Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1926, Page 4

SIX WOMEN EARN ADMISSION TO BAR Two: Brothers Also Included Among 55 Permitted to Practice in D. C. i admitte Two brothers practice law Court it stallme he were 1 with six trict young in the ipreme today women ond in men in the s i " toof s ol candidates recent bLar evaminations, T remaining candidates will be admitied Thmorrow motior John Taul Earnest amin mmitt hiothers tablish amuel ry H. have e emy United St received tember 1, 1922 eral promotions only time the parted married Wife Follows Husband. A other adn m el cal Levin. Levin I ve W tives of Balti more, Roth the miners e, hav Sep o pate appo d have e i J Hankin of nitt her hus s, Charlotte koma Park, Md practice just one nd, Gregory Hiankin, a special as- sistant to Attorney General Sargent Mrs. Hankin was reh econo- mist at the Libkarv of Congress un- +il last vear busy 0| to her son. She | < to enter the lezal pro- | soon the baby can she is w-old pon spare her. Miss Helen Newn of the George V Taw, where aduated last June. She is a Washing- ton and a member of Kappa Beta Pi rority. Miss Catherine McClosky was born tn Delaware, but has spent most of her life here. she is emploved at the Grace Dodze Hotel Mias Irene Kushner of Washington and a graduate of George Washington Law School. She will hang out her shingle and embark Al _once. { Miss Marguerit at Syracuse, N. Y ington seven ey She took her law course at G hington and i= employed in the insurance diviston of the United States Veterans' Bu- reau. Miss Ellen L. Love hails from Cul peper, Va., and studied at the Wash- ington College of Law. She is em ploved at the Federal Trade (om mission secretary also a native Moore was born e and came to Wash- List of Those Admitted. he 55 barristers authorized to be- | gin practice of the law were Harry . Herschman, District of Columbla; | Charlotte A.' Hankin, Maryland; | Harry M. Hull, District of Columbia Merrill W. THolland, Delaware: Ern est C. Johnson, District of Columbia; Thurston B. Johnston. Maryland; Frederick T. Johnson, Illinols: Henry K. Jawish, District of Columbia: Albert L. Jacobs, Mussachusetts; Ed- ward A. King, District of Columbia; Albert H. Kirchner, District of Co- Jumbia; Leonard L. Kaulish, Penn- evlvania: Herbert C. Kimball, Illinois james S. Kean, lowa: Conway N Kitchen, Kentucky; Irene C. Kushner, District of Columbia: Cyril Lawrence District of Columbia: Clarence L. Lat tin, Connecticut: William F. Little- | iohn, Vermont; Charley D). Leiter, ' Michigan; John H. Litz n. Penn- | svivania; Bertram M. Lu District of Columbia. Charles E. Lowery, Jersey James B. Lewis, Gec John M. Littlepage, District of Columbia; Sam- uel Levin, M: nd: Thomas J. Duckett, Ma Sllen L. Dove, Virginia; Harry H. Levin, Pennsyl’ vania; Harry Levy, District of Co- jumbia: Saul G. Lichtenberg, ew York: Rudolph N. Miller, District of Columbia; Danfel E. McGrath, Dis- trict of Columbia, Maurice J. Ma- honey, District of Columbia M guerite C. Moore, New York: David Magee, Colorado. Catherine McCloskey, District of Columbia; James R. Murphy, Mass- achusetts; Israel J. Mendelson. Dis- ( trict of Columbia; Alfred S. Mor! son, New York; Peter_J. Mitchell, Massachusetts: Walter William Ma- District of Columbia; Thom: Massachusetts; Harry W Pennsylvania: Joseph F Moran, Connecticut: James J. Mar- ren, Connecticut; Eugene P. McCror- ken. New York: Herbert H. Mitchell, New Jersey; Lawrence P. Mattingly, New York: Paul M. Niebell, Penn. sylvania: William eacey, District of Columbia: Helen Newman, Dis- trict of Columbi: Joseph A. Owens, Connecticut; Ernest H. Oliver. Utah and Martin F. O'Donoghue, District of Columbia. i, New LUTHER TO REFUSE T0 BARTER STAND ON COUNCIL ISSUE| t Page.) bly had meetings scheduled for to day. A subcommitte of the counci discussed the progress of the financial reconstruction of Austria and Hun gary, and a commission of the as sembly und: ir Austen Chamber- lajn, the British foreign secretary was convoked for 4:30 p.m. to con sider Germany's application for league membershi i The latter commission must inform the assembky whether Germany is ltving up to her international engage ments, aud under the rules it must | convok~ and question the German representatives. Lord Cecil of England and M. Paul Roncour of France conferred today regarding the time and place of the first meeting of the prep: mission which is to lay the tion for an international ment conference under League of Nations . auspices. M Paul-Boncour suggested the middle of April, but Lord Cecil favored the latter part of May, which he said would be more convenient, since it was planned to convoke the preliminary committee on the economic conference during April. No decision was reached and | the matter is vet to come before the league cou . Officials foresee May as the prob- able date, with every likelihood that the meeting will be held in Geneva, despite the fact that this would pre- vent the participation of Sovlet | Russia. 1 i founda- disarma- Our mnew factory is equipped with the most modern of shade-making machinery. Assuring you perfect WINDOW SHADES at factory prices. The Shade Factory 1109 Fourteenth N.W. MAIN 10428 Distributors—Dupont’s Washable "Fabrikoid Window Valances E__TZECEE | fered at Sovist Rus | Walsh may be | knowledge { pecto | floor. i Jail, BY VATICAN FOR Capital Jesuit May Be Con- idered for Head of Church of Russia. Georgetown Regent Spent Three Years as Famine Relief Head. BY ¥ Revy of PERIC WIL T hy A Walsh of Fore Universit AM WILE Pius the Edmund the School wEetown Rome tor g shington, o conferenca on Roman ttholic affairs fn Russin. Father Walsh left Washington in February 10 iS now at (he Vatican. His friends Ninic that he may be predestined to t a historic role in the world’s izious history. A reunion of the Roman Catholic and the Greek Cath. olic churches has lonz been a dream of ineny of the Pope’s ndherents and has been chevis by them more icerly than ever since the disabili < under which all creeds have suf- % hands. T immedlate to which, it beiieved in Washingion, Father asked o devote him- is the establishment of more recable relations between Rome and The brilliant young Jesuit probubly has more first-hand of Soviet conditions than Roman Catholic in the world. He d Russia in 1922 for famine re- work reprasenting American ics on Herbert IToover's Ameri- wdministration. In June, Walsh was named s director gener: ief mission to Rus to treat with the Moscow arding general Catho- ghout the former do- Z The Washington or remained in Russia three years and won the the Red autocrats at S self ny the Vs papal delegated lie for nearly contidence Moscow. Farther Walsh happened R at the time when the whole Roman Catholic universe was stir- red to its depths by the prosecution Archbishops Butchkevitch and Archbishop Butchkevitch icted of alleged anti-Soviet and put to death. Cieplak of Vilna also condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted to imprison- ment fo vears, mainly at Father Walsh's instigation. It was during the course of his recent visit to the United States that Archbishop Cieplak died at Passaic, N. J., where he was honored at obsequies in which the entire Roman Catholic element of America took part. On his_ar- rival in Ron a few days ago Pope Pius took prompt occasion to thank Fither W for the latter's effec- ve intervent on behalf of the archbishop, who was pardoned by the Soviet government before he had served any considerable period of imprisonment. In Catholic circles Washington it held possible that Father Walsh may he slated 1o be the futusg head of the Roman church for Russia, with corresponding elevation in the hierarck Archbishop Cieplak’s death leaves the place open. One of, the repressive measure: in " people.” to be, in| JTHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, TUESDXY, MARCH 9, 1926. '"REV. EDMUND A. WALSH SUMMONED STUDY OF SOVIET | | | i | | i | | | | | H | } | REV. EDMUND A. WALSH. which the Roman Catholic Church, in common with other denominations, seeks to abolish in Russia is the decree prohibiting religious teaching to anybody under 18 years of age. Catholics also object o the law which forbids the importation into Russia of the Bible or the printing of the Bible in Russi The Amerlcan Bible ety for some time has been vainly 3 to have this embargo lifted Moscow. But the Soviet authorities still adhere to the doc- trine—formulated in precisely those | words—that “religion ix opium to the | Both the Greek and Roman | | Catholic churches are permitted to {maintain houses of worship, but their -activities are restricted right and left. One of the charges leveled against the two condemned arch- bishops was that they were sur- reptitiously giving religidus instrue- tion to a few children. Any man or woman discovered in any form | of religious worshi subject to im- from the Com- trying | mediate _expulsion munist party. No bolshevist ever is permitted, if he cares to remain a member of the Soviet in good stand- flng. 0 marry a woman guilty of religion: and a woman Communist is under the same ban During the last two years Father Walsh has delivered lectures in Wash- ington and numerous other places in the United States on Soviet Russia. While unmistakably disclaiming symn: pathy with boishevist ideals of gov- ernment, he has been uniformly fair In discussing them, and been at pains to point out those flelds in which communism has shown a better side such as education and sanitation. Roman Catholic authorities in the United States are confident that if there is any pos: ibility of religious peace between Moscow and Rome, Dr. Walsh is an ideal envoy to plumb the pros and cons of the situation, which might, in the last analysis, ba modi- fled to the benefit of all denomina- tions, _ This writer has author ity for stat- ing that the suggestion, given some slight currency, that Dr. Walsh has semiofficial American recognition mis. sion to Russia is wholly without foundation. His presence in Europe is exclusivel ociated with religions matters. (Copyright. 1926.) NEW WING TO JAIL TO HOUSE 200 MEN IS URGED BY PEAK | __ ontinued from First_Page,) followinz the stories which a in The Star of vesterday (Sunday), I have minutely analyzed these articles, and find them to be so obviously con- tradictory that in most instances an acceptable explanation has been fur- nished by the author to each charge which might reflect upon the institu- a whole. example of this is the author’s allusion to the filthy condition of the ceils in that section of the jail where he was confined. In the next para- graph he explains that his temporary associates sat for an entire day ex- ing tobacco juice upon the till further, he admits that he was required to clean and disinfect his cell the next morning. “Store” Prices Cheap. The author dwelled at some length upon the petty graft among pris- oners. He mentioned the sale of sugar in minute quantities and the exchange of cigarettes in lots of two cr three for 3 or 4 cents. Pie, he is quoted as saying in another article, s sold at a price exceeding the charge for the same article on the outside. As to the practices of petty pro- fiteering among the prisoners, I need but call attention to the facilities available to all to purchase any of these articles from the store here at prices charged by public shops. Pile, ont to the statement of the re- porter, is sold at the jail cheaper than it may be purchased in the same quantities on the outside. “I would welcome at any time a personal investigation or a tour of inspection by any one you might wish to_designate for this purpose.” It “Pete Martin" is called before the Commissioners regarding Maj. Peak’s statements, he will explain, as clearly pointed out in the original articles, that while cells are cleaned, but not sterilized, at 4:30 in the morning, in the 17 hours before bedtime they be- come filthy, and that seven men, con- fined in one cell, creating this fiith throughout the entire day, must sleep in it at night. He also will point out, referring to the petty graft at the that whereas the “store” prices v compare favorably with outside these ure not always the same demanded by colored prisoners acting as venders when they offer their goods for sale at cell doors. The graft was alleged to be somewhere alorg the line and not at the store {itselr PPresiding Judge Gus A. of the Police Court today letter congratulating ‘‘Pete on his account of conditions rom Schuldt came a rtin® TASK MR. LET US BUILD YOU A GASOLINE Service Station $100 Down—$50 a Month on your farm or vacant land on ook rond. Fireproot. . Store. re: Dair garage and gasoline tank Immediate econstruction. Service Station Construction Company 303 Ve it Building Vermont Ave. & L. 86 K.wW. Main 1770 it the Police Cour: and verifying the icts of their existence. “Allow me 1o congratulate you," wrote Judge Schuldt to “Pete,” “upon | your interesting article relative to | conditions in Police Court and jail. So far as the Police Court is con. cerned your description is absolutely correct and these conditions have for some time given the judges much concern. It {s our earnest desire to rectify same, and if you have amy suggestions how it may be done, we will appreciate it if you will submit same to us." In the same mail with the letter from one who sits on the bench meting out justice came also a letter from one who has spent time behind the bars paying for transgressions. From “Ex-Prisoner” came this letter to The Star: “Every line in the article written by your able reporter, ‘Pete Martin,’ is first-hand truth and he is to be com- mended for telling things of existing conditions just as they are in the District of Columbia jail. Every now and then a committee is appointed to look into the conditions at the jail. This committee will come and will 80 no farther than the rotunda, look about and O.K. their visit. The prisoners will be tipped off of this visit and will clean up as best they can, but the committee is never shown their quarters. Eventually this condi- tlon must change. Why not now, or soon? Speaking from experience, like ‘Pete Martin,’ I ought to know. 30 Sizes 34 to 44. , heen struck probably 50 times 105 Suits; vercoats Formerly Priced $35 All Go at One Price These Suits are one and two of a kind. Come in early, they MAN FLOGGED, WIFE AND HER KIN HELD Photographer Beaten, Told to Drop Divorce on Ground of Infidelity. By the Ansociated Press. TAMPA, Fla., March 9. Dudley Read, photographer, who was taken m his home here and severely beaten by a band of unmasked men last night, returned home this morn- ing. He displayed numerous wounds on the body. ihe vietim told the police that his abductors took him (o a lonely spot about 15 miles from Tampa and whip- ped him with a wids leather strap. He was blindfolded. ad's hips and back were swollen and bleeding. Detectives said he had Read, who is 31 years old, said his winctors came to his home about 9 o'clock last night in two autemobiles. Mur Murgaret Read, his mother, an. wered the doorbell. She was con- onted by three men, one of whom ore 4 badge and said he was a dep- | uty sheriff with a warrant for Read's | arrest. Mrs. Read called her son. He | asked to see the warrant, and, with a brusque remark to “tell it to the sher- iff,” the men whisked him into the first of the waiting automobiles | Told to Drop Divorce Suit, Arriving at their destination, abductors foreed their vietim from the car and after lashing him left him by the roadside with the remark that if he didn't abandon a divorce action which he had recently started, they would take him out ugain and | nearly kiil him. . After walking eight miles he caught a ride into town and reached his resi- dence about 4 o'clock this morning. After hearing Read's story, Chief of Police Carter ordered the arrest of Read’s wife, her mother, father and brother, and detained them at police headquarters pending an _investiga- tion. They declared they knew noth- ing asbout the attack. Mrs. Read, 26, was formerly a fea- ture writer. About two months Read insti tuted divorce proceedings naming John Kelly, a friend, as corespondent. Kelly and Read continued to be friends, Kelly living at Read’s home and helping him in his work. Reports said Kelly had been flogged recently, but he denled this last night. REPORT ON PARK LINK AID BILL BY CAPPER MAY BE MADE TODAY (Continued from_First Page.) the ator Phipps said he regarded as more of a Federal than a District project. It was brought out by Senator Phipps that the original bill for the completion of the connecting link was transmitted to the Senate and House committees by Secretary Mellon as chairman ex-officio of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission with @ provision under which the $600,000 would have been appropri- ated from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Not in Conflict. The change under which the money would be taken from the District sur plus was made later after the Bureau of the Budget, in a report to the Dis. trict Commissioners, stuted that the bill would not be in conflict with the administration program if the money should be taken from the District surplus. A If the bill should be passed in ac- cordance with the action taken todav by the Senate committee, oply $300.- 000 would come out ofl the D{‘slrh‘t surplus for the connecting parkway, lea\?ing a balance of $300,000 to be spent on other park profects. Senator Phipps pointed out that the eastern portion of the District is in need of park sites and Senator Jones concurred in this view. Senator Phipps expressed the view that it would be unfair to the people of the District to take the last $600,000 in their surplus fund to join Rock Creek and Potomac parks It was shown to the committee that out of the more than $6,000,000 of surplus money found by Congress to be due the Dis- trict, all but this $600,000 has been either appropriated or set aside for school buildings. Senator_Copeland of New York had to leave before the amendment was adopted, but he declared he was in favor of the 50-50 ratio and requested that he be counted accordingly. Senator Edwards of New Jersey also attended the meeting. | 40 won'’t last long! ES VENGE i3 DmmAmlr;!uUDI ‘ Bible Disrespect Clause Removed From District Bill In the District of Columbia ap- propriation bill as drafted by the subcommittee of which Representa- tive Funk, Republican, of Illinois is chairmen, the following para- graph as carried in the current law has been eliminated by a three-to-two vote in the subcom- mittee: “Provided that no part of this sum shall be available for the pay- raent of the salary of any teacher who teaches partisan politics, dis- respect of the Holy Bible, or that ours is an inferior form of govern- ment.” It is probable that when the sub- committee reports the bills to the full uppropriations committee to- morrow this paragraph will be care- fully discussed. PRESIDENT URGES SHIP BILL ACTION Confers With Bacon on Need for Legislation at Pres- ent Session. Lepresentative Bacon. Republican, of New York, who conferred today with President Coolidge, carried back to the Capitol a very strong impres. sion of the Executive’s desire to see PRESIDENT GR TEACHER TRAINERS Staffs of Agricultural and In- dustrial Bureaus Holding Conference Here. Delegates attending the ninth annual conference of State directors, State supervisors and members of teacher- training staffs in agricuitural, trade and industrial and home economics education, in session at the Grace Dodge Hotel, were received by Presi- dent Coolidge ut the White House this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. The White House reception followed a strenuous morning of committee meetings and conferences. Evening Dinner Scheduled. ’ The three departments of agricul- tural education, trade, industrial and home economics education, will en- tertain jointly at dinner this evening with Commissioner of Education J. J. Tigert as the guest of honor. The dinner will be held at 6:30 o'clock at the Grace Dodge Hotel and will be followed by an informal reception and dancing. ._ Senator Capper of Kansas will ad- dress the agricultural division to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock, and Miss Adelaide Baylor, chief of the home economics service, will lead in a_discussion on ““Training Teachers of Home Economics for FEvening Schools.™ Co-operation Tlis Theme. | Chris L. Christianson. expert on | legislation enacted at this session that will divorce the United States Ship- ping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation and place the operation of the fleet under one head, responsible directly to the President. Aside from the regular appropria- tion bills, there probably is nothing remaining on the administration’s original legislative program in which the President is more interested than the proposed amendment to the mer- chant marine act stripping the Ship- ping Board of all executive authority. He contends that the operation of the Nation's fleet will never reach the proper efficiency until this is accom- plished. It is his opinfon also that Congress never intended that the Shipping Board should function as the executive head of the fleet. Bills Now Are Pending. Senator Jones of Washington, chair- man of the commerce committee and father of the present merchant ma- rine act, has introduced a bill con taining the changes sought by the President. A similar bill has been prepared in the House by Represen- tative Lehlbach of New Jersey. Still another bill somewhat along the same lines has been prepared by Mr. Bacon, a member of the House merchant ma- rine and fisheries committee. This measure was the principal topic of discussion during his conference with the President today. Mr. Bacon sald afterward that while his blll is about the same in general scope as the Jones and Lehlbach bills, it differs to the extent that it is de- cidedly simpler and is constructed to ward off opposition. He says his bill would provide regional represen- tation in the operation of the fleet. It provides for the appointment of a board of directors of seven, to be chosen from designated regions, as is now the case wRXh the Shipping Board. These men would serve with- out compensation, other than that they would be paid on the per diem basis. Inasmuch as it would not be necessary for the directors to live in Washington, or to separate them- selves from their private business, the President would have an opportunity to select men who are outstanding and well equipped in every particular to serve on this directorate. Under Mr. Bacon's bill, the execu- tive head of the Fleet Corporation would be elected by the board of di rectors upon the recommendation of the President, and would receive a salary of $12,500. ‘The Shipping Board would be reduced from seven members to three. These would be appointed by the President and would have nothing to do with the operation of the fleet or the sale of Government owned ships. They would function merely in a judicial or regulatory capacity, somewhat ke the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. Sees Legislation Pass. Mr. Bacon expressed the opinion that the outlook in the House at this time is very favorable for legislation of this kind. He would make no predic- tions regarding his own bil, but he felt falrly sure that legislation of some - A Thrifty Tuesday Today will stand out in the calendar of the man who stops_to select a suit or overcoat from varied, high-quality, COMPLETE stock remarkably reduced. ALL Suits and Qvercoats Stein-Bloch Clothes and Joseph May Overcoats, too 28. Formerly 55.— co-operative marketing of the De- partment of Agriculture, will speak, his subject being 0-operation Among Danish Farmers.” There will be & discussion on the preparation of supervisors for the responsibility of instructor training. Those directly in_charge of the meeting are: J. C. Wright, head of the Federal Board for Vocational Edu- catlon; Frank Cushman, chief of the trade ‘and industrial education serv- ice: G. M. McGarvey, Federal agent of trade and industrial education, and Miss I:dith Thomas, Federal agent for home economics education ! PARK FUND GROWING. Shenandoah Conversion Donations Nearing $1.200.000 Mark. Sypecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND. Va., March 9. — Vir. ginfa will have in hand the $1.200,000 for conversion of the forest areas of the Shenandoah Valley into a na- tional park by the end of the week. This is the report of those promoting the movement. Norfolk was the first city in the State to raise its quota. Richmond will have her $200.000 by the end of ihe week. Gov. Byrd is pleased at the outlook for the success of the undertaking and is urging the promoters to keep right behind the matter to its consummation. form separating the Shipping I3oard from the Emergency Fleet Corpora- tion would be passed. He said he is aware that already the oppositicn is lining up to fight any attempt to| change the present construction of the Shipping Board and its relationship to the Fleet Corporation. He said the op- position at present appears to be con- fined principaly to DJemocrats, but he believes that the Republicans can mus- | ter sufficient strength to carry out the | President’s wishes regarding this leg- | islative matter. Hearings now are being conducted by the commerce committee of the House and it is not thought by Mr. Bacon that these will be completed before April. Therefore he does not look for this legislation to reach the floor of the House before the first week in April. 1 Committee Cuts Bill. | The Senate appropriations commit tee in reporting today the independent | offices appropriation bill stood on the | budget recommendation of $13,900,000 | for the Shipping Board for the next | fiscal year, notwithstanding the House | in passing the bill had increased that sum by nearly $5,000,000. The Senate committee, however, at the request of the President, urged that the board be given a fund of $10,000,000 to enable it to operate ship lines taken back from purchasers in | the face of foreign competition. i The total carried by the entire bill | is $512,670,876, or $5,391,108 more than | carried by the House measure, and approximately $60,500 above the regu- lar and_supplemental estimate of the Budget Bureau. 38. Formerly 75.— 70.—65.—60. Alterations at Cost In BOTH GROUPS many Spring- weight styles in 2-Piece Golf Suits, 4-Piece Knicker coats. ALL are Suits and Top- included in this Complete Clearance Sidney We (N 7] 14th and G Streets N.W. Running mayor of weakness of jment of the present commission and Candidate for Mayor BERTHA K. LANDES, ainst Edwin J. Brown, for attle, in election today. EARLY ACTION SEEN ON D. C. UTILITIES BILL BY HOUSE COMMITTEE (Continued from First Page.) by a multiplicity of duties, lack of appropriations and lack of sufficient assistance to do the work directed by the law. When Mr. Hammer asked, ‘Do you not believe the people are entitled | to a revaluation of public utility properties by experts?” Maj. Coveli replied, “'I believe that absolutely.” Again questioned whether he be. lieved it better to nave a new Public Utilities Commission, Maj. Covell an- swered: “I am not at all fixed on the policy of merely adding two full-time members to the present commission 1 believe that would be a little better than the system of a new commission of three men independent of the Dis- trict Commissioners, but [ also be. lieve that a new commission of three members properly chosen would be far better than the present commis sion.” Representative Bowman of West Virginia questioned whether Maj Covell thought it would be better t. add two to the present commission, who, it has already been admitted. | have little or no time to devote t public utility work. and who are no in a position to get the information that Congress wants. He emphasized that, by retaining the present com- mission and adding twe members, the present commisslon. knowing nothing about the proper work of the commission, would be able to veto absolutely the work done by the two working “experts on the commission giving it their full time. Admits Weakness of Plan. Maj. Covell acknowledged that as the the proposed enlarge- said it was merely a question of whether Congress was willing to give the Commissioners this veto power. He argued that by retaining the Dis trict Commissioners on the commis- sion, it would be possible to obviate friction and cross-purposes which nat- urallv would resuit with the establish- ment of an independent public utili ties commission. which would not be subservient to the Commissioners in any respect. He thought that it might | readily follow that the Public Utilities | Commission might issue an order that would negate an order of the District | Commissioners and thus cause confu- | sion. | In reply to a question from Mr.| Bowman, Maj. Covell said he did not belleve in making the Public Utilities Commission subservient to the District Commissioners, but that there should be the closest co-operation. Pension Increases Approved. The Senate pensions committee yes terday made a favorable report on the Norbeck bill to increase the pen- sions of veterans of the Spanish war, SEATILE I VOTING ON WOMAN MAYOR Fair Candidate Once Fired Opponent’s Police Chief While Acting Mayor. By the Associated Press. . SEATTLE, Wash., March 9.—Voters here today went to the polis to decide whether they want a woman for mayor. Mrs. Bertha K. Landes, presi dent of the city counctl and the city’s first mayoralty candidate, is opposing Edwin J. Brown, mayor for the pas’ two years. At the same time the voters may de cide they don't want a mayor and ap prove a proposal tg abolish that office by the substitution of a city manager system. If this proposition carries. neither Mrs. Landes nor Brown would serve as mayor, although elected, as the new plan would become effective June 7, when Brown's present term expires. Mrs. Landes has been urging adop- tion of the city manager plan, and has attacked Brown's administration, promising “a sane, steady enforce- ment of the law, but not a frenzy of reform.” If she is elected and the man ager plan defeated. Brown Against Plan. Brown opposes the city manage: plan and advocates as an_ alternative the election of 15 frecholders to re. vise the present city charter, Mrs. Landes is one of Seattle's first councilwomen, heinz elected for he first term two ve: ago. As pres dent of the council she became acting mayor during Brown's absence to at tend the Democratic national conven tion in 1924. She discharged Brown's chfef of police and hegan a complete reorganization of the police depart ment, but Brown left the convention early and returned to Seattle befpre Mrs. Landes had completed her changes. The election is non-partisan although Brown is a Democrat and Mrs. Landes a Republican. Should the city manager proposal be approved the city manager would be chosen by the council CHILD WELFARE WORK OF DAVIS IS PRAISED Labor Secrqtary Honored as Di- rector General of Moose at Dinner. The work of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis in behalf of American child life, as director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, was praised by Senator Copeland of New York and other speakers at a dinner giv in Mr. Davis’ honor by the order last aight at the Wardman Par Hotel. Senator Copeland took occasion to criticize schools for “teaching children everything but how to live.” What Mr. Davis had done for chil dren through his connection with the order. Senator nd declared, wi! bring him wre he r than v the people can bestow upon him even if they elect him Governor or Senator Other speakers who paid tribute to Mr. Davis' servic in public and private life included Senator Watson of Indiana, Senator Willla n Hale Thompson, of and Representative Connery, of Mas< achusetts: Representative himan who also spoke, presided at the ban 666 is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. | the Philippine insurrecgion and th China relief expedition. ¥ 5 Fas It kills the germs. hion Park Clothes are featured by us We have Top Coats a made—and with one id fashion and because it reflects our ideas of style and our measure of value. to sell at a price—but designed and foreign and domestic weaves— Fashion Park reputation. 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