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9 4 [DEA OF PROTOCOL REVISION GROWING Failure of British to Accept Geneva Peace Plan Arous- ing Pessimism. Associated Prese VA, February what pessimistic atmosphere seems in process of formation here concerning the prospects of the Geneva peace Protocal, framed at the meeting of 1Be last essembly of the League of Nations. The apparent disinclination of the British government to accept the protocol, which forms the subject ©of news dispatches reaching Geneva almost daily, is serving to confirm the impression here that the protocol mmst be remodeled Among the representatives of the emall states the idea advanced of setting up a three-cornered, or even alquadruple, alfance with Great Brit- ain, France, Belgium and Germany as the parties, Ly way of supplying sécurity, is not being at all heartily 13.—A some-| welcomed, granting that this would mean the scrapping of the Geneva! protocol. The reason assigned for | this lack of enthusiasm is the idea| held by the small nations that ah| Anglo-French alliance, or the some-| what broader one suggested, would| not be accompanied by that policy of | rutual general assistance pro- Ve in Lord Cecil's original treaty of muiual as<stance and later LY the and for of ieneva protocol See Storm in Next Asxembly. lHence the opinion prevails that v abundonment of compulsory arbi-| security and disarmament as | the trinity of obiectives applying to| afl countries will cause a storm in! tHe next assembly. Meantime the leazue’'s new nmis- mion of co-ordination, created to pre- pare for the big disarmament confer- ence which was to follow acceptance of the protocol, will devote itself to other matters affecting the armament problem. An official communique to- day announced that the inaugural géssion of the commission had been canvoked for next Monday to dis- he questibn of control of the private manufacture of Arms, muni- tions and war material The league | covenant dec-lare: the private manu- faeture of arms raises grave objec- tions and gives the council # mandate to take steps to curb this practice. always taking into account, however, the fact that some countries are un- able themselves to produce the arms necessary to their security n tration, Te Discuss Arms Conference. One question hefore the commission will be the desirability of summon- ing an international conference on| this subject as a natural sequence to the May conference on the control of | the international traffic in arms, at| which the United States will be repre- mented . H Monday's meeting of the commis-| 1 sion will be historic in a sense, as it is virtually the first session of what may be regarded as council No. 2 of the league. The countries repre- sented on the council proper !\z\n} the right to send representatives to | this meeting, but probably all of them will designate others than tho<e who ually attend the council ses-| Great Britain will send Ronald | MacNeill, undersecretary for foreign | affairs; France will have Paul Bon-| cour as her representative, while for ! Czechoslovakia Dr. Veverka, the nister to Switzerland, will replaev Benes, her foreign minister. i Other members of the co-ordination | committee include delegatcs from the Jeague's military, transit and nomic sections and committees, also labor and employers’ representa- | es from the International Labor | Bureau | { Dy eco- | and CAMPBELL ASSISTANTS | BEFORE GRAND JURY Woman Clerks From Oil Operator's Montana Office Called in { Wheeler Case. | of the office assistants of Gordon Campbell. the Montana ofl operator, indicted in that State with Senator Wheeler, were called in be- fore the District of Columbia grand jury today in the new proceedings against the Senator and others. The witnesses were May Gagel, Constance Sjoblom and Gladys Moore. The Government detailed a new at- torney to take the grand jury work. He is R. P. Stewart, a_former assistant t6 the Attorney General under A. Mitchell Palmer's administration, who has been retained as special counsel SET FLORIDA. FLIGHT TIME Naval Flyers Make Trip From Day- | ton in 6 Hours, 25 Minutes. ATLANTA Lieut. Kneip, chief naval observer, and Bradley Jones, navigator, in a De Haviland, have accomplished a non- stop flight from McCook Field, Day- ton, Ohio, to Pensacola, Fla, in- 6 hours 25 minutes, the Pensacola naval station announced today. The plane reached Pensacola at 3:25 o'cloek vesterday afternoon. The flight covered a distance of 700 miles, and was made by navigation alone. “Three Ga. February 13. SLAIN SOLDIER-FOUND. Body of Fort Hancock Private Dis- covered in Shallow Grave. FORT HANCOCK, Sandy Hook, J., February 13.—The bullet-rid- Aled body of Private Isadore Dunsk 41, of Brooklyn, missing since De- cember 20, has been found fn a two- | foot sandy grave in a remote section nf the Govérnment réservation. mili- tary authorities revealed today Dunsky died of a .45-caliber bullet ound in the head, the authorities £aid, and two other similar wounds were in the body SLAYS LANDI:ORD’S BABY. 73. Is Angered by Argument Over $7. VIENNA, February 13.—After lni Pensioner, Argument over a sum equivalent to $7. Karl Zeidler. a_pensioner. age 73, vesterday took his landlord's 18 month-old daughter to a bridge over the Danube, flung the baby to her death in the river, and then gave himself up to the police. Investigation of Zeidler's record showed that he had once been con- demned to death, the sentence being commuted to 25 vears' imprisonment, which he served. On another oc- casion he was given a short sentence for manslaughter. — = Operate to Get Safety Pin. NEW YORK, February 13.—The 2.year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fagan of Paterson, N. I, is recovering today at a hospital from an operation for the removal of an open safety pin which he swallowed Tuesday. The pin was removed by ineerting a tube in the child's throat. ! closea { rations—alwaye | loans made by the allles. FLOODS ABATING N FACE OF 0D Rising Waters Are Curbed. Houses and Plants Near Rivers Damaged. . February 13 flood heavy accumulation and rains was believed to be over in this vicinity today. The curbing of rising waters was at- tributed to a snowstorm and cold wave that arrived last night. The west plant of the merican Loco- motive Company at Schenectady was down today because of flood wuters entering boiler rooms, and cellars of about 70 houses near the river front were full of water I'ynamite was resorted to during the night in an effort to break an ice jam north of Binghamton. The the of caused by melting of snow Obfo River Falling. PITTSBURGH, Pa., February 13.— The crest of the high water in the Allegheny, Monanagheli- snd Ohlo Rivers here reached early today when th» official gauge showed 21.9 feet, a fraction under the flood mark The rivers will fall slowly, weather bureau cbservers said, The high water covered a aumber of river front streets on the North Side, but caused little damage Bridge Washed Awny. QUEBEC. February 13.—The gendre Bridge, which epanned the Nicolet River at Victoriaville, Me- gantic County, has been carried away by ice. The bridge was 400 feet long. The lumber booms of the Bromp- ton Pulp and Paper Co. at Victoria- ville were also broken by the ice and a small mill at Arthabasca was al- most washed into the stream. Le- DAWESPLANHELD | UNFAIR TO ITALY Former Finance Chief Says Reparations and Debt Di- vorce Is Absurd. By the Associated P ROME, February 13.—The Giornale d'Italia publishes a special article by Signor Paratore, former minister of finance, in which he reviews the inter- allied debt situation from the time of the Balfour note to the present. He | draws the conclusion that Italy should be_placed in a apecial category because of her small share in German repara- tions as well as because of her financial and economic condition. “If the Dawes plan is carried out in its entirety,” he says, “France, accord- ing to her own calculations, will be ! called upon to sacrifice from 22 to 25 per cent of the indemnitles expected from Germany, while, as for Italy, every- thing assigned to her from German rep supposing that the Dawes plan is fulfilled completely— would not suffice to counterbalance ber political debts abroad. “It must also be added that since the Spa conference up to today Italy has seen her share of reparations continu- ously reduced. The time, therefore, has come to turn resolutely to the connection between the debts and reparations. The problem must always be considered as one whole, whether derived from obliga- tions, from victory or from co-related ‘We cannot re- cede from this. It is an absurd injus- tice to try to separate tha two ques- tions. JEWELER IS FREED. Was Accused of Directing $100,000 Gem Robbery. EW YORK, February 13.—Mark Wollin, a Nassau ‘street jeweler, ar- rested as the directing head of a $100,000 jewelry robbery, was acquit- ted today by order of General Nes- sions Judge Collins. James Burns and Harry Chance, who recently pleaded gullty to hav- ing robbed the firm of Feldenheimer & Jacoby, lower Broadway jewelers, |fearing she would inform her parents. of $100,000 worth of gems last Au- gudt, testified that Wollin had plan- ned and directed the robbery and ap- propriated most of the loot. Judge Colling held that their testimony needed corroboration. Lawyers Get Research Nook. With the completion of new build- ings, the University of Michigan, at Ann’ Arbor, will have in its Lawyers’ Club one of the outstanding 'plac in the educational world. It will be a research haven for lawyers. The equipment, it is stated, will enable a lawyer from any place in_ the Western Hemisphere to go there and complete his brief, doing all the re- search work necessary, without more than the most local outside aid. Cat Guards Kittens’ Bodies. MONTREAL, February 13.—Fire- men searching the ruins of a building which was destroyed two weeks ago, today found a cat standing guard over the bodies of her three kitten: The mother cat was wasted and al- most frozen. | saiad | made | Gen. {used his pocketknife, | when she failed to come home at the | | teet from 5 THE EVENING Eddie Rickenbacker ax he sppearcd today hefore the House committee Investis: in xhown sented between Representatives Perking (left) and Lumbert (right), MITCHELL REMOVAL WOULD BE “DEADLY,” GREATEST ACE SAYS (Continued from First Page.) ir force, Lieut. Ofstie did favor the establishment of an alr corps in the Navy, in which aviators could fiy for the remainder of their careers. He he was not in accord with the present svstem of transferring an Aviator to sea duty with ships at any time Gen. Mitchell told the committee | yesterday that the United States Navy is at the mercy of any third- clets power that has bad the fore- sIght to equip ftself with airplanes. He said that Great Britain was with- in 25,000 tons of the Washington Con- ference limit on aircraft carriers, having five of these ships. while the United States has only one “which cannot be called a carrier. but a sea- going landing place.” The Navy, he said, is nothing but fine array of sur- face ships which could not resist at- tack from a “flock of planes.” Tite general was presented with statements of Capt. A. W. Johnson, assistant chief of the Burcau of Aero. nautics and in charge of the naval end of the 1921 bombing, to the effect that he had disobeved orders in drop- ping more bombs than he should and leaving his base without orders, as previously agreed upon. The general a4 sweeping denial of the charges and declared the Army not only carried out the letter, but the =pirit of the orders. arges Confusion. I+ Bi'sell of the Army Air Service, corimander of one of the Arwfy a squadrons in the tests, then was called and seated be- tween Gen. Mitchell and Comdr. Ken- neth Whiting of the Bureau of Aero- nautics, who, in testimony following Mitchell, maintained that the Army had failed “to play ball,” de- ared the Army flyers had ceased bombing as soon as the stop signal was given, and also Asserted that orders issued by naval officers at the time of the tests were confusing. While Comdr. Whiting declared the tests were in the nature of ordnance experiments, Gen. Mitchell declared “We were out to sink the battieships and our fiyers would have gone through anything to accomplish the abjective,” " 9K “Capt. Johnson did the best he could in the exercises,” satd J.nc Mitehell, “but I am Jnclined to think that he was taken to task for permitiing | us to sink the ship. This. of course, Is based on hearsay evidence, but I am told that one admiral sald to Capt. Johnson that it the:Army hadn't sunk the chips, nobody would have known they could be sunk.” Pressed by the committee for his authority, Gen. Mitchell declared an admiral, whose name he did not dare to men- tion, had teld him, but, he added. that he thought this admiral would be willing to testify on the matter before the committee, ‘apt. Johnson in testimony several days ago denied the assertion of Gen. Mitchell in a magazine article that his fagship Shawmutt was forced to go into port at 3 knots an hour owing o the effect of # nearby bombd ex josion on the ship's condensers. sked by Representative O'Sullivan of Connecticut who teld him about the condition of the ship, Gen. Mitchell replied: “Capt. Johnson told me him- self. Bverybody on the ship talked about it, and I never heard anything to the contrar: In the House caucus room last night Gen. Mitchell gave a motion picture demonstratjon designed to show the value of alrcraft in warfare, display- ng a number of reels showing actual scenes of airplanes in service and ex- plaining the purport as they were thrown upon the screen. Mr. Perkins, prior to the showing of the first pic- ture, explained that the exhibition was in no way connected with the work of the aircraft committee. GIRL, 11, MURDERED T CONCEAL ASSAULT Alleged Slayer, 29, Admits Stab- bing Vietim, Michigan Au- thorities Say. By the Associated Press, COLEMAN, Mich., February 13.— Marguerite, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Todd, living near here, Was suswvea (o ueath on her home from school late yesterday, it was learned today with the arrest of Victor Badgeley, 23. Sheriff Thomas Bailey said Badgeley had confessed killing the girl with a pocket- knife. Badgeley was taken to the Bay City jall this morning and formally charged with the girl's murder. Sherift Balley and Prosecutor B. E. Morris of Midland County said Badgeley confessed that he killed the child after an attempted assault, Lieut. Clayton They quoted Badgeley as saying he| stabbing the girl three times in the neck, severing an artery. 1 Search_for the child was started | regular time vesterday afternoon. The body was found half a mile from her home in a clump of bushes 75 the road. Posses were formed and Badgeley was questioned when he said he had seen the girl alone at the corner near his place after school had closed. Later questioning "fd"nl out the confession, officers ald. Badgeley is married, but h children. no Work in Lisbon Stopped. LISBON, February 13.—A general cessation of work has been called for today by the Union of Labor Syndl- cates to permit the workers to par- ticipate in a demonstration outside the galace of the president “in protest against the attitude of the commer- clal world.” Republican guards and police will bar the approaches to the palace. e STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925. FLYING ACE TESTIFIES AT AIR INQUIRY ng military aerol members of the committee. FOES SEEK PUBLIC DEBATE ON WARREN Hope to Win Open Sessions and Force Supporters to Change Stand. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Tresident Coolidge’s troubles with Congress will not end March 4. De- cigion of administration leaders to postpone action on the nomination of Charles Warren to be Attorney General is a concession of defeat if the nomination were to come to a vote at the present session. The Re- publican party has a wider margin in the new Senate, and leaders think they have enough votes, Unquestion- ably they have at the moment sufi- cient pledges to win But the op- ponents of Mr. Warren are trying hard to force the fizht into the open, and they hope to change votes by a spectacular fight The Democrats have heen more or less inactive since the Autumn elee- tion. They have not hean disposed to hombard the Republican executive. The Insurgents, however, are full of fight and resentment. largely due to the sfforts of Republican léaders to | exclude them from party councils and read them out of the party altogether. Majority vote i= an important factor in the House of Representatives, but the minority exercises a great deal of influence always in the Senate. The opponents of Mr. Warren think they can debate the issue and rally public opinion their side. The strategy of the President's friends is to avoid debate and keep the nomina- tion from being acted on in open sessions of the Senate. When the new Senate mee the opponents of the Warren nomination will try to force an open session, but the majfority party would easily be able to keep the Senate in executive ession. Anticipating such a develop- ment, there may be speeches beatween now and March 4 with the idea of raising enough dust to compel open sessions. Most of the opposition to Mr. War- ren is due to his alleged connection with the sugar “trust” organization. He is represented by his critics as too friendly to big business to be Attorney neral. Mr. Warren, however, has the absolute confidence of the President and Iawyers available for the portfolio. He has represented the Government as Ambassador to Japan and as Am- bassador to Mexico, handling some of the most delicate problems of diplo- macy. He has, of course, been active in politics. He was chairman of the platform committee at the Republican | Natlonal Convention in Cleveland and instrumental in swinging the Mich- igan delegation from Hiram Johnson in the national convention at Chicago which nominated MHarding in 1920. The Deémocrats have a natural an- tipathy to Mr. Warren, but the so- called “Progressives’ have a grudge of their own nowadays. The combi- nation would be enough to defeat Mr. Warren in the present session. Whether there is tangible ground for blocking fhe nomination in the new session is undisclosed as yet because the nomination has not been made the subject of a report from the ju- diciary committee. Friends of Mr. Warren Insist that their purpose in agreeing (o a post- ponement until the new Senate meets is simply to save time, because if a debate were precipitated there would be delay to urgent public business. QUOTES SUIT PETITION. The nomination of Charles B. Warren to be Attorney General was assailed in another statement issued by Basil M. Manley, director of the Peoples’ Legislative Service, Mr. Manley quotes from “the original petition of the United States Govern ment in its suit against the sugar trust filed by the Republican Attorney General George W. Wickersham in 1910 “This petition charges,” Manley: “‘In 1901, pursuing their unlawful plan, Henry O. Havemeyer, acting for the American Sugar Refining Co., en- tered into an unlawful agreement with the defendant, Charles B. War- ren, whereby Warren was to pur- chase and endeavor to purchase for the: American Sugar Refining Co. a conjrolling interest in all the afore- sai@ beet sugar companies as.and whin. Havemeyer might designate, andiaiso to assist the American Sugar efning . Co. to prevent any new company or companies from bullding beet sugar refineries in said States, and to assist it to prevent any mew companjes from engaging in selling and shipping refined or beet sugar in safd States, and when unable to pre- vent any said new cumpanies from so building or engaging in such busi- ness, to endeavor to purchase a con- trolling Interest therein for the American Sugar Refining Co. “‘In January, 1902,’the heet sugar committee cominenced purchasing the capital stock of the aforesaid beet sugar companies, and by July, 1902, with the assistance of Charles B. Warren, had purchased for the Amer- fcan Sugar Réfining Co. at least 50 per cent of the issued capital stock of the above mentioned Michigan sald Mr. | Sugar Co., Bay City Sugar Co., the Peninsular Sugar & Refining Co. and Sanilac Sugar Refining Co. respect- ively, and by August, 1903, had pur- chased for it at least 50 per cent of the issue eapital stock, respectively, of the "above mentioned Saginaw Sugar Co. and Valley Sugar Co." ““The petition specifically charges that Charles B. Warren was the agent of the sugar trust in throttling and suppressing the development of compgtitive beet sugar factories in lowa, Minnesota and Michigan.' " The case against Mr. Warren, in- dividually, was dismissed, according to Senators who have been interested in the Warren nomination. is considered one of the ableat| HODVERIS SLORE ATFARN HEARNG Bureau Federation Official Charges Attempt to Dom- inate Agriculture. \The charge that Secretary Hoover “} steking to dominate the agricul- | turé of America” was made before| the House agricultural committée | today by Charles E. Hearst of lowa, | chairman of the legisiation commit- {tee of the American Farm Bureau | Federation. 1 In explanation of the assertion, the | witness produced a magazine article In which he said the Secretary had claimed authorship of suggestions contained ‘in the pending (apper- Williams farm reliet legislation. While Mr. Hearst w testifying, | the Senate committee continued ex- amination Into suggestions of Presi- dent Coolidge's agricultural confer- ence, with Chalrman Carey o fthe con- ference as a witnes: Comen te Protest. Mr. Hearst declared he had been dele- #ated to protest inst delay of legis- Intive assistance Congress might be able to offer. A revised McNary-Haugen bill, thoriging a farmers’ export corpor could be passed at the present session, he declared. adding, however. that he as In favor of any co-operative meas- ure. ® The witness, asserted that the agricul- tural conference apparently had recom.- | mended that the farmers should restrict | their crops to the demand of the domes- | tic market, while industry is permitted to go iInto the world markets and ecli at world prices. Agriculture. he =aid, shou'd be allowed to market its surpius in the world markets or industry should not be allowed a protective tariff. The House committee voted to con- clude hearings next week. The question of the position of the Commerce Department was also brought into the Senate hearing. when Chairman Norris asked Mr Carey if the conference had found “any feeling as between Government departments” In the testimony it had taken. ' Thinks There Was Fight. ] “Well,” replied the witness, think there was a fine fight on be tween Agriculture and Commerce on some points.” A. Sykes of Towa, vice president of the National Livestock Producers As- soclation and its legislative repre- sentative, the next witnes: an inounced himself as opposcd to any legislation “that does not reach back to the man on the farm.” He explained that he was criticizing only certain portions of the confer- ence report in conflict with his or- Ranization's program, and was op- posed to further Government regula- tion than that contained in the pack- ers and stock yards act. Only gen- uine co-operatives should be permit- ted to register, ha sald, and the pro- posed board should be enlarged to embrace representatives of major farm products, which, he said, were live stock, grain, perishables, cotton and tobacco. The House committee voted to con- Judge A | inary ¢ an clude hearings early next week. . S. SHIPS SEIZED ON RIM OF ARCTIC Maid of Orleans Reported Held by Canada for Not Faying Duty. By the Associnted Preas. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, February 13. “—The Anchorage Times has received a report that Canadian customs offi- clals and mounted police have seized for alleged non-payvment of duties the American owned and outfitted schooner Mald of Orleans, the only vessel to reach Herschel Island. 1,000 miles northeast of Point Barrow, Alaska, in a year. Capt. Christian Klingenburg, veteran Far North fur trader and skipper of the Orleans, was reported mushing overland to Fairbanks, 450 miles southwest of Herschel Island, en route to Ottawa, Ontario, to obtain release of the vessel The vessel was eized, the Times was informed, when Capt. Klingen- burg refused duty payments on the contention that under an old Aretic law a trader was exempt. The Mald of Orleans was outfitted last Summer in Seattle. At Point Barrow Canadian customs officers were alleged to have demanded duty, but pérmitted the vessel to sail under convoy of a mounted policeman for Victoria Land to land supplies for the captain’s family and settlers. The policeman disappeared after he last was seen walking on the deck of the schooner. The advices to the Times said an Investigation into the officer's disappearance had been ordered. |GETS 18-MONTH TERM William Ward, Colored, Sentenced. Man and Woman Get Five Years on Robbery Charge. William Ward, colored, was sent to the penitentiary for 18 months today by Justice Hoehling in Crim- inal Division 1 for dischargIng a pis- tol in a crowded dance hall Novem- ber 1923, A chance shot struck erman Thomas. e ea Rhone and Mary Kelly, both colored, were sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary for robbery. They stole an overcoat and other wearing apparel and $82 from Her- bert Parker November 17, % Phillp Bundy, colored, will zerve 18 months in the penitentiary for joy- riding and housebreaking. His com- panion, Lawrence W. Edwards, col- ored, was. given a term of 16 months and placed on probation. Despite a strong plea for lentency, the court sent Albert C. Breechbiil, 18 years old, to the penitentiary for one year and one day for stealing an autpmobile. It was the boy's sec- ond offense and, under the law, he had forfeltsd the right to probation. Others tentenced included Ellza Mitchell, colored, 10 months at Oc- coquan for assault; David Belt, col- ored, § montns for joyriding: Walter A. Smith, John J. Mulholland, Wil- liam B. Smith, Edward Sword and Solomon Bass, all white, accused of stealing automobiles, three ~years' probation. FIREMEN TO ADVANCE. Retirement of Capt. H. W. Lusby of | FOR SHOOTING IN CROWD | No. 15 Engine Company will resuit in a number of promotions {n the Fire Department, at the next meeting of the Board of Commissioners. Lie Thomas F. Warren of No. § Truck has been recommended for pro- motion to captain and Sergt. William H. Nashi of the fireboat is siated for » leutenancy., 2 T The Judging System BY RANDOLPH LEIGH Natlemal Director This is ene of & series of articles by the director of the mational oratorical contest, written 16 give contestants the bemefit of Bie obsersations during the 1924 contest and to offer practical suggestions as te the preseat contes The low-point-total system of juds. ing will be the standard for the con- | test. Of course in the Initial selec- tions within the schools the &chool authorities can, If théy see fit, mod- ify that system to meet their special requirements. But in all interscholastic compe- titions the low-point-total system will be rigidly adhered to, and it is recommended that it also be used in the contests within the schools. Under the system each judge rates every speaker. The judges do not rate the speakers according to some abstract ideal of the perfect orator, indicated by the mark or grade of 100, but simply according to the rela- tive merits of the speakers on that particular program. They are to rate the speakers as 1, 2, 8, 4, 5 (If there are only 5 speakers), but are not to grade them. he following composite ballot fl- lustrates the workings of the low- point-total system in a case where there are five speakers and three judges: Sims. Hill. Brown. i 3 z 1 2 3 2 1 T T . is noteworthy that in this imag- Brown, though rated first by only one judge, is the winner over Sims. who got two out of thres firsts, Sims and Hill appear to be tied for second place. It is only an apparent tie. however. If the ballots were resubmitted to the judges with instructions 1o confine their ratings to Sims and Hill there would be no doubt of the outcome, for twe of them have already rank- ed Sims ahead of Hill. The score would then be: 1, plus 2; Hill, 2, plus 4; HiN, 5. really the 13 It Sims, 1, 2, plus 1. Showing that Sims composite sacond choice on the original and only b Tot With the low-point-total system and 0dd number of judges a perma ent tie is impossible. Similarly onl BILL FOR WABASH BRIDGE IS SIGNED lllinois and Indiana Members of Congress See Executive Affix Name. "In the presence company President of an interested Coolidge today | slgned the bill authorizing the States of 1llinois and Indiana to construct a bridge across the Wabash River at Vincennes, Ind. This act was wit- nessed by Senators McKinley of 1lli- nois and Watson of Indiana, and Representatives Greenwood of Indi- ana, and Arnold of Illinols and Tomas | H. Adame, publisher of a Vincennes newspaper, and J. W. Oliphant, business man of the latter city. Georgia desires an addition Federal judgeship and for- the purpose of learning the President’s views. Sen- ators Harris and George and Repre- sentatives Bell and Larson of that State conferred with the Executive a e delegation told by the President that 1o have them take the matter up with the Department of Justice, before de- termining whether an additional dis trict should be created in Georgia, or whether an sdditional judge be estab- lished to aid the two now presiding in the two Federal districts. was Pugnley Is Urged. Mr. Coolidge has been asked by Senator, Sterling of South Dakota and | Hearst, president of the Towa Charie Parm Bureay Federation, to consider Charles W. Pugsley, president of the South Dakota Agricultural College, and former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, for appointment as Sec- retary of Agriculture to succeed How- ard M. Gore, who retires March 4. The President Is understood to have given these two callers no indication as 1o | his intentions with reference to filling is post. "‘ThE President last night signed the Army appropriation bill $330,180,000. Besides providing for the regul military establishment, the National Guard and the organized reserve, the bill provides §40,000.000 | for continuation of river and harbor projects; $10,000,000 for flood control work on the Mississippi; $750,000 for the Panama Canal and $25,000 for experiments with gas to exterminate the boll weevil. POISON IS BLAMED IN TINSLEY DEATH; JONES EXONERATED (Continued from First Page.) taken nothing that he (Iverson) R:: not also taken, but he added he knew that Tinsley had been “drink. ing” heavily for the last six months. Cororner Nevitt said that in so far as his office was concerned the case was at an end. Detective Murphy announced that he would continue his investigation. Jones was represented at the in- quest by Attorney David Riordan. Accoraing to Mrs. Goodwin and hey husbhand, arrengements had been mads with Tinsley some time ago for re. pairs on their house, and the twe \nen-called with Henry lverson, an- other friend, early yesterday after- noon, at the Goodwin home. Mrs. Goodwin sald that Jones evi- dently had taken exception to Tins- ley's making public a practical joke about something, and, without warn. ing, had struck him with his fist. Iverson and Mrs. Goodwin separated the men, she said, after which Jones left the house. Iverson, mccording to the police, stated that when Tinsley attempted to start driving home in his automo- bile’ he complained of feeling dizzy and asked that Iverson drive him home. He was taken home and put to bed by Iverson, and, his condition showing no improvement last night, Dr. John P. Gunion was called In. Tinsley dled before material medi cal assistance could be rendered, Dr. Gunion expressii the opinfon that death might have been caused by hemorrhage, but that It was uncer- tain as to the underlying cause of death. ———— Los Angeles Flight Delayed. LAKEHURST, N. J., February 13.— The proposed flight of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles to Bermuda next Monday has been postponed un- til February 19 or later, it was an- nounced today. The trip to Bermuda he would first prefer | | | | | | | | i | | n sentence National Oratory Contest Awards Eight each. schoel prizes of $100 One grand Distriet of Celum- bia award of $300. Seven national $2.000, $1.000, $300, $350 and $360. awards ot $452, %400, The District representative will automatic- ally recelve one of these seven national awards in addition to the above-mentioned local prizes. of Columbla one ballot is necessary if the system is used in that logical fashion. It should be clearly understood that in the 1825 contest the one-ballot plan will be adhered to strictly. Incidentally, the low-point-total system s the only one which can be used with any degree of accuracy and satisfaction when there are five, six or seven speakers to be passed upon. Under the majority vote method it frequently happens that there are as many different selections for first place as there are judges Without the low-point-total system 1o mirrpr the composite mind of the judges “the selection of a winner would be impossible unless a number of the judzes would compromise, which would make the issue depend not on the <kill of the contestants. but on the caucusing ability of the Judges. The judges are to confine them- selves 1o passing upon the compesi- tion and delivery of the orations, al- lowing 50 per cent for each. In arriving at their evaluations of each speaker the judges are not to study the orations in written form, but are to pass upon both composi- tion and delivery as the speeches are delivered, being mindful of the fact that this is an oratorical and not an es: contest. EX-CONVICT DENIES FAVORS IN ATLANTA Clerk Declares No “Unusual” |Jacohs ot tne Assignments Were Given Rurm Ring Members. By the Assaciated Press ATLANTA. Ga. February 13.—M. E. Phillips, Shrevep.rt, La., who served at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiarl today testified in the trial of A. E. Sartain wnd L. J. Fletch- er. formerly warden »1d deputy, re- spectively, at the prison and Laurence Riehl. Columbus, Ohte, that there was rothing unusual in the nssignments given members of the Savainah “rum ring™” sent to the institution. Sartain, Fletcher and Rien! are charged with conspiracy and bribery and were indicted as the result ot an investigation by the Department of Justice of alleged conditions at the prison Phillips. who was convicted of vie- lating the national banking laws, and during his 18 months' imprisonment served as clerk in the record office, parole office and as clerk of the dep- uty warden, said he recommended Willie Haar. Graham Baughn and C. €. Tuten, ail of 8avannah, for assign- ments given them. STUDENT NURSE, 20, DIES OF SMALLPOX Miss Amy Govan Is Victim—Two Other Cases Were Reported at Garfield. Miss student Amy Govan, 20 years old, a nurse at Garfield Hospital, carrying | died at the District Smallpox Hospital lagt night following a 10-day illness of smalipox. Miss Govan was found to be suffer- g fro mthe disease on February 2, and within a few days one other nurse and a colored orderly also were found bv the Health Department to have smallpox. The orderly has re- covered and has been discharged. The nurse’'s condition is not serious i | their overlapping and duplication A M. LAWSON DIES OF SUDDEN ILLNESS President of Central Labor Union Had Long Been Lead- er of Workingmen. A. M. Lawson, €5 years old, dent of the Central Labor U Washington for the last two years, died at the residence of his daughter. Mrs. Drummond. 3520 Thirty-seventh street, Mount Rainfer, early todav Mr. Laweon had been in good heaith until taken ill at about 3 o'clock this morning. Late last night he {x said to have put @ new radiator in his automobile preparatory to attending a funeral of a fellow member of the union at Cherrydale, Va.. today. Mr. Lawson was one of the early organizers of the old Knights of Lahor in the District, whieh organization flourished uritil the American Federa- tion of Labor took over some of its work. He was not only a pioneer labor leader in this city, but had been a prominent buflding contractor here and was a bullding inspector for the Dis- trict government for many years. He was a close friend of the late President Roosevelt and, it is said that he was offered the position of Distriet Commissioner by him, but de- clined. Funeral services will be cenducted at the daughter's residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment wi be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. He i survived by his daughter, Mrs. Drum- mond, and a granddamghter PROHIBITION AGENTS REPORT 15 ARRESTS Several Places Raided on Charge of Selling and Possessing Liquor. Prohibition agents and police of precincts 1, 2 anfl 3 last night raided several places, including restauranis and homes, taking 15 prisoner: In addition to the charges of sell- ng or illegal possession of liquor, was understood - Harry M. Luekett chief of the local division of genera prohibition agents, planned to take further action in some cases Those arrested were: P. Rligh 1019 Seventh street northwest; Irwin Eisenberg. 1125 Seventh street north- west: Louis Jacobson and Isaac New Howard, 1129 Seventh street northwest: Harr Goldherg, 1221 Seventh street north- " John Davis Holmes, colored 1155 Eighth street northwest; William P. Cady, 2520 K street mnorthwest: Joseph Vielkind, Matilda Katherine Provide and Alexander Bagai, all of the Venice cafe, 718 Twelfth street northwest; Louis Macini and Bianchin Silviaon. of the Italian restaurant, 1609 E street northwest; John Hanny 512 Twelfth street northwest: Cora Stafford Marshall and Willis Harris both colored, of 1302 H street morih- west CONGRESS LEADERS SEEK ACTION NOW ON REORGANIZING (Continued from First Page.) Senators Smoot of Utah, Wadsworth. New York: Harrison, Mississippi, and Representatives Michigan: Temple, Pen: Moore, Vir- ginia Survey of Wide Scope. This commission was appointed to make a survey of the administrativ service -of the Gbvernment for the purpose of securing all pertient facts concerning their powers and duty, their distribution among the several executive departments and ot authority. They were also directed to determine what redistribution of activities should be made among the several services with a view to the proper correlation of such activities and to mee what departmental re- grouping of services should be made =0 that each executive department would embrace only services having close working relations with each other and ministering directly to the primary purpose for which these services are maintained and operated The purpese of the whole plan of ré- organization was to achieve the Jargest possible measure of efficiency and economy in the conduct of Gov- ernment business. Representative Temple said . that most of the_opposition to the reor- ganization meakure is directed against the proposed department of education and welfare, which he would like to have brought befors the House 0 that it could he acteq upon. The bill has the approval of the President, Representative Temple emphasized. He pointed out that Health Officer Fowler stated today | there is some objection registered in at Garfield nearly two weeks ago, when the first case was reported. The Health Department today sent word of Miss Govan's death to her mother, Mrs. Lavina 8. Govan, at Cam- beliford, Canada. Efforts are now being made to arrange for sending the nurse's body to her home. Hospital authorities ‘discovered the presence of the dread disease in time to check . its spread before it had claimed patients in nearby rooms. Tha minute it was determined smallpox actually had been brought into the in- stitution every person—doctors, nurses, orderlies and patients—were carefully examined. All who showed the #lightest signs of a suspicious were promptly isolated under obiervation. Several were sent to the city hospital for contagious 'iseases, and every pefson in the hos- pital, including patients, was vac- cinated. For a week after that reg- ular examinations were made to de- termine whether the disease had spread. These precautions prevented the disease from assuming epidemic pro- portions and it was announced today that the hospital was without danger. The disease was brought into the hospital by a patient from Falls Ci:urch, Va., who went there to visit her sinte and kept Stearns Alarmed By Report He Will Speak at Dinner Frank W. Stearns, friend and counselor of President Coolidge, read in &' morning paper today that he was listed to speak to- night at a Union League Club din- ner in New York In celebration of Elihu Root's eightieth birthday, and left for New York immedi- ately, determined to head off any such a projeet. “] never made a speech in my life, and I never intend to.,” wae his' parting word. “I'll tell them I am ill, and I will be, too, if they call on me for a speech.” rash or symptoms | that every precaution to prevent devel- | the views of the minority members. |opment of additional cases were taken|Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Representative Moore of Virginia against the removal of the Bureau of Good Roads from the Department of Agriculture and the erection in the Interior Department of two subdlvi- sions, one charged with the adminis- tration of the public domain and the other with the administration of public engineering work. Would Prevent Duplication. This would mean several important changes in the structure of adminis- trative activities in Washington Even if there is sufficlent opposition to these features to prevent their passage, Representative Temple urged that other features in the reorgani- zation program should be put through at this sesslon. Among these is a provision allowing the admanistra- tive officer of each executive estab- lishment to so reorganize and co-ordi- nate the activities in his department as to minimize overlapping and du- plication of work which has resulted from pidcemeal legislation in adding on various activities from time to time. He also stressed the desirability of creating a bureau of purchase and supply, which for years has been generally recognized as one of the big eMciency economy propesals which has been fathered by Repre- sentative Wil R. Wood, chairman of the Repubdlican congressional com- mittee. MRS. LOTTIE S. COX DIES. Burial to Be in Nashville, Tenn, Her Former Home. Mrs. Lottie 8. Cox, 51 Vvears old member of the Order of the Eastern Star, active in charitable work and a resident of this eity mearly 30 years died in Garfield Hospital Wednesday after a lingering illness. Funeral services were conducted &t the chapel of H. B. Nevius, undertaker, yvester- dsy afternoen at & o'clock. The funeral party left for Nashville, Tenn., last night, where funeral serv- jces wiil be conducted tomorrow, with interment Sunday. Mrs. Cox was born in Nashville. She lived at 819 Fifth street. Her hus- band, Willlam A. Cox, survives her.