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. . ‘ v (U. S. Weather Bureau Increasing cloudiness, light rain this afternoon colder tonight: colder. Temperatures: Hi, noon today: lowest, 48, at 2 Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 day. WEATHER. tomorrow Forecast.) followed by or tonight; fair _and ghest, 75, at a.m to- _Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star. The Star “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,388 29,913. post office, VOTED BY SENATE ELECTION PROBERS Seating of Steck, Democrat, Will Be Recommended by Committee. MINORITY TO SUPPORT INSURGENT’S CLAIMS Strenuous Fight to Be Made by Iowan's Friends, But Defeat Is Forecast. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate privileges and elections eommittee at a meeting today formal- Iy voted 10 recommend the seating of Daniel F. Steck, Democrat. as Senator from lowa. in place of Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, insurgent Re. | publican. A minority report supporting Sena tor Brookhart's right to his seat will be filed hy Senator Stephens of Mis sixsippl. Democrat. | Chairman Ernst of the committee was instructed to poll three absent | members of the committee before an- nouncing finally the vote in the com mittee on the Brookhart-Steck case. It was learned. however. that the re- port fuvoring Steck will be sizned by ® large majority of the committee Reports Due Tomorrow. The majority and minority veports will be filed in the Senate tomorrow, ' it is expected. Prediction was made that the case would be taken up Mon day or Tuesday in the Senate. The matter is one of highest privilege in the Senate. and it ix expected there will be a little further delay in bring- | ing the fight out on the floo Senator Brookhart and his -friends will. it is said, make a strenuous fight te prevent his unseating. On the other hand, the indications are tha the Democrats will line up pretty ! solidly back of the majority report which would give Iowa its fir: m atic senator since the Civil W subcommittee consisting of two | Republicans and two Democrats un-! animously reported to the full com- mittee that Steck was entitled to the seat now occupied by Senator Brook-' hart. Senator Brookhart will have the support of many members of the l"zngr!hsl\‘e group on the Republican side. Unless the debate changes the situa tlon materially, it is expected thut Steck will be seated. Brookhart Is Silent. Senator Brookhart would make no comment today offthe reported action | of the commitiee. Senator Stephens of Mississippi, it is expected, will have charge of his fight on the floor. In the event Senator Brookhart is unseated, it is believed he will enter the Republican primaries in lowa for | the senatorial nomination against Sen- ator Cummins, who must come up for re-election this vear. Reporis from | lowa declare that Senator Brookhart | in such a contest will stand i good chance of winning. Should he do so. | the Democrats would seek agpain, us| they did in 1924, to send a representu- tive to the United States Senate, hop- | ing for the aid of the regulav liepun- licans of lowa. Will Stress lowa Law. The minority report to be tiled by Benator Stephens will declare that Senator Brookhart w elocted by “several hundred votes.” [t will lay wtress on the necessity of following the.| lowa State law, in passing upon the contest. The majority report, on the | other hand. will take into considera- tion the intent of the voters, which has recently governed the Senate in| acriving at’ decisions in contests for | weats. The subcommitte report held that Steck had been elected by abuut 1,400 votes. One member of the subeom- mittee. Senatur George. lhowever, while he concurred in the findin; of the commitiee, differed in regaii to 8 block of some 1,300 voters, and held that Steck had been elected by abou® 76 votes. “The Brookhart-Sreck test has more than a year. The ballots cast in the election in No- vember. 142: were brought here by order of the Senate, and they were counted during the Summer. Both sides were given an opportunity to submit arguments and briei: to the subcommitiee and later the full com- mittee heard arguments. The charge was made In some quarters not long ago that a decision in the matter was being delayed in order to carry the case beyvond April 29, when the time for filing for the senatorial primaries in lowa expires. This was denied, however, by Sena-, tor Ernst and other members of the committe. CASINOS GET HUGE SUM FROM AMERICAN PURSES 33.240.000 Francs Paid Into Coffers in 1925, Estimates by Nice Officials Show. By the Associated Press, NICE, France. Marc pected that American 33.240.000 francs in the sinos last vea The “ki ties of the various casinos | amounted to 83,100,000 francs. 40 per ' cent of which is fizured to have come from American pocketbooks. ‘The municipal caslno of Cannes led all the others in paying local and state taxes on a tolal bank's per centage o 32,304.000 francs. The municipal casino of Nice was second with 26,280,000 francs, while the nther casino at Nice, the Promenade Jetty Casinn, was third, with 10,481,000 francs. Monte Carlo Casino, which is not a | French casino, had a “kitty" of 111, 115,000 francs. i YUCATAN DIVORCES VOID. Mexican Supreme Court Holds Law Unconstitutional. MEXICO CITY, March P)— The supreme court in rendering a decision in a focal divorce case de- cided that divorces secured in Yuca- tan are unconstitutional. The ground taken was that in Yucatan a divorce it granted without hearing the testi- mony ef both husband and wife. heen pending for lost Riveria ca- ~ ' Snowden. Entered as second class matter Washington, " SROOKHART QUSTE D. . Parties and Luxury {During Prison Term Cost Remus $17,000 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March George Remus, erstwhile Cincinnati boot- legzer. whose acuvities led to a term in Atlanta Penitentiary, is to make Chicago his future home and real éstate his business. Remus. who formerly was a lawyer here before he amassed a fortune in liquor activities in the Ohio city, announced his intention after he had lost a court effort to 0 cuses of pre-war whisky. reult Court of Appeals or- dered it destroyed. ry life wasn't so bad.” You see I could send anything 1 wanted, my blll for the 18 put in amounted to gave many partles out for most ¢ and really | months 1 $17.000. 1 there.” Remus maintained that his wife had possession of most of his money and said that when his divorce hearing comes up in In- dianapolls May 6 he would ask the court to order return of the | property. CHURCHILL'S PLEA AMUSES MELLON Secretary Smiles at Proposal for All-around Debt Can- cellation Program. Br the Associated Press. All-around cancellation of the war | debts as suggested again yesterday by. British Chancellor Churchill was smiled at again today by Secretary Mellon. It was reiterated at the Treasury with some emphasis that such a thing wasg not practicable so far as this country was concerned, or fair to America’s bondholders. The Secretary pointed out that if thiz country had canceled England's debt in return for the money owed to England by other countries the United States Government might ex- pect to be relieved of its obligations to its bondholders. These bondhold- ers would be paid in turn by the for- eign debtor nations. This circle was described by the Secretary as im- practicable. Treasury officials were not con- cerned with the amount of German reparations coming into this country ivhich Mr. Churchill discussed. The United States. it was explained. gets only its share of the reparations di- vectlv. If the other nations owing money here choose to use their repara- tion collections in payment of their debts here, it was considered imma- terial, DEFENDS U. 8. POLICY. | Mellon Says Administration Offers Help, Not Charity to Europe. By the Associated Pres PHILADELPHIA, March 23.—The American Government's war debt pol- icy was defended here last night by Secretary Mellon shortly afr it had been attacked in the British House of Commons by Winston Churehlll, chan. cellor of the excheguer, and Phillip lahorite- and former chan- cellor, While Secretary Mellon, who spoke | before the Unlon League Club, on the | eve of consideration by the Senate in | Washington of the Italian debt settle. ment, sald, “Our financial policies to- ward Europe are backed not by sentl- ment, but by sence,” Mr. Churchill and Mr. Snowden agreed that responsi- bility for the war debt difficulties rests on the United States for refusing to cancel the obligations. Offers Help, Not Charity. Mr. Mellon, who prepared his ad- dress hefore the related remmarks were made in the House of Commons, de- scribed the debt settlement terms as the most favorable which could be ob- tained short of force, adding that the administration believed in help, not arity, toward Europe. Mr. Snowden, however, viewed the war loans to the llie: through Britain as America's ®ift as a wort of compensation for her late arrival on the battlefields of Eu- rope.’ To this was added Mr. Churchill's observation that responsible persons in the country and Europe would not forget the situation that would exist when most of Germany’s war repara- tions “are drawn from the devastated and war-stricken countries of Europe in an unbroken stream ss the Atlantic to that wealthy, prosperous and great republic. Calling attention that settlement negotiations are pending with France, Greece and Jugoslay) the only Kuropean nations which have not funded their debts, Secretary Mellon warned that Europe must balance its budget and fund its debts if it is to be re-established on a sound basis. With that accomplished, qwith the assistance of American investments, he pointed out. Eurone will offer to this Nation a healthy and improved market, That market he deemed necessary for disposal of exportable surpluses in order to prevent collapse oi prices here. Criticism of the deht settlements WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FIVE CHARGES LAID AGAINST ENGLISH INHOUSE REPORT Abuse of Power, Impro;er Conduct, Corruption and Tyranny Are Alleged. EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT, MINORITY CONCLUDES Action on Impeachment Motion Expected to Be Taken by House Next Tuesday. By the Associated Press Former articles of impeachment | against Federal Judge George W. Ene lish of the eastern [llineois district were presented to the House today h its judiciary committee. The articles were five in number and were based on evidence presents | at prolonged hearinzs. A minority nf the committee held this evidence in sufficient. and recommended against impeachment. Article 1 charged the jurist with the abuse of the powers of his office and with “tvranny and oppression, Whereby he has brought the adminis- tration of justice into disrepute.” Charges Conduct Illegal. Article 2 charged that he was guilty of a course “of improper and unlawfun! conduct filled with “partality and favoritism resulting in the creation of a combination to control and manage with Charles B. Thomas, referee bankruptey. for their own and profits,” the bunkruptey affairs of the eastern district of Illinois. rticle three charged that the fudge v of mishavior in office in corruptly tended parti- ¢ and favoritism” 1o Thomas, and his conduct and partiality as judge™ brought the administration of Jjustice into discredit and disrepute, degraded the dignity of the court and destroved the confidence of the public in its integrity. Article four charged that in con- junction with Thomas he “did cor- ruptly and improperly handle and control the deposit of bankruptcy and other funds under his control” by de- positing, transferring and usipg the funds for the “pecuniary benefit of himself” and Thomas. ; Procedure Held Coarse. Article five charged that Judge glish at divers times and places, repeytedly in his judielal capacity, treated members of the bar in a “manner coarse, indecent, arbitrary and tyvrannical” and in other ways “conducted himself in a_manner un- “(Continu®d on Page 2, Column 4. WHEELER INQUIRY COST IS DEMANDED Senate Votes 61-13 Directing Department of Justice to Make Report. By the Amociated Press By a vote of 61 to 13 the Senate to- day directed the Department of Jus- tice to transmit to it a detailed state- ment of the money spent in the pros- ecution of Senator Wheeler, Demo- crat, Montana. Another resolution inquiring whether it 18 proposed to bring perjury charges against George B. Haves, a New York attorney, who testified against Sena- tor Wheeler at the Montana trial, was referred to the judiclary committee. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, author of both resolutions, agreed to this course. - 20 SLAYE;fiELIEVED FOUND. Mexican, One of Two Who Killed American, Reported Captured. Vice Consul J. Winsor Ives, at Ma- | zatlan, has informed the State De. partment of the capture by Mexican authorities of Remigio Ruelas, de- scribed as one of the two Mexicans responsible for the death of Joe Hall, an American employed by the Mexican Natfonal Raflways. The vice counsul forwarded a report received by him from Consul William P. Blocker, who went from Mazatlan to the scene of Hall's death to make an investigation. The second Mexican charged with complicity in Hall's death was reported “still at large." Earller dispatches from lIves said Hall had been “brutally stoned to death.” ~ - 28 Die, Hundreds Ill of Plague. too lenient was met by the Secretary with the statement that he preferred to have solvent customers with pros- pects of a profitable business future bankruptey. URALSK, Asiatic Russia, March 25 (P).—Twenty-eight persons are dead from the bubonic plague in the vil- lage of Baikadai, in Ural Province, /rather than force his customers into [ and hundreds more are aficted with the disease, which is spreading. Gold, Assaying $1,000 to Ton, Discovered In Mojave Desert, By the Associated Press. SAN BERNARDIN Calif., March 25.—For 28 vears a rich vein of gold lay waiting in the Kramer Hills with the holes already based for one last | shot of powder to expose It. The ro- mantic story of the discovery was told here today by Ed Herkelrath. who located the new strike of the Mojave desert. In 1898 the late Austin Burcham, owner of the Yellow Aster Mine, sank a shaft 40 feet in the Kramer Hills, and then abandoned the property when word came of new riches in the Yel- low Aster. Herkelrath said he found holes drilled for Burcham's last shot of powder while exploring the aban- doned shaft. The powdér had never been placed in the holes. “I though 1 would see what Bur- Once Was Deserted cham's last shot would uncover.” said Herkelrath. T put in the shot and ft exposed ore running $1,000 to the ton." Albert_A. Burcham. chief of police of San Bernardino, brother of Austin Burcham, confirmed the story. He worked with his brother on the pros- pect in 1898, A big rush has started for the Kra- mer 11ills, and the country has been staked for many miles. The scene of the strike is 25 miles north of Adelan- to, on the Adelanto-Randsburg road, which branches from the Old Tralls National Highway at Summit. J. 8. Mahood, constable at Inn City, arrived here vesterday and confirmed other reports of the richness of the strike. Mahood forecast one of the biggest mining excitements in the history of the Mojave Desert, in | interests SIFETY COFEREES TO PUSH NEW GO {Will Seek Enactment of Mode. | Measure in 45 States ‘ Represented. 1 Having unanimously adopted a res. olution presented by Gov. John G Winant of New Hampshire creating j organization committees in 45 States and Territories to execute their model safety plans of two years' delibera- tion, the second National Conference on Street and Highway Safety formal- | Iy was dissolved by Se Com- ! merce Herbert Hoover shortly before | noon today. ““The test of the success of these two national safety conferences,” de- clared Gov. Winant in presenting his resolution, “*“will depend on what is | accomplished by the delegates when they get back home. { _“With this thought in mind I move | that the State delegations attending this conference be wuthorized to serve s organization committees for the i carrying out of the thoughtful safety recommendations of this conference, which touch wr eight vital phases of the stupendous problem of making America ‘motor safe.’ I Ready to Call New Meeting. Secret; Hoover, speaking in sup- port of Gov. Winant's resolution, de- clared that the men in attendance at | the conference, in his bellef, repre sented “the best thought of the Na. | tion"” and would prove ideal agencies to see that the conference's model safety code is put into effect in their respective communities, ““While I believe the beneficial effect jof the conferences we have held throughout the country has been most profound, continued Secretary Hoover, “our work is not completed. We must proceed under our resolu- tion to press our recommendations in the various States. I also wish to make It plain that 1 am ready at any time, if the States wish f{t, to reconvene this national conference for the advancement of safety thought.” Within a half an hour after the Hoover conference had adjourned, motor club executives from every State in the Unlon convened at the Willard Hotel to consider ways and means for making effective the safety proposals. This_conference is held under the auspices of the American utomobile Association. Hoover and Press Praised. Other resolutions which followed Gov. Winant's resolution prior to the close of the natlonal safety confer- ence voiced appreciation over the part Secretary Hoover and the press of the nation have played in bring- ing the public to “a consciousness of the need for motor safety." In thanking the conference for the resolution passed in his behalf and the several-minutes demonstration ac- corded him, Secretary Hoover de clared that he belleved their safety conferen¢es had marked “‘a new step in the conception of Government which arouses the responsibility of local communities and stimulates them to intelligent action.” ‘The majority of the morning ses- sion was devoted to final approval of the recommendations of the con- | terence as drawn by the drafting com- mittee. Each of the eight safety sub- jects included in the program were acted upon promptly and with only trivial changes of phraseology sanc- tioned. The subjedts covered were traffic lJaws and regulations, enforce- ment of laws and regulations, educa- tion, statistics, study of causes of accidents, design and maintenance of motor vehicles, street and highway traffic facilities and elimination and protection of grade crossings. Would Regulate Pedestrians. The subjection of the pedestrian s well as the motorist to traffic regulation was adopted as an under- lying principle of the model traffic code by the conference. An atiempt to modify the “‘jay-walking clause,” which provides a fine for pedesirians who fail to observe traffic signals, was made by E. J. Meclllraith of Chicago. Such 'a clause, he contend- ed, would result In turning oves the busiest streets in the large cities entirely to the motorists and would not be supported by public opinion, but the conterencé rejected his pro- posal to modify the provision by a substantial majority. There was a sharp divison of opin- fon among the delegates over the color of lights for motor vehicles re. sulting in-a reconsideration of (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. 95 DR MARCH LawN AnP 1926—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. * N IMPLE MENTS. BACK Avo'p THE RuSH TWO MEN AND ACTRESS SOUGHT IN BIG THEFTS Police Wonder if Rivals for Girl Tried to Outdo Each Other in Race for Her Love. ted Press Mareh 25 Two 4 pretty blonde actress were <ht by authorities today 10 pro the sequel 1o a romance revolv inz around tne Chicag A warrant cha has been fssued for Joseph Morrison, paving _teller for the Dlunkers Bank, Chicazo, whe weye nd to be about 000 short The other man. 4 bxoker's clerk. has disappeared with his accounts around $30.000 short n the Assoct HICAGO men State Until about a week all three lived at the same address, officers learncd. and Morrison and the girl lefi at the same time. Investigators are wondering if the two men stole to outdo each other in retaining the ‘s affcction or to provide funds tri-parinership market operations. Morrison. police were told. has & wife in Canada CURB DEMANDED ON POLICEWOMEN Witnesses at Hearing on Bu- | reau Bill Fear Court Power Infringement. Mrs. Giles Scott of the District of Columbia Parent Teacher Association. and Mrs. E. R Kalmbach of 3007 Twenty-sixth street northeast, chairman of the Juvenile Court committee in the District of Columbia Congress of Mothers Parant-Teacher Associations, were the principal witnes: today when hear- ings were resumed on the Policewom en’s Bureau bill before the subcommit- tee on police and tiremen of the Dis- trict committee. Both witnesses emphatically in dorsed the principle of the legislation to have a Policewomen's Bureau legally organized in the Police De partment with duties as defined in the police manual. Both opposed hav- ing the Policewomen’s Bureau ex- ercise jurisaiction over children, claim- Ing that this was an infringement upon the duties of the Juvenile Court. The hearing will be continued to at 10 o'clock in the House committee room. with op- ponents of the measure to be called Arst as witnesses. Mrs. Van Winkle Present. Opportunity is to be given Mrs. Mina Van ~ Winkle, lieutenant in charge of the existing Policewomen's Bureau, to present her rebuttal of charges made by Judge Katherine Sellers of the Juvenile Court at the ast previous hearing. Mrs. Van Winkle was present at the hearing to- day s of a tants and had her rebuttal in typewritten form, con- taining about 30 pages, but the hear- ing adjourned before she was given an opportunity to present the statement. Mrs. Rafter caused considerable amusement at the hearing today when she sald that she and others opposing the bill admitted that the hearings bhad pretty well established that Mrs. Van Winkle is “eflicient, capable, has money and is good looking.” But she did not see what that had to do with the question of establishing a police- women's bureau by with broad ', Column Rafter, president “(Continued on Page MAN, UNABLE TO RECALL NAME, PICKED UP HERE Supposed Amnesia Victim Is Taken to Gallinger Hospital for Observation. A. man supposedly suffering from amnesia, was found going from door to door in the vicinity of Fourteenth street and Potomac avenue southeast today pleading with the residents to help him recall his name and place of residence. Policeman J. G. Russell of the fifth precinct was called and when he asked the man if he knew he was in Wash- ington received the reply: “If 1 knew where I was I wouldn’t be here.” Taken to Gallinger Hospital, he said it reminded him of “thé West End State Hospital.” There is such an institu- tion, it is said, in Pittsburgh. The man is of medium height. wore blue trousers, brown sweater, He Radio Programs—Page % s tesd brown fedora hat. black shoes and socks and tortoise shell rimmed glasses, e accounts | and | LETTERSTHREATEN BROVNLOWS Unscrupluous Political Foes Accused of Plot “to Get” Knoxville City Manager. By the Associatad Press | KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. March | Six members of the city council, in- | cluding Ben A. Morton. mayor, have issued a sizned statement that oper- atlon of the municipal government by Louis Brownlow. city manager, has so incurred the ill will of un element as 1o cause them to send | that official anonymous letters threat. ening his life, The statement was an aftermath of recall elections held here last Sat urday in which three of their col leagues were defeated by candidates of | the Tax Payers’ League, whose cam- paign was based on reduced taxes and water rates! economy and home- ruls government. basis for sustained attack on Brown a former Commissioner of the t of Columbia, who came here from Petersburg, V where he was | ity manager | The election gave the Tax Payers’ | Leazue five members in the council lof 11 and the =tatement of the re- malning s1x was considered a reaf- firmation of confidence in Brownlow and taken tn indicate that they will | resist any effort to remove him from | office NEW ELECTION ASKED. Foes Plan Campaign to Force Brown- low from Office. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. March (Special).—It will take another reca election in Knoxville to det ne Uity Manager Louis Brownlow and the administrative machinery he has set up. . The recallers threaten to institute another election for enough other councilmen 1o enable them to con- trol. but it is predicted by leading citizens here that Knoxville will not have the patience to tolerate the tur- moil of another attempt. ec their attempt to “get Brownlow, the measures in the council and thus put the majority on vrecord as< heing against them. They say they will introduce an ordinance to reduce Brownlow's _salary from $15.000 to $10,000 and use such other forms of harassment as they hope will force him to leave. The city manager government has levied taxes sufficient to enable the government to pay as it goes, instead of having great overdrafts at the end of each fiscal year, as preceding gov- ernments have had. In this way the city's bonded debt has mounted high. thus requiring great sums of money to keep interest paid and to retire bonds that mature. Mr. Brownlow has issued a state- ment denying the printed declara- tion that the city’s indebtedness has increased $8,000,000 since he became er. M The statement that the city’s debt has increased $8.000.000 is a grave r.”" he declared. erml'he net increase in the debt of Knoxville during my administration has beéen approximately $3.000,000 in bonds voted by the people for school and water works purposes. The net debt is now $11,000,000." ‘Wet Amendment Beaten. TORONTO, Ontario, March 25 (#).— An amendment to the budget speech favoring the sale of liquor in Ontario undér a system of government control was defeated this morning after an all night session of the legislature. The vote was 84 to 10. LIFE { «crupulous politicians and the lawless | Foiled in! recallers say they will introduce their () Means Assoc Reactionary Talk Will Land Women Of Turkey in Jail By the Associated Pre CONSTANTINOPLE, March Coincident with enlarged privileges for women in Turkey more of them | are landinz in prison than ever | before in the history of the country. The chief of police of Constanti nople has ordered the arrest of all women found dealing in criticism of the new dress and religious re forms or aisseminating propaganda tending to weaken confidence in Mustapha Kemal Pasha’s govern ment. He has detailed a special squad to watch over the women in hotels, restaurants and cafes find ing fault with the modernization | schemes. Five arrests already have been made. e new de- parture has occasioned considera- ble of a stir. BIG BOBER FALLS INRIVER: 2SAVED Lieut. Barner Glides to Water When Engine Misses as Plane Leaves Ground. | Excellent plioting by Lieut. James D. Barner. engineering officer of the naval air station at Anacostia. in landing his giant four-wheeled Navy | bomber into the Potomac River when the motor failed just after taking off from the field, saved the life of the | pilot and the meehanic. Chief Metal { smith Dietrich, shortly before noon | today. ! Lieut. Barner had just taken the | huge plane off the ground for a speed test when. at an altitude of [about 20 feet. the motor power | Sensing immediately that damage to | the plane and injury to himself and | mechanic would follow if he attempted 16 turn back to the field with the rapidly dying motor. Lieut. Barner chose an fey bath in the river Hit Water Gracefully. At the middle part of Bolling Field | is being filled in. Lieut. Barner used | the southern portion and took up | most of fhis on the tuke.dff. There | was nothing but the river straight | ahead. so down glided the big ship | |1t struck the water gracefully and | slowly settled, giving the two occu | pants a wetting from the waist down As the plane sank deeper into the water Lieut. Barner and Dietrich climbed to the top wing. Thev were rescued in a short time by the barge of the naval air station. Neither Lieut. Barner not were injured. Lieut. Comdr. C. Wick. commanding officer of the air station. immediately applied to the navy vard for a tug to lift the eraft, which is submerged up to the top wing panels. Work on raising the ship will be carried on this afternoon. Has 700-Horsepower Motor. ‘The plane is known as the Cs. torpedo bombing and scouting craft. It is motored with a Wright tornado engine of 7u0 horsepower. Recently two additional wheels were fitted to the landing gzear. to enable it to land on carrier decks more effectively. Lieut. Barner, as engineering officer. has been testing the ship for several weeks, hoth as regards to landing and to xpeed and altitude. | _The involuntary landing occurred about one-half mile below the station and in full view of motorists at Hains | Point Although the fittings on the left upper winz were broken when the plane came in contact with, the water and several other minor injuries in- flicted to the ship. Lieut. Barner he- | lieves most of the plane’s parts, in-. | cludinz the motor. can be saved. {ZINOVIEFF IS REPLACED IN SOVIET HONOR POST Recent “‘Heretical” Utterances Re- sult in Ouster From High | Leningrad Office. Dietrich Br the Associated Press LENINGRAD. Russia. March o3 M. Zinovieff hax heen replaced as head of the Leningrad Soviet by Nicholas Komarov, formerly secretary of that body. The office corresponds to that of governor of the province and has always been regarded as one of the highest posts In the Communist state Zinovieft's replacement is looked upon as one of the penalties for nis “heretical” utterances at congress of the Comunist party ir Moscow. The only important office he now holds is the chairmanship of the Communist International, which 15 likely to be abolished when the presidency of that organization is superseded by a collegium con- sisting of a number of departmental secretaries. WANT CONGRESS SEATS. National Woman's Party Officials Confer With Wyoming Governor. CHEYENNE. Wvyo., March 25 (®). —Plans to place more women in Con- gress in the coming election wei discussed here yesterday with Go Nellfe Tayloe Ross by officials of the National Woman's Party. The offi- cials attending the conference were: Miss Mabel Vernon. Washington. D. C.. executive secretary of the party: Dr. Caroline Spencer of Colo- rado Springs, Colo., a member of the exdtutive council, and Dr. Margaret Long of Denver. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio. March 25.—Lieut. E. H Barksdale. McCook Field, today told how he made a parachute leap to safety yesterday, when, without warning, the wings of his plane ba- came loosened and fell to earth. _ He was at an altitude of 1,000 feet at Wilbur Wright Field. The fuselage, which was dead weight, began a swift descent. Lieut. Barksdale in some manner freed himself, opened his parachute and landed safely with- in several hundred feet of where the 3 Parachute Saves Army Flyer as Wings Drop Off Plane at 1,000-Foot Altitude fuselage and wings drépped. His only injury was a sprained ankle in landing. A part of the wing struck him on the back.in the descent, but not hard enough to injure him. The plane, designed by a civilian for air mail service, which Lieut. Barksdale was testing, was demol- ished. Field engineers have not de- termined what caused the wings to shear off. ‘This is the second successful para- chute leap Lieut. Barksdale has made from a disabled plane in the last two years. > Homer A | the the recen: | an office | TWO CENTS. FENNING PRACTICE 0.K'DBY COOLIDGE: PRECEDENTS CTED President Knew of Private Business and Saw No Bar to Continuation. d Press. \LAWYERS IN CONGRESS GIVEN AS EXAMPLES ! Other District Commissioners Have | Retained Their Unofficial Establishments. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. When President Coolidge appointed Frederick A. Fenning to succeed Capt. Ovster as Commissioner of the Dis trict he was fully aware of the nature of Mr. Fenning's law practice and had no objection to his continuing it As 15 his custom in making appoint ments of 4 more or less important nature. P'resident Coolidge went very thoroughly into Mr. Fenning's rec- ord and the nature of his practice in this citv. The writer has been au- thoritatively told that a day or so be- fore the President announced that he had selected Mr. Fenning for the va cancy on the Board of Commissioners he sent for him to come to the White House, and for nearly two hours they conferred in the President’s private study. During this time the President did most of the talking. He asked a number of questions, and when he was through made known that he was thoroughly satisfied that Mr. Fenning was of the type and caliber that he was looking for in the man to appoint to this place. From an_unquestionable was made known fo the Mr. Fenning. while answering President’s questions about himself, very frankly told him of his handling the so-called lunacy cases and that the latter agreed to accept the ap pointment with the understanding that he would continue this work. The | President was represented as having i no objection At the time Mr. Fenning's appoint- ment was made public. he issued public statement in which he said. with other things, that he intended | to continue his law office in the Evane ! Building. Although he has looked aft er his personal business since becom- ing Commissioner, it is known that he has accepted only two new lunaey | cases since his appeintment. ! Private Business Not Banned. Although President Coolidge is rep- | resented as not being in the least dis- ! turbed by the present fight directed lagainst Commissioner Fenning ! members of Congress because of his heing the legal guardian .of a number | of mentally incompetent World War | veterans, thoge who know him well feel very certain that he will support Commissioner if developments make it necessary. It has been pointel out that numer- | ous predecessors of Commissioner Fen- ning have continued to conduct their private business while serving as Commissioners and nothing was said about it at the time. Also, it was pointed out by one of the President’s | associates today. there is nothing in the law covering the appointment of District Commissioners that prohibits an appointee from engaging in private | business. The only prohibitory fea- { ture of the law is regarding the three. ! year legal residence in the District | prior to appointment and the law cre- ating the Utilities Commission, upon which the Commissioners serve, which | prohibits any member or member of his family to own securities in publie utility corporations. Precedents Are Cited. Regarding the conduct of private business by former Commissioners, it was pointed out to the writer that | Capt. Oyster conducted his butter and | egg business up until the time of his death; that Gwynn Gardiner, who served as Commissioner during part of the Wilson administration, con- tinued his practice as a lawyer, as did Justice Siddons, who at the time of | his appointment was a member of the local bar: that Cuno -H. Rudolph {one of the present Commissioner: | continued for a period his priva business. Therefore, White House jauthorities cannot see where the law | has been violated or where Commis- | sioner Fenning has acted with any impropriety by continuing his legal work. 4 It is claimed also that a Commis- sioner of the District of Columbia has just as much right to give attention jto his private law practice while in office as have members of Congress who are lawyers. In this connection, {it is stated that one member of Con. | gress who intends to make a speech | very shortly in defense of Commis. sioner Fenring. will call attention to | the fact tha. there are more than 170 members of (‘ongress who make | frequent trips back to their home {'0“'!1! 1o try law cases. |FIRE IN COAST OIL FIELD ! DOES $250,000 DAMAGE | By the Associated Press. LONG BEACH, Calif., March 25.— Fire early today ate its way through the northwest extension of Signal Hill oil fleld near here, destroying two der- ricks and four oil tanks and envelop- 1ing in Rames three other rigs. The damage was estimated early today at a quarter of a million dollars. The fire started shortly after mid- night when gas, escaping from a well, ignited, forming a flaming torch al { most a hundred feet in height. The flames spread through four rigs near. All available fire fighting apparatus of this city was on the scene. Planes Collide, Two Killed. TOKIO, March 25 (4).—Two officers were killed and a third probably fatal- 1y wounded when two naval bombing airplanes collided and crashed near the air station at Kasumigaura, near here today. " Anarchist and Wife to Die. TOKIO, March 25 (#).—A Korean and his Japanese wife today were sentenced to death for plotting against the throne in 1922 and trying to import bombs from Shanghal te. Japan.