Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1925, Page 2

2 * TEACHERS SCORE SUMMERS' RIDER Amendment to D. C. School Bill Is Denounced by Federation. BY JAMES E. CHINN. (Staft Correspondent of The Star.) CHICAGO, July 1.—The national sig ificance of the public schools of the District again placed them dominantly to the forefront at the final session to. day of the ninth annual convention of the American Feder: ion of Teach ers. Before adjournment there was recorded in the proc s a pled to support most vigorously the cam paign to make the 1zton schocls models for the Nation, a plea for free | textbooks for pupils of the senior and junior high schools and anothe 3 ing rebuke for the Summer ment to the District appropriat bill, held by the federation to be very similar in purpose to the Tennessee anti-evolution law, because it forbids the teaching of disrespect to the H Bible, controversial partisan politics and that “ours is an inferjor form of Government.” The resolution indorsing ment to make the Washington sc system a monument to public educa- tion in America, stressed the need of larger appropriations for buildings, grounds and equipment, and was cou pled with an expression of gratification over the authorization by Congress of the gigantic $19,000,000 five-year school construction program. It was steered through the convention, without any semblance of opposition, by Miss Selma Borchardt, who, as Washington's rep. Tesentative and the federation's legis- lative agent, has taken an active part in the entire convention proceedings. the move- ool Delegates Amused. Some of the delegates, obviously unfamiliar with the unique method by which the District secures its school budget, tittered freely as Miss Borch- ardt outlined the complex situation, step by step, from the Commissioners to the Budget Bureau and ultimately to Congress. Equally amused and somewhat amazed were they to learn that senfor and junior high school pupils in the nation's Capital are re- quired to buy their texbook: ‘Already on record as favoring the repeal of the Summers' rider to the District appropriation bill, the con- vention took the second opportunity to condemn it when Miss Borchardt in her comprehensive report of legisla tion, pointed out that the amendment seeks to curb academic freedom “I interviewed Representative Sum mers, sponsor of the amendment, said Miss Borchardt,” and asked him if he did not feel that there were those who would interpret disrespect to the Holy Bible as the teaching of the theory of evolution, the planetismal theory or the nebular hypothesis; or that any criticism of any govern- mental policy, whether past or pres- ent, could be interpreted as teaching that ours is an inferfor form of gov- ernment; or that it would be quite difficult fo determine what constituted controversial partisan politics. He offered to amend the Statute by in- serting the word “obnoxious” before partisan party politics.” Fight Against Amendment. “One of the most prominent Senate | leaders who is interested in academic | freedom, however, has promssed to ir terest himself in this measure when it is called up at the next session of Congress. he is a man of courage and ability and commands the respect of the Senate we can look for more favorable action during the next ses sion.” Introduction of the platoon system of operation in the Washington schools, which has been advocated strongly by a certain group in the Ca was vigorously opposed by the federation. The delegates, however, put thei: stamp of approval on the extension of the junior high school system in Washington as bein carried out un der the direction of Supt. Frank W Ballou As 1o platoon schools, the federation took the position that the heated con- troversy over the merits and demerits of the system has produced little to prove their educational advantage, and pledged itself to combat efforts to use “this educational experiment toward ends which are not definitely of an educational character.” ‘Want Standard High. While indorsing the junior high school, the federation voiced the be- | lief that the teachers should have qualifications _equivalent to those in | the senior high schools; that there should not be stinting in the direc tion of housing and equipment of the Jjunior high school; that the junior high school should be guarded against the danger of too early and too rigid specialization of pupils, and that ihe teachers shall work under the same or better conditions. The system of rating the District schools, as well as those in other cities, was severely criticized, with the result that the convention went on record in vor of drastic re- forms in all rating methods which tend to foster a spirit of hostility in the teaching corps. The federation believes that sympathetic supervision and constructive criticism on the part of supervisory should replace the rating Such a chan, it contends, would make for improve ment in the quality of teaching and at the same time promote a more wholesome spirit of co-operation Report on District. Miss Borchardt closed her work at teachers in W {recalled that the company {in By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 2.—Grover C. Bergdoll says that the pot of gold he buried in the Maryland hills con- tains more than $240,000. This was revealed yesterday in a sworn state- ment by him submitted at a hearing of counter suits filed by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, his mother, and Thomas Miller, ‘alien property custodian. The s ement, witnessed by a notary public in Baden, Gern to Mrs. Bergdoll to aid in her conten- tion that she had turned over all her son’s property to the alien property custodian. Bergdoll has been living in iden since a spectacular escape in 20. An intimation that his mother also had buried a large sum of money also s contained in the statement. MINERS DEMAND 2YEAR CONTRAGT Adopt Committee Recom- mendation—Pay Raise and Check-0ff to Be Asked. By the Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa., July -The an- thracite scale committee today sub- mitted to the tri-district convention for its ratification the following ten- tative demands for renewal with mine owners of the contract expir- ing August 31. A contract for two ye recognition of the union addition of the check off; 10 per cent wage increase for tonnage men and S1 a day additional for day workers; equalization of day rates; payments on the basis of 2,240-pound ton, where now paid on car basis. Other demands include Quicker adjustment of grievances: improvement of housing conditions on company property; equalization of colliery ‘work during shut downs and other matters of technical character. The convention adopted demand No. 1. which stipulated that the next con- tract be for two vears with complete recognition of the union in the anthra fields. Union recognition would with it the check-off, which pre for the collection of union dues the mines. Some opposition e ed to the check-off feature by a nall minority was howled down by the miners as Want 5-Day Week. Demand No. 7 asked that: “A five-day work week be establish- ed, which would permit of the usual average number of days per year, and provide for greater efficlency operation and the elimination of the haphazard system of enforced idleness on differ- ent days, as is now the practice.” Thomas Kennedy, international sec- surer, in presenting the ad- s cuse for the check-off, *harged that during the scale negoti tions of 19 the anthracite operators had sent paid agents into the fields to stir up union feeling against the clause, then as now, a leading issue. He said the Lehizh Coal and Navi- gation Co. had sent five such agents into the Panther Creek Valley. He president was S. W. Wariner, chairman of the operators’ committee in the negotia- tions then under way. Philip Murray, international resident, reviewing his recent tour )f the West Virginia bituminous strike front, denied reports of union desertions as attributed today to W. Watson, chairman of the be Consolidation Coal Co.. in which . D. Rockefeller, jr., is a stockholder. U. S. AGENTS IN FIELD. rs; complete which me vice Conciliators Out to Help in Ironing Out Difficulties. The Conciliation Bureau of the Labor Department has ordered its field agents to watch Gevelopments in the mining regions in order to be of service in the event a wage dispute threatens to become of serious pro- portions. The department's special attention was called to the situation by a speech of President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America |at the tri-district scale convention at Scranton, warning against what he termed continued repudiation by oper- ators of the Jacksonville wage agree- ment Van A. Bittner, chief representa- tive of the United Mine Workers in the northern West Virginia district, a telesram to the department to- . charged violation by certain coal erators there of the Jacksonville agreement. The telegram will be laid before Secretary Davis when he ar- rives here tomorrow PATENT LAWYER DIES. E. T. Brandenburg, Here 20 Years, to Be Buried Saturday. Edgar T. Brandenburg, 48 years old, a patent and trade mark lawyer of this convention by reporting on the s of school legislation in the “During the ast school she said, “the » achers enjoyed the vided in their new sala was introduced by Mr. Miss Florence Rood, president of the Federation of Teachers, called his at- tention to our need for salary legis- Jation. There also was enacted a com- pulsory school attendance law for the District. The Washington Teachers’ Union was the only local organization which actively supported this meas- ure, and it was, of course, gratifying to see the passage thereof. An ex- tensive building program also was happily provided for in a bill enacted at the last session. But there are many bare essentials still which need attention.” Miss Borchardt was re-elected for another term as vice president of the tederation. REVOLIJTIONI‘S:I'S CROSS INTO JUAREZ SECTION Followers of de la Huerta Had Gathered in New Mexico, Passing Over Border at Columbus. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., July 2.—A body of De la Huerta revolutionists is believed to have crossed into Mexico at Colum- bus, N. Mex., yesterday, Gen. Roman Lopez, commandant of the Juarez gar- rison said. A group of De la Huerta followers Is visiting Alfonso de la Huerta at a residence he has taken here. Alfonso is a brother of Adolfo, leader of the recent unsuccessful Mexican revolt. , which Keller when city more than 20 years, died at Gar- field Hospital vesterday after a short illness. He was a native Washingto- nian Mr. Blandenburg was a graduate of Bus High School and later studied law George Washington Univer- sity. Private funeral services will be con- ducted at the residence on Saul road, Kensington, Md., Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. ~Additional services will be conducted at Glenwood Cemetery, where interment will be held. Rev. Thomas D. Windiate will officiate at both services. Mr. Brandenburg was the son of Mrs. Ellen N. Brandenburg and the late Edgar M. Brandenburg. He is survived by his mother, his widow, a brother, Joseph F. Brandenburg, and a sister, Mrs. G. H. Knight. Believe It or Not, Heat Hatches Eggs Left on the Shelf By the Associated Prese. YUMA, Ariz, July 2.—While the Middle West thinks temperatures over the century mark are high, Southern Arizona hatches chick- ens by its natural heat—without either incubators or brood hens. A feed store manager reported today that three eggs which he left on the shelf three weeks ago cracked today and that three husky chicks emerged. The tem- perature has been above 100 here for many days. at Brussels Cabinet Upheld. They deny they are planning a new revolution, but are being watched by «Mexican and United States secret service men. BRUSSELS, July 2 (#).—The Chamber of Deputies today voted confidence, 123 to 37, in the new cabi- net headed by Premier Poullet. THE EVENING $240,000 IS IN POT OF GOLD BERGDOLL BURIED, HE CLAIMS Draft Evader Sends Sworn Statement From Germany 'to Aid Mother in Suit Against Alien Property Cus- todian—Intimates She Concealed $105,000. “The $105,000 which my wmother claims to have buried is absolutely her own.” said the statement. ““The $240,000 which I concealed (the gold burled in the ground) and the gold notes 1 took along to Europe were my own property. No person living outside of myself has the slight- est idea as to where I took the gold after T loaded It in my car in Phila- delphia.” Bergdoll escaped from Army guards at his mother’s home here while on a trip to dig up the treasure, after he |had been sentenced to serve five | vears in prison for evading the draft. A master recommended that the cus- todian be ordered to return to Mrs. | Bergdoll $140,000 in cash and securi- ties worth several hundred thousand dollars. Grandmother, 30, “Youngestin U.S.,” Hagerstown Boast Special Dispatch to Tae Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md. Hagerstown probably Youngest grandmother United States. She is Mrs. Lola Dixon, 30 years old, a member of the so-called ‘ounger set of this city. Her aughter, Mrs. R. \W. Middleton, of Shippensburg, Pa., became the mother of a boy four days ago and the news has just arrived. but 13 when she Middleton was 34 NAVY OFFICERS GONG 10 COLUMBIA Will Take Graduate Studies in Electrical Engineering This Summer. July has in g the the Thirty-four officers of the United States vy will pursue graduate studles in the Summer session of Co- lumbia University, it is announced by Dean George B. Pegram of the School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry. Notice of the detailing of the offi- cers, all lieutenants, was received by Dean Pegram from Comdr. R. A. Theobald, United States Navy, head of the post-graduate school at the Naval Academy, Annapolis. The Navy men will work at Colum- bia in three groups, each of which will take a course lasting three weeks. July 6, and will be made up of Lieuts. H. B. Davis, S. G. Lamb, J. E. Maher, S B. Ogden, E. B. Perry, J. W Quackenbush, F. A. Smith and N. K. Stubbs. Two Courses Planned. Prof. Walter A. Curry of the De- artment of Electrical Engineering will direct the studies of these officers in the field of storage batteries. The second group, reporting at Columbia July 27, for special work in alter- nating currents under Prof. Morton Arendt, will consist of the foilowing A. O. R. Bergesen, J. H. Chadw: K. J. Christoph, H. .. Clatk, 1. Cor- |man. V. M. Davis, W. M. Downes. G. M. Dusinberre. E. P. Forrestel, M. J. Gillan, R. F. Good, J. B. Godde, W. A. Hardy, H. E. Haven, P. R. Heineman W. P. Hepburn, P. F. Hunt, F. B Kauffman, E. P. Kranzfelder, W. G Livingstone, W. E. A. Mullen, C. D. H. C. Rule, jr.; H. G. Sickel, urran, H. W. Turney. completing their _Summer work at Columbia, the 34 officers will £0 ‘to the New York navy vard for three weeks of intensive training in shop processes. All will return to Co- lumbia in September for a full year's work in the regular courses in me- chanical, electrical and Diesel engi- neering. 5,000 HERRIN CITIZENS AGREE TO END STRIFE Shake Hands With Sheriff Galli- gan at Revival—Official Weeps at Service. By the Associated Press. HERRIN, 11, July 2—Herrin put another foot forward in its peace { movement when a large majority of | the 5,000 persons who filled the Wil- liams' revival tabernacle last night | came forward and extended the hand of fellowship to Sheriff George Galli- gan. Sheriff Galligan, hitherto a bitter anti-klansman and center of the Klan and anti-Klan strife, was present with his deputies and other county officers from Marion on “officials’ night.” L Tears stood in the sheriff’s eyes as friends and foes alike came forward and extended their hands in Christian fellowship. Lay Evangelist Howard S. Willlams of Hattiesburg, Miss., who is being given credit as “the man who is sav- ing Herrin,” preached to an audience which overflowed the building. VERDICT SET ASIDE. Doctors Win New Trial in Damage Case. Justice Stafford in Circuit Division 2 today set aside a verdict for $20,000 damages rendered by a jury last March against Dr. H. H. Hazen and Dr. F. J. Eichenlaub in favor of Miss Marguerite Mullen, who claimed to have been seriously burned during the application of X-ray treatments by the defendants. A new trial was granted at the request of counsel for the doc- tors on the ground of error in the admission and exclusion of certaln tes. timony at the trial. Attorneys Minor, Gatley & Rowland represented the doctors, while Attorneys Wampler & Lynch appeared for the young woman. . MEXICO EXPELS WOLF, Newspaper Man Deported for Spreading Red Doctrine. MEXICO CITY, July 2 (.—The department of the Interior announces that Bertram Wolf has been expelled from Mexico for engaging in com- munistic propaganda among the rafl- way men and cabling false informa- tion to the newspapers he repre- sented. Wolf was due to arrive at Laredo last night. His expulsion was carried out without previous announcement. It is temper which makes the bliss *of homie’ or' disturbs its comfort, ~ * L4 The first group will begin study on | AR, AIR MAIL BY NIGHT PROVES SUCGESS Chicago-New York Service Value Shown in First Test. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 2.—Dark-to-dawn air mail service between America’s two greatest cities became a reality today. Cleaving the night along a beacon-lighted highway, the Govern- ment's mail planes transferred let- ters to and from New York and Chi- cago between the close of one busl- ness day and the opening of the next. Two ‘eastbound air couriers, aided by a Stiff wind, bettered their sched- ules of 8 hours and 15 minutes—in one case by 2 hours. The same wind held back the westbound planes. One com- pleted its assignment in a little more than the allotted time. Accidents to the other emphasized the difficulties the airmen nightly must overcome. The first plane to leave Maywood Field, Chicago, accomplished its course to Hadley Field, New Bruns- wick, N. J., 30 miles from New York, in 6 hours’ 15 minutes, leaving Chi- cago at 6:45 p.m. Central standard time, reaching Hadley Field at 2 a.m., Eastern standard time. Pilots Shirley Short and Paul §. Collins held the controls. The second eastbound car- rier was 7 hours and 7 minutes en route, between 8:30 p.m., Central standard time, and 4:37 a.m., Eastern standard time. Pilot Charles Ames brought it in to Hadley Field. The mails from both planes were in New York by 6:15 a.m.. brought by the train from New Brunswic The second of the Chicago-bound planes to leave Hadley Field made the flight without incident, although bucking a stiff breeze. Its mate had worse luck. The second “ship” took the air at 9:48 pm. eastern standard time. and delivered its burden to mail trucks at Maywood Field at 6:19 a m. central standard time, an elapsed time of 9 hours 31 minutes. J. D. Hill and Warren Williams were the pilots. With the first westbound plane Pilot D. C. Smith hopped off at 7:47 p.m. eastern standard time, but was forced down by generator trouble at Kylertown, Pa. Resuming flight, he was compelled to land again at Solon, Ohio, 12 miles short of his objective at Cleveland airport, when fuel ran short. Another machine went to the relief at Solon. transferred the mails and covered the last leg to Chicago, arriving at 8220 am. central time. The test made New York and Chi- cago as one city, to use the words of dent Dawes. The pilots who blazed a trail through the night, lighted at intervals of about 25 miles by powerful searchlights, rried out to the letter an inscription carved on the facade of the general post office here. The inscription read “Neither snow or rain, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Seventy-five vears ago stage-coach mail made the trip in the phenomenal time of 28 days. One year ago air mall service made it in 32 hours. The time for the 774-mile journey by night air mail is slightlv more than § hours. SMUTTY MAGAZINéS MUST BE REMOVED, COMMITTEE ASSERTS from First Page.) Washington's delegates to the conven- tion, is a member of the resolutions committee. She told of the move- ment to rid the Nation's Capital of indecent literature. SMUT MUST GO, IS DECREE. Inspection of Additional Magazines on D. C. Stands Made. That Washington newsstands still display lascivious magazines which should be permanently banned from public sale was the unanimous verdict of the committee of representative men and women that has been sur. veying the problem of literary in. decency in the National Capital. A meeting of the committee was called vesterday in the office of Jesse C. Suter, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and was at- tended by Miss Sarah E. Simons, head of the English department of public schools; James T. Lloyd. retiring president of the Board of Education, and Rev. Dr. W. L. Darby, executive secretary of the Washington Federa- tion of Churches. At that meeting the committee members compared notes, checked up minor differences, and came to the conclusion that, although there has been marked improvement in the mat- ter of published obscenity here since the fight was begun against it, the sit- uation is still serious enough to war- rant summary action. With that in view, Mr. Suter will visit District At- torney Peyton Gordon tomorrow and submit some suggestions. Most of Magazines Banned. Of the eight or ten magazines given the committee members to read, only one or two were given a clean biil of health. Some of the others were admitted to be ‘‘borderline’” periodi- cals, which merely insinuated indecent narrations. The remainder, however, were declared to be clear-cut viola- tions of the law and a class of litera- ture that should be driven not only from Washington, but from the coun- try at large. Mr. Suter found that three or four of the magazines were particularly repulsive in their deliberate attempts to present not only disgusting situa- tions concerning young girls, but to picture conditions that are too ridicu- lous to be considered as within the probability of ever having actually occurred, as the nature of the publi- cations would lead the reader to be- lieve. The felony of indecency, it is held, is compounded by untruth- fulness. Invitations to Immorality. “To my mind,” sald Mr. Suter, “some magazines are open invitations to young girls to go in for studied im- morality. To go even further, I think they openly encourage such a proposition. That i8 a dangerous situation. Several of these publica- tions are all right from the stand- point of morality. Their jokes are crude and their style of literature cheap, but I do not think they could be calculated seriously to menace public morals.” Dr. Darby’s decision was about the same as that of Mr. Suter. One thing stressed by both committee members, however, that even in the publications passed on the question of their morals. the country's dry laws are held up to ridicule every time th opportunity offers, and sometimes when it does mot. Viola- tion of the law is frankly encouraged and_enforcement officials are made the butts of very crude “jokes.” Only One Fit to Read. Miss Simons declared t'na:hnhn found only one magazine among those given hery ‘which could be declared even passably fit for high school students. Although she would never recommend that.lone exception as suitable litera- ture for well bred persons, she de- clared she believed it could not be classed with the strictly immoral periodicals, -of which she found there are still far too many offered for sale WASHINGTON, D. | many C., THURSDAY, NEW TAX SYSTEM | WILLAID PAYERS Better Classification Will In- crease Efficiency and Save Trouble. A marked improvement in the han- dling of tax bills and special assess- ments is expected to result from a re- arrangement of the duties of Tax Col- lector Towers and Assessor Richards, put into effect with the beginning of the new fiscal year. Here are some of the advantages that will result during the coming fis- cal year from the new system of book- keeping and administration in the two offices mentioned All property owners whose addresses are known to the assessor will have their real estate bills mailed to them when the next tax payment is due in November. Heretofore personal tax bills have been mailed out, but the thousands of real estate owners had to call at the District Building for bi or make written request each year that their bills be mailed. Bills to Be Classifled. When the next tax bills are pre- pared in the Fall they will be so clas- sified that a person’s bill may be found either by name or lot and square num- ber. In the past it has been neces- sary for owner& to know their lot and square numbers when calling at the District Building for a bill. These improved methods of han- dling tax bill payments will be made | possible through the recent purchase | of modern calculating machines for the making out of tax bills and the installation of cabinets that will en- wble the assessor to keep each tax- payer's record on a card system. These cards, incidentally, will show at a glance upon inspection whether the owner has failed in any past year to make a tax payment. The inauguration of the new mys- tem has necessitated the transfer of 25 clerks from the office of the tax collector to the office of the assessor. Office Changes Made. The new system, which was ap- proved by Commissioner Rudolph, who has supervision over tax and assess- ment problems, will resuit in the fol- lowing administrative changes, effec- tive with the beginning of the new fiscal vear: The assessor will prepare and re- L.lm tax ledgers and make up the tax ills. The assessor will prepare all data for the annual delinquent tax list The assessor will issue all certifi- cates of taxes. The water main and the special as- sessment divisions will function as one division to Increase effciency. The ledger system in the water main, speclal assessment and arrears divisions shall be changed to card systems. As to the mailing out of real estate tax bills next November, Mr. Richards said today his office has addresses for more than half of the bills and will mail them out in all such cases. It will always be difficult, he said, to keep an accurate mailing list of all property owners, because of the large number of real estate transfers being made annually. Last year, he point ed out, there were about 18,000 trans- fers of ownership. — in Washington. follows, in full: “The magazines which I have ex- amined, with possibly one exception, are from cover to cover, including of the advertisements, unfit reading for high school students. There no literary worth to the stories: they are not even clever. The English used is, in many instances, poor: the atyle is crude or too ornate. “In their setting of roadhouses, cabarets, clubhouses with the at- tendant excessive drinking, smoking and petting, the stories are oversenti. mental, sensational, lurid and unreal. The theme throughout is the same— passion unrestrained and uncontrolled in both men and women. Read for Glitter. “The saving grace of repentence and warning to other is neglible, for the ‘confession’ is read for the glitter and the glamor and the lure of adventure to the limit in the mad rush for pleasure, not for the lesson it should teach. And there is the danger that the vicarious experience may be- come a real one in the life of the young reader. “The reading of such stories can but have a vicious effect on the thoughts and desires of young people, for they make an appeal to thé lower nature only, at just the time when the higher, nobler instincts should be stimulated. The ‘high thinking and plain living' of Wordsworth are, in- deed, out of date. They have almost become ‘high living and no thinking’ in the case of some of our young folk. “We should do our utmost, how- ever, to expose them to the best in literature as in life. Are we doing this when we give them the oppor- tunity of reading such storfes, tales or confessions as those discussed above?” “Art” Magazines Withdrawn. Henry K. Bush-Brown, the noted sculptor, who was the fifth member of the committee, could not be reached yesterday in time to have him at the meeting. As a result of the campaign that has been waged by the District Attorney and The Star, however, there was little for Mr. Bush-Brown to do. Following the barrage of pub- licity last month, only a single copy of an art magazine could be found iw all Washington, and it, Mr. Bush- Brown decided. was perfectly legal. In this District Attorney Peyton Gordon had concurred, the previous week, and it was no included on his list of banned periodicals. All of the others, however, had disappeared, “‘never to retur: in the language of the news dealer: Several of the dealers declared they were glad the magazines had been banned. As long as competitors were permitted to sell them, it was said, all stands are obliged to meet the competition, but the dealers said they ‘were mightly glad to be rid of such magazines for good. Break With Italy In Negotiations Denied by Mellon Intimations that there had been a break in the negotiations be- tween the American Debt Com- mission and the Italian Ambassa- dor over Italy’s debt were formally denied yesterday by Secretary Mellon in a formal statement. “The original understanding be- tween the Debt Commission and the Italian Ambassador before any discussion took place,” said Secre- tary Mellon, ‘‘was that as soon as the preliminary conversations were had Mr. Alberti ( one of the Italian commissioners) would go to Italy to collect the necessary data to dis- close Italy’s ability to pay. Nego- tiations have moved without inci- dent and will be resumed when Mr. Alberti returns in August. Intima- tions that there has been a break aré unfounded.” Miss Simons’ report ”. JULY 2, 1925. DOHENY WAR SCARE ASSERTION RIDICULED BY U. S. COUNSEL Pomerene and Roberts Say Arms Conference Trea- ties Were Signed and Ratified Before Oil Contract Was Made. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 2.—In answer to statements of Edward L. Doheny that representations of danger of war in the Pacific prompted his part in the naval ofl leanes, the New York Times today publishes comments of Govern ment counsel in the oil lease prosecu- tions and of other officials connected with the cases. Mr. Doheny declared that the war danger was kept secret because offi- clals were afraid of wrecking the Washington arms conference. But both Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts said that the main treaties resulting from the conference were isigned and ratified by the Senate be- fore the first contract with Mr. heny was signed. Mr. Pomerene recalled that the arms conference assembled November 12, 1921, that the delegates began signing the articles in December, that the Senate ratified the agreements in March, 1922, while Mr. Doheny didn't set his firsi contract ‘until April 15, 1922. Do- Ridiculed by Pomerene. As for naval officers’ fears of an Ori- ental invasion of this country being deleted from Rear Admiral John K Robison’s deposition at the Cheyenne ofl lease trial, Mr. Pomerene said: Whatever was deleted had to do with matters which the State Depart ment in the public interest said it did not care to have disclosed publicly. “There was nothing in the deposi tion of any particular moment that affected the situation. If there was any war scare, as Mr. Doheny calls it, then it was all settled when the first Doheny contract was actually signed. “What about the little black sachel? I have a picture in my mind of this patriot giving $100,000 to Mr. Fall with one hand, and receiving in the other contracts involving $100,000,000 worth of properties. Edward C. Finney, Assistant Secre- tary of the Interior, branded Mr. Do- heny’s story, the Times says, as a bid for public support, made up in part of untruths and in part of state- ments incomplete in details, designed to minimize the part Albert B. Fall played in the leases Mr. Finney admitted that three tele- grams from Three Rivers, N. Mex where Mr. Fall was spending a vaca- tion, to the Interior Department in Washington, had disappeared from the files, but he denied that the de- partment records had been ransacked by the Senate ofl investigators. “Rehash of the Alibi.” “Just a rehash of the alibi,”" Mr Roberts said, as quoted by the New York Tribune. The Times says that its interview with Doheny has led to the revelation that measures for peace in the Pacific were not contemplated in President Harding’s original plan for the arms conference, but that they were {nclud- ed after an Independent investigation by Great Britain. Harding's invitation to the powers for a conference arma- ment on limitation was on the cables at the same time as Great Britain's proposal for a conference of que: tions affecting the Far East and the Pacific. Harding was about to take a trip on the Mayflower when the British pro- posal arrived, the Times says, and im- mediately approved an amended in vitation to the powers. Then came a hurried trip by Ambassador Harvey to Chequers Court to see Lloyd George, a cable message and a radio to Harding that Great Britain had accepted. Harding gave his guests on the Mayflower and news, and out of this developed a legend that he made up his mind to call the conference while taking a cruise. SENATORS ARE ANGERED. Statement by Doheny Criticlzed as Poorly Timed. Edward L. Doheny's most recent statement of his leasing of the Cali fornia naval oil reserve, published yesterday, today was the subject of criticism on the part of members of the Senate investigating committee and others connected with the leases or_with the investigation. In the first place, the matter is now in the courts, it was said, and if Mr. Doheny had anything further to say about it he should say it in court. He could have made his statement in court in Los Angeles during the trial there, it was pointed out. The report that Mr. Doheny or others would testify later that the letter 1aid to the Senate investigating committee, signed by former Secre- tary Fall, relating to this loan of $100.- 000 had been prepared by another and that Fall had signed it at the instance of a member of the Republican na- tional committee, has stirred partic- ular interest in official and political circles. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, chair- man of the investigating committee at the time the letter was written, and Senator Smoot of Utah, a member of the committee, both of whom call ed on Secretary Fall to urge him to tell the committee of his transaction, declared today that they had never heard it intimated before that Mr. Fall was not the author of the letter sent to the committee. Neither had ever heard, they said, of a national com- mitteeman in connection with the letter. Finney Takes Issue. The Doheny statement was regarded here largely as an effort to win the support of public opinion, an effort to show that he had been actuated en- tirely by patriotic motives in leasing the naval ofl reserve and agreeing to build oil tanks in Hawaii for the Navy base there, for which he was to be paid in crude oil from the naval oil reserve. Senator Lenroot and Senator Smoot bath said that there was nothing new in the declaration of Mr. Doheny that he had been influenced by patriotic motives in entering the agreement with Secretary Fall and the Navy De- partment to prosecute this work. But the declaration of Mr. Doheny that the Navy Department had taken the initiative in the whole matter of transferring the control of the naval ofl reserves to the Interior Depart- ment was discounted. Assistant Secretary Finney of the Department of the Interior took issue, too, with some of the statements con- tained in Mr. Doheny’s story. Telegrams and messages which Ed- ward L. Doheny claims were sup- pressed by the Senate oil committee ‘were not found in the files by clerks of the Interior Department and have not since been found in those files, although they were produced by Mr. Doheny's counsel at the trial in Los Angeles, Mr. Finney said today, He said that even though the entire mat- ter of the Sinclair and Doheny leases is before the courts, and in his judg- ment discussion of the matter is not advisable, he. deemed it proper to make a statement in view of the Doheny statement published yester- day. Statement by Finney. Mr. Finney's statement follows: “The entire matter of the Doheny and Sinclair leases is before the courts and, in my judgment, any discussion of the matter is not advisable. How- ever, as Mr. Doheny has made a state- ment, I deem it proper to say that the telegrams which he claims were sup- pressed by the Senate committee were not found in the files hy our clerks when transmitting the records to the Senate, and have not since beeri found in those files. This search was made before the representatives of the Sen ate committee examined the files They were produced by Mr. counsel at the trial in Los Angeles “My recollection is, and 1 so testi fied, that the letter o Secretary Den by transmitting the proposed execu tive order was either written by S retary Fall or at his dictation language of the letter so indicate: it refers to conference of which Fall only was cognizant. “The contract for Pearl Harbor storage involved only a prefe ce 1o lease of the easterly part of naval re serve No. 1, subject to drainage by Standard Oil and Southern Pacific wells, and did not involve the west two-thirds of the reserve, subsequent ly leased in December, 1922, by Secre- tary Fall to Dohen; “I know nothing of the military sit- uation alleged by Mr. Doheny.” Senator “Lenroot said he doubted very much that anything was sup pressed by the Senate committee. I am very sure that the charge of suppressing anything cannot be brought home to Senator Walsh, who i8 a man of high character, even though a vigorous prosecutor,” he said. “As long as T was chairman noth. ing concerning any matter was sup pressed, and if the commitiee could have been criticized for anything, it would never have been on grounds of trying to suppress matter. but per haps of admitting everything to evi dence.” Speaking directly Elk Hills leases, commented: “The first lease was for prevention of drainage, but in the Autumn this was changed to include the whole tract, and we knew nothing about th until’ long afterwards. “There was no pretense,” stated Senator Lenroot, “‘that this lease was open to bids or competition. It was secret. The only power that t Government had was to say when the field should be drilled. If any disad vantage to the Government arose it was chiefly through this extension of the lease.” Asked to comment on the allega- tion by Mr. Doheny that Rear Admiral Robison told him an invasion of the United States was probable unless the Pearl Harbor bass was built, Senator Lenroot said: “The committes met in exccutive sesslon with Admiral Robison. After wards various members expressed th opinion that nothing developed tha was not actually already know. The purpose of the War Department in urging the defenses was disclosed but, while the matter was, of course. kept secret, there was nothing dis. closed in the executive session that was alarming.” RUPTURE MENACES BAPTIST' SESSION The as Mr of the Doheny Senator Lenroot By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., July 2.—Threats of a definite break and the formation of a new Baptist foreign mission society were issued by fundamentalists today if the Hinson resolution recall ing “modernist missionaries is not passed by the Northern Baptist con- vention. The Hinson resolution was laid aside for printing when it was introduced yesterday after strenuous attempts had been made to procure its passage Announcement of the fundamentalist ultimatum was made by Dr. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis. Conflicting _elements in the conven- tion were rebuked last night by the Rev. C. Oscar Johnson of Tacoma. “Can’t we do something of value at this convention,” he asked, “in- stead of making the newspapers carry headlines about the disgraceful things we are doing?” Delegates were asked to lay aside snobbery and race prejudice by the Rev. A. Ray Petty of New York. “There is no reason why any church should rent its pews to rich men of a certain race so that poor men of an- other race cannot worship there said. —. U. S. PLANES ANTIQUE, MITCHELL ASSERTS As Far Behind New Type as Early Auto Is From 1925 Model, He Declares. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. July 2.— United States Army’s airplanes are as far behind the most modern planes as the automobile of the earliest days fs behind the 1925 model automobile, Col. Willlam Mitchell, recently assigned air officer of the 8th Corps Area, told members of the Lions Club here yes. terday. Afrplanes are now made with sev- eral engines, instead of one, all con- nected with the propeller, so that failure of one will not bring down the plane, Mitchell said. “The time of 30 hours across the continent will be lowered soon, when a lighted airway shall be completed. “I would like to see the Govern ment Bponsor, or organize, an airways association for commercial purposes. We have not kept up with some other governments in developing our air power and possibilities. And no na- tion has men better equipped for carrying on an air service than we have. Neither has any nation the manufacturing possibilities we have, if we would only apply the possibility to airplanes. “‘Afr power today will determine the result of the next war. Alrships and submarines have spelled the doom of the big battleships.” COL. COOLIDGE BETTER. President’s Father Able to Leave Bed This Morning. PLYMOUTH, Vt., July 2 UP).—Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the Pres- ident, “had a restful night,” it was announced today and apparently con- tinues his progress toward recovery after the recent operation which re- sulted in the President’s hurried trip here from Swampscott. He was able to sit up in a chair this morning and had for breakfast coffee and an egg on toast. PANAMA RECEIPTS DROP. PANAMA, July 2 (#).—The Panama Canal toll receipts for the fiscal vear ended June 30 were $21,400,523, or $2,890,440 less than the receipts for the preceding year, oEu 8 Doheny’s | o Leity, GITY OF BEAUTY 10 RISE ONRUINS New Santa Barbara to Be nf Architectural Style } of Spain. [ By tha Assoctated Pross. SA BARRARA, Calif., Jnly 2. anta Barbara business men will ye construct the earthquake-torn area o the city along lines of Spanish archi tecture, according to a decision reache while the eity was recovering toca from the effewts of the staggering blo: of Monday. In restoring the city in Spanis architecture the businesss men follow the recommendation of the Sans ta Barbara Art Soclety. Practically all of the dangerou overhanging walls were demolished b {firemen " vesterday and during th night trucks hauled the debris a and cleared the section until there wa litle left today of wreckage of character save on the site of the Marcos building and in the park rounding the Hotel Arlington, Board Renews Study. A board of California engineers vy der the chairmanship of C. E. Marx head of the college of engineering of Stanford University, resumed its in4 {spection of buildings throughout vmz designating those to e dowr nd’ those safe will be safe i publid find announced service restored and | Prospects light and gax service }\\Uhu: 24 hours, the citizens looked forward the bringi normal onditions to el and th {closing of Ied Cross ralief station: Jwhere rich and poor alike have e |bowed each other at meal time sinceq |the disaster Monday m g early With the arrival of the 250 marined from San Diego last night Sheriff James Ross of 3 was given comy aw and d the Jeputyt as depu * he hy e res There will be no r said. “The mari Admiral Ashley quest of the civil autk Barbara and are acti der the direction of ¢ Sheriff St artial law are sent es of Santa with and un; Iin Charge. Lieut. Comdr. James Mad S. N., commands the al and Maj. ¥ k Evans commian of the marines, under (' Madden, Both are reporting to Sheriffl Rose The Navy set up a portable wires less station to for eventualities and made plans for the establishment of air mail service Santa, Barbara and San plane will arrive morning and depart afternoon. The daily on_this schedule. The force of marines will be auge | mented today by 60 more men from San Diego. Comdr. Madden wired fos them late last night. This will give him a total force of bluejackets and marines in Santa Barbara of about 320 men. he said FORD U. S. SHIP BID SENT IN GOOD TIME, between Diego service (Continued from st Page.) way of the law. The bids opened last Tuesday wers made public. This is the first time that this has been done. All bids came in sealed and were opened in the presence of newspaper men and others interested, when each bid was read aloud This was done, Mr. Philbin explains, to silence the charge that no ma - who bid, or for what amount. Henry Ford would get the ships. in fact that he already had bought the Only one firm submitted a bid to the Shipping Board for the entire fleet of 200 ships, the Boston Iron and Metal Co., bidding $1,370,000. Several other firms bid for portions of the fleet, some of them with the unders standing that if their bid was accepted that they would be allowed to sell parts of the ships which they could salvage. to carry out the intent is Other Firms' Bids. The Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Co. bid $643.000 for the fleet of 110 ships now anchored in the James River. Va. The Genera Metal Co. bid approximately the same amount for 190 vessels. Other bids req ceived were for varying numbers of the ships. Opportunity Is Opened. It was argued by some today tha in thus endeavoring to shut off al charges of favoritism to Mr. Ford, the ship sales department of the Shipping Board has actually given him an ade vantage which he has been shrewd enough to seize under the wording of the advertisements quoted above, They made the other bidders’ figureq public. Now that Mr. Ford has given public notice that he is a bidder, it may result in the board deciding that the bids submitted are unsatistactory and “continuing negotiations,” which will allow Mr. Ford to submit anotheg bid, also the Bethlehem Steel Corporae tion, and will also allow any of those whose bids are now in or any othes new bidders an opportunity to make an offer. The fact that no bid had been re ceived from Mr. Ford on Tuesdayy when they were opened by the boar: occasioned some surprise, and it ha Mr. Ford had faile to bid for the ships because of a misunderstanding over the date on which the bids were to be opened. Mr. Ford did not announce ‘he amount he had offered for the vess sels, nor did_he give any indication of the specification of his bid, and members of his engineering and techs nical staff were unable to supply thig information, Special Search Fails. Because the Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation is a big organization, and to safeguard againsg the Ford letter having been overs looked anywhere, ‘Admiral Cone had & special search made for it today, bug it could not be found. It was learned today that the bida already received are being prepared for comparison. and that vessel for vessel they will be checked against an appraised value already set. It was made very clear that the Ship. ping Board is not bound to accept any of the bids submitted. It is known in the division of ship sales that several of the bidders are ready to enter into open competition witly Mr. Ford in-bidding for some of thesq vessels. ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE. Florence Vidor Wins Decree From been said that Screen Director. ¢ MANUFACTURER SAYS - » LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 2 (#).— # Florence Vidor, film actress, obtained a divorce from King Vidor yesterday. She testified that Vidor, a screen d rector, had declared that “marriage interferes with business.” The actresa asked no alimony and received custady of the 7-year-old child. { 4