Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1924, Page 2

2 FARMERS OPPOSING | HIGHER PARCEL POST ‘Bome Representatives of Agricul- |. #ure Hold Scheme Plotted for 3 Express Companies. BIG PUBLISHERS AROUSED All Want to Help Mail Men, But Object to Means. o BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Everybody is for the postman, yet noto, he ants to pay the increase in sums up the situation that has n with ref to the §1 000,000 nee Edge-Kelly bill appropriation tute by Postmas New, nd the $13.000.000 a substi- s al Harry Chambers of commerce narts of the eountry h « to help the po ers' organizations express friendly erest in the welfare of the But all these organizat opposing the levy of additic age out of which Day gre to e The American T in titioned man. Farm- in post- man, ons are 1 post- the fncreases in m ¥ Ke opriation, il pap, Would Not Raise Rates. The po of however. should ne simply sition the farm bureau, es in pay pareel ine be taken out ¢ propriation proposed in the | many | | pear be irean Feder- | WHEELER'S CLIENT DENIES ACCUSATION AGAINST SENATOR (Continued from F Dome and was regarded as very vala- able. ¥ad Trouble With Lawyers, Campbell said he had had trouble with his lawyers and that when he went to see Stout he told him he wanted a “fighting” lawyer and one who would stand by him. “My lawyers always wanted to com- promise,” he said Stout agreed to take with nator Whee mpbell said his evenson and the matter up he said EX-partner was that his lawyer “settled” with him by giving him the oil land. 1d vou see Ked Seriator B down to suid do you 1o had W “He ¢ witnes “Whut ters? be h eut Falls” the mean by land 4 Senator Sterling, South Dukota. & lands had to be cledr- ed up” Campbell said “Did Scnator Whe eler give any rea- son why he cculdn't appear for you i thoxe matters?” mat- Re- blican, ime of our Refused to Appear Here. he not ore government departments. Some of the leases were coming be fore the general land We man in our oflice who attended to that, and I so toid Mr. Wheeler.” Under questioning b, Democ Arkansas, he reit that he had had understand- lireet or implied, 1 to any r told he “had enator h He said could flice. had tters, f said United ttend to anything to do Post rates. Mr. New bas already an- that his plan includes $12,000,000 expe ure for sals . out of which the parcel post pay D in fucreased © s to he raised third and nounced v in- 1o Ter it second are to bo >d the vari- tions, who that pu organiz: @ begun to fizht the measure. The farm bureau po out that .000 was appropriated recently to the whole stion of a djystm f postal rates to dvance of onfess But n t million obably wo! to mak her this vear time when the pol 1o apply. Depends on Competition. There sem that parcel p justment, but the exact method of piying the increases will depend large extent on tions, for to m some simp o some o to be a general opl st rates need some g to a competitive cond ka the rates ches much of the express « rm t0o b bus ind. tativ 1oss d, s chargc to er e is a sch to and that such displeasing to the expres Some of the t with large circu of the country found it chea zines by freicht has done aw the argument that carrying at a low national periodica he prohibitive rate has operated to drive t par ticular kind of busine from the postal system altog ASKS FOR WARRANT TO ARREST FORBES Prosecutor Applies for Paper Baltimore—Present Where- abouts Unknown. ru a res and “the government rate of the By the Associated Pross BALTIMORE, Md., plication for a bench warrant for the rrest of Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans' Bureau, was made in United States court here to day by District Attorney Wondeock and it was expected to be issued later in the day. This action followed the indictment of Forbes vester charge of conspiracy to defraud the government in the govern- | ment supplies worth $3.188,000 to the Thomson-Kelly Company of New York | and Boston, for a price reported to be less than $600,000. Nathan Thomson, head of the pur- chasing _company,’ and Commander Charles R. O'Lear¥, 1 N., indicted jointly with Forbes, probably will be arralgned for plea next Tuesday, Col. Woodcock said. He had no knowledge of Forbes” present where- abouts, he added, April 17.—Ap- ay on a sale of STAR’S ROXIE FUND TOTAL NOW $1,334 Although Drive Is Officially Closed, | Money Will Be Used for Vet- erans Outside Capital. Although closed, additional contri- butions were received today for The Star's “Roxle” radio fund. The larg- est amount, $1 came from the employes of the loans and currency division of the Treasury Department. The Star's “Rosie” radio fund was closed because sufficient money has been raised to assure the i ation and maintenance of radio apparatus in the Walter Reed, Mount Alto and Naval hospitals. The committee in charge of the fund raising campaign, however, will continue to receive con- tributions, which will be used to pur- chase radio sets for disabled service | men in the government hospitals in the eastern section of the country. | These contributions should be sent to | James H. Baden, vice president of the Commercial National Bank and treas- urer of the “Roxie” radio fund. Contributions to The Star's received today follow: Previously acknowledged. DB Y s sonsatssnonsrses s Friendship Branch of the Sunshine and Community | Society : 10.00 | Cash Emploves loans and currency, United States Treasury Depart- ment ... . Sone Property accounting division headquarters, United States Marine Corps ... Police Court, District’ of Co- Jumbla vio.een.. Collected by Mrs. W. Frisets e Total «eeeomomen sta fund | L$L,141.71 | 100 | *Gar- L. $1,334.81 ™ Expedition Leader IIL TONDON, April 17.— Brig. Gen. Charles G. Bruce, leader of the third expedition for the conquest of Mount Y¥iverest, is reported to be returning 10 India from Tibet because of illness, 8275 the Dafly Mail al | was not i | ten with t added Cimph had never appeared for him before the In- terior D A had “repeated- e & month azo. Camphell said i Wheeler when “they » pull some of my cas wel public land d bank, which Campbell 1o the Is there no wayv ment to stop ruin the message to Wh, for the govern- wells?* ing he was that the government could not intervene in the bank's plan to sell the casing under osed mor gage, Ano ‘heeler was “the Lincoln Wheeler to arrar tor [ vised a fore r Campbell telegram presented relating 1t to to > with tor had se r would to Washin incoln _per: Campbell to Whe record reads: “Ple Ldvise n Booth and e Campbeil ton telegram s put i when you T expect to of Li Is it pos atter with to Washin with hir vitally u can ‘discuss and I cun come cuss matters s tory our absence suld | pre reply was ston with npt ay v, but did at t s vou see b not Wirs ) me to ha ou com it Sent by Assistant. ‘T will state,” Wheeler, 1, “that t office in interposed Senator the telegram was v my ence, but 1 e full responsi or 1 id th, and should emp did the with Interior nts correshonder etween Campbell's land in Falls and his land atte in Wash- taken from his office in by the govern 4 the or B Just took ‘em “They worked a whi force.” Cumpbell then testified that varlous Department of Justice and Post Office ple had taken the papers from his e, included in the group being the 1ster of Great Falls, did not know. ey worked a very high-handed a 3 mpbell said, ding that bad previously told officials who had alled his office on the ca hat he would give them any infor- ion they wanted -nator Horah called for Solicitor ooth when Campbell was excised, s the Interior Departme the room, he called J. , Wheeler's law partn =overnment ah asked 4 Campbell r on my office take e he B but H the s he Baldw ind. law firm's books. showing pay- de to the firm by Campbell » cases In which it represented were produced by Baldwi also details of the state th m, court Baldwin said he understood thi “the wdard Oil and its subsidiari were trying to get control of the Monta field involved in the nineteen cases in which the Wheeler-Baldwin firm rep- nted Campbeil. Was there anything pending in soiir office relative to Mr. Campboll's affairs requiring you to appear before the Interior Department or the local nd offices?” asked Senator Bo X “Absolutely not,”” Baldwin replied. Baldwin Tells of Wheeler Letter. jaldwin said that while there no written contract with Campbell or Jetter giving the terms of that verbal agreement, thers was a letter from Wheeler to Campbell showing that Wheeler, because of his Senate m bership, could appear only in the most important st There never has been any litiga- tion except in state courts nator h asked. None but sald Baldwin. Baldwin was excused and the com- mittee adjourned until 2:30 p.m. in state courts,” Flurida—;o!es Pledged Coolidge. PALATKA, Fla, April 17.—Florida's votes in the mational Republican convention today were pledged to Presi- dent Coolidge by the Florida s Re- publican concention, in session here. The delegates will g0 to Cleveland instructed Ho w a Newspaper| Is Made HOUSANDS evince interest in the processes of news- paper publication. That The Star's readers and friends may have opportunity to witness editorial, business and mechanical processes, groups of visitors will be con- ducted through The Star build- ing twice daily, at 10:30 am. and at 2:30 p.m., under the guid- ance of well Informed em- ployes, who will explain in de- tail the amazing intricacies in- volved in speeding the news of the world to the reader, Application should be made at the counter in the Business Office. rator Wheel- | ap- | tor Cara~ | with Wheeler | asked | whose | n- | IS THE BVENINC THREE GLOBE FLIGHT PLANES READY AGAIN Prepare to Leave Chignik, Alaska, for Dutch Harbor if Weather Permits, i MARTIN DELAYED FOR WEEK Must Wait for Arrival of New Engine. A Preas., Wash,, messng 17 —A hignik world April from « that the nd 4, piloted Nelso o wireless Alaska, reported Nos, 2, isers Smith, W | parca to 1 Duteh and ave Chignik this morning Hurbor, weather permit- ting AWAIT NEW ENGINE. Martin and Aide Now Re- cuperating. KANATAK, Tort April 17——Maj. Frederick . Martin, commnander of the United States around-the-world puadron, and his | mechanician, So - Aly Harvey Wore rocuperating here whii awaiting the rival from iska ane S fter a landin Tue ape lovak 170 miles northeast Chignik, Alaska, en route 1o the latter piace from Sewsrd As n result \ceident, globe tlie will b Maj. Bay, Alaska, . the orleans Chis- the Erik hip Licut. on, Crack in Crankease. the ikease of v leakasze land Lpe or th ing a Martin Harve ard in at the scens destr sterday and his m F th the air ¢ them to Kanatak. Will Rush Word was sent to coast guard cutter LI Unalaska, on the the cian aboard, to- Engine. the United da, stationed at nd of the (nds s States same group, r the world planes are ne to Port- 1 was scheduled to ame, in where supplies ated, to rush a ze Bay he Hal jate the f have covered wtely forty hours 1 spproxim cight minutes § with 1,620 mil aviators in 50 attemptin > The British sing fly m Cor r e had by new WIDOW DONATES $5 T0 CALL FOR FUNDS | Py Associated Charities, Emphasizing Easter Appeal. Cites Problems That Must Be Met. responses to the \ster appeal of the fated es and Citizens' jef Association ived within the past twenty-four hours Social Service House, 1022 Atac bhar- the street us contribution d by this m a friend who belongs your column of ‘assets and who is a widow, who has from ‘threatened eviction' and who has no ‘new clothes. Don’t forzet in your appeal the many such make the two ends trict economy and who the denial of some on to their own the Associated Char- for much of its from’ such self-sacri of limited income, whos circumstinces are such to give | them that touch of pity which makes {the whole world kin. N The above ponse 1s evidentl cuggested by letter of appeal jssued by th committee and intended to T se whose good fortune brings to them at this Easter |time certain ts in life as con- trasted w clients of the Asso- ciated Char Record Demands for Ald. 11th northwest, ot 35, anor friends who meet © E help a by livine. otwithstanding the impression that | the show assist- Iprosperity is still widespread, |reports of the workers of ti e Charities for last {the heaviest calls for mate e of the past winter, Asso- wted Charities special relicf fund sbursed in monthly allowances for o payment of rent and living ex- $2,141.74, while the Citizens’ sociation spent for food, clothing and similar necessities 01.09, making- a total for the month of $1,142.83; s fow of tho many problems pre- sented to the sociil workers of the society, and which account in_ part for these unprecedented demands, il- lustrate the variety of need. Many of these problems involved the ques- tion of health, others a question 2 majority of them pre- rious economic difficulties. Problems Are Cited. One such problem as an in prison for bootle ng, wife about to be confined, rent four months_in_arrears. relatives unable to help.” till another: “Family con- sists of aj mother, daughter and orpl n child of relative The older oman sick with chtonic trouble, the caughter recovering from one opern- tion and nceding another, the lad sick in_bed with grippe” And on more: | \idow and two children. “Woman | formerly able to work while cared for the children. ¥ now moved and ated fs: ives latives woman ha e total day toward leaving a S18,16 laster ipts up to noon t 555,000 are $36.8 balunce to be nd_ only three Sunday. Contributions may to Ora Preston. treasurer, Tith street nerthwest, Confer on 0il Plant S-trike. BAYONNE, N. J., April 17—A com- | mittee, representing 730 entployes of the cuum Ol Company who remained away from work yesterday due to the company’s refusal to grant a 10 per cent wage increase, today went to New York to discuss the sitnation with com- pany officials. They wero accompanied by Director of Public Safety Patrick J. ‘onnor, whom the men requested to act as mediator. Employes of the Standard Oil Company, numbering more than 14,500, have not decided what ac- tion they will take as a result of their petltions for similar wage increases having been refused. Measles Attack Mrs. Pinchot. PHILADELPHIA, April 17—Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, is suffering from German measles at her home in Mil- ford, Pa. 1In a telegram to the Re- publican Women of Pennsyivania re- gretting her inability to address them £he said she was “distressed and mor- tified” by her ailment. | by pre- | the | Hull took Maj. | r, and brought | of | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1924, ITALY WAITS ALIEN LAW. | Curious as to Number of Nationals U, S. Will Admit. _ROME, April 17.—Decision of the United States Congress as to the ba- sis for quotas under the new immi- gration law is being anxiously awalt- ed here. It is pointed out that if the 1910 census is accepted as the basis, as was Incorporated in the Senat i1, approximately 20,000 more Ital- iter “the United States vearly than under the 1890 census 1 sis, which was incorporated in the measure as passed by the House. 'ASSERTS AGENTS GOT STEVEDORE REBATES | e ‘Emergency Fleet Official Tells House Inquirers Practice Has Been Stopped. Huntington T, Morse, Kuropean director of the Flect Corporation, testified today before the House com- | mittee ves the Shipping | Bourd that it had been general | | practice, although now corrected, for the stevedoring compani abroad rebates to agents of board oper- ators. Representative {1'“"!?*.(‘. committee “‘prosecutor.”’ asked if the managing operators of bourd vessels were not allowing their azents to make stevedoring contracts under the “rebate” system, leaving th board without the benefit of the “re | bates on grafrt” 1id that was a gene a Davis, Democrat, until we decided to kill it.” He added that a new system, under which | stevedoring contracts a by com- petitive bidding, had been placed in | effect at London, Liverpool Ant werp, and at the other European ports stevedoring rates were under the com- | trot of ‘the municipal authorities. HOSPITAL RETURNS COUPLE WRONG BABY Sends Back Another Child to Re- . place Infant Dead and Buried. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April Mrs. Charles L. Shoemart got their baby back today and Mr. and Mrs | Vincent Fiorella mourned the death of | & gon as the resutl of & mix-up at St jarnabas House, City Mission, which | District Attorney Banton said was | one of the strangest cases of mistaken —Mr. apd identity he had ever investigated. The head of City Mission and the nurses at St. Barnabas w to have admitted there had ror recording the deat twenty - two - month-old Charles ¢ Shoemart 1 March 6. Instead “orella was the child who but Shoe baby was re reported been an his ‘son, not her The fate carned after investig | which the body buried was ind identified as Joseph's 'TROTSKY OPPOSES CLAIMS OF BRITISH w | By the Acsociated Prees. OW, April 1T—War M speaking at Baku, is report- d M. Zinovieff's state- ssia will not meet the claims put forward by the British and that an agreement is possible only if | both countries start with a clean ate, after which the soviet govern- gations the sign at the ster | ment will meet any o | Russian delezation may | London conrerence. | Regarding the soviet relations with Rumania, the breaking off of the ne gotiations at Vienna did not fhere wis danger of war, he said, though war was still among the po Sibilities, The Bessarabian question Would probably only be solved in con- | Rection with the fate of Germany, | Which country he charncterized as i1l the battiefield in the revelution of the west." Foreign capital should Ve pormitted to enter Russia. the war ministor deolared, but in strictiy lim- | fted quantities as compared with tha pre-war era, in order to maintain the | Recamuiation of wealth in the hands o¢ the socialistic state, instead of the capitalists. “Cabaret Artists” Make Raids. EW YORK, April 17.—Prohibition agents early today used theatrical methods to carry out two raids. Pos- Mi& as cabaret entertainers, they made three arrests in a Broadway ¢hophouse. Then deftly ~apply | burnt cork and changing their up, they raided an inn in the negro meet section of Harlem, arresting the two | proprietors and five waiters. But Who? | 4,403 (Including Citizens’ Ord Preston, Treasurer, Inclosed please find §.. payment in full as first quarterly payment ‘Memberships: Associate ... $2.00 Active . _5.00 ‘Special ..... 10.00 Supporting.. 25.00 Sustaining.. 50.00 Capital .100.00 Name .. HANIHARA’S ACTION SPLITS TOKIO OPINION Dissatisfaction Among High Of- ficials and Approval Among Ambassadors. SOME NEWSPAPERS BITTER Government to Fight Against Any Retaliation. iy the TOKIO, in high sdor 1 migrs Associated Pross. April 17, ficial circles Dissatisfaction with Ambas- nihzra's handling of the im- tion t Washingt reported vernaculurs y. Other Japua- the W oppose him situntion n by th their editions yesterda nese baussadors have to the sdlied inss possible support o sh- will n and efforts ke the to scapegoat of exclusion fiase ki titude “inve states, the at- tebrate” The Kokumin frankly Ambassa Hanihara's let- ter fully presents what the Japanese nation wants to say While it is officially denfed ther any difference between the Toklo Manihara, it is admitte that =considerable annoyance” is felt regarding the b s use of FiVe CONSEqUEnces the phrase "k Moderate Editorialx. morning ne Fditorials of the pers, written prior to the news Sena the exclus act, were markedly moderate in tone Although they admitted the probabil- ity of the Senate ve for exeln they were of the « dent Coolid tion. Nu the Hocei editorially term of the J re o views n that of ctyeand the Japa called the Mar reac that the probability from the gov defeat. The ymes as a blow on campaizn al gration Eress ele “on- t of Ja- n the he hroughout speeches, resolu- 1 ex- Washi The o campaign meetings, Imflammatory indignation s and od a8 ent to ern policy will vigore of retaliatior its utmost to nd mainta relutio srozu Cho newspaper repres res edit American € gislation to Jupan. prepare most pub- most resentf eric pan's ide insult and vie r, we ¢ ctiom of ¢ ents the will of action 1= to insult with h viclence. M lieve that the Congr compelled “to | 1 7+ BOB-H Japan Is Troubled |RIVAL INSISTS FORD | PROCTER TO TESTIFY By Immigration of Chinese Laborer Correspandence of the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 20.—Japan, the emigration of whore nationals constitutes such a thorny problem for the United having immigration problems of her own. Just s Japapese laborer: barred from America, CI laborers are barred from Japan. Certain classes of Chinese, how ever, are permitted to immigrat Two years ago Japan was undated by a flood of Chinese brella peddlers, States, is u most of whom, & police, entered ants, but luter be- une manual laborers. 'w the trouble is with cooks, Chinese ks hitherto h admitted, but the pulice any wh coolies. The metropolitan police oklo are conducting a round-up of Chinese for deportation. VANDERLIP BROUGHT HENEY HERE, HE SAYS ApAD s merc Saw Need for Action, New Yorker Declares, in Speech Assailing “Big Business.” al Dispateh to The Star. PHILADELIPHIA, Pa, April 17 Frank A. Vanderlip, former president | ional City Bank of New d organizer of the Citizen Research Bureau of Wash an address before the ¢ this noon severely arraigm- ttempting to ob- struct Senate investizations. room fetid Tt s warm and andertip. o ¥ nother. orrified. It cries ‘Put him ut. does not conform to our ideas, Here we are comfortable and satisfied. This cold air he is letting in for the moment destroys our com- fort’ " made public was husiness sits in a un- of the it enrruption. only ™ busi- re for the first man who was lifornia _prose He said that that Heney ated with Gov Pinchot entitied to I think it s wholly first sugzesting to Sen- the employment ator di know uch a Need of Action. n utor. ion. 1 strongly one who would ntation and carry on the got Heney on and _asked £ to Was . He stated to cateh the next He did the ¢ some of t prepared was then “ouzens, take sonally pay him, committes co an agreement. The He who nd pe of th to AIRED BANDIT SOUGHT IN VIRGINIA Baltimore and D. C. Detectives U.S. IS ANTAGONISTIC ~ Eeperted to Be Atter “Tn. TO ITALIANS, CHARGE | Corriere d'Italia Editorial De- clares New Immigration Law Is Discriminatory. B the Asociated ROME,, April 17.—The Corriers d@'Ttalia, in a leading editorial en- titled “Trenches Set by Against Ital reduced emigration to America is the result of a cr from which the whole world is suffering and which is felt in America perhaps mor than in ma European _countries. Ttaly’s lesson. the editorial dec should be to improve her exported li The newspap: American em 1 one-sided and advantageous Anglo-Saxon, German and navian emigrants to the lavs and 1 s as well ow and blac rese curiol a crisis injury of as to the 5 s list theopies, sserts, “are due to a group of pure Anglo-Saxons and intransigeant Americans mixed with puritanic, theosophic, veeetarian and anti-al® coholic elements.” “Somebody Must Care” Citizens of Washington, up to this noon, had proved tl}at they do care by sending in their mem- bership contributions for the 5\« ; sociated Charities and the Citizens’ Relief Association to enable these agencies to carry on their city-wide wel- fare work for families in distress. Are you one of these? If not, will you send in your contribution today Cut out and sign subscription form printed below, sending with check for whatever class of membership you feel able. 10,000 Members Needed ASSOCIATED CHARITIES Relief Association) 1022 Eleventh Strect N.W. for.. (Kind of membershlp desired.) (or contribution) for the current year. (Payment may be made in four quarterly installments.) America | an Labor,” says that the | portant Witness.” fon of the hold-up In Ort- store, Baltimore, ed bandit, 1 who waited her away in an fastening the house, Virginia today. Detective Lieuts, Charles Kahle force reached local police hadquarters and saw Lieut. Walter ng chief of detective Detective Arthur B ompany them on their v a young ma de and whisked automobila after Hoor of the I PEE nearb ivener to ac to Virg Baltimore ot disclose to Virginia. that they are looking irtant witriess who may in_establishing th much-sought New York a lookout ATTACKS PROPOSAL FOR COLORADO DAM Wi'tness Sa_ys Influence Behind Plan Seeks Water for Mexico. here today did ’ v ~object of their at for an be able identity bob-haired autharities are for her in that in te of 't The principal influence behind the proposal to construct a dam at Canyon on the an effort to securs water for irrigation in Mexico, George I Maxwell, executive director of the National Reclamation Association, charized today before the House frri fon committee. to protect Imperial Valley from flood menace, Mr. Max declared. was the prineipal thing in the rivers develope ment, He urged the committee to elimi- nate any ot spect of development at present. Maxwell asserted “vou can’t go into southern your voica in_criticism of Boulder am” without being ‘the tar- zet for an egg-thrower; and if this doesn’t prove there is “some other influence besides protection for the valley at work, I don't know what Goe “All the trouble in the development of ‘the river.” he sald, “grows out of the effort to mail the Colorado down for Mexico, JAPANESE IN HAWAII INCREASE IN DECADE Immigration Boosts Alien Colomy 8,175, Exclusive of Births, TUsually Large. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 17.—TImmigration officials announce that during he past decade 37,211 Japanese were admitted to Hawaii, while 31,036 departed, re- sulting in an increase of 6,175 to the Japanese community, _exclusive of births, which usually _outnumber those of all racial divisions. r from | in | elieved, how- | Colorado | fornia ‘today and raise | APPEAR T0 TESTIFY Bidder on Muscle Shoals Is Told Auto Magnate's Engineer ‘Will Come. HOOKER HAS RESEARCH PLAN $10,000,000 Provided, Witness Tells Senate Committee. Consideration by the Senate agr bid r Muscle | tural commitiee of Shoals | course t and | discussed the g Hooker beon bid insiste to Wash hy, you jected Senator Nebraska, ¢ that Mr. ¥ ten and n of the to W the publicity airm ce ittee, hing 7 President but very little given to it. How do you account for thie fact that Ford came to Washington ngry with the after his visit he ed 1’ nt € with admin dor Engineer to Appear. | Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, | the ounced that he unde | Ford's chi engineer would appe Ch man drew fron | witness that the bid pr | $10.000.000 for | Musela Shoals said comp: ent ar that the elf, an Norris Hoo ity | he did not would pat I | #Hook that his govern | not get for could save operated | power company < | kanization | “'Senator Raiston asked if there was |having the bid am: that the stock in the {not be transferred sent of the |nothing now rom transferring |some power company or o | Denies Power Afiiliation. | Hooker replicd that his comp was not afliliated with a power ¢ |pany or organization. | 1 challenge the power company, the | Ford crowd the Grey Silver crowd | to come 1 this committee now and sy s company represen ed any power company,” Hooker de he comp: q hecanse bu = r r Democrat, Tndiana ¥ objectios ided 1o provic company ¢ BISHOP DEFENDS LOYALTY TO CAUSES Closes Lenten Services at Keith's ‘With Plea for Spirit of Christianity. | peaking of the that I 1 world, might bear suc heart,” Bi Washington rdinal of D Freeman Edith as great | examples who lived for great causes Popularity of Christ. *“There is a pa dén the heart today that uns: it finds repose in Bishop Freeman said there has been no time cration when the rel | Christ was as popular He paid tribute to tt | for its contribution toward He tor bt ssion i = | a He s the Lenten Lenten service ) o'clock Tomorrow a s will be broadeas station WRC for thos ) unable to_utte | theate 1 “The Keith's Mount. South. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. FIRST RACE—Purss. $1.21 | year-olds, "fillies; four furlongs. Tango_ .. . . 115 Fair Myrttel 1100 115 Oriental Hope. ... Swinging .. é Sléw and Easy t the Ator Theater Vernon 15 115 115 115 3. 8. Cosden entry. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1.200; \.0000 116 Malapert . | + 16 Polly M | ST il De ame | AL . 116 Acontius r. Mayer....... 116 IBlue S Bethlehem Steel.. 111 Gold Bug. ..ne 4W. J. Salmon entry. THIRD RACE—Purse. three-year-olds and up; . Jewel... 115 e Femen.. .10 118 3. McMilan entry. claiming; . 108 107 103 90 G 93 ¢ 108 i Fifty Filty FOURTH RACE—The $1.500; three-vear-olds snd a sixteenth. Gaspar Tsosceles . Heir at Law iRed Stone {Seagram Stable entry. FIFTH RACE—Purso, Rarlll“ Duck Goaiy Toveliness 111100, '8 SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1200; claimi three-year-olds and up; one mile and & furlong. © o e 16 Tomis io.ioo I ’B‘“um‘xmn v... 107 *Attorney Muir 99 Mountain Rose, 2d 104 Ashland .... *Day Lilly . . 100 ight Raider . Cote D'OT ... . 110 igh Gear . 102 *Overtake . 105 *Buddugie ....... 94 SEVENTH_RACE—Purse, $1.200; claiming; {hree-yoar-olds and up; one mile and a fur- long. mms Ci........ 106 Seths Flower .... 91 Sgmm® Grown... 103 *Antiquity »...... 85 *Huckleberry Finn 99 *Flying Devil 108 *Quick Time . 86 Thorn Hedge . *Frank Monroo . *Apprentioe allowance claimed. | Woeather clear; track fast. reinde: purse, mile and claimi and th $1.200 one mi Marsiand Bello Mystic “Good Night *Majority .13 12 | | {0il Committee Not £ | Bucker of General Wil Appear 105 | ON WO0OD CAMPAIGN ified Financial | Tomorrow. WILL PROBE RESERVE NO. 2 | Walsh to Call Assistant Secretary of Interior Deznartment‘ r Procter of Cincin- Walsh of the It ax Not Visited Field. FREE THEATER SEATS Boys to See Film of Pioneering Days in America, Saturday Morning. | woodlands and sm to deersk James 1¢ form ted worth., ber the film ha tis equal to T tha reational NOW WILLING TO TESTIFY. | s s W iiors Bavs Rtefamd Wiks Only a Joke. CHICAGO, April —M Hamon Rohrer, widow of Jake L. mon, oil Georgla H polit n jok would not g nz W investigating committes “T was not . T merely said that papers were out in <lahoma and that I would have to wait until the committee forwarded expenses before T started out west af- ter the documents. *“As for the remark about being a Demoerat and therefore not going be- fore i thal was meant in fun.” the S inswer 1o 8 summon defiant,” she 1l the nec Calcutta Elects Indian. CALCUTTA, April 17.- E. Das | leader of the Swarajists, or Indian Home Rulers, has been elécted mayor of Caleutta, defeating his Bu opponent, Mr. Willson. Das denies that his party contemplates an anti=