Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1926, Page 2

2 » [0-YEAR PROGRA . FORD.C. BLOCKED Citizens’ Council Delays Vote on Proposed Planning of Improvements. Formulation by District officials of a 10-year constructive program of municipal improvements, embracing the five-year scheol building and| library projes and planning for! streets, water extensions ond bridges and other similar activities in advance of their need, wasadvocated in a re- port submitted to the Citizens' Ad- visory Council last night by Coune man W, L Swanton. After lensthy discussion the council decided to delay action on the report to permit ¢ amination of a report on a similar | suggestion by the city government of Detroit. Doubt Robert V. Faulkner su the fiscal polic the iltered to con ate permanent 1 His vie blic Approval. sted- that District be = of| bond | Tarry o othey . however, that not meet cither Congressional anrpoval Another sugzestion by M nton, that Maj. Daniel J. Donoy strict ditor, st out in the District annual reports, receipts and disbursements, classified by functions of zovernment on pages facing each other, to present a more graphic idea of administrative performa was approved by the council. The plan will be recommend- ed to the Commissioners. A proposal to suggest that the missioners_include an_item in timates for the fiscal vear of 1 for a central municipal reference library was laid on the table hecause Mr. Stull and others objected to the council pledging itself in advance to approve budget recommendations. issues. N. Stull mem} the public or Com- the Other Matters Consideregd. The council repeated its recom. mendation that assessments in the District be made annually instead of every two vears, in connection with the considoration of a supplementary report on the investlgation of pur- chase of school sites. Bills now pend- ing in Congr providing for the elimination of the Michigan avenue grade crossing and to permit District tions 10 hold meetings outside the fustrict were approved. The council also disapproved bills to incorporate Strayer's Business College and authorize incorporation in the Dis- trict_of non-profit-making and non secret patriotic organizations. LEWIS FOR PINCHOT IN RACE FOR SENATE Head of Mine Workers to Ca;npnign in Interest of Governor's Can- didacy in Pennsylvania. 1 BY the Associated Press HAZLETON, Pa.. April 78 nternational president of | the United Mine Workers, will cam- | n_ in Ponnsylvania the week of | 10 in the interest of the can- @dacy of Gov. Pinchot for the Re- pubiican nomination for United States Senator. Thix was made known here today by " Thomas Kennedy. international secretaryv-treasurer of the miners’ union, who. with Philip Murray, in- ternational vice president, will accom panv_Lewis on his trip through the coal d i The officers of the fifth district of the United Mine Workers in Penn- sylvania cently indorsed the can didacy of Mr. Pinchot. The primary_will he held May 18. Other candidates seeking the Repub- lican senatorial nomination are Sen- ator Georse Wharton Pepper and Representative Willlam 8. Vare. HYPNOSIS BY POSTURE STUDIED BY SCIENTIST! Prof. Severin Finds Animals Be- come Devoid of Feeling When Held on Back. By the Associated Prass. AN FRANCISCO, April 28.—Ex- periments with insects and animals discl that they can be put into a state resembling hypnosis by being placed on their backs and prevented rom righting themselves has prompted Prof. I1. H. Severin of the | University of California to investi- gate the possibility of inducing | hypnotism of human beings through posture, Prof. Severin, explaining method of hypnotizing animals, said: “When an animal s laid on its back, the instinct s for it to rig itself. Prevented from doing so, the animal's muscles hecome tense and it quickly assumes a state paralleling hypnosis. It is devoid of feeling and reacts to only one or two simple | fmpulses. A rabbit, for instance, reacts only to the smell of food. hen will follow objects with its eyes but otherwise remains motionless. “The only animals T have found that cannot he th vpnotized are cats and_dogs Y are immune because they have been handled so much by humans FLAG ISSUE ACTION DUE. Fine Arts Commission to Take Up Question Tomorrow. this The stand of the veterans’ organiza- tions of the city on installation of gs and flagstaffs on the prominent downtown streets of Washingion will be thoroughly Investigated at a meet- ing of the Commission of Fine Arts tomorrow. Norman B. Landreau, ch: man of a joint veteran's committee, will attend the meeting to expiain the view of the committee on the flag installations. The committee has zone ahead seliing the flag installations to merchants on F street on authority #rom the District Commissioners, sub- sect to approval of the designs by the Fine Arts Commission. Two months ago the latter body upproved the fn- stallations in principle, but asked the veterans to modify the designs At the same time Mal. U. S. Grant. 34, executive officer in charge of pub. lic buildings and public parks, wilt dis cuss with the commission the quesiiom of locating the two hathing beaches. The commission will also consider designs for loading platforms on Con- necticut avenue. LAND PURCHASE URGED. Recommendations will be made to the National Capital Park Commission by its city and park planainz com- mittee that it purchase land adjacent I i { | | for | solos. 1,153 in District Killed by Heart Disease in Year With' 1,153 victims, organic heart disefse was responsible for the largest number of deaths in the District last year, according to the annual report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Health De- partment, submitted today 1o Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler. Bright's disease ranked second with a toll of 635, The report shows that there were 7,013 deaths during the year and 91173 births. Seven hundred and seven of the deaths were ants under 1 year of age. ‘re 71 suicides. deaths were classified as Typhoid fever. 25: small- measles, 4: scarlet fever, 5; whooping cough, 21; influenza and grip, %61; diphtheria and croup, broncho pneumonia. 416: lobar pneumon 1; encepl nary t b; crneer and s nd softenin: NATIONAL SOCIETY OF LAWYERS ASKED Organization on Widest Scale to Drive Out Frauds Is Tackled Here. Hughes acting ional Conference Delegates met in the auditorium of the U. S. Chamber Commerce Building today for con ideration of the question of nationa organization of the bar of the United States. This is a topic, it was pointed out todav, which has been before the American Bar Associatfon and many of the State and larger local bax organizations for several years Its importance, it was said, is nifiel by the conference's selection of Mr. Hughes as chairman: consider ation of this single subject at thi meeting, and the action of the Ameri can Bar Association in sending <pecial committee to the conference its etary, Walter MacCracken: Fred- ick A. Brown, and Walter H. Egbert il of Chicago. Asks Facts Be Faced. Clarence N. Godwin the committee on State bar organi ation, made the following frank state- ments in reporting at the meeting today: “Let us face the facts. There are members of our profession who prey upon_soclety, who take advantage of the fiduciary relation to betray and to exploit those who come to them advice and assistance. They are few in number but their existence smirches the entire profession. There are criminal lawyers who are not only criminal lawyers in the sense of defending criminals and practicing at the bar of the criminal courts, but awho are themselves criminals, and they deal in duplicity, chicanery, fraud, subornation of pe corrup: tion of juries, and sometimes, throug insidious means, the improper in- fluencing of judges themselves. There are dealers in perjury, chicanery, fraud and imposition in our bank- ruptey courts. They are all, while few in numbers, a poisonous source of corruption in the Nation, destructive of confidence in the administration of justice and in the righteousness of the Government itself. Thi source of evil must he destroyed. The que: tion constantly presented to the com- mittee is whether it can be destroyed With Charles E. chairman Bar As ion chairman of viction, strengthened by each suc- ceeding vear in the seven years dur- ing which the conference has had it cannot be, but that the present means must be supplemented by ad- ditional means of proved effectiveness. Sees Restraint Needed. “The equally unfortunate fact re- mains that among those outside the bar associations—and they comprise atleast two-thirds of the har—there are many who are definitely in need of the inspiration and restraint which comes from close professional fellowship, we would not for one moment reflect upon this outside group as a whole. It is a group which in the main is fundamentally honest and devoted to the ideals of the profession. We be- lieve in the American bar; we believe in its honesty and integrity as whole. “We belicve that, man for man, there is not a group in all the world more devoted to its professional jdeals, more loyal to its conception of professional duty, more willing to make sacrifices for the public. If this were not so, hope for an ultimate- ly efficient, satisfactory and impartial administration of justice would he gone, for if the great mass of our profession were not sound at heart there would be no power in all the world to restrain or redeem it PILGRIMS PLAN DINNER. Institute Members Expected to Attend Event on Friday. Visiting jurists and lawyers are ex- pected to attend the annual banquet of the Pilgrims to the Shrine of the Common Law, which is to be at the Mayflower Friday evening. The en- tertainment is to be furnished exclu sively by lawyers. Henry E. Davis will act as toastmastel Roger J. Whiteford is expected to sing several John 1. Wilson will present two poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and John Paul Jones will sing three numbe: Charles W. Darr will tell of “Snapshots.” There will be danc- ing until midnight. d The Pllgrims comprise the juris and lawyers who crossed the ocean to attend the meeting of the bar asso ciations in London two years ago. The celebration of the anniversary last vear developed a request that the af- fair be repeated. . Regis Noel is secretary of the commitee of arrangements, ~which also includes Robert Ash. William W. Bride, Charles Henry Butler, Charles W. Darr, George E. Hamilton, Stan- ton €. Peelice, Charles H. Lefevre and A. Coulter Wells, by the present means, and the con- | this matter under discussion, is that | | most al | the duty | Jersey law DAUGHTERS OF 1812 PICK NEW OFFICERS Program of Three-day Ses- sion Ends Tonight With Board Meeting. he National Society of the United States Daughte £ 1812, having Aueted in a spirit of quiet devotior cxtensive threc-day program of color- ful service: in memory of the heroic lefenders of the Nation and in honor )t lenders of the soclety, today com plated the major part of the last day session with the election the na- tional o The ourth wrder, which is b the Wil lard Hotel, will concluded tonight with a meeting of the national execu tive board Samuel Preston national of the soviety from Arkansas, will for the coming vear, term expiring council of Davis, presi who is & retain her until her office three vear next April All the imous and ¢ inatfon secen but a_formaltty tine La cring for a vote, Other Officers Named. W D. Callan . who Leen active ty for ears, holding many re- omsibl du: that time, was unanimously elecied first v president, rveplacing Mrs. Robert €. Maxwell, who was not eligible for ve clection, 3 Mrs. Cla was unanimo ections today were unan- many of ther the nom s came =0 fast it was for Mr=. Alvin Valen chairman, to call New| the of in ir Yor 3 E 23 positions adier of Michi re-elected third oy acelamation Millspaugh of was re ed vecording sec Mrs, Robert J. Jobnston, who is the vor of Humboldt, L., unanimously was named treasurer to succeed her and Mrs. John A. Lusk was renamed au Honoralty viee esidents were: Mrs. Noves D.: Baldwin, Connecticut; Mrs. Caroline Hindes real Daughter, for viand: Mrs James Skelding Bradley, for New sey: Mrs. Alexander Clark. for Ohlo; Mrs. Leroy H. Habernecht, for South Carolina; Mvs. A. M. Nevin, for Penn sylvania, and Mrs, Julius F. 1. Cassell, gan, Viee president I3 W <ot bama oled for M | for Virginia. of vesolntions of a oty Among numbe patriotic nature adopted by the sod was one calling on_Legislatures pass measures providing that school teachers, public and private, shall take an oath of allegience to the United States, with a_view to insuring hat history that is “just and correct may be taught to young Americans his afternoon the final general ses. was held. New offfcers were in stalled and reports were made by Mrs, Mary Logan Tucker of Washington, Mrs. Roy K. Moulton, Mrs. k. H Croshy, Mrs. R, B. Lewis. Mrs. James H. Baughman, Miss [ Hortense Snowden, Mrs, < Burt Tozer Mrs. Thomas Day, Mrs. Robert Maxwell and Hitzing all sion Mrs, ‘Willis Caraway Upholds Prohibition A sweeping attack on the ‘foes of prohibition enforcement was delivered last night by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, in addressing the Daugh ters at their annual banquet and re ception at the Willard Hotel. The Senator was vigorously applauded Congress never will surrender to those out of sympathy with prohibi tion. he asserted, describing criticism of the dry enforcement program a: “an attack on the Constitution.” Referring to the efforts of “wets” to break dewn the prohibition in hearings before the Senate committee, Senator Caraway said: “It seems unthinkable that men in recent the ! | ! final KETTLEY, School. EVANS, Upper: VIRGINIA Business High ower: PHILIP Western ORATORS CHOSEN Virginia Kettley of Business and Philip Evans of Western Gain Honors. PPerseverance and ambition to gatn torfcal success prevailed in the contests held this morning at and Western high schools, Business i when winners in hoth events were re. [ warded after {ond high public office should be preaching | the doctrine that the Constitution has ro force and bipds no man's con science unless he approyes its provi sions.’ He predicted that public opinion would drive out of office those “who have used their positions merely as a vantage point to wage war agains! law and morality. Praising President Coolidge astute politician ever in the White House,” Senator Caraway said of a citizen to his country and it Government far transcended his duty to a political party. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- mandant of the United States Marine Corps, spoke of the need of prepared- ness for war as a defense proposition He described the battle of Bladens: burg as an example of the value of alertness in defense. Among other honor banquet were Mrs. Caraway, Mrs. Lejeune, John A. Parsons, first vice president of the Louisiana Historical Society: Mrs, Parsons and W. O, Hart, treasurer of the Louisiana Soclety. Mrs. Samuel Z president of the and Mrs. Samuel sang. Mrs as “‘the Shoppe, fourth vice ughter td grace Barbash of New amuel Preston Davi master. The banquet, the most brilliant affair of the convention, was attended by nearly 400 delegates and guests. Memorial Service Held. Yesterday afigrnoon a . memori service was hela for. those member: who died since the last convention. Mrs. Thomas Day was chairman, as- sisted by Mrs. Robert J. Johnston, Mrs. Robert C. Maxwell, Mrs. Clarence F. R. Jenne, Mrs. Frand D. Callan and Mrs. Charles FFisher Taylor. Reports were made by Miss Kath- erine Moses, Mrs. Margaret B. C. Shotwell, Miss Eloise Rand Butler, Mrs, Samuel Williams Farle, Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway and Mrs. Charles Burt Tozler. 1705 LANIER PLACE SUED. Neighbor Asks Injunction Against Corporation for Annoyance. The 1 corporation known as 5 Laniey Place has been ordered by Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court to show cause why an in junction should not be issued to pre vent injury to the adioining premises, owned by Julius Tarshes, 1707 Lanie place. rshes complains that coal trucks, which make delivery at the apartment, back into the wall of his home and have impaired it and an- noyad him and his family. The ad. dresses and name of the plaintiff were misstated in vesterday's Star, the rule there appearing to have been against 1707 instead of 1705 Lanier place. Attorneys Peyser, Edelin & Peyser appear for the plaintifr. By the Associated T ATLANTA, Ga., April —Prog- ress in reclaiming hips, knees. elbows. wrists and other joints of the human body : yesterday at the opening session of the American Orthopedic Association. to Audubon Terrace and in Piney Branch Valley, west of Sixteenth street. The purchase of the Audubon Ter- race purchase, which s between Rock Creek Park and Connecticut avenue, is to save Soapstone Valley as a nat- ural watershed. Otherwise, in grad- ime. it will be necessary to fill it in and pipe the stream. \ Motion pictures were shown of how hip Jjoints th removed, remade and made to func- tion almost normally again. There was an animated motion picture an actual operation. In this picture the surgeon demonstrated how the stiff ball and socket joint that had grown together was chiseled apart by the use of an ordinary wood carver’s Carpenter’s Tools Used Stiffened Joints in the Human Body was explained graphically here | ball. of | men in Remaking chigel, the “ball end” reduced in size and the socket reamed out. Then an ordinary. rasp was used to give the ball a perfectly rounded smooth surface, After the socket had been reamed out, a layer of thin tissue, taken from the patient’s le.:, was sewed over the at had grown stiff were |ball end. and inside the socket, thuy forming a_new linng. Cases of young men and, girls, old nd women, who had been given new hips which function were shown in the moving pictures brought to the meeting by doctors. similar to a billiard | | prior to graduation | Historicai | national president, was toast- | | | H | | | seventh district | win two years of determined t to gain the championships in o schools. sinin Ket emerged victor i a field of four finalists at Busines: Hizh and Philip Evans gained the highest forensic honor at Westbrn over five other speakere. In both contests the judges reported great difficulty in thelr contention in each instance be- ing horne out by the length of time required to come to a conclusion. Dorothy Cook, the orly girl contest at Western, was adjudged sec best in her .school. an nother girl, Toulse Lindsey. was given the runner-up | ition in HBugsiness. winner at McKinley is the . Margaret A. Keltley street northwest. She is in school affairs generally r ahead of her he is 17 years “The Consti da of prominent and has one more old and her subject w tutfon.” Son of Representative. Western's 0ld son of Representative and John M. Evans of Montana. Like virtually all of the winners in these contests. PPhilip also is # thoroughly representative student and popular with his schoolmates, us the applause following the judges’ decision Indi wted. He is particularly prominent in school dramatics and debating. He will be graduated this 3 The auditoriums of both were filled with the pupils Mr: schools of the guests at thes respective schools and special musis programs marked each contest, as did the enthusiasm shown by partisan followers of the various contestants. ' prin Prof. Elmer and Prof. Allan Davis, ded over the contesi e judges were as follows: High—Frederic William [t Collier of University Judge h E. & of English in the of Columbia public high hools, and A. TLeftwich Sinclair, lawver. Wi High—Miss Helen Newman. graduate of that school of the cl member of the bar and now secretary of George Wash- ington University Law School: D Paul Kaufman, professor of Englis in the American University, and the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of Busi- Wile: Prof. ington O'Toole, artment | the Gunton-Temple Memorial Presby- { terian Church Other contestants besides the win- ners at Western were Richard Gireen- wood. Frank Weitzel, John Wheeler and Robert Leonard, and at Business, Fdith Raphaelson, last year's winner, and Ray Walters, Heroic Young Orator. A letter has been received at the itional headauarters of the oratori- cal contest in The Star Building from Representative Gieorge N. Seger of the of New Jersey con- newspaper clipping which es an account of the heroic and successful efforts of a young orator of Paterson, N. J.. to attain victory in The contest. while suffering from a se- vere physical ailment. The account of this inéident. which appeared in the Paterson FEvening termed it a modernization of the nelent story of the Spartan lad who rried a wolf in his waist, concealing is agony. while it gnawed at the vitals of his body, in order to prove his true Spartan courage. Carlton Hopper, a pupil in the Fast Side High School of that city, had been kept away from school and in bed by a severe attack of appendicitis, but his determination to participate and in the sectional contest in that State, which is in the territory of the New York Times, was so great that he insisted on arising from his bed and was able to take his place with diffi- culty in the contest. His valiant and what proved to be his winning effort on “Webster and the Constitution” thus brought im- portant honors to him and his school and his courageous victory over seven other school champions immediately elevated him to the role of a hero in the eyes of his entire student body. Also accompanying the newspaper clipping was a note from J. Gordon Canfield, secretary of Representative Seger, which attested Mr. Seger’s high interest in the contest and his hope for & son or daughter of one of his constituents to gain national honors in the contest. It said: “Mr. Seger who, for the last two vears has heard the finalists In the ining a h: The sessions of the convention will | national oratorical contest in Wash- continue today, ington, has urged the boys and girls '| vorable attitude toward the joint res determining the winner, | hamplon is the 16.vear. | COMMITTEE STILL FAVORS SUFFRAGE Three Opponents of Vote for| District Fail to c'hange Views. Members of the House Judicia committee today agaln indicated a fa- lution, fathered b; Dyer, Republican, of constitutional amendment author Congress to grant national representa tion, with a vote and voice in hoth houses of Congress, to the residents of the Capital. Today opponents of this legislation were given an opportunity to present their views. . There were three speak ers, Rear Admiral Il 1. Rogers, re tired, the only vne speaking in a rep. resentative capacity; Frank M. Lord and Grover W. Ayres. Admiral Rogers said official of the Dupont clation and said he appeared in he half of that association. Later, in eply to questions by Representative Stobbs, Republican, of Massachusetts, Admiral Rogers said that the Dupont Citizens' Association had itself ex pressed no view on the resolution which the judiciary committee is con sidering and that his appearance was authorized by the executive commit tee of that assoclation Satisfied With Gov He urgued that suffrage end in itself, but only @ means to an end, and the end Is gowd pove: ent, Land’ that since there is good govern {ment in the District of Columbia with out suffrage, there is no need for the vote. Mr. St Representative Missouri, for a ing he is Citizens' A that is not an s then asked Admirall il(v(w,fl to state whether he was per-| feetly contented to live in a country| that was well governed, even if it was! governed as a monarchy with no right of suffrage Admiral Rogers told the committee | [ that he did not know hy what ma jority in each of the organizations, | reported at the hearing by the joint citizens’ committee on national repre sentation, the resolution had been ap-| proved, so that he believed the pro-| Ponents of the legislation have over.| stated the unanimity with which the/ anlzations are supporting the Dyer resolution. Mr. Lord. speaking as an individual. | told the committee he thought there| ought to he a referendum on the sub.| ject. He stated he was not opposed to | the measure, but did wish to bring toj the committee some considerations which might be helptul in solving the| prohlem, He foresaw that candidates for Con gress would be urged to pledge them selves regardine activity in Congress | a larger r@asure of local self-gov- | ernment : | Mr. Lord expressed the view that this projected diMculty might be avoided if, hefore Congress d hing, there was a referendum 1l the people of the District. i Mr. Stohhs asked Mr. Lord if he| favored the pending resolution and he sald he did. Mr. Stobbs again asked whether in his opinion a n jority of the people in the District! desired the right to vote for Presi-| dent and Vice President, and he an- swered that he helieved they do. Mr. illustrated his argument by | saving that this meisure {2 sup-| ported by varfous national organi tions, naming one organization in { particular. He expressed the opinion | i that this is presumptuous on the | part of any national organization ! jnot directly connected with the busi- hess of Government Mr. Avres, speaking in sentative capacity, told the judiciary committee that figures given in the | brief for the eitizens' joint committee by Edwin C. Brandenburg as to sub seriptions by the District of Columbla people to Lilerty loans and enlist ments in the military forces during war times were misieading. He re- | ferred to {hese figures ax having been “jazzed.” Cl; He argued that many persons oniy temporarily in the District during the | war period had subscribed to the war | loans from the District and thgt this | has boosted the District's quota. Mr, Ayres gave the committee fiz- | ures in regard to civil service em- ployes to show that the District of Columbia has more than its quota under the civil service apportionment law. He called attention to the projected capital of Australia, making the point that it is more neariy like the Dis- trict of Columbia than any Federal | district. He said that the proponents of national representation had pur- posely avolded mentioning this pro- jected capdtal because, hy solemn de- cision of the commonwealth of Australia, no suffrage whacever was to be allowed in that district. Raises Distinction. Theodore W..Noyes, chairman of | the Citizens' Joint Committee on Suf- frage, asked Chairman Graham if he might be permitted to ask Mr. Ayres a question. Mr. Noyes asked if the real distinction between the proposed pital of Australia and the District of Columbia was not whether the commonwealth of Australia did nou own title to the Jand itself upon which the capital is being built. Mr. Ayres replied that was true, but the Federal| Government, by expenditure of ap. proximately a billion dollars, could ac- quire title to all the privately-owned land in the District of Columbia, ac- cording to the last assessment. Mr. Ayres raised the point that op- ponents of the Dyer resolution had been misinformed as to the time al- lotted to them. He asked Chairman Graham if two hours only was to be allowed, as he said he had been in- formed by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Mr. Graham replied that snotwith- standing what impression he might have received otherwise, that the ju- diciay committee had announced that both sides would be given such time as they wished and needed to present | their case. -, Ayres expressed the view that study of the District of Columbia had convinced him that majority of the people here are posed to any kind of suffrage—either national or local. He quoted former Senator Work as favoring a scheme for the National Capital whereby the Federal Government would pay all | expenses regardless of local revenues | and then levy on the citizens such reasonable taxes as might be shown to be a fair average for cities of com- parable size. Mr. Ayres attacked the s of those favoring national representation, claiming that they are using this as a smoke screen (o pre- vent the_accomplishment of what many desire here—local sf-l('go\e‘rn-l ment. 1 As Mr. Ayres had not complete the reading of his prepared statement, which he said contained principally reports and documents, when the time had arrived for the House to meet and the committee had dwindled down from 21 members to only 5 present, the chairman permitted him to extend his statement in the record and declared the hearing closed. —_— of IN& district to be participants in this'great competition and he is hope- ful that Young iiopper or some other i Ty 1o repre- | | | { i | i /| ms Quota Boosted. | | | | i should devote Fis life to such work. TRUBEE DAVISON , “ENDOWED” FOR PUBLIC LIFE, VISITS HERE Young New Yorker Heads Crime Prevention Commission. $4,500,000 of Father’s Estate Was Set Aside BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Washington for the last twn days | has heen having its first good look at the first young man in this country especially’endowed for a career in the public service. He i a very earnest and pleasing young man, and his energies at the moment are bent in the direction of organizing the nation wide campalgn for crime prevention The National Crime Commission. which he is the head, includes many notable figures from various sections of the countfy. It wus organized in New York, but its first official meet ing i being held here. The members have been received by the I'resident and have enlisted the interest and support of Government officials all | along the line | F. Trubee Davison. eldest son of the late Henry P. Davison. of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.. hagd been casting about for some suitable public activity at the time the crime com- mission was organized and was imme liately called upon to help it forward. | He had been dabbling in New York | State polites as a member of the Legis- lature, and had made x good record | At Albany, but In accordance with his | father's wishes and his will, he sought a wider fleld for public usefulness A great many young men of inde pendent means have grown into a political career in the United States but Mr. Davison is the first one formally endowed with wealth and virtually directed by his father to follow & public rather than a busi ness career. In hix later years the elder Mr. Davison. after a life in the counting house and the marts of busi ness. turned his thoughts and atten- tions almost wholly to public service and public benefactions, He thus be came convinced that eldest son his Has $4,500,000 Endowm The Davison will disposed of an estate appraised at more than $8,. 000,000, Of this amount $4.500,000 has heen set apart as the “endow ment” of Trubee Davison. There are three other children to share in the remainder of the estate upon the death of their mother. It was ex plained at the time the will was made public that Trubee Davison had been given the lion’s share as the result of nis father's wish that he follow a public career The elder nt. Davison felt that man going in for politics could be much more usetul his State and his country if he were above money wor- ries, which might affect his decisions at_critical times. The father and son had had num ous discussions, after the son had come out of the Army with an. en- viable record, as to whether Trubee should into the banking business or into politics. The father gave the son a year in which to play around and recuperate from his Army ex perineces hefore making a decision At the end of four months the son had declded in favor of a public career a i that he was put up by the G {Army, URDEDW 5D, RUBEE DAVISON. LN Ahout this time young Col. Theodore Roosevelt, representing the Ovster Bay district of Long lsland in State Legislature, resigned to hecome Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President T ding. Young Davison at once ran for the Legislature, and was elected as voung F. 1L’ successor was re-elected in 19 At Albuny vounyg Davison proved himsell a pretty goud Corganization” man and was talked of in 1924 for Speaker of the Assembly. He did not reach that goal but the talk ad been sufficient to land for him the chairmanship of the smmittee on taxation, where his ancial instinets, nherited from his nker father, stood him in good stead He hecame such an adept at taxation 0. P, as ble Gov ate on the the opponent of the redoub ‘Al Smith in a radio de subject of State taxes. Mr. Davison helped organize first Yale aviation unit America_entered the Wor <erving for some time as an ambul driver on the Western front in Fra ith America’s entry he entered the and was completing his train a flight lieutenant when his mackine crashed, and he was sevefely injured. ~ After a long term in the hospital he returned to active service but it was too late to get his chance “across the lines May Run for Congress. Davison was educated at Gro. at Yale, and subsequently at Columbfa, where he took the law course as a Lelp to his public and po- litical career. At Groton he met the voung » was to become his wife. Miss Dorothy Pealody, daughter of 3 Endicott Peabody, head master of the schoc have two the ing Mr ton Scior Davison still is following his legislative career at Albany and later may make a try for Washington as a Representative, or may fir run for lieutenant governor of his State. - He and young T. R. happen to hail from the same dist t. and both happen to have rather high political ambitions. Yourg T. R. tried for vernor ship in 1924, but ran afoul 1 mith 2nd was defeated. He may try again this vear. If he does Mr. Dav- ison. of course, will be ruled off the ticket for geographical reasons. the BISHOP RENINDED BY MRS BELMONT Name Once Removed From| Charity List, She Says, An- | swering New Appeal. By the Assaciated Pre NEW YORK, April 28— Nrs. 0. H. P, Belmont. divorced from the late William K. Vanderbilt in 1896, holds that a divorcad woman whose name is excluded from one church charity list till is divorced when the next call for funds is made. She makes this clear in a letter to Bishop William T. Manning in re- sponse to an appeal for a contribution to the bullding of the Ipiscopalian | Cathedral of St. John tha Divine. Mrs. Belmont reminded the hishop that her name had been rergoved from a list of officers of the Trinity Seaside Home for Sick Children a few years ago, which she endowed for Trinity | Church. She said the bishop had ob- jected to her name on the list hecause of her divorce and that she had re- signed the presidency to “relieve your disapproval of my existence. Mrs. Belmont presumed Bishop Man ning would not want her name pub- | lished in connection with any donation she might make, but writes: “The recognizance of a gift is of no im- portance. We give because it is a blessing to be able to give. What 1 fall to understand IS why this change on your part, dear bishop? My status | remains the same. I am still a di- vorced woman.’ The request for money was made through Mrs. J. E. Stevens of the| woman's division of the campaign com- | mittee for the cathedral. Bishop Man- | ning would not_comment on Mrs. Bel- mont’s letter. Mrs. Stevens suggested she might have recelved a letter in- tended for another Mrs. Belmont. Mrs, Belmont, feminist and one of | the leaders in the campaign for wom- an suffrage, is president of the Na. | tional Women's Party. Mr. Belmont | died in 1908. Mrs. Belmont. born in Mobile, was Alv Smith. She is the mother of Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt | Balsdn, formerly the Duchess of Marl- borough. | Bishop Manning, long a foe of di-| vorce, recently in o sermon mads | caustic references to the increase of | divorce in high soclety. Found Dead in Bathroom. John Keil. 46 3 rs old, a painter, was found dead on the threshold of the bathroom at his home, 1131 Park | place northeast, vesterday afternoon. | His body was found by another man_who roomed in the house. Coro- 1er Nevitt gave a certificate of death rom heart disease. | Ohio and Lenroot of W SENATOR FRAZIER SCORES CONGRESS More Than Ever Under Con- trol of “Financial Inter- ests,” He Charges. Charges that members of the Senate | and the House of Representatives are today more under the control of “finan cial interests” than ever before in the history of the United States were made last night by Senator Frazier of North Dakota. who described him- self as “the only dirt farmer in the Senate,” at the closing session of the onference called by the People’s Re. construction League, in _interest legislation pending in Congres the Raleigh Hotel. Senator Frazier opposed any com pul conscription bill which would not_provide conscription of wealth as well as of men In time of war: at tacked the Italian debt settlement as at ¥ “entirely unjust to the American tax-| and declared the United States Government should not interfere in Mexico—for the sake of private American ofl interests there. “Congress today is made up of fine. intelligent, able men.” Senator Fra zier declared, “but when it comes to a vote they forget to vote their per wonal convictions and, vote for financial interests thit paid campaign expe Charging that he had been excluded from the agriculture committee. de- spite the fact that he was the only practical farmer in the Senate, he- cause he “refused to let any one dic- tate” his vote on any auestion, Sen- ator Frazier remarked that “if Con gress is to be of any value, apparent Iy, it must be safe and sane for the administration. Pointing to the conditions farmer in the West, he upheld which would enable farmers to prices for their own protection to_regulate the surplus crops.q Messages from Senators Willls of sconsin, who were unable to be present, were read. They opposed intervention of the United that money, as well ax men, should be included in the terms of any con seription measure passed by Congre: Benjamin C. Marsh, executive s tary of the Peoples’ Reconstruction Teague, presided. pave their of the bills fix and Hospital Patient Missing. Search was instituted by police and officials of Walter Reed Hospital last night for John Mansfield, missing p: tient, who disappeared from the psy copathic ward of the hospital early in the night. Mansfield was a convi cent, it is stated. Americans Turning to Play in Manner To Belie quey'Grubbmg Allegation By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April arown-ups, reputed by cousins to be chiefly .interested in money grubbing. are learning how to play more every year. In the year book of the Playground and Recreation Association of Amer- ica published yesterday an expendi- ture of $18.81 is shown to have been made for public play in 1925 by cities of the United States and Canada, Public goif, which five years ago | 28.—American their foreign representatives from Northern New Jersey will soon be heard In the Wash- ington Auditorium. was not important enough to list in the year % 18 now played In more than 160 eitien. Tennis courts totaled 6,110 In 471 cities in 1925, as against 4,865 in 410 cities in 1 Swimming pools primarily for adult use more than doubled in the last five yvears and now total 879. Five hundred more quoit courts were re ported in 1925 than in the previous ear. Ball fields, athletic fields, pic ni¢ grounds and skating places show big increase: Public’ recreation originally was a children’s movement, but today ev- erywhere east of the Rockies, except in" North Carolina and Florida, prac- tically 50 per cent of the participants in municipal sports and other recrea- tions are adults the | MAJ. GRANT URGES MALL COMPLETION | o " Speaks at Ceremonies in Honor of His Grandfather at Monument. A plea for early sompletion of ¢ . Malllin accordance with the McMilli vlan of 1901 was made by Maj. 1 Grant, 3rd, divector of the Offi Public Buildngs and Public Par) the National Capital yesterda: exercises commemorative of the 104t anniversary of the birth of his granc father, Gen. Grant, hel the memorfal 5 the latter in the Bo Ulysses §, tanic iarden, the eastern terminus of he exercises were held un plees of William B, Cusl 30, and Cu Aus Union Veterat Grant j that there the city on which lavished more deve than this ene ons features. He to the L'Enfant pian n plan of 1901, which \ tion of the former plan. and de the proposals for the treatment of t Mall, with the Washin a center “ tural work of ar Ll Lincoln M of the sculptor end, the Grupt Memorial While these have be he pointed o open vista be way of comm Jegislative and executive brar the Government, has not place, he said, is a meanderin of miscellaneons trees, war huildings, with the Washington Monument framed by two black smokesticks. work of fmproving this open way must be started and complotid, he said, and he urged the veterins to support the movement and to work for its completion Representative Henry R. Rathbong of Nlinois eulogized the Union gen eral of the Civil War in highest terms. As long s the republic he heiped to save shall endure, as long as the enemies he helped to make brothers again stand hand in hand by a common country,” he said, “we shall revere the memory and prolong the fame of Ulysses 8. Gr t E. Albert Land, past “ushing Camp, sang a solo. following which Miss Helen ¥. Downing, president o ‘ushing Aux iliary, led the audience in piedg allegiance to the Addresses also were delivered by Charles Pettvs of the Dep: he P tomac, G- A. R ose Rutledge, past preside Auxiliary. Col. John Clagett read an original poem. The monies were closed with benedict pronounced by Rev. R. E. McBrid: chaplain of the Department of the Potomaé, G. A. R. J. Clinton Hiatt patriotic instructor of Cushing Can presided. ; ) PHILANDER A. BOWEN, JR., MARYLAND LAWYER, DIES Philander Adams Bowen, jr.. a prac ticing lawyer of Maryland for ma: vears, and brother of Dr. W. Sinc Bowen, physician of this city, die Garfield Hospital yesterday. He heen sick for about three months hgd, been in the hospital only wweeks. Mr. Bowen practiced law Marlboro and vicinity. He was abou 68 vears old Besides his brother he; another brother, Dr. Harry and three sisters, Mrs. John coe, Mrs. J. Frank Parran George Peterson. Funeral sepvices will be condu the residence of Dr. W. Sin Bowen, 3125 Cathedral avenue row morning at 9 o'clock. Inte will be in St. Mary’s Chapel Cen Woodvilie, Md. ¥ then ez tentio 1iled ne plan en the two ommander patriotic m . he lea M. Bowar 4 P Br and M: at 97 Measles Cases Reported. Ninety-seven new reported to the Health Departm day brought the total for the vear 4,205, it was announced by Health ficer William . Fowler. cases of me w Today in Congress the | States in Mexico, and declared | Se The Senate fs pose of the last of the per delt agreements. the fettl | with Czechoslovakia Interstate commerce held executive session matters on which hearir been held recently *Fhe special committee conti hearings on the workings of Tariff Commission Foreign relations committce met in executive sessior Indian affairs con pass on routine ma Judiciary subeom tinued hearings on Aubrey Boyles for as district attorney House te. expected to dis consider have ied the ec met to ers con. of ment Ala ittee nomination reay at Mobile use. point of the today a order was raised against for education of Persian studen:s under the Imbrie indemnity . fund The House later took up the Fish bill for memorial to colored soldier ince Hearings on the for national repre disenfranchised National Capit tutional amendment with three individuals speaking opposition before the judiciary com mittee. The House District mittes extended time for the subcommitte investigating the Fenning churges and administration of the local government, with instructions to bring in remedial legislation as soon as possible. The House District committee ordered favorable report on three smail bills, and made the police women's bill order of special busi ness for the next meeting. he veterans committee continued hearing _on the guar with Commissioner witness and Represen; Luce, Rtepublican, of setts a8 exuminer. Appropriations commit ecutive session, conside deficiency bill. Naval affa ecutive session on Interstate commerce conducts hearing on coal In the in K g vesolution the the Consti today Dyer (tation fd residents of through a closed 1 hill, committee in ivate bill: comm lexs Foreign affaivs committee con ducts hearing on erection of monu ment to Henry Clay in Panama Military affals committee holds regular meeting in executive ses sion. Merchant marine subcommittee continues hearing on Polish-Ameri- can Steamship Co. Committee on irrig lamation continues b orado River. f Public lands committee continues tion and rec ing on Col- hearing on investigation of North- ern Pacific_land grants. Ways and means committee con- siders allen property legislation.