Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHING! PRESIDENT TO PUSH, | REORGANIZING PLAN Changes Recommended by Brown Not All Favored, However. President (ool the urgent need of the fede efficiency tublished in the o e is convinced of for reorganization artments 1f- more omy are to be es- ation of the ma- chinery of the government, and he will appeal to the next Congress to provide the necessary legislation to bring this mbout, In making this known at the White House vestorday, following a cabinet meeting at which the reorganization fdea was discussed in a general way for more than an hour. a snokesman for the President lained that more than feature in the plan of Wal- | F. Brown. chairman of the joint | { congressional committee on reorgani- zation, will I ered. and several will be climinated before the plan | receives President Coolidge's "0, K." | For instance. it was made knowni at the White House that President oolidge does not favor including in the gencral reorganization plan Chairman Brown's proposal to con- date the War and Navy depart- ments into 2 department of national defense. He and members of his cabi- met are aware that there exists a deep-rooted conviction that these branches of the federal government should be maintained in their present independent form. The President will &ive this proposal more consideration. Againvt Marine Change. Neitlier does the President approve abolishing the Marine Corps by mak- ing it a part of the Army, as is pro- posed in the Brown plan. Those with whom the President has discussed reorgani: say he has not yet 1 of the necessity for stant President—an executive ary with certain authority that permit him to lift considerable ® burden of routine work from oulders of his Chief. It has been intimated that the Pres- ident has not reached a decision re- garding Mr. Brown's proposal to cre- ate a new department to be known as the department of welfare, which will take in the bureau of education, the Veterans' Bureau, the public health service and various other agencies of the government now scat- tered about the departments. It s thought also that the President will eventually agree to the proposition, ;‘\\I! ‘thnl h'flh m‘n|,\' suggest that it be nown as the department of we and edveatlon. R Numerous Other Details. There are numerous other details ot the Wn plan that the President has not made up his mind about and will not do so until he has learned :n,-m\ ews of 'msl cabinet officers and in hairman Brown has - plained them. e _Although considerable time was given to the discussion of the re- organization plan at vesterday's cabinet meeting, details were left for a future meeting, at which Chairman Brown will be on hand. _The Brown plan_received the offi- cial approval of President Harding and his cabinet last March, when it was completed, but there is an inti- mation that the cabinet at this time is not a unit in favoring it. SINCLAIRIS HEARD INNAVY OIL PROBE Teapot Dome Lessee Quizzed on His Relations With Ex-Secretary Fall. Harry F. Sinclair, who obtained for his oll Interests the Teapot Dome lease, which is now being investi- sated by the Senate public lands com- mittee, headed the list of witnesses for today's hearing. Senator Walsh, | democrat, Montana, indlcated he de- | sired to carry Mr. Sinclair over the | around which has been covered in the testimony of former Seccretary Fall of the Interfor Department concerning details incident to the lease negotia- tions. Mr. Sinclair was called by the com- mittee at the request of Senator Walsh, who 0 far has been largely shaping the course of the investiga- tion. Business relations between the former Secretary and Mr. Sinclair since Mr. Fall retired from the Inte- rior Department were inquired into at some length by the Montana sena.- tor when Mr. Fall was on the stand. Roosevelt on Stand. The committee also heard today from Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy, an explanation { of investments made in years past by the members of the Roosevelt | family In the Sinclair companfes, | His wife purchased some atock in the company, but sold it at a loss in 1822. His brother. he sald, is at present vico president of one of the Sinclair subsidlary companies, with Which he has been connected since 1919. Mr. Roosevelt sald he was a dl- rector of the Consolidated Sinclair Company when it was originally or- ganized, and held stock in it until the winter of 1918 His attention first was directed by Secretary Denby to the proposed transfer of naval oil reserves to the Interior Department, Mr. Roosevelt told the committee, 'after a cabinet meeting in April, 1920. Cites Modifiea Order. Soon thercafter, when a proposed exdcutive order to make the transfer cftective was submitted to him, he sald, he suggested a modification which subsequently was incorporated bofore the order was signed by the President. This change had the effect of maintaining in the Navy Depart- | ment, he explained, a supervisory control over the naval oil lands. e added that both Secretary Denby and Socretary Fall approved the modifica- tion. At the time the transfer first was suggested, the witness declared, he was not personally in favor of it. Afterward, he said, he had become | convinced that because. of the absence of proper machinery in the Navy De- partment to handle the naval ofl re- Bserves it was the correct thing to do. LEE DISPATCH BEARER DIES IN CALIFORNIA WINCHESTER, Va., October 27.— Tromas Bushrod Hammond, eighty years old, who served as a dispatch bearer for Gen. R. E. Lee In the Con- federate army during the civil war, is dead at Los Angeles, Calif., where he lived many years on account of his health. e was a native of Jefferson coun- ty, Va., now in West Virginia, havin Dbeen bhorn at Bhannon Hill, July 2 1843. He preserved among his chief treasures s small Testament presented to him by Gen. Lee. He leaves one sister, Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan of New York. 6 Was buried in a_ private cemetery at Los Angeles with flowers of the Confeder- ate colors {n his hands. | i i Th fs no contempt in all the world to equal that existing between 3wWo of those fellows who-know it all. i o Left to right: Secretary of Navy Denby, Assistnnt Secretary of War Davis, Admiral E. W. Eberle, Gen. John A. Lejeune, commander United States Marine Corps, and Col. John McElroy, PARADE OF SEA FIGHTERS OPENS 'NAVY DAY EXERCISES HERE rom First Page.) pleaded for abolition of the economy wave which has reached the Navy and which, he declared, may reduce the first line of defense to a condition of inefficlency if allowed to continue. He coupled his declaration with the hope that able-bodied veterans of the fight- ing services will not press for pay ment of a bonus to the men who served in the world war and pledged the resources of the United States to care for the men who suffered and were incapacitated in the service of the nation “The United States Navy should be maintalned on a par with the navy of any other world power,” Mr. Denby said. “On the sea, over the sea and under the sea the Navy should be ready to function as a perfect fight- ing unit when the defense of the na- tion 18 at stake.” Secretary Denby pald a tribute to the Navy League, which he said i» an Integral “part of 'the Navy, although not officially connected with it. He congratulated the league for its work in arranging the celebration of Navy day. Mr. Denby paid a spectal tribute to the Army, which should he coupled, he declared, with the Navy as a joint service in both the matter of defense and expense. The Army has joined whole-heartedly with the Navy in commemorating Navy day, he said. The Navy Secretary spoke in the presence of & distinguished gathering of high naval officials and naval at- taches from several foreign countrie: He walked to the base of the Jones monument on crutches, and made his address standing on the crutches. As he finished his address Mr. Den- by took from a marine a wreath of flowers and placed it at the base of the statue of John Paul Jones, to whom he referred in the course of his alk. As in the case of her earlier crulses, the Shenandosh today was in fairly constant touch with the Navy Depart- ment by radio during her journey fouth. The first message from Capt. McCrary came at 7:30_am., as the dirlgible cast oft from Lakehurst. “Altitude, 4,800 feet,” the operator on board reported; “speed, forty knots; two engines standard speed, four engines half speed; will now start gpeed run with all éngines at stand- g At 8:30 am., the former ZR-1 was threc miles north of West Chester, Pa., at an altitude of 5.000 feet and was moving south at forty-nine knots Speakers representing the Navy ad dressed chambers of commerce and meetings in nearly every city of the nation, while at all naval bases there ‘were impressive ercises in which ships and men of the Navy as well as auxili- aries of the naval air service took art. The great Navy _dirigibl Shenandoah, formerly the ZR-1, float- d high in the air over the Vailey of Virginia, traveling paraliel with the river and valloy which gave it jts name. The alr vessel is scheduled to g0 over Washington between 7 and $:30 tonight on its way back to its hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. While ceremonies were belng held at the John Paul Jones monument, the tomb of Admiral George Dewe: naval hero of the Spanish-Amerlcan war, was decorated by Capt. Ricardo Vago. naval attache of the Argentine embassy. Special maneuvers by air- planes were held at the naval air sta- tion at Anacostia, with some of the fastest planes in ‘the world taking part. Navy Monuments Decorated. Monuments of American naval heroes and of outstanding figures in the naval histories of the principal Latin American countries were dec- orated by representatives of the Navy League, and fitting tribute was paid to the carefully preserved relics of earlier days in the lite of the Navy. While ceremonies were being held in this country an international fla- vor was imparted to Navy day by the participation of Americans all over the world in exercises in fcrelgn capitals. In London the American colony observed Navy day by a brief noonday ceremony at St. Paul's Ca- thedral and placed a wreath in honor of American naval heroes. In Parls, Rome, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janiero, Lima, Callao and other foreign cit exercises attended by members of the American colony in those cities were held, while at Ovster Bay, L. I, a wreath was laid on the tomb of for- mer President Roosevelt by Vice Ad- miral Newton A. MeCully, commander af the naval scouting fleet. Elabo- rate preparations for the proper ob- servance of Navy day have been in progress by the Navy League for sev- eral months past, under the direction ot Marion Eppley, chairman of the national Navy day committe The American Navy must play a conspicuous part in any plan to make the word “a brotherhood.” Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, declared in an address h{ radio last night. broadcast by WRC, In connection with the Navy day observance. Rejoices in Navy’s Record. “As an avowed advocate of peace, I rejoice In the record of our Navy its achievements at home and abroad,” Dr. Freeman sald, adding that there is such a thing “as at- tempting to maintain peace at & cost %0 low that it ultimately will prové the folly of the experiment. “A navy condeived on such lines as those laid down by our honored Sec- of State in his epochal commander Kit Carson Post, G. A. R. posal made at the recent conference of nine sovereign powers,” he as- serted, “is In consonance with the| ideals of peace that we have at-| tzined in the present world condl-| tions. Some day even these ideals | may be excelled and a new step taken that shall bring us nearer the haven where we would be. “As a pacific measure, as a symbol of our national integrity and char- acter, as the exponent of our inde- pendence and foverelgnty, our Navy | represents to us here at home and to the nations of the world at large | those ideale and principles of gov-| ernment to which we are committed and- for which we stand, our com- { merce, our social and peaceable de- | signs, our desires for neighborly and | {fraternal intercourse, all these our | Navy expresses with dignity and| power.” | Of spectacular Irfterest to Washing- | {ton was the swing over the city of | the airship Shenandoah. The great| air vessel left her hangar in New | Jersey early this morning and pro- | ceeded south and west over Phila- | delphia, Hagerstown and down the | Shenandonh valley, passing over Mar- | tinsburg, W. Va. and thence down | the valley of Virginia to Lexington. Then she turned her nose east to| Lynchburg and nartheast to Rich- | mong, whick will be reached late this | afternoon. Pointing her nose north, | the great dirigible will go over the| Capital early this evening in a night | { filght She wiil be plainly visible by her lights, although the moon wiil not have risen at the hour she is ex- pected to arrive. SHIP LEAVES ON TIME. 1deal Weather Conditions Prevail | for 700-Mile Flight. LAKEHURST, N. J., October 27.— Uncle Sam's biggest dirigible, the Shenandoah, took the alr shortly after 7 o'clock today for a 700-mile trip to Richmond, Va., by way of the Shenandoah valley, and return, as| part of the celebration of Navy day. {1deal weather conditions prevailed as the former ZR-1 turned her nose toward Philadelphia. She carried her | usual crew of forty-two men, under command of Capt. McCrary. The tentative route called for flight | over the cities of Philadelphia, York | and Lancaster, Pa.; Hagerstown, Md.; | Martinsburg, W. Va.; Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lynghburg ' U Available also in brick and bulk—all flavors—pints, quarts, half gallons Made in 'Wuhlncton with scrupulous care, from the fineat dairy products, and under the most modern and sanitary conditions, ® CHAPIN-SACKS CORPORATION AT Army Chaplains Seek to Honor British Heroes Chaplains of the Army, through Chief Chaplain John T. Axton, have communi- cated to the British war office their desire to take such part as they can in the exercises that will mark the placing of a tablet on the walls of the garrison church at Aldershot October 31 in memory of the 170 British chaplains who lost their lives during the war. Col. Axton, in a letter to Rt Rev. J. Tayior Smith, chaplain general of the British army, said that the American Army chzplaing would “halt with you October 31, 1923, to pour out of heart and mind and soul our tribute to those he- e American ‘e are determined to see to it.” he added, “that they shall not have dled in vain.” and Richmond, Va, and Washington and Baltimore. Hagerstown at 11 0'Clock. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. October 27 The Shenandoah passed over Ha gerstown about 11 o'clock, flying at a high altitude, and disappeared in the direction of Martinsburg, W. Va. GIVES SILVER SERVICE. | Richmond Mayor Makes Presenta- tion to Scout Cruiser. RICHMOND, Va., October 27.—Pres- entation at Newport News by Mayor George Alnslee of a siiver service to | the cruiser Richmond. a visit to this city by a fleet of battle planes from Hampton roads and the glant dirigible Shenandoah from Lakehurst, N. J., were the chief festures of the Navy day celebration here. The destroyer Charles Ausburn and the U. 8. S. Maury were here for pub- lic exhibition throughout the day. —_— A baby {sn't necessarily afficted with jaundice because it's a little yeller. | | Cream of Ice Creams Be Had in Moulds of Witches Pumpkins Corn and Apples and gallons. Franklin 4800. MAY WIDEN SCOPE - OFLIUOR PARLEY |U. S.-Canada Conference | Next Month Likely to Con- | | sider Smuggling. = | The week of November 26 has been specified as the date for the Ottawa | conference of Canadian and UnNed States officials on prohibition. It was Indicated today thet the conference would be broader In ecope than originally planned. Treasury officiale desire a discussion of the whole border problem of smuggling and probably will propose the smug- gilng of eitier liquor or narcotics be put in the list of extraditable crimes. View of Canadian OMectals. Officials are belteved here to in- oline alo to the view that such a step would result beneficially to both gov- ernments. Some concern is being expressed here. however, as to the basis upon which the Canadian government could make an agreement with the United States on the prohibition question. Prohibition in Canada was sald to be |largely under provincial jurisdiction. The Canadian central government, however, can approach the subject from the angles of international rela- tions and boundary protection, and it ik hoped that on that basis a satisfac- tory arrangement can be mad Ship Liquor Considered. The ship liquor question also may come up for discussion. It is no crime in Canada for a ship of Do- minion registry to clear a Canadian port with liquor for the United States, but some officials here believe they can convince Canadian authori- ties that continuation of that prac- tice may ultimately result in em- barrassing diplomatic tangle; —— e | The trouble with people who stand lup for their rights is that they gen- erally want to sit on everybody else l l TON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1923.° FIVE ARE ARRESTE INAUTOTHEFT CASE Three Flee After Fight With Policeman — Parents Op- pose Later and Are Taken. A desperate struggle last night be- tween a motor cycle policeman and a quartet of young men, one of whom was armed with a pistol and several rounds of ammunition, in which three of the party succeeded in escaping temporarily by plunging into the chilly waters of the canal near the north end of the Chain bridge, ended in the arrest of three of the fugitives and the parents of one of them and the recovery of a stolen automobile. Two of the men under arrest, Jo- seph Allen Mcintire, 3286 M street, and Joseph Frani¥n Hammond, 3715 Canal road, are alleged to have been members of the trio who escaped by swimming the canal and walking the towpath. John Edward Wise, Fort Myer Helghts, Va., arrested near the stolen machine, is alleged to have been armed with a pistol and an ex- tra supply of ammunition. These three are being held for investiga- tion, Following the arrest of Wise at the scene and the recovery of the auto- mobile by Motor Cycle Policeman C. P. Robinson of the seventh precinct, that officer, with Precinct Detective W. F. Burke and Policeman M. B. Moore, went to the home of Mcintire and succeeded in arresting him only after overcoming interfercnce by Sol- omon Silas Mcintire, his father, and Geneva Gertrude Mcintire, his mother. The parents were held on charges of assault. Father and mother each deposited $10 collateral for their appearance, while their son and the other boys were held for investigation. Robinson, partly disabled by rea- son of a collision several days ago. was riding in the car of a civilian on his way to investigate automobile and tire thefts along Canal road. They saw the stolen automobile on the roadside and continued to the patrol box at Chain bridge to sum- mons a wagon to tow it to the station, and on their return they noticed the figures of four young imen near the car. Making a sudden stop, Robinson jumped from the car and seized Wise, his civilian friend taking hold of one of his companions. The latter re- leased his prisoner when Robinson called to him that Wise was armed, and presently the noise of the three fugitives taking to the water was heard. Following a conversation with Wise, in which Robinson learned that the number on the recovered touring car corresponded with that on a stolen car of another make, the policeman motored to near the school at Clar- endon, Va., where the stolen car was sald to have been abandoned. He learned that the owner had regained possession of it, a derrick having been used to get it from a ravine. Today a further search is being made for the alleged mi & member of the quartet, who is said to have| swam the river, and the police also are checking up statements made by the three under arrest. R T R RAIRED MINE FIRE TRAPS FOUR. Rescuers Fear Three Men and Boy Dead in Indiana Shaft. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., October 27.— | Three men and a boy were trapped in a burning mine at Staunton, Ind., and are believed dead by the mine res. cue crew sent to their assistance. The fire followed an explosion, in which three other miners were seri- ously injured. —— Among the native tribes of Africa, a man is not considered a man until he has killed his lion. 5 Irojan “Handmade Cravats The Ace of CRASH KILLS TRAINMAN. Norfolk and Western Conductor Dies at Bristol, Va. G. F. Archer, a Norfolk and West- ern treight conductor, was killed to- day. when through train No. 41, New York to New Orleans, ran into an open switch at Bristol, Va., and hit a string of frelght cars. No other casualties were reported. 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