Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1925, Page 2

CHARGES GAMBLING ATATLANTA PRISON Convict Declares Group Played Poker in Room Over Warden’s. By the Associated Pross. ATLANTA, Ga., February 16 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, \FREDERIC W. UPHAM DEAD AT 64, FOLLOWING STROKE IN FLORIDA Directed Financial Affairs of Republican Party for Two Decades. Came to Palm Beach in Vain Effort to Re- gain Health. Gambling in a room over the war-| By the Associated Press, Aen's house at the Federal peniten tiary was described by Fred Fuller, Inmate of the prison, testifving today at the trial of A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, former warden and deputy warden, and Laurence Riehl, Colum- bus. Ohio, charged with conspiracy. The witness told of two games, one a “big game” of stud power, in which | the limit was $25. eral plavers in the game, Giraham Baughn, prisoner from Sa- vannah, was the big winner. The witness said that although he was “broke” he played, because Wil- ife Haar told him that if he would play and entertain his father he would pay his losses. Big Winning Alleged. The witness declared that Baughn told him he was about $12,000 “ahead of the game.’ Homer Z. Barstwick, probate judge of Franklin County, Ohio, and George 3. Karb, former mavor and police | commissioner of Columbus. Ohlo, were character witnesses for Sartain. Tt was developed in examination of Mr Karb that he defeated Sartain in races for mayor and sheriff. Both witnesses said Sartain’s reputation In Columbus was good. Mr. Karb provoked a demonstration of laughter and applause as he concluded his tes- | timony by saying “the worst thing I can say about Sartain is that he is a Republican;. He ought to be a Democrat.” Fletcher Given Dr. J. Calvin Weaver testified that Fletcher bears a good reputation. W. A. Berrono, guard at the prison testified as to examination of pris- oners on their arrival at the institu- tion. J. F. Beckwith of Auburn, N. Y., a prisoner at the Federal penitentiary for eight years, testified that the reputation in the prison community of Father Thomas P. Hayden, former ehaplain “could not " The worse withness is serving a 15-year sentence he said. PLAY CENSOR BOARD IN CAPITAL SOUGHT IN HOUSE MEASURE i0od Name, (Continued from First Page.) elous plays for theaters of that city. | In fact. the Boston system is now rec- ognized as an ideal system, and other cities with similar problems have copied it. “This Winter Washington has for aome reason been selected by the pro- ducers as the most fitting place for the debut of many salacious plays, | some of which were reeking with | profanity and obscenity. It seems | highly desirable, therefore, that & system along the lines of the one suc- cessfully functioning in Boston be in- augurated at once in the District in order to curb this demoralizing prac- tice. 1 feel confident that public opin- fon in the District would whole- Beartedly support such a board, just &8 it does in Boston.” CONTINUES PLAY FIGHT. o | Prosecutor to Demand “Good Bad | Woman" Be Withdrawn. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 16.—Con- winced that mere alterations or dele- tions would be ineffective, District Attorney Banton made it known that He mentioned sev- | Chicago, und said | burial, | Then there was a change. cago. PALM BEACH, Fla., February 16.— Frederic W. Upham of Chicago, who directed the financial destinies of the Republican party for two decades, died at his Palm Beach Winter home vesterday afternoon, following a cere- bral stroke suffered four days pre- viously. He was 64 years old. Funeral services will be held in probably Friday, but the it was reported, would be in Racine, Wis, Mr. Upham’s boyhood home. Mr. Upham in addition to his politi- cal activities was one of Chicago's leading industrialists. He came here in November, hoping to recover his health, which had been failing for several years. Stricken last Wednes- day, he rallied slightly until Satur- day night, when a relapse came. At Mr. Upham's side when he dled were his wife, Mrs. Helen Upham, and his brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs, Frank Eberhardt of Ripon, Wis. Mrs. Upham, accompanied by Chicago friends, will leave here Tuesday with the body, according to present plans. CONVENTIONS HIS HOBBY. Upham Got Thrills of Life Out of Gathering in Chicago. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Here in Washington, where he was universally known and esteemed, the news of the death of Fred Upham at Palm Beach has caused a grief akin to that which marked the passing of President Harding. Fred Jpham, as & matter of fact, had been a power and a personality in politics much longer than had the late President. And although a stalwart of the stal- warts, and willing to go to almost any end to defeat the Democrats Fred Upham had as many friends and |admirers among the latter as he had |in his own “camp.” At a time when the country s talk- ing much about the hobbies of great men, it ought to be recorded that Fred Upham had the greatest hobby of all. It was one he could Indulge n only every four years. but he got | vieasure enouzh out of the quadren- nial celebration to last all the time in_between. Upham’'s hobby was noth- ing less than the Republican national convention. He it was who took tha convention for an unbroken string of years to Chicago. It was treason in the national committee, of which Fred was the treasurer. to mention other city in connection with great gathering. Change in Plans. All of this remained true until Mr. oolidge came into the White House. One might with reaon call it a revolution. Fred Upham, prior to Mr. Harding's death, had already arranged that the con- vention of 1924 should be held in Chi- As usual,” the announcements read. The members of the national committee already had given their pledges to the popular treasurer. Then Mr. Harding died, and with his death came rumors that Presi- dent Coolidge did not want the con- vention held in Chicago. It was said he felt he could control the situation better if a smaller city were selected. Upham called at the White House, but was unable to persuade Mr. Cool- idge to change his mind. Later Mr. Upham announced his signation as national treasurer. Fred Upham raised individually more money for political purposes than any othér man in America. He was a political Midas. He is given personal credit for wiping out the big deficit which followed the 1920 the re: campaign Fred Upham could have had almost he would demand withdrawal of the play. “A Good Bad Woman,” from | the Broadway Theater, in which it is | being presentcd. The prosecutor { also is investigating the manuscripts | of four other Broadway plays, one | of which he said was worse than “A | Good Bad Woman. | Mr. Banton explained that criminal | action would not be taken against| the producers of any of these plays until they had refused to make alter- | ations or withdrawals that he will| demand. ¥f they decline to comply with his demands the matter will be | placed before the grand jury, he =aid. MUST KEEP CREDIT; t HERRIOT’S WARNING, FIGHTS INFLATION SR | | (Continued from First Page.) posal $100,000,000. which., when used last March, u fully checked the fall| of the franc. Rut the financial ex- perts are questioning whether the | nse of that gold reserve will glve the | same results as last year. since the | causes of the decline in the French ourrency are somewhat diffrent than | A vear ago. At that time the fall of the franc was due mainly speculation by German, Dutch and Austrian bankers, and as soon as the French treasur obtained a sufficient “maneuvering fund” they were able to restore the | franc to its c value, varying | intrin: between 5 and 5% cents | Money Sent Abrond. The present decline is not due to forelgn speculation, but to lack of | confidence of French capitalists In| their own country. Although Fremier | Kerriot and his cabinet are not So-| olalists and do not advocate a cap- | ftal levy, their remaining in office de- pends entirely upon the support they get from the Socialists of the extreme Teft wing, who are advocating drastic measures for improving France's financial situation. The statement made by the Social- | ist leader Renaudel that “we will take money from where we find It is 4nterpreted by capitalists us a di- | rect threat against them and has re- | sulted in sending from France mil- lons of dollars monthly. The man- ager of one foreign bank told the writer that in November through his Mk alone French customers bought 2,000,000 worth of foreign securities (Coryright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) MISS SARAH A. HICKS DIES | AFTER 6 WEEKS’ ILLNESS ‘Was for 28 Years a Clerk in Coal Company Office—Funeral Service Tomorrow. Mise Sarah A. Hicke, for 28 vears & clerk in the office of tha John X. Phillips Coal Company, died Saturday afternoon in Georgetown University Hospltal, after an illness of six weeks. Born in Cornwall, England, about 60 years ago. Miss Hicks came to Washington when a voung woman and lived here ever since. Funeral services will be held to- morrow at Wise's undertaking par- fors 2800 M street. Interment will be in Congressional Cemetery, ¢ {GOL. LOVE'S DEATH HELD DUE TO OWN ACT Jurors' Verdict of Suicide in Case of Officer Killed by Capital Traction Bus. Lieut.”Col. Robert R. Love, Walter Reed Hospital patfent, who was fa- tally injured Saturday by a bus of the capltal Traction Co. near the Six- teenth street entrance of that hos- pital, deliberately threw himself be- neath the wheels to commit suicida, according to a verdict rendered this afternoon by a coroner’s jury at the morgue. “The act evidently was due to mental condition,” the jurors de- cided. The verdict of suicide was veached despite testimony given by Dr. Wil- Ham Lathrop Love, Naw York State Senator and brother of the dead mar, to the effect that Col. Love had been suffering for cme time from vertigo and that he must have rushed in front of the bus while suffering such an atiack. State Senator Love inci- dentaily _ sevarely criticized the Walter Reed authorities for pern ting hiz brother to go about ttended, It is my contention that aince they were aware of his pathological condition, they should have been reful not ‘to lét him go about lone,” Dr. Love declared. Most of the other witnesses wers those who had seen Col. Love acting peculiarly just before the tragedy or un- at the time he was struck, and their | testimony convinced the Col. Love deliberately self beneath the front heavy bus. Otho R. Davison, municipal garbage that shortly before Col. Love was Kkilled on Sixteenth street the officer had tried three times to throw him- self beneath his garbage truck. He sald he went to the guard house to report the incident, leaving two of his colored helpers to trail Col. Love. The colored men testified that Col. Love left the hospital grounds and when he saw the bus coming threw himself in front of it. The driver of the bus, ver, was completely exonorated In jury that threw him- wheels of the operator of a truck, testified all the testimony and was forthwith | | released by the jury. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. Annuai meeting and election of of- ficers and directors of the Chevy | Chase Rccreation Club, Chevy Chase Library, 8 o'clock. The Alumni of the University of Nebraska will meet, 8 oclock, at University Women's Club, 1634 I street. A radio program from Hast- ings, Nebraska, will be received. The Georgia State Club will give a alentine dance and card party, 9§ o'clock, st Washington Club, 1701 K street. . The Irish Free State now permits owners of motor cars bearing a Brit- ish licenee to operate in Ireland with- out @& separate Irish licen any | Oliver Car- | FREDERIC W. UPHAM. any political reward that he wanted, but would accept nothing. He liked to play at politics and at that game was supreme. His hobby of national conventions was an expensive one, personally as well as officially, but they were his life. FINANCED 4 CONVENTIONS. | Upham G. 0. P. Money Genius for Past 20 Years. | Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—Frederic | William Upham, wh death has | been announced from Palm Beach, | before his retirement as treasurer of | the Republican national committes {last June was for 20 years the finan- cial genius of the G. O. P., by reason of his chairmanship of the Chicago | convention committee, which made | arrangements for five national con- ventions. Mr. Upham, who was 64 vears old. | eame to Chicago in 1594 and entered the lumber business. Besides his in- | terest in politics he was president of | the Consumers’ Co., one of the large | corporations of the country, and di- | rector of a large coal company. He | was president of the Iilinois Manu- | facturers’ Association in 1905-1909. | Few Elective Offices. | His interest in national politics | had not waned in 32 vears, but he | held elective office only as a member of the Cook County Board of Tax Re- viewers and as an alderman of Chi- cugo. He held the former office for | 14 years, but resigned during his first term of the latter. He was a delegate to the Republi- can national convention four times since his first selection in 1892 for | the eighth Wisconsin district. Since | 1504, &s chairman of the local con- | vention committee, he had organized |and financed four national conven- | tions, each year his task becoming | larger and more difficult. He saw the { national convention expenses grow from $70,000 in 1504 to $150,000 in 1920. He was treasurer of the na- tional committee for seven years. 111 for Some Time. | He had been in poor health for some months before his retirement | from the treasurership last June, at | the urgence of his wife. He desired, despite his poor health, to serve through the Coolidge campaign. Last Winter he spent a lengthy period in the Southwest and on the Pacific coast, and returned feeling much stronger. Mr. Upham was a close political | friend of the late President Harding {and a room in the White House was | permanently reserved for him. He was intimate with outstanding politi- cal leaders in Kurope, Lord Birken- head and the Prince of Wales being among his friends in England. While he was an fmportant Republi- can leader, he was associated in large business ventures with men prominent in the Democratic part 'HUMPHREY IS GIVEN 0. K. OF COMMITTEE Senate I. C. C. Approves Nomina- tion to Be Member of Federal Trade Commission. | | | | The nomination Humphrey to be a member of the | Federal Trade Commission was ap- | proved today by the Senate interstate commerce committee. The vote of the committes was not unanimous, Senators said, although a record vote was not taken. The of William E the committes for sevéral weeks, and | Mr. Humphrey was called hers to | explain some of his relations with the | Department of Justice during certain litigation Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, chairman of the commit- | tee, said nothing of a questiomable character hid been found. The nomination of Thomas | | F. {of the Interstate Commerce Commis- ‘slun was not taken up today by the | committee and no date was set for |its consideration, which is opposed by Scuthern Senators. DEADLY WAR GAS DESCRIBED BY FRIES IN AIRCRAFT PROBE (Continued from First Page.) kind them. Maj. Milling, who was continuing his testimony which started late | Saturday evening, declared the Army hould be given the exclusive right 0 defend the coast. He criticized the establishmerit of naval defenses here and there and sald that the per- formance of aircraft will “now let the Navy do what it always has wante to_do, go on the high xeas and fight. The speed and mobility of alreraft | units make it possible to throw them |in any part of the United States today in a few hours’ notice. A base located near Washington could protect the State of Maine in four hours, and Ilkewise could defend attack against Florida In about the same time. The large bombing planes with their 2,000 and 4,000 pound bombs are equivalent to the rapid trans- portation of a giant coast defens {gun in a short space of time, MaJ. Milling_told the committee. The Navy in time of peace is pre- pared for war, but after a declara- tion a period of 10 days or two weeks elapses before it is in the heat of battle, said Maj. Milling. With war In the air, he declared, it Is only a matter of a few hours before an air force strikes and therefore this {country must be prepared at all times, he said. of bombs to be used against Three thousand tons of fruit may be cooled at a time at Cape Town, South Africa, upon completion of pro- posed improvements at the port. nomination has been in the hands of | | Woodlock of New York as a member | NEGRO IS INDICTED INMURDER OF WIFE Norman Rose Alleged to Have Shot Woman to Death Last Month at Home. orman Rose. colored, was indict- ed today by the grand jury on a charge |of murder in the first degree. He is {alleged to have shot to death his | wife, Viola Rose. the kitchen {of their home, 114 January 22 George L. Miller was indicted for alleged false pretenses. He ix said {to have visited Dr. Mark C. Bullis, a dentlst, and interested him in a supposed mine at Clute, W. Va. for in f | which the dentist was to have a half- linterest for $1 0. Bullis gave up 18750 to Miller, It is stated, on ac- count and the latter disappeared Police say there is no such place as Clute in West Virginia. Lowyer Ix Indicted. Sidney A. Schwartz, a lawyer, was indicted again today, this time in connection with Charies B. McDonald and Theodore W. Merritt, young men who are charged with robbing John W. Work near the latter's home, 507 G street northeast. Schwartz is =ald to have been driving the automobile in which the robbers awalited their victim. Work was asked over to the car, the police say, and when he ar- rived there a pistol was flashed on him and he was required to give up $180. The grand jurors lgnored a charge of homicide preferred against Ann E. Waslington in connection with the death of William McKinley Coleman. Other cases dropped by the grand jurors are Martina Brooks, robbery; Willlam Decatur, joy riding: Clara C. Boyd, grand larceny; Percy E. Short- er and Alice Yates, assault with a dangerous weapon; John E. Young, statutory offense. and Mattie Ander- son, violating section 65 of the crim- inal code. Other Indictments. Others Indicted and the charges against them are ames J. Perry, joy-riding: Albert Williams, Benjamin F." Manuel and Frank Scarleto, as- sault with dangerous weapon; Kinley Cunningham and Robert E. Brandford, robbery; Eddie Williams, alias Richard Dixon, housebreaking; Ethel Pocklington, Mabel Magee Theodore R. Turner, James 1. Hen- derson and Jeffrey Patric larceny; Benjamin Simms, house- breaking and larceny: Alfred Barba- gallo, Howard Edward Pierce, George Dixon, Charles A. Dixon, Lester Weathington, Harry D. Beatty, Roy Shireman and George W. O'Brien, jr., non-suppert; Lillian Richards, may- hem. | CAVE RESCUE COST {Response of Public Attributed in Part to Stone Age In- stincts of Sympathy. 1 By Consolidated Prs CAVE CITY, Ky.. February 16— | The misadventure of Floyd Collins, obscure backwoods cave explorer, has S0 tapped those elemeéntal emotions and instincts which have swayed hu- mans almost from the beginning of time that over $150,000 has been spent here In this Kentucky wilderness to fres him from his subterranean grave and to tell the story of it all to the world. | Scientists on the ground see in this outpouring of a nation's sympath; and help an emotional “throw back” |of the Nation to its cave man in- stinets, stirréd by stories of a plight that must have been more or less common whéen man's home was the hillside cavern. This instinct earries with it that feeling known as cloistrophobia, a tear of close, tight, dark places, an outgrowth of thé Stone Age. Finally there is that universally appealing slement of a race betweén life and death | Troops Expenses $30,000. | The response to this appeal for help | has come without regard to éxpense. | Troops sent here by the State to keep order and to protect workers at the cave in which Collins is trapped al- | ready are estimated by officers to |have involved an expense of nearly 1$50,000 to the State. Each day brings the cost higher. | The Red Cross has spent thousands upon thousands to care for the men at the cave, providing them with food and with shelter, as well as medical attention. Workers themselves. from the high-salaried engineers to the ax- periemed miners and u‘mbormen. are contributing thelr services, or mo; rousands would be added to this bill. Materiale In huge quantities, from electric light plants to tractors, have likewise been furnished free to r duce the expense. WOrk at the cave in spite of contributions of materials and services, is estimated to have cost nearly $50.000. | Coutly to Newspapers. Upon the newspapers reporting the “story” has fallen an equally heavy cost. Telegraph companies report that 100,000 words a day have been sent from here over their lines alone py the hundred newspaper men who have been here. The toll cost is es- timated at $1,500 a day. In addition, the larger newspapers are paying $50 a day for private telephones, and havé on top of that an extremely heavy long-distance toll bill. Twenty photographers, whose expenses have to be borne, are on hand. in addition to ssven moving plcture photogra- phere. Airplane pilots here to carry ple- tures of the final scenes back to the papers say that their charges will ag- gregate $10,000. From all these facts estimates are that the expense of the attempt to take Colling from the underground tomb in which he has been snared and the furnishing of news of its progress to the people will go well over $150.000. $11,000,000 IS ASKED OF U. S. IN SENATE D. C. BILL REPORT (Continued from First Page.) lons relating to procedure in the Po- lice Court. Among the increases for public buildings and grounds made by the Senate committee was $8,000 for purifi- cation of waters of the Bathing Beach and improvement, maintenance of the bath house and beach on the west shore of the Tidal Basin. The appro- priations are made for two bathing beaches in the Tidal Basin, one white and the other colored. The committee also inserted an amendment providing $3,000 for expenses of conducting band concerts in the public parks. Florida avenue, | Me- | grand | S1E000 T0 DATE D. C, MONDAY, oo | W. B. ACKER, New chiet clerk of the Interior De- partment. sion Succeeds John Harvey, Who Is Promoted. W. Bertrand Acker, chief of the miscellaneous division' of the Interior Department and assistant attorney in the office of the Secretary, was ap- pointed chief clerk of the department today by Secretary Work. { Mr. Acker succeeds Johh Harvey. |Who has been chief clerk of the de- partment since 1920, his appointment {coming when John Barton Payne was |head of the department. Mr. Harvey has been appointed superintendent of classification for the department, a ters heretofore considered by depart- | ment committees in connection with {allocation and classification of em- ployes in Washington and in the field services of the department. Both ap- pointments are effective today. Transter of Work. Appointing Mr, Acker as chief clerk of the department, abolished the office of chief of the miscellaneous division and transfer- red all work in that division to thé | chief clerk's office. to be consolidated {with that office and transacted under i his supervision Orders issued in June, desig- nating committeea to classify and al- locate positions in Washington and in the field were revoked and all the work put under Mr. Harvey as super- |intendent of classification. Acker In Veteram. The new chief clerk is one of the veterans in point of service in the Interior Department. He was pointed from New York to the de- partment in 1882 and has served con- tinuously since that time, passing through the various grades and serv- ing as private secretary to Secretary Bliss and as confidential clerk to Sec- | retary Hitchcoek, special inspector and chief of the patents and miscel- laneous division. He has been an as- sistant attorney in the office of the Secretary for 17 yvears. Mr. Acker is a member of La Fayette |Lodge, F. A. A. M. Mount Vernon Chapter, R, A. M. is a _member of the Shrine and Scottish Rite and Is |a member of the University Club. 1923 CAVE LATERAL CUT CLOSE TO COLLINS; { (Continued from First Page.) | Louisville Courier-Jaurnal, who work- ed desperately to free Collins down the original cave tunnel. He declared he felt far safer in the original hole than he did in the shaft. The con- stant drip of seepage and frequent falls of small rocks and mud behind the shatt timbering, gave him a feel- ing. he sald, that the bottom of the shaft might be squeezed shut like a huge trap any minute. 1" He spoke of this to Mr. Carmichael, |in charge of the shaft digging, and {the danger was admitted, but in full |knowledge of this the diggers push on. As the lateral progresses. only the mokt experienced are picked, still thres men to a shift. and they work {now in two-hour shifts. Sand, Instead of limestone and | heavy rock, was encountered after | midnight, and "the work progressed with increased speed. The tunnel was pushed nearly six feet farther after midnight, it was stated. Collins is believed to be héld cap- tive at a depth of 64 faet. The lateral has reached the 60-foot lével and no more dangerous or heavy boulders are expected. % Mr. Carmichasl was more optimise tic early today than during the night | when several falls of minor char- acter occurred in the lateral. One of these falls hit him on the head as he was directing the work. The fall, Lowever, contained no rock and Car- michael was not injured. ““The sun_ will not rise on ma at Sand Cave Wednesday-morning,” Car- michael predicted this morning, “My firat estimate of the time Floyd Collins will_be reached, which was Tuesday night, still stands,” said Dr. ‘W. P. Funkhouser. Everett Maddox, one of the early rescue parties, has just returned to Sand Cave after a serfous iliness, caused by his exertions and exposure in Sand Cave. Has Proof of Although an outsider, who did not know Floyd Collins, Maddox is ready to furnish the abselute proof ot iden- tification of the man fast in the Sand Cave rock vise as Floyd. “Early Wednesday morning 1 went back to Floyd,” Maddox says. “That ‘was before the shaft was started. I could reach as far as his foot, and I tried to loosen it, but I couldn't. Finally Floyd sald, ‘Kiss me good-bye, I'm going." “Then I noticed a gold front upper tooth. I went out, and soon after the passageway caved in.” This is the first absolute mark of identification that any of the rescue workers has been able towrecall, to re- move any lingering doubt about the identity of the man in the cave. e Studio Employes Plan Pafty. The annual get-together of the Harrls & Ewing studio employes will be Jeld tomorrow evening at the studio, 1313 F street, from 7 to 11 o'clock. The celebration marks the twentieth anniversary of the studio, and will be a masquerade. Many features are on the program. A buffet supper will be served om the top floor of the studio. entity. FEBRUARY CLERK OFINTEROR |Head of Miscellaneous Divi-| new post, to be in charge of all mat-| Secretary Work | ap- | GUARDS INCREASED| 16, 1925. ORATORICAL C BY RANDOI National This ia one of u serles of articles by the director of the National Oratorical Conteat, Wriften (0 give contestants the henefit of hin observations during the 1924 contest, aud to offer practical suggestions as to the present contest. The encouraging thing for all con- no one winning type In a contest of thiz character. The boys did not remp away it. as some predicted. The soft- =poken were not complately over- whelmed by those with powerful voices. The physically large did not show an unmistakable primac Glance for a moment at the salient |facts of ti® national finals of 1921, { The first hallot showed a Washington |&irl and a California hoy tied for firat place. The boy won clearly and un- questionably on the reballot, as in- deed he was the actual winner by the proper analysis of the first ballot But it was so close that no one could say, “Such and such a type will al- Ways win in a contest of this char- acter.” Stmilarly with there wae a tie bet: U. S. Places Limit On Cost of Coffins Given to Workers The Government took official cog- nizance of the high cost of dying to- day when, through the Emplove Compensation Commission, It set a maximum price on the amount paid for hermetically sealed caskets for traneporting hodies of employes killed in line of duty. Payments for such caskets in ex- ceas of $250 east of the Missiseippi and of $325 west of that river will | only be made. the commission in- formed department -ads today, if the compensation bocy Is convinced | of the reasonableneas of the extraor- | dinary circumstances causing such higher charges. Two hundred and twenty-four em- ploses were killed in line of duty last year, for which their heirs were en- titled to compensation. Under the { compensation law the bodies of civil employes may, if relatives desire, be transported in a hermetically sealed | casket to the home of the dead em- ploye at Government expense. een | WOMAN T0 TESTIFY INHER OWN BERALF {Mrs. Buchanan, Accused of | Forgery, to Take Witness Stand This Afternoon. Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan, former secretary of Samuel A, Kendall, Rep- {resentative from Pennsylvania, who is on trial before Justice Hoehling and a jury in Criminal Divislon 1 of the Distriet Supreme Court on a charge of forgery in connection with the sale of surplus war materials among the constituents of Mr. Ken dall in Pennsylvania, will take the witness stand this afternoon in har own defense. Mrs. Buchanan cheim she was in partnership with Mr. Ken jda'l in the disposal of the war ma terial in Uniontown and vicinity and that she had the right to indorse the | check in question. Uniontown Mayor Defemse Witness. When the trial was resumed this morning after a recess since Thurs- day, Attorneys Lucien H. Vandoren and Richard Wellford for the defense called Mavor W. H. Smart of Union- town as a witness for The mayor had testified last week i for the prosecution to identify the check for $5,567.24 which is the sub- jeot of inquiry. The witness remem bered a transaction between Kendall, Mrs. Buchanan and himself by which shoes were purchased from the At- lanta depot quartermastér. The mayor could not recall the value of the shipment, but remembered that he paid expréss charges of $1,400. The shoes were not satisfactory and were returned, he said Asked If Representative Kendall was present at a conference about the shipment, the mayor could not recall, but remarked “Kendall was usually present when we discussed these transaction: The witness said he sent a check for $10,000 in the At- lanta matter to the order of Mrs. Buchanan. While admitting he dealt directly with Mrs. Buchanan in con- nection with the sale of the war ma- terial, Mayor Smart said he consid- ered her “an empioye of Kendall." I TAXI DRIVERS ROBBED BY ARMED PATRONS One Chauffeur Loses $45 and An- other $12 at Pistol Points Early This Morning. 1 i i | | | Two taxicah drivers reported to the police today that they were held up and robbed at pistol's point by bandits operating in different sections of the city simultaneously early this morning. William Licause, residing at 815 1 street, said that two white men, who hailed him at Thomas Circle about 3:45 am. and had him drive them about the city for some time. pointed a plstol at him about 6 o'clock while the taxicab was near Sixth and K street and robbed him of $45 In bills and change. He furnished the police with descriptions of the robbers, Curtis Brooke of 1918 W street told polies he picked up two colored men at Fifteenth street and New York avenue about 3:40 am. and drove them to Twenty-fourth and H streets, where they held him up with a re- volver and robbed him of $12. He can identify them, he say No likeness of Jefferson Davis appears on the new half-dollar to be issued soon by the Philadel- phia Mint for digtribution by the Stone Mountaln Confederate Mon- umental Association. Protests from various posts of the Grand Army of the Republic had been filed with the Treasury, it was learned today, against the fssuance of the coin, especially if there was to be any figure or head of Jefferson Davis, president ot the Confederacy. Whether orig- inal plans for the medal included the figure of Davis has not been fovealed. The design on the THE WINNING TYPE. testants in 1924 showed that there is| the defense. | Jefferson Davis Likeness Left Off Confederate Memorial Half Dollar T ONTEST CHATS LPH LEIGH Director a boy and a girl for second place. All of the finalists were strikingly dis- similar to one another. One was large and athletic and vigorous In address. unother was slender and %oftly logical still another was of | the debutante type; another was truly diminutive but marvelously mag- netic and entertaining as a speaker: another was stocky, heavy-set and decidedly foreign in appearance and at the xame time capable of arousing tremendous enthusiasm in an audi- ence. Thus one might go through the entire list. only to be convinced that almost any “type” i likely to amerge victorious in such a contest wheréin, after all, the thing that counts ix not on the surface and is not physical, but flames up from within, and in flaming transforms the speaker and through him opens out new vistas and new emotional helghts | to those within reachtof his voice and of his personality The Hindus have a saying. “Only the gods can tell in whom slumbers the power of sublime speech, and not even the gods can remain unmoved when that power is aroused.” SMALLPOX FATAL * TO SECOND NURSE lMiss Nora Highlen Dies at District Quarantine Hos- pital—2 Patients Left. The fourth death from smallpox in| Washington this vear was recorded| by the Health Department yesterday, | when Miss Nora Highlen, & speciall nurse. succumbed to the disease at the District Smallpox Hospital. Miss Highlen was one of two nurses| taken from Garfield Hospital recently | as smallpox patients and sent to the | District quarantine station. The other nurse died several davs ago. There are only two patients remain- | ing at the Smallpox Hospital. One of them fs a man whose illness was | diagnosed vesterday as smallpos. No Cause for Alarm. Health Officer Fowler statad today that while there is no cause for alurm in the present situation, he suggested| that persons who have never been vaccinated should do so as & precau- tion Washington has a cases of smallpox every vear. but the cases which have come to thé atten- tion of the Health Department in the Past two monthe have been of a type more severe than is usually found here. In each case that tention of the health office the in- | spectors of contagious disease serv- ice make every effort to locate and vaccinate all persons who came in ontact with the patient in order to | prevent spread of the disease number of comes to the at- JARDINE WELCOMED " HOME BY NEIGHBORS | Prospective Secretary of Agricul-: ture Greeted by Business Men and College Associates. { | By the Awsociated Prese MANHATTAN. Kans., February 16.— | { —Dr. William M. Jardine, who was! | nominated turday by President| | Coolidge to be Secratary of Agricul- | ture, returned to his home here| shortly after noon vesterd and was; welcomed by local business men and faculty members of Kansas Stat Agriculture College, of which he is | | president. Mrs. Jardine had waited| | Sunday dinner for his arrival | LAt the Union Station in Kansas City, whére Dr. Jardine changed trains, newspaper reporters missea | him | At home Dr. Jardine sat down at the! | head of ‘the table, about which Mrs. | Jardine. his son, Bill, and his twol | daughters. Marion and Ruth, were| grouped, and said the usual prager of | thanks. The dinner was constantiy! interrupted as the k telephone and door bell jangled, bringing mes- sages of | congratulation. Telegrams | poured in from all sections of the! icounlr.\ \MAL R. C. SHAW TO ASSIST SOLDIER LEAGUE. INQUIRY | Aid to General Counsel at Con- gressional Hearing on Pencil Selling by Disabled Veterans. Maj. Randolph C. Shaw of this city, assistant 10 the general counsel of the Veterans' Bureau, has heen ap- pointed counsel to the congressional committee which tomorrow morning [“"II! begin an investigation of the ’Nli(nnl! Disabled oldiers’ League | |and the alleged nation-wide pencil | selling scheme of that organization. | Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of | | ew York is chalrman of the com- | | mittee. | Maj. Shaw, who has been made a | special assistant to the Attorney Gen. eral, is a graduate of the Central High School and George Washington University. Heé also attended Wash- ington and Lee University and the Harvard Law School. He is one of the voungest attornovs ever to merve as counsel to a congressional inves. tigating committee, KURDS IN REVOLT. | LONDON. February 16.—A dispatch to Reuter's from Constantinople savs a seditious rising, attributed to Kurd- ish influence, has occurred at Arghana, | in the region of Diarbekr, Kurdistan. A party of the rebels ercountered a detachment of gendarmerie and two of the gendarmes were killed. The| Turkish government is taking the nec- essary measures to quell the rising. medal, . however, includes / two figures on horseback, Lee and Jackson, copled from the figures on Stone Mountain. Near these two military figures dn the monn- tain is one of Jefferson Davis, which was not placed on the coln, The coin, which is to be issued as a “memorial to the valor of the idier of the South,” will be sold by the Government at face value to the Stone Mountaln Confederate Monumental Assoeiatfon, which in turn Is expecting to sell the coins | at a premium, the monéy going toward the cost of the heroic Stone Mountain statuary, which is being executed by Gutzon Bor- glum. I treet, | killed and RUNAVAY DRIVERS IR 3PERSONS One Stops and Takes Drink From Bottle Before Fleeirig From Accident Scene. Police are looking for three and-run” motorists whose jured three persons over end One of the fugitives is reported have stopped long enough. after knocking a pedestrian down, to take a drink from a bottle hefore tinuing: another driver, with a wom- an companion, eswiped a man standing beside another machine and failed to stop, and a third driver, said to have been on the wrong side of the street, left the scene of a col- lision with another car, although an occupant of the latter car was in- jured by the smash-up. Eugene Rose, 19 years old. of Lees- burg, Va., was the vietim left in the road by the driver with the bottle. He was struck down early yesterday morning on the Military road, near the Highway Bridge, en route to Fort Myer, by an automobile said by a witness to contain a colored driver and a woman companion. The ness reported that the driver bro his car temporarily to a stop, hoisted a bottle to his mouth, and then step- ped on the gas and disappeared Rose lay. unable to move, for nearly haif an hour before he was picked up | an Arlington County policeman removed to ergency Hospita where an examination of possibly serious injuries spine. cars in- the week con- i being mada Sideswiped by Car. Michael Capossela, 1005 Pennsrivania avenue foutheast, was struck by a car operated by an unidentified driver and a woman while he was standing beside an automobile at Third street and Penn- eyivania avenue last night. He was re- moved to Providence Hospital and treated for injuries to his legs. Mrs. Emma Speed, 131173 M strest, was bruised on the arm yvesterday after- noon when thrown agai the side of the automobile of J. (. Speed, of which she was an occupant, and which was struck by an automobile operated by an unknown driver on Vermont avenue between L and M streets. Her condition is not serious, police reported. Mr. Speed | told the police he was driving north on Vermont avenue when the other car. coming from the opposite direction on the wrong side of the street, collided with his car. The colored driver failed to stop. Several other traffic accidents added to the toll of injured persons and dam- aged machines iast night Two Women Hurt. E Mabe, 24, of 510 southwest, and Carria Neal 6, of 1700 Seventeenth street, were hurt in a collision last night at Connecticut avenue and Q street be- tween an automobile operated by Thomas H. Collins, 3408 Fourteenth street, and another operated by Mrs Joseph Mean. Mrs, Mabe, riding in €ollins’ car, was cut on the right hand, and the child, a passenger in Mrs. Mean's car, was injured in the chest C.H Mrs avenue ie Ma Henderson, 4%, of 116 C street rortheast, received a laceration over the right eve early today when he was struck by a’ taxicab operated by John C. Walsh, 1422 Thirty-fifth at Sixth street and Pennsyl- vania ave Mrs. M. Carpenter, 24, of Arlington, Va., was freated at Emergency Ho pital Inst night for a concussion over the eve received when' the automo- bile in which she was sitting while ner husband endeavored to park it on E street, , was struck by a car operated by Daniel Nelson, 1501 Seventh street, police were told STANLEY ATTACKS NEW TRAFFIC BILL ASKED FOR CAPITAL (Continued from First Page.) law we which nead no respeet for jhe now exists and not that laws. Opposes Lessening Indicating that he would ing to accept all the amendments of- fered by-Senator McKellar of Ten- nessee, except the one lessen the penalty for hit-and-run drivers €= ator Ball of Delaware, who is in charge of the joint committee traffic bill, said that he had every hope that action could be obtained tonight “lI am willing,” said Senator Ba “to acceda to the majority of amendments offered to the trafic bill but 1 do not feel that any changze Penalty. be wi | should be made in the drastic pen: ties which 1 be inflicted for those who injure persons or property and leave the seene of the nccident with- out making their identity known When the members of the Sen realize that many perso have been seriously injured on the streets of Washington within the last faw months, 1 am sure that thers will not be opposition to jaimsentences for that type of driver. I intend to tak a strong stand on this matter, and will accept no change in this clause of the bill. “As far as the other amendments are concerned 1 do not believe that they will affect the bill vitally one way or annther and I belleve that ac tion can be obtained with Iittle lay.” May Shy Clear of Rent Bill. A strong effort is expected to be i made to have District bills including the grafic and school measures con- sidered at tonight's session. It is un- derstood that no attempt will be made to bring up the rent bill, it is considered a highly controversial question and members of the District committee do not wish to delay other important local legislation. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts has announced that if the traffic bill comes up tonight he intends to offer au amendment cutting out the appoint- ment of a traffic diréctor, and in its place providing for an assistant the chief of police to regulate and control traffic matters. He is of the opinion that all such questions prop- erly belong under the exclusive juris- diction of the Police Department and that friction might be camsed by a séparate and distinct official such as a traffic director. Although Senator Ball did not say whether he would oppose this amend- ment on the floor of the Sénate, he indlcated that he was thoroughly convinced that a trafic director was one of the vital needs of the District. 1 HACKER ANSWERS SUIT. Would Have Court Dismiss Yellow Cab Injunction Plea. Willlam Hammond, a taxical driver, today asked the District Su- preme Court to dismiss an injunc- tion proceeding brought agafnst him by the Yellow Cab Co.. which claims that the coloring of Hammond's ve- hicle misleads the public into think- Ing they are patronizing the plaintiff } company. Hammond denies that the painting of his. car is confasing to the pubilc. and points out that he uses & touring car;ahile the plaintift uses closed cars. He is represemted by Attorney Frank H. Elder.