Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1925, Page 2

2 * PINEY BRANCH LOST | FORPARK PURPOSES Beauty So Marred by Dumps That It Cannot Be Used, Sherrill Says. Piney Branch Park, long sought as a Part of the park system of the District of Columbia, has so far been destroyed for park purposes by the marring of fts natural beautles by the dumping incident to the advance of building that it hever may be purchased. This section’ of parkway follows the valley of the old Piney Branch, now piped, running between Fourteenth and Var- num streets, at its junction with the present Tuberculgsis Hospital grounds, o the east side of the so-called Tiger Bridge on Sixteenth street. Consistent efforts were made to have the present owners to desist from the dumping there and preserve the tract until legislation could be put through Congress to provide for its purchase. But great trucks dump yel- low clay and debris daily down the slopes, destroying its beauties for all time. The provision for the purchase of this tract was carrfed in a bill which was up in Congress many times. The same measure always carried the authorization for the purchase of the Klingle Valley' tract in Cleveland Park and the Patterson tract on Florida ave- nue, adjoining the Columbia Institution Tor the Deaf. Have Power to Buy. Hewever, the National Capital Park Commission has the authority to pur- chase such tracts without specific au- thority from Congress. In fact, one of the first acts of the commission was a purchase of the Klingle Ford tracf, which was taken over by the Government as a part of the park system several weeks ago. The. Government owns the ground up +to the east side of the Tiger Bridge, and efforts were made to have the other slde purchased before the fillilng was continued up to the bridge. Local civic bodies made many valiant fights to save this prop- erty for the park system. Establish- meRt- of this parkway would have made: it possible for trafic to come downtown through a beautiful drive without having to be impeded by the erosg-traffic on the city streets proper. Liéut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, di- rector of public_buildings and public parks of the National Capital, and executive officer of the national park commission, sald today that the de- struction of the parkway seemed to have gone so far that it would be practically useless for the purposes for which it was intended, and that it was probable that it would never be purchased. The final decision, if it should be not to purchase, would be a source of much regret, it is shown, to the peo- ple of the District of Columbia. But, it was pointed out, its natural beau- ties are so far destroyed that it would be rather expensive to attempt to re- store it. Only a narraw gorge now remains down the valley, flanked on either side by ugly clay banks, and in some cases the tres trunks are cov- ered for a portion of their height. SHERRILL RELIEVED AS SENIOR MILITARY AIDE TQ'PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) time, White House officlals sald to- day. Col. Cheney was born in Connecti- cut August 24, 1873. He graduated from the United Statés Military Acad- emy June 11, 1897, and has spent his entire military life in the Corps of Engineers, reaching the grade of col- onel July 1, 1920, and was a tem- porary brigadier general from Octo- ber 1, 1918, to November 1, 1919. He served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection and in France during the World War. He returned in 1924 from a tour of duty as military attache at Peking, and is at present commandant of the. En- gineer School at Camp Humphreys. Col. Cheney is a graduate of the Army War College. His name fis borne on the initial general staff eli- gible list. He is the holder of the distinguished service medal and of the French croix de guerre with palms and is a commander of the Legion of ‘Honor. NICARAGUA CHAMBER INVADED BY CROWD Demonstration Held Against Crea- tion of National Con- stabulary. By the Associated Press. SAN SALVADOR, Republio of Sal- vador, April 4—A Managua dispatch says that a crowd of Nicaraguans stormed the Parliament Building and invaded the Chamber of Deputies yes- terday, shouting, “Death to the co stabulary and the Chamorro family The disturbance caused the suspen- sion of the parliamentary session. [The crowd also cheered the Nica- raguan President, Solorzano, and the fdtmer President, Bartolome Marti- ndk, who is now a member of Presi- deht Solorzano's cabinet as minister offinterior. artinez, according to the dispatch, aghounced to the newspapers after tié disturbance that the government Was not committed to establishment ora constabulary, and that Congress ht disapprove ir fit. E MANSION FLAGSTAFF REMOVAL IS HELD UP triotic Societies Protest, and Davis Will Go Into Matter Further. the project it e order for removal of the old 13§l flagstaft from in front of historic Mansion, at Arlington National etery, has been revoked by Col. ight Davis, Acting Secretary of r, pending further:study on the necessity or desirability of the change. . His action was due to petitions from various patriotic societies, in- eluding the local commandery of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Leyal Legion and many citizens. REJECT CHURCH UNION. Delaware Negro Methodists Op- posed to Merger. NEWARK, Del. April 4—The Dela- ware Methodist Episcopal Conference (negro) yesterday voted, 93 to §3, to reject the proposed unification of the ‘Methodist Episcopal -Church North and South, At the same time the Lay- men's Association voted 79 to 4 in Jaxor: pf-unifcation. His Duties Lightened LIEUT. COL. C. 0., SHERRILL, Whose position as White House alde hax been given to Col. Sherwood Cheney. Col. Sherrill's other duties made rellef necessary. RENT BOARD POST ACGEPTED BY BALL Will Assume Duties Monday, Former Senator Says, After Talk With Coolidge. Former Senator L. Heisler Ball of Delawars, who was at the head of the District committee of the Senate when retired from that body on March 4 last, today accepted appointment as chair- man of the District Rent Commiesion. He will assume his duties Monday morn- ing. Senator Ball let this be known after conferring with the President at the White House at noon today. He made it very plain, however, that the President appreciates fully the personal sacrifice he is making and the public service he is contributing in accepting this position, which, besides other things, will last only about six weeks, in which time the commission expires by law. The Delaware Senator declined to say whether or not the President would give him an appointment to some permanent place later on, but indicated that this is not at all unlikely. President Coolidge, in explaining his reason for appointing former Senator Ball to the Rent Commission, s represented as saying that the latter's intimate knowledge of the com- mission’s affairs and the rent situation here will be invaluable in directing the winding-up of this body. The President, while discussing the appointment with intimates, sald that Senator Ball's appointment to this task was a case of the job seeking the man, and not the man seeking the job, as is so frequent the case:in presidential appointments. Because of the short time remaining before the commission will go out of ex- istence the President did not want to appoint some one to succeed Richard ‘Whaley, who last week resigned as chairman, who was unfamiliar with the work of the commission. Such an appointee would be of little use under the circumstances, in the opin- fon of the President, therefore his se- lection of the former chairman of the District committee of the Senate and the author of the Ball rent act. The President is known to have asked the latter to accept the place as a matter of public service. Selection of Senator Ball for the place caused considerable comment in official and political circles. Specu- lation naturally centered around the point whether or not the President would appoint Senator Ball to some- thing really worth while after the Rent Commission passes into history or whether he will consider this ap- pointment as fulfilling any obligation he may owe the former District chair- man. It is known that Senator Ball's friends in the Senate and among the leaders of Delaware have persistently urged the President to appoint the former Senator to the Internationai Boyndary Commission or to the United States Tariff Commission, which soon is to have a vacancy. POLICE THWART “THEFT” OF 3-STORY BUILDING Owner Discovers Three Men Razing Structure and Carrying Material Away. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 4—The “theft” ot a three-story brick building was thwarted hers yesterday and three men were arrested as involved in the larceny. Carl Singer owned the building, which has not been occupled for some time, Passing the property yes- terday, he observed three men razing the building. The men told him they were employed by a nearby wreck- ing company. The wrecking com- pany denied all knowledge of the work. Police arrested Andrew Choba, 5 Stanley N. Kortzmarsky, 30, and Al- bert Rudsinsky, 32. The first two were charged with grand larceny and the third with receiving stolen prop- erty, as he was carrying away the bricks as the others tore them from the bullding. The roof had been removed and one wall torn down when Singer stopped the wrecking. S Lighted Match Starts Blaze. A lighted match dropped on the mattress of a bed in the basement of the home of Claude W, Roche, 1752 Q streef, started a fire this morning, which was extinguished by firemen before considerable damage was done. Several occupants on the upper floors of the house wers driven out by the smoke. -Will Yoou Help Us Carry On? The Salvation Army needs $50,000° to carry on with its work _among Washington' poor. Help us to keep open “this Summer our Fresh Air Camp for mothers and" children at Patuxent, Md.; to continue our Missing Friends ‘Bureax keep open our Employment De- partment; to_help the needy‘in time of frouble, and our other many activiti Please send your contribution to Thomas P. Hickman, 607 E Street N.W. Address ..... v THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1925. PRESIDENT’S “FRIENDLY ENEMY” OUT TO MAKE TARIFF SCIENTIFIC COOLIDGE BELIEVE PERU 1S MISTAKEN Holds Points Raised Over Tacna-Arica Award Are Covered in Provisions. While awaiting a detalled analysix of its contents by State Department experts before drafting his reply, President Coolidge, on the basis of a preliminary study of the document believes the Peruvian memorial on the Tacna-Arica award has ralsed nc point as to safeguarding the plebi- scite that is not already antlcipated in | the terms of the award. It is felt, with this preliminary opinion of the President and his ad- visers indicating to some extent the probable tenor of his reply, that the Peruvian arbitration representatives will be assured by Mr. Coolidge that the award was drawn with. every determination to see to it that the plebiscite is a fair expression of popu. lar will and that it already amply safeguards that purpose. The reply at the same time is expected to re- flect the President's sympathetic at- titude toward the natural anxiety of Peru over the outcome of the piebi- scite to determine the sovereignty of the two provinces, to which she has long asserted claim. Text is Withheld. The text of the Peruvian commu- nication, which bears the signature of one of the speclal Peruvian rep- resentatives here in connection with the arbitration proceding and is not a direct communication from the Peruvian government, has been with- held from publication pending the drafting of the President's reply. It is Known, however, after pointing qut what it regards as errors in the find- ing, although declaring the purpose of the Peruvian government to Carry out the award, It suggests among six other proposed modifications in the plebiscite conditions the use of Amer- ican military forces In the two provinces in place of the present Chilean military and police. As to this, the President's con- ception of his duty of arbitrator as being entirely one of individual re- sponsibility, not shared in any way by the United States Government, is re- garded as making certain that he cannot entertain the Peruvian sug- gestion for the employment of Ameri- can troops. CONSERVATION HELD OF ECONOMIC VALUE Destruction of Feather Trade Cited as Example of Uncurbed Killing. By the Associated Preas. CHICAGO, April 4—The dollar sign is on the side of conservation, Had Evarts, outdoor editor of the Satur- day Evening Post, told the third an- nual convention of the Izaak Walton League last night. ‘Conservation can rest its case on a sound economic basis” he said. “The foresight of Its pioneers. from an economic standpoint, §s vastly su« perior to that of the alleged practical interests that have opposed it. “The feather trade furnishes a4f ex- ample of short-sighted folly. The inexhaustible millions were soon ex- hausted, specles were harried to the point of virtual extinction, and a trafic of enormous commercial scope shot and clubbed itself out of a job. “Let the man who doesn't care if he never catches a fish consult his stomach. But for conservationis the American public would be de- prived to a large extent of its Friday menu.” “In the Lake States alone” said the report of the forestry commit- tee, of which Col. William B. Greeley, chief forester of the United States, is a member, “the Department of Agri- culture estimates there are 40,000,000 acres of cut-over fdle land. The great bulk of this devastated area is unsuited to profitable agriculture and little suit- ed to grazing.” Reforestation was urged as a remedy AMERICAN WANTS TITLE OF “KING” GIVEN BACK Declares It Was Taken From Him Illegally by Former Gov- ernor of S8amoa. Corresponde ce of the Associated Press. APIA, Samoa, March 14—Chris Young, an American who was de- prived by Capt. Edward S. Kellogg Governor of American Samoa, of title of “tuf” (king) of the Island of Manua, in the Samoan group, has in- structed lawyers in California to bring suit for damages against Capt. Kellogg for depriving him of his title and refusing him permission to visit his family. C. S. Hannum, an attorney of Rich- mond, Calif.,, who is handling Young's case, said that the evidence has beem submitted to the Secretary of the Navy. Young was regularly selected by the natives of the island as thelr chief. upon the death of the preced- ing “tul,” Hannum id. Later Kel- logg, who has since been relieved as governor for a post elsewhere, sent for Young, dispatching a Navy boat. to bring him to the seat of the gov- ernment at Apia. In his complaint Young says he has been furnished “no accommodations to return to Manua, where his family lives.” Capt. Kellogg's actions were with- out good and sufficient reason, Young contends. CHARGE OF LAWLESSNESS ROUSES ALASKAN’S IRE Alaskans Want Name of Stone’s Informant in Order to “Brand Him as Liar*' By the Aseociated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, April 4.—Me- morials, addressed to President Cool- idge and Supreme Court Justice Har- lan F. Stone, introduced in the ter- ritorial legisiature, denounce as false a statement in press dispatches in February and attributed to Stone that Alaska was a “bad spot with no re- spect for law enforcement.” Senator Dimind and Representative Murray,” who introduced the me- morials, demanded that the name of the informant be disclosed so that he may be “branded from one end of Alaska to the other for the liar he is.” s il College Teams to Debate. A debate on the child labor amendment to the Constitution will be held at the National University Law School this evening at 7 o'clock. The affirmative and negative teams will be compossd of winners of former debates between the Miller nd Alvey debating socleties of the Prof. A. P. Dennis Lived in'Northampton, But Not Coolidge “Fan.” Executive Relishes Turn of Events Enabling His Selection. An old Coolidge associate in the at Northampton, a “Hoover * of the first rank, but a Demo- crat. withal—Prof. Alfred P. Dennis, the new member of the United States Tariff Commission—is making Wash- ington rub its eves and wonder. The marvelous part of it all Is the fact that despite nine years of that assoclation at Northampton it can- not be written of Prof. Dennis that he succumbed to the Coolidge cult. He absolutely declined to sit at the feet of the master. As a matter of fact he fought consistently the man of destiny who was to become the thirtieth President of the United States. When the story went forth that Calvin Coolldge never had been defeated for office it was Prof. Dennis who mangled the myth by recalling that Mr. Coolidge once was defeated for school trustee or some local office of that ilk. Coolidge Relishes Situation. Evidently the situatfon was very retreshing to President Coolidge, for, on the very first occasion when he could find “an office suited to the talents of his friendly enemy of the Northampton days and calling for a Democrat, he tendered it to Prof. Dennis. And that commission is why today the tariff has one of {ts ablest members—a man who believes that the tariff should be taken out of politics and put upon .a scientific basis tending to the economic well- be!ng and prosperity of the country. Prof. Dennis does not believe the tarift should continue the foot ball of politics. The business of the country should be assured at all times of a definite tariff policy which would be continuous, with no up- settng influence at each election time, he asserts. Prof. Dennis is one of those who believe that the Hungarian embargo on Serblan hogs was at the root of the World War, which all but con- sumed Europe fn its flames. Atms at Scientific Tarisr. If ever the tariff is to be treated on a scientific basis, and and if ever the country is to have any sort of con- fidence in the decislons of the Tariff Commission, Prof. Dennis is consider- ed the type of man to bring those de- sirable ends about. In view of all the talk about a “packed” Tariff Commission, the Dem- ocrats in Congress questioned Prof. Dennis rather thoroughly after his se- lection by President Coolldge, but PROF. ALFRED P. DENNIS, they found his views were sound even though they were not based on parti- san politics. Prof. Dennis thinks politics has had entirely too much to do with the framing of the tariffs in the past The new tariff member brings to his work a wealtk of enlightening ex- perience. Not only has he been a student and a professor of history and economics and European politics, but he has served in the diplomatic serv- ice as commercial attache at the American embassies in Rome and London. He has been a special rep- resentative of Secretary Hoover in commercial investigations in central and eastern Europe Proved His Independence. His whole life has been wrapped up In in atmosphere of history and economics. And when a man can go on the Tariff Commission in these troubulous times with the confidence both of the Republicans and the Democrats he must have something out of the ordinary to give to his country. Prof. Dennis is independent. He proved that during his professorial days at Smith College, in Northamp- ton, when he declined to kowtow to the Coolidge views of what was what in the political arena and in the af- fairs of the world. The stalwart character of Prof. Dennis democracy may be under- stood when it is explained that he is & native son of Maryland—a descend- ant of some of the oldest families of that commonwealth, %o rich in the liberal history of the Republic. And so, while learning at North- ampton to have faith in Massachu- setts, Alfred Dennis never lost a greater faith in old Maryland R. T.S. (Copyright, 1925.) e Pt i SN e il o AR Truck With Piano Shown to Court in Plea for Freedom Presented as Evidence Accused Is Working. Probation Allowed. Because he had a truck standing in front of the courthouse, containing & plano which he was to deliver if the court placed him on probation, Adell Ogden, colored, secured his liberty today on a suspended sentence of six months at Occoquan. Attorney John 1. Sacks assured the court that he had not staged the presence of the loaded truck, but offered it as an exhibit that Ogden has been steadily employed since he got into trouble by disposing of some stolen articles. The lawyer also explained that Ogden was wounded in France, “Go, deliver your piano,” said the chief justice. “Maybe your service over there has much to do with my declsion.” The other cases brought befors the court also recelved clemency. David Yates, colored, who, it was charged, stole a pistol belonging to the Police Department, was given one year and placed on probation. Mary Hawkins, accused of two charges of shoplifting, was sentenced to Occoquan for a year on each charge and placed on pro- bation. William J. Brighton, & former clerk in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, who was accused of padding his expense account, was given a sentence of one year in each case, to run concurrently, and placed on pro- bation. The offense occurred in 1920 and . the young man has ‘“gone WILBUR SAYS WORLD IS MORE RIGHTEOUS Address of Naval Secretary a Fea- ture of M. E. Conference at Annapolis, Md. By the Associated Press, ANNAPOLIS, April 4—The peoples of the world as a whole are getting bet- ter from a religlous standpoint, Secre- tary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur de- clared here yesterday in an address be- fore the Laymen's Association of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Secretary Wilbur said the religious aspeot could not be judged adequate- ly without some standard of measure- ment, yet, he said that the clamor about barbarism that marked the be- ginning of the World War gradually abated as the people realized that each of the nations Involved was struggling for some ideal, regarded as great. Mr. Wilbur gave it as his opinion that the people of the present genera- tion do not have the knowledge of the Bible as in the old days; that long prayers that made for a stand- ard of goodness have been much shortened, and homework js almost abolished. Yet, on the other hand, he said, people of all countries steadily are gaining a wider knowledge of God; that there is something more significant in the fundamental atti- tude of love for God, and man is showing a more loving affection for the Infinite. Lay Sessions Adjourned. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 4—The ses- stralght” since that time, it was said. |sions of the conference of the Baltl- Rudolph Drury, a young white man, | more district of the Methodist Epis- Who has been in jail two weeks, was | copal Church, which began here Tues- freed today by the chiet justice in order that he may care for his wife and baby. Drury was cautfoned to walk straight in the future, He was charged with atealing a ring, worth $850, from Josephine Tyler Jjanuary 1, i MRS. GATCHELL FISHER IS FOUND DEAD IN HOME Prominent Church Worker Heart-Disease Victim—Rites to Be Monday. Mrs. Gatchell Fisher, 52 years old, long a prominent church worker and a resident of Washington since she was a young girl, was found dead in bed at her residence, 3205 R street, today. Death was attributed to heart disease. Mrs. Fisher apparently had been in the best of health. She was the wife of H. Wellen Fisher of the firm of Fisher & Son, grocers, st Wisconsin avenue and N street. ’ Funeral services will be conducted Is at the residence Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris of Foundry M. E. Church, with ; which Mra. Fisher long was identi- fled, will officiate. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, a son, Henry W. Fisher, § four daughters, Mrs. Edward W. Purcell of New York, Miss Elizabeth Fisher, Miss Carlyle Fisher and Miss Louise Fisher; two sisters, Mrs. John Brown of Coatesville, Pa., her former home, and Mrs. Robert Sharpe of Honolulu, and a brother, Clarence Gatchel, also of Coatesville. FEWER MEN, MORE PAY. Railway Employes Decrease, Wm Total Higher, Report Shows. Decrease in the number of railroad employes and an increase in railroad pay rolls during January, as com- pared with the previous month, was noted by the iInterstate Commerce Commission today on the basis of re- 1 carriers. ber of railroad work- ers employed during the month was 1,- 728,333, while during December the pum- ber was 1,736,699. The total wage ‘cost, however, Was $243,359,36%, while for Decembac it was §! 5 day, will conclude with important meetings today and tomorrow and a business session on Monday morning. The laymens’ conference, held in con- junction, finished its work this morn- ing and adjourned. Time was taken today for some sight-seing, visits being made to the Naval Academy, where special cou tesies were shown, and points of hi: toric interest in Annapolis. Many attended a base ball game. Incidents of this afternoon's program are the annual meeting of ministers wives and evangelisti~ services conducted by Bishop Theodore S. Henderson. A love feast, conducted by Rev. S. M. Alford will start at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and Bishop William F. Me- Dowell will preach the conference ser- mon at 11. At the same time Bishop Henderson will preach to midshipme; and students of St. John's College. Thz two bishops will conduct ordination services in the afternoon. CHARGING MISCONDUCT, 3 WIVES SEEK DIVORCE One Husband Files Counter Suit, Alleging That Helpmeet Was Cruel. Albert E. Holland, a photographer, in answer to a suit for an absolute divorce brought by his wife, Jose- Phine L. Holland, denies the charges of misconduct and files a counter- claim of cruelty against his wife. He asks the court to grant him a limited divorce. Holland claims his martfal troubles arose from & refusal of his wife to leave the home of Her mother and set up a separate abode Attor- ney Foster Wood appears for the hu: band. Denial of his wite's charges of mis- conduct are made by Joseph D. Ward, 2 monument dealer, in answer to the suit for an absolute divorce brought by his wife, Mollie L. Ward. Every- thing was platonic, says the husband, when the vice squad discovered him in an apartment with a young woman. Attorneys Bell, Marshail & Rice rep. resent the husband. Absolute divorce is asked in a suit filed by Mrs. Marie T. Harris against Lester W. Harris. To corespondents are named. Attorney J. C. W. Beall appears for the wife. Figures prove alr travel is not much more risky than travel by traln or autoy 52 Wi 3 = Sexls HILLES URGES HICKS FOR MILLER'S POST G. 0. P. Vice Chairman Visits White House—Peking En- voy Is Selected. Charles D. Hilles, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, who has been mentioned frequently recently as a possible appointee to the President’s cabinet, was in conference with President Coolidge today. Mr. Hilles sald afterward that his visit to the White House had nothing what- ever to do with his being tendered a cabinet post or any other office, but was more for the purpose of asking the President to appoint former Rep- resentative Hicks of New York, who managed the Kastern headquarters of the Republican national committee in the late campalgn, to succeed Col. Thomas W. Miller as alién property custodian. Mr. Hicks was a member of Con- gress for more than 10 years and recently accompanfed Gen. Pershing to Peru as a member of the Amer- igan commission that went to that country to participate in the centen- nial celebration of the Peruvian In- dependence. There are a number of other candidates for this position, among them being Willlam Wilson, who is now general counsel for the allen property custodian and has been acting as ¢ustodian. Mr. Hilles indicated very strongly that his talk with the President natyrally touched upon politics and conditions generally throughout the country. MacMurray Going to Peking. Although thers have been persist- ent reports in official circles in Wash- ington that Alexander P. Moore of Plttsburgh has expreased a desire to retirs .as American Ambassador to Spain, no confirmation of .this has been: obtained from the White House. In connection with the Ambassador Moore rumor the name of William S. Culbertson, vice chairman of = the Tarift Commission, has been promi- nently mentioned s being given seri- ous consideration by the President. Mr. Culbertson was a candldate for the position as United States Minister to China to succeed Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, who has been appointed Ambassador to Germany, but the White House has announced that President Coolidge has selected John Van Antwerp MacMurray, Assistant Secretary of State and the State De- | partmeént's recognized authority on China and affairs of the Orient, for the Peking ppst. TRAPPED THROUGH KNIFE. Prisoner Said to Admit Hold-Up in Banker’s Home. PITTSBURGH. Pa., April 4 —Joseph Kelly, 26 years old, of Albany, N. Y., confessed today police said, of com- plicity in the attempted hold-up Jan- uary 7, at the home of Lawrence E. Sands, president of the First Na- tional Bank of Pittsburgh, when two bandits held the Sands family at ba for an hour, demanding $20,000, under threat of kidnaping Mrs. Sands. Kelly was arrested last night when a report was made to police that he had exhibited a penknife bearing the name of J. W. Sands, son of the banker, who was wounded by the bandits when he attempted to sum- mon ald. "The bandits fled after the shooting. Joseph Ryan of Altoona, Pa., ar- rested with Kelly, was sald by police not to have been implicated in the hold-up. A search was started for the accomplice, police said Kelly named in his confession. MORE BODIES FOUND. Total of Weser Bridge Victims Brought to 25. MINDEN, Germany. April 4—Three more bodies were recovered from the Weser River yesterda: bringing to 25 the total of victims of Tuesday's disaster, when a contingent of infan- try troopers was thrown into the river with the capsizing of pontoons on which they were crossing. Divers from the North Sea naval station will attempt to recover other bodies. The official investigation conducted by the ministry of defense has exon- erated the officer in charge of the ferrying operation. 1t was found that the loss of lives was due to panicky behavior by the soldiers when the pontoons became "I(erngr_cd. CUBA WELCOMES ENVOY. Thousands Gather to See La Torri- ente Leave Steamer. HAVANA, April 4.—Dr. Cosme de Ia. Torriente, who resigned recently as Cuban Ambassador to the United States, was given an enthusiastic welcome on his return hers yesterday by several thousand of his countrymen who gath- ered to ses him disembark from the steamer. The steamer stopped at the office of the port police, just inside Havana Harbor, to allow Dr. de la. Tor- rients and his family to leave the ves- sel, an honor seldom extended. Government and city officiale and Gen. B. H. Crowder, the American Ambas- sador, were at the polios office o greet m. : CITY AIRPORT STARTED. Chicago Takes Over 75 Acres of School Land for Purpose. CHICAGO, April 4—Chicago's mu- nicipal airport was given a start to- day when the olty took over 75 -acren of public school land, which will be ready to accommodate planes in two weeks. ‘Within the next five years 300 acres adjoining will be taken over under a city ordinance which authorized ita lease for 25 vears. Planes arriving here will be per- mitted to land free of charge and given provision for retuelling. Flood lights will be installed to make night landing possible, and later hangar sites will be rented. BANDIT MEETS DEATH. Shot Down by Police When He Flees in Auto. EL SBGUNDO, Calif. April 4—A $150,000 pay-roll robbery lured Charles Davis, 26, to his death and put ‘handcuffs on' Norman Mason, 22, according/to ‘officers who killed Dayvis and captured Mason in a run- ning gun fight here yesterday. The sho6ting ‘started .when the two men tried to -outdistance a police automo- bile, Which challenged them near the bank where ‘the $150,000 - consigned to the Standard Oil Refinery here was been unloaded from atruck. uspects*.car, which caresned oft the highway ‘and crashed- into a tres when Davis was shot, police said they - found bullet-proof vests -hundred yoynda of apmunition,! Charged With Forgery STON B. MEANS, Indicted by grand jury, is accused of signing Senator Brookhart's name to letter demanding his records 1In Brookhart-Wheeler investigation of Attorney Gemeral Daugherty. VICTIM OF ASSAULT HELD LIKELY TO DI Former Klan Leader, Accus- ed of Attack, at Liberty on | Bond of $25,000. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April Physicians today wers hopeful that the blood transfusion resorted to yesterday in an effort to save the life of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, who is sald to be In a dying condition as the result of an attack by D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragen of the Ku Klux Klan, would be success- ful. Much doubt, however, was ex- pressed as to the recovery of the girl, who has been unconsclous since Thursday night. Stephenson, who is under indict- ment for assault and battery with intent to kill, maliclous mayhem, conspiracy to commit a felony and kidnaping, is at liberty under bond of $25,000. Meanwhile search is being conducted” for Earl Gentry, deputy sheriff, and Farl Gentry named fin the Indictment charging conspiracy, who are said to have left the city on a business trip. The girl's injuries ars said to have been aggravated by poison which she is said to have taken following the attack, which according to the in- dictments, took place on a train en route to Hammond, Ind, in an at- tempt to commit suicide. The indictment charging assault leges that Stephenson hit, beat and rudely assaulted the girl while that charging mavhem alleges he attacked the girl with intent to maliclously malm and disfigure her. Stephenson will be arraigned 1cnmmu Court next Monday £ in SOVIET WILL REDUCE { TAX RATE ON CAPITAL Step Announced in Line With De- cision to Make Private Business Feasible. By the Associated Press, MOSCOW, April 4.—The official Rosta agency announced today that the government had instructed the finance commissariat to prepare a bill for reduction of taxation on pri- vate capital. At the same time the government will take steps to strengthen the position of national commercial firms and promote the actlvities of co-operative organiza- tions. Ten million rubles are pro- vided in the budget for this purpose. This announcement by the Rosta agency is in line with the decisions taken by the council of labor and de- fense, as made known in a dispatch from Moscow Friday night, namely, that present restrictions regarding the sale of goods to private con- cerns by state trusts and co-operative organizations be removed and taxes on private traders greatly reduced. In introducing the reforms, considered the most far-reaching since Lenin inaugurated his so-called new eco- nomic policy, M. Kameneff, acting premler of Soviet Russia, said: “At the present juncture the trade desert which exists in certain regions of the Soviet union is more harmful and dangerous to the economic struc- ture of the socialistic state than pri- vate capitalists. 3 The reforms were introduced on the initiative of the supreme economic councll. STRONGER BEER ACT LIKELY FOR ONTARIO Measure Ready for Third Reading, With Passage Considered Probable. By the Aasociated Press. TORONTO, Ontario. April 4 —The bill amending the Ontario temperance act to permit the sale of stronger beer ‘will come before the provincial legis- laturs for third reading probably next ‘week. Now that it has survived the attacks mads upon it by progressive and liberal opposition groups in the second reading Jast week and in the house in committee last night, the blIl is not expected to be strenuously opposed in the final reading. The fight in committes centersd ‘hiefly on the efforts of the pro- Faroosive group to have the amend- ments provide that municipalities that voted dry in the last plebiscite be excluded from the stronger beer pro- visions. This was defeated. After the bill has received the as- sent of the lleutenant governor the regulations governing the sale of stronger beer, which will be 4.4 proof spirits, as compared with the 2.5, the sale of which is now permitted, will be drawn up by the government and put into effect by order-in-council. Man Who Carried Sing Sing Corpses Goes to Jail Again By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 4—Herman Muller, known as ‘Death Houser” at Sing Sing, becauss during an eight-year term it was his job to carry oorpses from the electric chair to:the autopsy room, re- ceived a four-month sentence yes- terday for stealing a box of sur- gical instruments. ‘When Muller appeared in gen- sral sessions he saw Father Wil- liam hin, former Sing Sing chaplain, oni the bench beside Judge Mulqueen. Formerly Fa- ther Cashin accompanied condemned men to ‘the electric chair, and Muller carried away the bodies— 52 of them. Muller sald he had served 10 sentences in various prisons, in- cluding 4-st Sipg Aing, TWO DEATHS SWELL 1925 TRAFFIG TOLL Man Hit by Army Truck Dies. Boy Coasts Into Street Car at Capitol Hill. The twenty-first name was added to the 1ist of deaths from trafic accl- dents this year when Stephen B. Mac- Donald, cigarstand proprietor at the St. James Hotel, who was injured by an Army truck at Sixth strest and Pennsylvania avenue March 17, dled at Emergency Hospital The {njuries included dislocation of the hip and probable internal In Jurles. J. H. Carpenter, operator of the Walter Reed Hospltal truck which Struck the deceased, appeared at the coroner’s inquest at the District Morgue today, when the death was declared ac cidental; Hit at Street Crowsing. MacDonald was crossing the inter section when the truck struck b He was taken to Emergency Hospita in a taxicab, where efforts of physi- cians proved futile, on account of the shock experienced in the accide: is believed, which complicated his condition. The deceased was a native of Rappahanock County, Va., but had been a resident Washington 20 years. He vived by a widow Mrs. Irene MacDonald: a brother siding in Washington, and two chil dren by a former marriage, Ba) MacDonald and Mrs ta Mahona both of this city had the second time five years September. Fune Tuesday at 10:3 Bap Church, Shepherd street at Cedar Hill Cemetery Boy Coaster Is Kilied. Ernest Newton, colored, 417 ware avenue southwest, was killed yesterday afternoon when he lost control of a wagon in which he was coasting and crashed into a street car at the foot of Capitol Hill. Ths boy's legs were severed from his body and his head was crushed Edward C. Gumpman, motorman of the car, and Arthur W. Michael, his conductor testified at the inquest, held today at the morgue. The jury found the death accidental Hit-and-Run Driver Sought. Four-year-old ( U street north alleged hit-and tric machine vesterday while crossing the street nea home. He was given first aid at Sible Hospital and taken instituted search the car. Edward 1. Hardy, first street, alighted car at Wisconsin' avenue and son street last night and was s by the automobils of Herbe Marks, 3351 Eighteenth street. The boy's nose was broken and his back and arms brulsed. He was taken Georgetown University Hospital a treated by Dr. F. J. Ready Mrs. M. J. Cochrap, 719 Sixth street was thrown from her horse in Poto- mac Park near the polo grounds yes terday afternoon, when the anima became frightened. She sustained an injury to her back that was treated at Emergency Hospital Clifton Brown, 2217 Cleveland place, received an injury to his leg yester- day afternoon as a result of a col- lision between his bicycle and an automobile near Eighth and R streets. He refused treatment. ELLINGSON GIRL ENJOYS RESPITE FROM HEARING He married last Dela- arles Durkin Psychiatrists Spend Court Recess Perfecting Plans to Procure Verdict of Insanity. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4—Dorothy Ellingson, who confessed she killed her mother, today enjoved a respite from the strain of court procsedings she has attended since Tuesday. ists for the defense have testified she is not sane While the court, which is sitting with a jury to rule on the girl's san- ity, was in recess until Monday, psy- chiatrists and attorneys retained to aid her were perfec £ plans to pro- cure & verdict that she is lacking in normal mental balance, The same opportunity was taken by the experts for the State to formulate plans to indicate that she should be found re- sponsible for her actions and should be tried on the murder charge. 2 DEAD IN GUN BATTLE. Woman May Be Fatally Injured in Same Affray. CHICAGO, April 4—Two men were killed and & woman possibly fatally injured in @ shooting affray in the woman's apartment. Returning to the home of Mrs. Josephine Smith, with whom they boarded, Martin Mach became enraged when he met Joseph Stachowski, his rival. Mach shot Stachowski, wounded Mrs. Smith and then killed himself BOWIE ENTRIES FOR MONDAY. FIRST RACE-—Claiming: purse, $1,200 year-old maidens; 4 furlongs. verlook 12 Phile ........ Smuctorer HE Rorm i *Logfire 19 | Al elipivie— i 7 May Ro A Faomm o 112 Tirginia's Choical Qony m 53 Foregold 7 Barracke 107 Takawesss .1 Thos. Lyme ....2 110 SBOOND RACE—Claiming: porse, §1,200 year-old maidens, 6 furlongs. Come Along . 118 Lather ... o 114 Bill Shaffer 108 *Byelash 108 *Pole Btar . ev.ce... 117 *French Lady ... John . Mosby ... 114 _ Also eligible— Hampton Lady .. 109 *Helen of Troy... THIRD RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,2007 rolds and up; 5% furlongs. 117 Monday Morning. 105 *Warning ....... 118 _ Also_eligible— 118 Night Shade ..... 107 o 118 118 107 106 Margaret 8¢ L. *Sunios Hourmore Syede Dol tle o . Freedom's Oall *MacLean ... FOURTH RACEThe Midway purse, $1,200; 3-year-olds; 8 furlongs. 111 Harlan ... 111 Moon Magic 106 Hidalgo .. oo 108 Whitney entry. FIFTH RACE—Claimin year-olds and up; 1 mile an Lady Glassen Slate . . 108 <1 * 1oy urse, $1,%00; 4- a firleas. Mae. 307 Zin A SIXTH RACB—Olaiming: purse, $1.200; olds and up; 17 miles. *ROIIAT cerecasene Louanna <.oo0ll *Toodles ... .ouca *Storm Cloud - *Tarrazee G. acu *Lient. Farrell... 108 June 103 SEVENTH RACE—Claiming: rolds and up; L mil Searchlight 34 .. 113 *Warren Lyneh .. 108 Our Birthd 1