Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 2

SAYS PLOT TO GUARD CRIMINALS PROVEN Brookhart \Dechrel Department of Justice Conspiracy Clearly Indicated. Ro CITES SMITH'S ACTIVITIES Condemns Daugherty for Refusal to Testify. The evidence given in the Daugherty inxpfllmuinn was reviewed today in andther heated debate In the Henate, during which Chairman Brookhart of the Investigating committee declared the testimony had shown “beyond lln\’\lt" the existence of a conspiracy to protect criminals in the Depart- ment of Justice. Regiting the career in Washington of “Jess Smith, confidant of former Attorney General Daugherty, Senator Brookhart said the relationship of the two men was so close that “every word of testimony becomes evidence against Mr. Daugherty himself. Before he went into other details of the committee's procedure, Chairman Srockhart summed up as follows the evidence relating to Smith: Cltex Smith Activities. “We find that Jess Smith, for many years a friend of the former Attorney tieneral, came to b household in Waghington from Ohio. We find that Mr. Smith traveled with M Daugh- all over the United States, and that he had an office in the Depart- ment of Justi though he had no right to such quarters, and used its Ste graphers and stationary. SWe find that Mr. Daugherty in- structed the acting chief of the bureau of investigation, L. J. Bailey, to take the orders of Jess Smith, and to keep in touch with the Attorney General through Mr. Smith, “That testimony is uncontradicted. Mr. Daugherty refuses to come and ce it. We find that Jess Smith had a ss to the most confidential papers of the department, and that employes zenerally regarded him as second in command to the Attorney General. Expenses Declared Heavy. Although neither is a man of wealth. he continued, the evidence thowed their expenses in Washing- 1 amounted to “upward of $50,000 vear” and that Smith left a sub- ntial estate when he committed suicide. Some of declarations of the chairman were seconded by Senator Ashursi of Arizona, & Democratic member of the committee, and it was indicated that a committes report three of the five commit- and severely criticizing the Attormey Generai both for Eis official acts and for his refusal to tostify was in course of preparation. Smith Named Daugherty in Will “We find that Jess Smith left in hi: will large sums to Mr. Daugherty that he sold out his Ohio business and lived expensively at the rate of $50.000 a year in Washington,” the senator declared “Next we find the testimony that large hootleggers in New York paid large sums to Mr. Smith, and his will shows it “The vidence is so well proven that there can be no doubt that a «onspirac to protect eriminals ex- isted in Mr. Daugherty's household The rclationship between Mr. Smith and Mr. Daugherty was so close that “very word of the testimony becomes CYidence against Mr. Daugherty him- self. The committee sought tax records on Mr. Daugherty’s own financial status, Senator Brookhart said, and found little property credited to him in Ohio. ~Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, interrupted to ¥ that Ohio law did not require reporting of cor- poration stocks or other securities for taxation. 1 understand_that,” Senator Brook- hart replied, “and that is why the commitiee wanted him to explain Semator Norris, Republican, Ne- braska, suggested that “anybody would wish 10 api#ar under the cir- cumstances. Quotes Roxie Stinson. “I don't think s0," returned Sen- ator Fess “There were lots of things which do not appear fair- minded in this invegtigation. The statement that Mr. Daugherty and Smith lived at the expense of $50,000 a vear in \Wag”ngton comes as hear- say from the lips of one witness, Roxie Stinson." She “heard it from Jess Smith. a member of the conspiracy,” said Senator Brookhart, “I know nothing so reprehensible in a man as to associate with a woman as lady,” Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, put in, “and then to attempt to brand her as unworthy. Is there any- thing worse said against this woman than th: associated with Harry Daugherty the From Yecrordov'e 520 Fdition of The St - $1,795,847 DEFICIENCY- FUND ALLOWED D. C. Ho'xfl!e Passes Second Measure for Fiscal Year 1925 Rest Day 3 Provided Police, > Carrying $1,795,547 for the District ot *Columbia, the second deficiency “pppepriation bill for the fiscal year 1925 'was passed by the House late resterday. Ab‘oul twenty-five amendments of- fersd on the floor by Chairman Mad.- «en of the appropriations committes covered appropriations authorized ‘in legislation passed since the defick appropriation bill was drafted, CT;f;i); inclyde salaries and allowances of offiters and members of the metro- politan police force, making provi- XioMS for 165 additional privates in ord that each member of the force md¥'have one day off in seven, $75],- €00, A similar amendm-nt for the fire department added $333,120, For salaries of employes in the offige of public buildings and grounds. $36,982.21 For an additional amount for,the Tenley School, $15,000. For 1he White House polics, allowing for six additional men in order that each mekiber may have a day off in seven, $12,900. For uniforms and equipment ©f the White House police, $1.200 Other District items include salaries ®ng -expenses for the Rent Commission. $45,000. and judicial expenses, $3 9559, advertising notices of taxes in grrears. 3$937.81; refund on erroneous collections $1.500; painting traflic lines, $5,000; traf. e devices, $10,000: payment of anmui- ties to public school teachers, $7,126.99: Fucl and gas, $112,058.79: furniture and equipment, Thomson School, $3,261: completion and equipment -Macfarland and -Langley Junior High Schools, $3.000. schoal repairs and improvements, §: %00; repairs to fire apparatus, $5000 @rainage of lots, $2,000; maintenance of public crematory, $1,000; .printing for the Police Court, $2.461.65; ompensa- tion of $urom in Police Court, $3,500; 1he District Supreme Court, support of e $25.000. writs of lunacy, 3162.72; miscellanetus expenses, $50.62, Fuel for the workhouse, \[0,000; electri- w©al equipment for the builting for whisw Liirls, $3,000: a - . Nunicipal Hospital, $127s %5 00 Rer nance of feeble-mindet’ childre, “ypgar the board of children’s guardiang, 5 snsane at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, xioo, . . judgments, $4,213. clms i na brior years. 3569 Carries Coolidge Indorsekent, 'HBURG, Mass., June nflfc. roster of the 5,000 ©f Fitchburg College Club. Mahoney, & boy scout, attirefis s Jninute man, started todnyk a Jnotorcycle trip to Washingtdte resent the club's endorsemeiyio resident Coolidge. £ bér is Eleanor Huber (third from right), tinental Hall tomorrow nigh to right: Mr. nnd Mrs. Sam Severance, the contestant, Miss Huber; A. T. Huber, her father, and Miss Margaret Huber, her sixter. ALL ORATORS IN CITY FOR GREAT CONTEST ‘ontinued from First Page.) return to Louisville for graduation next week, T would love fo stay in your beautiful city for several months.” Mi Huber is typical of the seven representatives of secondary schools who are the finalists from more than am in the preliminaries. New York Omator Here. Vail Barmes, junior of the Curtis High School, New Brighton, N. Y rived here last night to battle for the honor of the northeastern states. His zone comprised mnorthern New Jersey, New York and New England. Mr. Barnes was accompanied by his father and mother and Dr. John M Event, principal of the Curtis High chool More than 100 persons from ew York will be here toda espe- cially to witness the contest tomor- row night. In the finals in his zone Mr. Barnes, in defiance of his doctor's orders, got out of bed and won the contest. The last of the six out-of-town contenders to reach here is John M Dallam, 3rd, of Philadelphia, expected to arrive at Union station this after- noon, accompanied by more than 100 friends. He was winner among more than 110,000 contestants in his zone, which comprised Pennsylvania, south. ern New Jersey, Delaware and Mary- land. He is a student at the West Philadelphia Boys' High School and already is the holder of two medals for pub! speaking. Hig victory in his gone brouiht him a §1,200 univer- sity scholarship Misy Newburn Yoangest. Tho seven competitors range in age from sixteen to ecighteen years, the youngest being Miss Newburn, who was chosen to represent the District of Columbia in the semi-finals con- Star. The national oratorical con- test has been financed and conducted by thirty-seven metropolitan news- papers in all parts of the counts With them more than 500 other pub- lications of various types have co- operated. Robert K. Lee Saner, president of the American Har Association, is to arrive here this afternoon from Texas. Mr. Saner is to act as temporary chairman at the meeting tomorrow night and will introduce President Coolidge: who will speak and preside Auring the remainder of the meeling. | The most brilliant sudience that ever heard a like o the history of the land is expected. Taft Will Be Judge. to the President of the United States there will be present Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court, chairman of the board of judges, the other mem- bers of which aré the Justices 8an- ford. Sutherland, Butler and Van De- vanter of the same court; national officers of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, in whose hall the sontest iz staged; the Secretary of State, the Sccretary of Commerce, members of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, repre- sentatives of the Army and Navy, prominent educators of this and other citles, and many others. Don Tyler of Los Angeles, Jack Turner of Birmingham and George Chumos of Topeka, Kans, preceded the other three contestants here, ax previously detailed in The Star. In the national event tomorrow night the orators will speak in the follow- ing order: Mr. Tyler, Mr. Dallam, Mr. Turner, Miss Newburn, Mr. Chumos, Miss Hu- ber and Mr. Barn. each will speak twelve minutes, time to be strictly enforced by the timekeepers, Judge Mattingly of the Municipal Court, Isaac Gans, president of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, and M=aj. Victor B. Grant of the National American Club. Appilause Is Restricted. 1n addition the course of the addresses is a Te- quest to be made of the audience by contest officials. The event begins promptly at § o'clock, and the en- tire speaking and proceedings in gen- eral will be broadcast by stations WCAP, Washington, D. C.: W New York city. and WJA dence R. I t will be essential, therefore, to have no applause during the course of an address. The con- clusion of ench address is designated as_the proper time for applause. ¥ntertalnment features for the seven nationzl finalists will begin this cvening, when they will be the guests of the Monarch Club at a box party @t the B, F. Kelth Theater. Tomor- row at 32:30 they*will be the guests of the “club a Tubeheon in their honor At the Ralelgh Hatel. Miss Ruth Greenwood of Eastern. High School, alternate.for the District, will be hoktess. Entertainment features ided: < WHLBE RIS e e condtuston of luncheon - the orators will be e ted in s maFade up bénmsylvania avenue he White House.” Th, six winning companies in the annual high wehaol competitive drill will be an bonor guard. Boys' Band to Play. " The Boys' Industrial Band of Bir- mingham, Ala, will form a feature of the parade. The Central High School Band and the McKinley Manual Training School! Band will be in the line of march, After the conolusion of the con- test tomorrow night, the entire lion students who participated | ar- | ducted here under auspices of The | {ing the services Mr. Woods had per- No interruption by applause during | . Provi- | THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D._C. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 192%° who arrived here today to represent the central states in the National Oratorical Contest at Memorial (l:"- the former centext manager for Ken- tucky: Mrs. A. T. Huber, mother of VAIL BARNES, | Of New Brighton, N. Y., representa. tive of mortcastern states, who ar- rived last night. TOKIO GIVES WOODS FAREWELL OVATION Cheering Crowds Jam Streets and Station as American Envoy Leaves for Home. By the Associnted Pres TOKIO, June 5. —Cyrus E. Woods, the retiring American ambassador, was the central figure of an ovation when he jeft Tokio this morning by | train to board the President McKin- | ley for Yokohama for home. ! Crowds jammed the station, the plaza fronting the station “banzaied” the ambassador, with iis aged invalid mother-in-law, Mrs Marchand on his arm made his way through the throng with difficulty with the ad of the police. The ovation was surprisingly large and hearty in view of the anti-Amer- ican tenor of public feeling. It es: timated that 10,000 people were pres- ent. | | ed and | Cheered by Crowds. The Woods party drove to the rail- road station through streets travers- ed only a few minutes previously by the regent and his bride in their motor car. The crowds which had cheered Japan's ruler also cheered the United States envoy. A large proportion of the crowds and around the station was made udents. Student organizations early his morning distributed 100.000 handbills throughout the city recall- in formed for Japan in relief work at and after the time of last September’s wrthquake disuster and urging the to turn out to bid him fare- weell On the station platform were For- eisn Minister Matsui and his wife, who presented Mrs. Woods with a bouguet. Others who came to bid him fareweil included Vice Minister Matsudaira of the foreign affairs de- Baron Kijuro Shidehara, ambassador to the United and a number of foréign office vell as the members of the American community. An extra police guard was stationed zlong the route followed by the Woods party. bu: the demonstration incident on departurs pasged off without a sizn of anything but friend- liness for hir: Mr. Woods hoarded the steamer to- day. 1t sails at 5 pm. tomorrow. Day Public Ioliday. Today was Tokio's day (o celebrate the wedding of the prince regent, Hirohito, and Princess Nagsgo Kuni. | The day was a public holiday and | | witnessed a tremendous turnout of | the populace to cheer the regent and hig bride. 1 The imperial couple, after a recep- tion to the municipal officials at the imperial palace thie morning, motor- ed two miles through streets lined deep. rolling of “Ban- marked progress of the big | imperial automobile. ] A heavy detail of police guarded | {the route to the Asakas Palace, the couples ! he s more high ged and decorated than at since the installation of heir to the throne in 1915, A of eclaborate floats syminlizing wishes for hymeneal bliss and long | life for the couple aund the ness of the people’s loyalty was through the city. These floats were mounted on tramear trucks, The crowds in front of the palace and along the short route were esti- mated 10 number 150,000 person; — audience will be invited to attend a reception in honor of the young ora- tors given by the Washington Cham- | Bex of Cofimarce at the New Willard otel, The - Eyening to th8 seven al-day ny Hirohito Str will be host | ors Saturday in an mhtseeing tour, which will include an al exhibition "at 10:30 eo'cloc by Army and Navy fiyiers at the naval air station and at Bolilng Field; a reception by the President of the United States at the White House at 12:30 o'clock: a trip to Mount Vernon in the afternoon, followed by a ride through Rook Oreek Park, and a dinner at the Wardman Park Hotel. This trip will be In charge of Col. C. Fred Cook, librarian of The Star, end president of The Evening Star Clup, ach OIL PROBE REPORT CHARGES FLAGRANT DISREGARD OF LAW (Continued from First Page.) No. 1, to be followed, without com- petitive bidding, by a lease of the entire reserve, comprising over 30,000 acres, estimated to contain 250,000,000 barrels of oil, out of which, Daheny told the committee, he would be in bad luck if he did not make $100,000,- 000 profit. Tn criticizing the use of royalty oll for construction of steel ~storage tankage, the report declared that steel storuze tankage should be construct- ed only upon a contract calling for the payment of money, to appro- priated by Congress for that specific purpose. The sending of marines to drive claimants from Teapot Dome after the Sinclair lease had been signed was denounced “as a perfectly out- rageous use of the armed forces of the United Stat resorted to “to avoid a judicial inquiry into the validity of the Sinclair lease.’ Discussing he leases as "bargains,” the report declared that a lease under which “the government receives & per cent of the oil in the ground and 94" cannot possibly be t of or just to the Eov- ernment fad the leaxes heen awarded upon competitive bidding,” it said. “there would have been no occasion to inquire whether they are or are mot fair or just (o the government . . The omission to invite competition casts a suspicion on the transaction as one in the interest of the government. Say Iuval Bought Off. “Not only was the Teapot Dome lease awarded to Sinclalr without competition, but he paid a fabulous price to procure the eiimination of a potential rival. One =eeking only a fair contract from the government does not buy off his compatitors: meither does he, when he secures it ordinari ubmit to blackmail in connecticn with it; nor does he, while negotiations are pending, ac- ommodate the awarding oflicer with loans.” Discuesing avidence in relating more to detail the Sinclair's elim- | Ination of other claimants from Tea- | pot Dome, the report related how Leo Stack of Denver associated himself with E. I. Doheny in 1920 in an effort to secure lease of some off-set weils along the boundary of the reserve, and how Stack later made an arrangement with the Pioneer Oil Company, which, in turn, made a set- tlement with Sigclair. Claims Called Shadowy. ack then enlisted the interest of the owners of a newspaper in Den- ver, Colo.” the report continued. “which jmmediately upon the execu- tion of the lease began the publica- tion of articles denouncing it as oor- rupt and contrary to public policy. * * ° Suit was started in the name of Stack against that company (the Pioneer company) and Sinclair, alleg- Ing a4 conspiracy against Stack. * * * Sinclair settled this euit by an agreement under which he paid 250,000 and agreed to pay $750,000 more. The attacks of the newspaper thereupon ceased. The proprietor of @ rival newspaper, upon a clalm even more shadowy, if indeed it can be called a_claim ‘at all. got $92,500 out of the Pioneer Oil Company as his share of the moneys yielded up by Sinclair” On the question of the-danger of drainage, the report stated that among geologists thero was no dif- ference of opinion that dralnage was possible between the Teapot Dome reserve and the Salt Creek oil fields, although the extent and seriousness of the drainage was in dispute, Drain- age to an appreciable and serious ex- tent was occurring upon the two naval reserves in California, it was added Harding Criticised. President Harding was ecriticized for signing the executive order trans- ferring the leases without having “documentary support of any kind" for his action. The Department of Justice also was declared to have failed to “diligently assert and malin- tain” the government's title to sec- tion 36, within the confines of Nay Reserve No. 1, in California, the re- port stating that had this been done and three other sections properly pro- tected. the problem of drainage upon that reserve would have been “rela- tively simple.” — e e U. S. SHIP AT SCENE OF ALBANIAN REVOLT Protection of Americans Only Pur- pose of Visit—Rebels Take Two Big Towns. By the Associated Press. ROME, June §.—Reports from Durazzo state that an American de- stroyer has arrived there for the pro- tection of American lives and in- terests. It is stated, however, that the destroyer has no intention of in- terfering in any way whatsoever with the internal affairs of Albania. The Nationalists movement, which is back of the present revolution, is compared to the fascista movement in Italy. It is said that the taking of Tirana by the Nationalists re- cently was like the Fascisti march toward Rome, making a new ers for Albania as did the advent of Mus- solini to power creaté a new regime for Italy. ° Meanwhile two of the leading Al- the The former 'I:‘\Mld by Prof, Guracugi and the latter by . Fan noli. The advent of the government throughout :onldared the question of only ays. st As $20,000,000 BEHIND DEFENSE OF SLAYERS (Continued from First Puge.) _ grand jury reports, the evidence will be placed in four safety deposit boxes in different banks. In Doubt on Confrssion. Btate's attorneys are not sure the signed shorthand notes of the con- fessions of the youth would be ad- missible at their trial, but believe the chain of evidence against them otherwise {8 complete. Authorities gave scant attention to efforts to connect the youths with the murder last fall of Ireeman Louls Tracy, university student, and the mutilation attack on Charles Ream. Chlef Hughes said: “Neither are important. We are not inter- ested.” In the county fail, where day and night guards keep watch to prevent suicide uttempts, Leonold and loeb have begocome aceustomed to the routine and participaie in ex- ercise, study and recreation. They preserve the enmity which began with their confession in which each charged the other with the wetual killing. SAFETY IN MILLIONS. special Public Expects Slayers to Evade Gallows. By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, June 5.—The glib assur- ance of Nathan Leopold, Jjr. and Richard Loeb, precoclous thrill-seek ing slayers of young Robert Frank | that money—vast sums of it—will save their necks from the hangman’s noosy, I shared generally here by an intensely interested, vindictive public Thumbs are down on the nineteen- year-old killers. The popular cry is for their execution. The demand of the state and of the millions of Joseph Franks, father of the mur- dered boy. hat they pay the full penalty on the gibbet. Yet scarcely & soul, other than State’s Attorney Crowe ‘and a few police officials, pro- fesses to believe that a death sen- tence will be the outcome of the im- pending battle of milljofs, £20,000,000 Behind Defense, A vast fund, exceeding that which gave Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stan- ford White, respite in an asylum, and finally liberty, is ready now to fight for the lives of the thrill killers Two fortunes, estimated at nearly $20.000,- 000 are behind the defense attorness and their rapidly forming corps of alienistx. A million in cash was put at_the lawyers' disposal today. The magnitude of these fortunes is one of the few things in this world of realities that seems to impress young leopold and young Loeb “We've got a lot of mor Leopold In his analysis of ation: “Why couldn’t we some of the jurors?’ “We can hire some lawyers and get out of this, I guess,” said Loeb shortly before expressing the opinion that the affair would “be the making of me.” While the general impre: that the hoys will go free— the gallows at least—State's Attorney e “tx ho has u “perfect hanz- ing case” even without the ocon- | tenstons, Which th ey’ lawsers | are most hopeful of having ruled out \ Imsanity to Be Defenne. | The defense almost surely will he insanity. The jury Leopold wanted to buy will be asked to believe that !the young minds. which were t | marvels of two universities. expanded | ton rapidly to remain stable—that “too mueh learning hath made them mad." Doubtless <ome such catchy phrase as the “dementia americana.” which featured the Thaw case will be coined for the occasion. “Dementia jassmania,” perhaps A noticeable unwillingness on the part of the mental specialists to mive an analysis of the siayers' minds for publication indicates their expectancy of huge retainers when the lega’ “battle of the century” gets under way. Three prominent alienists already have examined the boys for the state and have expressed the opinion that they were legally sane when they committed their horrible crime. Rut Darrow. defender of noted eriminals for years, will have no dif- ficulty in finding others 1o testify that they temporarily unbal- anced. The youths lie in county jail. di ing their time between reading the available, very commonplace _and thrilless literature the place affords and worrving through the humdrum of jail routine A very definite new set of thrills awalits them, however, when they arc brought into eourt to watch the titanic struggle for their lives (Copyright, 1924.) Two Students Thought Dead. BEAVER FALLS, Pa. June 5 Hope was virtually abandoned to- night for Leonard Russell of Walton, N. Y., and Da: Thompson of Canon- burg, Pa., students at Geneva College, ho have been missing since Tues- day when they went for a canoe ride on Beaver River. Russell's hat was found along the bank today. An overturned canoe was found floating in the river earlier in the day. Stu- dents_reported that neither Russell nor Thompson could swim. said the situ- buy off n were id- By Group to The Cash and Equipment Also Donated for Entertain- ment of Invalids. Much More Needed to Provide All Deserving Persons With Outfits. Aaditional contributions of cash and crystal sets together with other esgential equipment such as head phones and antenna wire swelled The Star's “radio shut-in fund” today to a sizeable proportion, but a consider- able amount of money and radio sets are still needed to place receiving sets at the bedsides of the 400 poor and needy invalids in the District—the aim of the campaign. The receipts for the past twenty- four hours include cash contribu- tions amounting to $18, ten crystal cets, and six pairs of head phones and tion of as many radio sets. Six ol" the sets donated to the fund today came from the empioyes of Barber & Ross, fuc., together With six palrs of hea d all of the nec g Pomeior instaliation. The sets are hew and in perfect operating con: tion. Sunshine Crowd's Gift. ‘With today's contributions, the cash fund totals $110.50. Thirty-seven crystal sets have been donated since the opening of the campaign b;u:\h;'. to fourteen pairs of head- %’L:fe‘l“é‘.’.‘é & Sl quanticy of wire, tors, etc. i n’;‘:‘e‘:::‘:!: cash contribution, of $10, received today, came from “The Sunshine Crowd,” ' which was ap- parently organized for the sole pur- Pose of brightening the lives through The medium of radio of those poor unfortunates in Washington who are compelled through physical affiiction and disease to spend their drab ex- istence indoors in loneliness. X With the contribution from “The Sunshine Crowd” came the following Jetter, signed by Mrs. L. Frank, 1556 " Fuller street: “Inclosed find check for $10 toward the radio fund for shut-ins. I can appreciate what mean to the poor unfortunates, sincurely pray that our added 11 bring a little happiness to e > GAS CHAMBER AT EDGEWOOD PERFORMS MARVELOUS CURES ! | GREAT FALLS PLAN HEARING ADJOURNED Numerous Bronchial Ailments Yield to Chlorine and | Boston Engineer Tells Committee Invention of Death Becomes Agent of Healing at Hands of Army Doctors. ! Staff Correapondent of The Star. EDGEWOOD ARSENAL, Md., June 5.—Fate has twisted the affairs of men all around out here, and now Edgewood arsenal, where the arts and wiles of human ingenuity have long been busy concocting stealthy, invisible agencies of death, faces the somewhat disconcerting prospect of becoming a haven of hope for the sick and the palsied Ever since science blundered upon the discovery that chlorine gas would kill germs as well as soldiers, and in much milder doses, there has been a steady stream of stricken men and women coming here from all parts of the country, finding in a lite pine board gas chamber relief at last from infections that medicine and surg- ery had failed to conguer. Nature, through the medium of highly medicated springs, has turned more than one hopelessly rural bit of a way station into a flourishing health resort, where society repairs nnually to recuperate from the rain of a dizzy reason. And now many a farmer out there is wonder- ing whether future years may not see ornamental little gas chambers rising up like mushrooms around Edgewood. Many Seek Reliel. Today there rapped upon the door of the “gas house.” Which the ar- senal has hastily constructed, a gen- tleman from Boston, two from New York, one from Brooklyn, obe from Cleveland, another from Washington and numerous native sons from set- tlements near Edgewood. Some were suffering from bronchial infections that had been chronic for years; those from nearby points sought speedy relief from spring colds. The cures have been little short of amazing. Since the use of chlorine gas for medical purposes was first begun at the arsenal the medical of- ficers there have treated more than a thousund patients. In the majority of cases cures have been complete. All have resulted in marked relief and some of these would have be- come permanent cures, there reason to believe, if the pati been able 1o spend a week or two at the arsenal. Colds Cured in Hour. Careful records have been kept and these show that in the vast majority of cases a single hour in the chlorine chamber will cure the average cold KFour or five treatments is @ sure cure for whooping cough and almost any of the minor diseases of the respira- tory organs, which cause so much loss of time from business and so much discomfort, are amenable to the treatment. Acute bronchitis, asthma, laryngitis and similar infections, and even mange, yield to the once dreaded gas An instance of what the discovery means to civilization may be cited in the case of Mr. X of New York. For three years he had suffered from bronchitis.” Medical science failed to help him. He tried the “gas house.” Six treatments—an hour a day for six days—in the chamber sent him back to his family entirely cured. That sounds like a patent medicine advertisement, but it is a matter of official record. Whooping cough heretofore had to “run its course,” a “course” of six weeks. Four days ——just an hour a day-—in the gas chamber destroys every whooping cought bug in the human body. Will Not Cure T. B. The situation i not, however, with- out its pathetic side. Every day the officers at Edgewood arsenal receive scores of letters from vietims of tuberculosis, begging for an oppor- tunity to try the gas. There is but one answer. Chlorine gas absolutely will NOT cure the white plague. The explanatfon is simple. Chlorine is not a penetrating gas; it will not sink far enough into the lung tissues to touch the tuber bacilli. Therefore it has no effect. Officers of the medical research de- partment at the arsenal, who admin- ister the gas, say it might cure a case of tuberculosis that had just de- veloped. But if the disease has ad- vanced at all, it is a waste of time to administer it and the patient would do weil to seek relief from some other agency. Research into the possibil- ities of the fumes as a remedy for tuberculosis have been discontinued altogether. One Hour in Gas House. An hour in the “gas house” is a de- cidedlysdemocratizing experience. A shaking patient was ushered up to the door today. As an officer jerked Six Complete Radio Sets Are Given Star’s ‘Shut-In’ Fund Cash contributions to The Stars “radio shut-in fumd” for the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged .. M : 5 $ 9250 s A, E ith s 1.00 1.00 o100 10.00 5.00 e $110.50 Crystal Sets and Equipment. Previously acknowledged, twenty- seven crystal sets and eight pairs of head phones. Douglas C. Miner, Sflo éllh street stal se O “Bacon, 4411 8th street morth- west, one aerial. A Friend, one crystal set. Employes of Barber & Ross, six new Metro crystal sets with head phones and full equipment for instal- lation. - William H. Walker, 729 13th street northwest, one crystal set. Radio Jim, one crystal set. Total—thirty-seven ~crystal sets, fourteen pairs of head phones, anten na and other equipment for instal- lation. “The Sunshine Crowd" G. H W Total 2ot Wishing you much ul. nt I derful cause. success in this won Gives Roll of Wire. Harlow Bacon, 4411 8th street, con- tributed $1 and a roll of antenna wire. “Please use the same,” he said i letter attached to his contribu- tlon, “for installation of a radio for the person named in the attached clipping from The Sunday Star, which reads: 1 have had a very ill husband for. more than three years. He is confined to his room most of the time, In a rolling_chair. He will never -get well. He cannot go to church _and- hear the word God. My husband was always such a good Christian man. A radio set would bring the wonderful sermons to him." " m to give to every de- Fem;:“"‘fi:‘!‘-(n" !: the District stil]l far from its goal. The Star has the names of more than 400 invalids who should receive a radio set. More than 350 sets are still needed besides cash to purchasé headphones and antenna wire, etc. It is believed that there are 350 radio enthusiasts in Washington _who have discarded crystal sets. They are urged to bring them to the business office of The Star, on the first floor of The Star building; so they may urned over to the Boy.Scouts for installation in the homes of the “shut-ins.” | | open that unpainted but efficient- looking panel, the first thing the latest visitor noticed was a group of men sitting around the unvarnished walls, either reading newspapers or | staring blankly into space and trying | to “look matural” | It was easy o pick the unitiated They had every appearance of a man ho has done somethingz thut hel wwishes he had never started to do. but | gamely wondering when the shock is ‘coming. Then, when onc finally summoned up enough courage to look | around, he noticed a cage down in one corner of the chamber. In it Were two motheaten looking bird dogs sufering from mange-—dogs and | men common companions in distress. Suddenly there was a whirring noise outside and -the patients be- came conscious of a strong current of air oirculating around the chamber. At least one feit decidedly panicky, but some who were going through their second or third dose were as much at ease as though they were sitting in a barber shop awaiting their turns. The first real effect of | committee today, but will Proposition Will Not Pay Till 1945, SAYS STEAM PLANT NEEDED Declares Water Power Will Not Meet Power Demand. Hearinzs on the proposed hydro-elsc- tric development at Chain bridge and cat Falls were concluded for the pres ent session of Congress before a specia subcommittee of the House Di in December. R L. Low of the firm of Stone & Webester, Boston, one of the largest public utilities holding ecorporations in the country, and who is said to be one ©Of the best public utilities statisticians, Was the principal witness at the hear- ing today. His firm will probably be | Yol ke bidders for the plant o de | velop hydro-eieetric e y e legis [ Tation 3 posslectric enersy it tho legis | SIr. Low claimea tha y De 10 Profit Trom the propesed hygme. £as he s a cooling sensation in the HostEils and finally s tickling in ihe back of the throat. That is all. Bu Chere is a decided fecling of re laxation when the whirring stops, o officer opens the door and smilingly Fays: “That will be enough for today, gentlemen.” Kills Taste for Tobacco. irring noise is nothing in th?:vo‘:’lz but an_ electrically driven fan that forces tremendous quanti- ties of pure air, mixed with @ com- paratively minute quantity of Fas into the chamber. The gas has i rather pleasant odor and leaves no disturbing after effects, except tha it has temporarily, but thoroughly, destroyed one's taste for tobacco. S cigarette taken immediately after the gasing tastes like a dose of Ditter medicin o pach NADES of ‘here is about an secident in the gas chamber as there is of a doctor poisoning a patient with an ounce of castor nlli Special apparatus has been perfected for measuring accurately the ratio ¢ and to make assurance doubly sure, medical officers take frequent samples of air fro chamber through small glass and analyze them while the patier are inside. They can determine th quantity of gas that is passing through the chamber to the most minute fraction. Write for Directios Already hospitals, schools and in dustrial plants are writing to the arsenal for directions as to the con- struction of similar gas chambers, and in the not far distant future a man almost anywhere in the United States who thinks he is getting a cold may be able te run up to the nearest chamber, spend a comfortable hour in its fumes and walk out en- tirely cured. The treatment of other bronchial disturbances is said to be equally as simple. £ [l A commercial house in New York is experimenting with a smaller apparatus that a physician may carr around in his automobile. If it prove successful the administration of th gas will be possible right in the sick person's bedroom. Even though it fails to function as experts hope, however, officers at the arsenal pointed out that it will be quite simple to establish the gas chambers in schools, hospitals and industrial plants and supply them with tanks of safely diluted chlorine. Chlorine gas is just as effective on horses and other animals as it is on human beings. Last winter an epi- demic of influenza broke out in the stables at Fort Hoyle, where a regi- ment of artillery is stationed. Almost | before the officers knew it, forty- gas to air, seven horses were infected, and ordi- | narily 700 of the 400 ‘would have been stricken The death rate would have been tremendous. But right there the medical officers of the chemical warfare service stepped in. Stopped Epidemir. Without waiting to build a special gas chamber, the forty-seven horses were gassed as they stood in their stalls. Thirty-six were cured by the first dose, eight required only two doses and the other ome four. And what is still more remarkable, the epidemic was stopped in its tracks. Not another horse in the regiment ‘was infected and not a horse was lost. Now there is a tar paper gas chamber for the special use of horses who are stricken with colds or bronchial infec- tions. Chlorine has long been used as a disinfectant. Its usefulness as a sure cure for colds, however, was first sus- pected shortly after that fateful day in 1915, when the Germans virtually decimated a British division on the Ypres front with chlorine gas. The Germans noticed that not only were the men who handled it cured of colds, but those who were known to carry cultures of meningitis in their throats were rid of the germs en- tirely. Immane From Influenza. The Germans were too busy fight- ing the French and British to more than look casually into the discovery, but when Edgewood arsenal was working at top speed supplying the American troops with defensive gases, the influenza epidemic swept the country. Although most of the arse- nal was flat on its back with the dreaded epidemic, not a man in the chlorine department was affected. Then the Army began to look care- fully into the use of the gas for the treatment of influenza. Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, head of the chemical warfare service, has de- voted much of his time to researches into the effect of chlorine gas on germs common to he bronchial or- gans. Its development along that line has been largely due to the work of Col. H. L. Gilchrist, Lieut. Col. E. B. Vedder and Capt. H. P. Sawyer, who are in charge of the medical re- search laboratories at Edgewood ar- senal Frequently they subjected them- selves to experiments early in the re- searches and the use of the gas for medical purposes was first perfected at Bdgewood. The cost of manufa tu & the gas is negligible and a tank worth less than $5 has already | treated more than a thousand persons | at 1dgewood arsenal and is still do- ing heroic service. Thus, the cost of curing one patient is too small to be figured and therefore the officers at the arsenal accommodate their pa- tients without charge, MRS. UPTON WILL RUN. will stabled there Announce Candidacy House Seat Soon. CLEVELAND. June 5.—Mrs. Upton will soon announce her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Con- gress from the Nineteenth Ohio distreit, it was learned today from an authorita- tive source. This district was once sepresented by former President Garfield and later by Mrs. Upton's father, for —_—ve- Tampa Realtors to Dance. The Tampa Realtors, out for the 1926 convention of the National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards, will give a dance tonight in the ballroom of the New Willard Hotel. Clubs from other cities, h have brough en- tertainment features, have been in- vited to put them onm there. proposed hydr exi 4 that th {betore 1955, 11 | enginearing ir | &r ; 5 | low steam hun“fll\‘llv'f\l“ ‘ now operated by the Fotom k tric Power Company will b reqi at all time He pointed out that the extimated need of the Districs in 1945 is 280000 kilow The m; mum production at Grea alls Chain bridge, he ;;Ld rkfill {:'Al kilowatts, less 10 per ' c losses. transmission a denciency generat th commiitec that 210,000 it allowed This wouls of 40,00 kilowatts, made up by stean mean which must be plant production. T BONUS APPLICATIONS | WILL BE READY SOON (Co nued rst_Page.) the veteran rerved In th. Arm: Marine Corps or Guard, a | 1ik t may be used cither by ti veteran or the dependent of ceasel vetersn. b Fingerprint Value “An unusual feature « is the fact that it carries fingerprints The matter of easy identification and Protect and assist veterans in ide fying themseiv | out th who Cited, the blank s in the of ha future with nee, served | to the | the malk on t | follow ed, that the and show the | could 1 | this rez | use the | neetion prints “Anothe the bonus states which erans is ed tha to the fingers 5 prints be cleur 1s much of the Dos terans to s in con ir finger- rked print with recording th marked depart application blank several to_vet- certificate or certificate in lost or_de- &troved one is not if veteran has not his discharge certif cate he is allowed to fill out his ap- plication blank from memory or to the best of his knowledge and helief 1t. therefore, will not be necessary for him to write the War or Navy dc- partments a duplicate certificat or certificate in leu of lost or de- ftroyed discharge certificate. It is requested that this point be impress ed upon veterans er to pre clude them from writ v and ther by delavinz theirs and other claims. | :There i absolutely available for cler | ment. and none will be available ur til the enactment of the appropria ion bill now before Congress. Ev after the funds become available will be nec procur 2,500 clerk 00l the i | ones in their duties, and ob | necessary office fu re anc ment. Until the force and off be arranged to accommodate th ceipt of applications any delay the preparations for a_speedy and prompt d ment. The de partment desires and intends to ad- ministrate the bonus bill as prompi- ly and efficiently as possible and to the satisfaction of all concerned Veterans Cautioned. Veterans are cautioned not to write to the government until they receive the application blanks, and then tc write on nothing but the blar In case the ve not have the information av. to answer | the questions warned not to write to the W rtment to ask for it, but to put what he can re- member on the blank and send it in “If you do not have a discharge certificate or certificate in liey, an swer the questions on the application blank from memory to the best of your ability,” savs the instruction sheet. “But in any case do not write to the War or Navy departments Marine Corps or the Veterans’ Bureau for a certificate in'lieu or for infor- mation relative to your service. Envelopes with proper addresses will be provided with the application blank for no mones 1 hire and equip- Penalties Explained. The application blank carries as a warning, quotation from the law con- cerning penalty for making false or fraudulen me: as follows: “Whoever w makes anv false or fraudulent siatement of material fact in application, cer tificate or docum under the pro visions of titles V. V or VI, or of any regulati nder any such title.” sayvs the law “shull, upor conviction thereof, be fined not more than $1.000 or imprisoned for not more than five vears or both.” Provision s made in the same blank for all eligiblo vetarans, whiat. ever their rank or branch of service and details of their connection with the Bovernment are asked Information to be supplied by the veteran includes his full name, his serial or service number. date of birth, date of original entry into the service, whether in Army, Navy, Ma- rine Corps or Coast Guard. rank and date of sey n from the service Spaces are provided to record organi- zations with or vessels on which ap- plic: served, with dates of rvice, and for . men as fo dates sailing for France and return, together with port of departure and of return > Covers Commcientious Objectors, The blank includes spaces to filled in by those who served as con missioned or warrant officers It al: has spaces for those granted farm or industrial furloughs, for those who were conscientious objectors, which includes u statement as to hether they did or did not refuse to wear the uniform. Gen. Davis cautioned newspaper owners that it would be unnccessary for them to reprint the application blanks as a means of speeding up the work through circulating to vetarans blanks prepared at the expense of the newspapers. The government sup- ply of blanks will be about three times the number actwal order to make sure t available t papers insi e upon reprinting and cir- culating. (ien. Davis asks that they see that blanks and envelopes f transmission are identical in every way with the government blanks anw Suggests that they be submitted for approval to the adjusted compenss tion branch of the War Department before they are circulated to veterans. Frescoes _recently . uncovered at Eton College Chapel, England, were painted by an Englishman, Willlam Baker, about 1470,