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Evening star., 1925-03-09
OFFICERS WILL LOSE
MILEAGE ALLOWANCE
Entitled Only to Actual Expenses
on Government Transports.
Weeks Rules.

Mileage of cents a mile here
tofore allowed officers of the Army
making permanent changes of stations
within the continental limits of the
United States, even when part or all
the travel involved was on a Govern
ment-owned vessel will not be al
lowed hereafter. according to an an
nouncement made by the Secretary
of War today He explains that the
Army appropriation bill for the current
fiscal year provides that Army officers
travelling on Government-owned vessels
are entitled only to reimbursement Of
actual and necessary expense incurred
AS an example. an officer stationed
in Washington ordered to San Fran
cisco for duty, and whose travel
order directs that he proceed to New
York and sail on a Government
owned vessel to San Francisco, will
be entitled to mileage from this city
to New York only, and to actual and
necessary expenses incurred on the
transport sailing from there to San
Francisco. The latter cost the De-
partment says lis a proper charge
against mileage"
Evening star., 1925-03-09
PROF. COWARD DIES.
Was Long Head of School of
Languages Here.

Prof. Alphonse Gonard, who was
director of the Berlitz School OF Lam
guages in this city more than 20
years ago. died suddenly this morn
ing shortly after 9 o'clock. He was
taken sick near First and Randolph
streets and hurried to Sibley Hospi-
tai, where he was pronounced dead by
DR.. Einstein.
Death was due to a cerebral hemor-
rhage. Prof. Gonard, 20 years old,
native of France, came to this coun-
try in 1887. and had resided in Phila-
delphia and Baltimore prior to COM
ing to this city. He resided at 10
O street northeast, with his wife and
son, George E. Gonard.
Twenty-one years ago Prof Gonard
met with a. serious accident while
horseback riding, and had since been
unable to engage in activities in con-
nectiou with his profession. Funeral
arrangements have not yet been made.
Evening star., 1925-03-09

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are such that Congress would feel re-
lieved at an automatic change in pay
nents based on surplus.
ITS the only scientific way to re-
duce taxes. anyway" said Mr.. Mad
den. "and it encourages Congress to
stick within the budget and not ex-
reed it,"
Representative Madden has often
been referred to as the watchdog of
the Treasury" The success of a bud
get system depends not only on the
efficiency of a director of the budget
and the moral support given him by
the President. bur on the attitude of
Congress, which under the Constitu-
lion is not limited by the budget and
can by two-thirds vote override a
presidential veto on any appropria =
tion bill
Had it not been for Martin Mad
dens influence and persuasion and
the help of an earnest group of col
leagues, Congress might have gone
over the budget by S10O.0O0,000 this
year. There certainly were enough
bills on the calendar which would
have absorbed such sum.
And all this record of economy has
been accomplished with the adjusted
compensation bill for ex-service men
as a law. 1t is hardly mentioned as
a financial burden when DISCUSSING
fiscal affairs, which does away with
the argument that the country could
MT afford it, though in principle il
was fought and still will be sub
ject of academic controversy.
On the whole the rates to be paid
by the taxpayer on March Is of the
present year on money earned during
1924 are lower than the rates on the
previous law, and there isn't much
difference between the sums paio
last year on 1928 incomes after the
% per cent general reduction was
put into effect, and the rates to be
paid on March IS of this year.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-09
CITIZEN CLASHES
RENEWED AT NILES
Nine Under Arrest for Two
Fights, But Police Say KIan
Was Not Involved.
Dy the Associa ted Press.

Dy lne Associated frese
NILES. Ohio, March Six men are
under arrest here today and three
more are held in Warren city Jail on
charges of fighting. carrying con-
cealed weapons and suspicion as a
result of two clashes at street corners
here late last night.
Reports that the fighting was be-
tween ku klux Klansmen and anti
Klansmen were denied by Police Chief
l.. J. Round.
Rounds said only three shots were
fired. Deputy Sheriff Finney who
happened to be passing the scene of
the fighting, fired three shots into
the air to disperse a crowd that
gathered while police were taking
several prisoners to Jail after the first
outbreak.
Started by Fist Fight.
The first trouble occurred when two
men engaged in a fistic fight and a
crowd gathered.
Police arrested one man on charge
of fighting. and three others on
charges of suspicion.
On the way to the police station q
group at a nearby corner was dis
persed when F'inney fired three shots
into the air.
Ran Into House.
Later the police were called to an
other street corner where Harry
Williams reported a man rushed into
his house. Joe Davis was arrested
on a charge of suspicion. Davis said
he ran into the house to escape sew
eral men who were chasing him.
In roundup of the vicinity police
arrested four more men, three of
whom were taken to the Warren city
Jail Chief Round said that three of
them would be charged with carrying
concealed weapons.
Chief Round said that the trouble
was not precipitated. as far as he
could learn. by the attendance of Ku
Klux klansmen at church services
here last night as first reported.
Klan members attended the services
in a body and had left the church
half an hour before the disturbances
occurred, Chief Round said.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
PHYSICIAN IN CRASH
NOT BADLY INJURED
DR.. Krogstad, Hurt in Auto Col.
lision. to Resume Practice
Soon.

DR.. Henry Krogstad. prominent
Washington physician, who was in
jured Friday night when his electric
automobile collided with a sedan at
Connecticut avenue and Albemarle
street. is still confined to his home
at 1924 K street. but said today he
expects to resume his practice with
In few days. Although cut and
bruised and bady shocked, Dr. Kroe-
stad's condition was never serious.
The accident occurred while DR.
krogstad was returning from a visit
to patient in Chevy Chase. The
impact of the collision with the sedan
operated by Ernest Wing, 3sos AIbe
marie street. threw the physician to
the street and did extensive damage
TO his machine. DR.. kroestad was
picked up in dazed condition and
taken to the Office OF DIR. James r
Mitchell 1874 Nineteenth street, for
first aid treatment
Evening star., 1925-03-09
WOMAN FOUND SUFFERING
FROM ILLUMINATING GAS
Mrs. Floretta Clark, Whose Hus
band Committed Suicide Week
Ago, May Die.

Mrs Floretta Clark. 81, of SIS
Fourth street, widowed by the suicide
week ago of her husband, Morrison
w. Clark, Patent Office clerk. who
ended his life in the river Off Hams
Point. Potomac Park, was found in
her apartment yesterday morning
suffering from the effects of illumi-
mating gas. She was unconscious and
was taken to Casualty Hospital. She
regained consciousness. and 1T was re-
ported this morning that she probably
will recover.
Mrs Clark had a breakfast engage
ment with the family of r. l.. John
son. occupants of an apartment on an
upper floor of the apartment house,
and it was when a member of the
Johnson family sought an explanation
for her failure to keep the engage
ment that the unconscious woman was
found and taken to the hospital
Evening star., 1925-03-09
WAR ALLOWANCES
COST U. S. MILLIONS,
COMMITTEE CLAIMS
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promise, s1,2so.o00 in cash and set
Element of a valid judgment against
another branch Of the Government, a
total Of $2,631,000.
THE situation was, therefore, SIM
liar to any other compromise be-
tween a creditor and a debtor having
many debts and few assets. The
creditor took what 1T thought the
debtor could pay"
The Secretary pointed out that
some of the other cases mentioned in
the Senate committee testimony had
not yet been closed. He added that
whatever tai 10 legally due viii be
assessed"
Evening star., 1925-03-09
SANTA FE STOPS STRIKE
By INCREASING WAGES
Agreement Signed Yesterday Gives
Men More Money and
Better Conditions.
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Los ANGELES, March s.-A ware
increase agreement avertine tbe
threatened strike of ensinemep on
the Santa Fe coast lines was SIGNED
here yesterday by company of1cisIs
and representatives of the rajIroa a
sarotherhoods.
The agreement grants the man
their demand for 5 per cent nav
increase and will result in an addj-
tional annual payment of approx
mately 100000 to engineers, firemen,
hostlers, and hostler helpers on Santa
Fe lines west of Albuquerque.
The wage increase Is retroactive TO
September ], 1924, while such changes
in working rules as were agreed upon
will become effective March Is next.
The agreement remains in effect un-
til December 81, 1925, subject to can
collation. thereafter on 80 days no.
tice by either party.
According to the union officials, the
count of the strike ballots showed
sS.7 per cent of the engineers and 95
per cent of the firemen in favor of
quitting work IL their demands were
not met.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
TREASURY OFFICIALS SEEK TO BAR
MISUSE OF SEIZED RUM VEHICLES
Viii Guard against "PriUate Yacht and Auto for
Every Dry AGENT" Principal Fear o. Foes
OF NeiUly acquired Rights.

Treasury officials are considering
with extreme care what regulations
to issue placing in effect the ad-
mittedly far-rea ching and sharp
toothed' new law which will permit
the Government to use forfeited We
hicles and vessels for enforcement of
customs and prohibition laws.
Approved by President Coolidge
March 3, this new legislation, which
was almost lost TO public sight in
the swirl of a closing Congress and
Inauguration of a President, revolu
tionizes the practice now in effect,
which prohibits Government use of
such vehicles and vessels. and pro-
vides for their sale. Although the
new law ofTcjslly ia effective now.
the customs and prohibition forces
throughout the country. IT was said
today. will continue with their old
procedure until new regulations can
be drafted, sent out and placed in
effect
The Treasury iE cognizant OF the
drastic possibilities of the new law,
according to indications today, and
is cautiously proceeding 10 draft
regulations which will carefully out
line the conditions under which
Government agents in the customs
service and prohibition unit may use
boats and automobiles.
Heed Opponents Warning.
Warning sounded by opposition TO
the bill in Congress that the new
legislation might place in the hands
of every agent private yacht and
an automobile has not gone unheeded
by Treasury officials. who fully ap-
preciate the far-reaching and ef-
fective possibilities OF the act.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
In Letter to Senator smoot in
dorsing the legislation at the time IT
was pending. declared that the new
proposal would serve a two-fo'd pur-
pose First" said Secretary Mellon
lit will withdraw from the illegal
traffic in liquor boats and automobiles
which are now being used. to violate
the law. and, second, IL will provide
the Government means of transpor-
tation In conducting enforcement
work without cost. except for rum
ming expenses and upkeep, which
would be great deal cheaper than
hiring vehicles by the day or mile.
Secretary Mellon outlined the faults
Of the old procedure, explaining that
merchandise seized for violation OF
the customs laws ana tne natondi
prohibition act and forfeited is now
required to be sold at public auction
Occasionally boats and vehicles en-
gagged in the illegal importation or
transportation OF Intoxicating liquor
are when offered for sale at auction,
bought on the account of those from
whom they were seized and are again
placed in Illicit traf1c In liquor ana
at prices much lower than at which
similar boats or vehicles could be
purchased in the open market.
Appropriations Limited.
The appropriation for enforcing
the customs laws" continued Secre-
tary Mellon. will not permit OF the
purchase of a sufficient number OF
boats and vehicles for the use OF the
customs service in combatin the IL
legal liquor traffic, and the prohioi-
tion unit is without authority OF law
Evening star., 1925-03-09
MATT|NGLY SIGNS
FINK CUSTER ORDER
Municipal Judge 0beys Con.
struction of Higher Court
in Tenants Case.

Robert E. MattingIy, judge of the
Municipal Court. today signed a judg-
ment of custer against Jacob Fl. Fink,
tenant of lila Morgan street, whose
eviction is sought by Mrs Frances
r. Peck, the owner of the property.
In signing the order of custer Judge
Mattingly followed a suggestion of
the Court of Appeals announced from
the bench by Chief Justice Martin
that he should have followed the
opinion of the appellate court filed
last December. The action of the
judge puts an end TO the mandamus
proceeding started against him by
Mrs. Peck through ATTORNEY Louis
Ottenberg
Attorneys f. Hilton Jackson and
John l.. krupsaw. representing the
tenant. VIII probably ask the Court
OF Appeals to allow a writ of error
from the judgment rendered today
In order that an appeal may be pros
ecuted to the United States Supreme
Court to have determined the ques-
ton OF the passing of the housing
emergency. 1t was in this case that
Justice Robb held that the emergency
mad passed and that there existed no
constitutional basis for the passage
or the act extending the life of the
Kent Commission until May %.
Exercised His Dt.cre ton.
When the mandate OF the appellate
court had been sent to Judge Mat
t1ngly counsel for the owner asked
Tor summary judgment of eviction,
but the judge declined to grant the
request, holding that he would exer-
cise his judicial discretion and require
PROOF OF the case before rendering
Judgment. Attorney Gutenberg then
complained to the Court of Appeals
and that tribunal issued rule
against Judge Mattingly to show
cause why he should not be compelled
to grant the judgment
Counsel for the judge pleaded the
exercise of discretion, but the Court
of Appeals. through Chief Justice
Martin. declared there was nothing
on which the court could exercise
discretion after the mandate OF the
higher court had been received. Tn
less the judgment of eviction were
signed within reasonabl etime, the
chief justice said, a mandamus would
be issued against Mattingly.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
MAN HIT BY TRAIN
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Injuries, at First Believed
Slight, Prove Fatal to
B. F. Dorsey.

Benjamin F. Dorsey, SO. of As H
street northeast. was Knocked down
by a Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis electric train while cross
ing in front of his home Saturday
night, and died at Sibley Hospital
yesterday. His injuries were thought
not to be serious. but 1t developed
later he sustained a fracture of the
skull. Police of the sixth precinct
Investigated the accident and sum-
moned witnesses TO appear at an in
quest at the morgue this morning
The jury late returned verdict OF
accidental death.
Other Persons Injured.
woodley F. Abell. jr., 6. 1917 Riggs
street, was knocked down near his
home yesterday afternoon by an
automobile reported by the police to
have been driven by Bernard l.. Nc
Garvey, 610 Rock Creek Church road.
1t was reported that the child ran
in front of the moving machine SO
suddenly that the driver was una bic
to avoid an accident. He was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
J. NJ. Nadd.' %. and r. F. Clements.
"a, of the University of Maryland,
and James Sacchino, so, 1921 Eighth
street northeast, were injured by the
automobile of John +. Neff. Thirtieth
and Douglass streets northeast
while repairing an automobile tire
in front of 1000 Bladensburg road
northeast last night. They were
treated ct Casualty Hospital for
bruises and shock
Other victims of ira ffic accidents
since Saturday included Zane Red
man, 5, 631 Rock Creek Church road
Alonzo Rivers, colored, 13, 2223
Ninth street; George Yocum, s, 21s
Seaton street; James Goodall, coll
ored, 80. 443 w street: Charles A
Jones, jr., Army Aviation Field
Esther Hatcher, colored, 3s, 1856
Thirty-second street, and BENJAMIN
De Alley, %, 205 Twelfth street
southwest.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
MANY CALLED IN
DENN|STOUN CASE
London Divorce Trial Sup
plies Scandal Lovers With
Unusual Interest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, March "a Heterogeneous
collection of witnesses, mainly detec-
tives and hotel people from southern
Europe, are still to be heard for the
defense in the suit of Mrs. Dorothy
Muriel Dennistoun against her former
husband, now the husband of the for
mer Countess Carnarvon, for sums of
money she alleges she loaned him prior
to their divorce. The hearing will be
resumed Tuesday.
The suit vies with the notorious Rus
sell legitimacy case and the more re-
cent "Mr. A."case in its appeal to lovers
OF scandalous intrigue. The chief fig
ures in the present case are known to
the whole population through their
photographs, which are appearing daily
in the newspapers.
Court Bizarre Scene.
When the hearing is resumed, ac-
cording to current gossip, there will
be no diminution in the sensational |
in the proceedings, which are expect
ed to occupy the remainder of the
week The presence of the cosmopoli-
tan crowd of witnesses gives the
court a bizarre appearance, while the
doc, 3 Of the courtroom daily are
stormed by hosts of prominent So
clelS nSureS, mainly women.
Despite the imperturbability dis
played by Mrs. Dennistoun during her
long cross-eXa mination. she is said to
be suffering from extreme nervous ex-
haustion and TO have gone to the coun-
try for a rest.
The costs of the action will be out
OF all proportion to the sum the
plaintiff seeks to recover from her
usband-E952. Counsel fees alone
are estimated largely to exceed $500
daily, and the total daily costs of the
trial are fully $1,000. Thus the total
costs of the action are likely to
amount to between $4,000 and f20,-
600.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
WILL COPY DEFENSE
OF LOEB AND LEOPOLD
Chicago Riding Master Goes on
Trial Today for Murder Of
Alleged Wife.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March "a spectacular
defense, similar to that used by
Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb.
slayers of Robert Franks, was re-
ported last night TO be planned for
George Munding, Chicago riding
master. when he comes into court at
Wheaton. Ill, today, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Julia Douglas.
Clarence S. Darrow, the attorney
who saved Loeb and Leopold from
the gsllows by pleading they were
the victims of mental illness but were
not insane, after he had entered pleas
of guilty for his clients, was report
ed to be considering a similar move
for Munding.
Munding. who claimed he had mar
ried Mrs Douglas, shot and killed
her at her riding academy, at Hins-
dale. a suburb last October He
claimed he acted in a jealous rage
After they had quarreied.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
CHILE WINS TACNA
DISPUTE IN AWARD
MADE By COOLIDGE
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Continued from First PageD
Always there has been the possibili-
~ OF clash between Peru and Chile.
While Argentina is not affected by
the findings, it has been apparent that
the sympathies OF the Argentinians
were with Peruvians. Chile and Ar
gentina have had an old boundary
dispute of their own. 1t was settled
eventually by arbitration of the King
of England, but not without stirring
up good deal of animosity.
Hope for settlement.
1t is the hope of administration
leaders here that President Coolidge
has worked out solution of the
Tacna-Arica dispute that would be
satisfactory and acceptable to both
Peru and Chile and that viii be, at
the same time, just, it being recos-
nized that while both nations were
in duty bound to accept the findings,
IL later a close study of the award
seems to indicate that the imagined
national honor of either was affect
ed deep dissatisfaction would be
aroused on the part of the people of
that nation.
The South American press is turning
it's attention to the success OF former
Secretary Hughes in bringing Brazil,
Peru and Colombia together for an
agreement on their boundary dispute
Much discussion of this incident is to
be expected, especially by those sec
tions of the press which are opposed
to participation by the United States
in the internal affairs of any South
American country. irrespective OF the
nature of that participation. Usually
this press opposition is traceabIe TO
foreign agencies, subsidized by Euro
pean governments which seek to un-
dermine the influence OF the United
States in South America.
Dispute of Major Rank.
The Peru Colombian boundary dis
pute is almost as serious as the
Tacna-Arica affair, the only difference
being as to the amount of territory
involved The disputed territory in
the Colombian Peruvian boundary
dispute is as yet largely unsettled.
1t lacks markets and transportation.
but with a high nationalistic feeling
rampant in both countries 1T required
little to arouse either side.
On the occasion of the recent
scientific congress in Lima, woman
delegates of peace organizations in
the United States were informed that
ii was useless to attempt to form
women's peace societies in Peru while
the Tacna-Arica and Colombian boun-
daries were unsettled. In 1922 a
treaty was signed between Peru and
Colombia, but the Peruvian Senate
failed to approve it, leaving the CEN
tury-old dispute still powder mine.
Last December, on the occasion of
the Ayacucho anniversary, Colombian
government representatives went to
Lima hopeful of securing final ap-
proval of the treaty, but were dis
appointed. the temper of the Co
lombians becoming somewhat heated.
Copyright, 1925, by ChieaSo Daily News Co..
Evening star., 1925-03-09
Will Invite Church Session

WINCHESTER, Va, March o.
Baltimore annual conference. Meth
odist Episcopal Church South. which
meets in Washington March 20. will
be invited to hold its 1926 session
here. it was decided in a resolution
adopted unanimously by the directing
board of the Braddock Street Church
and made public today.
Evening star., 1925-03-09
SCOTT HEARING DELAYED.
Divorce Session Scheduled Tomor.
row Postponed

ALPENA, Mich, March "a for
NAL order postponing the divorce
hearing of Representative Frank d.
Scott against Edna James Scott, set for
tomorrow, was issued by the clerk
of the circuit court upon Instructions
from Judge Frank limerick, who is
i'll.
Hearing will be set for a later date.
70 be decided upon after consultation
with attorneys.