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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24

was investigating the case relative
10 possible charges against Gordon.
Gordon does not want 10 divorce
Mrs. Harris" he said. "He wants her
himself. But she seems to prefer her
first husband. At any rate we must
press a bigamy charge when It is
brought TO our attention, so filed
the complaint"
Mrs. Harris. who. has retained ]. #.
Pike as attorney. Is held in lieu Of
$1,000 bail.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
TIRE CAR THAT PIT THE
STALL IN -T>STAILMENT T.

yswtons first law OF gravi;a;ion;
Al that goes up must come down. .
70 Be disproved shortly by the state
sgisla,ure.
We DIARY ......
f1anuarV .1I
~ ihk dag Iesvs Olympia. parliament
~ being tn session. snd by coach 10
,sifls. long drivr. bat pleasant,
-p>eisIiy q. the high line do ~ IN
sn.r;ax god shsp. after tho rains And
. = hesns. whsge Mrs.. Homer Brew and
fafis Hssner Bryw did greet me rap
'ruusly. the uopdpii, needing rspieni.h-
sort And - 10 reading '-Biind Raj
.sr.r b. Dean Byrne. 60 dinner. sud 10
I'd.
he first aerial taxicab company
= D. start operations shortly in San
fanrisco. We wouldn', want 20 ride
2 ar aerial taxicab. we'd be afraid
y driver would fan into a tailspin
I'd run the meter up 70 $40.
IAfEs I DON'T CARE TO BE IN
CBy p. Eb)
New Mexico
Suspense
Mstrimony
Coma
y. =. l..
Lear Homer: / have bad cold
20 friend recommended rock
ascy and rye whisky as a cure.
VII you please tell me where / can
,qfehase some rock candy7-
sizagsr.
4 merrfe pink
IL Henry Stokes;
lie al,o0Bs laughs
1t his oton jokes
y s now q misdemeanor to cat n
~ oTStsr In Chicago. News item.
And ven bet booileggsrs are sell
rubber washers to people as alb
'Is'sly genuine oysters
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
Man Defeats Bandit
in Stiff Fist Fight

Attempting to slug Wendell Swift,
eOi saith ave. Friday night. a
roughly dressed bandit failed and
escaped only after a sharp fist battle
with Swift. The man attacked Swift
as the latter was entering his home.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.-Labor
will build national memorial to
its lato leader. Samuel Gompers.
tho American Federation OF Labor
announced today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24

ugudy. folks This i the day
=. the big eclipse, but it won't
!, visible in Seattle. The pro-
wssers wouldn't pay enough to
kring this attraction here.
e,ssssts for thc PoisoH frg clsb.
~ soof ,CAo stays up az Highi 10
- an eclipse 81 the sau,
Tssre Is no truth 20 tho rumor.
,rxsye-. that eclipScs are engineered
q qlectrie light companies.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
iBIGAL APPLEsAUCE SAYS:

One method
y lowering
''ls that has
s'er been tried
y the Iegisla.
tn. Is TO spend
rs money"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24

ne legislature has acceded to
\, .'s'iior Hartley's request and cut
=, present session In half. This
80 oe q good move II II results In
1Hg The number Of bills in half.
.,ss aIor Brown says dry agents are
taaogfng him.
~, tney have 70 listen to all Of
!, ~. ~, speeches. their pay ought TO
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
WILL GIT SMALL
FAST CIIiSERs

In addition. three 36-foot speed
siers. armed with machine guns and
constructed az the government navy
yard al Bremerion. have been COM
missioned and II more are TO be built.
Eight men operate the 75-footers and
three men the small boats, which
make - knots an hour.
soattle's fleet Of rum runners. more
than a score OF swift darting oruft
that make as high as 40 knots an
hour. are bottled up and tied 10 the
wharyes in Lake Union.
This feet Il continually under OBJ
seryation Of Capt Dodge's men.
When one Of them puts out 20 sea.
dozen keen-eyed and keen-eared
greyhounds are notified. Capt. Dodge
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24

Grand opera stars are now singing
ver the radlo. 80 Il Is Just a cues.
nc q time until somebody tries 10
svaGaas; a Payio@a ballet
4 carcfsl drirer
Is Timo'hg Hcnscr
VIC drove 10 years ieiih-
Out dcnfiHG fsHdcr.
ne average wealth OF a residen,
4 he United States is ss.ssl. Gosh.
xss Ike to find the man who's so,
~ share.
slru 81 the Back 81 . fo,di
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
BOATS OF
RUM MEN
IN HIDING
Capt. Dodge Says His
New Chasers Have
Stopped Smuggling
on Sound

DUGET SOUND. with its
i thousands Of Islands and
forested bordered eoves-ealled
the paradise u the rum runner
h bottled up a. tight as a drum.
a. far a. liquor smuggling is
concerned.
Not a single whisky runner has
made q safe run thru the Gordon OF
coast guard booze chasers that has
been thrown across the international
boundary line In the past two
months. according TO Capt. r. G..
Dodge. commander Of the coast
guard In this district.
Only one boat has made the ven
ture. the M-4s3. and this boat was
captured after II had discharged its
cargo Of Illicit whisky al Steilacoom
dock. where federal dry agents seized
Il. Commander Dodge said.
The M-4g3 was captured in West
Waterway the day after the booze
cargo had been seized
Operating from three sub-bases and
from strategic points on the Sound,
Capt Dodge now has II 75-foot rum
chasers in commission. armed with
machine guns and rapid-fire one
Founders. Orders are:
Hail them once. II they don't
stop, shoot 10 Kiln"
Base commanders are IN charge Of
operations from Port Angeles, Port
Townsend and Anacortes. Two more
Of the 75-foot 20-knot booze grey
hounds will be commissioned, one
next Wednesday and another next
Friday. The 18Th and last Of the
rum chasing fleet will be In service
ln.Fdr - zero -.-oats
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
WEATHER

Rain or snoto tonight and Sun
days not much change Ia temper,
dtures Increasing easferiV tCirds.
Temperature Last "a Hours
Maximum. Is. Minimum. 30.
To-day noon. 81.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-24
PLEASE PASS THE

as4 1875. according TO plans
80 at Olympia today."-Sews dis.
M lytlme We turn the dial on our
~, Iaaio set, We are advised TO
), ' ~. The swallow" BY gum. some
No., ,1ese days. we're going to yell
", ~, !, saek Into the receiver. You fol-
w. 'hs swallow yoursslr,
"sgusss that will hold en-.
q
Evening star., 1925-01-29
District appropriation Blu Recommends Total of $3LOz6957

committee personally inspected and
found conditions such as to warrant
mediate appropriations.
Under the regular annual appro-
priation for improving certain spe-
cific streets the budget estimates
amount to S29S,750, or $306,900 less
than was appropriated for the cur
rent fiscal year. The committee has
not disturbed these items and is pro-
posing the budget estimate.
For repairs of streets, urban and
suburban, there was appropriated
for the current fiscal year 1915, 900.
The budget estimate for 1926 totals
$S97,500, an increase of S22,5 500, all
on account of suburban roads. The
committee recommends that this sum
be allowed This is used for ordi
nary repairs and is not intended to
meet any abnormal condition such as
has been occasioned by the recent
SHOWS. 1t is understood that a def
cheney estimate will be presented to
take care of that situation.
The committee is proposing, in ac-
cordance with the budget estimate,
an appropriation of S15, 600 for new
public convenience station to be situ-
atcd at Ninth and + streets northwest
This is In lieu Of the station previ-
ouSly authorized to be situated in
Eighth street northwest south of T
street. The bill provides that the ap-
preparation on account of the latter
station also shall be available for the
construction OF the new station.
Evening star., 1925-01-29
SALARIES UNDER CLASSIFI-
CATION ACT.

The committee has incorporated in
this bill the provision which has been
carried in all of the other annual
supply bills previously reported at the
present session relating to expendi-
lures for personal services in the Dis
trict Of Columbia in accordance with
the classification act of 1928. This
provision, restrictive in character,
was carried in the annual appropria-
lion bills for the current fiscal year
and is recommended to be continued
during 1925, with several modifica-
tions made necessary by rulings of
the Controller General Of the United
States.
"Reclassification of those District en-
ployments embraced by the classffi-
cation act of 1928 involved an addi-
ttonal expenditure during the cur
rent fiscal year on the basis of the
!nitially approved ALLEGATIONS of $322,-
1850, distributed over about 2,290
positions, and represents an increase
over the former pay roll of 1928 per
cent. Subsequently, the Personnel
Classification Board granted appeals
from the original ALLEGATIONS, impos-
ing further charge this present fis-
cal year Of sS2,232, and there are at
this time, the committee is advised,
about 1000 appeals awaiting action
by the Personnel Classification Board.
The appropriations proposed for
1925 take care of the appeals already
allowed and include p moderate
Evening star., 1925-01-29

raouires that such appropria-
lions be so apportioned as to preclude
tbe need for deficiency or addltlohaI
concentrations, but the law also pro-
yides that such apportlohinentS ila'
80 u-aiyed or modified upon the nap
nanjpg of some extraordinary emer-
gency or unusual circumstance "niNh
could not be anticipated at the tInie
Of making such apportlonmeht. foi
handling light SHOWS the res uiai al. ~ az
propriation is adequate. heavy SHOWS
are the exception and not the rule III
WoshInptcn and when they occur
thew Internationally are an eXtraoF-
dinary emergency or an unusual ~
cunstance' within the meaning OF TIC
law sufficient to permit the "aAHiH5
of the apportionment and the assuihp
ton of suffici ent initiative on the par
Of those in authority to permit the
exnanditure of such reasonable sums
as thew might deem justified in clear
ing the main arteries OF tranc, ana
later. if need be, to present the case
TO Congress as a legaliZed denclehcy-
"Proytsion is included under this
head for acquiring the site on when
the present garbage transfer station
is situated-New Jersey avenue and
K street southeast. The budget es-
innate is $4,000 and contemplates
direct purchase. Members or the
committee inspected the property ana
do not believe that it is worth any
more than its assessed value, which
is s30.9I2. Unquestionably, 1t would
seem, the District should own such
permanently necessary plant. The
committee is proposing that 1t be ac-
quired either by purchase or con-
demnation, the purchase price not TO
exceed the latest full value assess
ment.
Evening star., 1925-01-29

for the acquisition of a site for the
school and the erection Of suitable
buildings thereon. The committees
information is that within the limit
of cost heretofore fixed accommoda-
tions only can be provided for about
loo inmates, while there are more
than twice that number right now in
institutions where they have been
placed in the absence of better suited
accommodation and from which they
should be removed TO a school OF this
character. This statement Is made
that the Congress may have knowl-
edge that the limit Of cost heretofore
fixed only partly will meet the re-
quirements and that further appro-
prfations must later be provided If all
the cases of the nature for which the
school was authorized are to be cen
tered in one place.
THE committee has not reduced the
budget estimates in a single instance
covering the charity and correctional
items, and in a number of cases.
where there seemed to be no justi-
fication for the reductions proposed
in the budget, the committee has re
stored appropriations to their pres
ent year levels, thereby adding to the
bill on that account total Of $14,40Q.
Evening star., 1925-01-29
ANACOSTIA PARK.

For continuing the reclamation
and development Of Anacostia Park,
the committee is proposing the budget
estimate of $170.000, of which the
further sum of S25,00o is made avail
able for the acquisition of land above
Renning Bridge. Up until the current
fiscal year expenditures had been
confined to the area below Benning
Bridge, which comprises 500 acres
700 of which were owned by the Gov
ernment, the remainder having been
purchased. The whole project below
Benning Bridge, apart from the park
development phase of the work, will
cost approximately $2,5O00O0 OF
which S416,000 remains to be ap-
propriated in addition to the amount
proposed in this bill.
For each of the fiscal years 1924
and 1925 $4,000 was made available
for the development of a portion OF
this section as a park-that is, for
leveling, grading, seeding, planting
trees and shrubs, building walks,
etc.-and the further sum of $68, $50
is proposed l.. this bill. These sums
should be adequate for placing this
section in suitable condition as r
park.
''The area above Benning Bridge, to
be reclaimed and devoted to park
purposes as authorized by law, com
prises $40 acres, of which title to 46o
acres now vests in the United States.
The total cost of the work above Ben
ming Bridge is estimated at S1,806,oo0-
Evening star., 1925-01-29
STREET AND ROAD IMPROVE
MENT AND REPAIR.

The appropriations under this cad
for the current fiscal year amounted
to S2,994 .270 This was the largest
annual appropriation ever made on
this account, and, of course, was due
to the new gasoline tax law, in pur-
suance of which the whole of the
estimated receipts from the gasoline
tax (s925, 000) was made available
1t appears that the receipts from this
source during the present fiscal year
viii fall short of the estimate to the
extent of approximately 100000, so
that authorized work costing approx
mately that figure will have to be
borne out of the receipts during the
fiscal year 1925, which, of course, will
reduce to that extent the amount
available for appropriation for 1926
for new projects. The budget esti-
mates, therefore, took this into ac-
count and the recommendation totals
S722,500, or $4,000 less than the cur
rent law.
Included among the budget items
were two large grading items in out
lying sections estimated to cost
$40, 500. Sooner or later these items
will assume perhaps more than a
desirable aspect. Until then the COM
mittee believes that the money should
go into improvements in built-up sec
tions where the streets have not been
pursued. These two items have been
eliminated and in their stead other
items inserted which members of the
Evening star., 1925-01-29

for the current year and the budget
estimate Of 1915, 900. The committee
is impressed that there is an fmme-
diate need for improved heating and
lighting facilities in many Of the
school buildings and 1t is proposing
that the appropriation shall be avail
able Immediately
There are in use IN the District Of
Columbia 40 elementary school build
ings, 8 high and junior high school
buildings and normal school build
ings. To these win be added during
the current fiscal year several build
ings and additions to buildings now
under construction. There are also
f6 portable buildings now in use.
The original cost and estimated
reproduction cost of the permanent
buildings now in use are stated by
the Engineer Commissioners office to
be as follows: Original cost. Sf4.481,-
7S0.57; replacement cost with like ma
terial, S25, ,295, ,074 .33; replacement cost
with firstclass material, S+1,73S, =
30660.
The amount proposed for repairs
and improvements is but 1t per cent
Of the estimated replacement cost
with like material, and, Of course is
not only for current work but to make
inroads on the accumulated load.
Evening star., 1925-01-29
COLLECTION OF REFUSE.
STREET CLEANING.

For this purpose the appropria-
ttons proposed total s1,427,l40. This
sum is SCI, $40 In excess of the current
appropriations and $500 less than
the sum of the budget proposals. In
cluded under this head is the usual
appropriation for cleaning streets, in
Guiding the removal of snow and ice
from streets and sidewalks. The
amount proposed for this purpose is
$430,000, which Is $4,000 in excess
of the current appropriation.
Much is heard of the inadequacy Of
this appropriation or of the emer-
Sency appropriation carried under an
other head OF the bill to meet condi-
tions such asa occasioned by the re-
cent snow. As usual, the blame is
placed upon Congress. The fact is
that up to and including the fiscal
year 1912 a separate annual appro-
priation of $4,000 was available for
removing snow and ice from the
streets and sidewalks.
The general street-cleaning fund
was not available for that purpose.
With an unusually heavy snow the
amount of $4,000 was not sufficient.
The usual complaint OF inadequacy of
funds was applicable to the separate
appropriation. So for the fiscal year
1913, on recommendation of the Com
mates TO Congress, the separate fund
was abolished and the general street
cleaning fund was made available for
removing snow and ice. In the sub
mission of their estimates for that
year, the Commissioners made the
following explanation OF the propose
to include snow and ice as part of
their regular street cleaning appro-
priation:
THE new clause covering the work
OF snow removal has been added as 1t
is desired to include this work in the
general work Of street cleaning, pay
able from the general appropriation.
Snow removal is but a particular class
of street cleaning involving the use of
the same organization. the same la
Dor, and largely the same equipment,
that is used in the ordinary work Of
street cleaning, and there Is no logi-
cal reason for separating it from the
general work.
Each year since that time the
general street cleaning appropriation
has been available for snow and ice
removal, yet each time an unusually
heavy snow has occurred the failure
to act has been laid at the door of
Congress.
TT is true that the appropriation
is made for general purposes and that
Evening star., 1925-01-29
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

THE budget estimates include
81 500, 900 under this head, of which
S95, 900 is for land. S1,195.000 for new
construction and 900 for enlarg-
| ing the heating plant at the Arm
strong Technical School. All but $20,-
600 of the amount for new construc-
tion represents initial appropriations
on account of new classroom ac-
commodations and the buildings and
additions to buildings embraced
thereby will provide 1850 additional
classroom seats.
The committee has included in the
bill all of the budget items, allowing,
however. only S175,000 toward the
construction of the new junior high
school at Fourth and Z streets north
east, rather than the whole amount
of S475. 900 proposed in the budget,
or. in other words, has provided for
this school in the manner and to
the extent the budget proposes for
like building at Twenty-fourth and
n streets northwest. OF the amount
thus taken off the committee is pro-
posing that S225,0 be applied to new
items, as follows:
For the purchase of a site for a
new school in the vicinity of Rhode
Island avenue and South Dakota
avenue northeast, $4,000.
For the purchase Of a site for a
new school in the vicinity of Thir-
teenth and Montague streets north
west, 100000.
For the construction of an eight
room extensible building on the site
at Fifth and Sheridan streets north
west, $4,000.
These items were brought espe-
cially to the attention of the COM
mittee as of paramount Importance
IN the general scheme to relieve pres
sure in the most populous sections
and to provide facilities which are
wholly lacking in areas far removed
from existing school houses.
The additional building which the
committee is proposing will raise the
number of additional classroom seats
for which the bill wholly or partly
provides to $3.50. The junior high
schools provided for will be used
largely to relieve congestion in the
elementary schools, although 1t is
true that the high school situation
will be benefited to the extent that
of ninth-grade pupils. The bill makes
big step toward meeting the school
needs, but admittedly falls short OF
the program advocated by the Board
Of Education with respect to ele-
mentary schools, which calls for sc
classrooms to be opened each year
for a period of five years, having in
view the elimination of all portables
undesirable rooms or buildings, and
oversize and part-time classes.
Evening star., 1925-01-29
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The total amount proposed in this
bill for the Fire Department is $2,023,-
100, or practically the budget esti-
mate. Of this sum $1,77O,0OO is for
pay of members of the Fire Depart
ment, Of whom there are 14o officers
and 6S4 men. The number of both, il
will be recalled, was increased by
ll5 to meet the one-day-off -in-seven
provision in the act regulating the
pay of policemen and firemen ap-
proved May p, 1924. This bill pro-
vides for six additional officers and
thirty additional men as the compile
ments of the two new companies pro-
vided for in the current appropria-
tion act.
Most OF the reduction under the
current appropriation on account of
the Fire Department falls under the
head Of permanent improvements.
The committee is proposing more and
consequently larger appropriations
for apparatus, but the estimates in
Evening star., 1925-01-29

deny him the right to a fury trial
where the fine or period OF irnprfson-
ment for the offense is not in excess
or that prescribed IN the law or traffic
reguIa tons, he may never be brought
to trial, because there are in the
neIghborhood of 500 cases now await
ing trial by jury and new ones are
being added at an average dailv rate
In excess of the number disposed Of
Here, while additional policemen are
needed, particularly motor cycle men
a cnanEe of law is necessary, and. in
the committees judgment, the mum
Der of Police Court judges should be
increased from two to four Fitting
punishment promptly meted out would
oe big deterrent to this class OF
offender.
The committee is proposing in this
bill appropriations to provide for 12S
additional members of the police
force, all TO be appointed privates OF
Grass /, at $500 per annum each
sixty Of these men Will be regularly
assigned to the direction and control
OF traffic at points where there are
now no regular details, 25 of them
VIII be assigned to the motor cycle
squad, and the remainder will be EN-
ployed, in the discretion of the super
Intendent Of police, for general detail
primarily in connection with traffic.
Inc total additional sum made neces-
Sary by this action is S2S44O0
ne current year appropriations
provide for 1.057 officers and mem
bers OF the metropolitan police force.
which include 165 policemen neces-
sary TO meet the one-day- off -in-seven
provision in the act OF May 81. 1924
attention is invited to the statement
on page 202 of the hearings givin 9
information with respect to the police
force maintained in various cities of
the United States. Washington does
not suffer by the comparison.
The committee is making provision
for an additional precinct. to be situ-
ated IN the general vicinity of Geor-
gia avenue and Shepherd street
northwest, the site and station house
20 cost not in excess of $7l,5OO. This
IS intended to relieve the present
tenth precinct, with headquarters on
Park road just west of Georgia ave-
nue., the area of which extends from
Euclld street on the south to the
District line on the north and from
ROCK creek on the west to the Ridge
road on the east, covering eight and
one-haif square miles and having an
estimated population of 10000. The
bounds of the new precinct will be
the same on the east and west and
extend from Buchanan street on the
south to the District line on the
north This area embraces about five
square miles of territory, which has a
population around $4,000