Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 2

SCAOOL BULDERS T0 START INQURY Committee Leaves Tomor- row to Visit Baltimore and Philadelphia Systems. Three of Baitimore’s newest public schools will be visited by Washing- fon's trio of scheol planners tomor- row, when they begin a tour of in- spection of school buildings in other rcities preparatory to launching the District's unprecedented $19,000,000 five-year school bullding program. The three schools have been select- ~d by Supt. Hénry S. West of the Bal- timere schocl system because they represent the iatest ideas in school- house construction. They are the Forest Park Senfor Junior High School, in the Forest Park section: School No. 69, an elementary huilding also in the Forest Park seition, and the Clifton Park Junior Hixh School, in the southern corner of Clifton Park “There are other schools already produced in our new school building program which would interest you,” Supt. West wrote Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, “if you have the time after going through the three I have suggested.” Te Visit Philadelphia. After inspecting the Baltimore schools the committee, composed of Dr. Ballou, Municipal Architect Al- bert L. Harris and Ernest Greenwoond, president of the Board of Edu- cation and chairman of Its buildings, grounds and equipment committee, will leave for Philadelphia, where on Saturday they will visit schools sug- gested by Supt. Edwin C. Broome. The committee will return to Wash- ington Saturday night and continue its survey in other cities the lattcr| part of next week. The itinerary in- cludes Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit,| Rochester and Buffalo i The Philadelphia schools which Supt. Broome has recommended for inspection by the Washington school- | planning committee include the Ger- mantown, Frankford, Logan Demon- stration, an elementary building at| Seventeenth. and Lindley streets, the Roosevelt Junior High School and the John Story Jenks Elementary School | Mr. Greenwood said today that he will center his attention during the inspection trip on the location of &chocls ,which he considers of utmost | importance; what provisions have | been made for play space: types of buildings, and cost, which he will con- stantly compare with the District schools. He also pluns to make spe- cial note of the amount of money spent by the cther cities on purely [ architectural features | Seek Coxt Cuts. The committee has been advised to note particularly what features have been incorporated in the new schools in other cities to cut down the con- struction costs. For instance, it was pointed out, that some cities have ¢liminated in the new buildings the spacious cloakrooms, and substituted for them large closets built in the walls in the rear of a classroom. This feature has saved considerable space and resulted in the more economical construction of the building. Schools in other cities, it also was pointed out, have adopted new sys- tems in stairway construction, which are said to conserve space and at the same time reduce the cost of con- struction. These stairways, it was said, are designed on the “one-way- trafic” principles, the pupils goiing up on one side and coming down on the other. Another feature is that they are narrow and inclosed in fire- proof glass All of these new features in school- house™ construction will be studied earefully . liy the District’s school planners with a view to ascertaining their advantages or disadvantages. The hest fdeas probably will be in- cluded in the plans for Washington's new schoolsyto be erected under the | comprehensive five-year building pro- | gram. Expert Offers Suggestions. Mr. Greenwood has received from | John Ihlder ‘of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States a letter urging the committee to give consid- eration of the relation of school- house erection to city planning and the zoning system. Mr. Ihlder also oftered, on behalf of the chamber of commerce, to extend any assistance the committee felt inclined to call upon that body for. Mr. Ihlder said that school buildings, =0 far as possible, should be on minor streets, and should be so located that all, or as large a proportion as prac- ticable, of its pupils may live in a dis- trict_bounded by main traffic streets, that they will not need to cross these main traffic streets. “The school buildings,” declared Mr. Thider, “should be placed toward the outer edge of the school districts, not toward the fnner edge, so that pupi's who use street cars or busses will go counter to the regular trafic loads morning and evening. Sites should be | selected so far in advance that the | schocls may have adequate playground €pace appurtenant thereto.” Mr. Thider's Jetter was commended by | Mr. Greenwood, who eaid he was de- lighted that the United States Chamber | of Commerce was taking an interest in | the Jocal school situation B’arby Paulina V‘Gels Her Initial Glimpsei Of the White House Little Miss Longworth Is| Much at Home in Big Market Basket. lina Longworth was today | given her first glimpse of the White | House, where her proud parents were married, and where her illustrious grandfather was such a dominant frure. Mrs. Alice Longworth had the infant with her when she accompanied her brother Kermit to the State Depart- ment, and, while the brother was in- side on personal business, the mother and the child remained in the Long. worth automobile parked at the eurb on West Executive avenue, with the White House in full view. . - TPaulina was not parked upon her| mother's 1Ap, however, nor was she resting among cushions of the auto- mobile seat, but all the while she was dozing contentedly upon a pillow placed in an ordinary market basket, which Mrs. Longworth told some friends who stopped to greet her had cost exactly 85 cents. The basket had heen given a coat of white enamel and sported a gay ribbon or two, and Pauling seemed {o prefer the basket s a resting place to anything yet provided. The, mother remained firm in her determination not to have any photo- &raphs taken of the famous baby. She assured the army of mews camera- men who frequent the vicinity of the White House, and who swarmed wbout jparty unity and peace Overthrew Manchu Rule, But Saw Treachery 1 | | | | Drown Victor | Moved Fearlessly About World With $200,000 Reward for Death. By the Associated Press, PEKING. March ~Dr. Sun Yat- Sen, upon whose head the Manchu- dvnasty fixed & price of $200,000 when Dr. Sun was campaigning for a re- pubi in China, died here this morn- ing from cancer of the liver. He was 63 vears old Called “China’s man of destiny” by many, Dr. Sun was identified with almost every phase of public life In his coumtry. He was first president of the republic créated in 1912, and in recent years he had maintained an administration, styled the Southern Government of China, at Canton. In his declining years he opposéd the central government at Peking. Dr. Sun was strifken when he arrived here late in January as a delegate to a conference, having as ts pur- pose the unification of China. Faith In Recovery. Dr. Sun's experience as a surgeon in his youth provided him with a custaining philosophy during his last days. His physicians said today that the extension of the life of their patient was due to his refusal to wdmit the seriousness of his condi- tion since he underwent an opera- tion January 26 Dr. Sun belleved until the last that he would recover. At his deathbed Dr. Sun was sur- rounded by members of his family {and several leaders in the Kuoming- tang party, the Sun-Yat-Sen party who were attracted to Peking by re- ports of the death of their leader. Casket Like Lenin’ “I want to be embalmed triend Lenin, the Russian leader,” said Dr. Sun just before he died. He also asked that he be buried at Nanking, where he first served as president. The body was sent to the Rockefeller Hospital for embalming. Orders have been cabled to Moscow for a casket similar to that used for the burial of Lenin. Dr. Sun was consclous until the last He gave instructions to his wife about personal matters. He talked ration- ally to his political associates and only yesterday evening he accepted the fact that his end was near. In his will, executed last night, he left his houses and his books to his wife. It is said the estate of Dr. Sun was a modest one. His will emphasized his political wishes and the desire for in the ranks of adherents, deprecating any uttempt at & revaluation of the political philosophy of his assoclates The body will lie in state at some public place to be selected toduy. Dr. Sun died at the home Wellington Koo, a former leader the central government of China be- fore its defeat by Chang Tso-Lin last year. The patient was attended throughout his last fliness by Dr. Paul Krieg, noted German surgeon and head of the Peking German Hos- pital. like my Many Ups and Dow downs, more victories and defeats, more loyalty or more treachery than Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the first provisional President of China, frequently called the “Father of the Republic’ and often referred to as the, “George Washington of the Far East. The name of Dr. Sun first began to |appear In newspapers of the western world back In the late $0s, when hi vigerous pronouncements against his arch enemles, the dynastic Manchu emperors of China, attracted some slight attention. He was then living in the Hawaiian Islands with his widowed mother, who had migrated tc Honolulu with her husband. an agent of a Christian mission, when Sun Yat Sen was an infant. Since 1895, however, when he essayed the first of his meny revolutions, his name has become almost as well known to the Occident as it Is to the 400,000.000 Chinese nationals, on behalf of whom he spent a lifetime of unremitting hardship and constant danger. Wes Twice Prestdent. Dr. Sun was twice named to the presidency of China—the first time in the Fall of 1911 and again in May, 1921 Preceding his first election, the Chi- nese people, rising in their wrath against the. Manchus. overthrew the existing government and set up a re- public, naming as President Dr. Sun. All of south China and most of the Yangtse provinces were thus brought under a single bBanner. The strongest man in north China at that time was Yuan Shih-kai, Gov- ernor of Chi-1i Province. Determined that the country should be united under one leader, Dr. Sun resigned in tavor of Yuan Shih-kai. This marked the beginning of the end as far as the republic was concerned, for, while Yuan Shth-kal was strong enough to guide the ship of state. he likewise had personal ambitions centered in a new dynasty 5 Ruled by War Lords. But the masses were in no temper to countenance monarchistic aspira- tions. They overturned Yuan and elected a successor. For the next seven years, including the period cov- ered by the World War, China was, to all appearances a republic, with m president, a cabinet and a parliament in Peking. Actually, she was an oli- garchy, ruled by a group of war lords, each with his own personal army. The Peking government became a mock- ery. Meanwhile, it had become impossi- ble for Dr. Sun to remain in China. He made a sensational escape to Japan and settled down to awalt the time when he would again be ready to serve the republic. Elected 1. In the late Summer of 1921, the Chi- nese Parliament. sitting at Canton, uganimously elected him President of t® Chinese Republic. The months that followed were troubled. The war lords were not anxious to relinquish their powers. After many attempts to bind the mass of loose and broken ends, president began to realize that his unification schemes were not bearing truit, and that his polftical influence \was pitted In no small degree against that of Gen. Chen Chiung-min, who was _appointed southern viceroy hy the Peking government early in 1922 despite the fact that he was known to be on friendly terms with the southern president at the time. The final break between these two leaders came in May, 1922, whereupon the armies of Chen Chiung-min be- came another serious obstacle in the path of Dr. Sun. Defeat, desertion, treachery, faced the latter at every hand. Although he continued to fight for several weeks, he could not keep sufficient strength to oppose with success the constantly rising tide of Chen, who finally forced Sun to flee Canton. From Shanghal, where Dr. Sun sought asylum, he continued his revo- lutionary tactics with the idea first of regaining the seat of his former the car when they learned of its prom- inent occupant, that she would let them “shoot” Paulina next month. How soma women can even pretend that they are proud of their husbands i & mystery to many other women. government at Canton, and eventually seeking to control all China. Early in 1923 the troops of Dr. Sun, reinforced by those of other revolutionary leadeérs, succeeded in entering Canton, and in time the de- posed president of .the Southern Re- public returned tp the city. For sev. of Dr.| in| Few. if any, statesmen, past or| present, have known more ups and the new | THE EVENING |SUN, WASHINGTON OF CHINA, DIES AFTER 35-YEAR WAR FOR REPUBLIC DR. SUN YAT SEN, eral months' there was almost con- tinuous fighting in the city and the territory adjacent to it, and in March the greatev ambition of Dr. Sun inaugurated when his followers en- gaged troo.s that were supporting the central government at Peking. Dr. Sun insisted all the time that his efforts were in behalf of a united China, and blamed the powers for the plight of the country. In October he created a tense situ tion at Canton by threatening to seize the customs. We must stop this money going to Peking to buy arms to kill us,” he declared. Dr. Sun threat quickly brought to Canton harbor a flotilla of foreign gunboats, including American, Brit- ish, French and Portuguese vessels, to prevent the seizure of the Chinese maritime customs. For the protection of foreign bondholders, China, in 1911, agreed that an inspector general of customs, selected by the powers, should supervise the collection of these customs, the amount for the toreign loan service first being de- ducted and the remainder turned over to the Chinese government. The sit- uation was relieved by the interven- tion of Jacob G. Schurman, American Minister to China, with the result that the revolutionary leader with- drew his threat. Health Breaks Down Dr. Sun’s health began to fail dur- ing 1924 and on several occasions his death was reported. In November P'eking was captured by revolution- ary forces under Gen. Feng, and when the defeated Gen. Wu abandoned his Plan to recapture the city, Tsao Kun resigned the presidency. A de facto government was formed, with Tuan Chi-Jui as chief of executive power. | Fighting had ceased and a general conférence was called at Peking of the various political leaders. There are few parts of the world to which he was a stranger. Wher- ever there were Chinese he had bee always with the same mission, same appeal—a Chinese republic. A small, qulet, stoop-shouldered man, with a thin grayish mustache point- ing upward at the ends, Dr. Sun moved about the world holding his life in his.hands every moment of the day and night, for it would have been worth $200,000 to any one who could plant a knife between his shoulders. This reward, offered orig- inally by the Manchu government, was standing for nearly 20 yeats. While in New York during 1911, Dr. Sun was dining in a prominent club with a number of international bank- ¢rs. They were inclined fo minimize the accounts of his congtant danger, whereupon Sun asked that they ac- company him to one of the upper rooms, fronting on Fifth avenue. There, standing in the dark, they were able fo 100k out upon the street and distinguish three evil-looking Chinese skulking in the shadow When Sun left they disappeared. Perhaps his narrowest escape was in Canton In 1893. One of his plots to assassinate the Manchu officials and selze the city was petraved and a round-up of the leaders was set in motion. Dr. Sun fled with a band of hostile soldiers at his hecls. Suddeniy a door opened and he was drawn in- side. The door closed as mysteriously as it had opened, and the pursuers passed on. A friendly servant in the house of a prominent mandarin had made the rescue. Three days later the fugitives watched from « window ©f that same house as 15 of his fol- lowers were put to death with all the refinement of torture in whicn the Chinese excel. Captured In Lo Another time. while in London, ha was kidnaped and held prisoner in the Chinese embassy. While awaiting a special cteamer which was to take him to Peking and death by the ax, he managed to get word to his friends on the outside. High officlals of the British government obtained his re.- lease. He has made his way through China in every known form of disguise, and by every conceivable method of tra portation. As & coolie laborer, a man- darin, a fisherman, a jinrikisha run- ner. a soldler, a sallor and a student, he has flittea ‘about the great Chinese nation, always hunted and hounded, even when he occupied the hizn ofiice of President. Dr. Sun, although few of'his asso- ciates knew it, was a Christian, He was born in Honolulu in 1862 and ra- ceived his medical education in the Hongkong College. He was married quite early in life and was the father of two children, a son and a daughter, FOLLOWERS TO IlIGHT ON. | the Receive Dying Plea for Unity From Party Leader. By the Associated Press PEKING, March 12.—The death of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, first President of the | Chinese Republic, will not affect the | affairs of the Kuomingtang party, | comprising his followers, leaders said today. After leaving the room in which they heard their dying leader plead for party solidarity in his last words, the Kuomingtang chlefs were said to be preparing a Qrcular telegram to tie provinces announcing the death of Dr. Sun. The leaders denied a re- port that a serlous split was impend- ing in the Kuomingtang party. —e COUZENS ASSESSED ARBITRARILY IN TAX FIGHT OVER STOCK (Continued from First Page.) | | amortization than they claimed from the Goverrment,” he said. "I feel it was a very favorable compromise for |the Governrhent.” The largest of the amortization claims pending, Mr. Manson reported to the committee, affects the United States Steel Corporation. “The amount claimed is $83,482,- $61," he told the committee, explain- ing that while the case was yet un finished, the engineering estimates had been approved in the bureau. “The amortization allowed by the unit (income tax) was $55,063,312. The amortization considered proper by vour counsel and engineers is 135,987, ¢ * * The difference In tax is $21,438,513." Special amortization allowance: STAR, WASHINGTO. BETTER 'OLE RAID IS AIRED AT TRIAL Policeman - Charged - With| Neglect of Duty Is Praised by Superiors. An echo from the raid on the Better ‘Ole, 1515 U street, on the night of February j, sounded before the police trial board ut the sixth precinet to- day, when Policeman G. 1. Hellmuth waz placed on trial, charged with neglect of duty. Defense Counsel Michael Mangum attacked the specificatiohs of the charge as being so indefinite asx to be practically fatally deficlent, but Chairman Wahly ruled them suf- ficient in the eye: of the trial board. The morning's testimony was taken up with character withesses exclusive- ly from the Police Department, wh testified that Hellmuth was an exce lent officer, always alert and ready to perform his duty, as far as they knew. Dry Agents Teatity. Prohibition agents who participated In the raid, next called to the stand, painted the sceme prior to the raid at the Better 'Ole as being “noisy” and “bolsterous.” W. A. Heddons, who with four other prohibition agents participated in the raid, said that the occupations of the patrons of the club that night apparently con- sisted in dancing and eating, smok- ing and drinking. By 11:30 o'clock that night, Heddons continued, in- toxication of certain of the patrons was “very noticable,” basing his be- lef, he sald, on the fuct that seme staggered and acted abnormally on the dance floor. He sald he noticed expecially the way they danced, heard convershtions on the dance floor, and smelled the odor of al- cohol on some of the men who were dancing. He added that there were talking and singing. laughing and whistling among the patrons, and gave details of a “rumpus” during which he was endeavoring to obtain some evidence. Comparing the Better ‘Ole to other clubs, Heddons said that the group of 45 or 60 patrons there on the night of February 7 were more bolsterous than he had found patrons at any of the other cabarets. Lewis J. Tutt, another prohibition agent who was present that night, told of a conver- sation with Hellmuth there béfo the rald. He said that he knew Hell- muth well and had worked with him previously, and that Hellmuth told him that he would not be “able to | make a buy” there, since the patrons weré all “nicé people. He said he saw a flask and four other contain- ers of alleged intoxicants and noticed six or eight persons evidently intoxi- cated, who were unsteady in their dancing. He added that in so far as he knew the Better ‘Ole was an in- corporated club, but that he had cali- ed up and made reservations, ob- tained a card for admission, but when entering the place that night the card was not needed and no questions were asked. He sald he saw others also admitted without cafde. Policeman Is Praised. Among the character witnasses who - testified for Hellmuth were Capt. R. E. Doyle, who declared him an_ “excellent officer”; Capt. Plem- mons of the twelfth precinct, who said Hellmuth was “as good a police- man as I ever saw Sergt. McGin- niss of the eighth precinct, who also termed him an excellent officer, and Sergt. Burke of the eighth precinct, Who characterized Hellmuth as “the best all-around policeman” he had seen in 22 years on the police force. In oppoeing the charges as drawn in the specifications, Attorney Man- gum pointed out that none of them alleged Heddons to have had knowl- edge of violation of the Jaw on the night of the raid, and said that the board could no’ infer that Hellmuth knew of the viviations unless he was s0 charged formally. He also sald that the charges against Hellmuth Qid not state what law was violated, nor who violated the law, but added that there was no objection to con- tinuing even under such a defective Instrument, because tha respondent wished to have the matter clear- ed up. More than twenty witnesses remain to testify. Among them is Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, lieutenant of the Wom- an's Bureau, who was at the rald, nd others who were present that night. Divisional Chief of Prohibition Agents Harry M. Luckett testified briefly concerning the raid, stating that he found soft drinks for sale at the Better 'Ole that night, but did rot remember seeing very much food on the tables. He sald 14 men and women had been placed under arrest as the result of that raid. | Actress Wins $150 Alimony. NEW YORK, March 12.—Mrs. Marie Gaspar Schwab, actress, today was awarded a separation, with $100 week- 1y alimony and $50 additional for the care of her child, against Lawrence Schwab, Broadway theatrical pro- ducer. Supreme Court Justice Lévy, in his decision, criticized Schwab for hix conduct and testimony during the trial. | Seize Man and Son at Stills. Special Dispateh to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., March 12.—Morris Bariie and his 15-year-old son, Rich ard Barlie, are being held for grand Jury action after being arrested near two 100-gallon illicit distilleries Peytonsburg. Barlie told the oficers that. he did not know the st were there. — | were given corporations producing war material during 1917 and 1918 if they embatked upon improvement and construction projects during that period, even though the actua' ex- penditure was not made until after the war. The committee demanded a list of principal concerns which had been %o treated. and the list was read as follows by W. 8. Tandrow, one of the valuation experts for the bureau: “The first taxpaver Is the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., Pittsburgh; total costs involved, $28,193,771. “The second ix the Midvale Steel and Ordnance of New York: report sub- mitted February 18, 1324; total cost, $24,928,520. | “The third case is that of the E. I du Pont de Nemours Co,, Wilmington, Del.; report submitted May 24, 1923; total cost, $25,601,464. Teatimony In Asmalled, “The fourth case Is that of the American Steel and Wire Co., Cleve- 1and, with costs of $16,915,995. That | represents approximately $100,000,000 of costs.” The American Mining Congress ye! terday lssued a statement here de- claring that the testimony before the Senate committee which assailéd val- uations allowed silver and copper companies did not disclose the real issues. “Valuation factors selected by the Government in 1918 over objections of copper companies,” the statement sald, “were accepted by them in good faith, as their representatives felt that difficulties, delays and litigation would be avoided by immediate set- tlements of tax liability, which would enable the industry to proceed with- out interruption or uncertainty which might be involved in extended con- troversy with the Treasury over basic yaluations.” D. C. SUBMARIES SAVE LS. FRON “FOS” Dash 2,400 Miles Up Pacific Coast to Rout Invading “Black” Fleet. By the Associated Press. ABOARD U. §. 8, SEATTLE, OFF COAST OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, March 12.—The United States fleet, the greatest American sea power ever concentrated In the Pacific, was crui ing to 8an Diego tod Ten dreadnaughts, 9 scout cruisers, 53 destroyers, 15 submarines. an air-! craft carrier, and many duxiliaries moved on in majestic alignment under the four-star flag of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, commander-in-chief. These seafighters at dawn yester- day complated one of the most spec- tauclar maneuvers in the history of the Pacific, = problem which after two weeks of crulsing culminated in a nine-hour night battle. It was & great victory for the sub- marines, for the underwater type of oraft “saved” the United States from invasion and were reponsible for the defeat of the enemy Black fleet. Major Interest centered in the per- formance of a dozen S-type, 300-foot submarines, which completed a 2,400- mile dash from the Panama Canal under battle conditions and effectively penetrated the lines of the great in- vading Black fleet. The new scout crulsers, like the submarines, participated in fleet ma- neuvars for the first time. val officers sald that the maneuvers indi- cuted that one of the Navy's greatest needs for scouting It more of these crulsers. The battleship and light eruiser divisions will proceed from San Diego to San Pedro Monday, préparatory to practice March 25, in which all the battleships fire salvos at (argets with the 200 big guns of the fleet shooting simultanéously. — COOLIDGE SUBMIT NAME OF WARREN TO SENATE AGAIN (Continued from First Paj danger control of the Senate by the Republicans after the elections In 1926. At that time 25 Republican Sen- ators must come up for re-election and only 7 Democrats, and all of the tter in States which aré normally Democratic. The suggeéstion was advanced that one reason for the resubmiusion of Mr. Warren's nominatien was to give Mr, Warren an opportunity to ap- pear publicly before the judliciary committee to reply to the charges made against him by Senator Read of Missouri and others during the d-- bate in the Senate. It has alsd been seuggested that possibly Mr. Warren might be nominated for a ecabinet position other than that of Attorney General and that opyosition to his confirmation for such an of- fice would not be 50 severe. In fact, it has been suggested that he might be slated for appointment as Secratary of War If Becretary Weeks retires this Summer, as it has heen reported he might. The presen- tation of the arguments in his de- fense by Mr. Warren might go far toward keeping the record straight, it was said. In the Senate judiciary committee the supporters and opponants of Mr. ‘Warren, according to tha final vote taken in the Senate on Tuesday, are in the ratio of 7 to 9. The seven who tavored Mr. Warren's nomination were Senators Cummins, Ernst, Spen- cer, Means, Harreld, Deneén and Gil- lett, all Republicans. Those who opposed Mr. Warren were Senators Borah and Norris, Re- publicans, and Senators Overman, Reed of Missouri, Ashu Walsh, Carraway, King and Néely, Demo- crats. The opinion was expréssed today by Democratic members of the commit- tee, howaver, that there would be no undue delay by the judiciary commit- tee on the nomination. In view of the vote In the Senate, however, the nomination may come to the Senate with an adverse report. It was Senator Butler of Masea- chusetts, the President’s close! triend, elovated by him to the chairmanship of the Republican National committee and but recently appointed to the seat formarly held by Henry Cabot Lodge, who told Mr. Coolidge that the Senate leaders had given up (0o easily. At a breakfast conference with the Executive and Mr. Warren himself, Senator Butler insisted that the votes for confirmation could be obtained and should be obtained. Warrea Had Choice. Mr. Coolidge and the nomines i tened attentively to this new presen- tation of the case. Then the Presi- dent turned to Mr. Warren and left it to Bim to decide whether the issue should be fought out to a finish or considered closed. Mr. Warren decid- ed in favor of a fight Uron its resubmission the Warren romination will regular course through the judiciary committee, which includes among its members some of the leading op ponents of confirmation. There will be many opportunities to intérpose delays, should the opposition declde that sort of strategy advisable. In their reassessment of the sit- uation the Republican leaders point- ed out that when confirmation failed Tuesday on & 40-to-40 tie, not only Vice President Dawes, but severs) of the Republican regulars among the Senate membership we: ent. They alwo declared that several of the Democrats who were out of the chamber when the vote was taken could be won over to support the nomination. N President Coolidge is understood to have left it to Mr. Warren himself to decide whether his name should again be submitted. The nominee withheld Judgment until he had been given by Senator Butler a detalled report of Senate sentiment. In veral respects the plcture of the situ- ation painted by the Massachusetts Senator differs from the pessimistic report taken to the White House ye: terday by the titular leaders of the Republican Senate organization, in- cluding Chairman Cummins of the judiclary committee. Senator Butler insisted, however, that these leaders had been alarmed unduely by thelr defeat of last Tuesday, and he pre- sents evidence that appeared con- vineing to the President and Mr. ‘Warren. May Make Statement. Publicly Mr. Warren would make no comment, but there wers indica- tions that - President Coolidge him- self might have something to say ater in the day after the nomination had been returied to the Senat In the two-day Interim since the Senate rejected Mr. Warren the White House has been the target for a new assault by the supporters of various other candidas for the place, and Mr. Coolidge i under- stood to have given oonsiderable thought to the selection of another should Mr. Warren decline to remain In the running. The President i3 said to have about decided that in any event the place must g0 to a Western man, and to have practically sliminated from his list of possibili- ties such names as those of Arthur P. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, have to travel the | 1925. JIM FOX OUT OF AFTER CLASH Sympathizer Pays Fine of Tender-Hearted Negro. ! 5 Animal Only Pup, Any- \way, and Not Subject to Penalty, Is Plea. EDec'al Dispateh to The Star. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., March 12 re gonna quit kickin' old Fox's dog aroun’ up here—and besides | somebody is going to decide whether | Pennsylvania justice miscarried just becauce the old darks’s heart went out to a hungry little dog. Jim is out of jail today, after serv- ing almost half of a 20-day sentence because the friendless bit of & terrier came whimpering up to his cabin door one night and he took it in in- stead of turning it over to the au- thorities to become a target for a policeman’s bullet. Jim was out of a job and broke, so he gave the little dog to Sallie Car- ter, also colored. But when the tax collector came around neither had the money to buy its tag and Jim, de- termined to save the woman from the jull sentence again claimed ths ‘mon- Grel as his own Life of Animal Saved. Before the hour set for the dog's execution arrived the necessary $1.10 for its tag was raised and its was sived, 80 Jim went back to gled of (hat fact, at least, uniil Frank Beders, a Chambersburg contractor, paid the fine late vestarday =nd jus- tice was satisfled that the crime had Deen exniate Now {t has been léarned that the |dog was not 0ld enough to need a jlicense. anyhow. Jim told tha court jRis puppy was but 5 months old, | whereas the law requires Ilicenses after 6 months. But the court de- cided the dog looked older as it sat In the witness chair, dénied by nature the ability to testify in its own behalf. C. A. Miller, another contractor, announced today that the dog was an off-spring of a fox terrier owned by himself, and when Jim Fox sues the State for false arrest the con- tractor* is going to court with the papers to prove that the old negre did not lie about the dog's age. and that he was imprisoned illegally There are some other things for the police and the magistrats to ex- PROTOCOL REVISION ASKED BY ENGLAND TO WIN SIGNATURE (Continued from First Page.) | | | | British governmeént believed the best way of dealing with the situation was in co-operation with the League of Nations to supplement the cove- nant by making special arrangements in order to meet special needs “That these arrangements,” he con- | tinued, “should be purely defensive in character; that they should be framed in the spirit of the covenant, working in close harmony with the league and under its guidance, Is manifes And in the opinion of his majesty’'s government these objects can best be attained by knitting to- gether the natlons most immediately concerned and whose différences might lead to a renewal of strife by means of treaties framed with the sole object of maintaining, as be- tween themselves, an unbroken peace. “Within it limits no quicker remedy for our present ills can easily be found, or any surer safeguard hgaipst future calamities.” Reservations Are Noted. Dealing with the insistence of the protocol that every possible dispute should be settled by arbitration, Secreta Chamberlain said the framers of the league covenant must have felt that the objections to uni- versal and compulsory arbitration might easily outwelgh its theoretical advantages. He remarked that last year Great Britain made a reserva- tion that so far as Great Britain was concerned greatly limits the univer- sal appliaation of the compulsory principle. Mr, Chamberlain from diminishing the objections to compulsory arbitration, the protocol increased them, because of the weak- ening of those reservations in clause XV of the covenant, which were de- | wigned to prevent any interference by the league in matters of domestic Jurisdiction. This was nearest Mr. Chamberlain got to the problem of immigration raised by the so-called Japanese |amendment to the protocol. . 8. Absence Hig Factor. Mr. Chamberlair made several ref- arences to the United States. He be- Illeved the whole world would agree |that the League of Nations in its present shape was not the league de- signed by the framers of the cove- nant, who doubtless contémplated the difficuities that might arrive from the non-inclusion of & certaln number of states within the circle of member- ship. “But they never supposed.” hé add- ed. “that among these states would be found so many of the most power- ful nations of the world—Ileast of all did they foresée that one of them would be the United States.” The British secretary argued that it was a great mistake “to add to the liabliities already incurred” without taking into account the weakening of the league through the non-adhesion of soms powers. He insisted the eco- nomic sanctions provided for in the protocol, if simultaneously directed by the world against a state which was not economically self-sufficient, would be a weapon of Incalculable power. ‘It was true,” he averred, that the league's work going on beneficent- 1y and full of promise, “though the United States remains in friendly alootness. Individual Americans have heiped treely, both by sympathy and service, wh'le the generosity of the America public has greatly aided some league causes. It might be suid with truth that “the problems which even the weakensd league has had to face have never overstrained itg machin- ery.” Mr. Chamberiain empha.fzed, how- . | | added that far considered at the time Mr. Warren originally was selected. It also was indicated that Mr. Coolidge would not now consider the selection of Gov. Groesbeck of Michigan, who also has been among those sugge: . The political situation in Michigan, which is Mr. Warren's home State, was sald to have been a predominating - factor in that decision. May Name Waterman. One name prominently advanced in the last 48 hours as a possible alter- nate selection was that of Charl W. Waterman of Denver, Colo.,, who now is serving as special counsel for the new Oil Conservation Board. He was active In the Coolidge precon- vention campaign In the West and for years has been an outstanding lawy A suggestion was made today that Mr. Warren probably would be given an opportunity to appear before the judiciary committes before it acts this time, to answer charg have been made against him b JAIL WITH DOG OVER TAG LAW | £l plain, too. For instance. the izw re- quires that 12 days' notice be given | before a person can be arrcsted for | “harboring” a hungry dog without | | béing taxed for it. They fined Jim first, it is said, gave him a coupls of davs (o get the money and when he failed sent him to prison , | Since the story of Jim's :mprison- | ment was published in Thz Star of- |fers by the scores have come from Dersons all over the country who wanted (o pay the fine themselves | and buy Spot’ that is his name— | tag, t00. One of these came from a United States marine attached to the corps headquarters, in Washington. “On March 16" he wrote, "1 will be in a position to furnish not more than $15 for that purpose. If the éxpense is greater, I may he abhle to raise additiona] funds; it might be possible for ms to meet the added expense on the installment plan * ¢ ¢ I am sure I am justified in| mitigating his punishment i | | | ever. that powerful munities exist outside the and although an aggressor state doudtless would suffer, there is no presumption that it would be crushed or_even that it would suffer most Mr. Chamberiain disiiked Articles | VIL and VIII of the protocol, which prohibit military preparation during arbitration proceedings. He said | these articles meant that an aggressor | was at liberty to select his own date | for picking a quarrel, and that before | that date he might distribute his armies as he pleased. Supposedly the | troops of his intended victim would | be in the wrong position for defense, | but thére they must be kept or the victim might be charged with breach of the protocol. He deemed this an intolerable situation which could never survive Embarrasing to Navies. The British foreign secretary con- | tended that these same articles were even more embarrassing regarding sea forces. The whole value of the fleet depended on its mobility, and to suggest that directly a dispute arises the ships of maritime powers must remain immovable would be asking a threatened state to surren-| der its inallenable right to self-de- tense, “to which it is never likely! to_submit.” Mr. Chamberlain aiso strongiy ob- jected to clause XV of the protocol, | protecting states from any alteration | of frontiers and interference in in- ternal affairs. He said England ac- cepted this principle, but opposed em- bodying these generalities in dogmas of Inflexible rigidity designed to con-| trol the league's actiens in -all eir-| cumstances “and for all time." He declared that in the sternest| codes of law mitigating circumstances | were allowed to modify court judg- ments, and he believed the league should not deprive itself of the dis- | cretion on other tribunals exercise. I Giving a general characterization, Mr. Chamberlain insisted that the protocol destroyed the balance of the covenant and altered its spirit. “Fresh emphasi= on sanctions and elaboration of military procedure,” he | sald, “insensibly suggest the idea that the vital business of the League of Nations s not so much to promote | friendly cd-operation and reasoned harmony fn the management of inter- national affairs as to preserve peacs by organizing war on the largest scal He belleved that if society brooded on war it was more liable to hasten fts dreaded occurrence than to hinder it. England, he afirmed, was con- vinced that anything fosternig the idea that the main business of the league was with war, rather than with peace, was likely to weaken it in the funda- economic com- league, trick of duty |16 Caldwell that he feared to go { sure |calawen, | struck | tifiea [clock as he was leaving | o’clock, Picrson said he went LIEUTENANT DENIES - BEATIVG PRSONER Pierson Says He Was Not in Station When Alleged As- sault Took Place. Joseph W police, on the witness stand in Crim- inal Division 1 ling and a ji denied that he leged assault while the the seventh precinct September last. Pierson sald the only know edge he has of the alleged assault ix from the testimony before the trial board and at the present trial. Tha lieutenunt insisted that he was in the station between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of September at which time Davis claimed a sack was thrown over his head and he was beaten with blackjacks and a rubber hose. The Ilfeutenant, Ralph G. Proctor is on trial an_indictment charging an ault with a dangerous weapon, detailed his movements on the night in ques tion from the time of his arrival at the station at 11:30 o’clc % until b ended at 8 o'clock Denies Alleged Remark. On cross-examination by United Staies Attorney Finelly, Pierson d nied that he had a conversation about 1:45 with a man named Caldwell a the Connecticut lunchroom. when the lieutenant supposed sald that if Davis he would be in fave He also danied that Pierson, lieutenant « befors Justice Hoeh today, took part in Arthut ,A was y vehementiy an on latter a prison Pyt under who with brother of hanging him he had remarke would to see he 1o Davis because “paddle him The man asked to stand, and Pierson sald he knew him well bu again denied that he had made the statement attributed to him Examined by his counsel, Attorne E. Leahy, Plerson declared he 45 years old and has been on the po- lice force more than years. H talked with Davis after the latter had been placed in a cell him what was the trouble with selman, Davis denied that he Musselman, Pierson said, he then remarked Well, if th the way you feel about it, I w some one to identify you.' Pierson then turned the key to ihe cellroom over to the desk sergeant he stated, with directions not to lat any one go back there until he turned with the person he though could make the identification T witness explained that as the usi course when a suspect denies gn At this conversation Davis had tes that Plerson cursed him ““We have you. Plerson profanity and did not he sald He 1 declared, nied using any make any threats mitted ordering the other prisone from that cell to be taken to No precinct, but declared he was cz rying out the orders of Capt. B and had no “ulterior motive” in r moving the prisoners Visit of Wife. Pierson then told of seek tification of Davis as the of Musselman and arrivinZ home of Mrs. Eva May Dove, who went with him to the station. Mrs Dove was in the eaptain’s room wait ing to have Davis shown to her whe the wife of Davis and his sister vi ited the station, sald Pierson. Mrs Davis asked to see her husband and was told if there was any particular reason for the visit she would be permitted, but when she would not tell why she wanted to see him her request was denied. This the usual custom of the precinct, said the liewtenant The accused officer could riot Tecall telling that “she might go home or walk the streets,” as testified by her. He de elared that after the identification « Davis by Mrs. Dove he took the latter in the captain's car back to her hom and, stopping at the Conr Junchroom, picked up Sergt. Be conveyed him to his home on road. Plerson said he looked at the station with Mrs. Dove and it registered 11 minutes to 1 o'clock. When he re turned, after leaving Sergt. Belt at the latter's home, it was 2 a.m., he de clared. Leaving orders with Procto who was alone with the desk ser geant in the precinct, to call him at 8 to bed He was awakened by Proctor about 4 o'clock, he stated, and told that Davis was complaining of pains in his side He directed his removal to the hos- pital and ordered the desk sergean to accompany Proctor and the pris- oner. This detail left the station unguard- ed, so the lieutenant dressed and charge of the desk, he stated. In proof of that part of his testimony he identified the record of calls at 4 a.m on the blotter as in his handwriting A number of witnesses, including prominent merchants of Georgefowr Jawvers and fellow officers. testified to the good reputations of Plerson and Proctor. ng declared Mrs. Dav mental task of diminishing the causes of wa | Mr. Chamberlain @oubted whather | disarmament would ‘follow acceptance | of the protocol. | What those who hesitate to disarm | were {n doubt about, he added, was | whether the covenani would be kept, | because some faithless member of the league or some predatory nation out- | side might brush the protocol and | covenant ruthlessly aside. DAWES AGAIN VICTIM OF HAZING IN SENATE Norris Reads Parody on ‘“‘Sheri- dan’s Ride.” Réeferring to Dash to Capitol. Vice President Dawes got another dose of hazing In the Scnate today, and, outwardly, took it smiling. 3till smarting under his attack on its rules, and offended bacause he hadn't returned to tha chamber on Inauguration day, the Vice Presi- dent’s fatal absence from the chamber Tuesday, when the Warren nomina- tion was lost because he wasn't there to break the tie vote, was too good an_opportunity to be missed. Senator Norris of Nebraska read to the Senate a poem=—a parcdy on Sheridan riding to save the day at Win- chester—but Instead of Sheridan rid- ing a taxicab with the Vice Presi- dent inside was breaking the speed limit to the Capitol in the futile dash to save the nomination of Mr. War- ren to be Attorney General. Half-suppressed laughter among Sen- ators _punctuated the reading, but through ft the Vice President sat smiling, and at the conclusion arose 4nd returned the compliment to Sena- tor-Norris by saying: “The chair cannot refrain from ex- pressing his appreciation of the deli- cate tribute submitted by the Senator from Nebraska.” Senator Neeley of Wast Virginia Rugg. chief justice pf the Massachu- | of his previous connections with the | joined in the hazing party by reading setts Supreme Court, who had b sugar industry. an editorial on “Absenteeism.” Doesn’t Blame iVife For Asking Divorce, Declares Bennett Actor Admits He’s Tem- permental and Hard to Live With. By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, March —Richard Bennett, actor, whose “six blocks’ divorce” from his wife was followed by a real divorce suit by her, today attributed his marital _troubles 1 his own artistic temperament. He loves her, he says, but s willing that she should have & divorce because she wants it “twere all here.” he said can't live with me. person to live with. [ know it.”” Bennett’s attorney yesterday said that an alimony agreement had al- ready been reached by Bennett and his wite. Mrs. Bennett's divorce sult will not be contested. her husband saild. She will seek the custody of their three children, one of whom Barbara, has already started on her stdge career. Mrs. Bennett also is an actress, known on the stage as Adrienne Morrison While dlscussing the case Bennet! pefined two poems to Mis wife. He sald he would never marry again “If-he doesn't want to live with me, why should I try to force her to do se?" he asked. “Certainly T should be the right ot any woman to leave a man—Iif she should want to—and it does seem that she wants '®Fhe masital troubles of the Ben- netts first attracted attention several months ago wWhen Bennett left his home and moved six blocks away but ‘the separation was explained as purely for temperamental reasons. temperamental about “That's why my wife I'm a difficult Though she ii 108 years-of age, Mrs. Catherine S. Stevens of Bellefourche, S. D.. continues to do simple hous hold duties and enjoys sewing and automobile riding.