Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1925, Page 2

DECORATING FUNDS FOR NAUGURAL ET $28,000 Allowed for Building Stands and Trimming Route of Parade. An appropriation of $28,000 for the eonstruction of stands and decoration in the court of honor for the inaug- uration of President Coolidge next March was approved today by tle general committee at the request of its chairman, William T. Galliher. This sum represents virtually all that will be spent by the committee ! for street decorations. In urging approval of the appro- priation, Mr. Galliher sald that mer- chants on Pennsylvania avenue from] the Peace Monument to Fifteenth street, where the court of honor be- would be requested to dre up own stores on Inauguration This plan was adopted as a necessary measure for the conserva- tion of funds in the face of a budget that is considerably less than that of the committees which handled previous inaugural ceremonies. Mr. Gallither pointed out that heretofore the sale of tickets for seats in the court of honor has usually netted approximately $40,000 Saving of $12,000. On this basis previous committees having that court in charge, he said, have usually received that amount to spend on their stands and decora- tions. That committee this time, how- aver, will recefve $15,000 with which to build its stands and $10,000 with which to decorate them. making a to- 1al saving of about $12,000 over pre- vious inaugurations The scheme of the court of honor will be colonial. It was announced several days ago that the colors for Washington on March 4 would be buff and blue, the regimental colors of the Continental Army. These will be worked out in the courts to give it a distinct colonial atmosphere. To make sure that the decorations along Pennsylvania avenue would not be a heterogeneous mass of bunt- ing and flags, & subcommittee Is being formed, it was announced, to confer with the property owners along the thoroughfare and work out, with those who are willing, a distinctive scheme of decoration in keeping with that of the Court of Honor. Tt is likely that on this committee will be named two members for each block on the Avenue Decide on Blocks. Each of these pairs will be assigned a definite block, it is expected, one taking the north side of the street and the other the south. They will walt upon the property owners, ex- plain the project to them, and en- deavour to convene block meetings for definite arrangement Throughout its work the advisory committee which presented the re- quests for appropriations, has cut down the sum allotted to each sec- tion. For instance, the committee on fireworks has been allowed but $3,000 for its display. The fireworks dis- play during Shrine week cost $10,000. The committes on historical s asked for $600 and was granted $250. Mr. Galliher pointed out that here- tofore it has been the custom to pre- sent to the President, the Vice Presi- dent and the chairman of the inaug- ural committee gold badges. Bronze badges were usually given to the members fo the inaugural committee 10 commemorate their work in the in. duction into office of the Nation's| President. Funds for Badges. Because of the lack of money time, Mr. Galliher asked that the chairman of the committee at least be given no consideration whatever and | requested an appropriation of only $400 for the committee on badges. The appropriation was promptly granted as were the others hereto- fore mentioned when so0 requested by Mr. Gallther. Engraved Invitations formally ask- ing their attendance wers mailed to the Governors of every State in the Union today. Accompanying each was a letter from Col. Fred A. Fen- ning, secretary of the inaugural com- mittee, asking them to inform him tmmediately the name and the size of their official escort. The next mesting of the committee will be at the call of the chairman, it was an- nounced at the conclusion of today's session After the meeting it was unofi- ofally stated that the court of honor would scat approximately 10,000 per- mons. Heretofore, it has been the custom to Teserve a large section around the President'’s reviewing stand for the use of the President's personal guests. The same plan will be followed this year, and it is ex- pected that the number of seats so reserved for President Coolidge will total about 750. The committes on public comfort of the inaugural committes has been called to meet at 11 o'clock tomor- row morning at the New Willard Hotel. Mrs. Virginia White Speel is chairman of the committee and Miss Kathleen Lawler is secretary. ISLE OF PINES RIOTS TRACED TO CUBANS Military Attache at Havana Says “Irresponsible” Persons Pro- voked Acts of Violence. this Maj. William H. Shutan, military attache at the Havana embassy, who investigated reports of violence in the Isle of Pines, has reported that the trouble was traceable directly to a few irresponsible Cubans and that conditions on the island otherwise were quiet. Maj. Shutan was sent by Ambassa- dor Crowder to make the investiga- tlon after American residents on the ials appealed to the Havana embassy for protection. A report from the Ambassador quoted in part Mal. Shutan’s report, which sald that the presence of Cuban government of- ficlals in the isle had given the sit- uation a “soothing” effect. WALTER JOHNSON MAY GO INTO THE MOVIES (Contin ued from First Page.) League campalgn, in which he was the leading pitcher, and his remarka- ble stand in the last game of the world series when he pitched the Na- tionals to victory after having twice been defeated by the Giants, however, made many of his ardent admirers feel that he Would remain with the Washington club. But Walter has been unable to find a franchise in the West, negotiations for the purchase of part interest in the Oakland Club, of the Pacific Cosst_League, having failed, while an effort to buy into the Vernon Club of the same cireuit brought no results. Any organized base ball deal | the community was at its height. The | | reference to the Walsh radio speech. | ing’ PASTOR QUITS FIGHT WITH SERMON ON LOVE Announces Decision to Resign From Chicago Church When Board Sets Date. By ' Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 26.—The Rev. Thornton A. Mills, who last night de. cided to resign from the pastorate of the New England Congregational Church after a long controversy with the trustees caused by his inviting a group of hoboes to worship in the famous old edifice, yesterday preach- ed a sermon on the Golden Rule, filled with teachings of love and tolerance and faith He announced his resignation at both morning and evening services, to take effect at a date to be decided by the church councll. ' He said he would heartily concur in the decision of the council and that his resigna- tion must be accepted as irrevocable and not subject to debate or recon- sideration. ROBERTS ATTACKS ABATEMENT PLEA Says Walsh Radio Talk Of- fers No Basis in 0il Con- spiracy Trials. Owen J. Roberts, for the government in the oll prose- cutions, today opened the argument for the United States at the hearing before Chlef Justice McCoy on the pleas fn abatement by which Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the In- terior, Edward L. Doheny, Edward L. Doheny, jr. and Harry F. Sin-| clair, oil magnates, hope to quash in- dictments charging them with con- spiracy in connection with the leas- ing of naval oll reserves. He will be followed by Former Senator Pom- erene and United States Attorney Gordon for the government. The clos- ing argument for the accused will be made by Martin W. Littleton of New York, representing Sinclair. Roberts contended that the fourth plea, in which It is claimed that the grand jury was influenced by a speech of Senator Thomas J. Walsh over the radio while the inquiry was in prog- ress before the grand jury, should be stricken out. He asserted that it was filed too late, being more than 90 days after the making of the speech. He quoted opinfons of the United States Supreme Court holding such pleas “too late” when filed 19 days after the indictment and pointed out that this fourth plea was not filed until more than six weeks after the return of the indictment. No Decision Cited. The plea seems to have been an “afterthought” the Government's lawyer asserted. He also advised the court that no decision had been cited by counsel for the accused In which indictments had been quashed for im- proper newspaper statements pub- lished at or about the time the grand jury was In session, but that many such cases are in the books In which the courts refused to quash Indict- ments on such pleas. Chief Justice McCoy interrupted the | speaker to call attention to the num- ber of indictments filed shortly after| the commission of heinous crimes and while there was a public clamor for action by the prosecutors. He re- ferred to the Loeb-Leopold case in Chicago, where the boys were indicted and tried while the indignation of ! special counsel remark of the court was taken to in-| dicate that he leans toward the con- tention of the Government, at least in Nature of Speech. Continuing, Mr. Roberts declared he felt convinced the court would not indulge the defense to the extent of 90 days in flling what he called a dilatory plea. Even if the speech of Senator Walsh had been heard by some of the grand jurors, he asserted, there is no allegation in the plea that it prevented him or them from find- indictments on comjetent evi- dence. He pointed out decisions In which it is held that the mere introduction of “Improper evidence” before a grand jury will not vitiate an Indictment unless the allegation is made that there was no competent evidence sub- mitted on which the grand juror could have acted. The lawyer pro- ceeded to answer the first three pleas with a defense of the presence of United States Attorney Gordon and Assistant Attorney General Pagen in | the grand jury room during the tak- ing of evidence. He declared their presence was “duly authorized” and that the pleas in abatement based on these points should be overruled. Did Not Replace Fund. Mr. Roberts insisted that the Senate resolution did not repeal the existing law as to the persons entitled to attend grand jury sessions, and dealt only with the control of the prosecutions of which the Department of Justice was re- lieved. He and Senator Pomerens are and always have been in control of the prosecution in the ofl cases, he asserted, but the resolution did not prevent them from going to the Department of Justice to get assistance, he declared. “Do you claim,” interrupted Attorney Littleton, “that the Attorney General could have gone into the grand jury room after the passing of the Senats resolution?” “Most assuredly, he could,” respond- ed Mr. Roberts, “if we had asked him to assist us.” The Government's lawyer declared there had been no violation of the Senate resolution either in word or spirit. Backed by Pomerene. Senator Pomerens indorsed in its entirety the position taken by Mr. Roberts in reference to the fourth plea about the radio speech of Sen- ator Walsh, and asserted that it was filed too late to be considered by the court. As to the presence of United States Attorney Gordon in the grand jury room, he pointed out that Maj. Gordon has jurisdiction over every crime committed In the District of Columbla, and is entitled to attend every session of the grand jury In this district. Mr. Pagan, also a duly authorized person, was present at the request of the counsel in control, he said T rights of the accused, Mr. Pom- erene asserted, were in no Way prej- udiced by the presence of either of these lawyers before the grand jury, or by the fact that the indictments are signed by himself and Mr. Roberts as “special assistants to the Attorney General,” instead as ‘“Counsel ap- pointed by the President.” The in- dictments needed not have been signed at all by any of the lawyers, he pointed out, as long as the signa- ture of the foreman of the grand jury was upon them. Debated in Congress. The detates in Congress, on which counsel for the accused had rested to show thc Intent to exclude the Department of Justice entirely from the ofl rrosecution, should not be controlling in the court, he suggested. There was great excitement at the time and special animosity against the then Attorney General, whose participation was sought to be ex- cluded. Congress would not have Fast of the Rockies other than a re- engagement with the Washington club is barred to dehnson by officials of iheFamey . cared, said the speaker, to have ex- cluded the entire Department of Jus- tice from sharing {n the oil prosecu- tlons, Jf.4t had wanted ig-do-sos it G NEW OPIUM POLICY BODY IS ORGANIZED Dane Elected President and Session Will Be Public. U. S. Agent in Accord. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 26.—The joint committee from the first and second International oplum conferences, ap- pointed as a means of breaking the deadlock between the American and the leading European delegates over the question of suppression of oplum smoking in the Far East, met today and organized. The commission elect- ed Dr. Herlufe Zahle of Denmark as its president and immedlately voted to make the sessions public. Dr. Zahle was not present, owing to lllness, and Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations, presided over today's brief sitting of the commission. Foint Still Unsettle That a spirit of conciliation had entered into the deliberations seemed evident from the attitude of Repre- sentative Stephen G. Porter, head of the American delegation. He told the commission that no dispute seemed to exist between the delegations on the question of the length of the period in which oplum smoking should be suppressed. All of them, he explained, favored fixing it at 15 years, but there still existed a difference of opinion as to when the 15-year period should be- gin. Mr. Porter recommended a careful analysis of all the projects for the uppression of the practice, with re- ports on the Investigation submitted to the commission later when Dr. Zahle had recovered. Adjourns Until Tomorrow. After hearing Mr. Porter's remarks the commission adjourned until to- morrow morning. Mr. Porter and Lord Cecil, head of the British delegation, have had fur- ther private conferences and seem to have reached an accord on disputed questions In connection with the nar- cotic drug _convention. In observance of what Lord Cecil has called the “Geneva atmosphere” of conciliation, the present plan Is to conclude the drafting of the narcotic treaty, com- pleting work on all those questions regarding which the likelihood of dls. cord is least, and postponing definite action on the problem of opium smok- ing until the probability seems at a minimum of its endangering the breakdown of the anti-opium structure as a whole which has been bullt up at Geneva after almost three months of effort. STONE NOMINA'I:IOM IS RECOMMITTED AFTER LONG DEBATE (Continued from First Page.) and the legislative branches of the government. As vet all the facts are not avallable nd no conclusive judgment can be formed, but even the friends of the adminlstration on Capitol Hill admit it was a tactical error for Attorney General Stone to reopen the case against Senator Wheeler of Montana at the very moment when he was about to be elevated to the Supreme Court. Mr. Stone is not a politiclan He came here from New York where he had been dean of the Columbla Law School. He knows little, if any- thing, about political expediency. He might have ‘“forgotten” the swhole Wheeler case and been acting more or less like other attornevs gencral But to him what may seem a techni- cal violation of the law is a violation just the same whether committed by a Senator or any one else. Irrespective of the merits of the case he has bullt up against Senator Wheeler, Mr. Stone has been placed by circum- stances in an awkward and unenviable position. If he lets up now on the Wheeler prosecution he will be charged with having surrendered in order to win for himself confirmation to the Su- preme Court of the United States. If he goes ahead with the matter relent- lessly, as he doubtless will fael disposed to do in order to vindicate what he al- ready has done, the group in the Senate who feel Senator Wheeler s the victim of political persecution as a result of his actlvity in helping to oust Attorney General Daugherty will feel more bitter than ever. If the controversy over confirma- tion should become prolonged and action be deffered for one reason or another till the Senate can get all the facts and perhaps even try the new Wheeler charges as they did the old case, the action on Mr. Stone's nomination may be delayed until the end of the present session of Con- gress. This, in turn, would affect the nomination of Charies B. Warren of Michigan, who has been named to suc- ceed Mr. Stone as Attorney General. The opportunities for delay and con- fusion in the situation are numerous, and there Is just enough support be- hind Senator Wheeler to make the whole thing turn on the merits of the new charges against him. There, is, of course, vagueness thus far with ~respect to new charges against the Montana Senator. They are sald to be entirely different from the case handled by the grand jury in Montana. There 18 & suggestion also that Mr. Wheeler e not the only person Involved in the new proceed- ings and that the Attorney General was ready to have the Senator go before the grand jury to give testi- mony which in effect would have been a gusrantee of fmmunity. But no Sen- ator 1/kes to be placed in that position if he feels he ix not gullty and there- fore Mr. Whesler s said to be ready to testify by waiving immunity The Department of Justice hasn't re vealed what It has found in the way of evidence, but the Senate Investigat- ing committees will Insist on knowling everything. Although the Senate last year, by an overwhelming vote, exon- erated Senator Wheeler, Senator Borah of Idaho having investigated the charges, Mr. Stone did not desist. There have been other instances in which sénatorial dignity has been, in a sense, set aside by the Attorney Gen- eral, a recent case being the clash be- tween Senator Edge of New Jersey and the Department of Justice over the removal of a Federal district attorney in New Jersey who secured his office by_recommendation of Mr. Edge. There is a general impression that Mr. Stone has had a number of diffi- culties with members of Congress. His independence would naturally commend ftsel? outside of Washing- ton, but inside the Natlonal Capltal it 19 not considered playing the polit- ical game and the upshot of it may be to impair his chances of reach- ing the Supreme Court, which is the ambition, as a rule, of every dis- tingulshed lawyer. (Copyright, 1925.) was only necessary to add a repealing clause to the resolution by which all acts inconsistent were repealed. The fallure to do that, he asserted, was a clear gulde to the intent of the legis- lation which was to take only the control of the proceedings from the Attorney General. If there was any real merit in radio plea, the Senator asked court if it would have escaped the legal acumen of counsel for the ac- cused at the time they flied the first ‘ihrde pleany the the STAR, WASHINGTON, But Fatdlities Far BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Deaths from alcoholism in the United States are mounting rapldly and figures just available at the Cen- sus Bureau show that the rate of deaths from this cause in 1923 was larger than for any year since 1917. The rate Is still lower, however, than in the pre-prohibition days, but at the present rate of gain will reach pre-prohibition figures In another year or two. Deaths from alcoholism took a terrific tumble in 1920, the first year of constitutional prohibition. The bootlegging trade had not then been organized and there was a falling off in the consumption of all kinds of liquors. Then the bootlegger began to make his presence felt. Schemes of distribution were devised. Today the system is better organized than at any time in its existence, and the distribution is wider. Increase in Rate. The death rate from alcoholism within the regist fon area of 38 States in 1923 was 3.3 persons per 100,000 of population. In 1922 it was 2.6, in 1921 it was 18; in 1920 it was 1.0—the low-water mark of all time since the causes of death have been made & matter of national rec- ora. In pre-Volstead days the rate ran from 4.4 to 6.3. Between 1917 and 1318 there was a drop from 5.2 to 2.7, the drop In this instance being due not ta prohibition but to the presence of 80 many of the young men of the country in the military service where thelr means of obtaining and drink- ing llquor were limited. In 1918, with the advent of war-time rprohibition, there was a further drop in the death rate to 16. Gain tn Steady. The gain has been steady since the low water mark of 1920. The figures for 1924 for the Nation will not be available for another twelve months, but local records from hospltals in the FRENCH CATHOLICS “READY FOR FIGHT” Leaders Declare Sect Pre- pared for Vigorous Strife If “War Comes.” B the Associated Press, METZ, France, January 26.—“If a fight 1s forced upon us we shall ac- cept it with an encrgy hitherto un- suspected,” declared Father Bergey, deputy from Gironde department, known as a war-time fighting chap- lain, speaking before the Lorrain Catholic Association last night on the Herriot government's clerical policy. “All the French Catholles Metz, Strasbourg and Brest to Nice form one indissoluble family, the deputy continued. “The emotion aroused by the ministerfal declara- tion of last June (proclalming sup- pression of the French embassy at the Vatican as one featurs of the gov- | ernment's foreign policy) aroused us all” The meeting adopted a resolution favoring continued maintenance of the embassy at the Vatiean, demand- ing entire liberty for the work of the religious congregations and calling for the continuance of religious insti- tutions and liberties In the recovered provices of Alsace and Lorraine. PROFESSES LOYALTY. from Gen. de Castelnau Ready to Fight Such Attacks. NANCY, France, January 26.—Gen. de Castelnau, head of the National Catholic Federation, presiding at a meeting mainly composed of war vet- ns here last evening, said: 1t any one wishes to attack our loyalty to France we are ready to oppose ourselves with ail our forc: even by violence, to such attempts. Referring to the propaganda car- ried on by the Communists, the gen- eral declared: “It necessary and if the doctrine now propagated shculd prevail, we are ready to go out in the strest and fight it. Surely we abhor war, but there are several ways of making war upon war.” HERRIOT OVERRULED. Will Have Envoy to Vatican If Necessary, He Says. By the Associated Press PARIS, January 26.—Premier Her- riot announced in parliament today in the discussion over the suppres- sion of the French embassy to the vatican that the councll of state had ruled that Alsace-Lorraine was still under the regime of the Napoleonic concordat between Paris and Rome, he added: ln‘?u it is necessary to have a repre- sentative at Rome for Alsace-Lor- raine the French government will ve one.” h.'reh: premier, in the controversy with the Alsace-Lorraine deputies, has contended that the recovered provinces were no longer subject to the concordat regime. The state coun- cil, the body which decides upon the legality of iaws, passed by the parli- ament, and as to conflicts between public administrations and the gov- ernment, ruled against the premler. When Alsace and Lorraine were annexed by Germany in 1871 the Ger- man government ratified the Napol- eonio concordat under which the re- lations between Rome and France were governed. In 1905 the French government repealed the concordat and when Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France after the war the Frenoh government was confronted With the fact that the provinces were still under the regime prevailing be- 1905. rm":\'Bua- ¢ dovelopment, according to deputies opposed to suppression of the embassy at the Vatican, empha- sized the necessity of Franoe being represented at the Holy See, becauss the Pope, according to the concordat, must consult the French government upon religious administrative meas- ures, such as the appointment of bishops. Coolidge Accepts Gift to U. S. President Coolidge today signed the resolution authorizing the acceptance from Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfleld, Mass., of a gift of $80,000 for the construction within the Congres- sional Library of a chamber of music. Capt. C. D. Hilton Resigns. The resignation of Capt. Chester D. ‘Hilton, Quartermaster Corps, has been accepted by the President, to take of- Soct Fehirugry Iy = B . L Above Low-Water Mark Achieved in 1920. larger citles of the country indicate that the 1924 mark will top that of 1923 in a very serious manner. In 1923 the States showing the big- gest increase in the death rate from alcholism included the notoriously wet spots of the Nation. Connecticut, New York, New Jorsey, Massachu- setts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and or perhaps one might say reprehensible gains. The champlon wet state of all, however, was Wyoming, where Mrs. Nellle Ross has just been made gover- nor. The aichollc death rate jumped in that State from 3.9 in 1922 to 8.0 in 1923. Increase by States New York's increass was from 2.9 to 4.3; Connecticut mounted from 1.9 to 3.9; Illinots from 3.1 to 4.2. Mary- land, standing out for home rule and home brew, leaped up from 3.0 deaths per 100,000 in 1922 to 5.7 in 1823, Massachusetts moved up from 5.9 to 6.6; Minnesota from 2.6 to 3.2; Penn- sylvania from 2.8 to 4.3, and Wash- ington from 2.6 to 3.1. Other States which showed an in- crease in alcoholism as a cause of death were Idaho, Kentucky, Michi- gan, Mississippl, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Utah. The States which showed a decline in alcoholism and a dryer atmosphere were Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kans: Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon. States which stood still were Cali- fornia, Loulsiana, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. Cirrhosis of the liver, supposed to be a sort of hand maiden of alcohol, showed a slight decline from 7.5 in 1922 to 7.2 in 1923, At a recent meeting of the Ameri- can chemlsts at Boston, several speak- ers argued that deaths from alcohol- tsm today are not caused so much by polsonous substances {n alcohol as from the effects of too much alcohol. (Copyright, 1925.) JOHN C. EASTMAN, PUBLISHER, DIES Editor-Owner of Chicago Journal Is Victim of Apoplexy Attack. By the Ausociated Press. CHICAGO, January 26.—John C. Eastman, owner, editor and publish- er of the Chicago Datly Journal, died yesterday of apoplexy at a hospital, where he had been taken Saturday night after collapsing at his home, Mr. Eastman, who was 63 years old, had been advised several months ago to reduce his work, and planned soon to take a rest sFuneral services will be held to- morrow afternoon. The body will be cremated and burfal will be at West Alexandria, Ohlo, Mr. Eastman’s boy- hood home. He left a request that his body should not be viewed by his friends and should be placed in a simpie, inexpensive casket After the death of his father, a captain in the Union Army, at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Mr. Eastman’'s family moved from Eaton, Ohlo, his birthplace, to W Alex- andria. There he began his news- paper career by writing smal] items for his home town paper. Later he studied civil engineering at Ohfo State University and worked as a reporter on the Ohlo State Jour- nal, and then was editor of the Wa- bash, Ind., Times. Coming to Chicago in 1890 as a re- porter for the Herald, Mr. Eastman directed the Herald's bureau at the World's Fair. When John R. Walsh established the Chronicle here, Mr. Eastman became its business man- ager. Later he was advertising man- ager for the New York Journal, but returned to Chicago to found the Chicago American in 1900 and be its president. He purchased the Chicago Journal @ few years later. Resources Slender. ‘When Mr. Eastman learned in 1904 that the Booth family of Detroit de- sired to sell the Journal, his resources were slender. In his reportorial days he had won the friendship of Com- modor Morton Plant, rail and financial magnate, who had once told him to call on him if he ever needed assistance. When Eastman advised Plant of his ambition, the latter wrote out a check for the amount necessary to complete the Journal deal. Commodore Plant refused to receive security or Eastman's note. Mr. Eastman later forwarded security to Mr. Plant's business manager and paid back the loan as he could. His first real editorship wa ‘Wabash, Ind, Times, where local Democrats persuaded him to take chaige. There was another editor in town who had been represented as saying any other editor either would of he was said to have a reputation as & marksman. Eastman bought a revolver and ammunition and hired the other edi- jtor's friend, a livery man, to drive him into the country where he ex- hibited his skill as & marksman. The two newspaper offices backed on a canal and one day Eastman heard his opponent blazing away at rats on the shore. He went out and applauded his competitor's perform- &iu uml th;n tossed an apple into © canal and split it open w m;;n‘ his friends sa P g oth editors lived to tell the taj although the other was the first lteo' leave town for greener fields. The Journal appeared today, its column rules turned into mourning, and containing messages of regret from Willlam Jennings Bryan, for- mer Vice President Thomas R. Mar- shall, Senators McKinley of Illinois and Ralston of Indlana, and many others, Mr. Fastman was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla. Mullins. TWO TREATIES INDORSED BY SENATE COMMITTEE One Affects Extraditions From Canada, Other Relates to Cen- tral American Problem: Two additional treaties were favor- ably reported today by the Senate foreign relations committee, One, with Great Britain, deals with the extradition from Canada of per- sons charged with violating the Har- rison mnarcotic act. The other is between the United Stotes and the five Central American republics and provided for commis- sions of Inquiry to deal with interna- tional disputes. . Increase in the production of gol MONDAY, JANUARY DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM SHOW SURPRISING INCREASE EACH YEAR Record of Pre-Prohibition Days Not Yet Reached, be chased out of town or shot, and | 26, 1925 MOVE TO FIND CURE FORWAR ASSAILED Acrimonious Debate Marks Meeting—Legion Auxil- iary Not Sponsor. The National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, which closed its sessions here last week, was as- salled as “blatant propaganda” for the League of Nations in a meeting at the New Willard Hotel yesterday afternoon. Although announcement was made Saturday that the meeting was to be sponsored by the American Leglon Auxiliary, co-operating with other patriotic organizations, Mrs. O. D. Olipahnt, national president of the auxillary, today denfed that her or- ganization had had anything to do with it. The gathering, after being ad- dressed by several speakers, who criticized the recent conference from several angles and warned against socialistic “propaganda everywhere, was turned into an open forum, dur- Ing which charges and counter- charges flew thick and fast. Parley Leaders Criticiz Mrs. Haviland H. Lund of New York and Washington, charged that the recent conference, although lauded as a “middle of the road” gathering, had really been attended by woman dele- gates who were “professional organ- izers” and members of peace organ!- tions. The whole conference, she charged, was a “deluge” of propa- ganda for the league. Declaring that it was unfalr to call such a conference ‘‘conservative,” Mrs. Lund said the leaders had met with a determination to “folst their opinions on the conference.” ““There is not an atom of democ- £he sald, “in a well organized steam roller.” Directing most of her criticism against the leaders of the recent conferencs, Mrs. Lund sald there was “no blame attaching to those who had been deceived.” Women were urged to study both sides of the League of Nations {ssue before voting on_resolutions Debate which broke out after the pro- gram had been thrown open to discus- sion became #0 acrimonious that Capt. Spencer from the platform begged the women to stop “baiting” one another, and Mre. Willlam Wolff Smith of the District Congress of Parent-Teacher As- sociations asked that “preconceived no- tions™ be not allowed to continue ths meeting In such a spirit as to promote the very feeling all were trying to pre- vent. Deplores Bitter Feeling. At the height of the excitement a woman, rising from her seat in front of the hall, said it appeared that the meet- ing had developed until “we are at war ourselves, full of etrife and anger, when we should love one another, Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons of Princeton, N. J., Introduced as war correspondent of the Century Mag: zine, and an author and lecturer, as- salled “propagandists” of the League of Nations, declaring that, although the people of the United States had flatly rejected the league In two sep- arate elections with overwhelming votes, the propagandists behind the league were making greater efforts than ever to get it indorsed by large gatherings, particularly gatherings of women “Only one side of the argument,” he said, “is usually presented at grea conferences such as the one just past Dr. Gibbons deplored the ‘“excoria tions” of the Senate and lawmakers of Congress which, he alleged, had come out of the conference on the cause and cure of war, and sald that it was “hard for patriotic, courageous men in the Senate to be criticized a small and narrow.” He praised the Senate as on the whole a “folly, fine lot,” of sensible, earnest, devoted men, Calls Protests “Inspired.” Revealing what he sald was pro- paganda for the League of Nations, the speaker said a Senator whom he knew personally had tracked back a flood of messages he had received in support of the League of Nations and discovered that they had come from “people who had never given the matter much thought, but had sent the messages because some one had toid them to.” What the country needed, the speaker said, was not so much a sen- timental appeal to the women of the country as a sincere study of the subject, strengthening of a sturdy “nationalism,” “eternal vigilance” and inculcation both in adults and in the oncoming generation of love of country. Capt. Harold S. Spencer, lately political officer in the Near East for the British government, said he had never seen such “an exhibition of blatant propaganda for the League of Nations’ as he had witnessed as an observer at the recent conference on the cause and cure of war. All of the speakers, with the ex- ception of two, he sald, were either officials of the League of Nations, former officials of the league, or rep- resentatives of organizatlons who hoped they would be sent to Geneva. Prof. James Thomas Shotwell of Co- lumbia University had been asked to address the conference on the League of Nations, Capt. Spencer sald, in spite of the fact that he had had but recently been defeated in a debate with Dr. Gibbons, fn New York, on the subject. British Officer Criticized. Brig. Gen. the Right Hon. Lord Thomson, C. B. E., D. 8. O, P. C,, who addressed the first open meeting of the recent conference, Capt. Spencer characterized as a “fourth-rats sol- dier, who had been made a peer by the Soclalist government.” Another British speaker criticized by Capt. Spencer was Dr. Alfred E. Zimmern. The whole speaking pro- gram at the recent conference, Capt. Spencer charged, had been arranged as a “doping proceeding, a soothing Proceeding, in which the women were lulled into & false sense of national security to the point where they would say the league was needed.” Rev. Dr. John J. Queally, rector of the Chapel of the Transfiguration, without criticizing so much the re- cent peace conference, warned against the danger of Communism seeping into the churches. “We find Soclalistic sermons writ- ten for us,” he declared; “a very bril- llant young woman, near the Capitol itself, has already written a sermon for me, if 1 would only deliver it Sun- day. Warns of Propaganda. “You have to love your country in spite of the International spirit of brotherhood,” he said. “This wishy- washy joining the whole world with ropes of sand is purely nonsense.” The speaker said he could not under- stand how women could be led so far astray “from a properly adjusted patriotism, robbing them of practical patriotism and love of country.” Prac- tical Christianity, he sald, was the only solution to world peace, but the church should be warned, as ‘“propa- ganda of Soviet Russia is spreading its branches all over this country.” Mrs. George Seibold, president of the War Mothers of the District, was called upon and responded by rising, but she did not speak. in mines of Atrica last. year is 300,0 ounces more than that of the preced: ing twelvemonthy - o Maj. Thacker V. Walker, prominent in_Amerioan Legion circles, when called - mpen o remarked WITNESSES SUMMONED IN DR. EDWARDS’ TRIAL 92 Called by Defense, 30 by State in Case of Wife Murder Charged to Doctor. By the Associafed Prass. BESSEMER, Ala, January 26— Ninety-two witnesses for the defen and thirty for the State were under sub- Posna for appearance today at the trfal of Dr. George T. Edwards, charged with first-degree murder, in connection with the death of his wifs, who was slain in her home as she slept on December 2. Dr. Edwards was arrested a few hours after he had ralsed an alarm telling nelghbors that an intruder had slain his wife and had attempted to slay him. He said he was awak- ened when the assailant sought to administer a drug to him. He leaped from his bed and grappled with the intruder, he said, adding that in an exchange of shot« his left hand was Wwounded. After the arrest of Dr. Edwards, police announced that they belleved that the killing was “‘an inside job.” Effort was made to determine the sourcs of two bottles of a sleep-pro- ducing drug found in the home, and to determine the ownership of a pis tol discovered in the attic. o SLAYER INDICTED IN2ND DEGREE Benjamin Best Charged With Killing of Rupert Brown. 3 Held in Robbery. Murder in the second degree is charged In an indictmant reported to- day against Benjamin H. Best, colored, in connection with the death of Rup- ert Brown, also colored, December 14. Best was foreman of a gasoline station and after a quarrel is said to have shot Brown. The tragedy oc- curred in front of 1706 Seventh street Charles B. McDonald, Theodore W. Merrick and Frank Hernek are in- dicted for robbery. They are charged with holding up the keeper of a gas- oline station at Second street and Massachusetts avenue northwest No- vember 26 last and relieving him of 338, The grand jurors ignored charges of homicide against Ernest M. Dun- can, colored, and George Bradfleld, white. The former caused the death | of Marshall Ransome while acting in self defense and the latter was ope- rating an elevator in the Munsey bullding in which Aubrey L. Robert- son met his death May 25. The grand jury exonerated Bradfield of a charge of negligence. Other charges ignored include violations of the dope law against Ben J. Grice, Thomas Worm- ley, Arthur T. McDonald and Arthur Hawkins. Others Indicted. Others indicted and the against them are: Edward and Raymond Thompson, Harry G. Culver, Richard Crymes and Charles Herbert and Harry G. Culver, joy riding; Joseph Monroe Robinson, Harry G. Culver, Margaret Johneon, Harry C. Miller and Philip Leroy, Albert C. Brechbill, Philip Leroy and Harry D. Miller, Samuel C. Bush and William H. Cash, grand larceny; John Thomas, Henry Kelly, James Senior, James Francis Sullfvan, Arthur Bogue and Marie Jones, robbery; Oscar Rosager, James Solomon, FEdward Hill, Harry Clinton Allen, alias Al- bert T. Shrien; Joseph F. Moore and Thomas F. Moore, housebreaking and larceny; John W. Barnes and Robert A. Luke, assault dangerous weapon: Joe Kadison, Charles Davis, Debney Truett, Charles W. Hook and Orney J. Riley, non-support wife and minor children. ASK SHIP FOR EXPLORER. Norwegian Officials Would Give Fram to Amundsen. OSLO, Norway, January 26.—The government has submitted to the Storthing a proposal that the Nor- wegian navy vessel Fram be placed at the disposal of Roald Amundsen as a relief ship in connection with the latter's proposed aerial expedi- tion to the North Pole {n May. Later it is expected that the Fram will be used in the sclentific expedition to Spitzbergen, which wiil be in charge of Dr. Noel. ———— charges Jaockson briefly that he had fought in three wars and was willing to fight agaln. Complains About Program. Miss Elizabeth Relas, who said she belonged to several woman's organi- zations, complained that delegates such as she, who entertained views against the League of Nations, were not glven opportunity to attend the conference. Mrs. Henry Peabody, president of the Law Enforcement League, a dela- gate to the recent conference, an- nouncing she was not & pacifist, not a socfalist, and not in favor of the league as it now stands, sald she had never attended a conference “more fair, more dignified or that showed more impartial management” than the recent conferemce. She resented what she termed was the ‘“epithet” being usd by speakers at the meeting yesterday, in calling the conference the “Catt conference,” explaining it was ‘“undignified and inappropriate for a great body of women such as that.” Replying, Capt. Spencer said no derision had been intended by the designation. Mrs. Helen Hill Weed of the Amer- ican Assoclation of University Women, delegate to the conference, charged Mrs. Lund was the author of the “un- fair spider-web chart,” alleging in- terlocking directorates of woman's organizations, which, Mrs. Weed said, had been “repudiated by Secretary ‘Weeks.” Mrs. Lund sald she was not the author, but had written things about the chart and that Secretary Weeks had been misinformed by a subordinate concerning it. Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw, president of the District Woman's Rellef Corps, presided. PEACE OFFICE OPENED. Woman's Union Starts Headquar- ters Here. The Woman's Peace Unlon of the ‘Western Hemisphere has opened head- quarters here to conduct a campaign for asconstitutional amendment de- claring war for any purpose illegal and prohibiting maintenance of armed forces. Opening of offices here followed an appeal of the British No More War organization, described as the “War Resisters International,” to affiliated assoclations in 17 countries. The No 'More War organization asked that co- operation be obtained “to unite in calling upon our parliaments to take the only true and logical course, which is to disband all armed forces and prohibit the manufacture or arm- aments, whatever may be done by other nations.” Mrs. Gertrude Franchot Tone of Niagara Falls, N. Y., is in charge of the work here, assisted by Miss Bdwina_Stanton Babcock of Nan- AUDITORIUM MADE READY FOR OPERA Workers Putting Last Touches on Hall Before Season Opens. A crew of more than 120 men waere busily engaged today in making ready the new Washington Auditor fum for its official opening tonigh with the Washington Opera Compan in_“Faust.” While the place was considerably cluttered up at noon with carpentars and other workmen on the orchestra floor, the balcony had been completad and groups of cleaners were fast put ting on the finishing touches there On the orchestra floor chairs have been afMxed to the wooden floor ova about three-quarters of its area and the force of 14 men seting the chair had fully expected to have the floor ready for the audience. Many Workers Busy. | In different parts of the building 2 jcleaners, 16 carpenters, 14 dhair iun-u and 38 men are working on the | | stage settings and fixtu Although all the radfators have no | been attached to the & | throughout the big bullding, & |on the main floor and some 1 | were hot at noon, and it ised by Louis J. Fosse, genera ager of the Auditorium, evening the great comfortably heated. The only two entrances to | by the public in the first |ing at the Audito; | plained vy Mr. at the west hat by theater wo Fosse, will I end the buil the New York and E slde. A ticket part | bullding will be good at these doors | For the convenience of ticket holdars the E street door for tha tickets marked “left,” and the New York avenus door is closer for the tickets marked “right Seats for 6,342. The Auditorfum, under the arrangs ments of seats just being completad will have seats for 6,342 pers This, Mr. Fosse said, is larger any other theatrical audl world, including the N | podrome, which Capital Theater 5,000. | "o handle the crowd tonight there { will be 6 door tenders, 6 directors and 47 ushers Special traffic regulations to be ir effect in the vicinity of the Washing ton Auditorium for the opera presen- | tation are as fol “Vehicles con are to enter the Auditorium street entrance will street from Twentieth ping with right wh Vehicles conveying are to enter the Auditoriun avenue strae for ar of s closer t Hip and tr ore tha an with little m with right wheel to cu The street street in fro: be temporarily cars will stop street “Parking of vehicles on N street between E street York avenue will be prohibited. “Parking on the south side street from Nineteenth street west full length of the Auditorium Bu ing will be prohibited “Parking on the north side of New York avenue from Nineteenth stre west to the full length of the Aud torfum Bullding will be prohibited “Forty-five-degree-angle parkir left rear wheel to the curb, wil permitted on the south side of N York avenue between Nineteenth a: Twentieth streets. “Parking of vehicles on the nor side of E street between Eighteen: and Nineteenth strests will bs j hibited.” and = before crossing I CHALIAPIN ARRIVES. Singer Given Fine Reception Washingtonians, Forbidden by a court order straining him from advertising appearance as Mephisto. in the Wasl ington Opera Company, to bs giv tonight, Feodor Chaliapin, great Rus- slan basso, arrived in Washingt yesterday afternoon. The reception given Chalfapin was noisy, from the throats of severa hundred admirers who gathered in the Unlon Station. He was received by Edouard Alblon, whose guest he will be while in Washington. At the request of the photographer, Chaliapin went to the Plaza in front of the Union Station and, with the Capitol as a background, posed for pictures with Mr. Albion, director of the Washington Opera Company; W T. Galliher, chairman of the inaugura committee; A. J. Driscoll, Maj. George Oakley Totten, Mrs. Albion and sev- eral others whe are patrons of the company. Avoiding carefully any &y pearance of violating the court ! junction, he called attention to development of American operat musio. “I do not,” he said at the New Willard yesterday, “like to hear ‘Martha' in a foreign language. My great hope is to sing it in Engl and I am trying hard to perfect my knowledge of the language if you w!il permit me to do So. America, more than any other country, because of its devotion to the office, needs to lea the art of relaxation. America has great material and thers should ba here many, many opera companies to give the opportunities to your peopls that they must have if they are g ing to develop.” G. W. WHITTINGTON, HERE 60 YEARS, DIES Civil War Veteran Was Employed for Many Years as G. P. 0. Watchman. George W. Whittington, 81 years old, a veteran of the Civil War and former- ly a watchman at the Government Printing Office for 16 years, dled at the residence of his son-in-law, W. M Lyich, 730 Upshur street, vesterday, after a lingering fllness. Mr. Whit- tington had been a resident of this city for about 50 vears. Prior to his service at the Govern- ment Printing Office Mr. Whittington was employed at the District Jail for many years. Mr. Whittington served in the Civil War with the 21st Penn- sylvania Regiment of Infantry. Mr. ‘Whittington's great-grand- father, Thomas Bringhurst, was a veteran coachmaker during the davs of the Revolutionary War, and clal ed to have made one of the coaches in which George Washington travel- ed. He also helped to furnish the Continental Army with drums. Mr. Whittington is survived by his widow, Mrs. Barbara C. Whittington; a daughter, Mrs. W. M. Lynch; a son, Charles P. Whittington, and two grandchildren, all of this ecity; =a brother, Benjamin Whittington of Philadelphia, and two sisters, Mrs, Charles Smith, and Miss Sarah Whit- tington of Oaklyn, N. J Funeral services will be conducted at the residence on Upshur street to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. In- tarment will ba in Aslington Cemeseay,