Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy this afternoon and tonight; obability of light snow or rain temperature_tonight about 34 ees. Highest, 47, at 3 p.m., yester- lowest, 37, at 6 a.m. today. il report on Page 9. second Washi TRAFFIC RULES CU ORDERED AS TOTAL OF ARRESTS GROWS City Heads, Alarmed at Num- ber of Cases, Call on Of- ficials to Act. ELIMINATI[)M OF THOSE NOT NEEDED SOUGHT Hesse and Eldridge Asked to Pre pare Report at Once—Simpler Code Believed Better. \ioused over the alarming rate at which motorists are being arrested tion of the traffic laws, the District Commissioners today instruct ed Tratlic Director M. O. Eldridge and Police Idwin B. Hesse to and recommend to them regu- hich they consider unneces- ind should be abolished. and Director Eldridge ted to have their recom- n is prepared in time for con- | m ut the Commissioners’ semi- rd meeting next Tuesday. The proposed reduction in the num- | class mas ngton, D, ?Gen. Flores’ Widow |Refuses to Reveal |Husband’s Poisoner tter e By the Assoclated Press. CULIACAN, Sineloa, Mexico, April 13.—Though she declares she knows who administered the poison to Gen. Angel Flores that caused his death, Beatriz Perez y Flores, widow of the former candidate for the presidency of Mexico, In a statement to the press says she never will reveal the person's name. \ The general had known, too, the author of his illness, but had de- clared that he would never give out his name, says Senora Flores. i It was revealed last night that | Flores’ body has been exhumed and the stomach sent to Rosales Cxollege. at Mazatlan, for examina- tion. Although an officlal report was issued March 31, giving pulmonary trouble as the cause of death, it has been learned that attending physi- cians diagnosed the allment as “acute poisoning.” JOURNALISTS SEEK PERMANENT UNION EFoundation for Annual Gath- erings to Be Laid Before Congress’ Close. | | { | | | | | | | | | ) | DRUNKENNESS MOUNTING, ber of traffic regulations is the direct | reaction from the Police Department's | monthly report for March, showing > that more than 11,000 persons arrest. | . Lh® First Pan-American Journalistic «d. almost 75 per cent of them for Congress. moving rapidly toward the iolation of the traffic regulations. hour of final adjournment, began lay- Maj. Hesse has figured that if arrests | ing the foundation this morning for continued at that pace more than one- | a permanent assoclation of the news- h of the District’s total population |paper men of the Western Hemisphere WASHINGTON, D. C, DRINKING AND VICE INMINING DISTRICT PICTURED BY PRIEST Women Tend Stills, Children, 3 and 4, Drink, Declares Father Kasaczun. SENATE COMMITTEE TOLD Already Has Passed Pre-prohibition Level, Moderation League In- vestigator Testifies. BY G. GOULD LINCOL Conditions of immorality among young and old in the anthracite min- ing district of Pennsylvania, due, he said, to the Volstead act, were graph- fcally described toduy to the Senate | committee holding wet and dry hear ings by Father Francis Ki czun, @ parish priest in Sugar Notch, Pa.. the last 15 vears. Every other family, Father Kasac zun said, has a still in the home. Men. women and children, even as young as 3 or 4 years old in some cases, drink the liquor made in these stills. The drinking among the women and children, he sald, has been steadily on the increase. Indeed, it is the! women who tend the stills while thelr | husbands age away at work. The witness described wild parties in the homes and the small lake resorts to which they go In the Summer months. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1926—FORTY PAGES. THIRD WAN TRIAL WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD IN BED; HUSBAND SOUGHT “Let Town Where I Am Found Pay for My Funeral,” Says Note | | ILLINCIS PRIMARY “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes FHE as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s P) Means Associated 2.Inch Snowfall Blankets Fruit Belt in Virginia| Special Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va., April 13. —The Shenandoan Valley awcke this morning to find a two-inch blanket of wet snow covering the countryside after a continuous fall since midnight. Yesterday when the temperature dropped to 30 degrees a fall of three inches was reported in the AHegheny Mountains west of here, while this region was visited with flurries throughout the day. Experts say that the fruit is not advanced far enough to be injured by the freezing temperature, which means a record for this late in the Spring. The cold weather has retarded trees and plants. saving them from damage now. Had the Spring weather been normal, this cold wave would | have ruined the fruit and other crops, in the opinion of many. | SEATING OF STECK OPENS IOWA FIGHT i | Brookhart to Leave for Home at Once—Vote Splits Party Ties. { With the unseating of Senator Circulation, 102,636. TWO CENTS. SHIVERY CITIZENRY HIES T0 BALL PARK TO WELCOME NATS Team Getting Warm Send- off in Spite of Chances of Snow or Rain. WEATHER TRYII]G; FOR INCLEMENCY RECORD Press. Dawes Ready to Mount Mound for Brief Pitching Career, Then Season Is On. The Probable Line-Up. NATIONALS. ATHLETICS. Rice, ef. Bishop, 2b. 3 Lamar, If. Goslin, If. or Judge, 1b. Miller, If. J. Harri rf. Bluege, 3 Peckinpaugh, ss. Ruel, c. Johnson, p. rf. Simmons, cf. Hauser, 1b. Cochrane, c. Dykes, Galioway, ss. Harriss, p. Time—3 o’clock. = Place—Clark Griffith Stadium. Shelving for the nonce the Capital's Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa by the | business, a goodly part of which cor enate late vesterday the stage has|stitutes also the Nation's business apparently been set for another des-|some 30,000-0dd citizens, representi perate battle between the progressive | tive of all phases of Washington's group of Republicans and the “regu- | life, bundled themselves in woolens lars” in that State. | and furs this afternoon and prepared The Democrats for the first time in | snow or no snow, to give the } many, many years, have a Senator|ionals a warm send-off at Griffith would have been arrested at the close | in & in 2 confraternity dedicated to the Left by Man. | from Iowa as a result of the Senate | Stadium in their drive toward a third of the current calendar year. “In_view of the considerable num- ber of traffic arrests,” sald Comm} sioner Fenning, in announcing the ac- tion of the Commissioners, “it is quite possible that a number of unneces- sary traffic regulations may have been promulgated in the last year. “There Is no desire on the part of the District government to harass au- tomobile drivers. It is our intention to reasonably regulate traffic in the interest of the largest number, with every regard to the safety of pedes- trians and motorists. If the number of regulations can be reduced, it is possible that conditions might be more advantageous to everybody.” Proposed Card Warnings When the arrests for traffic viola- tions began {o mount at the beginning | of the year and then broke all police records in March with a total of more than 6,000, Trafiic Director Eldridge devised a scheme for reducing ar- rests. He proposed that of instead of arresting motorists for such minor infractions of the —eode as dirty 1ags, no tail lights and overtime park- ing, the police place a card in the of- fender's machine, noting the viola- tion. on his honor not to repeat the of- fense. Maj. Hesse did not think this scheme was a workable one and it was abandoned temporarily. Hesse Favors Reduction. The plan of the Commissioners to scrup some of the non-essential reg- wlations was given the hearty in- dorsement of Maj. Hesse, who has | pointed out for some time that he | thought there were too many regu- lations, which worked an undue hardship on motorists. “I am certain,” he declared, “that there are some regulations that are of no benefit to traffic and can be elim- inated to the advantage of the mo- torists.” The present traffic regulations take | up 30 closely printed pages of a pam- | phiet and have been steadily in- creased since the creation of a traf- bureau last year. BOARD QUITS INROW OVER DR. STRATON| New York Trustees Protest Plan to Build Combination Hotel and Church. By the Associated Press. NEW YOR¥, April 13.—Four of the nine members of the board of trustees of Calvary Baptist Church, of which Rev. John Roach Straton 1s pastor, resigned yesterday because they “believe they have fulfilled their dutles as trustees in defeating an at- tempt to mortgage thé church prop- erty to build a combination hotel and church.” Their resignation marks a climax in a bitter church controversy which has troubled the congregation for nearly a vear. The resigning trustees are Benjamin J. Miller, W. A. M. Martin, A. B. Miller and Robert B. Buzbee. Among the reasons glven for their resignation was that Dr. Straton drew a salary of $1,500 for the months of February and March, 1926, while ati the same time he occupied a so-called | Winter pastorate in the First Bap- | tist Church, West Palm Beach, Fla., | and, so “we are informed, recetved a very substantial salary therefor “We protested and voted, without avail,” the trustees said, “against the recent action of the board in bor. rowing $3,000, a large portion of which was used to pay Dr. Straton's salary, while at the same time he was making money and seeking per- sonal publicity in Florida.” g o LIQUOR SHIP SEIZED. AH, Ga., April 13 (®). The offender would be placed | | present these preliminary plans in suf- | perpetuation of international peace in ' the New World and offering a lesson | {in solidarity to the Old World in a i manner so striking that it may hasten ithe day of universal international fel- lowship. | A series of resolutions was present- led to the Congress when it convened this morning setting forth a number | of plans for the establishment of the | Pan-American Journalistic Congress as a permanent section of the Pan- American Union. These were referred to resolutions committees, which will report them out at the closing session {this afternoon, when it is expected | the organization will be adopted for- | mally by the congress. That the suggestion of President Coolidge and other outstanding speak- ers that the Pan-American Journal- istic Congress should be repeated each year for the purpose of bringing the molders of public opinion from all the American republics in personal con- tact for a frank discussion of their problems and ideals will be crystal- lized into definite acceptance is ac- cepted by all of the delegates as a certainty. Dawes Says Farewell. Vice President Dawes bade the dele- gates farewell in the name of the American Government in a brief ad- | dress this morning. In the course of | his remarks he said that he had noted carefully the addresses which have ibeen delivered before the congress during the past week and that he had | been impressed with their sincerity and the breadth of their vision. Long identification with foreign affairs has convinced him, the Vice President de- clared, that personal contact among the peoples of the world is the only sure road to lasting international understanding and peace. “The foundation for all progress in international meetings is personal contact,” Mr. Dawes continued. “Na- tions can agree and progress along some common line, just in the pro- portion as they have been in contact with one another. It has been a wonderful thing for us to meet the representatives of the great press to the south of us, and in saying fare- well, I know that I truthfully speak the sentiment of the people of this clty, our National Capital,- when I say that we are glad you came, we are sorry to see you leave and we can only hope with brotherly sincerity that some day you will return to us again.” Tmmediately after the Vice Presi- dent had left the hall the congress turned to the seventh and final topic on its program, an assoclation of jour- nalists, Maximo Soto Hall of La Pren- sa of Buenos Alres, presented the first resolution, in which he requested the congress to authorize the resolutions committee, headed by -Willis J. Abbot, publisher of the Christian Science Monitor, to draw up a concrete resolu- tion embodying the necessary prelim- inary plans for the foundation of such an organization of American journal- ists, and present it to the congress be- fore adjournment this afternoon. Daniels Seconds Motion. Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, seconded "this motion, and after recelving the approval of a number of delegates from Latin America, it was adopted by acclama- ton. Mr. Hall and Mr. Daniels were appointed a committee to acquaint the resolutions committee with the desire of the congress and to request it to | ficient time to receive the careful con- sideration and final action of the dele- gates before adjournment this after- noon. The two delegates carried out their {nstructions immediately. . Copsiderable discussion was ~occa- sioned by the failure of the resolu- tlons committee to report other rec- ommendations before this, and it was explained from the chair that the committee had received so many res- olutions on identical subjects that it had been obliged to redraft most of them. The delegates were promised however, that all of the resolutions would be presented together this aft- ernoon and that ample time would be alloted _to_their discussion. It- was Civil Service Bill Approved. While the Senate subcommittee | was conducting its hearing there | were two other developments in the | prohibition issue today. | The House bill to put prohibition | agents under civil service was fa- vorably reported to the Senate by the | civil service committee, and Repre sentative La Guardia, progressive Soclalist, New York, sald he had been | advised by Attorney General Sargent | that 330 cases of liquor held under court order by the United States mar- shal at Indianapolis, Ind., had disap- peared and that the Department of Justice is investigating the matter. Stanley Shirk, research director of the Moderation League, Inc., of New York, laid before the Senate commit- tee the result of a national survey covering arrests for drunkenness dur- ing the prohibition perfod and com- pared the mounting number of such arrests with the arrests in pre-pro- hibition days. Drunken Children Increased, Mr. Shirk told the committee that “drunkenness generally has already increased to the pre-prohibition level, and that drunken drivers and drunken children have increased far above anything ever known before in this country.” “We cannot escape the conclusion that the Volstead act has utterly| fafled,” sald Mr. Shirk, “to do what | it was Intended to do, namely, promote temperance and sobriety.” Speaking particularly of Washing- ton, Mr. Shirk told the committee that arrests of persons under 22 years of | age had increased very greatly under prohibition as compared to what they wera, i “‘Arrests of persons under 22 years old averaged 44 a year for the four pre-prohibition years 1914-1917,” said Mr. Shirk. “A bonedry law was enacted before national prohibition be- came effective, and immediately youth- ful drunkenness increased. In 1918 it rose to 78 and by 1925 had reached 207, an increase of 575 per cent above the’ pre-prohibition level. Pre-Prohibition Level Reached. ‘“‘Arrests for drunkenness of all ages in Washington merely rose to the pre- prohibition level, thus demonstrating relatively as well as absolutely, drunkenness among young people in- creased enormously. This conditicn in Washington merely confirms what is known to exist in the rest cf the country.” The “wets” were given the right of way again at the hearing today. They still have six and three-quarter hours left, following the hearing, which end ed at noon today. They will resume at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. When they have concluded the “drys’ ‘will go ahead with the presentation of the case for prohibition. Father Kasaczun sald that prohi- bitlon was corrupting the morals of the families in the mining com- munities of Pennsylvania. “In the old days,” he said, “the head of the family drank and some- times came home and quarreled with his wife. But the women and chil- dren were not drinking. Today all of the 18 saloons in Sugar Notch are open and selling liquor, and soft drink and candy stores are selling it, too. Stills are to be found in prac. tically every other home. The peo- {)‘la rtnake‘ llqu‘or. drllnk it and sell at prices from $1.2 L $1.25 to $2.50 a Women Tend Stills. “The women take care drink the liquor they make and sometimes the children drink it Never, before prohibition, did 1 see children drinking liquor, and I have lived among these people for years. Now children have been found drunk ' in the schools. Boys and girls have been found drunk on the streets. The teachers In the schools complain that y come in wl P the smell of liquor e women, he said, drink away with the “star boarders Jen ing thelr homes and their children, The number of children in the orphan esylums is on the increase. Often, he SAVAD The auxiliary schooner Exploit of Blueflelds, Nicaragua, with a cargo estimated to consist of about 1,700 dozen bottles of liquor, was brought into port vesterday afternoon by the Coast Guard cutter Yamacraw for investigation. The vessel was taken in tow off the coast of Florida. It is understood the ship's reg- istry and other matters relating to its papers are to be investigated. -— New Measles Record. A material increase in measles cases, which set a new record for the vear, was announced today by the District Health Depariment. One hun- dred and sixty-one new cases were re- vorted, making the total since the outbreak of the epidemic 2,899. The previous daily high record was 148 uses. | case. (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, N. J., April 13.—Mrs Sophia Niemec of Newark has ap- pealed in a letter to Gov. Moore for the release from prison of the mur- derer of her son. She expressed her willingness to adopt the slayer and give him a home. Gov. Moore announced he would |refer the letter to the court of par- dons, and would conduct a personal in- | vestigation as to the merits of the w Dumbecs, | The vrisoner is B‘.-l"*"a Mother Asks for Pardon for Slayer Of Her Son and Offers to Adopt Him (Continued on Page 6, Column who *was sentenced from Kssex County In May, 1919, to serve a life term for killing a companion on a hunting trip. Dumbeck was not quite 18 years old at the time of the shooting, which occurred while the two young men were ‘hunting for birds in a meadow near their homes. “He Js an invalid now, and I am willing to accept him as my son and glve him a home,” said the mother. [Court was adjourned. Each side had EXHAUSTS PANELS 250 More Veniremen to Be Called for Examination Tomorrow Morning. Failing to obtain 12 men from the April panels in the District Supreme:| Court to decide the fate of Ziang Sun Wan, for the third time in seven vears, Justice Adolph A. Hoehling. in Criminal Division 1, today ordered a special venire of 250 persons and ad- journed court until 10 o'clock tomor- row morning. Twenty deputy United States marshals this afternoon are canvassing the' city for prospective jurors, and their labors will extend far into the night and early tomor- row. _ There were 11 men in the box when exercised one of its 20 peremptory challenges, resulting in the one va- cancy when the last panel of tales men—trom Circuit Divislon 1—was exhausted. A total of 64 talesmen was exam- ined yesterday and today, and all but the 11 tentatively selected were dis- qualified because of familiarity with the facts in the case, opposition to capital punishment or circumstantial | evidence. The case of the Govern- ment against the Chinese is based en- tirely on circumstantial evidence. Ten Men Excused. Three prospective jurors were ac- cepted from the Circuit Division panel. In all 16 men were excused. Before chair No. 12 of the jury box could be filled six talesmen were ex- cused, including one colored man. When a prospective juror finally wa: accepted, filling the box, it was discov- ered that the man in chair No. 7 had served in the Navy during the war, was entitled to Government compen- sation, and therefore was disqualified. Only one man was disqualified to sit in this chair before a talesman was accepted, and again the box was com- plete. The Government exercised its first challenge by requesting the removal of chair No. 1, and before this could be filled again six men had been ex- amined. The defense then challenged chair No. 11, and, as the panel then was exhausted, Justice Hoehling ad- journed the court. Some Had Read of Case. Indications that both sides may ac- cept talesmen who had read of the trial, although had formed no opinions as to the gulilt or innocence of the ac- cused, were given today when two talesmen, not entirely ignortant of what had taken place in the past, were seated. However, if talesmen better -qualified are found, they un- doubtedly will be accepted instead. Before a jury could be obtained for the first trial of the Chinese for the murder of Ben Sen Wu here, January 29, 1919, about 700 talesmen were ex- amined. Slightly over 200 were ques- tioned for the second trial and oppos- ing counsel today indicated that as much, if not more, difficrity would be encountered in obtaining 12 men for the third trial than for the second. Eleven Talesmen in Box. When court adjourned yesterday afternoon, at 3:30 o’clock, there were 11 talesmen in the box. Virtually all of the panels from the various courts had been exhausted, 37 men having been disqualified to sit as jurymen and a large number failing to qualify as talesmen owing to connections with the Government. Justice Hoehling told the 11 men in the box that although all may not finally be determined upon to sit in the case, they should not read, dis- cuss with one another or anybody else any phase of the trial. Justice Hoehling also admonished the press not to print anything but what transpired in the courtroom. NEW GUNS EFFECTIVE. Bring Down Air Target at Range of 12,000 Feet. SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 13 (P). —The new five-inch’ anti-aircraft gun, characterized as the most ef- fective aerlal defense weapon yet de- veloped, wrote naval history off San Clemente Island, 45 miles southwest of here, vesterday. Tested for the first time at sea, two batteries of the gun on the battieship West Virginia shot down sleeve targets at a range of 12,000 feet, the greatest distance ever attempted. Officers and men allke were highly enthusiastic over the marked superiority of the gun over other air batteries. | ! “He was my son’s pal. 1 think he has suffered enough for the last seven sears,” & Radio Pr?grams—-Page 28 By the Associated Press NORTH BERGEN, N. J, April 13. Mrs. Jennie Hingste, 29, today was found dead in bed in her home here with a bullet hole in her left temple Police are searching for her husband, | Ernest Hingste, 35 peared. Discovery of a note on the bedroom dresser, signed by the husband, ad- dressed to his brother John, ended “Let the town where I am found pay for my funeral.” Chief of Police Marcy said if the hus- band was found alive he would be charged with the murder of his wife. Chief Marcy said he considered Hingste's jealousy of another man the motive for what he belfeved to be a murder. who has disap. SPANISH FLYER'S PLANE 1S FOUND Pilot Is Missing in Desert, But Is Believed Safe. . Others Continue, By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, April 13.—The miss- ing airplane of Capt. Rafael Mar- tinez Iistevez, leader of the Spanish aerial expedition bound for Manila, has been found intact about 100 miles from Amman, in Palestine. Estevez and the mechanic had abandoned the craft, but they left a note attached to it saying they would make their way on foot through the desolate re- gion to Amman. Estevez has been missing since Sun- day, when he became separated from the two other fiyers of the expedition, Capt. Lariga and Capt. Gonzalez Gal- larza, on a flight from Calro to Bag- dad. ' Lariga and Gallarza reached Bagdad safely. The absence of Estevez from his squadron was noticed shortly after the fivers had passed over Jerusalem. British planes immediately set out from Amman to search the desert. They found his plane this morning near the air route from Cairo, but about 5 miles north of the actual mail route. Estevez had flown one-third the distance between Cairo and Bag- dad. The British airmen examined the plane and reported that they found no trace of damage. They are of the be- lief that EsteveZ landed owing to some minor engine trouble. They ex- pressed the opinfon that no anxiety need be felt for the safety of Estevez and his mechanician. Meanwhile they are continuing to search the neighbor- ing country. Others Leave Bushire. BUSHIRE, Persia, April 13 (#).— The Spanish aviators, Capts. Loriga- Taboada and Gonzales-Gallarza, flying from Madrid to Manila, arrived here at 11:45 a.m. from Bagdad and hopped off again at 1:35 p.m. for Bender Abbas. GUARDIAN CASES SURVEY ORDERED House Committee Votes In- quiry Into Conditions of Incompetent Veterans. By the Associated Press. A survey of guardianship conditions among the inccmpetent World War veterans and other wards of the Gov- ernment was ordered today by the House committee on World War vet- erans’ legislation. ‘The committee’s action was taken with virtually the entire membership of the American Legion's committee on rehabilitation present. Hearing will begin Thursday at the suggestion of Representative Gibson, Republican, Vermont, who declared cond:tions with relations to guardianships had become so. bad that legislation was ately necessary. BEING HELD TODAY Voters to Decide Senatorial Fight and Pass on Legalized Boxing Plan. By tho Associated Press. | CHICAGO, April 13.—The World Court, prohibition, legalized boxing, public improvements and zoos were among a multitude of issues involved in today’s State primary. While chief interest has been di rected on the Republican senatorial fight and some of the congressional | battles, the Illinois boxing bill has | come in for @ fair share of attention, | Chicagoans, who for years have | been travellng"to East Chicago, Ind., ! to witness boxing matches, were | heartened.by predictions of backers of | the measure that it would carry the | city 3 to 1. | It’s a local option affair, | with each city deciding whether it will have boxing under commission | rule. Should the measure carry here, | it was anticipated that Chicago would | have {ts first ring battle about June 1. Chicagoans also were handed bal- lots calling for $19,000,000 of bond is- sues for civic improvements. They also are deciding whether they want a zoological park. The proposition would give Cook County one of the few ‘“barless zoos” In the world, sit- uated on a tract of land donated by Edith Rockefeller McGormick. 1 In the Republican senatorial battle, Illinofs is_choosing between Senator Willlam B. McKinley and Frank | Smith, chairman of the Tllinois Com- | merce Commission, the latter an en- emy of the world court. Senator Mc- Kinley, who planned to vote early and then return to Washington to resume his senatorial tasks, defended his vote for adherence to the court on the ground of party regularity. In the Democratic senatorial column appeared the names of George E. Brennan, veteran party leader and foe of the Volstead act; former Represent- ative James McDermott and James O. Monroe. None has made an active campaign. One of the most bitter of the Re- publican congressional contests in- volved Representative Fred A. Britten and Mrs. Bertha Baur, wealthy Chica- g0 society woman, each a proponent of prohibition modification. The treasurership is the chief State nomination at stake. Four thousand State and city of- ficers have been mobilized in Cook County to prevent fraud and disorder at voting booths. LONE GUARD FOILS $1,000,000 ROBBERY Drives Off Gang of River Pirates Seeking Silk Shipment in New York. i By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—A million- dollar silk robbery was frustrated to- day by a lone customs guard, who en- gaged' single-handed in a gun battle with a band of river pirates who were looting a cargo waiting shipment to France on North River pler. Martien Carroll, the customs guard, heard a noise beneath the pler where the silk was stored prior to loading ‘When he investigated, he found a 30- foot motor boat with a ladder leading to the pler. A few bales of silk were | different result. | exampl vote, Senator Danfel F. Steck. The vote in the Senate was extreme- | Steck and to oust Senator Bruokharl; being carried by 45 to 41. A change of three votes would have brought a| Party lines were | badly smashed on the roll call. For | Senator Willlam M. Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of the Re- | publican national committee, Was found voting for Steck, while Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican leader | of the Senate, and Senator Reed of | Pennsylvania, stalwart Republicans, | | were recorded for Senator Brookhart. ! Brookhart to Leave Tonight. Senator Brookhart leaves here to- | night to return to lowa. He will] make no statement, according to pres- | ent plans, until he has returned to his | native State. 1 It has been confidently predicted | here, however. that Senator Brook- hart will enter the Republican Sena- torial primartes’against Senator Cum- mins, who comes up for re-election this vear. If he does so, there will be a great struggle between the Pro- gressives and the regular Republicans. | Already Clark Howell, a Des Moines lawyer, and State Senator Bowman have entered the primary for Sen-| ator Cummins’ seat. Howell is a pro gressive, and Bowman is even more | radical in his views. It has been said | that Bowman will retire from the | contest if Senator Brookhart should be a candldate. Cummins Has Good Chance. In a threecornered race between | Senator Cummins, Brookhart and ator Cummins would have a good | chance for victory, with the opposi tion split between the other two con testants. On the other hand Senator Brookhart has a large following in | the State, and the failure so far of | Congress to meet the demands of the | farmers for relief legislation may prove an aid to Brookhart. The new Senator from Iowa Ww: sworn in almost immediately after | the Senate had voted yesterday after- | noon to seat him. He was escorted to | the Vice President’s desk to take the | oath of office by Senator Cummlns.i Neither Senator Cummins nor Sen- ator Brookhart voted on the roll call which seated Steck, Senator Cummins having announced some time ago that he would withhold his vote. Senator Steck is 44 years old and has been a practicing attorney in Jowa for the last 20 years. During the World War he entdred the Army and served in the 109th Signal Corps. He was overseas for about eight months. He is a close friend of Assistant Secretary of War Han’ ford MacNider, and while he was talking with a party of friends and newspaper' men after he had been voted into the Senate, Col. and Mrs. MacNider came to congratulate him. With a cry, “Oh, Dan, I never was so happy before,” Mrs. Mac- Nider threw herself in the arms of the new Senator and kissed him. Holds Towa Conservative. In answer to newspaper men, Sen- ator Steck made the following state- ment regarding his seating and con- ditions in lowa; “I believe the Senate has con- firmed the will of the lowa voters. At the last election in Towa the only Teal issue was whether old Iowa should be represented by a radical masquerading as a Republican or by a conservative Democrat. Iowa is not a radical State, and it is my be- lief that she will never again be rep-| resented in high office by a man who stands for radical sentiment. We have cleaned house and we intend to keep our house clean. “It has been charged that I am in the boat. He immediately opened fire with his revolver. The pirates re- turned his fire, but soon sped away. Carroll heard a cry and belleves he struck at least ome of the pirates. The silk was part of a shipment from Japan which had been brought by, way of San Francisco. To Mark Base Ball Season’s Opening | April got the athletic seasons badly mixed today when she put on a fine brand of foot ball weather for the ope! of the big league base ball les, with even a’ bit of snow- fall here not unexpected by the Weather Bureau for the local set-to between the Natfonals and thé Ath- letics. The chances between light snow or rain for this afternoon were about a toss-up, but the weather man was apprehensive that it would be one or the ot As matter of fact, it was snowigl' here throughout the morn- ing, ing to the observations Foot Ball Weather, With Possible Snow, | not a Democrat. I was elected as a Democrat, I ran as a Democrat, and I am a Democrat. On party ques- tions I shall vote with my party, and on others I will endeavor to repre- sent the State.of Towa.” Senator Steck was asked concern- (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) i | with the Weather Bureau's balloon, but the snow was evaporating, it was explained, before it reached the ground. Only a littkc more moisture in the lower strata of air was neces- sary to bring it all the way down. ‘Washington was in a fair way to have the coldest and worst base ball weather of any of the major league cities today, because of the local storm conditions, although it was fairly chilly in the other cities. The temperature at noon today was hovering around 40 degrees, but the precipitation in sight was expected to cut the level down 4 or § degrees ! more. 3 | has a close attachment for | and the other fans beating successive base ball pennant. This snow problem was not to be |y close, the motion to seat Senator |smirkeq at, either, according to Fore caster Mitchell, who still insists he the na tional pastime. He believes that today’s big opening contest stands a fifty-fifty chance of degenerating inte a snowball orgy before the afternoon has progressed very far, with Bucky Harris and his men mushing around in snowshoes. mayhap, and Vice President Dawes one an other on the back to keep warm. Inclemency Record Expected. Whether it snows, rains or just re matns cloudy. it was generally ¢ ceded that the weather proba would set a record for inclemencs for such an occasion, with the tem. perature threatening to flirt within a few degrees of freezing by the time Mr. Dawes winds up to deliver the first ball, at or about 3-p.m. Barring a cloudburst or blizzard, however, it was certain that Presi dent Clark Griffith would make every effort possible to proceed with the imposing program arranged for the day, including the ceremonies and fanfare preliminary to the tle be tween the Nats and the Ph eiphia Athletics. Only the absence of the President and the First Lady, who are observ ing a period of mourning, made the picture at the local base ball park this afternoon any different from those presented at opening games im memorial. Occupying the presidential flag-draped box. near the \Washington | Howell, the regulars insist that Sen- dugout, would be the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, their young son Dana, Miss Rena Decker, a guest, and E. Ross Bartley, secretary to Mr. Dawes. Same Old Panorama. The local background was to be the same as last year from the colorful panofama of humanity and the pa rading musicians of the Army Band. to the stalwart form of Walter John son poised on the pitcher's slab. The same team that last fall bat- tled staunchly, though unsuccessfully, to retain for Washington the honor of housing the world champions was to take the field against Connie Mack’s determined Athletics. The peerless combination of Peck or Bluege to Har- ris to Judge to manage things in the infleld, while far out in the Grif: fith “garden” would cavort the relia ble trio of fly chasers—Goose Goslin, Sam Rice and Joe Harris—reading from left to right. Behind the plate. of course, would be the dependable Muddy Ruel. Opposing the beloved Barney was scheduled to appear one Bryan (Slim) Harriss, a_sinister name to conjure with, to say the least. Backing this Slim ‘fellow up would be such familiar names as Bishop, Lamar, French, Simmons, Hauser, Cochrane, Dykes and Galloway, with a possibility that “Bing” Miller might substitute for Lamar in_left fleld, due to a slight injury suffered by the latter yester- ay. Overture at 1 0'Clock. The preliminaries began, as a mat- ter of fact, around 1 o'clock this p.m., when Meyer Goldman and his mu- sical fans offered a concert of peppy tunes for the edification of the early arrivals. These, however, were few, due to the chilly weather. There was @ sparse but hearty cheer as the white uniforms of the local players appeared on the fleld during early batting practice, before 2 o'clock. Manager Griffth cast several worried looks skyward, but the boys themselves seemed oblivious of the frowning heavens. During practice Walter Johnson was presented with a large silver loving cup by Edwin Marshall, 9-year-old “sports of Springfield, IIl. whose essa; “Why Walter John- son Is My Favorite Ball Player” won him the trip here in a national con- test. Edwin's essay was declared best of several thousand entrles, the judge being Billy Evans, American League umpire. Ed, blushingly explained that the cup represented the admiration of the boys of America for the venerable pitcher. Get Down to Business. Batting practice by both teams over, the more formal rites of the program were to take place, starting with the grand march of the teams to the flag- staff in center field, where Secretary of War Dwight Davis and Clark Grif- fith were to run up the American colors, to the tune of “The Star Span- gled Banner.” Then, with Capts. R. G. Sherman and W. J. Stannard lead- ing, the band was to escort the play- ers and officials back to the infield. The march was to start shortly after the arrival of the Vice President and his party, about 2:40 p.m., as appro- priately heralded by the Army Band, and upon its conclusion the official of the first ball by Pitcher “ontinued on Page 2, Column 8 o