Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1926, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight, mintmum temperature about 22 degrees; tomor- row falr. Temperatures—Highest, 55, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 38, at 7:40 cport on page 9. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Fntered as second class matter ‘Washington, " BRITAINTODEMAND GERMANY ONLY GET SEAT ON COUNGIL Reports Say London Still Stands Pat on Obedience to Locarno Terms. SOP WILL BE OFFERED TO SPAIN AND POLAND Maneuvers Planned to Delay Ad- mission of Two Countries to League Body Posts. <ociated Preas. NDON, March ernment alread ittitude tow ng the permanent seats in the ons Council, it is stated el informed quarters. It opposes Poland, Spaln or any cor - {lan Germany a permanent , leaving the question ease for future dis- The Pritish s _determined i stated that Great Britain holds he striet fulfiliment of the Locarno y terms. The British allowing Germany a permanent on a council of the present sta- ondly, they hope, at a meet- the Locarno signatories prior coming council meeting, to commission appointed to con- * the applications of Poland and v permanent seats, if such plications are made. in effect, would postpone the n of these two countries to s until the assembly in ing / Spain May G apinion s expr to obtain a permanent seat for nd will have to be dropped for a vears, but that Spain will be ac- a permanent seat eventually t either country will forthcoming ances, Poland possibly uarantee of a temporary the action of the next assem- Apointment of a commission to deal with the cases of Spain and Poland 1s belleved to be assured Tha British_cabinet is anxious to maintain the Locarno treaty and un- ng to take any step which might | nger the results expected it. ddress of Sir Austen Chamber- n of increasing the seats in the R00( An Inin on the que: mber of permanent incil has Leen received somewhat eoldly by a parliamentary committee. The people generally still oppose stand. Although address dditing of the foreign secretary's day was at a private conmnittee, from what has been gleaned of it he did not re- cede from his previous position in favor of an enlary He denled having reached any ement with M. Briand, the premier, on the subject in /. but he did not deny that an lerstanding was reached at Locar- an enlargement of the council, irrently ) ue and without the knowl- ny Compromise Forecast. trom Geneva Indicate a the dispute will compel . when they arrive there ach a compromise council's meeting begins next Monday. It Is thought Geneva that the trouble may be eitled by electing Germany and n to permanent seats and putting among the non-permanent t vacant by the elevation of that loma xt Sunday, reement onats e Bpain Anothe rmula from Geneva is the number of non-permanent aliotted to Latin America be reased from two to three, the per- vation of the third seat Chile and Argentina, would hold it in turn, Auste in suggesting that in the negotia- ared that if he n of the course st it must be | iston. Support Qu st how far Sir A the other stioned. ten will be sup- ministers in his n, but it js for the rumors crisls and that the n before he such unmistakable in vent a natio promised by his per. Germany being 1 de by the on the matter notwithstanding upposed desire to Compromi: NEVA * Move Seen. March 2 (8. is re- Great nd thej [ n 0 ceupied | treaty winning Compromise so- lem of reconstruct Natlons counctl. LARGEST SUPPLY BILL IN PEACE TIME SIGNED Coolidge 0. K.'s $868,281,501 Measure for Treasury and Post Office. ated Press tdent Coulidge today signed the reest peacetime appropriation bill story—the annual supply measure ¢ and Post Office De- ving $868,281,501. The bill was the first of the yearly mppropriation measures to reach the White House. Of its total $738,805.303 s to meet Post Office Department cx- penses during the fiscal, year begin- ning July 1. This is more than $100.- 000,000 .in excess of the amount ap- * propriated a year ago for the two de- partments. intend, | counell | sment of the coun- | with Germany's entry into | he | - | Los Angeles Prosecutors Start for D. C |KING ALFONSO AND QUEEN TO FLY | TO BUENOS AIRES WITH FRANCO | Briliiant Air Entourage of Ten Planes Will Make \ i Long Trip. ‘Spanish Airman Takes | Spectacular Dare of | His Monarch. By the Associated Press. { PARIS, March 2—The Journal says it learns from the Parls correspondent of the Diario Universal of Madrid that | King Alfonso of Spain plans to fly to Argentina for his contemplated visit to outh America, piloted by Comdr. ranco of the seaplane Plus Ultra, He will be accompanied by Queen Vie- torfa, Premier Primo de Riviera and a brilliant suite. Ten seaplanes will com- prise the royal fleet and they will fol- low exactly the same route that Franco took across the ocean and down to | Buenos Alres, but the jumps will be shorter, Alfonso, the corre: Journal, conceived th when the news of Fr: rival in Buenos Alres re The King broached the subject in a | ;able conversation with ¥Franco | » take me to Argen- | tina by alr?” the King is said to have | asked. | “Your majesty, It would be a most | | slotous feat for me,” replied Franco. “Are you sure you can do it? | | *Your majesty, most certainly, and i with absolute safety. The Journal says that Alfonso imme- {ditely decided to make the trip. That was why Franco and his companions were ordered back to Spain by ship. As soon as they arrive work will be begun in building 10 specially constructed planes. On the arrival of the royal fleet at Buenos Aires the plane in which Al- fonso 13 a passenger will be preceded by another loaded with Valencia roses, BIMBA CONVICTED ON SEDITION COUNT Acquitted of Blasphemy.‘ Takes Appeal in Other Case | From $100 Fine. pondent told the | 21 of the flight | 100’s saf Upper: KING ALFONSO. Lower: QUE! VICTORIA, | which will be dropped on the waiting crowds. The monarch when he alights will w 1s of the roses. The arrangements for thé visit are in charge of Fernando Diaz de Men doza, husband of the actress Maria Querrero, from whom the correspond- s he learned of the plan in a The correspondent does been the reaction of . Gen. Primo de Rivera Is who are listed to to the plan. and other make the journey SPY LOSES IN RACE. Young Lincoln Hanged Before Father Arrives After Dash From East. By the Assoclated Preas. LONDON, March 2.—A motorlous spy’s race with the hangman was lost today. Ignatius Lincoln, alias John Lincoln was executed for murder with- out having his father. Tribich Lincoln, exiled former M. P., who had started from the Far East when he heard of the death sentence. He want- ed to bid his son good-by The father arrived in France yes- terday, but had not appeared at Shep- ton Mallet Prison when the time for the execution arrived. The son, a 23 vear-old artilleryman, convicted of killing a householder during a bur- glary Christmas Eve, left a letter for { By the Associated Press. | BROCKTON, Mass., thony Blmba, who was tried blasphemy under an anclent Ma chusetts statute and for sedition, won and lost in Plymouth County District Court here today. Judge C. Carroll King, who presided at the trial of the young Lithuanian editor last week, to- {day found him guilty on the sedition count, but not gullty on the blasphem: charge. | A fine of $100 was imposed on the |sedition conviction. The maximum penalty under the State law is a fine of $1,000 and three years' imprison- ment. An appeal was taken by Harry Hoffman, counsel for the defense, and { Bimba was released on $300 bond. The charges were based on utter- |ances at a meeting here January 26. Fighting Questio The court stated that in making the | finding of guilty on the sedition char; |1t took into consideration the fact th: {in the main portion of his speech { Bimba had kept within the limitations | of the sedition statute, but that his |crime had been committed in answers ‘;?.\di;&:-:“nu questions” put by lhel home of Richards, accompanied by “It was shown in the evidence that | 120 Stewart, 20 yvears old, to rob the the defendant said he himself gid not | Premises. Richards was shot when he believe in God,” Judge King said in |returned home and found the young | dismissing the blasphemy charge. “It |men there. Stewart was acquitted. In a letter |is not certain that he said more. It | to his sweetheart from jall Lincoln | seems apparent to most of us that | | there was no sense in his bringing |admitted that he fired the fatal shots. have never nurtured an evil in- | this statement into a protest against| *1 the Lithuanian government, but ap- |tent against any man,” said the let | parently it resulted from the fact, as|ter, “but what Yas |alleged In testimony, that hte Lithu- |paid for. What the result will be I can {anian government is clerical. not be certain. Whatever it is I can “Mr. Bimba somewhat naturally |take it, so you, too, darling, will havi touched upon the religious aspect of [to bear much.” (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) Lincoln yesterday received visits from his mother and his sweetheart, Lillian Brown Many persons see The authorities refused to delay the executlon as sought in petitions sign led by 50,000 persons. Boy Killed Salesman. Lincoln’s victim was Edward Rich- | ards, traveling salesman for a brew- ery Lincoln, who was Royal Horse Artiller: invaded the member of lingered about the jall until after midnight, expecting the arrival of the father. The hang- ing_ was at 8 a.m., as scheduled. The full name of the executed man was lgnatius Emanuel Napthli Tri bich Lincoln, but he enlisted In the Royal Horse Artillery as John Lin- coln. 'NEW WITNESS FOUND IN TAYLOR MURDER Father Was Deported. Tribich Lincoln, the father, worked | for the German cause during the World War, playing hisrole of spy in England, the United States, Germany, Hungary and Austria. He was origl- nally an Austrian subject, but later be- came a naturalized Englishman. He was extradited from New York to England in 1916, tried by the Brit- ish on a charge of forgery and upon the conclusion of a brief prison sen- tence was deprived of his British citi- zenship and deported from Fngland. Later he went to whére he was in charge censorship under the shortlived Kapp regime. Fleeing to Austria upon the collapse of the Kapp government, he was ex pelled from that colntry in 1921 for ! Detroit and New York to In- vestigate New Angles. | By the Assoclated Press. | LOS ANGELES, March 2.—The Los Angeles Examiner says it has learned that District Attorney Asa Keyes and | Deputy District Attorney Harold I Davis secretly left here several daj ago for the East to investigate re- ntly unearthed clues in the William Desmond lor murder case. A mystery witness who has been ng since Taylor, a motion picture | director, was found &lain in his home here some four years ago, is under- stood by the newspaper to have been located in Detroit, and the district at torney and his assistant are declared | (ré4sonable activities. to have proceeded to that cit He was in Colombo, ( rom Detroit the officers will go to | Dews reached him that v York and there interview two [been convicted of murder known motion picture stars, the | tenced to death. Filled with remorse, miner says. he Is reported to have writen to the Though an exhaustive investigation | son: was made, during which many film fy sins seem to have been visited actors and actresses were questioned. | on your head and I pray you will for- |Taylor's murder was never solved. | give me before you die. If T had been Edward Sands, the director’s valet and | 1 better father this might not have | secretary, disappeared at the time and | happened und I am filled with a ter. | was never located. rible regret for my past.” | m vion, when his son had W = .Carol Reported Planning to Flee Paris | To Escape Horde of Female Relatives | | | Bs the Associated Press. | Lupescu, the daughter of a Jew PARIS, March Z—With an anticl-| merchant of Jassy. It has beeq oo pated converging upon him by female serted that there has been a lessening | relatives, his former morganatic wife|here by Carol of the attentions he and persons connected with the royal|showed the blue- court of Rumania, former Crown|an while they were togethe rin Milan. Prince Carol is said to be planning a| There is considerable speculation get-awqy across the channel to Eng-(as to what the attitude of Carol will land to evade them. be toward Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his Carol stlll is keeping closely to his|former morganatic wife, who has ar- apartment in the hotel here, and the |rived here—whether she is among more curfous of the guests have seen | those whom he is endeavoring to ut little of i m |eyade, or wh it 1s his purpo SON 1S EXECUTED appened must be | and sen-| ved Rumanian wom. | ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BROOKHART FORCES DEMAND - DECISION ON SEATIN SENATE Suspect Attempt to Delay Action to Prevent His Op- posing Cummins. jSUBCOMMITTEE WILL | FAVOR STECK, IS BELIEF | | | | { | { Democrats Want to See Fight for Nomination in Towa—Scent Political Tangle. BY G. ULD LINCOLN, Demand for early determination | the Senate of the coutest brought | by Danlel F. Steck, Democ for | the seat in the Senate now occupled by Senator Brookhart of Iowa, in-| surgent Republican, is helng made by supporters of Senator Brookhart. The reason for this demand, aslde from the fact that the contest now | has been pending before the Senate for a year, lles in the lowa law | which compels candidates for nom- | inatfon for the Senate to flle their papers in the State by April 27. | Should Senator Brookhart be un- seated, it is his firm determination | to run for the Republican nomination | for the Senate against Senator Cum. | | mins, veteran Republican, who comes | | up for re-election this Il, and i | candidate to succeed himself. The { Towa primaries take place in June, | and in order to take port in the pri- | es, Senator Brookhart must have | name formally presented by the | last of April. | Suspect Opponents. The susp has d mong some of t supporter enator Brookhart that an effort is being made | | by some of his opponents on the Re. iblican side to delay action in the | Sepate until it s too late for Brook- | hart to get into for the Re. | publican noming inst Senator | | Cummins. Senator Ernst of Kentucky, Repub lican, chairman of the committee on privileges and electio; and also chairman of the subcommittee which | 15 investigating the Brookhart-Steck case, scouted such an dea today. H 1 that he was desirous of | bringing the Brookhart se to a con- clusion as early as possible. i “I hope that we will be able to have a meeting of the subcommittee Thurs day or Friday of this week,” said | Senator Ernst, that the subcor | mittee may proceed with its report, | Which will be submitted to the full committee as soon as it is completed The subcommittee, consisting of Sen- ator Ernst, chalrman, and Senators Watson of Tndiana, Caraway of Ar- | ka and George of Georg is understood, will file a report to Senator Brookhart, althou report still is to be drafted. Ultimate Action Doubtful. What the full commit Senate ftself will do is still & matter | of conjecture. A brisk fight in the | nate is expected, no matter which fttee reports v 17 Senator Br | wrote to Chairman Irnst 2 he call the committec to ake a report without de enate, so that action mi Some of the member: committee have been away or ar gaged in work of other committees which s the reason given for the de. | |lay. Counsel for the opponents of | Senator Brookhart 2 just filed a supplementary brief, learned | today, although the hearings and time | for fliing Lriefs closed January 28. | rom the political point of View, it | is not difficult to understand that reg- | ular Republicans would not be sors to sec the insurgent Senator, who at- | tacked the Republican national ticket |in 1924 and advocated the election | of the late Senator La Follette as| | President, eliminated from the Sen-| | The situation, however, is co siderably complicated by Senatc Brookhart’s threat to get into the | | race against Senator Cummins should | he be ousted from the Senate. lowa has been the hotbed of recent discon- | tent among the farmers, many of | whom have regarded Brookhart par- ticularly as their friend | and the i | way the comm ther and ay to the | ht by ; View of Democrats. | far as the Democrats are con-| | sy to understand that | i rookhart is to be unseated, the would not be sorry to see it happen | for him to make the race agafnst| ator Cummins in the lowa pri- aries. If Senator Brookhart should | win the Republican nomination, and | | the regular Republicans be | enough to change their vote in lArge | | numbers for a Democratic nominee |as they did for Steck, they might { elect a second Democrat. The para- vould then be presented of v Republican State represent- |ed by two Democrats in the United | States Senate. Or, on the other| hand, if Brookhart were elected, then | Jh»wn would he represented by one| | Democrat and by an insurgent Re- | | publican, who would continue to be |2 thorn in the side of Republicans. | The of the Senate subcommittee h: | contest to be exceedingly sides claiming victory by a narrow | | margin, ana basing their claims either | upon the intent of the voters or upon | strict observance of the Towa law lating to the marking of ballots. o close is the count, it fe said, that | | the case may be decided either wi ! depending upon the judgment of the | Senate as to the law and the facts. |“DICTATOR” MAY BE MAD. | | | | PRAGUE, Crechoslovakia, March | 2 (®.-—An attempt by Rudolf Roes- dler, an architect, to set himself up s dictator in the Karlsbad district | yosterday ended a few hours after the “coup” started. He will be ex- amined as to his sanity. . Roessler induced 40 of his employes | | to leave their work for the purpose | of occupying the district administra- | tion offices and arresting the district governor, but when they got as far as the police commissariat they found themselves outnumbered. | Jer and 18 of his companions rrested and the astonis raadt of nds, vote by the | shown the | lose. Both | recount «Coup” of Czechs Ends Disastrously in Few Hours. | sleull wa | smolder | the children and Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. (®) Means Associated Pr FIREMAN 1S KILLED AS CHIMNEY FALLS Three Injured by Shower of Bricks After Blaze Is Extinguished. nd three other Gieshoro A fireman was killed persons were injured Point, near the steel pla ay when the chimney which had b inders by fire, collapsed, shower of hot bricks down hters and sp: tors. man killed was ton, 1012 ' street south ympany, whose A when struck by 1 almost ins reduced sending @ on fire- housa, Edward F. talling brick. The injured y t of the eleventh pres Moreland of N 5 engine nd Al Moffitt of the news department of The Star, who was get- ting a fire when th chimney collapsed. Each of those hurt sustained bruises and cuts from the falling bricks, but none is in a serious condition. Fire Was Out. o ragedy occurred after the fire irtually inguished, and while engine company was engaged in the final “sprinkling down” of the ng embers. tOher pieces of fire apparatus had departed at 1 am. Just before the chimney in the eleventh precinct :nt out this final report About 11 o'clock No. - went on @ local alarm to Steel nt southeast fc 1 in two-story me dwelling owned by Washington teel and Ordnance Co., occupied by urice Mangum. House destroyed. > hurt.” ting-down process is thought to have caused the collapse. A family of four, occupants of the house, narrowly escaped when the fire was first discovered Mr. and Mrs. Mangum and their two children were asleep when the fire broke out. Mangum smeled smoke, rose and found the house on fire. In Imost every part of the house, he d, except the northwest corner, where Thelma Cecelia, 2 weeks old, and Joseph Andrew, 15 months old, were sleeping, the flames could be on the blaze engine com. Carried Children Out. Mangum and his wife carried out walked with them fle_over rough ground 1o neighbor for safety. Man- foot. He met J. L. Stew- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BILL TO ELIMINATE CROSSING APPROVED Senate District Committee Also Favors Opening New Street and Extending Road. almost a m the nea Favorable report on the bill to ‘Pllminn(» the Michigan avenue rafl- road grade crossing was ordered to- 1y by the Senate District committee, with one amendmment providing that the railroad company would not be required to pay for the lighting of the viaduct to be erected. The committee also voted to report favorably two other bills, namely: for the opening of a new street from inth street to Georgla avenue in the vicinity of the base ball park, and to provide for the opening and exten- | ston of Piney Branch road from Thir- teenth street to Butternut street and | its continuation to Thirteenth street extended. The committee will make an ad- verse report on the bill for the ex. tension of Rittenhouse street. A sub-committee held a hearing several days ago on the Michigan ave. nue grade crossing, at which the Dis- trict Commissioners and the Michigan Park Citizens' Association urged erec- tion of the viaduct. A number of property owners, who live adjacent 1o the crossing, objected to the bill, Senator Capper, at the suggestion of other members of the committee, will write to the District Commission- ers, asking them for the location of other railroad grade remaining in the District bia, together with methods of elimi- nating them. The deficiency appropriation bill, which is expected to become a law in a few days, includes the additional amount necessary to enable the Com- missioners to begin work at once on the elimination of the Lamond grade erossing at the northern end of the ot early to-f frame | to | t, pri- | crossings still | of Colum- | | | had_already | | fine of not les: | pre Guests “Stay Put” As Hostess Nails Place Cards Down By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 2.—Mrs. Howard Verbeck, prominent clety matron of Los Angeles, taught vresumptuous guests a les son at Jier supper party Sunday night when she nailed the place cards to the table. Hostesses recentl ich annoyed by surreptitious nging of place cards, appar- ently the work of designing moth- ers with eligible daughters or of others with personal desires to 50- have been night Mrs. Verbeck's where they were put s same hostess several vears ago jogged society with a house. moving party when she enter- tained with dancing in her home as it was taking a half-mile jaunt uy hire boulevard behind a fleet of trucks and tractors - SEEK TO END FALSE REPORTS 10 POLICE Commissioners Send Bill 1o Congress to Bring Halt to Growing Practice. growing practice fictitious reports hielded Aroused over the of persons making to the police, so they may be from embari g situations, the District Commissioners upon the re fuest of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superin- tendent of police, today gress the draft of a bill which would make it a misdemeanor for any one knowingly to make a false report to the police. The penalty carried in the bill is than-$5, nor more th days' imprisonment, n $100, or both Serfousness of th sed upon the Maj. Hesye in a lengthy memors in which he cites seven specific in- stances in which the police have spent many hours of investigailon into what appeared to be major crimes, only to are ultimately the confession that the report was “faked" for ul- or 30 situation Commissioners tal it by | terior® motives. “1 am Hesse states “would act sure this legislation,” MaJ. in this memorandum, a cure for what has | become a practice on the part of those ring to withhold the truth of their | escapades from members of their family or employers, and wouid per mit members of the department to devote their time to the investigation of legitimate cases, thereby rendering | a better service to the community. “The cases I cite, all alleging major crimes, not only necessitate long and careful investigation hy the Detective Bureau before falsity is shown or ad- mitted, but prevent the members of the bureau from Investigating bona fide cases of more or less importance.’ Following up Maj. H s plea, the Commissioners, in a letter accompan: ing the draft of the bill, say: “The Commissioners believe that the pas- sage of this proposed law would act as a deterrent of a practice which is very reprehensible, and, in consequence, permit members of the Police Depart- ment to devote more time to investi- gation of legitimate cases.” Rejects Oregon U. Presidency. RALEIGH, N. C.,, March 2 (P .— Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, today declined an Invitation to become | president of the University of Oregon. nt to Con- | ndum | NATION CANVASSED ON ELDRIDGE PLAN Cities” Heads Asked if Traf fic Directors Control Cars and Pedestrians. of the principal s in the country is being made to by Chairman Stalker of the sub- |committee on streets, highw and | traffic of the House District committee to get first-hand information from mu nicipal officials on whether local traffic | directors throughout the country | given jurisdiction over street railw street cars and pedest: ns. In an executive session of this sub- committee, attendea by Chairman Zihl- Iman of the full District committee, |after a hearing last night, it was de |clded to see what the best judgment of the entire codntry is on this phase of the new traffic bill which is being writ- ten for Washington. { Eldridge Wants Control. | M. 0. Eldridge, traffic director, rec ommended that he be given this au- thority at hoth morning and nig hearings yesterday. The full District committee had previously reported an mendment to the traffic act nting this authority, which amendment i now on the District calendar awalting action on the next District day The subcommittee decided | ceed berately in the a_ comprehensive traffic virtually rewrites the For this reason the new | may not 1 in shape for conside tion in the House on the next | trict day, which is next Monda Besides the canv 4 today, the District committee is s ious to get furthe sey 1 other sugg | Mr. Eldridge, who had been reque d by the subcommittes to prese list of all the changes in the tr ct which he thought desirabl improvement of the traffic sity Natlonal Capital Until the b the subcommittee is ready, no acti will be taken in the House on the now pending on the calendar whi arries thr | ing traffic law i Fenming Is Criticized. At the hearing last night | troubles in Washington were blam largely on Commissiortr Fennir who was charged by George W. Of futt, legal yrepresentative of the A. A. A, with failure to enforce a provision in the police manu: which directs that the traffic inspector shall | have supervision over all traffic police. men. Mr. Offutt said traffic policemen are {now spread over 14 precincts. Chair man Zihiman of the District commit ltee agreed emphatically with Mr. Of | futt, and said he wants to be informed by the Commissioner in charge of the police force why he cannot bring about co-ordination. it 1s wasted time to atte late on a subject when & > part of the trouble lies in the Com- missioner’s office. Representatives Gasque, Democrat, South and Chairman Stalker, New York, agreed with Mr. Zihlm Mr. Offutt paid tribute to hoth Maj Hesse, superintendent of police, and to Traffic Director Eldridge, congrat ulating the city on having such splen- did officers, but declared that it is im possible under present conditions to get proper interdepartmental co-op eration. re to pro- drafting of act whi sting law trathc 1 1X- for on | $497vi)00 Theft Is Cil;rged. FIUME, Italy, March 2 (®).—Spiri | dione Skiadas of Corfu has been rested here at the request of t Greek government on a charge of em- bezzling 35,000,000 drachmas (§497.000) from the Agricultural Bank Union | Skiadas maintains that he is a victim of persecution by Gen. Pangalos, the Greek dictator. Karolyi Data International Secret, Says U. S. Attorney Defending Silenc To grant the motion of the Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary to re- quire Secretary of State Kellogg to make more specific his answer to her suit for mandamus to compel the consul at Paris to vise the passport for her entrance into the United States would be to compel the Sec- retary to divulge international secrets. This was_the claim made today by Assistant United States Attorney Leo A. Rover in opposing the motion of attorneys Howe, Swayze and Brad- ley to require Secretary Kellogg to set out in his answer just why the countess was found to be an “undesi- able. Rover declared that the Sec- retary had considered evidence pre- o him and had rcached the ) decision that the entrance of the countess would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States. Jusuce Hitz of the District Supreme Court took the motion under consid- eration. In pressing for a more specific an swer, Attorney Howe asserted that there were 145 different subdivisions in_the laws relating to non-immigrat aliens and he asked that the Secret: be made to point out by sections 1" provision on which he relies to ke the countess out of America. He ex- pressed a willingness to demur to the claim of the Secretary that he has the sole discretion to decide who admis now being written by | He declared that | as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 104,118 TWO CENTS,. SENATORS REJECT * CHICAGO PLEA TO - PROBE OUTLAWRY Immigration Committee Is ! Unanimously Opposed to | Federal Inquiry in City. ISPOILS SYSTEM RUINING | GOVERNMENT, IS CHARGE | Citizens' Representative Also Lays Crime Wave to Aliens—Hits Alleged Political Plots. By the Assoclated Press The Senate fmmi declined to vestigation of o A petition by ent Ass to sident Dawe nimously at \pprove n co Chicago ion anted the Ser Senators 1} T abor and f there have the law Senator Johnson he assocla K obtain reljef.” such violatlor been picture satd, “officta ow exactly whe | Willis Makes Suggestions. iblican th Trea: art of the petition eweries w iggested en that five I ating in Ch tion, and be given t | immigraits | ful | Before the commnt long statement f £ th of legin oper ce protec ment | Biv It were ietter Govern ment _Assoct Chicago and ‘l'vulk Cour | seribed in the ¢ The political 40,000 munteipal He charged that 3 the titular lead the Democrat! party, i a._combination with the Crowe-Barrett-Thomp: that Robert At unty off nnan Elections Called Farcical. “For a number of years our elec tions have been f. e “With 40.000 offices in the city to fill the leaders will sacrifice any presiden tial or State ticket for the local ticket.” Lee declared that it n esti mated that as high as 50,000 fraudu lent votes have been ¢ election “Men hehl defy the authority of the | ernn adding, | quentty ns betwe |the Fede: uthoritie for the s from Sicily and Dis- | nail under children. « wealthy Public Opinion Criticized, that o t would appear | Minots did not by cr Yo you expe new with Anded We whole plied. The head thought thing to 1 Ch jiself has heer (1 uUnconsciou 1 board aceuse erty by wh valuable He explaine { a_committee howeve oper: hnson the Tri | bune Chairman ral courts ther the } hem “We 1 judg: fav ~(Continued on F it the Fed and \CITY HEADS INDORSE GREAT FALLS PLANS { Think District Would Benefit From Power Project, Report to sent a rej | man, chairman of the | committes on the pe viding for the Im Potomac River and of hydorelectric energy at ( | *“The Commssioners,” says the re fport, “are of the opinfon that the de | velopment as proposed will he of great henefit to the Dist z has been noted in th the rep: | to indicate t of the Dis trict of Columbia utflized ir the constructior “Since ther report or In the of the District of expended for this development would not appear to be the duty of the Roard of Commissioner to pass on this matter business propo sition. “A copy of the bill and of this re port was sent to the director of the Bureau of the Budget for information as to whether or not the proposed leg 1 conflict with the financ program of the President. The dire tor in reply stated that this leg I tion is in con: t this time with i Jent's fi o He itng vement or i ~ fune : to be suggestion in the bill that the funds Columb to be