Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 2

3 ra THE EVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1925. CASE OF WHEELER . INCOURT'S HANDS Justice Bailey Takes Argu- ments on Senator’s Indict- ment Under Advisement. Justice Bailey of the District Su- preme Court this afternoon took under | advisement the question of the valid- of the indictment against Burton Senator from Montana &0 for and fty conspiracy T. ™V B S heeler Booth Department former of the attor- citor the Interior later an assistant ney general of the United States, and Gordon Camphe tana. They to defraud . oil eperator of Mon- accused of conspiring the United States hy large number of oil and - perr m perr the ts to prospect on the public d on both to file pri el Lriefs with Concluding Argument. 1 in his I Stha = " Nearl he A ent the etit hearinz yesterday A Senator Thor T. Walsh of Montana in defense of Wheeler. Mr. Douglas gtressed the ambiguities of the indict ment and ‘ ne place Wheeler and cod lants are charged th defrauding the Uhnited States out of a total of 16,480 acres nd tior they cured afternoon session pied of o by A pointe 1t where w are per h 2.000 Douzlas e on in the Ia the number of permits to he permitt to a single and char Assistant Attornev General Le: with claiming limitat th, had permitted by the of Interior. The allowed Mr. Dous mits prospector ate and n Case Criticized. three defendants declared Mr. De anothe insisted Mr is no on i h n had per the e same prospector said s, three each horders of a geological s Government's As there this indict each the theref have ent the all tenided for the the Camphell nar in naict former Boot rior Departme: Interpretation Questioned. Do 4 was s 3 ascerted charges the tor jnint use of the three defendants ted be placed on it by prosacutic The tment nd tion the 1 < of New spoke briefly f He supplemented the points iments of 1 Attorney Douglas, York n TWheeler made Walsh GOVERNOR IS SILENT ON PLANS REGARDING LEGISLATURE SESSION i Senator in w the game zahs and 1 team Moody na Att Dan the gover i from th ed that he was ter later expla are of his proximity to the or's box and meant no offense. intimated. however, that he cheered for his prosecut the American Road Company in which the State recovered $600.000 al leged excess profits on highway con tracts. a suit whic s opposed by the Fergusons. R-v. Atticus to be ¥ n <uit, W Webb, superintendent of Anti-Saloon League in Texas. rday challenged the governor to “make good” her offer of last Satur day of a $500 reward for the convic tion of liquo violators worth more than $5.000 The league wanted to know whether the governor meant the reward to apply to bootleggers already in fail and ated if that the case it probably could keep her busy passing out the hounties General Moody's sult against the Hoffman Construction C for contract cancellation and recovery of large profits was postponed yester- dav il the president of the defend. ant concern can recover from an ill ness. TWO MOVES START TO PLAN FUTURE CITY DEVELOPMENT First law int was torney al (Continued from Page.) marily intended to center the thought of the expert city planners attending on the best possihle measures to bring before Congress for the development of Washington, much of the discus- sion centered on the proposed bill Col. Sherrill recommended that the new commission should take over and assume the duties of any planning and executive commission to carry out the modified L'Enfant plan. pointing out the advantages of continuity and con- tacts with the legislative and fiscal agencies of the Government At the same time the meeting had before it an outline of proposed leg lation recommended for support by the American Civic Association, the American Institute of Architects, the American Soclety of Civil Engineers, the American Soclety of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of City Planning and the National Asso- ciation of Real Estate Boards to amend the act providing for a perma- nent system of highway in that part of the District of Columbia lying out- side of citles. This includes the duty of the Highway Commission, which would be abolished under the Sherrill proposal. Transfer of Powers. The second p-wposal suggested that the powers ana duties of the High- way Commission he transferred to a commission known as the “Federal City” or “National Capital” Planning Commission, to be composed of a rep- resentative of the Commlssioners of the District of Columblia, a represent ative of the National Capital Park Commlission and a representative of distinguished experience in city plan- ning from esch of the organizations ziven | thought | SHOALS REPORTS SHOW DIVERGENCE Makes Public Views of Majority and Minority on Board. ‘ President By the Acsaciated Press The majority and minority of the Muscle Shoals Commission were made public today at the White | House The ma jority three members | recommended | Muscle Shoals {event reports signed by commission, of the in satisfac- report the leasing and a | tory lease that the plant immediat be operated by the Government. The minority favored the leasing Wilson Dam, the hydro-electric power generated there and the steam electric power generating plant at | nitrate plant No. 2 for a period of not to exceed 50 years under certain con the property, of failure to obtain tof fons See U majorit Operation Dangers. —Chalrman McKenzie former Senator Dial of South Caro lina and R. F. Bower—suaid it mude its recommendations “unhesitatingly,” and added this statement “Itis with great reluctance that we turn toward Government operation { being well advised of all of the rmi | erent in such an undertaking | The zreat investment of the Govern ment at Muscle Sheals, however, the importance of its continued mainte nance a part of our National de f the cryving need of agriculture more and cheaper fertilizer. and e favorable opportunity meeting that need, all compel us to disregard preidices, for we are convinced € nger permit this grea n to stand idle when it can he ch great service to peopie | would be little less than a public | calamity Delay in Legislative ou vestm 1 this action case is is expensive. imperative. Suggest Board Be Named The minority report, rof. Harry A. Curtis William McClellan of New Y {out that private leases are sable and that separate power leases should be made mmends creation by Congress of cle Shoals hoard of five men: » be appointed by the President ive-vear term to arrange by and . sets indispen signed of Y fertiliz A M for importance lease, the of nego tating a majority “We recommend the in operating condition of pendable nitrogen-fixation national defense and a tion of private a large de plant for rge produc mproved and concentrated fe by the conti operatic present or im nts in entery ns te the roved active se under hat will encourage ends to be sery the same time will safe. blic interest. If this can hronzh a private lease iovernment operation effective within 99 M n rduction reason scle Shoals nrom that not he done then plans for should become Wants Protection. “There should be definite ta tions placed upon the power to he dis tributed from Muscle Shoals in order tn protect the power supply for fer tilizer manufacture. which is the p- | mary purpose of the enter e. We 1 believe. however, that the hy- c properties at Muscle Shoals should be operated as isolated plants This plan would not be economie Since. in our judzment, the opera | tion of the nitrate plants can hest be ccomplished and their henefits for th natfonal defense and Y agricul ture © best be assured by con: nd dealing with the properties so ated above as a unit, they should a unit and not as separate dro-elect ded 'NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL ~ LIGHTS READY SOON "‘Wotk on Cable Conduits Starts To- day on Sixteenth Street—May Be in Use by December 15. The Potomae Electric installing conduits on Sixteenth e he Power cable in the street for the lizhts, which may turned on hefore o today began Automatic tr eady to s { clals of the power company sald if the fixtures arrived from the factory by Monday it will be possible to have the lights ready for_operation on December The first installation wil from H to U on Sixteenth, to be fol- lowed soon by similar lights on Mas- sachusetts avenue from Twelfth street_to Dupont Circle Traflic Director Eldridge said today that if Congress is liberal in appro- priating for traffic lights at the com- [ ing session his office hopes to extend |the system to Park road on Six- teenth’ street, to Mount Vernon | Square on Massachusetts avenue and {on portions of Connecticut uvenue, |and Rhode Island avenue next year! | | | | | to which the recommended, The proposed legislation was pre- sented to the meeting by Horace W. Peaslee. The commission would be charged with the duty of initiating and supervising the preparations from time to time of comprehensive, correlated and consecutive plans for | the “dignified and economic develop- ment”* and Virginia, and would avall itself of the advice of the Commission of Fine Arts. Its plan of operation would include recommendations to the proper executive authorities as to traf- fic and transportation:plats and subdi- visions: highways, parksand parkway: school sites and playgrounds: sewe: age and water supply: housing, build- ing and zoning regulations; public and private buildings; bridges and waterfronts, commerce and industry, and other proper elements of city planning. It would be empowered to avall it- self of the advice of the chairmen of the PPublic Bufldings Commission and of the committees on the District of Columbla in Congress and of the appro- priations committees of the Senate and House. At the close of each Con- gress the presiding officer of each house would appoint three Senators- elect and two Representatives-elect 10 the succeeding Congress to serve as advisers to the commission until the chairman of the commission and of the three committees of the succeed- ing Congress he chosen. Bstablishment of a permanent body to make and carry out the future de- velopment of plans for Washington was suggested by Andrew Wright Crawford of Philadelphia, a tinzuished city planner. Mr. Crawford laid emphasis on the need of planning for motor bus transportation and the need for by-passes around the city for truck transportation rather than through the congested zone. and | maintenance | extend | legislation has been | of the District of Columbia and | its environs in the State of Marviand | dis- | HOW MOUNT the | | | | { Bui George n the memorial h years. The rapidly increasi tive the widening, resurf: ding of the Arlington Memori the ( nd pa ashington's birth, when all the world wi VERNON BOU al Bridge, t I make pilgrimage to th ity of Washington to Mount Verno rkway development of this great highw. BOULEVARD PLAN S CIVEN INPETUS Memorial Bridge and Coming Washington Bicentennary Speed Program. | A 1eh aong a de 0t right art do 10 7 Fntan approved der ihat property great acor'd erpression of ot Ve prop e o ie . g periec: 1701 Waeh 7 W capita “a o Tni BY WILL P. KENNEDY. of the Me. Bridge Arlington pproachi the birth have given fresh Mount Ver tv of Wash i tomb on the n is ex Congress ection new and the & ton pets propose » the n houlevard, from the ¢ his he he M Memi« is the ane outstanding feature for the celebration planned for 1932, when world will come to Washingten to pay pilgrimage to Washington's tomb, and {3) there is an immediate need for | more capacious highway to meet demands of the rapldly inc & number tourists who visit Mount Vernon (in 1885 there were 35,004 last vear there were me 4 000), the re 400 thetically 40 vears, and has sidered certain of eventually National Cong <upported the the present Anthony Wayne Cook an advocate. It is urged the of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture mportant and necessary development he bill pro- | viding for approval by Congress | I be introduced eariy in the tsfon by Representative Moore of Virginia, who repr Mount Vernon district ar !troduced the measure for oo mmission. which is soo plan for a fitting ebr ington's h birthds Part of Development Plan. The Mount Vernon boulevard is an importa feature of the comprehen sive program for carrving forward the plans of Maj. L'Enfant and Gen Washington for building the greatest |and most beautiful Capital City in the ;world on the banks of the Potomac Resides heing the official approach {the Capital across the new Memorial bridge. it 1 connect at the bridge with the Lee highway coming down Ifrom the west. with drives to Great {of the river. with the parkway svstem entirely surrounding the National Cap |ital through a chain of old forts and | modern recreation plants. It {not only lead tourists from the south to the great Lincoin and other me morials in the Capital City, but would be the start of a great high 1““ to be later extended to that beauti ful riverside cedar grove at Wakefleld, | Va., which marks the birthplace of { Washington, and then on to the heart { of the southland. i So fmportant was the Mount Vernon {boulevard project considered at the ime the famous McMillan Park Com- misslon made its comprehensive xur vey and report, which has since been considered as the guide for develop ment, that a speciul chapter was de- voted to this monumental idew. It was made an essential feature of the MeMillan plan. | Charles Moore, chatrman of the {Commission of Fine Arts, who was secretary of the McMillan commis- slon., and who wrote the v able {report, emphasizes that: | “The city of Washington now has {a population of about half a million {and we must look ahead to a popula {tion of a million within a compara tively short time. Washington has already overgrown its boundaries, the {boundaries of the District of Colum- bia. Tt is already out in Maryviand, | The extensive development bhetween {hare and Alexandria has all come in | the past 20 vears. | Jackeon City, at the end of the !Highway Bridge, was a place where no respectable person dared to go at night. That has all been cleaned out. Development Is Under Way. “The Government is already over in Virginia. It owns a little more than one-twentieth of that portion of the District that was retroceded to Vir- ginla in 1846—in Arlington and Fort Myer. Then the Government has 1bout 7,000 acres at Camp Humphreys. ‘amp Humphreys is the headquar- ters of the Army Engineers. Also the District has a very large holding, over 1,000 acres, adfoining or com: ing down to Camp Humphreys. The Manassas Battlefield Assoclation 1s acquiring that historic spot for a na- tional park; and then there 1§ Mount Vernon. pre sminently. “Now, it is not a question of the Government golng over into Virginia, The Government is already over there. In time all the Government holdings will be linked up by road. Al those varfous features—Arlington Manassas, Occoquan, Camp Hum- phreys, Mount Vernon—uwill be linked up with the park system of greater Washington, if vou please; so that when you are planning a road to Mount Vernon you are planning a part of the outer park system of the 3 as heen sy Congress heen ied ' o con 1t project considered by pre preside is to meet of Wash anniversary. the Falls on hoth Palisade 1 i i | banks | wonld it | of | District of Columbia, a project that alr in sizht The Government already comtrols the road in front of Arlington. It controls the Milltary leading up to Arlington. It the read all the way up to G ls, 16 miles from Washingron and 10 miles out side of the District of Columbia, and it i« doubling that road. So there fs no difficulty &0 far as jurisdiction fs concerned and mo far as control is concerned Mr. Moore, who has for more than A er of a century made a apecial | study of eity planning and park proj ecis. says that he knows of no pr highway as really essential park system of any city as Mount Vernon boulevard to A1 Capital t Plan Revamped in 1901. In 1901 the of elebrated the 100th anniversary he { the seat of ment ladelphia to had & District Columb o Govern | Washi Congress celebration at the Capliol. The President had & cel cbration at the White House, at which vernors of all the States c Out of that is known as he development of the p he District of as prepared under the ¢ the United States Senate hed with a great wealth strat in 1302, In accordance that plan the railroad tracks e removed from the Mall and the U tation was buflt. The Lir Memorial was planned and was buf in accordance with the plan. The Memorial Bridge was located in that plan and is now being bullt That plan of 1901 was not a new plan at all, Mr. Moore explained. It was a reaffirmation of George Wash ington's and Thomas Jefferson's plan £ 1 The new plan was built on the foundations of the old L’'Enfant plan. but the first plan was carried legitimate conclusion. In the fdavs of L'Enfant the City of Wash ington extended only from Rock Creek to the Anacostia River and 1 the Potomac River to Florida avenue That was all the area then planned In the course of a hundred vears Washington overran those boundarles, and so the new plan of 1901 provided for the development of the whole Dis. trict of Columbia The time has come now, in prepar tion for celebrating the 200th anni versary of the birth of George Wash fugton, to put in order the City of Washington, the capital of the United States: to carry ont its legitimate conelusion that plan of 1901 based on the plan of 1792, and to make Wash ington & clty that George Washington would like to see if he were back on | earth: to carry the ultimate con- | sion Geor Washington's _own > development the from Ph '3 ton & the plan her of was pu f il we nion S the Capital Boulevard Planned in 1886, The Mount Vernon boulevard proj t has been under sympathetic con sideration by Congri <ince 1886, when a blll was introduced calling for an appropriation of $14,000 for sur-| vevs and estimates of cost | That bill passed hath branches of Congress and was approved by Presi dent Cleveland during his first admin istration. The War Department des |ignated Col. Petar C. Hains, who | made that survey and a report to| Secretary of War Proctor. Secre:ary | Proctor. istratfon. approved the plan and rec- | ommended that Congress at that time acquire the right of way of ational ensive development have been dorsed by every President during the | last 36 vears, by the Secretarfe War, by hundreds of members of Con- ress und by most of the great na tional organizations. Leaders of public thought and en terprise in every State in the Unfon wre supporting this comprehensive scheme for preserving the natural beauty und historic landmarks of Washington's vicinage and utilizing them in the bullding of & magnificent ipproach to the National Capltal, to- gether with the conservative develop- ment of unusual natural resources and location into a much-needed industrial zome. hard by the Capital, and supply- ng the vast hinterland to the south Would Permit Memorials. Tt 1s proposed that this Mount Ver non houlevard, linking the city which Washington founded with the City of Alexandria. which he helped so con. spicuously to upbuild during his early manhood. and_ with the home and hurfal place of “‘the Father of His Country,” should combine the ideas of the Applan Way at Rome, the a permanent natfonal exposition of all the States in the Union. Along this proposed highway would be reservations for the States, where each State could erect its own memo- rial structure on a natural pedestal, silhouetted agalnst the skyline. At present no State is permitied to set up more than two statues of its most distinguished citizens in the statuary hall of the Capitol. This Mount Ver- non boulevard would allow each State to erect in bronze or marble as many monuments as might be desired, thus making it a veritable outdoor West- minster Abbey. The permanent home erected by each State on its reservation would be used as an_ exhibition bullding for the purpose of advertising its educa- tional, commerelal, mining, manufac- turing, industrial and agricultural ad- vantages, and to be used as a gather- ing place for State socleties and vis- itors from the States to the Capital. 1t is pointed out that the Federal Govern- {ment and the several States have been appropriating large sums of money to be represented by temporary buildings and temporary displavs at Interna- tional and interstate expositions. Here would be a permanent exposition, the advantages of the several States be inz advertised, not in any perfunctory Westminster Abbey in London and he | | hefore the Revolution during the Harrison admin- | Mi | Alexander for his stepso The main features of this compre- | who erected a very substantial bu in- | ing which goes by the name of Abiug of | childre but presentation from the Py ¥ * oo, Ar A e E ABINGOON (vorn cusTis; which it Is to be the officlal approach from the So tomb of ' whie of tourists to the Capital and the Natlon's shrine at Mount Vernor the Father of Hix Com has been under sympathet d the 1 & <id 1y to the South. VARD WOULD TRAVERSE HISTORIC REGION = ave focus ttention of Congress leration by Congress for more than 40 historic spots between, make impera- highest through Historie and sentiment memorializing the which the Mount wonld pass are emphasized by Charle: H. Callahan of Alexandria. auther o “The Life of George Washington the Mason,” who has had n e to do than any other ci try with | the construction of the great Masonic | Memorial now heing icted at Alexandria. This memorial to Wash ington as a m: and as a Mason & mean tidewater the tower of the of the pyramidal section the Capt ix heing Masons Arner and rved the very vaiua shington's day ine Gen authorities each chosen represent 1re on thro boulevs &k | | adorn 1 P ot Whe capita will be e ected b part an the of th These painting which the $100.000 paint Dr. James who was wi ellcs 1 the during n of the [ [ with his wife w his He when he cenpied Washi with Washir he fougt town There endst lso a of T ho was with Washington when d. and eut the cord that holds the fght of the bedehamber clock and stopped it at the moment of the gen eral’s death. It was presented to the lodge by Mrs. Washington three davs after the funeral, and is now a very valuable relic there The painting of Dick is parti valuable. As master of t presided at Washin: charge of the commi ments at the funeral stant communicatior during life. The collection al trowel. the square which were used for stone of the Cay States: the Bible t days of Washington, the Charles Wi son Peale painting of Lafavette presented to the lodge by an English admirer of Lafavette. the Pope Pes painting of Washington in early life, the painting of Nellie Custis, a painting Miss Naney w girl who is supposed carded Washington marry him. 0 Dick Harly he on's funeral, had of arrange He was in con with the general and the plumb laying the corner ol the United at was used in the the )y to have refused or to Many Landmarks. | the Mount Ver especially in- the frequent ing from | Memorial was @ The scenery along non boulevard is made teresting tourists by historic landmarks. St the south end of the new Bridge, of which it is to be the offi cfal monumental approach, it would pass by Arlington National Cemetery. which was the home of Gen. E. Lee Arlington is sftuated what was the original Howson grant. | That grant was divided up, and fell| into the hands of the Alexanders long t was divided, was recefved by Jared Alexander. and the lower part became the prop erty of Ph Alexander. The Four Run was the dividing line. During the Revolution Gen ington bought 1.000 acres from John C on a part of | and the upper pa one of the heir Wash Jared stis, butld There he lived, and there hix lived. Abingdon fs still stand ing, and can still be seen from elthe route propused by this road. Custis died during the Revoulution, about 12 davs after the battle of Yorktown The Alexanders entered & sult to re- | don. cover Abingdon. It had been paid for ! in continental or provincial money, | and the money became useless. They | entered u sult to recover it. M Custls lived there. The propert stands today, a very beautiful home- stead. After the death of Gen. Wash- | ington, George Washington Park . Custi the grandson of John Custis who built Abingdon, purchased or in- herited 1,000 acres that had constitut ed a part of the Abingdon estate, and | there he erected Arlington House. That was after the death of his grand. | mother, Mrs. Washington. in 1802, He first took up his residence in a small house adjoining this, which for. mer Representative Philip . Camp- hell now owne and occupies. George Washington Parke Custis lived there until the completion of the Arlington House and his marriage to Mrs. Ran- dolph. Skirts Braddock Heights. | The Mount Vernon boulevard is to | skirt the hills known as Braddock Heights and Arlington Heights. It was on the Braddock Helights that Gen. Braddock's army wintered in 1755, and from which point it started | on its disastrous advance in the| Monongahela campaign. There Brad. | dock was killed and his army re-| turned. Washington, who was niade a major on Gen. Bruddock's staff, re. turned with it. This road will extend a short distance below the site of Braddock's camp at this temporary site. The northern road leading by it and diverging from it was known as the Leesburg turnpike, the first toll road in the United States, constructed in 1786. On_Shooters Hill, on the site oc- cupled by the Masonic Temple, or with- in a hundreds yards of it. lived Lud well Lee. le was the eldest son of | Richard_Hgpry Lee. the Virginia pa- | trfot and author of the resolution that | brought on the Declaration of Inde- | pendence. He lived there until ahout 1799 and moved to Leesburz, died and is buried there, and his first wife, who was the daughter of Charles Lee, At- torney General under John Adams, is bured there. of the Masonle Temple is the < highway. Just hevond the tem Je it turns across what fs known now i was known then. as Cameron Farm. which was owned and occupied Charles Broadwater, the colleagi f Washington in the House of Rur Alexandria Places Christ has interest; Church, in great many for example which George OUSTER OF JUDGE IN MITCHELL CASE FLARE-UP REFUSED (Continued from First WELCONE AWAITS YOUNG LA FOLLETTE Senate Leaders Urged Coolidge Also to Offer Flag of Truce to Nye. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. he Repuhl £y Page.) court for the reason that his actions while on this court show he is not impartial and that he has repeatedly interfered by his conduct with my ex amination of witnesses, and that ir justice and fairness to the accused Gen. Giraves should no longer he per mitted to sit a member of th court. I therefore insist on my rizht to challenge him." Gen. Howze replied that the had an announcement to make would not have any hearing motion of Mr. Reid. and the dent proceeded to state “The court announces that mark made by Gen. Graves Jaw member of this court lows: “This wrangling hetweer ing counsel rceful he stopped.’ He referred 1o both co gel for the defense and for the prose cution and his remarks were ir 1o uphold the dignity of this « fucilitate orderly procedure. Both Counsel court on the presi ,‘, the com the to hers of the oppo is disg houie e as learnec 3 | Prestdent {1esders of the comr m Warned. ““The court wishes to state that has viewed with disfuvor the constar bickerings Letween counsel botl sides 1n viokition of the court-miat manual ruling that all remarks should be addressed to the court. The cour agaln werns counsel for stdes t address only the court d the re mainder of the proceeding Gen. Graves who had somewhat re galned his composure, then usked that the cause of the chullenge be from the record. Tt plied and Gen. Graves t “I have not repeatedly with the exami counsel for the defense am_ perfeectly Kent Lot 1 in al this 1 impart < shington owned a pew and which | attended for vears; the home of Gen. Light Horse Harry Lee; the home of Robert E. Lee in his early fe. and of hin mother, and in which he lived at the time of her death At from which Robert B. Lee wax e to West Point Leaving Alexand by the Mason eron Run Va are plainly visible from the route which follows the Kings highwa One of them ts C1 the home o Murray Masc the Mason- tell affair. Spots Are Being Marked. of the the Temple in which lnces that the Ca el The Revol American suftably marking s fast as thev can south side of the valley ce of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee Mason, the of Gunston stde of Cameran nuel Daughters these places On the the birthp! Cooper, general of the Unite Army before the war the St nd adjutant gen- il of the Confederate Army during that war, Crossing over Cameron Valley and pursuing the old Kings highway, the will pass close by Mount Eagle, the home of Bryan, the eighth Lord Fairfax last house via ited by Washingion hefore he died and Bryan Fairfax was #he last visit- to Mo Vernon before the gen eral's des From e able the home of G Revolutiona tween this to lnc point the visitor te and see a n. Thompson v fame, of Vir- ia’s great statesman, George Ma- son hor of her Rill of Rights nd first constitution Going on, one comes to Gum ngs, right by which lived Dr Humphrey Peak, Washington's near- est neighbor. The old house ut it can be easily locat left at Gum Sp stralght what is known us t the western gate: This wus the will part Maron son Le. a Bearing to the the tourist can ar arrive postern gates, Mou Vernon vorite and histor Jad traveled b Washington in going to his hom during his lifetime out of Mount sort of byway, and the Bureau of Public Department of Agriculture b marked one of them #s u proper road or circle by which to get out fro there today. It was at the postern gates, the west entrance to Mount Vernon. that the military and civic delegations met Washington 80 Vernon the chief of Roads the after his farewell address the steps of the old Ci still standing. escorted him to Ana- tan Island. where he took the ferry across into Georgetown. and he Maryland escort took him {n charge and escorted him through Maryland to Delaware and so on the seat of Government in York. on New 0ld Marker Stands. The postern gates, or rather the reproductions of them, are still there, and from this particular point there is a vista through to the west front of Mount Vernon. This has been opened up and restored as nearly as possible to the exact condition in which it was in the dayvs when Gen Washington lived there. The vista wus 200 feet wide, and on elther side of it was #n open woodland, kept clean of underbrush by Gen. Washington, so that it would form a bordering park on efther side of this road. There are a number of other impor tant places slong the route, all of which will be in time clearly defined by tablets. The old City Hotel in Alexandria already has been marked “_a tablet has been placed in the wall of the present City Hotel to mark the point from which the survey was made In Alexandria—the courthouse in which Washington cast his last vote and near! all of his votes, and in which building his will inally recorded. It was from point where that tablet is now cated--the old , courthouse —that first survey to locate the District Columbia was started in 17! The first corner stone of tha Dis. trict of Columbia was laid with Ma- sonic and civic ceremonies In 1791 That corner stone f= still standing with the inscription complete. it is on what is known as Jones Point. in the southeastern section of Alexan- dria, and Is easily accessible and vis- ible from this road. It can be located by what is known now as the light house, which s erected right by the side of it, and the southern ifne of the District of Columbla pusses by the foot of the hill of the Masonic Temple. This is the old District line. The part that wi ceded to the Federal Government by Virginia in 1790 was ceded back in 1846. But these stones have all been marked now. FREE STATE VISIT URGED. LONDON, December 1 (#).—A plea that the Prince of Wales complete his empire tour by going to the Irish Free State, with a view of allaying the dis- cord between Southern Ireland and Ulster, is made in an article in the Fortnightly Review, written by Red- mond Howard, nephew and biographer of the late John Redmond. former Na- tionalist leader in Treland. Such a visit already has been advocated by this, lo. of The road leading out on the south Loman fiffi«‘ otlier prominent persons. has | o | was orig- | the | traveler | into | | of | | cleared. There were two | One | of | i | Robert | and escorted him to Alexandria, and, | - Hotel, which Is | \ and that should not in this case €ol. Sherman Moreland judge advocate, abjacted to M challenge on the ground predicated on events not Iated the incident that had occurred and stated further that challenge at this time should not addressed to the court, hut to the pointing power. Holds Challenge Proper. Mr. Reid replied that garding the attitude of Ger had exisied from the 1 and that happenings cropped up” time 1 the beginning of the onfirm his opinion there is no re come ta a proper decisior 4 Coolidge Hand Seen Re , the in Ger these occasions »ay after day w w nesses and Leid opened. 1 ging his hasis of today made would ht not to sit Challenge Overruled. Col. “Moreland time and Gen dered the court cieared aga: Gen. Graves remair executive parley. Upon the couriroom Gen. i it the challenge made by was not sustained and ings to continue. Graves here announced like 1o make a statement Mr. Reid interposed an objectic any such procedu uniess Graves wants to rec Gen think the statemer at this time wo nd the cross-exam porarily resumed The cross-examination had scarcely gotten underway, however, when Col Winship requested that the court |1 o into conference regarding Gen. | Graves' request to make u statement, | | and accordingly the court \ A few moments Jury of generuls reiu nounced that Gen. ¢ cence in his suggestio a statement at axkte Expects Nye to Get Seat. a Howz this - first ha retu s of ze an M ordered Gen wonld i termined « o ssue did not aves mr i€ latter the Senute again wus lute pusitic P and an acquies that he his no make stand The cross-examination of Yarnell then was resumed withe terruption and later Lieut Richard E. Byrd, Jr., comr naval aviation unit of the Arctic expedition, was put stand by the prosecution. Capt it in nding t facM on the Capt. Yarnell Called. The prosecution called Capt. I Yarnell, commanding officer of the ¢ craft squadron’s scouting fleet anc commanding officer of the black nava defending forces at the Hawa maneuvers, to refuta testimony of (t defense on lack of co-operation tween the Army and Navy at the ex ercires last April. He was asked Maj. Gullion if he knew Adm George W. Williams, who di and if he ever heard him make a re mark about aviation, | tieved fr ated 1 “I heard Admiral Williams make a | trusty who revealed remark to the effect he distrusted A judgment of anybody in Am‘m\lm:; - v‘ ‘ ARICA ROW MAY GO BACK TO COOLIDGE: making insurgents con zed irreg Trusty Thwarts Jail Break. CHICAGO () - six prisoners Cook be. December 1 Pla Count tree a includ jail the captives in ing hose awalting execution he 1gh plied Capt. Yarneil “This was intended no further, us Mr. Reld objected. Maj Gullion followed up_ the question b asking if Admiral Williams had made | a later statement, and then Capt Yarnell sald he understood the remurk to be a “joke.” Capl. Yarnell ex-| plained latér that Admiral Williams | on a succeeding conference apologized | to the airmen present for making that | statement and safd in the future he would “never attempt tu joke in ussembly of that kind.” Inclosures Are Read. The mission of the black force was search for the enemy fleet 150 out to sea and attack it, as well the harbor. Capt. Yarnell He declared. in his opin jon, the co-operation between the Army and Navy was satisfactory to hoth sides, and in proof of this state- ! ment _he produced letters he had re- ceived from the Army to this effect. | They were examined by Mr. Reid, who sald he had no objection as long as | the inclosures also were ad mited into | neyvers AMaj. B the record. The letter was from Maj. | (" S Wright, his flagship, and G. C. Brandt, air officer in direction | acked his opinion about an attack on of the maneuvers, who congratulated [ iha hase which ¢nemy planes had the part played by naval aviation and | eetablished on Molok Maj. Gullion told Capt. Yarnell the air serviceiopgeavored to make the witness ra would he pleased to serve under his|{pit Aaj. Brandt e command in the future. o baliantion primary Mr. Reid forced Maj. Gullion to read Snitt)des diat the inclosures, which were in the na-|(,ck the base on A s ture of reports by Maj. Brandt and|yurmell. swever Ma; bore the outstanding statements:| pnar asked oni 5 oit There should be a unified commund | (1o qvisability of s in the air force at the maneuvers and | (gpi Ya under cross-exami the air force should Le regarded asyo, satd he did not think unity of an entity; the Navy did not attack the | command of the entive Hawatian ma- Island of Molokal thinking its mission | \uivers would have Lad any better was elsewhere, Which was understood | cyrect on the resulis accomplished, from the Navy viewpoint but not from | ying that under the law there could the Army;: only fog could prevent the | e no actust u successful operations of the maneu-| A Reid vers; the Army Afr Service is only 50 ‘ point that per cent strong; it is unthinkable that | 1, send Pearl Harbor is not defended by |ayy air *h had established o pursuit planes, and in the maneuvers |juse on the Island of Molakl C: DH observation planes had 1o be used | ygrneil stoutly maintained he did as pursults: dry rot has attacked much | divert his planes from their | of the wood in the DIIx and it wasmission of find Haat o necessary 1o take parts from 57 planes | (he enem the to make up 15; all the islands will [ had not been requested by Maj have to be utilized by the Air Service |ta do so. e Maj in time of war, and “we should not he | yyerelv had asked opinion misled in believing the Air Service | proposition of the enem is adequa Mofaki. but had the Army, which h Another inclosure sizned hy Maj.[the paramount interest, made suc Brandt said he was surprised to learn | request, ha was positive the plan reports that there was lack of co-!would have been sent immediately ! Leen moves and will be solved It is evident that Chileans are sur prised and disappointed at ing th for - their erican ne back as positior news At to ¢ mile: as guard explained. Edwards newspapers end is due to to explain the propaganda Copy operation hetv and ho Capt. Yarnel hra said -ama ahoard the for his opl x proposal. strongly on the Yarnell had refused planes to rout the en Cay on sland. hec B said "