Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain and colder tonight; minimum temperatute above freezing; row partly cloudy and much colder. Teomperatures: Highest, 64, at noon lowest, 44, at 11:45 a.m. to- Full report_on page 1. vesterday day. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 tomor- 29,537. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D, C. SENATE'S VICTORY ON WARREN LOOMS AS COOLIDGE. ASKS - TIME BEFORE VOTE Administration Leaders to Attempt Postponement Un- til Monday, While Alter- nate Is Considered. WALSH MAY OPPOSE HOLDING UP OF TEST Curtis Calls Upon President and Then Goes Over Situation With Opponents of Michigan Man. Recess Appointment Not Favor- ed by Executive. The fight to bring about the con- firmation of Charles B. Warren to be Attorney General apparently collapsed today. President Coolidge, it was report- at the Capitol, will select an- other nominee for the office of At- torney General and transmit the Senate immediately after the Senate has acted upon the nomina- tion of Mr. Warren. This a of course, will be taken only in the event that Mr. Warren's nomination be rejected a second time. His re- | jection is expected by his opponents | and by administration leaders, it was said. Senator Curtis, Republican leader, following a visit to the White House today, in which the situation was discussed with the President, entered into conferences with the opponents of Mr. Warren's confirmation. An ef- fort was made to bring about an agreement to postpone the debat and aoction on Mr. Warren's nomina tion until Monday. The purpose of this postponement was to give the President an opportunity to select an appointee for the Attorney Gen- eralship in cage Mr. Warren was re- Jected. Opposes Recess Appointment. It is understood that the President desired an opportunity to transmit | to the Senate a nomination for At- torney General and to have it cofi< firmed before the Senate should finally adjourn. It Is also understood that ed the President desired this course to| be followed rather than to make a recess appointment. The fear was expressed that if the nomination of Mr. Warren should be rejected today there would not be a quorum of the Senate present Monday to handle a new nomination. - An agreement was tentatively en- tered into by the leaders of the Re- publicans and the Democrats to post- pone the debate on the Warren nomi nation until Monday. Shortly after this agreement was reached, however, it was reported that Senator Walsh of Montana, one of the opponents of Mr. Warren, would object to such an ar- rangement and that debate would probably proceed. President Coolidge, it was reported, had become convinced that the nomi- nation of Mr. Warren could not be confirmed. It was pointed out, how- ever, that the President was parti- cular desirious of having certa:n ar- guments in support of Mr. Warren made a part of the record. Only in this way, he was convinced, could jus- tice be done to Mr. Warren. That end will have been accomplished through the transmission to the Senate of Mr. Warren's nomination and the vppor- tunity to debate it on the floor. Senator Butler of Massachusetts was prepared to deliver an address in de- fense of the nomination of Mr. War- ren. It is understood that he will put into the record many documents to refute the charges mad: against Warren by Senator Reed of Missourl and others. Tt was explained by a spokesman for the President yesterday that his princi- pal reason for resubmitting Mr. War- ren’s name was to provide an opportu- nity for Mr. Warren's side of the case to be presented and placed in the rec- ords of the Senate. The President known to have felt that inasmuch as Mr. Warren's first nomination was de- feated by so close a margin, after so much had been said by administration opponents against him and so little in his defense, and as the vote was taken at a time when it was impos- sible to present adequately to the Senate his real qualifications, he wanted to make possible another op- portunity to accomplish this President’s Reasons Explained. In sons explaining the President’'s rea- for selecting Mr, Warren for this cabinet post, this sald the President chose him after careful consideration and investiga- tion because of his own personal knowledge and appreciation of him. Also, he had the Department of Justice make an investigation of that case which was tried in the courts relative to the American Sugar Co. and the beet sugar company of Michigan. After all this it did not appear to the President that there was anything In his record that con- stituted a blemish. The President it to} tion, | spokesman | | | { | | | | | sehool. Schoolboy Test For British Peer And Editor Off By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 14.—Lord Roth- ermere’s schoolboy examination is off. The publisher contends that the conditions of the challenge by W. G. Cove, which at the begin- ning were clear and precise, have been changed, and In a letter to his challenger he says: “It Is now | clear to me that you have mo in- tention of standing by the terms of your own challenge. Ever since I accepted it you have been trying to wriggle away from it” After reviewing the detalls of the nego- tiations, he concludes: “I really cannot allow you to waste any more of my time over this matter.” Mr. Cove's challenge arose out of criticism by Rothermere's Dally Mail of the Londen secondary schools, of which Mr. Cove, a Laborite M. P., Is an ardent cham- pion. SHEPHERD IS HELD FOR FURTHER QUIZ McClintock’s Heir Detained After Identification by Germ School Head. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, March 14—William D. Shepherd. chief heir to William Nel- | son MeClintock, who died of typhoid fever last December, was held for further interrogation today after his dramatic midnight call to the State attorney’s office, where he was ques- tioned for hours concerning state-| ments by Dr. Charles Faiman, head of a germ culture school, that Shep- herd had sought information on ad- ministering typhoid germs. Routed from bed and taken to the prosecutor’s office, Shepherd was con- fronted with Dr. Faiman and flatly denied that he had asked about in- troducing typhold germs into the body. Mrs. Shepherd, a co-guardian | of young MeClintock, was later tak- en to the prosecutor’s office. She was | permitted to return home after an| hour’s questioning. State's Attorney Robert E, Crowe| planned to renew the interrogation later today and also to take means to block plans of Shepherd's attorney to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. Dr. Faiman, who was subjected to nearly 36 hours of steady examina- tion, previously had said Shepherd had posed as a lawyer seeking in- formation on germs in defense of a client accused of administering them. LXCEr Shepherd had given him $50 for a letter he had written to the school inquiring about bacteriology courses, Faiman said. Calls Doctor n “Linr.” When Shepherd was brought before him Dr. Faiman identified him as the man who had made the inquiries re- garding the germs and accused by Faiman of having taken three tubes of bacilll. Faiman asserted positive- | 1y in Shepherd's presence that he| was the same man who had paid $50 for the letter of inquiry sent to the “You know you did,” Faiman said to Shepherd. “I never saw the gentleman before two weeks ag sald Shepherd, ap-| pealing to assistant State's attorneys present He's the fellow all man reiterated. “You're a liar,” Shepherd retorted. Mrs. Shepherd became hysterical when detectives came for her hus-| band and declared, “This persecution | is worse than crucifixion.” She was calm several hours later| when brought to the State's attor-| 's office and told assistant State's; attorneys that *if they realized how | much I loved Billy McClintock the| case. would be dropped.” | Explains Former Silence. ! In excusing himself for withholding his information during his inquest| testimony and lengthy questioning, Faiman told the prosecutors that he “did not wish to be mixed up in the case” and that he “was ashamed of the fact that he only got $50 for lhei letter.” The letter, he said, was| taken from bis files by Shepherd| shortly after McClintock’s death. In-| vestigators have since been unable| to find it | “If Shepherd had merely asked for the letter I would never have thought much about it Failman said. “I don’t pay much attention personally to the correspondence, and I did not | get suspicious until he handed me $50. 1 knew then something was wrong." Falman sald that Shepherd had taken a course at his school and that shortly afterward three tubes of bacilli. one of them containing typhoid germs, had disappeared Says He Axked of Inoculation. | When Shepherd came for the letter, Faiman said, “I at once accused him of taking away my test tubes of typhoid germs. He just laughed and | sald, ‘T'll take care of you well later on. “I never thought about the incldent until the newspapers told of the in- quire into MeClintock’s death. “Shepherd wanted to know whether the germs could be introduced into a person’s system by hypodermic in-| oculation,” Faiman said. “I told him germs mixed with a person's food were more likely to prove effective, especially, as in articles of food, con- | ditions would be likely to be favor- right,”” Fal- | considered him a man of high charac- | able to their culture.” ter, and appreciated his eminence at the bar and his many rare gifts and intellect. In fact, the President was_satisfied that . he would make 4 splendid head of the Department of Justice and member of his oficial The President is known to have been mindful of the great public services Mr. Warren has performed in the past and that he accepiel his offer to become Attorney Gencral at a great deal of personal sacrifice. Because of all this and of his knowledge of the estcem in which he is held by the people of Michigan the President thought he would give Mr. Warren the benefit of ahother nomi- nation so that the latter's side could be properly presented. Without attempting to criticize the Senate for rejecting the original nomination, President Coolidge is known to have felt that the Senate should realize that the President should be allowed to have about him (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | i | | liam | izing criminal | cation for the writ. Attorney Robert Stolle, partner of | Shepherd, was at the Shepherd home When the State’s attorney’s detectives arrived. He said they had been ex- | pecting something of the kind and | | would “not be surprised if a murder | charge would be placed against Shen<! | hera.” A habeas corpus actlon ‘was begun seeking the release of Shepherd. | Such a writ was threatened by Edward Hedrick early today when Shepherd was removed from his home by the State's attorneys’ dectectives without a warrant. Hedrick, who has been active as counsel for Shepherd, Stoll and Wil- S. Stewart, the latter special- law, filed the appli- Gridiron Dinner April 23. The annual Spring dinner of the Grid- | iron Club will be held at the New Wil- lard Hotel Thursday evening, April 23, according to the action of the club at its monthly meecting held today. ch | Kentucky Senator declared, WASHINGTON, COUZENS ACCUSED BY COINVESTIGATOR - INREVENUE PROBE Senator Prompted by “Per- sonal Animus” Toward Mellon, Says Ernst. BITTER ROW BREAKS OUT AFTER ATTACK Kentuckian, Following Glass Speech, Asks for Legal Way to Call Member a “Liar.” Senator Couzens' investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and his charges of Treasury efforts to “dis- clpline” him, provide the fuel today for a Senate debate that crackles with personal accusations and flames Into a white heat of bitterness. Replying to the Michigan Senators recent jibes at Secretary Mellon, Sen- ator Ernst of Kentucky, another Re- publican member of the investigating committee of which Mr. Couzens is chairman, declares a “personal ani- mus” against Mr. Mellon had prompt- ed the attacks on him; that Senator | Couzens had not been seeking fact but openings to attack the Treasur and that the tax returns of the Me lon companies had been put on the committee grill for no other reason but because they had connections with the present Treasury Secretary. In return Senator Couzens declared he had attacked Mr. Mellon because he became convinced that the Secre- tary had a personal interest in some of the tax assessments under exami- nation; had asked for the records of the Mellon companies because of grave charges that had reached the committee, and intimated that he sus- pected that important committee files were disappearing because of close contact between Treasury agents and Senator Ernst. After Senator Glass, Democrat, Vir- ginia, former Secretary of the Treas- ury, had concluded a speech assailing Secretary Mellon, Senator Ernst asked the chair “if there was any- thing under the rule of the Senate that would permit him to call a fel- low Senator a willful, malicious liar.” A dozen Senators were immediately on their feet demanding that Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, who was pre- siding, enforce e rules and compel the Senator from Kentucky to sit down. After much confusion a motion was made and a roll call ordered to de- termine if Senator Ernst was out of order. “Not once during the entire in- vestigation has Senator Couzens for- gotten his personal feelng against the Secretary of the Treasury,” said Senator Ernst. “He has been hunting not for facts, but for something harmful to the Secretary and to the Bureau of Internal Revenue; but dur- ing all the months of the investiga- tion not a single fact has been brought out reflecting on the char- acter or the Integrity of the Secretary of the Treasury or officials under him.” There was no Jjustification, the for the statement of Senator Couzens that because an additional tax assessment of $10,000,000 had beer imposed on him as a “disciplinary measure.” Mr. Couzens, he said, merely was attempt- Ing to “pose as a martyr.” He read a telegram from Secretary Mellon, say- ing the additional tax assessment had no connection with the Senate in- vestigation. Says Counsel Retired. Senator Ernst told the Senate that Dr. T. S. Adams of Yale University, first counsel for the committee, had resigned because he concluded the purpose of the inquiry was not con- structive legislation, “but a pursuit of the attack of the Senator from Michigan upon hte Secretary of the Treasury and his administration.” Thirty-eilght of the cases whose records were called for by the com- mittee, the Kentucky Senator con- tinued, were those of “Mellon com- panies,” including the Gulf Ofl, the Standard Steel Car, the Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon National Bank and the Unlon Trust Co. Senator Norrls, Republican, Ne- braska, inquired whether these 38 were, in fact, Mellon companies and the extent of the Secretary’s holdings in_them. “They are Mellon companies,” Sena- tor Ernst replied, “but I cannot say as to the extent to which he is inter- ested fn each.” Throughout the investigation, Sena- tor Ernst added, ‘Senator Couzens' first thought when any company was mentioned was, ‘Is it a Mellon com- pany? " “I listened to such questions until I could stand it no longer,” he con- tinued. “Every time Secretary Mel- lon’s name was mentioned or a Mel- lon company referred to he was up In the air demanding that the charges Le pushed.” All this, he added, was in “retaliation for Senator Couzens humiliation in this dispute with Secretary Mellon over the payment of taxes.” Senator Ernst said these statements were deductions he had drawn from the “facts” as produced by the evidence. Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, asked if he ‘had. not better substitute al- leged facts,” and Semator Ernst replied that he accepted the correction. Senator Couzens sat at his desk ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—The aversion of Calvin Coolidge to sell- ing liquor now is revealed as one thing that possibly started him on the road to the White House. At a banquet of Amherst alumni last night. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst sald that John Cool- idge wanted to apprentice his son as a druggist clerk at the age of 15 until @ terse objection was made by the youth. The story came from Col. Coolidge whifle bound for Washington wighf Mr. Olds for the Harding inaugliration. As Mr. Olds told it: . - “Col. Covlidge warmed up. and Coolidge at 15 Spurned Selling Rum, So Became Lawyer and Presidgnt WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITIQN D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, ENTeR CLAMS anp Tear(DEf : (KNG 0839 “eo Bt ANY DEDUCTION CLAIMED IN ITEM 57 SHoutD BE Lucioty EXPLAINED & Ao 1 Senepwe K KANSAN S NAMED- 10 PENSION POST Wilder S. Metcalf, Holder of Congressional Medal, to Succeed Gardner. Nomination of Wilder S. Metcalf of | Lawrence, Kans., to be commissioner of pensions, succeeding Gen. Wash- ington Gardner, was sent to the ate by President Coolidge today. Gen. Gardner submitted his resignation two weeks ago, to become effective | March 4 Mr. Metcalf has served as United | States pension agent at Topeka, | Kans., for eight years and has been engaged In the farm loan business in Kansas and Oklahoma. He is a vet- eran of the Spanish-American and World wars, serving as a brigadier | general commanding.the 77th Infan- | try Brigade at Camp Beaureguard, Loulsiana, during the World War. He was honorably discharged from | the Army on May 25, 1918. Mr. Metealf was born in Maine, and moved to Ohio in 1878. He served as a private in the Ohio National Guard, and later, when he moved to Kansas, enlisted in the Kansas National Guard as a private, advancing through the grades until he became a brigadier general. He was a major and colonel | of the 20th Kansas Infantry during| the Spanish-American War and the Philippine insurrection. The nominee for the pension com- missionership is a member of the American Legion. the Order of For- eign Wars, the United Spanish War | Veterans and the Military Order of the Carabao. He was awarded the congressional medal for his services in the Philippines. | Among other nominations sent to the Senate today by the President were: Hoffman Philip of New York, to be United States Minister to Persia. Herman J. Galloway of Indiana and Ira L. Letts of Rhode Island. to be Unlited States attorneys. John W. Goldsberry of Oklahoma, to be United States attorney for the northern district of Oklahoma, and H. G. Beard of Oklahoma, to be United States marshal for the northern dis- trict of that State. 100 SOULS BEEIEVED LOST ON JAPANESE STEAMSHIP | en- Sixteen Persons Saved—Destroyers Scour Ocean for Trace of Possible Survivors. By the Assoclated Press. NAGASAKI, Japan, March 14.—One hundred persons are missing from the Japanese steamship Uwajima Maru, No. 6, which is believed to have foun- dered in a storm o. Wednesday off Kabashima Island. The purser and 15 passengers have been picked up thus far, and 5 de- stroyers are searching for other pos- sible survivors. The Uwajima Maru, No. 6, was a wooden vessel of 126 tons, bullt in 1901. Her home port was Kishuku. The Island of Kabashima lies 50 miles west of Nagasakl. “Baby Film Star” Dies. LOS ANGELES, Calif, March 14— Lucille Ricksen, “baby film star” of 1923, said to have been the youngest leading woman on the screen, died today after a long fllness. Her mother died last month. told me that when Calvin was 15 vears old it was a serious question whether or not he should be sent to college. “Col. Coolidge said that he was not sure his son was the right type, and that he finally decided he had better apprentice him to a pharmacist. At that time all drug stores had liquor in stock, and, after the colonel told Calvin of his decision, his son thought for a minute or two and then said, ‘Father, sell ram? That ended it.” Calvin Coolidge was graduated from Amherst in 1895. | house con Radio Programs-—Page 13. THANK FoopNESS 400 OFFICERS STUDYING RESULTS OF MANEUVERS Fourteen Admirals Participating in Secret Parley at Pacific Coast Stations. By the Associated Press. AN DIEGO, Calif., March 14.— Fourteen admirals and 400 officers of staff and command in the United States Navy today in assembly at North Island air station, across San Diego Bay, engaged in the analysis of the naval battle off the Lower Callfornia_coast, a maneuver partici- pated in during the past two weeks by 109 war craft of the Navy. Admiral Robert P. Coontz, com- mander-in-chiet of the United States fleet, presided. Officially the session is-termed a critique. Discussions will be confidential and secret, involving as they do basic matters of the naval defense of the Nation, SCHOOL OFFICIALS FIND NEW DEAS Visit Baltimore and Philadel- phia Buildings to Obtain Best Plans for Work Here. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 14— Enthusiastic over the ideas in school- fuctibn found in Baltimore and impressed deeply with the steps taken by those charged with the edu- cation of the children of that city to give them the best in modern educa- tional facilities, Washington's com- mittee of school planners is in Phila- delphia today. searching for addi- tional features to be included in the District schools to be erected under the unprecedented $19,000,000-five- year bullding program. The committee’s tour of the Phila- delphia schools directed by Supt. Ed- win C. Broome, took the committee, composed of Supt. Frank W. Ballou, Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris and Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the Board of Education, into Ger- mantown, Frankford and other sec- tions, where new school projects were recently completed. The schools visited included Logan Demonstration, the Roosevelt Junior High and the John Story Jenks Ele- mentary. Baltimore Schools Attract. The inspection trip In Baltimore yesterday firmly convinced the trio that modern ideas in schoolhouse construction demand auditoriums, gymnasiums, adequate outdoor play space, well equipped classrooms and proper scientific safeguards to a child's health. All of these features are consplcuously lacking in the Dis- trict's schools. Three varied types of new schools, erected under Baltimore's compre- hensive $21,000,000 school develop- ment program, were literally fine- tooth-combed by the committee. Every feature which appealed to the members was discussed and noted in a diary being kept by Mr. Green wood, who has taken upon himself the secretarial duties. The first school inspected in Bal- timore was the Clifton Park Junior High, & massive structure in the ex- treme corner of Clifton Park. What it lacked in exterior esthetic beauty was more than offset by the interior design and equipment. Here the com- mittee spent almost the entire morn- ing in company with Principal John Colbourn and C. E. Douglass, as- sistant superintendent of Baltimore's schools, comparing its outstanding features with those in Washington's new schools. Unit Kitchen Approved. Among the many features observed in the junior high school, the com- mittee manifested considerable en- thusiasm over the/unit kitchen type | of domestic science laboratory, which adjoins a general kitchen domestic science room and consists of six com- plete kitchens separated by partitions. The unit is designed for 36 pupils, 6 working in each partitioned-off section, making it possible for each group to work on a difierent project without interference from the others. The entire unit is in charge of one teacher. Dr. Ballou described this unit the latest thing in domestic science teach- ing and expressed the hope that it would be included in Washington's new schools. The committee also became "enthu- slastic over the complete medical and (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) | |office ¢ Foening Star. 1925—-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. oceruER —— CALLS CONFERENGE ON NEW AUTO LAW Bell Plans Early Action in Making Traffic Code Ei- fective Here. Engineer Commissioner Bell today directed officials of the Police Depart- ment and the corporation counsel's to confer and advise him of what is necessary to be done in car- rying out the provisions of the new traffic law pending the appointment of the director of traffic. The officials who will join in the conference are Corporation Counsel Stephens, Maj. Sullivan, Inspector Al- bert J. Headley and Assistant Cor- poration Counsel Frank W. Madigan. In view of the fact that certain parts of the law were made effective immediately, while others were de- ferred for 60 days, it is Col Bell's desire to determine definitely what instructions should be given to the police for the few weeks that will elapse before the entire law is op- erative. Speed Clause Elastic, Although an impression has pre- vailed that Congress fixed a definite | speed limit of 22 miles an hour for| the central part of the city in the | new traffic law, Corporation Counsel | Stephens said today the act is so phrased that the director of traffic may in his discretion fix a lower limit for the heart of the clity and a limit greater than 22 miles in outly- ing sections and on arterfal high- | sel_also said Column §.) PATIENT KILLS SELF AT ARMY HOSPITAL| Puts Bullet Through Head Crowded Ward at Wal- ter Reed. in Otis T. Cartwright, field clerk, U. S. A. ed himself almost instantly last night in a crowded ward in which he was a patient at Walter Reed Hospital. He sent a revolver bullet into brain without warn- ing as he reclined on his cot. Cartwright had been a patient at the hospital for about a month, it was stated today. He had given no indication of any intention of com- mitting suicide, officials said. An investigation was launched to- day by the military authorities o ascertain where Cartwright obtained the revolver. The military board will also inquire into the circumstances of the shooting. At the same time Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was noti- fied of the tragedy and he will con- duct an inquest at the morgue short The room in which Cartwright lay was occupied at the time by a num- ber of patients and hospital attaches. They paid no particular attention to him, and the first noti¢e they had of the shooting was the sound of the shot. Cartwright died almost in- stantly. It was stated at the hospital execu- tive offices today that Cartwright had been stationed in Washington for The Star” every city b tion is delive: as fast as th. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,678 TWO CENTS. Blizzard _Cutling Over Middle West Will Be Felt Here By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 14.—A typical March blizzard, laden with rain changing to snow and borne on a 60-mile wind, was moving Into the Middle West today, with warn- ings of a sharp drop in tempera- ture. Already it has the West, par- ticularly the Rocky Mountains region, in its grip. Snow blanketed large parts of Colorado and also fell in Towa. he snow was seen as a benefit to Spring crops Washington will get a modifled sample tomorrow and Monday of the cold weather that has once again gripped the Western States, the Weather Bureau announced today. The official forecast is for heavy showers late this afternoon, with slowly dropping temperature. It is not believed the thermometer will go below freezing tonight, but tomor- row will be decidedly colder, and freezing weather should be here by Sunday night. Monday will be decidedly cool, with fair weather, the forecaster said PRESIDENT NAMES DISTRICT JUDGES Isaac R. Hitt and George H. Macdonald Appointed to Police Court Bench. Isaac R. Hitt and George H. Mac- donald of this city were today ap- | pointed by President Coolidge Police Court judges of the District of Co- lumbia to fill the two new places created by the new traffic law for the District passed at the last session of Congress. Mr. Hitt, who is a practicing attor- ney here, was for ten years a United States commissioner in this city, and Mr. Macdonald is at present serving in that capacity These nominations were sent to the Senate this afternoon by President Coolidge, and it is thought at the White House and the Department of Justice that they will be readily con firmed, as both men were highly recommended by associates of the local bar and by local Republican leaders. Recommended by Justice Department. Besides this, their records were thor- oughly scrutinized by authorities of the Department of Justice before their com- missions were placed before President Coolidge to sign. Mr. Hitt, besides being prominent during his long service as United States commissioner, in Republican politics and in mili- tary and Masonic circles. He is mas- ter of his lodge of Masons and was at one time vice president of the League of Republican State Clubs of (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) WALTER CAMP DIES OF HEART DISEASE, Noted Foot Ball Coach and Critic Expires Suddenly in New York Hotel. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—Walter Camp, noted foot ball coach and critic, died today of heart disease in the Hotel Belmont. Mr. Camp attended a meeting of the foot ball rules committee last night leaving about midnight and retiring to his room at the Hotel Belmont He apparently was in good health when he retired, hotel attaches said. Found by Roper. When the rules committee assem- bled this morning in the Hotel Penn- sylvania the members delaved open- ing their meeting pending Camp's ar- rival. When some time had elapsed and he had not appeared, Bill Roper, Princeton coach, was delegated by the committee to look for Camp at the Belmont. Roper went to the famous coach’s room and, getting no re- sponse, had the door opened. Camp was lying dead on his bed. Arrangements for the funeral prob- ably will be made later today after the arrival of Mrs. Camp, who was in Atlantic City this morning. “Father of Foot Ball” Although a man of varied activities, Walter Camp was best known through his connection with athletics, particu- larly foot ball. To the great Ameri- can college game he had devoted a large part of his time since his gradu- ation from Yale, and he came to be known affectionately as “the Father of Foot Ball” He earned this title because the numerous amendments to the playing code, which he sug- gested and which were adopted, not only revolutionized, but virtually re- created the game. As a player on Yale foot-ball teams for six years Mr. Camp's interest in the game extended far: beyond the some time previous to his illness. It was indicated that his ailment was of a psychopathic nature. It was stated he apparently had no family here. He was about 45 years old. zoal posts, and the improvements in the game which he evolved were readily accepted by the intercollegiate foot ball committee. It was during (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) A Weekly Review of Base Ball S John J. l{’IcGraw Manager of the N. Y. Giant. s, contenders in last year's world series which was won by the Washington club— Will Appear Exclusively in Washington in Dl Sunday Star Beginning Tomorrow—March 15 Continuing Each Week Throughout the Season These reyiews will be the personal observations of a man who knows how to size up the strength and weaknesses of a team and its individual members. has been active | NAVALCUTSFIRST, 1S GOOLIDGE PLAN FOR ARMS PARLEY President Will Make No Sug- gestions for Reduction of Land Forces. U. S. WILL TAKE LEAD IN MAKING SACRIFICES | Japan and France Expected to Op- pose Putting Limit on Sea Power. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Coolidge’s impendir {for a second dis 1 propose that it {limitation where the | conference of 1921 Coolidge-Kellogz will deal with of the first Was America again will making propositions and offering = rifices. Bec the United St Army and land establishr ready down to the ment will submit no reduction in r the Preside {to lay before other | rection n whict | to match our efforts z call Harding-Hughes Y, in e feren £to lead use bone, thls Govern- suggestions of ilitary we could it can be conver 1. That the naval powers agree, |lines of the first Washington trea | to limit the number and size of 1 | and other su aft num cruisers in j cluding destroy ber of years. if they cannot be { be limited in = | for their use in war against merchant vessels, be {ed in the most rigid r That w visions limiting {armament of tended That submarine . he total tonnage aircraft carriers be Much Tact Needed. | The | Coolidge pursue’the s | tacties regard | enabled the Ha | to bring about tr | eral months | soundings: now referred to took place in London, and Rome in the Winter of 1921 before F | moved. On July jannounced that "fir..d" nade up | conference. Then | month of s order {agreement might be reached wit | elen governments ab | of the On A i.\m(-ri an vitation ence was T three months 1 the matters to conference As { are and Spring sident Harding retary Hughes Pres had seek the mind to a t the wording issued of about at the there a difficulties to & other confere | serious i ‘1< certain th e “approaches” will be require necessary four go. | Kellogg ™~ will ad {Hugh S. Glbson, | to Switzerland, as lapse, or otherwise, ations conferenc | making moves of a | The moment the | be considefed Coolidge and ’umkt- their first | These will be in tial. Nothing is |about” them "until are verge of finality. U the conditions, it would be Augu a conference could be convened | probably would be October or Nov | ber, especially if it is_decided Washington shall be Tts Coolidge is not determined ference shall tdke place though he considers Washi | the iest place for it. Eur | for a change of venue of the first conference States would interpose no s jection to such a proposal Oppo: France and Japan are considered to be the countries from which real ob stacles to the holding of another co | ference be Neither of those governments oposed, in principle, to a But both are determined not to enter it cxcep under farthe ching advance as surances on certain issues than we given in 1 Having turned back on a battleship and battle er program for now relies entirely destroy | submarines and aircraft. The contend that with a powerful fllary craft” navy of they always can command the re- spect of Great Britain. The French also maintain that they always n have powerful destrover, subma and air forces to safeguard th terranean lines of commu with their African domini which they must in future than ever for raw native trops. Japan newspapers received Washington during the past day two show that Nippon is actively dis cussing the possibility of anothe | disarmament conference. But it {plain the Japanese will come to such | conference with some irreducible demands. The tone of their leading | journals indicates that the Singapore ibase which Great Britain is building | has become as much of a thorn in ithe Japanese side as America's ex- clusion of Japanese immigration is {The Mikado's government, through { Admiral Takarabe, has announced |that “the preparation for u second | conference must be made with much greater caution than was done on the occasion of the first conference Admiral Takarabe says that unles: there are guarantees against “dis- | appointments,” such as ensued after |the Washington parley, “an evil at- ! mosphere will necessarily develop | that will certainly go far toward de- | stroying the beneficial effects of the first parley.” The Japanese press in- |terprets “guarantees against disap- | pointments” to mean some sort of tisfaction to Japan for Singapere *(€ontinued on Page 3, Column Ja ¥ ‘app | before | Tt e the ma from th. he U aited ob- | n Expected. may raised conference cruis- France rs, naval defense “aux- such weapons ust 15, upon rely more materials and or