Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Unsettled, with snow or rain night and .tomorrow; minimum perature about 32 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 38, pm. vesterday: lowest, 30, at a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 474, to- tem- at 5:30 Entered as second cl s matter post office, Washingt P 0. .29 5D, ¢ WASHINGTON, ering WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, CLIMAX IS REACHED INANGLO-ANERICAN iPaper Asserts Youth WARCLAIMS PARLEY Fell Into Net It Apprehension Felt Over Pos- | Set for Him. sible Conference Desertion by Americans. i Political FT‘&n_w Up | Charged in Davis ‘ Statement. BRITISH SEE U. S. ENVOYS| INDIFFERENT TO VIEWS | ™ the Associated Prese., | TOPEKA Kans., | bombshell was droppes Detachment Declared Evident in | ,‘,‘a“”; Absence of Delegates at Jonathan M. Davis, had accepted | % $1 0 and dellvered a pardon to Fred Full Session. anuary 10.—A d in Kansas to- the revelation that Russell 28-year-old son of Gov. - Star. The every city tion is deliv as fast as t Star’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers block and the regular edi- ered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Yesterday’ s Circulation, 100,449 1925 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. WO CENTS. Kansas Gevernor’s Sen Trapped Delivering Pardon for $1,250 Gt | W. Pollman, former La Cygne, Kans., 5 | bank nt and convicted forger. R | The ction took place Binis Lo Anglo- | Toom at National Hotel here and ez e e 1 by the Kansas City s ap- | Journal, whose representative, in con- | re | Junction with Pollman, had set a trap | here 2 acute stage, | ©F the governor's son. it representatives = pres tran the expo in af the n claim rican neg jinas Amer fron an repara d surfaco indications reached a i Gov. Davi whose term expires next admitted his son had been| indifferent | “inveigled into accepting the money that ap- | and asserted the affair was a “frame- peal to the because America is| Up DY political enemies to ‘get!| 1r from of the \mnnlunlmns\""v 1 with which the allies are entangled : Kansans detachment of the Americans the generality of allied ences was evidenced today by a5 TESTIMONY BARED held finance ministers of | ance, Italy and Bel-| .‘ Landis Reveals Evidence in| Giant Case—All Cleared But 0’Connell and Dolan. tish dele under- the States ation, it is d ind United rather to arguments on tha subject al my learned of the from the of ¥ the itain Apprehension Noted. Th is unconcealed apprehension in certain quarters lest the Amerl-| cans, who have no other interest here than in the tion of the applica- | tlon of a share of the Dawes plan| celpts to the payment of their war nages occupation expenses. | might find essary to return to | the full it they are un- to reach what they regard as a casonable understanding in the dis- n with the British. A meeting of the entire . ned at the headquarters this morning ix understood that a reply to yeter-| day's cables has been received from Washington, and it is thought that tact between the Americans and British will be resumed this after-| noon | The conference has failed to main- tain the pace it started with, and to- much where it was last night. Matin is responsible for the statement that at their mceting last| evening James A. Logan, jr., of the | American delegation = and British | Dolan persistently declared he had Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston | no recollection of any suggestion to Churchill, hit upon a pla compro- | O'Connell, as alleged by the latter, to mise by which England would aban- |offer “Heinie” Sand, Philadelphia don her still outstanding contentions | shortstop, $500 not to play too hard return for help by the Unitedpagainst the Giants” club, which was ates in bringing the pound sterl-|in a cruclal position in the National back to parity. This, however, | League pennant race. entirely lacks confirmation from| The record shows that the commis- other sources. sioner told O'Connell that his own | Bigtan Clatis Baciles: confession was sufficient to put him | The principal QiMculty cortinuesito ot G andis slsoftoli | O'Connell that Dolan’s attitude was | be Belgium's share in the reparations | the reason for putting him out from £l rmany, a question which in- | gespite Dolan’s denials. volves almost all the other problems | " yanager McGraw and Secretary | before the conference. After arguUing | James Tierney of the Giants were all vesterday aftérnoon. the finance | only once casually mentioned by the ministers of the powers got lost in |involved plavers in their denial of such a jungle of figures that they¥ | O'Connell's story. finally gave it up and turned the prob- | > lem over to the united experts of all | the nations, who spent the greater| The interrogation, in part, follows: | part of the night trying to decide | Judge Landis—Today Is Tuesday.| among other things exactly how much | This conversation which 1 am asking Belgium has received under her pri- | ahout between you and O'Connell, by, privilexe | O'Connell says, took place at the club- In their original report the experts | pouge at the Polo Grounds last Sat-| submitted four different figures, ar- | yeqne Ao 0 0 O And you rived at by various methods of calcu- | g4\ vy cannot recall any such con- lation, which they left for the min- | v rsation. . The conversation that I isters to choose Detmeen. - thian the |2M asking you about is one which Tnited: States, France. England ang | M- O'Connell tells me he had with Ay = iy Polo Grounds clubhouse ou at the Belgium, many of whom depend upon | YOU at the - Tepartation reveipts to help halance | Defore the team went out on the field their budgets, naturally are defending | The conversation between you and the claims for a larger slice, or, at | O'Connell, was In substance, as stated least, contending that thelr exisiing [ Y O/Connell, that you asked O'Con- ireontagebe At nell “Whether you knew Sands? : Mr. Dolan—Did I ask him? AN Gl Wors: Judge Landis—This is O'Connell's| Thus Italy has recelved more pay-| statement, that you said to him “Do ments in kind than she is entitled to, | you know Sands?” Do you remember and it @ difficult problem to ar-|me putting that in this question to you? range how these pavments shall{ Mr Dolan—I remember it now, figure in her account with the least when you are talking about it now. possible Inconvenience to all concern- | Judge Landis—Did you talk to| ed. Rumania, too, is act and her o'Connell about Sands last Satur-| delegates have lodged a formal claim | gay? | w M. Clementel, president of the | yqo ference, for an increase in the Juige Landis—About knowing| percentage 'allotted her the Spaig.hie Sands is the shortstop of the conferenc This clatm will be dealt| T30S0 0 Veup. with when the affairs of the Austrian | "2 dlan—Yer, 1 know As to interallied debts, prior Cas:t/ Hemember. | to seeing Mr. Churchill yesterday,| Judge Landis—O'Connell says you Premler Herriot had a long confer- | asked him if he knew Sands. This ence with MM. Clementel, M. Loucheur, | was last Saturday that he you M. Dublois, the principal members of | asked him that, and that he told you the finance committees of the Senate he did, and that you told O'Connell to 1 Chamber and president of the!go to Sands and ask him not to bear foreign relati committes of the | down hard on us. meaning the Giants, iate; Leon Blum, Sociallst leader,|team, and for O'Connell to tell Sands, the French experts, Bergery |that is, you, told O'Connell ‘to offer Aron ands $500 1t he would not bear down | result this consultation was !too hard. | ¢ the prevailing view | Mr. Dolan— ter to let the question | jugge. being. Judge Landis—And is that the best SECRECY EXPLAINED. e Dojan— don’t = re ‘ and it unne conference By the Ausociated Press. CHICAGO, January 10.—Official rec- ords of Base Ball Comm foner K M. Landis’ investigation of the New York Giants' bribery scandal of 1924, made public today, disclosed nothing involving any base ball officials. The stenographic record of Landis’ interrogation of the players named as alleged participants in the attempt to “throw a game” revealed that the commissioner found evidence | against any one except Cozy Dolan, | Glant coach, and Jimmy O'Connell, | Giant outfielder. American | | no terrogation in Part, th Dolan—In reference to what? | the that. the d he but to that it we drop for of \firm e bei the t don’t remember it, " Mr. Dolan—I don’t remember. | Judge Landis—Then you do remem- . 3 ! ber of O'Connell coming back to the Parley Following Business Meth- ' ;cp after practice and your asking ods. Sands sald, and, J was your reply to what what | OrConnell { 0*Connell, | Dolan? Mr. O'Connell (who was present)— told Dolan that he would not do it 3 a iage 2, Column 4.) | Envoys Say. BY PARI allied ed by actors CONSTANTINE BROWN. The Star and Chicaga Dail News. January 10.—The deep mys- surrounding the parleys of the finance minister is explain- | collaborators and the principal | being not a return to pre- diplomacy. but merely as se method employed by all 1ses when they are put- a big transaction, wag adopted at the of Winston Churchill inly against the' ondents whom the | though formerly himself, fears and dis Iy | (Continued of war secret the busin husiness hou ting throug The special and is direct newspaper cor British chancellor, journalist trusts, his has not crec: o Iy the Assoc'ated Fress. LONDON, January 10.—The de- sign of the battleships Nelson and Rodney, now being built by Great Britain under the provisions of the ‘Washington naval treaty, is so rev- olutionary, according to the Dal Express, that it marks the end of the dreadnaught era, just as the marked the end of prevented various ming reports from circulating | ng the luct 48 hours which were | lased on wrong Information spread Ly members of the minor powers who | vere hurt because they did not re-| dreadnaught due consideration from the big| Previous ty The new ers represented According to reliable information,| different from any spite of certain difficulties which| world, the paper says. Both will unavoidable, the conference Willi be floating fortresses and air: Die successfully ended next week. The| dromes and will have a radius of main problems are now practically| action covering thousands of miles. solved. The claims of the United| Nine 16-inch guns will be mounted on each of three turrets, all for- ates which some of the allies would | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) ' ward. There will be no guns on » ships will be entirely g others in the i | morning in a copyrighted story money- | passing this n the Kansas City Journal and other morn- ing newspapers which had received the newe through the Associated Press by courtesy of the Journal.” Young Davis accepted $1,000 Pollman while two Journal repre- sentatives, a shorthand reporter and several other witnesses listened in an adjoining room by the ald of a telephonic device hidden behind a cur- tain in Pollman's room, said tae Journal's news story. Receiving the $1,000 payment, the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) and pardon - delivery Cure for Cancer By Cutting Nerve Claimed in Russia By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, Russia, Molotkoff, professor in Neurological Academy here, announces the employment of a new method of treating cancer which he contends will effect cures. The treatment consists in cutting the nerve leading directly to the cancerous growth. According to Prof. Molotkoff. the nerves play a vital part in all cases of cancer. At the Academy of Medical Sciences he exhibited several patients, whom, he said, had been cured by the new method. The same treatment, he asserts will also heal gangrene and In- flammation of the marrow of bones. January MRS, WILLEBRANDT MAY GO ON BENCH President Believed Consider- ing Woman as California Federal Judge. Appointment of Mrs Willebrandt, woman Assistant Attor- ney General, to the vacancy in the Federal Court for the northern dis- Mabel Walker trict of California, is understood to be under consideration Coolidge. Mrs. Willebrandt, who has been in charge of prohibition cases in the Department of Justice, called on Mr. Coolidge today and, although no of- ficlal announcement was made, there were indications that her nomination as the first woman to sit as a Fed- eral judge might go t6 the Capitol shortly. There by President has been a disagreement among Callfornia members of Con- gress regarding the appointment, however, and immediately after word of the possibility of Mrs. Wille- brandt's selection reached the Capitol Senator Shortridge, Republican, of that State, left his office for the White House. A former practicing attorney in Los Angeles, Mrs. Willebrandt was ap- pointed Assistant Attorney General at | the cutset of the Harding administra tion. As an outgrowth of her super- vision over liquor cases she has be- come the inevitable storm center of a number of serious controversies and has been Instrumental in the dis charge of a number of district attor- neys and assistant district attorney who disagreed with the Justice De- partment over liguor prosecutions. The latest case in which she figured prominently was that of Assistant District Attorney Jersey, who was forbidden by her to have anything to do with prosecution of the Weehawken rum cases, and who subsequently was forced out of office. HUGHES TO LEAVE CITY. ‘Will Attend Bar Association Com- mittee Session. Secretary Hughes will 1 to attend meatings of the committee of the American Bar As sociation, in Atlanta, Monday and Tuesday. The Secretary sald he would attend the Atlanta committee meel- ings in the capacity of president of ths American Bar Association wou!ld return to his desk sl the State Department W ednesday ave today executive England’s New Navy Units Called Floating Fortresses and Airdromes the after part, which will consti- tute a flight deck, and the ships will carry their own flying corps and planes. Another feature, tue Express s.ys, is that there probably will be funnels, the products of the furnaces being discharged through pipes running alongside the stern. The distribution of the armor also will be revolutionary. Thae magazines, like the guns, being all forward, the usual armor belt ex- tending for three parts of the ship's length will be unnecessary and the weight saved on the'sides can be added to the deck protec- tion against high-angle fire and aerial bombs. There also possibly will be more than one armored deck, thus ziving successive means of protection. from | Van Riper of New | and | TARIFF AND CREDIT DECLAREDVITALTO -~ CATTLEINDUSTRY Farm Experts to Suggest Remedies for Most Pressing ‘ Agricultural Problem. REPORT TO BE PLACED BEFORE COOLIDGE SOON Financing Can Be Handled With- out Legislation, But Hide Im- post Is Up to Congress. BY G. GOUL LINCOLN, The first report of the | agricultural conference will be trans- mitted to the President within a day lor two. It ix expected. It will deal ! with the pressing of the agri- {cultural problems, the live stock sit- | uation. Remedies for the situation which is admittedly acute, probabiy | will be proposed along at least two !lines | First, financial | operatives and | banks. Second, a tariff on hldes. Hides |are now on the free list and come |into the country in large number: Some of the directors of the inter-| mediate credits banks have been iIn| | Washington and in conference with | | the agricultural conference and the | Federal Farm Loan Board during the | last week. The act of 1923 provides | not only for intermediate banks, but | . U, slso for agricultural credit corpora- | tions formed and conducted by the farmers themselves. It is understood ‘lhdl the organization of these lat- ter corporations will be strongly ad- vised a€ a means of bringing ald to the cattlemen. The members of the President’s! agricultural conference—nine care- fully selected men of wide knowledge and experience in agricultural mat- ters—have been hard at work since they reassembled here Monday. They plunged at once into the cattlemen's problem and have given their entire| time and attention to it. working; | morning and evening, long hours. President’s most | | aid, co- | the through intermediate | | | Donovan Calis Attention of Cramton to Facts De- veloped at Inquiry. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, today addressed a letter to Representative Cramton of Michigan urging him to recognize the District's claim to certaln revenuss amounting to $519,373.83 as a part of the city's| surplus in the Treasury “I have read in the local news- papers,” Maj. Donovan wrote to Rep- resentative Cramton, “that have introduced in the House a bill intend- ed, as I understand the matter, to be substituted for the Phipps bill, pro- viding for the crediting to the Dis- trict of Columbia of certain revenues in the Treasury of the United States as developed by the examination and Investigation made by the Joint select committee of Congress, appointed un- der the provisions of the District of Columblia appropriation act approved June 28, 182 “It appears to be your intention to modify the Phipps bill to the extent of eliminating therefrom the right of the District of Columbia to receive credit for $819,373.83, In addition to the sum of $4.438,154.92. [ Submit “In my opinfon, the District of Co- lumbia would be done a grave injustice if deprived of this credit of §815,373.83 as that amount represents patent mis- takes on the part of the accountants | { employed by the joint select commit- tee to conduct the bookkeeping and of | e|the investigation into the fiscal rela- | tions between the United States and the District of Columbia. 1 cannot help but feel that if you are fully ad- vised of the character of the items that make up this sum you will agres that it would be manifestly unfair to exclude from the full amount of the | credit to be given the District for the | surplus revenues this sum of $819, 373.83. For this reason I ask vour in- | dulgence to submit the following ex planation of the District'’s just and | moral clalm to the sum mentioned. | “The sum of $819,373.83 is made up| of four items, as follows: \ | 1. “The sum of $169.508.85. This amount represents revenue collected by the District of Columbia and de- posited in the, Treasury of the United | States during the fiscal year 1922 over | and above appropriation and other | | charges against the revenues of the | District for that'year. In other words. | the District of Columbia collected and deposited in the Treasury of the| United States in the fiscal year 1922 $169,508.85 more than the total appro- priation and all other charges against the revenues of the District for that | year. “This money was actually in ther Treasury at the close of the fiscall vear 1922, and Is included as a part| of the general fund balance of $7,574,- | 416.90 certified by the controller gen- Underwood Predicts “Com-| i P ena ot s Tietietion e sorint | fortable Majority” for Lt o e it e e treated | His Measure. i No New Agencies Needed. ! The details the recommenda- ! tions which will be submitted to the Presldent are carefully guarded, mem- | bers of commission declining to dis- cuss them. It Is understood, how-! ever, that the conference belleves| that the proper financial ald can be rendered to the cattlemen through| existing agencies, without creating| any new commissions, boards or banks; that the problem fis largely ens of proper education as to what can ‘be done through the existing agencies. This will appeal strongly to those who are somewhat appalled by the large number of Federal agencies of one kind or another| which have salready been created, dealing with every concefvable phase | | of life, and to those who are eco-| nomically inclined. Furthermore, if it is possible to bring about better conditions for the cattlemen through agencies now ex- | |isting. it can be done much more I quickly than If new legislation hac | | to be enacted. There are many | stock men who do these agencies, it because they have not been m | understand just how they are |them. This matter of education | the use of the agencies—including the intermediate banks—will be strongly | urged, it is said. | When it comes to levying on hides, however, legislation required. The President is pe under the so-called elastic provisions {nf :he Fordney-McCu: ari act, I\o increase nr reduce by 3 per ¢ nt| the tariff rates carried in the law,| after investigation and report by the | Tariff Commission. But as there is no tariff now on hides, this prov cannot apply. it is argued, for. | cent more than nothing is still otk ! ing. [ A bil to (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) SENATE VOTE D - ONSHOALS TO you | | Explanation. farmers and not make use explained, simply | | | amend the tariff iav | | | | as an obligation to reduce the sur-| plus revenues of the District in the | Treasury on June 30, 19227 Yet this| {is what was done by the accountants| At e T iin their report to the joint select A vote on the Muscle Shoals ques-| committee, and by that committee in | tion before the Senate adjourns to-|its report to Congress. | night became more probable when | Used In Fixing Tax. | Senator Curtis of Kansas, the Re-| publican leader, declared he hoped to | oo ei® A7 0" o element in fix- keep that body in session until the!ing (he tax rate of the District for problem is disposed of, and Senator|the fiscal year 1923 did not destroy Norris, Republican, Nebraska, chief the other fact that on June 30. 1922, | opponent of the Underwood bill, de- | the money was actually in the Treas- clared he was ready for a final vote, | ury of ‘{‘,f Jinied Seaten-io; the frf]"l“‘ Senator Jones, Republican, Wagsh-|°f the District of Columbia. There neton, author of an amendment (o|Was not any warrant or Jjustification | have a commission report ts Con.|for charging the amount of this ltem | gress on the question, sald he woula | IR the form of an obuSation aEhnaty call up his plan if an opportunity | the District of Columbia. ! offercd. Senator Wadsworth, Repub- | “The joint select committee was 0 New Y v als a an | Ainding condition existing as of lican, New York, who also has a plan | ARQIRE & Soffl O SOSGIE o ount for g & thitt method| o ¢'tpjy ftem of $169,608.85 should have A D H ted to increase. not reduce,.the “Comfortable majority’ for his bill | 9PeT® 4 4 was. predicted by Senator Underwood, | SUrBlus revenues of the District in Democrat, Alabama. Senator Curtis | RS, TISaSUIN Of e Feuro, o hder also announced the President favor- s e R loh: adt ) | ed'the Underwood bill over the Norris | the deficlency appropriation act, abc | measure for Government ownership, | 2200051 50 were appropriated for the defeated several days ago, and that| by o007 eTe RRPTORUEICR e he would vote for the Alabama Sen- [ LiStTict of Columble, e v reason it vu iee auve leavinglaiiguten: de- | DS Zicnues af the Distsict by resudiy T be worked out In-conference | of, Such:appropriations amounted tg Batiedl the Beriate’ b - Bailh C€ | £239,430.72. Because the act in ques- s s e tion was not approved until after the | s close of the fiscal year 1922 (It was oted German Doctor Dies. | approved on the first day of the fiscal = Die iyear 1923), it was not considered or LBIPSIC, Germany, January 10.— |included by the Cdntroller General Dr. Adolf von Struempell, senfor mem- | or by the Auditor of the District of ber of the medical faculty of the Uni- | Columbia in their respective state- versity of Lelipsic and one of the con- [ ments of account between the United sulting doctors who treated Premlerl (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) “The fact that this sum of $169.-} | | | i | | Lenin of Russia during his last iil- — ness, died at his home here last eve- dio Programs—Page 10, ning. He was 71 vears old, | through |ed L i - WHAT (_ =Y~ A LOT oF —aBastw e (( A DONE oN WOMAN, HOLDING BABY, KILLS MAN IN ATTACK Former Business Partner of Hus- band Had Once Before In- sulted Her, She Says. e Associated Press W. Va., January 10 1 & her infant child in her arms, Mrs. T. E. Cobb, 19, wife of a Huntington contractor, shot and killed C. L. Rice, a former business associ- ate of husband, when, she told police. Rice attacked her at her home. Mrs. Cobb was arrested on a charge of murder and released under $10,000 bail By t HUNTINGTON, her married man and the father two children, was shot five times the head, and died instantly. Cobb, In a statement to police had first asked to see her husband. When he learned her hus- band was not home, she said, he locked the door and grabbed her. She broke away from him, she declared and when he pursued her to an ad- joining room she procured a - pistol belonging to her husband and fired Prior to her marriage and while em- ployed a enographer in her hus- band's office, she told police, Rice had insulted her, and this led to the d solution of a business partnership be- tween the two men. P S JUSTIGE BUILDING of Mrs RECEIVER SOUGKT | Buyer Declares He Was Told U. S. Was About to Vacate. Says Trusts Pyramided. An injunction, an accounting and a recelver for the Department of Justice Building at Vermont avenue and K streets, are asked in a filed today in the District Supreme Court by Felix Lake, real estate operator, against the F. H. Smith Co., F. H. Smith Investment Colum- bia Building Corporation, Fairfax Securities Co., Bryan Pitts and other officials of the Lake charges that it was represented to him by Pitts that the Government was about to remove from the build- ing, which could be turned into pri- vate offices and made to pay on investment of $1,420,000. Lake tells the court through Attor- ney R. L. Merrick that in May, 1921 he was about to sail for Europe and executed a contract by which thorized the Smith Company, which was engaged in collecting rentals from other property owned by him, to buy the building from the iate Mrs. Henrietta M. Halliday for $550,000, or as near that sum as possible. He gave notes totaling $25,000 to Pitts, he says, to be paid out of his rentals as’ a deposit on the purchase of the property. In his absence, he asserted, the other defendants, or some of them, through a pyramiding of tvusts and conveyances, had run the value of the property up to $1,420,000, and when he complained that he had not au- thorized such expenditure, he was told, he states, that he had set a limit of $1,500,000 in his order and that the purchase had been made for $30,000 below that amount. He denies he ever authorized such amount, but declares he was persuad- to carry out the purchase and turn over $290,000 additional in se- curities to the Smith company in ignorance of what he calls a secret agreement among some of (he defend- ants to injure him. L that Co., an the defendants be enjoined from selling or disposing of the securities given by him in con- nection with the purchase of the prop- erty and for an accounting and re- ceiver pending final action of court suit | corporations. | he au- G e l | WARREN IS IN LEAD Confers ~ With | Confirmation of Court Ap- pointment Held Up. ently is delaying action by a on of Attorney General be a justice of the Su were increasing Indications today that Charles B. Warren of Michigan woud ed Attorney General. rren’s name has figured per- sistently in discussion of the Attorney Generalship, despite the | indorsement of Gov. Groesbeck Michigan by the delegation in House from that State and b. ‘l‘ouzens as their first and o | for the appointment | The President is known to hold Mr. | Warren in the highest regard and has | | trequently conferred with him and | been his host in a more social way at One of these con-| | ferences was held vesterday, and later | Senator Couzens | series which were looked upon as | | the White House. | the | and President saw afterward Mr. of calls significant by those who feel that Mr. Warren's aversion to returning | public life is not an | stacle to his possible acceptance a cabinet post. | Others Are Discussed. Stone—a. | Mr citizen in many high official ¢ apacities has served, however, hold other possibilities for pointment in the limelight cussion. These include James M | Beck of Pennsylvanta, Solicitor Gen- eial; Willlam J. Donovan of New York, an Assistant Attorney General Gov. Groesbeck and Chief Rugg of the Judicial Court The opposition to Mr. pointment to the Supreme Court veloped yesterday when the judiclary subcommittee cons nation received a file of court appeared as counsel before preme Court for the estate of late J. Pierpont Morgan. The who suit, and Chalrman the opinlon tha of Boulder, Colo., cision in the Sterling expressed study of the documents would make FOR STONE'S POST President. While unexpected opposition appar- nate judiciary subcommittee on the nomi- Stone to preme Court, there unanimous of the Senator ¥ choice to insuperable ob- | of Warren's desire to be a private for a while after his service | vernment | to the 'ap- of dis-| Justice Massachusetts Supreme | “Individual business men and their Stone's ap- | de- | idering the nomi- rec- | ords dealing with a suit in which he | the Su- | the | rec- ords were filed by James A. Ownbey | lost_the de- REALTY MEN DENY ADMITTING CURB ON RENTALS 1S NEEDED | Feel Rebuffed and Misunder- stood by Reported Atti- tude of President. SAY CONTINUED CONTROL . | WILL BALK OWN EFFORTS | Statement Asserts There Is No Emergency Justifying Regu- lation by Law. their letter to the Whita House cou be misconstrued as to infer that were in favor in rental legisiation property owners today formally nfed that thelr letter to the President was an eleventh-hour “admlssion the need of rent control here At an executive committes meeting this morning of the officers of the Washington Real Estate Board and the Association of Bullding Owners and Managers, {t was declared that their efforts to show thc President their intention of taking care of any improper practices in real esta | deals here had not been properly | strued. The committes expressed | self as feeling rebuffed in the r | ed attitude of the President, a suggestion they took edy any improper pract might be found to exist. The mittee, in its discussions today, p ed out that with rental legisiati effect and control of local housi the present Rent Commission. of the local situation has been taken out of their hands. It was pointed out in the meet that if by the passage of the propocs bill their inability to cope With tie it uation was continued, their intention prevent any untoward conditions might arise would be prevented Sees Law Necessary. The statements from the tee today followed the announcems from the White House yesterday tha the President regarded the deter nation of real estate men and banker to stamp out any unfair practices real estate transactions as an ad sion on their part that such transa tions existed, and made it plain, his mind, that rent legislation necessary The formal statement today reads_as follows: “The joint letter which the Wasi ington ,Real Estate Board and t Washington Assoctation of Buildin Owners and Managers sent to th White House yesterday has appare ly been completely misconstrued some quarters. It was based s on an earnest desire of a group influential and representative busi- ness men of Washington to compl: with the suggestion attributed to t President, ‘that the realtors bankers join together in correctir the evils of a few.’ Sought to Assure Cure. “These men believed that they offering to the President a constr and definite proposition to assure hir that in the event rental legislation completely removed, these represe tive business men, backed by their or- ganizations, would use every poss means within their power to correc any abuses that may arise in the fu ture in respect to rental conditions the city. “It is inconceivable that our letter can be misconstrued as an inference | that these men who are so unalterab'y opposed to rental legisiation would co- operate in securing it it “inconceivable local realtors and it draw - i = organizations who are willing to give this assurance to the President for the future have been completely hand- icapped in the past by the existence of the Rent Commission and the re- striction of rental legislation that has completely taken out of their hands the control of the situation | ee Law Not Needed. Reiterating their firm belief that | rental legislation is not needed in the District and that the Whaley bill would fnevitably result in the very | opposite effect for which it was i n t it impossible for the subcommittee to | tended, those gathered at the meetin report on tire at committee, its as had been planned regular meeting Monday 00,000 Debt Cited. Delaware courts. Ownbey was part owner and gen | eral manager for the Wooten Fuel Company Co. engaged in coa mining and other activities in Colo. (Continue. ‘age 2, Column 3.) ORDERED TO PAY $5,000 “Red League” and “Death Brotherhood.” | By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Two of $5,000 been received within a month by Mrs | Mary F. Bright, wife of Elmer H. Bright, a Boston banker and broker the police disclosed today. January | | be prepared for delivery notice and were League.” Miss Edith D. | rian of the signed “the Fuller, former libra Episcopal Theologica: the | School, has received similar warnings ned by the “Brotherhood of Death 100 Persons, Thousands of Animals, Freeze to Death in Caucasus Hills| By the Asgpeiated Press TIFLIS, Georgla, January 10 One hundred persons and thousands of cattle have been frozen to death during the unprecedented cold weather now prevailing through- out the Caucasus. In several cases shepherds and farmers who went to the flelds to tend their sheep or cattle were found frozen with their flocks. Driven from thelr mountaln shelters by the flerce cold and lack of food, great droves of antelopes and wild boars have invaded the plains and valleys only to perish in their tracks. In the Alexandropol district of Armenia, where Americans of the Near East Rellef are caring for thousands of orphans, the ther- mometer registers 32 degrees be- low zero. The Caucasus has not experi- enced such bitter cold for a cen- tury and it js feared the effect on the crops will bring a famine next vear. the nomination to the en- The Ownbey suit came up from the | Land | radio and New Mexico, and, acc - according | giscussed, UNDER DEATH PENALTY Two Boston Women Threatened by; 10— letters demanding the payment on penalty of death have Both letters directed that the money | on ten days' | P Red | steps to correct abuses complained of were very firm in their | further rental legislation The whole situation was discussed exhaustively, and every angle was taken into consideration, with the result that those gathered at the con- ference felt that the continual in creasing competition among real estate men and the continual reduc- tion In the prices of rental properties showed, along with many qther details that whatever emergency there may have been during the war was now obliterated. Figures have also been brought to | the attention of the meeting that Washington stands very low in com- parison with many other cities in the question of the raises in rentals These opinions were based on Depart- ment of Labor statistics which also show that in the District of Columbia rental ralses are by far among the lowest among the general rise among the items that go to make up the | cost of living. | President Coolidge has had his con- | victions as to the need of rent legis- lation here confirmed, he told callers esterday. He has been followink closely the press reports om the »| situation here, and had observed, he | was represented as saying, that the ankers and realty men wers taking opposition rent not read the let- ter from the local realtors, but to 1{callers yesterday he said he viewed their action as an admission of the presence of abuses Lere, which needed correction by legislation But the efforts of the bankers and realty men in banding together to correct abuses and look after the ill-treated tenants will not be in vain, according to the presidential view, as represented by those who talked to | him yesterday, in which he was re- | ported to have said that he was glad to see them take these steps, and looked on them as an offer of their fullest co-operation in the enforce- ment of the rent law when it passed. The President has His Position Unchanged. Tt was made quite clear to those who talked with him yesterday that | his recommendation for rent legisla- tion for the District of Columbia has not changed one bit, it was pointed out. The President was represented I (Continued on Page 3, Column &