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1 SHEAN 1S TRPPED N CHAPMAN TRAL Went Into Burglary for All He Could Get, Says Prosecu- tion Witness. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Walter E. Sh springfield, 3 principal W against Chapman, charged with the ¢f Patrolman James Skelly the looting New Brita fast October, the stand for March Conn w State's | Gerald | murder | Quring | in st today | son of . family, the itness of a bk cross-examination. Shean, obviously nervous and answering questions hesitatingly, said he had met Chapman, known to pim as Waldo W. Miller, by the lat- ter's telephonic appointment ‘Chapman told me he was a friend Brown's” said S A point Frederick [ chief counsel for the defense, brought | orge &ut that Brown w kuown man,” or =afe blow who now In the Federal prison in Atlanta Accepted Chapman ax Friend. years ago and kuew him for Necks, when he disappeared. He had not seen him said. Yet, he admitted, he Chapman in friendship, he knew Brown was a crook Groehl, during his cross-examina- tion, often consulted ~with Chapman, ~who took many notes as Shean testi- fied. Shean admitted he had had trouble over a stolen bond case. Joseph Mar- shall, a Springfield sace bookmaker. aid, told him that he had $100,000 of stolen bonds and asked Shean to help him dispose of them Shean said he “stalled” Marshall un- til he had time to telephone the De- partment of Justice at Washington 10 inform that bureau of the stolen bond offer. A Government operative called on him, but Shean had neglect- ed to get Marshall's address, and the bonds never were recovered nor was Marshall arrested four eight since, he had accepted although worth One Contradiction Seen. contradicted a fea- Shean partly story vesterday ture of his direet This occurred when Groehl asked Shean sarcastically if he had “gone to the New Britain burglary with \pman on a burning desire to help Government.” Shean answered: ‘I went into the burglary to get all the money T could get out of it an testified vesterday that he ot kuown of Chapman's plan ta the Davidson & Leventhal store a few minutes before the rob- Groehl stressed this point and hean to admit that knew 1. Carrigan, a fugitive from with whom an wus ac cused of having illegally gotten $40.- 900 from Nicholas Baker, a Spring ficld restaurant man Admitted Tasuing Cheeks. The witness admitted that he had fssued many fictitious checks through bis advertixing concern and that his “poor old father had to make good for them.” He was unable to explain the appearance of the name of Joseph Marshall written in indorsement on the back of one of his checks. Shean first denied his signature of the check, but subsequently admitted he had written it. The check was drawn July 18, 1924, Shean previously had testified that be had not seen Mar- shall since three years ago, when he was offered the $100,000 in stolen bonds. roehl sh had rob until hery got Walter prove that Shean him- shed by in_the was trying to Marshall, in reality, was self and that it had been & Mrs. Cunningham, a maid Hotel Somerset, New York. Mrs. Cunningham called on Shean in jail and pointed him out as the man who bad given it to her and accepted her money. She knew him under the hame of Marshall, Groehl contended. COOLIDGE ADAMANT IN STAND ON RUSSIA Sees No Change There Which Would Warrant Recognition by This Country. Coolidge still is unre- suggestions from any the administration regard to Russia be President sponsive to quarter that policy with changed. He sces no warrant for present consideration of proposals to recog- nize the Soviet government, as condi- tions which have continuously prompt- | ed denial of recognition remain the Eame. Neither does he belleve that recent devclopments bearing on the atti- tude of other powers toward recogni- itate a review of the attitude. Liver since the retirement of Secre- tary Hughes, who was an irrecon- cilible foe to Tecognition of the jviet, there have been recurring | reports that a change of policy here | wax impending. From varlous | isources increasing pressure has been Lyought to bear on the White House 1o induce the President to alter the American attitude toward Moscow. “Yesterday Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee, one of the leading advocates of recognition, had lunch at the White House, and today Senator King, Democrat, Utah, who alto has opposed the present paficy on the Senate floor, had a long talk with the President. DPespite the arguments that have béen laid before him, however, Mr. Coolidge believes the time for recog- njgion has not arrived. DIIVIDE ON WOMAN’S VOTE By the Associated Press PARIS, March 31— The keenest femininists admit that women are not really eager to have the vote; they have to be made to desire it.” “We have 840,000 young women who can never find husbands, and half a million widows in addition. It is criminal to refuse such women po- litical rights.” «PThese were among the pros and cong in the discussion in the Chamber o2 Deputies today of the bill giving women the right to vote in the mu- nicipal elections this year. NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 O'Clock tion nece American SPEAKER TOMORROW Rev. W. S. Abernethy. CONDUCTED BY Rev. Walter F. Smith. | |Every One Invited—No Collectio; 1 ot { nfeal and oppressive THE FACING INVESTIGATORS SQUARELY English Denies Guilt on Hawkins Mortgage Litigation. Claims He Was Called From Vacation to Sit at Indianapolis. e Associuted Press ET. LOULS, . March Federal Judge George Washington English, under investigation by a House jud ciary subcommittee of seven charged with reporting a recommendation as to whether the jurist shall be im- peached, took the witness stand in his own behalf today Judge English was interrogated by Willlam AL Acton of Danville, 11, | one of his counsel three, who asked him u long series of identify- Ing questions before launching into an examination calculated to refute much of gTeat amount of testi- mony built up against the judge dur- ing_th, six days. The first the judige last accusation was that he defended by illegally had permitted C. B. Thomas, his referee in bankruptey In the eastern distric lino’s praciice bankrupte Ju English was assjgned to | Indiznapolis in the dourt of Anderson, who wus on vaca- and Thomas uppeared before of the attorneys in the mortgage case. Judge English pleaded that the illegality of Thomas' appearance never had occurred to him He said he was called to Indian- apolis from a vacation in northern | Michigan, and had no knowledge that Thomas, his appointee, was to face him as an attorney. No objection was entered to Thomas' appearance, suld the judge. Judge English mined, emphatic squarely facing who gave him tention The committeemen would permit Acton examination before Jjudge questions The disbarment of Thomas M. Webb, mentioned in the allegation of tyran- omduct against the judge, was because the. attornes obtained the release from Jjail of “Dressed-Up Johnny rdner, a Fed- eral prisoner had instructed be held until further notice, said Judge English He read a court record indicating, he said, what was said that day, and did not quote profan- ity other Judge English nglish TEST IS RESENTED BY ELLINGSON GIRL Alienists Today Will Testify on Mental Condjtion of Matricide. o law sit at Judge tion him Haw spoke tone the d in a deter- He sat committeemen, Acton close at- indicated they to complete his they asked the the excessive witnesses testified resorted to. Judge By the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, March 31.—Dor- othy Ellingson'dame into the Superior Court here today prepared to hear alienists employed by her counsel tes- tify as to her mental condition, in the hope that she will be sent to an asylum and thereby escape the possibility of | & penltentiary sentence for the killing of her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson. The trial was halted yesterday when the court dismissed the regularly im- paneled jury temporarily and ordered | a new jury picked to pasa on Miss El- | lingson’s mental qualificagions. The basis of the test, accurding to the court, was whether a person accused of crime comprehended®the proceeding, and was able to present an “intelligible defense. The insanity issue was a result of the 16-year-old stenographer falling into frequent fainting spells. Twice she fell flat on her face in the marble cor- ridors leading out of court Miss Ellingson, who shot her moth- er to death when her parent objected to the hours and associates she was | keeping, angrily resented yesterday the imputation that she is not in her right mind. 5 Mental Experts Disagree. Dr. Jau Don Ball. defense psychi- atrist, testified that Miss Ellingson was suffering from “psychosis” and was “out of her mind at times.”” Dr. Ball defined “psychosis” as a mental disorder. He traced the history of the Ellingson family and testified that Mrs. Ellingson was “out of her mind” at times befors Dorothy was born, and “then there is the alco- holic father.” Dr. Joseph Catton, prosecution psy- chiatrist, cast doubt on the conten- tion that Miss Ellingson is insane. “Her fainting spells,” he sald, “are not surprising in one in her situation She stands accused of murder and reacts under the strain by going into | a panic, very much as a child when subjected to a severe scolding or threat of punishment after a serious offense. A voungster caught playing with matches after repeated warn- ings, for instance, reacts when caught much as does this girl.” ————— FORMER GOV. FERGUSON RESTORED TO CITIZENSHIP Impeached Texas Executive Given Civil Rights Again When Wife Signs Amnesty Bill. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., March 31.—Full po- litical and civil rights were restored today to former Gov. James E. Fer- guson, impeached in 1917, when his wife, the first woman Governor of Texas, signed the amnesty bill passed by the last Legislature. “I have signed my name many hun- dreds of times since becoming gov- ernor, but this is the happiest signa ture I have written,” said Mrs. Fer- guson, as she laid down the pen of gold. JUDGE NGLISH. said he disbarred Webb temporarily, reinstating him after he had filed the demanded written explanation of his actions in obtaining the release o | Garaner Attitude of Karch. For the disbarment of Charles A. Karch. former Federal district attor. ney, Judge English gave as his rea- sons the belligerent attitude of Karch threats from Karch, unnecessary de- mands for striking shopworkers to have jury trials, and. finally, a threat- ening motion toward his pistol pocket after the attorney's coat had flapped back and displayed the butt of & pis- tol Later Karch was reinstated The judge proceeded with details of stories brought to him about Karch, but was interrupted by committeemen, in- cluding Chairman William D. Boies of Towa, who asserted the judge should hold to Karch's alleged threatening at- titude. and not to charges of profes- misconduct next step in Judge English's de- fense was his version of his address to State's attorneys and sheriffs of three Tllinois counties at the time of the shop- men’s strike. The judge's story that of his accusers. had addressed the off because a ndition witolly beyond control denied, however, that profanity, although he fully. . He denied t one of the sheriffs that his wife would be a widow before a long time unless he went home and did his duty, although he did tell the men to go home and display nerve enough to control the situ- ation WHALEY RESIGNS closely paralleled He raid that he ers and attorneys of civil war existed. He e resorted to did speak force- he had warned FROM RENT BOARD Commission Chairman Quits Post After Appointment as Claims Master. Richurd 8. Whaley. chairmun of the District Rent Commission, today an- nounced his resignation as a member of that body Mr. Whaley yesterday was appoint- ed by the Court of Claims as & spe- cial master in_equity suits under a recent act of Congress designed to ar the court’s docket of war-claim cases against the Government. Sev- eral other special masters were named at_the same time. Mr. Whaley had been a member of the Rent Commission since June 20, 1923, He was elected chairman of that body shortly afterward and had held that office since. A new chairman succeed Mr. Whaley will probably be elected by the othen members of the commission this afternoon at an executive confer- ence in the commission's headquar- ters at 6th and B streets Coolldge Pays Tribute. Mr. Whaley made public a letter of acceptance of his resignation from President Coolidge, in which April 6 was the date approved for severing his official relations with the com- mission. The President's letter disclosed that Mr. Whaley wrote his letter of resignation yesterday. Mr. Coolidge, in his reply. said: cannot accept your resignation without at the same time expressing to you my very sincere thanks for the disinterested and valuable serv- fce you have rendered as a member and chairman of this commission and wishing you the largest possible measure of success and happiness in your future work." to Former Congress Member. Whaley formerly wa a mem- of Congress from Charleston, He is 49 years old. was edu- in the Episcopal High School Va., and took his LL. B. degree from the University of Virginia in 1897. He was admitted to practice before the South Carolina bar in 1897 and elected & member of the South Carolina House of Repre- sentatives in 1900 and re-elected for flve successive terms. He was speak- er of th eSouth Carolina House for two terms and presided over the Democratic State convention in 1910. Mr. Whaley was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore in 1912. He was elected a member of the Sixty-third Congress, serving in 1913 and 1915, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Rep- resentative George S. Legare. He was re-elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-sixth Congress. PR Official Loses Home, EDMONTON, Alberta, March 31.—In the interest of econom the Alberta Legislature last night passed a motion for the abolition of the officlal resi- dence of the licutenant governor. The vote, was 29 to 6. The residence will likely be used for Mr. ber, ) cated at Alexandria, government offices at the end of the present year. Wales, Afraid of Fat Middle Age, Enlists Specialists to Keep Slim By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 31.—The Prince of Wales, who is in his early 30s, has already begun to fret a little with the fear that he may suffer from embonpoint, say persons close to the royal family. Just prior to the beginning of his voyage to South Africa and South America he was examined by several specialists, it is declared, and when the trip ends he will be gone over again, being anxious to discover just what effect the ambassadorial jaunts have upon his physique. During several of his previous tours he took on some weight, and as he has'a dread of achleving a figure suggestive of the lines of his grand- father, Edward VIL, he has made up his mind to keep tabs on himself with the aid of several well known specialists. Among the gymnastic apparatus on board the battle cruiser Repulse, now bearing the prince southward, is & sensitive scale upon which he will record his ups and downs. Meanwhile there is little cause for anxiety, according to the doctors, it as their opinion that the prince need not worry about overwelght as long as he keeps up the pace he sot before his de- parture, when his almost daily rou- tine was a fox hunt in the morning, official duties in the afternoon and gancing for many hours in the eve- ning, '» EVENING 'ACCUSED JUDGE DEFENDS SELF, STAR, WASHINGTON. VOTE IN GERMANY . HALF MONARCHIAL Election Shows Republic Far From Popularized—But 0ld Regime Not Wanted. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, American authorities with personal | knowledge of conditions in Germany find in the reich's presidentiul elec- tions a significant reflection of senti- ment on the burning question of re- public versus monarchy. They show that the republic is supported by only a little more than half of the total electorate. They indicate that almost as large a portion of the population looks with favor upon the possible restoration of a monarchy. This sit- uation does not mean that 50 per cent of the German people hanker for the return and the rule of the Hohenzol- lerns. The day that the former Kaiser (according to his own me moirs) “declined to commit suicide by leading the beatén German army in a last furfous charge against the allied front sealed the doom of his dynasty. If Germany ever scraps the republic and resumes the monarchial| system, it will a constitutional| monarchy that will be set up, and ¢! will not be a Hohenzollern who will be placed at its head. The German republic is not in present danger. But its enemies revealed to be astonishingly large in number. See Centrist Vietory. United States officials whose busi- ness it is to keep tab on German developments expect that a member of the Center (Roman Catholic) party will be eleoted president at the new ballot on April 26. The Center can- didate, former Chancellor Dr. Marx, ran third in the first election, on March 29, His party, with a voting strength of roundly 4,000,000, holds the balance of power In Germany. Now that the Soclalists and Demo- cra; realize there is no chance of jelecting their candlidates, the expec- | tation is that they will combine with the Center party and elect Dr.’ Marx Their united vote, if all three parties stapd fast as a single democratic group, will Le sufficient to overthrow the Nationalist-Monarchist party. which polled the heaviest vote for Dr. iKnrl Jarres on the initial ballot | The election of a monarchially in- | vlined president of Germany would |not mean the re-establishment of a | royal government at Berlin. It would clearly demonstrate, however, as the Jarres vote does, that the monarchial idea is on the march—that after less ven vears of experiment the is tiring of republicanism and veering toward the system on which the German empire and its constitu- ent states grew great and powerful “Big Business” Vote. The monarchial group which rolled up the big Jarres vote for president is by no means a purely royallst- uilitarist clement. It consists to an enormous extent of German “big business.” With some eminent ex- septions, the captains of finance and industry are monarchists. They not believe in the superiority of the tem for Germany's re- necessities and general future, but it is so deeply ingrained in them that they cannot easily ac- custom themselves to anything else. To put it in terms that will be at once intelligible to the average American, the republic is having as hgrd a time popularizing itself in Germany as a monarchy suddenly would have in popularizing itself in the United States. Many Ex-Monarchs. There are other factors bolstering up the monarchial idea. In the first place, there are 22 or 23 royal houses and dynasties that have been uner ployed since November, 1918, includ- ing kings, grand dukes and once reigning princes. Each of these job- less ex-rovalties, except the runaway William (I, is still on German soil, inhabiting castles or estates allotted by his former subjects, maintaining a quasi-royal existence and enjoying a quasi-deference from the people who formerly did him homage. The ex-German crown prince rules over a seml-court in Silesia. Ex- Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, probably the outstanding monarchical figure left in Germany, enjoys such favor that were it not for the certan objections of France, Bavarians would probably crown him king tomorrow. When Germany gets ready for 1 con- stitutional monarchy, Rupprecsh: of Bavaria and the ex-German crown prince will be furious rivals for the throne. All of these out-of-work roy- alties accept the republic with the tongue in their cheeks. They dream of the day of restoration. To the eX- tent that they dare, they work for it That they do not lack supporters and sincere well wishers the recent presi- dential elections proved. Outside of Germany there are stanch monarchies which, in a spirit of fraternity and self-preservation, would not frown upon the re-estab- lishment of German thrones. Russi1, Austria-Hungary, Greece and Turkey threw off the royal yoke, but in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Jugoslavia, Spain, Bulgaria and Rumania mon- archy is still enthroned and venerated. German royalty is related by blood ties to nearly all the rest of European royalty. Europe constitutes a sort of monarchical trade unlon. It dis- likes losing members. It welcomes the return of old members and the accesslon of new ones. The influential body of university professors and students in Germany is almost as irreconcilable a mo- narchical body as the old military caste. They constitute one of the royalist system's strongest props, as they always have. The German higher civil service, like the judiclary and diplomacy, also contains thousands of monarchists. Their sympathies are suppressed, because they serve a re- publican regime, but they are not obliterated. They are only dormant. (Copyright, 1025.) | UNDERGROUND RADIO MAY HELP AIR JAM Hoover Sees Relief if Rogers’ Sys- tem Does Not Result in Interference. { than Reich {only royalist construction The invention of Prof. J. Harris Rogers of Hyattsville, one of the leading radio engineers of the coun- try, who announced Saturday he had secured satisfactory transmission of radio signals through the earth on a low wave length, would solve many problems resulting from congestion of the ether if the ground signals will not interfere with signals trans- mitted through the air, Secretary Hoover said today, Congestion of broadcasting in the air has resulted recently in allocation of new wave lengths, made necessary by addition of something over 50 new stations in six months, and the Com- merce Department has been casting about for some way' to relieve this congestion. Mr. Hoover said he was not famil- B O, fjar with the technical details of the Rogers invention, but added if it would result in relief from conges: tion in the air channels it would be & long step forward in radio commu- nication, DERAILED STREET CAR NARROWLY ESCAPES PLUNGE DOW TUESDAY, ARS DERALVENT SLAD T0 NALCE Flanged Whee Is on Capital Traction’s Takoma Line Cause of Mishap. Derailment of a ci Park division of the Capital Tract Co. occurred early by malice from a set joined together by was placed were from the gauge railway There were slight damage to th quickness with wh Shockey applied the he felt the first front truck of the vehicle take a rig heading toward a 4 on which the point The a before davlight, a difficult to see beca, rain and haze. The from the barn. hei Park, and was abou of Kennedy . street company's private public highway this point car between truck roadbed dent happened at running ar on the Takoma n today, apparentl of flanged wheels n axle, which the rails. They of a narrow asualities and but \e car, due to the jch Motorman B > air brakes when grinding under the car and saw the ht-oblique course foot embankment sits at this 5:24 am., nd when it was use of a drizzling car was the first aded for Takoma t 200 yards north on the railway right of way, no through at Wheels Heavy to Move. The wheels, acco! men, have been ly track at this point veurs, and it must effort to roll them in between the rails of the car seversd and the for: trom the ralls. Th a full length, when with the other whe part of the axle truck. A move of would have the largest type, on embankment. Raflroad mer plain the placing of track, unless it was ness. The last car barn for the night o threw thrown rding to railroud ing alongside the for a number of have taken same up the bank and The front truck the heavy axle the entire truck e car went mearly it came to a stop el and the larger jammed in the rear | several feet more the car, one of its side down the were at a 10ss to ex- the wheels on the s pure malictous- returning to the passed this point at 1:29 this morning. and nothing un- usual was noticed. this time and the dent that the wh there. Robert Marshall, charge of the ecar, three man passengers time. It was between time of the acci- eels were placed cénductor, was in and there were on it at the Ship Board Boat Aground. MANTLA, March States Shipping Bo: nor, ropean ports, with was grounded yesterday en route from 31.—The United ard steamer Rad- Manila to Eu- a cargo of hemp, off Beagle Island, near the Province of Masbate, but was refloated later. One of the Radnor's tanks was reported leaking and the vessel is returning to Hong- kong for repairs. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. RACB—Purse, 5. 16 116 118 118 118 16 FIRST year-oldyg 4 furlon Charge . Endor X +Youare . tDedans . Rockman . Kickapoo .11 {Whitney entry. $Woods-Garth entry. SECOND RACE—Clai . $1.200; maiden 2 $Little Blaze 3Chet - Rhtter: Sednen. Thos. Lynn . Dark Jest .. ming: purse, $1,200; 3-year-olds and up; 6% furlongs. Royaline 1t *Benwood. Racing S *Wild Goose *Asa Jewell Aunt Aggle . "Lagoon . THIRD RAC! year-olds and u Johnnie Jewell. CThief Tierney Contentment ~Claim| 11 101 101 96 13 Great Moments. . 101 Searchlight 3d FOURTH year-olds; 5% furlong {Noah . 5 Hidalgo : $Gladstone " Rowe Cloud . tSandhurst .. {H. P. Whitney entry. 1B, Arlington entrs. FIFTH RAOE—The % turiongs. RACE—The Orageuse . 98 110 110 qu il 10 Dream of the Val. 109 Also eligible— Peace Pal purse, $1,200; 3- in, *Admirer . 110 Sun Rajah *Lyres Waukeag Also eligible— Carefree .. 3 Promen: purse, $1,200. Hoot Mon ... Myrtie Betie |1 Moon Magic 3Adrianople Lady Glassen inaugural handicap; $5,000 added; 8-year-olds and up; 7 furlongs. 19 97 §Yankee Reparation 115 Moonraker [ §Frateraity 2ad. Ted Wingteld..- e P Bager D 106 98 T2 L {Green, Tree stable catr. Re old & Lawrence en 41 F. Tichardsan ent £7. 8. Cosden entry. SIXTH RACE—Claimii try. rr. ng: purse. $1.200; for 3.year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 yards. 114 108 105 vexation Friday 18th Altissimo lique . 91 prince Ti Ti. .. 100 Kircaldy - 108 SRVENTH RACE—CI *Quotation [ 108 106 9 Woodlake . *Rluehill *Peterthescri aiming: purse. §1,200; 4-yearoids 0d up; 1 wile and a sixieenth. 110 102 110 102 1o 1oz Falr Light ..... Gladys ¥ 0ld Time: *S¢. Mart) *Mystic *5E. Ger Pensive . +0ld Faithful aAvmndc. allowance claimed. eather cloudy. Track slow, MARCH 31, 101 | 1925. U. S. Constitution Knowledge Vital, Judge McCoy Says |Importance of Oratorical Contest to Pupils Stress- ed by Jurist. Chief Justice discussing the contest on the Constitution “It would be very diffieult to over- estimate the importance of the tests for orato cal honers be- tween the pupils in the schools who have made a study of the Constitu- tion, and this for reasons that are| almost too obvious to require that they be stated. It/ is to be hoped that these contests may lead the school | authorities every- where to require that all puplis study the Const tution. A teacher with imagination arouse an interest in 10-vear-old pupils by tell- ing the story of the dramatic events which led to the adoption of many the provisions of the Constitution, and | especially those embodied In that part of it which has come to be called tt ‘bill of rights.” Why not begin early?” DISTRICT ORATOR Walter 1 McCoy, in oratorical declared con- JUSTICE McCOY. for Capital in Drawing for Seven Contestants. The highly coveted privilege of be- ing the first speaker on the program Roes to the representative of the T trict this year in the National Ora- torical Contest. Last year this privi- | lege went to the representative of the | Pacific coast, who followed up his ad- | vantage by winning the national | ebampionship. The order of speakers for the na- tional finals to be held in the Wash- ington Auditorium May 8 was deter- mined by lot draw made here by Frank B. Noyes, president of The Evening Star, in the presence of rep- resentatives of the national ,contest management. The same plan for the drawings was followed this year as last, Mr. Noyes being selected to make the drawings for both vears. The 1825 order of speakers will be as fol- lows: Seven Places Assigned. First place—District of Columbia representative. Second place — Northeastern zone representative. Third place—Southern zone repre- sentative. 5 Fourth place — Padific zone repre- sentative. Fifth place — Central | sentative Sixth place — Eastern zone repre- sentative Seventh place — Midwestern representative. In the 1924 contest the District of Columbia representative, Miss Ruth Newburn, was the fourth speaker. This year the Pacifio coast champion will have that position. Public speaking experts believe that in a contest of this character, with a large number of speakers on the program, the most advantageous pezltion iz first and the next best is ast. zone repre- zone Prizes For All Speakers. All of the seven finalists who will compete here on May 8 will secure substantial awards. Last year prizes were given only to those designated as first, second and third. This year the $5.000 in national awards will be divided as follows: First prize, $2,000. Second prize, $1,000 Third prize, $500. Fourth prize, $450. Fifth prize, $40D. Sixth prize, $350. Seventh prize, $300. In addition to the privilege of com- peting for the national awards above listed, the contestants In the District will secure the following local awards oftered by The Evening Star: Eight district prizes of $100 each and one District of Columbia’ prise of $300. The contestaut designated as the winner of the $300 District of Colum- big prize automatically secures a place in the national finals, e Maid Convicted in Theft. Edythe Morrison, colored, formerly a maid for Emma Dunn Stokes, an | actress, known as Emma Dunn, who had the leading role in “Changeling,” was convicted late yesterday after- noon by a jury in Criminal Division 2 before Chief Justice McCoy on a charge of grand larceny. The maid is accused of rifing the trunk of her mistress in March, 1924, and taking $400. Assistant United States At- torney Neudecker conducted the prosecution. of | | Master Builders' Association, stated that jif the | would certainly | coste, WILL SPEAK FIRST Place at Head of List Is Won| BUILDERS HOPING 10 AVOID STRIKE {Will Face Issue if It Arises, But Still Seeks Solution of Pay Fight. Emphasizing very foreibly hope of the organizations interested of es- caping conflict with the unions and _expressing his hope that the pending strike situation would not result conflict with the ynions, IHerbert T. Shannon, president bf the erative Builders' Association, said ceting of the Washington fair mittee today that if the were insisted upon forced u finding the wage present those for would be ing them of once “whether or not run by the financial interests or by the as good business men as the men are ther will run the said Mr. Shannon, supplement- ing his remarks with the hope that no situation of this sort would re- sult from the present controverss If the predicted wage increases in the ocal building trades or any strikes in- cident thereto come about, the present building boom, the largest in the hist of the Nation's Capital, will stop, it was redicted today by William T. Galliher, chairman of the board of directors of the Federal-American National Bank Arthur T. Smith, president of opps are union the wage increases came about there be withdrawals of pro- posed contracts because of increased Mr. Galliher. mittee, said chairman of the com- that everything pointed to a very successful year, and that money Wus now seeking investienis He also added *hat the Nistory showed | that if real estate improvements were ‘!-'"Wl. money leaned that and !‘hx[ when any trouble arose in thu: field money leaned toward stecks and bonds. He compared tna present sit- uation with the threatened strikes in the coal mines and the many mines | being closed down because they can- not produce profitably at the in- creased wage scale. He emphasized that this was not a fight against the unions, but simply resolvad itself down to the fact that Washington tusiness men and builders would not tolerate further increases. would not Support contractors or subc-ntractors who gave such increases, and would force builders to ivok for men, un or non-union, who would work & :prt‘s(‘l\[ salary scale “It is to the best interest of Wash- intgon and the citizens of the Nation's Captial that there should be no change upward in the scale of wages this year,” said Mr. Galliher, in em- phasizing that there was no justifica- tion to be found in proposed in- creases. Samuel Miller of the Master Masons’ Assoclation and Edward Linskey of the Master Painters' Association were very emphatic in their refusal to grant increased wages, and stated that they would employ any one who would work at present-day standards. John HIl of the Master Steamfitters’ Assoclation and E. J. Ewing of the Master Plumbers’ Association said | that their organizations had arrived at no decision as to granting the in- crease, but were considering the mat- ter. Mr. Shannon stated at a meeting of the executive committee of the| Operative Builders' Association last night it was decided that where any contractors gave an Increase in wages the contract then in force would be canceled on the ground of increased costs and that they were willing to go into litigation on the matter. Mr. Smith, John A. Petty, repre- senting the Washington Real Estate Board, and communications from the W, ington chapter of the General Contractors of America, indicated that these organizations, together with the Operative Builders’ Association would stand absolutely firm against any further increases. These was no sentiment which showed any desire on the part of the t‘.‘lomrn‘Ll'lee ‘I tohinlo open shop for he city unless they wer, forced to do so. i e _ Mr. Galliher said that the purchas- ing power of the dollar had increased in the last two or three years as well as wages of the building trades. The 17 building trades were getting an average of 53 cents an hour in 1914 and today are getting $1.17. FARM EXPERTS TO MEET. A progtam for expenditure of in- creased funds made available for State agricultural experiment sta- tions will be considered at a meet- ing of agricultural collegs presidents ahd experiment station directors in St. Louis April 20 and 21, it was an- nounced today at the Department of Agriculture. ~Secretary Jardine will attend. | A recent act of Congress makes {available $20.000 for this fiscal year {7or mere complete andowment of the | stations and provides an increase of $10,000 annually until a yearly total of $60,600 is reached. way the (CHARITIES BDY ELECTS OFFICERS Addresses on Welfare Work Feature the Grganization’s 44th Anniversary Meeting. Elgction of officers and addresse on social welfare work featured t 44th anniversary meeting of the As ociated Charities last night a Rauscher's. Much time was devote to consideration of a proposal change the name of the organizat The meeting fell on the eve of t organization’s annual Easter cam paign for funds for its activities f the year Presldent Rudolph Re-Elected. District Commissioner Cuno H Rudolph was unanimously re-elected president; all other general officers also were re-elected, as follows: Vicr president, Corcoran Thom; treasure John Joy Edson, and treasu Boyd Taylor. There also were additional elected members to the board of managers to fill cancies which occurred due to th bers . i Mrs. W Loren B Robert ( Rivers, George S The off: Mrs, West ar cted upor mmer minating cor composed of Bvan H. Tucke Miss Frances E. Chickerins and Ernest L. Chaney. re Welcoming Address. The meeting was called to order b Com Rudolph, president, who then deiivered the welcoming address, fn which he touched upon general cfal and civic problems, and told brie Iy of the history of the Associated Charities, “Thirty the in 1585, came reorganization of the Assoctated Chi ties and the adoption of the funda mental principles under which the s ciety has been operating for the pa hree decades.” Commissioner stated eviewing the general organization during the Commissioner Rudolph said dition to the attempt to bring the reconstruction in the individu homes there is an even more impo task eventative work. T fact tha were 2 ehildre under 16 years of age in the fami given care by the Associated Charitie in itself a challenge fo work continued tl Associated Charitie r its primary object the con servation of family life.” he said In cor jon the Commissioner de ared that “the development of civic sociul work in Washington faces saying that ‘not for igress shown the interest Washington's development and poss it did during the session vears ago, work of the past years it bilities as just closed As & means better developr Rudelph urged mercial bodies and citizens’ associa tions to give careful study to the question of establishing a small rey resentative advisory council or mittee to work with the District Cor missioners, expressing the view ti this council should be elected by t people Prior to the meetin, Commisstoner also delivered dress over the radio Dr. W. J. Kirby Dr. Williar LI logy stressed the impo social and other ac with the oper other, in o that might have too much weight attache to it and overbalance the era scheme of things In an address, illustrated with eopticon slides, Walter S. Ufford, ge eral secretary of the Assoclated Cha ities, showed the work dons by the organization during the past year and told of its needs in the future. H pointed out that there had been a total expenditure of $184,508, and showed how the organization had aided fam s from October, 1924, to Marct this year, as against only 775 families over a corresponding period of the year before He also ed how among the children dealt with, had been 2,104 under 16 yvears of as against 1.765 under 16 during th same period the year previous. Outlining the problems presente he showed ho 43 per cent was d to unemployment, 6 per cent to tube culosis, 63 per cent to other forms of disease and 24 per cent due to fam desertions. Plans Drive for $55,000. aid the citizens « the gener: the city, Mr all civie ¢ vities proceed relat o It was brought out at the meetir that whereas $104,509 was spent dur- ing the last year, that the organiza tion is only making a drive for $50. 000 during its campaign for f which started today. This, it wa stated, is because the funds now be- ing raised do not include the Christ mas and Summer outing funds During a lively discussion as to the feasability of changing the name from Associated Charities, it devel oped that the audience was about equally divided on the question. Those favoring a change gave as their pr cipal argument that the word “cha ity” makes it more difficult for the social worker to approach the fam flies in need, and expressed the be lief that some name with that word left out would be preferable. How ever, many favored keeping the name, believing it to be the most ap te. w;:'o“mauor was referred to the board of managers for consideration Board Personncl. Bosides new members slected to (he board of managers last night, other members of the board follow: Mrs Anne Archbold, Miss Mabel T. Board- man, Rear Admiral Willard H. Brown son, Willlam H. Do Lacy, Franklin H. Ellis, Willlam J. Flather, jri Ar thur Hellen, Col. Archibald Hopkl Coleman Jennings, E. Lee Jones, Dr George M. Kober, J. Wilmer Latimer A. Lisner. Migs Helen Nicolay, Cleve land Perkins, Duncan Phillips, Ord Preston, Mrs. Charles W. Richardso Miss Florence P. Spofford, Hen White and Richard H. Wilmer. e INSANE SAILOR ESCAPES WARD, AT LARGE IN CgTY I James Lawler, 43, mental patient at Naval Hospital, escaped from tho hospital this morning shortly before he was to have been transferrdd to St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Police were asked to institute search for bip, Lawler, a sailor, was brought #dre from Norfolk and placed in the psi- chopathic ward of Naval Hospital He was apparently harmless, hospita officials stated, and was permitted much freedom. It was arranged have him kept in the ward this mor ing in order that the transfer might be made without delay. but when the time came for him to be taken to St Grand Jury “Dry” Data Here. Treasury odflicluls 1.ow have in hand the report «f the 1cderal g=uni jury which investigated the prohibition situation in Philadelphia. President Coolidge is hopeful that the report will prove helpful to the Prohibition Unit in enforcing the law, Elizabeth’s Hospital he could not be found. The fugitive patient was shabbily attired, wearing & gray suit when he disappeared. His disappearance was reported to police throughout the city and instructions given to make every effort to find him,