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WEATHER 1y tonight, night. at today Full report on Page 9. tomorrow rain, Temperature: Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,912, BUSIES NEWAGED BY PRESENT TARFF AT, PROBERS HEAR Page Tells Senate Inquirers Flexible Provisions Should Be Repealed. NECESSITY FOR CLAUSES DECLARED EXAGGERATED Tells of Conference of Officials to| Find Substitute for American Valuation. | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. { The flexible provisions of the Ford- | reyv-MeCumber tariff act came in for | avotler drubbing today at the Senate | suvestigation into the administration o the Tariff Commission. Former thdrman Thomas W. Page of the | il Commission, a Democrat, told E e committee that in his opin- 1o the flexible provisions of the tarift should be repealed. . Page insisted that the existence se provisions was a constant veut to business, which did not now when a change in the tariff du- s might be initiated. he tariff rates, he said, should be tixed by Congress, so that business | swoulid know what to expect. Mr. Page became a member of the Commission in 1918, he told the wommittee. In 1922 he left the com- anission, he said, although his resigna- m had never really been accepted. lle said that several times he had postponed submitting his resignation Al the request of President Harding. | iie wished to leave, he said, because It | 1 financial sacrifice to remain, | and also because he was not in sym: | Yathy with the new tariff Jaw. H Mr. Page told the committee that while he member of the commis- sion on two occasions President Har- ding exerted his influence to have per- £ons appointed to the commission’s &taff. President Harding, he said, at one time became very angry because @ commissioner refused to indorse a | man whom President Harding wanted | » have numed secretary of the com- | mission, i Urges Report Publicity. \ir. Page's testimony regarding the | efforts of President Harding to use his influence in having appointments made to the commission’s staff was brought out by questions of Senator La YFollette of Wisconsin. Senator La Follette also asked Mr. Page it he did not believe the reports made to the President by the "fariff Commission should all be made publie, Including the sugar report. Mr. Page replied that he thought they should be made public. Senator Reed suggested that the Prestdent had made public his own rea- sons for not changing the duty on su- @ and that therefore it was not fecessary to make public the views of the Tariff Commission. Mr. Page pointed out, however, that the entire membership of the commis- #fon had favored a reduction, although one group of commissioners favored a greater reduction than the other. The committe adjourned until Mon- day morning, when it wil resume its hearings, probably with Chairman Marvin as the next witness. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Re- ublican, questioned Mr. Page at ength, seeking to draw from him an fdmission that with the depreciated currency abroad and the low costs of production there, it was necessary to &dopt a flexible provision as a kind of | it ct American in- | ‘dumping’ of for- ountry. Mr. Page stuck to his guns, how-: ever, insisting that the danger of dumping of foreign goods here had been “exaggerated.” In reply to questions by Senator Robinson “of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate committee, Mr. Page de sribed the origin of the flexible tariff visions us he understood it. He| hat when the Fordney-McCu: ber tariff bill passed the louse it c ried a provision that American valu- atlons of imported goods should be the basis of the tariff duties. Explains Critics View. aroused great criticism, Mr. se explained, because, with the low 5 of production abroad and the h valuations in this country, a 30 per cent duty on foreign goods be- | came in reality a far higher rate than it would have been under ordi- nary conditions. He described a conference at the Wh use attended by President 3t n all the members of the commission at the time, Senator smoot of the Senate finance commit- tee, and Secretary Hoover of the De- partmen { Commerce. Some sub- stitute r the American valuation sought. The bill was still before the Senate finance committee. Mr. Page said he favored a plan whereby the President would be em- powered to proclaim an emergency, it it became apparent foreign goods were being dumped in this country to the detriment of American industry and after an investigation by the Tariff Commission to increase the rates, pro- ok ing the reasons for the change. He #aid he suggested also that in mak- ing its investigations the commission should attempt to “equalize conditions of competition” rather than adopt the plan of ascertaining the costs of por- duction abroad and In this country 3 purpose of making the neces- ¥ comparison. 1t was practical ssible to ascertain foreign costs, S. Weather Bureau Forecast. Increasing cloudiness and warmer Highest, noon today; lowest, 45, at 3 a.m. Intered as second class post office, Washington, IF D. C. WANTS EYESORES AND DIRT GET A BELT LINE, SAYS CHICAGO 10’ Togicul carrsing out Of Greater luns, o ! 00,000 entiiblished residential values aind insist that such 4 venture by the farthest colder at 57, matter D. C. ito) the T posed by residents Board of Trade an of imagination 18 1ot needed Star ia printing the (ostimony of iliouds, they citing the damige w ‘ities are industrial in character, Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, March If the Na tional Capital seeks to encircle itself In a giant ring of coal smoke, debris, unsightly construction, then Was ington should allow the construction of a belt line raflroad. That is the s opinion of Chicago experts. fews were obtained with the leading men in Chicago's suburbs and they dll pointed to one conclusio “Where the belt line railroad goe there go smoke, evesores, crashing residential land values and dirt Chicago real estate men are in-a posi tion to know. This city—famed for its smoke and nolse and bustie—has three big_belt lines, the “outer belt,” or the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and two “inner Delts,” the Belt line of Chicago and the Indiana Harbor belt. What Happens Near Roads. No expert testimony is necessar for drawing a conclusion as to what happens near these lines. A casual tour of Cook County and part of Du Page County, adjoining Cook on the west, will furnish eloquent proof. The automobilist feels a catch in the breath, a taste of soft coal on the tongue, blemishes such as ash piles, “dumps,” smutty factories, dilapidat- railroad track. “Of course, Chicago's - problem is that of an industrial center,” say @h ts are asking for authority to con nd Kanization Washing s Harry And | ed buildings and then he crosses the | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. [“Must Be a Mistake,” Is Comment on Proposal to Girdle Beautiful National Capital—Great Loss to Property Seen. t bridee over are being bitterly op- nd the Chamber of Commerce, fon, who see potential menace 1on development distinet menace 10 to their experiences with belt ntial property values. All of the Dal made a belt lines h: | dirt, but | Chicago's life. dles all the stoc with the Indiana Harbor line. The | vards out at Clearing (on the extreme southwest edge of the city) send out dust und noise day and night, but without them Chicago would be hope- iy Janyned. Should Not Be Tolerated. “1 can’t see why u city which does not depend upon industrial activity for its life should tolerate anything of the sort. But here, of course, it Is a ion of life and death. It Chicago didn't ve the belt lines she would have a great deal less smoke, but she would be a poorer city and a smaller one. 1If Washington wants to rival hicago In business and in smoke and dirt, she should bufld a belt line.” In a circle with a radius of ahout 30 miles and its center in the “loop” district of this city runs the Efgin, Jollet and Eastern Railroad. On the i north it begins near Waukeegan, in | the suburbs of North Chicago. It runs west along the north line of Cook County, south through Cook County and Du Page County, strik- 2w Joliet on the south o Gary, Ind. “ontinued on Page 4, they The Chicago belt han- DR. WILSON CALLED “LIAR" INHOUSE 0’Connor Resents Charge That Members Got Drunk Often Before Prohibition. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibi- tion and Public Morals of the Meth- odist Church, was attacked as a liar on the floor of the House today by Representative O’Connor, Democrat, New York. Mr. O'Connor challenged Dr. Wilson to prove a statement he had made that “before prohibition the rum element was in ccntrol-of Con- gress,” and that “the duties of the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Rep- resentatives was to walk members up and down and get the drunks to their homes.” After calling upon the sergeant-at- arms and upon distinguished mem- bers of the House by name who were here before the prohibition amend- ment was passed to answer thsi charge, Mr. O'Connor sald: Answers for Them. “I'll presume to answer it and I'll answer it for my own boys and for the boys of America who shall come after us and sit in our places—it’s a lie, a deliberate dastardly canard, and fallen from the lips of a minister of the gospel. Back in his teeth we boys hurl it; back into his intem- perate brain where it was concocted without. an atom of foundation. Let us brand it as the falsification of one who, though he wears the cloth, not worthy to unloose the latchets of the shoes of those whose memory he would defile.” Representative Blanton, Democrat, Tex: rose to a point of order, de- manding that Mr. O'Connor’s words be taken down. Representative Chind- bloom of Illinols, presiding in the ir, ruled that the language of Mr. O'Connor was not” unparliamentary. Representative Madden of Illinois re- | quested that Mr. Blanton withdraw his request that the words be taken down, which Mr. Blanton did. Mr. O'Connor quoted Dr. Wilson as | saying: “Before prohibition the rum element was in control of Congress, while today 94 per cent of the mem: bers of Congress are members of some evangelical church. ‘The sergeant-at-arms had told him " (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) HUNGARIAN LEGATION INQUIRY DEFERRED Senator Wheeler Tells Committee Diplomats Hired Detectives to Trail Karolyi. By the Associated Press. After hearing Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, the Senate foreign relations committee deferred action today on his resolution pro- posing a Senate investigation into the alleged activities of the Hungarian legation here in connection with the exclusion of Countess Karolyl, wife of the first president of the Hungarian republic. Senator Wheeler told the committee in executive session that the Hungar- Says Proposal Differed. “‘Your plan did not differ materially from that finally written into the ,"" suggested Senator Reed. It differed very materially,” re- plied Mr. Page. He explained that originally it had been planned that the period in which the President might proclaim an emergency- wae to be only two years. He pointed sut that under the flexible provisions now in the law any rate can be changed. and that the provisions are permanent. The Senate finance com- mittee, he said, adopted the original plan, but it was assailed on the floor as unconstitutional, and on the mo- tion of Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin the present fiexible provisions were written into the bill. Senator Reed said that if Congress were left to fix the rates of duties, there would be the same uncertainty. Mr. Page denied this. Senator Robinson wanted to know in_how important cases the ian legation had employed a detective agency to shadow the Count and Countess Karolyl when they were in this country a year ago. Charley Ross Living Man Who Probed By the Associated Press. SHELBY, N. C,, March 24.—An af- fidavit professing bellef that a man discovered near here is Charlie Ross, whose disappearance as a child in the East in 1875 caused a Nation-wide mearch, will be filed here, according to J. P. Gaffney of this city. The man says he feels certain that he 1s Ross. Mr. Gaffney says he has been asked by the man if he will file such an af- fidavit. He added that he had remem- bered the man as a_boy coming to Gaffney. S. (', in 1875 soon after the child’s disappearance. with a man aid MARSHALL GUILTY IN'SECOND DEGREE Milliner’s Slayer Faces Sen- tence of 10 to 20 Years. Will Take Appeal. By the Associated Press. L. Marshall was today convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of Anna May Dietrich. The verdict carries with it a penalty of 10 to 20 years in the State peni- tentiary. Marshall, standing beside his law- ver, received the jury's decision with an almost impassive countenance. A barely perceptible flicker of emo- tion crossed his face when the fore: man pronounced the words which, unless a new trial reverses the present decision, will bring him a sentence of 10 to 20 years. Abraham Wernick, counsel for Mar- shall, immediately announced he would ask for a new trial. The jury was out more than 13 hours. There was no demonstration when the verdict in the gruesome case was rendered, and, after the formalities were over, the spectators quietly de- parted. Identification Made Quickly. Miss Dietrich was 35 years old and was employed as a milliner. Parts of her dismembered body were found in a wooded section of Delaware County, about 15 miles from Phila- delphia, on January 21. The body was quickly identified and suspicion fell upon Marshall, known to have been a friend of the woman. He was arrested at his home, in Bywood Heights, just outside of Phil- adelphia, Janugry 25, and the follow- ing morning he told the district at- torney of Delaware County at Media that Miss Dietrich had committed sui- cide in his office January 19, and, fearing notgriety, he had decided to cut up her body and hide the parts. As Miss Dietrich had died in Phila- delphia, Marshall was turned over to the Philadelphia County authorities. District Attorney ¥ox of Phila- delphia_County announced that Mar- shall had confessed that he had choked the woman to death during a.quarrel. Marshall was alleged to have ad- mitted they had been friendly for elght years, and that last Summer she began demanding money from him under threat that she would ex- pose their relations to his wife. In the quarrel at his office on January 19, Marshall was alleged to have con- fessed, he choked her only to frighten her, but went too far and she died. Frantic as to what to do, he decided to dismember her body. On the witness stand Marshall re- i pudiated this confession, declaring it, believing it to have been the state- ment he made to thee Delaware County district attornev. His defense was that Miss Dietrich died from pofson self administered. She had been a patient of his, Marshall said, and called on him January 19 for treat- ment. While he was out of his of- fice for a short time Miss Dietrich, he said, either took a deadly poison or used it in mistake for a salt solu- tion she was in the habit of using for a certain treatment. Medical experts were called by each side to show the other side was wrong in its de- ductions as to the cause of death. Kaiser Asks Passport. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 24 (P).—The Politiken says the former Emperor of Germany has agked per- Beardsley, real estate editor for | vards business aiong | nd turning | PHILADELPHIA, March 24.—David | that he had been tricked to signing | TAYLOR MURDER RECORDS STOLEN FROMHOTEL ROOM Papers Taken as Solution of Mystery Is Declared Imminent. NEW NAMES INVOLVED, PROSECUTOR DECLARES Weeks Ago, But Wanted Cor- ~ o roboration, He Says. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 24.—The Chicago Daily News said today that the rec ords of the investigation Into the { Willlam Desmond Taylor murder { mystery were stolen last night from | the hotel room of Harold L. Davis assistant to District Attorney Asa Keyes of Los Angeles County, Calif. Keyes and Davis came here from declaring that an important develop- ment in the inquiry into the shooting to death of Taylor, motion picture director, in 1922, could be expected in 30 days. Left in Brief Case. The records, the Daily News said, were contained in a brief case. It was left in the room when Davis said he locked the door and went out with friends last night. “We knew who killed Taylor four weeks ago, but this eastern trip was for the purpose of getting corrobora- tive evidence,” Mr. Keyes was quoted by the Herald and Examiner as saying. day to have been imminent. Mr. Keyes and Mr. Davis ar- | rived in Chicago vesterday from an Eastern tour of investigation and held a long conference with ficials. All denled that the Taylor murder was discussed, but the news- paper said it had learned the Chicago visit related to the shadowing here of two men believed to have vital infor- mation concerning the crime | New Names Involved. i The Herold and Examiner quoted Davis as saying that the eventual naming of the slayer and the con- spirators who plotted the crime would be a surprise, hinting that the plot involved persons heretofore not men- tioned in the case. One of the two men being shadowed here by private detectives was de- gcribed in newspaper accounts as a young Easterner who has been a resi- dent_of Hollywood when the murder was committed. He was described as a studio hanger-on, known for his fondness for night life. The second man under surveillance wae an expert camera man and tech- nician, whose services were in great demand by movie directors. —e VOTE T0 IMPEACH U.S. JUDGE ENGLISH House Judiciary Committee Members Approve Five Articles. By the Associated Press. Five articles of impeachment against Federal Judge George W. English of Illinois were approved by the House Judiciary committee. The articles, which will not be made public until submitted to the House tomorrow, have been redrafted and condensed by the committee with a view to expediting work of the prose- cution. Appointment of seven managers from the House to prosecute the trial before the Senate will be recommended Dby the committee. . POISON FOUND IN FOOD WAS ONLY SOFT SOAP Finger Prints in Spilled Ketchup Leads to Detention of Dis- gruntled Cooks. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 24.—Finger prints in ketchup spilled on a table upset plans of two women employed in the County Hospital kitchen to show their displeasure at not getting a raise in pay. The housekeeper on whose table the ketchup was spilled discovered the disgruntled women had smeared green soap on the chickens for a special dinner, put salt in the coffee, pepper in the oatmeal, and what not. The hospital warden sent for his brother, a. police official, who secured finger prints. The women were sus- mission to travel to Denmark for the | Pended funeral here on Sunday of. Dowagel Queen Louise, i G g in South Carolina, Kidnaping Believes ~ woman, 'rhe? stopped, he said, short time in £he South Carolina clty and disappeared, although he noticed at the time a close resemblance be- tween the child and Ross An investi- gation of the visitors was planned when they suddenly departed. According to Mr. Gaffney he recent- 1y received a letter from a man ask- ing If it was he who at that time con- ducted the investigation in the South Carolina city, ‘The man, according to Mr. Gaffney, is in correspondence now with Walter T.. Ross, brother of Charlie Ross, as well as having taken up the question with the New York World. nded. Previously it had been reported that polson had been found in the food, but investigation revealed that the ‘“poi- son’ was soft soap. SEEKS FULL D. C. PROBE. As an aftermath of the charges concerning Commissioner Fenning's activities as guardian for more than 100 mentally incompetent men in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Representative Hammer, Democrat, of North Carolina, planned to introduce in the House to- day a comprehensive resolution of in- vestigation. The Hammer measure provides for an inquiry into the entire District government organization, including the courts, House of Detention, Gallin- ger Hospital, and all elemosynary in- stitutions. It is much broader in scope than the resolutions introduced vesterday by Senator King and Rep- resentative Blanton. Knew Who Killed Director Four the East after a tour of investigation, | | Solution of the murder was said to- State’s Attorney Crowe and other of- | confessions last night after taking the | ALECED LIUOR " RNG HEADHED Fogel, Arrested on Train Near Baltimore, Arraigned. $20,000 Bond Asked. iin R. Fogel, of Philadeiphia, the first person named in the whole sale indictments charging a mammoth liquor conspiracy returned by a fed eral grand jury In Cleveland, recently and who is described by federal agents {as the “brains” of the alleged ring, | was apprehended on « train at Balti- more and brought to Washington last night after he had been trailed by federal agents for weeks. He was arraigned before U. 8. Commisaioner Needham C. Turnage Rere this morn ing and held in $20,000 bail. one of the highest set in the Cleveland in- | dictment cases. Fogel, who was captured while in company with his wife and 10-year-old son, enroute to Miaml, Fla., was taken from Commissioner Turnage's office back to the courthouse where he will be in custody of Marshall Snyder {until bond is arranged, | The high bond for Fogel was set |over protests of Attorneys James F. | Hughes and William T. Black, who | represented him. (ommissioner Turn. |age declared the fact that Fogel had {for weeks been a fugitive from justice and the seriousness of the charge warranted the high bond. Jurisdiction Is Doubted. Objection to the hearing before Com- missioner Turnage was made by Attor- ney Hughes on the ground that the commissioner had no jurisdiction, be- {cause Fogel was apprehended in Mary- land. Commissioner Turnage over- ruled the point und ordered the ex- amination to be continued. Mr. Hughes then asked for a two week's continuance in order to prepare his case. Assistant United States Attor- ney Burkinshaw, who represented District Attorney Gordon, agreed to a delay until next Tuesday Throughout the hearing Fogel main- tained extreme calm, and would say | nothing__concerning the charges against him. “I have nothing to say,” he sald smilingly to all questione The prisoner was apprehended by Special Agent John A. Conwell of the | intelligence unit, assigned at Phila- delphia. Conwell had never seen him and recognized him only from a pic- turs which he saw for a moment at Cleveland when called there on_the indictments. After working for days in Philudelphia trying to locate Fogel, he saw the man he suspected board. ing a train bound for Baltimore and the South. Joined Wife and Son. Conwell followed, though still not sure. who had boarded the train at a dif- ferent point, after some time out of Philadelphia. That gave Agent Con- well his clue and he arrested Fogel at Baltimore. Because he did not want to separate Fogel from his wife and child there, Conwell said, he brought them to Washington. Fogel, Federal agents say, was bound for Miaml, Fla., and intended to leave the United States for some foreign port from there. He had made use at different times of four aliases— “Ben Bogel,” “Ben Clark," “Dave Si- mons" and “Frank Wolf.” ‘With him in the Cleveland indict- ments were named his brother Frank and 111 others, including bankers, warehousemen, millionaires, real es- tate men and bootleggers. The indict- ments charge that pure grain alco- hol has been diverted from Federal sources for illicit use. FOE JAILS REVIVALIST. Roadhouse Owner Accused Church- man of Disturbing Peace. CHICAGO, March 24 (#).—Revival services to close the roadhouses around Lansing, Iil., have been halted by the arrest of the leading revivalist, the Rev. Benjamin Brown, on com- plaint of a roadhouse operator that the revivalist and his followers were disturbing the peace. After an hour at the village jail last night the re- vivalist was released on his own recognizance. The roadhouse owned by the com- plainant was included in 10 raided recently by Federal officers. Fishing Starts on Lakes. CLEVELAND, March 24 (#).—The Spring fishing season opened here to- day when eight tugs steamed out into Lake Erle to lay nets. Ice floes still dotted the lake. Fogel joined his wife and son,' RFUL Turk Government Takes Over Liquor Industry on June 1 By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 24. —The Turkish government has de- cided to take over on June 1 the alecoholic drink business of the country. Tt will manufacture dou- zico, the national drink, which re- sembles aniseed cordial, and also light wines and beers and regulate the importation of alcoholic bever- ages. Five per cent of the liquor reve- nue will be devoted to aviation, the army and the navy. More Turks recently have gone into the liquor traflic than ever before in Turkey's history. They have displaced the Greeks as owners of saloons in Constantinople, as well as in man- ufacturing alcoholics. The Moslem prohibitionists re- gretfully admit the increasing in- clination of the Turks toward strong drink. RIS L PLAN PLAYGROUNDS FOR OLDER YOUTHS Officials Seek Lots for Lads Barred From Regular City Facilities. Special provision for plaving facili- tled for thousands of boys of the city, ranging from 13 to 15 years old, whose rough games and unlashed energy practically bar them from the regular playgrounds, is to be made by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks in co-operation with the playgrounds department of the Dis- trict of Columbia. It is proposed, in the plans which ‘were perfected today at a conference between Capt. M. H. Parsons, in charge of the park protection division of the parks office, and Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, director of playgrounds of the District. that a series of boys’ clubs be organized in many sections of the city and vacant lots rented on which these voung Amerftans may play their rough games without en- dangering the smaller children who frequent the other playgrounds. Teach Responsibility. These organizations, according to the ideas of Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, and Capt. Parsons, who originated the plan, would have for their purpose the teaching of civic responsibility to these youngsters as well as pro- viding them a place in which they may give vent to their energies with- out being hampered by complaints from citizens or from the police. They will be expected to rule their own particular lot and will be taught to take appropriate action against any member using it who engages In the use of profane language or othér (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) GERMANY PUBLISHES NOTES WITH BRAZIL Replies to Austen Chamberlain’s Speech in Commons With Full Correspondence. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 24—Replying to Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statements in the House of Commons debate, the German government téday made pub- lc its correspondence with Brazil re- garding the League of Nations. The government argues that it is clear from’ this correspondence that Ger- many had the right to expect admis- sion to the league council alone. An officlal communique issued today dealing with the debates on the Geneva meetings in the House of Commons and the Reichstag gives the full text of the Brazillan reply of December 1, 1924, to the German memorandum of September, 1924, regarding Ger- many’s entry into the League of Na- tions. The Brazilian note contains, among others, the following state- ments: “Brazil has no objection to Ger- many entering the League of Nations as a member, but on the contrary de- sires it. Neither is Brazil opposed in principle to Germany obtnlnlg_‘ a per- manent seat on the council. Y . FUTURISTIC PAINTER. service. Yesterday’s * UP) Means Associ UNDERHILL BILL OPPOSED IN HOUSE Committee Refuses to Sub- stitute It for FitzgeraldI Compensation Measure. The House District committee, by a vote of 9 to 7, today refused to substitute the Underhill workmen's compensation bill, which leaves the field open to private insurance com- panies or o self-insurance by indus- trial concerns, for the Fitzgerald com- pulsory industrial {nsurance measure, which sets up a Government monopoly in the District of Columbia. The Fitgerald bill is now being con- sidered paragraph by paragraph for amendment. No amendment has yét been made. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas offered an amend- ment striking out the exemption of domestic employes, which s carried in the bill. He pointed out that if the proponents of this legislation and the representatives of labor are sincere in their avowed purpose to protect . the working people they should not make this exemption for more than 100,000 of *“the hardest working people in the National Capi- tal.” Mr. Blanton forced a roll-call vote. which resulted 14 to 3 against his amendment. \ : Further consideration of the Pitg- gerald bill has been postponed until Monday night. Executive Session Declined. At the opening of the hearing today Mr. Blanton endeavored to take the committee into executive session, indi- cating that some of the members would feel freer to vote if representa- tives of organized labor were not pres- ent. This the committee declined to do One of the pleasantries at the meet ing today came when Representative Tampert of Wisconsin sought to ex: plain why Representative Reid of 11- linois was opposed to the executive session because he has no opposition for re-clection. Mr. Blanton prom (Continued on Page 2, Column ed Pres juf the committee on The only evening paper in Washington wi'.:. the Associated Press news Circulation, 103,905 TWO CENTS. [4 GHANGES URGED [N MODEL TRAFFIC CODEAT SESSIONS Michigan Delegation Offers Amendments to Proposed Uniform Rules. 1,000 IN ATTENDANCE AT SAFETY MEETING Change to Yellow Tail Lights Is Opposed—Value of Right of Way Is Questioned. With Secretary of Commerce Her bert Hoover presiding, the 1,000 dele gates attending the second national conference on street and highway safety were faced at the opening of tod; s sessions with deliberatior over 14 suggested amendments to the painstakingly prepared uniform ve hicle code submitted yesterday b, Gen. Willlam MacChesney, chairman uniformity laws and regulations. The amend ments were submitted by Howard D Brown, chairman of the Michigan delegation In attendance at the confer ence, which s being held in the con ference room of the United States Chamber of Commerce Building and | will be concluded tomorrow afternoon Coming from representatives of the leading automotive State of the Union. these suggested changes in the model uniform vehicle code appeared to im- press many of the delegates with merit, and lengthy discussions over each of them was forecast at today's morning session. Yellow Tail Lights Opposed. Opposition to the provision in the model code that red il lights for au tomobiles be abandoned in favor of vellow tail lights is strenuously voiced | in one of the 14 protests of the Michi- gan conference members. “Twenty million automobiles in the TUnited States now use a red light,” the bill of amendments set forth. “Ifa change is made to a yellow light at this time considerable confusion will result. If the alternative suggestion is adopted, that only new cars use a vellow light, then necessarily both a red and yellow light will be used for a rear light. Any one familiar with sud den changes in traffic regulations must realize that this will bring about confusion and cause accidents. This conference has been called to reduce accidents. If there is no strong ar- gument to make the change then we feel that good enough should be left alone, and that the red light should be used as a rear light, avoiding un- necessary confusion and expense.” Another amendment of popular in terest put forward by the Michigun delegation is the omitting of a right of-way rule for motorists now in | cluded in the model law. Right of Way Questioned. “This delegation,” says their report. “is of the opinion that a right-of-way rule should be thoroughly discussed We are of the opinion that probably each driver should be placed upon his own responsibility and should be compelled to exercise care under the circumstances at street intersections. It a right-of-way rule is prescribed. it has been found that a great many automobile drivers insist upon main taining their right of way and feel that as a matter of right they can take that stand. We feel that this question should be thoroughly dis cussed as to the merits of the right- of-way rule and believe hat probably the same end can be accomplished by omitting such a rule from the uni form code. Other important amendments placed before the conference by this body provide for ubolition of temporary permits, recording of chattel mort zages and conditional sale contracts, adopting policy of having a license plate follow the car, abolish “drive-a- way"" placards, new certificate of title for mew engines: prohibition of the sale of a title; more strict employment of examiners of motorists desiring EX-AGENT NAMED INLIQUOR CHARGE La Guardia Says F. L. Dodge Was Go-Between for Con- victed Bootlegger. A charge that Franklin L. Dodge, formerly an investigator of the De- partment of Justice. had attempted to dispose of $200,000 worth of liquor per- mits taken from George Remus, con- victed Cincinnati bootlegger, was made in the House today by Repre- sentative La Guardia, Socfalist, New York. Mr. La Guardia charged that “John Gray of Cleveland" offered “to one George W. Wallanstein of 30 Broad street, New York City, certificates cov- ering $200,000 worth of liquor, the property of George Remus. “The man John Gray,” he added, “is identified as being one and the same Franklin L. Dodge. “Mr. Wallanstein refused to buy the certificates, and we learned that operators’ licenses: surrender of drivers’ permits time of sentence in court, more strict illumination of railroad crossings at night. “Public Conscience” Needed. Need for an “aroused public con science” and the building up of “courtesy and chivalry among motor- {sts and pedestrians’ was emphasized as an essential pivot in the safety campalgn by John Hertz of the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing C: of Chicago. who spoke at today's ses- sion on *“Tho Future of Motor Trans- portation.” “All the forces of education in mo tion pictures, newspapers, magazines, billboards and schools, g Mr. Hertz, “can contribute their share to this plane of popular education. I see no other way to round out the work we have to do and to do it well. We are living in a motor age. We must have a motor age education and a motor age sense of responsibility to- wards our fellow men and the protec- tion of their lives. “The mad, unr&slralrd rush to get some place, is only a delusion on the part of the driver and is the cause of most accldents. We recently proved that. In our city we made a test of the time it took to travel from the South Shore Country Club to the Con- gress Hotel—a dist#nce of about $§ miles—first at 20 miles an hour and then at 35 miles an hour. With such precautions as were absolutely neces- sary for safety, the difference in time the same Franklin L. Dodge trans- ferred the same certificates to one Mat Hinkle of Cleveland, Ohio, cover- ing this large amount of liquor. Mr, LaGuardia charged that Dodge maintained an intimate acquaintance with Remus’ wife while Remus was in prison, and had obtained posses- sion of Remus' jewelry and $200,000 in liquor permits. “He had made attempts to dispose of them,” he said, “and still had these certificates in his possession. It was therefore necessary to keep Remus in_custody.” “When a United States official, a prominent {investigator in the De- partment of Justice who acquired a national reputation as the ace of in- vestigators, leaves the United States Government service in order to go into the bootlegging business and to traffic in the very same goeds for which others were convicted and sent (Continued on Page 2, Column 7, Radio Programs—Page 35. was only 4 minutes, as I recall. But the difference between 20 miles an hour and 35 miles an hour, with re- pect to safety on a crowded boule- vard, is past calculation. Would Bar Unfit. “If epileptics, mental defectives and liquor drinkers are prevented from driving automobiles, fewer accidents will happen. “And again we know that if auto- mobllists and pedestrians are educated to realize fully the tragic results of carelessness, fewer accidents will oceur. . “And we may be certain that if a man who has been gulity of a mis- demeanor or of assault with an auto- mobile is imprisoned fewer accidents occur. 0 one can tell which is the most important, regulation by law or regu- lation through a sense of sportsman- ship or regulation through common sense. We would attach equal imper- ontinued on Page 5, Column 3.) £