Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1925, Page 2

2 * 515500000 VALUE FIRC, & P, SOUGHT Federation of Citizens to File Brief for Reduction With District Today. In a hrief which he will the Public Utilities Commission this Afternoon William McK. Clayton, Tepresenting the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations, will contend ikat the new valuation of the Ch:s:penke and Potomac Telephone Co. snnuld not exceed $15,500,000. Before the present nroceeding revise the valuation began value on the commission’s was approximately $18,500,000. company applied for a value $25,000,000. The commission has practically completed -its deliberations and ports indicate the decision will place the value of the at close to $19,000,000 t the fair books The of properiv Twe Issues Up. In the document which he will file today Mr. Clayton will urge the commission to give weigh® the theory of the actual investment the property as well as reproduction cost. He will argue for deljuction from the value of the property ihe full amount in the company's de- preciation reserve, and will urge the commission not to make an all>w- ance for goinz concern value The company takes the position that the actual depreciation that has occurred in the property is not As great as the sum that has been credited to the depreciation reserve, and that, therefors, the commission should not deduct from valuation the amoant in the reserve. The figure the commission subtracts for depreci- ation will have an important bearing | on the decision. In opposing the going concern al- lowance, Mr. Clayton said today that while courts in other jurisdictions have allowed this item, he believes the commission should walt until the local courts have passed on this fea- ture of valuation work. The decision of the commission is expected to be made public at the District Building within a day or two. As soon as the value has been an- nounced the commission will deter- mine whether thers should be a hear- Ing to consider the reasonableness of the present rate schedule of the tele- phone company | F.Y. TOLSON, CIVIL WAR | VETERAN, DIES AT 76 Was Lifelong D. C. Resident, | Prominent Mason and Carpenter. | Golden Anniversary Near. ¥. Y. Tolson, 76 vears old, veteran | of the Civil War, prominent Mason | and lifelong resident of Washing- | ton, died at his residence, 1236 E street southeast, esterday, after a Ingering iliness. Ar. Tolson was a| earpenter, and had done much work In the Navy Yard and elsewhere in the District He married Miss Virginia Burgess May 25, 1875, and the couple had heen looking forward toward celg- brating their fiftieth wedding anni- versary. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Albert and Gilbert Tolson: three daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Walker. Mrs. Hattie Hoeper and Mrs. Katie Walls; 12 grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and nephews and nieces. | Mr. Tolson was.a member of Ta koma Lodge, No. 20, F. A. A. M, and | the Metropolitan Baptist Church He fought with a New York regiment during the Civil War. Funeral services will ba conducted | At the residence tomorrow afternoon 2t 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. John Compton Ball, pastor of the church of which | Mr. Tolson was a member, will officiate. SEEKS TO QUASH ORDER. Court Considers Mrs. Stoner’s Plea in Woman's Welfare Case. Justice Hoehling in Equity Division | 1 today took under consideration the motion of Mrs. Wesley M. Stoner to wacate an injunction granted against | her some months azo on the suit of the Woman's Welfare Association through Mrs. Macpherson Crichton, its president, to prevent interference with the association’s clinic at Eleventh and L streets northwest Mrs. Stoner claimed that since the | injunction there has heen a regular meeting of the board of directors of the assoclation. at which she was elected president in place of Mrs. Crichton and there remains no further reason for the injunction. The court heard witnesses on both sides of the dispute and will decide whether the December meeting was valid BEHRMAN AGAIN MAYOR. NEW ORLEAN Martin Behrman, four was re-elected to that dav in general elections. He and the other Democratic nominees for mu- nicipal and parbchial offices received an overwhelming majority over their Republican opponents, With seven precincts missing from A total of 226, the Democrats polled | 34,008, the Republicans 2,265 April $.— times mayo office yeste Free Swimming Lessons at “Y.” Free swimming lessons to the boys of Washinzton between the ages of 12 and 17 will be given at the Y. M. C. A. from April 13 to 16, inclusive, These dates have heen selected be- cause they come within the Easter holiday vacations from the schools. One need not he a member of the “Y" to take part in the exercises, Instruction will be given by Guy Winkjer, who represented the United States Naval Academy in the aquatic events in the Olympic games at Antwerp. Boys desiring to learn to Bwim can secure cards at the Y, M. C. A, boys' department, 1732 G street northwest, and they must have the consent of their parents. Will You Help Us Carry On? Salvation Army to carry on among The $50.000 work needs with its Washington's poor. Help us to keep open | | this Summer our Fresh Air | | Camp for mothers and children at Patuxent, Md.; to continue our Missing Friends Burea 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, 607 E Street N.W. Name file with | re- | in| {Edith Raphelson Picked to Compete. Later in Inter-Finals. {Central High Is Nearer | Selection for Its Spokesman. Edith Raphelson, speaking on “Lin- coln and the Constitutfon,” won first place in the finals at Business High | School in the national oratorical con- test today and will represent that school in the interschool finals the week of April 27, Virginia Kettly was selected as alternate. The contest was held this morning in the auditorium of Business High School. Seven contestants gave their orations and were passed upon for delivery and composition. The seven Who spoke today were chosen as the best from a large group of students who entered the contest The judges were Gilbert fudge Edward Stafford, Charles 4 Baker. Frederic \illiam Wie and l\r. .:nharv Johnston Allan Davis, principal, acted as chairman of the meeting. L. Hall, i Six Contestants G Six of the seven speakers girls—Edith Raphelson, coff. Anna Cocuzzie, May sinia Kettly and Libby Lewis. Henry | Herman was the only boy who was successful in the preliminary contest. Business High School is putting on an aggressive campaign in an effort to produce a winner. Miss Marguerite | Manning, who has charge of the work | on the contest, has been successful in discovering and developing several &ood speakers. She will cohcentrate NOW upon the speaker who was chosen today to represent Business High School in the all-Washington finals. to be held the week of April 27. | Each one of the students in the | preliminary contest several days ago | and Harry Spiwak, chairman of the Student committee for the contest, were presented with a copy of the constitution at the meeting this morning were Yetta Pola- Smith, Vir- Central Near Selection. Central High School selected three students yesterday in the national THE _EVENING GIRL WINS ORATORY CONTEST | HONOR AT BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL MISS EDITH RAPHELSO Selected to represent h. neetion with National Oratorieal test. representing Central in the Washing- ton finals to be held the last week in April. The three successful candi- dates, all of whom are boys, are Bradford Abernethy, Paul Keyser, jr., and Hope Smoot, At yesterday's contest six speakers were heard. The low point system of judging—the system that will be employed in the District of Colum- bla and the national finals-—was used by the s=hool authorities in this con- test The six who spoke Monday had heen chosen from among all thos who entered the contest. This trial eliminated three, and kwo more will be dropped about April 20, when the final selection will be made. Hope 1o Beat Last Year. Central's candidate won first in The Evening Star’s contest In Washington last year and second place in the national finals. The stu- dents and faculty are resolved to make it one better this year. Four boys and two girls part® pated in the contest this week and spoke {n the order named: P. B. Key- ser, Jr.; Bdward Arliss, Marjorie Fol- som, Hope Smoot, Mary Elizabeth place oratorical contest for the honor of U5 NOT ALARMED Treaty With Soviet Seen in; Accord With Rights of | Two Countries. | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | The United States Government does| not construe the Japanese-Russian agreement with respect to oil conces- sions in the northern half of Sakhalin as a violation of the “open-door” policy in the Far East. The cancellation by Soviet Russia of | its concession to the Sinclair oil inter- | ests because the latter could not “de- liver” recognition of Russia by the | American Government, is considered | here to be a natural sequel of the fail- | ure of the Soviets to get American rec- | ognition on the one hand and the en- | terprise of the Japanese in taking ad- vantage of a situation in which they | found it to their interest to recognize Russia Although the Sinclzir oil interests | are disapointed, and naturally feel| that the American Government should | enter a protest against monopolistic | efforts on the part of the Japanese. the opposite view taken by the Government here First of all, the American Gov- ernment, under almost parallel cir- cumstances, supported an American oil operator who secured a conces- sion in China recently. It was held that the “open-door” policy forbade any general claim of superlority by any nation with respect to economic rights, but it did not prevent any company from developing exclusively a certain area In other words, the Japanese have just obtained 460 square miles and American officials are unwilling to believe that in an island of nearly 20,000 square miles, supnosed to he abounding in oil, that this is a mo- nopoly Out of the 460 square miles the Jap- anese have been working only 16 square miles in the last five vears and have not succeeded in getting more than a 5.300-barrel production, which isn’t considered a very large achievement as oil fields go. Pressure for Evacuation. Japan owned the southern half of Sakhalin and occupied the northern half as a reprisal against the mas- sacre of Japanese. America acting as a sort of trustee for the Russian people, tried to persuade Japan to retire, and eventually Japan did agree. Now, however, the Japanese have recognized Russia, and the Soviets are parties to the agreement whereby the concession is given, so there can be no olaim in international Jaw that any advantage has been taken of Russia by Japan. The Soviete gave the Sinclair Interests the same oil concession three years ago, but canceled it in the Moscow courts & few weeks ago because Sinclair had failed to persuade the American Gov- ernment to recognize the Soviet govern- ment. American officials looked askance at that provision In the original con- tract made by Sinclair, and never gave him the slighteet reason to believe that recognition would be bartered away for oil concessions. o far as the American Government ig concerned, it has a natural sympathy with the efforts of American citizens to | get concessions abroad by legitimate means, but it does not use its diplomatic influence unless convinced that injustice has been done. There are other parts of Sakhalin which can be developed by American oil interests if the Russians wish to extend concessions. When diplo- ( matic relations between the United States and Russia are resumed there will be ample time for the grant of con- cessions, but the Washington Govern- ment refuses to be swayed in its attitude toward Russia at this time by considera- tions of oil. (Copyright, 1925.) EMPLOYMENT CASE _ DECISION DEFERRED | (Continued from First Page.) fered no remedy ih the case at by Judge Schuldt replied that he ould be glad to hear the counsel for the defense argue the law's constitu- tionality Accordingly, Mr. Syme began by declaring that the law is unconsti- tutional because it attempts to regu- late the rates that a business house might charge for services vendered. “This is not a public utlity,” he de. clared, “and by no stretch of the imagination can it be placed in that category.” He then proceeded to cite a number of parallel cases, in noe of Address ... which the United States Supreme Court returned a verdict for the de- _tendant, | struck and knocked down Albert | ehusetts | Eawara Betts and Bradford Abernethy TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS BY JAPANESE PACT ~ TAKE SHARP DROP Slump From 31 to 2 Daily as New Courts Begin War on Recklessness. With day and night trafic courts in full swing and traffic offenders being brought directly before the bar of justice immediately after trafic accldents during the hours took a decided drop. Only three accidents were reported to headquarters. Chester Chlichester, colored, 20, 231 Third street south- west, passed in rear on New York avenue between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets and was struck by another car. He was treat- ed at Emergency Hospital for & slight scalp injury Marvin H. Presley, was driver of an last Riverdale. automobile Md., that Lee, colored. 35, 1421 R =treet, on Massa- avenue between First and Second streets last night. lee. su fering from a slight injury to h head, was taken to Casualty Hospital in the machine that struck him, but refused to be treated. Struck By Bleyele. Ethel Honaker, 2§07 Ontario road, was knocked down at Massa- chusetts avenue and Thirteenth street yesterday morning by the bicycle of Thomas Connors, 1111 Sixth street southwest. and cut over her left eve. She was given surgical aid at Emergency Hospital Against these three accidents yes- terday, the daily average last month was 31. Traffic officials today cited this as an example of how the quick mode of dispensing justice in traffic cases will affect the trafc situation generally, and used it as a basix for the continued argument here that en- forcement of the existing laws—and | not so much the making of new reg- ulations—is what Washington needs Cour: Sentences 25. Night Traffic Court continued 1o take its toll of traffic violators last night, the records showing 27 cases, resulting in one commitment to jail and fines amounting to $281. Total cases exceeded the first session of tha night court by four and total fines showed an increase of $31. Although 27 cases were made out, there were only 25 defendants brought before Judge George H. Mac- donald. as two of the men were charged with fwo violations each. The commitment to jail was the re- sult of the defendant being unable to pay his fine. Several other3 Jyad thelr personal bonds taken, and one had his case dismissed. A nunfber of taxicab drivers were arrested for loltering in front of ho- tels and theaters and a few for speed- ing. Their companies seemed reluc- tant to aid them, and only by scrap- ing the money together from other sources did many of them escape in- carceration. Loitering Penalize Defendants, as follows: Créssman A. Prickett, parking, $5; Curtis Marshall, speeding, $25; Alfon- tain Vood, disobeying policeman's signal, 35 George Wasserman, loit- ering hack, $10; Garland Sellers, col- liding, personal bond; George F. Gar- diner, speeding, $10; Archie C. Brown, loitering hack, $10; Paul F. Chrisman, speeding, $35; Herbert L. Chalfant, charges and fines are lspeeding, $20; Dice Armstrong, loiter- ing hack, dismissed: Adams, bad brakes. $10; Paul W. Twyman, passing street car, $1 Harry R. Oliver, passing street car, §10; Henry Chalmers, disobeying po- liceman’s ~signal, $5; parking, $5: Philip Shurman, parking, $5; John M. disobeying policeman’s sig- nal, $6: Guy S. Whiteford, lights, $: John P. Casson, speeding, $35; Wi llam Winslow. lights, $2; Robert Clements, speeding, committed to jall when unable to pay $25 fine; Sidney Kaufman, speeding, $25; Orpheus Willlams, lights, §5, no permit, $2, and George Perry, disobeying policeman’s signal, personal bond. Alexander H. Bell, jr., formerly serving at Juvenile Court, had been William R. appointed to Police Courf as assis-| tant _corporation counsel to ald Ed- ward Thomas and J. J. McGarraghy in handling of the traffice cases. e 1 Schools Closed Friday. The annual 10-day Easter vacation for District public school children and their teachers will begin at the close of school &fternoon, it was announced Frank W. Ballou. open Monday, April 24 arrest. | 24| of a streef car| STAR, WASHINGTO PLATOON SCHOOLS - WILL BE STUDID LBE TUDED Local Officials to Go Into This | Feature, Particularly on Detroit Trip. N committee of planners will make its final investi- gatifon of modern types of school- | house construction in other cities in | Detroit April 23 and 24, it was an-| nounced today by Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent of schools, The committee, composed of Dr. Ballou, Municipal Architect Albert L. Harrls and Ernest Greenwood, vice presidest of the Board of Education, already have inspected school build- Ings in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo and Cleveland, and collected a number of new ideas in| construction, which wiil be included in the plane for the buildings be erected under the District's unprece- dented $19,000,000 five-year program Plan Platoon Study. ! A portion of the two-day inspection tour in Detroit will be devoted to a study of the operation of the platoon school, which has been recommended for adoption in the District’s system. | Il‘lamon schools have reached their most 'cénspicuous development in Detroit, 90 bulldings operating on the work-study-play system. Dr. Ballou is anxious that the committee take advantage of the trip to that city to/ observe the operation of this type of school on an elaborate scale. | Mr. Greenwood, as chairman of the special committee of the school board assigned to study the platoon system, is making an exhaustive sur- ery of the work-study-play plan asd developed in other cities, preparatory | to reporting to the board on the pro- posal to adopt this plan here. His report will not be drafted until after the inspection trip in Detrolt One Operating Here. Washington new has one the Park View, running on the pla- toon plan It h; been included in the first instaliment of the five-year! bullding program for an eight-room extension, but at the request of the Park View community the plans for this addition are being held in abeyance until arrangements can be made to add 16 instead of § rooms. ) Prior to the trip to Detroit Dr Ballou plans to take other members of the school planning committee 1o the Armstrong and Western ngh; Schools to inspect theenew additions | under construction. Every phase of| construction will be observed and a| comparison made with the schools vistited in other cities ashington’s school to | | | | school, PARIS LEVY CRISIS WILL COME FRIDAY; CHAMBER DECIDES (Continued from First Page.) i | proteedings that he could not accept | | a plan for a forced loan. The remark | caused a commotion in the Chamber lobbies. LEVY STIRS ALL CLASSES. Crucial Point Reached Between Opposing ‘Economic Schools. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News PARIS, April 5.—The government's financial projects continue to be the main topic of discussion among all classes of French people. On the whole, very few people seem to favor this dissimulated capital levy, and an influential member of the Chamber of Commerce said to the writer today: | “We are alarmed because our worst fears seem to have come true. From voluntary contributions to a capltal levy, and from a capital levy to abol- Ishment of property and confiscation of capital 15 only a short step. But even those who do not possess capital and, consequently, are not | likely to be hit by voluntary contri- | butions seem flabbergasted at recent developments, accusing the govern- ment of wanton deceit in all speeches from the rostrum in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as at popular meet- ings, where members of the cabinet solemnly announced they were con- firmed opponents of inflation. It was known at the time by evervhody con- nacted with the ministry of finance that the Banque de France had al- ready exceeded its issue of paper money limited by law to 41.000,000,000 francs by more than $100,000,000. Amazement Increased. Public amazement is further in- creased by the fact that last week M. Clementel announced the day be- fore he resigned as finance minister | that he must demand that Parliament authorize the Banque de France to increase its bank note circulation by some $250,000,000, not to assist the treasury but to help out private trade, which w suffering from a shortage of bank notes. Forty-elght hours later the govern- | ment stated frankly that a new issue of 4.000,000,000 paper francs would be used to cover treasury defici Dix- cussing the situation with the writer, one of Premier Herriot's stanchest supporters in the chamber said: “We have all seen the crisis coming ever since M. Herrlot took office. The battle will be opened now between capitalists and Socialists. The for- mer criticize and oppese all Socialist plans for improving France's finan- cial situation by radical drastic measures, such as @ capital levy, which {n our opinion is the only pos- sible solution ~ of our present straits. They never come out for any constructive suggestion as to how the problem could be solved other- wise, because they dare not announce publicly that’their only solution is inflation. Reealls German Policy. “Inflation, of course, would mean reduction and almost cancellation of | the public debt, but we Soclalists have seen that the classes which suffered most terrible hardships in Germany were the working cl while the capitalists who posse foreign currency were as well if not better off, than In the old days. “We will not stand for such al policy, and insist that a ecapital levy in the only equitable solution. f{f the government falls we have decided to bring the matter before the people again and open their eves to th- disastrous results of an inflation policy, not only on France's credit abroad, but on the welfare of the nation.” Members of the cabinet, whils noi using the same frank language, ad- mit that the capital levy is the only issue of the present crisis and they iare determined to see it through. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) e Ballou to Speak in Boston. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, will be the principal speaker at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce in Boston Saturday of the Massachusetts Schoolmaster's As- soclation. His topic will be “Subject Matter vs. the Child in Curriculum Making.” He will leave Washington Friday night. In his absence Stephen . Kramer will be acting superin- ndent. e | report, and Representative D. (., WEDNESDAY, BREWER RESIGNS, BOND PROBE ENDS Accuser of Treasury Quits at Sargent Request. Submits Report. Charles B. Brewer, special assistant to the Atorney General, who has been one of the chief accusers of the Treasury in the long-drawn-out charges conecerninz alleged dupli- cated bonds at the Bureau of En- graving and Printing, has been sepa- rated from the Government service. Mr. Brewer, It was learned today, resigned upon request of Attorney General Sargent following the com- pletion of his special assignment as investigator for the special committee of the House investigating the al- leged bond duplication. The commit- tee officially expired with the closing of the old Congress. but requested that Mr. Brewer be left to check up the papers ,which the committee is turning over to Congress In connec- tion with jts report. His resigna- tion is dated March 28. Retained by President. Trevious efforts by administration leaders to have Mr. Brewer resign had resulted in hix retention by the Presi- dent to complete investigation of the bureau The House committee split over the matter, the majority report making charges against the Treasury, Chair- man McFadden refusing to trong of Kansas issuing a minority report up- holding the Treasury and defending it from the charges. It was said today In quarters close to the House committee that the committes expects the House to take some action on the report at the next scssion of Congress. Friends of the Treasury perdicted that action would be taken It was In connection with charges of alleged duplication of bonds that former Director James L. Wilmeth of the bureau and 23 of his assistants were ousted overnight in March, 1922, and many months later exoner- ated from any blame and offered their | posts back. Many of them are now in responsible positions at the bureau. KEEPS IN CLdSE 'I;6UCH. Col. Cheney, President's Aide, to .Direct White House Upkeep. Col. Sherwood Cheney, Engineer Corps, U. 8 A, who hax been ap- pointed chief military alde to the President, Is to have a desk in the White House Building and will be pversonally in charge of phvsical up- keep of the White House, Executive office and surrounding ground as well as being the directing genius at the various social functions, and on formal occasions. Col. Cheney was xented to President Coolidge today by Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, who has been relieved of supervision of the White House, in order that he may devote his entire attention to building of hte Arlington Memorial Bridge, and his many other duties as superintendent of public buildings and grounds. o AR MOSLEM LEADER DIES. Khalassi, Mesopotamian Mullah, Is Mourned by His People. ALLARABAD, British India. Abril §. The death of Khalassi, well known Mesopotamian mullah (expounder of the law and dogmas of Islam), is re- ported in a dispatch to the Pioneer formally pre- from the Persian holy city of Meshed. | Meshed, | All the business places of where Khalassi died. are closed, and orders have been sent to the principal cities throughout Persia for the clos- ing of the bazaars and for general mourning. ELECTED IN ST. LOUIS. Victor Miller Beats Igoe in Race| for Mayoralty. ST. LOUIS, April §.—A count of 624 precincts today show that Victor J. Miller, Republican, for. mer president of the Board of Police Commissioners and defeated for Gov- ernor of Missouri in last August's primary, yesterday was elected mayvor of St. Louls by 3,407 votes. Miiler succeeds Henry W. Kiel. His Demo- complete cratic opponent was Willlam L. Igoe, | former member of Congre Child Labor Ban Beaten. CHARLESTON, W. Va. April §.— The West Virginla Senate yesterday voted 22 to 4 against ratification of the child labor amendment to the Federal Constitution. The House pre- viously had rejected the amendment) 86 to 19. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,200; maiden 2-year- Twinola Fanoc 3Cony fanerta 1T Also_eligibie— Princess Apple .. 1Rea Net ... Fiutter .. H. P. Whitney entry. 18 Rose entry. . 115 T 115 15 15 D15 Ll SECOND RACE—Purse, $1,200; 3.yearolds; 5ty furlongs. 118 Come Along . b Flora Star Wonder Lig! Commissioner Pretty Busine: for maiden L 118 BT {IROR T} R L Sunlos dy Ambassador 111 Y At e s tSamuel Ross entry. THIRD RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,200; 3. year-olds and up; 6% furlongs. Erica 118 Hidden Jewel ... 112 Hour M John 8. Mosby ... 110 *Element: Lady Boss 108 *Racket Slate ... 108 !l‘ug‘ . X% ‘A:"'O 0"‘llbk- o i Coc] rianople Syl Lather H “Waraiog FOURTH RACE—The Fairfax purse, $1,200; ear-olds and up: 8 furlongs. .er .. 110 Hidalgo ...... e 110 fEvergiade . 1 108 . 100 Ll 110 tMrs, A. Swenke entry. FIFTH RACE—Claiming year-olds and up; 1/ mile: R *Maxie ntrepid e purse, $1,200; 4 o ! *Van Fatrick ... 108 SIXTH RACE—Claiming: purse, 51,200; 3. year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 yards Johnny Jewell ... 100 *Cote De Oro *Rork 110304 Juno . ®Tarrayce C. .... %0 *Lagoon . *Jacques ... 07 SEVENTH RACE—Claimi: urse, 3-year-oids and up; 1 mile 0 yard Gray Gables ..... 115 *Lieut. Farrell ., 104 *Superbum ...... 88 *Chief Tierney .. $1.200; 99 105 L] *Aprentice allowance ‘Weathier clear; track ign any | no further | the | APRIL 8, 19 Upper left: 3 s P. C. Upper right: Mrx, dmughter of the de: P. C. Thoman, whose body was exhumed yesterday. SADOUL ACQUITTED BY COURT-MARTIAL French Officer Was Accused of Deserting in Russia and Given Death Penalty. By the Associated Press. ORLEANS, France, April %—Capt. Jacques Sadoul, French army officer, !rhurgod with desertion while on a {military mission to Russia in 1919, was acquitted by a majority vote of the court-marshal here which bhas been trying him for the past 10 days. Capt. Sadoul failed to return to France when the mission came back {from that country in that year. While still absent he was condemned to death on November . 1919, by a Paris | court-martial for intelligence with the enemy, desertion abroad, recruiting for the enemy and provoking the soldiers to revolt Retrial In Ordered. vear he returned from Russia and on December 2 was arrested. A retrial was ordered by the court- martial at Orleans. While in Russia | Sadoul became a Soviet commissar and while it was alleged he acted as informer against former comrades in |the French army, his supporters de- clared to the contrary that he gave notable assistance in protecting the French remaining in Russia. As to his non-return from { with the mission. it was set {he was 11l with typhus at the time, and further that his military class had been demobilized several months pre- vious to this period. Last tussia CIVIL WAR GENE RAL, Brig. Gen. Arthur R. Curtis Won Many Promotions Because of | Bravery in Action. | By the Ansocisted Press | MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 8.—Brig. | Gen. Arthur R. Curtis, 82 vears old, | one of the few surviving generals of the Civil War, died at the National Soldiers’ Home here early today. Gen. Curtis was one of the standing figures of the Civil War. Bravery in action won him promotion after promotion and culminated in a decoration for meritorious service. A Harvard graduate, Gen. Curtis enlisted in Company 40th New England Guards. at Lin- coln’s first call for volunteers. His | daring under fire soon won him a { commission, and rapld promotion fol- | lowed. : B, President MRS. M. W. SHUSTER DIES Had Been Resident of Washington for 48 Years. Mrs. Mary Ward Shuster, 67 years old. widow of Melville C. Shuster and a resident of this city for the last 4% vears, died at a local sanitariam Mon- Qay after a lingering illness. Mrs. Shuster made her home in the Lons- | dale apartments. | Mrs. Shuster was the daughter of Dr. John Ward of Warrenton, Va. She is survived by a daugter, Mrs. N. H. Sims of Wichita Falls, Tex.. and by three brothers, Hénry C. Ward, Judge R, H. Ward and John Ward. Funeral services are at Oak Hill Chapel this afternoon, with interment in Oak Hill Cemeter. JESUS “WONDERFUL JEW.” | Rabbi Wise So Describes Christ in ' Course of Sermon. PATERSON. N. I, April 8.—Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, in a sermon yesterday at the civic lenten | service held under the auspices of the Paterson Council of Churches sald that Pesus was a ‘‘wonderful Jew." There is less difference than most people think in the creeds of Chris- tians and Jew. he =aid. “We differ only in the way in which we place Christ. He was a wonderful Jew. He is my teacher as well as yours, Tt would be well for every one. Jew and Gentile aike, to follow the teach- ings of Jesus Christ.” Rerouting Due to Street Work. Motorists were requested today hy Traffic Director Eldridge to use Con- necticut avenue, Chevy Chase Circle and Bradley lane in getting to and from points along the Rockville pike while Wisconsin avenue is Luing re- surfaced between Massachusetts ave- nue and River road. Belgian Socialists Gain. BRUSSELS, April 8.—Returns from the parialmentary elections held last Sunday show that the Sociallsts ained 10 new seats. In the ballot- ing they gained 135,000 votes over the preceding election. Of these, in | excess of 30.000 were cast in Brusgels. In Chicago Park if By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 8.—Mrs. Ida Sundine Campbell, widow, 50, and James Weaver, 21 years old, elev. tor operator, plan to be married Saturday in the Municipal Con- servatory, in Garfield Park, pro- viding permission is granted, Mrs. Campbell has announced. Mrs. c:m:h-u. who styles her- self a *di sher and poetess,” FIGURE IN POISON up that | ONE OF BRAVEST, DEAD| 1 out- INVESTIGATION FIND STOLEN BABY SOUGHT TWO YEARS Proves One Kidnaped in New York Street. By the Ausociated Press NEW YORK, April Hart of Bergen C nty, N. J., in- formed New York police headquar- ters today from Hackensack that M | ang Mrs. Peter McKenzie had posi- tively identified a child known as Mildred Grofe, found in Englewood, | N. J.. as their daughter Lillian, who 5.—Prosecutor | Sickly, Half-Starved Child| RAILWAY PURCHASE BEATEN IN CHICAGO $550,000,000 Project, In- cluding Building of Subway, Loses by 100,000 Votes. By the Associated P CHICAGO, April & vesterday rejected a purchase and operation by the of the street railways and elevaied linex and the building of a said o be the largest municipal own- ership project ever attempted a majority of approximately votes Less than ‘one-half of the of one million Chicago vot enough interest to go to the The propésed municipal a and extension of the sur elevated lines and the building subway would have involved penditure of $550.000,00 William Dever unced start at once ne the people would ac The principal suburban elections Oak Park, Sunda was defeated Miss Helen was defe candidate for Oak Park Chicago votera proposal for upward polls Ma ann he would question n M BACKED BY MAYOR. Purchase of Lines Would Have Spread Over 40 Years. The traction plan defeated day in Chicago was fostered by Dever and provided for the acqu tion of the lines at the end of vears. The plan had two div one to acquire the lines and the other to create a municipal Lottty trol to operate them on of the proposed have required an about $700,000 Mayor “ board Th expenditure Have Fund to Start. It was proposed to pay $162,843 for the street railway system. $8 000,000 for the elevated and $268,301 | 000 for the extensions of those | tems. Forty million dollars was a able in the city treasury for the be | ginni SR ‘3 sya- subwa y The $46,000.000 traction fund which has been accumulated ury - will n the voters agree on some plan use it and on a group of me can gain popular authority t» through the immense atructing the subway ing the present portation Surface extensions under the plan were to be 247 miles. Fares w {to De T cents, with transfers hetween |subway and surface lines. Certifi- cates were to be issued, carrying per cent interest, iwhich bankers agreed to float. There was to of cons: on 5 remain bank task of wmd reorgan system of | | | | | was kidnaped here in August, 1923 The identification ends a search in | which police of more than 8,000 cities in the United States Canada were asked to aid 1 Identification Is Positive. | The child identifisd by AMr. and Mrs. McKenzie as their own had { been living in Englewood as Mildred | Grofe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Grofe. Prosecutor Hart told Capt. Ayers, head of the Missing Persons Bureau of the New York Police Department, that the Iidentification by the Mc | Kenzies was completely satisfactory the Bergen County officials. Man- nerisms of the child and facial char- acteristics, Capt. Ayers said, Mr. Hart told him, indicated bevond any doubt that the child ix the missing Lillian McKenzie Given Her by “Doctor.” Capt. Avers said the Bergen Coun- 1y prosecutor also informed him that Mrs. Grofe had said the girl was not her own, but thai it was given to her by a “Dr. Green.” This “Dr. Green," Capt. Ayers said, was quoted by Prosecutor Hart as saving that he had obtained the girl when a young baby from an unmarried mother named Sullivan. Mr. Hart informed him, Capt. Avers said, that puted mother of the child could not be located Lillian McKénzie was kidnaped from her perambulator in front of an Eighteenth street department store in Manhattan when she was three months old. In the country-wida search for her clues were followed in Hoboken, Brooklvn, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities and towns. Boy Scouts. Girl Guides and the Salvaticn Army joined in the L search i Showed Signs of Neglect. | | | | The search was turned toward the child known as Mildren Grofe when Dr. Bernard Gottlieb_of Manhattan revealed to detectives a few days ago that he had attended a sickly, 111 nourished baby girl at the home of Mrs. Grofe on August 27, 19 3, nine days after the McKenzie baby was kidnaped. A few nights later, Dr. Gottlieb said, Mrs. Grofe brough! the child to his office, its face velled tions were evasive and aroused fuspicions. He told the that he could offer evidence that the child was the M Kenzie baby. At the time he treated the baby the Grofes lived in Audubon avenus Manhattan. They later moved fo Englewood. Dr. Gottlieb. said that when he h attended the baby at Mre. oo call the child was suffering so seri. ously from malnutrition he had to take extreme measures to save her lite. Mrs. Grofe explained, he said, that the baby's condition was due to the fact that she and her husband had been on a trip to England, leav. ing the infant in the care of a woman who knew little about babies. his investigators MARCONI MAY WED AGAIN. Wireless Inventor, 51, Reported Engaged to Girl, 18. LONDON, April 8.—The daily ex- press says it understands that the engagement will be announced short- ly of Guglielmo Marconi, the wireless inventor, and Elizabeth Naroissa Paynter, 18-year-old daughter of Col. George Camborne Paynter of Bos- quenna, Cornwall, an intimate friend of Sgr. Marconi. Sgr. Marconi, who is 51 ‘years old, was divorced last year at Fiume, and his wife soon afterward married the Marqguis di Monteoorona. Col. Payn- ter is the commander of the Scots Guards. “Dish-Washing Poetess,” 50, to Wed Y outh City Gives Its O. K. wrote a poem about the conserva- tory last year. So after she and Weaver, who came to her board- ing house last November, decided to marry, they picked the con- servatory for the nuptial scene. The boarding house is called ‘Cupid's Inn, Weaver would “rather be an old girl's darling than a young girl's slave,” Mrs. Campbell said. and | this re- | He said her answers to his ques- | taxation. A sinking fund was pro- | vided. 'The.chieY reason advanced {for the defeat by some is that Lot |systems are considered a elevated line land one ! Feared hy Voters. | Another cause advanced for the ¢ teat was that popular distrust'of m | nicipal ownership and operation {reigned. There was a period when a majority of the residents ) cago would have voted for municipal ownership, hut hundreds of citizens | whe expressed their opinion on th {ordinance before the election said i | adoption meant “more graft and poli- tics.” They feared an fares, a rise in taxes and | quent rise in rents There were other coniributing | causes to the overwhelming defeat of the ordinance, it i stated. It said that there are several polit cians who were oppesed to hav {the transportation question sertled %0 that construetion and Improve- ment could be started at once. Such | a condition would exclude traction as an issue in the next mayoralty cam- paign Mayor Dever, when news of victory for the opposition was brought to him, is quoted as having sald his ad- ministration would begin all over again in an effort to present a plan which would prove acceptable to the voters Sees Opportunity Lost. | “The people have spoken in so da- | cisive a-manner.” said Mayor Dever, “that comment is unnecessary. I be | leve Chicago has lost a great oppor- | tunity, but the people seem to think [ otherwise. and that settles it | “As to the future, all I can say ix that we are going to keep right on working until the end of our term. in an effort to solve what now, because of the elec | confess T am disappointed In today's results, but that gives me no right to sulk in my tent, and I won't. We will go right on- endeavoring to solve { this and other difficult city problems | *I will begin work all over again {in the hope that we may, at | present an alternative plan the peopls | will_accept.” When the o fore the peop | mer mayors éut least, sestion was placed he- it brought three for- of political oblivion | to Aght it. Carter H. Harrison and Edward F. Dunne were isted in the assault by William Hale Thomp- son. Each of these has a plan, and it is accompanied by hope of landing again in the office of mayor, it is said. The fight for and against has been bitter. Mayor Dever has ac- cused Mr. Dunne and Mr. Dunne ac- cused Mayor Dever of telling untruths about the measure. Three influential newspapers supported the plan Mayor Dever had rallied to his sup- port more than 300 civic organiza- tions. When he took office Mayor Dever attracted nation-wide atte tion by hix war on saloohs and gam- bling. This alienated much support it is said. Then came tha hint that certain favored saloons and gambling resorts were naver disturbed. and | thix, in turn, lost him the support of | former friends, it is charged. MARINE DIES OF INJURY. Herbert Perry Fatally Hurt by Fall From Window. Herbert Perry, 21 vears old, private in the Marine Corps, stationed at the navy vard, lost his balance yesterday afternoon while washing a window on the third floor of a building on the M street front of the reservation, fell to the sidewalk and fractured his skull. He died at Naval Hospital this morning. Perry formerly resided boro, Ky. and relatives asked what disposition they want made of the body. It is probable that a board of survey will pass upon the accldent and that Coroner Nevitt will approve the certificate of accidental death. in Middle- have been 2 U. S.'Judge Witmer Dies. BALTIMORE, April §—Charles B. ‘Witmef, United States judge for the middle district of Pennsylvania, died sterday at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, where he had been undergoing treatment for the past eight daye. His death was rather sudden and the exact canse of death has not been de- termined. He was 62 years old.