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COUNCIL ELECTION HOTLY CONTESTED Nominations Close With 17 White and 6 Colored Can- didates in Field. Active campalguine for election of | Advisory of the two citi- earnest of the Ciuzens' ¢ delesat srations an in of nominatio: tions will of white cou _ihej and the Federation of Civie | cintions the preceding day willy the two colored members. | ver Candidates Named. ction promises to be The American flag, fiying from 3 ear's the main sta¥ above the White House ntrance this morning, . Campaign managers already h threw out signals of distress. ecn apponted by a number of the A number of rly-morning andidates who are busy “butt passers-hy on Pennsylvania ave- Tioling” the of the whi nue noud the emblem being vederation i whipped e breeze in an up- | andidat side-down position, and took oc- xperiences, c stting the stage for a ‘election that pmething of a real i fig'n. Candidates innouncing platforms, making qmises and telling their qualifica- sents have the ad in office, & number for election last ins are strong con- Nominees Certified. Davil Babp. secretary of the Fed ation of Citizens titied the following < tion: Mrs. ysed by the District of of Women Voters Dougherty Hendersor Stull, il ani Cathedral naker. T Pullman n, Washin. on T hittips ) 1, pHEOL: hert F Man Fred 8. View; i A, Saul Robert Strobel, South aton q n Park John E. Bowles, executive secreta f the Federation of Civie Assoct “ions, announces colored _candidates < : Dr. George H. Richardson, t Assoclation of East George T. Beason, William H. Lewis, § S. Hoffman, D. Woodson, North- and Capt. H. D. Jusen, Benning-Glendale-Oakland. Mrs. Wiley Withdraws. .. Harvey W. Wiley, nominated Wy the Kualorama association, who vas a candidate last vear, withdrew oday and cast her SUppOrt to Mrs. ‘rank Hiram Snell, the nominee of ‘he League of Women Voters. > am withdrawing only because vy two bovs need my attention and )ecause there already {8 & woman in he council race, Mrs. Wiley de- lared. “A woman should be elected 10 the council. 1 am asking the dele- tes of the Kalorama assoclation, £ which M; Snell s an active mem- er, to throw their support to her. Others who ve declined nom tfon are Charles A. Baker and Wi itam S. Torbert, both members of the present cot nd James G. Yaden of the Petwol Bar ung attorney, and a rt is promised to place woman. Miss Sheehy tion from en Voters. Last t was published tell- II's qualifications for 1 of election by a Dr. Havenner's Claims, . Haveuner dy is counting f the 12 delegates , East Washington Heights, Randle ning and Kenilworth Heights, Highlands, 1es00iatic 4 also expects large upport the northwest assoct: tons. He has as yet numed no cam- algn man; T Harry placed his cam- aign in the h delegate to th nton Park A. H. Gregory, ration from the He has bheen as- Ay, ured the votes of eight delegates to Mr. Pul 3 nan, while declaring he was sonducting no formal campaign, is lepending on the two delegates from he Manor " association to look vut for his intere: Mr. Henderson stated today that he 1ot actively seek election; that he 068 not consider the secction of the ouncil in a political light, but will arve if the “oflice seeks him."” FUNERAL TOMORROW OF GEN. WDONALD Distinguished Veteran of Three Wars Will Be Buried in Ar- lington Cemetery. Funeral services for Brig. Gen. John 13 McDonald, s old, U. 8. A, re- fre: in Walter Reed Hos- , will be conducted in copal Church tomor- at 2 o'clock. : in Arlington Cemetery pallt and other re to be an- d, who died 1 _ves v of uneral arrangements ounced later. Gen, McDonald Had a long and dis- tngulshed record in the military serv He was a veteran of the h-American, Indlan and World wars 1 nd was twice cited for gallantry. He was graduated from the United | tates Military Academy in 1881 and ssigned to an Infantry regiment. He vas promoted through the various rades, reaching the rank of brigadier . He was re- ed several weeks later. Gen. McDonald was actively en- ¢aged In the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne nd Yprgs offensives, receiving special «iccorations from the French, Belgian nd Italian governments; received the “istinguished service cross for hero- | sm_ at Epionville and the aistin- i-uished service medal for meritorious ervice at Foret de Hesse. In the Spanish-American War he erved as a lieutenant colonel of the st Alabama Infantry; was brevet. tad for gallantry in action in the Dhilippines, where, although wound- ed, he refused to relinquish his com- nand until the battle was over, and served as a captain of scouts during Indian wars. He leaves two sons, Robert Dyer Mc- Donald, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Lileut. Juhn Bacon McDonald, U. 8. N., nd twe daughters, Mrs. Gordon Mec- Pherson of London, g., and Miss Sue Alston McDonald of this city ——— Co&p'fr preduced this year In Brit- sh umbla will weigh 100,000,000 pounde, say estimators, s n candidates i by the white' the colored | Federation of Citizens' Asso- wet on April 3 to elect| and Robert R, Faulkner ! Inter- | " |attempts difficult and dangerous. Over White House lFlag Upside Down Startles Avenue i | | | ion to inform all those within earshot of the unusual position. >t course everybody though! was a mistake, which the facts ultimately bore out, the color kuard at the White House quick discovering the error and revers- | ing its position. Before the Gov- ernment employes began to pour into nearby departments there was nothing unusual about the flag's position. it BELGIUM PANICKY | OVERFRANC DROP { Officials Seck Plan to Stop | Fall, While Crowds Keep Watch Outside Banks. ! BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, March 16.—All Belgium is in mental angulsh and all France is watching Betgium. The reason is that Belgium's in- genlous and costly effort to stabilize its money seems suddenly to have tailed. The Belgian franc yesterday, |after nearly six months of relative stabllity, fell 12 points. Government officials are hastily con- sulting. In Brussels crowds stand outside the banks. People watch the { fluctuations of the exchange rate as they watched the communiques dur- ing the wan. Last Autumn the Bel- | glan franc was around 120 and 130 to the pound sterling. The Socialist gov- ernment, under popular pressure, de- cided to stabilize the franc at 107 in order to lower the cost of living. It borrowed abroad 2,800,000,000 francs | for this purpose. Further Loan Sought. The sum proved to be insufficient | and negotiations have been under way with British and American banks for ‘a further loan of $150,000,000 for 30 years. The banks finally offered to lend Beiglum $100,000,000 for five years on the following conditions: Belgium must balance her budget, increase taxes, economize on army ex- enses, pledge 400,000,000 francs worth of state-owned colonial securities, ralse the discount rate, consolidate part of the floating debt and, finally, estab- lish an autonomous railroad system, | increasing rates and discharging one in every five employes. The pegotiations recently reached something like a deadlock, when all Belgium cried out against giving the { country into “foreign control. Reasons for Collapse. The reasons given for the collapse of the Belglan franc are the loan deadlock, exhaustion of previous sta- bilization credits, the economic crisis resulting from stabilization, the re- moval of forelgn capital resulting from raiging the discount rate, refusal of Belgian banks to accept the gov- ernment’s demand that they renew integrally 1,800,000,000 francs’ worth ,of short-term bonds which fall due | shortly, and, finally, speculative ma- neuvers both at home and abroad. France's special interest in the sit. uation springs trom two sources. First, the fall of the Belgian franc ad- versely affected the French franc yes- terday. Second, France also has been considering stabilization. The moral drawn here from the Bel- | gian experience is that one must avoid | at any cost falling into the hanc of foreign bankers, and that in any case stabilization of falling currency can-| not be effected artificially. but depends | on economic factors, whicli must all be taken together. | (Copyright, 1626, by Chicago Daily News Co.) e “TOOTSIE” MISSING IN ICE Eskimo Woman Sought Since Ber- ing Sea Floe Broke Up. NOME, Alaska, March 16 (#).—Na- tives are alarmed over the disappear- |ance of an Eskimo woman known as Tootsie, who has been missing since the Bering Sea ice went out and car- ried with it many pegsons, who later | were rescued by the Coast Guard. | Tootsle is well known through her | assoclation with Arctic expeditions | ald Amundsen and Vilhjalmur | Stefansson. i The ice moved off shore a consid- | erable distance and broke un finto numerous leads, which made rescue | it | Idaho Haven for Bachelors. | ! BOISE, Idaho, March 16 ®).—| | Owyhee County, Idaho, affords a ha- ven for confirmed bachelors. In four Iyears only two marriage licenses have been recorded in the county. which has a population of 4,604. Its area of 5,210 square miles makes it larger | than Rhode Island, Delaware and i Connecticut. By the Associated Prees. | OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., March | 16.—Because he criticized this town, | Leon R. Jacobs, New York attorney, who, with his client in the recent White Plains, N. Y., annullment case, | Leonard Kip Rhinelander, is staying here, is in receipt of the following from F. E. Lee, local business man: ** can, on behalf of Ocean Springs citi- zens, only hope that you may have a pleasant journey back to New York. Mr. Jacobs in a recent interview to a | New Orleans paper said the citizens ! | Democrats, Rhinelander Attorney Invited to Leave Mississippi Town for Criticizing It T clusion from your recent strenuous ex- PARK BOULEVARD PLANS APPROVED Conduit Road Development Includes Double Highway. Land to Be Acquired. Coniprehensive plans for the de- velopment of o center parking boule- vard on Conduit road from the Georgetown Reservolr to the Dale- a Reservolr at the District 1in were presented to the city and park planning comralitee of the National Capital Park Commission today and were approved. “The propram as laid down, accord- ing to Maj). Carey H. Brown, chair- man of the committee, depends uvon three contingencles, first, approval by the District Commisisoners; second, approval by the chief of engincers of so much of the project as directly carrying Wash- covers the conduit ington's water supply, and, third, dedication of the necessary land by Proper.y. the princi the dedic: v land, and if thi is promptly done by the abutting proverty owners the work on project may begin this Summer and be pushed to conclusion. The car ing into effe his plan, it wi pointed out, e of the Cond road one of ways in the Little Interference. the owners of the abuttlr Tt was pointed out pal contingency is th tion of the nec The program as laid down calls fo a uni width _between building lines of feet. It was pointed out | to the commlttee today that fron studies made from the ats and o the ground the project could be ried out without interfering wi more than one or two buildings. Over the conduit proper. which is 9 feet wide, the plan proposes to put a center parking 19 feet wide, 9 feet covering the conduit and 5 feet on either side for necessary protec- tion. On either side of this parking t 15 proposed to have 21-foot road- . Outside of these would be the usuil tree space and sidewalk and the customary front vard space. The distance from the curbs to the build- ing lines is proposed to measure 30 teet. Representatives of the Conduit Road Citizens’ Ascociation recently put their | request for improvements of this area before the District Commissioners and the planning committee, and the who! matter was sent to the latter bodv for study. It was found that the roadway | at present varies in width, and in or- der to make a general improvement it will be absolutely necessary to have this additional land, and the commit- tee expresses the strong hope that the property owners will realize the great value to property which will accrue to | them through the proposed improve- ments and will promptly dedicate the necessary land. Different Levels Proposed. In connection with the double drive- way system proposed, it was pointed | out that it may be made attractive by having the roadwavs in some places at two different levels, the north side or present roadway to remain at the, present grade and the proposed new south driveway to follow the different level along the right of way. The committee also approved today the proposal for a change in he line of Braneh avenue extended from Ala- bama avenue to the District line in the southeast section of the city. This part of the avenue is not yet opened, | but the committee approved the! change in the line as now laid down ! on the highway plan so as to make| a better connection with the roadway leading to river points in southern Maryland. When completed, this road will provide a more direct route by | way of the Pennsvlvania Avenue Bridge to these southern Maryland points. | | | Washington hous-holder. BILL PASSES HOUSE aTTEOTT MURDER Would Create Commission and $10 000,000 Fund for Diplomatic Corps. By the Associated Prese. ‘ ‘The Porter bill to provide $10,000,000 | for acquisition of American embassy | and consular buildings abroad was| passed yesterday by the House and | sent to the Senate. The vote was 198 to 45, The bill, which would create a com- mission composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Commerce and four members of Congress to nego- tiate for diplomatic buildings when- ever {t was considered advisable, had administration indorsement and was advocated as an economy proposal. Representative B'anton, Democrat, Texas. attacked the bill as creating “a permanent junketing commission.” while Representatives FHoward, Ne- braska, and Lozier, Missouri, both held the Government hould care for American farmers be- fore improving the condition of its Yiplomatic corps. BOYS HELD IN THEFT. Real Estate Messenger Confesses Taking Money, Detectives Say. Kenneth Earl McElroy, 17 years old, Cottage City, Md. employed in the real estate office of H. R. Howen- stein, 1311 H street, and two friends, Theodore Paul Dorsey, 20 years old, Riverdale, and John Milton Nagel, 16 years old, Colmar Manor, Md., were arrested today on charges of embezzlement. McFElroy admitted to Detectives Kuehling and Wilson, they said, that as a messenger from the real es- ‘ate office to a bank, he had withheld 31,000 and mailed it to Dorsey's home, where. it is alleged, the money was | divided. Nagel will have a hearing in Ju- venile Court, while his comvanions will be arraigned in Police Court. The letter polnted out numerous im- provements made here recently, and added, “You yourself have taken about $21,000 profit out of two real estate deals here, and Ocean Springs has been kind as it knows how to you and your client, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, giv- ing you both hospitality, rest and se- periences in the Bast. The citizens of Ocean Springs resent your recent in- terview as published because it is un- justified and untrue.” {such an arrangement is unfair to the | taken tnto | *hat it should be placed in the honds | Washineton from i Mr. Jacobs had not replied to the let- of this town “were showing little falth | ter today. He and Rhinelander have' in thelr own city.” r here for several weeks, CRITICIZES BELL WATER BILL STAND Engineer Declares Objection of Commissioner Attack on Secretary of War. Special Dispatch to The Star CLARENDON, Va., March 16.—Asa E. Phililps, consulting engineer of the Arlington County Water Sunply Com mission, today severely criticized En- | g gineer Commissioner Bell for his stand taken yesterdav against that vision of the Arlington water sup- v bill which places the distribution ¢ water under the jurisdiction of the of War. The bill has 1 the House and is now before | enate. Commissioner Bell, fn stating that | le of the District of Columbia. | Phillips declared is not hill, but is directly an assault against “he’ ndement of Congvess and tha integrity of the Secretary of War. This is closelv 1 sted when 1t fs constderation that Con- | wress, after eiving Commissioner Ra'l full opportunity to express his views as to who shov'd control the delivery of water to Arlington County. decided of the Secretary of War, Mr. Phillips said Allege Distrust of Secretary. Statine that Commissioner Bell in- fers a distrust of the Setretary of Tar as to hie fairness and fustice in fixing rates to be charged for the water, Mr. Philline declared “It {8 an extraordinarv situation that an officer of the United States Armv comes ont in the nvh'in neses cardemning the action of Congress and savine that this action {s ‘mani- featly ur®alr to the people of the Dis- trict of Columh'a' and I take it as a reflaction on the Secretary of War, who by the act is directed to fix these rates “If Col B~")'s statement was intend- ~d to accomnlish any purnose it must anpear fairlv evident that purnose was to creats in the publlc mind of tha neonle of the District of Columbta an il foeling toward the nafehboring communities in Arlington County and *n Alvert attentfon of the people of his vrofacted in- cveasa of not 1aes than 25 er cant on thefr own water rates. This aspact of the matter is most unfortunate. Sees “Unfalr” Proposal. | Mr. Phillips said that Col. Bell would ! not only have the people of Arlington | Countv pav a share of the cost of| operation and maintenance of the | queduct, filtration plants, etc., but | Iso pay part of laying of all mains in the streets of Washington. This. in- d~ed. he sald, wou'd be unfalr. Under tha provisions of the bill, he said, the | cost of water to tha consumer In Ar. | iing*on County, when the cost of in- stalling tha distribution mains fa taken Into account, will be approxi- R HEARING IS BEGUN Trial of Men Accused of Slay- ing Anti-Fascist Leader Stirs Italy. By the Associated Press CHIETI, Italy, March 18.—The trial of the five men accused of hav- fne kidnaped and murdered the So- cialist deputy Giacomo Matteottl in June, 1923, thereby creating a politi- cal scandal which for six months rocked the foundations of the Fascist regime, began today in the local Court of Assizes before Judge Danza. Many Fascist notables were present. The proceedings here constitute the closing chapter of what is considered the most important politico-legal case since the Dreyfus trial fn France. Matteotti was the arch enemy of Premier Mussolini, and his mur- der, which anti-Fascists charge was ordered by the premier, excited a tre- mendous struggle between Italy's dominant regime and its opponents. After selection of a jury the judge was to begin his formal interrogation of the accused men. The defendants a=e Amerign Dumini, Albino Volpl, Giuseppe Viola, Ameleto Poveromo and Augusto Malaoria. e e, Today in Congress Renate. Senator Pittman addressed the Senate on the Gooding freight rate bill. Agriculture committee met to pass on the Haugen bill creating a bureau_of co-operative markeung in the Department of Agriculture. Secretary of Interior Work is to appear before irrigation and recla- mation committee this afternoon on the Boulder Canyon project, A judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on the lonshoremen's compensation bill Another subcommittee of judi- clary is to meet this afternoon on Senator Caraway's practice and procedure bill. Privileges and elections commit- tee is meeting this afternoon to vote on the report of its subcom- mittee, which decided in favor of Daniel 8. Steck, Democrat, in his contest for the seat of Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa. The special committee created to receive bids for the leasing of Muscle Shoals is in session this afternoon. The claims committee will hold an executive session this afternoon to pass on perding measures. Saving funds of people Germany are less than one-tenth the total Just before the world war, left to Mrs. Naomi Henry Ransom, Miss Eva Upper, ver, Mrs. Harbaugh, teachers. Lower: Harry Baker, Jr., George Mason High School, Del Ray. right: rincipal of EDUCATORLAUDS ORATORY CONTEST Principal of George Mason High School at Del Ray Sees Many Benefits. Harry Baker, jr., principal of the George Mason High School, Del Ray Arlington County, Va., in addressing a communication to the headquarters of the National Oratorical Contest i ‘The Star Bullding, has high words ot praise for the contest and states tha* his school will have a large and cred- itable representation in the contes. this year. Initiative and self-control are among the outstanding benefits to be derive from participation in the contest, Mr. | Baker asserts, and he also pays trib ute to The Evening St for its en couragement of an educational and civic movement of such a commend able nature.’ Mr. Baker's letter says “I am strongly of the opinion tha‘ partic.pation in the National Oratori- cal Contest will go a long way toward developing Initiativ, and conu among our student body. And I know of nothing more calculated 1 aid in the school's realization of the most important cardinal principle o education, the development of gooc citizenship. “Our school is very much intereste. in this work and eppreciates the op portunity afforded by The Evening Star in making it possible for us tc | enter the contest.” Immediately in charge of the woirk of consultation and supervision of the contest among the pupils are: Mrs, Naomi Craver, head of the English department of the junior high school; N Henry Ransem, in chur of the same department in the senicr high school department, and Miss Eva Har- baugh, head of the commercial de. partment. Mr. Baker is actively co- operating with the commitiev in this work. The Del Ray High School is one of the progressive new high schools of the Virginia section in the immediate vicinity of Washington. Jt occuples a new and modernly construc'ed and equipped building, which, in conjunc- uon with the former large brick school structure which it adjoins, ac- commodates nearly 1,000 punils. Of this number about 300 are in the high school department, two-thirds of whom are of junior section. A faculty of well equipped teachers is in charge of the combineq school plant. Mr. Baker, the principal, is par- ticularly well cquipped for his duties. In addition to a bachelor's degree from George Washington U'niversity, he holds normal and business school diplomas from Illinois institutions. URGES MEN TO WORK TO FURTHER GOD’S AIM Senator Tyson Declares There Are| None Living Who Would Do ‘What Christ Did. “Man is a mere atom in the uni- verse, so small, in fact, that it is to be wondered at that he should be noticed by God and formed in his Lkeness,” Senator Tyson of Tennes- see declared at the noonday Lenten services at Keith's Theater today. Senator Tyson went on to say, how- ever, that because man is small and insignificant he should not take it to mean that he cannot be a potent fac- tor in furthering the doctrine of God. While there are a great many men in the world today, he continued, who would sacrifice their life on the bat- tlefields, there are none who could make the sacrifice for mankind that was made by Jesus. The fact that he offered up his life on the cross is overwhelming proof of his divinity, he said. Tue greatest duties and obligations which men have to face today, Sen- ator Tyson added, are those calling upon them to serve the rest of the world. “No man can say that he has made a success of life unless he has builded more for other than for h.mself." Rev. Reginald Hall of Pohick Church pronounced the invocation opening the services, which were pre- sided over by Merritt O. Chance. Pre:- ident William Mather Lewis of George Washington University will be the | speaker at tomorrow’s services. —_— PAPAL TITLE TAX CUT. Italy Reduces Levy on Princes and Counts of Pope’s Court. ROME, March 16 (#).—The burn- ing question of “what price Pontifi- c-1 titles” has been settled satisfac- torily by the ministry of finance. Princes, counts and other nobles created by papal warrant have had to pay large taxes to the Italian gov- ernment before they could use their titles. The Fascist rulers, however, in conformity with the tendency toward _reconcillation with the church, have now cut the taxes by 80 per ceat. [COLONEL COCLIDGE HAS RESTFUL NIGHT Little Change Noted Other- wise in Condition of Pres- ident’s Father. By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH. Vt., March 16.—The condition «f Col. John C. Coolldge was litie changed today. An early morning report from the sick room sald the father of the President had passed a restful night and was able to take a little nourishment. Dr. Albert M. Cram of Bridgewater, physiclan In charge, planned to visit | his patient during the forenoon. In the meantime Deputy Sheriff Mac- Aulay, the colonel's body guard, was authorized to fssue the briet state-| ment. Road Being Cleared. While news from the Coolidge home continued to be favorable, a large force of men started out from Wood- stock early today to open the snow- bound road leading from Plymouth to White River Junction for automo- bile traffic A stretch of 19 miles is dy ble for cars, and work was concentrated on the 7-mile trip om Bridgewater Corners to this amlet. Three tractors and two ow plows were used in the work. Fach day sinee the condition of Col. Coolidge became serious, a_week ago, has seen an increase in the number of persons gathered here to watch the progress of his case. Miss Florence | Cilley's general store has become a hotel, with guests sleeping on cots in the public hall above the store and waiting in relays for seats in the little dining room. The word went out at last that visitors must furnish thair own bedding, and, as a result, the| stock of horse blankets in the Ludlow | store has been exhausted. ! Ready to Flash News. City men who have been accustomed to steam-heated apartments have been learning here to get up in the middle of the night and stoke wood stoves with green birch billets. Each night | the thermometer sinks to many de-| gress below zero and fire is a prime | necessity. little room beside the public hall sicep | beside their instruments, ready to flash to the world any new turn in Col. Coolidge’s illness. The colonel’s bodyguard keeps watch for the newspaper men. Each evening | Deputy Sheriff McAulay brings to the general store the final report from the | sick room, and in the morning he is again on hand with a bulletin. Dr.| Cram issues a written statement a!] midday after his daily examination of ! the patie: For the rest “Sheriff Angus” has been instructed to give | out immediately news of any sudden development. PRESIDENT WATCHFUL. | May Not Go to Father Unless Setback | duced o her agents to him as law- Occurs. President Coolidge apparently does Inot intend to go to the bedside of his | | father, ill 1n Vermont, uniess the pa- tient's condition shows a more serious turn for the worse. The White House Is in constant touch with Plymouth by private tele- phone, and the report received today showed that Col. Coolidge S grow- |ing weaker, but that the change was| not regarded as of a pronounced char- acter. | who Telegraphers lodged in a | 5 | ruary THOMAS E. LODGE, resigned today as assistant United States attorney. Who HEFLINS WITNESS NDRY LAWTRIAL Senator and Two Represent- atives Testify for Former Prohibition Unit Attorney. J. Tk Alzbama, 1l and Alden, from the s e among the character witnesses testified today before Justice Stafford and a jury in Criminal Divi slon 2 as to the reputation for verac ity and integrity of Maj. James F. Johnson, former attorney in the pro- hibition unit. Maj. Johnson and Dan- iel J. Shields of Johnstown, Pa., are on trial for alleged conspiracy to bribe officials to issue permits to brew- eries in Pennsvivania. Senator Heflin sald he had known n for 20 years in Alabama 2nd at Washington and that his repu- tation was good. The other members of the Alabama delegation also spoke in high terms of the accused. Defense Outlined. Col. James F. Easby-Smith outlined the defense of Johnson after Just Stafford had overruled a_motion for an instructed verdic K said he expected to entrapment, and claimed that prohi- bitlon agents sought out Johnson when he was engaged in legal work | for the prohibition unit in Philadel- phia and prevailed on him to go for a holiday trip to New York over Feb- 22, 192 ‘The agents provided | liquor, the lawver stated. and intro- | vers connected with enforcement. These latter followed him to Phila- | delphia and attempted to induce him to get into communication with cer- tain brewers in Pennsylvania. Induced to Call Up Shields. Finally they got him to call up Shields of Johnstown, Pa., whom they claimed was attempting iilegal meth- ods to secure liquor permits for a brewery which he had purchased. Saul Grill, one of the agents, it was & ated, made presents of candy to the wife of Ma). Johnson and invited her to_a soclal function. ADDITION 0 JAIL lCOmmissioners Ho!d Up Re- port on McLeod Bill Pending ! Committee Finding. | | | The District Commissioners today began the draft of a report on the Mc- | Leod bill, providing for the er!cuon“ of a two-story dormitory addition to the District Jail which will house 200 additional prisoners. The blll was introduced in the House by Representative McLeod. following the expose in The Sunday Star of | March 7 of overcrowded conditions at the jail. It was sent to the Commis- sioners for a report by Chairman Zihl- | man of the House District committee. The Commissioners explained today that before transmitting the report to | Representative Zihlman they will as- certain from the Bureau of the Budget whether the addition will interfere with Presidant Coolidge’'s financial program. The bill authorizes an ex- penditure of $125,000, but the Commis- | sioners appointed a_committee to pre- | pare an estimate of the cost. ‘The committee, which consists of Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris George 8. Wilson, secretary of the Board of Charities, and Maj. W. L. Peak, superintendent of the jail, has seen holding frequent meetings in an effort to determine the cost of the proposed additior — e WHITE MAN HELD UP. | | ecution | BENG ESTIMATED 552 ONE DEA, 4 HURT IN'FIRE IN HOTEL, | Employe Burned to Death as | Maj. Johnsen was testifying in his own behalt this afternoon. The pros- 18 being conducted by As- sistant United States Attorneys Fihel- Iy i while Shields is being defended Percy Allen Ros of Johns own and by Judge Michas M. Doyle of Washington. Flames Destroy Inn at Mount Pocono, Pa. By the Associated Press. STROUDSBURG, Pa., March 16.— The New Meadowside Inn, at Mount Pocono, 18 miles from here, was de- stroyed by fire early today, with the loss of one life and the serious in- jury of four other persons. Charles Watkins, 26, of Wales, an employe, was burned to death. The seriously injured are: Mrs. Blanche Smith, Mount Pocono; guest, Father Henry K. Klonowask Scranton, and Charles T. Miller, own er of the hotel, and his wif The hotel was four stories high and had about 50 rooms, but there were few guests in the place when the fire started. The guests and Miller and his wife were asleep on the second floor and the emploves on the third floor. Miller was awakened by the heat of the fire, which started on the second floor, and in attemnting to reach the employes on the third floor fell down a stairwav. His wife was Robbed of $6 by Colored Men—Po- lice Report Confused. Howard M. Granham, 714 Minnesota avenue southeast, reported to the po- lice yesterday that he was held up by two colored men at Forty-fourth and Grant streets northeast about 11 o'clock Sunday night, who assaulted him and robbed him of $6 in bills and a number of papers. He said he could identify the robbers. The police re- port of the robbery described Mr. Granham as coloted. This was cor- rected later in The Star, and police records were corected last night. — - — Senorita Paull Lulsi, the founder of the National Council of Women of Uruguay, was the first woman in gree. “Black Maria” Picks As Good Resting Sp ‘With the 560 miles of streets in ‘Washington from which to select, a Police Court “Black Maria,” I with prisoners, chose to break down right in front of the White House this morning shortly before 9 o'clock. or perhaps getting very tired, she sputtered along a way on her repu- tation and coasted to a stop at the west White House gate. The colored driver muttered elo- quently, climbed down and began to crank her. Maria remained stent. A crowd collected. Humorously-in- clined men patsed remarks to tnose inside -the van, who returned the wise cracks with interest. The driver passed uncomplimentary pemarks at everything in general. her country to receive a doctor's de- | loaded | west. burned in rescuing him. Father Klonowaski was injured in Jjumping from a second-story window. The body of Watkins has not been found. | MAIL BILLS APPROVED. House Committee 0. K.'s Ban on Pistols and Fraud Devices. The House Post Office committee today approved bills to exclude re volvers, pistols, fraudulent device and lottery paraphernalia from the mails. The action is in line with the Post Office Department’s pro gram to help combat crime. e Ottawa, Canada, is to have a $1,. 500,000 hotel. White House Gate ot and Breaks Down ! Finally, jfrom the police shops, down south- The mechanic arrived first, {and, after disappearing under the | hod for several minutes, emerged | with the announcement that a. was snorting as of yore.' Just as the van got under way After Marla developed paralysis, l right. A few seconds later Maria was a mechanic was called OFFCALS ST NERGERRUNORS Prospects No Brighter Than Before, They Say, After Conference on Issue. Prospects of a merger of the Wash- ington traction systems appear no nearer than they were several months ago officials of the Public Utilities Commission admitted today, despite insistent rumors that a tentative pl: of consolidation had been laid before the commission at a special executiv. session ¥ rday afternoon e of Engineer Commi Franklin Bell. Deliberations at the session velled with the utmost secrecy a members of the commission showe:d |no disposition whatever today to veal the nature of the discussion. T 1s known, however, that some phase « the merger question was talked about Officials at Meetms. the meetls pres..ent o and .llectric »f the Those who attended | were Willam F. Hal the Washington Railw Co.; Charles J. Bell, president American Security and Trust ¢ Ed- win C. Brandenburg. attorney, and Eugene E. Thompson, Washingtor representative of the North Americ: Co., of New York, which owns the Washington F . controls consi traction companies. however, attended the conference | 2 membe: the board of direct: | the Washington R | Co., and not as a the North American Co. | Mr. Bell and Mr. Brande board of directo: it wus | represented.” John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., last week an nounced that a plan of consolidatd was still under consideration. but th its completion was not imminent. Meeting Called Hastily The conference yesterday ily called and continued fs r. Upon its c R. Covell, Aseista Commissioner, isued the statement at the direction of Commis sioner Bell, chalrman of the commils sion: ‘The commission held a confidentia! discussion. The subject is not to be - | announced."” Col. Bell later declined to amj | the statement. | e PRESIDENT SIGNS WELFARE MEASURE Bill Abolishes Three Boards—New Commission to Con- trol Jail. The welfare bill, placing the various charity and correctional institutions {of the District under a newly created 1 Board of Public Welfare, is now & {law. The President signed the biil this afternoon. This law abolishes the Board of | Charities, the Board of Chlldren's Guardians and the board of trustees of the National Training School for Girls by placing these activities under the control of the newly created Wel fare Board, which will be composed | of e members to serve a term of | six vears, the appointments to be made by the Commissioners of th District ! This law aiso gives the newly | created board complete control and | management of the workhouse at Oc- coqran, ‘he ref the Washing tional Training School both in this city and at Mui d.; the Gallinger Municipal I al. the Tuberculosis Hospital, Home for the Aged and Infirm municinal lodging house the Indus- trila Home School, the Indu: Home School for Colored Childr th n and the District Training School in Anne Arundel County, Md. The executive head of this new {hoard will be a director to be ap- | pointed the Commissioners upo: recommendation of the members of the board. ST APPLICATION IS REFUSED FOR DOUBLE-DECK BUSSES Necessity of Trimming Trees as Well as “Peeping’ Charges Given as Reasons. Double-deck dealt bus habitues were severe blow today by the Public Utilitles Commission when 1t refused to approve an application shingtoh Rapid Transit Co. sion to purchase six new busses of the double-deck type for its Sixteenth street and Petworth lines. The Commission's refusal. it is un- derstood. was not based entirely on the vigorous protests against the peepers on the two-deck busses, but on a report from Clifford Lanham. superintendent of trees und narking of the District, that considerable trimming of shade trees would hava to be done bhecause of the height of the double-decke Complaint was made to the Com- mission at public hearing March 10 that peepers on the sun.decks of t =ses remove all vestige of pri- homes along the bus NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES B.F.KEITH’S THEATER " 12:30 to 1 O'Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW | Dr. Wm. Mather Lewis President Coolidge walked to the y front door of the executive offices, as though 'to add apother offer of ad- vice to the flood of suggestions from passersby.” | "Ho stood at the threshold until i the van had disappeared toward the Treasury and then returned to his office to resume his interrupted study of the Italian debt situation or some- ’ Conducted by Rev. John T. Huddle Every One Invited—No Collection