Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 2

2 SHOALS STRUGGLE 5 BACK IN HOUSE Bill to Go to Committee cr| Conference—Senate Votes . Underwood Measure. The Muscle Shoals problem was hack today In the House, where the four- year-old fight over disposition of the Property started. It was returned by the Senate in the form of the Underwood private leasing bill adopted as a substitute for the House measure proposing a leise to Henry Ford Whether this measure will be sent t to confercnce between the two r will be referred to the mil- Htary committee is the first question the House must determine. a single member would st delay the sending of it to \ference. Supporters of the Under- wood bill hake every effort to get it before of the two Rouses in the hope that so e legislation finaily posing of the question will be enacted at this ses- sion. Opponents want to have to a comm'ttee In the belief step result in the m ing over disposition by Congress. May Meet Should tt gonterenc that it measure President nual messa & houses serve at ™ manag: t referred that this tter s the new olidze Views. reforred to leved ion be generally written in to th as ou lined in his e to Congress last De- \roposd either sale or 1 1ast alternative. Gov- »n nfor al and, arnment opera Extricating itself from the parlia- mentary morass into which it became Loxged Tuesday. the Senate late terday substituted the Underwood measure for the Norris G operation plan, and then rejected all substitutes for it that were propesed These included one by Senator Jones of Washington to refer the matter to a presidentlal commission for a report and recom- mendation for disposition next De- cember, and anoth-r by Senator Mc- Kellar, Democrat, Tennessee, to &ive the President uniimited authority to dispose of the plant Maneuvering Was Needed. Immediately after the Senate met yesterday the Underwood bill was ac- cepted for a second time, 46 to 33, as a substitute for the Norris Govern- ment aperation plan, which had heen previously approved, 40 to 39, over the Jones proposal to refer the problem 0 a_commission. With the Underwood measurs back béfore the Senate, Senator Jones, the Republican whip, reoffered his pro- posal, which displaced the Underwood bill Tuesday, but it was rejected, 43 to 38, 10 of the administration Re- publicans who had supported it de- serting it for the Underwood plan Although Senator Norris previously had announced he would not again offer his bill to the Senate, opponenta of the Alabama Senator s leasing bill dia_not give up the fight. Senator McKellar, offered his substitute pro- posing to refer the question to Presi- dent Coolidge for settlement with- out congressional restriction. It was voted down, 52 to 29, With this measure out of the way. the question came up on the final pas sage of the Underwood bill and this prevailed after Senator Norris had made a t plea to the Senate to withhold its approva Line-Up on BiIL Opposing the Underwood Rill the final vote were 13 Republicans from Western States;.16 Democrats, mostly from S$utherdn and Western States, and 1 Farmer-Labor. Thirty- four Republicans, 14 of them from Western States, and 16 Democrats, 3 of them from Western States, voted for the bill The Underwood blll as finally ap- proved would provide for the leasing of the glgantic Government power and nitrate plant on River to a private corporation for not more than 50 years, with an added provision for Government operation until a lease had been ne- gotlated by the President. The of the lease would be on « minimum basis of 4 per cent annually on the cost of the construc- tion of dam No. 2 and of the hydrc electric machinery installed there. The lessee would be required to pry duce 40,000 tons of nitrate annuaily during the life of the lease after the fifth year from its effective date. This nitrate would be converted into fertilizer during peace time, but in the event of war the Government would have full authority to com- mandeer the property on five days' notice and convert it for the produc- tion of nitrate for explosives. INDIANS SEEK BOOST IN PAYMENTS BY U.S. on terms Osage Tribesmen Want Increase in Sum Allowed Minors and In- competent Adults. Forty Osage Indians of Oklahoma, most of them in picturesque native garb, called on Indian Commissioner Burke today for the third time in as many years and renewed their plea for modification or repeal of a law enacied In 1921, limiting the amounts paid annually to incompetent and stricted members of the tribe from proceeds of oil and gas leases on their lands. Unrestricted members receive $12.- )0 a year. while the law objected to limits minors and fncompecent aduits 10 $4,000 a year, the Temaining $5,000 for each being held in trust by the Government Commissioner Burke told members of the delegation, as he had on thei previous visits, that they erred not seeking part of what they desired instead of trying to have the limit lifted altogether. “If you would proceed on the theory that half a loaf is better than no loaf at all you would get some- where,” he said. “You make the mistake of wanting all or nothing. Go after part of what you want and then seek the rest.” Commissioner Burke later escorted the Indians to the White House, where they met President Coolidge. CLEARED IN AUTO THEFT. Robert H. Beatty, colored, an auto- mobile mechanic, was acquitted vesterday afternoon by a jury in Criminal Division before Chief Justice McCoy, of a charge of grand larceny. & car was stolen from tront of the home of Ruseell C. Sor- rell July 22, 1923, and three months later the owner thought he recognized his car in front of police headquar- ters. In efforts to locate the thief de- tectives visited the shop of Beatty, it was said, and there found a car as- sembled from parts of various cars and on which the engine number, ac- cording 1o the police, had been changed. They then charged Beatty with the theft of the car, but the jury did not agree with that view, and acquitted (. accused. Attorney Objection | vernment | the Republican whip, | the Tennessee | in} late | in | Lost in Amazon Jungle | | | | WALTER HINTON. DRAWTRAFFICBILL FORD. . SATURDAY | Members of Joint Committee | to Get Together—Two | | Measures Are Up. | Proposed traffic legislation for the will sid- rday morning District of Columbia be o jered at a meeting Satu of the joint congressional committee traflic, Senator Ball, chairman of | the committee, said today The meeting will be executive and | for the purpose of drafting a bill Before the committee will joriginal traffic bill drafted by | tor Ball, the bill submitted { District Commissioners, and by Dr. John A. Harriss and Judge W. Bruce | Cobb, New York traffic experts ! Both bills provide for increases in| the number of policemen and in the| number of judges of the Police 4'uurl.‘ The bill to regulate traffic and to Ken)«\"z the Police Department was | yesterday submitted by Engineer Com- | missioner Bell on behalf of the Dis- | | trict Commissioners. |~ An outstanding proviston of the bill | is the appointment of a director of | trafic by the District Commissioners. | This director of traffic is to perform | such duties as the District Commis- sloners shall require. The Commissioners are also au- thorized to appoint 300 additional pri- vates in the Police Department. The hill also provides for two addi- tional judge§ of the Police Court, wi*h six additional clerks; for four more bailiffs and two additional as- sistant corporation counsels. - on {on the na- | by the Got Experts’ Advice. In a letter to Senator Ball Engineer Commissioner .says that the bill was prepared after con-| sultation with the “traflic commis- | sion, the corporation counsel and ! others, and also after consideration of | | the testimony taken before the joint committee on traffie. Commissioner Bell said that it was desirable to| have a flexible method of meeting the ever-changing traffic conditions. He suggested that some of the streets Lers might be widened, but called | attention to the fact that the wider the streets tne more quickly the trafiic moves and the more liability of accidents. | Speaking of the proposed director of | traffic, the Commissioner said that he | considered the office as important as the superintendent of schools, and as| | the superintendent of schools must be | | more than a teacher, so the director of | traffic must be more than a policeman. the May Give Jall Terms. Under the terms of the bul the Com- imissioners would be authorized in fixing | penaities for the violations of the traf- |fic regulations to prescribe Jail sen- [tences not to exceed one year in place {of or in addition to fines. The Commissioners would be au- thorized to revoke or suspend permits to operate motor vehicles, at their discretion, on conviction of driving while drunk, on conviction of reckless jdriving, on conviction of a third or | subsequent offense of violation of | speed regulations, on conviction of a third or subsequent offense for viola- tion of parking regulations and at any time after due notice and hear- ing when it is established to the sat- isfaction of the Commissioners that | the operator is an unfit person, irre- spective of absence of conviction in court. The Commissioners are given | | authority to refuse recognition of permits in another jurisdiction when the holder thereof comes within any of the classifications enumerated. | | { | | Right to Impound Cars. given the Commission- im- pounding of vehicles left on the streets in violation of law or regu- lation and to provide for the return !to the owner upon payment of such | fine as may be deslgnated. | | i | | Authority | ers to adopt regulations for the [ The bill prepared by Judge Cobb and Dr Harriss was at the invitation of the joint committee, | Cobb-Harriss Bill. 1 | The Cobb-Harriss bill provides heavy | | penalties for conviction of homicide {or assauit, driving while intoxicated, | driving while under the influence of |drugs and leaving the scene of an accident without making identity known. Conviction for first offéense on a charge of reckless driving will mean a fine of {$10 to $100, or 2 to 60 days in jail; | second offénse, $50 to $1,000 fine, 10 days to one year in jail: leaving the scene of an ccident, without making |identity known, calls for a $100 to $500 | {fine with a 60-day to 6-month jail sen- | tence on the first offense and a $200 to |$1,000 fine with 6 months to one year in jail. The judge suggests a change in the 18cal regulation in regard to passing street cars. The present regulation provides that motorists must stop 15 | feet in rear of a street car discharg- | Ing pussengers, while Judge Cobb suggests that an automobile must not la oach within eight feet of a street { car. Suggextions by Judge Cohb. With the additional judges the pro- cedure on arrest, Judze Cobb sug- | gests, as follow: That the offender be taken to court for trial, any reason the case is postponed jafter reaching court, that the | often®® shall put up a large bond or collateral. In case he fails to ap- pear at the time specified for the trial. a bench warrant is to be im- mediately sworn out and served. Judge Cobb also recommends that {the summons systom he installed, tha all-night parking be prohibited. that public parking spaces be provided immediately and if for i ped them {in 1920 |a WOMENASKPOSTS | Prestdent | reports of the executive officials of THE EVENING: STAR, WASHINGTON, D Q, AMERICAN FLYERS" MISSING IN BRAZIL Pilot cf First Atlantic Flight, Wih Companions, in Amazon Jungles. Speeial I spateh 1o The Sta EW YORK. January 15.—Walter Hinton, noted aviator, and Capt. A. W. Ste ens of the Uuiied stite: Army. who left the Boa Vie'a base of the Aex- ander Hamilton Rice expedition 10 days ago for a tow-day recon- naissance trip in an airnlave over ho tile Amazon Jungle terr have not bren heard from, a ng to a radlo messag. received here ye terday Hinton was pilot of the Navy first airplane to cro = the At- pilot of the wo ld fiyinz boat, Sampaio Correla, which few to 1923, and was one of three eronauts whose balloon drop- in a Canadian wilderne: Radio to New Yerk. The message, picked up at 4 am. yesterday by the Radio Club of Amer- fca’s station at Columba University, was addre sed to George T. Bye, for- merly of the New York World staff. and member of the Brazil flying trip. It read: “Hydroplane with Hinton Stevens on two days' reconnal trip to Parima Range should have returncd a week ago. Very rough eountry. Concern felt for aviators. Equipped with arms and emergency rations. McCaleh, operator.” A recent radio from Hinton John Wilshusen, his mechanic, was 11l of jungle fever in a hospital at Manaos. Capt. Stevens. on that ac- count. voluntesred to act as mechanic for Hinton, althouzh his work with the expedition is that of expert car- tographer. Is Hostile Country. The seaplane used Curtiss Seagull, equipped with a new motor December 20. The fact that the aviators carried arms indi- cates they expected to fly over hostile territory. Hinton is one of the country’s most daring atr adventurers, and ha< pull- ed himself out of more than one hazardous place into which his fly- ing carried him. Hope Is still held out that he and Capt. Stevens will re- turn in safety. sald by Hinton wa AS CABINET ADES Assistant Secretaryships Are Objectives of General Federation. A movement for appointment of women as assistant secretarles in the Labor, Interior and Agriculture De- partments was launched today when the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, repre- scnting 3,000,000 members through- out the country, adopted a resolution to this sffect. The resolution peinted out that there will be extensive changes occurring in executive departments between now and March 4, and authorized, in the name of the federation, a request to Coolidge for the appoint- ment of qualified women as assistant socretaries, “at least in the Depart- ment of Labor, the Department of In- terior and the Department of Agri- culture.” The resolution went further. It ap- proved as logical and opportune the appointment of a woman to the office of Assistant Surgeon General, as well as on some of the commissions, ne- tably the Tariff Commission, Railroad Labor Board and Interstate Commerce Commission. Want Mere Power. “In view of the fact,” states the resolution, “that women have come to share équally with men the re- sponsibilities of the electorate; that they are assuming judiclal responsi- bilities; it is logical that they would have a larger and legislative share in the administrative offices where the policles of the executive departments of the Government are formulated. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter last night reported on accomplishments of the department of international relations of the federation, pointing to the ad- vance of the movement among women in favor of the establishment of a world court as one of the principal activities of the past year, and to the conference on the cause and cure of war, here next week, as an indication of the national peace etrength which is mobilizing. Mrs. Willlam R. Alvord, chairman of the department of American citizenship, read a report covering Americanization work throughout the country, and another report was de- ivered on “The American Home." Reports on Foreign Flelds. At today's meeting Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, foreign representative of the federation, reported on activities of 34 allied organizations and sub- ordinate clubs throughout the world, reading a radio greeting to the board from a woman's club in Vienna. Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole of Ma.sachusetts, chairman of the main- tenance fund committee, told the board that an encouraging start had been made In the movement to raise $50,000 for that fund. A resolution proposed by Mrs. Rose V. 8. Berry, advocating the establish- ment of an American Art Alllance, to promote and encourage American ar- tists in thelr work, was adopted unanimously. The resolution pointed out that at present some of the greatest works of American artists were now in foreign galleries. A donation of $1,000 yesterday was voted by the board of directors of the federation at the opening session of its meeting in the clubhouse, 1734 N street, for the conference on the cause and cure of war to bé held here next week. The general federation is one of the nine organizations backing this con- ference, and onme of its .foremost activities Is international relations, including the training of women in international affairs. The opening session was devoted to the organization. President of Body Speaks. Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, pres- ident, centered her report on the achievements of the federation in supporting plans for a citizenship training conference and in furthering plans for a surveéy of activities of women in industry. A healthy state of the treasury of the organization was displayed in the report of Florence C. Floore, treasurer of the organization. The report showed that the or- ganization had assets of approxi- mately $349,305.94 free from incum- brances. This included a general tund of $37,901.16; the headquarters fund in which the headquarters building and appurtenances are listed as assets, amounting to approximately $120,000; the endowment fund of Lucien H. Vsaforen appeared for the |and that super-streets be installed at[about $109,000 and the war servioe #ecused. the earliest possible time. fund eof approximately $80,000. BOYS CAUGHT PLANNING BIG ROBBERY Letft to rights Juek Willtam Lillix ( (rizht), in e b left) and Ernest Woodford Forrester stody of Detective Juseph Waldro CAIRO ENVOY DENIES H. C. L. HERE FORCED PLEA FOR ANOTHER POST Legation Officials Amused by Report That Minister Sought London Appo intment W here Living Is Cheaper. Ry Cable to The Star and New York World CAIRO, January 15.—The Ezyptian covernment ix having difficnity in find- ing a successor to Seifu'lah Yousry Pasha, Egyptian Minister to Washing- ton, who has expressed a wish to be transferred because of the high cost of living there. None of the few ptians consid- ered e'igible for the post are willing to incur the lArgé expense necessary to supplement the inadequate salary. (Copyright. 1925.) Diepatches from Cairo telling of the re of S Yousry Pasha, the first Egyptian Minister to the United States to change his nost because of the high cost of living in Washington were greeted with emphatic denials an amusement today at the legation. TH) CAR AND BUS LINES VIE FOR NEW ROUTE W., R. & E. Applies for Cross- town Franchise Following Transit Company Action. A lively contest loomed today be- tween the Washington Rapid Transit Co. and the Washington Railway and Electric Co. over the question of which system should operate the new crosstown bus line from the west of Wisconsin avenue to downtown section The transit company several weeks ago applied for a bus route travers- ing the city from Thirty-seventh and T streets northwest, through the downtown section and out to Fif- teenth and Maryland avenue north- east The Washington Rallway and Elec- tric Co. yesterday afternoon applied to the commission for a bus line from the same starting point to Tenth and E streets northwest. Leon Arnold, president of the transit company, came out today with a statement declaring that the ap- plication of the railway company was an effort to prevent the exten- sion of the bus company. Mr. Arnold said that if the railway company’s bus application should be granted it would necessarily prevent his company from giving the cross- town service it had asked for. The railway company’'s bus line would stop at Tenth and E streets north- west, but, Mr. Arnold said, he would be unwilling to have his company put in a bus line from that point to Fifi teenth street and Maryland avenue northeast. Protection of Territory. The president of the bus company concluded his statement by as Ffl- ing that heretofore the commission has been careful not to allow the transit company to get into the ter- ritory of the railways and that he did not believe the commission would allow the railways to operate busses in such & manner as either to cripple or curtail the service of the transit mpany e proposed route of the Washing- ton Railway and Electric follows: From Thirty-seventh and T streets, east on T to Thirty-fifth, south to Q. east to Massachusetts avenue, east o Twentieth street, south to K street east to Thirteenth street, south to E street and east to Tenth street. Re- turning, the busses would go north on Tenth to K and thence over the same route westward. ompany proposes cotn® faver Twith tokens at the same fate charged on street cars. Request is made for the sale of 2-cent trans- fers to the company's car lines, but only to those passengers pa a cash fare. The bus company fare would be 10 cents cash or toxens at five for 45 cents. It is further proposed by the rail- way company that busses connect at Seventeenth and K streets for Po- tomac Park and vicinity between 7 o'clock in the morning and evening. The commission probably will hold a hearing early in February to con- slder the several proposals that have been put forward. an $-cent AWARDED $3,500 DAMAGES Woman Is Given Verdict by Jury for Injuries by Automobile. Mre. Nellie A. Riley was awarded a yerdict for $3,500 damages by a jury in Circuit Division 2 lefore Justice Stafford, against Joseph Witt, owner of an automobile which struck and injured her November 25, 1923, while she was about to board a car at Ninth and F streets northwest. Her hus- band. James P. Riley, was wiven a verdict for $150 damages against the owner of the machine, for the loss of services of his wife as the result of the accident. Attorneys W. Gwynn Gardiner and J. William Tomlinson appeared for the plaintiff, while the defendant was represented by Attor- Weys Simon, Koenigsberger and Young. area | the | as_well as his secretary, | Nico'a . Khalil, explained that no | had ever been transmitted Egyptian government regarding the cost of living in the National Cap- ital, neither had the Minister expressed a wish to be transferred to another diplomatic post. Secretary Khalil pointed out that the Minister had read In the newspapers that he was to be shifted to London as Egypt's official representative in ireat Britaln, but that no official word to this effsct had been received from | Cairo, | With his entourage, the Egyptian | Minister came to the United States | last January 10, and occupied a suite at the Willard Hotel for several months, {later moving to the pretentious lega- tion at 1815 Q street KELLOGG TACKLES POLICY QUESTIONS | Studies European Problems Before Assuming Post Here on™arch 4. By the Associated Preas. PARIS, January 15.—Frank B. Kel- logg, American Ambasador to Great Britain and Secretary of State-desig- nate, departing from Parls today to resume his post in London, left the impression among his fellow dele- | gates to the financial conference here of a desire to obtain a thorough knowledge of the European political and financial situation and of con- tinental affairs in general. In his conversations with the leading states- men of France, Belgium and Italy he appeared bent upon obtaining as much information as possible. but the members of the cther delegations re- marked that he was giving little away himself. Ambassador Kellogg contrived to remain absolutely free from commit- ting himself concerning anything re- gapding the future policy of the United States, and even the bare ntion of the allied debt question s taboo in the conversations in which he participated. Mr. Kellogg's last day in Paris was spent ‘entirely at Ambassador Her- rick's private home, where he con- ferred wjth Mr. Herrick and James A. Logan, the American reparations representative, but he met none of the representatives either of the foreign office or the military finance, officially or_unofficially Mrs. Kellogg, who had an extreme- 1y busy social wéek in Paris, accom- panied her husband back to London. CO-OPERATIVES GIVEN . SPECIAL ATTENTION Method of Marketing Farm Prod- ucts Second Phase of Relief Before Commission. With its first report on relief mea- sures for the live stock industry placed in the President’s hands, the Agricultural Commission was ready today to go forward with the second Dhase of its studies—co-operative marketing of agricultural products. The Président was told by the com- mission that the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks are able to handle the credit emergency within the industry, but that tarift protection, reduced. trans- portation charges and a new policy for grazing cattle on public lands are needed. The commission's views con- cerning the tarift and transportation questions will be submitted later as part of ite program for relief of agri- culture as a whole. For the present the commission will center its study of the marketing question about agricultural relief bills pending in Congress. The views of Senator Curtis of Kansas and Repre- sentative Dickinson of lowa on this subject were given to the commission yesterday. Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce arranged to present to the commission today his views on the subject of distribution of agri- cultural products, and Agriculture | Department experts wera prepared to discuss plant and live stock quaran- tines as they bear on the study. o G. U. President to Speak. Georgotown University's building plans will be outlined by President Charles W. Lyons, S. J.. before the Georzetown Club of Washington to- night at the City Club at 8 o'clock. This will be Rev. Lyons’ first meeting with the local alumni, which is con- ducting an active drive for member- ship. Thomas Egan of Philadelphia also will address the meeting, out- lining the work that is being done by ‘the Georgetown Club in that eity, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1925. DETECTVES POL “BANDITS:” REAN Bank and Go to Europe Wrecked by Police. 21d plans of two youth- bank robbers and zunmen to make a rich haul on the Farmers and Mechanicy' National Bank of Shepherdstown, W. Va., and then take a trip to Europe and pur- sue everlasting happiness were broken up last night by Detectives Kelly, Sweeney, Waldron and Scrive- ner, who arrested the pair in a room at 457 H street. The youths were listed by the police asx Jack William Lillis, 20, of the H street address and rnest Woodford Korrester, 17, of 1107 Alabama avenue southeast. There was to have been a third member present to acquaint himself with the plans, but his pals sald he “got cold fee Several days ago the learned that the holG-up hud been planned, and last night they visited the H street house, entering Lillls room, and surprising the young men Deteetivex Wouldn't “Stick "Em Up.” “Stick 'em up,” Lillis sald to the de- tectives when thuy entered the room. but the detectives jaughed at him. There was no dispiay of and the two youths were taken fron the house afier the room had been given a thorough search, and crude drawings, masks, a box of stove pol ish, box of cartridges and a pistol seized. Most of the property was ir u satchel, a second satchel intendec for use in taking the loot from the dank also being there Three letters ‘Liliis had written to the “cold-feet” member of the trio were seized in the room and are being held as evidence. One of the letters was sddressed “Dear Old Pal” the writer informing the pal that he was still ready to “pull the little party that we are to pull.” After writing that he had maps and other things ready, he advised his companion that all they needed was 4n automobile and “gats,” a term used for firearms. “Pal” the letter continued, “the best thing 1 can tell you to do is to burn this letter after you are through with it. T hope to do it by the 15th day of January “Happincss and Trip to Europe.” “Remember, pal,” the writer con- tinued, “it means happiness and nicé trip over to Europe if we can make it all 0. K. You know othe wise. Well, I hope you will be In to sce me Wednesday night, and re member the code: “Thou shall not Carefully ful prospecti detectives violence, | IOANSION Former Governor Denies Profit From Coal Sales While in Office. Assoctated Press. COLN, Nebr., January other shot {n the political feud be- tween former Gov. Bryan snd former Republican State officials. fired by one of the latter, failed to stir the iegis- ature to any great degree yesterday. pted 15.—An- Both the house and senate acc a petition, but took no action on {a message from George E. Johnson, former State engineer. challenging squeal” " In another letter Lillis wrote assure you you are dealing with a p and a gunman.', Both prisonefs are said by the de- tectives to have frankly admitted making plans to rob the bank and feeling confident they would esc ape and enjoy & trip to Europe. It was not their intention to take human life. One of the crude drawings found In the room indicated the main street in Shepherdstown and the location of the bank. It also indicated where the president of the bank would be found near a rear door and the place where their stolen automobile would be parked. Would Get $30,000, Discussing their plans, the boys ex- plained that one was to appear at the front and one in rear of the bank They were to enter, shout “Stick 'em up” and proceed to get the $30,000. ‘Then they were to board the automo- bile and disappear over the West Vir. ginfa roads. Lillis, police ly arrested gallery to have d e as far as the Pacific) a plasterer, appears 17, the age he gave, detectives say, and he said he had been forced to leave home because he had planned marriage. He resided at the home of his sister. This morning the prisoners were further questioned by the police, photographed and réturned to They ars booked as being held for invatigation and polic planned to advise officials of the Shepherdstown financial institution of the exciting experience they probably escaped. It is thought by police that the Shep- herdstown bank was selected by Lil- lis, who is believed to have visited a girl in that section. VANDERLP SETTLES MARION STAR ST Libel Charges in Attack on Harding Not to Reach f al been previous- tuge is in the r¥He is said nsively, going bast. Forrester, uch older than Trial. By the Associated Preas. MARION, Ohio, January 15—The $1,200,000 damage suit filed by Roy D. Moore and E. H. Brush, publishers of the Marion Star, against Frank A. Vanderlip of New York has been set- tled out ‘of court, the Star will say today. The suit was filed by the publish- ers following an address by Mr. Van- .derlip at Briarcliff, N. Y., a yvear ago, in which the New York financier is alleged to have charged that Moore and Brush pald President Harding an exorbitant price for the paper. The Star, in its announcement of the settlement of the case out of court, says that formal papers with- drawing the suit will be filed in Unit- «d States district court in the lower district of New York late today or tomorrow. The amount of damages paid the Ohio publishers by Mr. Vanderlip was not made public. Vanderlip Serious'y I Mr. Vanderlip is reported to be seriously 11l with typhoid fever, and kis wife, through H. E. Benedict, the former's business manager, author- ized the publication of the following statemen! “On account of the grave illness of Mr. Vanderlip he cannot be apprised of the settlement out of court of the suit of Brush & Moore, owners and pubiichers of the Star, against Mr. Vanderlip. “The suit_grew out of the speech which Mr. Vanderlip madé at Briar- clift a year ago. “There was no justification for the statement that the price paid Presi dent Harding by the present owners was too high, or that there was any- +hing sinister about the financial ar- rangement. “President Hard'ng was most scru- pulous as to the propriety of the ne- gotlations. “Mr. Vanderlip would concur in this statement If he were able to-speak.” The case was settled out of court in a conference held in Marion several weeks ago by a representative of Mr. Vanderlip, who arrived at the agree- ment with the publishers. Too many people seem to wish they ‘Were some ena else. cells. | the truth of Mr. Bryan's charges of rregularities In the roads department more than two years ago, and in turn 1ccusing the former executive of im- | *ne road CHARGES “TONFOLEYDIE HGH N TAMIANY New York Political Leader Referred to as “Godfather of Al Smith.” Ey the Associated Press. NEW YORK. January 15.—Thomas F. Foley, veteran Tammany Hall lead- er. and one of the political sponsors of Gov. A. E. Smith, died at the Rocke- feller Institute today of pneumonta. Death came as a surprise, for it was announced yesterday that he was on to recovery. The governor came here from Albany last week when he learned that his old friend was ill, | but returned to the capital this week, announctng that “we will pull Tom | through.” Foley was born in Brooklyn in 1851 d had long been a power in Tam- many Hall. He was usually referred to as “Al Smith's political godfather, r it was hé who started the unknown East Side boy.on the road that event- ually led to the governor's chair. Left School aw a Boy. Foley was obliged to leave school when a bov and learned the blacksmith trade. When he was 17 he moved to Manhattan, and in a few years he | opened a saloon on the East Side and luter cpened two other saloons. When the consolidation of the five boroughs into the greater city took place he was a member of the com- mon council. He wrested the leader- ship of the old second assembly di trict from Patrick Divver, in what is still recalled as one of the greatest | contests that ever shook the East Side. | He served as sheriff in 1908 and 19 He married Miss Bessie Murph known as the belle of the district, who survives him. Once Base Ball Magnate. Although Gov. Smith was the most famous of Mr. Foley's political pro- teges, he was really but one of a whole line of young men with a bent for politics that the downtown chieftain put forward. He alwaye referred to the governor as “my boy.” In the early days of Base Ball Leigue Mr. Foley was a large stockholder in the New York Yankees. He later disposed of his i terest. He was always keenly ested in outofdoor sports and and boxing. | Foley was one of the oldest member~ | o the Tammany board of sachems 'TWO PALS TESTIFY AGAINST MONRO” the American vroprieties before and during his te. ure of office Mr |reply to certain statements in the | former gove nor's farewell message delivered to the legislature last week At that time Mr. Bryan claimed a rec- ord of economy and announced he was having the attorney general | delve into the alleged irregularities | which he said took placé in the road | department under Gov. McKelvie. Mr, Johnson denied any money was fraud- ulently given out te comtractors in r construction and disputed the economy claims Former Gov. Bryan, informed ot Mr. Johnson's attack on him. charac- terized as “unfounded” the charges that Mr. Bryan violated the State corrupt practices act during his gu- bernatorial campaign and personally profited by a “great many thousands of dollars” In seiling conl to con- private coal concern MRS, RS WG DEDICATION TALK 1 e {Will Address Gathering at He- { brew Union College, Cin- cinnati, Saturday. Mrs. Abram Simon, chairman of the committee on the dormitory of the Hebrew Unlon College at Cincin- fati and wife of Rabbi Simon of this city, will deliver the consecration ad- dress at the dedication of the dormi- tory In Cincinnati Saturday after- noon, it was announced today. As’ chairman, Mrs. Simon neered the campaign which ra most $300,000 after a drive, contributions coming from the { sisterhoods connected with the reform | congregations of the country { The Federation of Temple a gift to the reform church, is said to | be the largest organization of Jewish women in the country, numbering 308 sisterhoods, with a membership of more than 50,000. It sends annually to the_ college $25,000 in scholarships, local sisterhood to the Dr. Stmon scholarship. Organized Federation. | 12 years ago, and was national presi- | dent for 6 years. Its biennial meet- ing will be held in St. Louis, start- ing next Monday. Washington repre. sontatives who will attend include Mrs. Simon, Mrs. Harry Roller, Mrs. M. D= Rosenberg and Mrs. H. Sherb. Three organizations concentrating their energles on religion and re- ligious education will meet at the sama time in St. Louis. The National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, organized three years ago and representing the laymen's interest and activity In Judaism, will also meet. The Sistérhood program, in addi- tion to reports of its nine national committees, has scheduled the fol- lowing subjects: “Student Welfare Work,” ‘The Re- ligious Problem of the Non-resident | Student,” the Student Point of View,” “The Community’s Point of View of the Jewish University Problem” and “Jewish Child Study Circles,” and the final presentation of the dormi- tory to the union and the college. The delegates of the Washington He- brew Congregation to the St. Louls convention are Charles A. Goldsmith, Maurice D. Rosenberg, Harry Sherby and Dr. Abram Simon e EMBASSY BELL 0. K.'D. House Committee Approves Meas- ure for Site Purchase. The bill authorizing appropriation of $1,500,000 for new consular and diplomatic establishments In Tokio was again approved today by the House foreign affairs committee. It was first approved several days ago, bz on objection that it au- thorized placing the buildings on separate plots it was recalled. After rejecting an amendment teday by Representative Linthicum, Democrat, Maryland, designed to overcome this objection, the bill was indorsed in its ‘eriginal form. Johnson's communication was a | sumers through State operation of a | TOGNE four-month hoods, which gave the dormitory as| ineluding a $350-a-year gift from the | Abram | Mr. Simon organized ‘the federation | | Brown and Slaughter Appear f Prosecution in Trial Resultin From Policeman’s Death. Ernest A. Brown aughter, two of men charged with John W. Purcell, October 15. 1 tified today for the prosecut the trial ot Lloyd Monroe, ored, who is being tried on a char of first-degree for the of the officer, ice Hoeh! and a jury Divisic The _two x were Joir charged with but withdr pleas of not gui 13 mdmitted pe ticipation in ay Brown testfi fonroe the pistol of the s from | automobite Lefure th ting later admitted to witness that he L fired it. On cross-examination b | Attormeys Wample ani byneh, f the defense, v made sever: statements that @ 4 from his tes timony at the tial, when h was a defendsnt which resultec n a dsagrecm the jury las Summer. Siaughter told & story of the hom cids that differed in many respects from Brown's narrative, and seemed to support the srosecution only t the extent of placing donroe on t vacant lot near the sceme of t shooting. He suid Brown was plac- ing the pistol in his pocket when he entered the automobile after the shooting, and said Brown made the statement, “I shot my way off the lot.” He also said he did not hear Monroe admit to Brown that Monroe had fired Brown's pistol The Government expects to conc— its case in ohief this afternoon and Joseph the four col ling Policer befose in Wi nesse rinal mros toc 1 > REDS CONVICT MAN FOR CRIME IN 1880 Sentence of Death on Old Charge Commuted in View of De- fendant’s Age. Ry the Associated Px MOSCOW, January 15—Ivan Oklad- ski, who has baen on trial on a charge of assisting the czarist police |in the extermination of the notorious organization known as Naarodnaya | Volio (people’s freedom), which 45 rears ago sought the liberation of | the Russian people from the czarist oligarchy, yesterday was found guilty and sentenced to death. However, in view of his age—he Is 65—and the fact that the crime was committed S0 many years =go, the sentence was commuted to 10 years' imprisonment, The judgment of the revolutionary court, whioch was delivered after Nikolai Keylenko, Soviet Russia's moSt bitter prosecutor, had made an impassioned demand that Okladski be shot, was recelved with loud ex- presslons of approval by the crowd which filled the courtroom. MRS. H. L. FRAZIER DIES. Long Resident of Washington Suc- cumbs to Illness of Years. Mrs. Frances Charlotte Murray Sef- ton Frazier, wife of Henry L. Frazier and a resident of this city since child- hood, dled at her residence, 1868 Mon- roe street, yesterday, after an illness of sevefal years. Born in Boston, August 10, 1864, Mrs. Frazier was the daughter of the late William Sefton, with whom she came to this city. Mr. Sefton was for years employed In the State Depart- ment, and was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic here. Mrs, Frazier spent her early life on Capitol Hill, at Fifth and Bast Cap- itol streets. She was educated at St Cécelia Academy. Besides her husband, Mr. Frazier, she 18 survived by a son, Elmer Sef- ton Frazler. Fumeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of Gunton-Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Internient will be in Glen- wood cemetery. Miss Jeanette Rankin, fi elected to Congress, back in 1916, has. gone in for agriculture and has pur- chased & peean farm near Athens 3a, L]