Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1924, Page 2

2 * COOLIDGE TO VISIT NEW YORK FEB. 12 Will Attend Lincoin Day Ban- quet and Is Expected to Give Address. CONFERS WITH STERLING Sees Backer in South Dakota and Gov. Morrow of Canal Zone. President Coolidge will attend the Lincoln day banquet to be glven in New York city on the night of Febru- ary 12 at the Waldorf-Astoria, under the auspices of the National Republi- ! can Club, which has its headquarters in that city. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Coolldge, C. Bascom Slemp, his secrotary, and several members of his campaign committee, and It is thought likely that the executive will on this occasion indulge in’the first out-and-out political utterance since becoming President. ‘This will be the first time Mr. Cool- fdge has left Washington since he- coming President, with the exception of the short cruises on the Mayfower and a trip he made to Marion (o at- tend the burial of President Harding. Confers With Sterling. The President conterred today with Senator Sterling of South Dakota re- garding certain features of the agri- cultural message sent to Congress by the President yesterday and some leg- islative matters. Conditions on the Panama Canal Zone and the prospeots of the future were described to the President to- day by Gov. Jay J. Morrow, U. 8. A., Engineer Corps of the Canal Zone, former. Engineer Commissioner of this ei Gov. Morrow came to Wash- ing solely for the purpose of appear- ing before the appropriations com- mittee regarding the estimates of ap- propriations for the canal during the coming year. Seew Other Guestw. Others who saw the President were Representative J Will T or of Tennessee, who told the ident that the sentiment for him for an- other term is steadily increasing in that section; Dr. J. W. Truin of the! Royeroft shops of w York: dele- gates to the Marin Engineer Asso- ciatlon convention; H. Duttield of New Jersey: Senator Gooding of lda- ., who introduced constituent, John Thomas, and secretaries Wallac of the Department of Agriculture and Denby of the who discussed departmental matters. President Coolidge has recelved a| divided report from the personnel classification board in answer to his request for information regarding the charges that the classification law had been violuted and not being car- ried out accordance with the act of Col The report, signed Ly F. J. Baile; alrman, representing the budget bureau, and H. N. Graves of the bureau of efficiency, 1s under- Stood to be Lo the effect that the law is being strictly followed, but the re- port of Guy Moffett, civil service mem- ber of the bourd, is understood to be 10 the effect that the charges are true. Hecause of the contradicto nature of the reports the President, according to his secretary, will study them careful Iy and probably ask for additional in formation before reaching a determina- tion. CALL D. C. OFFICIALS IN SENATE HEARING Subcommittee Members Seek Lightl on Health, Charities and Hospitals. E in ‘The Distri mmissioners, the District health officer and the District engineer have been requested to ap- ear before the Sgnate subcommittee of the District committee on health, charities and hospitals at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning to consider meas- ures to clean up the “slums” and the alleys of Washington. Senator Copelund of New York, airman of the subcommittes. on unday made a personal ingpection ot the alley dwellings here and declared that in his opinion they were a men- ace to health and life of the city. The meeting will be in the office of the District committee in the Capitol. FRANK GOULD OFFERED T0 BUY RAIL HOLDINGS Mrs. Shepard Tells of Brother’s Wish in 1911 to Allay Fears Concerning Estate. Bs e Associated Press. NBW YORK, January 24.—Frank J. Gould offered 'to buy the Jay Gould estate's vast holdings in the Missouri Pacific railroad in 1911 to calm_the feais of his sister Helen, now Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. that their oldest brother, George, was about to dispose of the ‘stock secretly, Mrs. Shepard testified today at the referee's hear- ing into the accounting of the estate. Mrs. Shepard added that she ap- proved of Frank's plan, but that George and Edward rejected it. Yes- terday Mrs. Shepard testified that George, as she had feared, had se- cretly disposed of the stock in 1913 and 1914, Her appearance at the hearing today was unexpected, for she was at the point of collapse when adjournment was taken yesterday. She had been on the stand for three hours. F. R. BOSWORTH DIES. Came to Capital in Fall, Had No Relatives Here. Frank R. Bosworth, abo years of age. died at Memorial Hospital last night follow ing his removal from 1110 13th street, where he roomed. Mr. Bosworth had no relations in Washington and had been at the above address since September. Ac- cording to Mrs. Allensworth, owner of the house, Bosworth was so il that some one, thinking him dead, sent for Coroner Nevitt, who sent Bosworth to the hospital. Mrs. Allensworth declared that the man said he was a doctor. She said he was brought from a Baltimore hospital to her home by a Mrs. Bacon | | bunn: !republicans of the state. eighty | vada and Hawal Gallinger | gon E. Hunt, who resigacd January Lost Rabbit Foot Sp reads Hoodoo Till Director General Gets It Back ‘Queer Story of U. S. Railroad Administration Jinx Began With Theft in Chicago and Involves Many Curious Mishaps to Finders. Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h! There are strange doings up at the United States rafiroad administration. Director General Davia' mystic rab- bit foot—the left hind-paw of' a graveyard cottontail, sacrificed by a murderer in the mellow shadows of the full moon—has been found! Clerks mention it in low tones over their papers. Newro porters tip-toe nervously down the corridors, dis- tended eyes glued upon that silent, closed door labeled, “Director Gen- eral” That rabbit's foot has a his- tory up there at the railroad ad- ministration headquarters—and it tsn't all pleasant. occuit powers of a foot, lost it about two months ago. A week or so later W. L. Spencer, day watchman for the administration. found ope. The same afternoon he was run over by an automobile apd upon returning to duty threw away the foot. Another Is Found. ‘Then J. C. Leonard, superintendent of tho building, found one. No one knews whether it was the same, but misfortune—the worst of misfor- tunc—overtook him. One mishap followed another until he, too, was ready to believe some strange and PINCHOT AS DELEGATE IS BITTERLY OPPOSED State Txenn:s;;u—flovemor at G. 0. P. Convention Would Be Intriguing Factor. liever in_the By the As Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. January 24— State Treasurer Charles A. Snyder, In a statement today, declared he would Pinchot as one of the seven delegates-at-large to the re- publican national convention and “would appeal to all republicans of Pennsylvania to defeat him at the polls."” His reasons for the opposition were that the governor “is not a Pennsyl- vanian in spirit,’ that he is “not a republican,” that “as governor of the commonwealth he was cast into of- fice through & political storm” and that in the convention, if elected, he “will bring into that forum an in- trigue and a bloc such as will reflect only indignity upon the other dele- gates and make Pennsylvania the ridicule of its sister states. Mr. Snyder declared that of thirty governors, Gov. Pinchot is the only one “neither born nor reared” in Pennsylvania and that his eriticism of President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon “shows that now he has no national republican affillations.” After asserting that the governor “has been unfaithful to every political trust and to his chief,” he declared that “while serving under Taft he was ‘boring from within* "' Mr. Snyder concluded his state- ment with the declaration that to “let him go as a delegate for the sake of ‘peace’—a Pinchot peace— will not be accepted, 1 believe, by the 1 protest gainst his being accepted us a dele- e and will exert every Influence I can command to prevent this foist- ing upon the republicans of Pennsyl- vania & man who s not pledged to any candidate, who, we know, will not support any candidate that the people of Pennsylvania desire and who is and will be, If he goes, the only delegate that no one knows whom he is for. I am for a fight to continue the republican party as a party of men and principles and not of non-combatants and dogmas. BRYAN PROPHESIES LAW T0, BAN EVOLUTION VIEW Qpposes Tax-Paid Teachers, Who “Rob Student of His Be- lief in Christ.” By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky. January 24— The “monkey bill” skeleton in Ken- tuck's legislative closet was rattled today by echoes from a verbal attack by Willlam Jennings Bryan on the theory of organic evolution. Mr. Bryan in a banquet speech here last night digressed from a discus- sion of the national political cam- paign to Y “Some day there is going to be a legislature which will pass a law that no tescher, puid by taxation, ever shall rob a student of his belief in Christ and the RBible * ¢ * and teach the hypothesis of evolution, linking _men in blood relationship with animals.” 1t was after Mr. Bryan had at- tacked the theory of evolution in an address before a joint session of the 1922 Kentucky general assembly that efforts to enact a state law prohibit- ing teaching of evolution in public schools was made. Many of the pres ent legislators were Mr. Bryan's au- ditors last night. DRY CHIEFS SHIFTED. A. R. Harris Goes to Los Angeles; W. D. Moes to Kanses City. Ansel R. Harris of Indiana, pro- hibition divisional chief at Kaneas City, has been trahsferred to Los Angeles to take charge of the prohi- bition area comprising California, Ne- He succeeds Emer- oppose Gov. 2 because of 11l health. ‘Willlam D. Moss of Ohlo will be the new chief of the division embracing Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar- Acansas if place of Mr. Harrls. The changes, announced today by the pro- hibition unit are effective February 1. e e BRITISH RAIL STRIKE PEACE EFFORT FAILS of 145 Cranston street, Providence; Conference Beween Managers and R. I Bosworth improved apd then earned his living by selling electric foot pads. Thanksgiving that he was unable properly to care for himself, she sald. PRISONER RECAPTURED. Having enjoyed a vacation of two Years from the re ‘matory at Lor- ton, Va., where he was serving & sen- tonce of five years for participation in & robbery here, William Pine, ¢ol- ofed, twenty-elght, glving his d 1415 _9th 'street northwes! was recaptured last night. SEEKS TO CHANGE NAME Abram Zexhanski today asked the District Supreme Couyrt to change his name to Abram Johan und which name he has been conductin bysiness. He says his real name is diffeult to pronounce and causes him embarrassment. He is repre- _mated by Attarney H, M. Welch, , 7 { He became s0 feeble after | Enginemen Falls Through. ‘Walkout Continues. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, January 24.—The pro- posed comference between the rall- way managers and the enginemen for disoussion of the issues involved in the present sirike has fallen unum and J. Bromley, secretary of the sociated Society of Locomotive Engi- n and Pirem: afternoon that he '“reg the strike must centinye. INDIAN BILL PASSED. A bill authorizing an emergene: distribution of §1i 'l. each of lh’o’ 12,000 members of Chippews tribe in Minnesota passed today by the Senate. Its sponsors declared the step was pecessary to prevemt starvation. Director General Davis, a firm he- | Lorrible power had cast its spell over him—that rabbit's foot. Rushing to his desk, he seized it, threw open the nearest window and was about to cast it from his pres- ence forever, when a sudden cry ar- rested him. ‘It was a clerk. “That's a rabbit's foot, isn't {t?" the latter cried. “I'll say it is, and_here goes——" replied, Leonard. ‘“Walit!" cried the clerk. “It's the long-lost paw of the director general”” Later the paw was back in the hands of its delighted owner. Tl luck it may have visited upon others, but good fortune it had brought him. Far more than twenty-fiva years Di- rector Davis had not failed to carry his rabhit's foat, Stolen fn Chicago. When the railroads were still under government contrel he had his orig- inal paw stolen out in Chicago. The director general swore things would never go right unless he got it back or another one in its place, obtained from a graveyard bunny by & negro murderer in the mellow shadows of the full moon. One case after an- other went wrong, and then, one day, lo—two paws came by mail. The one that was lost two months ago and returned yesterday was the dlrector general’s favorite. it brought him the best luck. The other was just pinch-hitting until the first was found. PRESIDENT NAMES MANY POSTMASTERS Harry E. Pyle Nominated for Of- fice at Aberdeen Prov- ing Ground. President Coolidge sent the follow- Ing nominations of pestmasters to the Senate today Algbama—Millry, Grover C. War- rick; Vina, Luclous E. Osborn, Arizona—Inspiration, Margaret E. Finletter. California—Turlock, Brown. Colorado—Sanford, Alice J Reed. Hinois—Olmsted. Hugh Britt: Shobonicr, Elva B. Towler; Thawville, Leo W. Ruedger; Chicago, Arthur C. Lueder; Panama, David R, Bennett Kansas—Arcadia, Chauncey J. Nich- ols; Hamilton, Kobert R. Carsons Holyrood, Lloyd E. Clothier; Leon. Clarence Leldy; Melvern. George W. Tompkina; Mount Hope, Philip B ck: Norcatur, Ch o i Maryaville. Ora . Smicn, O An0Tews: " Maryland berdeen Ground, Harry Pyle. _ Massuchusetts—Franklin Carlson. i Michigan— son: Iron Litchfleld, Frank Laske Walter M. Proving H. lien, Byron D. Denn River, "Patrick O'Brie Fay Elser; Manchester, . Leeson: Milan, Norman J. ¥: Plymouth, Milburn G. Hill; . Wellington E.” Reld Minnesota—Bethel, Thom spn. Mississippi—Tchula, Per Carl Susan bard; Boothe. fontana—Boulder, Joseph D. Fil- cher: Drummond, Lesile 1o Like. New Jersey—Browns Mills, Ralph H. Hulick; Midland Park, . Thomas Poat; Ridgefield, Arthur F. Jahn; Weehawken, Herman H. Ahlers. New York—Pavilion, John H. Quin- lan; North Java, Bernard A. Marzolf. North Carolina—Granite Falls, Her- hert C. Whisnant: Tabor, Neill K. Currte: Rosehill, W. Heman Hall, North_Dakota—Fairdale, Peder T. Rygs: Mohall. Almeda Leée; Wilton, George C. Gray. Oklahoma—Anadarko, Hugh M. Til- ton: Paden. Thomas G. Rawdo: Quinton, William E. Watson. Pennsylvania—Somerset, John W. Frease; Vanderbilt, Hugh D. Shallen- :’T{l‘u’(r G:{uysburg. l;loberl C. Miller; on. George J. Miller; W Ed}{l: 'Frflckon. er; Wehrum, ode Island—p; D aoarit. Pascoag, Thomas D. outh Dakota—Rev! 2 oy evillo, Peder A. H Tennessee—Dukedom, Pet. & - on, and Ridgely, Joe N. Wood. ~" | Texus —Kingabury, Nora Wagner; Carrollton, William F. Hofman, Bart- Jett Jefferson D. Bell: Jewett, Frank . Harrison, and W = o harton, Jue Bur: Virginia—Nathalie, Dorsey T. D and White Stone, Gutbrie % Dunton r. i Washington—Dryad, Harry B. Onn. West Virginia—Mani H ¢ BV annington, George 'yoming—Salt C v : voyyoming: reek, Levi H. Con Withdrawal—Ohio, Orwell. ouri—Dexter, Thomas E. Hub- ce City, Alexander Maggie J. Olds, WHITE PLAN DISCUSSED. FProposed Constitutional Amend- ment Taken Up at Hearing. Hearings were starte: Jjoint reeclution Drown\gztfiglulylmoe,;ld.» ment to the Constitution which would provide that the terms of the Presi- dent and Vice President end at noon on January 24 and the terms of sena- ors and repre Ja’;.n.lnry : Presentatives at noon on 'his legislation is fath. y I resentative White of Kansas. Hep resentative Ramsayer of lowa pre- sented the resolution of the Ameri- can Bar Association, and Legislative Agent Wallace of the American Fed- eration of Labor made a statement in favor of this legislation. The White bill further proviges that Congress shall assemble st once In every year. It provide House “of Representativ chosen g President whenever the right of cholce devolves upon them before the time fixed for the begin- ning of his term, then the Vice Presi- dent chosen for the same term shail .Cf s TPresident until e |Chooses the President. " House ENGINEER ATTACKED. Struck on Head When Leaving Capitol Building. Clatborne Lamar Gal 3 - six, of 1410 Fonnaylvania. avenue northwest, an engineer in the Capitol bullding, was attacked by three uni- dentified young white men last night cloc! Bbol shortly after leaving atewood was accosted by the young men, one of them aski; me. "' When the enginesr” took the his timepiece from his ;:::l.,nflglo :I';ln lmun dealt him a e o e (head with & blunt instru- y stunned and his 3?&'33545“ l:k;ln to t-lco.lg(oeu“ X an fore being taken hamvt..n eprapy PROFITS FROM LIQUOR, Will Be Distributed Among Al- berta Towns. By the Associated Press. EDMONTON, Alta., Jan: 24— Urban and rursl munlcipatities s Alberta will ru':l‘ .: g por cont share of profits from the governmental sale of liquor under the new provincial liquor act, Greenfield announced today, The new liquor act is now being re’.;!l"d foy rubmission to the leg- ature. | ™| MAY ENLIST BANKS TOAIDNORTHWEST| PROPOSED IN BAL)rco o Officials Here Working on Plan for Forming SynQicate in Large Cities. Administration officials are Sorking on a plan for formation of & syndi- cate of metrapolitan bankers in mid- dle western oitles, who, it ig hoped; may underwrite sufficlent loars to re: lleve the northwestern bankers in the present credit stringency. H Controller Dawes of the carrency: head of ¢he special mission &ent out last week by President Coolidge to study the credit situation, returned tc his office today and immediately went into conference with Secretay Mel- lon at the Treasury. Mr. Dawes de- clined to discuss plans which: it was #ald the delegation had formulated, but which have not been finally ap. proved. 2 Announcement by Meye The announcement in Slou: by Munaging Director Meyer:of the: War Finance Corporation that branch agency of the corparation was to be established there was riceived] at the Treasury with satisfaction The belief prevailed that such addi- tional loans as the corporation may extend in that section, regarded as the center of the stringent area, would go a long way toward relieving the strain on the local banlks. It indicated by Treasury offi- cials that the War Finance Corpora- tion's loans were merely the Start of federal ald. In connection with the reported for- mation of the bankers' syndicate, it was said that while the banks would be the firat line of money supply, the government eventually would: have [to back them up. ' MEYER IS OPTIMISTIE. Says South Dakota Situation: Still Sound. : By tho Associated Pre SIOUX FALLS, 8 D., Januar Buoyed by the announcement that the War Finance Corporation immesiate- 1y would establish an agency Yhere, South Dakota bankers and state of- ficials today viewed with incréased optimism the situation growing out of the recent closing of a numbr of banks. H Eugene Mever, jr. managing direc- tor of the Finance Corporation; be- fore leaving for Minneapolis : last night said an agency would by in operation here within a few day, in charge of & committee of local bank- ers and business men “The state of South Dakota is in better condition now than it was a year ago,” Mr. Meyer said. “The War Finance Corporation has loaned South Dakota $18,000.000 in the past, which speaks for Itself our confidencé in the resources of the state.” Plans went forward today usder the guidance of John Hirning, state superintendent of banks, to b about a reorganization of the 5id Falls Trust and Savings Bank the largest deposits of any bank: in the state. NIAGARA PARTLY DRY THROUGH ICE FLOES Jam Forms Dam, Diverting Water From American Into Canadian: Channel. By the Associated Press. NIAGARA FALLS, 24.—Ice floes which have become fa: in the upper river today practical made the American section of the great cataract dry. The ice serves as: a dam to hold back the water and divert it to the Canadian chamnel passing down over the Horseshoe falls. The river bed from the head of Goat Island to the brink of the Ameri- can falls is exposed in many places and only a trickling stream passes over the bLrink, barely covering the ice-incrusted rock at the edge of the fall. Not since the winter of 1909 have these conditions existed. In many places whie usually swift flowing water surges about jagged rocks in the river bed, creating the dangercus rapids above the falls, the river bed was exposed today and it was possible to cross from the main- land shore to Goat island afoot on the rocks and fce. Y. Januarg SPEAKS AT DINNER. Representative Lowry Heard By Takoma Presbyterians. Representative B. G. Lowry of Missis- sippl was the principal speaker at the turkey dinner of the Brotherhood of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church last evening at 6 o'clock, which was at- tended by 125 persons. President J. U. Jackson opened the meeting, introduc- ing William Stuart, who acted as toast- master for the occasion. ®he program included singing by the Brotherhood Quartet, composed of Messrs. Little, Skinner, Kerns and Smith, followed by an address by Rep- resentative Lowry. The program in- cluded & solo by Miss Little, remarks by Senator Magnus Johnson, ‘selections by the geartet, informal taik by Sen- ator Lynn J. Frasler of North Dakota, vocal solo by Mrs. Kerns, brief address by Representative Ira G. Hersey of Maine, followed by Semator E. F. Ladd of North Dakota. SEEKS SERUM SAFEGUARD. Senator Copeland Wants People Protected From Impure Product. Senator Copeland of New York in- troduced & bill today to protect the people of Washington against im- pure serums and vaccines. The bill prohibits the false branding of vac- toxins and antitoxins, and pro- efore advertising such wares in the newspapers the pro- ducers must refer them to a board now constituted by law and receive the authorization for the sale of such wares. The board consists of the general of the Army, the surgeon general of the Navy and the surgeon general of the 'public health service. SEA VICTIMS’ MEMORIAL. Authorization for the erection of a memorial to Americans lost at sea during the world war is containeg in a resolution introduced today? by Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania. The memorial is to be erected, without expense to the goyernment, on prop. erty now owned by the government after having been passed upon by the Commi m of Fine Arts. CHARGES DESERTION. Mrs. Josephine 8mith today flled suit In the Dhflr{l—t Suprems Court for an absolute divorce from Frank Bmith. h-: ‘were married Feb- ruary 10, 1908, and have one child. The wife charges that her husband deserted her December 26, 1917, and is living with another woman.' At mlr?er H. M. Welch appears for the wite. 5 | eredit: @8reed upon, the commission, upon IRAILROAD MERGER Cummins’ Measure Directs I. C. C. to Adopt “Prac- ticable Plan.” A bill designed to stimulate volun- tary consolidations of railroads Mto a limited number of systems, with competition preserved as fully as possible, was introduced today "by Senator Cummins of Iowa, ranking republican member of the interstate commerce committee and one of the authors of the present transportation act. . The measure was intended to carry |gut recommendations of both Eresi- !dent Harding and President Coolidge. |1t would direct the Interstate Com- marse Commission to adopt “as soon as gpracticable” aconsolidation plan for all the railway properties in the } country. {isting routes and channels of trad and commee®e would be maintained. 1 "Rhe several systems would be o ar i iranged that “the cost of transporta-|iempt to maintain radio communica. | tion as between competitive systems properties through which the & is rendered shall be the same, as praeticable, so that these systems <an employ uniform rates in the {movement of competitive traffic and under efficient management earn sub- stantially the same rate of return upon the value of their respective railway properties.” When a tentative plan has been reasonable notice, including notice to the governor of each state, would hear all persons who might file or present objections thereto. After the hearings, the commission would adopt a plan or alternate plan for consoli- : dation. 1 Under the bill | for tw it would be lawful Or more carriers to carry out any consolidation of railway prop- erties which might be approved by | the Interstate Commerce Commission. | MOVE TO DECLARE GREEK .DYNASTY FORFEITED People Cheer Plan to Take All Rights From King George and Heirs. By tho Associated Pross. ATHENS, January 24.—The measure ntroduced in the national assembly ued today to cause stormy the assembly session The measure forfeits the rights of King George II to the throne, abolish- ©s the right to his heirs, prohibits the sojourn in Greece of King George or the other members of the family and confiscates all the Glucksburg property. It proposes that the as- gembly shall indemnify the royal tam- ily The presentation of the measure last night followed a declaration by Premier Venizelos, which was wildly applauded, that thé Greek people had ceased believing in the neceswitv for a asty and also that no foreign ab- existed to the creation of a r enes at WOMEN LEADERS TO MEET Plan to Get Equal Rights Act Through Virginia Legislature. Women political leaders of Virginia will meet for a conference with the National Woman's Party Sunday aft- ernoon at its headquarters on Capi- i tol Hill, to take up. the two-fold prob- lem of getting through the equal rights bill in their state legislature, now in session, and having the equi rights amendment passed by Con Mrs. Henry Lockwood, pri ¢ the Federation of Women's of Virginia, will preside. My Hurvey Wiley will be a speaker. Burnita Shelton Matthews, head of the lewal rescarch department of the party, will speak on the legal situstion in Virginia in regard to women. Mri. Gertrude i i Rabey, first vice chatrman of the Virginia branch of the party of Purcellville, Va. and JuliaiJennings, Richmond, Va., legis- lative chairman of the state branch will also attend the conference. RGUMENT TO QUASH ‘McCRAY CASE HEARD errex{ge Attorneys Ask Dismissal 6f Fifteen Indictments Against Governor. BY the Aasociated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, January Oral arguments in support of their motions to quash the fifteen indictments re- tuzped -by the Marion county grand jusy against Gov. Warren T. McCray Were presented today to Judge Jam. A¥Collins by the governors attor- s, Fhe Indictments were defended larznce W. Nichols, special pros- ecitor. and his associate, Eph Inman, Michael L. Ryan of the governor counsel made the principal argument against “the indictments, basing his attick largely on technical and legal grounds. Judge Collins indicated he would not make a ruling on the motions for som? time. The Indictments were returned fol- lowfng an investigation by the grand jury:of the governor's financial trans- acticns and charges made, Including embézzlement, forgery and false pre- tenge ey = McADOO FAVORS FORD'S MUSCLE SHOALS OFFER Says: Question Should Be Placed Above Politics Because of Farmers’ Need. ' By the Aasociated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, January 24— William G. McAdoo, candidate for the democtatic ~pregidentia nomination, defined himself In favor of the & ceptane Muscle; Shoals, in & letter to the edi- tor of a Birmingham newspaper. The Muscle! Shoals question placed :above polities, beca: need oy farmers for cheap fertilizer, he wrote. SHERIFF SEC S ASHEVILLE, N. C, January 24. John A Sotinty, died at a local hospital ear! ;0‘?’ o rain Dotice ta have been seir.inflioted. The sheriff had been despondent;an i | MARSEILLES, France, January 24 [man M. with { over ill: health and becausé of the death of:his wife last A t. Motor cycle policemen found him lying in the counly gurage at the rear of the ocourthouse, & piatol in his hand and bleeding From his right temple. - SHIE WITE FIFTY LOST. —The cargo steamer Montross ity on filrd. which left Oran, Al ge-ia, for:Dunkirk on January 3, is|svenue addre: iBodies of Tacoma’s Commander And Radio Operator Recovered 1 ! Wherever practicable exX-[gights of the ship's guns have been © | removed. Falls:l and as related to the values Of the |gnu vessel crushed the radio house TVice |in which the four were working. The 8 14l | ghip's hottom was crushed by the republican leader declaring the | lucksburg dynasty forfeited contin- | | 1 | 4% of Hepry Ford's offer for)pever give should be;funds te of the [out. 1 yerly, sheriff of Bunocmbei a pistol bullet fired into his | terday afternoon, alleged by { the bureau if the right man is select- jall, Story of Heroism her Viotims Also Found, Huerta Radio Says. | in Face of Death Revealed. Recovery of the bodies of' Capt. Herbert (. Sparrow and Radioman Solomon Bivin, abeard the wreck of the crutser Tacoma at Vera Crus, was reported to the Navy Department to- day by the -commander of the de- stroyer flatilla which arrived yester- day off the Mexican port. The bodi of the two other radiomen who were killed on the ship during the norther which wrecked her have not been found. Six other men, including three com- missioned officers, were injured dur- ing the storm, the message added, noné of them seriously. The Tacoma is damaged beyond the possibility of salvage operations, in the opinion of wrecking experts now at Vera Cruz. Small arms and ammu- nition and the breechblocks and Capt. Sparrow and the three radio- men lost their lives in a gallant at- tion with ghore. Seas sweeping ovel in, her gun deck smashed, her spag deck stripped, her side plates bulged open her engines forced from their foundations as she was pounded on the rocks. - REPORT FINDING BODIES. Huerta Officials Radio Concerning Takoma. By the Associated Prey DALLAS. Tex., January 24.—An u(-‘i ficial communication from the De la | Huerta rebel forces broadcast from HILL'S SUCGESSOR T0BE NAMED SO0N Treasury Officials Insure Ap- pointment of Director in Few Days. Assurances were given officialy at the Treasury today that a new di-j rector for the bureau of engraving and printing would be named within a week. The statement from the Treasury put at rest unconfirmed rumors which had gained considerable circulation about the city that the administration might go back on its promise to re- store the employes ousted in March, 1922, Upon the naming of a new director, and possibly an assistant, it is ex- pected, the employes will be restored. Activities on behalf of Director Hill, which sought support among mem bera of Congress to have him retain- ed as director, were understood today virtually to have ceased. The Plate Printers’ Union, most pow- erful unit of organized labor at the bureau, is lookinz forward “with op- timism" to the change, according to| the Plate Printer, officlal organ of the union, put today. “It 'has been said that nothing is so had that it might not be worse,” says the Plate Printer of conditions at the bureau, “but we believe that there is one exception to this rule, and that is the present administration of the bu- Teau of engraving and printing. “There i# a chance to rehabilitate d as director. He should be familiar with the production of government securities, the management of a large force of skilled employes and, above recognize the fact that the bu- reau of engraving and printing was established to produce government securities and not wallpaper.” The editorial concluded with a hope that each employe of the bureau will co-operate with the new executive force and “help restore the bureau to its former prestige.” McADOO FORCES PLAN HARD FIGHT IN ILLINOIS Expects to Carry Forty Delegates to New York Convention, Manager Says. » By the Asgociated Press. CHICAGO, January 23 racy wll see its keenest and most vigorous primary fight in its exist- ence in Ilinois at the primary of April 8, William L. O'Connell, Illino manager for Willlam Gibbs McAdoo, announced today, simultancously with the opening of illinois headquarters for McAdoo in a hotel here. The headquarters will be separate from the McAdoo general headquar- ters in another hotel. “We will bave forty out of the fifty-eight delegates to the New York convention pledged to McAdoo when this coming primary is over, Mr. O'Connell said. “We are going to put up delegate tickets in every district in the state and it will be a fight all down the line. It will be the keen- est and most vigorous contest that democracy has ever seen in lllinois.” SUES FOR ALIMONY. 1 Democ- | Richmond, Vera Cruz last night, and picked up by the Dallas News radio station, stated that the bodies of the two radio men knocked overboard from have been recovered and are being sent to the United States. The norther struck the Tacoma about noon Sunday after warnings had been given Capt. Sparrow and the crew. The captain and nineteen men remained aboard. Tugboats at- tempting to float the Tacoma had to loave work hecause of the storm, and the boat was driven onto the reefs. Capt. Sparrow and the two men were attempting to repair the radio equip- men when knocked overboard, ac- cording to the Vera Cruz informa- tion. What happened on the Tacoma was unknown until Tuesday when a pilot boat was able to reach the cruiser. All members of the Tucoma's crew now have left the boat. Some had slight wounds and injuries. RICHMOND AT TAMPICO. Officer Says Ship Will Protect In- terests of United States. TAMPICO, January 24.—The United States cruiser Richmond entered the ish her fuel oil supply. The first officer, who, in the name of Rear Admiral Magruder, received a representative of the local newspa- per, extended the greetings of the commander to the Mexican people. Asked regarding the mission of the the officer said she was here to protect American | shonld the necessity arise. The Richmond has aboard part of the crew of the U. S. S Tacoma, which foundered near Vera Cruz. DXPERTS TOLEAVE FORBERLIN OON Reparations Inquiry Likely to Be Transferred Monday, Is Indicated. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Junuary 24.—The inquiring into Germany's financi and economic condition continued preparations today for their hearings in Berlin, whither they are going Monday, probably by special train The committeemen and their staffs of experts, secretaries, stenographers and attendants number more than 100. Owen D. Young had a turn in the presiding officer's chair when the firat committee met today to fur- ther consider the question of Ger- man currency. Gen. Charles Dawes and several of the other del- egates were absent. Premier Poincare received Dr. Schacht, head of the German reich bank, this afternoon, conversing with the German financier at considerable length on German financial questions and the work of the committees of experts. It is understood that the next meet- ing of the full committee of experts will be held in Berlin. . The rapid progress made in accord with Dr. Schacht on the currency Guestion is regarded as the best of Auguries for the success of the in- quiry. WARNS OF DEPRECIATION. experts German Finance Minister Speaks in Hamburg. BERLIN, January 24.—When the reparation experts now meeting in Paris come_to Berlin to ascertain the truth, said Minister of Finance Luther at Hamburg yesterday, “then the world will determine that the repara- tions problem must be settled in a manner permitting Germany's recov- oy ‘We must first use all our endeavor: to regulate internal affairs. rentenmark idea brought the bank- note presses to a standstill, but we must do everything to prevent fresh depreciation of the currency.” FORD IsLANT IN GERMANY Big Automobile Factory Said to Have Passed to Control of American. By Radio to_The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Coprright, 1924 BERLIN, January 24.—It is believed here that arrangements soon will be made with Henry Ford whereby fliv- vers will be manufactured in Ger- many. The Handelsnachrichten publishes a statement that control of the Lind- carautoaktien Gesellschaft is being transferred to an American company. The correspondent learns that the present chief owner of this company, Herr Lindemann, is leaving shortiy for the United States. Some time ago, according to Ger- man reports, Ford tried unsuccess- Wife Says Husband Ordered Her Out of Home New Year Day. Mrs. Edna B. Harrls today filed suit for a limited divorce and ali- mony agalnst Harry L. Harris, man- ager of the Rosedere Shop, 1208 G street northwest. She charges cruel- ty and non-support although she states her husband's salary is $300 a month, and that he owns an interest in the business, keeps an automo- bile and has stocks, bonds and cash in bank. Mrs. Harris says her hus- band treated her “more like a serv- ant than a wife” and on New Year ordered her from their hom e wife asserts that her husband her more than one dollar at a time and it was necessary for her to sell a dress in order to get move when he ordered her She is now living in & small room with her child and is without unds, she tells the court. They were married in December, #. Attorneys Newmyer and King epresent the wif — FOUND SHOT IN HEAD. Peddler’s Body Discovered in Room by Policeman. Stephen Balian, thirty years of age, rmenian peddler, and soldier of the French army, was found smot through the head in his I20m, Eeiat®s Jclonk yeatorday At er - - l'..l"rlcndl of Ballan declared they thought he had committed sul- alde, as he had not been in good Realth, they said, for several months. The body was discovered by Police- P. Lewis, who was called by ment of the Chicago ing at the Pennsylvania when repeated knock- or of ma; Hotel, o] on the nelieved i ve foundered in the re-{:n Bhl At AL vt%n Atlantic soast,® ialled to get & response. fully to break in at Hamburg and Bremen. Now, it seems, he is con- sidering the possibility of furnishing Germans with really cheap cars, suit- ed to their present pocketbooks. e e GETS 45 DAYS FOR THEFT. Host of Party Accused of Taking Guest’s Coat. Charged with theft of a coat at a party at which hs was said to have een the host, William Davis, colored, was sentenced to forty-five days in jail today by Judge McMahon in the United States branch of Police Court. The prisoner explained that he had suddenly remembered he was due to meet an engageme: had “hurried alon; P s S CHICAGO IN PALESTINE IS PROPOSED BY JEWS Plan to Raise $2,000,000 to Estab- lish Model Agricultural Community.’ By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 24.—Plans for a colony to be established in Pales- £oTmer | yine and to be called Chicago are be- ing projected by Chicago Jews. It is planned to raise $2,000,000 for e project, which would be model agricultural community. The money '0\!‘?“ be r;llld “2 o'(h‘h Chp||cl.nl, by Chicago Jews under e it ine® Youndation Tund and the Zioniat - central committes: under adership. o ulinan an B 8%Melamea, editor of the Jewish Courler. th —_— f mutes are to be found Fetver n than men. the United States cruiser Tacoma | port of Tamplco yesterday to replen- | interests The | /1S RUMORED IN BERLIN | in Baltimore and PHIPPS 10 PROBE D. C. FUND CLAIM {Senator Thinks $826,000 Commissioners Ask Be Add- ed Is Already Covered. Senator Phipps of Colorado, chalr- man of the joint congressional com mittee which during the last Con Bress investigated the surplus reve nues of the District of Colunibia now in the Treasury, sald today tkat he would look into the report made by the District Commissioners yesterday to the Senate District committee in which they claim there were approx- imately $826,000 surplus revenues ia addition to the $14,438,000 found b the joint committee. Senator Phipps expressed tiu opinfon, however, that the $826.000 to which the Commissioners referred in their report to the District commit {tec _might be found in the item or $2,903,000 representing the District's vortion of the unexpended balance ot the appropriation on June 20, 1922 together with certaln obligations and fneumbrances accruing after that date which were deducted from the of the general fund in_th. Tr»i\s\)r)’ for the District on June J‘H. 18; in order to arrive at th balance due the District. 1f this were le case, Phipps said, the matter olved 1f into a matter of bookkeeping. He indicated that he might ask the District auditor for a further ex planation, Senator Ball, c trict_committee i rman of the Dis d that he woul report favorably Phipps bill mak in ailable the surplus revenues « the District in the amount of $4,43% 000 for the use of the District tomor row. He, too, essed the opinior that it was n ssary 10 ame; the bill as suzgested by the Distric Commissioners, since the report o the joint committee only covered uy to June 30, 1922 FIND DOZEN HAMLETS LONG IN OBSCURITY Cut Off From Outside World and Existence Unknown Un- til Recently. i | Correspondence of The Star and tue « Dails News. TOKIO. December 21.—Compictely cut off from the outside world and their existence unknown until re- cently. a dozen hamlets have been brought to light in an out-of-the-way spot in Miyagi prefecture. according to word received here. The settle- ments were discovered in a forest on the borderland between Miyagl and Fukushima prefectures, in the south- ern valley of the River Abukama. Forent of Tall Cedary. This forest of tall cedars and cryptomerias has long been the sub- ject of disputes as to which prefec- ture it belonged. The dispute recent- ly became 50 acrimonious that the contending officials threatened to take the issue into court. It was with a view to a possible amicable settle- ment that the authorities of the two prefectures recently explored the al- most impenetrable forest Much to their surprise, they came upon the hamlets, buried among the trees in small clearings. The people speak Jupanese. but it was found they had never paid a sen in nor had any of their voung m er been conscripted into the army In fact, these isolated people carried on their existence unknown to the rest of the empire and were com- pletely satisfied with their lonely lot. Although Japanese subjects. none Of the several score residents in these hamlets has ever been registered. No record of births or deaths has been kept and no census has ever been taken. In fact. these communi might have “dropped from heaven” to populate a section hitherto consider- ed uninhabitable NEW FREIGHT SERVICE ON LAKES IS PLANNED Negotiations Between Railroad and Ship Company Are An- nounced Satisfactory. had | N By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn, J 24 ew package freight service will be established In the epring on the grea lakes as a result of completed nego tiations between the Minnesota Tran atlantic Company and the Pere Mar- quette railroad A. M. McDougall, president of the former company, announced today the !purchase of three vessels and options on two other ships, The new service calls for a fleet giving a_two-day service from Di {luth to Port Huron, where conne tions will be made with the Pere Mar- quette road for Detroit and all points {in New England, New York, New Jer- {sey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, {Michigan and Indiana. | The new vessels, which are modern 13.000-ton _ steamers, each equipped |with refrigerator capacity for from {twenty-five to thirty carloads, will jeffect a saving of from twenty-four {to forty-eight hours in getting goods {to New York, it was pointed out. It iwas sald that a saving of $23 on the {average automobile shipned to the northwest from Detroit and other |wnlers can be effected. According to Mr. McDougall, the new service will not interfere with the present direct service to New York by the two canal-size Diesel- engine ships. NOTED VIRGINIA BEAUTY HOME AFTER 20 YEARS Baroness von Horn Anxious to Regain Citizenship; Wed German in 1904. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 24:—Barouess von Horn, the former Virginia Car- rington of Richmond, Va., and Bostos, Mass., arrived on the Colombo from Naples today to resume residence in her native land after twenty years' absence. “I'm so glad to be back,” she said as she watched the Manhattan skyline looming into view. “I'm as excited ax a schoolgirl. I want to feel agal the amazing rush and bustle of Amer- fcan life, and to regain my Americ citizenship as soon as I can. Bhe expected to Eo first to Boston. where she lived befors going abroad to become the bride of nobility, and later to Virginie “to renew acquaint- ance with old school friends—if they haven't all forgotten me. Virginia Carrington, who was num- |bered among the noted thern beauties of her debutante days, was married to Baron von Horn in Berlin in 1904. Sinca the outbreak of the war and her husband's death in 1914 she has lived a secluded life in Naples, she said. VISUAL EDUCATION TALK. A special showing of the work done in the District public schools with motion pictures as an aid to visual education will be given at the Am- bassador Theater tomorrow morning "l at 10:30 o'clock, by Miss Elizabeth Dyer, director of visual education. In | The film lesson will be for seventh grade classes. Admission will be by card onl, - '