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Evening star., 1924-05-12
IMMEDIATE PASSAGE
OF BRIDGE BILL ASKED
Senate Committee Favorably Re-
ports Measure to Permit Be-
ginning of Construction.

Immediate enactment of the bill
to authorize erection of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge was urged in a fav-
orable report made to the Senate to-
day by Senator F'ernaId of the COM
mittee on public buildings and
grounds.
The committee tells the Senate that
support and interest in this project
is increasing outside of Washington,
particularly in the southern states,
and in other states across the conti-
nent that are in line with the Lee
highway.
1t is pointed out that for many
years the proposed bridge to the
Arlington estate and Lee mansion has
been under discussion and that as
long ago as 1913 commission was
created to make plans for it. Nine
years later, in 1922, appropriation was
authorized to prepare a design and
specification. In April of this year
President Coolidge, who is member
Of the commission, presented the
completed plan to Congress.
The committee on public buildings
and grounds reports that the bridge
commission is unanimously in favor
of beginning the project Immediately.
1t is contemplated that the con-
struction of the bridge, with appro-
pirate improvements of Columbia
Island into a beautiful park opposite
the Lincoln Memorial, will cost s14,-
$50, 900, to be expended over a ten
year period.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
BAR MEMBERS TO GIVE
SHkD BAKE SATURDAY
Event, Complimentary to Justices
Of District Courts, to Be
Largely Attended.

The District Bar Association will
give its annual complimentary shad
bake and dinner to the justices of the
District courts next Saturday at
Marshall Hall
Acceptances are being rapidly re-
ceived from the guests and an out
pouring Of the members of the bar
is anticipated. While the affair is
given by the bar association the sale
of tickets is open to all members of
the local bar who may apply to
George C. Gertman, secretary, during
the week. An early application for
tickets is requested in order that the
committee in charge may know the
number of persons that will attend
The steamer Charles Manchester win
leave her wharf promptly at 10 o'clock
and will make a special return trip
in the evening. All the usual amuse-
ments and sports which feature the
annual outing Of the bench and bar
will be in evidence this year.
Stanton C. Peelle. president of the
Bar Association, has appointed a COM
mittee of arrangements under the
craftsmanship of Walter c. Balderston.
The chairman will have as aids Alex
ander H Bell, Joseph A. Burkart, J..
Morrill, Chamberlin, George c. Cert
men, c.. Clinton James, Bolitha J..
Laws, James A. Toomey and Edwin l..
Wilson.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
POTOMAC OVERFLOWS
AT BOILING FIELD
Continued Heavy Rainstorms Cause
Marked Rise From Cumberland
to Harpers Ferry.
HIGH WATER HERE FoREsEEN
Wills Creek Again Menaces West,
ern Maryland City.

Continued rains along the urp
Potomac have caused high wat. Z.
here, but after police of the harbcr
precinct surveyed the river front to
day they reported having found moth
ing to suggest damage to river Graf.
since Saturday, when q twenty-foot
launch belonging to Charles Birkighl
member of the seventh precinct police
squad, broke loose and was carried
TO Alexandria by the swift current
Another launch and scow also were
recovered Saturday.
Lieut. Harry r Lohman, in con-
nand of the harbor precinct. a. nooa
today reported that water Wa. oy,t
the wall at Boiling Field ana was
within a foot of the top Of tHe salt
about Potomac Park. Wcath-r l4-
reau officials, basing their eS'..,.t..
on reports from Cumberland and Har.
pers Ferry, report that part .f taa
large volume of water from ufr .n,
river should cause high water H..
tomorrow.
Because of incomplete reports fro
Harpers Ferry this morning wctssr
bureau officials said they were unau..
to forecast conditions which vii. pro
vail in this vicinity at high tiC. go.
morrow.
Twe1ye-FOOt Rise.
Early reports from Cumberland j..-
morning gave the information ina:
there had been d rise of tweIN. feet
in the Potomac, while Wills orert
north of Cumberland, is over .t
banks. 1t was due to the volume ot
water from this creek that flood con
ditions prevailed in the Cumberland
region in March.
A second report from Cumberland
received at o'clock, revealed that
there had been an additional rise of
two feet, six feet above the food
stage. Reports indicated a rise of
fourteen feet at Harpers Ferry and
il is believed it will reach tweut-
feet before night.
The weather bureau received re-
port from Riverton. Va. telling Of
a rise OF twenty feet, with ev-ry
probability of higher water before
| night Twenty-Five feet is the flood
| stage.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
SENATE COMMITTEE
O. KS TEACHERS BILL
Reports Measure Favorably With
One Major Change from
That Passed by House.

A favorable report on the school
teachers pay bill was made to III"
Senate today by Senator Capper Of
the District committee. With cns
principal exception, il corresponds -
the Keller bill, passed by the Hovs,.
The Senate bill gives the superintsrd-
ent of schools salary ranging fr1'a
IS, 900 TO $4,000. in lieu of $500 in
the House bill.
The report calls attention 10 tie
theory that the efficiency Of a school
teacher is very closely related to her
salary, and sets forth that the sa.a-
ries should be such as 70 attract ~
the profession men and women Wa1
would follow it permanently
Five Features in Bill.
Since 1906 all increases granted
school teachers have been temporary
and of a limited nature The pend
ing bill does five things:
First, il legalizes and renders
more permanent salaries OF tcache e
and employees that are now fN,d
annually by appropriation bills.
Second. it authorizes and provid.
salaries for positions that have DE-
veloped in the public schools since
1906;
Third. it abolishes session room
pay as method of paying primo PAL
of elementary schools;
Fourth, it abolishes the grouping
of the elementary teachers in salsry
classes one, two, three. four. Nv.
etc, and substitutes for the mad
or $40 per annum uniform annHa
increase of 500 year for all t"a'i-
erS. and
Five. it authorizes employment o5
temporary teachers and the appc.ul.
ment OF annual substitute teache.-
Evening star., 1924-05-12
HOLD PICNIC IN RAIN.
Semmes Motor Company Workers
Defy Inclement Weather.

Indictment weather conditions yes
terday did not interfere with the
fourth annual spring outing of en-
ployeS of the Semmes Motor Company
at Morgantown, Md, the employees be-
ing guests of the company. Starting
from the company's plant q near 9TH,
in a driving rain, the party reached
Morgantown long before Frank Cole
man, chairman of the refreshment
committee, was prepared for them.
Mike Deneane, chairman of the out
ing ommittee, assisted by MeSsrs.
Murphy, Ochsenreiter, Collins and
Ray Semmes, had everything ready
for the athletic contests.
Jim Dyson carried off a cash prize
in the egg rolling contest; Richard
Fendall and Richard Pierce won
cigars in three-legged race, and Fen
dali also captured the first prize IN
the sack race The last of the events
for the colored help, box of ties, was
won by Fendal1 and Pierce
Winners of the prizes in the events
were: 1o0-yard dash, r II Hill:
three-legged race, walter McNey and
A. S. Yarnall; potato race, Joe Cook
sey; sack race, r. H. Hill; balloon
race, r. ]. Bean; egg race, Joe Cook
sey; tug-of-war, sales departmenG
Ray Semmes and Edward Semmes.
representatives of the firm, parucl-
pated in the affair; Charles w.
Semmes has been prevented from
enjoying the outing because of III
ness. Ray Semmes delivered an ad-
dress, in which he complimented the
men for their excellent team work
that has assisted in making the COM
pany's business so successful.
w. B. Roberts, jr.. represennne
Graham Bros, Detroit, Mich, also
spoke to the assembled employees. He
said he was gratifed to see such
spirit of cooperation existing in the
organization, and said the local hrm
was regarded as being one OF the
handling Dodge cars.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
MUSEUM DIRECTORS
SELECT OFFICERS
C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo Renamed
to Head Organization for
Coming Year,
$250,00O GRANT EXPECTED
Will Be Used for Founding Insti-
tutions in q. S. Parks.

c. J. Hamlin, president of the Buff
falo Society of Natural Sciences, was
reelected president of the American
Association of Museums at the meet
ing of the organization at the Ma
tional Museum this morning. The
association is composed of the direc-
tors, trustees and curators of the
various museums in the country and
is holding its nineteenth annual con-
vention here.
Other officers elected were: F. A
Whiting, director of the Cleveland
Museum of Art, vice president; F. A
Delano of Washington, treasurer; L.
Y. Coleman, secretary. Il. s. Lull of
Yale University and .. G.. Rathmann.
director of the educational museums
of st. Louis public schools, were
elected councillors.
Plans for Foundation.
Mr.. Coleman. in reading his report
70 the meeting, said that grant of
s25O,00O for the establishment of
museums in six national parks is
being considered by large educational
foundation. If the association is sue
cessful in carrying through its pla n
with the support of this foundation,
Mr.. Coleman declared that the funds
would be available within the next few
weeks and the buildings begun in the
parks before the arrival of the summer
tourists. The museums will contain
objects which will describe and explain
the story of each park.
Announcement was also made of
three grants to the association for
the. purpose of furthering its object
OF having a museum in every com
munity. Another result of these
grants, it was explained, will be a
campaign on behalf Of the hundreds
or small museums throughout the
country and OF hundreds of contem-
plated museums which have not as
yet been constructed. The aSsocia-
ton has been active in it's work in
Europe as well as this country.
Charles r. Richards, director of the
organization, addressed the assembly
on the result of his tour of museums
IN that continent Mr.. Coleman an
nounced the names of the organiza-
ton making the three grants as the
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memo
rial, the General Education Board and
the Carnegie Corporation Of New York.
The no smoking rule in places
OF work are more apt to cause fire
than prevent them" declared Edward
tion's committee on fire hazards. in
an address before the organization.
He said it was more effective TO pro-
vide facilities for employees to smoke
or to allow them TO do a reasonable
amount of smoking while at work.
Attempts by employees to conceal
lighted cigarettes and cigars, he eX-
plained, caused many more fires than
if they We're permitted to smoke.
The sessions will end tomorrow
night with a banquet. At noon they
will be re Scived at the White House
and ST. LSuis were offered as places
the CA VEntiOQ
Evening star., 1924-05-12
LOCAL PUBLISHERS
HIT RAIL CHARGES
With Baltimore Group, File Formal
Complaint Against Rates on
Newsprint Ink.

Alleging that they have been sub
jected over a period of years to eX-
cessive and unreasonable charges on
shipment of newsprint ink, the Wash
ington daily newspapers and four
publishing companies OF Baltimore
joined today in a formal complaint
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission asking the establishment OF
reasonable rates on this commodity
and asking reparation. The publish
ing companies named in the COM
plaint include most of those whose
complaint alleging oyercharge on
rates on newsprint paper is now be-
fore the commission for decision.
Eighteen railroads, including the
major carriers in the east, are nam ed
as defendants in the complaint. Rates
attacked are those on shipment OF
newsprint ink from Bayonne, Ho-
boken and Jersey City, n. j., and
from Boston and Morrils, Mass, tC
Baltimore and Washington.
An informal complaint was filed by
the same group of publishers on Octo-
Der 10, 1928, but the commission. in
view of the attitude of the carriers
decided that the complaint was no,
susceptible of adjustment on the in
formal docket.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
PARK COMMISSION BIDS
FOR 2 PLOTS OF GROUND
Action Started for Acquisition of
SQUARES Abutting Rock Creek
Between Avenue and M Street.

Action has been taken by the ROCK
Creek parkway commission for ac-
ouisitfon of two irregular squares OF
ground abutting Rock Creek, between
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and NJ street
and 26th and 2sth streets. and the
west half of the square between u
street and Pennsylvania avenue and
26th street and Rock Creek, for IN
cIusion in the parkway. One parcel,
Improved by the large building oc-
cupied by the Columbia Transfer and
storage Company, at 2613 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, has just been purchas-
ed by the commission from Edward
Terry, the owner of the property, for
$4,000.
square on the west bank of the creek.
between Pennsylvania avenue and NJ
street, have fixed it's value so high
that the commission has asked the
Attorney General to institute pro-
ceedings for it's condemnation. The
principal buildings in that area are
the Peck Memorial Chapel, corner
2Sth and M streets, and Lawton's
Carriage Factory, at 27oS M street.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
COTTON MILL PROBE
VOTED BY SENATE
Industry Suffering Depression, Says
Walsh of Massachusetts,,
Fathering Move.

An inquiry into the cotton textile
industry by the tariff commission
was ordered today by the Senate on
motion of Senator Walsh, Democrat,
Massachusetts,
Senator Walsh declared the indus
try was suffering Il depression. He
added that contrary to popular belief.
he did not think the situation re-
suited from importations of cotton,
and. therefore. asked the inquiry.
Senator Lodge. Massachusetts,, the
Republican leader, Joined in asking
the resolution.
Senator'S Dial and Smith, Demo-
Gratis. South Carolina, suggested the
situation might be the result of a
buyers strike, but voiced no OBJ
lection to passage of the resolution.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
BALL URGES SENATE
TO EXTEND RENT ACT
Will Ask Wadsworth to Defer
Army Bill Until Proposal
Te Tnre,Io-ol
Is Considered

Senator Ball. chairman of the Dis
trict committee, will make an effort
to have the Senate act this afternoon
on the resolution to extend the Dis
rict rent act for two more years.
The Army appropriation bill is the
order of business beginning at 2
o'clock, but Senator Ball will en-
deavor to have Senator Wadsworth
of New York, agree to lay the Army
bill aside temporarily to get consid-
Grafton for the rent question.
Senator Ball is prepared to present
to the Senate today the confidential
report which is said to show con-
ditionS in the local real estate and
rent situation which were Of such
a nature that they were turned over
by the Senate District committee to
District Attorney Gordon several
days ago.
The nature of the revelations in
this report will not be made known
until Senator Ball submits it to the
Senate later in the day if possible.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
PAGES TO SEE CIRCUS.
Will Be Guests of Senator Elkins
Tonight.

The Senate pages are to have their
annual outing at the circus tonight
as the guests of Senator Davis Elkins
of West Virginia
For many years Senator Elkins has
paid tribute to boyhoods' love of the
hilltop by seeing that not one of the
little chaps, who carry the messages
about the Senate floor, fails to have
night of nights at the circus.
Chaperoned by Col. Edwin A. Hal
sey and Richard F. Field and their
wives, the twenty-five Senate pages
will take in the big show this eve
ming. Not only has Senator Elkins
purchased their tickets. but he has
added an appropriation large enough
to buy each and every one the pea
nuts and pink lemonade that are in
separable parts of every well-orga-
nized circus.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
BABY SHOW TO OPEN.
Florence Crittenden Home Display
an Appeal for Funds.

The baby show conducted by the
board of directors of the Florence
Crittenden Home will open tomorrow
at 1922 F street northwest. Babies
from the home will be placed in the
window in order to bring to the pub
lies attention the work of the home
and its need for financial support.
The show will continue until Satur-
day.
Some twenty babies are now in the
care of the home, which also takes
care of the mothers and affords them
educational facilities. Basket weav-
ing and other occupations are taught
and classes held for the mothers
twice a week under auspices Of the
board of education. The babies will
wear garments made by the Girls
Club of the home, which is under the
direction of Mrs w. HI. Hamond, Mrs.
L. G. Russell and Mrs. George Price.
Mrs. John II. Harwood and Mrs. John
Boyle, jr., are directing the baby
show.
The babies will be brought from
the home, on Conduit road, in the
Rotary bus. Mrs. A. s. Douglas is
treasurer of the home and Mrs
Thomas e. Robertson is president of
the board of directors.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK.
Will Open Recreation Conference
Here on May 22.

President Coolidge will open the
national conference on outdoor rec
reation here May %, and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt of the Navy De-
partment will act as executive chair
man.
The conference will work through
various separate matters related to
outdoor life. Delegates will be pres
Eent from 125enatianaI organizations
Evening star., 1924-05-12
INDUSTRIAL FACTS
SOUGHT BY Y. W. C. A.
Continued Study of Conditions A.
fecting Women Urged by
World Committee.
CHURCH COOPERATION ASKED
Meeting Scheduled at Memorial
Continental Hall Tonight.

The Young Womens Christian
Association should continue it's study
of industrial conditions among wom-
facts, and should cooperate among
the churches in bringing Christian
opinion to bear upon the situation.
These were the principal recon-
mendations in a report presented to-
day to the biennial meeting of the
worlds committee of the Worlds
Y. w. c. a. today at the Grace Dodge
Hotel.
The report. written by Miss Mary
Dingman of London international
headquarters, who however, could
rot be here, on account of work in
China, was discussed by Miss Agatha
Harrison of the world committee; /;
Miss Mary Phillips, vice chairman
and secretary of the British Y. w.
c. A. work among industrial work.
ers; and by Miss Lucy Garner, head
ing this activity in the United States
Among the facts regarded as de
plorable'' was that $4,000 women
work underground in Japan"
International Migration Service.
Miss Ruth Larned of the interna-
tional staff reported on the activities
of the international migration serv-
let, which attempts to adjust social
problems the world over arising out
Of migration. Centers for this work
are maintained, she said, in Belgium,
France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Den
mark, Greece, Turkey. Japan, the
United States and Canada Records
of this service are widely used, il
was reported, by many other social
agencies in the various countries.
The international migration Serv-
ice, it was learned, is in the process
Of becoming independent from the
Y. w. C. A
The sessions this morning were
opened by devotional exercises pre-
president of the United States
A conference session this afternoon
discussed The Aim of the World s
Y. w. c. A
Meeting Scheduled Tonight.
Tonight there will be held what is
described as the only open meeting
OF the entire conference, at Memorial
Continental Hall, when there will be
three speakers: Miss L.andazuri of
Mexico, Mrs. Mel OF China and the
Eiscountess Gladstone Of Great
subject. Christian Principles Of
Conduct"
Mrs. Herbert E Day, president
of the local association, will welcome
the delegates and Mrs Montagu
Waldegrave, of England. president Of
the world Y. w. c. A, will preside.
Much of TIE discussion of the con-
ference, it was said officially, re-
wolves around the keynote ideal of
the \. W. c. A, expressed in part as
follows:
To promote Christian principles OF
social and international conduct
believing that the world social order
can only be made Christian through
individuals devoted to the single pur-
pose of doing Gods will, and that
the principle of the equal value of
every human life shall apply to ma
tional and international as we'll as to
personal relations"
Evening star., 1924-05-12
FISHING VILLAGE BURNS.
200 Families Left Homeless Near
Vancouver, 3. C..

VANCOUVER, B. c., May 1.-Two
hundred japanese fishermen and their
families were homeless and without
shelter today as the result of fire
which destroyed a large part of the
village of SteveSton, twelve miles
from here, late yesterday.
Two canneries, two score shacks
and mess houses, eight small boats.
five houses. an Office building and a
Iaoesa,of Sa01ooo
Evening star., 1924-05-12
WORKERS FIND SKELETON
Razor Beside Remains of Virginia
Man Dead Forty Years.
s,.c;o, D;.natch tn The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, May 12.-Work-
men excavating for water extensions
at Valley and Whitlock avenues un-
earthed the skeleton of man, near
whose skull was found an old razor
Doctors gave it as their opinion that
the man had died probably forty
years ago. The skeleton was found
not more than eighteen inches below
the surface, and formation OF the
earth indicated, it was said, that the
body had at one time been covered
with under brush and leaves, as the
earth at that point was relatively
Evening star., 1924-05-12
RUM RUNNER CHASED.
Queen of Fleet Overtaken by Po-
lice Boats.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE fastest
rum runner on the Atlantic seaboard,
the May, armored and powered with
four Liberty airplane engines capable
of doing forty-five miles an hour. lies
tied up to a police pier today after a
running battle with four police boats
Tor miles through the waters of New
York Bay and the East River. The
Mad had been in commission only
three days.
When the police finally drew along
side the rum runner, four men were
found aboard, one with a fractured
leg. The men were held for action
by the federal court. Dozens of
wooden boxes were heaved overheard
from the May during her flight, the
purSuers said
Evening star., 1924-05-12
Proposes Creation
of National Park at
Fort McHenry Site

A national park would be Gre
ated OH the military reservation
at Fort McHenry, Md, under
bill introduced by Representative
Iinthicum, Democrat. Maryland,
and reported today by the House
military committee. Sale of old
buildings and restoration of the
grounds with the proceeds would
be possible. Representative Hill,
Republican. Maryland, was in
trusted with drawing up report
on the question for further action.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
BILLY" SUNDAY SICK.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 12-Willia..
(Billy) Sunday. for the first tine ta
thirty years as an evangelist. Wa
forced TO cancel both OF his sermonS
yesterday because of illness.
Last night he had failed to responn
satisfactorily to treatment, and had
a temperature Of 105 degrees. In
addition to the strain OF his strenuous
campaign here, Mr.. Sunday lost much
sleep last week after his wife was
seriously injured in an automobile
accident. Friday night he suffered an
attack Of food poisoning. He has
Cancelled his next revival.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
FATHER DROPS PISTOL
IN CHURCH, CHILD SHOT
Daughter Seriously Wounded
When Gun Falls From Fathers
Pocket During Service.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 12.-Four-
teen-year-old Clingfng Smith is in a
critical condition today suffering from
a bullet wound inflicted last night
when a pistol dropped from her
fathers pocket. while they were in
church and was accidentally dis
charged. The bullet struck the child
in the abdomen.
The Rev. C. L Scott. pastor Of the
bonneville Christian Church, had
called upon the congregation to stand
and sing a. hymn, as William smith
the father arose from his seat, the
pistol fell from his pocket and was
discharged. Smith told the police
that he had been held up several
times recently and carried the weapon
for proection.
Evening star., 1924-05-12
LOCKED IN ICEBOX.
Bandits Victims Escape Death by
Breaking Out.

NEW YORK, May .12.-Seven men
early today escaped death in an east
side dance hall by breaking out of
an icebox in which they had been
imprisoned an hour and half ear
lier by six armed bandits. Before
forcing their victims into the re-
frigerator the gunmen robbed them
of their money and valuables and
later broke into a safe. The gang
escaped with about $1,000 in money
and jewelry.
The victims, employees of the hall,
y -a1S,~- -