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o Falr tonight; cloudiness with —— lowest tonizht Temperatu i WEATHER. i vesterdav: today. Fugyreport on page D i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 865. o Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. . - NOW-LADEN GALE CLAIMS 30 LIVES IN NORTHEASTERN U.S. | B the Awsociated Press PEORIA, 1L, February 5 masked men held up a Chic Tsland and Pacific freight Henry, I1L.. 40 miles north of here, and escaped in trucks with pure alcohol estimated at $10.000 early today. The | shipment comprised the greater part | of two carloads. Conductor Charles Summiers and two {two railroad detectives were disarmed | | B, the, robbers. | “The hold-up men worked with a pre- {cisfon that recalled methods once used { by truin robbers of the old days of tie wild West. One robber, secreted .. |on the train, cut the air hose us the Thousands Forced to Remain in |train sjowed down in making its way Waiting Truck * Five Ships in Distress, Liners Harbor-Bound as Storm Swirls Out to Sea. fifteen Rock train near | BOSTON AND NEW YORK ARE BUSY DIGGING OUT ch IMASKED BAND HOLDS UP TRAIN GETS $10,000 ALCOHOL SHIPMENT 15 Bandits Transfer 600 Gallons of Liquid Into in Carefully Planned Rob- bery at Henry, .~ WITH SUNDAY MORNI WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEB MITCHELL RENEWS ONSLAUGHT ON AIR SERVICE IN PROBE ) . | | | | up Henry Hill. With the train stopped. 15 or more armed men swarmed from 4 roudway. Five of them covered | Summe Special Agent Merle| Thomas and two brakemen as they | leaped from the caboose. ! The robbers forced Summers to take | « revolver from Thomas and then the four were locked in the caboose as| others of the zunx took charge of the v il i "f:‘:f:'}fi'a"f fimr::nx(l::m\ of high-grade ! BOTH HOLD SEPARATE BRANCH IS NECESSARY Hearing, Joins Former Aide in Proposals. grain alcohol were gquickly removed to waiting trucks. The alcohol wus taken from two of the three cars from | the Corning distillery of Peorla. | Members of the train crew said that the robbers drove away in five auto mobiles. ;Retired Officer Assails System. Ry the Associated P NEW YORK, February A Wt noon teday of the ares swept sterday’s blizzard showed AT CONTNUES ad in New Enzland A - osire, Trame and omer Senate Convenes Hour Early eizht were Killed vesters . . I Despite Objections of Couzens and Norris. vre Z lents the collapse of a foundry huildi t New Britain. Conn.. because of he weight of snow on the roof: eizht n rished at sea: five are dead in New ¥ three are dead in New Jersey snd other deaths are reported from | g. . crScaulered naings The Senate was called into session \ll transportation lines delaved or' an hour earlier than usual today to \pletelv interrupted. Trains into! New York running from a few min. | 180t out the question of repea! of the Es tc SEveral norie tate. |income tax publicity provision of the | tvastwise and transatlantic liners!tax-reduction bill. | were foreed to anchor in Long Island| The early session was voted over the | wind untl the storm“lifted, delaying | objections of Senators Couzens. Mich- | sands of passengers |igan, and Norris, Nebraska, Repub- oliock Rip Lightship off Cape Cod ! licans, the roll call being 54 to 13. ioke from her moorings, but was, Senator Couzen.. who was discus ahle to anchor. Nantucket Ligitship|sing an amendment which would open #1-0 hroke loose. but proceeded under | Income tax returns to public inspec- her own steam. The storm at =ea was | tion. said he wag unprepared to con- "l | tinue at the early hour today, but torm spread a snow blanket ' Chairman Smoot of the finance com- | 11 from a few inches to two feet. | mittee, in charse of the hill, suzgest- | Wind driven, it formed a blockade ed the early meeting nevertheless, | ever country highv through Penn-| Criticising the lack of progress on svivania. New York, New Jersey anl; the measure vesterday. Senator Heflin, New Enzland. | Democrat. Alabama, demanded night i | sessions also. if necessary. to get the fiale Swirls to Sea. bill through in time to assure tax re- The gale swirled out to sea late: duction by March 15. when first in- sesterday toward the Grand Banks|come tax installments are due. Sen- and the ship lanes. 2 {ator Norris replied he was ready to At the lowest estimate it will cost| Work 12 hours a day. but called at-| New York $1.000,000 to dig out of | tention that “most of the Nenators the storm. Twenty thousand work-| come in and listen to this important men are trying to keep the main | debate only when the bells signal a Dble. | roll cal | sons died in the storm in| Senator Couzens. who was chairman | k City. Schools were sus-: of the special committee which in- | Pended in the afternoon. | vestigated the Internal Revenue Bu- Air mail seryice between New York | regu. supported the amendment of | #1d Chicago was halted. ! Semator Norris proposing public in- Only two of five passenger vessels | spection of all returns and denounced due 1o dock in New York dared en- | the present law allowing publication Tons of ice in the Hudson River | of tax payments as "absurd and inim- Jammed against the liner Orduna and | ical to the publle interests.” kent her from docking until the tide turned Boston ssociated Prese Continues Speech. Continuing his speech today. Sena tor Couzens used the disclosures of ithe internal revenue investigating | committee as an argument in favor of income tax publicity. Income tax returns never had been ubjected to public inspection or :udit | In the 13 vears the law has been in | effect.” he said, until the special om- mittee inquired into them. | Senator Shortridge, California, asked if the | found any criminal conduct bureau. “T believe there was collusion. dis- | honesty and favoritism,” Senator Cou- | zens said. “‘but whether that is fraud I do not know." The Michizgan Senator said_condi- | tions in the Internal Revenue Bureau I now are “as bad if not worse than | when the committee began its in vestigation, was paralyzed. even more | than New York. Public bulldings. | including the State House. were I'rown open to commuters forced to B in the city. The eight who died at sea were Farzemen. A volunteer crew o Coast Gardsmen took three men off a harge near Asbury Park. N. J. The bharze broke up, one of the rescued men dving later. Schooner Crew Rescued. Seven bargemen were lost in the wrecks of three barges off Sandy iiook. N. J. Five more barges and o tugs were still in ‘danger. iZight men, the entire crew. were re-cned from the schooner Kenwood. + hich went ashore on the rocks at Point. Mass. The Dutch freighter Stad Zalt- mmel wirelessed that she was birning coal from her cargo to reach | Port at Providence, R. 1. The Fur- IN HOUSE OFFICE wWas drifting with a broken rudder. Chairman of Appropriations Com- 2hout %00 miles from Halifax. The German stexmshin Hanover went to ! mittee Is Taken Home in Ambulance. Republican, committee in the " her 41d e collier Selyn Eddy was in danger off the Delaware Capes. In the anthracite coal regions of Yennsylvania. 10 inches of snow fell Among the deaths were Boston, 3: | Newark. N. J.. 3: Bridgeport. Conn., 1. Waterbury. Conn., 1; Jersey City. 2, Albany, 1 SNOWBOUND IN OFFIC! Representative Martin M. Madden 'of Illinols, chairman of the House e T . | appropriations committee and one of \‘J:LI‘\T:‘:)\“ fi‘e‘ll:’rl"l;xa'ry; ‘: Afi;;é\rs"éhf the Republican leaders in Congzress, tury passed Into histors today, Bos."ccame ill at the Capitol today. He ton slowly dug itself out of the drifts Suffered a severe chill and developed and took stock of the damage. In:considerable fever. He has not been addition to a toll of six deaths gi., in good health for many months. rectly attributable to the storm, a . Mr. Madden was taken to his home snow blanket of 13 2.10 inches filled|in #n ambu! <treets and roadw and railroads, It was said o and electric lines strove to restore | condition was mnot serious, although normal service. which ha& been com. his family physician was summoned pletely demoralized by the snowfall.[and he was taken from his office to Off the coast one lightship was a | the ambulance in a reclining chair. nd another was making for| Mr. Madden is approaching his 7Tist d Haven for repairs, while a Dirthday. A heart attack in Septem- chooner was on the rocks off ber, 1323, greatly weakened him and Scituate. for 'a long time his friend feared b Thousands of Boston commuters, never would return to ac service unable o reach their suburban homes|at the Capitol. Tle recovered suifi- when rail and electrfe transportation ' clently, however, 1o 4zaia take up las led last night, arose with aching work as chairman of the appropria- hones from chairs or desk top tions committee. which rv couches, to which they were forced legislation for dishurseman- when hotels accommodations fafled. by the Federal Government. The State House, thrown open as a Wl SOVIET COURIER SLAIN. chelter by order of Governor Fuller, RIGA., Latvia. February 5 (#).—A Boston Commuters Upable Home Through Drifts. to Get at his office that his Iumber money MAY DIG UPBODIES General Says Air Board Plan Is Inadequate. Drive to Put Silk Hose on Donkeys Of Algeria Begun | BY the Amnciated Press The offensive for a <ervice was renewed concurrently he- fore two congressional committees to ay by MaJ. Gen. Patrick. chief of the Army Alr Service, and William Mitchell, once Gen. Patrick’s assistant ind more recently The centar of a quarrel over policy. which led to his court-martial and resignation from the Army. By the Associated Presas LONDON. February 5. The <ilk stocking fad is to he taken up by the donkeys in Algeria. Mrs, F K. Hosali, who has heen carrying on humanitarian werk amenz the mules, donkeys and camels in North Africa. is in London mak- inz a collection of stockmngs to take back with her. She says the animals in Algeria. especially the donkeys. suffer from fly bites on their legs, and she desires 1o oh tain wornout stockings which will be used to keep secure handages on the legs of the beasts. She has authority from the gov- ernors of Algeria. Tunis and Mo- rocco to seize any unfit animal and glve It treatment terrible mess” was the wa) Mitchell described the present statux of aviation to the House military com mittee. Patrick, appearing before the Senate military committee. declared the regommendations of the Presi- | dent’s Alr Board did not go far enough i and renewed his advocacy of an Army air corps separately organized. and with an independent status like thal of the Marine Corps Sees Bill Falling Short. The Air Service chief interposed no ohjection to the Wadsworth hill, draft ed by the War Department along the lines of the air hoard’s findings. and providing for segregation of the Alr Service under a new Assistant Secre tary of War. He insisted. however, that the proposal was only a partial solution. fitchell, still addressed as “colonel” hy members of the House committee despite of his retirement 15 civillan life four davs renewed the charges azainst p management of aviation, which to his court- martial. You've got no system whatever, 'operation, training or equipment,” said. “The air personnel is on duty with the Army, when It should be triined to prevent armies from coming to- gether. The whole conception is wrong.” He appealed to Conzress to “give a specific mission to air power,” and said $65.000.000 a year would maintain an adequate air force. Wil Splve Many Problems. Asked “by Senator Bingham, ' public: Connecticut, if IN“QUACK" PROBE Chicago Authorities Arrest Three Alleged Doctors and Send One to Jail. resent led By the Associated Press CHICAGO. Febrnary 5.—The bodies of two children treated by Forrest Zipfel, charged with practicing medi cine without a license. may be e hunied, as well as tHose 6 some of the 24 patients of Harry Klein, who Posed as a physician for elght years. in | the investigation of unlieensed prac- titioners and quack doctors. Zipfel, wha for years has had a profitable medical practice, said he had w certificate to practics osteopath and attrfbuted his arrest to enmif of another physician. H. R. Frey. negro. char Posing as a physician, was sent to jail_yesterdav. His arrest and those of Zipfel and Klein came in connec- tion with a drive by State authorities against unlicensed physlelans. who have been the objects of an expose conducted by a newspaper. Re- existing evile in the Alr Service, Gen. Patrick said it would, but added that it would not change the militury air- craft system. which he declared to be necessary to proper military aircraft development. Senator Tyson. Democra questioning the adequacy of the Wadswoyth measure. asserted that “if we are to have a unified Air Service, now is the time to zet iL.” He asked Gen. Patrick if he ravored splitting the Air Service into three divisions, the Army, Navy and civil aircraft di- e . Tennessee, ed with e hureau of civil Column 2.) MOTHER OF 9 SLAIN, OFFICIALS DECLARE Husband. 73, Had Said Wife. 47, Was Burned to Death Ac- cidentally. MANY SHIPS ICEBOUND. Vessels in Waterway to Leningrad in Precarious State. CcoP HAGE. Denmark. Febru- ary 5 (A.—An unusual number of wamp vessels cf various nationalities are icebound in the waterway leading to Leningrad. Maritime circles say the situation is caused by the inade- quate Russian ice-breaker service, The Reval correspondent of the Scandinavian Shipping Gazette tele. zraphs that the state of the vessels is precarious. owing to the action of ‘screw fce” driven by a tervific East- ern gale. SNOW CAU By the ated Press STOUX CITY. lowa, Feb Convinced that Mrs. George the mother of nine children, wa dered and not accidentally burned to deatlf at the door of her furnace. offi «ls planned today to question fur- ther her -vear-old husband. Although Solomon insixted th: wife w burned to death by which <hot from the furnace because of improperly arranged drafts. a cor- enars post-mortem revealed bruises “on the woman'’s shins and a fractured wrist. The children said their father and mother, who was 47 years old, had disagreed considerably of late. and officers_were working on the theory that a final arzument Wednesday cul- minated in her death. Mrs. Solomon died about SES FATALITY. : his Trainman Killed When Car Is De- railed at Cumberland. | Dispatch to The Sta MBERLAND. Md., February 3. —Willlam Wingfield. 47 years old, of Mount Savage., Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rallroad freizht con- dugtor, was crushed to death between twh ears last night. hile making up a train of empty | - : cars & car ubon which he was riding | o i it her s ban became derailed hy the snow and fce, | ! [ SEEIIRE EPET RE AUS crashing into one on another track. | Pfchildren of her faie. His wife and four children survive, |, The t\o elder sons caused Solomon’s ) jarrest. REDS’ PRO Spe 11 o'clock told SECUTOR TO DIE! MISSIOMN-SW ARE VATTACKED. State Counsel in Petlura Regime Excesses Reported From Eastern Betrayed and Condemned. Ewangtung Province. i - MOGILEV, Podolis | PEKING, February 5 (P —Ex. x Uy Cdolia, Ukraine, Feb | oqgeq against English missionaries ruary. .—Sergius Boyanovski are reported in eastern Kwangtung &tate prosecutor during the regime ol‘]’rm'ln(-». Gen. Simon Petlura, vesterday was| Chinese troops are said to have N 3 i | selzed property belonging to the Eng- sgntenced to death on the charge of |Jjgh Presbytertan mission at Chas. having sent many communists and ichow and to have damaged some of red soldiers to their doom. e minonsies hovsen, After Petlura's defeat, Boyanovski|. At Swatow, on the coast, embraced hoishevism, concealing his | GOmMmUNIst students drove past and assuming another name. Ac- | 5 cording to the state’s attorney, he ! 1565, Which belonga to the English gained admission to the communist ‘| TesPyterian mission. party and hecame secretary of a local = | WIDE AMNESTY GRANTED. 5 Chinese the au- court. His betrayal by a former as. sociate led to his trial, Educators, Labor Secretary of Labor Davis has been state emploves and a few out- The City Hall had its quota, and con.Riga train was killed while the bundreds. Many who waited about |t S BN T ] empted to selze train ar for their homes finally Y | zuaras rushed to the compartment thrown open for their use. turning to work. The Boston I ol at 8 o'clgek announced that serv. wi. presented hy stalled automobiles, granted only a few minutes on the Ihousands of cars were maroonred in|speaking program of the department honsed ate senators and representa- , including two women. Stores House Many. Soviet courier traveling on the Mos- railroad stations. business houses and {11 \was in Latvian territory today department stores welcomed homeless | VU (1o o ined access to his terminals until the early hours of the morning in the hope of getting a Dif DagEage. An_alarm was given. the train Jost heart and turned to the hospi- 141ty of the public buildings or stores and firing ensued. in which the two | raurderers were shot. housands who did reach their own firesides found difficulty today in re- evated Company labored throughout ihe night to restore normal condition: | jee was 95 per cent normal. The! zreatest problem, city officials saia, ahandoned in the streets when the snowdrifts hlocked their progress. ery part of the city, in many cases| of superintendents of the ational finhedded to the hubs in snow. | Education Association convention e | hera bezinning February 21 and has A DostoniRusible Genter: declined an _invitation from Dr. Throughout New England generally | pp,nk W. Ballou. superintendent of conditions were fair in rail transpor | pefie, B FRRE: SERCEIENTET tation, but Boston wae the trouble |,y limited time available for him. center. Railroad officials said the| " gecretury Davis had wished to oL in _their memors | ,cquaint the groun of educators tn gather here withia u {"I‘lnl_l;hl with Granted Only Few Minutes to Address 3 by Bulgarian Action. Secretary Declines‘ SOFIA, Bulgaria, February 5 (P).— | The new' government under Premier | Liaptcheff has granted full amnesty to all political offenders except the | leaders of and those criminally im- school in Washington to serve the|plicated In plots against the govern- entire_clty. | ment. Dr. Ballou called on Mr. Davis re-| cently and offered him five or seven ) Jug minutes, a period of time which Mr.{to his project tn erect a master high lavia_and Greece will be able return home under this measure. Davis regarded as too Short to make |1t is hoped thus to pacify the country . A proper presentation of his sub-!and enable the government to carry Ject. ' Other cabinet officers have |out a program of harmony among all much. greater time assignments on | classes. the speaking program. Secretary Davis will not address thé confer- 'R, i, ProgramFPage 34 ence. ¢ Foeni Patrick, in Another Hnusef separate air| the Wads- ' worth measure would not solve many ! flames was not | | thorities out of the Anglo-Chinese Col- ! Many Political Offenders Cleared ! The Bulgarian political refugees in | NG EDITION RUARY | | RINS LR Reeota - Y\ Me- MDYRIT — PAGES. = R £ 19762 n Star. 1926— FORTY-FOUR * v 4 R SEr wr e PRopeET = “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every cui( block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,903 TWO CENTS. DAL PROBE GIVEN ENATE AUTHORITY 10 AUDIT LEDGERS | N | Resolution Authorizes Formal Investigation by Dis- trict Committee. % UP) Means Associated Press. ;G |STRIKE INTERVENTION VOTED DOWN, 48 TO 28 Copeland Blocked in Effort to Have White House End Anthracite Suspension. | | | | | The Senate todayv passed the resolu inn empowering the District commit tee to continue an investization coal prices and proviéin thority for emplovment f & and accountants ex niine hut a few minutes ed proposal to displace th onsideration of 1he « i e he of au p4 Tooys Tl for land resolu anthracite gainst teluns and resolution was 48 o wenty Den seven Republi cans and one Farmer-Labor Senator voted to take up the Copeland re tion requestinz sider <us b U Yy The <ion Cope vote . FORTY CHRISTIANS SLAN BY SYRANS Hanging of Bandits Said to Have Incited Anti-Euro- pean Feeling. By the Associated Press LONDO! February correspondent at’ Damascus. Svria. | says the massacre of 40 Christians in the village of Maruneh, news of which | | was received last night. indicates that an anti-Christian movement ix develop- ,ing and that this is confirmed by hap- penings in Damascus, p On Monday, he reports, a son of Hassan El Kharrat. bandit chief. was i hanged. with two other convicted rigands, in a public square in Da *mascus. This caused bad feeling and brought threats that three Europeans would be hanged in revenge. Letters also were sent to the Cath olic patriarch at Maidan threatening 10 burn his house because some of the witnesses for the prosecution at the trial of Hassan El Kharrat's son were Catholics. Incidents of this sort have caused bitter feeling among the population against Europeans generally, the correspondent sayvs “The French are tryinz to form provisional government,” the corre spondent adds, “but nobody seems willinz to take office. It seems cer tain that if the authorities are to sub- due the Djebel Druses during the Spring they will require more troops than are at present available.” INHERITS BLAR]IEY STONE. Elder Son of Late Sir George Colt- hurst Now Owns Famous Rock. BLARNEY. lreland, Vel (). —The Blarney Stone h: owners. Sir Ge Colthurst, had owned the famous old Castle for many decades. ix his elder son. who now hec Gicorge, has talen over the ruin. The new owner, a keen spor i will make his home on his ancestr: | property. Although there were many threats made to destroy the Colthurst home and the ruins of Blarney Castle du ing the “Black and Tan" troubl and the struggle between the Free Staters and the Republicans. the operty was not damaged. Blarney <tle i= dpen to visitors and hun tourists every month are jowered by their heels to kiss the Tlarney Stone. It is especially pop- war with Americans. PROTEST PRICE FIXING. | Farm Organizations Object «Governmental Paternalism.” uary 3 who ney ad, and mes, & dreds of to ! COLUMBUS. Ohio. February 6 (). | —Ohio farm organizations and lead- ers are on record as opposing gov- ’ernmenml pricefixing for farm prod- uce. During Farmers' week, being | observed here, the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation has passed a resolution | opposing price-ixing “and other forms lof paternalism.” Harry A. Caton, | State Grange master. has spoken { against price-fixing. and C. V. Truax, State director of agriculture, has come out agamst price-fixing, bonuses or | subsidies for the farmer. § | Al have agreed that |is in business too much already | that farmers can be helped more by | themselves than by the Government. | | MARSHALL REFUSED BAIL. PHILADELPHIA, February 5 (). | _After a two-hour hearing on a writ _of habeas corpus, David L. Marshall, | confessed slayer of A May Diet- | vich, was refused liberfy on bail to- !day and was held for the grand jury. Glancing Shat Kills Hunter. BEAUMONT, Tex., February 5 (#). —J. S. Walling was killed acciden- ! taily vesterday when Bee Cowen, pro- | hibition officer. fired at the operators of a still which he raided. _A bullet | glanced off a tree and hit Walling, | who was hunting., The moonshiners escaped. Robert Mantell Taken Ill. CALGARY. Alberta, February 5 (). i —Robert B. Mantell, Shakespearean { actor, became suddenly ill before the | evening performance of “King Lear"” | at the theater here last night. The | performance was canceled. His il ness is not considered serious. hanged | ir | Reuter's ‘ Roli-Top (Zoilar 7 Is Approved for Policemen Here The fash recently adopted by avy was uniforms o Metropolita The new style collar ionahle f all n Police roll-top the approved by trict Commissioners today members Department. will collar ny and the Dis for the the replice the present high military gollar The change was orizinally advo- cated hy 1t agion of the the Commissioners uniform cor Department William H specifications for ifor: he District ins mmittee of headed Harrison m collar. Policemen’s T by Associ he order of tructed the the Police Inspector to prepare the new- “WET” EPISCOPAL POLICY IS DOUBTED, Challengers Belittle Following of Temperance Body. Probe Urged. the Associa NEW YO newlv annour Temperance Chureh ey o out Prohibition or men in_amouncin serted that fuile The 1ain the unimportant versal of po as no aback oard soon anizations have challenged | of the Rev. Eniscopal anization ted Pres REK. F nced po Society of t er has brou pposition the United St leader: and indiv Dr nE the authority Church and is in er licy. Even irself by of directors 2 to con de v of the st mes Empringham. national secreary of the society, the new Volstead the Church be Episconal favoring modification of the Volstead act and legalizat n of lizht a violent defense tes. sht and idu: tement who had polic act society. the challenzers main- to speak for is relatively Tor in its re- members of have heen the announcement will the call situa- Stands By His Guns Defenders ~luding that Empringhan reite her the ponderance | of the law The issue enator Dill. Edge charac as a “coloss pendous expense’ {0 taxpayers. denied that temperance, deaths from wane and praised prohibition as veral of Dr. chu his conclus stands by fety fuver of was ew Democrat, rized the failure’ it 1 prohibition cited figur alcoholism debated | by radio from Washington & Edge. Republican, gham, in itaries ions tes that a_poll of 2 showed modification last night Senator Jersey. and Washington. Volstead act and a ‘“stu- Dill increased in- res to show were on the aid- ing the prosperity of the country. Statements say that t Temperance deavor Soc issued in he Women Unjon, iety. the New ‘s #Anti-Saloon League and the World League Against Alcoholism are not convinced that the announcement represent: s the senti- ments of the ehurch temperance so- ciety Church. itself, let alone the Episcopal Sees Reversal of Policy. Dr. Empringham admits his tele- phone has been kept busy by bishops and others who disapproved his an- nouncement. He minimi ized most of the protests, saying they were largely from members who had not paid their | dues in the society for years. Dr. Empringham has no right to speak for the Episcopal Church in any way. says the Rev. Charles K. Gilbert, Social executive secretary Service Commission of of the the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York. Canon Willlam Sheafe Chase of Brooklyn. a member of the board of directors of the church temper- ance society, has asked for a meeting of the hoard to consider this “reversal of policy of the society."” Two vice presidents of the soclety, Bishop S. M. Griswold of Chicago and Bishop Reginald Weller of Fond du Lac, Wis., are in disagreement with Dr. Empringham'’s statement. Bishop Griswold sald he would heyond measure if he thought the eighteenth amendment was in danger of repeal. distressed Bishop Weller expressed the belief that the prohibition law was | doing better now. \ Laud's Empringham’s Stand. A. D. Plamondon, head of the Na- tional Association posed to Prohi- bition. on_th: ©ontinu ‘on Page . lauded Dr. Column 1) York | Christian | the Christian En- lution. and nine Democrats and thirt: nine Republicans voted azainst it During the brief debate which pre ceded the agreement to the 1 stigation of local coal Howell of ARCHTECTS NAVED FORIOEALHONES “Nine Are Chosen to Design | Model Houses Sponsored hy The Star. ton au- e peo- thority to sell coal at ple of the District duri ¢mergency Borah Questions Aim. <enator Borah of Idaho did not olb- ject to consideration of the coal in vestization resolution, but made the comment that suspected it would not lead : What does the committee expect to do after the in estization has been made”” Senator Borah inquired of Chairman Cappe: of the District committee. Senator Capper said that he could not predict at this time what the con clusion of the committee would be, and explained that what the commit- tee is seeking at this time is to gather the facts relating to the present prices of coal in the District He told Sena tor Borah there had been considerable complaint concerning coal prices, an: that his committee through the res lution was merely proposing to asce tain the facts The advisory committee of the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which is co nperating in arranging the ideal homes temonstration sponsored by The Star, today commissioned the nine architects | wha are design the nine model ! | homes to be located in various ions of Washinzton and its environs. Horace W Peaslee, chairman of the architecis’ advisory committee, followinz a conference with the archi tects yesterday. announced the fol lowing as chosen: P. C. Adams, Ward | | Brown, Robert F. Beresford. Victor | Mindelef, H.-Delos Smith. W. H. L Fleming. L. Rodier. J. Wilmer | 's"mh and Louis Justement. These nine architects have been di- | vided into two groups. those handling the detached houses. under the chair- | manship of Delos H. Smith. and those | handlinz the ¢ group developments | would authorize employment of coun under Louts Justement [sel and involve substantial expense . expressing the opinion that the Problem Difficult. ‘mwl:!:nzlalion Taav pot. bring any Consideration ! definite results. Senator Borah declar «rchitects’ advisory committee in re. ed that not lonz ago the coal com rd to the assignment of the various | mission made a thorough study of architects to the various types to be | the situation, but its report. the crected. Due thought was given to | Senator added. has merely been placed the interest manifested by the archi- | in the archives. i i tects chosen in the different types and | _Senator Copeland. who has bheen also in regard to their specialty in secking almost daily during the pas design and type week to obtain ungnimous consent fo Robert F. Beresford was commis: | the consideration of his resolution re sioned to design the $30,000 detached , fuesting President Coolidge to invite house. the largest project in the the anthracite operators and miners ! demonstration, which will be erected | to the White House as a means of on a site at Thirty-fifth and Massa. [rving to settle the strike. said chusetts avenue, submitted by Hedges 1 hope this resolution will pass. | & Middleton. It is planned that this ' carnot get relief for the people of m | house shall be of stone colonial design. | city. but T want fo trv to get it for | P.C. Adams was chosen to design | the people of the District.” |the $11.000 detached house to be, erected in Wynnewood Park, near | Siiver Spring, Md., by the Construction Co. While this 11 be of frame construction sign has not yet heen chosen Ward Brown will design the $3.000 detached house in Lec Heights. Va., to be erected by Ruby Lee Minar. | This house is to be of frame construc- jtion. The design is not vet chosen | made by the Government Victor Mindeleff was ‘commissioned | yinc peace in the coal to draw the plans and design the $15.- | cljeve suffering. 00 detached house to be erected bY |’ Ag soon as the District coal resol L. E. Breuninger & Sons at the Miter- | ;o0 j1ad heen agreed to. Sengtor Cope section of Alaska avenue. Thirteenth | jand made his attempt to have the and Hemlock street. This house Will | Genate take up his resolution provic be frame colonial in design. inz for 2 White Housc conference 20,000 Design Specified. Smoot Raises Objection. Delos H. Smith will plan and de-| sepator Smoot, who is in charge gn the $20.000 detached house to e | the tax reduction bill and maki | erected at Forty-fourth place and Haw- | avory effort to speed up its consid thorne sireet by W. C. & A. tion, sald he would have to object i Miller. This residence will be a brick | delaving the tax measure. house, Georgian in design. | The Senate’s action in voting down W. H. i. Fleming will design the | the proposal to take up the Copeland semi-detached houses to be erected at | resolution was the first to be taker Thirteenth and Upshur streets north- | in Congres in respect to the coal con east by W. Walter Vaughn. The de- | troversy. and the vote was forced b: sign has not been chosen. ! opponents of President Coolidge’s non G. L. Rodier will'design the com- | intervention policy after many pre munity group homes in Marietta Park | vious attempts for a showdown had to be erected by Walter Dunigan, Ital-| heen defeated in both Senate ana ian design will be used. | House. J. Wilmer Smith has been chosen to | Before moving to take up the meas- plan the $7.000 row houses 1o be built | ure, Senator Copeland appealed o by the C. H. Small Co.. at West Vir- | the Senators from New England to ginia avenue and Queen street morth- | stand with him, because their State east. The design has not vet been|were snowbound now and in need ot chosen. | fuel. but all the New England Sen Louis Justement will design the < present voted against his resolu | $3.000 row houses to be placed on De. catur street between Fourth and Fifth (Continued on Page olumn 5) to Expense Small, Capper Says. Senator Warren, chairman of th appropriations committee, brought uy the question of expense and was i sured by Chairman Capper that would be negligible. Senator Overman of North Carolina indicated during the debate that he was about to ask that the resolution go over for later con sideration because of a belief that it was given by the 1 Edwards Backs Copeland. E New Jersey supported Senator Copeland in his ef fort to get action on the resolution askinz the President to endeavor 1o scttle the coal strike. describing con ditions which he said he witnessed du ing a visit 10 New Yor He said he felt some eff: to try industry | i | | [ i How They Voted. —— - The roll call follows: For consideration of the resolution SLEEPING WOMAN SET _Republicans. Brookhart, Couzen-. | Frazier, Howell, La Follette, Norris AFIRE BY SON-IN-LAW | 2nd XNye—7. Democrats = Blease. | Broussard, Bruce, Caraway, Cope- e {land. Dill, Edwards, Ferris. George. , Kendrick, McKellar, Mayfield Man Pours Gasoline on Mother-in- { |1¢hin. Kenaricr: U Sk, Trammell . vson, Walsh and "heeler—_1. O s S Then Stays T'Fnrmer Labor: Shipstead, 1. © Watch Spectacle. Total—28 By the Assi 4 P Against consideration: Republican= e A clpes | _Bingham. Borah, Butler, {‘aneron, NEW YORK, February 5.—Vincent | capper, Cummins, Dale, Deneen, Edge, Capania tried to burn his motherdn- | Ernst, Fernald, Fess Gillett, Goff, law to death in their Brooklyn home 'Gooding. Hale. Harreld, Jones ‘\\ la;:- today. police charged, by pouring gaso. | ington; Ieves, O e line on her while she was asieep and | Moses. _orbeck - BOCE then setting her clothing on fire. |Dhipps. Pine, I o The woman, Mrs. Consuelo Gen. Robinson of Indiana, Sackett, Short- nusa, 70 years old, may dle. ridge, Smoot, hlanfle.ld. adswortl . Capania, police said, confessed that | Warren. Watson, Weller, Williams he set the fire as an act of retalia- | and Willis—39. Democrats—Bratton, tion in a long domestic feud. He was Fletcher, Harris, King, Ransdell, Rob- arrested on a_charge of felonious as. | inson of Arkansas, Simmons, Stephens sault and held without bail pending | and Swanson—3. Total ; atsi s the outcome of the woman's injuries. | -After the vote a long debate devel- Neighbors, smelling the smoke, call |oped and another effort was made to ed policemen and firemen, who found | bring the resolution up by unanimo: Mrs. Gennusa enveloped in flames. consent, but it was frustrated by Sena- Capania had remained {n the apart. |tors Reed of Pennsylvania and Shor: ment after starting the fire, police |ridge of California, Republi Chair- suid. ¢ " Continued on Columa §))