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Evening star., 1923-11-09
V|RG|N|AN DEFENDS
BOND ISSUE DEFEAT
Declares "Pay-as-You-Go''
Plan Will Provide 40
Per Cent of Fund.

The proposed s50,OOO,000 bond issue
for good roads which the people of
Virginia repudiated at the polls last
Tuesday would have placed a burden
on the taxpayers of almost $780, OO0,-
600 before the issue would have been
retired, a prominent Virginian point
ed out today in letter to The Star,
in which he defended the voters for
their action.
The letter further pointed out as
follows:
"The 'pay-as-yougo' plan, now in
force, according to the state auditor,
c. Lee Moore, will provide $4,000
000-or two-fifths of the proposed bond
issue-during and by the end of the
present fiscal year, all available for
roads and no debt to be repaid. with
interest, by the taxpayers. Two more
years of this and there would be
available for good roads more than
the total of the bond issue This does
not appear to be exactly a rejection
of good roads. but rather evidence of
extremely good Judgment.
incidentally, Virginia tried a bond
issue for public improvements once
before. Although it was 100 years
ago last March that the bonds were
issued, the people of the state today
the fourth generation-are paying
one million annually in interest and
sinking fund and it will be sixty
seven years more before We are rid
of it entirely,
1T is interesting to note, also, that
the total good road mileage in the
state exceeds that of a great majority
of the states of the Union; that one
county at least, Rockingham, has been
progressive enough to improve prac-
tically all of it's roads-and this
county is larger in area than a num-
Der of states. Had the bond issue
been adopted, Rockingham's obliga-
tion would have been several million
dollars added to it's people, while it's
benefits would have been limited to
the improvement of road eleven miles
in length. The county would have
been penalized for it's progressiveness
ut would seem, therefore, that Vir-
ginia has many good roads, and a
businesslike plan, approved by the
people, for extending them"
Evening star., 1923-11-09
DISTRICT GUARD GUESTS
AT BALTIMORE STADIUM
Soldiers to See Foot Ball Game Be
tween Sd Corps Army and Naval
Scouting Teams.

The District Of Columbia National
Guard is to attend the foot ball
game between the Sd Corps Area Army
team and the Naval Scouting team in
Baltimore tomorrow as guests Of the
city OF Baltimore.
Maj Gen stephan. commanding
has 2~thorized the attendance of ev
cry member of the 121st Engineers
and other units of the local guard.
Expenses Will be borne by the guard.
They VIII assemble at the armory.
472 L street northwest, tomorrow
morning at $50 O'Clock and march to
the Union station. where special
car over the Pennsylvania will de-
part at $50 o'clock.
They will have an important part in
the exercises of the day. being as
signed a prominent position in the
parade, which will form at Mount Yer
non place and Cathedral streets. They
will be reviewed by the Governor of
Maryland, the mayor of Baltimore.
the commanding general of the Sd
Corps Area, and his staff and other
high Army and Navy officials, and
the adjutants of the states of Vir
ginia. Maryland and the District of
Columbia and their staffs.
The First Separate Battalion of the
District (cOlorcd) Will he guests of
the First Separate Battalion OF Mary
land.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
REVOLT IN BAVARIA
FAILS; LUDENDORFF
AND HITLER BESIEGED

Continued from First Page.)
Bavar rian reichswehr. Gen. Won Los
SOW, Joined the Hitler-Ludendorff
movement last night only under com
pulslon, and that they plan to re-
and Ludendorff. One message from
the burgomaster of Nuremberg sa id
they expected to repreSS the move
ment today. There has been no direct
telegraph news from Munich since
midnight.
A Stuttgart wireless message says
the military authorities there have
published a CommunlQue quoting tele-
phone adviceS from Munich to the
effect that. reichSwehr and detective
police are with Won Kahr and Won
Lossew, and will defend the public
buildings against Hitler and Luden-
dorff.
Strictest supervision is being ex-
ercised at the Bavarian frontier. Won
kahr and Won LoSsow are reported
to have ordered the arrest of the ma
tional socialists and the mem bers of
the Oberland Association.
This message also says the Bayar-
. ian reichSwehr are marching on Nun
ich, and this is supported by wireless
sdviceS from Nuremberg declaring &
that the troops in south Bavaria have
been ordered toward Munich, but that
those at Nuremberg and Fuerth have
Detn OTueTtu 10 Ttlilnll W mere lHtS
are.
Gen Won Lossow is 'in barracks
the Nuremberg message adds, while
the military headquarters in Munich
are held by the insurgents. The mes
sage concludes with the statement
that Won LossoW expects to master
the movement"
An ordinance published by the com
manding officer of the fifth military
section corrQborates the wireless ad-
vices from Nuremberg and Stuttgart
that Won Kahr and Won Lossow are
opposing Hitler.
The ordinance adds that the reichs-
wehr have been mobilized, and, with
the assistance of the state police. will
prevent the movement from spread
ing. but that meanwhile the reichs-
wehr will oppose interference from
any illegal organizations in this task.
The formation or concentration of
any "auto-proteCtion association
will be repressed as high treason.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
SPECTACULAR FIRES
GUT TWO WAREHOUSES;
LOSS HALF MILLION

Continued from First Page)
for the big Christmas trade he an
ticipated No estimate of the value
of the building. which was gutted,
could be obtained.
The fire that swept the warehouse
of John H. wilkins Company was less
disastrous and less spectacular only
to a slight degree. 1t broke out IN
the heart of the northeast residential
section at the time the entire Nlcln-
ity is wrapped in slumber. The hFst
alarm was sounded shortly before
o'clock by Paul French, one of the
two night watchmen. Three addi-
tional alarms We're sounded in quick
succession.
Slecpers Alarmed.
The piercing. shrek of sirens and
the clang of bells that accompanied the
arrival of each additional engine com
pany turned the ne;ghborhood 1nto
a bedlam and shattered every nope
Of more sleep. AS the flames ate
their way up through the roof the
fire painted the sky II faint red and
scores Of persons walked blocks TO
watch the spectacle. Many famllleS
living. in the immediate neighborhood
became panic stricken and left their
, homes in their night clothes. Only
the persistent perSuasian of police
and firemen induced them to return
indoors out of the dangerously cold
night air.
The fire originated in what is
known as the old warehouse, located
Immediately between the new ware
house and the office building. Mr..
wilkins declared that only the quick
action of Mr.. French, who closed the
heavy fire doors connecting the three
structures. saved the entire plant
from being RACED.
In the building were scores of
crates filed with soaps and other
fats and oils. These served to feed
the fire and. famed by the stiff. cold
winds, the flames swept through the
structure with incredible rapiuity. 1t
was completely destroyed, together
with it's contents, and much of the
stock in the adjoining buildings was
ruined by water.
Mr. wilkins estimated the loss to
his stock in excess of 100000. He
gave no estimate of what it would
cost to rebuild the destroyed ware
house and repair the burned walls of
those adjoining. He paid a high
compliment to the work of the fire
men. This mornings fire was di-
rectly opposite that disastrous
blaze that swept a lumber yard less
than a year ago, burning to death
a number of horses and mules and
destroying property worth close to
a million dollars.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
is. D. SAULS
ON TRIP TO SOUTH
Insurance Leader Attend
ing Meeting in PinehurSt,
N. c., When Stricken.

I. S. D. Sauls of this city, president
of. the Continental Life Insurance
Company and nationally known in
life insurance circles. died suddenly
yesterday at Pinehurst, n. c., where
he was attending a meeting of the
Southern Industrial Insurers, of which
he was the president. The funeral
and interment will be in Goldsboro.
y. c., probably tomorrow or Sunday.
The Sauls home in this city is at
1913 16th street northwest.
Mr.. Sauls was a native of Free
mont, y. c., and sixty seven years
old. He resided in Norfolk. Va, for
twenty-five years and came TO Wash
ington in 1914. He was a Mason
and a member of the Mystic Shrine,
National Press Club. City Club. Con-
gressional Country Club. Board of
Trade and Chamber of Commerce. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. yell
verton Sauls: two daughters, Mrs.
Lulu d. Sauls Eason and Mrs. Anna
Sauls Bartholomew of this city. Mrs.
Sauls accompanied her husband to
Pinehurst and was with him when
he died. He had addressed the con-
vention of insurers the day before
his death.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
HUGHES SURPRISED.
Declines Comment on Paris Report
of Farley Break.

To what extent the attitude of
France has blocked plans for Amer
lean participation in the reparations
discussions is a question which the
American government apparently is
not yet prepared to answer.
Informed of the Paris semi official
announcement as he was leaving a
long session of the cabinet, Secretary
Hughes expressed great surprise but
declined to make any comment.
In his last talk with Ambassador
JusSerand Mr.. Hughes asked several
questions as to details of the French
attitude, and it was agreed that for
the present there would be no public
announcement. The Secretary said
today that he had received no reply
to his quiries, and it was declared
at the French embassy that none had
reached there from Paris.
Both the State Department and
the embassy likewise were without
official advices regarding the state
ment given out today by the foreign
office. After he left the White House
Secretary Hughes took immediate
steps to ascertain the purport of the
announcement.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
From Yesterdays $50 Edition of The Star.
DISTRICT GAS RATE
REDUCED5
Cut to ST Per 1000 Cubic
Feet Ordered to Take
Effect in December.

The Public Utilities Commission yes
terday afternoon ordered a reduction of
cents per thousand cubic feet in
the price of gas sold to private house
holds.
This makes the rate 81 per thousand
feet for customers using $4,000 feet
or less a month, which include all
houSeholderS.
The commission decided not to
change the rates for gas sold in ex-
cess of $4,000 feet n month, but the
number of customers using more than
that amount are few, in comparison
to the thousands of households that
will benefit by the decision.
The commission itself took the in
itiative in calling for a public hear
ing on gas rates several weeks ago.
and it was predicted several days ago
that a reduction would be ordered.
Attorneys Minor and Hoover, rep
resenting the Washington and George
town Gas Light companies, vigorously
opposed cut in rates at this time,
and the commission last week defer
red action in order to study a brief
submitted by the lawyers.
The chief contention of the COM
panies was that the values placed on
their properties were S2,500,000 less
than they should be and that if
proper allowance was made for
physical valuation the companies
,, would not be earning an unreasonable
return.
They further contended that the Com
mission has not in the past made
adequate allowance for maintenance and
amortization. The Commission in the
past has allowed 9 cents per thousand
feet of gas sold for maintenance and
| amortization, but the company argued
for an allowance of IL cents,
The reduced rate of 81 probably will
apply to bills rendered in December.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
DENbYS Join GRID
TRIP OF MARINES
Secretary and Wife Greeted
as Trains Depart for Ann
Arbor, Mich.

Secretary of the Navy DENLY and
Mrs. DENLY were welcomed by 1000
marines, headed by Maj Gen. John A.
Lejeune, commander of the Marine
Corps, and serenaded by a 2O0-piece
band as they boarded a special car
at the Union station today to jour
ney to Ann Arbor, Mich. for the foot
ball game between the University q.
Michigan and the Marine Corps to-
morrow.
The delegation from Quantico
boarded five special trains at that
place earlier in the day in order that
they may be present to cheer the
Devil Dogs" on to victory in their
biggest game.
Followers Of the Marine team. in
cludlng. former marines and their
friends, will go from Philadelphia,
boston and other cities on the east
coast TO witness the struggle.
Teams in Fine Form.
The Michigan team has not been de-
feated this year and is generally
rated as one Of the best teams in the
west, while the Marine team has been
defeated but once within the last
four years.
4 ne men Ii'II N2udIllcO, possessing
their usual esprit de corps, are gladly
paying their own railway fare in
order to see their heroes of the grid
iron in action.
a grand reception is being planned
in Detroit for the corps. 1t will De
received by the mayor and the city
council and will pass in review to-
morrow morning before leaving De
troit for Ann Arbor.
They will be dined free in Detroit
asal-
to that city from Ann Arbor, where
all of the moving picture theaters in
the former city will be thrown open
to them, free Of charge.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
U. S. DROPS PARLEY,
FRENCH INDICATE
Continued from First Page.)

years would be to break down the
parleys and throw the situation into
deadlock, where it has been for sew
eral years. 1t means continued dis
integration of Germany if the present
German government can offer the
people no encoura cement on the prob
lem Of external obligations.
And as for disinteg grafton, the
French are anxious to get repara-
with alarm the crumbiing of the mill
;tary power of their perennial foe
across the Rhine. The breakup of
Germany means military security for
France, but serious economic conse-
quences to the rest of Europe, and
especially to Great Britain, where un-
employment is acute. The British
have been willing to forego much of
their reparations in the hope of re-
ViVinS German commerce, as British
shipping carries the German trade.
No German exports or imports means
a tie up of British shipping and other
ill-effects unon British business.
The British are represented as be-
ing lukewarm on the subject of q
commission of experts, but London
VIII follow the course of the United
States. If Washington accepts Pre-
mler PolncareS compromise, London
Will do likewise
Discussion of the personnel of the
proposed commission has begun. The
French would not object to a repre-
SentatIon of at least three from each
country, with an economist. a banker
and a business man in the delegation
Distrust of bankers has been ex-
pressed by Premier Poincare from
time TO time because, he says, thev are
interested in reducing Germany's
debt solely in order to float a loan
on terms more favorable to them
selves with the investment public
should be disinterested is beginning q
TO be urged. therefore. The process of
their selection would be somewhat
roundabout.
The reparations commission. which
is creature of the Versailles treaty
would appoint the experts AS for the
United States, Maj. John Logan is The
Unofticlai member of the reparations
commission. He represents the limited
states government in the sense thar hn
receives instructions from the Depart-
ment of State, but he does not vote ~
any meetings of the reparations com
mission. He would actually name tba
American delegates, but no donht
would act upon the advice and instruns
ton OF the administration in JVashinG.
ton. The delegates would not reDrese6t
the American government technicaI1v
at all, but they would sit with dele
gates who represented other govern
mentS, and to all intents and purposes
their acts would be clothed with q
government influence though tbaU
would still be unofficial persons acfino
IN private capacity.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
HUGHES WELCOMES
PARAGUAYAN AGENT
William Wallace White to
Serve on Pan-AmeriCan
Governing Board.

William Wallace White was wei
coined by Secretary of State Hughes
as the special representative of Para
quay at the meeting of the govern
ing board of the Pan-American Union
Wednesday. Mr.. White will serve on
the governing board for the fiscal
year 1924.
Mr. White was appointed by the
minister of foreign affairs OF Para-
quay in accordance with the proVl-
sions of the resolution on the Pan
American Union, adopted by the fifth
international conference of Amerl-
can states, whereby any state, mem
ber of the Pan-American Union, not
having a diplomatic representative
according to the government OF the
United States of America may ap-
point a special representative on the
governing board of the union.
Electrical Commission Date.
Mexico City was designated as the
place of meeting of the lnter-Amerl-
can electrical communications commS-
sion, created under a resolution adopt
ed by the fifth international confer
ence of American states held at san
tiago, Chile, last April. The chairman
was authorized to appoint Speclal
committee of the governing board
with power to fix the date OF the
meeting early in 1924, preferably
January or February. after determln-
ing the date which will be most salts
factory to the government OF MHNlco'
The report of the special committee
appointed by the governing board on
October > to consider the organization
of the permanent committees of the
Pan American Union was submitted
to the board by the chairman OF the
committee, Beltran Matthew, ambas-
sador of Chile, and unanimously
adopted.
The committees, with the countries
represented thereon by their repre-
seRtatives on the governing board OF
the union, are as follows:
l. For the development of economic
and commercial relations between the
American republics: Chile, Colombia
Cuba, Honduras, Paraguay and United
States.
.. For the study of all matters re
lating to the international organiza
tion of labor in America: Bolivia
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Pan
anna and Venezuela
3. For the study Of questions relat-
ing to hygiene in the countries OF
the continent: Brazil. Guatemala
Haiti. Peru and Salvador
4. For the development of intel
lectual co-opera ton, with special ref
erence to cooperation between uni
yerSities: Argentina, Costa Rica Ecua-
dor, Mexico and Uruguay.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
PARADE TOOPEN
/ MUTT SHOW TODAY
Procession to Start From
Ellipse at q P.M.-ShoW
to Be at Coliseum

Dogs without p"digreeB will come
into their own at 4 o'clock this after
noon, when they VIII parade down
historic Pennsylvania avenue on their
way 10 the mutt show" which opens
at 8 o'clock at the Coliseum.
TO have pedigree bars a dog both
from the parade and the show. Pedi-
greed pups long have been the center
Of canine interest. Every year they
have a show Of their own.
This afternoon is devoted to the
plain mutt" the good old dog that
everybody loves, and which occupies
large place in the affection of
countless thousands.
The parade Of the mutts starts at 4
o'clock from the Ellipsc. winding its
way around the White House, down
the Avenue, and stopping at the Coli
scum, where the 200 dogs will be
bcnched for the remainder OF the
evening.
White House dogs will have to be
content with watching-anG barking
at the dogs in the parade. Little
dogs and big dogs will march and
ride, dogs with long tails and dogs
with short tails.
Most of the well known breeds will
be represented in the parade and
show. both under the auspices of the
Humane Education Society, of which
James r. Briggs is president. This is
the organization that manages the
animal rest farm in Maryland.
The show win be opened again to-
morrow afternoon at . o'clock, and
the dogs will be on exhibit until mid
night Hundreds Of dog collars and
leashes have been contributed as
prizes for the various classes.
Society women have taken an in
terest in the first mutt show, and
some of them Will ride in the parade
this afternoon to show their inter-
est. The members Of the police de-
partment, under direction Of Maj
Daniel Sullivan, superintendent of
police, are cooperating III the parade
and show.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
KNlCKERBOCKER ENDS
DEFENSE IN THREE SUITS
Attaches of Building Inspectors
Office Testify to Com
putting Figures.

The Knickerbocker Theater Com
pany yesterday concluded its testimony
in defense of the three suits for
$4,000 damages brought against it
by Josephine T. Lyman, administra-
trix of her son; William ]. Forsyth,
administrator of his sister, and Mary
Young, as the result of the collapse
of the theater January %, 1922. The
cases are on trial before Justice Sid
dons and a jury in Circuit Division 1.
Testimony was given by Thomas L.
Costigan, computer in the Office of
Building Inspector Healy; Inspectors
Brown and Perry and Harry NJ. Gran
dali, president of the theater COM
pany. The officials told of the plans
being submitted and the computa-
tions verified and to the inspection OF
the building.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
HEBREW CENTER FUND
HERE OVERSUBSCRIBED

Oversubscribed by s6,s36. the $780,
600 drive for the Jewish Community
Center in Washington will end to-
night washington donations totaled
$206. .936. which guarantees an addi-
tional $4,000 from the national or
ganization.
A victory luncheon was held at the
Arlington Hotel today. when Maurice
Narcissenfeld and Charles Rosenthal
acted as hosts. Roland Robbins, man
ager of the B. F. Keith's Theater,
spoke.
Trophy cups, which have been keen
ly contested by the various cam
paign teams, were awarded at. today s
luncheon.
The Isadore Kahn trophy cup will
be awarded to the leading mems team
and the Adolph Kahn trophy to the
victorious -women's division.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
429 Stitches
Taken in TUo
Fight Victims

First whetting their pocketknives
on a curbstone on Fenton street
northeast, a score or more friends"
Of Thomas III. Lee, colored. attacked
him with such ardor that Lee awoke
in Emergency Hospital with his
Shortly before the Carving melee,
Lee said, he had dispute with his
friends at sociable party at a
Fenton street house. No arrests were
made.
Walter Tyler, also colored, had PIT
stitches put in his body by Emer-
gency Hospital physicians last night
as the result of a row in his home
IN SmithSon court southwest. John
ID. Newton was arrested and charged
with the slashiHg of Tyler.
Evening star., 1923-11-09
REVIEWS SHOALS LEASE.

Thomas w. Martin, president of the
Alabama Power Company, today re-
newed, on behalf of the company and
other power companies in the south
ern states, a lease of the large steam
electrical generating plant at Muscle
Shoals. Payments to the government
for use of the plant this year will
amount to more than $350,000.