Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1926, Page 2

2 *% — WAN PROSECUTION BEGINS REBUTTA End of Trial Near—Detective Contra- dicts Defense Witness. for #inng |un Wan with first-degres murder Wu it the Chinese Fduca- <inn here Janu v 28, 1919, rested their case this =i noon. and indications were that the second trial in <even veavs of the vounz Chinese would come to pesduy or Wednesda: Tmmediately fley for the afternnon session Wilton 1. Lambhert, chief dafense connsel. a nounced the move, and the (overn ment called jts first witness in re- huttal Detective was called hy testimony in statenenis made by defense wirness. and mor of T. 1 m hrother Kelly Maj. Ravmond tendent of police ap automobile in 1% scribed himsell w< of lonz standin chief, haa testified thai Maj neither awned sperated an mohile January, 1010, Detective Kelly so said that Van tohi him he had never heen in Washington before as the twn were viding on A train 1o this rity from New vk Febroary 3 1919 Van had false stiter time af his sxamination here heciuse. he =aid. he w the crime conrt convened Keliy 1o the Creeoy, a the testi the aefendant < od that the late Pullman. superin and operated who de triend nolice Pullinan (uto- Serzt. Kdward I the prosecution contradiction AL 1 alen v A w testified he mude several ts ta the poliee at Left House Twice. testified that Maji. Pull the mission house on the ht of January an two different jons. and was ai Police Head riers a1 midnight. whereas (rescy had declared on the stand the po chief was al the mission house con tipuously from 330 pom. 1o 12:30 a.m with the exception of a trin to Police Headquarters around 10 a'clack. The defense Kelley also man left 3N today introduced evi dence hy a nationally known hand- writing expert that Wan did not write the notation on the check stuh of the C‘hinese Educational Mission. which the Government declares was filled in hv the defendant The Government hoids that on the morning following the iriple murder Wan and his brother Van aitempted to have a _check for the Riggs National Bank. and that the check. which is missing, hore the sig narure of Dr. T. T. Wong, head of the mission and ane of the three mur dered Chinese. The handwritinz Green. was hrouzht Wan had been subjected 1o one and a half hours eross-examination by I"nited States Attorney Pevton Gor don. Ma). rdon was unable shake Wan from his original stog and the dafendant when presuafed with evidence ziven hy prosecution witnesses either emphatically denied {t or declared he was nnahle to recall the facts. Writing Exhibited. The defense . James B 16 rombat the te mony of 2 Nen York banxer. whe d clared. in his opinion the handwrit ing on the stnh was Wan's. brought to the stand severa enlarged photo- graphs of Wan's writing. A phot zraph of the writing in the chec stab. “T. T. Wona." was placed be side that of the signature of Wan." taken from the register of the Harris Hotel Mr. Green declated he was “posi- tivelv unahle to find anvthing to con nect the defendant's with the handwriting He also added: 1 have come to the npinjon that the defendant did not write ft. ard there is not enough there tn show that he did write f." Mr. Green analvzed the on the check stub. pointing « the anly clue he had was in the letter "% the last In the name “T. T. Wonz." However. Mr. Green com- pared the capital “W* in the sizna- ture of the defendant taken from the botel rezister with that of the “W* in “Wong © This showed a wide differ- ance in formation i on the stub’ Wan Tells Story. Wan yesterday moverents and time he landed at \ancouver. Columbia. in in company Dr. T. T. Wong and Ben Sen W, of the murdered Chi up to his return to Washingion. February 1, in company with the police, 1o assist in golving the crime. He accepted an invi Wongz to visit ithe mission, the wit ness testified. and arrived here Jun- uary Pecoming ill again and ne told the siory of his activities from two itation from Dr. wishing to burden the three members | of the mission. he decided ronm at a hotel and xhant neen Mon day. January 27, he. in company with Wi, went (o the Harris Hotel. Afiar the arrival of his hrother, he said. he weni to the mission house haiween & And & o'clack the night of the 28ih, &nd found no one at home. It was while he was in the house alone. Wan said. thai Kang | Government's <tar witness against him ke a cupants were aui, denied thal on the afternoon of the 27th. the day he said he went 1o the Harris Hotel, he tald James T. Snead a furnace man. nai to fix the furna for three ar four as “all were going away.” Snead had testified Wan toid him tF Went to Bed at 8. After his return (rom the mission 8 o'clock, he testified. he was ex 1sted from the trip and went to bed. His hrother Van returned from a moving picture theater about 11 e'lock and they hoth wulk The next dav they returned York and Wan sald his made no mention of attempt- Ing to rash 1 check for an unknown Uhinese. The first he heard of it was from the police in Washington after hi= return here, he explained Maj. Gordon hegan eross-examina- tion of the witness, hut was unable to #hake him from his original stand. “WET" EPISCOPAL POLICY IS DOUBTED BY “DRY” WORKERS | (Continued from First Page.) Empringham’s stand in a statement made ut Chicago. Daniel A Poling, _iniernational Sresident of Christian Endeavq fieves that Dr. Empringham seriousi Bisrepresents the Episcopal Church. 1 do not heliave that the Episcopal Church will officlally or unofcially bhave anything to do with a campaign tor prohibition modification and law repeal.” he said today. “If Dr. Em- ringham and those associated with im are tn speak for Fpiscopal Church. it wonld mean the saddest hlow of a zeneration had heen struck against church federation and the growinz spirit of Christian unity.” The male of the honey-bee comes between the queen and the workers in size, apd is stingless Apparently the | n 1919 | < suspeeted of | half hour's | $5.000 cashed at | the stand «fter ! signature | the | Rritish | with | the . called and he admitted informing | the voung student that ail of the oe- | He amphatically | took a smhort | | be- | | = Twenty Rare Varie | Dr. Waldo Schmidt } snake population at the Zoo { woke up this morning and found it self bled veniy varieties of | reptiles. inciuding several of the most polsonous types of Nouth America, arrived vesterday. and after spending the night in the husiness of thrawing out were able to sit up today and take (@ little nourishment one. who in a lust gesture of protest !aguinst his forcible subjection to the Jld of this country. had quletly | stretched himself out and died some- where on the way The reptiles wers hrought (o Wash ington by Dr. Waldo Schmidt of the | National Museum. who has just ve turned from a trip to South America. |They were presented to the Smith. {knnmn by Dr. Vitel azil of the In ! stitute Rutantan. Al. A hot-water hottle which served s & furnace for | the snakes helped them to keep warm ! on the long trip. but when Dr. Wil liam M. Mann. superintendent of thi Zoo. hegan unpacking them vesterda he found most of them “hors de comi. Largest ment Received. “The collection is the lurgest single shipment of snakes aver receivad by | | the Zoo. and one of the most valuahle wdditions its collection. Because {of lack of housinz space in the park the reptiles ave now living In Dr. | Mann's office. Cagesx are haing made for them The collection includes elght varie- Hes of polsonons snik non-poisenous species. The casux ity was nne of the harmless repiiles. the more dangerous nnes seemingly with standing the havdships of the trip bet 7 the others are tnwo South An es of varieries naver { seen at the Zoo here. They have ings similar to those of the North { American Ainmond-hack rattlers. and {#re similar to these in Appesrance. RBaby Roa 1 uded. One large hoa constrictor came along in the shipment. occupving a box all 1o himself. There was also a small boa little more than {type is very rare Dr Mann said, and AGREE BUS LINES | i | Field for Operations to 16th Street Suburbs. Public Utllities Maj. W. E. R engineer commis- Assisiants to the ; Commission with Covell, assistant sioner. h a tentative agresment hetween the { executives of the three major trans | portation companies. giving the Washington Rapid Transht Co. | clear field in bus operatlons on Six | teenth street and 1o Silver Spring {and Four Corners, Md The agreement came as a sequel {10 a recent public hearing befors the | utilities commission at which the companies promised o co-operate in | working out a plan of non-competi- | live bus operation on upper Six teenth street and to nearby Maryland communith While Mal. Covell | d0ex mot believe the proposal Is & wtep toward a voluntary merger of !ihe bus interests. he indicated that handwriting | he is atrongly in favor pf the move | snd will recommend the plan 10 the commission. | Under 1he agreement bus lines into | Sixteenth Street Helghts and ilver ! Spring, now operated by the Caphal Traction and the Washington Railway and Electric Cos.. respectively, will be discontinued. leaving the lington Rapid Transt Co. exclusive | right to serve these communities. The Washington Rallway and Blectric Co. ]nnn operates a bhus line from the Maryiand communities (o e District !line. while the Capital [ runs busses trom Holly and Sixteenth awireets 1o Fourteenth and Kennedy streets, doing local business. and the Washington Rapid Transit Co. runs lusses from Sliver Spring to Bu- {rhanan streel, carrying only interstate asseng Both operations are sald he losing ventures, and the com- nies believe that the new plan will e a profitable enterprise. “The Washington Rapid {under the terms of ! would serve hoth intersiate and inira. siate paxsengers. Issuinz free (rans. | ters 1o itx bussesx and 1o the vars of the Capl Traction Co. After Maj. Covell and the asaisiants 1o the commission consider the agree. ment mission and a {with a view to commission. GOVERNMENT OPPOSES FELDER CASE REVIEW ransit Co. held the public hearing its approval hy 8ays Coconspirator in Glass Cof-| fin Stock Sales Has No Grounds for Appeal. The Department of {brief filed In the Supreme Court 1o- | dax opposed any further review the case of Thomas R. Felder. New | York awver, eonvicted on the charge | of conspiracy with Gaston B, Means and others in connection with the | sale of stock of the Giass Casket o, Replying to & pet in which el had asked + his se, Solicitor 8l Mitchell declared that Felder was attempling {0 raise only one constitutional qu tion. This question. the >olicitor gen- eral asserted, was fruitless and all other contentions advanced by Felder s grounds for an appeal were con- troverted by well established legal principles. Justice In a 1% inches long. This Wanh- | Traction Co. | the agreement. it will be submitted to the com. | of | | 1o review | THE EVENING of National Museum. [ 18 being nursed back to good with cave. When the hoxes wi | packed the “baby" bo: | parently @ full grown reptile, cold he could havdly wiggle elicited from him only testing shiver. Six varieties of poisonous v |are the most Jungles. little bags of | trom fangs feared snakes enom constructed like dermic needles into the blood of their | victims. All are of diff cluding the rare Ja NEWLY ARRIVED SNAKES AT ZOO . | SPEND NIGHT THAWING s Mommpurielly Bhovs 6 Combat| UN MEXIBAN NmE From Northern Cold, Brought From Brazil by ouT, h ere un- which 1 ap- | was 0 Handting | ght pro- Iperines that is, all but |are incinded in the collection. These of the Retween the eyex they have|&erding the new which is injected | hpy one of the most deadly of all reptiles. All Kinds of Snakes. | _“he non-polsonous snakes varving size and appearance. of them are rare aven In South ica and are not often found in ity in this country. ‘Fhesa & snakes. pllot snakes. rat | ground snakes and other weil Kkinds. | With the snakes arrived | dozen Rheas. wild ostriches. | were caught by gauchos, South Amer- | the bola. w de.- | Ing as the Western A heavy ball in| | lean cowbo: vice used for cowboys use lariats, | tied to each end of a rope a whole thing heaved at the with & peculiar to the gaucho. with are of Most | Amer captiv- v . snakes, known halt a These nd the animai motion known only ‘The victim's legs be- come entangled in the rope, and after he has thrown himself the gauchos Showed Marks of Bola. The ostriches when thev w | packed still bore the marks holus on their lega. Other recent additions to include & toucannette. & plumaged bird tound in distinguished for its targe hes eral Arizona woodpeckers mountain lHon cubs mont The cubs were the gift of E. zame hunter for |ogical Survey. and wei Albugquerque. N. Mex. They ha heen taken off milk diet and inning to show keen'interest i 1i's all about BAY RUM KILL Stopped There. | B the Asmsociated Press HONOLULU. February were faken st Schofield Barra |containing alcohol as u result and and 1welve [ dismount and take him in hand. e of un he Rreen Veneznela ko se: two he old. T. Pope. the Bure: { Rio- | “ ey " ware weni trom , Port Deposit Citizens Go to Upper| just be. n what {W. R. T. to Be Given Clear Sale of All Liquids With Al- cohol Content May Be Sieps ck& to. an consideration taday of [day to prevent the sale of all lquids | of. the STAR. SHEFFIELD SILENT WASHINGTON ;New Epistle, Dealing With Land Laws, May Be De- livered Today. MEXICO ¢ 5 American Ambassudor g field. continues ahsolutely silent re note forwarded hy the United States Government to the Mexican gov ment _relating the Mexican and land laws which the embas- &y received in the diplomatic mail pouch vesterday morning. All the members of the embassy are similarly silent. Thus far the Am- bassador h delivared the note to the Mexican government: possi- biy he will deliver it today. t the embassy may or two to i 4. R. SHEFF 1t in intimated t issue @ statement within a d explaining the situation. Foreign Minister Nuenz declined to discuss the situation. but it wax sald in semi-oficial quarters that the Mexi cun officials do not regard it as seri ous. It was asserted that the ques. tions pending between the Mexican | heing discussed in a friendly manner. the | FLEE HIGH WATERS . FROM SUSQUEHANN Floors When Ice Gorge Causes Flood. SSIX ~ TOHALTRIVALRY SOLDIERS IN HAWAI | By the Amoeiated Pross. PORT DEPOSIT —Flood waters of River yesterday {dents of the lower Deposit 1o tha broary b. 1=quehanna Md.. the mection of Port =h water Is caused by an fee which the State ice hreaker | Annapolis. sent from sltimore. | Wedne: failed to clear. cks of {*he Pennsylvania vailroud remained six inches above the water, which re. ceded slightly late vestsrday SNOW-LADEN GALE CLAIMS 36 LIVES IN NORTHEASTERN U. S. (Continued from First Page.) |death vecierday of six soldiers from ! aleoholic poizoning ir tonic While a specisl board was inveatigating the cus: diers were still in a cr land three were recovering | poisoning. Some of the sick n also believed 1o have drink A native whisky. The six vietims al Within the spare of a few Wednesday night and vesterday {ing. Two of them were blind | dving | The a Warcester. Mass.: John Waterbury. Conn . and Hapgood. Lynn. Mass.. all 1st Infantry: Mont L. neh. W. Va. and Sam Canton. Ohlo. of the 27th Infant orge 8. Ha \iass, of B. « Geo i Duty, Srnest of the Ath Field Arulle All Lotions Selred. Army officiais declined to x rames of the six in the hospit A a precautionary measu {men in the post have bee; report to the hospital of consequen it cney drinking anything. v Fvery conceivable form of medicine | | container enlisted el seized by company commande 11 Army post exchanges wer sacked In the sfforts to find the of the “hair tanie” denths, So drastic commanding officers th ssihility of poisoning tha al_ Schofleld Barrack: largest militnry re<ervatia United Statex. havinz a pe: | strength of 12,000 enlisted mei marshaled to the parade grou hear submit 1o mediately. Meanwhile Maj. Gen. Hawalian Depariment and Maj. Gen. W including were preve [ die medical sxaminati afficials territorial health tienlars of the conference. It was learned from =ource. howev | will be called into conference row to deiermine “French perfumery” of the privates, whether {er Arinking bay rum. obtained at the |t 8 L fewhere It was salq ' depth in the rerminal ey thres Sol- | 1 condition | off Menomy m the en are haos diea hours The men died aft. | Ganzs of men labored with shovels + remove drifts from 2 to 4 feet in rds. lightship, which itx moorings when the Its height. wax beached Point. and the oast {Guard cutters Red Wing and Tusca- ra were ordered io iix assistanes i The Nantucket Hghtship. which alse {was carried away from it position. | sent word that it was making for Vinevard Haven under lts own steam. The Pollock Rip hroke from storm was ar v morn- | before Devio, | Y Brien. ge . mpa Dy Stone. | Weimar ry. and ze ive the al i e been men's onal supplies of toilet lotlons, was re and re ran. the orders from nt fur tevery the | of the | which cansed the 8 KILLED IN FOUNDRY. Another Reported Dying — Snow Brought Collapse of Wall. | NEW BRITAIN. Conn. February 5 (#).— After an all-night search of | the ruins of the foundry of the North | & Judd Manufacuring Co.. i by the collapse of a wall vesterday, police reports today showed 8 dead and 13 In the hospital. one of whom was not expected to live. Prepara- tlons were made by city officials to- day to Investigate the catastrophe, by the on the i bellevad 1o have heen caused welght of great piles of snow | roof. Rev. Walter i | | i | 1. Lyddy of St. Catholic Church was one heroes of the accident. He admin- !istered the last rites of the church to some of the dying men. To reach one man he was forced to drop down on a pile of snow and work his way through a small opening in the wreckage. Firemen. policemen and { workers, luboring under the glare of great arc lights. tolled through the night In the search for bodies. Mary's of the volunieer time | n. was inds o rigid orders read and warned to on im- M. Lewis. | commander, | 1. Smith. commander | (). —Coast guards from Barnegat | at_Schofield Rarracks, conferred with | tion, board of | hut were silent as to the par- reliable . that customs officiain | day tomor- any TUGBOAT IN DISTRESS, Coast Guardsmen From Barnegat Station Go te Rescue. ASBURY PARK. N. J.. February 5 in command of Capt. Palmer. launched a lifeboat today when a tug 2 miles off shore flew distress signals. Seas were smonth and the crew did Inot anticipate a repetition of vester. hazardous undertaking. when Palmer. with captains of three Capt. nther statfons and nine men. battled | has heen con-!three hours (o rescue the crew of the ! signed to Sehofield Barracks, ax there | harge Metropolitan 21. lare reasons to belleve. it wa = sald, | Sandy Hook coast guards today an- that such may be found ultimately to | rounced that the harge Vapor of the | he the cause of the sudden deaths. that the Ari n elue French pe: into the Army § have been purchased by men. The deaths day fullowing pay day. A that uninbeled hag beed sm Mcers are working on | Wednesday nuggled rvecently and may the entisied occurred on the | Policeman Is Dismissed. Police Private H. A. Dwalt nth precinet | the Police Department by | triet Commissioners today | meadation of Maj. Fdw:n superintendent. He was char intoxication while on dut; 1 on of the Dis- recom- ne B. Hense, | [Fame Costs Volstead Poise and Sleep: v the Associated Prese. PHILADELPHA Pa., February 5. | —Andrew J. Volstead, father «f the | Federal prohibition law, was photo- { graphed here today much against hin will. He also displayed vigorous op- position to being Interviewed paper men, declaring that he is con- i stantly annoyed day snd night for Ihis_views on prohibition enforcement. | Volstead Federal District Cour control of alcohol permit With him | ware Maj. Roy A. Havnes, chiet of the enforcement division in Washing- |ton, and former Judge J. J. Britt, chief { counnel of the prohibition department. “Tam just a lawyer.” Volatead said. ‘1 am here on legal business. 1 don’t want to he hothered, and I won't be hothered.’ He was asked to pose for a photo- sraph. “'No, @0, no,” he ex’:!mefl. | a test muit on as here to argue in the | coaxed chair around a desk. Volstead's hat still “If I had known I photographed 1 would not ha ten Into thia case,” he said. 1 haven't posed for a pict: 20 years. 1 don't like it and reason for it." ta {while the cameraa clicked. Referen to the report Church Temperance Soclety Episcopal Church. favoring a no comment on the subject. ing interviews.” have hean held up to ridicule. least 25 timea. 10 minutes aleep. Everybody sisting on Interviews.” Resents Request to Pose for Picture drawing his i protected his id be ve got- ure for ses no He gritted his teeth and sat still of the of the modifi- cation of the prohibition law, broughy “I have adopted a rule against gi Volstead sald. “Last night my phone hell rang at 1 don’t think 1 got was in- % | Howard Towing Co. of New York, re- | | _From other sources it was learned ' por lost with her crew of three on night. was anchored off expensive | Spermace(ti Cove with a tug standing by. Three persons were seen on board. ! BATTLE SNOW BRIFTS, el Forces at West of Cumberiand. Dispatch 10 The Sta MBERLAND, Md.. Februa [s Sre C was dismissed from |Tpe Siate road authorities of have w drifta both land and Pennaylvania torces battling with s sast and west of Cumberland. Th |and had not ceased late yesterday. At | Frostburg it ¢ontinued, while at Cum- berland, 11 miles east and 1,000 feet | lower, it had ceased and the sun was | shining at intervals. Motorists were | marooned both east and weat of thin |city. The bux line hetween Frostburg {and Uniontown was tied up a= it was |batween Hagersyown and Cumberiand. { Many motor cars were abandoned and shelter was sought in tarmhousen. Lincoin Highway Blecked. LINDEN, N. J., February 5 ®).— The Lincoln highway passing through here was blocked by buge snowdrifts today. Crews of men worked all night, but made little headway in clearing the road. At one time 70 automoblies were stuck in drifts or held up by stailed cars on the highway. Virginla Snow Winter Record. Specia! Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va.. Fehrui 5.—~The ieepent snow of the Winter is now cov- ering all of northern Virginia. The depth on the level is 9 inchea, though in the mountain regions it has drifted to a depth of 3 and 4 fest. The snow in many instances in the Blue Ridge is holding up travel. | Shet- | ot | and United States governments were | wrecked | Work East and | fall | ed With | was about 16 Inchea In the mountainm s DL FRIDAY, ‘SPANISH AVIATORS MAY DELAY FLIGHT G Crush of Boats in Rio de Janiero. e By the Aesociated Presa. RIO DE JANEIRO, Febrmary 5. — Raesumption of the fiight Buenos | Alres by the Spanish transutlan: aviators, tentatively fixed for Sunda | may have 10 he poatponed. 1t develops that their seaplane was slightly damaged by the crush of sur- rounding bouts after Comdr. Franco #nd his comrades arrived yvesterday from Pernambuco. | Parents Opposed Career. | MADRID. February 5 (#).—An inti | mate sidelight on the history of | Comdr. Ramon Franco, pilot of | Spanish seaplane Plus Ultra, ia print ed today by the Zarpa of article savs “the Jackal always want ed 10 be & soldier, much to the dislike of his parents. who desired him to choose another career. There are three children in the Franco family. Ra- 1on s the voungesr. The mirdian has & brother, the famous Gen. Fran. co. who distinguished himself asx com- mander of the Forelgn Legion in Mo- rocco. Ha also has a sister. The only message received by ! parents fiom him was one announcinz {ihe commencement of wix Aight to | outh America He promised nother he would inform her esached Buenox Aires. Had Three Accidents. Since he tosk up avi { escapea uninjuied. wan wreeked near Madrid and later his machine fell at Guadalajara. The {1ast accldent wax when hix plane drop- ned inin the sea at Gilwaltar. Franco |and the crew remained on board until they were rescued hv a passing vessel. | Feanea is small in stature and ex {tremely shy. hut he gained quick ad vancement in the ariny by hix de cisive manner of action. Once his ININE D. C. ARCHITECTS | ARE SELECTED T0 DESIGN IDEAL HOMES l Page.) afternoon drove resi- | (ontinied from First upper floors of their | strests and to he erected hy | Catritz Construction Co. 1 of row houses will be of English de. sign the Nine Architects Meet. Considerable forethought has been to the various designs chosen far for the types. A meeting of the nine architacts was held ves. terday and the entire scheme of the | plan of co-operation between the build- s the varfous committees nd wll concerned was outlined. Tomo: incheon meeting will be held &t the Cosmos Club, 4t which the nine builde will meet with the committee under the chairmanship of | Assistant Engineer Commissioner Ravmond A. Wheeler and the archi tects’ advisory committee under Horace W. Peaslee. Al this meeting the builders and architects will hold a8 preliminaiy conference to discuss the variofs detalls before actively be. ginning 10 design and plan the houses. : PRAISE STAR'S CAMPAFK | Ivy City Citizens Indorse Model Home Movement. i | The Ive City Citizena' Association lat jts regular meeting Tuesday In- ! dorsed the model home movement ! now being carried on by The Evening Star. The committee on improve. ments reported it _had been Informed by the District Commissioners that electric lighting could not he previded for the streets of that section at pres. | ent, ax facilities for such lghting did !not_ extend hevond Marviand avenue. The Commissioners ere sald to | have promised to give thorough con- { sideration to the matter of improved sidewalks In and around Ivy City | The association voted to appoint del | gates 10 the Federation of Citizens Associations and take an active part In lts work. | LEAVES CRIPPLED SHIP. eneral supervisory i o | German Freighter Tows Furness H Line Vessel to Azores. North German Llovd freighter Han- nover. which on Thursday wirelessed that she had gone to the ald of the Furnes: Line freighter Manchester Producer. in distress with a broken | rudder, repoited today that she had dropped the crippled ship from tow off the Azores and was proceeding to New York. The message to the lne's oMcer: did not state whether the Manchester Producer had been [ to make repairs to her rudder | was assumed that she was able to proceed to port under her own power. MAN ADRIFT RESCUED. ASBURY PARK. > 5 (#). -Seven men from the Sandy ! Hook Coast Guard station. night worked their way through the ice and rescued a man from a Penn- | sylvania Rallroad barge. drifting in | Sandy Hook Bay. It was one of two empty barges which broke away from the tug Susan Moran Wednesday night in the storm. The other barge is aground off Asbu Tugs were stand- ing by other es anchored off the coast. i i | N February Horse Wrecks Mail Plane. DES MOINES, lowa, February 5 (#).—The westbound air mall plane, Chicago to Omaha, was wrecked at the air mall fleld here last night when Pllet John Biffle, in landing, ran into a horse. The pilot escaped Will Meet Kemal Pas BEIRUT, Syria. February 5 (#) Henry de Jouvenal, the French high commissicner in Syria. I8 going to An gora. the Turkish capital. to confer with the President. Mustapha ‘Kemal Pasha. and others. FEBRUARY Plane Slightly Damaged by the | nse. The | his | his | when he “Thir group | and nine architects | EW YORK, February 5 (#).—The | able | but it | late last | 5. 1926. ! MURDERER’S SON GOES TO CHAIR UPHOLDING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT| Protests “Injustice” of Execution, But Tells Warden Lawes He Hopes Drive to Abolish Death Penalty Will Fail. By the Associsted Press. OSSINING, N. Y., February 5.— Protesting against the “injustice” his own execution, Maithew Wass whose father was hanged, opposed | abolition of capital punishment al- | most on the brink of the electric chair. He told Warden lLawes, who gave the fatal order to his executioner last night. that he hoped the warden's campaign for the abolition of e death penalty would fail. Wasser was electrocuted with Er- nest Mimms. negro. who killed D tective Chester A. Hagan a year ago in the Bronx. Wasser was convicted of murdering Howard Huff, a Niagara Falls paymaster, in & hold-up. During Wasser's appeal from con vietion two Civil War veterans plead. ed with a judge in order that Wasser | be executed under his own name, 1o save that of an old comrade from dis- grace. Wasser, [son of Louis Peter Otto, who was | hanged in 1885 for the murder of his wife. He was adopted by Of | Wasser and took his foster father's name. The judge told the veterans he could do nothing. I feel that this ix | #n injustice.” Wasser said before he went the chair, “because [ am only | one out of the seven implicated, and ' the one who fired the shot escaped my | fate.” He expressed himself as indifferent as to whather he lived or not. how- ever. and then told Warden Lawes he'| disagreed with him as to the abolition | of capital punishment. “I hope you will not he movement you m{‘o he said. | 1 h Wasser and that Matthew ! he successful are undertak- | Mimms insisted | their coffee should be good at their last dinner. The anonymous ex ecutioner employed last week hy War- den Lawes strapped them in the ch nd closed the «witch that ended their | lives EPISCOPAL GROLP COUNCIL ELECTED New Governing Body of! | Washington Diocese Chosen at Convention. th the MRS, NORTON HITS COMPENSATIONACT Her First Bill Proposes to Strike Out Dependency Clause in Law. | | | Mrs. Mary T. Norton. Democra New Jersey, today presente [ bill 1n the House. saving, |in behalf of the de- | pendents of veter. ans who made the supreme sacrifice in the late war." | She proposes to strike out what | she calls he un | just and discrimi- | natory dependency | clause in the ad- Liusted compensa- tion act.” Mrs. Members of the new executive coun- cil of the Washingion dlocese of the | Episcopal Church, which will conduct | the business of the diocese in the! | place of the board of sovernors and | the many committees aholished hy the convention, were elected late vester day at the close of the twentyv-third | annual convention of the diocese at! All Souls’ Memorial Episcopal Church. | Six clerical membews of the council | cted were: [ev. . W. Warner of | | 1 do this Alban's Church: Rev. H. Alien Griffith, chaplain of 1he Soldiers’ Home and secretary of the dioe Rev. George F. Dudley of St phen’s Church. Rev. William L. Vries. canon of the Washingion Cathe. | dral: Rev. Z. B. Phillips of the Church {of the Epiphany, and Rev. Robert Johnaton of St. John's Church. Six lay members are: H. T. Nelson. H. P. Blair, Stephen Kramer, E. L. Stock, Dr. W Bowen and Byron Adams. Norton said. 1 have had patheric cases called to my at tention where zold-mar mothers were denied 1he adjusted compen- sution because actual dependency was not proven. Mrs. Norton s a member of the House committes on World War vet- ans' legislation and of the House District committee plaining why she is so deeply interested in thix legisiation as to <elect it ax the first measure to be sponsored by her, xhe sald: 1 have had two cases where the wives of | deceased veterans were denied 1his | compensation hecause of the fact that they could not prove actual depend ency on the veteran at the time of his death. Sad to relate. in hoth these | cases the veterans had failed to do their duty. hefore heing drafred. o their famil | “"Because of the fact that the vet.| l'eran had failed to support his family | must his wife be denied compensa tion?"" Mrs. Norton asked. MKS. NORTON. Bishop Is Member. Other members will be Ilight Rev James E. Freeman. who as Bishop Washingion is an e fMicio and president of the council: H | Rust, ex-officic member by rexson | his being treasurer of the diocese an tieasurer of the Phillips fund commit tee. and & layman apd a clergyman to ‘ha elected by each ®f the two arch- deaconries, and clergymen 10 be appointed by the hishop. Earlier in the afternoon members of the important standing commitiee were announced as follows Rev George F. Dud Rev. H. & Smith Rev. J. W . Rev. Joseph Fletch. er. M. Benjamin, | H. W. Bowen and W. €. Rives. | The ‘following deputies to the pro- | | vineial synod were elected: Rev. In G. W. Atkinson. Hev. Dr. G. C. F.| Rratenahl, Rev. 8. Dunlap. Rev. | 'W. Whitmore. Comdr. . T. Jeweil Stephen B Kramer. H. P Blair and . Stock. A number of important resoligions were adopted by the convention. On report by Arthur 8. Browne. chancel- | 1ov of the diocese. consolidation of the St Stephen’s and the Inearnation ' parishes was approved and the right 1o vote for certain church officials | was granted to woman communicants | of the Willilam and Mary parishes of | | Charles County, Md.: | parish, Immaniiel parish in Anacostia, St. James parish, St. Stephen’s parish and Transfguration parish. Thix suf- frage now is granted to most of the iscopal parishes Appropriation is Veted. | An appropriation of $3750 was | | voted for publicity work of the din- which _includes publication of | ‘hureh Militant | 'On a motion hy Rev. Mr. Warner | the date of the convention was!| changed for next vear from Februa | to May. The archdeaconry of Washington was abolished and a new one created | the Northern Maryland Archdeaconr The proposed treaty with Turkey which is now pending in the Unit<d| | States Senate. was condemned by the nvention because no provision was made in the document anteeing | protection for Christian Armenians. | A resolution calling for a declay tion of the National Council of the | Episcopal Church regarding means of bolishing war was sidetracked when | Bishop Freeman asked thai his siate- ments in his annual cnarge Le allowed | to stand as the voice of the conven-| tion. Bishop Freeman emphasized | in making the request, tha: he had scrupulously avoided making pacific | statements. Mr. Rrowne w. i n (Iongresu‘ ATE. of the continued publicity Consideration tion bill was income tax bhefore the Senate. A resolution by Senator Capper of Kansas authorizing an inv iga- tion Into coal prices in the District of Columbla, and employment of accountahts (o make such an inve tigation was adopted without ep- position. Senator opeland of New York sought 1o set aside the tax bill to take up his resolution granting the President certain powers to deal with the coal strike. His motion was defeated. 48 to 28, The military affairs committes be- zan hearings on the Wadsworth hill for an Army aviation program The subcommittee on privileges and elections continued considera- tion of the chall ‘The interstate tee conaidered further railroad con- solidation. tax reduc with the clause repeal [ | the @ HOUSE. House expects to finish eration today of deficie priation bill. Subcommittees of House appro- committee are today in_ executive session e and Justice independent rmmerce and labor n bills. Hearing on aviation hefore naval affairs commlittee Hearing on rallroad labor dis- putes before interstale commerce commities Hearing hefore foreign affairs committee on proposal for acauir- ing sites for United States for- eizn embassy. Hearing hefore military affairs committee on department of n tional defense with “Billy"” Mitchell as principal witness. Hearing on Boulder River be- iore commlittee on irrigation and reclamation. Regular meeting of post office and post roads committee. Merchant marine committee con- siders Davis amendment to White rgdio control bill. Subcommiitee of the judiciary committee holds henring on fees for jurors and witness. Committee on industrial ar and expositions continues hes ings on Philadelphia Sesqulice tennial celebration. —e =i Edison in Florida. FORT MYERS. Fla., February & | ) —Thomas A. Edison arrived here | vesterday to spend the remainder of | the Winter at his home on the Calooa- | hatchie River. He was greeted at the station by Newton D. Baker, Secre- |tary of War under the Wilson admin. istration. whe is a visitor. Mr. Rdison is accompanied by Mra. Fdison and twe grandsons. Ted and Jack Sioan. -elected chancel- | lor of the diocese. Mr. Rust wax rve.| elecied treasurer. H. Allan Griffith was re.elected secretary. Chacles J.! Bell and Mr. Rust wore named trus. | teex of the Episcopal fund for the | bishop's salary, Mr, Bell and J. I.| Mayfleld were named trustees of the charitable work »f the rhurch and A. P. Crenshaw and Mr. Rust were named trustees of the diocesan church fund. COAST GUARD BOAT SAFE. 234 in Dutch Harbor—Another Seeks Block Island Refuge. NEW LONDON, Conn, foot Coast February § iuard patrol . which failed to answer to lls sent out from the base here Wednesday night and yesterday { the western entrance to Narragansett Bay. The craft was on patrol duty far off Block Island when the storm broke and made sheiter only after a rifie str The patrol boat 186, | reported yesterday in trouble off Block | Island. arrived safely at Block Island. Coast Guard headquarters here By the Asscciated Press. NEW YORK, February §.—For the first time in many years the tinkie of sleigh bells is heard along Fifth and Park avenues today. Old-time cabbles took advantage of the partial paralysi of metor traffic to haul forth ancient horse-drawn sleighs and cutters and patroled the streets for fares. Some charged $15 per hour, and they report- ed plenty of fares at those rates. Meanwhile a feree of 20,000 men, hun- dreds of trucks, tractors and ather equipment were pressed into service 1o expedite the werk of clearing the city streets of mm - The fire haza, n-tumng- Sleighs at $15 an Hour in New York Have Plenty of Fares; City Snowbound patrol boat Eagle was proceeding to the aid of an unidentified v re- ported in distress in Vineyard Sound. A sUff gale was blowing and the small- er patrol boats were held in port. MOTHER'S PLEA WINS. Parent of Child Killed by Auto Gets Clemency for Driver. PATERSON, N. J., February 5 (") A mother's plea for mercy in sen: blocked streets made it neceasary that “I"I:I work be pushed as rapidly as pos- sible. The city has 1,100 miles of streets and the cost of clearing this area has been estimated at $1,000,000 or more. Hundreds of tenants have been driven into the.drifted atreets by apart- | tencing a driver who ran down and ‘ment house fAire killed her 10-year-old son resulted in A fire in a factory building in West |a six-month jail sentence instead of Twenty-ninth street early today forced |a term in State prison for Willlam 200 persons to fiee their homes in adja- | MeVittie of Relleville. cent buildings. The firemen, unable| McVittie pleaded guilty to man- te reach the building with their ap- slaughter in the death of Henry paratus, were forced to_extend hose | Wolfe. Judge Delaney, in sentencing lines across the New York Central him te jail, teld him that the request Rallway tracks. Four milk trains[of the mother, Mrs. Julla Woife had ‘were delayed for an hour. 1nfuenced him t¢ reduce the senten 2 | proposed amend | jurisdiction jto relieve {jurisdiction over member | Prince Georges | {tax hill. as the Senator | registatio {the Interstate ‘ommerce Commission is reported safe in Dutch Harbor at | were advised today that the 100-foot | COMMITTEE GETS COUNGHS REPORT House D. C. Body Given Rec- ommendations of Citizens’ Organization. The House District day received from Jesse chafrman of the Citizens’ Council of the District of Columbi: minous report of the cou recommendations 1o the ) m ioners, which was made public in December. This report from the coin- cil was officially requested by the Dis trict committee at its last meeling The principal recommendation con cerns fiscal relations. including a pro posed hill to provide a permanent plan for the equitable apportfonment of the fiscal obligations hetween the Federal Government and the District of Ca- lumbia. Other matters committe ecommended include repeal of the so-called Borland amend ment, elimination of grade crossings opening. widening and straightening | of streets where benefits equal to dam ages cannot be found: vacating certain streets in the Walter Reed IHospital area and the extension and widening of Fourteenth street. a new huildi for the office of recorder of deeds proposed amendment to real and p sonal tax laws of the District of ¢ lumbia and a proposed amendment of the law providing for taxation of na- tional banks, trust companies and sav- ing banks in the District of Columbia. Important among the recommenda - tions is proposed amendment to the public utilitles law viding for differently constitut commissior proposed election Roard Education hy th bhill establish A hoar welfare ents to the Distrier of Columbia traffic act: a hill 1o pro- vide a complete code of insurance law for the Distriet: a hill ta amend the Puhlic Library organic act: a hill to amend the zoning law a bhill authorize the ening of minor street from Georgia avenne to Ninth street: the bill to transfer from the of the office of publie buildings and public parks the District Commissioners certain reser- vations: a bill to transfer 1o the jurisdiction of the District Commis- sioners a part of Anacostia Park for & tree nursery: a bill to provide for the examination and registration of eugineers in the Districi. and a pro- posed amendment of the act o regi- late plumbing and gas Atting in the of [Imnnrv ! The council approved with sundry amendmients the proposed hill t large the powers of the District Com- missioners egarding suggesied modificatlon of the hudget law so e Bureau of the Budzet of estimates and ap- the I 1. the s that action me. 1= adversely lNed “hlue on- { propriati for counc ommer be taken at this The counell re he proposed so law. " COAL PROBE.GIVEN SENATE AUTHORITY TO AUDIT LEDGERS (ontinned from no on | First Page) man Smoot of the finance committes previously had ohjected 1n a unani mons consent agreement. on the ground that it would delay considera tien of the tax bill. Borah Calis for Action. Senator Edwards. Democrat. Jersey, tald the Senate that I're Coolidge “should and must” act, as | Roosevelt and Harding had done. He {said his State, in common with others was snowbound and the people suffer ling Jew ent - Copeland. who renewed his was accused by Senator Smoot of flibustering. The New York enator replied that it his elorts “to ivering humantiy” was filibus . then he was filibustering It is more important to relieve humanity than it is te relieve prop erty.” Senator Copeland declared However, I favor the passage of the from Utah When Senator Cope land announced that he weuld daily for consideration of his re tion. Senator Rorah. Reput Idaho. told him his resolution have ne effect whateve It is time to dn something hesides pass resolutions.” Senator Borah said If we are going inta this let us enact giving the President and well knows, “will power to act.” PINCHOT SEEKING PEACE. Meels With lLewis, Asks Legislature for Help. PHILADELPHIA, (#).—Gov. Pinchot. who last night con- ferred with John L. Lewis, head of the miners’ organiza on’ the hard coal sirike situation, today made a “demand” upon members of the Penn- vivania Legislature to give anthra- cite mining measures and other hills “full and falr consideration.” This, he declared, had heen promisad by W. Harry Ba chairman of the Re- publican State committee, at the out- set for the extra sessinn of the Gen. eral Assembhly. Both the governor and Mr. continued to maintain silence regard ing their meeting. They were in con- ference for an hour and 15 minutes, but neither gould reveal what was discussed. The Governor ever, about the Legislatu acterizin favorable act House mines committee 1 Lills as “unworthy t he declared it is “commonly re- poried” that the same method will be used by the orgaunization in dealing ith other meusures and that the bills ‘whose passage is so gently needed will be pickled or otherwise put out | of the way. | I protest against such unworthy tactics in dealing with great public necessities. The coal crisis constitutes a great and pressing emergency. To many thousands of Pennsylva | is nothing le: ) | Nothing appeared on the surface | today to indicate any change in the strike situation. The mining region is Adigging itself out of the worst snowstorm of the Winter. Relief agencies in all_parts of the region, who for weeks have heen feeding the hungry, made further appeals for funds, which are said to he sorely needed. The lines gathering at the | soup Kitchens and other relief sta- | tions were reported to be increasing | rapidly. MAY ASK FOR EVIDENCE. Recommendation that the Federal Trade Commission be asked for the evidence it obtained from the Aluminum Co. of America was made to the Senate yesterday by the Senate judiclary commitiee. Chair- man Cummins of the committee may ask for action on the recommendation today. The evidence in question has heen held hy the commission to he confidenti; It it is turned o to the Senate it would be available to the Department of Justics in its in quiry te determine whether the Aluminum Cn. has viclated Federal Court decrees. Pa., February 3 Lewis talked freely, how- Char- on of the 1 adminis-