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Evening star., 1924-03-18
ROxIE AND HIS GANG
ARRIVE in CAPITAL
Will Give Two Concerts at Polls
This Afternoon-Society
Folk to Attend. ~
WELCOMED BY LARGE CROWD
Marine Band Halls Arrival of Capt.
tol Theater Troupe.

Accorded a whole-hearted welcome,
"Roxie." radios greatest impresario,
and Ibis gang OF thirty vocal and
instrumental stars from the Capitol
1heater in New York arrived In Wash
ington at noon today to face what
probably will be the busiest and most
trying forty-eight-hour period in
their careers.
Several thousand admirers cheered
them at Union station, and as the
troupe emerged from the east exit
of the station the United States Ma
rtne Band. under the leadership of
Capt. William II. Santlemann, struck
up Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here"
following it with the Marine hymn.
1.-The Halls OF Montezuma"
The special car carrying '.the gang
arrived In Union station about 20
minutes late, from Providence, r. l.,
where a special benefit performance
was given at a Shrine affair.
Leroy Mark, heading a committee,
met the troupe at the station.
-. After the reception at the station
'-the gang was taken to Wardman
Park Hotel At 2 o'clock they gave
their first benefit performance. at
i VII . AhColCks ~ Will NC 1OlIOSS GU Ny
another concert at 4:30.
Among those who have taken boxes
for the concerts at Polls are Mrs.
Coolidge. wife Of the President; Sec
retary OF the Treasury Andrew Mel
Ion, Secretary of War John Weeks.
The latest additions to the list of
boxholders include Mrs. Breckenridge
Long. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes. Mrs.
Thomas II. Walsh and many others,
with additional donations being made
by Mrs. Marshall Field and Miss Alice
Sylvester.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
WILL REPORT By APRIL 15.

The personnel classification board
plans to submit to Congress by April
Is its full report on the field services.
This was learned today from tho
board, which could not, however, re-
veal the nature Of the report which
will be submitted. Whether the re-
port on field classification would be
based on circular 13 or on new GLASS
specifications Is q matter Of great in
terest to government werkere,
The board ID busily engaged at
present in working out its report on
those employees of the federal service
engaged In the field, and has gone ex-
and salaries in outside industry and
business in the localities where the
workers are located.
In fact, the extensive survey Of
been virtually Completed @ d0as,aeis ana e 1o. has
in the hands Of the board for the nnr.
pose OF comparisons.
1t had not yet been decided TODAY.
sesosdinE @ , to information 9h3r from the
would also be submitted to Congress,
There was some thought which
strongly favored submission Of such a
survey to Congress along with the
Recommendations Of the board con-
out, would give Congress q broader
view Of the problem.
Circular IL, to which strenuous OBJ
workers, provided that the board
classify the field tentatively in the
same fashion in which It had CLASSIC
fed the District Of Columbia workers.
based on the old job sheets with the
bureau OF efficiency ratings.
Opponents OF Circular 13 have con.
tended the board instead Of following
this circular should have made q
study Of the entire problem, pre-
pared 'ei.ss specificatfons for the held
and anhnitted these to Cnn9reaA
Evening star., 1924-03-18
TAX BUREAU PROBE
WITNESSES CALLED
Persons Who Have Made Com.
plants Are Asked to Testify
by Senators.

Witnesses among large taxpayers
who have made complaints in con-
nection with procedure of the bureau
Of internal revenue have been sum-
moned to appear at the Investigation
Of the bureau authorized by the Sem
ate. Names of those summoned were
withheld, however. until they appear.
The investigating committee met
yesterday, but no testimony was
taken and the list of hundred or
more witnesses prepared by Senator
Couzens, republican, Michigan. au-
thor of the investigation resolution.
was considered behind closed doors.
Senator Couzens presented a letter
from Prof. Il. S. Adams, expert ad-
wiser of the Senate finance commit
tee, requesting that he be not re-
quired to participate in the question
ing of witnesses before the investi-
eating committee, as it would possi-
bly, cause him embarrassment to In
terrogate Treasury and bureau Of
ficials with whom he has been in
close contact for years in an advisory
capacity. The committee agreed that
Prof. Adams would not be called
upon to question witnesses, but ex-
pressed the desire that he be present
during the taking of testimony.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
HOSPITALS DRIVE
WILL END FRIDAY
Emergency-CasuaIty Fund
Barely Above Halfway
" Mark.

Reaching barely over the halfway
mark in the campaign for $5oo,oo0 for
the Emergency and Casualty hos
pitfalls, decision was reached by the
600 workers at luncheon at the New
Willard today to continue the cam
paign until Friday in order to make
renewed efforts to reach the goal set
Additional subscriptions to the
amount of ss6,625 we're reported to-
day, making the total of the cam
paign today $256,665. The winning
team was No. IL Of division B of the
mems team under the leadership of
Charles l. Corby, which reported a
total Of $4,000.
The winning team in the women's
division was team No. 36, captained
by Mrs. Rose D. Merriam. who re-
ported total Of 1926. Team 9 in
division A Of the mems section, CAP
tanned by Harry III. CrandaIl, report
ed a total of $3.50.
Fifty cents per capita is all that
the cities Of the District have so far
contributed to this campaign" de-
clared Charles Henry Butler, a d.
rector OF Emergency Hospital, who
stated that in other cities drives for
hospital netted from SIS to $50 per
capita There are 100000 heads of
families in the District and I think
1t Is a shame that less than ! per
cent of them has responded" de-
clared Mr.. Butler. who vigorously
urged the necessity OF the citizens
support 80
Evening star., 1924-03-18
WANTS SOLDIERS
TO STICK TO JOBS
Let Army Men Do Army Work,
Not Civilian, Says House Com
mittee Official

Army men for Army work; a.
villains for civilian work-fewer Cd
villains doing Army work and fewer
Army men doing civilian WORK
that's what Representative John G.
Mckenzie, republican, OF Illinois. act
ing chairman of the House military
affairs committee, wants He be-
lieves that this opinion reflects the
views Of the majority in Congress-
In other words, I want to see the
Army be an Army" he said. but eIn-
phasizcd that he did not want to be
misunderstood as implying that the
Army officers would not prove OFF,
cient in civilian Offices He thinks
that worry often they would make
excellent civil life executives. He
has the highest regard for the char
acter and ability of Army officers
Representative Mckenzie said to-
day that Secretary of War Weeks
request to Congress that the Presi-
dent be empowered to. appoint Army
officers to civil posts whenever it
may be found desirable will have
prompt and unprejudiced conSdera-
ton by the military affairs commit
tee. He appreciates that occasions
may arise, or there may be some spe-
cial jobs. which make adrainistra-
tion by a particularly we'll fitted
Army officer very desirable for the
good OF the public service.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
PRESIDENT ASKS AID
FOR WHEAT GROWERS
Calls on Agricultural Credit Cor.
poration to Extend Its
Assistance.

President Coolidge and his cabinet
decided today to ask the Agricultural
Credit Corporation, recently formed
with q capital Of $4,000, 900, to assist
wheat-growers in the northwest to
diversity their crops.
The resources of the corporation,
supplemented by a loan from the War
Finance Corporation Of $20.00O.0 600 or
S30o0O,OOO, will accordingly be direct
ed in part toward accomplishment OF
the purposes of the Norbeck-Burtness
bill recently defeated by the Senate.
A survey of the situation in the
northwest by the President and his
cabinet today convinced them that
the War Finance Corporation had
been successful In relieving the
stringent credit conditions which led
to numerous bank failures, and that
consequently the Agricultural Credits
Corporation's resources could well be
turned toward carrying out the pur-
poses of the Norbeck -Burtness bill.
DR.. John Lee Coulter, president Of
the North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege, one of those who drew up the
plan, embodied in the Norbeck-Burt-
ness bill, is vice president of the Ag-
ricultural Credits Corporation and
will assist that agency in administer
ing its fund along lines contemplated
in the legislation defeated in the
Senate.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
CEDING BACK OF LAND
TO VIRGINIA ARGUED
House Committee Studies Measure
on Shipbuilding Corpora
ton Site.

The House military affairs commit
tee today gave consideration to the
measure proposing to cede back to
Virginia a strip Of forty-six and a
half acres reclaimed by the govern
ment, with a 1900 feet frontage on
the river, which has been under lease
since 1917 to the Virginia Shipbuild-
ing Corporation at a rental of $4,000
a year.
The Secretary Of War agrees that
this property should be ceded to Vir-
ginia, but that the federal govern
ment should retain title. He says that
$4,000 is not enough for the proper
ty.
$4,000 Largest O69.
James T. Cation appeared as coun-
sci for the receivers Of the Virginia
Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidi-
ary Of the Groton Iron Works. James
A. Crupper appeared az receiver. He
advised the committee that $4,000
,is the largest offer that has been
made.
The committee also considered a
measure which would give the Secretary
of War authority to tap War Depart
ment sewers, power lines, water mains,
etc, that they might be used by civilians
E A. Feidtheller, manager of the Alex
andria Light and Power Company, ap-
peared in support Of the proposed Iegis-
lation.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
world FLYERS CUT.
SECONDLEG0 OF TRIP
win Land at Eugene, 0reg.,
Today Instead of Going on
! to Vancouver, Wash.
By fhe Ausciated Presu

By NE Associated PreaA
SACRAMENTO, Calf, March ia
change In the plans Of the round-the-
world Army aviators, a decision to
mako tho jump in the second lap to-
day from Mather Field, near here. to
Eugene, Greg, instead of to Van
,couver Barracks. Wash, was an
Inounced by Maj. Frederick L. Martin,
flight commander.
Maj Martin announced that because
of tho long journey from Mather
Field to Vancouver Barracks and the
short jump from Vancouver Barracks
to Seattle, Wash, for the third lap. 1t
was deemed advisable to shorten to-
days flight to the 500 miles between
Mather Field and Eugene.
The Aviators expect to leave Mather
Field at am. and arrive at Eugene
at R pm.
i've and ono-half months for the trip.
but | am telling. the people that we
and one.hal months" Maj. Frederick
l. Martin told the Sacramento Cham
Der OF Commerce at dinner last
night fo: the aviators. ~rhe purpose
OF the flight is, first, to Illustrate to
other nations that 1t can be done;
second. to demonstrate the possibil-
tiles of aerial navigation, and, third.
to gather climatic statistics so that
in the future commercial aerial navi-
cation. transportation and lines Of
communication may be established.
7 know the route We are taking
now will, Of course, not be the more
practicable airline for commercial
aircraft of the future. It Is a step
In the advancement Of such trans
portation, however. and in many
years to come you and ]. all of us,
will think nothing OF going abroad
by airplane.'>
LIEuT. NELSON STARrS
Evening star., 1924-03-18

Continued from First Pase)
the loan. and could not say that I
had done so.''
Mckinney said he had known Fall
many years and had had some busi-
ness dealings with him. He added
that he was not interested in oil
lands.
The witness was on the stand less
than fifteen minutes. He was follow
ed by Henry Woodhouse of New York.
who was questioned about his pub
lished charge that the Doheny inter-
ests had agreed to sell much of the
California naval oil reserve output to
British interests.
Woodhouse said he had owned one
sixth of the Chester oil concession in
Turkey.
Launching into a long recital, the
witness said Doheny had organized
in 1919 in company with British oil
and steamship interests the Brit
ish- Mexican Petroleum Company,
which under contract was to have
first call on the Doheny oil output
both In the United States and Mex-
ico.
Woodhouse was on the stand hal,
An hour. and at the conclusion OF
his statement the committee adjourn
ed until tomorrow.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
FUNERAL OF TEACHER.
Miss Alice Stromberger viii Be
Buried Tomorrow,

Funeral services for Miss Alice p.
Stromberger, stxty-five years old, vet
eran school teacher Of the District,
WIN be held at her late residence,
1895 Massachusetts, avenue southeast,
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev.
F. W. johnson of the Grace Baptist
Church will ofYfciate 1nterment will
be in the Oak Hill cemetery.
Miss Stromberger was retired 40 q
teacher in the schools Of the District
about three years ago, after having
taught for over forty years. Her sis-
ter, the late Miss Julia B. Stromber-
ger, was q music teacher In the
schools Of this city for many years
Miss Alice p. Stromberger had de-
voted her life to school work, and
after her retirement she always main
tanned an active interest in the
schools Of Washington. Before be-
ginning her career an teacher she
had been graduated from the old
franklin Normal School and later
from the Seaton High School
Evening star., 1924-03-18
UTILITIES BOARD | !.
PLANS NEW RULE
May Require Companies to
Pay Interest on Deprecia-
ton Fund if Used.

All public utilities that have their
depreciation fund distributed amonr
the various assets instead OF in a
separate fund will have to pay in
! terest at the rate Of per cent to the
depreciation account for such
amounts, If the Public Utilities Com
mission finally approves tentative
rules made public today.
The commission announce that IL
will resume public hearings at 1880
o'clock Thursday, March 81, at which
time the companies will be invited to
present their views on the tentative
regulation.
The commission believes begins
tent of paragraph 16 of the public
utilities law that each utility shall
set aside in fund separate and dis
tinct from all other moneys the amounts
for deprecia ton purposes. The fund
so created is in tho nature of a test
fund to provide for the cost of de-
preclable property renewed, retired
or replaced and to be drawn upon for
those purposes as the actual renewal
replacement or retirement is made
The money in this fund may be de-
posted in banks, invested in ap-
proved securities or borrowed by or
advanced to the utility for legitimate
corporate purposes, but not for the
payment of operating expenses nor
for disbursement in dividends. How
ever employed, the income therefrom
shall be debited to the fund and cred
tied to the depreciation reserve In
terest on the amount charged to this
fund shall be compounded semfannu-
ally.
Must Pay Interest.
The commission sets forth the be-
lief that company having depre
dfate use for the retirement, renewal
or replacement of property may bor-
row from this fund for the legitimate
corporate purposes mentioned in the
preceding section.
The amounts SO advanced to the
company shall bear interest at the
rate of per cent, said interest to
be debited semi-annually to the fund
and concurrently credited to the re-
serve
fund must be restored if and when
needed for retirement under the
rules to be established.
In setting forth what should be
done with balances now existing in
the depreciation accounts of the COM
pany, the commission says:
None OF the utility corporations.
except the Capital Traction Company,
in accumulating depreciation re-
serves are setting aside the amounts
50 accumulated in a separate fund;
the reserves are left in the property,
distributed among the various assets.
Have Used Funds.
By this method the corporations
are enjoying the use of the deprecia-
tion reserve heretofore accumulated
for corporate purposes, for which no
interest is paid. The commission be-
lieves that when the reserves for de-
probation is used by any utility for
purposes other than those for which
it was created the utility should pay
interest thereon.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
MRS. MARY SMALL DIES.
Maryland Woman Survived bv
Eight Children.

Mrs. Mary F. Small, seventy-one
years old, widow OF William r. Small.
lifelong resident of Montgomery
county, Md, died at her residence at
Ounce Orchard, Md, Wednesday,
March IL. Interment was Saturday.
She is survived by eight children,
Clarence Fl. and Mrs. G. u. Small Of
this city, John A. and William r.
Small OF Baltimore, Charles u. Small
OF Germantown, Md; Mrs. John Heg-
don of Gaithersburg. Md. and Mrs.
Charles Howard and Harvey II.
Small of Ounce Orchard, Md.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
CURTIS EXPLAINS DEAL.
Bought Oil Stock for Daughter.
Says Kansas Senator.

Senator Curtis, mentioned in the
testimony as one of the oil stock pur-
planning that he had purchased the
sinclair stock for his daughter, Mrs.
Permelia Curtis George, and that II
had a6a been delivered to her in July.
ISL1, under an agreement by which
spe deposits the dividends in bank 10
the account of her children.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
FLEETS TO AID FLYERS.
Destroyers Ordered to Stand Ready
to Aid Army Airmen.

Commanding officers OF the Asiatic
and Atlantic scouting fleets were or
dered today to place all ships Of their
destroyer sQuadrons at the disposal
of the Army to safeguard the around
the-world flyers.
Destroyers will be stationed in the
Yellow sea and along the Japanese
ready to furnish fuel or
perform whatever relief duties may
become necessary. Later, when the
aircraft cross the Atlantic on the
last leg OF their trip, destroyers will
be stationed along their route, which
lies along the coasts of Labrador,
Greenland and Iceland
Evening star., 1924-03-18
ARRESTED AT HOME.
Mrs. Gilmore Taken on ComnlaInt
Of Husband.

Mrs. Alice Gilmore was taken Ia
the house Of detention early yester-
day morning following arrest bv
policemen Of the seventh precinct At
her home. 2s06 N street northwest.
Later in the day she was released on
SIS collateral on charges of disor-
derby conduct It is understood shs
forfeited collateral.
Policeman Proctor of the seventh
precinct made the arrest. At the
seventh precinct the book lists the
charge as disorderly conduct and the
complainant a. her husband. Stuart
Gilmore.
Mrs. Gilmore comes from a well
known local family and her husband
il the son OF Q naval ofncer.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
Chamber to Hear Treadway,

Representative Treadway of Masss-
chusetts will be the principal speaker
at the regular meeting Of the Wash
n Nav willard Hotel s tonirht ~ at @
O'Clock. James T. Lloyd, first vice
president of the chamber, will pre-
side. IN the absence OF President Cans,
who il Ax Atlantic City for his health
Evening star., 1924-03-18
Seek to Adopt Alien.

Morris and Lena Bulman have ask
ed the District Supreme Court to au-
thorfxe the adoption Of their f1fteen-
year-oid niece, Eagle Sherman. who
lives in Russia. :. The court is told
that the girls father was killed In Q
riot in odessa two years ago and that
her mother died Of starvation shortly
afterward, Attorney Joseph L. Tep-
per appears for the petitioners.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
Fourth Of World Flyers, Delayed,
Seeks to Catch Up.
By the Assocjatsd Presa.

ny Inc A88oCJ1Lk0 tre84.
CLOVER FIELD, SANTA MONICA.
Calf, March 1s.-Lieut. Erik K. Nell
son, engineering officer Of the Army
round-the-world flight which started
here yesterday, was expected to ar
rive here today from Rockwell Field,
San Diego, en- route to join his fellow
pilots of the globe tour in the world
cruiser No. 4, which was unable to
take of with the other three biplanes
of the squadron yesterday because of
delayed delivery.
Praised In London.
LONDON, March 18.-The Daily
News describes the world flight OF
American Army aviators as "the most
formidable of human undertakings,'
adding:
"If the American airmen come safe
ly through the adventure they will be
pioneers indeed"
r.EETS TO AID FLYERS.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
Falls Dead at Gas Plant.

John Dudley, colored, flfty-three. 642
T. street southeast, fell dead yester-
day afternoon while at work at the
plant of the Washington Gas Light
18th and NJ streets south
east. Coroner Nevitt gave a certif-
cate of death from natural causes.
Evening star., 1924-03-18
MRS. GREENE LAUDS
WORK OF HOSPITAL
Life of Senator Saved by
Having Proper Equipment
and Quick Service.

Il wish all those who are asked
70 help in the campaign OF the Euer-
gency and Casualty Hospitals for
100000 could know Of the splendid
work they are doing and woat It
means to como within the shadow of
death am sure If they could know
the campaign would have passed its
goal before this" said Mrs Frank
L. Greene, wife Of Senator Greene of
Vermont, who was shot several weeks
ago during a battle between a reve-
nue. agent and alleged rum-runners at
Sd and Pennsylvania avenue north
west. and whose life was saved by
the prompt action and skill of the
Doctors at the hospital declared
that 1t was only by proper equipment
ana up-to-the-mfnute service that the
life of Senator Greene was saved.
OF a largo number of patients that
enter the hospital on emergency
calls.
Patients OF All Clas3ea.
TT is not only the poor who can
not pay who come to these hos
pitals," said B. B. Sandidge. super
people from all walks of life, many
of whom can afford to go wherever
they have a mind to go.
'The 100000 campaign is not to
improve our service, because we have
brought it up just about as high as
we can already. but to enlarge it, to
make it available to more people,
and, above all else to insure that
it will continue and will be available
to the poor as welr as TO those who
can pay. That is the present Situa-
ton, but 1t cannot last forever with
out funds"
Emergency had only two vacant
rooms last night, Mr.. Sandidge said,
and often there are none at all. There
was a goodly number of patients in
the wards. some of which are fire.
quentiy filled to capacity. Last Sat
urday, he added, there were twenty
ambulance calls, twelve of which
came between 4:30 and IL o'clock in
the evening. The daily average
throughout the year is ten per day.
Casualty Hospital, which serves
northeast Washington, has become
unusually busy recently, and has
noted especially an increasing de-
mand for private rooms.
yEnnAu CAf
Evening star., 1924-03-18
Women Set Mark.

Although to date only a little more
than one-third of the funds have been
raised, the woman workers in the cam
paign have distinguished themselves by
raising so per cent Of the total amount,
directors Of the campaign declare.
The women, under Mrs. Reginald S.
Huidekoper, have raised $100.75S of the
total amount.
Evening star., 1924-03-18

There are Ia per cent fewer hogs. In
the world now than there we're be-
Evening star., 1924-03-18
OTHER NAMES ARE USED
IN OIL STOCK DEALS BY
SLEMP AND DAUGHERTY

CONTINUED from First Pa<e1
Evening star., 1924-03-18
BILL FOR elimination
OF CLASSIFYING BOARD
Is UNANIMOUSLY 0. KID

tContinued from First Page.)
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LIEUT.. NELSON STARTS
Evening star., 1924-03-18

After being on the stand for more
than half an hour, Burke had. MP to
that time. coIroborated the tssti-
mony of Wise almost in full ::
Tho courtroom was packed with
mon. Many times Justice Thomas was
obliged to rap for order when the
crowd, which filled every seat and
overaowed into the halls, burst into
laughter.
Among the throng could be seen
several members OF Congress, the
resident commissioner OF the Philip
pine Islands and his assistant ,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-04-10
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