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9 < [ONEBODY ORDERS Large Section of Dahigren Terrace Reclassified by Commission. The Dahlgren Terrace Citizens' Assoclation won u partial victory in s fight to keep row-house develop- ent out of jts territory when the Zoning Commission today approved an application for a rezoning of a large section in the newly developed Northeast Washington. affected is bounded by Tenth, Fifteenth, Kearney and Bryan streets and Montana avenue. The comumission, however, rejected the as- sociation’s request in so far as it \ffects property in that area south of Rhode Island avenue. The change vrdered wus from A area to A re- stricted area. Commercial Area Changed. : commission also approved the st of a group of property own- in the vicinity of Seventh street Maryland avenue northeast to the residential status of their hood Dby rezoning property h siles of Seventh street and D streets from first esidential area. nother important action of the mnission was the approval of an application to changs property abut- side of Wisconsin avenue er street and the line of ‘treet, except for three blocks )l to Norton streets, from area 60 feet helght to A restricted urea 40 feet height. This change wus supported by the Cathedral } hts Citizens' Associa- ton. Other Changes Made. o Other applications approved by the nue from first commercial C to property abutting cord avenue and change from resi- A, 40 feet height, to first com- *, 60 feet height, property lo- nue between Shepherd road and Pea- body street; chunge from residential I3 restricted to first commercial C area property located at the northwest cor- ver of Twenty-seventh and P streets tor a small portion only, On T yiseventh street; ‘thange the rear portion of lots bound- €d by South Carolina avenue, C street, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets southeast: change from residential ¢ ond commercial D area, property ted on the east side of Twenty- third street south of N 4 on N street of Twenty-third street, and A )m first commercial to sec- ial property located at 1t corner of Twenty-sixth uris sireets northeast. ltcations disapproved by the ion follow: Proposal to change cted, 40 feet ful C, 60 feet on the south- road between streets north- to change from commereial prop- of Third o streets, and from first commer- property corner of wwd uvenues to flest comme . property located east side of Brentwood Fifteenth and Six east; the propo: sidential proposal to 3 sutheast Re at the ania and WILLIAM C. FISCHER IN IMPORTANT POST Is Installed as Captain of Watch to Guard Millions at En- graving Bureau. What i# considered to be perhaps the most responsible post as captain o h in the Distriet of Co- ! as filied at the Bureau of Enur and Printing yesterday when Willlam €. Fischer was sworn d Timothy B. Lehane, re- “isrher has been in the since 1917 and was elevated position of lleutenant of the Responsibility for the safety of the ars of potential money jureau of Engraving and ing rests upon the captain of the teh, who has 90 men under him and in charge of the elaborate and in- ricate alarm system which networks the blg money plant. Guns and va- vious firearms are available at rategic points of the bureau and an eutire rack full of Army rifles is al- st within reach of the captain’s Tormer Capt. Lehane left the rean February 15, When he was ered a farewell by a large turnout { employes who presented him with numerous gifts. Capt. Lehane’s re- sponsibiity, however, as captain of the watch, did not terminate until ) THE EVENING 'RS-I’s FURIOUS FIGHT IN GALE REVEALED BY LOCAL MAN ABOARD ROW-HOUSE BAN) i . margess cives Harrowing 19-Hour Flight Details. !Conlrol Car Left Hanging by Cables After Struts Snapped. By the Aasoctated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 20.— The Army dirigible RS-1 was victori- ous on January 27 in one of the most furious battles ever fought in the air against the wind, it was revealed for the first time yesterday. Two struts on her control car were brokerr when she attempted to land at Scott Field, near Belleville, 111, and she was forced aloft, there to remain for 16 hours, while her crew of 13 suffered from cold and hunger. The st was told by Charles P. Burgess, associate professor of aero- { nautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was’on board as technical observer. Prof. Burgess also was on the Navy airship Shenandoah on the night, more than two years ago, when she broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J. He said the experiences on the R8-1 were more trying than on the Shenandoah. Warned of High Winds. The RS-1, in command of Lieut. O. B. Anderson, had been aloft for four hours on her third trial flight. She was wurned by radio that high winds were expected and headed for Scott Field. By the time she was landed and was beinz pulled toward her hangar the wind had 8o increased in velocity that she began to pound on the ground ltke a vessel in heavy breakers. Two struts on the control cabin were smashed and Lieut. Ander- son, seing the ship would be wrecked in further attempts to house her, or- dered the engines started and the ground lines freed. It was then 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Besides Lieut. Anderson and Prof. Burgess, the RS-1 carried Lieut. John Salsman, radfo officer; Lieut. R. E. Ro- billard, alrship expert, and a crew of nine enlisted men. | With the struts broken, only sus- - | pension cables held the control car as | the airship began and continued her rorced flight. Those on board thought of what the survivors of the Shenan- doah had said after she went down in Ohio last Summer. The last noise those men heard from the control car was the crunching of breaking struts. “Soon after we went aloft,” Prof. Burgess, “‘we discovered that not left from our noon lunch. Some one found a few onions, but they were of little comfort.” Ship Plunged Wildly. The RS-1 headed into the wind, and, keeping as near Scott Fleld as pos- sible, worked away from the center of the storm disturbance. The wind was coming from the northwest and the ship was plunging wildly—"far more violently than the Shenandoah in her forced flight.” The radio officer attempted to com- municate with the station, but in h WATER RATE GAIN OPPOSED BY KNG Senator Will Be Sure Raise Is Necessary Before He Agrees to It. The clause inserted in the District appropriation bill by the House for a 25 per cent increase in water rent in { Washington will be carefully scruti- nized by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, when the biil is taken up by the District subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committes, he an- nounced today. ‘Announcement also was made at the Capitol that the Senate subcommittee, of which Senator Phipps of Colorado is chairman, will begin hearings on the bill at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. It is probable the District Commissioners will be heard at that time. Senator King is the second member of the subcommittee to declare his in- tention of inquiring into the necessity for the increase in water rates. Chalir- man Capper of the legislative District committee, and also a member of the appropriations subcommittee, declared yesterday that he would study the water rate proposal when it reaches enate. lhgegalor King said today that he had not had an opportunity to go into the water rate question sufficiently to ex- press a_definite opinion at this time, but said that his inclination would be to avoid an increase in the price of water if it can possibly be done. “I am not famillar at this time with the reasons for the proposed increase, March 17. as_he was on leave until that time. In the interim Lifeut. ischer was acting captain. ELDRIDGE T GRANT DOCTORS’ REQUEST Will Put Parking Limit Around New Building if Neighbor- hood Agrees. The pequest of doctors occupying the Wushington Medical Building at 1501 1 street for a two-hour parking limit on I street between Elghteenth znd Nineteenth streets will be granted, providing there is no strenuous ob- ction from other residents in the ighborhood, it was announced today v Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge. The decision of the traffic director to create a two-hour parking limit fol- lowed criticlsm by Dr. Charles Stan- jey White, representing the physiclans in the buildifig, that Mr. Eildridge lacked humanness in turning down the original plea of doctors. Mr. Eldridge explained that as there is only room for five or six machines in front of the medical building, and that parking is not permitted in front of the adjoining building, the Friends’ School, the doctors were justified in usking for parking restrictions in the neighborhood, so that their patients could visii their offices without walk- ing severai blocks. No special parking privilege around the buflding can be granted for the patlents, he pointed out, but by limit- ing parking on I street to two hours he belleves that parking space would be avallable, The doctors declared that a great many of their patients are crippled children whose parents are forced to carry them in their arms for several blocks because they are unable to park their machines near the medical bullding “I think I have as much regard for the comtort ef cripples and other sick persons as gny one else,” said Mr. Eldridge, in @aswering 'S criticism, ! but I shall look into them, and would favor leaving the present rates stand if it 1s found possible to avoid an in- crease,” sald the Senator. The revenue derived from existing water rents is more than ample to meet the current maintenance cost of the system, and the increase is being proposed to take care of large exten- slons in the distribution system in out- lylng sections. Today in Congress Senate. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah 1is expected to deliver a speech in the Senate on the Fed. eral Trade Commission. The appropriation bill for various independent Government establish- ments may be disposed of this aft- ernoon. The interstate commerce com- mittee met in executive session on the railroad consolidation bill. The Wadsworth immigration bill was being considered by the immi- gration committee. A subcommittee of the judiciary committee took up a bill relating to longevity pay for Army officers. The joint congressional commit- tee on the leasing of Muscle Shoals will be in session again this after- noon. “Cracksmen Mob” Turns Out to Be Schoolboy Gang By the Assoclated Prees. CHICAGO, March 20.—Heavily armed detectives set out yesterday to round up “a mob” of safe blowers that had turned in 17 jobs in three months in one district. Their quarry proved to be four grammar school boys from 13 to 16 years of age, who eald they had drilled all the safes and had learned how to do it by going to the movles., a crumb or a drop of beverage wus | HARRYS £ 53/ CHARLES 8. BURGESS. first attempt picked up the broadcast of a Wednesday evening prayer meet- ing. Later, however, he got in touch with the fleld. ‘At 10:30 In the morning we were some 41 miles from Scott Field and making no headway against the gale,” continued Prof. Burgess. “At 2 o'clock, however, we began to move forward. By that time the temperature in the control cabln was 12 degrees above zero. We were all suffering from thirst and hunger and every man was weary. “It was 5 o'clock and still very dark when Lieut. Anderson brought the RS-1 over Scott Field agaln, but the wind was &till too strong to land. At 6 o'clock the station sent a message that conditions were favorable for landing, “'After clrcling several times, Lieut. Anderson brought the RS-1 to the ground in the full glare of the sta- tion’s big searchlights. Despite the terriffic strain to which the ship had been subjected. she was undamaged, except for the two broken struts.” COLONEL DISPUTES STORY. Says Burgess Report of RS-1 Forced Flight Is Inaccurate. BELLEVILLE, TlI, March 20 (#).— No such harrowing experiences as de- scribed v ay by Charles P. Bur- gess, associate professor of aeronau- tics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were undergone by the crew of the Army dirigible RS-1 in flight at Scott Field last January 27, Lieut. Col. John A. Paegelow, com- mander of the fleld, declared tonight. Col. Paegelow sald the ship was forced to remain aloft 19 hours be- cause of a severe gale, but that no truts on the control cabin were roken In an attempt landing, because “the ship has no struts.”” Only wire cables are used to hold the control car, and these were not broken, the fleld commander sald. Several points of Mr. Burgess® story were disputed by Col. Paegelow. “Lowly Towrope” Stored Under Seat Is Valuable Asset Consider the lowly towrope. How many thousands of automo- biles on the streets of Washington carry them under the seat. A good stout line of proper length represents a very small sum of money and some day it may be worth many times its cost to the car owner. Quita often a motorist in distress finds a fellow driver who would “give him a tow” if he had a line, Members of automo- bile clubs, of course, have thelr first-aid road and towing service to fall back upon. but non-members must pay a stiff towing charge if they haven't the inexpensive piece of towline that might win them a lift from some good Samaritan. INDUCED SLAYER 10 CUTHIS LIST Former Newspaper Reporter Escapes From California Man, Who Killed Six. By the Assoclated Press. STOCKTON, Calif., March 20.—Not all the persons listed for death by John M. Go'ns of Stockton were slain by him Thursday in the series of six murders, which terminated with his 1;;‘101‘19 as he was being pursued by officers. This was Indicated when Alvin Mathews, former Stockton newspaper reporter, sald that he saw a small book in’ which Goins had written a number of names, including that of Mathews, and that Goins had stated “These are to be settled with.” Learns He Is “Listed.” Mathews said he was told that his name was on the list because he had written a story about a court case that went against Goins, “But I only did my duty as a re. porter,” Mathews sald. “All right, we'll scratch you off,” Goins replied. Then he drew a pen- cll through Mathews' name. The names of Capt. Smith and Of- ficer McHugh of the S8tockton police :;-ce also were in the book, Mathews d. Della Podesta, Goins' sister-in-law, was sald to have been marked for death also. Funerals Set for Monday. The funerals of Mrs. Florence Po- desta Goins, wife of Goins, and her sister, Minnie Podesta Clark of Stock- ton, the first ones to fall before the madman’s gun, are to be held on Monday, as are the funerals of Alex- ander Marengo, 60, vineyardist of Galt; his wife, Mrs. Matilda Marengo; their daughter, Mrs, Mary Dutra, and Mrs. George McNoble, wife of the former district attorney of San Joaquin County. It was determined today that Goins ended his own life last night, sending a bullet into his head as he drove along a highway near Placerville, closely pursued by two officers in an- other car, W | Reserve Officers on Active Duty. Reserve officers residing in this city have been assigned to active duty in training as follows: Maj. David S, P. @aillard, Ordnance Department, to the office of chlef of ordnance, War De- partment; Capt. Viadimir V. de Sveshnikoff, Ordnance Department, and First Lieut. Joseph A. Llompart, Ordnance Department, to the arsenal at Watertown, Mass.; Second Lieut. m"gfi.?m"' Alr Service, to Fair- -\ STAR, WASHINGTON, [HIGHWAY ROBBER GETS 15-YEAR TERM Forme_f Butler at White House Sentenced for Hold- Up of Messenger. Paul K. Blackiston, colored, a but- ler for many years at the White House and for nine months under the | Coolidge administration, was sen- | tenced today by Justice Stafford in Criminal Division No. 2 to serve 15 vears in the penitentiary for highway robbery. James Preston Simpson, | also colored, implicated with him in the hold-up December 19 last of An- drew Beckett, colored, a messenger at Jelleff's store, was given a similar term. Both prisoners asked for mercy, telling the court that they had lost their good reputations and friends and had been already severely punish- ed. A third robber, named Maxwell, who was driving the car in which the men sought to make & ‘“get-away,’ was killed by Beckett in his attempt to recover the pouch containing $5,623.44, which he was taking to the office of his employer, when set upon by the robbers. Beckett was returning from the bank in broad daylight in a small automobile and as he was about to enter the alley from Twelfth street, in rear of the company’s store, Blackis ton jumped on the running board and pointed a pistol at him, telling him to “Stick ‘em up!’ Beckett grabbed the pistol from the robber and beat him over the head, knocking him to the ground. Simpson in the Interval grabbed the pouch contuining the money and ran up the street, where he was overtaken by Beckett, who began firing with the obber's platol, striking both Simpson and Maxwell. Simpson was later ap- prehended by Detective Alligood. NOTED NAVY FLYER DANGEROUSLY ILL Lieut. ‘Walter Hinton, First to Cross Atlantic, Has Bad Heart Attack. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Lieut. ‘Walter Hinton, one of the best known fiyers in the world, who has d hazardous adventures in the vice of the Navy, is dangerously ill at the home of a friend after a severe heart attack. Although It was problematical for a time whe'her the noted fiyer would recover, later announcemerits said he had improved siightly. Dr. Graham Biddle sald the attack was caused by inflammation of the outer layer of the heart. Stricken at Meeting. Lieut. Hinton, whose most notable exploft was in 1919 as pllot of the NC-4 in the first transatlantic t, was stricken Thursday night shortly after he had addressed a meeting here. He was taken to the nearby home of a friend rather than his own because of the gravity of his condition. During the war Lleut. Hinton, who is a native of Van Wert, Ohlo, served in the Navy as an enlisted man, and rose steadily, being assigned to Hall- fax as a fiyer to watch for German submarines in 1918. Of the three planes which started on the transat- lantic flight in 1919, his was the only one to complete the journey, landing at Plymouth, England, after stopping in Portugal and Spain. In Balloon Mishap. In 1920 he was one of the three occupants of a Navy balloon blown into the Canadlan wilds during a practice flight. The party landed near Moose Factory, Northern Ontarfo, 260 miles from the nearest railroad. Recently he commanded a seaplane with the Alexander Hamilton Rice ex- pedition to the headwaters of the Amazon. He contracted jungle fever on this trip and was serfously ill for some time. 8ince his return from South Amer- fca_Lieut. Hinton hag made his home in New York. COAST LIGHTSHIP ROLLS 20,000 TIMES EACH DAY Umatilla, 18 Years in Service at Puget Sound, Is Moving 3 Haven for Sea Gulls. SEATTLE, March 20.—Life on Umatilla lightship, stationed in the Pacific 126 miles off the Washington coast, s a rolling one. Capt. E. H. Lindman, master of the vessel, cal culates the ship averages 20,000 rolls of 10 to 45 degrees every 24 hours, or nearly 1,000 un hour. The ship is similar to a lighthouse, but is even more isolated. It warns ships off one of several dangerous reefs near the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the entrance to Puget Sound. About a score of sea gulls make their homes on the lightship and have been given names by the crew. S superstition is that these birds when they die become sea maldens. The Umatilla 8 27 years old, and for the last 18 years, in Government service, has guarded the reef so well there have been no wrecks there. FIVE PLANES TO AID WAR ON RUM ROW IN NORTH ATLANTIC (Continued from First Page.) tress, and acting as llalson between the patrol boats and the bage.” In time it is hoped to extend the Alr Service in the South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Southern Califor- nia sectors, but the five planes for which the call has been lssued will be assigned to the North Atlantic. which now offers the Coast Guard the great- est challenge in rum row and the crowded sea lanes beset by icebergs and storms. Not to Replace Boats. “The board assigned to develop the future aviation policy of the Coast Guard does not have the overenthusi- asm of the young aviator who would replace the patrol boat with the plane,” Comdr. Yeandle sald. “It knows that rescues at sea and seisure of smugglers cannot be accomplished by the airplane, but it believes that the Air Service can prove a very ef- fective auxiliary to the patrol boat.” All of the members of the board ex- cept himself, he said, are experienced fiyers. The other members are: Lieut. Comdr. 8. V, Parker, in command of the Coast Guard destroyer McDougall; Lieut. Comdr. E. E. Stone of the United States Coast Guard Bureau of Aeronautics, and Lieut. Comdr. C. C. Von Paulsen, in command of the pa- T nelf Feport Wi net be.sade publy elr repo 1 not be le e until it has been approved by thowwm- mandant. A ! ! l ; D. ¢, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926. DESTITUTE FAMILY’S CARE IN VIRGINIA AUTHORITIES® HANDS Ph of 1) membe: found te in Washin, rs of the family of Archibald Campbell. Another, a girl, refused to pose. some time n‘o’. was cared for by the District Board‘o':(mmtks for a time, then sent The family, gton to Fairfax. Virginla authorities claimed they were sent there without proper notification. Plans are now being made for their care. VIRGINIA WILL CARE FOR NEEDY FAMILY Campbell Expected to Bei Sent to Tuberculosis Hos- pital, Children Elsewhere. The destitute family of Archibald Campbell, 12 of whom were sent to Fairfax County by the District Board of Charities last Tuesday, will prob- ably be cared for in Virginia State institutions, Judge A. C. Ritchle of Fairfax informed a reporter from The Star last night. The family was taken to the Washington and Virginia rail- way station by a representative of the Women's Bureau, acting under in- structions from the Board of Charitles, and told to get off at the end of the line and ask for Judge Brent. When the famlily reached Fairfax and in- stituted a search for Judge Brent they found that that particular judge was In Alexandria, some 20 miles away Confronted with the ualternative of letting the familv spend the night in! the cold or providing quarters for| them, Commonwealth's Attorney Farr| and Judge Ritchie made arrangements with the keeper of the county alms- house to send the family there. The Campbells are still there, the 13 of them, occupying one small room be- cause the other one assigned them has no heating facilities. To Be Kept in Virginla. Judge Ritchie denfed that the Fair- fax County authorities contemplated sending the family back to Washing- n the interest of humanity,” “we cannot consider indulg- g game of shuttlecock with the District charities, using the Campbell family as the feathered cork.” ‘The Fairfax County authorities can- not hope to keep the family in the county alsmhouse. Owing to a lack of funds it is belleved by residents of the county that the almshouse will have to be discontinued. Even so, Mr. Farr pointed out, it would be a Rgross injustice to confine the normal children to a poorhouse when, if placed in proper Institutions, they would have some chance of develop- ing into men and women who would not be a burden on the community. Steps have been taken, therefore, Mr. Farr said, with a view to placing the father in the State Tuberculosis Hospital in the mountains and one of the small boys In the State school at Richmond. EUROPE IN FURORE OVER HOUGHTON'S ALLEGED REPORTS {Continued from First Page.) tary for the dominfons. He said it was his personal viewpoint. From Geneva comes word that the council of the League of Nations has decided to request the United States to participate in a conference concerning American membership in the World Court with reservation: FRANCE TAKES ALARM. Alleged Houghton Réport Creates Paris Sensation. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, March 20.—A summary of Ambassador Houghton's alleged report on Europe to President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg, cabled by the Washington correspondent of the London Times, has been reproduced throughout Europe and has created a sensation. The renewed fall of the franc to- day was directly attributed to this re- port, which is interpreted as revealing the distrust of the American Govern- ment toward France and as making a Franco-American debt settlement al- most impossible. Unofficial representations on the subject probably will be made today by French diplomats to their Ameri- can colleagues either here or in Wash- ington. Mr. Houghton's view, according to :he Times' correspondent, is as fol- low “Europe has learned nothing from the war and does not want to disarm. It has prepared the agenda for the forthcoming disarmament conference in such a way that it is bound to fall. “The League of Natlons is a mere ineffective holy alliance, interested chiefly in the balance of power. France, with its satellites, is the lead- er of this tendency, with Great Brit- aln reluctantly following the French lead owing to interdependence of Franco-British interests in the Near ast.’” Finally, Mr. Houghton, it is alleged, thinks that Europe does not desire either American aid or American co- operation. (Copyright, 1020, by Chicago Dally News Ce.) C. 0. WOODBURY DIES. Charles Otis Woodbury, 87 years old and 4 resident of this ecity for the past 40 years, died at his residence in the Wyoming Apartments yesterday after a long iliness. He was a brother of the late Levi Woodbury, at one time proprietor of the St. James Hotel. Mr. Woodbury was a native of New Hampshire. He is survived by a son, Charles Burton Woodbury, of Salem, N. H.; a daughter, Miss Nellle Ger- trude Woodbury, and a sister, Mrs. A. C. Foster, both of this city, and a brother, Milton G. Woodbury, also of Salem, N. H. | Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. J. J. Muir, chap- lain of the United States Senate, will gmdc:u. Interment will be private in TR Waiter Dress Joke, Once on Americans, Hits French Guest PARIS, March 20.—The old joke about an American ambassador being taken for a head walter at & court function because of the con- trast of his plain evening clothes with the brilliant uniforms about him, has been perpetuated agaln, but with a French minister as the victtm. Chauvin, who was un- der secretary of state for the lib- erated regions in the eighth Briand cabinet, went to an Elysee Palace reception in evening clothes which are sald to date from his student days. Once in the French white house, he took a standing pose by the buffet, where the incident happened. “Maitre d'hotel,” queried a much decorated lady of high Paris so- clety, “would you mind fetching me a glass of cham| i M. Briand, M. Chauvin's chief, himself no Beau Brummel, was the first to laugh at his subordinate's misadventure. N s e e i “CHARITY" APPEALS REAP BIG HARVEST $100,000,000 Filched An- nually From Public, Claim of New York Official. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20—More than $100,000,000 is “swindled” annually throughout the United States by bogus charity promoters, in the opinion of Public Welfare Commissioner Bird S. Coler, as quoted in the first of a series of articles in the New York Evening Post today. In New York City alone, Commis- sioner Coler, who has had more than 30 years' experience in charity work, estimates that more than $10,000,000 “‘disappears every year in misplaced and stolen charity funds.” Charity drives, organized by pro- fesslonal promoters and high-pressure salesmen, both a backwash of the ‘World War, are launched for anything that promises blg financial returns, with from 40 to 90 per cent of the re: ceipts going into the pockets of the promoters, Mr. Coler says. In many recent cases these drives last months or even years, and after closing quiet- ly, the promised report of the disposi- tion of the funds is never made. The New York City public welfare department, working with the district attorney and police commissioner, conducts an endless war on these fakers, Commissioner Coler says. Often, however, it is impossible to prosecute them because they are in- trenched behind the unwitting indorse- ment of the soclally prominent and reputable, or their drives are just with- I Eives are. launched supposedly, h ves are launched sup; y, he said, for crippled orphans, tubercular foundlings, starving Russians, dope . insignificant missions or re- liglous motto societies, and even for tubercular war veterans. PLYMOUTH MOURNS AS IT PREPARES TO BURY COL. COOLIDGE (Continued from First Page.) adjoining that in which the President’s mother, sister and son Calvin are buried. The deep snow was shoveled away from the plot, and the select- man and his assistants cut through the frozen soil, fulfilling a task im- posed on them by the colonel himself several months ago. ‘The President’s property holdings in his ancestral town have now been increased. Three weeks ago the colonel transferred to the President the ancestral farm with its 225 acres of land and the old white house which was the executive's boyhood home. Ostensibly the colonel died penni- less, and there is no will. President Coolidge now owns in addition to the farm a nearby tract which he in- herited directly from his grandfather, Calvin G. Coolldge. It is the Coolidge sugar orchard. Staff Will Scatter. When Col. Coolldge is carried to his grave today, members of u little group which cared for him through many months of {llness will go their several ways. Thirty-eight weeks ago, when the colonel’s ocvndition became gerious, Mrs. May Johnson of Rutland jolned his househoid as nurse, and Angus Macaulay, a deputy sheriff, was as- signed as bodyguard for the aged in- For 80 years before that Miss Aurora Plerce had been housekeeper at the- Coolldge home. Today the Quties of all three had ended. Miss Plerce did not know today what her future would be. For three decades, except for one‘ short break, she has been the auto- crat of the Coolidge household. ffer system was inflexible, but Col. Cool- idge bowed good naturedly to her dicta. Not even for the President of the United States on his visita to his boyhood home would Miss Plerce chay her routine. With no lving relatives, her only home has been the Coolldge farmhouse. She rarely left the house except to go for the mail or to drive to the polls with the colo- nel on election day. She will remain at the farmhouse for a time until the Wwhat will be done with the homestead. ! WOOD CHALLENGES CREAGER CHARGES G. 0. P. Leader Suggests Way to Adjust Party Dif- ferences in Texas. tepresentative Will R. Wood, chair- man of the Republican congressional committee, in a letter to R. B. Creager, Republican natlonal' committeeman from Texas, yesterday suggested that Creager ask the Republican national committee to investigate his “‘steward- ship” of Republican affairs in Texas. By such an {nvestigation, Mr. Wood sald, it would be possible for Mr. Creager to vindicate himself should vindication be necessary, in connec- tion with the charges made against him by Representative Wurzbach, the only Republican member of the House from Texas. Mr. Wurzbach charged that Creager and the Republican State organization in Texas was more concerned in han- dling Federal patronage than in ad- vancing the interests of the party. Mr. Creager then announced that he and the organization would oppose Wurzbach for re-election this year. ‘This brought sharp letters from Mr. ‘Wood and Majority Leader Tilson of the House supporting Wurzbach and attacking Creager. In his letter Mr. Wood said: “You say that Col. Tilson and myself have done you an injustice. You possibly may be correct. If you are, scores of others in your own State are likewise doing you an injustice. “There is a way whereby tHb exact truth may be known. As a member of the national committee you have a right to request an investigation into your stewardship. 1 have no doubt your request would be readily granted. By this means the facts in your case as to the conduct in your office of na- tional committeeman may be fully known. I assure you of my willing- ness to assist you in every way pos- sible in such an investigation, in order that, if possible, you may be vindicat- ed and the future of the Republican party In tho Btate of Texas may be subserved.” CRACKSMENLOOT SAFE, GET §1,024 Piggly-Wiggly Main Office Burglars Leave Few Clues Behind. Thieves entered the main office of the Plggly-Wiggly Co., 1935 Fifth street northeast last night, by break. Ing a rear window and rifled the safe of $1,024, according to a report made today by George T. Richardson, cashier. Paper was scattered about the floor when clerks arrived at the office this morning, and the safo was found to have been broken open by cracksmen, who unseated the tumbler mechanism .dfl?r boring through the combination tal. The only loot taken was currency. A check-up today showed the exact amount in the safe, Detectives from the twelfth precinct started investigating the robbery to- day. They found virtually no clues on which to work, the robbery having been executed with skill and care. CATHOLIC U. RECTOR ON MERCIER BOARD Brand Whitlock Is Other United States Member of Group to Pub- lish Cardinal's Life. PARIS, March 20.—Brand Whit- lock, former American Ambassador to Belgium, and Right Rev. Dr. Shahan, rector of the Cath- olic University, at Washington, have 5 agreed to serve on | the international committee now be- ing constituted to publish an ac. count of the life and character of the late Cardinal Mercier, Raymond Poin- caire, former >resident and pre- nier of France, nd Mgr. Baudril- irt, rector of the institute Catho- BISHOL SHAHAN. llque of Parie, are the French mem- bers of the committee. England is rep- resented by Lord Halifax, one of the Anglican Church representatives in the famous Malines conversations looking toward a union of the churches, and by G. K. Chesterton, {a Catholic. The committee probably will meet in Brussels or Malines some time during the Summer. ————— It pays to read the want columns of [} Preeident decides | The Star. Hundreds‘of situations are | o'clock, obtained through them. 2 : DEATH PENALTY IN GUN BILL ASKED Senate District Committee Urged to Make Law Very Strict. A suggestion that it be wmade & capltal offense to commit robbery or housebreaking while armed with a gun was made by Senator Jenes of ‘Washington, while the Senate Dis- trict committee was considering a proposed dangerous weapon law for this city yesterday. The Senator sald he had been in- formed recently that one reason why London has few murders is because armed robbery is punishable by death. At his suggestion, Commis- sloner Fenning and Maj. Hesse, sup- erintendent of police, promised to find out if such a statute exists in any part of the United States or abroad. The bill under discussion would not prevent a citizen from keeping a gun In his home, it was said. Com- missioner Fenning sald the measure would enable persons to obtain per mits for a year at a time to caITy a gun if they show a legitimate rea- ton. The only purpose of the bill, the commissioner stated to make it dificult for criminals to obtaln weapons. Delivery Delay Asked. One sectlon of the bill would re quire a dealer to wait 24 hours fore delivering a weapon after applled for. 1 this was intended 1o act as a “coc ing process,” to prevent persons ™ the heat of anger from rushing to & store, buying & revolver and coni= mitting murder or suicide. Although members of the committee indicated they might eliminate sume portions of the bill, they seemed in favor of imposing severe penalties for the carrying of weapons by law vioia- tors. Action on the measure wus postponed to enable Senators Capper, Jones and King to study its detalls. The committee ordered a favoruble report on the bill making it an offense tc report a fictitious hold-up to the police. Maj. Hesse testitled that 18 fake reports have been made to the department in the past few months, and explained that detectives are taken from legitimate cases to run down these bogus reports. Fee Change Opposed. James Tanner, register of wills, vigorously objected to the bill, passed by the House, changing the methods of handling fees in his office and by the recorder of deeds. The measure would require him to deposit his fees with the District collector of taxes, which would mean that the appro- priations for his office would have to go through the Budget Bureau. At the present time the office is operated on the fees collected. This question led to a discussion of the question of whether District ex- penditures generally should be passed on by the Budget Bureau. Senator King declared he was opposed to re- moving the District government from the supervision of the Budget Bureau, and Commissioner Fenning agreed with him. The committee ordered a favorable report on a bill to authorize payment to retired policemen and firemen of certain pension installments which they falled to receive over a period of several years. —_—— SENATE ACCEPTS PLAN FOR LIBRARY The Senate today approved the agreement of the conferees between the two branches of Congress on the bill to provide for the comprehensive development of the free public librury system of the District. Chalrman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committee presented the confer- ence report, which was accepted with- out debate. The only action remalning in for the House to concur in the con- ference agresment. The conferees agreed to the House amendment requiring that all fees and penalties collected by the librury be turned into the Treasury to the credit of the District, instead of be- ing used directlv as a revelving fund for maintenance items in the library. The sums needed for such mainte- nance will, under this arrangement, be requested in the regular District appropriation bill. This change does not take effect until July 1, 1927. The House conferees yield~d from their amendment which would have required Maryland and Virginia per- sons to pay for using the library. Thev accepted the Senate language permitting those outsiders who are employed or attending school in the District to make free use of the library. TEACHER AND COMPOSER IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Mrs. Mathilde Waldecker, 76 years old, a music teacher and composer of this city for 52 vears, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank C. Wood, in Richmond, Va., Thursday. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Paul's Eplscopal Church here Monday morping at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Joseph Fletcher will officiate, Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Waldecker was the widow of Emmaneul Waldecker, who for many vears published German newspapers here. He dled in 1910, She was the teacher of both instru- mental and vocal music and com- posed numerous marches. Among her compositions were “The Waehing- ton Normal School March,” “The Alli- son March,” composed in honor of the late Senator W. B. Allison, and “Busi- ness High School Cadet Marcl sShe is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Wood, and three sons. Carl R. Waldecker of Baltimore. Emmanuel H. Waldecker and U. B. Waldecker of this city Mrs. Waldecker had been in falling health for several years and for the past four years had been living with Mrs. Wood, in Richmond. JOSEPH PAUL DIES. Joseph Puul, 82 years old, former director of the American Security and Trust Co. and Riggs National Bank, and for many years a prominent real estate dealer here, died at his resi- dence in ghe Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street, yesterday. Born in Virginia, Mr. Paul came to Washington about 45 years ago and was_associated for a while with the A. L. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. Later he entered the real estate busi- ness and continued in it until retiring several years ago. Mr. Paul-was the husband of tho late Mrs. Elva A. Paul and lived for many vears at the family homestead, Lawn, now known as Temple the site of the proposed new Temple. He {8 survived by his sons, Frank Dean Paul of Leesburg, Va., and Dean Castleman Paul of v York City. | Mr. Paul was a member of the Chevy s will be conducted at the residence this afternoon at 3 Interment will be in Rack Creek Cemetery.