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2 NAVY EQUALIZATION BILL UP TOMORROW Measure to Correct Pay and Promotion Differences Expected to Pass House. The hill favorably reported from the naval committee for equalization of promotion and pay between office re of the stair arm UM in the Navy up in the House tomorrow unfinished business, with every indication that it will be passed by a practically unanimous vote The vote taken Wednesday in the House was 1127 to 22, indicating that opposition to this measure is relatively inconsequential. Senate leaders are favorable to this bill and are ready to take it up as soon as the House has acted. Prompt action in both houses of Congress is confidently expected because no appropriation is required and the measure has had long and careful study over a period of three vears. Hearings have been held by both the House ar.d Senate committees on naval affairs, which have covered weeks of testimony.

Navy Behind Bill. According to witnesses from all branches of the service, the sentiment of the entire New seems to he that this is a measure which will improve the morale, smooth out friction that lias lone existed between line and staff, and that in this way it will immensely increase the efficiency of the service. The hill to taken up tomorrow does away with the old system of unequal promotion of officers who entered the service at the same time, who served under similar conditions with identic.nl and interests at sea nr in the field, and it gives the same opportunity for promotion at the same time to ail officers of the Navy, both line and staff, who are cotemporaries. The officers of each staff corps who are behind the line officers of equal length of service will be immediately promoted in the same proportions as their fin" cotemporaries, f'p to this time promotion in the staff corps has been very much slower than in the line. Not Shore Officers.

Hearings on this measure divulged that there has existed a grave misconception of the functions of staff officers. It was clearly pointed out that they do not perform duty exclusively on shore, as marly think, and are not to he confused with the general staff of the Army, officers of the Navy are composed of officers of the line, medical officers, supply officers, civil engineers and officers of the construction and chaplain corps. The House naval affairs committee, during the hearings and in its report, indicated that in these days of specialization each o. these divisions has its own particular duty to perform and all co-operate to control successfully the functions of vessels at sea or naval establishments on shore. Wherever the line officer goes the staff officer also goes the medical and supply officers.

The hearings on this measure have shown that officers of the Medical Corps, for example, enter the Navy at an older average age than graduates of the Naval Academy. The eight or nine years of necessary training for a graduate In years in an academic college, four in a medical college, and one as an interne in a the average medical officer about 29 or 30 years old when he is commissioned in the Navy. This is about or 9 older titan the average age of a midshipman when he graduates from Annapolis. Own Way. It has also been stressed that these medical graduates pay for their own education, while the Government pays for the education of line officers who graduate from the Nava! Academy.

Those who testified for the Corps at the hearings both before Senate' and House committees ex plained that the functions of medical officers, in addition to the treatment of the sick and wounded, are varied, and that no? the least important of their duties is the prevention of disease and epidemics by application of the principles of hygiene sanitation. by frequent inspection and familiarizing themselves with health conditions in ports where ships of the Navy visit. So important are these duties, and so efficiently have they been performed, it was pointed out, that the hosiiih of the President been constantly intrusted to the care of medical officers of the Navy. Under the terms of the Geneva convention medical officers are noncombatants. but at the hearings it was shown that the shells of the enemy are no respecters of persons, as attested by the large casualty lists among medical officers in every war.

They serve not otilv on ships at sea in all parts of the world, having alternately three years of sen duty and three of shore duty, but they also served with the Marine Corps forces in the field in the West Indies. Central America and in France during the World War. Several medical officers have received the medal of honor for personal gallantry in action, or other decorations for distinguished service. DAUGHERTY AND MILLER HEARD THURSDAY Arraignment Postponed Because the Reported Former Custodian Is 111. By Associated Press.

NEW YOHK. May M. Daugherty, tormer Attorney General, and Col. Thomas TV. Miller, former custodian, indicted for to defraud Ihe (inyernwill be arraigned next Thursday.

it announced today. Arraignment had been scheduled for attorneys for Col. Millbr Said he vas suffering from blood poJiMilng. Daugherty and Miller were indicted for alleged conspiracy in connection with the transfer of American Metals Co gecurities to' an alleged German, ownftd Swiss company. Organised to gurdhase from the alien custodian eritian properties seized during the wa tv WHOLESALE PRICES SAME.

6nly Four-tenths of 1 Per Cent Decrease in April. The general level of wholesale prices showed only slight changes In April as compared with March, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, the Weighted index registering 151.1 last month as against 151.6, a decrease of four-tenths of 1 per cent. Os the 404 commodities covered increases were shown in SI, decreases in 155 and no change in 198. Farm products and foods averaged slightly higher in April, due, it was sold, to In grains, hay. hogs, sheep and iambs, eggs find potatoes, while in all other groups prices were lower, ranging from less than 1 per cent for fuels, metals, chemicals and drugs and household per cent for etching materials.

Threatens Pilsudski ns POLISH REGIMENTS CEASE MOVEMENT AGAINST PILSUDSKI (Continued from First Page.l minister of foreign affairs. There is dissatisfaction over the failure of Mar shal Pilsudski to dissolve Parliament. The count takes the around that the position of Marshal Pilsudski as virtual dictator Is yet strong enough for him to re enter the caldnet. The question of the railing of the National Assembly- for the purpose of electing a President to succeed M. Wojciechovski has brought shout a difference of opinion among the poll tidans.

The leaders of some of the parties have informed acting President Rata that the Assembly should not he. held in Warsaw, where tin prejudiced discussion could not be carried out. Small peasant and tenant farmers are demanding that the government seize and distribute among them without paying compensation the estates of the large land owners. Fear that the Socialists may require the government to start the money presses going and cause heavy currency inflation is being expressed in business circles. Several business deals with American firms and banks have been called off pending developments.

HALLER FORMS GOVERNMENT Preparing to Attack Warsaw, Ilia- i patches Say. BERLIN. May 18 Berlin news papers say a rival Polish government has been set up in Posen under Gen. Haller, who formed the Polish Legion in the I'nited States during the World War. This step was taken after peace negotiations with Marshal Pilsudski's new government failed.

Skirmishes between troops of the two parties, resulting in considerable casualties, are reported to have ready occurred. Hen. HallerjS forces estimated at 27,000. They are e.ncajnped at and Kalliz. The general is said to have ordered advance in preparation for an attack on Warsaw.

D. C. MEDIUM DENIES SHE TOLD OF SEANCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE (Continued from First Paged visit to Mrs. Coates. The spiritualist, she declared, said she saw a blue vapor about me and that she gets the impression there is a man strangled.

The man comes to her as a husband (and here Mrs. Coates entered an em phatic denial, while Mme. Marcia listened closely). 'You are interested In this Mrs. Coates told me." the testimony continued, as good as married.

You will get a trip to Atlantic City and you will he offered some money very She asked me if 1 would care to come to the next meeting on the hill. I paid her $2 and she said was very nervous and would die very shortly." Mrs. Coates clamored for a hearing at this point to the testi mony of Miss Maekenberg. hut Chairman McLeod allowed her to detail tli visit to Mme. Marcia.

"Mme. resumed the wit ness, "said she was very much worried about the Houdini hill, She also said She preferred astrology to spiritualism. that field was overcrowded." interjected Mme. Marcia, but the witness continued: "She charged me $lO and said, she detected a strong vibration about me. There was something that smelled like cancer and shuddered a couple of times.

She said a number of Senators came to her for readings. She told of attending a Spiritualist meeting and said she could not see how people could believe in such junk. Almost all the people at the White House believe in spiritualism, hoyvever. she The witness then referred to the Visit of Mrs. Coates again.

"She said that know for a fact ihat table tipping seances are held at the White House with President Coolidge and his Mrs. Coates vainlysought to get a statement in at this point, hut the committee assured her a hearing later. "Then she said that Senator Capper. Senator Watson. Senator Dill and Senator Fletrher also come to her for readings." "May I speak." shouted Mrs.

Contes, hnt she was not given the permission at this point. "Are you an ordained minister of spiritualism?" asked Houdini of Miss Maekenberg. "Six jinies," replied the witness. "It cost me from $5 to $25. have all the rights from marrying to burying." I tell interjected Mrs.

Coates, "when you came in that there yvas a pail of hot water between "No," replied the witness. telling a story, isn't she?" asked Houdini of Miss Maekenberg. "Yes," the latter replied. "Didn't I tell you that somebody, a man. was standing behind your chair arid that a spirit came into the room named Lena.

"No," said Miss Maekenberg, while the audience laughed. Houdini, who had referred to receiving messages from spirits through a long trumpet, was asked by Representative Hatntner, Democrat, North Carolina, to give him ii demonstration. Houdini placed the trumpet to his ear nfld asked him to "he polite to tile at the same time telling the ntidienee "this is the fake they work." After a moment's silence Mr. Hammer said he heard a sentence. Mrs.

Edith No Rogers of Massaehu setts, a spectator at the committee table then tisked to hear a message. She likewise heard a sentence, which was "Hello, Edith Rdgers." Mr. Hammer said he had heard "Your plans are a ranged for. How are you?" Mr. Houdini did not utter a sound audible to the spectators who closely-crowded about.

Medium Demands a Tesl, Then Mme. Marcia demanded a test. "Hive me one," she repeated in rapidfire Order. Houdini. with a sarcastic smile, said: Pd break your heart.

Would 'you like me to give you a message the EVENING STAR. TUESDAY, MAY IS, U)2(j. WOMEN TIED ATS? FOR GOLF NET LEAD Miss Dorothy White and Mrs. J. F.

Dryden, Ahead After First Round. Miss Dorothy White of the Wash ington Golf and Country Club and Mrs. J. F. Dryden, of the Chevy Chase Club were tied for the lead with net scores of 82 at the conclusion of the first round of the annual women's competition for The Evening Star trophv at the Indian Spring Golf i Club today.

Miss White, a star play- er of the Washington Club. the best gross card of the day with a score of 89. Her card was five strokes to front of the gross 94 registered by Dryden. Mrs. Alma von Steiner of Indian Spring, who won the last year, finished far down list in the first round with a score of The second round will be play tomorrow morning.

A complete summary of the made in the first round follows: Dorothy White, Washington. Mrs F. Dryden. Chevv Chase. .) P.

Harper. Indian Si.rina, Susan Hacker. Cijevy Mrs. William Columbia. H.

A. Knox Indian Sjprina. PhGl Keeler. Wsshinaton. to, 9t: Mrs.

Slater. Indian Sprint 91 Mis, Chevy ('Haw. 9. t. Cameron Chase, J.

Chapman. Chevy Mr- L. Heat, chevy (haw. 111-29- 91 Mr. Colladav.

Contreaeionm 192- 594 Mr, Uma you Steiner Indian Spring 104-9-1)5; Mrs. DeFartes Indian Sprint 104-9-95: Miss M. (iimv ''uiaressinnat. 05-10-95: Mr. Frank Tomlin son.

Columbia, lOA IT-BtJ. i Havnes Columbia. Mr, Thorne Slrsver. War college Mr, W. McCook Knot.

Chevy Chase HIS Sirs. 1.. Rose. Indian Spring. in Mrs William Freeman, Chevy Chase.

Mss V. cijnedinst 'lndian Spring. 131 11 Mrs. Putnam Indian Sprint. Mrs Turn Moorr.

Indian Spring, 9S Miss C. Wilson unattached. 121 Mrs H. Harper. Congressional.

14.2 no cards: R. Cummings. Columbia: Mrs B. Mrs fi. Barker.

Mrs Miller and Mrs. W. K. Hall The course was slow, due to recent heavy rains and the golf committee placed the tee-plates well on the front edge of the tees. BREACH-OF-PROMISE SUIT FILED AGAINST PHYSICIAN: Miss Janet.

S. Smith Seeks $50,000 Damages From Dr. Arthur M. Zinkhan. I Mias Tanet S.

Smith. 1829 Kalorama road, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $50,009 damages from Dr. Arthur M. Zink han. 1879 Wyoming avenue, with offices at 815 Connecticut avenue, for alleged breach of promise to marry.

Miss Smith she has been humiliated and has suffered in health be cause of the alleged failure of the physician to carry out his agreement. She Is represented by Attorneys Wilton .1. I.smbeit and Rudolph If. Yeat man. According to Miss Smith, she accepted a proposal of Dr.

Zinkhan in 1919. but they agreed to wait until practice grew, and in the interval she went into the cafeteria business at the Veterans' Bureau. Dr. Zinkhan renewed his prom ise of marriage, she states, and she agreed that the ceremony should fob low when she was able to get out of business. She disposed of her place last March, she tells the court, and since that time the doctor has failed to marry her.

although she Informed him she was ready. Miss Smith de dares she has made presents to the doctor valued at $3,290. Today in Congress Senate. The hill to provide sanctuaries for migratory birds is due to come up on the floor tinder a special order at 2 clock. Agriculture committee held hearing on Senator Mayfield's cottonseed bill.

Naval affairs committee held executive session on routine calendar Claims committee met in executive session to on relief hills. Committee on Territories held executive session. from your dead son" Why 1 wouldn do it. it. would make you test me.

test me!" shout ed Mme. Marcia. "Give me a message from my dead son. You can tell me the At this point the meeting reached its heights with everybody shouting and talking at once, and through the din was heard the announcement that the committee again would meet at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Houdini had as his first witness Remiglus Weiss of Philadelphia, who said he had experimented with spiritualism and such for 50 years.

He described it as "psychical which should be out and wiped out." the 50 years of my investigation, I have not found one honest clairvoyant or spiritualist except those who believe in It. Most of them don't believe in it and they also believe the others Assails Doyle ami Lmlge. Mr. Houdini. in his direct testimopv, declared: "This is the only place in the United States of America where a crook or clairvoyant is licensed for $26 and under that, can blackmail or commit any crime under the calendar and get away with There are millions of dollars stolen by clairvoyants and mediums every year and 1 can prove it.

Conan Doyle is the biggest dupe outside of Sir Oliver Lodge." "Is palmistry a science?" asked Chairman McLeod. it's a fraud. I can look at a hand and tell whether the owner of It is a bricklayer or a banker." "How about astrology?" "I don't believe that chunks of mud a million miles away can tell me what will happen to or Admits Good Guessing. he continued, make good guesses. If you guess often enough you are bound to hit it.

If they knew what was going to happen ahead of time they could make millions in Wall Street every Mr. Hammer thought Christian Science would come under the ban of the hill, but Mr. Houdini disagreed, adding, charge you $5 to tell you that you will marry a fat woman with The witness said Ills performances in the theater are given to the nubile as and that he does not claim to have any supernatural lie added that in England it was held that he was quite superhuman In every way, although he does not accept it. "We ar all hoi it equal, we are all alike. Any engineer can expose my tricks if he wants Police Bill Approved.

The House agreed today to the conference report on the first District bill passed by the House in this session of Congress. This provides for free uniforms and equipment for police and Snows in France Hu in Fruit drop; Cereals Menaced Hr AanoHllfd PA RIX. May IS know. tain, hall and gales such the merry month of May In France. Winter sports have been resumed In the Auvergne Mountains, where.skllers are out In force.

The sunny South is the worst sufferer from the elements. Rain been falling ceaselessly for the past week, and the temperature has been dropping almost as fast the rain. It is now colder than it was In January. Fruit crops all over France have been ruined and cereals are threatened if the improvement predicted by the weather forecaster does not materialize quickly. Many valleys which suffered badly at the beginning of the yeer front floods again are menaced by rising waters, notably the upper -Marne, the Rhone and the Durance.

MORE FUNDS GIVEN TO 0. C. MEMORIAL Groups in Labor and Interior Departments Forward Donations. Half a dozen additional subscriptions to the fund for the erection In Potomac Park of the District of Go lumbia memorial its men "'ho served their country In the World War were announced today by the memorial commission through John Poole, treasurer. Two of the donations came from groups of employes in the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior.

The former department sent in $23.25 an added contribution. supplementing a substantial sum alreadv acknowledged by the commtssion. The Interior employes gave sls toward the project. Various cltlz.ehs' associations of the District have shown an active interest In the memorial drive and ntanv of them have given the memorial their financial well as moral support. A gift of sll 85 from the Barry Farm Association has just been acknowledged.

other subscriptions recorded today included $25 from Mrs. M. W. Goddard and $1" each from Frank S. Fields and Mrs Annie K.

Williams. Mrs. Williams sent her donation in memory of her son, Arthur Fisher Williams. DEPARTMENT SEEKS ECONOMY OF SPACE Interior Offices Will Be Consolidated to Provide for Pension Bureau. A preliminary survey is tinder way tndav at the Interior Department to determine what offices can be conaoli! dated and more space made available for others to prepare the way for moving the entire Pension Bureau force into the Interior Department Building Officials of the department, said as soon as an order for the tranaj fee of the Pension Office force comes through the actual moving will begin.

The survey will be completed within two or three days. For the first time in Its history ail the bureaus and of fires of the Interior Department will be housed under one roof when the Pension Office move is completed. The cryogenic laboratory In re search into helium and other duties involving chemical tests, which was considered a possible source of dan get- bv department officials several months ago, has already been moved part of Its equipment going to the Bureau of Standards and part to the Bureau of Mines experiment station at Pittsburgh, Pa. The order for retnoval of the Pension Bureau personnel and files to the Interior Depart men? is expected in come from the Public Commission In few days. General Accounting Office of the Treasury, with something more than 1.390 will take over the Pension Office, and, so far Is now known, will he the only Govern mefi? agency lo he In the big building at Fifth and streets.

The move will require little new construction in the Interior Depart ment hutldlnc. In the view of officials, because the offices are all of adequate size and well fitted for the work of the Pension Bureau. Shrine for Holy Memories Between the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Tidal Basin, in Potomac Park, there is to be erected soon a beautiful memorial temple so both the dead and the living who represented the District of Columbia in the armed forces of ihe great World War. As both a memorial and a place where military concerts may be held, the classic structure will serve a dual purpose. Os exquisite beauty, dignity and Creek simplicity, the temple will built of white marble.

By it the names of those who made the sacrifice, not only Tor their country but for you, will he preserved to posterity. Names will be placed either in the marble dome above or sealed within the sacred crypt of the cornerstone. We appeal to every Washingtonian to rontribnte to this memorial; to those for whom some one near and dear served, and to not so favored. Your contribution to Ihe $200,000 cost of the memorial, whether it be for sl, $lO. SIOO or or any intermediate sum, should not be a burden, but a personal tribute to the one, out of all the 26,000 names to be enshrined.

who means the most to you. (Signed.) FRANK B. NOYES, Chairman, District of Columbia Memorial Commission. MEMBERS OF MEMORIAL COMMISSION: Charles A. Baker Isaac Cans Frank B.

Noyes Gist Blair John M. Gleissner G. Logan Payne Edward F. Colladav E. Lester Jones Julius I.

Pevser John Joy Edson Edward B. McLean Anton Stephan Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis J. R. McDonald I WASHINGTON, D.

1926 District of Columbia Memorial Commission: I hereby subscribe and promise to pay to the order of John Poole, Treasurer, the sum of I I inclose check in full payment of above subscription. I will pay my subscription I I June 1, 1926. I I Aug. 1, 1926, i I Mail Address Please Make Checks Payable to John Poole Federal-American National Bank NEW FARM RELIEF MEASURE PLANNED Administration Leaders May Write Bill on Floor by Amending Others. BY DAVID LAWRKNCK.

Plans being by administration leaders In the House to write a new farm bill on the floor. The parllmentary situation is such that an unprecedented maneuver is counted on to develop a measure that can be sent to the Senate. The Haugen bill is considered to have little chance of passage and the move is to substitute the Aawell bill for the Haugen measure. When that been done the effort "ill be made to amend the Aswel! bill by Incorporating the principal provisions of the Tincher bill. When the carving process is complete House leaders hope they will have a bill that eliminates govern ment price-fixing, that not depend on the public Treasury for a subsidy and that the various agencies engaged in co-operative marketing so that effective handling of surplus products may be made possible by the farmers' groups themselves.

Plan lo liose l-egislatlnii Charged. What Senate will do is another problem. House leaders have been told that the disposition of many Senators is to let the farm bills get tangled up in each other In such sash ion that no action whatsoever will taken at this session. As it sppeara from the Senate viewpoint farm legislation Is not so essential an it is from the Mouse. There are only sliout.

32 Senators who are to he up for reelection this Autumn, and many of these come from Democratic States. Some of the Republican Senators who belong so the Insurgent group are indifferent to the leaders decide. for if there is to be no legislation It Increases their opportunity to discuss on the Stump the shortcomings of the conservative leadership of the Senate. it would, in other words, he politically lees dangerous for ihe Senate than the House to let farm legislation go by default. After the House has pass ed a bill the of whom are up for re-election point to their own record an evidence of their interest in farm legislation and could blame the absence of farm relief law on the tangle In the Senate.

Little Enthusiasm Mhntrn. The truth that there is rela tively little enthusiasm In Gongress for a revolutionary change in farm economics. A small group prodded by various outside organizations making a fight, but the chances of success have been diminished bv the failure of the farm leaders to get together on a ping ram that can win sanction from the White House. There is no doubt that the Secretary of Agriculture and the President realize the importance of a solution to the surplus problem, but they have come out ho firmly against any subsidy hv the Government or any participation in scheme that permits the 00-operaftves to fix prices with governmental supervision that most of Gongress have not felt it incumbent on them to assume a role In opposition to the known desires of the administration. If the President were on the other side of the argument pleading for farm relief the situation might he different.

As the Bummer months approach and Gongress becomes anxious for adjournment, the trend toward In action rather than action. And It beginning to look as If the House will do Its part and the Senate will accept responsibility for a thoroughly changed bill or complete inaction. tCopyriaht. 1929 i CARNIVAL SITE CHOSEN. Lyon Village Committee Will Hold Meeting Tonight.

SpcHdl to The LYON VILLAGE, May Plans for the first carnival of the Lyon Village Citizens' Association will he discussed at a joint meeting of the committee In charge of the affair and the executive committee of the organization tonight at o'clock at the home of N. Rice, 210 Courthouse road. The carnival will he held June 3. 4 and 5. on a -verdant site bordering Rucker avenue.

Hollywood place and Key boulevard. Booths will be erected for the refreshments and entertainment attractions. Contests and novel games of skill "fill he among the features. Noted Career Ends ti I OWN. JAMES A.

lIITHANAN. I HORSE SHOW ENDS! IN National Capital Meet to; Create New Champions in Various Classes. Five proud champions ami as many "reserve champions" are to be crowned at the National capital Horse Show late this afternoon. They i will tie selected from among the equine I aristocrats that captured the blue 1 and red ribbons of the previous classes of the show, and those who capture the final laurels must have passed through an even more grueling corn- petition. The four-day meet of the National (tipital Horse Show 'ids after noon with the renewal of ttie annual hunters' derhv.

in which some of the Attest timber-toppers In the countrywill compete over a course of two miles ami a half The prize to tTie winner will he and plate appro-; prist el inscribed. The show got under way at 2 oY-lck. As in the past, the closing day brought out a large crowd of horse lovers to see the judging of champions. The first class listed today was for three-year-old hunters, followed by the Rock Creek Hunt Club i lass, in which the horses must lih hunted at least three times and must he ridden by a member of the club. A cup presented by Mrs.

Helen Buchanan Jones goes to the winner. Next comes the class for pairs of saddle horses, followed hv the class for triple bar jumpers, the most thrilling jump known to lie leapers. It has attracted entries this year, including Lucifer and Morgan, two of the most famous leapers in the East, assuring thrilling contest. Hunters, saddle ponies and hunt teams bring the program up to the championships. Children Enter Ponies.

The first championship contest scheduled was for children, when the winners of the various pony classes compete for the pony championship. The next was saddle horses, followed, in order, by park saddle horses, light weight hunters and middle and heavyweight hunters. The derby was set immediately after the last championship, followed by racing. A serious mishap marred the end of the race for officers yesterday when Capt. William M.

Weiner of ashington was thrown, when his horse slip ped while being brought under control at the quarter turn after the race had been won by Lieut. Victor Noyes on his fsrnous horse Gray Bard. It was first believed Capt. Weiner had been seriously Injured atnl he was carried from the field in a semi-conscious condition, lie revived later, however, and ids injuries were described as painful, bur not dangerous. Another Rider Radiy Hurt.

In the next race, which was open to enlisted men of the Army. Sergt. Curry, long a familiar figure at the Natoinal Capital Horse Show and a former rider of the old wonder horse Buddy, was dangerously injured when ids horse stumbled and threw him while turning into the hack stretch. The sergeant was thrown clear of his mount while In the lead and the oncoming field passed squarely over him. One of the horses stepped on the face.

Curry was sent to Emergency Hospital, where his condition is reported to he serious. Honors Won Yesterday. Summaries for yesterday are: 14. Incut 1 Buddy, owned hr Eugene Meyer: Economy. Mai.

C. 1,. Scott: third, Coi. Mitchell. Norman Clarke fourth.

Ms). S. Fpham 2.1 polo Virginia. hr .1, Tate: second. Nettie Bly, Lieut.

Fredericks P. Sharp: third. App'e Jack. Third Cavalry: fourth. Cuvaniaca Lieut.

Frederick I). Sharp. Class lti, Summer Hill, owned hv N. Lehman: second. Boy wood Col.

William Mitchell: third Mar Bell. Kav H. Norton: fourth. Lucifer. C.

Oliver Iselin. jr. Claes 4lt touch and out Lucifer, owned h.v C. Oliver Iselin. second.

Mur(in. Maj. C. P. Grume: third.

Skylark Wil Mam .1. lionovan: fourth. ihihallnu. I'liarles Class 11. saddle Bubhles.

owned hv Sherman Flint: second. See waoda. Eugene Meyer- third. Lassie. Mai.

J. ft. I fourth. Tiukerhelle. Miss Lydia Ardihold.

Class thoroughbred Miss Keiser. owned h.v Oilman second My Hunlness Grove Stables third. Pathfinder. Mai. C.

L. Scott: fourth. Homeward. Mrs I). Ijee.

Class 13. ladies' saddle Jennie, owned by Julian Morris: second. Hub hies. Sherman Flint: third, spv Fancy. M.

M. Stevens: fourth. Lassie. Mai J. Fpham.

Class 3. saddle Babette. owned h.v Miss Laura Curtis: second. White Master James Curtis: third. Billie.

Sranres fourth. Tartan, Marguerite Rowland. 34. Summer Hill, owned by N. Orlman third.

Miss Reiser. Oilman; fourth, Lucifer. C. Oliver Iselin. jr.

VETERAN NAVY MAN DIES AT HOME HERE L. Brmvn. $2 years old. chief of the paymasters' division of the Fnlted States Navy Department for 35 years, and who, starting as a clerk, had served in that division continuously for 55 years prior to retirement in 1920. died at his residence.

134 street southeast, yesterday after an illness of five weeks. Dentil was due io heart disease. Mr. Brown was a veteran the Army anil a charter member of Burnside Dost, (7. A.

It. He served with the Legion," from Maryland, ills native State, during the conflict. He lost a leg during the war and had to remain in the hospital for two years. Mr. Brown was a member of St.

Church and an active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He rvived by his widow, Mrs. Loitlse Nass Brown: a brother, William Brown of New York, and several nieces and nephews. A son.

the late Lieut. Gol. T. H. Brown of the Gnlted States Marine Corps, died in 1923.

Funeral services will he conducted at St. Peter's Church Thursday morning At 10 laterment will be private, tn Aldington Cemetery. COAL MEN URGED TO EIGHT OIL USE Pierce, Repre- sentative, Suggests Extensive Trade-Mark System. hile frankly admitting that fuel nil dealers have niadf inroads in the coal business, spokesmen for both the bituminous and anthracite merchants today assured the members the Nn tional Retntl foal Merrharfs" Assocla lion that their industry "as last inn one. the moot economical stud find proposed a national campaign to combat thf oil compel it ion.

In font last to the sensational ses sion late yeslerdav when coal opera tors wpip charged with selling grades of foal which rontSiinoii a large centage of inferior sizes, association today took up a technical of the trade marked coal, oil and gas competition and distribution. Daniel T. I fierce, a representative of the Operators Association, who ves terda was the object of tie retailers complaints, this morning told the dele gates he intended strongly to recommend to the operators that thev adopt an extensive system of trade-marking coal, with a view to safeguiading their own products, giving greatei satisfaction to retailers and protecting the consumer against substitutions of inferior grades. I National Campaign. if.

representing the foal Association of this proposed an intensive national -itn paign be launched by the coal retailers in order to meet the competition of the and gas dealers. Besides the moral and financial support that could thus be obtained, he said, the retailers" association would he enabled to or large their services to customers. Mr. Tape also declared great eroti omy could he effected by a consolida tion of retail coal merchants. "There ate far too many retailers, the same as there are too many operators, he said.

Pointing to the establishment of the Federal Oil Conservation Board, with a view to obtaining "rational on serration of oil," Mr. Pape said that there remains hilt about a.ftOh.iMdi.Oftn barrels of fuel oil in American fields which could he obtained under present methods of extraction and refining, an amount estimated to last less than a decade. Beyond this amount, he said, there was an estimate of Jfi.iiOO.OOO.nb" barrels not recoverable under present met hobs. This amount, according to present consumption, could last but a generation. On the other hand, lie dared, there is an estimated sum of I 1.600.000,000 cubic feet of bituminous coal in American fields which is recoverable.

i Stresses Salesmanship Value. Mr. Pape deflated that the effectiveness of bituminous coal had demonstrated and that with additional mechanical developments the smoke nuisance" would be entirely eiinn I nated. C. Hosier of Philadelphia fold of how anthracite retailers ate meet ing the competition of oil and gas.

it I is a simple question of salesmanship, i he declared, arguing that anthracite has been proved cheaper and cleaner i than other fuels. The oil competition soon will pass, because of the svarcitv I of supplies, hut this competition will jhe supplanted by -as burners, he 1 warned the coal.men. Hale, a Washington alter ney. explained the legal aspects of i trade marks. Other speakers were I Stanley C.

Higgins, representing the New River Operators' Association. Winona. W. A Ray D. Kelly, pres idem of the Midwest foal Association New York: William A.

Clark, presi- I dent of the New Kngland Coal Deal; ens; Harold Almert. chief of the Fuel Service Bureau of Chicago, ami Wil Ham C. Atwater of New York. Kynon Addresses Luncheon. I William John Kynon.

past president I of the Fnited Typothetae of America. addressed a luncheon meeting and this afternoon the retailers went to I Mount Vernon on the steamer Macalj ester. I Senator Reed of Missouri and Henry If. (Jlassie. a.

member of the Fnited States Tariff Commission, will he prinl cipal speakers at the annual banquet tonight at at the Willard Hotel, Samuel B. Crowell will preside and Roderick Stephens of New York will he toastmaster. Operators Are Assailed. Coal operators were charged yesterday by the retail men with unethical practice in selling coal to the retailers which did not coal up to specifications. Roderick Stephens of New York, who is chairman of the executive committee of the association.

made the accusation immediately following an address on the future of the anthracite industry by Daniel T. Pierce, vice chairman of the Anthra cite Operators' Conference. Declaring that the operators were selling grades of coal in which a large percentage of inferior grades was allowed to remain, in violation of standards set up by the operators themselves. Mr. Stephens called for a show of hands of retailers who could I corroborate his charge.

Virtually all of the 400 delegates raised hands, and i at tlie conclusion of Mr. Stephens' statement, burst into cheers. I Mr. Pierce made no defense of the inline operators, lie agreed (hat am operator trim would sell such "diluted'" coal would he guilty of unetlii cal practices atul promised he would tell the operators of the complain: of (lie retailers. Secret Agreement Charged.

Another sensation was created when Samuel Drummond of New York declared he had been told in a Fnited States Senator that the five year agreement entered into hv the miners and operators of the anthracite fields was made "merely for ptihlic Consumption" and that the agreement was not bona" fide. The I Senator was quoted as saying a secret agreement had been entered Into by which the miners were granted the check-off. Mr. Pierce emphatically denied both rumors and optimistically declared he believed the agreement would mean five years of peace. He explained that while the strike settlement permits either side to ask for a modification of wages and conditions, a hoard of arbitration is to he set up in case of a deadlock whose decision is to be accepted as final.

Mr. Pierce, in his address, took issue with the movement to place power in the hands of the Federal Hovernfnent to regulate the Industry. Legislation will prove of no benefit to the public or any parly interested, tic asserted, lie protested that Senators itnd Representatives on committees which heatd the operators in opposi! tion to coal legislation hud listened slight Maul don't want Mr. Pierce said. want their prejudices satisfied.

And congressmen who want to win the plaudits of the public will ghe them such coal legislation." lie quoted Secretary Hoover saying the only regulation of the coal industry must conic from within, rather than from without. Mr. Pierce warned the retailers they would have to give up the practice which was advanced during the strike nf handling soft coal and oil fuels as side lines. Pointing out that the anthracite business to thret-auarlers of ASKS EXONERATION OF JUDGE MEEKINS House Subcommittee Urges Impeachment Charges Be Dropped. Hv fhr a tr-r! Recoqimendation that no action be taker on a petition to impeach Federa" -liirtge Isaac of North fare linn was made today by a House hi ja rj snbroniinil tee No impeachable offenses were a leged in affidavits filed bv Daniel llickel.

forniei Internal Revenue Bureau employe, the report to the judiciary committee said These charges, made last ear and repeated rece it 1 in a letter addressed to tin House, included collusion wilh Federal for "tax-fixing while Meekins was counsel for the Alien Property 'ustodlari, when that office was held by Thomas Miller, now under indictment in New Yot k. Without tiing on these matters tin- sulM onuiilrtoe repot savs they have no hearing on Meekins' later Judgeship, and. therefore, do not. cal! for liiipeai hinerit proceedings The sula'ornndtree resolution stated in conclusion that "this committee dei lines take any action in th premises, and orders that the com plain be laid On fbe fable ARMAMENTS BASED ON POPULATION AND AREA URGED BY U. S.

Continued from First Page! resvful agsinst fbe led goy is desirous of maintaining all army effective fighting strength. of the Kusso treatv. France an.l her allies tire said to be fearful that should another rupean conflict file for might side with Russia. her es. think some form of F.ui'opeau set uritv other 'ban that provided bv -he Roear rio he arranged before any considerable lessening of defensive forces can be line quest it l.e studied is whethe reductions in ant aments an be pro inoted bv insuring that mutual nrtce -hall 1-e brought quick lv in'" operation ns soon as an act simi lias been committed 1, thought that the delegation lias come to Relievo open minded end that its members "ill intervene from time to time with sug 1 gestions, remembering that the ltw-t ing.

is a kipd of investigation to a I range a practical program on "Inrti 1 future conference would be iikelv to I secure helpful results. Naval Farley I rged. The Americans are expected to ad idea that flirt tier naval lim'nations can best he brought abruit a 'sepa ate conference between poweri which I't'o navies. Japan. Italy and France already have declared them selves against a separate naval confer I erne.

Brazil has advanced the idea nf an entente cordialc between the Fnited States and the League of Nations bv which a land disarmament conference would arranged in Kurope and a naval conference in Washington. It is understood that several conn: trie- do not feel themselves in a posj tion to consider the preparatory work of the commission seriously because of the troubled political situation in Kurope. GEN. J. A.

BUCHANAN DIES AT AGE OF 82 AT HIS HOME HERE u'ontinued from First Pages fantry. He served in the latter outfit onlv for several weeks, being trans ferred to the 2Stli Fnited States Inj fantry July IS. 1. Made Colonel in 1902. Subsequently, in April.

1902. he was transferred to the sth Regiment of Ini fantry. and in July the same year was made a colonel of the Porto Rico i regiment. Five months later he was transferred to the 2d Fnited States In fantry and later served with the 11th and 24th Fnited States Infantry. lie was promoted to the of brigadier general April 14.

1905, and was retired at his own request May I i He was a member of the Metropolitan, Arniv and Navy and Fhevv Chase clubs of this cltv and of the MetrpPoll- I inn Club of New York, Hen. Buchanan maintained a heauti i fn! estate at Fppervlile Yn and had hcer very actively interested in rais ing. breeding ami racing horses dnr ing the latter of his life and up until the time of his death, his stable I of horses being known as one the best in Virginia. Blocked Judge. Fined.

Failure to give the tight of way to Judge tieorge 11. Macdonald resulted In William Mason, colored, being lined 125 in Traffic Court lodnv l.v Judge John McMahon. Judge Macdonald played the role of witness so well that the near collision jat tieorgia avenue and Princeton street Saturday was proved to be fault. a l-illlon dollars yearly Mr. Pierre de dared: will not permit the an tliracite business to be made the tail end of the soft coal business by re tellers, or to he marie an adjunct nf the oil lie declared dealers had told him consumers were return I ing to hard coal following their ex periences with substitutes.

FARKKR I CONTROL. Rill Would (Jive Secretary of Commerce Power in Imtiiiries. Federal control over distribution of (coal in emergencies and authorizaj tion for fine or imprisonment of any i person or corporation refusing to give 1 pertinent information relating to the coal industry asked by the Secretary of Commerce is provided in a bill in need yesterday by chairman Parker of the House commerce committee. The measure would empower tne President to proclaim an emergency, during which provisions for control over distribution would be operative Prior to an emergency lie would be authorised to appoint mediators or to direct the Secretary of Labor to attempt to negotiate settlement of controversy over wages or working conditions. Fact finding activities would be con centrated under the Commerce De pm Bureau of Mines, widen would lie authorized to assemble data on production, storage, distribution, mine prices, profits ami otliei iactois in tne fuel industry.

The Secretary of Commerce would be empowered to require any person or corporation to file reports under oath on anything he held of Importance in eon I situation. The measure will be taken up by the Commerce committee today nears the conclusion of hearings on more than twoscore coal bills..