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“ATHER. (.S, Weather Bureau this afternoon slightly colder ton colder, fresh winds, Ra cloudy row, northw Highest, Foreca and partly night; tomor- north and 7l at 2 . at noon 26, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 29,914 post oftice, ROBBED ANDTIEDTO TREES BY MEXICANS Mining Engineers’ Party Breaks Captivity in Gang’s Mountain Retreat. BAND FOILED IN SCHEME TO GET HEAVY RANSOM Four Suspects Arrested in Murder of Employe of Bridge Com- pany at Ixtlan. By the Ass MEXICO CITY, Mareh Kidnaping of a party of American mining engineers, wha were tied to traes, f¢ the latest in a series of recent Americans, in the state of Du- at nightfall on Wed D. Weaver, jr.; Emil Morris and Adolph and robbed them of 26, The nttacks on Near A range, handits nesday seized (. The men were carried captives into the hills and tied to trees. The ban- its announced their intention to hold for 10,000 ransom, and ened death money was srtheoming. Three Escape Bonds. Most of the men are connected with he American Smelting and Refining aver is president of an 4 i mining ~ develop- Jnent company. The bandits captured ihe party between San Lorenzo and Asarco. Mr. Weaver told the captors t i money at his home Three bandits accom- home. They ransacked ce, taking all valuables. The U men meanwhile freed them- selves from the trees and went to Asarco and notified the authorities, An American negro named McNealy is declared to have heen killed by hlows inflicted by pistols in the hands of policemen while he was attempting | a third escape from the jail at Mata- | moros. Four policemen are under ar- | rest in connection with his death. Me- | Nealy was a powerful man and great- v feared by the police. When he troke fail for the third time he reached the Matamoros Cemetery. It is ve. | ported that the wounds which resulted | in his death were inflicted when he | resisted, after previously having s.g- nified his intention to yield to his raptors. Four Mexicans .have been arrested | at Ixtlan in connection with the re- cent musder of Rex Mcllphone and| the wounding of F. H. Heidenkamp, employes of the American Bridge Co.,| who were attacked, apparently for robbery, while driving a railroad motor car toward a construction camp of the state of Ialisco. Hall Case Suspect Held. In connection with the death of Joe Hall, an_American, employed by the| Moxican National Railways, last Mon- day near Ixtlan, Remegio Ruelas, a Mexican, has been arrested and other persons are being sought. Hall was stoned to death. At Acamparo, in the State of Guana- juato, the ranch of J. M. Feeley, is being protected by treops because of u rald upon it last Sunday by 25 urmed men. Mr. Feeley has informed the embassy that it is his belief the attack avas due to labor trouble. The foreign office has informed the embassy that President Calles per- sonally has ordered that all effort he made to apprehend Mexicans who have attacked Americans. The note added that the M n government was doing everything possible in the circumstances. ", H. Wickett and Harold Walker, who were among the American oil| men conferring with the Mexican gov- ernment in an attempt to reach a| mutual agreement concerning the rezulation of the petroleum law. have | Ieft for New York. Other American | il men say their departure was with- out significance. They assert Mr. Wickett and Mr. Walker had im- portanf husiness in the United States and the remaininz members of the American committee will continue their conferences here. LINER STRIKES ROCK. pesos it the | Lives of 238 Passengers, However, Are Not Endangered. TONDON. March 26 (#).—The| Union Castle liner Carth Castle, which left London March i1 for Cape Town South Africa, with 238 passengers, struck a reck in the English Bay, Ascension Island, in the South Atlan- tic. The No. 1 forward hole is flood- ed, but cable advices to the company today said the passengers were in no | danger. The company has arranged for an- other liner to take off the passengers next Monday and continue on the voyage to African ports. | DRUSE AGAIN ON WARPATH | Attack French in Kattana, Losing More Than 100 Men. BEIRUT, March 26 (#).— The Druse tribesmen again are active in the Damascus region. A combined force of insurgents have delivered a determined attack on four squadrons of French cavalry at Kattana, to the southwest of the city. They sur- rounded and set fire to the village. The cavalry, supported by airplanes, made a counter attack and drove back tribesmen, who left more than A hundred dead. The French losses are reported as small. In another cengagement of sterday four in- surgents ware killed. DR. DE GRAEFF TO GO. Dutch Minister Here Named Gov- ernor of Colony. THE WAGUE, March 26 (@).— Queen Wilheimina today appointed Jonkheer Dr. A. C. D. de Graeff, now Minister to Washington, to be gov- ernor general of the Dutch East In- dies, succeeding Dr. D. Fock. Radioc Programs—Page 40 Intered ws second class matter Washington, AMERICANS SEIZED, D C Freezing Weather Hits Middle West; Texas Gets Snow ! ! i By the Assoctated Press KANSAS CITY, March 26.—The Killing freeze that hit Kansas City and the Middle West last night will be repeated again tonight, it is predicted at the Weather Bureau here. A minimum of 22 was reg istered here and it was expected the mercury would drop to that point again by Saturday morning. Considerable damage to early bud- ding vegelation probably has re- sulted, it was said. Temperature reports from Mis- sourl for last night ranged from 20 to 26 degrees, for Kansas from 12 10 24 and for Towa from 15 to 22. Snow was reported falling this morning at Denver, in_the Texas Panhandle and in New Mexico. HUSBAND ACCUSED I S230000 Sur Wife Says Armistead Peter, Jr., Took Stocks and Gems From Bank Vault. Mrs. Anna W. Peter of _Dobbg Ferry, N. Y., today filed suit”in th¥ District Supreme Court against her husband, Armistead Peter. jr., of this city, for an accounting for certain securities and jewelry owned by her and valued at $2,300,000. Mrs. Peter brought a suit in replevin against the { American Security and Trust Co. last Saturday to obtain possession of the securities and jewels, which she sup- posed were in safe deposit boxes of the company. Deputy Marshal Callahan accom- panied Attorney H. Prescott Gatley of Minor, Gatley & Rowland, local coun- el for the wife, to the trust com- pan vaults and forced open the boxes in which the property was sup- posed to be stored, but found only a portion of the diamonds and other jewelry, and not the securities, it is said. Managed Her Estate. M Peter in her suit says that for 10 years her husband has aided her in the management of her separate estate and had authority to sign checks and transfer stock certificates in her name. She rented two safe de- posit boxes of the trust company, she EOGE PROPLSES WE REFERENDUM New Jersey Senator Would Hold National Test During Congressional Election. A joint resolution providing for a national reférendum on the prohibi- tion question was introduced in the Senate today by’ Senator Edge of New Jersey, one of the leaders in the move- ment for modification of the Volstead act. The resolution sets forth that the purpose of the proposed referendum is to give Congress the information necessary for it to exercise appropri ately its legislative powers under the eighteenth amendment. The question to be submitted to referendum vote by the States is worded in the resolu- tion as follows: “Shall Congress amend the nadional prohibition act so as to allow the man- ufacture, sale, transportation and pos- session of beverages containing as great an amount of alcohol as is law- ful under the Constitution, provided that such amendment shall not in- terfere with the constitutional powers of the several States to legislate with Tespect to intoxicating liquor as each State may deem proper? Would Be Held in Fall. The States would be authorized to conduct the referendum at the general election held by the States for Representatives in the Seventy- st Congress. Bt *"Fesolution _authorizes _an appropriation sufficient for the carry- ing out of the purpose and the Sec- retary of the Treasury would be authorized to_reimburse each State for the actual cost incurred by the States in conducting the referendum in accordance with the resolution. Challenges Dry Advocates. In any State where the State au- thorities make no provision for the referendum, the Postmaster General and Department of Commerce would be empowered to conduct it through { the Post Office Department and Cen- sus Bureau. i In a statement issued following in- troduction of the resolution, Senator, Edge stated: If, as the drys claip, they have no fear that public opinion has reversed itself, then it would seem they should unhesitatingly indorse this plan for a legal national showdown. Naturally, if they are as confident they correctly estimate the public view as they claim, they should really sponsor this resolutiol By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 26.—Ireland, fa- mous breeding ground of hale and hearty old men, has produced a super- centenarian. He is Willlam Smith of Dromara, County Down, who has cele- brated his 125th birthday. He was middle aged, according to ordinary standards, when he went off to fight in the Crimean War. His most stren- uous exercise nowadays is walking a mile each Friday to receive his pen- sion. Ireland has produced many long- lived persons, but women in the Brit- ish Isles as a whole are much longer- lived than men. There are about 10 times as many female centenarians as male. Clergymen and peers seem to h WASHINGTON, D. C, U..'600D OFFICES AGGEPTED IN ARICA BY PERU AND GHLE Kellogg Announces Parties Have Agreed to Aid in Argument. DEFINITE;ZAN BELIEVED NOW BEING CONSIDERED No Announcement Made Whether Plebiscite Will Be Given Up | for Arbitration. By the Associated Press. Sacretary Kellogg announced today that the governments of Peru and the United States for the settlement of the Tacna-Arica controversy. Arrangements for the procedure of mediation. the Secretary said, are now going forward in correspondence be. tween Washington, Santiago and Lima. In a formal statement, Mr. Kellogg said: “The Secretary of State was told by the press that there was an au- thentic report that Chile and Peru had now accepted the offer of good offices of the United States in an endeavor to arrive at a friendly adjustment of the existing differences concerning the provinces of Tacna and Arlca. Arranging Further Procedure, “The Secretary said that he had no; knowledge of the origin of the report. but it was true that the two countries had accepted the offer of good offices and that correspondence is now going on between the Secretary of State and the two governments to arrange for Chile had accepted the zood offices of |- ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1926—SIXTY PAGES. MINORITY REPORT DEFENDS ENGLISH Denies Jurist Is Guilty of Cor- further procedure. The Secretary de- clined to make further comment.” | The Secretary would make no fur- ther explanation of the latest turn in the long controversy, and State De- partment officials professed not to | | know whether the resort to diplomatic | settlement forshadowed abandonment | of the plebiscite proceedings now fn | progress under an arbitral award by President Coolidge. | Presumably that question, among | others, is involved in the cor-| respondence between the three gov ernments as to methods of procedure under the mediation plan. | Would Name Representative. | The normal method in dlnlumafir‘l mediation would be for each of the | disputant governments to name either its diplomatic representative in Wash- ington or some other person to meet with Secretary Kellogg for a round- table discussion of all aspects of the dispute. It would then be the task of the “(Continued on Page - IN'TORRES' DEATH U. S. Alien Agent, Testifying in Probe, Says Calles Violated Pledge. By the Associated Press. Testifying before the Senate immi- gration committee today, W. M. Han- tonio, Tex., said he took Gen. Manuel Torres handcuffed from the San An- tonio jail in an automobile several weeks ago and ordered him across the Mexican border on the interna- tional bridge, where he was seized by Mexican troops, driven off and later executed. migration conditions on the Mexican border under a resolution of Senator King, Democrat, Utah. Hanson declared he had been as- sured in telegrams from President Calles and the Mexican secretary of state that Torres would not be shot when he was delivered. Senator King asked the witness if he had not had his 3,000 acres of land in Mexico seized by the Mexican returned to him after he had delivered Torres to the border. Denies Land Returned. Hanson heatedly denled this and returned. “You held conferences with secret sples of Calles before you drove Tor- res to his death?” asked Senator King. T did not,” was the reply. “How did the Mexicans know when you would deliver Torres to the border?” asked Senator King. “I told them.” the witness said. notified the consul as we alwa when we deport Mexicans.” Senator KIng charged Torres was deported before the expiration of the 60 days which the Department of Labor had granted him in this country and that Hanson had refused to fol- low the order of the department. Haneon declared the order had given him _discretionary authority, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) o ys do Irishman, 125 Years Old, Is Broth of a Lad Compared With Briton Who Lived to 207 live longest in these modern times of rush and stress, but even the oldest of them are young compared to Thomas Carn, a Londoner, who died on January 18, 1588, at the venerable age of 207. At least, this is a record said to have been inscribed in the parish register of St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditsch, which the great fire of London destroyed. Students of longevity say centena- rlans come from long-lived families, where the thing is a habit. They dis- count the many pet modes of living, the prejudices for or against tobacco, aleohol, tea, or this food or that, to which old persons often attribute :|helr achievement in piling up birth- ays. son, immigration director at San An- | The committee is investigating im- | government, and if this had not been | declared his land had not yet been | ruption, Oppression or | lllegal Actions. By the Associated Press. | Impeachment of Federal .Judge | George W. English of the eastern Il | linois district Was opposed today in minority report filed by three mem- bers of the House judiciary committee. With this action, following submis | sion vesterday of the recommendation of the committee urging impeachment. all of the conclusions drawn from 1 | months’ investigation of the case was | placed before the House. The minority report. embracing 0 typewritten pages, is signed by Repre sentatives Bowling, Democrat, Ala { bama; Weaver, Democrat, North Caro- i1ina, and Hickey, Republican, Indian:. {1t disagreed with the conclusions of | the majority both as to facts and| [law and was submitted, its introduc- | tion sald, “as a duty to our colleagues in the House who will not have time r opportunity to study this evider nd judge of its probative character and fdrce.” | Agreeing with the majority as to | the Federal status of the judge, the ! minority took up each “article of fact” {in the committee recommendation and | | presented its dissenting arguments {and conclusions. Most of the sections were concluded | with the statement that “no { motive is shown,” and in re lalleged threats against 8 at the time of the 192 . it was stated t “is susceptible of the hest motives, if | {not commendation,” for his action | |during this period which was con- | demned by the majority of the com- | | mittee. | | | | | Says Charges Unsupported. | Assafling the five articles of im-| peachment reported as an omnibus | charge to establish “a course of con. | duct showing tyranny. oppression and | habitual official misbehavior,” the re-| port says this accusation was wholly {unsupported by the testimon: i *“In_ bankruptey cases handled by | Mr. Thomas,” the report -nnnnuml.: “amounting to some 400 or 500 annu- ally for a period of seven years,” the report continued, “there is not the | slightest evidence administration of a single estate. No | person in interest in any of these hundreds of cases has complained in this record. The Thomas mentioned is Charles B. { Thomas, former referee in bankruptey | appointed by Judge English. The bankruptcy administration of the court was sharply criticized by the majority report. “Neither do we find any evidence on this record of any attorney or liti- gant outside his district, either in New York or elsewhere where Judge English held court, complaining of his conduct as a judge,” the report says. ‘)‘V\'e do, however, wish the House to consider the well established principle that every defendant has thrown around him the presumption of innocence until his guilt is estab- lished beyond a reasonable doubt, and further, that if from a given state of facts there may be drawn two infer- ences, the one favorable and the other unfavorable, it is the duty of him who sits in judgment to adopt that in- ference favorable to the accused. Charge He Wrote New Rule. “Change in_ rules of court. Upon being inducted into office Judge Eng- lish found an order intended to con- trol the activities of referees in bank- ruptey, and shortly after assumption of office he wrote a new rule. It may reasonably be said that the two rules are the same, couched in different phraseology, but the same in their purport and effect. “Bankruptcy ring. In complete an- swer to this alleged ‘finding of fact’ it is sufficlent to say that all of the testimony in this case shows that Judge English established five depos- | itories -in his district, where, before he became Federal judge, there was but one depository. At no time did any one depository hold an unusual amount of bankruptcy funds. “Favoritism, partiality and unlaw- ful appointment of two receivers. All of the appointments to receiverships cited in the majority report were in 1924, running from January to July or August. o “The facts in each instance failed to show ‘anything that even indicated an impeachable offense on the part of Judge English. In each important receivership Thomas was appointed at the specific request of the parties in litigation. Evidently Thomas man- aged them with discretion and ability as no parties in_interest complained in this record. Under the power of positive truth an impeachment upon the grounds of these receiverships cannot be justly sustained.” {conduct the machinery nec | the | weeks ago, and testing the of any wrongful | ¢ CUTS OFF MOTHER’S LEG WITH KNIFE AND HACKSAW Man, 35, Held for Observation Aft- er Parent Dies—Confesses He Performed Operation. By the Associated Press. 26.—CGeorge Mark- % T Wwas sent to re ceiving hospital last night for mental observation after he confessed that he had severed the right leg of his T6-year-old mother, Mrs. Augusta Markwardt, with a butcher knife and hacksaw. Markwardt and the body of his mother at their home bors. Mrs. vesterday by neigh- dt had been critically and ‘mortem examination night failed to reveal whether death occurred before or after the leg was severed BASQUE TO AMEND SCHOOL BOARDBIL Would Give Commissioners Authority to Arrange for Elective Body. Representative que of South Carolina hax decided to offer an mendment to his elective school board bill, transferring authority to for clection of Board of Education members from the present Board of Iducation to the District Commis- ioners, he announced at the Capitol toduy 5 Mr. Gasque is carefully going over the bill, hearings on which closed two legality He expects Chairman Reid of all of fts provisions. to turn it over to carly next week. Wants Bill Reported Chairman Reid announces that as oon as Mr. Gasque turns the bill over to him he will call an executive hearing with the view of reporting the bill out and getting it before the full District committee. Request of the Board of Education, embodied in the form of a resolution, hat the committee include certain data in their hearing designed to re- fute charges made by Snowden Ash- ford, former municipal architect, will be granted by the committee. Chairman Reid made it plain_today that he is anxious finally to dispose sque bill, as his subcom- mittee has two other school measures upon which hearings probably will be opened next week. College and Retircmen These are the junior college bill and the amended teachers’ retirement bill. The college -bill is in the form of a joint resolution. It sets forth that the Nationai Capital should serve as an example to the Nation in so far as higher education is concerned and provides that an appropriation of $15,000 he .made to enable the Dis- trict Commissioners to submit to Congress, not later than December 1, 1926, plans and estimates for ofeation of the junior college. Under the reso- lution the college would be located on a site selected by the Commissioners and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission in a portion of ‘Rock Creek Park west of Sixteenth street between Colorado avenue and Kennedy place. The teachers’ retirement bill pro- vides more liberal allowances for teachers and has the support of the Board of Education $400 REWARD OFFERED FOR ‘HIT-AND-RUN’ DRIVER Original $100 Increased by Wat- son E. Coleman, Who, With ‘Wife, Was Injured. The reward offered for information which would lead to the capture of the “hit-and-run” driver. who struck and injured Watson E. Coleman and his wife at Fourteenth and Fairmont streets on the night of December 1 last was increased today to $400, ac- cording to Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police. The Police Department had previ- ously offered a reward of $100 and Mr. Coleman notified Maj. Hesse that he would contribute $300 additional in an effort to learn the identity of the driver of the machine. The police have been working on the case ever since the accident, but have been un- able to trace the motorist. Mrs. Coleman was seriously in- jured and spent considerable time in Garfleld Hospital, according to Maj. Hesse. Her husband also suffered njuries 5 were found in a room | MOTOR CONGRESS - SURVEYS THEFTS Stealing Autos Second Only to Bootlegging as Criminal Industry, McChord Says. Convinced that next to bootlegging, automobile thieving has become the leading professor of the underworld, 300 delegates to the National Motor Congress of clubs affiliated with the American Automobile Association, in session at the Willard today, proceed- bating the increasing volume of car thefts which is causing a sreat deal of property insecurity in every part of the country and at the same time increasing insurance rates. “The traffic in stolen cars.” Charles L. McChord, counsel for the Cleve- land Automobile Club, declared today in outlining the situation, “has be- come one of the most lucrative flelds of endeavor. Due to poor registra- tion laws, improper police activity, the mobility of the automobile and the closing of eves by purchasers, the | thief does not find much trouble in +| disposing of his loot. One of our great- | est difficulties is in keeping thieves in the penitentiary, because parole boards free them after a brief term.” Speakers charged that an effort is being made everywhere to saddle on the motorists of the country the taxes that were lost when prohibition came into effect. set forth today, was the species of Jjustice administered to car owners by justice of peace courts in many sec tions of the country. “Millions of dollars are squeezed from the motorist, not to enforce motor vehicle laws. but to enrich pri- vate' individuals who in many places hold the hizhways in fee,” declared Thomas I'. Henry, president of the A A A. Speakers were unanimous in pre- dictions that the 1926 touring season would be the greatest in the history of the country o e CHILDREN SUFFOCATED. Two Lose Lives When Oil Stove in Home Explodes. JERSEY CITY, N. J.. March 26 (®).—George Domonik, 6, and his brother Joseph, 2, were suffocated today when an oil stove exploded in their room while they were alone in the house. Joseph Domonik, their father, doing carpenter work next door. heard their screams, but flames red the hallway leading to the room on the upper floor and he unable to reach the boys. DRY CHIEF ATTACKED. Menninger Beaten Into Unconsci- ousness by Two Men. NEWARK, N. J., March 26 (P.— Lewis Menninger, chief Federal pro- hibition enforcement agent for north- ern New Jersey, was beaten into un- consciousness last night in his office here by two unidentified men. Men- ninger told police one of the men mum- bled something about ‘‘seizing all of my property.” After felling him with a blackjack the men kicked him sev- eral times. was He bar- bed- was Made Life Joll By the Associated Prese. AUGUSTA, Me., March 26.—Prison- s woman visitors in their cells and plenty of lquor, witnesses have testi- fled before Gov. Brewster and his council investigating charges brought by -prohibitionists. Additional witnesses were called for today after the councll took testimony until latd last night. Willlam Shaw, a witness last night, read two poems he wrote while a prisoner. One was called ‘Sunday Night in Kennebec Jail” and the other was a tribute to Sheriff Cummings for a Christmas party he gave the pris- oners in 1924. The first rhymes told of visits by young girls to the pris- oners’ cells. Shaw testified that there was lax behavior on the part of woman visitors, but he could not recall any of their names. He declared-that the prisoners had plenty of liquor in their cells, that once some prisoners stole seized liquor that was stored as evidence and that many prisoners ed to frame ways and means of com- | One of the greatest detriments, as | ers at the Kennebec County Jail had | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s @ M IDAUGHTER OF W. J. BRYAN| MAY ENTER FLORIDA RACE State Legislature Seat May Be| First Goal, With Senate as Later Objective. By the Assaciated Pra MIAMI, Fla., March 26— Mrs. Regi- nald Owen, daughter of the late Wil- | liam Jennings Bryan, announced here today that she is seriously consider- (ing entering polities b announcing as a Democratic candidate for the | State Ley . If elected, she lwould be the first woman to Hold a seat in the Florida Legislature. Her statement was made following pub- | licaticn of a editorial espousing her 3 Friends of Mrs. Owen say that her term in the Legislature would be but a prelude to a race for the United States Senate. s Associated GREAT 16TH STREET PARK IS PROPOSED i Fine Arts Commission Plans| Splendid Entrance to Cap- ital on North. | A grand gateway to the National Capltal is being planned by the Com- mission of Fine Arts for Sixteenth, street at the District line. The com- | mission late yesterday afternoon de- cided that the head of Sixteenth street | should receive treatment as a great | parking reservation and as an appro- priate entrance to the National Cap-| ital, and will recommend to the Na- tional Capital Park Commission that steps be taken immediately for the | purchase of land in this vicipity and | abutting on Sixteenth streef, which | may be used in the development of the | Capital City's first gateway. i Further than to recommend that a| large park be developed there, the| commission did not make any definite | plans for furtherins it along any other | ne. Street Being Graded. Sixteenth street now is being graded | and opened between Alaska avenue! and the District line, and it is be- lieved that the time is now appro- priate to consider the treatment of the head of this broad thoroughfare, which leads directly to the White House. sion also approved plans Maj. James A. O'Connor, | officer in charge of the Washington engineering district, which includes | | the District of Columbia’s water sup- | ply_system, for residences and other | buildings to be erected on the site of | | the new filtration plant at Dalecarlia. Maj. O'Connor also submitted a plan | for extending Potomac avenue, per- haps better known as the Canal road, which now ends at Chain Bridge, so that it may run through the grounds of the new filtration plant and connect with the present Conduit road, which is on the higher level. Traffic now using this road either | must cross the Chain Bridge or turn back and it is the desire to so extend it that. automobilists may enjoy ride along the historical canal banks and then continue on up the Maryland side to the head of Conduit road with- out the necessity of retracing their tracks into Georgetown. The roadway | plan was approved by the Commission of Fine Arts. 00l Design Approved. | The design of the Stuart Junior High School planned for the site at Fifth and F streets northeast, submitted by A. L. Harris, municipal architect, was approved. The commi n also_examined the designs for roposed memorial to Woodrow Wilson which Jugoslavs, Poles and Czechoslavs want to erect in the Capital City, but decided that the design did not commend itself to the commission. In the absence of leg- islation providing for the erection of a memorial to the War President, the ission decided that it would take er action on the matter. It considered informally the matter of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in | the Arlington National Cemetery and favored the early completion of the tomb. There were no designs before the commission for its consideration in connection with this matter. OLIVER LODGE SPLITS WITH ROYAL SOCIETY Belief in Spiritualism Is Superior to Membership in Associa- i tion, He Says. i | By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 26.—The belief of | Sir Oliver Lodge in spiritualism and communication with the dead has brought him into conflict with some of his co-members of the Royal So- ciety, the foremost of the British ilearned associations. In a letter to the scientific journal Nature, Sir Oliver says that Prof. Armstrong has virtually called for his resignation. Sir Oliver declares in effect that he attaches greater importance to truth than to membership in the society. “When such a request is made offi- cially,” he adds, “I will resign without causing trouble. But I will not re- frain from stating what I firmly be- lieve the truth, as demonstrated by clear and repeated evidence. * * * It is madness to be false to the truth, no matter what the penalty may be." Women, Wine, Gambling in Maine Jail Probe Witness Says made their own liquor from mash stored in the jail garage. Lawrence B. Greenwood, an -evan- gelist, testified that he had conducted services at the jajl until Sheriff Cum- mings called him a damned lar. He declared that once during services a prisoner banjo player “was so intoxi- cated he could not tell one end of the banjo from the other.” Charles Pullen, former prisoner, described visits of women, drinking and gambling. He admitted that he had never seen any woman visitors, except wives of prisoners, or any evi- dence of immorality. Everett Merrill, another prisoner, testified that prisoners working in the kitchen used to sell liquor at $4 a pint. He sald he went into the jail ‘with $125, and spent all but $10 or $12 on liquor. Harold Tracy, an ex-pris- oner, testified he had seen a deputy sheriff intoxicated, and that poker and dice games sometimes ran all night. Nearly everyhody got drunk on Christ- mas eve, 1924, he declared. Circulation, 103,527 TWO CENTS. BELT LINE BRIDGE BILL IS RECALLED BY HOUSE ACTION Measure, Endangering Great- er D. C., Once Passed, Taken From Senate. Press. |HEARING BY SENATE CONMITTEE TOMORROW Forces Striving to Save $125,000,- 000 Residential Property Will Cite Their Case. The House today approved a reso- lution offered by Chairman Zihiman of the House District committee «call- ing for a return from the Senate of the bill authorizing erection of a { bridge and approaches across the Po- tomac River between Montgomery County, Md., and Fairfax County, Va. Chairman Dennison of the subcom- mittee which reported this bill to the House acquiesced in the request of Mr. Zihlman. This bridge is an essential part of the proposed Washington-Lough- borough belt line railroad project, and | the legislation was fathered by Rep- resentative Newton of Missouri. It provides that the Washington and Loughborough Co., a corporation organized and existing under the laws j of the State of Virginia, and its suc- ¢essors and assigns is authorized to construct, maintain and operate this bridge and approaches at a point suit- able to the interests of navigation within one-half mile northwest of the northwest line of the District of Ce lumbia, in accordance with the pro visions of an act entitled “to regu late the construction of bridges over navigable waters.” The bill expressiv reserves the right to alter, amend « repeal the act. Passed on March 1. This bill was passed by the House under unanimous consent on March 1, when Representative Zihlman was not in the legisiative chamber. The measure is opposed by the busi- ness assocfations and many c as- sociations in Washington, as well as by residents of suburban Maryland and Virginia_territory, it being re- garded as a_distinct menace to plans for greater Washington and to $125, 000,000 worth of established residen tial property in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Large railroads, shippers and others using available facilities likewise are arrayed agains the measure. Lines Drawn for Skirmish. Lines are being fast drawn today for another skirmish tomorrow at the Capitol between the opponents and the proponents of the proposed biidge A subcommittee of the Senate com » | merce committee will hold a public hearing on the bill. The subcommittee is headed by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, and the other mem bers are Senator James Couzens of Michigan and Senator Morris Shén pard of Texas. The hearing will he held at 10 o'clock in the commerce committee room in the Ca The multitudes of citizenry metropolitan _district of W who, through their org: have expressed the fears of menace -xpressed unani mous opposition to the project. marshaling their forces to morrow and present reaso a railroad should not be gain a foothold in what will be a pari of the Capital City of the future, and which now is developing into a great residential suburb. No Reason for Line. Those who have been following the proposition from its inception. includ ing many big business organizations in the Capital, point out, and will se tell the committee at the hearing that there is no reason for the es tablishment of such a belt line or terminal on the very edge of the city. and certainly no demand for it ex cept from the interes ine it It is not needed. they f ficlent movement of freight into and out or through the Capital City, or around it between the north and south, as present railroad facilities amply provide for this. Discussion of the project with mil- itary_engineers shows they scoff at the ‘claim that such a bridge and helt line is needed as a military adjunct. pointing out that it will not materi- ally assist in the movement of freight in time of war. It is pointed out that the present railroad bridge across the Potomac suffi to meet fumn 6.) YOUTH, 19, IS BEATEN BY BAND OF FIVE MEN ‘Wife He Married Secretly Last Summer Recently Died Dur- ing Child Birth. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., March 26.— D. M. Haley, 19, was kidnapeéd from his home here early yesterday by five men, taken in an automobile to the edge of the city and given 40 lashes with a strap. He told policé he recognized none of the men. Haley was married secretly last Summer to a young girl, but the couple did not live together, his rela tives stated last night. Last week the girl died in giving birth to a child, Haley's mother told the police INSCRIPTION REMOVED. Filipinos Forced to Erase Legend on New Building. MANILA, March 26 (#).—An in scription carved on a stone tablet over the main entrance of the new legislative building, which was con- sidered inappropriate and unauthor- ized, was removed yesterday by the director of public works upon instruc- tions of the governor general's office. The inscription was: “Erected by Fillpino people as monument of rights won and dedicated by them to the cause of freedom.” It was not disclosed who ordered the inscription placed upon the tablet. The bullding is nearing completion and will be occupied by the Legisia- tusy dext July.