Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1925, Page 2

4 PARKING VIOLATORS FAGE POLIE DRIE Attacked Under New Reg- ulations in May. The police will take wWhiatever steps are necessary to stop all-day parking of vehicles in the congested area as soon as the new traffic law is in full force next month, Director of Traffic Eldridge de- clared today. At the same time nounced that he was looking into the postibility of finding nment land south of Pennsylvania avenue on which ali-day parking cou'd be provided, He said there are some temporary Govern- ment buildings south of the avenue, and that it might be possib'e to convert the sites into parking when the structures are removed The present one-hour parking limit in the congested section probably will be retained in the new regulations, Mr. Eldridge sald Parking Great Problem. ‘Parking.” the director said, “is one the most important traffic problems have to deal with. And it is abso- lutely necessary that all-day parking on downtown streets he stopped if people to be able to come downtown act busines, he that the director an- Gove spuces of are tran 1 director expressed the helief hour is ample time for the average person to leave a car in one place while making a purchase of transacting other business. He point- rd out that there is a large area of ireets just north of the congested section in which motorists could leave their machines all day by taking a five-minute walk to the office Mr. Eldridge said he would like to sce parking garages developed in the down town section in other cities. The director doubts the wisdom of advoeating under- ground parking places at this time. He said the accumulation of monoxide 2as in such underground structures necessitates installation of elaborate ventilaling apparatus. Blow at Forfeituren, As has been previously stated in The Star, Director Eldridge is plan- ning to climinate the practice of for- feiting collateral when arrested on major traffic vielations. The direc- tor’s office also is inclined to discour- age the forfeiting of collateral even in lesser infractions of the traMc rules. Doing away with collateral forfeiture in serious cases. Mr. El. dridge said, was provided for by Con- Eress in the framing of the new law Col. I C. Moller, engineer of the trafiic office, Is In conference today with Doy Scout officials to have the boys assist him in taking trafic counts, beginning April 11. Col. Mol- Jer plans to take counts of the flow of traffic at 160 points, both down- town and in outlying sections. The is to chart off on a _map the lanes through which the traffic natur- ally flows to the center of the city. Three maps will be made, one show- ing the flow downtown in the morn- Ing. another showing the outward stream in the evening and the third showing the average volume of traf- fic tiroughout the day objeet Pla Although new for Arteries. trafic rules will be ready for promulgation early in May, Col. Moller said today it would not be possible or advisable to establish all of the arterial and express high- ways immediately There ix no use in calling a thor- nughfare an arterial highway,” said Col. Moller, “until you have the nec- #ssary markers in place and other plans ready to make the system ef- foctive.” the highwayvs into effect let the others follow as Arrangements can he made Mr. Eldridge conferred at luncheon yesterday with the four judges of Police Court, at which questions of procedure in the expeditious handling of trafc cases was discussed. HERRIOT REVERSES CATHOLIC POLICY, rapidly as (Continued from First Page.) ment of the interpe'lation, which, he =aid, implied confidence. M. Maginot, speaking for the oppo- =ition, declared its votes in no way implisd confidence and that it lass than ever approved the goverment's poliey. SPEECH BRINGS STORM. Clementel Fiscal Plan Arouses Senate to Cries of “Resign.” By Cable ta The Star and Chicago Daily News TARIS, April 3.—The difficulties of the Herriot cabinet have heen growing cvery week, but they reached a climax Thursday night when M. Clementel had 0 admit the situation of the treasury wax desperate and that the government WAS ANticiDating a new issue of hank notes to the extent of five or six bil- liona francs The declaration caused such a sen- =ation that M. Clementel had for Premier Herriol. who arrived in haste, and tried by a non-committal =neech to change the bad impression created by M. Clementel. M. Her- riot's speech. which contained sen. tences which enly half conttradicted M. Clementel. created pandemonium in the Senate. Never in it 30 years' ex- jstence has that legisiative body seen more violent scenes, The Senators, who are all aged men. arose shouting: “Resign. “get out” “relieve France of your rotten administration.” They followed M Herriot with shouts in the Senate lIobby. There he was surrounded by extited Senators, who asked so many indiscreet questions regarding France's financial situation that M. Herriot had te leave the Senate, to | | UNDER SUSPENSION as has been done | The plan is to put ene or two of | soon and| to send | | day Urgeé Music for All D ——— BRUNO HUHN, From the 5:30 Edit'on of Yesterday's Star.) INDIGTED DEPUTIES Seven Accused of Extorting “Hush” Money Removed ‘Ffpm Office. Seven deputy collectors of internal revenue indicted vesterday in New York | “hush™ were on charges of extorting money from business suspended from office on orders of Acting Commis- ioner Nash of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Officials here declined to discuss the case beyond stating that intellizence of- ficers of the bureau have been engaged almost a year in running down com- plaints against the men involved. Those indicted were Charles H. Green, Al- bert 0. Neilson, Willism Snowden. Saul C. Steinthal, Henry Mayer, David Ben- jamin and Charles Tremonti. The intelligence unit, Internal Rev- enue Bureau, headed by Elme Irey, continues to make progres its campaign against persons sus pected of income tax Irregularities of various kinds men Three Men Arrested. Three men were arrested in twe new cases Wednesday, and two more men in a previous case, who had heen arrested in New Haven. arrived in Washington. All were released on bond. Two of them. employes of the Internal Revenus Bureau, were sus- pended. Maurice F. Vernon. an auditor in the income tax unit. of 1728 Twenty- first street northwest, was the local man taken into custody Wednesday, while shortly thereafter Ellis Laskey, head of a Brooklyn firm of public accauntants, was arrested in New York. Both were charged with conspiring “to defraud the Govern- ment in coanection With.the. income tax case of Houlder, Weir & Boyd a ship brokerage firm in New YVeork City. The allegations are. according to a statement by the Internal enue Bureau, “that Vernon and Las- Key, by means of the presentation of a brief containing false statement and a balance sheet rontaining fa information, Intended to have the corporation classed as a personal service corporation. which would have resulted in the elimination of a tax of approximately $140,000." The taxpayers reported to the Comml sioner of Internal Revenue the pro posal made, and co-operated fully with the agents of the intelligence unit in the investigation. Vernon was suspended Held Under Bond. laskey was ield in 32,500 bail for a hearing April 15, while Verno! when arraigned before United States Commissioner Turnage here Wedn afternoon, was held in $2, bond for a hearing April 16, Benedict Rabinowitz of Bridgeport, Conn., an internal revenue agent, wasg arrested on a charge of accepting a bribe in connection with the tax case of the Naugatuck Lumber Co. of augatuck, Conn. he had accepted money on Hebrew fund. Rabinowitz has suspended as = revenue agent James J. Clifford and John F. Me- Carren,, former employes of the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue, who were cently arrested in New Haven, wera brought here vesterday and released on $3,000 bond by the District preme Court. They were charged, in connection with Frederie Sutherland, an auditor in the income tax unit here. of “an attempt to defraud the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. of & large sum of money by means of representing to the com. pany that the Government was about to assess taxes of more lion dollars against subsidiary rail- roads, and that the dafendants could have this tax reduced.” 00 for a been — of the Banque of France and two or three large industrial concerns. When Clementel, who retorted to the Sen- ators’ that this means inflation, *Yes, but this is sound inflation,” the whole house broke out in uproar. which continued until the sitting was sus- pended and the Senators dispersed. M. Herriot summoned immediately the pleading an important engazement in | the Chamber. Cabinet Ready for Fight, The government was quite prepared to face serlous dificulties in the upper house because a great major- ity of the Senators are conservative and de not approve of the somewhat progressive tendencies of Herriot's cahinet and the Chamber. The diff- culties, however. were not sxpected to he so great as to force the cab- inet's resignation and M. Herrlot hoped to re ch a compromise with the Senator. ind induce them to vole at least partially for this vear's budget M. Clementel's declaration killed any hope of a compromise. The finance minister made the very frank atatement that unless the Bank of France was autherized to make new paper money and issue some $300,- 000,000 the situation would become desperate. It is true, he pointed out, that the new issue will net be utilized to help out the treasury, but to facil- jtate the requirements of commerce, and he outlined a scheme by which the state bank will be authorized to print some 400,000,000 franes to re- place bank notes lost sinea the war and some 6.000.000,000 francs for trade and industry. The datter issue will not he guar- antead by gold, but will be com- merelal papers bearing the signature! {one | cabinet council and his chief sup- porters in both houses 1o examine the situation. The ecouncil lasted until 5 o'clock this morning and the only decision reached was that Clementel's resig- nation would he accepted The troubles of the present French cabinet and the general situation in France are much deeper. The finan- al crisis France is going through has many causes, hut is the lack of confidence of the conservative and well-to-do classes in Herriot's administration. They sus- pect Herriot of wanting to solve the nation’s financial problems by in- troducing the plan dear to all Soeial- ists—capital levy. Must H Soctalists. | The truth is that if Herriot wants to temain in ofice, since he cannot regain the confidence of the wealthy class, he will be compelled to accept the Sdcialist scheme of a capital levy in order to prevent complete con- fusion of state finances. The new finance minister is a prom- inent lawyer and business man. His presence in the cabinet will not re- ssure the conservatives, since he iy a very close friend of Joseph Caillaux as well ag of Leon Blum, leader of the Socialist wing, which is nearer Com- munist than any other section of the French Socialists. De Monzie is a strong, determined man, who is not sasily induced to makée compremises with the bourgeois class, like his predecessor, or even Herriot. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Ce.) - tately chose to adopt this natienality Rev- | He contended that | 8u- | than a mil- | the prineipal | THE EVENI ENFORCED NS TEACHING IS URGED Bruno Huhn Deciares struction of Children Highly Essential, [ | “The most important factor in the | development of American music Is to interest the children of thix gen- eration in it.” is the opinion of Bruno { Huhn, American composer, who came here from New York vesterday to {“pend a few days and give a recital | at Rauschers tomorrow afternoon at {3 o'clock for the bensfit of the Mac- Dowell Colony on the estate of the late Edward MacDowell where tal- ented young American writers, mu. siclans and artists may work In un- disturbed peace during the Summer to accomplish definite pieces of ar- tistic endeavor. No, 1 am not a native-born Amer- fcan, but, in a way, 1 feel much| mors an American than If 1T were [native, Anybody can be an American | | who happened to he born here, but| I am an American because 1 deliber- |after huving traveled over the | world.” sald Mr. Huhn. Mr. Huhn wx~ born In London and spent his early life in Australla. Althouxh | e had had a sound fundamental edu- | cation In England and recelved his diploma from Trinity College, he did | not study music as a profession until some time later. Then he wrote his ifirst composition, calied a “Butterfly i March.” al | Deplores First Works. “Really, you know that is such a ridiculous title,” commented Mr. Huhn with a chuckle, “new ean you imagine |a whole regiment of butterfifes {marching? And, to make it worse, 1 scored it for a brass band, That is {the only composition that I ever [scored for a bund. Tt was reallv very {bad and T was unfortunate in having [ publishers accept it right away. Then, too, my second endeavor—writing two songa that were really awful, for at ithe time I had no working knowledge lof the fundamentals of composition ~were likewise unfortunately ae- cepted.” Mr. Huhn showed the pains- taking talent that is genius, how- {ever, when, after such easy success,| [he settled down to detailed study of | {composition | “1f only the younz ambitious musi-! |cians and singers of America would {realize how necessary detailed knowl- jedge is to them. No student pre-; !paring to be a docter or an engineer, lor a lawyer dreams of achieving any- thing without four to eight years of | &rinding study. Why should a singer ! or composer belisve he can accom-| plish artistic wonders with only twe| or three years of studv? Yet they do.| Superficiality is the curse of Ameri- {can music todav. The place to start! lis with the little “children. They should be made to study music just &5 they are made to study reading writing and arithmetie. It is exactly |as essential. | No parent as to whether or not study mathematies, vet if the child | whines about plano practice the par- ant says with a finality that is dis- heartening. My child doasn’t like music.” Every ehild should have at least two years of plane work, as that instrument teaches the funda- mentals that can be applied later to other instrumental study, or to sing- ing It it is found the child's desires ’Ind talenta e in another musical di- | rection. Piano study Is never wasted. ever consults his child he wants to i Hits Community Singing. “Another phase of American music progr that needs sponsoring is the encouragement of more construc- tive participation in music rather ! than mere music for people to listen to," said Mr. Huhn. “The women's | clubs are doing a fine work in this [line. They should encourage choral socleties and local orchestras for pres- entation of good, little-heard compo- sitions that are not beyond their abilities; then they will grow in capa- bilities and musical knowledge. So many small towns that 1 have visited in this country spend the entire com- | munity music budget on two or three | expensive concerts just to hear a | couple of famous artists. If they | | would only spend part of the money lon a salary for an ambitious young | American choral or orchestra cen- | | ductor to organize music within their | | community instead of spending ali| | their funds to be taken away by visit- ' {ing artists, how much more construe- | { | | tive that would be. Music training of | large groups must be done Intelli- lgently to ba effective. Nothing is ! more inane than much of the so-called | ‘community singing’ where arge | sroups of self-conscisus adults shout | the ‘old favorites' in slap-dash fash- | Huhn's music is essentially | American, for his training as well as| | his inspiration for his songs has| | heen obtained in this country. He tella an interesting tale about his| | Triah songs that have proved so popu- | lar. | { I had nevar besn in Treland, but the beauty of poems in a little book by Irish poets which my wife had when 1 was courting her inspired me and, with faith on her part urging ma on. T wrote my firat Irish son of which “Denny's Daughter” and | “Back to Ireland,” which will be sung | tomorrow by Mr. Ravmond Moor {are two. Mr. Huhn, like most earnest compos. ers who have one supremely ‘“popular’ {song to their credit, is extremely bored with his song “Invictus” and does not hear it whenever he can, as he mays, “escape.” v real cleverness lies not in my song riting, but in the choice I meke of poems," confided Mr. Huhn. “I choose Rossetti, Pove, Henley— great poets’ beautiful works. It Is | the words that put the songs over. Of course. this is only part of the truth, for Mr. Huhn Is mod: Student Rioters Punished. | PARIS. April 3.—Six students were jarraigned today fer violence against the police during Saturday’s Royalist Republican rioting. One got 15 days in prison with a suspended sentence, | while others were fined 50 to 100 | trance. Dr. Berthelemy, the sus- pended law dean who testified, ab- | s0lved the students of all blame. Will You Help Us Carry On? The Salvation $50,000 to carry on with its work ameng Washingten's poor. Help us to keep open this Summer our Fresh Air Camp for mothers and children at Patuxent, Md.; to continu our Missing Friends Bureau; keep open our Employment De- partment: to help the needy in time of trouble, and our other many activities, Please send your contribution to Thomas P. Hickman, $07 B Street NW. Army needs Name ........ | | Neal | sioner Lissner in sustaining the a Address . WASHINGTON, THEIR INDICTMENTS FALL Upper, left to right: Alhert [} SMALLPOX GLAIMS SEVENTH VICTIM Themas Grant, Colored, Dies at District Hospital—Two New Cases Noted. Smallpox elaimead its seventh vietim in Washington this when Thomas Grant, colored, died at the District Smallpox Hospital toda Two new cases of the diseass have been reported to the health office in the past 48 hours. making a total of xeven patients now at the eity hos- pital. The new patiants ware ra- corded in the Health Department as tollows: Harold J. Monahan, 1153 place northeast, and R. W. At- 608 Tth street northeast. kins, Situation Well in Hand. Although Washington has had mare amalipox this vear than usual. Health Ofcer Fowler said today he felt.the situation was well in hand and that thers is no occasion for alarm. It is 1o be expected. he said, that a new case will ba found from time to time tor & while. The colored man who died today Dr. Fowler said, is believed to have been a contact of the case found two | weeks ago in a colored home in Hick- ey lane northeast. The house in Hickey lane was burned down by the health office after the two colored familles Jiving there had been moved | to the quarantine station Lived Near Infected Home. Grant, who disd today the Hickey lane house, according health office officials. Health office officials say the xmall. pox they have had to deal with this vear has Dheen a more severe than usual. lived near to INJUNCTION BLOCKS SALE OF SHIPS TO DOLLAR COMPANY (Continued from First Page.) that sale provided merely that the Gavernment might take over the ships at its own risk for the halance of the five-year period, with the obligation, however, to give the ships back to the Dollar interests in the good con- dition they wer The Pacific Mail does not seek to have determined in this proceeding whether or not its own bid should have been accepted. but claims that it its bid was illegal all bids should bave been rejected. The Pacific Mail declares that “the arbitary refusal of the Shipping Board to consider plai tif's bid and request for conference can only be explained by a desire to sxpedite sale of tha five vessels, even at a heavy loss to the Government and sacrifice of national interest and {in this regard of the merchant Marine | act Rids Rejected. called that Wanted Al Commis- ard Dollar stated that con- sideration of the Pacific Mail bid would have heen ‘“unfair” to R, Stanley Dollar, whereas it is quite #p parent that R. Stanley Dollar would have been fully protected had all bids heen rejected and he given an op- Attention is to R. Sfanley type | . THROUGH Fall and Ir. Prepare Defense Legal Action Proposed to Remove Ban. Members of the Board of Kduca- tion and school authorities made pre- parations to defend themsalves against the legal action | plated by tha high school fraternity | 8% a result of the revolt [ference todav with Corporation Counsel Francis H. Stephens. | The meeting was held in the ofce {of Bdwin €. Graham, member of the | hoard. Thote who aitended. in addj- tion to Mr. Graham and Mr. Stephens, included Supt. Frank W. Ballou, First Assistani Supt. Stephen B. Kramer and James T. Lloyd. president of the board Plans cussed guarded Presidant [ legal of the | the of the =chanl offcials, 2t the conference with the utmost seerecy Llovd indicated that the situation involved in the revelt the hizh o0l students against hoard’s anti-fraternity rule was principal questfon considered 'FATE OF CHAPMAN IS GIVEN TO JURY AFTER ARGUMENTS dis- | abouts after 2 o'clock the morning {of the crime. Chastane testified that he had heen with Chapman until that hour. Alcorn said Chapman could not have learned of Shean's accusations until 36 hours after the erime. Aleorn closed his argument with a plea for a first-degree murder con- viction. The defense ohjected to Al- eorn’s reference to Chapman as hav. |ing “murdered and pillaged up and {down the land,” to a reference to the | United States Attorney General who ih.,‘ Chapman released from a Gov- ernment prison to permit his trial in | Connecticut. to Alcorn’'s reference to Anderson and others waiting outside | to help deliver Chapman from prison and | various other statements. Judge Jennin after denying a mo- tion of the defense to have the case withdrawn from_ the jury on the ground that Alcorn had made im- proper and prejudicial statements in | his summition, began his charge to the jury. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming: purse, $1,200; 3. year-olds and up: & furlongs. Carefree . s oor Sport . 110 eptune 108 ol Burner . 101 Wild_Goose 11111 111 | ®anny Girl 20000 110 105 101 110 108 ACE —The i 4 tarlongs. 186 110 T 110 e 110 entry. nd P. H. Faulconer entry, (Continued from First Page.) Sea Tide ... Sun Rajeh . Jingle . " Demijohn it Valiant purse, $1.200; . 1o 107 Recky Sne 1 frwr ; v aiwtibie $Lilte Blaze | H. P. Whitn iWondn Garth §RW. Career entry. THIRD RACE-—The Springti 31,400, 3vearolds and Flapper 6 Freda D. portunity to make a new hid on the same terms as the Pacific Mail. The Pacific Mail points out that th majority of the hoard yesterday voted down & motlon of Vice Chairman Plummer that the proposed contract should be submitted to the Attorney General for his opinion as to whether it conforms to the opinfon of the # merchant Marine act, The Pacific Mail also points out that during the war the facilities of the dollar interests were operated under foreign flags whereas the Pacific Mail operated under the American flag and were commandeered by the ited States Government and paid to the United States Government $7,500,000 in earnings and more than $3,000,000 in taxes. SUSALE Veterans Honor Dawes. CHICAGO, April 3.—Vice President Charles G. Dawes was made a mem- ber of the “40 and 8" honer division of the American Division yesterday in his offices in the Central Trust Co. He responded by contributing” $1,000 te the endowment drive recently launched by the American Legion, r 120 2nd’ {Dazaler Lacdie Buck centree stable entry. $H. P, Whitney entry. FOURTH RACE—The Capital $2.500 added: : 7 furlongs. TArcady 1Hoot Mon . 1Brans . Cloudland tH. T. Whitney entry. 1. F." Richardson entry, i | 4-year-olds and 1 mile and 70 yards. ars ... 1102 The Poet ... 111 Yankee Princess. The R Red Wingtlel SIXTH year-olds and o Prince Ti Ti *Vezation *Jimson Vulnad . a5 4-year-olds and up: 1 mile and Gray Gables ..... 112 *Ru Br. Marth 110 *El Jesmar . 014 Timer .... *Blossom House. . | Altissimo ... *Apprentice alowance claim Weather clear; track fast. 118 Rama . 111 Intrepia 00000 105 *Bluehinl .11l o3 APRIL 3, SCHOOLHEADSPLAN FRAT CASE FIGHT Against | againet the | hoard’s anti-fraternity rule at a con- | wera | - 100 handicap; FIFTH RACE—The Parkway purse. $1,400; s ENTH RACE-Claiming: purse, $1,200; L 10a 1925. BORAH 1S SILENT Refuses to Discuss Plan to Campaign Against United States’ Adherence. . Senator Borah of ldahe, chairman of the Senate foreign relations com- mittee, who declared in a apeech in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday night that the World Court without an es- i tablished body of international law under which to eperate would be no court at ail, declined to discuss today reperts that epponents of the adher- ence of the World Court by the United States planned te conduct a campaign against the court during the congres- sional recess. | Itis understood, however, thet those who are opposed to having the United States udhers to the World Coyrt will be guided largely by conditione in Eu- rope. They belleve that the situgtion abroad may so change bstween today and December 17, the date when the Senate is to take up considerstion of the World Court matter, that the de- mand for adherence to the court will materially lessen. The various plans to use the court as an advisory body, proposed in the protocol and in the proposed security pact, would, if |adopted, it is contended. make it im- | possible for the United States to Join in the World Court. Says Court Baseleas. In his speech in Bridgeport &en- ator Borah sald with reference to the World Court: “It is said that T am opposed to the World Court. Without an established body of international law under which 1o operate it wou d be no court at all. It would be a tribunal controlled un- not of law. Furthermore, If there ix a body of international law, then there must he a determination upon the part of the people to respect that body. The auestion of peace at home and peuce abroad is largely an atti- tude of peoples of nations and what they have established in principles of iaw “In discussing the greal concerns of international life,” Senater Borah said earlier in his address, “those | which relate 1o schemes for peace. | such | Court. we ought first to survey the i foundations upon which these things must rest if they are to be at all.” Attitm e te Sway Many. Borah throws his influ- |#nce against the proposal of the ad- I ministration for adherence to the I Werld Court it will undoubtedly have la powerful effect in the Senate. In such 2 course he would he aupported {by other Senators who stood side by |side with him in his fight against [the ratification of the Versailles |treaty containing the League of X | tions covenant Senator Borah will leave here this {afternoon to go to Chicage. where he is to deliver a speech tomorrow | night before the Izaak Walton League {of America If Senator |FIRE HAZARD CUT IN SCHOOLS HERE, INSPECTORS FIND (Continued from First Page.) contem- | sets_forth, by’ two recent fires in fires was caused by the storage of waste paper in bags, {acocrding to the report ! "1t was recommended in several {previous reports. and it is again rec- |emmended, that waste paper trash not be permitted to accumulate in sechool buildings witheut some provision to keep it until dis- posed of. Either dispose of it at the by burning it in the furnace or in a metal container, or bale it and place it in fireproof compartments hauled aw the report states. Asks Deers Be Closed, | The report recommends that all { Ara-resistive doors should be made self-closing and kept school hours. Another recommendation Is that the attention of the municipal archi- tect be invited to the combustible Vventilating shafts. o as to provide some means for overcoming the pos- sible spread of flames through ex- posed shafts to the upper portions iof buildings. Engineer Commissioner Bell point- ed out today that the naw appro- priation act carries a substantial in- crease in the lump sum for repairs | to sehool buildings and that as many | of the objectionable conditions as possible will be corrected during the { next 12 months. The new apprepri { tien for repairs te schools is $450,000. whereas in fomer years it has been only $300,000. WEEKS SERIOUSLY ILL; URGED BY FAMILY T0 | LEAVE CABINET POST | (Continued from First Page.) nouncement, made public by Acting Secretary Davis at the War Depart- ment, followa: : “Farly in the morning of April 1 one of the small branches of the mi dle cerebral artery, producing 2 weakness of the muscles of the left arm. No other symptoms have resuli- ed. Considering the rapid improve- ment ha has made in the last 4% hours, Mr. Weeks should be out in a | short time.” May Quit Cab as Secratary of War. ing with important War ‘Department - 110 huginess still were being sent to his residence today for his consideration, Because of his health, however, in agreeing last month te continue as Secretary of War in the Coolidge cabinet, Mr. Weeks did so with the understanding that he might return to private life if his physical condi- tion at any time required a lessening %0 | of physical exertion. Trombosis is an obstruction of the blood circulation by a clot, which in this case apparently has lodged In the brain: A stoppage of any pro- portions there would have Immediate fatal results, and even In a milder form might cause paralysis, Urged to Retire, Although these alarming symptoms had not yet developed, the Secretary neverthel had been urged by mem- bers of his family to retire to private iife. During the latter part of President Harding’s administration he was under care of physicians, who ordered him to refrain from exercise of an intensive na- ture, prohibiting even his customary golf games, and laying out for him a rigid dlet, . 102 108 108 ON COURT FIGHT doubtedly through power of politics, | as the League and the World | and making end of each day after schooel hours until closed during Secretary Weeks had a thrombosis of In the Interval since he returned| he has been exercising his functions Papers deal- FALL INDICTMENT DECLARED ILLEGAL BY DISTRICT COURT| (Continued from First Page.) bribery charges against Fall and the Doheneye, because the alleged of- fense occurred more than three years 280 and prosecution would be barred by the statute of limitation "The charge of conspiracy which was made against all four of the defendants might be again submitted to a grand jury, attormevs for the aceused ad- | mitted. The opinien of the Chief Justice covers 12 typawritten pages and takes up in erder the four pleas made by counsel for the defense, by which they sought the quashing of the in- dictments. 1t discusses the question of the ilawfnl presence of Oliver I, Pagan before the grand jury. It quotes the act of June 20. 1906, en which the Government relied for the presence of an assistant to the Atterney Gen- eral at the grand jury meetings and a decision appearing to sustain that right. But the court says, “The At- tornsy General was, under the & mentioned, for the first time author- fzed to go before grand juries, and had Congress merely directed the Presid nt te prosecute criminal pro- cacdings, he would have ealled up the Attorney General, who is his legal adviser, to take charge and con- trol, and under such eircumstances Mr. Pagan's appearance for the Gov- ernment could not be succesafully questioned. But the Cengress was not willing that the Atterney Gen- eral should advise the President in these cases. It not willing that | the Attorney General should have | charge and control, or appoint any person to cenduct the proceedings. | “This resolution of the Senate ta ing the right awav from the Attor-, ney General also took it away from| his assistants and therefore Mr. Pa- gan was not authorized to appear be-| fore the grand jury as an attorney for the Government.” Gordon's Right Unquestioned. The question whether the district | attorney (Maj. Gordon) was right fully before the grand jury is not so| readily answered. the court suggeste But after reviewing the law he reaches the conelusion that as th Attorney Gentral had no direct con trol over district attorneys as (o grand jury proceedings, the Congre .‘ when speaking in the resolution in question of the powers of the Attor- ney General did not have in mind a statutory power in him over distrie attorneys. In taking up the second plea, which | attacked the indictment, because signed by Atlee Pomerene and Owen | | 7. Roberts as “special assistants to| !the Attorney General” the court| | points out that as long as the indict- ments were indorsed hy the foreman | of the grand jury the signatures of | counsel were not necessary. As the| lawyers were present in the grand | jury room under their appointment as | “special counsel” their presence was | lawful | Discussing the spesch broadcast by | Senator Thomas J. Walsh. giving his views of the oil scandal, which coun- sel for the accused had called a con- tempt of court, the chief justice says Radie Case Not Proven, “The false plea in abatement al- leges that during tRe period of serv- | ice of the grand jury, which found the indictments, it was announced by jnewspapers in the District of Colum- | { bla that there would be broadcast by {2 United States Senator by radio a statement about the matter under in- vestigation, and that this plan was carried out, though the attorney for one of the defendants called attention of the Senator to the fact that the srand jury was considering the cases, “It is alleged that the broadeasting was done with the intent that it should be heard by members of the grand jury and that there were at the residence of more than a majority {of the grand jury radio receiving sets. Ceftain statements are made | about public places where the public | was permitted to hear the address There is no allegation that any grand juror heard the address or was in- fluenced by I, nor that the indict- ment was not based entirely-on lay-| ful evidence.’ | Attorneys Frank J. Hogan of Wash- | ington and F. R Kellogg of New York represented the two Dohen | Attorneya George P. Hoover of this| ecity and Martin W. Littleton and G. T, Stanford of New York represented | Harry F. Sinclalr, while Henry A.| | Wise of New York appeared as coun- sel for Mr. Fall. FALL WITHHOLDS COMMENT. THREE RIVERS A. B. Fall, former Secretary Interior, now residing at his ranch home here, reserved comment today on the quashing of the indictment against him in Washington until he has recelved the particylars of the court’s ruling he said. He plans to get in touch with his attorneys im mediately, and will not make an statement until that time, he declared. | Prior to going to Chevenne. where he was subpoenaed as a wltness in the Teapot Dome suit, Mr. Fall spent several months at his home in EI Paso. However, since his return from the North he has spent almest all of his time at his ranch. N. M.—April of X | YES NO and relie! with speci [ used | to him | Government will he about $5.000 rich PO e GRANTS PROBATION T0 SHOPLFTERS Court Sentences Twn Women Who Pleaded Guilty, Then Paroles Them. Mrs. Ethel Pocklington and Mrs Mabel Magee, young women, pleaded guilty last Friday, hefore Justice Hoehling in Criminal Division 1, to an indictment charging them with shop- lifting. The court committed them to Jall to await sentence. After serv- ing a week the court calied the ung women before him today and gave them each a sentenca of one year at Occoquan, but placed them on probation. The justice expressed the hope thet the week's detention in jail had taught tha accused a lexson Leniency for Rosenhloth. Similar action was taken by the court in relation 1o Myer Rosenbloth who came before him for sentence after a week’s sojourn in jail Rosenbloth was accused of receiving stolen property, consisting of 100 pounds of lead taken from the stors of Hugh Reilly December 15 last The court gave him a term of six months at Occoguan, but suspended it during his good behavier Other Pemalties Incurred. Samuel C. Helght, colored of larceny after trust, was given ona year at Occoquan and fined $100. He $100 which had b intrusted A like term of it Gceoquan was given Louis colored, for shooting August 23 last Earl Thornton, colored, will 16 months in the penitentiary jov-ride. He took an without permission of the owner SHOES ARE BARGAIN IN DEAD LETTER SALE Sell convicted en one vear Herbert Clinton Sumbs spend for automobils as Low as $1.50 Per Lot of From Three to Five Pairs. With only 500 items remaining be sold at 9:30 o'clock this merning the Post Office Department's dead ter sale will be concluded by § o'clock this evening, and. it is predicted, the er the result of careless and addressing. The morning’'s business opened with 306 pairs of men's. women’'s and chi dren’s shoes, to be sold in lots of f and thres pairs. A number of dealars were in the audience, which was slightly smaller than yesterday, a the sales went rapldly at om $1.50 to $5 per lot. About this afternoon the closing lots of the lis —jeweiry—are expectad to be reached To date the largest amount paid for any of the articles offered was §2 for 60 relaundered men’'s shirts. They were sold by Charles Kracke, occup ing the bloek at the time, who disposed of two machine reame valued 2t $100 on the market, for $10 Supt. F. €. Staley said today a larze number of the 306 pairs of shoes solc wera Intended for foreign purchas and that they were refused by tha buyer and fell back into the hands o wrapping | the Post Office Department The force emploved to conduct the sale auctioneers. is composed of Bushby, Miss Catherine Wixe Cole, Theodore Kjng, Mrs. L. M. Long Jos Powers. James Dickson. Pere Milner: Stuart -Terratt. John W Sparkham and Edwin Gary FILE MANDAMUS PLEA AGAINST PRESIDENT by Mr. Stale in addition o the F.H B. G Justice Jennings Bailey of the Dis- triet Supreme Court has undar sideration today an application for a mandamus against President Conl- idge, which has bean filed in the Dis- trict Supreme Court by John C. Beam and William B. Beam, attornevs of New Jersey, in their own behalf. A similar petition by William B. Beam n June, 1921, against President Hard- ing was dismissed by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling The Beam brothers ask the court o compel President Coolidge to proceed by injunction agalnst George S zer, Governor of New Jersey, against othar State officials to pre- vent alleged abuses of the banking laws. The petition for action by tha Chief Executive against Sta officials was presented at Whi House. but without result. Applica- tion was then made to the court The petitioners assert that State officials are not anxious fn bring certain “uncenvicted criminals” con- and he the {to the bar of justice for the alleged ‘llegal handling of State funds. Voted? An Easter Referendum Now in Progress QUESTION: Do you favor the support of our city- wide, non-sectarian ASSOCIATED CHARITIES for the r 3 orative care f of families in real need, ial regard to the welfare of their children? Under this treatment Mr. Weeks' general condition showed improve. mant, and he was rarely absent from his desk at the War Department. 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