Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 2

REALTORS POUR_INTO _CITY FOR-CONVENTION 4,000 Expected for Bession When + Last Special Train Arrives * Tomokrow. Evening. BOARD OF ‘DIRECTORS MEETS Considers Changes in By-Laws and X Code of Ethies.. TRealtors from all parts of the con- tinental United States, some from Canada and Hawali, were pouring into the Capltal city today preparatory fo the seventeenth annual conVen- tion of the Natlonal Association of Real Estate Boards, which convenes tomorrow morning in its first gen- eral session at Keith's Theater. ‘The attendance at the convention, Witl reach close to the 4,000 mark, it fYfestimated, of which about 33 per cent are women, probably the largest number of the falrer sex ever in attendance at one of the conventions. Those who have directed these con- yentions for years ascribe thts to the \}ionul Capital as a drawing card. JAside from a meeting of the board 6} directors and the ethles committee tdday, practically the entire day will he given over to registration, meet- ing delegations at the trains and plgeing them in the hotels assigned hem \:?gm- Washington Real Estate Board, der the direction of John A: Petty. executive secretary, is handling the arrivals in excellent style. The local board is furnishing the transportation and the registration clerks at all of the hotels, and early today every fully manned. a matter which brought forth praise from the cers of the national association %eh hotel has its registration booth. and all of the information gathered these is sent to the central regis- tion. By-Law Changes Considered. The board of directors today is con- midering a number of matters vital fjthe organization, including & con- tutional change. which would per- mit more than one board in the same city to be admitted to the national association under certain conditions. It also is considering a change in the -laws. regarding reciprocal mem- bership and the matter of realtor jusisdiction. The latter question is -‘x‘smerefl an important one, and Wil lay down the rule as to how far a real estate board may go in dis- missing a realtor from Its member- 2hip and restricting his operations. The ethics committee is revising the code for realtors, which original- 1y was adopted in 1906. This commit- teq will attempt to “put teeth” in the agde with & view to placing the pro- fdesion of real estate brokerage on the highest possible plane, both fo= the protection of the public and the profession itself. Many of the large delegations al- fqady” have arrived and have been pfuced In their hotels. The Califor- nia special arrived last night and local realtors took them in private machines to their hotels in the heavy rain, another matter which brought mych praise for the effective ar- gements of the local board. The ifornia delegation came in 100 strong, and the Chicago delegation, on a special train, brought 170, H. R. Ennis, president 'of the association, arrived lasy night also. Special Trains Co The Florida special. with 250 real- tars and their guests, is expected tomight at 6 o'clock, and at the same hour the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh delegations will arrive on a special train. _ Arrivals today _include: § 112;° Kansas_ City, .—Denver 24; Minne- isom, ‘Wis!, 19: 2:30 : 2:45 pm— Fort Wayne, Ind. 12: 5 p.m.—Plttsburgh, 102; Phi deiphia, 202; 6 p.m—Atianta, Ga., Florida, 250: 6:20 @.m.—the Oran; N3 J., 21: 6:45 p.m.—+Boston, 50 pfn—Indianapolis, 25: ® p.mi.—St. Potersburg, Fla., 25; 9:15 p.an.—New York city, “44; ] p.m.—Akron, Ohio, 25;"'10:30 p.m—St. Louts, 81. And ‘either on a 6 o'clock special or the 8:50 regular 10 realtors will ar- rive from Houston, Tex., and 13 from D;\%la& . Tomorrow marnin; 138t of the ayivals. €:50 am.. Memphts, ‘Early,” Huntingto; Winston-Salem; field, Mas: 5 Conn., 34; will Th b see the e schedule & O., No. 6, Haven, veland, Ohio, . 38: 8:40 p.m 1 New Orleans, 18: Cunton, Ohio, 33::9:10 a.m., Michigan, 125; 10:20 a.m., Canada, 35, Group to Hear President. A visit to the White House Thurs- day afternoon #t 12:15 o'clock to hear an address by President Coolidge, fol- lowed by a trip to the Arlington na- Uypal cemetery, where special exer. es will be held at the tomb of the Unkown Soldier, are among many s\de features on the program which has been arranged for delegates. The delegates, amoug whom are a number of Canadian members who a\h an international aspect to the thering, will go to Arlington in special tralns. The trains will leave 12th street and Pennsylvania avenue beginning at 3 o'clock. The cere- mony will begin at about 3:30 o'clock. Secretary of War Weeks will make 1ie, principal address. President H. R. hbrs, | Kansas City, will - piace wreaths on the tomb of the unknown =oldler in behalf of the American realtors, and Col. Goodwin Gibson, ‘Porontn. in behalf of Canadian real: tors. The Rev. Dr. J. J. Muir, chap- Jain of the United States Senate, will pronounce the invocation. ‘Visitors to Our City. fihs entertainment program for to- Tow, when the business sessions of the convention begin, include an informal veception and dance in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel, at 8:30 welock. A tea will be given for the women of the convention at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Wardman Park Hotel, This will be fallowed by an automobile sightsee- }ytnur The women will visit the merican Union at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, and at 2 o'clock the ladies will go to Mount Vernon by boat. A sightseeing tour of Wash- ington has been set for 4 o'clock, und at 6:30 in the evening the presiden- tial dinner will he held in the ball- x of the Willard Hotel. Thurs- .&: program includes a luncheon to visiting board secretaries at 1 o'clock at_the Willard Hotel. Delegates have been invited by the realtors of Baltimore to visit that city Friday afternoon. A boat trip has been arranged. The boat will legye from the pler at the foot of Broadway, Baltimore, at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon for a two-hour inspec- tion trip of the harbor, after which the' pargy will return for an automobile tour. cheon will be served on board the syamer. el R FLORIDA REALTORS HERE b:Halt of Membership.at Lake: land Will Be at New Willard. One-halt of the entire membership of the Lakeland, Florids, Realtors' Ansociation will be represented at the national realtors’ ' convention to be held here this week. Twenty-five members of the Lakeland organiza- n willl arrive in Washington at 4 }'clock this afternoon. he Floridians will distribute thou- sands of booklets descriptive of Lake- 1and while ip Washington. The Lake. Jand_contingent will be quartered at the New Willard Hotel. -)R@Rm Hoke Chief Justiceship.: ALEIGH, 'N. C. June 2.—Gov. Cameron Morrison today tendered the office of chief justice of the supreme coyrt of North Carolina to Assoclate Jystice W. A. Hoke, senior member ETHICS CHAIRMAN : BARNHISEL, Tacomn, Waxsh., chalrman committee on ethics, Natlonal Association of Real Estate Boards, DAUGHERTY PROBERS BAR FINK TESTIMONY Decline to Permit Him to Air Charges Against Wheeler and Others. IALIEN PROPERTY CASE UP Stock of American Metals Company Declared Held by Neutrals. Before the Senate Daugherty com- mittee resumed work on the Amer- ican Metals Company case today, It peaceably disposed for the time being of the intervention of A. L. Fink, who claimed the right Saturday to testify. An attorney who said he represented Fink was told by Chair- man Brookhart that Fink was not under subpoena and that the com- mittee did not wish to hear him. The attorney left © On Saturday Fink claimed the right to tell the committee that at- tempts were made to induce him to slander President Coolidge and to put in allegations about liquor furnished by Senator Wheeler to Roxie Stinson. Says Smith Backed Urlon. Adna R. Johnson, special ussistant attorney general, assigned to the alien property office, recalled by the committée and Senator Wheeler got him to identify Howard Maning- ton and Alfred R. Urlon, mentioned in the fight film and other cases. Jess Smith recommended Urion ery highly” at the alien property office, Johnson said, and as an attorney Urion represented clients in several cases before the office. # Manington, though said in previous testimony not to be a lawyer, had “a brief” in one case before the office, Johnson added. The committee prosecutor then turned to the metals case. Previous testimony has been that the value of the German stock ~holding in the American Metals Company, seized during the war, was returned to a Swiss corporation. The amount was $6,400,000. A Senator Wheeler asked *on what principle of law" the return had been made, and Johnson said that 95 per cent of the debenture bonds of the Swiss corporation were “owned by neutrals. “There was nothing in the files to show the Swiss company was in fact a subsidiary of the German corpora- tion,” the witness said. Handled 7,000 Canes. “Didn't you find in_the files this contract, dated May 18, 1918, betwen Henry Bruere and the German owners, in which they contracted to sell this stock?’ asked Senator ‘Wheeler. “That's the first I ever saw of it," said Johnson. “So you took a part of the files and declded the case?” “We took what was submitted to us. I had no knowledge of the exist- ence of any other records.” Richard Merton, the principal agent in the negotiations, was first refused a return of the $6,400,000, Johnson sald, and then “made a trip to Bu- rope and produced additional evi- dence. “What additional evidence did he bring back?" Senator Wheeler asked. “1 have worked on 7,000 cases; I don’t remember,” Johnson replied. Says Preference Banned. Senator Wheeler got the witness to read the list of fifteen directors in the Swiss company. and to {dentify nine of them as German. Johnson insisted, however, that “95 per cent of the beneficial ownership was Swiss.” “There wae an indebtedness to Swiss neutrals,” he sald, “and we were satisfled that 95 per cent of the people who would get the property back were neutrals.” Paul Howland of counsel for H. W. Daugherty, took up cross-examina. tion, saying he wanted to conside: the “inference that certain attorneys had a pull with the Department of Justice.” Alfred R. Urion, out of five cases in the alien property office, got prop- erty back in two cases, and lost three, Johnson sald. John Todd, formér law partner of Daugherty, won one and lost four. Thomas B. Felder lost one, and so did Howard Manington, Johnson sald. "1 was instructed by the Attorney General to treat all people allke,” Johnson sald. REFUSES CONSENT TO D. C. BILL GLEAN-UP Howard Blocks Plan of Longworth to Get Legislation Out of Way. House Leader Longworth today asked unanimous consent for consid- eration toworrow night after § o'clock of District legislation, but Representative Edgar Howard, Dem- ocrat, Nebraska, objected. Mr. Longworth, in announcing the program for a general clean-up of the House calendars before the vote for adjournment was taken today, THE EVENI) ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL ! CADET DRILL OPENED Company L of Western First on Field at Ball Park Stadium. 1ST QUARTER ENDS AT NOON 25 Organizations to Participate in | Competition. | To the strains of Sous famous “High School Cadet March,” Company L of Western High School, command- ed by Capt. Lewis Cravan, marched into the Clark Griffith stadium pre- cisely at 5:30 o'clock this morning and formally opened the - thirty- seventh annual competitive drill of the Washington High School Cadet Corps, the classic of school military aftairs. Between 400 and 500 loyal Western students stood in the stands and cheered the company, one of the school's three entries in the event, as it passed through the gates and came to. attention fn front of the three Army officer judges. 25 Companies In Drill. Twenty-five companies, represent- ing the five white high schools and the Columbla Junior High School, are participating in the drill. When the first quarter ended at noon today, séven of them had gone through the prescribed maneuvers before the crit- ical eves of the judges. Five com- panies will drill this afternoon and the remaining thirteen tomorrow morning and afternoon. Company D of Eastern High School, n command of Capt. W. R. Cheek, win- ner of the event last year, was the third to drill this morning.” The coveted prize flag, which has reposed in Eastern's hall of fame for the last year, was sur- rendered to Robert L. Haycock, assist- ant superintendent of schools, and will be presented to the victorious company at the conclusion of this years drill to- morrow afternoon. Others in Drill. Other companies which drilled this morning are Company A of Eastern, in command of Capt. M. A. Talbert; Com- pany F of Eastern, in command of Capt. Paul Doerr; Company B of Eastern, in command of Capt. John W. Rosson: Company C of Eastern, in command of Capt. R. W vingle, and Company H of Western, John esbitt. The second quarter of the drill was opened at 2 o'clock this after- noon by Company A of MeKinley, commaded by Capt. Ross R. Guthrie. Company C of MeKinley in command of Capt. A C. Hugin followed at 2:30, and Company D, the same school, in command of Capt. E. W. Denison, at 3 o'clock. Other com panies which will drill this after- noon and the time of their appear- ance follows: Company M of the Columbia Junior High School, com- | manded by Capt. Louis Lebowits, 3:30 o'clock, and Company B of McKin- ley, in command of Capt. W. H. Ciements, 4 o'clock. Music during the drill is being fur- nished by the Cadet Brigade Band. The judges are Majs. Ralph King- man, Jesse C. Drain and Leonard T. Gerow, all of the infantry of the Regular Army. Cabinet officers, members of Con- gress and the diplomatic corps, rank- ing Army and Navy officers and Dis- trict government and school officials, in addition to about 30,000 school children are expected to attend the arill tomorrow afternocon when the winning company will be announced and the prizes awarded by Maj. Gen. Charles §. Farnsworth, chief of in- fantry, U, 8. A. . command of Capt. BRITISH NAVY IN BOUNDS. No .Expenditures Beyond Treaty Provisions, Commons Told. By the Amsociated Press. LONDON, June 2.—Great Britain has incurred no naval expenditure contrary to the provisions of the naval treaty for limitation of naval armaments, Charles Ammon, parlia- mentary secretary to the admirality, today stated In the House of Com- mons. A questioner had asked for the amounts spent by Great Britain, the United States, France, Japan and Italy since the treaty, and whether such expenditures were incurred con- trary to the arrangements agreed upon at the Washington conference. Mr. Ammon added that he assumed the other signatories of the treaty were also carrying out its provisions. BRYAN STAR CATCHER. Dons Mask and Chest Protector, But Doesn’t Use Glove. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June Willilam Jennings Bryan, probably one of the few times in his life, be- came a base ball player while the 136th general assembly of the Presby- terian Church was meeting here. He donned a mask and chest protector and made a perfect bare-hand catch of a ball pitched by Dr. Clarence E. MacArtney, moderator. It was a per- fect strike. The game was won by Wooster, Ohio. the school of which Dr. Charles F. Wishart, retiring moderator, is president. Alma, Mich., was the loser. MAGINOT CABLES WEEKS. French War Minister Pays Hom- age to U. S. Dead Memorial Day Memorial day messages exchanged between Andre Maginot, French mini- ster of war and Secretary of War Weeks' were as follows: “On this day when the United States is honoring its glorious dead,” said Minister Maginot, “I wish to renew the assurance of our friend- ship in the celebration of Memorial ay., The French Amr Joins with the American Army in rendering homage to those of your heroes who fell on French soil.” Secretary Weeks sent following re- py; YThe Army of the United States is most appreclative of the . homage rendered on Memorial day by the French Army to our comrades who fell on French soil. The American Army has not forgotten those glor- jous days when its Doughboys fought beside your Poilus in a common cause, and your Memorial day mes- sage assures us that the French Army also remembers. 2 Will Resume Power Hearings. Hearings on the proposed hydro- |electric devclopment of the Potomac River at Chain bridge and Great Falls will be resumed tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the House District committee rooms. Wins ;ppeal for Trial stated that it was the intention to bring up for consideration a number of District measures, both those on the District calendar and on the unanimous consent calendar. This means that _practically all measures before the House District committee or before any of the committees of the House will red before making one of the best clean-ups in recent years on District legislation. The outstanding measures of in- terest to the District which have not come up for consideration either in committee or in the House at this session are regarding the various proposals for suffrage for the Na- tional Capital and for & merger of the bench sinte the death of Chief|the street railway systems in Wash- Justice Walter Clark two weeks ago. A ington. of Suit Because Name Wasn’t in Phone Book Dr. Willlam L. Masterson today won his appeal to the Court of Appeals from the refusal of the District Supreme Court to submit to & jury his suit for §$5,000 dam- ages against the Chesapeake and Potomac_Telephone Company for leaving his name out of the tele- phone directory. The _Appellate Court, through Judge Barber of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, directed a new trial of the case. The court points out that the telephone com g.ny is a publ 'using or neglecting to render service does 80 at its own parl_l(, S MANY BACK LOWDEN FOR VICE PRESIDENCY Former Governor Regarded as Strong Possibility if Hoover Refuses Nominstion. CHOICE STILL - UNCERTAIN Leaders Unwilling to Leave Matter \ to Delegates’ Whim. With the Republican national con- vention to meet a week from tomor- ToW to nominate a candidate for President and Vice President and frame a platform, there Is still com- plete uncertainty as to who is likely to be nominated for second place on the national ticket. The suggestion is advanced in some quarters that it might be well to withhold arriving at a decision and give the appearance at least of letting. the delegates choose the man uninfluenced by the leaders. But this course is not likely to be followed, the ‘“practical” politicians . The selection of a candidate for Vice President is regarded as too important to be left to last minute hagards. The fact that the candl- date for the presidency is practically already nominated, it Is argued, in- vests President Coolldge, the pros- pective nominee, with an interest In the choosing of his running mate. The situation is classed as being dif- ferent m four years &go when there was a spirited contest on for the nomination. Hoover Rejects Proffer. It has been reported for &everal {days that the administration was favorable to the suggestion of the nomination of Secretary Herbert Hoover for second place. Mr. Hoover. it can be stated positively, does not want the nomination and 'is asking his friends not to urge him for the honor. - He would be highly accept- able to the business interests of the country, it is said, but he is reported to feel that he could render greater service in his present position, if it were the next President's pleasure to_keep him. Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Tllinols is regarded as & strong pos- sibility for second place, in case Mr. Hoover is successful in putting the crown aside. Mr. Lowden is known to be disinclined to have the nomina- tion, but in the last few days many friends have urged that he owes it to his party and his friends to make a sacrifice if one is required of him. It is the belief of these friends that he would not decline if nominated. Gov. Hyde of Missouri is _being urged by his friends on the ground that Missourl is a close state and his selection would make it safe for the Republican ticket. Charles G. Dawes is the cholce of a large element of the leaders, but it is said he will not accept. —- ———— WOMEN’S GOLF FIELD Miss Ruth Tanner of the Chevy Chase Club. tpday led a fleld of more than twenty-five woman golfers of clubs about the District in the first round of the annual competition for | the Evening Star golf cup. Miss Tan- ner had a net score of 88, a gross, card of 104 with a handicap of 16. Mrs. Alma von Steiner of the Manor Club and Mrs. G. G. Lewis of Indian Spring were tied for spcond place this afternoon with net cards of 81.; Mrs. von Steiner had 111 with a handicap of 20, while Mrs. Lewis had | 114 with a handicap of 23. | i Mrs, E. R. Tilley, Mrs. H. K. Corn- well of Columbla and Mrs. H. A. Knox of Indian Spring were tied for fourth | place with net cards of 94, while Mrs. 9. R. De Farges of Indian Spring was in third place with a card of 105-13-92. Other scores turned in by the com- petitors in The Star cup competition follow: Mrs. John F. Dryden, Chevy | Chase, 117-20-97; R. L. Rose, Indian Spring, 11 Mrs. L. O. Cameron, Chevy Chase, 106-10-96; Mrs. L. L. Steele, Indian Spring, 119- 16-103; Mrs. C. A. Slater, Indian Spring, 124-22-102; Mrs. W. E. Bal- lard, Washington, 0 Charles L. Frailey, 111-10-101; Mrs. J. B. Tomlinson, In- dian Spring, net 122; Mrs. J. V. Harper, Indian Spring; 142-24-115; Miss Phylils Keeler, Washington, 121- 16-105. The second and final round in the thirty-six_hole handicap competition will be played tomorrow morning, beginning at 10 o'clock. il uint LAND PROBE TO CONTINUE Senate Comimittee Votes to Go On With Inquiry. Further hearings will be held on charges of Texas land frauds under & decision today of the Senate post office committee. The full committee reversed the de- cision of its subcommittee which has been conducting the investigation and which, through Chairman Moses, had announced the sessions would be ad- journed until opportunity was given for a visit to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. MARKHAM ON PROGRAM. Music Pupils Also Take Part in Benefit Performance. The final entertalnment of & series that has been given for the benefit of the starving German children will be held tomorrow night at the resi- dence of Mme. Garl von Lewinski, 3145 16th street, under the direction of Miss Grace G. Gilchrist. The piano pupils of Miss Gilchrist will play, and in addition Edwin Markham, not- ed American poet: Raymond G. Moore, baritone, and Miss Clelia Fioravanti, soprano, will participate. -Tickets for the concert may be obtained at the Master School of the Piano, 1006 F street. COL. DEEMS EXPIRES. Retired Officer Served in Philip- pines and Other Posts. Col. Clarence Deems, a retired artil- lery officer. died in Baltimore last Thursday, according to a report re- celved at the War Department today. He was born in Charlottesville, Va., October 10, 1850, and was gradu- ated from the United States Military Academy in June, 1874. Assigned to the artillery he served in the Phillp- ine insurrection and at various posts n_the United States. In 1881. he was military instructor at the Maryland Agricultural College and commanded the artillery district of Puget Sound just before his re- tirement in December, 1911. — LAWYER'S BAIL FORFEITED Attorney Fails to Appear to An. swer to Charge of Bribing. NEW YORK, June 3.—William J. Fallon, attorn with brib- ing a juror, failed to appear for trial hefore Federal Judge English today and his $5,000 ball was forfeited. Fallgn was indicted on July 11, 1823, with Charles W. Rendigs, the jurer whom he is said to Have bribed. The trial in which the bribery was d to have taken place was that Durrell-Gregory Compan; of using the walls to_ detraud jos In cus in_connection ®with stock 192, TAR, WASHINGTON, killing of Robert Franks. GROSSMAN RELEASED BY SUPREME COURT Writ Issued Granting Freedom Pending Final Settlement of Fight on Coolidge Pardon. Philip Grossman of Chicago, re- cently committed to the Chicago house of correction upon orders of Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson after President Coolidge had pardon- ed him, was today granted a writ of habeas corpus by the Supreme Court. The highest court in October mext will go into the merits of the con- troversy as to the authority of the President to exercise executive clem- ency in cases where persons are held to be in contempt of court. Grossman's sentence by former Judge Landis for contempt of court in connection with a violation of a prohibition padlock injunction was commuted by Presidént Coolidge after the Supreme Court had refused to review his case. Taking the position that the Presi- dent's power of executive clemenc did not extend to such contempt cases, Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson or- dered Grossman's arrest and commit- ment. Grossman applied to the Su- preme Court for release on a writ of habeas corpus, contending that Judges Carpenter, Wilkerson and Cliffe, com- posing the federal district court in Chicago, were disqualified from pass- ing on such a writ. Justice McKenna, in announcing the granting of the writ of habeas cor- pus, sald a rule would Issue, return- able October 6 next, and that, pending final disposition of the case, Gross- man would be yeleased on furnishing bail for $5,000. —— D. C. HEADS BACK BILL FOR FEEBLE-MINDED Favor Plan to Have Cases Handled by Board of Charities for Present. The Commissioners today advised the House District committee that they are in favor of actlon on the bill to provide for the handling of feeble-minded persons by the board of charities, with the suggestion that the legislation be amended later to harmonize with the proposed new welfare code. This bill defines what shall bs re- garded as feeble-mindedness and pro- vides the machinery for committing persons to the new Distriot train- ing school to be established near Camp Meade. Md., for feeble-minded. The site has been purchased and money appropriated by Congress for the buildings. “The Commissioners have long fa- vored the establishment of such an institution,” they said, in their report to the House committee, “and & measure such as provided by this bill for its administration, and are thoroughly in sympathy with the purposes of the bill. “They had hoped that the leglsla- tion provided for in the bill might b. incorporated in the general proposi- tion of the establishment of a board of public welfare for the District, as contemplated by the House bill 8464 of the present Congress. This bill was introduced at the request of the Commissiondrs, and is the result of a careful study by a commission on pub- lic welfare composed of & number of prominent citizens of the District of Columbia, who were assisted in their work by an expert of the Russell Bage Foundation. It is not probable, however, that the bill providing for this board of public welfare can be enacted the present session of Congre: INDIAN MINERAL LANDS BARRED FROM LEASING Attorney General Rules Executive Order Is Not Permitted Under Law of 1920. The government has no authority to lease on executive order mineral lands on Indian reservations under the gen- eral leasing law of 1820. Decision on this point, announced today by the Interior Department from the Attor- ney General, was made after Secre- tary Work last February had sus- pended issuarice of permits under the leasing act on these Indian lands and had requested the Attorney General for a legal interpretation of the ques- tion. At present there are between 400 and 500 applications for oil, gas and other permits on executive or- der reservations pending in the gen- eral land office of the Interior De- partment. % Resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the special advisory com- mittee of 100 on Indian affairs last December demanding that the Indians receive the royalties and requesting the Secretary of the Interior to sus- pend all epartmental proceeding: the sale and lease of oll d other minerals on these res ions awaliting action of Con: — ABANDON BARKLEY BILL. House Insurgents Drop Fight to End Railroad Board. House supporters of the Barkley bill to abelish the Rallroad Labor Board today abandoned their fight to enact the measure into law at this session of Congr Consideration of the measure was in order, but Representative Bark- ley, Democrat, Kentucky, its author, agreed to have it laid aside. It is one_of the measures booked by the La Follette group of insurgents. AND BOY VICTIM ROBERT CHILD LABOR VOTE DUE THIS EVENING Senator Reed Brands Measure as Definite Step Toward Anarchy. FRANKS. The Senate agreed today to vote at 9 o'clock tonight on the child labor constitutional amendment which l- ready has passed the House. An original agreement to vote at 5 p.m. was modified after Senator Reed, Democrat, Missourl, had de- manded more time for debate, assert- ing that the proposal was a “step to- ‘wards anarch; The resolution would be voted for “only by cowards” Senator Reed de- clared. Those who support it, he added, “consider only their own in- terests in playing to some bloc or clique .and fail absolutely to defend the Conatitution.” He argued, it not only would give the government control over chil- dren, but also over the daily activi- ties of “that vast number between childhood and manhood.” “If we pass this amendment,” he sald, “we not only confer a police power on the government, held now only by the states, but we give the federai government power greater than that ever conferred on any other government.” A series of amendments was put forward by opponents in a last-minute attack. Senator Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, Drgno-ed an amend- ment requiring submission of the resolution, if passed by the Senate, to a direct vote of the people rather than to the state legislatures. Sena- tor Reed offered several changes, in- clud.ng one to lower the age limit from eighteen to fourteen years. Senator Overman assalled the res- olution as an attack on state rights and unnecessary. He insisted the pro- posal “strikes at the very root of home rule.” Citing a list of state laws now in force regulating child labor, Senator Overman argued the federal government would .be going out of its way to give itself the power proposed by the amendment. SEVERE QUAKE REPORTED Tidal Wave Followed Shocks, Philippines Report Says. By the Associated Press. MANILA, June 2.—Strong earth- quake shocks, followed by a tidal wave, are reported from Agno, in the province of Pangasinan, in official telegram received today. The popu- lace is terror-stricken. The telegrams say the earthquakes are believed to have been caused by the eruption of a submarine volcano. There was no serious damage. GAS RATES SET ASIDE. (Bln Francisco Ordinance Overruled by Supreme Court. The decision of the lower courts sustaining ordinances fixing the price of gas in San Francisco for the fiscal years 1914, 1915 and 1916 were set aside today by the Supreme Court. Justice McReynolds, delivering the opinion, sald the court would not un- dertake to say upon the present rec- ord just how the company should be compensated. but would leave that for future consideration should the sub- Ject again be raised. The ordinances were attacked by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company on the ground that the rate filed dig not vield a fair and just return upon the investment of the company. Woman Restored Citizenship Lost By Wedding Alien Mrs. Helen Hopkins Zelov today ®alned her American citizenship, . Which she lost by her marriag last year to a civil engineer of Russian birth, by decree of Justice Stafford of the District Supreme Court. Mrs. Alma S. Rasul, who married a Filipino, was also re- stored to American citizenship. Forty-eight applicants for their second and final citizenship pape: 1 and responsibiliti of citizens. Among the applicants were ten Russians and an equal British, including En Scotch and Canadians; ans, six Greeks, two French Hungariane, and one each of Ger- man. “Turk, Spanish and Nicara- {at 11:45 p.m. 9 KILLED, 20 HURT IN TRAIN COLLISION ‘Wabash Passenger Coaches Hurled Into Freight on Siding After | Hitting Split Rail. | MANY OF VICTIMS SCALDED Medical Aid Rushed to Scene From Nearby Cities. By the Associated Press. ATTICA, Ind, June 2.~Nine per- sons are dead and twenty injured as the result of the collision last night between cast bound Wabash raflroad passenger train No. 2 and & freight train which was on a siding. The passenger train wae hurled against the freight engine, and several per. sons were badly scalded by steam from the wrecked locomotives. The dead are Mrs. W. H. Pauley, Decatur, 11l.; Mrs. Abble Holloway, Toledo, Ohio; E. Phillips, Detroit; Rabbi T. Goldber, 203 East Broadway, New York; Walter L. Mitchell, 8t. Louis; George W. Bouchard, Peru, Ind., en- gineer on the freight train; Harry Eisman, St. Louls: George Koesmo, St. Louis and one unidentified man. The passenger train, one of the fastest on the system, is belleved to have hit a split rail and crashed into the freight. The engine and seven coaches of the passenger train passed over the place believed to have been defective. The remainder of the train, which consisted mostly of Pullman cars, left the track, however, and were hurled against the freight. The wreck occurred Doctors, nurses and ambulances | were rushed to the scene of the wreck from West Lebanon, Ind.; Dan- ville, IL.: Williamsport, Ind, and other neighboring cities. Many of the injured were sent to hospitals in various towns, and little information was available regarding their condi- tion. Four of the injured who were taken to a hospital in Lafayette, however, are expected to die. Among the more seriously injured are: W. J. Smith, Evansville, Ind.; Earl Ferris, negro, Dallas, Tex.: Mrs. Fred A. Baller, Roch Frank Garneu, Tovey, IlL; erman, Crownswell, Ind tonoss, Mason City, lowa; fonbre, Detroit. W. H. Eckard, divisfon superin- tendent, after ' an _investigation is a statement attributing the collision to the failure of David E. Torrence of Peru, Ind., brakeman on the freight train, to lock a switch after the freight train had run upon the side track. KILAUEA QUAKE STOPS HAWAIIANS’ SURF RIDING Officials’ Ban on Close Approach to Volcano Rouses Strong | Protest. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, June 2.—The turbul- ence of the sea in the vicinity of these fslands, attributed to the activity of the voleano Kilauea, and which “was noted first on Saturday, continued yvesterday. All the islands in_ the group are affected. Surf-| riding at Waikikl, Sunday recreation of thousands of Hawalian residents, proved too dangerous vesterday. The emission of immense clouds of steam and one earthquake at 1 p.m. yester- day were the day’s only manifesta- tion from Kilauea, said advices from Hilo, on the same island as the volcano, this morning. A sentiment has grown up in cer- tain quarters in Hilo that conditions near: the volcano are not 8o serious as_officials believe, and the faction holding these views has entered pro- tests against the closure to tourists of the national park in_which the crater is located. A8 a result of an altercation arising from one such protest, T. A. Dranga, & merchant of Hilo, was arrested vesterday. — CHINESE BANDITS FREE 2 TO ARRANGE RANSOM American and Briton in Mission- ary Party Still Held Mountain Stronghold. By the Associated Press. PEKING, June 2.—Dr. H. G. Mil- ler, an American, and a Briton named Jaffray, captured by Chinese bandits in Kwangsl Province when pirates a tacked thelr launch a week ago, have been released, said officlal advices received here to The two, who were members of & party of four taking supplies to a mission station, were freed that they might arrange ransom, said the advices, which were from Culver B. Chamberiain, an American consular officer who has been seeking to have the party released. Rex Ray, an American, and a Briton named Carne, still_are held in the pirates’ mountain stronghold. PO DAUGHTER FREES FATHER Court Sustains Point Raised in Fugitive Charge. WORCESTER, Mass.. June Abraham Goldman of Chlcago, who was acquitted in superlor court last Thursday on & charge of conspiracy in wrecking the Warren National Bank, was discharged today in dis- trict ' court when arraigned as fugitive of juatice from Buffa Goldman is wanted in Buffalo on a charge of larceny of $127,000 lost by the Niagara Life Insurance Company of that city in disposing of the $213,- 000 worth of securities stolen from the Warren Bank. ‘When he wags arraigned today, his daughter, who defended him in su- perior colirt; raised the point that he was not & fugitive from justice, cause he came here of his own voli- tion a government witness and defendant in the Warren case. The court ruled that there was no procedure for transporting him from This state to New York without his Walving extradition and Goldman re- fused to waive extradition. Goldman and his daughter left Worcester im- mediately after the court proceed- Tony De- in $e | residents of the RADIO. SHUT-IN FUND CONTRIBUTIONS GROW Two Crystal Sets and $3 Received by The Star in Resbonse to Appeal. INVALID TO HELP OTHERS Owner of Set Tells of Joy It Has Brought Him. Touched by the appeals of the in- valids for recreation and entertain- ment through the medium of radio Washington's radio fans and charii- ably inelined persons responed toda: With cash contributions and crysta sets for The Star's “radio. shut-in fund,” which was inauguarated yes- terday to give every deserying “shut- in" in the District a radio set. The sets will be given to invalids not financially able to purchase them and only upon an affidavit signed by « physician or clergyma: The contributions received toda i{?‘,‘_lmip two crystal sets and a check ! Which will be applied to th: fund for th purchase of antenna wire, headphones and other essentia equipment. One set was donated hv Dr. John . Hartman, 01 Brownley building. The other was anonymous The donor of the $3 check made it “In Memory of 1. H. 8" b P. Carter, 12t street south- , & “shut-in s not walked December 5, led The on the telephone and of fered to donaate three cr to the “shut-in” fund. Mr. made the sets during his conflnem with th 1p of friends, and be 'shut-in" himself, realiz the of ra to entertain invalids whe cannot leave the confine of their hon “I Kow what radio has done for me he said, “and 1 am anxious to he to bring joy into the lives of othe who canot get out-of-doors.” The Star has the names of more than 400 invalids in the District, into whose lives radio would bring a ray of sunshine. T aim of the “shut- in"” campaign is to place a crystal recelving set at their respective hed- sides. There are, perhaps, many others, whose names have mnot been submitted, and the doctors and clergymen in _the city urged to send them to The . Discarded Sets Good. mpaign depends entirely for on the charitably inclined District, and espe- the radio fans. Many of the radio enthusiasts started with the simple crystal sets, later discarding them for -the more expensiv re- cefvers employing audion tubes. These discarded crystal sets are still in the possession of these fans, stored away in the cellar or attic. It is these sets that The Star is anxious to turn oyer to_the poor and needy “shut-ins. Radlo fans having such sets not in use are urged to donate them. -Ar- rangements have been made to re- ceive them at the business office of The Star on the first floor of The Star building. A certificate acknowl- edging the receipt of the set will be issued to every person who makes a contribution. Money also is needed to purchase head phones, antennae and other necessary equipment. Cash contribu- tions in any amount may be made by persons who have mo crystal sets to give. Scouts to Install Sets. The 3,000 Boy Scouts in- the District have volunteered to install the sets in the homes of the “shut-ins” with out charge. Virtually all of then are familiar with the technique of radio and can install the sets satis- Ty Mark, who started the movement about & month ago to raise through the gencrosity of the pub- lio enough crystal sets to give one to every deserving hut-in® in the District, announced in @ _speech broadcast from WCAP last night that the work had reached such propor- tions that he was unable to continue it _single-handed and that The Star had made arrangements to take over the campaign. He urged all radio fans to make contributions to the “shut-in" fund CIT; NEWS IN BRIEF. Ulysses William: 100 4% street southwest, lust t appealed to police of the f procinct to ar- rest a colored man who is alleg fo have assaulted and robbed hi of $35. He maid struck o the head with & the oth man while in and his mone. East Gate Chapte: will give a chicken dinner tomorro from 5 to 7 o'clock at Woodrid Masonic Temple, Mills and Rhode 1-- land avenues northeast. The Lions CI eon, Wednesda 0 pm. at W ard Hotel. Representative —Mart L. Davey will speak of “The Vitd Relation of Trees of Human Life Clvitan_luncheon tomorrow, . at Hotel Lafayette. The District of Columbia TFublic School Assoctation will meet Wednes: day, 8§ p.m., in the bourd ree District building. Election of officers and chairmen of standing committees Star today are The c its su cially e brick by 11l meet at Sawrer. will e Wapiya 12:45 pn Brig. Gen. Charles F. be special guest of t its luncheon Wednesday, " at the University Club, His brict address will consist of Sov Thoughts Possessing Me for the Mo- ment."” t Ald Association will meet ‘Wednesday, a' urged last Starmor at Harrington Hotel, 70:30 am. All members are to be present this being the meeting until October. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. st. Paul Players hmu present ‘Daddy Long Legs"’ at the new schoo auditorium, 16th and V streete, tonight and tomorrow night. The play is being given under the auspices of the Youns Women's Club of St. Paul's parish for the benefit of the unew §200,000 parochial school Sixteenth street Highlands Citizens Assoclation will meet, 8 o'clock, Bixth Presbyterian Church. Independent Democrats of the Dis triet will meet, 8 o'clock, in red par- lor of New Ebbit. The Potomae Civic Association wil meet, 8 oclock, in Briggs school John R. Matt will speak on “The MOTOR BOAT IMPROVED. German Invention Claimed to In- crease Power of Craft. HAMBURG, June 2.—A local firm of ship builders has turned out a motor- boat with new wheel equipment that is said to solve the problem of tran ferring power from the Diesel motor forE e shatt without vibration. The inventors claim also that their sys- tem results in the delfvery of more power. MAYFIELD CASE NEAR END .rcddy Counsel .Closes Evidence, Ready for Argument. 'ounsel for George E. B. Peddy, coucasting the seat of Senator May.: field, Democrat, Tex: told the Sen- eotions commitfee today they conclyded testimony on the issue lleged misuse of funds, and were ready to mak final argument. Arguments were delayed, howevér, pending a further hearing of wif nesses for Senator Mayfleld at afternoon session of the commit An effort will be made to finish the hearings by the end of the week. ha of a International Qutlook and the Tte- sponsibility of America’s Christian ‘orces,” 8 d’clock,’ at ¥irst Congrc- gational Church. Meeting of the Parents League of the District, 8 o'clock, at New Bethel Baptist Church. ‘Women's City Club Dance under aus- fces of entertainment committee, F 0 o'clock. Refreshments served in garden, weather permitting. North Washington Citizens' Asso- clation will _meet, 8 o'clock, in Sup- day school house of United Brethren Church. A, J. Driscoll of Mid-City Association will speak. Judson 8. King of Popular Govern- ment League will address the Central Labor Union, 2:30 o'clock, at 1006 ¥ st Subject: “Great ¥alls and Electricity in Washington.” Col. Tadwin. Promoted. Col. Edwin Jadwin, Cqeps of Engi- rs at Charleston, 8. U., in charge the engineer district’ of South Carolina, Alabama and Florida, has been ordered to this city for duty as chief assistant to the chief of engi- neers, with the rafk of brigadier general, effective June He was stationed here several years ago, and has many friends in this city.