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4 SADOUL IS TAKEN 10 ORLEANS JAIL Communists Told to Be Ready to Wrest Traitor From French Police. By the Asson PARIS, doul, the tain who Yaris when 1 Pross. December former French army cap- was arrested Thursday in | he returned in spite of the de tence imposed on him ter his conviction by default on rge of treason in 1919, was trans- ferred today from the military prison here to a jail at Orleans under heavy guard. A score of police accompanied the former captain during the cntire in journey. The “official organ party this evening peal to its followe selves in readiness to trom the military Jacques tr of the Commur published an to hold them- wrench Sadoul udges.” MAY DEFEAT HERRIOT. Sadoul Case Presents Delicate! Problem for Premier. | | munist Br Radio ¢ PARIS, which was December 6.—Communism, | onsidered a dead issue in | ¥rance, has reared head anew in the few weeks recognition of the Soviets and the dramatic re-entry into France of Sadoul al- most simultaneously with the arrival | of Ambassador Krassin famned | nto n Sadoul vyer, the T its 3 Jacques has ring evik propaganda brilliant E wealthy livi son French Y ted to captain to ¥ . | tenant sutbreak of the ven he aent was pro the Dlies the possibility Russian army of reconstitut with French Converted to While Sadoul was Ishevik revolut Sadoul became « munist s Reds. in Rus: the 1 broke out and nverted to the Com- appointed him nissioner at Odessa and sed to have had much in nee th Fre a flect deput The e flu the munist in was implicated Frenc court nent ordered Sa sertion of and he tia was ap- propa- nationale from to his post he condemned to deatl In the lasi five & naturalized pointed dire Eanda t with whic the Fre Naturally, although captured was it enemy in a was Russian r of Third and Frenel Int headqu b doul coula his vast property in sequestered, but, oddly was 1 not b: enough auestered nee never property ust reported th and, who, b Sadoul family trator of the today, wh been electe the L d reaction us influence of I'reside wyer Iminis- id that as just of still estate M. Millera honorar, a sident Wire s wife Par! his s Lives Paris. Sadoul Myed two and children while, exe Sadoul made to Eovernment's per- visit was during found her h an wom- | visits Moscow w wnissi h first as when arrived in had been ar but frontie Paris this informed failed to . and only had been in during which he | ends and familiar him after he surs, fr Paris visited haunts for b old Embarrasses Herriot. The situation rassing for Pre promised amnesty is extremely embar- fer Herriot. who had for Sadoul weeks | 0. but was turncd down by the Senate. M. Herriot now apparently does not dare to grant him a pardon, which Sadoul probably would refuse, anyhow. Unl amnesty w voted, Sadoul ave to be re- tried, and it a court-mar- tial would convict him of capital offcnse The who 4 a purpose of Sadoul's re- turn is to promote Commun propaganda, which a trial would help enormously. Some of Herriot's ad- visers suggest that since Sadoul has ecome a naturalized Russian, the cagiest way to turn the joke back on the Communists would be simply to deport him as an undesirable alien thus avoiding the propaganda oppor- ftunity which a new trial would present It is difficult to dissociate the Mos- W government from the affair sinc doul is an oficial in the Third| Internationale. The case will make much trouble for the present govern- ! ment in Parllament when it is con- sidered in connection with recogni- tion of the Soviets and some even go far as to predict that Premier Herriot may fall as a result. (Copyright, 1924.) OFFICERS ARE ;IAIGED BY Y. M. C. A. COUNCIL Washington Man Is Vice Presi- dent of National Board. Ty, the Associnted Press BUFFALO, December 6.—The Na- tional Council of the Y. M. C. A. at its closing' session here today elected . W. Ramsey of Cleveland president of the council, and he becomes chair- man of the general board. The four vice presidents are H. A. Thrift of Washington, D. C.; J. Dean Ringer, Omaha; George W. Perkins, Ne York, and Dr. W. T. Nelson, Cincin- natl. D. A. Hoover of Springfleld, Mass., was made recording secretar. with two assistants, C. E. Buchner o Tulsa, Okla., and C. J. Jackson - of Jacksonvilie. Fla. Dr. John R. Mott of New York was made general secretary of the board and will nominate several associate zeneral secretaries, to be approved by the board. The council approved a budget of $1,854,623 for work in the United States and §1,524,762 for the foreign tield, exclusive of $546,735 for work in Europe. Education Body Ends Session. COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 6.— The general committee of the Inter- national Council of Religious Educa- tion concluded a four-day session to- day. The result of the sessions will be reported to the annual meeting of the international council at Chi- cago In February. - Dr. Harold Mc- Afee Robinson of Philadelphia was elected chairman of the educational committee. . Two families descended from feoble-minded ancestors have cost Zew Zealand the sum of $120,000. { did otherwise | parea et | communist {ambassador, | capital |Rumania to Oust | 100,000 Radicals By the Ancocinted I're BUCHAREST, December 6.—The Rumanlan government is prepar- ing to deport 100,000 undesirables under the recent law granting the authorities exceptional powers to malntain order. A large number of Russian suspects, who cannot well be sent home, will be re- quired to live in a restricted area. PARIS RED REVOLT NIPPED BY ARREST OF 300 AGITATORS (Continued from First Page.) food from the whose owners are said to have made “gifts” when they were reminded what would happen to them if they as soon the Com- munists take power surrounding RAIDS SPECTACULAR. | Police Descend on Widely Scattered | Red Meetings. (0 The Star and New York World December —The com- revolution which had been preparing in France for several weeks was forestalled by vigorous polic tion, it was announced by the govern ment today. A red revolt was planned it was contended, whose Immedi purpose was the overthrow of the French republic and the setting up of a Soviet state . Foot and borse police, istic headauarte the By Cable PART supported by resorves, tie prine and made fa raid in the trained was that suburh of Fi iture yed Others at Bobigny Ny were being Jing. Mar- which revealed visin Guantities vaper detailed plans for the An edition of the communist paper the Social Down, was confiscated a bobigny. 1t is believed distribution of thix edition was to have been the signal for action. Under the headline, “Clear for Action.” which in itself is believed to be a signal, the newspaper he signal will be given you understood time by means to lverything is ready sections, which will place at material which they at tl Kuown in the ur disposal the Raids al rms the tonig wers Spectacular, T say Search Progress Bobigr hion. A he mate: was fc question, the police and ammunition. arms depc in T at made ir meeting was the local school, under the chair- manship of the communist mayor and the room was packed with many men and many foreigners, chiefly Italians and Swiss. The police pre- for the d in numbers suf- to paralyze resistance. En- the town, the barricades closed eets to prevent any one gefting gh to escape warn other communist organizations known to holding meetings in neighboring factory reg The polic and arrest detained after ilar sts pectacul being held rded one. the Sight Ir schiool were ation. Pa 400 held re the of the activity, has been intensive since the co ists demonstration on the the ashes of Jaures were transferred to the Pantheon. In their eagerness to into action rapidly, the commun- ists risked discovery of their plans The government has been informed for several davs of after hearing reports ecided to act immediat Premier Herriot announced the anti-red campaign the Chamber f Deputies, saying: “The govern- ment will protect the repu gainst communist agitators- who forget ting the laws of hospitality trying the foment revolution. Le Flanche, the communist of the Breton sardine packing Douraine, has been ce for supporting strike. At Mulhouse, there a communist strike of miners, meetings have been forbid- den. Fifty foreigners declared to be agitators, have been con- ducted to the frontier and expelled. Premier Herriot had a 20-minute k with Krassin, the new Soviet when Krassin presented fals this morning. (Coprright, 1924.) CALL MASS MEETING. in arrests Today's were result which mun- raid of the plans, lic are by mayor town suspended from the communist Alsace, where his creden Catholics France Plan Demonstration. By the Associated Press. BREST, France, December 6.—A Catholic mass meeting has been ar- anged for tomorrow at Quimper, of the department of Finis- tere, “to make demonstration for d fense of religious liberty.” A similar meeting is set for Monday at Folgoet, near Brest. Posters announcing these meeting: which have been distributed through- out the surrounding country, read: “Up, men; we will get them.’ POLICE IN STRIKE AREA. Big 200 Gendarmes to Keep Order in Demonstration. By the Associated Press. L'ORIENT, France, December 6.— A brigade of 200 mounted gendarmes and a number of smaller units from surrounding centers proceeded today to various of Finistere, where a series of strikes in progress. Other forces have been sent to the | POrts to preserve order in connection with Catholic demonstrations called for tomorrow. CHILD LABOR LAW HIT. Capital Man Among Speakers Be- fore Sentinels of Republic. PHILADELPHIA, December . Protest against the proposed child labor amendment to the Federal Con- stitution was voiced today at the second annual convention of the Sen- tinels of the Republic, which went on record as favoring control of the child labor question by the indi- vidual States. John H. Kirby, a Texas lumber- man, in an address termed the Fed- eral measure “a step in the direction of the Socialist plan to make the children the chattels of the State instead of the jewels of the home.” Frank L. Peckham, Washington, vice chairman of the organization, condemned the amendment as decep- tive. “It has a sugar coating designed to appeal to those men and women who are against the wasting of child life by exploitation,” he said, “but it actually seeks the right for the Fed- eral Government to control the ac- tivities of children.” Parent-Teacher Meeting. A meeting of the Parent-Teacher Assoclation of the Thomson and Webster Schools will be held Tues- day. The Schick test for immuniza- tion against diphtheria will be the subject discussed. It is expected that Dr. Fowler, District health officer, and others will speak. Under Recent Law farms. | t! MILWAUKEE, Wis., December 6.— te | ir activity, ana ! points in the department | THE SUNDAY OUSTING SENATORS DRAWS LINES TIGHT Lenroot Forces in Wisconsin| Hope to Build on La Follette’s Loss. What do the folks “back home” think of the action of the Republican senatorial caucus in “reading out of the party” for insurgency Senators La Foliette, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier? The following dispatches on the subject throw an interesting light | on the situation. BY MARVIN CREAGER, Managing Editor Milwaukee Journal | Conservative Republicans. supporters {of Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, are | jubilapt over the action of the | senatorial caucus in Washington read- ling La Follette out of the party. At | the same time, leaders in La Foliette's | camp do not believe the caucus ac- | tion will discourage the senior Senator in carrying through his program or | detract from La Follette's strength in | Wisconsin. La Follette has weathered | so many political attacks in the past and appears to be so strongly en- | trenched at home, that it is doubtful | whether reading him out of the party | in Washington will serfously disturb| him in Wisconsin, | Friends of Senator Lenroot, who! will be a candidate for re-election in | two vears, believe the political skies | hgve brightened for the jumior | Senator because of the La Follette |incident in Washington, and they are n full of the ucus resolution at meetings in the at whieh resolutions are being wiopted & the Senators who read Follette out of the Re- publican ks and recommending that actiBn be taken against Wis consin Congressmen who | supporters To Build With Lenroot the absolute boss of Wisconsin patronage, Republicans jwho are directing Lenroot's political future, aim to build up a powerful | machine between now and the sena- | torial clection in 1 They have | set about to reorganize the Repub- | {llcan party. with clubs seattered all | the State, and will try to draw A sharp line between Republicans and near Republicans in the legisature aiming to embarrass La Follette's ally, Gov. John J. Blaine, recently electec third term and certain to be candidate against Lenroot while n against tract from home, it ma Blaine's cha | Lenroot strong So, t La his e Washington Follette may not de- personal strength at tend to weaken Gov. for the Senate and in that same proportion brighten Lenroot's prospects. In the presidential campaign just closed the independent movement, as expressed in the La Follette-Wheel- er ticket, Included the entire Socialist | party of Wisconsin with La Fol- lette’'s faction of the Republican party But since then La Follette | licutenants have been giving the new party movement the cold shoulder. It pears that unless the Senator him- | self participates in the furtherance | of that movement it will begin and end with the Socialist party, so far as Wisconsin is concerned. Wants New Party. i Representative Victor L. Berger welcomed the caucus action in Wash- | ington and expressed the hope that ith La Follette kicked out by the | Republicans he would make good his promise to join new party. Senator La Follette ha ight in a Republican caucus would have,” said Mr. Berger. “La | | Follette has done everything in his ipower to defeat the Republican nom |inees. He has sald that the Repub- lican party is owned by Wall Street and operates the enemy of the! common people. 1 agree with that, but on the other hand, Republicans have a right to their own opiniofis and their own organization. If La Follette meant what he said in the recent campai and If he makes good the principles he preached, he | will now do the straight, honorable | thing by joining a w party.” i E. J. Gro president of the La Follette Progressive Association in | Wisconsin, expressed the view that | the caucus resolution in Washington {would tend to draw more sharply the | distinction between reactionaryism and progressivism. “The ultimate result will be to establish two parties in the country, {the Republican reactionary party on the one hand and the progressive i party on the other, or two distinet | factions “within the Republican | party. But in either event the reac- | tionaries can do nothing which will !@etract from Senator La Follette's great political strength in his own | State.” resolu- w no more than 1 | | NO RETALIATION TALK. Republicans in Iowa Rather Fear | Brookhart's Future Course. ; BY C. C. CLIFTON, Political Editor DesMoines Journal- ‘Tribune. By Consolidated Press. DES MOINES, December 6.—Reading Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Jowa out of the party by the Republican ! senatorial conference, before the open- |ing of the short session, has failed to | provoke any open declarations of re- tallation by the Senator's supporters, Towans have become accustomed to having Brookhart read out of the party. Three times in succession Republican State conventions have ignored Brook- hart as the party's Senator, as well as its nominee for the office. In the past Brookhart has thrived and waxed fat on this sort of thing. A slap has been a boost. And there are some cautious oppo- nents of the Senator, as well as many friends, who see at least a remote pos- sibllity of the same upshot now. At least there fs some feeling, though probably not vet preponderant in Republican cir- cles, that discipline at Washington might wisely stop now. Some of the un- casiness centers about Daniel F. Steck’s contest for Brookhart's seat The regu- lars do not want Brookhart to be a candidate again in two years, when Senator Cumming' term expires. Want Two-Year Wait. If the contest by Steck, Democrat, backed by rabid anti-Brookhart Re- publicans, should triumph after the 1926 election that would suit them per- fectly. But such a triumph before the election would be quite another matter. It is not to be forgotten that Brook- hart, despite everything, got nearly a half million votes. Whether any- thing done to Brookhart, or by him, will have any effect on the third party movement is very doubtful now. If the third party in Iowa is not dead, it is In an exceptionally deep coma. There is plenty of pro- gressive sentiment, and a few cour- ageous leaders would like to battle on. But the election is over. The en- thusiasm has subsided. The State s still Republican, decidedly and nor- mally. Seeks Party Machinery. As a matter of fact, Brookhart's ultimate purpose was probably to take over the Republican machinery and make it his own, rather than either to lead or follow in & perm nent new party. Anything else in Towa would have been rather ridicu- lous. A recent meeting of the La Follette leaders, held in Des Moines, a meet- | | | has | seript {out | more than three centuries afo | Over the airdrome, Gen STAR, WASHINGTON, Two Ways Open For Congress to Act on Park Plan There are two ways in which Congress can make provision at this session for the long pending park project known as the Klin- gle Valley, the Piney Branch and the Patterson tract development. One way is by passing separate bills covering these three speeific items, or by increasing the esti- mates of §600,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau for the Na- tional Capital Park Commission. These three park projects have been under consideration for a number of years, and strenuous efforts have been made by the Board of Trade and other civic bodies to have them acquired be- fore they are privately developed. CATHEDRAL GIVEN ANCIENT VOLUME “Doctrina et Politia Ec- clesiae Anglicanae” Is 300 Years Old. A rare history of and written by« Cante the Natic White, fc book, the more Abbot to the ngland re ago Archbishop of has been presented to I Cathedra! by Henry mer Ambassador to France according to an nouncement by Right Rev. James . Freeman, Bishop of Washington. This volume, called “Doctrina ct Tolitia Ecclesiae Ang- licanae,” was printed in London in 1617. It will be accorded a place of honor in the Washington hedral library by vote of the Cathedral Chapter, of which Mr. White is a member. A portrait Abbot, has a the Cathedral by illuminating Church of th of the author, George been presented to Mr. White, Charles €. Glover, James ‘Tarmelee and Dr. William C. Rives, and will be hung in the Mary Jessup Blair memorial wing of the library, where the book will be displayed. The bLook bears arms in gilt of chevron between numerous on the cover the archbishop three pears marginal notes in cryptic Latin characters. His signa- ture “G. Cant” is written in firm on the last page. The follow- ing note in Archbishop Abbot's hand writing, also appeared originally on the last page, but has been crossed “This last treatise, ‘called ‘Politia cclesiae Anglicanae,” was condmened by authority and ordered to be burnt.” the a and his Obey Used in Marringe. Forma Solemizandi beginning on page 247, ap pears the word “obedire,” showing that to obby as well as to honor her husband was required of a_woman The book dates back to within six vears of the authorized or King James ver- sion of the Bible, which was pleted between 1604 and 1811 by special commission of scholars under James 1, including Archbishop Abbot The archbishop, a great favorite of James I, was born at Guilford in 1362 and was buried there in 1633. History relates that a sad misfortune befell him a few s after he wrote the book now made available to theological cholars at Mount St. Alban. While hunting in 1622 in a private park at Bramzill, a bolt from his crossbow almed at a deer, struck of the keepers, who died wit; hour. Archbishop Abbot was s. tressed that he fell into melancholy. In the monium,* Matri- in &r MITCHELL VISIO]\IS 62-HOUR AIRPLANE FLIGHTS TO CHINA| (Continued from First Page.) meters and the sounding devices for airplanes in a very short time the world witness airplanes landing on dromes through dense fo, ent it has been successfully demon- strated that they can be guided on a true compass course through dense fog by radlo signals from the groupd Mitchell said, a sounding line could be dropped from an altitude of 500 feet to get the exact distance. As the ship dives into the land the altimeter would be able to record the exact number of feet above the ground, and at desired height the pilot, although un- able to see an object anywhere, could ievel off and settle down, just as he does under favorable weather. The general produced lantern slides practicability ot will air- At pre { showing a line running parallel with the coast lines of North America and Europe, indicating a distance of 1,000 miles to either share. Project- ed airplanes could protect that area. Gen. Mitchell said, leaving a very small space In the middle of the At- lantic “free for surface vessels from attacks of heavier-than-air craft.” He explained, however, that svessals in this protected zone would not be immune from dirigible attack n producing motion pictures of the 1923 bombing tests off the Virginia capes, the general reiterated his old stand of the superfority of airplanes over bat- tleships. “We can sink anything they put on the water,” he declared, explaining that the more protection in the way of increased armor plate the battleship would adopt would im- mediately be met by larger bombs. Two-thousand-pound bombs have been used to date in the target prac- tices, but the Army has 4,000-pound bombs waiting for more formidable targets. He also declared that the Navy's defensive value along the coast line is rapidly declining, and that aircraft are best fitted for this task. Future in Monoplanes. The future in big airplanes lies in the monoplane, if big wingspread and large landing wheels, to enable it to ride over ditches and fences, be pro- vided, the general declared. The power, Instead of being multi-motor- ed, would be geared to one propeller, reducing much head resistance and permitting the pllot in flight to “throw out part of the plant,” and always assuring a reserve in case one of the motors went bad. This would reduce the weight of the motor to about two pounds per horsepower, and the difference in this figure and the 17 pounds per horsepower now applied to the large motors could be utilized in more fuel. A plane of this type would cost about $§00,000, Gen. Mitchell sald, but succeeding planes would be reduced very much in cost. The general deplored the present condition of the alr service as re- gards qualified fighting strength. He —e ing from which some of the erst- while progressi hiefs were signifi- cantly missing, gallantly proposed to keep the third party flag flying. But unless new developments not now In sight come to their support, the prospect will not be for very much success, with- | the | 16 SR FINANCIAL WIZARD' DENIES INSOLVENCY Batavia, N. Y., Man Ciaims | He Can Meet Obligations of $200,000. By the Associated Pres BATAVIA, Y.. December Statements made by M. Earl Wil- llams, Batavia ‘“financial wizard,” to District Attorney Albert J. Water- man of Genesee County. In a three- hour conference this afternoon, were being considered tonight by Mr. Waterman in conjunction with evi- dence collected in an investigation | conducted quietly by the district at- torney for the past two weeks. | Whether evidence thus far adduced would lead to further action by the |Genesee County authorities the dis- |trict attorney had not yet announced this evening. Claims He Can Meet Notes. Williams, confined to his home here by illness, expressed confidence, Mr. Waterman said, that he could, if given sufficient time, meet outstand- ing personal promissofy notes aggrs gating approximately $200,000. Mr. Waterman declared that he believed his investigation to have shown that Williams is {nsolvent. The district attorney said Willlams |had maintained that” while he had |dealt in Dairymen's Leagie, Inc. |certificates at a profit, his financial manipulations, which gained him a sudden reputation in several western New York counties a few weeks ago. had been in large part In connection | with the Mutual League of North America, having its home offic in Buffalo. Previously, the district attorney sald, it had been represented that Williams had dealt almost exclusively in Dairymen's League certificates, purchasing them at a substantial d count with short-term loans Intrust- «d to him for investment and return- ing as high as 35 per cen* profit to the Investors, Willlams, it was said, (Kept 10 per cent of the profits and turned the remainder over to his in- vestors. Officlals of the Dairymen's League, Inc., denied that certificates of the league were obtainable at dis- counts such as Williams described. Operation Extensive of the young by the district been extensive. It how many investors Willlams with large periods ranging from 24 two weeks after investing with or loaning their money to Wil- Hams In many cases, the district at- torney said, the profits were turned back to Willlams for re-investment | The district attorney did n divulge | whether Williams had explained the det. of the large payments he said to have made to investors, No complaints have vet been made against Williams, either by investors or persons from whom he is alleged to have purchased Dairymen's League certificates at a discount, the district attorney said He asserted that in- tors with Williams had accepted interest rates, inasmuch as lams’ investment money, as in- dicated by the outstanding notes. was obtained in most cases as a personal oan GRAND DUCHESS GIVEN HEAVY POLICE GUARD FOR NEW YORK VISIT (Continued from First Page.) PR ations vere said attorney to have is not known | were paid off by profits in { hours to Is is icans wh relieve have exerted themselves to the sufferings of Russlan nobles. exiled since the revolution. In a statement issued through M. Djamgaroff she denied various ru- mors connected with her visit and re- iterated that was purely soctal in its nature and has no political or financial purpose.” Wl Visit Capital. | plans will take the royal {party to Washington and Philadel- phia. In New York she will be the guest of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, sr., | and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer: while in | Washington Mrs. John Hays Ham- mond and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lan- sing will entertain her. In Philadel- phia she will be the guest of Mrs Alexander Van Rensselaer and Mrs. | Gardner Cassett. | The Grand Duchess is a_cousin of | King George of England. Her father was the son of Queen Victoria of England, who became the Grand Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and her mother was the only daughter of Czar { Nicholas I of Russia, Her sister is Queen Marie of Rumania. The Monday Opera Club, organized a year ago, has as membership some of the country's most socially promi- nent men and women. The member- ship list is largely recruited from| Metropolitan opera box holders. The scope of the club's charities covers charities abroad from funds trans- mitted to various charities through the American ambassadors. On the club’s advisory committee are Mrs. Loomis, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderblit, | Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, Mrs. Richard Mortimer and Princess Cantacuzene- Speransky, the former Julla Dent Grant. J. P. Morgan is the club's banker. Grand Duchess Member. Present The grand duchess is an honorary member, as are her sister, Marie of Rumania; Grand Duchess Xenia, sis- ter of the late Czar; the Dowager Duchess of Milfordhaven, the Queen of Belgium and the widow of the late Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. The Grand Duchess, a woman of large personal fortune, will have oc- casion to spend little money in con- nection with her vislt, it was an- nounced. New York wealthy families have supplied the party with motors throughout its stay; the Waldorf-As- toria is host to the party; her pas- sage on the Paris was without cost, and a special car will carry the party over the Pennsylvania Railroad, through the courtesy of Vice Presi- dent Atterbury. —_— said there are only 450 men “ready to do business in the alr right off the bat.” The old war pilots are no asset to the present air service, owing to the sweeping changes and advance- ments made in flylng. In their time they had ships whose maximum speed was 125 miles per hour. DECEMBER’ 7, | Government Today the pursuit ships can go twice that fast, he said. The war- time flyers would have to learn all over again, and, while all maintain a steadfast interest in aviation, they would be of little help in time of emergency. He made a plea for more inviting conditions in the Alr Service to attract new blood to the field which he believes is the future of commerce and wars to come. Com- mercial aviation, Gen. Mitchell said, cannot be a success unless a survey is made of the cost of things to be car- ried by airplanes. It is just as fool- ish to establish a commercial air- plane line without sounding out just ‘what use would be made of it as it is to run a railroad Into an uninhabited desert, the general emphasized. For the future, however, he saw trans- oceanic steamship docks and railroad terminals all under one roof, on top of which airdromes would be located. He declared it was absolutely essen- tial that these three forms cf tran: portation be closely allied and busi- ness eventually will demand it 1924 — PAR' ABSOLUTE DIVOR SHIPPING BOARD TO BE ASKED Jones Drafting Measure to Put Operation of Mer- chant Marine Entirely Under Contrel of Corporation. (Continued from First Page.) directly responsible to dent. Allocation of ships, the determina- tions of routes, the sale of ships, are among the most important matters affecting their operation which, as matters stand today, have to be sub- mitted to the board for its decision. Tt is felt in administration quarters that these functions should be in the hands of the Fleet Corporation, sub- ject, of course, to the President of the United States. Any attempt to place the operation of the fleet in the Fleet Corporation more effectually than it now s would prove abortive, it is believed, unless such action should be taken. It has been suggested Shipping Board should kind of board of directors of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. In fact, in its recently published annual report, the Shipping Board said “It 'has been the desire of board, as far as possible, to the operation of its vessels basis approximately commerciul edents and practices. For this pur- pose It was felt that the officials of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in the conduct of the business should be given a free hand as ministerial of- ficers, reporting to the Shipping Board as to a board of directors fixing the broad general practices to be followed.” Suggest Advixory Counell, On the other hand, the is advanced that there shou such connection between the poration and the board, but that advisory committee counet sisting ~ of the Sccretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy and the retary of Commiere should created. This counell would advise with both the President of the United States and the head of the Fleet Corporation. Further, a board of trustees consisting of the president of the Fleet Corporation and six other officfals of the corpora- tion should be established. All of the ships and other property under ®uch a plan would be transferred to the Fleet Corporation, acting for the The Fleet Corporation would be responsible dircetly to the President and to the Congress. As a matter of fact, under such a plan, the Congress ltself would occupy the position of a board of directors to the Fleet Corporation, layving down such major policles by law the clrcumstances demanded. Except in a very broad sense, howev the Congress would not direct the ac- tivities of the president of the Fleet Corporation. Hence desirab of the establishment of an council composed of Cabine who shall confer both with the President and with the head of the Fleet Corporation regarding general polictes in view President, the ques are the duties and board outside the fleet and other property creasingly interesting board done with them? Compares With 1. C. C. These functions of the board been likened to the dutfes of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. It has been sald that the Shipping Board should have the same relation to American shipping, Government owned as well as privately owned, as the Interstate Commerce Commission has to the railroads. Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping Board has been keenly interested ir the development of these functions of the board. He called the attentior of the board to these matters earls in the vear, outlining the activities of the board distinct from the opera- tion of the fleet, as he saw them. In order to facilitate the work of the board, its functions have been separated into various bureaus, with a commissioner at the head of each, as follows: Bureau of Trafiic, Com- missioner E. C. Plummer, vice chair- man of the board; Bureau of Regula- tion, Commissioner F. L Thompson; Bureau of Construction, Commission- er W. S. Benson; Bureau of Opera- tions, Commissioner T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the board; Bureau of Law, Commissioner B. E. Haney; Bu- reau of Research, Commissioner Meyer Lissner: Bureau of Finance, Commissioner W. S. Hill. Under the Bureau of Traffic come, among other things, domestic and world trade conditions: undef the bureau of regulation, agreements and com- ferences of water carrlers, rates and tarifts, and relations with the rail- roads; under the bureau of construc- tion, domestic and foreign construc- tion and costs, the construction loan fund provided by law to foster Amer- ican ship bullding, transfers of flag, rew designs and hull machinery; un- der the bureau of operations, labor costs and conditions, pier and port tacilitles, cargo handling equipment; under the bureau of laws, scrutiny of foreign and United States laws affect- ing shipping, investigations and hearings, legal advice and litigations; under the bureau of research, general research, marine insurance, and the insurance fund, and under the bu- reau of finance, construction loan fund and all matters pertaining to finance. the President. that the constitute the place on a e d be no F ity off ory ers, of the the what £ the proposal of ion as to functions operation of the becomes in- What has the have Wide Range of Duty, It is easy to see by a glance at these divisions of the work of the board that it has many and varied du- ties of great importance both from a regulatory and advisory standpoint. It has wide powers of research into all matters affecting shipping Further, the board has the very im- portant duty of passing upon rates charged by common carriers by wa- ter—forelgn and interstate—with certain exceptions. The board does not have the power to fix rates—but its power is comparable to the power first granted the Interstate Com- merce Commission in the early days of railroad regulation—it may dt'rlnre a rate unfair or discriminatory. Fur. ther, the board may Investigate and determipe what practices constitute unfair competition and discrimination on the part of water carriers. The division of regulations during the fiscal year ending last June 30 had filed with it, in conformity with the law, 30 active freight and pas- senger conference _agreements or Coples of minutes of tariffs. In ad- ditlon 19 subconferences functioning as subsidiaries of major conferences filed minutes and tariffs with the di- vision. All new conference agree- ments submitted during the year were approved by the board with certain modifications designed to pro- tect the interest of flag vessels or fo obviate practices not consistent with the regulatory provisions of the shipping act. Fifty-eight other con- ference agreements were approved by the board. The board also had filed with it and acted upon during the same period a considerable number of com- laints. P Through its division of regulation the board maintained public-tarift files which were more and more used by shippers trade organizations, carriers and various agencies of the Government. Studying Labor Problems. The Bureau of Operations is en- gaged in the study of marine and dock labor problems. It holds itself out to the employer and employe as an impartial cy In connection with disputes. .'gt oard has favor- suggestion | CE OF FLEET AND ed the policy of collective bargaining wherever possible and has encourag- ed a falr and impartial attitude to- ward organized labor. The Bureau of Operations maintains offices in 14 of the ports of the country. During the year the bureau placed on Amer- ican vessels a total of 383 officers| and $4,224 unlicensed men | Under the law, a construction loan fund was created, seiting aside an- | nually $25,000,000 ‘derived from sales | of property held by the Shipping | Board and from receipts of operation | This fund last June had to its credit $57,900,000. In view of the surplus world tonnage of shipping the loans | from this fund have not been as great {as might otherwise have been pected. But among the loans made during the last fiscal year were $2,666,000 to aid in the construction of two combination freight and pas- senger vessels to be operated chiefl in coastwise trade—to the Cherokee- eminole Steamship Corporation, a subsidiary of the Clyde Steamship Co.. and another of $1,000,000 to the Rob- rt E. Lee Steamship Corporation, to aid in the construction of a combined freight and passenger vessel, for use |in the coastwise trade, and $1,500,000 |to the Coamo Steamship Corporation for the construction of a freight and passenger vessel to be operated be tween ports of the United States or to ports of South and Central { America. Through its bureau hoard has investigated particularly | alleged diseriminations by foreign governments and officials against| American shippi These are only duties which the shoulders, entire operation of the flast. It has a & opporivntty to atd the development | American shipping through these | functions. In fact, it was the pur pose of members ‘of Congress who | helped to frame the shipping laws | to up an organization which should be comparable to the British Board of Trade with its relation to shipping of law the a few hoard has apart e many upon its from the set POLICE DESCRIBED AS FEARING DEATH OF MAN THEY BEAT nued from First Page.) that oner. night and talked with the pris- Avers Prisoner Was Cursed. the conversation, Dodson | Lieut. Pierson cursed the prisoner, giving in detail the language used, and the discussion closed with the remarks of Pierson, Dodson said, | at - ber, 1 ing to take care of you." After midnight were in the cell leased, he test Attorney R to the witne objected to Du testif ng ed two other men with Davi d an here sald something . and Attorney Leahy this, saying he didn't butting in. Attorney feet, gla at saying try who were re- ng the defense counsel “Don’t you say 1 this witness.” It was some time before order was restored, and Mr. Wahly warned that a recurrence would result in the courtroom being cleared. Attorney Ryan offered to withdraw, but Wahl said he had mo objection to his stay ing Dodson, continuing, licemen, after roll ca Davis' cell and Davis said he coat. the policemen that he wo after he left on, he heard a dicating by hitting his hand. A few minute said, the two policemen returned to the ¢ lroom, each having hold of one of Davis’ arms and dragging him along the cellroom floor. One of the policemen then got a glass of water | i | said 1. ca told him to c would get witness contl said he didr be back moment the cellroom he went “smacking noise " two po- back to out hat and but the need it ued A later, he and threw it through the cell door . and then got a bucket W on him. At inte 15 minutes until Dav was removed to the hos the po- lice came back and looked into his cell, the witness continued On direct examination by President Wahly, Dodson then testified that he | heard cursing and that it was all be- ing done by Pierson. He repeated the | words used by Pierson | Grilled by Attorney. Then followed a long grilling bv Attorney Leahy -examina- tion, fn which he failed to break down any of the witness' direct testimony and was stopped by Attorney Wahly, who pointed out that he wasn't “get- ting anywhere,” Leahy sought to have the witness explain why he could not identify the officers who returned the prisoner to his cell, if he knew that two of them brought him back. Dod- son, said that he was lying on his bunk with his hat on one side of his head, feigning sleep Attorney Ryan had if the witness did not pretend to snore, which was objected to by Leahy, but was not sustained. Dod- son said he feigned sleep “because I had a fear.” Davis then was called. Davis said that the police came to arrest him at his house on the night of September 26 and after changing his clothes he | went with them and was confined in | a cell with three other prisoner: | |of wate vals of about the board ask Shortly after he was taken to the station house, he asserted. he was taken to the captain’s office, where a woman identified him, and he was returned to his cell. Later the other prisoners in his cell were turned| loose, he added. Blinded, Davis Says. After rtoll call at midnight, policemen came to his cell and the lieutenant wanted to see him and each grabbed one of his arms As he was about to pass through the cell door, he said, he recognized Policeman Proctor standing in the shadow in an alcove. He had hardly gotten through the door, he asserted, when a bag was thrown over his head and a string in the bag drawn, closing it around his mneck. The beating started immediately and he sald it seemed to come from all sides. He sald a voice, which he identified as that of Lieut. Plerson, said: ahead and give it to him.” He said he didn't cry out. Davis testified that Policeman Robinson was beating him with what he thought was a piece of rubber pipe. During the beating, the top of the bag was torn off, he said, leaving the part with the drawing string in it around his neck. This time, he said, he recognized Pierson, who said, at that time, he testified: “Don’t hit him any more. You have nearly killed him now.” Wanted to Continue Beating. The other policemen, he asserted, wanted to continue the beating. Proctor and Milstead, he continued, dragged him back to his cell, threw him on the floor and walked over him. Proctor, he continued, told Milstead to get a glass of water. At frequent intervals, he said, Proctor and Milstead me in, ' reached through the cell door and felt his pulse, two said { week to a close. | gates d RESERVE CHAPLAIN CORPS IS OPPOSED Non-Military Basis of Re- ligious Work in Army Object of Move. By the Ausociated Press ATLANTA, Ga. December 6—War and race problems tonight were the most important subjects before the Federal Council of Churches as it brought its business sessions of the Dr. M. Ashby Jones, Atlanta, described the racial question as “the most insistent challenge to Christian _religion,” but declared “progress is being made in meeting the question of white colored races in the South.” War was branded as the lective sin of human soclety lution offered by Dr. Charles . Mor rison, Chicago, editor of the Chris tian Century, asking that the counc committee Army and Navy chay lains discontinue “its acti responsibility in the appointr chaplains In the Officers’ Corps. in and chief co in a reso Referred Without Debate. Dr medig mittee mended structed Governm question may be place the ligion Navy Th = Morrison's tely resolution to the busi without debate. It that the committee be in- by conference with proper nt officials to study the of “taking such steps a necessary and effective service of ministers of 1 to the men of Army a upon n report of the lution, would exe was, ess cor recorn fir ed amiitt next great before it is started Milliken of Maine to)d th "he churches the ns and trustees upon this the only force that by substituting love good will for picion for bitterness, in the And in How great bility not only for th welfare of humanity, but for the physical structure of civilizatior impossible te.” arth prevent hatred and brotherhood lives of hum the poli this in respon i “piri to overe Takes Rap at Pacifists. Tha had * pactfic prevent to refus governm Such an attempt er pati propaganda war by pled, the to = executive d with the which g indiv nts in event o preven tinued seeking gara by thr £ pebbles brink of the cataract “The expression fhat -primary individual £ s Dr. Jones the instinct of self-defense.” the t which ments,” opportunitt primary of r usness the id cons stinet fullment, vealed in vation or “We must superior might others often gives rior opportunities in_superior achic “These superior have been munity from “We must perior achievements in and the arts of preserved and at time the weaker and more ples. Tl becor tion for the govern “I is re- self-preser- fact that th group over group supe- have issued he said S and im- face land, manual face th climate tas fact that these government civilization must be defended from ackward peo- the justifica- t of rac may how of nsible, ranny the most ¢ It has s too severe a test ¢ make gr ther. for beer human nature to subservient to ms well impossibl for the stronger grou zovern for are of the weaker group. It temptation to explo them weak in used for the be It s that they of the str may be Work for Racial Peace. The work in the Sout cerned with meeting of of both ra demic ques of inter-racial co he sa has beer human sympathy and th the “best representatives es to discuss not the of the relation of e races, but the specific needs of t home, cases of injustice and dlscrir ination in the courts of the business world “The supreme good not in any specific “but in the spiritual human kindness whic ated.” A gres be he said atmosphere 1 his been cr is to found sults,” for women in work of the organiza was re: mended by the council in adoptin report committee on policy tl he told him ter send him didn't want then that they had bet- to a hospital if they him to die there. He had been lying all this time in his wet clothes, he said. He was taker to the hospital, and then returned ¢ the station where he was re- quired to re outside In the p trol in his wet clothes for some time On starting to the hospital, he said they called another policeman frow his beat and had him go to Gallinger Hospital to Stand guard over He repeated the cu alleged to have been Pierson, that wa Dodson. Shirts Are Evidence. At this point there were introduce as exhibits the outer shirt and unde shirt sald to have been worn by Davis. The bottom of the back of each was very dirty, and there were holes'In them which were appare: caused by the friction of being draz- ged over a hard surface. The dir was made, it could be plainly secn, by dragging. On cross-examination, the Witness sald that he could not say for ce tain that Policeman Carroll was pres- ent at the beating. He said that the licks were falling on him with t rapidity of a machine gun, and th they were severe enough to kno him to the floor. He said that there was no doubt about Lieut. Pierson being there, however, as when the sack was torn off he was looking right into Pierson's face. Attorney George C. Page is asso- clated with Attorney Ryan as counsel for Davis. Davis was locked up in connecti with an alleged assault on Policem: Musselman of No. 7 precinct, and the attack on Davis is alleged to be one of revenge on this account. Davis was acquitted in the Police Court ot the assault charge. HOLDSMCAECER CATCHING French Doctor Would Victims. given by testified N Isolate NEW YORK, December Dr. Medric T. de Gerin arrived from France today on the Paris to demon- strate under the auspices of New York State physicians’ organizations the uses of a serum he has perfectcd to_cure pneumonia. Dr. de Gerin said he beiieved had also discovered a cure for anemia. As a result of a study of cancer, he sald, he had come to the conclusion that the diseass was both ne A few hours later, he sald, he asked for water, and Proctor brought him some about 15 minutes later, and infectious and contagious and thit cancer patlents should be isolated and thelr living quarters fumigated.