Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1924, Page 1

wnly WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATHER. Fair today ; tomorrow unsettied, prob- Dbably showers; moderate temperature ; varfable winds. Temperature for twenty- two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night. Highest, 51, at 4 p.m.; lowest, 31, at 8 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 17. I “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. he No. 984—No. 29,132. Entered as second-ciass matter Post office Washington, D. C. FALL T0 BE FORCED. 'T0 TESTIFY,- PROBE COMMITTEE REPLY 10 HIS CHALLENGE ‘Sgnate Renewal of Authority for Investigation Planned Tomorrow—Prepare Suits to Stop Oil Extraction. g POMERENE IS SELECTED IN PLACE OF GREGORY Hearing to Be Resumed Tuesday With Threat of Contempt Proceedings or Impeachment if Former Interior Secretary Still Refuses to Answer Questions. Preparations to compel Albert B. Fall to testify before the Senate public lands committee regarding the leasing of the naval oil reserves { when the committee meets again Tuesday are under way. The first step will be the passage by the Senate tomorrow of a resolution giving the committee a new grant ©f power, since the authority of the committee to make the investigation under the resolutions passed in the last Congress has been questioned. At the same time groundwork ,is being laid in the Department of ‘Justice for the institution of in- junction suits to prevent further ex- traction of oil from the Teapot Dome reserves by the Mammoth Oil Company, headed by H. F. Sin- clair, and from Naval Reserve No. 1 in California by the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, of which E. L. Doheny 1s president. Place for Suing Undecided., . Whether these suits will *brought here or in the states where the reserves are located was not disclosed. President Coolidge has selected former Senator Atlee Pomerene of ©Ohio, democrat, in place of Thomas W. Gregory to serve as special counsel with Silas H. Strawn to prosecute the ofl lease cases. The public lands committee has mede it clear that it intends to go to the mat with Mr. Fall and his &ttorneys on Tuesday over Mr. Fall's! fefusal to testify. It has directed Mr. Fall to appear Tuesday, and late yesterday Levi Cooke, counsel for Mr. Fall was again informed by Chairman Lenroot of the committee _that Mr. Fal"must be present Tues- Qay. Mr. Cooke suggested that Mr. Fall would like to get out of Washington | to some quiet place for rest and re- cuperation and it' was arranged that Mr. Fali should go to a nearby su- , burb over the week end. Two Conrses Oopen. Should Mr. Fall still decline to tes- tify, and it is expected he will de- cline—after the committee has re-| celved full authority from the present *genate to continue with the investi- ation—two courses will be open. {mm, contempt proceedings may | bé instituted against Mr. Fall, and | should he be convicted, he would be compelled to serve from one month to a year in “a common jail” and to yay a fine of from $100 to $1,000. Second, impeachment proceedings could be brought against Mr. Fall in the House, under which he would be | tried by the Senate. In the case of | William W. Belknap, Secretary of ar in the Grant administration, it | was held by the Senate and House that impeachment proceedings could | lie against a cabinet officer even af- ' ter he had retired from office. Mr.| Belknap sought to avold impeach- ment by resigning from office a few hours before the House took action to impeach him. May Try Obstruction, In some quarters it was predicted last night that Mr. Fall and his coun- sel would undertake to delay pro- ceedings against him, if the com- mittee undertakes to punish him for contempt by getting the matter into the courts and demanding various writs and injunctions to prevent ac- tion. Such delays, it was sald, might postpone fifal- decision for months or even years, if the ordinary course of procedure was followed in the courts. Interest in the examination of the stockbrokers through whom it has been suggested officials of the. gov- ernment 'might have traded in ofl stocks about the time of the leasing of the naval oil reserves is scarcely less than-in the questioning of Mr. Fall himself. A beginning on this part of the Investigation was made yesterday -with the assignment of accountants of the Federal Trade Commission to go through the books of W. B. Hibbs & Co. The accountants are searching for transactions in certain oil stocks in- volving & list of names in the pos- session of ‘the Senate committee. A similar examination of the books of other brokers is in contemplation, Brokers to Testify. Although the Senate committee ex- gmined no witnesses, & number were be | IN 1924 RACE McAdoo Regarded BY N. 0. MBSSENGER. What dramatics—and tragic — changes in politic&l conditions the country is witnesping In the de- velopments in th¢ oil reserve in- vestigation! Overnight they are occurring with Kppalling unex-’ DPectedness, fraught with the pos- sibility of far-reaching effect. There is nothinf like it in history of American politics, politicians say, a hey figuratively hold their breath, wondering “what is coming next?" There are Intima- tions that the ifvestigation “has not scratched the surface of things,” yet. the the * % X X The absorbing tapic discussed by politivians yesterday was the possi- ble effect of Fridiy's testimony as to Mr. McAdoo's eraployment by Mr. Doheny, upon thd McAdoo presi- dential candidacy. ' Hardly any one could be found wgo did not think that his prospects] for getting the nomination have tfen seriously iin- paired. A great miny expressed the belief that the danwge is beyond re- pair and that he ¥s virtually clim- inated. Whether & verdict of pub- lic opinion to tha¥ effect would be I just or not did n¢t enter into the NATION-WIDE QUEST FORABLEST SCHOOL ORATORS S OPENED Star to Give $3,100 to D. C. Winners—$5,000 in Na- tional Prizes. In co-operation :with more than 200 newspapers in all parts of the United States, The:Star today begins a nation-wide quest for the three secondary school itudents with the highest capacity fer interpreting and popularizing the American govern- mental system. That quest is to take the form of a national oratorical con- test to increase interest in and re- spect for the Constitution. In the aggregate, it will make avaflable to ambiticus students in all parts of the country more money as an ald to higher education than is awarded in the entire United States, in the same period of time, by even So vast an agency as the Rhodes scholarships. The eliminations will proceed by classes, schools, groups of schools and major newpaper territories until thewinner In each of the seven major zones in the country is detormined. ‘Winners to Compete Here. These seven winners, having won substantial local awards along the way, will compete in Washington on June 6 for the three national prizes of $2,500, $1,000 and $500. President Coolidge will make an address at that meeting. For the purposes of the contest the District has been constituted one of the seven major zones, the six other zones being made up of groups of states. In the District zone The Star offers a grand prize of $300 and eight dis- trict prizes of $100 each. The dis- tricts follow: District 1—Business High School. District 2—Central High School. District 3—Eastern High School. District 4—McKinley Manual Train- ing School. District 5—Dunbar High School. District 6—Western High School. District 7—Armstrong Manual Training School. District 8—All and pa- (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) MOTHER SAYS CHILD FRIGHTENED TO DEATH Died After Scolding From Father Is Charged—Body Found in Well. private By the Assoclated Press. SALEM, N. J., February 2.—After a grilling by County Prosecutor Beck- ley today, Mrs. Bessie Atkinson, mother of six-year-old Mirian Atkin- son, whose body was found in an un- used well under the kitchen floor of her home at Woodstown last Wednes day, contradicted her previous asser- tions and said that her husband, Robert, had placed the body there after the child” had died from a fright when he scolded her, accord- ing to Beckley. Beckley sald the woman told him the child collapsed after the scolding a week ago Wednesday and never recovered. In a previous statement, the prosecutor sald Mrs. Atkinson told him she placed the child's body under the kitchen flooring. Atkinson refused to talk of the affair when questioned. According to the prosecutor, he answered all qu tions by saying “ask my wife.” The couple are being held in, jail. Prosecutor Beckley is awaiting final report from the state laboratory on hand yesterday ready to take the stand. Among them was James (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) ‘where the dead child's vital organs poison. V TRAGIC CHANGES WROUGHT BY OIL PROBE as Definitely Out of Rélce Because of Doheny . Disclosures. question with those who took tals view. They held it is inevitable that it should be so. * ¥ * ¥ Mr. McAdoo now finds himself, 1t was argued, in the embarrassing po- sition of having to make explana- tions. That he can explain his con- nection satisfactorily and uphold his connection with the oil interests as professionally legitimate is beside the point. It was contended that the party leaders and the delegates who will decide the nomination wiil be shy of a man who has to make explanations. The democratic party's prospects for victory next November have been classed by the democratic leaders as being enhanced by the disclosures up to this week. They were making active preparations, laying the foundations for mak- ing the oil scandals a campaign issue, one of the leading issues, in fact. Only republicans were being thrown into the limelight of pub- licity. Then in a twinkling the tables are turned and democrats most conspicuous in the party are thrown upon the screen. It look- (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) $15,000 Too Little For Boy; Court By the Associated Press. W YORK, February 2—In- - ability to maintain her seventeen- year-old son, J. Arthur Hinckley, on $15,000 a year “in a station of life to which he is entitled to move by virtue of the social position he now occuples,” led his mother, Mrs. Mary Beach Hinckley, to pe- tition Supreme Court Justice Guy to increase the young man's in- come to $20,000. The court grant- ed the request. J. Arthur Hinckley, the father, who @ied in 1910, was a well known yachtsman. The trust es- tate set up for his son amounted on January 1 to $2,450,000. ITALY TO RECORNIZE SOVIET IN 48 HOURS Comm/e{cial Treaty - Gives Rome Number of Privileges in Russia. By the Associated Press. ROME, February 2.—The Russian government will be recognized by Italy within forty-elght hours, ac- cording to foreign office circles. Rec- ognition will be simultaneous with the signing of a commercial treaty which has been pending for some- time. It is possible that the signa- tures may be affixed tomorrow. The newspapers this evening pub- lished the clauses of the treaty which are most likely to be concluded, as follows: First—A substantial reduction of Russian tariffs in favor of Itallan im- ports; second, Russia agrees to consign to Italy a certain quantity of cereals and foodstuffs, the manufacture of macaroni; third, Rursia agrees to purchase annually a certaln quantity of Italian indus- trial products; fourth, coastwise traf- fic in the Black sea is reserved for the Italian flag; fifth, a mixed Italo- Russlan commission to fix annually sales and purchases®between Italy and Russia; sixth, Italy agrees to sur- render property in Italy—the embas- sy and consulates belonging to the former Russian Empire, among which are several big buildings in Rome. RECOGNITION MINIMIZED. Paris Paper Sees No Great Impor- tance in Britain’s Policy. By the Associated Press. | PARIS, February 2—Great Brit- ain'd recognition of the Ruselan !soviet government is not regarded | \by the semi-officlal Temps as an |event of the importance some quar- jters attach to it. “Nothing conld better establish the Iconflnu(ty of England’s policy and the truly national character of Prime iMlnlster Macdonald's cabinet,” the mewspaper comments.’ The only shift it sees in the British foreign office’s method since the change in the gov- ernment is that the British condi- [tions for recognition are made to i follow the recognition instead of pre- ceding it. IFILIPINO FANATICS LOSE 800 IN FIGHT CASUALTIES Ship’s Report of Month’s Clashes ‘With Constabulary in Surigao Denied by Officials. ' By the Associated Press, " , February 2.—The captajn of a small vessel saild on reaching here tonight from Surigao province that 800 fanatics had been killed or wounded in clashes with the Philip- pine constabulary there in, the past month. Officlal sources discredited - the statement as a gross exaggeration, Jare being examined for traces olldech.rln‘ the total casualties had mot : __ exceeded 200, ASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY Gives Him $20,000: especially adopted for ! 17 BELIVED DEAD - INTRACTINCRASH | Forty Injured in Indiana Hos-‘ pitals—Nine Victims | Burned to Death. By the Associated Press, | FORTVILLE, Ind., February 2.—The death toll of the wreck of two Indiana Union Traction Company trains, which | collided head-on near here late today, | will probably reach seventeen, rescue ! workers said tonight. Nine badly charred bodies have been removed from two cars that were destroyed by fire and seven other bodies are believed to | be in the wreckage. One man injured in the wreck died later in an Anderson, | Ind., hospital. Forty injured have been jremoved to hospitals at Anderson and Indianapolis. The known dead are: Dr. E. Blain Haskin, Indianapolis, of the United' States Department of Agri- culture bureau of animal industry. John Hutchens, Indlanapolis, traction compuny employe, died in hospital The cars were of wooden construction and all that remained of them was a mass of smoking embers and red hot brake rods and trucks. Each train consisted of a motor car and trailer. The motor cars were telescoped and most of the dead | and injured were in these cars. Pas- sengers in the trailers escaped with minor injuries. Victims Pinned Under Wreckage. The motormen on both trains escaped with slight injurles as they | jumped before the collision. The injured were given first ald treatment by physicians of this place | and by others rushed here on a spe- clal car from Anderson. Ambulances with medical officers and ~enlisted men from the medical detzchment at Fort Benjamin Harrison were also sent to the wreck. Hundreds of persons were on the scene within & few minutes after the collision, but were unable to help the victims pinned beneath the wreckage of the burging cars. A number of injured were taken to Indianapolis on a work train of the New York Central railroad, whose tracks parallel those of the traction company. The bodies that were recovered were burned so that identification was almost impossible. RYKOFF IS ELECTED TO SUCCEED LENIN Leon Trotsky Is Retained . by Soviet as Commissar of War. | i By the Associated Press. - MOSCOW, February 2.—Alexls Ivanovitch Rykoff has been chosen to, succeed the late Nikolai Lenine as head of the council of commissars. Leon Trotzky is retained as com- misar of war. Alexis Ivonovitch Rykoff, who was one of Lenine's strongest supporters | and assisted him in the capacity of fire vice president of the council of peoplées' commissars, has taken a prominent part in the soviet regime since it came into power. He first came into prominence a8 a member of the ail-Russian central executive committee. He has held the posts’of commissar . of agriculture, president of the supréme council and vice presi- dent of the council of labor and de- fense. M. Rykoff is known ‘as a' “right wing” communist, 5 " ANXIETY IN ARGENTINA. Jllness of Ex-President Wilson Brings Expressions of lon-ct.. BUENOS AIRES, February 3.—News of the grave illness of former Pre: dent Wilson caused a profound sen- sation ‘heré and lll Ie:'lund.‘bj h‘h:n pers* expression of regret, wi were Torthcoming from all circies, as Mr. ‘Wilson has always been y‘cpulsr here, I'as A Sl oy -~ OIL CAN! TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 Pages. General News—Local, National, Forelgn. National Political Survey—Page 4. Schools and Colleges—Pages 20 and 21. D. A. R. Activities—Page 23. District National Guard—Page 23. News of the Clubs—Pages 26 and 30. Parent.Teacher Actlvities—Page 27. At the Community Centers—Page 28. Serial, “The Magnificent Adventure’’— Page 30. Army and Navy News—Page 31. Radio News and Gossip—Pages 32 and 33, Financial News—Pages 34 and 35. PART TWO0—16 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 13. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 14, Veterans of the Great War—Page 15. PART THREE—12 Pages. musements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Behind the Screen—Page 3. Music in Washington—Page 5. { Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. The Civilian Army—Page 10, Spanish War Veterans—Page 10. Young Folks’ Page—Page 11. Qirls and Their Affairs—Page 11. Boy Scouts—Page 11. Girl Scouts—Page 11. Reviews of New Books—Page 12. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Plnk Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. PART SIX—8 Pages. Classified Advertising. Fraternities—Page 8. Around the City—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION~S8 Pages. ‘World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 Pages. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Feller: and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. — | HONDURAN CIVIL WAR NEAR FOR PRESIDENCY Gen. Carias, Unsuccessful Aspirant, Said to Have Set Up New Government. By the Assoclated Press. SAN SALVADOR, February 2.—Ad- vices from Honduras report that Gen. Carlas, one of the three unsuccessful aspirants for the presidency of Hon- duras, has proclaimed a new govern- ment at El Paraiso. It is reported also that Gen. Gregorio Ferrera, an adherent of Policarpo Bonillo, another presidential candidate, has taken up arms at La Esperanza City. The advices add that the Honduran congress has been dissolved, and that President Gutierrez, having assumed the power of government, probably will form a new. cabinet, composed of neutral elements. ‘Direct advices from: Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, Friday, sald that failure of congress to_elect a president and the expiration at mid- night Thursday of the four-year term of President Gutierrez, had produced a situation in which'civil warfare was likely. |- Gen..Carias, according to the regors, had left to join his forces, which had been concentrated on the Nicaraguan frontler and In other sectigns of the country. : o : 3 Sailors Lashed o Together. Repair Aerial in Storm _ By the Assbclated Press. . NEW. YORK, February 2.—The Greek liner Themistocles arrived from the Mediterranean today with a’tale of mid-Atlantic stofins during, which fifteen volinteers from the' crew lashed themseives together * on the -top deck ' and worked for thirty-six, hours re- placing the wind-wrecked wire- less merial. =~ ' g Several of the sailors were washed ' overboard “and.” hauled back by their leashes, sald Capt. Economidea conscience in international affairs.” Py 7 MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1924—NINETY-SIX PAGES. = FIVE CENTS. |WILSON’S WEAK GRIP ON LIFE RELAXES AS HEART BEGINS TO FAIL Softly, Slowly, Death Approaches With War President Calmly Waiting End. DENGRATSFIRN ON SURTAX LT May Modify Normal Incon;e Tax Rate Proposed in Garner Plan. Democratic leaders in the House, cenfident they can muster enough votes to upset the surtax schedule carried in the Mellon bill, declared yesterday they would make no con- cessions on the 44 per cent maximum they favor. It was indicated, how- ever, that they might modify the normal income tax rate proposed in their substitute. Representative Garner of Texas, ranking democrat on the committee, announced he had asked for a new set of Treasury estimates. They would apply, it was indicated to normal tax rates and possibly the proposed earned income exemption, but not to surtaxes or the recom- mendation for an increase in tha tax WIFE HOLDS HANDS OF DYING MAN; ALL HOPE ABANDONED Daughter Here, But Only Doctors and’ Mrs. Wilson in Sick Room; Hundreds Pay Respects. There were no indications of any change in former President Wilson's condition at 3 o'clock this morning. Rear Admiral Grayson saw newspaper men for a few minutes about 10 o'clock last night. He said that Mr., Wilson might last the night through, although there remained the possibility of a change at any minute. All night the house remained dark, except for a dim light which burned in the sickroom. Occasionally lights would come on, in- dicating some activity within, only to be extinguished a moment later. The attending physicians’ final bulle sued at 8:30. It follows:. for the night was is- “There has been no radical change in Mr. Wilson’s con- dition during the day, but rather a gradual wearing away process. He is now profoundly prostrated. “He has had no pain or serious discomfort of any kind. He has slept the greater part of the day and anodynes have been unnecegsary. The heart’s action is feeble, but regular and not unduly rapid. “Respiration is easy. There is no fever. Practically no nourishment has been taken during the day. “CARY T. GRAYSON, “STERLING RUFFIN, “H. A. FOWLER.” By the Assoclated Press. Softly, .but with increasing swiftness, the falling tide of exemption for both unmarried per- | Woodrow Wilson’s life flowed outward this morning toward the sons and heads of families. Would Decrease Loss. A Treasury estimate that the revenue to the government of $348,000,000 annually, as against $288,000,000 under the Mellon bill, is understood to have Influenced some democrats to believe that shift in the normal rate might be advisable to cut down the total. To what exlentI this might be done, however, was not disclosed. majority of the House will not line up in favor of the 25 per cent surtax maximum proposed by Mr. Mellon lay chiefly in the announcement of Rep- resentative Frear of Wisconsin, a re- publican on the ways and means com- mittee, that he and other insurgents would not go along with the republi- can organization on this point. Predict G. 0. P. Split. Democratic leaders predicted that at least thirty republicans would sWing to their support when a show- down comes on surtaxes — enough votes, they pointed out, to insure adoption of their schedule. Some” republicans, however, ex- pressed the opinion that a compro- mise on a figure below the demo- cratic maximum might be agreed upon to keep enough republicans in line to insure rejection of the Garner Tates. The ways and means committeo was (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) WILSON'S VITALITY AMAZES ENGLISH Comment Abroad Includes View That He Gave World New Conscience for Nations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 3.—Woodrow Wiison's great fight for life and his @mazing vitality and fortitude con- tinue to be featured in the English papers, Which publish sympathetic mppreciations of his life, ideals and achievements. . | The Sunday Observer, like other papers, touches upon what it char- acterizes as some of his political mis- takes, but says his 1deals remain, de- claring: . “Time is. proving him right in his great deep. Steadily through the day and into the inscrutible hours of Garner plan would mean a loss of| darkness it kept its inexorable way, beyond the power of human will or human ingenuity to stay Last night and early today conscious, free of pain, and fully it. the war President lay barely resigned in spirit, as if he were preparing to fall into a natural sleep in the presence»of the little faithful circle at his bedside. His stout heart, which had performed its labored duties with Confidence of the democrats that a | a strength that astonished his physicians, began at last to falter and grow faint. There were grave fears that the end was almost at hand. Throughout the thirty-six hours that he has lain between life and death the regular and almost normal beating of his heart has given those about him a glimmering of hope that somehow he might come through his supreme battle victorious. But even that feeble hope flickered and all but went out whe:n an evening consultation of his doctors revealed a declining puise, a sign that his heart had begun weakening of his vitality. ‘Waits End Calmly. Resigned to the inevitable and quite ready, Mr. Wilson waited patlently and bravely for the end. How he struggled through the early hours between midnight and yesterday's dawn—the hours when life redches its low ebb—was a marvel to his physi- clans. They feared that his soul would float out on the great tide before day- light. But sleeping lightly, breathing stead- fly and almost normally, Mr. Wilson weathered the dangerous hours, and the light of a new bright February day | streaming in- through the windows of his bed chamber found the stricken war President still fighting. ‘When he awoke from a fitful slum- ber an attempt was made. to have hlml take some light liquid nourishment. The dying man moved his head in a signal of disapproval and, when pres:ed, breathed an almost inaudible ‘No.” | Likewise, he rejected an attempt to} have him take a few sips of water. Faintly he indicated he wanted an old negro servant to rearrange his pillows, | and to be eased about in his bed. ! Sieeps as Wite Holds Hand. Apparently more comfortable, he in- aicated he wanted his wife.- Mrs. Wil- son, coming to the bedside, took the sufferer's hand in hers and held it} silently until he drifted off into an-t other, snatch of sleep. When Mr. Wilson roused again h ideals, even while it unfolds the|thought of another friend and :::-utn sequel of their abandonment through | ed faintly, “Where's Grayson.” The the compromise he accepted. | “YWoodrow" Wilson's work dld not ‘end at Paris or Washington. There are hands to carry it on; there is a driving : propulsion’ behind ‘it. - His own pioneer ‘part in it suggests criti- cisms.; - Others .share: with him the credit of his 1d but no man in his position of power ever applied his strength to a more finely con- celved -purpose. “History will honor him as the man who gave the world a new con- ception of its changed self and a new | friend and physician, who was now coriducting the last and losing round of a battle with death, which actually began before Woodrow Wilson's first term in the White House was ended, eame ‘to the bedside. That seemed to satisfy the former President, and he lapsed into quiet agalm Appareatly the. sick man's first thought on wakening was to satisfy himself ‘that he had near him the only three persons whose presence he ‘wants to feel in his last monients. Except for the broken, fast-passing figure on the bed, the room hardly to feel desperately the gradual looked like a chamber of death. Cheer- ful ‘chintzes drape the windows which look to the south, toward the Poto- mac, and an indigo ridge of Virginia hills where he used to play. On the walls are some family pictures, that of the first Mrs. Wilson one cf them. Photographs of his grandchildren look down upon him. Leaves Desk in Order. In a corner stands a desk, a per- sonal one, devoted wholly to personal affairs. Upon it personal papers and books are arranged with the orderly precision which marked his nature. Everything lies just as he left it last when Dr. Grayson ordered him to bed. Some one was dlways on watch In the sick chamber. Either Mrs. Wil- son or Dr.-Grayson was there. Two white capped nurses, the same who attended the former President during the critical days of his illness in the ‘White House, moved noiselessly about with the professional air of efficlently performing their ministrations. Downstairs ‘a few close relatives walted and went about with conver- ations in subdued tones. Telegrams and letters poured in by the hundreds and were listed and acknowledged by volunteer secretaries from among the family or friends. Calling cards by he dozen, many bearing names of national note, were silently left at the door in person by those who left their automobiles at the bottom of he bill and walked up to pay what' hey sorrowfully know was a last mark of respect. Baruch Calls at Home. .None but Dr. Grayson and Mrs. Wilson had the freedom of the sick room, other members of the family, tip-toed there occasionally. Bernard, M. 'Baruch, Mr. Wilson's closest friend and confidant of all those who were associated with him during the days of the war and the fight over the peace treaty, could have been' admitted to Mr. ‘Wilson's chamber had he wished, but he preferred to member the former Presi (Continued on Page O "