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2 * DEFENSE SCORES INWHEELER CASE Judge Rules Out Testimony on Lincoin Lease—Peter Nyce May Be “Surprise.” B the Associated Press GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 20— Testimony regarding the oil lease per- mit granted to L. E. Lincoln, which has been involved in the trial of Sen ator Burton K. Wheeler in United States District Court here, was barred from the record in_a ruling today by Judge Frank Dietrich Judge Dietrich upheld an objection by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chief Wheeler, that the Lincoln one of those pending ior Department when Wi employved by Montana oil op- counsel fo permit was not before the Tnte Senator Wheeler Gordon Campbell erator. The having Senator Is cused exerted his in the Interior Department behalf of Campbell. The Govern- t charges that the Lincoln permit involved in the proceeding Montana wrongfully of fluence with in s Testimony Accepted. the record imony of L. before the between read into n agre V. Beaulieu Senate investigati committee. Beau- u once was an attorney for one of mpbell's oil syndicates. Beaulieu was excused from testifying in person stipulation ed that if Beaulieu were to testify he would say he received the Phil MacGowan per- mit assignment from W. W. Rhea and forw: it to the Interior Depart- ment 3 gton. In his testimony before the Senate committee he de. clared that he never knew of Wheeler being employed by the oil syndicate to appear before the eDpartment of the Interic Three to Be Called. Only three Government witnesses of first importance remained on the prosecution’s list when the trial was resumed here today. These are H. J. Coleman, attorney for the Standard Oil Co. of California; Edwin S. Booth former solicitor for the Interior De- partment, and Peter Nyce, Washing- ton attorney Senator Wheeler is charged with il- legally appearing before the Interior Department for Gordon Campbell, cllent, in filing oil prospecting appli- cations. Testimony of Mr. Coleman of Bil- lings, Mont., regarding the purchase of the L. E. Lincoln oil prospecting permit by the Standard Oil Co. of ifornia and the subsequent reas- ignment to Gordon Campbell, Mon- tana oil operator, and others, which was begun Saturday, will be resumed only if Judge Dietrich rules that testi- mony regarding this permit is ger- mane to the case. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, chief counsel for Senator Wheel- er, objected to testimony regarding the Lincoln permit Saturday on the ground that it was not mentioned spe- cifically in the indictment of Senator Wheeler and because it was not pend- ing before the Interior Department when the Wheeler indictment was brought Nyce May Be Surprise. Mr. Nyce, who is an assistant of George W. Chamberlain in the prac- tice of law in Washington, is believed to be the Government's surprise wit- ness referred to in the opening state- ment of District Attorney John L. Slattery. Mr. Slattery declared then that he would produce a lawyer who would testify that Senator Wheeler came to him and asked him to appear for Gordon Campbell, Wheeler's Mon- tana client, involved in a case before the Department of the Interior in seeking oil prospecting permits. According to Mr. Slattery, the Montana Senator promised to divide a generous fee with the lawyer if the latter would appear in the place of Wheeler before the Interfor De- partment and act in a claim regarded as being worth “millions of dollars.” Slattery said Wheeler told the lawyer that he (Wheeler) did not wish to make an appearance at that time before the Government department. Opposes Statement. 8ince then Mr. Slattery has refused to confirm or deny referred to i: Nyce. However, on arrival today, Mr. Nyce declared that if the Government expects him to “tell such a tale as that, they are in for a big surpri , for nothing of the sort ever happened, as far as I know. “Senator Wheeler never made any such appeal to me,” he said. I never talked to him but once in my life and the conversation did not last more than 10 minutes. That talk had to do with the financial troubles of Gordon Campbell. To say Wheeler offered me a 50-50 share in any land or compensation whatever just poppycock. He never even suggested such a thing.” IN SOUTH AFRICAN CITY Serious Situation Caused in Bloem- fontein, Where Wales Will Arrive Soon. By the Associated Pres BLOEMFONTEI Orange Free State, South Africa, April 20—A serious situation exists in the native quarter here, where, after disturb- ances, the police fired a volley Into a crowd of 4,000, The number of casualties has not yet been ascer- tained. The ringleaders of the dis- turbances have been a citizen military forc rrested and the called out. Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State, is one of the cities sched- uled to be visited by the Prince of Wales during his African tour. He is to reach Cape Town April 30 and thereafter will travel through Cape Province, the Orange Free State and other sections. ‘Jimmy Thu; Robs Bridegroom-to-Be of Wedding ‘Duds’ ‘The little incidentals in the way of wearing apparel that go to make up the “trousseau” of an expectant bridegroom will have to be pur- chased all over again by Arthur N. Presmont, former assistant United States district attorney Mr. Peesmont had all the new apparel for his wedding trip to- gether, preparing for his forthcom- ing marriage. A “jimmy thief,” probably the same one who has pulled off a number of small jobs in the northwest section recently, liked Mr. Presmont’s new “duds” and took them away with him. The stolen articles include 10 silk shirts, a dozen pairs of socks, a dozen handkerchiefs, pajamas and other apparel, worth about $150. Detective Scrivener is investigat- ing the robbery. Mr. Presmont, during his term as assistant United States atfornev. prosecuted many hibition o in Washington, r that the witness | RUN PLOT WIDENS: EW ARESTS DL Others Accused With Win- field Jones to Be Taken Here and in Baltimore. Aaditional momentarily Baltimore spiracy, arrests were expected in both Washington and today in the liquor con which resulted in the arrest Saturday night of Winfleld Jones of this city and his brother Neufield Tong Jones of Atlanta, Ga How many arrests might be made officials of the Treasury Department @id not reveal, but it was indicated that the alleged conspiracy was far reaching and probably would involve several other persons. The headquarters of the conspiracy was said by officials to have been located in Baltimore, where there is located the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co., from which the Jones brothers were charged with having diverted for beverage purposes al- cohol obtained on permits for use in toilet preparations. Informal advices reaching Wash ington today were to the effect that arrests had already been made in Ealtimore today, but official confirma- tion of this was lacking and no names were available at noon. Elmer L. Irey, chief of the intelli gence unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau, announced today that the Government would take the conspir- acy case into the Baltimore courts. REVOLT IN LISBON UELLED BY ARMY Many Casualties Reported in Portuguese Capital Before Order Is Restored. advices received in official quarters from Lis bon today indicate that all is quiet in the Portuguese capital and that order has been restored after Sat- urday’s short-lived revolt. The attempted coup was started Saturday morning and there was vio- lent fighting throughout the night, the movement only being quelled yester- day morning when the rebellious troops gave up their arms and were confined in barracks. The revolt was led by Maj. Filomeno Camara, who had under him several hundred men, cavalry, artillery and infantry. Many Revolters Killed. Many of the revolutionists were killed or wounded when regular troops drew a cordon about their headquart- ers and showered them with shrapnel. Lisbon dispatches have given no estimate of the number of casualties, but they are said to have been com- paratively high for such a brief period of activity. Maj. Camara's first act was to over- throw the directory, the governing body, and to place a number of the officials under arrest. President Teixeira Gomes and some of the ministers took refuge in the main barracks and shortly afterward loyal troops surrounded the rebels at their meeting place, the Paco Da Rotondo. In the meantime serious disturbances occurred in various parts of the city, where bombs were thrown and many persons were killed. Alleged Leaders Arrested. The actual leader of the movement is believed to have been former Pre- mier Cunha Leal: he now is a prisoner in the Carmo batracks of the re- publican guard. Another of the lead- ers arrested was the head of the na- tionalist Gen. Sinel Cordes was taken prisoner. A government announcement says that the revolutionaries had planned to place Cordes at the head of their ministry. A few of those most prom- Inently concerned in_ the movement have taken refuge in the Spanish legation. Ll St GRAIN EXPORTS SHOW BIG JUMP IN WEEK Grain exports from the United States last week amounted to 5,819,000 bushels, compared With 3,344,000 bushels the previous week. Commerce Department figures gave the following comparisons between exports last week and those of the week before: Wheat, 2,796,000 bushels, against 1,359,000 bushels; rve, 2,269,000, against 1,444,000; barley. 300,000, against 309,000: corn, 240,000, aguins 113,000; oats, 214,000, against 119,000 Canadian grain shipped from the United States was 2,640,000 bushels, against none the previous week. Br the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 20.—An Army airplane, piloted by Lieut. James H. Doolittle, and carrying Private Ralph Wickford as a passenger, hopped off from the Boston airport for Washington this forenoon, bearing & message of greeting from the committee in charge of the Lex- ington-Concord 150th anniversary celebration to President Coolidge. The plane first followed the Paul Revere route to Lexington and ’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT( = 1 DESIRES COUNCIL T0 REPRESENT ALL | Suter Opposed to ldea of| Sectional Members Asked by Southwest Citizens. citizens' ad- Pointing out that the visory council is being reated to work for the advancement of the en- tire District of Columbia and not any one locality, Jesse C. Suter, president of the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations, tod appealed to all neigh- borhood bodies to co-operate in mak- ing the council a success. While Mr. Suter was making this plea for united action in getting the council established, the executive committee of the South Washington Citizens’ Association was arranging to call a special meeting of the associa- tion to protest against the fact that the membership of the council is not apportioned among the four sections of the city. May Appeal Case. George M. Yeatman, president the South Washington assoc said his organization will consider zo- ing to the District Commissioners with its objections to the proposed method of electing the council President Suter said today it was unfortunate that the question of sec tional representation has been raised, since the whole idea in creating a citizens' council was to provide an agency that could advise the Com: missioners on matters of interest to the city in its entirety The main objection of the residents of southwest has been that because there are so many delegates in the federation from the northwest ter- ritory, there would be nothing to pre- vent the northwest associations from electing all six of the councilmen from their section of the city ‘Wants United Action. Mr. Suter declared today that he has no knowledge of any -attempt on the part of the delegates to elect only residents of the northwest section to the council. “I am confident,” Mr. Suter said, “that the council as proposed will be a success and I hope there will be united action on the part of all the associations in the federation in ac- complishing that result. “The success of the council will de- pend largely upon the election of nominees who will consider in a broad minded way the welfare of the entire city."” Mr. Suter said the modern tendency in other cities is to pick a council from the community at large rather than on the basis of sectlonal repre- sentation. Will Elect Eight. The plan under which the election is to be held two weeks hence calls for the naming of six members by the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions and two by the Federation of Civic Associations, the latter rep resenting the colored population. Mr. Yeatman of the South Wash-| ington Association contends there | should be a definite number of mem- bers on the council from each of the | four sections of the city. Members of the federation expressed the belief today that the rule adopted Saturday night permitting delegates to vote for less than six nominees on each ballot taken may have the effect | of prolonging the election Several delegates pointed out that under this rule numerous ballots may have to be taken before six of the candidates receive each a majority of the votes cast, which is required for election 1. C. C. DECISION IS NEAR | ON PUBLISHERS’ PROTEST Final Report charge by Railroads Expected Within Few Days. on Alleged Over- Final report on a complaint brought by the Washington Publishers ciation_alleging overcharge and ask- ing reductions in the rates on ship- ments of newsprint paper to Balti more and Washington is expected to ‘be made by the Interstate Commerce Commission within a few days. The case has been before the com mission for more than a year. In the meantime other complaints have been brought by the publishers’ organiza- tion &nd associated complainants ask ing reductions in freight rates on printers’ ink and steel cores around which newsprint paper is wrapped. in all, 16 complainants, publishing firms of Washington and Baltimore, have taken part in the three proceed ings before the commisslon. A tentative report, made by a com mission examiner several months ago recommended a reduction in the rate differential on newsprint paper be- tween Washington and Baltimore, but held that the rates from points of origin to these cities were fair. The publishers’ organization subsequently filed exceptions to the recommenda- tions of the examiner. ILLEGAL RAID CHA#GED. Daniel J. Haley Asks Return of | Property Seized. Alleging that police and revenue agents with a warrant for a person occupying a lower floor for a viola- tion of the national prohibition act rajded his rooms on an upper floor, seized his papers and personal prop. erty and $234 in cash without any warrant for his arrest, Daniel J. Haley, 210 Ninth street northwest, to- day asked the District Supreme Court to compel the return of his property. Chief Justice McCoy issued a rule on United States Attorney Gordon to show cause next Saturday why the property should not be returned. The officers laid a charge of handbook! making against Haley as the result) of the raid, it is stated. Turkish Editor Jailed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Hussein Djahid Bey, editor of the newspaper Tanin (Echo), which was suspended recently for its political views, has been arrested and taken to Angora, the capital. SR April 20— The checker championship of United States is held by Samuel Go- notsky, of Brooklyn, who won the the Airplane Covers Paul Revere’s Route At Start of Flight to Washington title in the last national tourney. Concord and then headed toward ‘Washington. With a strong northeast wind | driving fine snow before it, Gen. Pershing, here to attend the Patri- ots' day celebration, expressed con- cern over the advisability of mak- {of pr association work, with the advantage of 15 years of intimate as sociation with President Noyes and Melville E. Stone, former general manager and now counselor of the organization. D, C, MONDAY, A i PRIL 20, 1925. KENT COOPER NEW A.P. MANAGER; SUCCEEDS FREDERICK R. MARTIN Premotion Comes After 15 Years® Service With Organization. Frank B. Noyes Observes 25th Anniversary as Its President. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 20.—The ap- pointment of Kent Cooper as general manager of the Associated Press, suc- ceeding Frederick Roy Martin, re- signed, is announced. Mr. Martin's resignation takes effect on Wednes: day. Mr. Cooper has been assistant gen- eral manager for 5 years. He en- tered the service of the Assoclated Press 15 years ago in a subordinate position The Associated Press today begins observance of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of its organization in its pres- ent form and of the presidency of Frank B. Noye: A preliminary meeting in the Wal- dorf at 2:30 pm. today will precede tomorrow's regular annual meeting, which will begin at 10 a.m. Dawes Main Speaker. ice Presfdent Dawes will be the principal speaker at the annual lunch- eon tomorrow at 1 p.m., and Is ex- pected (o discuss his program for changes fn the Senate rules. Mr. Noyes will preside and John McCor- mack will sing. The proceedings will be broadeast by stations WEAF and WJZ, New York: WWJ, Detroit, and WOO, Philadelphla. Broadcasting will begin at 2 p.m The board of directors of 15 mem bers, including five to be elected to- morrow. will organize Wednesday. r. Cooper's advancement to the position” of general manager comes after many years of wide activity in the Associated Press. He has had experience in every phase and detail Given Roving Commission. Fundamentally and essentially a news man, Mr. Cooper’s earlier activi ties in the Assoclated Press had to do with another field. He joined the staff in 1910 at the invitation of Mr. Stone, who gave him a roving com- mission as traveling inspector. Thus there were afforded to him unlimited opportunities for observation of and participation in the service through- out the country, the work later taking him into the broader field of the en- tire world. He visited all of the 70 Associated Press bureaus in the United States not once, but many times, as well as many of the larger bureaus abroad. He also -has visited hundreds of the offices of newspaper members of the Associated Press, gaining intimate personal knowledge of the require ments and wishes of the members This knowledge furnished means of applying practical solutions to many of the intricate problems of this spe- cialized branch of newspaper work. The personal contact with the staffs of member newspapers at their dafly tasks also helped to bring closer co- ordination in this great co-operative endeavor at news exchange. Speeded Up Service. The progress in the development of newspapers, the increase in the num- ber of daily editions and the fact that in recent vears there is an edi- tion of some Assoclated Press paper going to press almost every minute of the day required greater speed in the delivery of new: Never wishing to jeopardize accuracy of speed, ac- curacy being the first and cardinal principle of Associated Press work WOMAN POISONER OF 7 HELD INSANE Confession Made by Mrs.| Sorensen—Will Be Sent to Asylum Without Trial. By the Amsociated Press. ST. PAUL, Nebr.. April 20.—Mrs. | Della Sorensen, 28, who yesterday ad mitted Killing with poison seven per sons, including two of her own chil- dren and her husband. will be placed today in an asylum for the insane, it was announced today by County At- torney Dobry. Mr. Dobry said an in- vestigation had shown that Mrs. So- rensen was mentally unbalanced. If she should be released “within two or three vears,” the attorney said, the murder charges against her could be revived. Investigation into the series of deaths, extending over seven vea was started three weeks ago follow ing the serfous illness of two small children to whom Mrs. Sorensen is al- leged to have given some polsoned cookies. Gives Reasons for Acts. In her confession Mrs. Sorensen satd she had killed two of her chil- dren, a baby, Deloris, and her 3-year- old daughter Minnie, the former be- cause her ‘“‘erying and fretting” irri- tated the mother and the latter be- cause she was ill with St. Vitus® dance, and “I could do nothing for her.” Her husband, Joseph Weldam, the woman said, she poisoned after a quarrel. Mrs. E. Wilhelmina Weldam, Mrs. Sorensen’s mother-in-law, died of poi- son administered by the accused wom- an, according to her confession, in the Summer of 1920. “She was feeble and childish and a burden on my hands. 1 wanted to get her out of the way,” the confession continued. Revenge Given as Motive. Two children of Mrs. Wetzel Cooper, Mrs. Sorensen’s sister-in-law, were slain because Mrs. Cooper had offended Mrs. Sorensen, the confession said. “Every time 1 gave poison to one of Mrs. Cooper's children- [ said to m) self, ‘Now I'm going to get even with you (Mrs. Cooper) for what you have said about me,’ "’ the confession related. The last of the slayings attributed to Mrs. Sorensen was February 20, 1923, Ruth, baby daughter of Mrs. Christina Brock, was poisoned cause I felt sorry for the poor child, because its mother did not care for it,”” Mrs. Sorensen said. Mrs. Sorensen said that she had made her confession voluntarily ‘be- cause ] want to tell the truth and be- cause I am sorry for what I have done.” Mrs. Sorensen will be taken to the State insane asylum, at Hastings, in accordance with a ruling by the Howard County insanity board. No formal charges will be filed, and no ing the trip. ““The trains are running,” Lieut. Doolittle responded, “so there's no reason why the planes can't.” The airplane was expected te make the flight in four hours, prosecution will be carried out against the woman, authoritles announced. “he | i — KENT COOPER. Mr. Cooper applied practical ideas for more rapidly collecting and delivering news. Thus his first important specific assignment was to undertake a re- organization of the communications system of the Associated Press, and by Mr. Stone's direction in 1912 he organized the traffic department and was its first chief. Having earller evolved the idea of the application of the telephone to the dissemination of press reports, he applied it extensively He established tne first automatic telegraph printer service utilized by any press association, which doubled the capacity of each telegraph wire upon which it was installed and af. forded simultaneous delivery of the news report to each of a large number of newspapers on urban or interurban circuits. Cable Problem Attacked. | The problem of cable news trans-| mission presented by the Kuropean | war, especially after the modification| of the censorship, was seriou Hun- | dreds of thousands of words of news | were being offered in competition with | large quotas of governmertal reports Mr. Cooper went to Eurape, visiting the main centers of transmission. | Priority for news over Government ables was out of the question, but by taking advantage of modern means of preparing news and getting it to the cables the actual time of trans- mission from Europe to this country was materially lowered. Upon assignment by President Noyes in 1918 to investigate the press asso- ciation field in South America, the ex- tensive Assoclated Press service now belng sent there was established through arrangements made by Mr. Cooper on three trips. In preparation for this work he acquired a fluent knowledge of Spanish prior to his first South American visit. Native of Indiana. He finished his work in the traffic department with his advancement 1o | the position of assistant general man- ager in 1920, having continued in that work with the idea that he would eventually return to more intimate participation in the news work of the organization, which had _always held a fascination for him. This extensive traveling over a period of 10 years gave him opportunity (o keep an ad- visory watch upon the work of the correspondents and filing editors. | Mr. Cooper was born in Columbus, { Ind., March 22, 1380 and actually be an newspaper work at 13 vears of age a reporter for a newspaper in his native town. He continued this work during each school vacation until he entered Indiana University, where his | father, George W. Cooper, and his| mother had been graduated in the same class in 1872 After the death of his father, in 1893, Mr. Cooper left | the university and became a reported | on the Indianapolis Press, continuing | with the paper until its_consolidation | with the Indianapolis News. There- after he worked as reporter and city editor of other Indianapolis pape: BOARD DISCUSSES | NAWES OF ROADS Establishment of Uniform| System for Designations Under Advisement. Zstablishment of a uniform system | for designation of the names of im- portant interstate highways was one of the main topics for discussion be- fore the joint board on interstate | highways, meeting here today at the | Bureau of Public Roads. Uniformity of names of highways hundreds of miles long, which are sometimes designated by several names through- out their length, was to be sought by agreement among road commissioners representing a score of States in the East and Middle West. It was brought out that one road in the West 1500 miles long had 15 dif ferent names during its course. Dup- lication of names has proven very confusing to tourists and others using the road, the conference was told. Single Names Suggested. The suggestion that roads connect- | ing States be known by a single name rather than a multiplicity of designations, was made last Fall at a conference of highway commis- sioners. Efforts will be made to retain the names of the principal highways, such as Lincoln Highway and other nationally known roads, but the board expressed approval of abandon- ing certain names of roads which are only links in a National highway sys. tem. Roads between States and impor- tant cities in the Middle West, it was pointed out, have greater uniformity of designation than the principal highways in the East, where duplica- tion of names and routes often proves confusing to the motorist. Numbers of Principal Highways. The board aims to designate the principal interstate highways by number rather than by name, a method said to have been followed in the Middle West with success. Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, presided at the meet- ing, which was to last over tomorrow. MAKING FUEL TEST. Navy Officers on Ride of 800 Miles in Seaplane. Lieut. Comdr. E. E. Wilson and Lieut. L. D. Webb of the Bureau of Aeronautics are on an 800-mile fuel consumption seaplane flight back and forth between the Naval Air Station at Anacostia and Hampton Roads, Va., today. The two officers took off from the station here at 5 o'clock this morn- ing and at noon today were still in the air. The plane they are flying is known as the CS-1, designed as a torpedo-bombing and scouting plane. Shortly after 12 o’'clock the plane Meanwhile Sheriff Scott was plan- ning to make an exhaustive investiga- tion into the purchase of poison by the woman. came up the river, rounded the Army War College and proceed South- ward. DAWES RETRAVELS ROAD OF ANCESTOR Vice President and Pershing Take Part in Lexington- Concord Observance. By the Associated Press. CONCORD, Mass., April 20.—A sa lute of 150 guns today began a spec- tacular celebration of the 150th anni- versary of the battle of Lexington and Concord. Although preliminary observances were held yesterday, the actual anniversary of the battle, the main events were reserved for today. Vice President Dawes arranged to visit Concord, Lexington and other towns which figured in stirring scenes of 1775. He planned to ride in an au tomobile, accompanied by Gen. Per shing, over the route followed on horseback by his ancestor, William Dawes, jr., who, with Paul Revere, warned inhabitants of the approach of the British troops. Will Greet Riders. Vice President Dawes arranged (o greet at Lexington two horseback riders impersonating Revere and Wil- liam Dawes At Concord the feature was a re- production of the fight at the North Bridge over the Concord River. Na tionul Guardsmen were detalled to show how the minutemen and militia marched down to the bridge d drove back the British regulars Calling on the American people to fulfill their obligations to the past nd to posterity, Gen. John J. Per- shing, chief speaker at the rededica- tion of Faneuil Hall vesterday, urged the maintenance and improvement of this country’s institutions. Vice Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes asked for the people’s rededication, to the ideals which our forefathers died to estab. lish.' a Growth of Influen, ““Our influence in international af- falrs has surpassed the most fanciful vision,” Gen. Pershing said, “but with this has come an increase in our re sponsibilities. We must maintain and improve our institutions. 1f we fall, we shall erts to government by force of power. But we shall not fail. The courage of the American people, handed down by our forefathers, is a guarantee. Human liberty is ours to maintain, by force # need be, and to hand down inviolate to our children’s children. Let us then live as individ- uals among men and as a people among nations, that through our ex- ample may be hastened the day when freedom, justice and peace shall come o dwell among us.” Gavel Given Dawes. Vice President Dawes received from the City of Boston through Mayor James M. Curley, the presiding officer, a gavel made from a newel post pre- served from the original Faneuil Hall, destroved by fire in 1761. A roar of Jaughter, in which Mr. Dawes joined, went up when Mayor Curley said that the Vice President might find it use- ful in his dealings with the United States Senate. Gen. Pershing received a similar gavel. “I am here not as an individual, but as a representative of the Govern- ment of the United States,” Mr. Dawes said after the presentation. *“I am glad that the greatest living Ameri- can soldier is to make an address here today. because the atmosphere of Faneuil Hall is militant and full of fight. This has been a great battle ground, this country. Chis is a great occassion, T wonder if we cannot all re-dedicate ourselves, and resolve to maintain the example of this great Republic, to maintain ;n;ag_ our forefathers died to estab- ish Military Parade Held. The day's ceremonies had begun with a military parade including in its ranks Mr. Dawes and Gen. Pershing, a squade of men in the uniform the “minutemen” of Lexington, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany, and representatives of patriotic societies. On reaching Faneuil Hall the minute men and color bearers marched down the aisle, and the pro- gram began with the trooping of the colors. At the end of the ceremonies Gen. Pershing presented a medal to Boy Scout Thomas J. Smith of Bast Boston for heroism in rescuing a comrade from beneath the ice in Bos. ton Harbor. Other ceremonies of the day were exercises at the decoration of the graves of Paul Revere in the Granary Burying fround and of William Dawes, jr.. the Vice President’s fa- of | Coolidge Invites Bay State Friend To Have Chat John M. Woods Recalls Joke President Sprung in State House. Sixty-two vears ago John M. Woods, a young private in a Boston Infantry regiment, caught his first glimpse of the White House from what are now known as the Monument grounds His outfit was camped there, and as he walked out of the White Hous today he remarked that he never dreamed then that he would be sit- ting within the White House talking to a President of the United States He received that thrill today. Ile has known “Cal” Coolidge, as he re fered to the President, for a good many years. They served in the Mas. sachusetts Legislature together. The President learned that Mr. Woods and his wife were in Washington seeing the sights, o he sent a box of roses from the White House gardens Mrs. Woods and ah invitation to con and chat with him before leaving the city Mr.and Mrs. Woods presented them selves before 10 o'clock this morning nd were without delay ushered into esident’s private office, where minutes there followed talk dealing principally with the The two men became a old Bay State reminiscent of their days in the State Legislature, and Mr. Woods reminded the President of a quip he sprung on & group of men In the Senate cloal room one day when he was the pre stding officer of that body. As Mr. Woods narrated the inci dent today, the President was passing this group of wags, when he was hafled to settle a dispute as to the proper use of English. Mr. Woods sald the President was asked: “Which is correct—a hen lays or a hen To this the President is said to h lies?" replied: “Up Northampton way we don't pay so much attention to the English as we do to determining, when we hear a hen ca laying or lying.” WOMEN'S SESSION 0K FIVE ISSUES Department of Education, Shoals, Child Labor Amend- ment Favored. kle, whether she is By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va.. April 20.—Ma questions of national governme policy came to the fore during the session of the convention of the National League of Woman Voters here todav and the league went on record as favoring the creation of a Federal department of education, for making “a national asset” of Musc Shoals, for the child labor amend ment, for Federal aid in educatio and for larger Federal appropriations for home economic education An attempt to have the league take a stand on the question of birth con trol was killed when President Belle Sherwin ruled that the bylaws for bade discussion of any questions not already involved In the programs of | work for 19 as submitted by the committees, The question of State rights was injected into consideration of the pro. gram for education, when Pennsyl vania and Maryland delegations le: a concerted attack on the prov recommending the creation of a eral department of education Objections Overcome. Miss Lavonia Engle, leading the Maryland forces, objected to the league approving a Federal board of education, because she said she felt there should be no centralization of the educative powers: that should be allowed to work out problem of education. She moved have the convention transfer question from the group of legisl recommendations to the group of study and not to take a stand on the matter until the women had to inform themselves more on par ticular needs of educaticn Several delegates objected that the present Federal Bureau of Education was 100 small and that there was need of wider governmental research and application in the field of educa States the the mous ancestor, in the burying ground { tion of King's Chapel. The site of the home of Willam Dawes, jr., marked with a tablet presented by the city of Boston. o Today the rides of Paul Revere and Dawes through Middlesex County in 1775 to alarm the countryside will re- enact, Gen. Pershing accompanying the impersonator of Paul Revere and Vice President Dawes that of his great-great-grandfather. SOVIET SCORNS SEAT IN ARMS SALE PARLEY Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs Seen in Move to Control Traffic. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, April 20.—Soviet Russia has refused to participate in the forth- coming conference on control of the traffic in arms. The refusal was contained in a stifly worded telegram from For- eign Minister Tcheicherin, pointed out that the Soviet government had repaetedly proclaimed its negative attitude toward the League of Na- tions as presently organized. Referring to the invitation to at- tend the arms traffic conference, the Soviet forelgn minister said: “In the present case the Soviet gov- ernment finds it impossible to collabo- rate with the league in study of a question which implies interference by the League of Nations in the internal affairs of the Soviet republic.” Opinion seems divided here regard. ing the effect of Russia’s absence on the coming conference, some holding that it will greatly weaken the force of the convention to he adopted and others expressing the opinion that the effect will be negligible, as the Mos. cow government does litkle in the way of arms exportation. RUHR TO HAVE Alh LINE. Correspondence of the Assaciated Press. ESSEN, March 30.—Industrialists and business men of Essen have united in urgently demanding the es- tablishment of air communication from the Ruhr Valley to connect with the vast system of international air routes which is rapidly spreading over Europe. Consequently the Ruhr soon will have regular air connections with Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfort, Leip- zig, Hanover, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Zurich. The com- mercjal importance of the valley de- mands these facilities. was | The transfer motion was brought to a vote. An acclamation vote failed to satisty the adherents of the motion and a rising vote was asked. The mo. tion was lost. Again Maryland and Pennsylvania combined, this time to thwart the question of recommending Federal aid to education purposes “The women should study the eq izatlon of taxes in their respective States and determine facts before go ing into the matter of asking Epgderal ald,” Mrs. John Miller of Philadeiphia declared. Mrs. Miller then moved to transfer the matter of Federal aid from the legislative recommendation group to the group for study. Instantly an objection came from a member of the California delegation, who declared: icy of Federal ald when we voted to accept the recommendation for the national maternity act a few minutes ago. The league should take the same stand on this matte; Miss Engle took the floor and r {terated the substance of Mrs. Miller's objections to the recommendation. ‘The motion was put to a vote President Sherwin declared it Immediately the whole program education was accepted by the vention. and lost for con Dry Law Rulings Are Denied Review By Supreme Court Highest Tribunal Refuses to Interest Itself in Two Fine Questions. Two efforts to throw further judi clal light on the ins and outs of the liquor laws falled today in the Supreme Court. In one case in which a review was denied the Keystone Brewing Co. and others in Pennsylvania sought to overthrow a lower court ruling that persons charged with violating pro. hibition law injunctions are mnot en titled to a jury trial. Another case in which the highest court refused to interest itself em bodied an attempt by J. H. Mosely of Tennessee to prove that the Vol- stead act does not make the posses- sion of intoxicants unlawful, Lieut. Col. McAdams Ordel:ed Here. Lieut. Col. John P. McAdams, 5th Infantry, at Fort Williams, Me., has been ordered to this city for duty in the Militia Bureau, War Department. “We indorsed the pol | STHDOLS T0 NANE ORATORS BY FRIAY Judges to Hear Winners ta Name City Representa- tive April 28. b ¥ ill have very high school i chosen its repres: national £ this high of schools April 28 District lected orator week school the pri will be heard when the Columbia al contest speaker the repe and pas by 1h4 winner for | Friday o from each resentative rochial One and of winl ot A School tomorre be the three the running “ ser the iremaining e tion ¢ | Aberne | Hope | | large wi and he oniy in the It remains 1@ can dne of wine ch a Higt final contest d Pr i Girl Again Is Finalist £ rn High School Lydia Ede ward, Olin Ever senath Graves, | Durward Keats w |day to contest for [ wood w ast Inate for Washinzt | inal | McKinley High sct both preliminaries and irsda Business Higt | meeting held | days | The five finatists t that Giulday f Cathc {Leo L. McVay i versit Rev. Jot Veaver, was chosen Ar High will choos4 | this week one of the following: Mane ning Johnson, Ro: Gaddis - Wheeler, Howa mi Morris and Othe 1o repre- 4 {sent i | STATE SENATOR’S “WINE” | PARTY WILL BE PROBED i = | Wisconsin Legislator and Dry Crusader Issue Statements—Fed- eral Agents Take Hand. Br the Associated Pres MILWAUKEE, Wis., April - svernment officials under the direc. | tion of John B. Madden. Federal dry enforce Wisconsin, exe pected 1vestigas tion to ascertain tate Sen. ator Rernard Gettelman served drinks at his party here Saturday night which violated the prohibition laws Madden said vesterday that Mr, Gettleman had informed him when he called at the Gettelman home Sat- urday afternoon that he had sacramen- tal wine in his He said that { the Government would investigate | Unmindful of possible action by the Rev. G. Kennet Macinnis, dry cru- sader who had « an Invita. tion to attend the party, m | “I've kidde n because I have | a suspicic ing Rev. Mr. yesterday. He asserted that the be erage he served was not amental wine, as he told the prohibition chie | WINDOW DRESSING AS ART { | Correspondence o Associated Press { | ESSEN, Germany, Mar 30 An and kept a record of the manner in | which erowds look at show windows. This disclosed t t 646 persons looked at the sttom of the display, 411 looked at the center he win. {dow, 189 persons looked at the lefg side, 177 at the right side, and 67 at the top. 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