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WEATHER. (0 S. Weather Bureau Fore Fair tonight and tomorrow: warmer tonight: cooler tomorrow afternoon or night. Highest, 73, at lowest, 45, at 6:10 a.m. tod: Full report on Page 6. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 29,949. ¢ Wa DEB SETTLENENT * FALSTOMATRAL OF FRANG N PARS office, Financiers Attribute Drop to[ Uncertainty of Terms—Early |. Approval Is Seen. $6,847,674,000 TOTAL PAYMENT GUARANTEED Will Be Spread Over 62 Years and Represents Less Than Half of | Actual Obligation. By the Associated Press. i PARIS, April 30.—Although it can- not be said there is perfect satisfac- tion over the terms of the debt settle- nient at Washington, it is considered that it will be a comparatively easy matter to obtain the sanction of Par- liament when it reassembles four weeks hence. The terms are regarded as differing little from the original French offer. While the safeguard clause. under which France would have been able to decrease her payments to the United States should Germany default in the Dawes plan agreement, was consid ered necessary to protect France, the Journal thinks it quite possible that satisfaction has been given the French under the form of a complementary note specifying that Germany's pay- ments are a direct element in France's capacity to pay. With adjournment of Parliament vesterday, Deputies and Senators have | gone to their homes, where they will | have four weeks in which to figure out future direction of party affairs, which never were more mixed. Franc Again Plunges. Despite the news of the debt-fund- ing accord, the franc showed weakness during the morning. At 11:30 o'clock it was quoted at 30.36 to the dollar. Financial quarters said this was partly accounted for by the lack of precise information here regarding the terms of the debt settlement and also by the doubt in the minds of some as to where the country was going to ob- tain the money to pay the debt install- ments to England and America this year. The council of ministers formed by Premier Briand this morn. ! ing of the conditions of the Washing- | ton agreement. “ Peret Promises Details. 1 Later Finance Minister Peret issued & statement to the press reading: “The Franco-American agreement: has been signed and approved. The government this evening will issue a communication giving the exact de- talls of the accord in order to allay | any alarming doubts. “We must put an end to fantastic and divergent interpretations of this | accord. In certain Washington dis-| patches it seems to be indicated that | the French government has abandoned | everything and made the sacri-| fices. We must establish the truth accurately.” SELLING IS CONTINUED. was in- Franc Low in New York, But French Bonds Show Gain. NEW YORK. April 30 (#).—Despite | the agreement reached at Washington to fund the French debt. French francs today continued to hover around their record low level. Early | dealings in the currency were made | at 3.28 cents, within a half point of | vesterday's extreme low, while a sym. pathetic reaction carried the Belgian franc down to a new minimum price | for the vear at 3.36 cents French bonds. however, reflected Wall Street’s favorable response to the settlement. The government's 7 and % per cent issues advanced fractionally 1o 1926 top prices, with most of the municipal and railroad obligations joining in the upward movement The possibility of a ficht against ratification, both in this country and | in France, was assigned as one of the | reasons for the continued selling of | the franc. Foreign exchange dealers | also pointed out that the settlement itself was not likely to check imme diately the flow of capital from France, which been responsible for the troubles of the currency FIGHT HERE LOOMING. | Congress Certain To Show Opposition To Terms of Accord. By the Associated Press Certain to face hitter opposition in | Congress and the French Parliament, | the last of the major war debt fund- ing agreements has been signed, with President Coolidge’s approval, by Secretary Mellon and Ambassador Berenger. It provides for payment by France of $6,847,674,000, including interest, in 62 annual installments, graduating from $30,000,000 to $125,000,000. The principal was fixed at $4.025.000,000 and interest was waived for the first five years, rising gradually thereafter from 1 to 313 per cent, tha latter rate applying for the last 22 years and making the average a little more than 18 per cent President Coolidge today forwarded the terms of the French debt settle- | ment to the House and Senate. ac- companied by a brief message which sald he believed “the settlement upon | the terms set out in the agreement | to be fair and just to hoth zovern- ments.” | The largest remaining unfunded | debt. except the $193,000,000 Russian | obligation. ix that of Jugoslavia. | amounting to §51,000,000, and an early | funding settlement of this is expected | to result from negotiations now in | progress. | Actually Less Than Half. | Opposition in Congress to the French agreement, which Secretary Mellon described as representing “substantially France's capacity to pay,” probably will center on the fact that, if the interest had been fixed on the same basis as that of the Ameri- can loans from which the money turned over to France was derived the total payment called for would be much greater. Computed on a 4% per cent interest basis the present value of the $6,847,674,000 compact is $2,008,122,624, slightly less than half the principal. On the same basis, however, the Italian agreement which the Senate recently ratified represents i ) noon ay. today Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. Boy, 8, on Scooter | Speeds 25 Miles; | Girl, 18, Skates 35 Br the Associated Press. COLUMRUS, Ohio, April 30. Homesickness, a pair of roller skates and a kiddie scooter may have set some world travel records in Ohio today. light-year-old Edward Cadiz, Ohio, wanted to see his mother, Mrs. Catherine Davis, in Wheeling, W. Va., 25 miles away. So he mounted his scooter and made the trip In five hours, afraid to hail passing motorists lest they return him to his sister in Cadiz. A bus driver told her, however, and she brought him back after a sisterly admonition. Roller skates were used by Bessie 1all, 18, stranded with a small show in'Plqua, Ohio, in an effort to h her home in Huntington, W. Va. She took the road to Toledo by mistake and skated 35 miles before officials of Wapako- Ohio, found her. footsore and nearly exhausted. They paid her railroad fare to Huntington. RACING BALLOONS NEARING RECORD Four Reported Nearly 300 Miles From Starting Point of Distance Contest. Davis, By the Associated Pres LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 30.—A new American record for balloons of 35,000 feet capacity, filled with hydro- gen gas, appeared today likely to be set by contestants in the Litchfleld trophy and national elimination race, which started here late yesterday. | Four balloons, reported up to 10:15 o'clock this morning, had only a short distance to go to beat the present rec- ord of 305 miles. One balloon, reported from Nash- ville, Tenn., as flying in a southeast- miles in an air line from Little Rock when reported. Report From Illinois. The Army balloon $-20, which drop- ped a message over Golconda, IIl., for the Arkansas Democrat, was 2 miles from the starting point, and two unidentified balloons reported to 10 be over Bonnieville, Ky., early to- day, were about 300 miles from the starting point. The navigators, headed by a small pilot balloon which is making an un- official race in connection with the competition, took off from the Little Rock alrport late yesterday, with ideal weather conditions and no un- toward accident. From the balloon race will emerge victors the three who are to fly huge 80.000 cubic feet balloons, filled with | coal gas, in the Antwerp meet, and the 1921 field cup. Air Races Held. Thousands of visitors here today turned to a second day of airplane races and exhibits, with the balloons still furnishing a thrilling back- ground. Maj. Gen. Patrick and such nota- bles as Comdr. John Rodgers, assist- ant chief of the Naval Air Service; Or- ville Wright, pioneer in airplane in- vention and chairman of the contest committee of the National Aeronautic Association; Godfrey L. Cabot, presi- dent of that organization, and Col. John A. Paegelow, commanding offi- cer at Scott Field, Ill, who lost a holder of the famous Litch- terday, are present for the meet. Two Sighted in Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 30 (#).— Two of the balloons that started in the national elimination contest yesterday at Little Rock, Ark., were passing over Kentucky today, slowly drifting northeast. About 5 a.m. they were seen over Hopkinsville, and reports from slowly by at 8 a.m. and another at 9 am. at Glasgow, and it probably was one of the gas bags sighted from Hop- kinsville and Bonnieville. All were too high up to be identi- fied. One Over Lexington. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 30 (#).—A | big balloon passed near Lexington to- day, flving high, carrving an Amer- jean flag. Its identity could not be ascertained. Nicholasville reported the balloon was going easterly to- ward Richmond. 250 REPORTED RESCUED FROM WRECKED VESSEL Death Was Feared for Japanese Fishermen Stranded on Rocks North of Kurile Islands. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 30.—The fishermen and crew of the Chichibu Maru, num- bering 259, have been rescued from the wrecked vessel on the rocks off Paramushiru, farthest north of the Kurile Islands. Safety of the men was announced in a dispatch to the Jiji trom Hokkaido Island. The Chichibu Maru, which was a small steamer of the crab canning in- dustry, crashed upon the rocks Tues- day while proceeding to Kamchatka. It was believed all on board would perish in the heavy storm sweeping across the islands from the north Pa- cific Ocean. 3 A destroyer was dispatched from Ominato, naval base in northern Japan, to aid the fishermen. BELGIAN FRANC DROPS, INDICATING - CRISIS By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, April 30.—The Bel- gian franc today fell to 144 to the English pound and 29 to the dollar. Its drop is attributed in financial circles to the absence of interven- tion by the national bank, which apparently is unwilling to employ any drastic maneuvers to save it be- fore being informed accurately of definite results of the negotiations now being carried on between Bel- glan and foreign bankers. a current value of only 25 per cent of the debt funded. Memhers of the Rarliament " (Continued on Page 6, Columa 4. ench ! the In view of the continued fall of franc. Le Solr today says that o ion Pouliart and Fin ister Janssen are 1..';? Lo resigu. h WASHINGTON, D. C, dirigible in an untimely accldent yes: | Bonnieville, 70 miles northeast | of Hopkinsville, said a balloon drifted | A balloon was seen about 7 a.m. | REIGN OF TERROR INQUIRY ORDERED State’s Attorney Declares He | and His Aides Have Re- ceived Threats. SPECIAL GRAND JURY WILL BE CONVENED 'Police Smash Gambling Dives in [ Raids to Collect Mur- der Evidence. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. April 30.—An order for the impaneling of a special jury to investigate the slaying of William H. MecSwiggin, young assist- ant State's attorney, and all other gang killings and crime conditions in Chicago and surrounding suburbs was granted Robert E. Crowe, State's attorney, today by Willlam V. Broth- ers, acting chief justice of the Crim- inal Court. Crowe presented a petition reveal ing that threats had been made against his life, to kidnap his chil- dren and to bomb his home. “Recent months have recorded in Chicago and Cook County an increas- ing number of gang murders,” the prosecutor sald in his petition. “The combination of high-speed au- tomobiles, sawed-off shotguns and ! high-powered rifles operated to quick- Iy murder and immediately escape has produced in this community a reign {of terror. Have Threatened Prosecutor. | “More recently these vicious gang- sters have brought conditions to such a point that they have repeatedly | made threats upon the life of the erly direction, was approximately 290 | State's attorney and, much more ter-| rible to contemplate, they have threatened to kidnap and kill the children of the State's attorney and to bomb his home. “Further, the more active assistant State’s attorneys have been threaten- ed in the same manner. “Previously the threats had been re- garded as mere idle words,” said Crowe, while the State's attorney’s office “‘proceeded with unabated zeal.” “Now, however, it is my most pain- ful duty to advise this court that an assistant State’s attorney has been slain by gang murderers, using an automobile and a machine gun. “The untimely demise of the late William McSwiggin, assistant State's attorney, evidences the existing public emergency.” Mr. Crowe was quoted last night as opposing the impaneling of a special | grand jury. ! Leaders Demand Action. When the slaying of McSwiggin and |two of his companions, reputed beer |runners and gangsters, sent the list ! of such slayings in three vears above {90 civic leaders, headed by Harry | Eugene Kelly, president of the Union | League Club, became insistent for a | special grand jury with a special prosecutor. | Mr. C “(Contir in_statements published d on Page 2, Column 2.) IRISH COUP PLOT | Free State Officials Say New Yorker Had Plans for Armed Move. By the Associated Press. CORK, Ireland, April 30.—An Amer- ican, giving his name as Patrick Gar- land, has been arrested on a charge of assisting in the organization and maintenance of an illegal military force and with conspiring for the over- throw of the Free State government. He was taken before District Justice Patrick O'Sullivan today for arraign- ment. B Garland was arrested Tuesday when he arrived at Queenstown aboard the steamship Adriatic. Garland's address was given as New York. The police said that when he was arrested a mass of republican correspondence was found concealed around his waist and that drafts on an Ulster bank for $4,000 also were found. The prosecuting counsel regarded the arrest as of the gravest impor- tance to the Free State. He said that the documents found on the prisoner showed that negotiations were being carried or, in the United States for the purchase of machine guns. The authorities say that attempts of the kind disclosed in the communica- tions found on Garland were exceed- ingly dangerous and that conviction could be punishable by death. WHITTEMORE TO FACE TRIAL IN BALTIMORE Bandit Will Be Returned to Answer Charge of Killing Prison Guard. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 30.—District At- torney Banton anounced today that Richard Reese Whittemore, holdup man and escaped convict, would be returned to Baltimore to stand trial for the murder of a Maryland State prison guard in 1925, The decision of Mr. Banton to waive New York County’s right to try Whit- temore on five indictments charging first degree robbery was reached after a conference with State's Attorney 0'Connor of Baltimore. Gov. Smith was expected to sign ex- tradition papers without delay in view My, Banton's consent to Whitte- smore’s retwn to Maryland, BYCHCAGOCOURT grand | LADTO AMERGAN ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION (Al "'v/y,’/. =N t PONTOON S BULT " FRBYRDSPLANE Wharf Blocked, Explorer Quickly Finds Way to Over- come Obstacle. The following diapatch from the Chantier. the ship used on the Byrd Polar erpedition. 1cas picked up by F.J. Mar. o, 0f the sxperimental radio station | 9Z4. rnicago. 1 BY WILLIAM BIRD. | KINGS BAY. Spitzbergen, April 29 |ton board the Chantier).—Comdr. | Richard E. Byrd met the first real ob- | stacle in arriving at Kings Bay late this afternoon, and overcame it. Finding the wharf, where he had | expected to unload his planes, block- |ed by the Norwegian patrol boat, | Heimdal, Byrd promptly ordered the | planes put ashore on pontoons. Aided by constant daylight, the crew is hard at work with nails and planking. pre- pared to labor all night to get the afrcraft ashore on the large level field | ot dry snow, not far from the hangar and mooring mast of the dirigible Norge. The Heimdal, under Capt. Tank- Nielsen, is detailed to assist the Amundsen expedition, particularly in furnishing a landing crew for the the airship. 1t has been lying here for several days and will remain un- til after the Norge departs on the polar fiight. Early this morning it be- gan coaling at the wharf. Greets Amundsen Party. The Chantier was obliged to tie out- side of the Heimdal, and Comdr. Byrd immediately went ashore to find Amundsen and Ellsworth. They were out dining at the mess hall when he first called, but he later found them jand exchanged greetings. Amundsen and Ellsworth returned the call on board the Chantler immediately after- jward and took Byrd ashore to meet Director Smith Meyer of the Kings Bay Coal Co., who readily granted permission to the Byrd expedition to land planes on the company's prop- erty. Next they visited Capt. Nielsen, who received Byrd cordially on behalf of the Norwegian navy, but regretted that he could not vield his place at the dock before Monday or Tuesday, when he expects to finish coaling. It was suggested that he might pull away during the night, when the coal- ing crew was not working, but he feared to riek his ship to the drifting jce. Byrd was disappointed, but de- termined not to delay his flight prep- arations and to land his plane by emergency means. Band Greets Expedition. Kings Bay had been advised a day ahead of the Chantier’s approach, and as the steamer crushed her way through the drift ice toward the pler, the Hamdl band played “The Star Spangled Banner,” while the Chantler, whose only band is Dick Konter's ukelele troupe contented iself with running up the Norwegian flag at the toremast. The weather has turnd warmer, and, according to Amundsen, is far ahead of the normal season. This is Byrd's principal reason for hurry, be- cause a thaw would seriously increase the difficulties of the expedition. Every member of the expedition and the steamer's crew has plunged with enthusiasm in the task of unloading and it is expected that without any unforesen mishap the giant Pole plane will be ashore for assembly before morning. ht, 1926, by and PRI Loty Post:Dispatch. through INCENDIARY AT LARGE; TOWN ASKS PROTECTION Hartly, Del, Villages Appeal for Guardsmen as Protection Against Mysterious Fires. By the Assoclated Press. HARTLY, Del., April 30.—Martial law and a detfihmant of National Guardsmen for this little Kent County town were to be asked of Gov. Robin- son today as protection against a mys- terious incendiary. A delegation went to Dover to place the town’s situation fore the governor. b’!l‘or several weeks unexplained fires have burst out almost in the faces of firemen and armed patrols. The Methodist Episcopal Church was burn- ed last Wednesday, 15 minutes after armed men had searched it. It was the second time it h‘td B:tn :.l::dt State police are patrolling own and residents are rarely abroad with out arms.. Lights blaze nightly from eyery window, he New York Time tBiavatch. ~ Released 3 FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1926—SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. Rum Runners Give Bootleggers Stock In City’s Cemetery By the Associated Press MANCHESTER, N. H., April 30, —This city's bootleggers have es- tablished an “exchange” in Mount Calvary Cemetery. A story of midnight gatherings in the shadow of a large tombstone, where local bootleggers receive their allotments from rum runners, who import the contraband, was told in court yesterday by Clasis Auguer. Auguer was on trial on a liquor charge that resulted from the dis- covery of a quantity of liquor buried just outside the cemetery wall. He declared that at times there were so many automobiles at the cemetery that the line-up resembled a funeral procession. BRITISH FACE COML LOCKOUT TONEGHT Subsidy to End With Miners Still Refusing to Accept Wages Offered. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 30.—The truce in the dispute between the coal mine owners and their workers which was arranged by the government last year on the basis of a state subsidy ends at midnight tonight, and if no settlement is reached meantime the notice of the owners that they will close their mines will become effective and the industry will be at a standstill. The state subsidy, which already has cost the country some £20,000,000, was provided by the government to pay wages which the owners declared were not justified by the economic conditions of the coal industry. The owners have prepared new . wage scales for the men, but thus far the miners have refused to consent to any reduction whatever in their present pay. Premier Baldwin and members of his cabinet conferred until early this morning with representatives of the owners and miners, but without re- sult. The parleys are continuing to day in an endeavor to reach a settle- ment of the controversy before the midnight hour strikes. 1t is reported unofficially that the mine owners would be willing to con- tinue the existing wages, if the miners would agree to lengthen their hours of work. J. H. Thomas, former min- ister ‘of the colonies and now head of the raflway men's union, said today: “If the two sides were an inch apart Wednesday they are now an arm’s length apart. It is a thousand to one that there will be a stoppage of work."” PARK BOARD MEASURE SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Bill Gives Commission Wider Scope, Making It City Plan- ning Authority. The last step in the enactment of the legislation to broaden the scope of the National Capital Park Commis- slon to make it a city-planning agency was taken today when President Cool- idge signed the bill. In addition to the Federal and local officlals and the members of Con- gress who now comprise the National Capital Park Commission, this law provides for the appointment by the President to the new commission of four citizens, qualified in city plan- ning, and one of whom shall be a bona fide resident of the District. The name of the commission is changed to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and the act sets forth in detail many phases of municipal acting and development on which the commission shall make recommendation in planning for the future growth of Washington. BOY SCOUTS HAILED AS PEACE LEAGLE Baden-Powell Tells Council Training in Good Will Is War Deterrent. Sir Robert §. S. Baden-Powell, “Chief Scout of the World.” charac- terized the International Boy Scout movement as a prime influence for world peace and good will in an address today at the opening session in the Willard Hotel of the sixteenth annual convention of the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. Sir Robert announced that a sug- | gestion of the League of Nations | that the international Scout organiza- tion be formed into a “Junior League of Nations,” has been opposed. He explained that the present world asso- ciation of Scouts. as now operated, serves ably a similar ideal. W “To make a true league we must have first the right epirit,” Sir Robert told the delegates. “We all want to do away with war, but there is not much use of trying to effect that end by limiting armaments or decreasing navies. Training for Peace Urged. “The will to abolish war rests in the minds of the people. It is for the peo- ple to determine whether or not they will have war or peace. Let us, through the far-reaching influence of the Boy Scout movement, extending as it does into every nation, train these minds for peace and fellowship. “It behooves the Scout organization to forget national aspirations and look wide toward international brother- hood. Wars result from jealousies and fear of smaller nations. The greater nations, therefore, must set for their smaller sisters an example of unself- ishness and helpfulness, By extend- ing the hand of understanding and fel- lowship from the boys of one nation to another we can aid in insuring for the world an era of peace and pros- perity.” Given Warm Ovation. Sir Robert was given an enthusiastic ovation when he took the speaker's platform, attired in Scout uniform, even to the bare knees. He commend- ed to the Boy Scouts of America the ideals of their late president, James J. Storrow, and his plans for a junior Scout order. Sir Robert pointed out that the Junior Scouts movement had won great success in England, alding in materially reducing crime among boys from 8 to 12 years of age. It is the objective of this vounger order, he said, to prevent, not cure, delinquency among the youth. He also advised the establishment of a Senior Scout order, composed of boys more than 17 years of age, and paid a tribute to the work being done among the other sex by the Girl Scouts. President McRae Speaks. The convention was called to order by Milton Afl McRae, president of the council, with invocation by Mgr. C. F. Thomas, of St. Patrick's Church. President McRae, in his opening ad- dress, urged that the Scout organiza- tion strive to increase the percentage of Scout membership among the boys of America. The present ratio is one Scout to every seven boys, he said. The churches are an excellent agency for Scout expansion, he added. ‘Mr. McRae also stressed the impor- tance of furthering the international relationships between the Scout or- ganizations in the 39 nations where they are now established, emphasizing the value of this co-operation in in- suring peace. ‘He announced that the Rockefeller Foundation has undertaken a survey of the organization and operation of (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) The only evening in Washington wit Associated Press service. Yesterday’s (#) Means Associated Press. Woman, 108 Today, Never Has Ridden On Train or Car By the Associated Press. ASTFORD, Conn., April 30. Never having ridden on a railroad train or trolley car so far as known and never having listened to a radio, although she is 108 yeara old, is the unique record of Mrs. Sarah Bosworth Bradway, proba bly the oldest person in Connecti cut, who is celebrating her birth- day anniversary today. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier. At the time of her birth, James Monroe was President of the United States. Only 7 States had then been added to the orig- There was only an ex- perimental railroad in the country: Fulton was trylng out a steam propelled craft on the Hudson River; the population of the coun- try was less than 10,000,000 and the total immigration since the Declaration of Independence had been less than 10,000 CHILEAN CONGRESS T0 BLOCK KELLOGG: Stands Solidly for Tacna- Arica Controversy Settle- ment by Plebiscite. BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New SANTIAGO, Chile, April 30.—The Chilean Congress evidently intends to repudiate the administration’s accept. ance of the good offices of the L'nl(édl States in settling the Tacna-Arica con- | troversy. ! Efforts of the American State De-| partment to create a favorable atti- tude among certain Chilean congres- sional leaders toward America's good | offices have been unsuccessful. The | Figueroa administration is helpless against a solid congressional front fa- voring continuation of the plebiscite plans. I Alessandri Leads Fight. | Although the Chilean constitution theoretically gives the President power against congressional domination. President Figueroa’s administration early surrendered its advantage. For- mer President Alessandri, now a sena. tor. who made the new constitution possible, fighting for greater presiden- tial power, now is among the Senate leaders dominating the administration. | It is quite generally believed that the reason for the congressional de- termination to reject the good offices of the United States is a conviction that the present plebiscite proceedings offer a decided advantage to Chile. An- other reason is the unwillingness of powerful politicians to abandon the fancy salaried jobs which the plebis- cite ofters. | Thinks Chile Will Win. The Chileans believe the heavy registrations for the plebiscite will im- Coolidge with the Chile has enough votes to ‘. While the politicians realize that Americans are aware of the large number of fraudulent regis- trations, they believe it should be pos- sible to throw out 2,000 of the most glaring frauds and still have enough to assure victory at the polis. The politicians refuse to consider seriously the rumors from the United States that it is useless to expect an arbitrator to make a ruling under such | circumstances as Chile’s failure to comply with Gen. Pershing’s prerequi- sites for a plebiscite. | From the Chilean point of view the | American State Department lacked the courage to prevent a start of registra- tions and has not the courage nuw to declare the registrations void. (Copyright. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.) 40 CATHOLICS AND | PRIEST ARRESTED Mexicans Act After Alleged Re- fusal to Close Church—Two Killed in Rioting. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 30.—Special dispatches from Zitacuaro say that the Catholic priest there, Luis Cerda, has been arrested and his church 2ad closed. He is alleged to have refused to obey military orders to shut up the church for having rung the bell during a recent riot. Two persons wounded in the riot- ing died later. Several others who were injured are in a serious condi- tion. Dispatches from Colima say that 40 Catholics were arrested there yes- terday when they attempted to hold a demonstration against the enforce- ment of the religious laws. Minister of the Interior Tejeda to- day issued a statement defending his course in the enforcement of the re- liglous sections of the constitution. He says the recent general letter signed by Mexican archbishops and bishops, protesting against the re- liglous eclauses, constituted proof of the necessity for the government to regulate Catholic church activities. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 30.—James H. Kingsmore, convicted wife-beater, re- ceived five lashes on his bare back with a cat-o'nine-talls in' the Baltl- more City Jail today. He smiled. It was the first revival of the lash for wife-beaters in Baltimore for five years. Sentence was imposed by Crim- inal Court Judge Eugene O'Dunne six weeks ago. The whipping was admin- istered by Sheriff John E. Potee, be- fore selected witnesses in the privacy of the jail. A physician examined Kingsmore before and after the lash- ing, and he was taken back to his cell, ‘where he has two more weeks of a 60-day jail sentence to serve. He re- iterated previous denials of guilt. Only recently Kingsmore resigned d Lashed Five Times on Bare Back, Wife-Beate‘r Smiles in Baltimore Jail himself to the lashing and withdrew a plea before the Maryland Court of Ap- peals. Previously a petition in Circuit Court for an injunction had been de- nied by Judge Ell Frank. The man's growing nervousness, which caused him to pace his cell un- ceasingly all day yesterday, appeared to have left him when guards escorted him to the post today. He was deflant, almost jaunty, and attempted to en- gage the attendants in conversation. Manacled to the post, he stood silent ‘while the nine-thonged lash rose and fell five times with audible spats on his bare flesh. 4 | District i iel per the news Circulation, 102620 TWO CENTS. FENNING 70 TAKE STAND ON MONDAY INPROBE RENEWAL Judiciary Committee Is Ex- pected to Act Early Next Week on Impeachment. ACCUSED WILL APPEAR IN FEE CASE TOMORROW Zihlman Introduces Bill to Appoint Administrator to Handle D. C. Guardianships. With the Gibson subcommittes of the House District committee continu- ing hearings tonight in its investiga- tion of Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning’s administration of guardian ships and governmental affairs of the District, hearings in the guardianship matter before the veterans’ commit- tee were in suspension today until next Monday, when Mr. Fenning again will appear before that commit- tee as a witness. The Gibson subcom- mittee, which will continue its ses- sions probably in the caucus room of ithe House Office Building,” also is scheduled to hold another hearing to- morrow night. Before being recalled by the veter- ans' committee Monday, Mr. Fenning will appear at a hearing tomorrow be- fore Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the Supreme Court, on the ques. tion of the Commissioner’s receipt of commissions of 25 per cent on surety bonds furnished in lunacy cases in which he has acted as guardian. Mr, Fenning has testified to receipt of such commissions before both the vet- erans’ committee and the District subcommittee. Another development in the case early next week will be a meeting of the House judiciary committee, on Tuesday or Wednesday, to consider reporting out a resolution of “suffi- clent cause” in the impeachment charges against Mr. Fenning. If adopted by the House such a res- olution would authorize and direct the judiclary committee to conduct its own investigation to determine whether there are sufficient grounds to recommend the impeachment or other punishment of Mr. Fenning as a Federal officer. Meanwhile Chairman Zihlman of the House District committee intro- duced a bill in the House to provide for the appointment of a public ad- ministrator to handle guardianship cases in the District and for other re- medjal measures found desirable by the Gibson subcommittee. The full District committee is expected to re- ‘port the Zihiman bill at its next meet- ng. Many Questions Touched. Questions regarding an equitable fiscal policy between the Federal Gov- ernment and the District of Columbia, questions regarding assessment of local property, and inquiry into com- missions which Commissioner Fen- ning has received as solicitor for a surety bonding rompany since he became District Commissioner, and attempts to show interference and domineering practice toward indi- vidual members of the police force by Mr. Fenning, and attacks upon his practice of law developed during the hearing last night. Chairman Gibson elicited from Dan- J. Donovan, the District auditor, that the proper fiscal policy in his opinion should be a return to a defl- nite fixed proportion in dividing the costs of maintenance and development of the National Capital based on a full study of the equities involved. Mr. Donovan at the solicitation of Representative Houston, Republican, |of Delaware, promised to submit in writing to the subcommittee some recommendations for improvement of the administration of District affairs particularly as affecting the financial department of the Municipal Govern- ment. Commissions Are Shown. Chairman Gibson put into the record a report made by the general agent of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., of commissions paid to Frederick A. Fenning as agent of that company from February 12, 1920, to April 27, 1926, as follows: 28% com- Premiums. mission. T $1.575.00 . 2.823.56 De 2.732.45 ° 292212 Dec 508704 Do, T 3.336.00 19! - 261 and April. 1996, 365,67 Totals . .$17.109.92 $4.179.22 At the opening of the hearing last night Representative Blanton called Policeman Wilson as a witness and questioned him regarding orders he had received from Commissioner Fen- ning to take into court and report to him regarding the disposition made of the case of two automobiles parked near the courthouse. It was shown that Judge Hitz went with the offi- cer and looked at the place where the automobiles were parked and had dis- missed the case. One of the cars be- longed to George Hamel, a Washing- ton attorney, who was represented by counsel in court. It was emphasized that Officer Wilson had never seen Mr. Blanton before last night. Mr. Blanton next called Policeman John O. Patten, who has been on the force only four months, and who was called before Commissioner Fenning in January and fined $15. It was ex. plained that this policeman and his running mate were standing on a corner when a small automobile made a sharp and fast turn spattering mud all over their uniforms. They pur- ed the driver, who was John Mc- Morris, and an argument followed. Called Before Fenning. ‘Within an hour and a half Police- man Patten was called before Com- missionei: Fenning, who said he could dismiss him from the service, and then, after a brief conference the major and superintendent of po- lice, fined him $15. He explained that later $5 of this fine was remitted as a result of a letter from Mr. Patten's commanding officer in the military service, where he had been for seven years. . Mr. Blanton emphasized by questions that the Commissioner could Feh. 12, 1820, 31, 1820 31 to to 8 $393.75 705.90 683.11 730.43 766.91 833.75 65.37 31 March Radio Programs—Page 53. [ not_dismiss-a_policeman from servios " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4)