Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1924, Page 2

2 * TTHE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. UESDAY, a9 Dy MAY 13, 1924, ROOSEVELT BEFORE U. S. OIL GRAND JURY Assistant Secretary of Navy to Tell of Kis Part in Tea- pot Leases. Admiral Once Protested Transfer of Reserves. Theodore Roosevelt, retary of the Navy, and Rear Admiral assistant sec R. S Griflin. retired, were the chief witnesses today as the special fed- eral grand jury resumed its inquiry nto charges of fraud and corruption n connection with the naval oil leases. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt car- ried to the White House for President Harding's signature the famous Exec- utive order of May 31, 1921, under which Secretary Fall took over con- trol of aval oil reserves and cased them to Harry F. Sinclair and Fdward 1. Doheny. Also at the re- quest of Fall, Roosevell sent marine to Teapot Dome in the summer of 922 1o drive off “squatters” after that reserve had been taken over by Sincla Wax harge of Rexerves. Admiral Griffin, formerly chief of of engineers, was in reserves for a number was ¢ the naval ested vigorously to inst their trans- Department. He the original draft of S0 as to leav Navy. but testific 0il committee the burcau the and who harge of years ‘icers pre Seeretary fer to the sought to the on he Denby a Interior rmend Ixecu sl with the ore the Senate n amendme the order was ¢ the Interior Depa Roosevelt also he inal draft. changed in sted changes in and since the resigna- ion of i has etated that he op- wsed the transfer from the first, but iept silent because he did not want to | be put in the position of “runming out’ on his chie Purnished Seusation. In bringing his brother Archie before Senate co tee last January Mr. Roosevelt d_one of the many sensations Scnate inquiry. He related that ened in on a tele- phone conversation between his brother and D. Wahlberg, formerly privat: SeCretary to Si ir, in which there' was a mention of $65,000 sent to the oreman of Full's New Mexico ranch. Other witnesses before the grand jury o were Harvey A. Wilcox of El ifaso, T A. 1. Brownfield of Car- rizozo, N. M.: Lee fford, Albu- | querque. N. M. and W Mendenhall, | K. S Heald and W. S. Kent of the In- erior Department. Wilcox and the New Mexico witnesses were suid to have Knowle ge regarding expenditures made by Fall in New Mexico after his ap- mintment to the cabinet. NOTRE DAME CHAPEL DEDICATED TODAY Archbishop Curley Presides Rites at $500,000 Edifice at Trinity. The new $300,000 Chapel of Notre Dame at Trinity College was dedicat- ed today by Archbishop Curley at a brilliant ceremony attended by prom- nent members of the diplomatic corps and church dignitaries. Archbishop Curley pontificated at solemn high mass in the new edifice. He was assisted by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Edward A. Pace of the Catholio Uni- sity, Rev. Dr. William J. Kirby, ¢ Rev. Michael J. Carey, C. S. P. ‘The deacons of honor were Very Rev. Dr. John F. Fenlon, 8 S.; Very Rev. t‘harles F. Aiken, Rev. W. Carroll Milholland, S. thousand persons attended dication of the new church The structure is a free rendering of he Byzantine style built of Ien- tucky limestone with a roof of Span- ish ‘mottled tile surmounted by a stone lantemn, on top of which there i3 a sculptured bronze cross. Over he portico there is a sculptured fig- ire of the Mother of God Divine Child Interior of Marbie. The interior walls of the church are finished in Italian marble, the base of the walls being trimmed in black marble. The dome and naive are tiled with guastavino tile, with gold and irabesque designs. In the dome are| siXteen stained-glass windows, repre- santing four angels and archangels in prayer. The intervening wall space s_adorned with symbolic reliefs. The walls of the chancel are of sil- ver Sienna marble, with marble col- | umns and a_large number of gold mosaics in flgures symbolizing va- ous phases of life The main aitar of yellow Brescian urble is dedicated to Notre Dame, +ad is the gift of the alumnae asso- iations of all the schools conducted by the sters of Notre Dame de Namur. The marble altar rails are he gift of the ladies of the auxiliary oard. The sanctuary is of rose and k green marble, with steps of | black marble leading to the altar. The | aisles are of Tranni marble. The transpet altar also is of Brescian yellow marble. The altar to the east was given by Trin- ity (College and the aitar to west by the mother of a former udent in memory of her daughter. here are also two shrines in marble tad mosaic of the Immaculate Con- @ption and the other of St Joseph, Windows of medieval design adorn the church. There are numbers of vrnamented decorations and chan- deliers. A large organ of 10,000 'ipes is contained in the chapel. The seating capacity is about 1,000, Paulist Choir Simgs. The Pauiist choir furnished the music and Bishop Thomas J. Shanan, rector of the Catholic University, | preached the sermon. A letter of | congratulation from Pope Pius XI,| congratulating t More than sanctuary. Among those present at the cere- | mony were: Baron do Cartier, ambas- sador from Belgium: Sir Esme How- ard, ambassador from England; Col. Marquis Vittorio di Bernezzo, of the Italian embassy: Ass General Davis; the provincial superior of the eastern province of the Sisters e college, was read. xty priests were in the of Notre Dame; the president of Em- | manuel College, Boston; members of the advisory board of the college: dies of the auxiliary board and iumerous alumnae students and friends . WILL DROP CHARGES. Attorney to Be Freed of Accusation in Kidnaping Case. DETROIT, Mich., May 13.—Authori- ries were advised today by the mar- shal of Saco, Me. that Albert C. Doyle, Detroit attorney, would not be prosecuted on a charge of assisting in the kidnaping of nine-year-old Jean Thompson last Friday. Doyle, arrested here Sunday as he stepped from a train from Boston, was released on a writ of habeas corpus after being in custody about an hour. It is expected the charge will be formally dismissed when he appears in circuit court on the habeas corpus writ. at| and the | | | | on tant Attorney | | from would be safe ground, but it was said that shortly before 1 o'clock the ‘waler was beginning to run into the | first floor and it was feared that | within another hour it would be haif |2 foot deep there. | Overfiows in Caual. In many places the waters of th | Potomac and Chesapeake and Ohi ‘anal have merged and for miles the anal cannot be seen. From Syca- | more island to below Chain bridge |the towpath has been obliterat Reports from near Harpers Ferry an | nounced the canal had virtually be | ruined that section. The made after the last flood, a litt than a month ago, have been washed away and no effort will be made to resume traffic up and down that his- toric w this sumner, at least. The seawall in I'otomac Park has en covered in many places, and it probable the water will reach al- most to the road in other places when the crest of the flood meets the in- coming_tide at 2 o'clock_this after- noon. The river off the Speedway is @ mass of debris, and | runaway launches, torn from their moorings up the river, were salvaged when the reached the broader, quieter waters near Haines Point | Creat Passes Harpers Ferry. The flood section of the weather bureau announced at noon that the crest had passed Harpers Ferry and the water was subsiding. The high- water mark was reached at twenty- cight feet, ten feet above flood stage At Riverton, a few miles below, the measurements showed thirty-four | feet. In Washiniton at 8 o'clock this | morning the river was nine feet |above flood stage and w expected | to go another foot before it begins to | subside. Latest dispaiches from up the river declared that Cumberland, Harrison- | | burg, Harpers Ferry and other towns will be in darkness tonight as a re- | sult of dams belonxing to power plants bursting. n one argest in the rive swept away ea today. Railroads e making every effort (o save their ridges by backing cars loaded with | freight upon them. Forty-five cars | coal have been run onto the | Shenandoah div ge at Har- | pers Ferry. but it is feared it will be swept away HARPERS FERRY FLOODED. | Fourteen Feet of Water Rushes Through Streets. | By 2 Staff Correspondent | HARPER S FERRY, W. Va, May 15.—With fourteen feet of water, houses submerged to the second ies, electric light out of commis- nd the two main bridges weak- Harpers Ferry today present- ne of havoc. i o'clock this morning. when { raging waters of the Potomac 1 the Shenandozh began to over- ow into th streets, idents hav been flecing to the er portions | of_town overlooking the rivers. siness has been completely doned, all trains have stopped ng and the writer is mow lit- sitting in_the water of the | F Paper Company, the buildings | of which are inundated by the raging torrent. This is said to be the only telephone in town that is still in commission. Property Damage Heavy. Property damage is mounting to the thousands. The waters have now | reached a depth of twenty-seven feet six inches above normal. more than six feet higher than the disastrous {high water of March The railroad trestle of the B. and 0. line over the Shenandoah just above Harpers Ferry is expected to go at any minute. The water has almost |reached the tracks, and officials of the road do uot believe it will stand the strain. At 10 o'clock this morning the wa- ters reached the stage of twenty eight feet and now seem to be sta- tionary. The lower part of town is complete under water. Boats are running through the streets and houses on Shenandoah street are com- pletely fnundated. The post office and hotel are standing in six feet of wa- ter. The post office has opened tem- porary headquarters at the Harpers Ferry Bank, water reaching only the lower floor. Auto Trafle Stopped. Driftwood and debris are filling the streets, and breaking the windows of the stores. All automobile traffie in both directions has been stopped. A congestion of automobiles is on the Maryland side as far as Sandy Hook, and the western side as far as | Bolivar. Thousands of sightseers from sur- rounding towns are viewing the de- struction from high points of vantage. No casualties have been reported as vet, although the property damage, on ‘account of the swift current and piling up of debris, is said to be mounting steadily. ' Becanse of the electric light service being out of commission the town will be in dark- ness tonight. the Marvland side of Harpers Ferry, the river is lashing itself against the rocks, throwing spray s high as fifteen feet, and overflow- ing its banks into the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. At Weverton the river has almost reached the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Radlroad. MANY FLEE FLOOD. Hundreds of Homes Are Inundated by Rising Waters. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 13.—Re- ports from Hancock at noon state ithat the Potomac River is still rising at that point, and the whole west end of the town is inundated from back- water up Little Tonolway Creek, which empties into the Potomac at that point, from the bridge as far east as the Methodist Episcopal Church. The residents have been obliged to abandon the first floors of their homes. Both Big Tonolway and Licking Creeks are away beyond their banks east of Hancock, and the National Highway is closed to travel, as the bridges over these streams are cov- ered with high water. Lioyd L. Shaf- fer. clerk of the Allegany County cir- cuit court, returning from the east, is marooned at Big Spring Hotel. Rail Trafic Halted. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad east of Cumberland is at a complete standstill, with water over the tracks at many points between Pattersons Creek and Cherry Run. Trains are being detoured over the Western Maryland and Pennsylvania roade. The river began falling here early vesterday evening. The rise east of here is due to the heavy flood poured in by the South Branch, Pattersons Creek, Cacapon River, Sideling Hill |Creek’ and other tributaries. The South Branch, which is itself a good sized river normally, is the highest in many years, and has caused great |damage to the' Romney branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, besides inundat- ing the town of Moorefield. The Western Maryland is still tied up between here and Elkins, but the damage is largely in washing out re- pair work from the last flood. The line, it is expected, will be open in a day or two. Reports from Kitzmiller | and Blaine state these places did not suffer nearly as badly as from the last flood. | . City in Darkness. | The flood here affected the street lights, and Company G, 1st Regiment, Maryland National Guard, was called out on patrol duty last might as the city was in darkness. This is the second time this year the local guard unit has aided the policfie in patrolling the city. The flood drove about fifty families from their homes on Water and Pax- ton streets, Piedmont. The Red Cross has given motice that it is ready to extend relief. Baltimore street, this city, which was swept by the flood again yester- day, was much damaged, and a large force is employed today in cleaning it and restoring the paving for the big parade of the Grand Commandery Hundreds Are Homeless in Floods Sweeping Down Potomac Toward D. C. half a dozen | ac at the office of the Harpers| | of the Knights of Malta tomorrow, | when 3,000 are expected to march. ‘ ‘The flood began to recede here late vesterday afternoon, and by 7 o'clock | the strests were clear of water. The damage to property, i turns out, was | small'In comparison to March 29, as neople generally took warning and | removed their goods. ., Water from | Wills Creek joined the Potomac River | water at the Chesapeake and Ohio | Canal break here and spread over a | large area. inundating the properties of the Cessna lumber Company, the Cumberiand Sash and Door Company, the base ball park and Footers' Dye Works. It is feared the Chesipeake ]aud Ohio Canal below here has been | badly torn. Flood Prevemtion Meeting. A meeting of enginsers in conjunc- tion with city officials and business men will be held at the city hall to- | mortow to discuss flood prevention. { Thisx meeling had been arranged | through the mayor and city counsel soveral weeks ago as an llelTY,ln,"l of the flood of March 28. Mayor Koon telegraphed Representative Zihlman at Washington yesterday asking that he use his efforts toward having the | War Department send an engineer here for tomorrow’s meeting. A re- 1!y came that the matter was taken up and the department promised to send an engineer here Thursday to consult with other engineers and city | ofticials. ! "The flood below here ‘is now four feet higher than the last flood. (Yetus Funkhouser, thirty years o0ld, Winchester Lumber Corporation foreman. was drowned in _swirling waters of Lost River near Wirdens- ville, W. Vi today, when he at- tempted to cross the stream it « row- boat, which capsized. The boly has not been recovered. He was & native of Shenandoah county, Va., and mar- ried PASSES DANGER MARK. Water From Rivers at Pittsburgh Flood Low!and Sections. d Press PITTSBURGH, May 13.—After ris- ling during the night and this morning |the Allegheny and Monongahela riv- crs herc reached a flood crest of slightly more than 26 feet shortly hefore noon today. United States | weather bureau observers said the | waters would begin to recede during | the afternoon. The maximum stage | was four feet above the danger mark. | | " Parts of the lower north side were | |inundated and basements of river-| | front buildings along the Allegheny | were flooded. | Familics living in the lowlands near the downtown section were fore- ed to leave their homes when the | waters reached their dwellings. | the Associa | " Fair weather was reportcd today |over the Allegheny and Monongahela | watersheds and observers believed the | rivers would continue to fall | 29 FEET ABOVE NORMAL. ! = 3 High Waters Halt Rail Traffic in Shenandoah Valley. | Special Dispateh to The Star | WINCHESTER, Va. May 13—/ | Shenandoah River flood waters Mu.‘d{l ts of | e to {a large portion of the inhabita | Harpers Ferry, W. Va, to fi higher ground early today. Back-| water from the river extends ten! miles to the outskirts of Charle town, W. Va. and is from seven to ten feet deep. The government | guage on the Potomac at Harpers| Feiry registerad twenty-nine feet above normal this morning, the high- | est since 1889, with indications of another foot rise before receding. Railroad bridges were weighted| down with coal trains from end to| | end. All main line traffic was sus- | pended. Water came within a foot | of the, Castelmann'e” Ferry bridge floor on the Shenandoah. thirty-five feet above low water. The Norfolk | and Western and Southern railwavs | suspended operations on Shenandoah | divisions. Efforts to detour were im- | possible. Water was within a foot of the boilers in the Northern Virginia Power Company’s steam plant at Millville. The ¥ront Royal-Riverton municipal electric plant was buried under water, only the roof showing. Hydro-electric plants at Harrison burg. Woodstock, Edinburg and other towns were flooded and out of com- mission MAN SWEPT TO DEATH. Much Property Damage Done by Rappahannock Flood. | Special Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., The Rappahannock River at this city today is in the throes of the worst flood since the Johnstown flood in 1889, with water twenty-five feet above normal and doing much dam- age to the water front. William Lucas was swept to death while trying to rescue & small boat, while several others had narrow es- capes from drowning while fording feeder streams. The dwelling house and Gillum' mill dam at Rapidan, forty mil above Fredericksburg, were washed away, and numerous fishing shacks, shanties, chicken houses, vegetation, trees and other debris are floating down with the swift current. The wharf and warehouses of the Balti- more and Virginia Steamboat Com- pany are inundated and the Standard Oil plant is nearly submerged. Two_thousand railroad ties were washed away from J. W. Master's lumber whart, and the Berry Packing Company’s plant at Falmouth is un- der water; while other damage is re- sulting along the river front. The River road, leading to Falmouth, one mile away, is covered by water, and the lowlands for miles are inundated. ‘WATERS STILL RISING. May 13.— Seven Bridges Washed Away, With Others Threatened. By the Amociated Press. RICHMOND, Va, May 13.—Al- though the crest of the freshest in virtually every river and stream in Virginia was thought to have been reached during last night, the Shen- andoah was still rising early today and government forecasters predicted the James river at Richmond would g0 two or three feet higher before it began to recede. The Shenandoah, Tappahannock, Rivanna and tribu- tary streams were reported falling. The James river, after rising to thirty-one feet at Columbia and nine- teen and ope-tenth feet at Lynch- burg, was reparted falling at those places today. The greatest damage reported was sustained at Charlottesville where loss was estimated at over $200,000. The Rivanna river was twenty-five feet above normal; seven bridges have been washed away; several manufacturing plants were flooded and others had been forced to shut down and the city was without elec- tric lights and street car service a result of the high waters. In_the Shenandoah Valley, where the Shenandoah River is higher than it has been in fifty vears, roads are covered with from six inches to six feet of water. Many stores and resi- dences have been flooded. Inhabi- tants of the low lands spent the day moving_thelr possessions to higher land. Storm warnings ‘e received in time to allow farmers to remove all live stock to safety but agricul- lul;_hl and garden crops were wiped ou Many bridges along the Shenandoah are reported in danger. Southern and Norfolk and Western tracks are under from four to six feet of water which has risen two feet above the tracks on the Southern bridge. Quake Felt in Munich. MUNICH, Bavaria, May 13.—A slight earthquake shock was felt here yester- day. The center of the disturhance is believed to have been in the middle Alps. The tremors were noted omly in the upper storfes of houses, The upper picture made on the Virginia shore, above Key Bridge, gives an idea of the extent to which the river has risen and shows canvas and frame camps partly submerged. The lower shows some of the campers who were forced te abandon camp, ground. STRICT LAWS GUARD MARYLAND DOGWOOD | Despoilers Liable to Both Fine and: Prison—Bill Planned for District. The Maryland law prohibiting de- struction of plant life without con- sent of the owner, which has come into prominence during the cam- paign this season for preservation of the flowering dogwood, provides a fine of not less than.$5 nor more than $25, or imprisonment of not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both. While proposed laws for the Dis. trict of Columbia and for Virginia are under consideration by those be- hind the dogwood campaign, it is be- lieved_the bill for the District will bs different from the Maryland law in_many partciulars. The Maryland act became effective June 1, 1918, since which time thers have been many arrests and many fines assessed. “It shall be unlawful” reads the act, “for any person to remove, take, cut, break, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, flower, moss or turf from the land or premises of an- other or cut or attempt to cut, burn or attempt to burn, girdle or attempt to girdle or otherwise damage or de- stroy or attempt to damage or de- stroy and or tim- ber or trees thereon without the writ- ten consent first had and obtained of the owner thereof, or under the per- sonal direction of such owner: and any violation of this pct shall con- stitute a_misdemeanor' and any per- son convicted thereof before a jus- tice of the peace or other court of proper jurisdiction shall be punish- able by a fine of not less than $5 or more than $25, or by imprisonment of Not less than thirty or more than ninety days, or both. Provided, how- ever, that nothing herein contained shall apply to trimming of trees under the supervision of the state board of forestry. PLEASE" LEAVE THE GWOOD FOR FIND GIANT SKELETON OF THE MIOCENE AGE By the Associated Press. ’BAKEEBFIELD, Calif., May 13.— What are belleved to be the most complete portions ever discovered of a squalodent, & mammal that existed in the miocene age from one-half million to two million years ago, have been found by Charles Morrice, a student of prehistoric life, on Shark Tooth Mountain, near the Kern River oil flields. * e < ction of the squaloden lmflnnm:m-u today, has been made in Germany, Australia and England from much less portions of the mammal than he has found. The skeleton weighs 250 pounds and has & head larger than that of an ele- phant. Morrice will communicate news of his find to government of- ficials, | it appears that those men who qual- M’CALLUM IN LEAD OF GOLF QUALIFIERS| Turns in Lowest Card for Msrn- ing Over Soft and Soggy Course. Playing over a course soft SOEEY from the rains of the last three days, golfers in the first day of the| qualifying round of the Chevy Chase Club’s annual spring tournament to- | and | day found the going heavy. W. R.| McCallum of the Washington Golt| and Country Club had the lowest| score turned in up to 1 o'clock with a card of 79. C. E. Courtney of Chevy Chase was in second place | with 83, while Leland Harrison was 85. Other scores turned in up to 1 o'clock follow: Horace Green, Chevy Chase, 91; Morven Thompson, Chevy Chase, 92; John L Power, Washing- ton, 92; H. S. Pope, Indian Spring, Hugh = MacKenzie, Columbia, Frank S. Appleman, Columbia, 93; W. B. Hill, Chevy Chase, 95: Harry Wardman, ' Columbia, 95; Fred C.| Clark, Indian Spring, 96; J. H. Me- | lihenny, Chevy Chase, 96; Major H.| Robb, Bannockburn, 95; C.'A. Watson, Columbia, 95; Jobn L. Barr, Columbia, Oan Lift Ball | The golf committee has adopted a | local rule providing that a buried | ball in the fairway may be dropped without penalty. The ball is not to be claaned on the putting green. McCallum's score follows: Out— i Pay . 444344453 McCallum .5 4 4 3 6 5 4 6 4—41 In— Par .......344344444 McCallum ..3 4 4 4 4 7 5 4 4—35—79 114 GOLFERS START OUT IN QUALIFYING ROUND AT CHEVY CHASE CLUB One hundred and fourteen golfers started out today in the first day’s play of the qualifying round of the Chevy Chase Club's annual spring golf tournament, knowing that but thirty-two of this number, half the entire fleld of sixty-four qualifiers, can make the grade when the scores are all in tomorrow night. From a glance at the entry list, ify today have a_ harder assignment than those who play tomorrow, from at least three angles. In the first place, the field which starts today is larger than that of tomorrow. In the second place, the group-of low scor- ers, first sixteen men, is larger, and in 'the third place the longer the course has without rain the faster it will be and the lower the scores in consequence. The course today is slow and SogEY in places, with heavy lies the rule and a local rule permitting the ball to be dropped in case it is buried on fair- Wway or green in effect. Sun and wind may dry up the course today so these rules will not have to be put into ef- fect tomorrow. Chevy Chase, as did the other courses, had a thorough soaking Saturday night and Sunday, and will take three or four days of fine weather to completely dry out. Notwithstanding the rain, the course is generally in first class shape for the tournament, with the tee Dlates about in the middle of the tees, de- Dending on the direction of the wind. Crack Golfers Entered. Every golfer of note about Wash- ington has entered the tournament in one of the largest entry lists the A |Spring ather, the | midd Walter R. Tuckerma District amateur titl crack: &5 Dunph vinson, onald W oot aber of other © *out_of the city Lennox Bond, 1d, one | o Baltimore's fiaest players; John G, Maxwell of Philadelphia George 1. Robinson of Toronto, I representative of the group of Cana. | dians who have far the past half en Years comé to play in the Chevy Chase tourney, ( S. Lyon. sixty-five-year-old = Canadian star, | won the event two years ago. The | field is the finest that has entered in | any tournament hereabouts th | in point of skill, and shoald MacKenzie arain win, there cannot be the slightest Shadow of doubt | | before going into the meeting said| | | moving their effects to higher Chevy Chase tournament golfers being the first und. v t inc has scheduled tee in but 64 oung ever to the to aua The land MacKen winner of the n about his right to be call ing golfer of the vear d the lead- about Wash- | ington. M. Standifer, a former | District champion, is entered to play | in his first tourney of the year. SENATE CONSIDERING APPROPRIATION BILL Phipps Seeks to Expedite Measure and Urge Committee Action on Cramton Proposal. | Consideration of the District appro- priation bill by the Senate subcom- mittee of the committee on appro- priations was begun at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Senator Phipps of Colo- rado, chairman of the subcommittee, that it was his the bill. The District Commissioners and the auditor for the District met with the committee this afternoon, for the pur- pose of explaining the need of in- cluding in the bill some of the items which were eliminated during its con- purpose to expedite | sideration in the House committee of the whole. It was expected that the District sioners would lay before the committee also their reasons for their opposition to the so-called Cramton amendment, which does away with the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the District and substitutes a lump sum contribution of $8,000,000 by the federal government to aid in the up- keep of the National Capital during the coming fiscal year. Senator Phipps, who is known to oppose the change in the law pro- posed by the Cramton amendment, said today that the committee would determine when it met what course should be adopted with regard to the consideration of the Cramton amend- ment. Holds Influence of May Cause By the Associated Press! SPEZIA, Italy, May 13.—Earth- quakes need no longer cause loss of life, according to Prof. Caselli, seis- mologist, who claims to have con- structed an apparatus, 'already pat- ented, whereby earthquakes are an- nounced at least fifteen minutes be- fore they occur. The scientist also claims to be able with very slight possibility of error to locate beforehand the cen- ters of telluric phenomena, their in- tensity and the situation of their most “intense manifestations. | north of he Claims Poincare Downfall Alone Saved Dawes Plan sociated Press. DON, May 13.—The Evening andard today says: “The Eve- ning Stndard is able o reveal the truth about the famous Anglo- Belgian parley at Chequers Court week ago last Saturday. In fact, that parley was quité fruitless, owing to the intransigeant atti- tude of M. Poincare and but for the totally unexpected and sweep- ing swing to the left of the French elactorate the fate of the entente, the Dawes' scheme and a European settiement would have been sealed.” BILL TO GRANT D. C. $4,438,000 HELD BY U. S. IS APPROVED (Continued from First Page.) day said that the citizens of the Dis- trict are willing to stand on the merits of the case as presented by these two witnesses and on the ac- tion by the Senate. Ansxwers Blanton Charges. Maj. Donovan, speaking for the District officials, replied in behal? of the assessors to charges made yes- terday by Representative Blanton regarding the assessment for taxa- tion on Meridian Mansions, which he claimed was only about one-fifth of | its actual market value. Maj. Donovan said that this apart- SAYS 34 ESCAPED | DRY PROSECUTIONS Prohibition Agent Tells Probers ‘Work Went for Naught i After 1921. PAID SMALL FINES ONLY Cites Offer of “Six Thousand” to Pass Whisky Carload. ‘When the Harding administratic took office in 1921 prohibition agents were engaged in ‘“cleaning up th liquor situation in Washington,” th Senate Daugherty committee was toli | today, but thirty-four persons an | places purveying intoxicants all es | caped prosecution | Tells of Arrests. H. J. Burton, former agent for the prohibition unit, but now in the service of the Governor of Ohio, tes he was one of the men assign work late in February, 1 before inauguration. With ciates and the local polic arrests, he said, and served the rants on “bootleggers operating through the hotels” All the ca: #ood enough for convictions, Burt iy | serted, but the persons Test llowed to forfeit smal | some cases 0 return to tion undisturbed. In July, 1921, the was seized in the land Yacht Club wit fied that *d to the S " cht Trangu 90n of the forty-two w3 PATL- | o liquor on b the witne ment house was assessed for $1,500,- | Of lauor on board, wnd the 000. Representative Blanton ' had | 531 that Chief of Police Ch stated that the present owner told | o it | him he had put improvements to the urb, concerned in Decem 1 the yach value of approximately $5.000,000 on | LacerPer 1921, the s this property. Maj. Donovan said that | cices of liquor - the improvements werc not in €X- | Burnia and police officers jn cess of $50,000, according to the rec- | were among those indict ords of the building inspector's office. | 7 beiE Th chavee ortoth v referred to testimony by Bates | A 4 Y Gf the lwe e Warren, one of the largest apartment | Burton tesiified. the stew house operators in the District, given | Union Club of Cles bhefore the Rent ( ission’ at i one hearing when property values were other. def r peuk, thal the value of Me- | to plead guil 3 Mansions was $1,500,000. He d the attention of the col The Armond Drug and Candy 1o the fact that an owner of [pany of Ohio withdrew 229 000 quar one-third of his property had sold at|of whisky during the spring - figures approximating this valuation. | summer of 19 he witnesses su Maj. Donovan continue: s dis- | from the Hayner distillery, at Tr cussion of the minority report filed | Ohlo, and Georze Reaus, the “wh by former Representative Evans, who | king” of Cincinnati, was in the was a member of the joint special |He recited that proh committee. The members of the |picked up a man com committee said that Maj. Donovan |office of T'ngerleider & had satisfied them as to why the |at Cleveland Fmits committee had not gone | drawal 15,000 barrel 1 vear in m ng | Sam rleider, ion, because a pre- | tioned in the te ion had covered that |the owners of District of Columbia | pany o ¢ paid to the federal gov- said ernment §2.500,000 as a result of that on' a large 3 rs of the subcommittee Maj. Donovan had also sat- was found at th, Claims Whisky Returned. shown them, as had also| Burton also told Hardy, why the 30int | ;i000r in and around ¢ ’ not included |}/auor in and around SEANT o S, | Morris Dressler. an associate of N othe Arnstein, 422 cases and ten barre whisky was seized in August, {he said. but the caso was not je cuted and the whisky was returr report, on - whick cpresentative | «Chey berg and Benny G Janton is basing his opposition to e % A recognition of t ;- was tdunded. [DEVE, worked with Armsioin, ok to and from them were in CommL by prohibition agents dur e | the next ‘two years, but there was | pros n so far as he knew. huster & Co., 2 whole oncern in Claveland, Bur report of the r Clavéland. Bur rtment and the ac- T f the auditor's office of the e “but in 1923 b Agree Upon Surplus. ComprOs '(d’_ ‘~V"’h0 ution for a pay He emphasized that the joint select | committes through outsde suditors,| He declared that in March 18 the controller general of the United | Ne€re were 11.000 permits outstandins Statea Yo sruprlontn fnited o Onio which allowed liquor sals States, and. “auditor of the Dis. | NOUSh in March, 1921, there had be States, and the auditor « o Din-t Houkh in Man # t repre £ the District, an|°ut 3000 outstanding agreed that above and beyond every | Whisky Billed As Lumber. obligation covered by law| qoanoo oo oo 5 TS is now & United States| Willlan Breaster. B ) belonging to the |Stopped Burton in February ibia the Cleveland Federal building, th Stanley H. Kunz 3 him e tnes told him he re moved ihat the 708 S Sl A favorable re. |Sente prieRiee & 2 ihe attack made |that the firm was “willing to pa tive Blanton vesterday | gix A" to secure re substantiated by but| a0 housandito saqnar that it had been answered to the com- | O of whisky plete satisfaction of the subcommittee | stood by Maj. Donovan. Representative Nickel Plate railroad Kunz said that no matter what the surveillance b 1bit attitude of the committee might be, Representative Blanton would be in| There was no prosec Furio ppasition, and ev the full com- | dec re nd 4 mittee made a unanimous report in tee adjour favor of the hill, Representative tomorrow without compls Hlanton would ask time in opposition. “He always demands an hour. up fift utes of it himself and sives five minutes to other objectors, said Representative Kunz. Ohio Bans Sunday Movies. COLUMELS, Ohio, May 13.—Motion pictures were held to be theatrical performances by the Ohio supreme court today and are barred from be ing _exhibited on The decision was given in the ap- peal of W. K. Richards, operator of a motion picture theater at Find from a sentence of 3100 and cosis imposed by local courts for operating on Sunday days. Three Bandits Rob Bank. WALPETON, N. D., May 13.—Three robbers broke into the State Bank of Abercrombie, about twelve miles early today, demolished safe and safety deposit boxes and_escaped with $5,000 in cash, §4.250 in liberty bonds and an unde- termined amount of collateral. Stone Dismisses $l-a-Year Agents; Many Prominent A number of widely known men on Department of Justice rolls as $l-a-year secret agents when Attorney General Stone took office last month, but the last the were of them have been separated from the service The list as submitted to the ‘Senate Daugherty committee to- day by the Justice Department in- cluded: Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., C. D. Hilles, former chairman of the Republican national commit- te Federal Judge George A. Car- penter of Chicago; John K. Tener, former Governor of Pennsylvania and base ball magnate; former Senator Coleman T. du Pont of Delaware; 1. H. Hoover, chief ushers at the White House; Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Re- publican national committee, and E. B. McLedn, publisher of the Washington Post. Near Stars Great Earthquakes Signor_Caselli’s telluric prophecies for last March, which were deposited with a notary here some time in ad- vance of the expected disturbances, were confirmed by subsequent events, Tis studies of the recent earth- quake at Abruzzi, he declares, con- Vinced him that telluric phenomena in their electro-magnetic manifesta- tions unmistakably influence animals before the seismic movement begins. Prof. Caselli is inclined to believe the theory, which, he says’ was known to the ancients, that great seimsic movements may be produced by electro-magnetism developed by tho stars of our planetary system during the periods of their greatest proximity to the earth. o | questioning of him AT FALLS PLAN LEGAL. SAYS STGNE ntinued from First Page ) | GRE | capital by fu service which mode | This is the answer made by Attor General Stone to Acting Cha | Ziniman of the House District | mittee in reply to an inquiry mad | by direction of the committee, w Sked to he ed (1) as to th power of the federal governme condemn land for public use Whether the government can o and use such land after the dings the | demnation pr | without awai | fo_the court. | In summing |eral says that are instity final judgr up the Attorney e the development | water power at Great Falls might | incidental to the exclusive authorit 1o legislate for the District of Colun bia, or derived from the supreme | thority over navigation.” The Attorney General's report |a lengthy document quoting m | authorities and cases. It says “Congress alone has power to loz late for the District of Columbi virtue of article 1, section §, par | graph 17. This power is com; and unlimited and covers both polit cal and municipal questions. “It would seem that whatever C gress may do with respect to the ¢ velopment of hvdroelectric power Great Falls in order to furnish District of Columbia with electric e ergy would be subject to the prin ples which have been thorough tablished in_United States ve Gettysburg Electric Company. judgment of Congress that ripar land and water rights shall be demned for this purpose should vail unless many cases are to be o ruled. Declares Right Exists. “When the legislature itselt pressly declared the purpose or to be a public one, or what amount to the same thing, expressly authc izes a taking for a use specifical described, its judgment will be & cepted by the courts unless the u is palpably without reasonable fou dation.” In another place in his report ti Attorney General points out that would seem to be appropriate for Congress to provide for the develop- ment of hydroelectric energy at Great Falls and dispose of the same. This may be more a question of policy than of power, incidental to the District's water supply. ‘As the supreme legislative author- ity for the District of Columbia, and having numerous governmental estab- lishments which consume large quan- tities of electric current, there would be some ground for a declaration by Congress that such hydroelectric de- velopment was necessary and expedi- ent. There is no objection to the United States condemning land to conserve 'its revenue as a business proposition.”