Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1924, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 8 1924, SIBI_EY HUSP"'AL |WIFE SUES NAVY OFHCER.VI.ANGI.EY INDIBTED ? GUILD PLANS TEA INRUM CONSPIRACY ALEXANDRIAN NAMED ASST. ATTY. GENERAL Appointment of Lewis H. Machen to Succeed Hank at Rich- mond Announced. SGRUTINY OF SHIP | BOARD IS PRESSED [ Mrs. Natalie Warner Charges Cruelty and Non-Support. * Lieut. Paul C. Warner, U. 8. N. i stationed at the Navy Department, is ‘n.med as defendant, in a sult.for a {MARCUS A. SMITH; 'COOLIDGE BACKERS Mistakes in Policy Admitted, { But Economies Being Ef- I fected, Says 0’Connor. The House committeo investigating the Shipping Board called upon Chalrs man O'Connor agan teday for further information relating to the pelicies | @nd plans of the board bearing on operation of the guvernment mer-, chant fleet. : Mr. O'Connor's testimony yesterday eovered a wide range, and included | advooacy of direct government opera- tion of the fleet if Congrees would assure seme degree of permanency to such a project. He agreed that the Present managing operators’ contract, ‘under which the fleet is being operat- od, needed adjustment, and admitted, under questioning, that at present the agents *“hold the string at both ends” Some Ecemsmies Effected. Managing operators’ contracts and eonsolidation of freight services both are being studied by the board, he said, adding that much saving has been effected by elimination of opera- tors found guilty of making “over- charges’ and through reductions in wontract allowances At the beginning of today’s session Mr. O'Connor said he thought it would be wise for the entire manage- ment of the merchant marine to be | turned over to the direction of one mman, with a board of directors over “Would the abolition of the Ship- Dlog Board as 4 mupervisory body be @ mistake?” as) Representative Bankhead, democrat, Alabama. “If 1 was off the board tomorrow, I would say it would be a mistake” zeplied the witness. Admits Mistakes Made. Asked if the present management ‘was an ideal one, Mr. O"Connor said he thought it was “working into| that™ “There probably have been some mistakes,” be added, “but 1 hope the committee will co-operate with us to eliminate them." Mr. Bankhead wanted to know if { ~anybody else” besides Prestdent { Coolidge had suggested Leigh C.| Palmer to head the Fleet Corporation { and Mr. O'Connor said he didn't be- lieve they had. Representative Davis, democrat, Tennessee, cammittee prosecutor, yes- terday tried to bring out that certain foreign influences had attempted to bring pressure regarding the selec- | the 50 per cent with which it is cred- | ited, @s provided in the classification | tion of the head of the corporatio and cited repdrts that Matthew « Brush, head of the American Inter- national Corporation, had been active in this respect. Negloct Is Denied. Mr. O'Connor said he could not “conceive that we neglect to solicit freight” when asked regarding com- plaints of interior shippers that they had not been approached by Shipping Board agents, Representative Lineberger. republi- n. California, took over the ques. tioning and got from the witness th: “it would be utterly impracticable” 1o recondition any of the 400 steel ©hips Iving idle in the James river. ——— REPARATIONS BODY TO CONSIDER DAWES REPORT TOMORROW (Continued from_First Page.) ! themselves almost for nothing of their mortgages and other indedted- ness, so the experts decided to take advantage of this situation to benefit the reparation treasury. The plan provides for issuance of bonds to the value of 5,000.000,000 gold marks. secured on the industrial property, to be handed over to the reparation commission. These bonds would_vield 300.006.000 gold marks for forty vears with 5 per cent inter- est and 1 per cent to the sinking fund Industries failing to pay their share of the interest would be liable to seiz- ure. At the Same time the German zovernment would be held responsible for payment, the reparation commis sion being entitled to make good any ency in payment by seizing due the reich. The guarantee permits the reparation commission to raise 5,000,000,000 gold s rapidly by placing these mortgage bonds on the international marke ‘The expert: Le Mat says, con- idered the problem of how Germany can transter such large sums abroad without upsetting the international financial market as more difficult than establishing how much and in what manuer she should pay. After a long study they suggest 2he creation of a permanent commit- 1ee of five commissioners, each being b specialist, with a president ap- polnted by the reparations commis- mion and accepted by the govern- ments, to direct this complicated and sielicate operation. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR TOMORBOW. FIRST RACE—Claiming: purse, wosiden two-yearolds; four furlongs. 1 i ' | { | 118 108 Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April $.—Attor- ney General Saunders last night an- nounced appointment of Lewis K. Machen of Alexandria. as assistart attorney genersl succeeding Josiah D. Hank, Jr., now engaged in private prac- tice here. Mr. Machen will take the oath of office today and enter actively on his duties. Mr. Machen for many years Was en- gaged in_law practice in Fairfax county, affiliated with R. C. S. Mon- cure. Later he opened an office in Alexandria, where he continued his practice until about ten years ago. While in Alexandria he held an ex- tensive criminal practice. He is a na- tive of Fairfax Court House, and was graduated from Episcopal High,Schou Dear Alexandria. PAY RAISE FORD. . POSTMASTER URGED New Holds Conference on| Classing Position With Those Rated at $8,000. Out of the confusion in regard to increasing the pay of postal ployes generally there arose today em- well defined movement looking toward | the raising of the salary of the post- | master of the National Capital from $6,000 to $8,000 a year. Postmaster General New conferred with Washington city post office: of- ficials today in regard to this move which would place the local post office on a par with the offices the other greater cities of the cown- try, where the postmasters are paid the maximum salary—$8,000 per year. Efforts probably will be made to in{ Women Will Open Benefit Fete for Institution Fri- day Afternoon. The annual tea and linen shower of the Woman's Guild of Sibley Memo- rial Hospital will be held in Rust Hall, 1150 North Capitol street, next Friday from 3 until 10 p.m., when frionds of this well known institu- tlon will be cordially welcomed, given opportunity to enroll as members of the guild and to donate either cash or hospital supplies. The only appeal ever made to the public for fnaneial assistance for Sibley Hospital is made through the Woman's Guild, which has a member- ship of about 1,500 and has been Scrving the hospital and its patients for more than two decades. Since its organization in 1902 it has turned jover to the hospital several thou- | sand dollars in cush, in equipment fand in supplies. It has recently as- sumed responsibility for the purchase a new electric mangle for the ital laundry at an approximate of $4,500, The donations of linen from friends the institution and ®uild mem will be displayed in the aud nd adjoining Hbrary, whi presided over by Mrs. H. 8 the guild's vice president at 1 i s to be Will Greet Guests., Guests will he greeted by ushers in the reception hall and conducted to the parlor, where they will be greet- ed by a receiving line composed of !the officers of the guild, the wives {of Methodist ministers of Washing- {ton, headed Ly Mrs. John R. Edwards and Mrs. Lo C. Clark, and the wives of icing physicians invited to F. B. Cogswell and Miss Hankin Miss . ¥France is chairman lof ushers und will be assisted by Miss 2 d, lizabeth Ford, Mrs, S. Barker, H incorporate the change, which would |y also affect all supervisory officials of the Washington c. post office, i the general increase for postal ploves of the nation which Congre: seems certain to adopt. Amendment Changing Credit. This can be secured by amending the law so that the Washington post office, is given credit for 15 D cent of the =normous amount of fre: matter which it handles, Instead of act of 1920. Washington is anomalous position of actually handling mail which would bring in approximately $12.000.000 worth of receipts a vear, but its postmaster and other super- visory officials being paid as if the office had receipts of less than 000 a year, which is the sum 3 must reach to entitle its postmaster to the 38,000 salary. During the calendar vear 1923 the Washington city post office had wctual receipts of approximately $4,000,000 @ year. and handled wbout $4.000.000 of penalty matter, used by gove ment departments’and approximate- 1y $2,000,000 in franked mail of mem- bers of Congress. All this free matter is actually handled by the local office, of course, and receives even preferential trea ment, yet not one cent does the go ernment pay for its handlin Huge Aggregate Mail, In the -aggregate the Washington city post office handles as much mail as New Yorkor Chicago, vet this fact never dreamed by the son or are the post office salarie based upon the actual handlink When a move was made along simi lar lines April a year ago it Doint out at that time that the receipts of the Washing: office during 19. the combined r i Conn.; Ntica, Portland and Norfolk, Va., vet the postmaster of each of these latter cities received 36,000 w vear in salar v inserting a clause in any increase bill Which Congress may pass in the would be possible to give credit for | per cent of the approximately $8.000.000 penalty and franked matte: $5800.000 penalty anked matter COOLIDGE IN SWEEPING MICHIGAN VICTORY OVER SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON (Continued fi kins, candidate of bloc in Warhington. In thé demoecra test the fighz is A. Spragu-, the Brennan choice, and former Stade Representative Willian McKinley, carrying the 3 ner. rom First ¥ ) the La Wet Makes Campaizn. e candidates, four of the Iy battling against the seck the democratic governor. Light win Fi injectio at & second Tmportant Ismuo for thn voters. Lee O'Neil Browne, tv three years a avowed we the bunch. - Full state tickets and convention delegates will be selected the major parties. and minority groups name candidates for scaitered sts, principadly in the legislature More than 1, e on the state hallots, and in Chic: g0 more than 100 additional are entered in contests for county posts and 1| places on the municipal bench. SECOND BACE—Claiming: snaiden three-year-olds and mj seventy yards. NEBRASEA VOTING TODAY. OMAHA, Neb, April 8 -—President Calvin Coolidge and Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, in a stato- wide primary today, are seeking Nebraska's indorsement for "the re- publican presidential nomination and '38 | Lhe nineteen delegates to the national THIRD RACE—Claiming; . $1.200; ;ayuuu- and wp; aix g o 10 108 1ne 18 m 18 convention. The name of no demo- cratic candidate for presidential pro erence appears on the ballot: but blank. spaces have been left for voters to_write in names. Polls opened at 8 a.m. and will close at'8 p.m. Recent reports have indicat- ed oniy fair interest in the primar despite the importance attached io various contests by political leaders. Second in igterest only to the Cool- i@ge-Johnson contest is the fight be- tween Senator- George W. Norris, chairman of the Senate agriculturaj committee, and Charles H. Sloan, for- mer representative, for the republican ‘United States senatorial nomination, NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B. F.. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 0’Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW Hon. A. M. Free of Calif. CONDUCTED BY Mr. Wm. P. Foley em- Folletie | X 00 candidates are listed | sentative who John C. of will be about Frazer »vide music throughout ind th K he train- jing school 6 to § a buffet supper will be served by the Il auxiliary of the Woman's v Suciety under direc- beht D. Condy and dietitians f the for the accommo- of those who wish to remain ev ¥'s prog m. The pro- this supper will go toward purchase of a piano for Rust Hall Will Assint Mes. F France will be assisted by the ladies representing their : churches or organizotions: { Anacostia—Mrs. . H. Lambdin, | Mrs. Wiltiam B. Marshall, Mrs. S. R, i Campbell, . H. Benhoff. Bright- {wood Pas Charles Helmick, dro, Mrs. J. R ole. Brookland— . Mrs. H. B. Mec- A illiams, Mrs. A. S. . Mrs. R. L. Ross Bruen— o ‘Davis. Calvary—Mre. Ge- Nairn, Mrs. Frank B. Walker, Mrs. H. L. Amiss, Mrs. Paul Grave, Mr: H. W. Kitzmiller, Mrs. J. W, hoipson. * Congress Heights—Mrs. Huntt, Mrs, J. A. Yearger, Mrs. . Jan Douglas—Mrs. D. €. Cook, Mrs. A M. Talbert, Mrs. J. O. Wrightson, Mrs. n. Dumbarton Avenue— Wilson, Mrs. Charles H. Hoage, Mrs. B. L1 ate Chapter, No. 21, A. S. Henderson. Eld- L. L. Derrick, Mrs. John H. Hoskinson. ~Epworth Hrimer, Mre, N. urch cireuit—Mrs, Mrs. S, Rees Mur- ¥. Sherman, Mrs. Alrs. 1son, Miss R. Stokes, % Short, Washington 15 {training | dution he {eeods of ce. Mrs. Alfred Jeffre ure, Mrs. C. A 1 Mowb: | Mrs. nevra rossman, Miriam M. W. Adams, Mre, W. O Mrs. G W 2 ken, Mrs. la _Steinmeta. oness Home—AMiss Mae Smith. reuch—Mrs, Mary J. Collison, M Telvin Lederer. Hamline—Mrs. 'H. B, | Brooks, Mrs. William A. Paul, Mrs Orrin_G. Watkins, Mrs. J. A. Winner, Mrs . Clark, Mrs. R, C. Cheese- man, Mrs. Frank Welch, Mrs. Joseph Henson. Hyattsville—Mrs. H. C. Bur- ton, Mis Silas Robb. lowa Avenue— 3 Duehay, Mra i . Ed 5. France. Miss Mary R. J. Howard. Mrs. Mrs. W. M. n, Kensington: Mrs. George Snyder, cner Langdon—Mrs. o B Mre. Warren Post, Mrs. John ar. Mrs. Mary A. George, Mrs Mrs, C. L Van Hook, M D. Mrs. Lincoln Isabell Gri Mrs. H, A. Morrison, Mrs. Weodbridge. Lucy Webb Hi '8 diks Katherine Hankin, Miss Mary K. Judd. Metro- politan—A a 8. Ford. Mrs. L. 1 McDougle, Mrs, Harry Bosley, Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Louise . Wil- McKendree—Mrs. T. M. Riffel, Charles A. Shreve. Mount Ver- I non—Mrs. Osear Jones. North Capitol | —Nrs. orge Senasack, Mrs, B T {Tiynson. Petworth—Mrs. W. L. Hibble. Mrs, Edward Hayes, Mrs. H. E. Brock .. Rhode Island Avenue, Methodist spiscopal—Mrs. Charles Fenner. Mary E. Thorne and—AIrs. Fred S. W. Bohannon, Maude E. Donald- Mrs.. J. Thomas Tart, Mrs. Biddle. Sherwood Pres- byterian A Linger. Trinity (Alexandri: v 5 3. B, Fitzgerald, Mrs. Frank Kill Trinity (Washington)—Mrs. “hapin, Mrs. Maurice Otterback, a V Ober, Mrs. Carrie Pryor, A h Dawson, Mrs. Harry W. Shaw. Union—Mrs. Jeasie P. Craw- 1ford, Mrs, M. W. Fernandesz, Mrs. J. 1. McLain, Mrs. Louis Ludlow. Me- morial United Brethren—Mrs. 'F. B. { Cogswell. Washington Grove—Mra. James Mount, Mrs. Albert Osborn, Mrs. Clarence Welch. Waugh—Mrs. T. R. Stewart, Mrs Howard F. Downs, Mrs. W, E. McReynolds, Mrs. 0. J. Singleton. Wesley—Mra. Cora Johnson, Mrs. G. R. Linkins, Mre. J C. Nicholson, Mrs. John O. Schuckers. Wilson Memorial—Mrs. J. * Allen, Mrs. J. T. Simpson, Mra. A. T. Speel- man. Woodside—Mrs. C. D. Willlams, Mrs. Ralph Smith, Mrs. Charles F. Boss, Mrs. George la Conner. Friends table (for gifts not given threugh any particular church)—Mra Edwin Detweller, Mrs. Fred Greve, Mra. J. Winslow Taylor. Mrs. W. R. Stokes, treasurer of the guild, will have charge of cash donations and will issue membership certificates to those who wish to en- roll as active members at 31 a year, sustaining members.at $5 a year, or life members at $100. The_ tearoom will be in charge of Mrs. Harry Underwood, assisted by Mrs. Warren MeLain, Mrs. Harry Hartman, Mrs. Robert MacMannas, Mys. Harry Woolever, Mrs. J. E. Har- ris and Mrs, J. W. Nichol Mrs. H. E. Brockson, assisted by a group of student nurses, will con- duct those who wish to visit the hospital The rooms will be decorated with palms and ferns and potted plants furnished by Washington florists. The committee in charge of the solicita- tion and sale of flowers consists of Gertrude Lutz, chairman; Miss Luts, Mrs. Perry Elliott, Mrs. A. 8. Henderson, assisted by the fol- lowing flower girl Clara Lutz g&ltl‘nls. Virginia Flannery and Louise Igiehart irs. I3 H. i san. { M D. Cawson, Mra ¥ra Mr 1len iplan |ganized team: - |cinted limited divorce and alimony filed to- day In the District Supreme Court by his wife, Natalie A. Warner. who charges cruelty, non-support and ha- bitual use of 'Intoxicating liquors. While her husband has a salary and allowances of $410 a month, the wife tells the court she is ‘penniless and secured permission to file her suit without prepayment of co: Through Atiorneys Levi H. David and Harlan Wood, the wife says they | were married in Boston, Mass.. in October, 1920, and have one child, whose custody she seeks. After nar- rating @ number of occasions in which she says her husband becama drunk and treated her cruelly, Mrs. Warner declares her husband drove her and their child from their home, at 3022 Q street northwest, March 13 last and she has since had to seek shelter with frien BUSINESS LEADERS TO HELP GAMPAIGN Twenty-Three Pledge Aid to Secure Subscriptions for Associated Charities. With the aid of twenty-three busi- ness and professional men enlisted to mobllize the charitable resources of Washington by city-wide occupation- al groups, the annual Easter cam- paign of the Associated Charities and Citizens' Relief Assoclation to make up $25,000 balance on its current budget will be opened at a public meeting at Rauscher’s tonight. The campaign starts tomorrow. The meeting tonight will wlso cele- brate the forty-third anniversary ef the organization of the Associated Charities. Will Aid Campnign. Business znd professional men who have pledged themselves to the forth- coming campaign include Milton Ailes, for the bankers and bank rectors: Raphael Semmes, for the au- tomoblle dealers; Harry Wardman, for the builders and contractors: Dr. W. L. Darby. for the clergymen of all denominations: lsaac Gans, for the clothing merchants: Merritt O, Chance, for the coal dealers; Dr. Al ot Wolfe, for the dentists; Paul Pearson, for the druggists’ as- sociation; O. A. (. Oehmler, for the Association of Florists: J. Philip Herrmann, for the furniture dealers N. L. Burchell, for the grocers: Wil liam D. West, ‘for the hardware mer- chants: T. A. MaKee, for the Men's Association; Walter C. Cle- phane, for the lawyers; John Dolph, for the life insurance underwriters Ur. Lewls H. Kraskin, for the Asso clation of Optometrists and Opticians; Dr. Riley D. Moore, for the osteo: pathic physicians: Dr. Chsrles W Richardson, for the members of the Medicml Assoclation; Charles F. Crane, for the members of the Ty- pothetne; H. V. Hayden, for the pro- vision market dealors; Harry K. Boss, for the realtors and affiliated mem- bers of the real estate board; Frank F. Fenwick, for the restaurant pro- prietors, and J. C. Wineman, for the merchant tailors. Behind this organized effort of the citizens of Washington to properly finance the Associated Charities in its work of family welfare and home mending is the desire of those blest with fortunate circumstances to know that nowhere in this great city need there be any real distress be- yond the reach of @ helping hand. The keynote of this campaign is ex- pressed in the one word, “contrasts, Plan 5,000 Letters. The idea back of this personal group appeal through enlisted leaders, it is Stated, is to Lring to the personal at- tention of all the more important members of each group the need of these clty-wide, for the care and relief of familie in distress on account of sickness. de sertion, death, or other -misfortune, and for the mending of broken hom: pressive coming, as it does, in form of u personal letter slgned by the well known member of each sroup serving as its sponsor. Nearly 5.000 communications of this charac tor ure thus being sent by the spon- sors of the yarioys gro on behalf of this charitable agency. Bach group Spomsor gives to his own group the number of those me- | bers who have so far contributed to the Associated Charities budget, and frankly appeals to group Joyalty and pride to increase ko far as possible the percentage of contribytors this year. The letter also points out that its purpose is to avoid the more ex- peosive and somptimes disturbink of personal solicitation by or- . and also to save th time of busy men and wemen. “These group sponsors will e koph in daily touch with the responses to their letters received at the Asso. Charities' headquarters, 1022 11th street, and when the returns are all in the sponsors will be {urnished with a comparative stateament show- ing how the various groups have re- sponded, so that they can inform their own groups as to the result. 2 KILLED, 4 HURT IN TROLLEY CRASH By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Ps., April $—Two men were killed and four others in- jured, two of them seriously, about 1 o'clock this morning, when a street car of the Pittsburgh Railway Com- pany jumped the tracks at a curve and crashed into a brick garage. The accident happened near Verona, on the line running between Wilkins- burg and Verona. The men killed wers Charles Beisle motorman, and Wil liam 1sh of Verona, 'Pa., & pas- senger. William Blalr, conductor, of Pittsburgh, and James Wilson' of Oakmont were seriously injured and taken to a hospital in’ Wilkinsburg, and Samuel Roop of Verona and John Gordon of Oakmont were siightly in- jured and treated at the scene of the accldent and faken to their homes. The street chr was demolished and the front of the warage and seven sutomobiles were wrecked. PRIZES IN ADVERTISING CONTESTS ARE CLARIFIED Tirst Winner Gets $100, Not $500, as Some Beaders Seemed to Understand. A recent announcement by the Ad- vertising Club gave a “slightly mis- taken idea” as to the prizes offered in advertising week for the beat at- ters on ington vertising, o club stated foda: Contest No. 1 offers for the best let- ters on “What I Think of Washington Advertising,” 3100 for the first prize; 350 for the second, $25 for the third, five $10 prizes and five $5 prizes. Contest No, 2 offers simllar prizes for the best letters on “What I Con- sider the Best Advertisement Run Durisg the Week, and Wh; ; Contest No. 3. en care of by individual stores ing their own Tules and offering thelr own prizes through their dally newspaper adver- "fl"umn announcement gave the ° first prize as §600. 5 of Pittaburgh, erwood i |shipments muat be b railroad trans- i Hotel | non-sectarian agen- | Kentucky Federal Jury Dupli- cates Action Here—Mor- timer Is Witness. | By the Associnted Proas COVINGTON, Ky., April §--One of the witnesses w appeared before thl- federal grand jury that ndicted | Representative John W. Langley and Ifive others here vesterday, in connec- ‘Hflll with alleged illegal whisky with- | drawals, was Elias H. Mortimer, New | York city, whose testimony also fig- {ured in an indictment three weeks | ago_ sentative Langley in W Brenner and Milton, 1 ttaches of | the probibition director's office, Phil- {adelpha; M. E. Huth and W. B. Carry Canton, Ohio, were named with Rep- resentative Langley in the Kentucky Indictment. Conspiracy to defraud the government ol approxmately $17,640 in the withdrawal, transportation and wsale of 1,400 cases of whisky from a| distillery near Lawrenceburg, Ky. October 1, 1921, wax charged in three counts. { Sold for Beverage. According to the indictment and Carry owned the liguor. icharged that. through Slar | Brenner, the permit 1o re medical purposes was lssued Phil- | Ladelphia and brought to Kentucky | by Lipschultz. The whisky was sold | for hevorage purp the indictment set forth, with a.loss to the govern- ment of §4.20 on cuch of the approxi- mutely 4,200 gallons withdrawn. The indictment alleged that Repre- sentative Langley conspired with the other men to obtain the liquor on a permit which made its destination “The Lewis Drug Company, 165 Front street, Philadelphia.” The grand jury stated that an investigation disclosed that no such company existed in Philadelphia, and that the destination was fictitious. Inflaence on Collias. It i3 get forth further in the indict- {ment that Samuel Collins, prohibition director of Kentucky. had made rule that no withdrawals of whisky were to be made from distilleries in Kentucky on trucks, and that all Huth 1t and it for a that Representative Lang- ley's part in the conspiracy was to prevail upon Collins to rescind his order so that the whisky it was pro- posed to withdraw could be trans- ported out of Kentucky on a truck. Collins refused to anprove the with- drawal of the whisky for shipment by truck. and it was withdrawn with- jout his signature. the permil being in {legal form except for his name, it is charged. ASK FUNDS FOR PROBE. {portation; | House Committee Would Continue Bribery Inquiry. Representative Theodore E. Bur- ton of Ohio, chairman of the select committe investigating charges of bribery against Representatives Joh W. Langley of Kentucky and Fred N. Zihiman of Maryland, both republi- {cans, by resolution asked the House Vesterday for $10,000 to continue the investigation, 'in_addition to $1,000 previously authorized. The committee examined several witnesses from Baltimore yestcrday {in continuing its inquiry into charges involving Representative Zihlman Among those questioned were Charles 1. Weygand, formerly deputy collec- tor of internal revenue, and George W. Rheln, an income tax expert. UNDER PREVIOUS CHARGES. | | Both Slater and Benner Indicted in : Philadelphia. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April § Ibert ¥, Stater and Hiram W. Ber reported under indictment in Kentuc for conspirucy In connection alleged i legal whisky ~ withdrawals, are under {indictment in the federal court here on charges of malfeasance in office in con- | inection with alleged illegul withdrawa! | | of liquor, Slater was secretary to Wil- liam ¢ onnell, former federal pro- | hibition director for Pennsyivania, who | |is also-under indictment for aileged | { and Benner was in charge of the permit division under Mc- Benner, Slater and MeConnell, with farty-foyr ~ others, have been ' twice brought to trial. The first trial ended | Lwhen jury tampering was chargad. and the second when the court dismissed in- | dictments because the evidence did not prove general conspira ince then | the three men have been indicted again, this time on the allegation of malfeus- \ce in office. | ITWO MEDICAL BILLS | ARE GIVEN APPROVAL \ | | | Dentistry and Optometry Regu-| - lated in Measures Before Senate Subcommittee. A bill to regulate the practice of {dentistry in the District of Columbia fand another to regulate the practice of optometry were ordered favorably |reported to the Senate District com- | mittee by a subcommittes on public health, headed by Senator Copeland of New York, at a meeting, of the subcommitiee today. It is expected that the fuil committee will approve the recommendations of the subcom- mittee and that these bills will be reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar. Senator Copeland's subcommittee had before it also today various proposals for the regulation of the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia. At the suggestion of Senator Copeland it was decided that the various schools of medical practice should be requested to unite on a general bill relating to the practice of medicine and the heal- ing arts which should be submitted to the committee at the opeming of the session of Congress next December. Christinn Selence Exempted. Senator Copeland gave assurance that such a bill would receive proper jattention. Senator Copeland made it clear that the bill should cover the alopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic and the chiropractic schools of medicine, and that there should be nothing in it which would interfere with the prac- tice of Christian Science. Dr. J. D. Thomas of the Medical So- clety of the District of Columbia and Dr. J. C. Birdsali and Phillip King, who spoke for the Christian Science amendment, were among those b The representatives present agreed to follow the su; on of Senator Copeland and to draft a general bill satiatactory to all. Amended Dental Bill, The bill for the regulation of the praatice of denti was amended in certain administrative particulars so as not to interfere with the practice of Christian Science. ‘The bill provides for a board of den- tal' examiners, specifies the require- ments necessary for the practice of dentistry vashington and provides for the isaug of licenses. The optofgetry bill was reported without amendment. Senator Copgeland, chairman of the subcommittee, is. himsalf a doctor of medici" . id ‘was before coming to the Se public health commissioner of Nev ork. Senater Ball, another ‘member ‘of mittee and chairman .of the full committes, is also a doctor of medicine, 7 | REIGN 0 | There { jing. MARCUS A, SMITH, Former wena from Arizena, who wax found d hix room at the Occidental Hotel. NEW ENGLAND HIT BY $2000000 FLOD Three Rivers on .Rampage Spread Ruin—Massachu- setts Suffers. ! By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 8.—Swollen by hours of rain and melting snows, rivers throughout New England had over- flowed their banks today, causing one death, bringing injury to a score of persons and doing property damage timated at $2,000,000. The Con- necticut, Merrimae, Nashua and other | rivers continued to rise through the | night. 1n the Springfield-Westfield | river valley vesterday, conditions | were reported to be the worst since 1575, With large districts inundated, the Connecticut flood waters are ex- | pected to reach their peak today or tomorrow. One Man Drowned. Transportation lines were seriously affected throughout New England. | The situation was most acute in the| Springfield district of the Connecticut Valley. At Westfield an unidentified | man about twenty-five years of age| was swept into Powder Mill brook and drowned, when he attempted to ford a flooded section of the Spring-' fleld road. Floods poured into basements and first’ floors of factories in this sec- tion, causing them to shut down. School Is Maroomed. At Claremont, N. H, a conntry' school was marooned yesterday by | the flood, the pupils being removed | over a hastily constructed bridge. A woman and her five small children | were Tescued in boats from Groux | Island in the Piscataguog, in New Hampshire, when rising waters in- vaded their home. { Floods at several New Hampshire points forced lengthy detours by the Portsmouth and Concord divisions of the Byoston and Maine rajlroad. S ol F HORROR SEEN IN HONDURAS Dead Bodies Lie Unburied| Outside Capital—Epidem- ics Are Reported. | { | | { A reign of horror prevails in Tegu- cigalpa, the capital of Honduras, dead bodies being strewn on the outskirts of the city, with natives actually dging in squalor, It is reported to- day in advices to the State Depart- ment. The paraphrase of the depart- ment's advices said: nditions there are deplorable. is a typhoid and dysentery epedemic. Dead bodies are strewn on the outskirts and no attempt is being made to inter or cremate them. The odor throughout the city is nauseat- “The food supply is becoming short and the prices for canned goods are exhorbitant. The natives are actually dying from squalor. The situation is liable to continue for some time, due 0 the attitude of the authorities." EX-SENATOR, DEAD SEE PRIMARY GAINS Former Representative From Arizona Fatally Stricken in Hotel Room. Former Senator Marcus A. Smith of Arizonia, seventy-two years old, who had served total of thirty-three years as a Tepresentative and senator from Arizona, respectively, died at the Oceidental Hotel vesterd: by a bell boy whea (he latter went up stais vesterday afernoon to carry Mr. Smith his mail. “Death wus due to heart disease. Former Senator Smith, it was ex- plained at the hotel today, often slept through the morning, %o it was not thought strange, by the hote] manage- ment, that he did fiot come down from his room during the morning. Except for a lame hip, from which he has suffered for the last few years he is said {0 have béen in good heaith. Gustav Buchholz, the proprietor .of the hotel, stated (hat only night be- fore last, when Mr. Smith had gone up “to his room. he had joked with him on the journey up in t elevator. He had been a resident of the Occidental for twelve vears, and was well known by the management there and the various assistants, Flags at the hotel are being flown at hali- staff Announced in Senat His death was announce Senate by Senator Ashurst zona, and a brief memorial address, in which was recalled Mr. Smith's long service In the Senate and the House, was delivered by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the democratic leader, and by Senator Curtis of Kansas, act- ing_republican leader in the absence of Senatér Lodge of Massachusetts. Just prior to his death be had been writing a tribute to his mother, the memories of whom were atill serving as a_guiding hand. The manuscript which he had written was found in his room. The body was sent to ( Ky. today on a train I Union station at 1:43 o'cl South. & local attorney and a friend of Mr. Smith, will accom: the body on the journey. Fu services will be. held at Cynthiana Thursday morning . Former Senator Smith wus born in Cynthiana, Ky., Janyary 2 youngest of seven brothers ceived his edocation in that sta was admitted to the bar there before removing to Arizona in 1551 He be- came a resldent citizen of Arizona in the latter vear. z Was Elected Representative. Soon after he haa become a bona fide citizen of his adopted state he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Tucson distriet. Subsequently, he was chosen to represent the territory of Arizona in the House of Repre- sentatives, serving from the Fiftieth to the Fifty-ninth congresses. He was then made senator of the new state in 1912, and served terms in that capacity. He was de- feated for election in 1920, and was given an appointment on the Inter- national Boundary Commission in 1921. Mr. Smith framed the bill whereby Arizona was admitted into the Union. A national administraiion plan to link Arizona and Mexico in this undertak- in the nthian ing and enter them as a single state | was stoutly opposed by Mr. Smith, and he won his fight when the ques- tion was submitted to the voters of the two territories. Staged Lomx Fight. His fight for Arizona's stafebood was long drawn out and _vigorously prosecuted. In each sessién of Con- gress in which he served he mtr: duced his statehood bill, and on sev- eral occasions succeeded in_ baving Jis measure passed by the House of Representatives, only to have it reject- ed by the Senate. Due to his ability < a lawyer he was often called bac from Washington to Arizona to ap- pear in notable civil and criminal cases. WOMAN IS MURDERED IN HER APARTMENT LS T S Police Find Evidence of Desperate Struggle for Life in Room of Vietim. By the Associated Press, PITTSBURGH. Ap Thase, aged thirt murdered in her apartment here shortly before noon today. Her body, with a bullet hole in the chest and cuts on the face, was found in bathroom b the police who summoned by neighbors when heard what they believed to be tol shot. A'thorough search failed to disclos a pistol in the h ¢. The four room of the apartment hore evidence of struggle. The floors and walls were spotted with blood.. The police searching for a man who, neighbors reported, left the house shortly after the shot was fired. Charles Thase, the husband, a hoist- ing engineer, reported for work at 6:30 am, and did not leave his post until told that his- wife had_been killod, his emnloyers reported. Mon and other valuables in the apartment were not touched by the murderer. 1 8.—Mrs. -Six years, was were they a pis Another revolutionary movement wak reported to have been organized in the sputhern part of Honduras by Dionisio Giutirrez, former minister of Gutierrez is an advocate of Bo- andidate for the presidency.- Zuniga Huete, the messages said, now was recognized in Tegucigalpa as dictator. 80,000 ON RAILROADS T0 GET PAY RAISES Terms Virtually Agreed Upon by Thirty-One Western Lines and Union Negotiators. By the Asaociated Press. CHICAGO, April $.—Wage intreases of approximately 5 per cent, less certain concessions and compensa- tions to the rallroads, were reported today to have been virtually agreed on by negotiators representing thirty- one western railroads and their sub- sidiaries and the Order of 'Rallroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Rallroad Trainmen. Approximately . 80,000 men would be affected and the railroads’ annual pay rolls would be increased about $5,000,000 if the terms are incor- porated in the final agreement. Representatives of the negotiators sald earlier reports exaggerated the increase granted, as part of the 5 per cent would be offset by revision of rules eliminating some overtime pay now recelved. ‘There was & possibility that the final agreement would be reached this aftornoon. By the reported basis of settlement passenger trainmen will receive an incresse of 24 cents a day: freight trainmen, 30 ocents; conductors, 33 employes . affected nding increases, U. S. RHINE ARMY COST SETTLEMENT APPROVED| By the Associated Presa. PARIS, April $.—The- foriegn af- fairs committee of the chamber of deputies unanimously approved today the report of Deputy Farges recom- mending the ratification of the conven- tion signed in Paris in May, 1923, con- cerning the repayment of the costs of the American army of occupation in the Rhineland. The committee, through its president, M. Leygues, will ask the chamber to ratify the cenvention before parliament adjourns for the elections. v, He was| found dead upon the floor of his room | of Ari- | Pern | llinois Believed Certain for President and Nebraska Is Claimed. | ; Interest at the White House today !centered principally in the primaries | being held Jn INinois and Nebraska. {and it wax the opinion of the Presi-. | dent’s friends who called today that He would be victorious in both of these states. If he carries both eof these primariés the President will have eighty more delezates at the Cleveland election, which, with thé thirty-three won- in Michigan yesterday, makes \total of 113 for the first two days of | this week. | Senator McCormick of Tilinols, who ,hzm considerable opposition as the re- publican senatorial candidate from that stite and who was a caller at the | White House today, declared that | President Coolidge would carry today’s primaries by a tremendous majority. He expressed the same optimism about hix own chances for nomination. Nebraska Is Disputed. ! Although the President's managers in Nebrarka sent reports to the White { House . this morning of a sanguinary | nature regarding the outcome in that slete, some observers here do not ' » sure about that state ntion wus called to the fact | tht President Coolidge already has a total of 437 sure votes in the Cleve- lard convention, and if he carries the two primarics today he will need loss than 9 more votes to give him a majority, which i8.556. Word was received at the White House today from Harlan Fiske Ston: of New York, who was yesterday con- firmed by the Senate to sucosed Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General, thet he would arrive in Washington early tomorrow morning and would enter at once upon his new duties. Will Be Coolidge’s Guest. He will come to the White House and confer briefly with the President before going te the Department of Justice fo take the oath of office. Tt understoqd that he will be the President’s guest at breakfast tomor- row morning. It is understood that the Presidemt is pleascd with the outlook for the administration legisiation now pend ing in the Senate. He was repre sented today as feeling confident that with the progress now being made by the Senate the administration’s -gislative slate can be cleared in me to permit Congress to adjourn by June 1 MOTHERS AI BIL APPROVED FORD.C. Commissioners Send Pro- | posed Measure to Budget Bureau, Asking $100,000. | f | The District Commissioners today approved and transmitted to the bud- et bureau for consideration the bill lto provide home care for dependent children, This is the second piece of legisla- tion to come from the commission on public welfare legislation, which is now engaged in going over the entire fleld of welfare work in Washington with a view to improving it The purpose of the measure is to create & fund of $100,000 to be used to enable deserving mothers to raise their children in their own homes ‘\\hzn they are deprived of or unable | 1o obtain support | Approve UtilitiesaBill. The Commijssioners also gave for- | mal approval today to the bill drafted by Engineer Commissioner Bell for the addition of two new members to the Public Utilities Commiseion. They | transmitted the bill to the Senate and Ho District committees with a re. quest for its early enactment. In the letter of transmittal the | Commissioners explained that one of the new members should be & lawyer and chairman of the commission, the other additional appointees to be an | engineer, taken either from the Army lor from civil life as Congress pre- ferred The Com ioners tell Congress that the manifold duties now develv- ing upon them do not enable them to devote to public utility matters the time the importance of these matters | warrants. They say, however, that they believe the three District Com- ioners should continue as mem- bers of the proposed new commission because of the many problems that jarise in utility regulations affecting! | the operation of (he municipal service. | In transmitting. the mothers’ aid | bill to the budget bureau, the Com | missioners say the proposed legisl tion. is in the public interests. The | b1, places ‘thq mothers’ aid fund in “@r hands of the proposed new board of public welfare, and provides that | before granting aid that board shall | ascertain the following facts: Whether the mothér is a proper | person to have custody of her chi dren, whether the home is 3 satisfac- tory place for the rearing of children. what other resources may be avai able, whether legal steps have been taken to compel the father to provide support and what amount of money is needed to enablg the mother to keep the ohild in he? own home. LETTER CAUSES INDICTMENT Speciul Dispatch to The Star. s . 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