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Evening star., 1925-05-28
SCHOOLS WILL GET
S,40D,0lo'bOOST
Comparison Of Expenditures
for Present and Next
Year Is Made.

An incres Sc of S3 400 900 in the
amoun, TO be spent for public educa
ttion in the District during the next 12
months over the sum spent in the cur
rent fiscal year is the outstanding fact
recorded in chart made public toda y
by Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, show
ing an analysis of the last two appro-
priati ton acts.
The chart was prepared primar rily
for use by the Citizens" Advisory
Council in aking up its recommends
tions TO the Commissioners as to what
should be sought from Congress for
the fiscal year 1926-27. High lights
revea led on the chart are:
Total District appropria ton for the
twelve months ending July l, exclrl-
sive of Water Department, S2S, ,SO5 ,359;
total appropriation for the II months
beginning July /. without the Water
Department, S33,37S.641.
Education Figures Up.
For education, including libraries
1925, ss,ss5,572; 1926. l2.332,945.
Protection of life and property
1925. s5,4s6,O05: 1926. s5,4IS,472
Highways-1925. $S,626,2SS; 1926
$3,645,2S1.
SnaTltleS ana cOfreCtlOnS-l92O, Sd,
23.504; 1926, s3045,9S
Health and sanitation-1925, $s,964,-
733: 1926. S3,009.9S3
Recreation-1915. $1,454, ,967; 1926
81 .939, ,566
Public service, including markets
and water supply-i925, 81 ,56s,420
1926. so,546,16O.
General government-1925, $1,279..
us; 1926. $1,307,712.
Miscellaneous-1925, s416,os4; 1926
s132 ,656..
, The chart is reproduced elsewhere
! in The Star today.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
ARMY IS WARNED
TO PREPARE FOR
BIG CUT IN BUDGET
$50, ,000.000 Annually May
Be Topped Off Its
Allowance.
By the Associated Press

The Army general staff has been
directed to make a study of the effect
upon the military esta ablishment of
further progressive reductions in
Army appropriations. should that be
economy program.
The study is understood to have
been ordered on the basis of White
Houes communication to the War
Department.. Whether other Govern
ment departments have received SIM
liar budget economy suggestions has
not been disclosed. AT the Navy De-
partment, Secretary Wilbur would
not say whether naval budget Off
GERS We're engaged in study similar
to that Of the War Department
Despite refusal Of War Department
officials 10 discuss 1.-The subject and
the unusual secrecy which, surrounds
the study being made there. it is in
dicat ted that the progressive reduction
of appropriations under consideration
would become effective for the fiscal
year 1927, to run for several years
thereafter before reaching the cumu :
lative total reduction contemplate I ed
in the White House suggestion. The
general budSet business meeting OF
the Government will be held June
81 and it is probable that the War
Department study as we'll as any
similar studies which may be pro-
ceeding in other departments. are in
tended for consideration and final ac-
ton at that time.
May Cut OF $4,000. 900.
No definite information as TO the
contemplated aggregate cut in War
Department appropriation is avail
able. There are indications. however
that it would run to figure of be
tween S25, ,000, 900 and 30,00O, 900 to be
Topped off the military appropriation
included in the total of 1899, 797 ,971
appropriated for all War Department
activities for the 1926 fiscal year. The
military portion Of the budget for that
Continued on Page 3, Column ID
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Amundsen So,v II Days Trip,
His Final Instructions Sh0,u
Ordered T,oo Weeks Wait by Base Party,
Then Patrol of Ice Probationary
Promises T,Uo Relief Planes.

calculated that his return might be
delayed in the extreme instance as
long as five or six weeks.
=. The order to patrol the edge of
the ice barrier for the last four
weeks is obviously given with the
idea that the planes might be de-
serted for. lack of fuel at no great
distance from the northern tip of
SpitZbergen and the explorers thus
forced to end their flight on foot.
In such event the mother ships would
be at hand to pick up the party when
1t reached drift ice and open water.
Brief details of several proposals
from relief expeditions on behalf of
the Amundsen- Ellsworth polar flyers
have reached here over the radio and
We're discussed by members of the
base party.
We continued our patrols of the
sea north of lSpitzbergen yesterday.
Landings We're made at points along
the edge Of the ice pack. The me-
CONTINUED on Page a. Column ~
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Prosecutor to Go After ''Big Fish,
In Liquor Pool, Ignoring "Sn,aH Fry

against men caught with a single
bottle of liquor when hundreds of
bootleggers and rum runners go
unarrested and unconvicted
From now on walters, peddlers.
porters and clerks will not be ar
rested. An attempt to handle petty
cases would result in neglecting
other Federal statutes which were
on the books before the prohibition
law was passed. The padlocking
campaign, however. viii continue"
Mr.. Buckner has started what is
regarded as the first prosecution
of an alleged bootlegger for failure
to pay an income tax. Cha rles J..
Steinberg. an attorney. is charged
with defrauding the 5Governmen of
100000 tax on hank deposits of
$500, 900 since 1921.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
SOVIET AND CHINA ARGUE
ON RAILWAY OPERATION
Chinese Chairman of Chinese East
ern Reinstates 200 Men Ousted
by Russian.
By the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 2S.-Soviet Russia is
at odds with China over the manage
ment Of the Chinese Eastern Railway
The Chinese chairman of the board re-
Gently repealed an order by the Rus
sian chairman dismissing 200 employees
of the railway regarded as counter
revolutionists. The Soviet minister at
Peking, Nj. karakhan, has handed the
Chinese government a formal note of
protest, declaring that the action of
the Chinese chairman violates the
agreement governing the management
Of the road.
The official newspaper IZveStia, COM
menting on the difficulty. says it
touches the vital political interests of
Soviet Russia and shows the enmity
toward Russia o. Chang Tso-lin, the
Manchurian war lord, who suspects
that Russia is supporting his enemies.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
u. s. MAY HIT BACK
AT DEBT EVASION
BY BLOW At CREDIT.
Frowning Upon Private
Loans Discussed-Oi Mar.
tino to Continue Farley.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The manifest desire of the America n
Government to put additional pressure
upon the debtor nations of Europe has
revived the suggestion that Washing.
ton might hereafter exercise d stricter
scrutiny of proposed private America n
loans abroad.
There is no tangible evidence that
such policy actually is in prospect.
but particular significance attaches to
the suggestion because of the recent
conference between Secretaries Kel.
logg, Mellon and Hoover, all members
of the War Debt Refunding Commits
sion. at the State Department.
1t was disclosed some time ago that
President Coolidge was willing to
make use OF the loan scruting lever
age if any serious move toward debt
reputation took shape among the
debtor countries. -.....-s.
e While the Federal Government has
no legal authority to prevent the ex-
tension of private American n credits to
foreign governments and their ma.
tionals, proposals for such loans are
submitted to Washington in nearly
every case for advice.
Should the administration express
disapproval of further loans by Ameri-
can bankers 10 the countries that have
not funded their war debts, it is taken
for granted that the action would be
sufficint to put an END TO European
borrowing in America.
No Decision Reached.
1t was declared generally today that
no such step had yet been decided on.
The embassies of the countries most
concerned said they had heard no sug-
gestion, formal or informal, that Gov
ernment approval of. private loan prof.
ects to those countries might be with
held pending war debt refunding
agreements.
1T is now known however, that the
attention of European officials has
been directed recently to the question
of the deSirability of offering Euro
pean securities to American investors
until there should be evidence u pe,-
ter credit conditions through the over
hauling of financial policies. The high
rates of interest at which the most re-
cent issues of French bonds We're pat
on the American market is cited in
this connection.
1t has also been pointed out abroad
that the most certain way of improv-
ing credits in the United States would
lie in the making of agreements for
repayment of the war debts.
The attitude of President Coolidge
can be judged only by his reaction last
December to reports of possible re-
pudiation by France OF her war uebts.
An authorized statement of his views
at that time made it clear that he
would not hesitate to throw cold wa
ter on projects for private loans to
countries inclined toward reputation.
Ambassador de Martino of Italy has
cabled his government for additional
information upon which TO continue
discussions with secretary Mellon
relative to funding the Italian debt.
Secretary Mellon regards the visit
of the Ambassador two days ago as
the beginning OF active negotiations
for a tunding settlement. He is con
vinced that ftaly Is desirous of con
tintling the conversations 10 con
chlSion.
While. there is said to have been no
. Continued on Page d, Column 3D.
Evening star., 1925-05-28

By the Associated Press.
Severe criticism of the recent de-
cision Of the Supreme Court hold
ing invalid the minimum wage law
of the District of Columbia was
made by the Industrial Welfare
Commission of California in brief
filed today in the Supreme Court to
sustain Arizona in its appeal to
have it's minimum wage law for
women declared valid.
Although acting as friend of the
court in filing the brief. the COM
mission bitterly condemned the
court on the ground that its .deci-
sion had ignored the great weight
of judicial opinion throughout the
country, and the judgment of Con
gress and the President. as well as
Evening star., 1925-05-28
WEEKS IS RESTING
AFTER OPERATION
Condition. Described by
Surgeon as Good. After
Ordeal This Morning.
By the Associated Press.

y
BOSTON. May 2S.-Secretary of
War John W. Weeks was operated
upon today at the Philips House,
Massachusetts General Hospital. for
gall stones. A bulletin issued by Dr..
Daniel Fiske Jones. the opera ting
surgeon. said that Mr.. Weeks condi-
tion was good.
The bulletin said that the gall stones
had been removed and the gall bladder
drained, the operation being per-
formed under local anaesthesia Sec
retary Weeks withstood the ordeal
well, DIR. Jones said.
Secretary Weeks was brought from
Washington last Saturday for con-
sultation with specialists here regard
ing gall bladder trouble from which
he had suffered some time He re-
mained at the home of Henry Horn.
blower during the examination by the
physical ms. and rested there in prep.
aration for the operation which was
decided on.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
California Scores Supreme Court
For Holding d. c. Wage Ld,o Inuolid

of the Legislatures and governors
of IS States.
Pointing out that the question be-
fore the court in the District case,
and which will come before it again
in the Arizona case, was whether
the denial to women of less than
living wage impaired their health
and morals and was detriment to
the public welfare, the commission
declared that the Supreme Court
should in such matters accept the
judgment of Congress and of Legis-
latures throughout the country, and
not insist upon entering the field of
policy and fact-finding itself, espe-
cially when in doing so the court
divided, the commission empha-
sized. five to three, on the facts,
with one Justice refusing to par
ticipate.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
BY JAMES b. WHARTON.
Special Correspondent of The Star and Nor
American NeMspaper ALLIANCE :.

1po'idi OF Ine star aud North
American Newspaper Alliance.
KINGS BAY, SpitzberSen.' May IS
Thy radio from steamer Farm).-Signed
instructions which Amundsen left be-
hind for use in case of his non-return
according to schedule We're given to
the IA members Of the base party at
Spitzbergen today:
In these instructions addressed to
the commander of the Farm as head
OF the base party, it is stipulated that
the two mother ships are to wait IA
days in the vicinity of Danes Island
and Amsterdam Island. At the con-
clusion OF that period they are 10 go
north and cruise along the ice bar
rier for a further period of four weeks
The significance of these orders is
that Amundsen felt it possible that his
party might return by airplane long
after the hop-off, and he apparently
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Boys Thro,U Baby
In RiUer ''fOr Fun:
Child Is Drowned
BY the Associated Press.

LOWELL. Mass, May Is
Vivian Mary Husson. 90 months
old, was drowned yesterday when
E two boys, and 9 years of age.
threw her into the Merrimack
River here for excitement" The
police took John Veres, 8. and Mil
tiades karitos. 6, into custody.
Both boys. they said told the
same story, except that neither
would admit that he was the one
who threw the child in. Veres was
held by the police pending further
investiga ton, but Karitos was re-
turned to his parents.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
CABINET DISCUSSES NOTE.
BRAND Explanation on Security
Pact Before British Body.

LONDON. May % CP.-The cabinet
today considered the explanation re-
Gently furnished it by Foreign Min
lister BRAND of France of details of
the draft of the proposed French re-
ply to Germanys suggestions for for
nation of security pact.
The French are very eager for Brit
ish approval before the vote is sent
to Berlin. Well informed authorities
said the British attitude was that
nothing would be discussed but pact
limited to Germany's western frontier:
1t was regarded as probable that The
cabinet would consider some way to
state very clearly this position.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Charge Valuation Too Low.
SMOTHERED CHILD.
Religious Fanatic Cleared of Muir
der, But May Go to Asylum.

NANAIMO, British Columbia, May
2S N.-Declaring that Leslie Dickie
had smothered his 2-year-old grandson
in fit of religious frenzy, jury in
assize court late yesterday acquitted
him of charges of murder, but recon-
mended that he be held for cepmit-
ment to hospital for the insane.
Dickie was accused of holding his
hand over the childs face for Is min
utes when 1t whimpered during 36-
hour religious ceremony in his home.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Sixty Indian Rebels Shot.

PESHAWAR, British India, May 2S
CP.-Sixty rebels who took part in the
recent disturbances in the Khost dis
trict of Afghanistan are reported to
have been shot by order of the Emir.
The rebel leader, known as the Lame
Mullah." who had been confined at
Kabul as a hostage, was also executed.
Evening star., 1925-05-28

SYDNEY, New South Wales. May
oS IP.-Serious floods were reported
TODAY TO have occurred in the Quean-
heyan district, in the southern part
of New South Wales, where fve per
sons were reported drowned ana ABOUT
$50 families made homeless. A Hoou
of the Murrumbidgee River apparent
" was sweeping toward Wagga
Wapra. threatening inundation of
that town,
Evening star., 1925-05-28

doubled down the left field line. Lamar
walked. Simmons walked, filing the
lases. Attempting to duck AN inside
bitch, Miller rolled an easy grounder
j. Harris. No runs.
SEVENTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-Ruel doubled down
he third base line. Shirley batted
or Russell and took a third strike.
Rice walked. S. Harris flied to La
mar j. Harris lined to Bishop. No
runs.
PHILADELPHIA k ell ley now
,itching for Washington. Bluege
brew out Poole Galloway walked.
'ochrane singled to center, sending
galloway to third, but tried to make
he hit a double and was out, Goslin
to S. Harris. Walberg was out, S.
'iarris to J. Harris. No runs.
EIGHTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-G singled to
light. McNeely flied to Miller. Bluege'
oiled into double play, Dykes to
Bishop to Poole. No runs.
PHILADELPHIA lined to
soslin. Dykes walked. Lamar scratch
d single past Peck, Dykes stopping
second. Simmons singled to left
enter, scoring Dykes, and took second
N the throw intended to prevent La
lar from reaching third. Miller sin
He'd to left, scoring Lamar and Sim
mons. Poole's. double down the left
,eld line scored Miller. Galloway took
third strike. Cochrane famed. Four
.uns.
NINTH INNING.
..WASHINGTON-P flied to Sim
IONS Ruel lifted to Lamar McNally
,atted for Kelly. He went out, Wal
berg to Poole. No runs.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
Rain Hurts French Crops.

damage has been done to crops by the
continuous rains of the last 10 DAYS
throughout France. and If the down
pour continues agricultural experts
fear there will be "A deficiency, necessi.
tating purchases abroad. A crop
shortage. il is said, would be serious
in view of the fina ncial crisis and the
downward tendency of the franc
Evening star., 1925-05-28
By the Associated Press.

= BY the, hseucIdteu TTesr. -.
NEW YORK, May 2S.-Federal
! Attorney Emory r. Bueknar, who
was formerly law partner of Elihu
Root, and whose padlocks have
closed scores of all-night cabarets
in the Roaring Forties," an.
nounces that hereafter he will
prosecute only the big fish in the
liquor puddle and let the small fry
alone.
The Federal prohibition depart
ment and the police, he says, have
approved this policy.
II have no sympathy with that
kind of prohibition enforcement
Mr.. Buckner declared, In an ad-
dress last night, which clogs my
calendars with criminal charges
Evening star., 1925-05-28

Two-base hts-Ricc, Goslin. sinmons
Bishop. Lamar, Ruel t.I. Dykes, Poole
Home runs-Miller. Peck. Bishop. Hits
or Zachary. = in l inning: of Russell. D
in D innings. Sacrihce-Judge. stolen base
Simmons. Double plays-Dykes to Bishor
To Poole ~. Cochrane to Dykes. Lett on
bases-W ashinston: . Phliadeiph1a, u al, -
5: off Kelley =: off Walberg, /. Struck out
BY Russell >: by Kelley. ,: by alburs
3. Umpires-Messrs. Dineen. Geisel aud Nc.
Gowan Time of game hours and IL
minutes
Evening star., 1925-05-28
FRENCH LOSE 400
IN FIGHT ON RIFFS
1.1CO Wounded. 35 Missing
in Campaign-PainIeve
to Be Given Vote.
Bg the Associated Press.

PARIS. May 2S.-F'rench losses so
far in the campaign in Morocco against
A bd ell krim's invading tribesmen to-
tai 400 killed, 100 wounded and 81
missing, Premier Painleve today told
the Cha mber of Deputies. in defend
ing the French government Morcc.
can policy.
The opposition parties decided 10
support the government because its
announced Moroccan policy was one
of resistance TO invasion and not a
campaign for territorial conquest.
The casualties, 1t was announced.
We're one third French soldiers and
two-thirds Senegalese.
All deputies except 2s Communists
lined up soiidly with the government
Moroccan policy.
This gave assurance of an over
whelming majority for the govern
ment when the vote Is taken late to-
night or tomorrow.
Premier Painleve was given an oya-
ton by the entire membership.0f the
chamber, Communists eXceptsd. when
he concluded with this dsciaration:
"If France is at waI it~1s in spite
of herself and she~is y war only for
peaceful ends
Evening star., 1925-05-28
RED CROSS AIDING.
Agents Sent TO Scene of Carolina Mine
Disaster.

Royal clyde Agne. assistant To the
vice chairman Of the American Red
Cross. left Washington at noon today
for Cumnock. y. c.. to direct Red
Cross relief operations at the Carolina
Coal Co. $ mine. where 53 men were
entombed by an explosion yesterday.
4 Red Cross representative from
Fort Bragg. y. G.. arrived on the
scene yesterday to assist in emergency
relief work.
Evening star., 1925-05-28
HOPE ABANDONED
FOR IS MEN STILL
TRAPPED IN MINE
After-Damp Feared. But Res
cue Workers Continue
Labors Through Night.
EIGHT BODIES ARE FOUND;
EXPECT REST TOMORROW
Hundreds of Relatives of Victims
Stand at Pit Mouth Wait
ing for Word,
BY nhe Associated Press.

COAL GLEN. y. G.. May 2S.-The
glEmmer of hope that some of the 45
miners still entomed in the Carolina
Coal Company mine might be rescued
alive wavered and went out today in
the hearts of rescue workers who
through the night had labored in the
recesses of the mine.
After-damp. dread enemy of the
miner, claimed their lives. if they sur
yived the series of explosions which
yesterday closed their escape to the
surface. rescue workers declared. But,
despite this belief. they labored no less
faithfully in the effort to reach their
imprisoned comrades. Throughout
the night hundreds of relatives of the
entombed men strained against the
barrier ropes surrounding the dusky
entrance TO the mine.
For hours after the disaster hope
that the imprisoned men might still
live was nurtured by the report that
fresh air had been encountered by
rescue workers.
AfterDamp Feared.
Time after time fresh crews of res.
Cuers replaced tired workers until
the l.S00-foot level had been reached
without bringing evidence of the i'm
prisoned men. Then belief grew that
after-damp had claimed as its toll the
lives which might have survived the
explosion.
Eight bodies represent the sole fruit
of the labor of rescue workers. Forty
five men are buried beneath the 1900
foot level. OF these - are white and
% negroes.
The bodies of George y. Anderson,
fireboy, and Shubert Anderson were
brought to the surface about $3.50 this
morning. The bodies were found L.
500 feet down the slope. Six others
We're recovered at sunset last night.
Arrival of A mine rescue car from
West Virginia, whence it was ordered
by the Bureau of Mines. was expected
TO. facilitate the work Of rescue.
Mine officials believed the men
would be found in the, main shaft
after a wall of debris blocking the
main passageway had been cleared
away, but it is not thought the point
where they were caught can be reach
ed before tomorrow.
Hospital and other relief facilities
were made available to care for any
WHO might be rescued alive. \ hos
pital unit from Fort Bragg, \. c.,
seEt here yesterday, stood by to aid.
Labor Through Night.
The American Legion Auxiliary of
Sanford and the local chapter of the
American Red Cross were on duty
ministering to the physical wants of
the rescue workers. Through the long
hours of the night the women stood
by with coffee and sandwiches for the
workers. and today those who had
worked all night were relieved by an
other shift which came out from San
ford.
Shortly before 10 O'Clock the car
from the Bureau of Mines arrived at
the mine In charge of 7. 7. Read,
safety service director of the bureau,
and +. p. Graft. foreman of operations.
The experts were accompanied by
workers of the bureau.