
Franklin T. Baldwin. Theodore l.
Taggart, Walter p. Lickeys Thomas L..
Shelton, Daniel Scanlon, Edward F.
Hannah, Thomas ]. Sherwood. Walter
s. jackson, James w. Talbot, oliver
II. Perry, Edward c. Plank, George
w. Rue, Charles A. Watson. Edward
D. Tally and Urban D. Howard.
BY rule of court in effect yesterday
the term of service OF grand jurors Is
standardized. Heretofore the jurors
selected in April have been required
10 serve until October, but this year a
new grand jury will be selected the
first Tuesday in July. There will now
be four grand jury drawings year
instead of the customary three.
The new court order also changes
the term OF the equity courts from
monthly TO quarterly, so that In all
branches of the court there will be
terms in January, April. July and Oc-
tober. Hereafter the court will retain
control Of its judgments and de-
crees for only thirty days instead OF
the old custom of the life OF the court
term. Motions to Yacate judgments
and DEGREES must be made before the
expiration of thirty days from date
of issuance.
No special grand jary has been
asked for by Maj. Gordon, but he ex.
poets to file a request with Chief
Justice Mccoy later In the month.
This special grand jury. when select
ed. will continue the inquiry OF the
Attorney General into alleged war
frauds.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
BRIDGE APPROACH
PLANS CHANGED
Modification viii Greatly
Widen South Side of M
Street.

The approved plan for the approach
to the new Georgetown bridge has
been modified to conform in part to
the alternate scheme being advocated
by the Board of Trade, 1t was made
known today by Engineer Commis-
sioner Keller.
The modification, Col. Keller ex-
plained. will greatly widen the south
side OF NJ street for a considerable
distance east from the bridge.
Before the change was ordered by
Col. Keller the adopted scheme.
known as plan A, provided merely
for simple curved roadway from
M street to the bridge. The colonel
said he decided ON the change in plan
A sometime ago.
Small Safety Area.
The revised scheme does not provide
for the elaborate island of safety on
the south side <of the car tracks at
the bridge entrance called for in plan
y, sponsored by the Board of Trade
Col. Keller stated, however, that a
small area would be marked off with
chains and stanchions adjacent to the
car tracks for waiting passengers.
Col. Keller believes that with the
notifications he has directed, plan A
will provide ample space for traffic
70 anu from Ine DTloBe IoF the liHIne-
diate future.
He called attention that the pro-
posed memorial bridge across the Po-
tomac from the Lincoln Memorial
probably will be made a reality before
many years. and would serve to. di-
vide the flow of traffic to and from
Virginia
M Street Too Narrow.
The Engineer Commissioner said he
realized that NJ street is narrow for a
main traffic artery. Back in 1916, he
said, a plan was considered to divert
traff1c from the new bridge to one of
the east and west streets north of NJ
street by means of a Yiaduct starting
on the bridge and running north over
M street. This scheme had to be aban-
doned.
He also suggested the advisabiiity
OF widening NJ street as far down as
2Sth street, where 1t catches the traf-
fic going west on Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
Evening star., 1923-01-04
PAR0LED DOPE PEDDLER
MUST SERVE FOUR YEARS
Probation Revoked When Police
Charge Edward r. Inge, 20,
Violated Promise,

Because he failed to keep his prom
Use to stay off the DOPE" Edward r.
Inge, twenty years old, had his pro-
patton revoked today by Justice Sid.
dons of the District Supreme Court.
January 80 last the youth pleaded
guilty to violating the Harrison anti
narcotic law. and was sentenced by
Justice Siddons to serve four years
in the penitentiary. On his promise
never again to touch narcotics the
court placed him on probation.
: Probation Ofhcer Steele advised the
court that Inge has continually vio-
lated his promise to the court and has
done nothing but traffic in drugs and
whisky" during the year He has
recommended to the court that no ex-
cuse be accepted from probationers,
who, falling to appreciate the chance
given them by the court, violate the
terms of probation. Inge will now be
required to serve out his sentence in
the penitentiary.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
ADJOURNMENT BLOCKS
DAUGHERTY INQUIRY
Impeachment Case May Be Thrown
Out, Says Chairman of House
Committee.

The House judiciary committee ad-
journed after a two-hour session today
until next Tuesday without taking final
action on the Keller impeachment
charges against Attorney General
Daugherty.
Chairman volstead announced that
while the question was discussed in
formally no claim was advanced by any
member that the charges presented
grounds for impeachment and they are
expected to be thrown out.
. The subcommittee appointed TO de-
feFmfns tho rights OF the House, with
respect to Representative Keller, re-
publican, Minnesota, who first pre-
sented the impeachment charges and
then withdrew while the hearing was
under way, has held no meeting be-
cause of the absence of members. 1t
will meet prior to Tuesday, however,
and will have its report ready at
that time.
Jackson H. RaIston, counsel for
Mr.. Keller, wrote Chairman Volstead
asking the privilege OF appearing
and arguing the question OF impeach-
ability, but the letter. it was said,
was not presented by the chairman.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
WAR CONTRACTOR SUED
FOR Rs5,0OO,0OO BY US.
Builders Of Camp Devens on Cost
Plus Plan Accused Of Conniv-.
ing at Gross Waste.
BY the Associated Press.
DnCrnN T..o

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. January 4.--The United
States government has Instituted
proceedings against the Fred T. Ley
&c Co.. Inc, of Springfield and this
city to recover $5.oo0,o00 for alleged
breach of contract in connection with
the construction OF the Army canton
ment at Camp Devens. A writ for
$S.000.00o was placed in the hands OF
the United States marshal for service
but the declaration. which will not be
officially filed until a return is made
on the writ, will ask recovery of only
s5.00o,o00. The writ Is returned on
the third Tuesday in March. and be-
lief was expressed here that the suit
would not come to trial before next
fall.
Charges that there was great and
unconscionable waste" of materials
purchased or supplied for use in the
cantonment; that unskilled workers
received the same wages as skilled
greatly in excess of the Customary
scale in that locality; that large
amounts of unnecessary work were
permitted to be done; that loafing was
permitted. as well as sabotage on
the part of workmen and laborers,"
were contained In the papers
The contract in question, the gov
ernment claimed, was entered into
June IL. 1917. between the COMPANY
represented by Harold 4. Ley, presi-
dent, and Maj. N. A. Dempsey, repre-.
senting the United States, and was
declared to be the first of the cost
plus awards made during the war.
The Fred T. Ley Company" ac-
cording to the declaration. "counseled
advised. permitted. aided and con-
nived in the carrying out of the worh
in a grossly negligent and wasteful
manner in utter disregard of the
terms OF the contract"
Evening star., 1923-01-04
HUTCH|NS' WILL FIGHT
MAY Be OPENED AGAIN
New Contest Looms Over $4,000,-
900 Estate of District
Philanthropist.

There may be another contest over
the $4.o0o.0 900 estate of Stilson Hutch
ins, local philanthropist, who died
in April. 1912. Litigation started
shortly after his death was ended re-
Gently when his last will was for a
second time declared invalid by a
jury.
Justice Siddons OF the District Su-
preme Court today decided that the
statute of limitations does not arnly
to petitions or the probate of Wills
and sustained the contention of Mrs
Rose Keeling Hutchins, the widow
that. the later will being invalidated
she could offer for probate a docu-
ment OF earlier date. Counsel for the
heirs claimed that, having failed to
ask for the probate of the will until
more than three years after the death
Of her husband. she was barred by
the statutes The heirs. it is expect
ed, will appeal from the ruling OF
Justice Siddons.
The court holds that the code does
not Ak a time in which an applica-
tfon for the probate OF will shall be
filed. and that 1t is not such a pro-
ceeding as could be embraced in the
section specifying a limitation OF
three years on other actions"
Justice siddons has appointed Jesse
C. Adkins, former assistant attorney
general, as O. special master to AZ
the amount of reasonable counsel
fees, expenses and costs to Walter s.
Hutchins and Charles L. Frailey, ex-
ecutors under the invalsdated will
during the eleven years OF litigation.
Through Attorneys Gittings & Git
tfngs, the widow appealed from the
order naming the special master.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
BRITISH DEBT FUNDING
SOON TO Be COMPLETED

Belief that an early agreement
would be reached as to the funding
of the British debt to the United
States was expressed today at the
Treasury, where it was denied that
any thought had been given to any
changes in the debt-funding law.
The statement was made by high
official that the Treasury expected the
negotiations to be completed during
the present visit of the British mis-
sion which arrived today in New
ready to begin at once actual dis
cussion of questions involved In fund
ing the British obligations.
II was stated officially, also, that. so
far as the Treasury foresees, ques-
tionS of German 'reparations will not
enter the discussions. nor are they
expected to have any effect on the
final settlement of terms by which
the British will pay their debt
Reparations "A Factor.
Reparations problems, however, may
have 20 be considered in the case OF
some of the other countries, it was
indicated, since the amounts which
Germany will have to pay may gov
ern, or, at least, affect the ability of
some of the nations to liquidate their
indebtedness to the United States.
The assertion that no modification
Of the funding law will be sought
caused surprise in many quarters, in
view of recent utterRnces both by
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes favoring a greater freedom
for the American debt commission in
It's scussions with the representa-
tives OF the debtor nations.
Hinder the 19W Q II afandg the Pnr1
mission has no authority to extend
the time. OF payment or change the
original rates Of interest. II has been
forecast in British circles that a re-
quest for notifications. running coun-
ter to both of these stipulations. would
be included IN the proposal which the
British commission is bringing to
Washington.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
SCIENCE SEEKS
: TO CIRCUMVENT
QUAKE EFFECTS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA, CaIif.. Janu-
ary 4.-Science has undertaken the
task Of circumventing the earth
quake. BaiIy Willis. emeritus
professor OF geology OF Stanford
University and one Of the best
known geologists in the country,
is en- route to Chile, according to
a letter from him made public
here by u friend. to study effects
of the recent quake there, seek
ing to penetrate the mysteries of
1t and to devise methods of avoid
ing its disastrous effects" He ex-
pected to be absent six months.
According to Prof. Willis, geo.
logical conditions In Chile closely
resemble those In California and
the knowledge he gains there, he
hopes. will be applicable in this
state.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
DELAY EASTERDAY CASE.

The case of wilen w. yesterday
charged with making threats against
Mrs Elizabeth Holland of the Chastle-
ton apartments, mother of Miss
Gwendolyn Holland, who left her
home last Friday night, and later re-
turned. was continued in the Police
Court today until Wednesday.
The case was continued by Judge
Mcmahon upon request of Assistant
u. 8. Attorney Ralph Given, who ex-
planned that Mrs. Hollands physical
condition is>such she could not, ap-
pear today.
The courtroom was crowded with
spectators. the majority of whom had
never before made their appearance
there, expecting to hear the evidence
in the case.
Evening star., 1923-01-04
NEW SOLDIERS BONUS
BILL IS INTRODUCED
Excess Profits Tax Suggested as
Means Of Raising
Revenue.

A soldiers bonus, to be financed by
a re-enactment of the excess profits
tax law. was proposed in a bill intro
duced today by Representative Frear,
republican, of Wisconsin. The bill
Is similar in many ways to that
vetoed by President Harding last
year, but would eliminate the irriga-
tion scheme attached to that measure
and would increase the borrowing
value of adjusted compensation cer-
tif1cates. ~
Mr. Frear said $4,000, ,00O, 900 in
profits of corporations had accupu-
lated in recent months without proper
taxation.