Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Rureau Forecast.) Fair and colder today; much colder tonight; tomorrow probably fair; fresh northwest winds, diminishi Temperatures—Hignest, pm. vesterday: lowest, vesterday. Full report No. - PLANES PREPARED 10 SWEEP BAY IN 1,082—No. AR N RUM SHIS Speed Boat Slins 200 Miles 29,811. Up Chesapeake to Put Off Liquor Cargo. TO FLOOD WASHINGTON Score of Raids Feature Opening of War on Christmas Boot- leg Supply. mobilizing its airplanes, ernment is epared se nst che reported to Bay. i flect off n Chesapeake rum i prohi d a deter against illicit holiday National Capital and more than a of District Columbia, ty during the pas score of and bootleggers, by visions fabulou: Christ liquor profits, clieved to be defying all hazard: attempts to land big till moonshine and trans- possible into the timore and Washington. 1 array against orgzani: Governr runners on of the ready f nt be the ength w since b supreme d branches of >hibition unit to fir: I command of the attack=—cus- and Coast Reports Reach Officials. of rum speed boats in Ches Bay have not only newspapers from have reached through other but Is here nown Aditional channels, reinforcements of it was learned n concentrated nd and in pla reconnoissance of the indicated th. imore and Wach prohi- last n ithern Maryl through which past 1 W Jiquor drive into F anEton may come Ureparations planes were shrouded in 1L was Jjeacned on unmis au- thority that they are in readiness, and will be used, especially in the Chesa- peake bay situation. The planes probably will be used for scouting purposes to detect the exact presence of the rum ships and to assist Coast Guard and land forces. The Govern- ment owns some planes, it is under- stood, which could be used in such a ca Off the New York recently an airplane sighted a rum &hip unloading to smaller vessels and notified a Coast Guard vessel, which in turn capturad the liquor ship. for the us air- ey, but Stills Are Captured. S v 1 stills have been captured in the of Washington within the pas vs, and many automobile Lave been seized, according to Gerald I'. Murphy, deputy prohibigon admin- ttor in Washington, operating un- thority of the Baltimore head. for Maryland and the Di Columbia. Aske howeve impaign’ known to nst the reported ships in the bay and the drive of the »r< on Baltimore and Wash- Mr. Murphy declined to tal Prohibition agents and police c-operated in the campaign in Was Capt ingame and his squadron were active yesterday hoot BOAT SLIPS FAR UP BAY. vic ufte Deposits Liq: ‘argo on Island 10 Miles From Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., December 12 ®)—Liquor from the Atlantic rum flect, reported to be shifting its posi- tion from the Jersey coast to 12 miles T Ocean City, Md., sved by newspaper invest to have been landed at two points along Maryland’s ocean bay coast line last night and early today. The Baltimore Evenin yuoted what is considered re formation to the effect that of holiday liquor had been ors News ble in- cargo landed during the night on Miller Island, 10 | mits of Balti- | iles from the city move, from a speedho: ped around Cape Charles and up the more than 200-mile stretch of the Chesapeake Bay. At Miller Island, Evening News related, represen- s 14 bootleggers welcomed “the rum craft and purchased its cargo in less than an hour, the boat being under way on the retwrn trip to the fleet hefore dawn. At a_point ne salisbury, fis invest six trucklc Janded, appa delphia. A messeng posthaste the Evenir said, to divert its re- e route, when it w overed that a prohibition enfor patrol had been organized along the Mary- Jand coast Prohibition agents of the Baltimore unit_denied that a suce baa been jade near this jnglon agents, the local off ed. w Niary City. which slip- Ocean City, the ening Times said ad determined that of liquor had been antly destined for Phila- had been sent truck fleet, the s in charge of the patrol of the and ocean shore line at Ocean if | liquor speed hoats | prohibi- are un- | big | i“h has come their | Marshal Andrews come Balti- | prohibition | shore | and | tonight. 56, at 2 41, at 2 am. on page 7. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. $24,000,000, Among By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December 12.— Repre- sentatives of the Soviet government soon will visit the United States in connection with the sale of certain sur- plus articles from the old imperial col- | lection of jewels. Dutch jewelry firms ppear to be manifesting much inter- est in some of these articles, and one | of their representatives is negotiating with the Sovlet government. Appraisals just completed by foreign experts place the value of the entire collection of crown jewels at approxi- mately $250,000,000. These include the BT imperial crown, made in the time of Catherine II, weighing 5 pounds and containing 4,000 carats of the rarést diamonds, valued at $ 000,000, and the imperial gold scepter, containing the world famous Orloff dia- mond of 189 carats, valued at $30,000, | 000, which was laid as a gift by Count Orloff at the feet of Catherine TI. | Another wonderful jewel is the gold and diamond emblem’ of tha imperial 1ealm, containing a 157-carat sap- phire, valued at $24.000,000. The two coronets worn by the empress, each containing diamonds of 1,000 carats and- valued $4.000,000, are among he treasures so two huge $250,000,000 IN CZAR’S JEWELS | MAY BE SOLD IN PART IN U. S. Crown Worth $52,000,000, Sapphire Valued at Newspaper Men for Inspection in Moscow. he WASHINGTON, D. U. 5. GOURT ENTRY CONTEST IN SENATE T0OPENTHURSDAY Long-Drawn, Bitter Contest| C. SUNDAY Collection Laid Before chains, with diamonds, for the use of the emperor, valued at $4,600,000; the so-called Shah's diamond of 89 carats, $14,500,000, and a mammoth Indian MORN. Sunthy St WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 1925.—134 PAGES CLOTURE, 2 1 HAVE THEE NOT,YET [ Q0L NG, DECEMBER 13, & NS CHIN/Crn ! Coneressran! sapphire of diamonds, valued at $11,000,000. resent the true intrinsic worth of the entire collection of crown jewels, quite apart from any historical or senti- mental value the articles may possess. The collection of crowns, coronets, tiaras, diadems, algrettes, necklaces, bracelets, ornaments, epaulettes, ear- rings, pendants and other costly em- blems of royalty, which are at present ioused in the Soviet were shown to the foreign correspond- ents today. fng the accumulated treasures of a score of emperors and empresse uch a commonplace setting. They were all displayed on wooden stands in the workroom of the state treasury and their only guards were a few vorkmen in overalls, Strewn about the floor were gold ars worth 000,000 awaiting coin- age at the Soviet mint. The news. Jewels freely, and no made to sea premises. attempt 258 carats, surrounded by The figure $250,000,000 is said to rep- state treasury, Probably never before have these imperial gems, represent- . had paper men were allowed to handle the was h them upon leaving the | Over Adhesion to Tribunal Looms on Debate Eve. FRIENDS OF RESOLUTION SEE ULTIMATE VICTORY Borah to Lead Group Demanding Absolute Divorec of Body From League. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The World Court protocol and lhil‘ resolution proposing adhesion of the United States to that tribunal for- | mally will come before the Senate for | consideration on Thursday. For the | better part of three years the World Court proposal has been Kkicking around the Senate foreign relations | | | 'TRADE RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA 1S SEEN | | IN SECRET PARLE 1 to U. S. Bankers’ Banquet | to Soviet Leaders. ¢ the Associated Pre NEW YORK, Deceember 12.— American bankers and Russian indus- trialists gathered at a banquet at the | Bankers’ Club in New York Thursda ad, in view of the commercial pos bilities of Russia, the meeting of bank- ers and Ru: unwonted significance. Absolute secrecy, however. sur rounded the proceedings, so far as American newspaper representatives | were concerned, but the Russian semi- official news agency was able to ob- | tain some of the details which were i forwarded to Moscow and published | there. Though information was refused to | the American representatives, as the | banquet was declared to be of a pri- | vate nature, the Associated Press in structed its Moscow bureau to send | buck to the United States the account | of the dinner as made public In Rus- | ria and is thus able to present an out- line of the proceedings. Importance of Trade. ““fhe most significant indication of the increasing importance of Soviet-| American trade,” says the cabled ac- count from Moscow, “was a banquet today (Thursday) at which Reeve Schley, vice president of the Chase Na- tional Bank, entertained officials of the | Soviet trading organizations, together | with representatives of the most im- | portant American financial and in- dustrial concerns. “Nominally the banquet celebrated | the awarding of prizes to American | manutacturers whose automobiles suc- cesstully participated in the Soviet Toad endurance tests last Summer. Ac- tually the real significanae of today’s events greatly exceeded this incidental circumstance. The banquet was the first outspoken recognition by Ameri- can finance and industry of the im- | portance of Soviet trade and l(he sta- ity the Soviet government. % h”"T'h(e,rt'n National Bank, which | showed the earliest initiative in financ- |ing the Soviet textile syndicate’s pur- | chases of American cotton, and which Iy and profitably participated in this and other Soviet commerce in the | last_two years, took this occaslon to axpress confidence in Soviet trading | institutions and thus increase the con. fidence of American manufacturers, in this way prompting increased trade with the Soviet union. Unlon's Economic Progress. “Mr. Schley, who presided, spoke va the economic progress of the Soviet union in the last two years in over- coming the effects of war, blockade and famine. He described a visit which he made to the Soviet union jast Summer, when he was greatly impressed with the general order, es- the excellent condition of the railways. Charles M. Schwab, chair- man of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, ex- pressed satisfaction over the fact that Russla was again trading with America. “Mr. Schwab said that the Bethle- hem Steel Corporation had sold much steel to Russia before the war and hoped to sell more in the future. American manufacturers, he declared, welcomed business with the Soviet trading organizations, and he ex- Dfessed confidence that the economic and commercial relations between the United States and Russia would de- velop greatly despite all obstacles. “paul Zlev, president of the Amtorg Trading Corporation (the Soviet pur- chasing agency at New York) spoke with reference to the recent develop- ment of Soviet-American commerce and described the future possibilities | | of increased trade. “Prizes were awarded to seven manufacturers whose automobiles, entered through the Amtorg Trading AUSTRIAN DUEL ;VERTED. for Calling President an 0ld Fool. VI A, December 12 (#).—The threatened duel between Dr. Hainisch, Tresident of the Austrian repub- lic, and Alfred Guertler, former sinance minister, has been averted. Cuertler admitted he characterized the President as “an old fool,” but pleaded in extenuation that it was a “slip of the tongue Former Chancellor Seipel, as leader o the party to which Guertler be- (mzs, immediately tendered apologies the Presidens, Guertler Apologizes (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Vast Importance Attached| jan business men took on | OND.C.COMMITEE Autoist Sentenced To Be Specimen For Psychologists By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, December 12. Municipal Judge Homer Ramey delivered one of the most unusual sentences in the history of Toledo courts today. He sentenced Carl Kilbortz, Monroe, Mich., banker, to an “in- definite term” s specimen for study by the University of Toledo ¢ class. amuck in his au- . wrecking two He paid Kilbort tomobile ls other cars and a house. all the d Judge Ramey's decision was reached after a conference with the banker and his attorney and Dr. A. W. Trettien, of the uni- versity. BOWLES 70 SERVE | Bay Sate Succeeds Underhill as a Member. The National Capital will have on the House District committee. which City, Representative Henry Leland Bowles of Springfield, Mass | a native of Vermont: a “Coolidge for President” delegate to the Republican | national convention in 1920, and who was persuaded to run for Congress by the Coolidge coterie, as successor to Speaker Gillett, since the latter has gone over {c the Senate side of the Capitol. Mr. Bowles s described as a hard- headed and very successful business man. with more than the ordinary amount of sound common sense. The placing of Mr. Bowles on the District committee, which was de- cided upon yesterday by the subcom- on committees, of which Representa- tive Walter H. Newton of Minnesota is chairman, means that the District committee will lose the services of Representative Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts. The National Cap- ital will not, however, lose the good will and active, friendly work of Mr Underhill, who said last night that he will continue his interest in Dis- triet legislation. Underhill's Position. Considerable pressure has been ex- erted, even from the Senate side, to have Mr. Underhill placed on the in- sular affairs committee, because of his deep and sympathetic study of the more pressing problems to come before that committee during the present_Congress. Mr. Underhill will continue to press his workingmen’s compensation bill before the District committee, as op- posed to the state-insurance _bill (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.). WAITS BY DEATHBED TO MARRY WOMAN, 75 Lifelong Friend of Mrs. Eunice J. Esten to Grant Her Last Wish. Br the Associated Prese. NEWTQN, Mass., December 12.—A lifelong friend. Alonzo H. Blood, 76, of New York, is awaiting at the bed- side of Mrs. Eunice J. Esten, 75, anx ious to brighten her last hours by ful- filling her expressed wish that they be married. ' ‘Although physicians advised that death seemed only a matter of hours, Blood yesterday obtained a marriage license and is hopeful vet that Mrs. Esten may recover suffielently to an- who 1is in readiness to officiate. Mrs. Esten has been a widow for years, and has no known relatives. Blood formerly was a high school principal in Walpole. By the Associated Pre SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 12.—Wrecking everything before him and leaving a path of desolation in his wake, a circus elephant today threw the countryside near Sabinal, 50 miles south of here, into a reign of terror. The animal was last seen headed toward Pearsall with posses h'rl:an‘xed from neighboring cities on = trafl. ’ Escaped Circus Elephant Lays Waste Texas Countryside in Frenzied Flight Everyvthing was laid waste before gates, in his wild the elephant. Fences, all were flung aside charge. Thousands of cattle, terri- barns, fied, broke through gaps in the fences and roamed at large. The elephant burst open the door of his freight car stable on the siding near Sabinal. Motorists seeing the animal come lchnrglng down upon them, abandoned their cars and ran to safety. { Representative | ers all measures affecting the mittee of the Republican committee ! swer the questions of a clergyman | committee without having its day in the Senate. As the Senate stands today, the nec ! essary two-thirds vote for ratification { of the protocol, with the Harding-| { Hughes-Coolidge reservations — more | properly amendments— would be | forthcoming on a roll call. | A real fight is promised in the Sen- ate, however, by Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign rela- | tions committee; Senator Hiram John- son_of_California and others of the | | G1d “irreconcilable” group. Their hope | is that the debate in the Senate will | arouse public opinion against adher-| ence to the World Court as it is now | created, and that enough Senators | will swing over to the opposition to prévent ratification, or at least to in- sure the adoption of reservations or | amendments so drastic as to make | the Democratic supporters of the| court proposal unwilling to vote for; ratification under such conditions. | Opposition Confident. ‘[ The opposition insists that it can | count on more votes against ratifica- | {tion In the Senate today than there | were against the ratification of the | League of Nations covenant and the | i Versailles treaty when the treaty | first was presented to the Senate by | | the late President Wilson. With such | }a start, it is thir hope to defeat in the | | end favorable action on the proposal i to join the court, unless it is abso-| lutely divorced from the league, | which would mean practically the es- To de- | feat ratification at least 33 votes must | {be cast against the court proposal, if {all the Senate is accounted for. 1 The today { tablishment of a new ecourt. friends of the court insist that | there are not more than a dozen, and perhaps not so many, who would vote in the Senate agalnst rati- fication of the World Court protocol | with the President’s reservations. The Senate, at its special session | last March, voted to make the, World | Court the order of business on Decem- | ber 17, the vote at that time standing 7 to 2. By no means all those who | oppose adhesion to the World Court { voted against this motion, which was | | made by Senator Robinson, the Demo- | 5 of Kansas, Republican leader, had | asked unanimous consent to take up | the World Court on that date and ob- { jection had been made. i The motion of Senator Robinson | | was to take up the resolution intro- duced by Senator Swanson of Virginia, | ranking Democratic member of the | Senate foreign relations committee, | proposing adherence to the court with {the reservations advocated by the President. It is this resolution, there- | | fore, which comes before the Senate Thursday. Swanson to Open Debate. Senator Swanson will make the first [speech in support of the resolution, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, one of the so-called mild reservationists in the League of Nations fight, a strong supporter of the World Court propo- sal, probably will have charge of the World Court resolution in the Senate, as the highest ranking Republican member of the forelgn relations com- mittee in favor of adhesion on the conditions laid down by President Coolidge. Senators Borah, chairman, and Johnson of California and Moses of New Hampshire are ahead of Sen- ator Lenroot on the committee list, but they are reckoned now in opposi- tion to the court proposal, unless the | court be absolutely separated from the league. | One of the Republican members of the foreign relations committee, dis- cussing the situation last night, said that he supposed the Swanson resolu- tion, either in its present form or { with some amendments, would be the measure on which the Senate finally would vote. He indicated that there is no disposition on his part to take from Senator Swanson the distinction of having his name connected with the resolution of ratification; that the desire is to have non-partisan action on this matter. Democrats Hopeful. The Democrats, however, as friends of the League of Nations and of the World Court, doubtless will take all the credit they can for favorable ac- ! tion by the Senate on the World Court protocol. Some of them do not hesi- tate to say that they hope the United States eventually will join the Leagwe of Natlons. Opponents of the court proposal will seek to make the fight over the court another league fight. They hope to convince the country that adhesion by the United States to the World Court as now constituted is nothing more than a back-door entrance into the league. They will attack the court as the “league court,” a political rather than a judicial tribunal. They will declare that a court to which a nation which has been gullty of wrongdoing cannot be hailed unless that nation grants its consent is no court. Opinion at the Capitol is divided as to the extent of interest which the country really takes in the World Court proposal. Opponents of the court insist that there is no popular demand for adhesion to the court; that the appeals for such action are the result of propaganda by organiza- tions financed by those who have par- ticular interest in having the United States involved in European affairs. Supporters of the court, on the other hand, point to the large number of churches and organizations favor- ing peace throughout the country Continued on Page 3, Column 8 3 | | congregation LirTee JoES MAGIC FEATURES OF THE COURT MARTIAL STANDS ADJOURNED ARDTHE TRIAL WILL FALL DINNER OF THE “From Pr The Star is (UP) Means Associated Press. | is the successful a i petition for the r ess to Home Within the Hour” delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. FIVZE CIEWTS. TOAL BASN STE FORENORIAL T RODSEVELT URCED Proposed Plan Would Cost $3,000,000 for Foundation Work Alone. CONGRESS GIVEN DATA ON GIGANTIC STRUCTURE Fountain Spouting Stream 200 Feet in Air Would Be Center of Gran- ite Island 280 Feet Across. The Tidal Basin has been for the site of the proposed mer Theodore Roosevelt, the I it was show n subn central i spouts a stream high, flanked on t | western sides by nades, with four symbolical heading out from the central from which the w John Rus selecter ri: to be ere ion. the des It ha n yester to Congress nd, from whict water 200 stern ntic itte of fee two g colon ship= is er leaps into the Pope of New Yor hitect in the con emorial. The site selected the basin which center the point w land ave nue and Sixteenth street would inte: sect were they continued their present terminals place: about at the point where the old b ing beach was located. Congress I { authorized the a. stion to take t site into consideration in < the is at a place in take as its from GRIDIRON CLUB. GRIDIRON CLUB ROASTS NOTABLES Congress, Cabinet Officers, Mitchell and Dawes Few of Victims. The Gridiron Club, that care-free of Washington news- paper correspondents, dusted off its it to the sizzling temperature and then proceeded to its annual custom of TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—356 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page | D. A. R. Activities—Page 34. Radio News and Programs—Pages 36, 37 and 38. Spanish War Veterans—Page 39. Current News Events—Page 42. Boy Scout News—Page 45. At the Community Centers—Page 46. Around the City—Page 48. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 49. Army and Navy News—Page 52. f | and PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorfals and Editorial Features. | Washington and Other Societ: | famous emblem last evening, brought | Reviews of Christmas Books—Page 4. | Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. | Tales of Well Known Folk—FPage 11. roasting,” before the very eves of the | News of the Clubs—Page victims,” the outstanding public ! figures of the year, President Coolidge; Bllly Mitchell and all. > Gathering about the hanquet hoard | 3 cratic leader, after Semator Curtls|.i ihe willard Hotel, the members of | Music in Washington—Page 5. the club juggled the high representa | tives of the executive and legislative branches of the Nation on their fa mous gridiron of wit and nonsense, to the wholehearted amusement of a dis- tinguished company of guests. Includ ing the President, Vice President Dawes, cabinet officers, diplomatic | officlals and business and industrial | leaders. Congress Gets Attention. A large majority of the bantering was directed toward the new Congress, many of whose members were present, although at times it took on a broader, cosmopolitan aspect, with the inter- polation of pokes at the World Court and war debt controversies and the exclusion of Countess Karolyl. Through it all ran an irresponsible thread of good humor that caused the targets of the continuous broadside of sarcastic darts to laugh as long and loud as their fellows, knowing full well their turn to watch the others would come later. The fun-making began almost as soon as the guests were seated. The breaking of glass and crash of pistol shots were followed by the appearance of a “woman” in evening dress, sur- rounded by club members protesting that ladles never are admitted to Grid- iron affairs. The unexpected guest. who professed to be the Countess Karolyl of Hungary and demanded a seat beside Secretary of State Kellogg, who had forbidden her admittance to the United States, proved to be Theo- dore G. Joslin of the Boston Tran- script, who was being initiated. “What Do We Care” Sung. The guests were prepared for what was to come during the evening by the opening song of the music com- mittee, which, to the tune of “What Do I Care,” had the following refrain: Statesmen come and statesmen go. What do we care, what do we care! Beneath the Gridiron light, e Fot no triends. got no" foe. WhatChio e care: what do we care! wle Gridiron's shining bright. ‘e will take you back of tl scenes, Show you just what politics means. So— Nothing hid. Nt the nd. What do we care. What do we care! The Gridiron's hot tonight. Vice President Dawes found himself likened to the Macbeth of Shake- speare, the member Impersonating him declaring that once he was “free and roamed through proud Chicago,” but now is “cabined, cribb'd, confined and bound in” by “saucy rules and flendish precedents,” which he prom- ised he would break “with admired disorder.” He made the boast that the Senators opposed to revislon of the Senate rules would “squeak and gibber (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) PARENTS RAP SMOKING. 200 Replies to Poll on Girls’ Cigar- ettes Show 200 Foes. BOSTON, December 12 ()-—Par- ents of woman studenst of the Col- lege of Practical Arts and Letters at Boston University have been asked to express their opinion on the ques- tion of smoking. An announcement said that 200 replies have been re- ceived from 700 letters sent out to parents. The veérdict so far was against smoking by girl students by Just 200 to 0. “frying” of | PART THREE—11 PAGES. | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- | play. Motors and Motoring—Pages d | and 8. . Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. | Civilian Army News—Page 10. Disirict National Guard—Page 11. | Serml, “Joanna" Page 12. {hau-rnal News—Page 13. PART FOUR—{ PAGES. Pink Sports Section. | PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea~ tures. The Rambler—Page 3. | PART SIX—12 PAGES. Classified Advertising. | Financial News—Pages 8, 9, 10 and 11. | Girl_Scouts—Page 12 Y. W. C. A. News—Page 12. | GRAPHIC SECTION—20 PAG! World Events in Pictures. | COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. Betty; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. £ ADMITS BEHEADING STEPSON HE SLEW Texas Woodcutter Confesses to Killing of Wife’s Son After an Attack. By the Associated Prese FORT WORTH, Tex., December 12. —Confession that he shot and be- headed his stepson, Bernie Connally, on November 30, near Stephenville, Tex., was made here tonight by F. M. Snow, 46, woodcutter, to Ranger Capt. Tem: Hickman and Assistant District Attornsy W. H. Tolbert. Snow sald he shot and killed Con- nally at the Snow farmhouse when the boy attacked him, then carried the body to a mountain top about 6 miles from his farm, cut off the head with an ax, left the body on the spot and carried the head to the farm, where it was found in a ruined cellar Tues- day by a trapper. Snow denfed he had made away with his wife and her mother, the mother and grandmother of Connally. | He said they left for Waco three days prior to the killing. Tonight Snow was being taken by authorlties to the spot where he said the body could be found. “I don't know why I did it,” Snow said tonight. Planes Collide Near Ground. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 12 (#).—Lieut. Richard W. Gibson of New York and John L. Hitchings of Butler, Pa., were painfully injured here today when their airplanes col- lided 10 feet in the air while attempt- ing to land. They are advanced offi ';’elr:d in the flying school at Kelly eld. TRALOF WITGHELL IS NEARNG CLOSE Court Grants Recess on As- surance That This Week Will End Case. court-martial, to become a Washington, morning un- optimism in last Monday The Army general which has threatened permanent institution in | will assemble tomorrow |der a brilliant halo of | the belief it will be the :l-!' the trial's existence. The court, shortly before 1 o'clock | | vesterday afternoon, was promised v counsel for both sides that all wit | nesses would be disposed of by Wed- nesday, and in return for this in- formation it granted a recess for the | day, which at first it had hesitated to do. When the motlon to recess was made by Representative Frank R. Reid, chlef civilian defense counsel, in order that papers. having a bea ing on cross-examination of a prose- cution witness then testifying, might be examined, and also to enable the Illinois Representative to attend a session of the House. two members of the court raised dissenting voices. The loss of valuable time was the main point against the motion. Court Voices Happiness. Argument of a pleading nature was heard from the prosecution and de- fense, and when Mr. Reid announced ““we will be through with this for good on Wednesday,” Maj. Gen. Robert L. Howze, the president. declared: “That’s the most encouraging news we've had vet. Court will stand in re- cess until 10 o'clock Monday morn- ng.” The witness on the stand when the L. J. McNair, formerly of Hawalian Department, mony was offered in rebuttal to Col the partment is guilty of almost treason- able administration due to the fact that up to 1923 there was in Hawall no defense plans for employment of Alr Service to protect the islands.” He was submitted to a brief period of cross-examination which will continue tomorrow morn- ing. Says Mitchell Erred. Maj. McNair's testimony, under di- rect examination by Maj. Francis B Wilby of the general staff, an assist- ant trial judge advocate, was that there were and always have been defense plans for Hawali, but in- stead of being in the form of “plans” or “projects’ in 1923 they were em- bodied in field orders which are modi- fied from time to time. He also testi- fied that Col. Mitchell, when he vis- ited the islands on an inspection trip in the latter part of 1923 as assist- ant chief of the Army Air Service, did_not &ee the orders or was not made acquainted with the plans then in contemplation. As a result of this ““(Continued on Page b, Column 2.) MAN CARRIED 12 MILES WHEN TRAIN HITS TRUCK Thrown on Pilot After Crash and . Clings On in Half-Con- scious State. LAKE ELMO, Minn., December 12 (P).—Victor Lohmann, 41 years old, live stock man, was carried 12 miles oh the pllot of a fast mail train today after his light truck was struck on a crossing here. His condition is serious. Lohmann failed to see the train, and when the engine struck his truck he was thrown on to the narrow pilot, where he clung, half conscious, until the train reached East St. Paul Parts of the truck stil clung to the pilot. Lohmanr suffered a broken leg, a tractured shoylder and a possible frac- ture of the sKull. | designs, and it wa | Cangress | | brought up the di i : | would have proceedings were halted was Maj. | whose testi- | Mitchell's charge that “the War De- | deter {upon after the examinat ¢ sites. However, ¢ thorized the basi: and the submission rined the rpose. ign to nients the a complied lection of v, as it Clarence e office of pub of the Na Sherrill, direct lic buildings tional Capital, an tween $3,000,000 build the foundat is spent on the mer | entire conto; d parks re anything orial proper. Th of the Tidal to be of it would have to be | of the present West Potomac Park dug away to give the same amount { of surface area in water. Basin Flushes Channel. The basin h 1d practical function in its pr nt location It flushes the wat of Washington Channel, between the steambo wharves and East Pot were it not for this flush waters in Washington Channel, which are back waters 1d become to some extent stag and unhea The way the works is thi | When the tide rises. the outlet gates Fourteenth street are closed and | the inlet gates in West Potomac Park | opened. When the tide reaches to its crest and starts on the ebb, the inlet | gates are closed. After the tide gets |to the low mark the outlet gates are | opened and the impounded waters al lowed to flow out through Washington | Channel, thus providing a runnins | stream for flushing. Any lessening of the amount of water, it was pointed out, would lower | the efficiency of this flushing system | <0 in considering a change of this are some provision must be made for in pounding sufficient water to perform | this duty. As only the difference he | tween the low and high tides arc available, the matter which must be taken into consideration is surface area. { Plan of 1901 Changed. | The selection of the Tidz | site presupposes that the park com mission plan of 1901, so far as it re | lates to this area, will be carried into effect, and that this expense of | ing down the foundation and changing | the Tidal Basin would be borne by the Government, according to Herman Hagedorn, director of the Roosevelt Memorial Assoclation. In the 1801 | plan provision was made for chan | ing this basin by filling in a part Jigging out in other places, and mak ing a great vista from the White | House southward, looking across into the Virginia hills. The development in this area has taken another form. however, and Potomac Park has been turned into a great recreation area In fact, the resolution authorizing the consideration of this site requires that the association take into account “the requirements of traffic circulation and of recreation facilities.” To carry out the plan of 1301 to form a foundation for this memorial, it was said, would rob West Potomac Park of some of its recreational features, because a part of it would have to be dug away to provide sufficient water area to make up for that filled in. Lieut. Col. Sherrill said vesterday that he did not believe that this part of the park commission plan of 1901 would ever be carried into effect, both hecause of the manner of the present development there and the expense involved in changing it. The change in present plans, he pointed out, also would take away the beautiful view which now prevails at this point. Cost Put Up to U. S. Col. Sherrill said that consideration and study had been made some time ago as to the expense and practica- bility of changing this section to con- form to the plan of 1901. It was esti- mated then that it would require ap proximately §3,500,000 for the con- séuetion of an entire mew saawall i this wection, and to fill fe.4 as a foun- datlon, to say nothing of the addi- tional expense of improving the area after this were done ' order to carry on the work, grea. ' dredges would have to be built in the basin, as there is no way te €oat them in from the river. The matter will be entirely in the hands of Congress to decide whether this part of the program will be car- ried on, and if the site is finally au- thorized, some provision may be made for the Government to pay for the change of the site, as the Roosevelt Association, according to Mr. Hage dorn, has not figured this would be involved in the cost of the memorial, for which the association so far has appropriated only $1,000,000. It is not known even at this time just what the memorial would cost when completed, as, according to Mr. ~(Continued on Page 6, Column ig | | ! 1 ! i i p