Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. . S. Weather Bureau Mostly cloudy and w tomorrow unsettled and c Temperatures for 22 est, 35, at 4 p.m. veste 15, at 6 a.m. vesterday Full report on page 7. hours: Forecast.) armer today; colder. High- rday; lowest, he iy Star WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 1,035.—N 29,489, Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. — - ASTRONOMERS VALUABLE DATA AS MOON BLOCKS SUN Eclipse Reported Most Per- fect Since Scientific Ob- servation Started. HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS OF SPECTACLE OBTAINED Actual Increases of Knowledge | Depend on Detailed Study | of Records. a held their ysting | ned with dusk and fringed with total vesterds curt =5 nans seldom h: percnes were and the ¥ clouds. casion was 2 h magnificence as | o | Venus, Juplter and | time was § am,| standa astronomical | ad whispered it would be scientists on earth report- uted | ayed | Mastern d, as he most perfectly exe niaini | through and cranked millions of through they eered cav- ‘ imeras, wh other earth beings stared giass, awed and silent One Slightly Late. of the One trysters—some said e | and some said she—was flve seconds | ., reckoning by the astral calendar | scientists. But the meeting lost | of zest or glamor thereby - first of the sun | this of the | will be they e its it tryst segment nd it iries bef two ce fore n there again | Weather conditions for observation | were bed Imost generall perfect through the East, where most of the fixed observatories ies were ted. reds of telescopie records were made and any photographs taken | from land, sea and air. Scientists felt justified in declaring that a huge fund of information undoubtedly had been added to thelr store of keneral and specific knowledge about such mysteries as the content of the sun’s corons, the composition eclipse ubra and penumbra, the explanation the “jumplng jackrabbit” of the | oon’s eclipse shadow, the deflection of light as related to the Elnstein theory, the effect of eclipses upon | earth’s climate and tides and grav and its effect upon radlo activity, upon earth’s magnetlc centers, its thermometers and its barometers. Report Notable Successen. Observatories at New Haven, Ithaca, Poughkeepsie and Buffalo re- ported they had been notably succes- ful in recording this eclipse, er othérs of the 13 fixed stations within the 100-mile path the moon laid down from Red Lake, Minn, to Nantucket Light Astronomers ascending by alrplane to great heights took what they ex- pected would develop into perfect photographs of all phases of the phe- nomen They had, they said, made the first pictures ever obtained of the | moon’s 100-foot circular shadow as it | Lounded across the continent at light- | ning speed | Other aviators aboard the dirigible | Angeles, which had maneuvered | sky night prior to the| ipse, reported all observations and photography had been successtul More privately sponsored eclipse ex- pediti 1 recorded every con- ceivable of the spectacle from | the s standpoint | Hidden by Clouds. There were whole reglons, however, ant clouds and overcast brought disappointment to scores of scientists and thousands of laymen. In some cases the sun rose 10 a clear space, only to be obscured as he mounted the path to conjunc- tion with the moon. In others the| prospect of limpse of the eclipse was never present, and the depressing significance of lowering twilight in daytime the only visible evi-| e that a celestial drama was| being enacted t Much deser as f and | labora Hun of of Minnesota missed the altogether. did most of | and Michigan, virtually all| of Canada which lay in_the path of totality, and sections of New England Government orden, in Wisconsin that p airplanes from Camp | Ontario, succeeded in} topping the clouds and making a few photographs, but elaborate prepara- taken by Canadlan astronomers record the spectacle from a tempo- | ry ory at Langs Corners,| on of totality, were frus- | trated by overcast skies the line | Obtain Much Data. | however, | ified its labors, for, while nd cameras swung idle, rators accumulated ind metric d cd first to th | atsclosed and beaming | red efty he moved slow- to the heavenly 1s believe uch sig- | niflc momn 3 Rising out of ti his fullest in th of midwinte 1 a ma rendezvous, Luna may for him—t at any r disc bl her col n the flery Majestically s astr nties were East olde estically have hind oud to the hu ance wa ound of and iting there perhay was not ve until ined against the sun's. g graduzlly, then their entities emerged, the moon casting over the path of her shadow on earth shroud through which Sol's beams splashed faintly for a| while and not at all There came a sudden twilight and awesome darkne gal'oped from west to east; a pearly halo surround- ed a dotted rim of fire suspended in the heavens where sun and moon had met a bac Geysers of Fire. “Baily Beads” of molten topaz on a sparkling string flashed for a moment, to be followed by the pyrotechnics of helium and hydrogen gases, flaring and receding a milllon iiles beyond sun’s schromosphere Bead: corona appeared at the | right of the eclipse at first; later, in | the declining phase of the spectacle, | Moon's After t he two astral bodies slow- | thwartea by e jand Dr. observations made from the big tele- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY. MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1925.—104 PAGES. GET 1,700,000 Mile Flanie Geysers Spurt Out of Corona of Sun Eclipse Like Celestial Glory, Says Naval Observatory Head—Local Mar’s Nose Is ¥ the Assaciated Pres TURST, N. I, January 24 Jubilant because of the apnarent suc- cess of their venture to observe and from aloft the phenom- solar eclipse, the group of who today witnessed the eclipse from the dirigible Los An- geles, tonight were enthusiastlcally describing the beauty of the spec- tacle. Like A group of excited school- , they recited their adventure in scientis | the simple words of the layman. | “When you can adequately describe | celestlal glory, then will have what this oclinse a like,” was way Capt. Edward T. Pollock the Naval Observa- zton, described tacular sight,” Comdr commander of t “The sky at the was a flood of merging | nge and red light. Overhead the | ceiling was blue-black, while all| about was the darkness of twilight.” MOON COMES LATE FORDATE WITH SUN' AND LEAVES EARLY: you to the superl Los Angeles said horizon Astronomers Here Wonder at Mysterious Vagaries of Earth’s Satellite. The the secor Six seconds arriving at the | family reunion the heavens and | 10 seconds early bidding mother sun | adieu for another two centuries, o | far as this part of the univ oncerned, was the official edict at the Naval Observatory immediately | after the ecliphe. Months ago science had set the time that the meeting shomld first be noticed here and when it should be terminated. The first contact was figured to occur at just 7:55 o'clock in the morning. ¢The parting was to have been accomplished by 10:22 o'clock. th the man in men on ester: moon earth outgues by a late in rse is ew Seconds Late. When stop watches and delicate astronomical apparatus had clicked | off the last tabulation and notes were | compared it was discovered that the | moon had not reached the meeting | pofnt until 7:35:06 o'clock. And ft| as precisely 10:32:56 when it soared | calmly off. | “Up to its old tricks, I see” re. marked a scientist as he scanned the record again to make sure of his no- tations. Science had figured that the eclipse should have lasted for just 2 hours and 27 minutes. According to the Naval Observatory figures, it was ter- minated at the end of 2:26:50. But astronomers who have been on talk- ing terms with the moon expected little better of it Moon In Mysterious. It seems that in astronomical cir-| cles the moon has had a bad reputa- | fon for some time. It is forever do- ing senseless little things like show- Ing up at some unexpected place at| an equally unexpected time. That freak ot its nature 1s one of the many mysteries of astronomy, but one that may be cleared by vesterday's eclipse. Althougn astronomers know that the moon describes a circle of some shape In its travels, they can not un- derstand why it refuses to follow beaten path and at precisely reg- ular time schedule. Its vagaries are measurable in terms of seconds, true enough, but science refuses to be n such minute differ- ences. Make Minute Studies. one of the most im- portant observation tasks undertaken vesterday was that of making time records of its passage across the face of the sun down to the fraction of a second. While Prof. Asaph Hall George A. Hill were making these records with apparatus from the roof of the observatory, a huge camera was taking even more minute ones on the ground below Photographs of the . were snapped during its many phases here. s each plate recorded the phe- nomenon with indisputable accuracy, the actlon also recorded at the same time the hour, minute and second that it occurred. Days of computation must elapse befere these results can be made known, but It is not be- lieved they will vary far from the As a result scopes of the observatory. The eclipse from here was an elo- quent demonstration of the power of the sun to assert Itself even under the most unfavorable conditions. Al- though 95 per cent of Its surface was blotted out in this vicinity, the long, thin line of its bright face that re- | mained exposed was sufficient to spoil much of the beauty of the eclipse for Washington. Not only was it impossible to see the faintest trace of the corona, but even the other guests at the tryst in the skies, Jupiter, Venus and Mer- cury, were all but obliterated from view to the thousands of anxious Washington folks who watched the celestial wonder of the age in awed| expectancy. | Get View of Venus. | could be seen more easily than the other two. That planet lay Just above the western rim of the sun, and from the Naval Observatory, | where a distinguished gathering wit- nessed the passing phenomena,| seemed to be perched square on the tip of that station’s flagstaff. Only a handful of experts at the observa- tory, accustomed to picking out their positions, found the other two | planets. A ghostly dusk fell upon the city as the eclipse reached its greatest de- | gree of totality here; a weird, (luH\l ligit of a shade never before seen by | any of the watchers atop the observa- tory bathed the National Capital in ecerie shadows for a fraction of a Venus reappeared at the laoft side. (Centinued on Page 3, Column 3.) (14 (Continued on Page 4 Column 3.) | » | responsibility | partment in decidinz where post office |B. Frozen. While the success of the expedition will not be known definitely until the | photographi the eclips studled at the Naval Obser every member of the sclentific expressed confidence that he had ob- tained some discovery concerning the elements of a solar eclipse. Dr. C. C. Keiss of the Bureau of Standards, who operated the spectro- scope aboard the observation car, sald he had obtained three plctures rings of hydrogenm.and helium gas emanating from the sun, which will be developed and studied for possible scientific revelations, Capt. C. S, Litell of the Nav servatory said he reckoned the flashes sent off from the sun's corona to be and one-half t the diameter of the sun itself, or 1,700,000 s in length. He witnessed he said several sun spots which he expected would show up on the pictures take Prof. Peters and Prof. CRarles %, astronomers at the Naval Observatory, operated the four ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) COMMITTEE URGES ST50000000 PUBLL plates exposed during 1 Ob- BUILDINGS ACT NOW 'House Will Get Report To- morrow Pressing for Vote on Bill Affecting D. C. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Aroused, as was President Coolidge. the hourly sonds of Government billions of dollars, the House commit- tee on public buildings and grounds will make a report tomorrow urging the passage this session of Con- gress of a $150,000,000 public build- ings bill. One-third of that amount is to be =pent on most urgently need- ed housing for Federal activities in the National Capital. This is not an old-time “pork bar- rel” bill, under which individual members of Congress can get monu- mental buildings for-some small com- munity. Under the Elliott bill, which is to be reported, the entire meihod by Governm employes and documents | has been changed in conformity with | entire | the budget responsibility system, and the for recommending the places where public buildings are needed in the order of their relative importance is placed in the Treasury Department Plan for Sifting Projects. This follows the same procedure of nvestizating all projects as fol- lowed by the Engineer Corps of the Army on rivers'and harbors work, that by the time the appropriations committee actually comes to making the money available there is not one chance in a thousand for an undeserv- ing projgct to get by. Under a committee amendment the Postmaster General will be given joint with the Treasury De- is buildings are to be located and where they are most urgently needed Through such tem as Garrett Winston, Undersecretary of the ‘Treasury, outlined to the House com- mittee, the country at large will assured of public bulldings to meet the public needs and of dignified housing of Federal activities, so that the Government service will not be at the mercy of speculative rental property. It is essential to note that there has been no public bullding by Uncle Sam for more than 12 years, and that the post offices, the courts and Treasury agencies are sadly in need of more adequate quarters. President Coolidge made a special ap- peal to Congress for a $50,000.000 pro- gram for neéw Federal buildings in Washington and he has approved the hich is to be reported the public build- cd on Page 5, Column 2.) BOMB HURLED IN LISBON. Much Damage Done at Entrance to Municipal Chamber. LISBON, Portugal, January 24— A powerful bomb was exploded at the entrance to the municipal cham- ber today, causing great damage and injuring two passengers in a passing tramear. The outrage Is attributed to workingmen employed by the state, who are in conflict at the present time with the municipal board Leaves Charity $1,600,000. NEW YORK, January 24.—More than $1,600.000 was left to charity by the will of Mrs. Kate S. Richardson, who died In New Haven, Conn, on January 18, which was filed here to- day. She was the widow of Edward Rich- ardson, a New York City real estate man of two decades ago. |Exultant Shouts of. Crowd Spoil Careful Plans of Astronomers By the Associated Press ITHACA, N. Y, January 24—A great shout from a group of specta- tors of the eclipse of the sun today lost to Prof. S. L« Boothroyd and his staff at the Fuertes observatory at Cornell University one of their most keenly anticipated efforts, that of ob- taining photographs of the inner co- rona by means of the giant telescope. Prof. Boothroyd and his staff suc- ceeded In obtaining all scheduled ex- posures with the corona camera and the spectroscope, but just as the de- vouring shadow of the moon swept the landscape, Prof, Booth- shouted signal to an assistant e been developed and | atory, | group | menace of fire to thou- | representing | be | FIVE CENTS. GLENN YOUNG SLAIN WITH 2 OTHERS. IN HERRIN GUN FIGHT Five in Hospital After “Man- Killer” and Rival Settle i Long Feud. STATE TROOPS RUSHED TO SCENE OF BATTLE Career of Dead Dry Agent Matched by But Few in Recent Years. By the Associuted Press HERRIN, 1L, January Young, Ku Klux Klan liquc first assistant, orge Forb ponent, Deputy Sheriff of Williamson County |killed in a hotel lobby fight, as a climax of many storn onths of con- chn(iuu in Williamson County. Several other persons were wounded during the melee and flve are reported to be in hospitals while others suffered slighter wounds. The affray took place in the lobby of European Hotel and reports differ widely ax to Just how it | ction itself was so fast| spectators, most of | torrent of bullets, | first or what eise took piag ! | nn raider, his and their Ora_Thomas tonight were | whom were [ ferr anable to agr |walked the streets during the {the result of « report that his en were looking for him and both | | Young's supporters und partisans of | |the other side were keved to a high | | pitch as night came on. About 10 o'clock | | Young and Thomas met in front of the hotel. Some one fired a shot appar- ently from the window of a building. | Thomas ran into the hotel, according to | some witnesses, and sought refuge be- hind a cigar counter. low Thomas to Hotel. Youns and ral par- | ently thinking that had | been dipected at them followed Thom- as into the hotel and many shots were ired in rapid T revolvers | that : | ¥ | f I 2 | after emptying his the floor mortally nded, | Younz and his assistant Forbes ! »or of the lobby | shots in all were fired, while mas came to Herrin this morn- | from Marion to attend the ses- a5 of Herrin City Court. A night session of the court caused him | to remain here tonight ] | Crowds pf plople filled. the streets | | suon ater the shooting, but were | quickly dispersed, and all citizens were ordered off the streets | t Thomnx Dies in Ambulane Thomas died en route to the hospital, and his body was taken to an under- aking establishment, as were the bod- | es of Young and Forbes Sheriff Galligan, who was ! |at the time of the shooting, was advised |of the aftray and was requested by sev- |eral citizens to ask for a company of | militamen, to prevent further outbreaks. | Young has been in Herrin for several weeks. He has been living at the Lymar | Hotel, and just completed writing an autobjography, which he intended to |have published | The book is understood to contain an |account of his episode in Texas, Okla- | — | Marion (Continued on- Page 2, Column 3.) CLEMENTEL PLANS ~ NEW DEBT OFFER French Minister Understood to Be Preparing Plan to Submit to U. S. By Cable to The Star and New York World. PARIS, January 24.—Finance Min-| ister Clementel is reported to be pre-| paring a new debt settlement pro-| posal which will be handed to Am-| bassador Herrick shortly for trans-; mission to Washington. Clementel set to work on learning | from Mr. Herrick that his original | proposal, which called for a 10-year moratorium and 1% per cent interest, was not acceptable to Secretary Mel- lon even as a basis for discussion. May Drop Moratorium. It was learned Clementel considers dropping the moratorium idea. Whether he will ask for debt classi- | fication or payment of the total with- out interest over a stretch of years, or make a new interest proposal, s uncertain. It is difficult, however, for the finance minister to put forward an- other proposition until he hears from London what the British government is willing to consider for the Anglo- French debt settlement on the basis of the Balfour note. He is further embarrassed by the opposition to com- plete settlement such as has been expressed by Deputy Marin. At the same time, he wishes to counteract the effect of Marin's Chamber of Dep- utles speech in America, so he is likely to make some sort of offer, even before he knows on what basis the British are willing to negotiate. (Copyright, 1925.) at the 12-inch telescope, in ths ob- servatory dome was drowned in a roar of exultation from observers on | | the hill outside. The assistant, unaware that the time was at hand, waited until the total phase had passed without mak- ing an exposure. The astronomers had looked for im- portant discoveries on the six photo- graphs which were to have come in through the glant lense. It had been hoped to learn something of the “flash spectrum” of the inner carona | through _this means. | | Prof. Boothroyd himeelf was occu- | Ipied In determining the contracts: that is, the exact time at which the moon touched the sun, became total and left, | ot DONT Yau THINK THIS WoUuLD BE JusT As o0 THE INTE OUST BROOKHART, JOWA G. 0. P. ASKS State Committee Will File Charges in Senate Alleg- ing Fraud in Election. By the Associated Pry DES MOINES, Towa, January 24— The Republican party of Iowa, through the State central committee, today officfally repudiated United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart, and moved to have the seat to which he was elected as a Republican can- didate last November, be declared vacant on grounds of alleged fraud and deceit. A resolution ndopted by the central committée, which met here today, di- of Fort Dodge, to prepare a bill of complaint for fillng with the Senate, charging that Senator Brookhart, as a Republican until it was too late for the committee to bring out an- er candidate, than aligned himself with the La Follette movement, de- nounced the Republican ticket and divorced himself from the Republican party, thereby deceiving the electors of Towa. Called Unsernpulou: “The acts of Smith W. Brookhart,” says the resolution, in summing up the charges of the committes, “are contrary to honesty and political morality, and to permit such acts to stand unchallenged would be to put a premium on trickery and deceit, and to permit an unscrupulous person to become elected to a public office by Person. | the use thereof.” The contest of Senator Brookhart's election will not be on behalf of Dan- iel F. Steck, his Democratic oppo- nent, defeated b, votes, but the committee will ask the Senate to re- fuse to seat Senator Brookhart in the new session and declare his office va- cant. The governor then would ap- point a new Senator to serve until the next general election. A contest of the election already has been flled by Steck, who also alleges fraud and irregularities. The lengthy resolution adopted by the committee points out that in the regular manner the Republican party of Towa participated in the nomina- tion of President Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes; that the national candidates and the national platform of the party were entitled to the sup- port of all lesser candldates; that the Senator announced himself as a Re- publican candidate for renomination, and was nominated as a Re- publican in the primary, and con- tinued to present himself as a Re- publican candidate until the time for filing independent candidacies had ex- pired, and until it was no longer pos- sible for him to be removed from the Republican ticket. Declared Incligible. Thereafter, the resolution declares, “Brookhart so openly disavowed the Republican party, its principles and candidates, and espoused the princi- ples and candidates of a rival party, that he ceased to be a member of the Republican party and did, in fact, be. come a member of a rival party, the Independent Progressive - party, and dld thereby become ineligible as a candidate of the Republican party.” “In permitting his name to remain on the Republican ballot” says the resolution, “Brookhart was actuated by the fraudulent purpose and design of securing a large number of votes for Senator, under the faise claim of being a Republican.” Members of the Republican party were thereby deprived of having a candidate for United States Senator, the resolution declares. The appearance of the Senator's name on the Republicgn - ticket, the resolution continues, “saved him from an overwhelming defeat” and resulted in'a “glaring fraud upon the Repub. licans of lowa and the United States.” The resolution is understood to have been adopted unanimously. BROOKHART HITS BACK. Charges “Fraud and Deceit” Prac- ticed by Opponents. “That gang that passed that resolu- tion are the ones who practiced ‘fraud and deceit’ in Towa,” Senator Brook- hart declared upon reading the dis- patch vesterday concerning the State committee’s action. “They also repudiated their own platform which was adopted by the State convention, and upon which I stood throughout the campaign.” | | | District National LATER THE TODAY ART ONE—36 PAG General News—Local, National, Foreign. Boy Scout News—Page 14. Schools and Colleges—Pages 24 and 25. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 26. At the Community Centers—Page 26. Around the City—Page 27. D. A. R. Activities—Page 27. Radio Programs and News—Pages 30 and 31. Veterans of the Great War—Page 32. Army and Navy News—Page 33 Guard—Page 33. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 33. Financial News—P ges 34 and 35. PART TWO—14 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Pages 11 and 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 1. PART THREE—6 PAGES Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Reviews of New Books—Page 6. PART FOUR—i PAGES. | rected the chairman, B. B. Burnquist |Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S PAG Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. I prior to the November election, posed | The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. The Civilian Army—Page 7. Fraternal News—Page 8. PART SEVEN—16 PAGES, Special Automobile Section—Auto Show Number. Serial, “The Ark of the Covenant’— Page 15. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGE! World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. NEW FRENCH ENVOY REACHES CAPITAL Emile Daeschner, With Fam- |i. first, with the exception of the time | ily, Greeted Here by Em- bassy Staff Members. Emile Daeschner. new French Am- bassador to the United States, suc- ceeding Jules J. Jusserand, arrived in Washington last night on the Con- gressional ited at 8:30 o'clock. With him came Mme. Daeschner, their two daughters and M. Sartiges, new counselor of the embassy, who had gone to New York to meet the party. At the station to greet the Ambas- sador and family. were M. Heilmann, first secretary of the embassy, who is leaving shortly te become consul gen- eral at San Frawclsco; Jules Henri, who becomes first secretary of the embassy upon departure of M. Heil- mann; Capt. E. Lombard, assistant military attache, and other members of the embassy staff. Without further ceremony than one briet flashlight by photographers, the new Ambassador and his family left Union Station for 2400 Sixteenth street, where they will make their home until the French embas: by is made ready for them. Some few alterations and changes are under- 5t0od to be under way, tollowing the departure of M. Jusserand, who is now in New York, prior ot his sailing early next week for Frauce. Brig. Gen. George A. L. Dumont, military attache, who has been in France for several months past, and returned to America on the same ves- sel with M. Daeschner, remained in New York for a few days. Visit to President. —Although definite arrangements have not been completed, it is under- stood the new Ambassador will go to the State Depxrtment pomorrow to present his credentials. Arrangements will then be made tor his formal pres. entation at the White House to Pres- ident Coolidge. Prior to this, 1t was said, the new Ambassador will make no public statement. Arrival of the mew French Ambas- sador served to arouse speculation here, nevertheless, as to what develop- ments with relation to tne compli- cated question of war debts may be expected to follow assumption of his | post in Washington. Surface indications that the new Ambassador has any definite project with regard to the French debt to (Continuedl on Page 2, Column 6) | { | | | | | | ( near- | it [signed in 1804, RNATIONAL CONCERT. S STARISLE OF PINES PACT Copeland Says Treaty With Cuba Can- not Be Found. The original American tre; | DRAFT IS MISSING Original | tween the United States and Cuba, is lost Announcement to this effect w | ceding the Isle of Pines to the latter, | STONES OPPONENTS WANT NOVIATION PROBED FURTHER |Senate Leaders Confer With President Over Status of Appointee. WHEELER INDICTMENT FACTS ARE QUESTIONED Attorney General's Action as Coun- % sel for Morgan Executors Also Brought Out. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The next ts of the present confirma the nom ton of Attorney General Stone in the Senate will be to recommit the nomi- nation to the Senate judiclary com- mittee if they have the strength do so. The understanding of some of the Senators is that the nomination is to come up in executive session tomor- Tow. At that time, it was sald last night, the motlon recommit will be made. It will receive e Re- publican support as well as Demo- cratic, according to advocates of this course. Should the non not be recommended, it will be the executive calendar of the and opportunity will be given Senators to look into the Wheeler case, it was In dicated last night. The Wheeler case has come to the fore since the nom- |ination was reported to the Senate, it |was explained | The opposition | the nomination | vestigation co at_le First, there are Senators who de- to go further into the charges move of oppone on of a- to mination held Senate on to confirmation of without further i s from two angl | sire | made lin connecti Ownbey versus late J. P. Morg ing as counsel | Second, there { wish to obtain effort of the Depart [ to have Senater Wk indicted and tried in Washington on the ne ation of General to become a m of e appear executors. ators more light on ent of eler of M for e | fore vot i Attorney made in the Senate yesterday by Sen- | ber of the Supreme Court ator Copeland, Democrat, New York, | who sald a search of the files of State Department had failed to rev. He offered a resolution referred to the foreign relations co mittee, asking the State Departm for information ofi the subject Officlals of that department, on the eal . which was | ym- ent the other hand, let it be known that they considered responsibl treaty rested with the its is supposed original text ment more than « It is the hope that somewhere, haps in it will yet be found. It is Senator Copeland contends, ators have opportunity to the original treaty if they intelligently fying the treaty now before the S ate, which it has been generally s posed wa original one The original treaty was ted to the Senate by President Roc velt from the State De Cushman K. Davis was chairman the foreign relations committee has heen assumed that custom followed and the original text tra mitted. In executive departm circles it is said th returned and, therefore, ity must rest with the its whereabouts The first and is dead. It carried if not ratifled within seven it would not be effective. for to have ived from the State D 20 years ago. Tec Ix Original Necessar: neces that S are to Senate as ginal treaty it mon the e through eign relations committee, which the art- per- some forgotten plgeonhole, 5 serutinize act | on the quesiton of rati- en - up- an exact duplicate of the | transmit- = artment when of It was ns- nt treaty was never | responsibil- to f stipulation that | ths This wa signed on July 2, 1903, and never was ratified. A second treaty then and is the one befora the Senate for ratification. supposed to be a duplicate of limitation clause However, Senator clared yesterday a of the first treaty, " (Continued on ¥ Copeland purported ho FATHER AN Jury Convicts Trio of Murder w now It the de- copy | to him by | §e 4, Column 3 D 2 SONS | CONDEMNED TO DIE of South Carolina Farmer—Dicta- phone Evidence Used. By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. Jerry Hester and his t Hester and Claude Hester, were c. January 24.—| o sons, Charlie | on- | victed of the murder of J. Ed Thack- | ston, farmer and merchant, this after- noon at 5:45 o'clock. new trial was refused by Judge I who sentenced the three men to in the electric chair on February Thackston was slain on the nig December 19, 1924, The Hester case has been distinc- | It was the first| had been | {admitted in a South Carolina court, so far as local officials know, and also, so far as they knew, was the | |first time three members of one fam- | |1y have been sentenced to dle. Judge Rice remarked upon this latter phase | tive time in two wa dictaphone evidence of the case in passing sentence. SMALL ISLE SlTDbEN LY VANISHES UNDER SEA| S e T, Port Alexander, in West Africa, Is Completely Submerged. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 24.—Port Alex- in the Portu- guese colony of Angola, West Africa, | the | disappeared. | te ander, a_small island has been suddenly submerged in sea und has completely according to a Lisbon dispatch the Sunday Express 'No details have been received, a tuguese and native settlers. A motion for a die ht of | | Portuguese } but considerable. loss of life is feared the islet, which was 4,000 square yards in area. was inhabited by Por- it Favorable Report Ordered. of the ered reported ably to the Senate from the committee last Mon | Senator Heflin, aroused Ly an a appearing in a New York newsp | which he said gave a wrong impr | sion of the re s for which b posed the confir »n of Mr brought about ve session the Senate yesterd i for mc than an b in Wheel case was discusse effort w nom agreeme tion until tom Following executive Butler of Massachuse other Republican leaders White House, presumably to d the subject with the President a advise him of the situation, and ther departure Attorney General Stone was closeted with the President and Senator Butler for a short time They all declined to discuss what taken place except to empha fcally that there is no inten drawing the nomination jand that no estion to has been made e nomina was or an executi v lasti | which had up bean t not to take nomina- rrow the sess| al Seeks Open Sexsions. s belibve Mr. Heflin natc | nomination other nominatio Court—should execut session aid last night made to bring | session to d Supreme onsidered in of the Senate, An effort may about such open uss the nomination of Mr. Stone, but it is not believed that it will be successful. The practice of the Senate has bLeen to consid executive nominations behind closed doors, and it is not likely to be de- parted from. This does not me: be some discussion of the proposal Wheeler of Montana | instead of in Montana, indicted months ago. At the time Senator Wheeler was indicted t Senate conducted an investigation of the charges brought against him, and there was full discussion on the floc and a report was adopted exonerat- ing him at the last session. | n there may not the open Senate try Senator in Washington where he was New Charges Not Known. Senator Walsh of Montana, counsel for Senator Wheeler, said last night that he and Senator Wheeler did not vet know what new charges, if any, were to be advanced by the Depart- ment of Justice against Mr. Wheeler. If there are new charges, the sup- | position was advanced in some quar- ters that they might relate to alleged attempted conspiracy on the part of Gordon Campbell, an oil operator, who employed Senator Wheeler his counsel, to get permits to oil lands approved. He is alleged to have written a letter to the then solicitor of the Interior Department, attempt- ing to make a deal with him. An at- tempt might be made, it was said, to involve Senator Wheeler in a charge of tonspiracy. But it was pointed out by friends of Senator Wheeler that he was in Europe at the time the let- ter was written and could have had nothing to do with it in any event. During the executive session yes- terday, it is reported, several Sen- ators took part in the discussion, in- cluding Senators Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana, Norris of Ne- braska, Caraway of Arkansas, Swan- |son of Virginia and Overman of North Carolina. The position of some of the Senators is that in seeking to have Senator Wheeler tried here in Washington, 2,500 miles away from his home, where he was indicted long ago, is against the fundamental prin- ciples of justice and Anglo-Saxon law. They are asking whether an | effort is being made to persecute Mr. Wheeler, instead of prosecute him. i Smoot Defends Course. Senator Smoot, it is said the executive session, asked if it was not entirely proper to indiet and try Mr. Wheeler here if crimes alleged to have been committed were posed to have been gommitted herc .Supporters of the ttorney General jew that Mr. Smoot's qui ied on Page 4, Columa &3 during sup-