Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 2

2 - - OPPOSITION LOOMS ON TRAFFIC BILLS Commissioners May Suggest Changes—Business Bodies Want Revision. The District Commissioners today had referred to them for report the two bills now pending in the House to solve the traffic problem in Wash- ington. Although several District officials | #eld informal conferences with mem- Ders of Congress while the traffic legislation was being drafted, it was indicated today that in reporting on the question they may suggest a/ number of changes in the pending bills. Leeway on Speed. They may object to the clause under which Congress would fix the maxi- mum speed limit at 25 miles an hour. One District official pointed out today that once Congress legislates on the question of speed, the proposed direc- twr of trafic would have no leeway In revising the speed limit. In making a report the Commis- sioners will give serious considera- tion to the proposal that onerators’ permits be renewed annually at a cost of §2. What decision they would arrive at on this proposal was not known today. The city heads may recommend changes in some of the penalties fixed in the proposed legislation for traffic violations. OPPOSE TRAFFIC BILLS. Civic Bodies Here Prefer None to Those Offered. Bxpressing the sentiment. “No traf- fic bill at all rather than the mea: ures now being considered by Con- &ress,” representatives of five of the leading business and civic organiza- tions of the District yesterday went on record as vigorously opposing the passage of the traffic bills before the House and Senate. Consensus among rapresentatives of the various organ- izations participating in & conference held at the American Automobile As- sociation headquarters was that some of the provisions of the proposed leg- islation were far too drastic and should not be included in the Wash- ington code. hile there were differences of opinion on some of the provisions of the bills, the view was unanimous, however, that legislation should be enacted covering additional judges, more policemen and a director of | erafe. Those participating in the confer- ence and the organizations they rep- resented are: Charlas W. Darr and W. E. Balderston, Chamber of Com- merce; W. Pearce Rayner, Board of Trade; J. H. Hanna, Merchants and Manufacturers' Association; Jesse C. Suter, George A. Finch, George A. Ricker and J. R. Bibbens, Federation | of Citizens’ Associations, and Dr. E.| G. Siebert, Rudolph Jose and O. Eldridge, American Automobile Asso- clation. A special committes of the confer- ence, consisting of Finch, Bibbens and Eldridge, was appointed to draft the views of the conference and to torward them to members of the Dis- trict committees. The action taken by the conference concurred in the action taken by the Washington Automotive Trade Asso- ciation. COOLIDGE PLANS SAIL DOWN RIVER TOMORROW | ‘Will Board Mayfiower Immediate- 1y After Church and Return to City Monday. President and Mrs. Coolidge are planning a trip down the Potomac River tomorrow aboard the May- flower. It is their intention to take along with them a small party of friends, and to board the yacht im- mediately after chufch services to- morrow morning and return to Wash- ington early Monday morning. The President was prevented from starting the cruise this afternoon by pressure of ‘businest. The mild weather is understood to have been responsible for his desire for an early start, inasmuch as the weather | during most of the trips since last Fall has been either so stormy or | cold that it was uncomfortable to spend any amount of time on deck. GIRL FREED IN KILLING OF AFFLICTED FIANCE| Paris Jury Out But Three Minutes. Actress Shot Lover to End Sufferings. By the Amociated Press PARIS, February 7.—Mille Stanis- lawa Uminska, beautiful and talented young Polish actress, was unanimous- v acquitted this afterncon of the| charge of murder, in killing her fiance, Jean Zysnowski, writer and war veteran, last July. H Her defense was that she shot him | to releake him from his sufferings from an incurable malady. The jury was out only three minutes. W. T.KEMP, LAWYER, DEAD Was Secretary American Bar Association. BALTIMORE, Md. Fébruary After an illness of nearly two vears, W. Thomas Kemp, Baltimore lawyer and for four vears secretary of the American Bar Association, died y terday at Union Memorial Hospital. He had been at the hospital for three weeks, submitting to several blood transfusions. Mr. Kemp was in London last Spring, arranging for the meating of the American Bar Association in June, Jast year. After completing the plans for the reception of 2,000 American attorneys, he returned to Baltimore. The strain of the work while in England brought on his illness. He offered his resignation to the bar as- | sociation, but this was declined, and | instead he was granted a leave of ab- | sence, Baltimorean of U. S. PROBES FUR SALES. Investigates Arrest of 14 Said to Be Members of Canadian Gang. HOT SPRINGS. Ark., February 7.— Departmeént of Justice agents wére dus here today to investigate activi- tias of the 14 meén, women and chil- dren arrested Thursday on suspicion that they were members of the “Wil- liamson gang” of Canada, who had heen traveling over the country sell- ing furs porported to be Alaskan seal ani Rock seal, and who were re- leased through writs of habeas cor- pu The arrests were made on the strength of a letter from the Depart- | to rely very much on this plan,” re- | will be sought by the Chillum Heights {ing of an effective especially on Blair road, and for the laia, ana as a resu't DeGalleford te- Youth, 19, Accused Of Forgery, Can’t Write, Lawyer Says Signature Supposed to Be Faked ZLonger Than Any Bank Check. Spec'al Disnateh to The Star. NEW YORK, February 7.—Twenty negroes in Jamaia court popped their heads up warily to hear what Sonny Daniel’s white lawyer was going to sy in h's defense. Sonny, 19-year-old Georgla bov, accu forgery, twisted miserably in hia seat. They had heard Assistant District At- torney Dowling bring out before Magistrate Miller that Sonny had taken Love Crumbley's bank book to the Rockaway Beach National Bank and asked how he could draw out the money, $190. Mistaking him for Crumbley, the bank officials gave Sonny a check filled out for the amount. A few minutes later, they testifled, he brought it back with the signature, “Oscar Crumbley,” and re- ceived the money, Sonny's lawyer asked if the court might see “Love” Crumbley's eigna- ture. Love perspired freely, and pro- duced a scrawl that filled haif a page of legalcap. He was told to try again. This time the inah-high let- ters filled exactly six inches. An inch more than the length of the chack. Mr. Kiley looked skeptically at the bank officials. “Here's what this boy is accused of forging,” he. said, “and the boy himself—I've tried him a dozen times —can't write a word.” Nevertheless, Sonny was held $1,000 bafl for the grand jury. PROPOSES RETURN OF ALEN PROPERTY Borah Introduces Bill Order- ing Restoration in View of Claims Settlement. Return of funds and property held by the alien property custodian would be ordered under a bill Intro- duced today by Chalrman Borah of the Senate foreign relations commit- tee, who expressed hope of early en- actment “in view of the statement that plans have been completed for settlement of American claims.” Introduction of the bl provoked a debate with Senator Swanson of Vir- ginia, ranking Democrat on the for- olgn relations committee, challenging the right of the Government to re- turn the property under terms of the peace treaty with Germany. “As & matter of fact, If we return this property,” he said, “the American taxpayers ultimately will be charged for the claims of American citizens against Germany.” Senator Simmons, Demoerat, North Carolina, declared the property should be held untll some assurance had been made by Germany of her inten- tions to pay American damage claims. Senstor Borah replied thgt further retention of the property was in vio- lation “not only of treaties but of the soundest principles of morality, international decency and common honesty.” He sald it was a funda- mental principle of this Government to protect property and that property held by the Allen Property Custodian belonged to Individuals and could not be held as a claim against the Gov- ernment. Senator Swanson asked if the Idaho Senator felt there was “any security for Americans in the Dawes pian.” “Frankly, I am not asking citizens plied the foreign relations committee. SEWER AND WATER EXTENSIONS ASKED Chillum Heights Citizens Urge Gas Mains Built to District Line. Extension of the sewer, water and gas mains from their present ter- minue at Blair rosd and North Capitol street to the District line Also Sitizens' Association. This action was decided upon at a mesting of the association in the Woodburn School, Blair and Riggs roads, last night It was pointed out that this section is growing rapidly, and the lack of modern improvements somewhat hampers further and faster growth. A committee was appointed to con- fer with Commissioner Bell with a! view to having Chillum Heights im- proved generally, including the plac- lighting system, resurfacing and thoroughfars Resolutions wers adopted approv- ing the propossl of Commissioner. Bell for a sum Aufficient to pay for the) removal of snew and for the pur- chase of equipment and the pay of labor required. The Board of Edu- cation will be requested to put the portabie school building connected with the Woodburn School in a habitable and sanitary condition. It widening of this jon suspicion of is In need of paint and needs at- tention in other respects, it said. After a fight lasting several years, the association has secured complete slectrical equipment for the school here, and the meeting last night was a celebration in honor of ths com- pletion of the work. Every light in the building was turned on and burn- ' od during the entire meeting. Con- siderable discussion of the proposed Sunday-closing bill, now betore Con- gress, resulted in action on the meas- ure being deferred until a later date. President Charles A. Langley pre- sided. Bellboy, Invited To Join in Theft, Discloses Plot Says Guest Arrested Rob- bed Him and Then Sought Assistance. When Charles DeGalleford, a guest at the Continental Hote'. invited Ray- mond Simmons, colored bellboy, to join him last night in an alleged hold-up plot aimed at the hotel of- fice, he didn't expect Ray to bring along a bunch of detective friends with him. But that is just what the beliboy day is being held on a robbery charge, preferred against him by Sim- mons, who declares that DeGalleford robbed him of 85 cents—all he had in his pockets—just - before extending the hold-up invitation. ment of Justice, saying that com- plaint had been made by the British embassy that members of the “gang’” misrepresanted themselves as sfficers = the Britiah army and navy. DeGalleford, apparently taking the turn of events philosophically, is said to have admitted the robbery, adding that he used the money to buy break- fast and a shave. | scarcity of vacancies in modern and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. BALER 1S OUSTED | FROM RERHSTAG Former Chancellor, Accused | of Taking Bribe, Resigns on Party Demand. Ry the Associated Press. BERLIN, Februa 7—Gustave | Adolf Bauer, former imperial chan- cellor. last night resigned his seat as Soclalist member of the Reichstag on the demand of the Soctalist parlia- mentary party. The demand was made because of allegations that Herr Bauer had received money from the Barmat concern in Holland, the direc- tors of which recently were arrested illegal transactions with the Prussian State Bank. This pre-emptory jettisoning of the veteran Soclalist party leader has been recelved in political quarters as an indication that his party is con- vinced of Bauer's culpabllity in the operations of the Barmat Bros. Herr Bauer was chancellor in 1920, when Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, with the ald of Capt. Ehrhardt's Baltic brigade, organized an insyrrection in the out- skirts of Berlin, while Gustave Noske, then minister of war, looked on complacently. Fled to Dreaden. Kapp then proclaimed himself chancellor, and Bauer, accompanied by President Ebert and other mem- bers of his government, made an early morning exit from Berlin to Dresden and later to Stuttgart, leav- Ing Dr. Schiffer, minister of justice, in Berlin to bargain with Kapp. Bauer, who is the first of the po- litical leaders to become enmeshed in the Prussian State Bank scandal, which threatens to have ramifications in many directions and involve mem- bers of other political parties, came | nto office on the post-revolution wave which brought other Soclalists to the fore. He was the secretary of & trade unlon and had been a mem- ber of the Reichstag since 1911. Up to the present Bauer has not @enied an accusation that in 1933, when he no longer was chancellor, he accepted money from the Barma for information he supplied them. This information seemingly was of little value to the Barmats. o THREE NEW BILLS FOR DISTRICT ARE | GIVEN TO CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) Deanwood School for construction and for playground purposes. Another amendment calls for the | construction of an eight-room addi- tion to the Hine Junior High School. Still another provides for the construc- tion of an eight-room addition to the Cardozo, on land already owned by the District, including the combina- | tion gymnasium and assembly hall for the Randall High School. Other amendments and the entire five-year school building program as recom- mended by both the Senate and House committees has aiready been published in full in The Evening Star. Reports Reat Aet. Representative Florian Lampert of Wisconsin also introduced his report on the District of Columbia act to regulate rents, to prevent fraudulent transactions respecting real estate and to create a real estate commis- sion. Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas has submitted & lengthy re- port of 25 printed pages covering his views in opposition to the proposed development of hydroelectric energy at Great Falls, Md. on which the House committee was agreed with the single exception of Representa- tive Blanton. Representative A. H. Gasque of South Carolina has submitted a re- port from the House District com- mittes on the bill regulating steam engineering and boiler inspection in the District of Columbla, o as to make the act of 1887 conform with modern conditions. Reviews Remt Bill Action. Representative Lampert's report on the rent bill reviews the work done by the joint committes on rent legislation relating to regulation and control of rent and to prevent fraudu- lent transactions in real estate and relating to the licensing of real es- tate brokers and real estate sales- men. He reviews the testimony glven at! hearings on the measure and states the approved bill has the backins of a majority of the House District of Columbia committae. This bill is divided into thrae titles. The firat extends the rent law of Oc- | tober 22, 1919, as amended, to May 22, 1927.” It amends the existing law to take effect on May 22, 1925, and after that date the law will be based on the police power of Congress over the District in “pursuamce of its power to exercise exclusive legisla- tion over the sest of the Govern ment.” Finds Emergency Exiata. Representative lLampert says the committee finds the emergency with the respect to rentals of dwelling properties in the District of Columbia still exists; that increased rentals have been and are being continually demanded of tenants accompanied with threats of eviction and in sev- eral cases actual eviction for refusal to pay the increase demanded. He says that vacancies in dwellings and apartments do not sxist in suffi- cient number to allow voluntary leases between landiords and temants; that the law of supply and demand-is still inoperative and that because of the low-priced apartments freedom of con- tract does not exist and that leases have, in many cases, been made un- der compulsion amounting almest to duress. Title two of the act to prevent fraudulent transactions respecting real estate makes it unlawtul to com- bine to prevent full and free competi- tion in the renting of real estate. It requires that trusts shall be num- bered and recite the full amount of prior trusts. It makes simulated sale of property with Intent to increase its value or the execution of a deed of trust which does not represent a bona fide indebtedness unlawful. It provides a fine of $1,000 or imprison- ment for one year or both for viola- tion of this provision. The object of this portion of the bill is to prevent fictitious sales and the making of fictitious trust deeds on property, and is for the protection of investors in notes, secured by such trust deeds. Provides Comminsion. The third title of the bill provides for a real estate commission for the District consisting of seven meambers to be selected by the President from a list of names submitted by the Federation of Citizens' Associations of the District, the Washington Board of Trade and the Washingion Real Bstate Bogrd. It provides for licens- ing real estate brokers and salesmen in the District and for the regula- tlon and discipline of persons engaged in the sale or rental of real estate or loans secured by truste thereof. Representative Lampert says that a decision by the Court of Appeals of the District has rendered condi- tions for tenants intolerable and urges immediate legislation for their relief. g C. MITCHELL’S CRITICISM IS UNJUST AND SUPERCILIOUS, WEEKS SAYS (Continued from Pirst Page.) Johnson all right, “Gen. Mitchell evidently was misled regarding the examination of the con- densers and did not have all the facts at hand,” Capt. Johuson declared. lively discussion between Capt. Johnson and Representative Prall of New York over the location of the targets, in 100 fathoms of water and more than 60 miles from shore, fol- lowed. Representative Prall recalled Gen. Mitchell's testimony how the Navy tried to make it “as difficult as possible for the Army,” and Capt. Johnson declared the location, whicr all had agreed to, was the best be- cause of the problem of having a base for the Army planes and equipment In reply to questions regarding the result of the 1921 tests, Capt. Johnson s3ald, “we were successful to & certain degree.” When asked by Representa- tive Prall it Gen. Mitchell had any- thing to do with not learning all they should, Capt. Johnson said, “he did” not.” Saya Army in Error. Again turning te Gen. Mitchell's megazine article of January, 24, Capt. Johnson endeavored to show the com- mittee how the Army had violated the printed agreement. Capt. Johnson quoted from the Mitchell article, say- ing that Army planes carrying 300- pound bombs could have sunk the crulser Frankfort, if the Navy had not called it off. The general charged that the board of inspection was slow and that Capt. Lawson was running out of fuel and had to return in 15 minutes. When the planes did attack, the bombs fell so fast that the Navy could not stop them, although the control ship signaled to do so, Gen. Mitchell said in the article. To this, Capt. Johnson read radio messages between Gen. Mitchell and himself, and also read one from the naval base at Hampton Roads which sald the Army planes had taken off to attack the ships “without orders from the base commander.” Capt. Johnson personaily sent a radio message to Capt. Lawson, who was in the air, and had complained that he must attack because he had only 40 minutes of fuel. This mes- sage said that the observers were going aboard, and the Army planes must withhold the attack until the amount of damage previously done had been ascertained, Capt. Johnson explained. Perkins Cites Experience. Representative Perkins of ¢ Jersey, the committee examiner, de- clared from his own experience in witnessing the bombing of the Iowa off Panama two years ago that it was a matter of great importance for ob- servers to see the damage resulting the condensers were found N {trom a direct ntt. the testimony of Capt. John- istant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, who was present among the spectators, leaned over and said something to Capt. John- on. Representative Reid of Iilinois lenged the right of Mr. Robinson to speak to the witness. Mr. Robin- son asserted his right to do so and then Representative Reid said, “You may get yourself into trouble “Possibly I have before, Robinson, “But 1 haven't long enough to get the Navy trouble.” “You are making a good start,” sald Representative Reid and then’ the committee switched back to the ex- amination of Capt. Johnson Mitchell Amswers Clear. The committee heard Gen. Mitchell nd Capt. Johnson vesterday afternoon. Gen. Mitchell in prepared statements and In answers to questions touched on virtually every phase of warfare, keep- ing the airplane, however, in the foremost position. His answers were fired back at the committee with more rapidity than the questions put to him and not once did he become involved. The afternoon session was opened with discussion of the alleged in- effolency of a large force of air- craft during the closing days of the war which permitted German planes to attack the allled troops without intervention from the air. As the committee exhibited no specific date of the maneuver in question, Gen. Mitchell was allowed to explain what movement he though it was. A letter to Gen. Mitchell, when he was a colonel and at the head of the air forces in France, congraiwlating him and his command for the splendid services rendered, and signed by Gen. Pershing, was read. Says Attack Stopped. Gen, Mitchell, in referring to this maneuver, sald he thought the date was October 17 and was in the Ver- dun area. Having received intelli- gence from spies that a mass counter- attack was to be made on the left flank of the American Army, “with- out consulting Gen. Drum,” he or- dered an attack on the troops 20 miles beyond the German lines. One bomb exploded on an ammunition train, killed 500 troops and wounded 2,000 Germans. The counterattack, he added, was never made. Disagreeing with Gen. Drum. who in preceding Gen. Mitchell on the stand lauded the work of anti-aircraft gums, the latter declared one-tenth of 1 per ocent of American planes were lost by the bursting shells in the air from round batterles. “Only one shot in 30,000 can hit a plane,” he declared, and when ask by Representative Perkins if he ever had been attacked by anti-aircraft, Gen. Mitchell replied: “I've been shot at by every anti-air- craft gun in France—British, Amer- ican, German, French and Italian. He further declared he was willing at any time to tow a target in an altplane for aircraft batteries to shoot at. Diseusses Navy's View. Assuming the role of a “naval ex- pert” because he declared other wit- nesases not connected with the Army Air Service have talked about it at length, Gen. Mitchell reviewed the naval and submarine warfare of the World War. No American battiéship ever engaged in a battle during the war, he sald. A battleship, in the final analysis, he continued, costs the Government about $100,000,000, with which amount 4,000 airplanes could be bullt, “No one sald Mr. been here into an ever attack Amerlca unless they are in. the air or on the| water,” he said. Possibility of attack by troops through Mexico or Latin America, the general said, would have to come from overseas, “and we can protect the Caribbean sea and the Panama Canal by air base on Porto Rico. The alrplane is an independent fighting force, he continued. It is operating 20,000 feet above the land and water and it does not have with it the Army or Navy. Here th general paused to compliment ti committee by saying the use of air power {8 better - understood by it “than by the War and Navy De. partments.” i Discusses marine, “The advantages of the submarine were stressed by the general, who said tl ftect of aircraft on this type of seacraft was less than on any other object. He quoted statistics of the German U-boat fleet's results In the recent war, and then the subject turned into the bombing off the Vir- ginia capes in 1921. The general charged that the Navy made the bombing as difficult for the Army planes a8 possible—by putting the ships in 100 fathoms of water more than 60 miles from shore, and to reach them and return to shore the Army planes had to fly 179 miles and through three thunderstorms. Thése planes could not bomb. from 10,000 feet or higher, becanse they | don, jof an emigrant ship. wers loaded with bombs and fuel, and new superchargers just received were not Installed for fear of the plane catching fire. The bombing plane: were under the active command of Lieut. Charles Austin, “a remarkable man,” Gen. Mitchell sald. In these exercises, continued the witness, the k a submarine, adding that has sunk a ship by aircraft unless forced to.” Makes Vision Plain. Gen. Mitchell made it plain that his visions for the future do not call for dispensing with battleship fleets “at once, but their development is secondary to airplanes and subma- | rines.” The “alarming conditions” in the Alr Service, as reported by the Las- siter board of more than a year ago, are correct, the witness testified, and in answer to a question said the Army service has only 19 planes it could put into actual combat today. These are understocd to be the new Curtiss pursult planes, the other ships being war stock. He sald America ranked fifth in air power, helow Eng- land, France, Japan and Italy. If an emergency arose, the general said, an air force could not be built to amply | protect America in less than two years. In “refutation of the argument that airplanes cannot sink a moving tar- get,” Gen. Mitchell gave the example of the operations of 18 Navy torpedo plancs against the battleships North Dakota, Arkansas and Wyoming. These planes were told the battleships were 50 miles offshore, but when found they were 90 miles away, and steaming at 20 knots an hour. The planes made successful hits, and if the torpedocs had been real they un- doubtedly would have sunk the bat- tleships, he sald. As Gen. Mitchell was excused from the stand he was asked if he thought he ,would recelve another letter as a result of his testimony, to which he replied, “I do not.” Capt. Johnson, who said he was “tan old, under Navy regulations, to qual- | ify as an airplane pilot,” but who commanded the Atlantic aircraft squadrons which has flown “more than any other organization in the world,” discussed the 1921 bombing experiments. He told of differences | of opinion on the details of the ex- periments on the part of some Army | officers, and concluded by saying that | one man, vested with supreme author- | ity, was necessary for such undertak- ings where co-ordination is sought This drew from Representative Reid the statement that he implied a united air force under one commandar would solve future problems, but Capt. John- son declared he was referring to that one specific instance. The Navy, he said, “has not been glven a square deal in the press. I am an officer in the Navy and an American. 1 hold no brief for sub- marines, = airplanes, battieships or anything else—it makes no difference to me.” { Sees Plane's Power. He said there is no question but that airplane bombs dropped from the alr can 8ink any ship, and he ex- plained the Navy has been engaged in aerfal bombing for many years, “but we haven't advertised It.” The bomb- sights used by the Army planes, with one exception, were those developed by the Navy, he said. Such problems as airplane bombing must be prac- ticed at sea all the time if success is to ba obtained in war. When Gen. Mitchell sent him a radlogram aboard the Shawmut, standing by in connec- tion with the 1921 maneuvers, to the effect that he would not send his land planes far out to Sea to attack the radio-controlled lowa, Capt. Johnson who was in command of the naval end of the maneuvers, said he thought it “was very sensible of Gen. Mitchell. He sald he would not send his sea- planes far inland, but would always keep them within gliding distance of the water. ! A reéported statemént by Secrétary Wilbur before a congressional com- mittee that the claim that a 2,000- pound bomb dropped on the deck of a battleship could jam the turrets and shell-shock the crew was “ridiculous and untenable” was read to Ci Johnson by Representative Perkin who asked If he agreed. Declaring | he knew more about the bombing of the German ships in 1921 than any | one elsé, Capt. Johnson sald he be- Meved bombs “can do all kinds of damage to a battleship.” Thé place the bomb hits, however, he said, also is_a prominent factor, and ha added the Navy now is making efforts to develop a bomb that will plerce the deck of a battleship. B ESET e CUT IN STEAMER RATES BRINGING BRITONS OVER Special Third-Class Trips Will Al low Many of Moderate Means to Visit. Correspondence of The Star and New York Wosld. LONDON, January 20.—The experi- ment of the Cunard and other hig Shipping companies in advertising thira-class round trips to Canada and the United States this summer for $200 is attracting an entirely unex- pected class of travelers. The original idea was that the cheap trips would attract clubs, fam- ily parties and local social organiza- tlons, parties of teachérs and pupils, | etc., but most of the inquiries ar coming from the “Darby and Joan middle-class, comfortably off type of English parsnts anxious to see their children who have settled, perhaps many years, in the United States or Canada. The idea of a third-class trans- atlantic passage to these people would hitherto have been anathema, and they would not have dreamed of sub- mitting to the “Indignity” of being “herded with emigrants,” and fac- ing the unknown terrors of Ellis Island. Yet their means would not permit first-class trips, so they have had to defer the long-hoped-for visit to their sons and daughters. Since the announcement of the new cheap trl! however, comfortable looking elderly men and women have been sidling semi-apologetically up to the polished counters of the big ship- ping offices in the West End of Lon- and asking for details of the third-cla: trip. Many of them are retired business folk and mechanics who can readily afford the $200 rate, but who would not consent to lay themselves open to the reputed rigors All of them particularly inquire whether there will be any fuss or de- tention at Elis Isand, which has an Il reputation among middle-class Englishmen. Some of them have not seen their children in thirty or forty years, and now they are looking for- ward to the trip, as long as they will not be regarded as emigrants. GIVES UP TO MEET DOOM. Forger, Fearing End of World, Surrenders, Believing Jail Safer. NEW YORK, February 7.—Fear of the end of the world was given as the cause of two entries on the police blotters today. . . Walter Michkowsky of Hrooklyn hanged himself with a leather strap. To the sulcide record the police add- e frald of the end of the world.,” Benjamin Lemoncelll, wanted in Jessup, Pa., for forgery, gave himselt up. He said that with the world about to end he thought he would by safeér fJall - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925. ATTORNEYSHELD INMAL ROBBERY Indicted on Charge Believed to Connect Them With $2,000,000 Hold-Up. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. February Wallace Davis and Tom Poe, Litle Rock attornevs indicted yesterdey om charges of conspiracy and recelving ‘and oconcealing Government bonds, have made bond of $20,000 each for their appearance for trial at the April term of the United States District Court. A special Federal grand jury called to investizate the circumstances sur- rounding the recovery of $99,000 In bonds in and near Little Rock, early in the year, returned the indictments against the two attorneys.,The bon recovered here are thought to have been a part of Herbert Holliday's share in the Rondout, IIL, $2.000,000 mall robbery more than a year ago. Holliday a Witmens. Holllday, who i« serving a sentence. in Leavenworth Prison for his connection with the train hold-up, appeared here yesterday and testi- fied before the grand jury. Joe McKinney, former convict, also is Included in the conspiracy indict- ments. It is chlr‘ez in one indict- ment that Tom Poe delivered $20,000 in bonds to Joe McKinney on Decem- ber 24, two weeks before McKinney's arrest. The other charges that Davis and Poe received and secreted $75,000 in bonds, a vart of the contents of one of the registered mall pouches taken during the Rondout train robbery. Both Poe and Dav ments denying thelr WOMAN, 63, IS FREED IN HUSBAND'S DEATH Great Demonstration Follows Ac- quittal in Poison Case; Daughter Is Forgiven. issued state- guilt. > By the Associated Press COSHOCTON, Ohlo. February Judge James Glenn vesterday instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty In the case of Mrs. Clara S. McCurdy, 63-year- old grandmother, tried on a first degree murder charge for the alleged poisoning of her husband. A great demon- stration was stag- ed in court when the jury returned the instructed ve) dict of not gufl Mre. McCurdy sald she had not been worriéd as to the outccme of the case, she not guilty. MRS, McCURDY. “Although I for- give my daughter, I cannot understand why she testified as she did.” the woman sald. Mrs. Myrtle Haxton, the daughter, yester- day told why she believed her mother had poisoned héer father. She sald she found a package marked with a poison label in the pantry of her WOMEN T0 DISPLAY RECORD OF PROGRESS Will Hold World Fair to Show Achievements in Chicago {ext April. By the Atsociated Prems. CHICAGO, February 7.—Exhibits symbolizing the varied activities of the twentieth century woman and de- picting the slow broadening of the fleld of feminine enterprise until it em- braces two American State capitals, Supreme Court judgeéships in several States, high place in the professions and prominence in thé world politi- cal affairs, are being assembied here from many lands for the first wom an’s world fair, to be hled at the Américan Exposition Palace, on Laké Michigan, April 13-25. In addition, hundreds of commer- cial exhibits will reveal the feminine hand in thé business world and in the arts of the day. Sevéral hundred booths crowded with specimens from & score of countries will be arrayed to récord woman's contributions in économics, politics, science and social culture the world around. A group of prominent Chicago women is behind a corporation or- ganized especially 1o promote the fair, and women will direct virtually every detail of the enterprise. Miss Helen M. Bennett, long diligent in women's activities and originator of the fair idea, is managing diréctor of the venture. The board of directors includes Mrs. Joseph T. Rowman, Mra. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. George R. Dean, Mrs. Silas Strawn and Mrs. Medill McCormick, all lead- ers in socléty and women's club work. One feature of the exhibit will ba & collection of newspaper and magazine clippings from varlous countries dur- ing the last 200 years emphasizing the storm of protest which greeted every suggestion for a freer social status for women. Balm?vWeathfie;r To Stay Awhile; Bit of Rain Due Capital Falls in Line With Rest of Country Enjoy- ing Warmth. Unusually high temperatures pre- vailing generally over the country have brought to Washington a speil of Springlike weather that has al- lowed residents to shed some of their l‘xll’l heavies and let their furnaces ag. Foreécaster Mitchell sees no imme- Glate prospect of colder weather, either. Yesterday's temperature of 56 degrees is expected to be eclipsed by a 60-degree “high” today and to- morrow, passing last year's record of 58 degrees for this month, reached ry 13. cloud up some tomorrow and Monday and do & fittle raining, but not mueh of & drop in temperature is looked for during the next few days. The average temperature prevalling throughout the country today is about 20 degrees higher than normal, Mr. Mitchell #aid. The highest February temperature on record at the Weather Bureau is 78 degr noted in 1874. A year age today, experienoing freezing weather. Police Try 6 Hours ; In Vain to Question, Deaf and Dumb Boy Think Him Merely Stub- born Until He Calls for Pencil and Paper. Speeial Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, February 7.—Seven- tetn-year-old Pletro Ladarca sat six hours in a hard chalr In the detec- tives’ room of the Coney Island sta- | tion while detectives told him how much easler it would go with him if he “came clean and owned up.” Pletro looked blankly down at his shoes and #ald nothing. A few hours earlier Patrolmen Ennis and Stgohenson saw a boy jump 25 fest from the roof of a bungalow. They Ared seven shots to frighten him. The boy raced around the corner. A dozen blocks away the police ran .down and arrested him By the bungalow they found a bag filled with silverware. The boyv stolldly refused to speak. At the station house he looked blank when he was asked his name and addre For aix hours every man in the station house tried his hand at wring- ing a word from the boy. Every ap- peal and threat was exhausted. Then Pletro took a bit of paper and a pencil from one of his questioners, wrote for a moment and handed the yaper back. “Deaf and dumb,” it read. —— COOLIDGE EXTOLS BOY SCOUTS'WORK Hopes for Continued Growth, He Writes, in Commenting on 15th Anniversary. President Coolidge is a firm be- liever in the Boy Scout movement, and in his opinion this organization has| contributed greatly to the best train- ing for useful citizenship, and expan- sion is highly desirable. The Executive.so expressed himself | in a letter to Col H. Livingstone of ' dent of the Boy! as a tribute to the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts, which will be ob- s#érved throughout the country next week. This letter was made public at the White House today following a visit | to the President of 16 Eagle scouts| from various parts of the country for- mally to pay their respects. Th were escorted by L. A. Suead. The President’s letter follows: “The approach of the fifteenth an- niversary of the founding of the Boy Scout organization is a reminder of the rapld growth and splendid service of the Scout body. If there ever was justification for uncertainty as to the usetulness of this organization, it has long sinca been removed, in view uf' the great work of character devalop- ment that has been accomplithed. The Boy Scouts have contributed greatly, under their splendid leader- ship, to the best training for youth- ful citizenship. 1t is a satistaction, in contemplating at this time the achievements of the orzanization, to expréss the hope and confidence that it will continue to expand in num- bers and In the strength of its ap- peal to the youth of the Nation.” The Boy Scouts of Washington will | celebrate the anniversary at a mess meeting in Central High School Feb- ruary 14, Gen. J. A. Lejeune, Marine Corps commander, will make "“l principal address. i e gt vy CONFEREES MAKE REPORT ON SHOALS Senate and House Leaders| Predict Passage of Re- | vised Measure Quickly. R the presentation to Congress today of the conferénce report on the Underwood Muscle Shoals leasing bill, | managers of the revised bill in both the S8anate and House wers arranging to call it up at the earliest oppor- tunity and predicted its passage with- out much delay Although deéacribed &% fundamen- tally similar to the original Under- wood bill, the conferénce measure carries numerous changes and in- cludes some provisions of the Me- Ken: bill passed by the House to authorize lease of the property to Henry Ford. The bill ia heid by President Cool- idge, whom it would authorize to draft a lease, as fairly satistactory. While the Executive is répresented as pre- pared to accept it as A compromise, he is undérstood to hold some objection to the provision for Government con- struction of dam No. 3 at an estimated cost of $27,000,000 as counter to the administration’'s desire to get the Governmént out of Muscle Shoals without Additional investment. Besldes rewriting the fertilizer sec- tion of the bill, the conferees inserted 4 provision for a farm Board to keep ¢heck on fertilizér allocation and profits, and eéxtended the time limit for procuremant of a le; from Sep- tembar 1 to Deéember 1, 1925, The réntal on the preperty is fixed at « per cent annually ef the $50,000,000 cost of dam No. 2, 1¢s8 an amount #s- timated at $17,000.000 as chargeable to navigation and the cost of the locks. NEW ENVOY APPROVED. United States Informs Bulgaria Mileff Is Acceptable. SOFIA, Bulgaria, February 7.—The foreign office was notified by the State Department in Washington to- day that Prof. Nicolal Mfleff would be acceptable as Bulgarian minister to the United States in succession to Stephan Panaretoff. Prof. Mileft fs president of the foreign relations committes of the Bulgarian Parliament. ment, PN EL Argentinian Picks Up England. BUENOS ATRES, February 3. Carles Bragkio, an Argentine ama- teur radio operator, sending from station CB-3, announces that he communicated Sunday morning with J. J. Simmends, 20-D, London, Eng- land. in the first amateur conver- sation between Argentina and Eng- land. Bragglo also transmitted greetings of the Radlo Club of Argentina to | settlement | mitted by FRANCE DROPS NEW DEBT-FUNDING PLAN (Herriot Withdraws Sanction for Commission, Holding Budget Needs Action First. By the Associated Press PARIS, February 7.—Premier Hers riot, after having agreed in principis to & plan introduced by M. Klotz, fore mer minister of finance, for the crea tion of an interallled debt-funding commission, suddenly withdrew hii support last night, and the plan wax definitely shelved. The plan was the subject of a lony discussion at a joint hearing of ths foreign relations and finance commit- tees of the Chamber of Deputies, at- tended by the premier and Financa Minister Clementel, and after hearing the remarks of M. Klotz the premier | made known his change of hear! A desire 10 have the government retain the initiative apd conduct tha negotiatiens in any move toward a of the interallied debts and the introduction in the course of the day’s discussions of what the pre- mier judged to be a political move- ment against his cabinet are said to have prompted the decision Says Budget Comen First. M. Herrlot told the committees that he considered prompt voting of tha French budget more urgent than the creation of the commission proposed by M. Klotz. He said he had received information from financial circles the United States that the delay Parliament in reaching an agreement on the budget was being unfavorably commented upon in the New York money market, and that should it become necessary to vote provisional credits to carry on the couniry's busi- ness after March 1, thi= would have 4 deplorable effect,upon French bonds and other debentures on the American market. A number of prominent deputies agreed with M. Herriot and ¢olun- teered to do their utmost 1o bring about 2 speedy vote on the budget. e COOLIDGE UNDECIDED ON ENVOY TO BERLIN Ira Nelson Morris, Former Min- ister to Sweden, Is Definitely Eliminated for Post. President Coolidge’s mind -is still open regarding the appointment of a successor to Alanson B. Houghton, as Ambassador to Germany. Tha President is known to have told friends that he has several names under consideration, but is now here near a decision as to whom he will select to go to Berlin when Ambas- sador Houghton succeeds Frank B Kellogg, as Ambassador to Great Britain. It is known that the nama of Ire Nelson Morris of Illinois, for- mer Minister to Sweden, has been mentioned, but while the President values highly Mr. Morris' ability and experience, he has no thought of ap- pointing him as Ambassador PHough- ton’s successor. President Coolidge has let it be known that he heartily approves the postal pay and rate increase bili as fimally =haped by the House post office committes. Postmaster Gen- eral New, after yesterday's cabinet meeting, discussed the measure with | the T'resident, and explained certain details. It was pointed out to the President that the revised bill in- creased postal rates so as to provide A revenne of more than §60,000,000 annually, and is retroactive only up to January 1 last NOME FLIGHT HAS U. S. 0. K.; IS PRIVATE MOVE Trip Is Not Government Venture. Plané Furnished by Pioneers in Alaska. By the Aswociated Prese. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, —Flying of an airplane by Roy C. Ralph 7 February from here Darling of this ecity ani ackie of Anchorage Alaska, to carry 620,000 units of antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, from Nenana, Alaska, I» not a Government enterprise. It has merely been per- the Government. The machine that is to be used and which Is expected to pick up tha antitoxin at Nenana Sundav belongs to & private corporation. This cor- poration is composed of pioneers of interior Alaska, who bought the plans and brought it In largely as a sport- ing project, though an attempt was made to -earn profits by carrying passengers. “The sour doughs that own the plane have no contract for the trip,” declared W. F. Thompson, one of the leading spirits of tha corporation, “and they don't expect to make a cent out of it. 'They are just tak- ing & chance to help their friends in Nome, and will let the tail go with the hide if they fail.” PAYS TRIBUTE TO BALTO. Senator Dill Comments on Dog Team's Race With Antitoxin. There was not an objecting voice raised in tha Senats vesterday when Senator Diil, Democrat, Washington, stopped procesdings to pay tribute to Balto, tha 1¢ad dog in the feam which made the last dash inte Nome with diphtheria sntitoxin Kasson, tha driver, 3la0 was com- plimented, a® were other drivers and dogy and Indian boys who heiped along the journey. Declaring Neme should never ba left again in such a plight, Senator Dill said the race was a fitting finish “to the long list of records mads by the heroic doge of the Northland.” MAN DIES IN BLAST. Twenty Are Injured When Am- monia Tank Blows Up. Feruary 7.—One man was killed, two were aeverely in- jured and 13 were slightly hurt by falling walls after the explosion of an ammonla tank today in the Na tional Evans Film Laboratories. The explosion followed a fire. Salvatore Joy, & projector, was kill- #4. The axplosion practically destroy #4 the two-story plant which oce pied nearly an entire city block. Ths Joss is estimated at nearly a million dollars. Eighty smployes were on duty. Some of the injured were fire- men. Air Service Plans Halted. ROME, February 7.—The arrange- ments that were being made for es- tablishing a regular aerial service from Brindisi, Italy, to Constanti- novle and Angora, by way of Athens. haye been.suspended because of the the British Radlo Society and greet. ings from La Nacion to the London wave length. tenafon in relations between Greece and Turkey. Turkey has asked that ‘ashington m"fl es, using 200 watts on a €3-meter [a line ba establighed dlrect betwe m Italy and Turkey.