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WILLIAMS' TRIAL PLANS COMPLETED Butler to Testify Against Colonel—Trial Expected to Be Brief. 110 from that wlo Hotel, in which Williams of the Marine 10 have appeared sev under the influence orang arrange ments we for his « intoxica d by conm Ina bail of the xander ps is all erad of weeks > Smedley the marine v Al court-martial will open now in the din: ene men’s dang ALl f wilitary court mointe ns were San Die of Rear A exception tribuna Tow the He is ex Butler to sspital to have 1 shordy after 1. Williams » command | | B | e is from | atient today ted however. \propos Butler's connec tion. with the . Rear Admiral Ashley R nt of the 110th Naval District. to took | occasion to remind the public that it was who advised ler 1o fle formal char ainst ol | Williax it the general did so reluct ind that he acted purely 15 without vegard| Y reputation as i proponent prohibition in Philadelphi Admiral Defends Butler. are things which e whatsoever to do with this Admiral Rober One | ler's wer connection with the Philadelphia Police Depar ment: the other is the party which €ol. Wil ve at his Coronado howe i of Gen. But v befe \e latter ordered him under t at t ynado Ho B S is to be tried 4§ A military il offense Butler will not be on tri in ma it is because there hpears to be a dizposition to regard the unofticial defendent that tonly T aind the pu the A ferred his on er consulting with 1 advised by me to file he of There two no! case. is Gen said as military court, Gen 1his case. Jis s I thin i that harges me and bein them ™ DELAY IN ENGLISH TRIAL IS DISCUSSED Advisability of Postponing Pro- ceedings Until Fall Given Deep Thought at Capitol. By t Advisability 1 the im- | £ deferring until next | 1 Judge | of al No. 4.1 is Washington, | | neighborhood | the church has taken a notable place | hou 1C. It bec would be unable to THE ‘DR. DURKEE WILL BE FOURTH PASTOR OF HISTORIC Plymouth, in Brookl n,! Clings to Spiritual ' Atmosphere. 'Made Nationally Know By H. W. Beecher and By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—rlymouth, egational church in Brook- | llxn of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was the first pastor, is to {have its fourth minister after more than three-quarters of a century of | existence. | On Orange street the dignified sub- | stantial walls of the old meeting { house stand like a rock in the shift- {ing sands of change that three gen- erations have brought to New Yorl | since its founding. Located in Co { lumbia Heights, one of the choice resi- | {dence districts of the society of old | Brooklyn, the place of worship stands | foursquare against the alterations | that years and commerce have en-| forced in its vicinity. | were told that | Gentility still has its habitat in the | brought from [old Heights neighborhood. but into | understanding | Plymouth’s locality trade I the Cor the that has come. |ed to pay her mall shops have pushed close to its |she was to be stu In Fulton street [in that city. neu . ins roar by. In al for the where once the Kin, he girl's freedom wus the only tongue there | present showered t the liquid vowels of mixed | with contributions. s from their fit When the ged. y §2.000 in mone But despite the shifting scene of | jewelry its 1 round. Plymouth stands to day almost unchanged spiritually and | physically. Since the day in January. | 1850, when Dr. Beecher preached his | first sermon the new structure, | retus English now races. Church Uncha was 1 nother effort erty for two In A ached the in 1 the dis ional xwho ussion of religions and na- policies. The young preacher | Pr had come to the temporarily | Most ed congregation nearly three | Period. It vears earlier from pastorates in In. | there W Qlana_brought oratorical power and | that the a quality of leadership that tilled even | 47 the largest auditorfums | was more to be co; The pastorate of Rev, | taking up of arms Abbott, from 1888 to 18 Plymouth helped tc Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, fr tifles, a Union 1 until 1924, carried on and the war. the traditions of the 40 yeurs s he chut of Dr. Beech: Now. as then peace as well mouth attr: a_congregation that | Senator Joud includes persons who come from New | Mide un address Jersey, Connecticut, the eastern end | 1907 the late Se of Long Island and upstate New York. | Follette spoke for of the older members, who knew | hours on one of his wrch in the days when ultra- | 8V onable men wore silk toppers and | Priests and went about in rigs drawn by snappy | Istet m many spans of bays. continue to make it | Rominations joined their place of worship. Some of the | ication of A vounger generation have elected to| Puliding. an edu attend new churches in oth lurc ections of the city, but this deflec 1s been offset by vouth of another that Dr. Lyman . and of Rev en fi Dr. Durkee Called. Plymouth sent a call to Rev James Stanley Durkee, president of Tom Howard University, Washington, D.| peeche pparent that Dr. Hillis, | the pulpit breakdown in health, sume his pulpit his Under the Plymouth roof have been | ¢ in 1 lLieard speeches that shaped the de. he rem ting of the Nation. and tion ‘have shelter Presidents have hiped. | pearly Abraham Lincoln attended divine | gonditio, service the day he gave, at Cooper Union. the speech on “What the| Fathers Thought About Slavery.” On that occasion the tall statesman shar- | ed his book with a short usher, and br, hin.” Stowe, the who suffered a nee possible DR. DURKEE. Washington purch: When congregation urned widely quoted of the Civil \\‘m-[ address he innals include cvents of Government.” Jewish rabk nouth suffere avmaged nd wniform, manuseriat written by 1 the founding pastorate at ¢ the hisiovical colle 63 Are Given Medals. PHILADELPHIA, [ with the book tilted between them the | Sixty-thiee of 7T medals presented for | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON BURKE DISPUTES FREAR'S CHARGES |Indian Commissioner Makes | Sweeping Defense of His | Conduct of Bureau. CHURCH By the Associated Press Commissioner Burke of the Indian | Bureau made a sweeping defeuse of his administra hefore the House Indiun committee, whose | members are considering a_demand by | one of their number that Representi Republican, Wisconsin, be {asked to resign from the committee an outgrowth of his 1 rvegarding Indian aff denied in erear, declaring 1 on mis- information and propagandi supplied | by interested parties | ~The demand for { ment from the commitiee has be | made by Representative Hudson, I publican, Michigan, but was not di 1 at vesterdays' meeting. In recent letter, he said, Mr. Frear v tually charged that Mr. Burke was 1 1 Leep | COntrolling the committee. If the ol "“;‘, been | Wisconsin member hold that opinion B eh fapr, | Of the committee, Mr. Hudson has siee of $500 | told his colleagues, he should resign ted to her owner| his membership o Mo Antahed s Will Testify Wednesday. o buy | Commissioner Burke did not con persons | clude his testimony yesterday, but will he church baskets | reappear Wednesday for cross-exami . \Women pulled|nation. He dealt dirvectly with the Jgers Lo qid in the | charges made against him and pre e lection of more | sented_documentary evidence in sup- oy wis counted the [ port of his denials i . o the persons| Some of the “misinformation” on which Mr, Irear acted, the Commis the church to | sioner said, had been supplied by g negro | John Collier, president of the Amer- | can Indian Defense Society. He said he had made w thorough | investigation, and could deny flatly lthat “ball and chain” methods had ! been used in punishing Paul Moore an Indian on a Wisconsin reserva- \id that | tion, or that wmale and female pris- v 1d | oners were confined together in the same quarters in Indlan jails fon | Sees Selfish Motives. d than the | .yt js my opinion,’ Mv. Burke told people of | rhe committee, ‘that what actuates the scher | pepresentatives of so-called Indian t fought eties are selfish motives and this ‘rying on of propaganda is becauss wunt to create the attitude of | an impression that the Interfor und the In- | dian Bureau are robbing the Indian ind that the oil compantes are beins shown favoritist “This is all for the purpose of going | appealing ey | themselves ¢ the | the 3.000 by other you fter the Beecher t perhaps was ter ndemn Later t the In 1904 the late | gisirust Dolliver of Towi the church. In nator Robert La | threc and one-halt | topics, “Represent- | Roman Catholic and min- rotestant de 1914 in the ded- | |to the coun that they m benefits ther He also denied Mr. Frear's u rbuckle memorial | tions alties on ofl lands ational structure | «zfr, Frear would have you believ h " Burke said, *“that we are trying n Qrrep- | uke something from the indians, re destroved many | when, in fact, we are trying to dofj sures. Among the | something for them. It is preposter- | were Dr. | ous to think for one moment that we | propose to exempt oil operators from taxation.” Collier 'Denied Hearing. i When the commissioner conciuded | Beecher, | b quving that Irear's speech was minister, | poine “went out in pamphlet form by | Linchfield. | coljer's organization, Mr. Collier | | asked to be heard. Chairman Leavitt { declined to recognize him, and Repre- | | sentative Williamson, publican, | South Dakota, said he would objeqt m! | testimony by Collier “at any time or under any circumstances.” After the hearing, Mr. Collier issued | a formal statement which said his or: | | ganization “has no interest in attack- | | ing Commissioner Burke individuall to | of ! v Harriet pastor's sister, and rman restored their ori; been to al April 10 (). D DISTRICT MEASURES STILL ON CALENDAR Backers Hope They Can Be| Passed and So Come Under Hearings will be started Thursday before the Hot mittee on the I tion bills to be passed at this s of Congr committee for but & number of miscellaneous items e expected to he submitted by the District Commissioners. several fmpor which and their proponents be put through in approy this deficienc These include: §10,000,000, which is| e first 1000,000 Washington included in the §$165.000 000 public building bill. ing, waiting action on . with a favorable rep House committee on publi and grounds, sition of the remaining land in private ownership Union Station. £1,750,000 ava; for this purpose, and about $1 must be appr Also pend izing Mount Hamulton tract for u aboretun £500,000 for th $300,000. The bill author Potomac complete the pur, connecting enditu the and < to animals have been award. | emen by the | the F ven- kindrn two joined in “The Shining | led to policemen and Shore.” singing we are concerned with reorganizing the system of Indian affairs. . h platform on | Penusylvania Socie . Sunday in February, 1860, Dr.|tion of echer sold at auction to his con- |awards, in most c ation the 9-year-old mulatto slave [ rescue of animals ¢ Maria Diggs. His hearers|and roofs. It was from the chur peachment English of Tlinois was discussed yes- | erday at the Capitol i number of re inclined | the neces one-third of the rticipate in in view o than ship to D election contests this year | In view of this circumstance it is wontended by some that there would 1 n maint in A quorum the trial if held this memt he difficulty of the Se rin ne S > are al would the | be | opinion not utional 1 of the postponeme that the probiem quorum would be g sed if the House had to r ion sonst inl favor nt of keep, tly | ¢ has g ne November a u the Senate convenin on the case. House n = appointed to prose- cute the ¢ are prepared formally o preser article impeach nt nate time that b 15 ready to 1 them. NEW BUS LINE TO START. Line crvice Tomorrow ne sugge as date trial cou ceive Foxhall Village to Begin Morning. Mot the re N Viliage line will b morning by the nd Electric Co W « from Fox conneet the com ieith bus line at Thirty ind R road of fare v be 10 cents transs | issued The Burleith fers to the however, only t'the 10-cent fare. Villase B street fifth The cash Cedar Rust Law Upheld. Dispatch to The Sta MARTINSBURG. W West Vrginia's cedar i ing the State powe: within three apple orchids pected of held Judge D, porary Va.. April 10. t law, giv: . A ter John H. train gents dars on land wa rissed. . | Births Reported. } births 1 Health Departmen: o been reported | within the past 24 o and Maria ¢ - and Qily Annabe nid Bessic Round| Laura K id Viola Hende nd Henriett John and John W furphy. boy and Edna Hicis, £111 homas, girl hoy Tonic or poison—which? HAT happens when you lie downat night? Doyou lie awake—do you twist and toss—do you wake up all tired out—or does your sleep eliminate the poisons of fa- tigue, and give you that much desired fresh strength and vigor for another day? 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They are sold and endorsed by good dealers Southern Rome Division Baltimore 1926— PART it passed the House, would take this money entirely from the surplus rev- enues of the District, while the Senate mensure would have the expenditure made on the 50-50 proportion which existed when the project was author- ized. There is also pending on the House calendar a bill authorizing an expend- iture of §200,000 for a power plant at the Bureau of Standards. % Jail Bill Waiting. The }ouse has passed a bill, \\mvhi is being sympathetically considered b the Senate, authorizing the construc- | tion of a new wing at the District | {jail. The House passed the bill with-| out any limit of cost, but the Senate | committee contemplates writing into | the bill the probable cost. i The mothers’ pension bill, which has passed the House and is awaiting | ction on the Senate calendar, author- | izes an uppropriation of $100,000 to es-| fon [ tablish_this fund. | "The House has passed a bill author- {izing the construction of two artificial hathing beuches ut a cost of $350,000. The Senate Is expected to take action soon on this memasure. TEXAN ELECTED HEAD | OF COTTON SHIPPERS| iz il | | | ., APRIL 11, 1 Deficiency Bill. appropriations com- yet before th District projects, estimates ure the In uaditicn, asures are pend e appropriations, | hope these will | me so that the be included i E tions , Caraway Bill to Curb Dealing in the $50.- »gram for s quota under Futures Assailed at Associa- buildings p vea publi g tion Convention. | By the Aesociated Press 1 ATLANTA, April 10.--W. J. Neale, | . Tex., was elected president of | American Cotton Shippers’ Asso- ucceeding F. M. Inman Atlanta. Mr. > unopposed. Other officers of the - stion will be elected by the board | Others Before House, enate has passed and there is| ‘We House calen- the rt from the huilding i bill authorizing acqui the of cale W between the Capitol and | soc There is about | of directors. in the ‘Treasur The Caraway bill prohibiting 000 | sale of cotton futures without eller taking oath that he has the | amount of cotton involved for de livery was subjected to a vigorous ttack by Walter Piker, prominent Senate bill authorizes | New Orleans cotton dealer and the House bill] “It is an inquitous bill which, if | passed, will throw the cotton enter- ing the Rock Creek | prise into a situation.” Mr. | Parkway Commission to | Piker told the ntion. 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A bill providing civil governmen: instead of the present naval adminis tration for American Samoa was ir troduced yesterday by Senator l.en root, Repubilcan, Wisconsin He referred to serious charges o maladministration made several years g0, and added that the United Siates had grantly violated the rightsand [ liberties of the Samoans. Senator Bingham, Republican, Con- ecticut, replied that the naval ad ministration had notable accomplish ments to its credit Specific. 1 Tid Bits happened afier prisoner gave you the first blow?” Witness—He gave me a third one. “You mean a second one 1 gave the second one. By the Associated Press IW YORK, April Hugh, president of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, testified today before the Interstate Commerce Commis: which is investigati ceivership that he was to the board of directors of go, Milwaukee and St. Paul , 1924, although he | s as the Jaws of | require. The railroad fs incorporated under the Wisconsin | awe. | 1. 0. 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