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Evening star., 1925-06-30

breakfast strolled about the grounds
for a few moments and then helped
John bit. She was wearing black
worsted two-piece suit, but no hat
The President at this time was pacing
up and down the porch, calmly pun
ing away at a long cigar, held be-
tween his teeth by a still longer cigar
holder. He wore a heavy wooden suit
of a pronounced blue hue and a cap
The President and Mrs. Coolidge went
into the house about o'clock and
took seats near Col. Coolidge, who had
gotten up and was sitting in his easy
chair.
When his parents disappeared
within the house John was seen to
lay down his work long enough to
hurry through a letter which he had
been carrying in the hip pocket Of his
overalls Some one said the letter
had been received early yesterday and
that this was only about the fourth
or fifth time he has pored over it.
John remarked this morning that
he will remain at Plymouth for some
time. John is understood to have
taken up with his father early last
night the matter of his coming to
White Court, and to have received no
encouragement.
John in Dutch.
1t was intimated by a couple OF
Johns friends in the village that John
did not pass in French at college this
Summer, which did not make much
of hit with his father
Mrs. Coolidge since arriving here
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The driver of the auto that struck
the young woman failed to stop. Local
police were given the number of the
car and Detectives Kelly and Scrivener
arrested Stevens, who denied the ac-
cusation, but admitted passing the
scene of the accident. Miss Mossbure
was taken to the Alexandria General
Hospital. Her condition was not
critical, it was reported, and her par
ents expect to bring her home tonight
Or tOmorrOW
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had arrived half an hour previously
to give the colonel an early examina-
ton, greeted him with more good
news about his fathers condition The
latter. DIR. Coupal told the President,
spent a restful night and continues to
improve.
Col. Coolidge Optimistic.
Every symptom today. according to
the report made by DIR. Coupal, looked
favorable. He is understood to have
told the President that he expected to
be walking around the place tomor-
row. After conversing with his father
and the doctor for arfew moments the
President went to the front porch,
where he breathed deeply of the fresh
morning air and looked about at the
sky and the mountains in the dis
tance. He then sauntered about the
lawn and for a few moments stood
watching his son John, attired in
overalls and going about his chores
in a most earnest and methodical
manner.
Mrs. Coolidge did not put in her ap-
pearance until after breakfast
Everything was in readiness for an
early departure. Mrs. Coolidge after
Evening star., 1925-06-30
GIRL SEVERELY INJURED
BY HIT-AND-RUk AUT0IST
Miss Miriam L. Mossburg Hurled
Into Ditch-Suspected Driver Sub
sequently Located and Arrested.

Struck by the automobile Of a hit
and-run" driver. hurled into a ditch
alongside the road near Four-mile
Run, Va, Miss Miriam L. Mossburg,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Moss
burg, SIS Quincy street, was seriously
injured late last night
Walter Kelly Stevens, 26. a chauf-
feur. alleged driver Of the car that in
iured Miss Mossburg, was arrested
in his room in Buckingham Hotel
early this morning and turned over
to Sergt Armstead Driscoll Of the
Evening star., 1925-06-30

After a separation of so years, and
attempts through all his days Of man
hood to find her. an English soldier,
now in Egypt, has been brought in
touch once more with his mother
now in Canada. The Salvation Army
IN Canada accomplished in "A few
weeks task that has baffied the sol
dier for the greater part of the 80
wears
Evening star., 1925-06-30

More than 1877. 900 babies die in the
United States before they are a year
old. and $4,000 of this number die
within the first month
Evening star., 1925-01-09
NEW HOMES FACE
DENIAL OF WATER
District Cannot Lay Addi-
tionaI Mains Unless Con-
greSs Grants Funds.

The District Water Department will
be forced to stop laying mains to sup
ply new homes with water from Feb
ruary until July unless Congress pro-
vides a deficiency appropriation, it
was learned today.
Although many new houses are in
course of construction and will be
ready for water connections within
the next five months, the Water De-
partment has a balance of only $4,000
for such extensions.
The Water Department. through
Supt. ]. S. Garland. has asked for a
deficiency of $4,000 to tide the de-
partment over until the new appro-
priation act becomes law on July l.
Demands Arc Heavy.
The total allowed in the current
law for extension of water service to
new dwellings was S150,000, but SO
heavy have been demands that more
than $4,000 already has been used.
Mr. Garland explained today that he
does not attempt to extend water
mains to new residences until they
are nearly complete. and although he
has asked for only $4,000 for the
remaining five months of the fiscal
year, Mr.. Garland pointed out that
he has applications for water exten-
sions aggrega ting $150,000.
In the new District bill now being
written by a House subcommittee the
Budget Bureau has recomm ended an
increase from the current allotment
of $50, 900 to $4,000 for water serv-
ice extensions.
The present situation indicates that
the amounts being allowed the de-
partment annually are not adequate.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
HARD|NG'S COUSIN
DENIES BR|BE TALE
Mortimer, at Forbes Trial,
Says F. E. Pope Was Of
fered 81, 100000.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, January 9.-Francis E.
Pope of Spokane, Wash, a cousin of
Former President Harding, was called
as a witness for the defense today in
the Forbes Thompson Veterans Bu-
reau conspiracy trial.
Pope denied he ever had been offer
ed s1,000,000 by ship contractors as
"a bribe to help influence the sale
of the Governments wooden fleet"
He also emphatically denied that he
ever had talked with Former Presi-
dent Harding about having been Of
fered a bribe in connection with the
sale of the fleet
Elias H. Mortimer previously had
testified for the prosecution that Pope
had been offered $1.000,000 by a syndi-
cate which sought to purchase the
war time wooden feet, comprising 6
approximately $50 vessels.
Pope identified a letter signed by
President Harding, offered in evil
dence by James S. Easby-Sm coun-
sci for Charles R. Forbes, former di-
rector of the Veterans Bureau. The
prosecution objected to the introduce
tfon or the Presidents letter, and the
court sustained the objection.
The Harding letter, dated April Z,
1921, was addressed MY Dear Forbes .
1t said Forbes had been considered
for various places in the Government,
including post ., on the Shipping
Board and the governorship OF
Alaska.
Pope said he knew Mortimer. He
was asked If Mortimer had reserved
his hotel accommodations when he
went to Washington for President
Harding's inauguration.
Easby-Smith objected to the ques-
ton, and the court ruled the witness
need not answer.
Pope said he had been invited to
participate in a syndicate sponsored
by the Chesapeake Engineering Co.
to salvage the fleet on a cost-plus
basis, and had approached Chairman
Lasker of the Shipping Board with
a rather indefinite offer under which
the vessels would be dismantled for
lumber.
Lasker. he continued, stated the
fleet then was involved in a law suit
and that. he could do nothing for
three or six months.
Tells of Syndicate Plan.
A NJ Macdonald, Seattle shipbuilder.
testified that he had invited Pope to
participate in a syndicate formed in
1921 to purchase the fleet.
Macdonald testified he had offered
$4,000 for approximately ESQ vessels in
the fleet, later increasing his bid to
$4,000 each
The fleet project ultimately was aban-
ICOntinued an PAGE . Column .
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MAY RENTER CHAMBER.
Anti-Fascisti Deputies Consider
Change in Tactics.
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, January 9.-Signs were not
wanting today that the Aventine op-
position to the Fascist, despite its
action yesterday in declaring for
continued abstention from parliament
tary participation, might, after all,
appear in the chamber when that
body meets next Monday.
Both the Giornale D'Italia and the
Serene, two Of the leading opposition
newspapers, reflect the apparently
growing idea that the opposition will
remain sterile so long as it limits it
self to written protests, such as the
lengthy one issued yesterday, without
any tangible action to confront the
government with it's accuse tions.
Time Seen for Action.
The Serene declares the retreat of
the Aventine opposition has pro-
duced the desired effect and that the
time now has come for action; that
the country must have placed before
II the alternative of Fascism or
anti-Fascism, with the electors pass
ing judgment.
To bring this about, declares the
newspaper, the opposition must re-
enter the chamber.
This statement, which is believed
to have been authorized by the op-
not only the return of the Aventine
absenteeS to parliamentary work, but
the determination of the opposition
TO fight desperately in the next gen.
eral elections. Doubts now are ex-
pressed in opposition quarters, how
ever, as to the possibility of holding
the elections before next Fall.
Absentees Called to Rome.
Another indication that the alb
sentees are planning to re-enter the
Chamber is seen in an urgent call
from their leaders to be in Rome
Monday without fail and to remain
on hand subsequently. This is in
terpreted as meaning that no decision
has yet been reached as to whether
the entrance of the Aventine mem
bers into the Chamber should take
place Monday or later-at the mo-
ment considered most opportune to
produce the desired effect.
The opposition leaders declared
themselves satisfied with the impress
sion produced upon the country by
their manifesto, which charged that
the government owes it's ascension
TO power and its permanence there
TO illegalism and violence" and de-
clared that "the extreme phase of
the conflict between Fascist domina-
tlon and the country has begun"
Rights Declared NuIIifed.
The manifesto issued yesterday
says, in part:
The extreme phase of the conflict
between Fascist domination and the
country has begun; the constitutional
mask for normalization has fallen
The government has trampled upon
the fundamental laws of the state,
suffocated with unheard-of arbitrari-
he Fra Of hn
pressed all rights of assembly, mo-
bilized the armed forces of its party
and prosecuted citizens and associa-
tions, while it has tolerated and left
unpublished devastations and incen-
diary fires which have damaged it's
opponents, thus degrading Italy be-
fore the civilized world.
The entire country can bear wit
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column f.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
HOUSE PASSES BILL
FOR ADDED PENSIONS
Omnibus Measure Carrying $751;.
900 Grants Increases to
Many Widows.

without debate an omnibus pension
bill which would increase Government
expenditures s161,000 annually was
passed today by the House and sent
to the Senate.
The measure would increase by $40,
SIS and $40 monthly the pensions of
5S4 widows of Civil War veterans now
receiving $50, would grant a pension
of $40 a month to 172 widows who
married Civil War veterans after
June 81, 1905, and would place on the
pension rolls "a helpless and depend
ent children of war veterans and IL
veterans of the Civil War previously
denied compensation.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
FWE-YEAR GROWTH
IN SCHOOLS CITED
Superintendent Says Pro-
vision Must Be Made for
5,270 Pupils.

Accommodations for 5,270 pupils
must be provided within the next
five years to remedy the congested
conditions in the Washington high
schools, Supt. Frank W. Ballou points
out in the final section of his compre-
hensive report on 1.-The Fact-Finding
Basis of a Five-Year School Building
Program for the District of Columbia" :"
made public today.
Scattered over the fve-year period
accommodations for 1864 pupils
should be available annually, the
report states. The superintendent
arrived at his figures by estimating
the annual enrolment increment in
the high schools at $50 a year and
adding 304 pupils each year to this
number, or one fifth of the total excess
number of pupils now in the high
schools.
Urges Building Plan.
The five-year building program now
before Congress will relieve the high
school situation, the report explains.
through the following provisions:
Construction of new school building
for Mckinley Manual Training School
on a site now owned by the District ad-
joining the Langley Junior High School
Construction of new school building
for Business High School on a site now
owned by the District adjoining the
Macfarland Junior High School.
Transfer of the Shaw Junior High
School to the building now occupied by
Mckinley Manual Training School
Transfer of the business department
from the Dunbar High School and the
organization of a business high school
for colored pupils in the building now
occupied by the Shaw Junior High
School.
Purchase of land in the vicinity of
Armstrong Manual Training School
(Continued on Page A. Column 81
Evening star., 1925-01-09
EMANUEL CROWN
DECLARED IN PERIL
IN ITALIAN CRISIS
MuSsoIini Said to Hold Duke
of Aosta as Trump Card if
Baked by King.
QUICK CONSENT TO END
PARLIAMENT SAVED RULE
Moderate Policy of Throne Held to
Irk Fascisti-Foes May Re.
Enter Chamber.
BY HIRAM n. MoDERwELL.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
ROME. January 9.-Quick royal con-
sent to the closing of Parliament may
have been given by King Victor EN-
manuel in order to prevent a dramatic
development which might have cost him
his crown.
Public opinion is watching anxiously
the present crisis. which may confirm
the popular rumor that the Duke of
Aosta is Mussolinfs trump card The
Duke of Aosta, the Kings cousin, re-
Gently has been the subject Of street
rumors and cafe gossip. This is always
certain sign of profound excitement of
Italian public opinion.
Seen in Dictator's Role.
One of the latest rumors says the
Duke of Aosta is preparing to head a
military dictatorship. Since he is A
Fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, the
significance of this rumor is evident.
He was commander of an army in the
World War, and in addition to reaping
much glory he gained the reputation of
being strong man with autocratic ma
tionalistic tendencies.
King Victor Emmanuel, on the other
hand, Is man of moderate tempera-
ment and democratic convictions. He
is reported to have said frequently
that he would renounce his crown
whenever he was convinced a ma
jority of the country no longer
wanted him. His influence always has
been exerted IN behalf of internal
peace and strict constitutional proce-
dure. The Fascist resent the fact
that among his most trusted advisers
are G!olitti and other leaders of anti
Fascist liberals who appear to re-
guard themselves as the political body
guard of the royal family.
Kings Mildness Resented.
Admirers of the Duke of Aosta in
sist that the Kings mildness has only
produced an unusual amount of blood
shed. They insist that Italians need
and desire strong master. 1t is gen.
orally believed the Fascist were pre-
pared to make the Duke of Aosta
king at the time of their march on
Rome If Victor Emmanuel refused to
accept Mussolini as premier.
Similarly, in the present struggle.
the duke looms up in the popular
Imagination as possible dictator and
candidate for the throne supported by
Fascit, Conservatives and National
lists, II the King should resist the
latest demands of the Fascist.
The great popularity of the Duke
of Aosta with the army would offset
the resentment with which the Of
ficers regard the Fascist militia"
Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co..
MAY RE-ENTER CHAMRER
Evening star., 1925-01-09
TWO MEN ARE TRAPPED
AS VAULT SWINGS SHUT
Firemen, Police, Safe Experts and
Doctors Called-Finally
Free Selves.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 9.-Two men at
work in the vault of the Provident
Institution for Savings today were
imprisoned when the vault door
swung shut and for more than an
hour bank employees, assisted by safe
experts, firemen and police, labored
to free them. They were released
finally when they discovered the
"trip clock" inside the vault which
released the time lock and opened the
door.
A large crowd assembled outside
when the word spread and police
drew a Gordon about the place. Physi-
clans with pulmotors. an ambulance
and nurses awaited. Work was begun
cutting through the masonry about
the vault so that holes might be drill
ed through the steel walls to admit
air. The two men, ]. c. Whitaker
and Robert Johnson, employees of the
American District Telegraph Com
many. said later they suffered only
from the heat of their confined quar-
ters.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Skid Chains Cause $4,000 Damage
To Streets, Melting Sno,O Reveals

gate safely while the snow lasted
Engineer Hunt said that he
would send out gangs as quickly
as possible to make repairs, taking
the worst holes first.
One official of the highway di-
vision pointed out today that on
most of the busy streets traffic
was concentrated in narrow lanes
in the middle of the streets, caus-
ing damage to that part of the
street surface, while the rest of
the roadway, banked high with
snow, was not injured.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Election Clerk Declares He Ran
East Side "BaIIot FIXING School,

expert use of his magic ring"
for the surreptitious marking of
ballots, he personally cared for
politicians seeking Office in tightly
contested districts. His occupa-
tion. he asserted, had netted him
more than $4,000.
Rosken made his recital to news
paper men in the anteroom of the
grand jury while awaiting call
to return before that body and re-
sumo his testimony concerning his
counting out of DR.. William l..
Sirovich, Democrat, who ran
against Perlman for Congress
from the fourteenth New York
district last November. He smiled
and smoked as he talked, and fire.
Quently interrupted his recital to
pose for photographers.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
JAPANESE SLAIN IN RAID.

NEW YORK. January 9.-Charles
Fouzita, proprietor of Japanese
boarding house in Brooklyn, was shot
and killed last night by policeman
who entered the house to investigate
charges that Fouzita was harboring
white women. The policeman said
that Fouzita attacked him with a
hatchet. Three white women and 19
Japanese were taken from the house
to a police station.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Toxic Is Rocked
By Earthquakes;
Mount AsO Erupts
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, January 9.-Tokio was
disturbed today by series of
earthquakes of high severity. the
first of which rocked the city at
am. The last temblor this aft
ernoon came at o'clock and caus-
ed many persons to leave their
abodes
Mount Aso, a volcano located 500
miles southwest of here, has been
in eruption since Tuesday and is
emitting ashes, causing damage to
farms at it's base
The crater of Mount Aso measures
Is miles from north to south and
has an opening 10 miles in width
from east to west. In eruptions
during recent years the volcano
sent off a mass of reddish yellow
clouds and the mountains and
fields were mantled with a thick
layer of grayish ash.
Numerous cattle and horses ate
the grass on the fields and died
from poisoning. The ashes from
the volcano contain a large per-
centage of poisonous element and
when imbued with moisture kills
all plants and animals that feed
on the poisoned grass.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January s.-Dub-
bing himself the Original ballot
fixer," George Rosken, youthful
election clerk, who yesterday de-
clared the reelection of Nathan
D. Perlman to Congress was
illegally accomplished by himself,
today announced that for 10 years
he had conducted a lower East
Side school for ballot fixers."
His pupils, he said, came to him
from Boston, Philadelphia, Jersey
City and Hoboken, N. J., as we'll
as from all parts of New York In
addition, he assured newspaper
men, to teaching his pupils the
Evening star., 1925-01-09

Damage done to the surfaces of
Washington highways by the re-
cent snowstorm will amount to
more than $4,000, C. B. Hunt, en-
gineer of highways, estimated to-
day.
AS the gradually melting snow
and ice reveals the buried concrete
and asphalt roadways, Mr.. Hunts
men are taking stock of the ruts
and ridges left by the skid chains
that had to be used on thousands
of vehicles to enable them to navi-
Evening star., 1925-01-09
SOUTHERN METHODISTS
PROTEST UNIFICATION
Plan to Mobilize Forces Against
Proposed Union With Northern
Branch of the Denomination.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga. January 9.-Plans to
mobilize the forces of the Southern
Methodist Church against the pro-
posed plan of unification between the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
were formulated at a meeting of rep
resentative Methodists from all parts
of the South, held here yesterday.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler called the
meeting and presided over the ses-
sions.
After the meeting Bishop Gambler
stated that the primary object of the
Getting was to complete an organiza-
tion to fight the unification plan, un-
der the name of IAN association to pre-
serve the Methodist Episcopal Church
South by defeating the pending plan
of unification." He declared that
there is a steadily growing opposi-
tion to the plan of unification and
that figures in hand show that the
plan is defeated already.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Bridge Bill Hearings Announced

Hearings will start next Wednes-
day morning at 10 o'clock on the bill
recommended by the Arlington Bridge
Commission for erection of the me-
mortal bridge stretching from Lin
coin Memorial across the Potomac
River to Arlington National Gene
terry.