Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. €. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy topight and tomorrow: probably showers this afternoon and rising temperature tomorrow. Highest, 83, at noon yesterday; low- I tonigh! est. 66, at noon toda: Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar. service. Yesterday's The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Circulation, 98,468 No. #361003, | Euped === Washington, ond class matter D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 23, 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ¥ P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 60,000 STUDENTS JOIN EUCHARISTIC RITES IN CHICAGD 140,000 Other Worshipers; Unite in Final Service in Soldiers’ Field. ‘ .PRIMATE OF HUNGARY GIVES MAGYAR SPEECH | Cardinal Dougherty and Arch- bishop Gauthier Also Address Education Session. Br the Assnciated Press CHICAGO, June U'nder a bla ing sun, more than 60,000 students of parochial high schools, academies and vniversities participated today in the Higher Education day services of the ilucharistic Congress. Tens of thou- sands of other persons made up a ast multitude of 200,000 worshipers, who crowded Soldiers’ Field to capac- 4y for the fourth time in three day The spectacle today brought to a close the colorful ceremonies and as- semblages of the congress at the stadium. On Thursday the final cere- monies will rth of Chicago. rdinal Czernoch, primate of Hungary, addressed the session in the Magyar tongue. Bishop Hoban Officiates. Solemn pontifical mass was cele. hrated by Right. Rev. E. F. Hoban, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, assisted of eucharistic worship in the develop- Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, presiding prelate, spoke of the place of Eucharistic worship in the develop- ment of intellect. “If the real presence of Our Lord In the Holy Eucharist is to be denied because the intellect cannot grasp it. all mysteries will have to be rejected.” he said. “And if we reject all myster- fes we come to chaos, for all about us are all the mysteries of the natural world which we cannot penetrate. “And it we find impenetrable the visible, tangible things of life, how chall we define the order of the si pernatural? “‘All about we see manifestation of life—but no one can tell what life is. Plato could not tell us. Aristotle could not say. St. Thomas Aquinas could not tell us. Canadian Prelate Speaks. ““The limit of space—another mys: i What is {t? What is beyond? There is no answer. * ¢ * How then shall we presume to F’nnralp the mystery of the Holy Sucharist? ‘What is the Blessed Eucharist? It is the ladder of love to the throne of Heaven." Archbishop Gauthier of Toronto, * and apostolic administrator of Mon- treal. reviewed the history of the Catholic Church- on the American continent since the sixteenth cen tury. Very Rev. W. H. Agnew. president of Loyola University, Chicago, was deacon of the mass. The high school pupils massed in the field and sang “The Consecration of the Nation,” official hymn of the congress. Joseph Scott, knight commander of the Knights of St. Gregory, Los Angeles, was the last speaker before the mass. 150,000 Men at Service. Under the Ligh purple dome of its open-air catiedral, Chicago witnessed one of the most impressively beautiful ceremonies of the Eucharistic Con- sress last night More than 150,000 hers of the Holy Name & newed their pledge of fdelity chureh and to their order at Soldier Field under the soft mocnlight of a calm Summer evening At one point in last night's service, the candles which they held were extinguished for a moment of silent praver. with only the red sanctuar: the tabernacle of the al fickering gleam to the i moon and stars. Suddenly brilliant flood | and a hidden beam shone crucifix above the altar » . ona by one, the tapers were lighted again, until the vast fleld was covered by a bank of light rising to the hase of the towering doric columns. The sea of fiame was carried beyvond the stadium walls, where stood other thousands unable to find places in the huge structure. As the flood lights were darkened (Continued on Page 3, Column 2 RETAKE 2 PRISONERS OF 33 WHO ESCAPED' Los Angeles Police Searching City for Other Men—Sawed Cell Bars to Flee. Br the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, June 23.—Thirty- one of the thirty-three prisoners who escaped from the Lincoln Heights Jail here last night were still at large today All were sentenced on nar cotic charges and were serving from 30 to 90 days. Most of them were Mexicans Using smuggled hacksaw the prisoners sawed their treedom. Two were picked the downtown section a few after their flight. % The job of sawing away three chilled ‘steel bars apparently com- blades, way up hours be held at Mundelein, " | finance in the new Briand cabinet. l | | i | | i | i | | | | | | | MR BRIAND PRESENTS ;mflm@gmmf AIMEE 8. McPHERSO! | Caillaux Takes Finance Min- istry When Poincare Re- fuses Position. | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, June 23.—Aristide Briand | | succeeded today in forming his tenth | cabinet. | The new ministry is being present ed to President Doumergue tonight. |1t is constituted as follows: 1 Premier and foreign minister, Aris- | tide Briand; finance, Joseph Caillaux; ! justice, M. Laval; marine, M. Ley-| ! gues: war, Gen. Guillaumat; com-| merce, M. Chapsal; agriculture, M.! Binet; colonies. M. Perrier; interior, | M. Durand; education, Prof. Bertrand | gare: public works, M. Daniel-Vin- | ceni: labor, M. Durafour; pensions, M. | Jourdain. | The French political situation shift- | !ed sharply today. Caillaux, stormy | I'petrel of French politics, accepted an | | invitation to take the ministry of ! M. Caillaux takes the portfolio | {which M. Briand had reserved for for- | imer President Poincare. M. Poincare | | finally declined to take the post after | !he had explained his reasons before a meeting of prospective cabinet mem- ! bers assembled for the final distribu- { tion of portfolios. i Briand Offered to Retire. M. Briand went to Elysee Palace to {inform President Doumergue that he had falled in his mission, but the | President prevailed upon him to try Caillaux, who held the finance portfolio only recently, was called to | {the foreign office and after an hour's ‘ronversa(lnn came to an agreement | with M. Briand by which they were { to_jointly form a cabinet. This latter condition, imposed by M. Caillaux, is a radical departure from the customary method of selecting a “cabinet, but M. Briand has taken the position that the responsibiiities of | the finance minister in ti present | circumstances were such that the pro- cedure was justified. M. Briand indicated that M. Cail- laux, in all equity, ought to have the right to choose ministers directly con- nected with administration of the eco- nomic life of the country. DEMOCRATS PRESS | DRVEFORTAXCUT Three Bills Call for Personal, Auto and Corporation Re- ductions at Once. | | | By the Associated Press Two moves for immediate tax redue- tion came from the Democratic side ‘0f the House today, both based on the estimated Treasury surplus announced at the hudget meeting Monday night. Representative Crisp of Georgia, a member of the House ways and means | committee, where tax legislation origi- | nates, announced he had prepared a 1 bill to reduce the corporation income | tax from 133 per cent to 10 per cent. { Representative 'Jacobstein, Democrat, New York, prepared a plan calling for a 25 per cent refund of personal in come taxes and an investigation look- ing to elimination of the 3 per cent automobile tax and reduction in the corporation assessments. Both asserted revenues collected by | the Government in the last five years | had exceeded by more than a billion | dollars the es ates of the Treasury. ’ “In- equity and justice, while all | other taxes are being redufed, I feel ! that the corporation taxes should be | relieved, as the corporations are | owned by individuals, nany of them widows and orphans,” Mr. Crisp sald. He added that the revenue acts of 1924 and 1926 had greatly reduced in dividual taxes, but had given corpora- tions no reitef. On the other hand. he explained, the act of 1921 had in creased corporate taxes from 10 to 1315 per cent. . "Mr. Jacobstein predicted a surplus { for next year much larger than the | Treasury has indicated would be avail- | ‘Maj. Hesse to Insist on Respect |able. ! In the Senate Senator Copeland of 0 | tive identification of a | hospital ! Pherson, Los Angeles evangelist, who | hospital MRS. MPHERSON FOUND IN ARIZONA AFTER ABDUCTION Missing Evangelist Identi- fied in Hospital—Escaped Captors in Mexico. CROSSED BORDER AFOOT FLEEING BACK TO U. S. Where She Was Reported Drowned, Told From Cot. | By the Associated Press. DOUGLAS, June 23.— Posi- woman in a here as Aimee Semple Mec Arlz., was reported drowned there May 18, last, was made over the telephone by Mrs. Minnle Kennedy, the evangelist's mother, in conversation with William ! F. McCafferty, editor of the Dispatch, | today. established Identification was { through a long white scar on the sec- ond finger of the woman's hand and also by her giving the name of a pet pigeon. The woman in the hospital here told the name of the pigeon. which was Jennle, and also said that she was injured on the second finger of her right hand in Durham Township, near Ingersoll, Ontario. The mother told McCafferty the same thing. Scar Result of Accident. The woman said the scar was the | result of being accidentally cut by a | sickle years ago. She also gave the name of a cousin, Mrs. Emma Nicker- son, now dead, and described birth- marks on her babies, for McCafferty. These statements led the mother to the declaration that the woman was Aimee Semple McPherson beyond a doubt. The evangelist from her cot in the told a story of abduction from Ocean Park, Calif.. a trip across the border to Mexico, and of how she escaped about noon vesterday, and ran until she fell with exhaustion. Finally, sighting a_mountain. which | has been identified by officers here as the famous ‘“Niggerhead” Mountain, 15 miles south in Sonora, Mexico, she headed for it. Reaching the mountain about dusk, she found a road and struggled along, falling from time to time with ” tigue. She said she sighted the glare from the slag dumps of the copper smelters in this city as the’ night wore on. ¥ She finally reached the ofitskirts of Auga Prieta, and, approaching a house occupled bv Mexicans, called for help, and asked that the police be | notified. Offeredl No Assistance. The Meéxicans, she said, offered no assistance, and she went on, falling uneonscious before another house. An American, whose name was not learned, and who was in Agua Prieta, brought her to a hospital here. When she told police who she was, a guard was established about the building. McCafferty, who had known Mrs. McPherson in Denver, where he had reported her meetings for a news paper, was recognized. She greeted him with a smile, and asked him to notify Los Angeles at once., and to ask Los Angeles police to protect her daughter, Roberta, whom she feared the abductors would attempt to kid- nap. While she tatked the woman lapsed many times into a semi-conscious state, due to her exhaustion. Story Told to Editor. Mrs. McPherson told the story of her abduction to Mr. McCafferty as fol lows: 1 went to Ocean Park with my sec- retary, Miss Schaefer, where I changed into my bathing suit and slipped on a dress over it. We went to the beach, where we rented a little beach tent. I went in swimming. 1 sent Miss Schaefer to get the names of some soloists and sume music. “Before she returned I came back out on the beach. There were life- | savers drilling there. I went back into !the water a short distance, and while I was watching the guards I heard some one calling. ‘Mrs. McPherson” 17741 turned to face a woman who ex | plained that her baby was dying, and | that she wanted me to pray for it. She |sald her husband had the baby in a !car nearby. She had a coat over her arm. I accompanied her to the car, in ! \which there was another woman with a bundle in her arms, which I thought | was the baby. | Pushed Into Automobile. { “The next thing I knew I was | pushed-into the car on the floor. The | woman threw the coat over me, and a | sweet, sticky odor assailed my nostrils !and filled the automobile, which was a sedan. " “That was the last T knew until I i came to, on a bed, ltke a hospital cot. | It was in a room with a window al- ! most completely closed. 1 was violent- ill. The woman who was called It was dawn. T i do not know whether or not it was the next day, but she told me it was | the morning following. i “The other woman came in, and I | asked_them what they wanted with me. They gald they were holding me | for half million dollars’ ransom. I i told them they were foolish, that I did not have that much money, nor did the church have it, but they | replied that they knew better, and I . was kept there day after day. “Later they told me they had made | —(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) WHEELER RESUMES STAND IN PROBE Primary Investigators Told of Anti-Saloon League’s Total Expenditures. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Inquiry into the activities and ex penditures of thé Anti-Saloon League were resumed today by the Senate campaign investigation committee, with Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the league, on the stand. Mr. Wheeler, questioned by Sena- of Reed of Missouri, chalrman of the ‘Senate committee, admitted that he had stated in an address at the Maple | Avenue Methodist Church in St. Louls in 1923 that the drys had invested §35.000,000 in the cause of prohibition. “I might have made that state- ment,” said Mr. Wheeler. “It repre- | sents the total amount put into the fight for prohibition by all different agencles over a period of 30 years. It is about correct.” Would Limit Expenses. Senator Neely of West Virginia, Democrat, introduced a resolution in the Senate today declaring that any Senator shall be deemed disqualified if more than $10,000 has been spent by him or by others, with his con- sent, either in the primary or gen- eral election. Excluded from this $10,000, however, would be the person- al expenses of the candidate and any assessments which State law may make upon_him. Senator Neely gave notice that he would call his resolution up for con- sideration on Monday. The Senate, Senator Neely said, should now notify the Republican party in Pennsylvania that it will not consent to the seat- ing of a Senator for whose nomina- tion more than $600,000 has been ex- pended. The report of the campaign com- mittees filed at Harrisburg have al- ready disclosed that more than $600.. 000 was expended for Representative Willlam S. Vare. the successful nomi- nee in the recent Republican sena torial- primaries. “What has the Senate got to do with primary elections?” asked Sen- ator Blease of South Carolina. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania also wanted to know whether Senator Neely intended that his resolution should be retroactive. Senator Neely replied to Senator Reed that of course the resolution referred to the future, but he added that it might apply to “some one in Pennsylvania.” Presents Wheeler's Articles. Senator Reed put into the record a series of articles on the fight for pro- hibition, written by Mr. Wheeler and published in the New York Times and other newspapers in March and April of this year. In one of these articles Mr. Wheeler said that ‘“‘under the ter- rific pace our finances expanded and our expenditures gradually increased until they reached the high level of $2,500,000 a year.” “During what yea penditure maintained Reed. Mr. Wheeler said he thought for two or three years during the height of the campaign and just before the eighteenth amendment was adopted when the fighting was the hardest. He said that this expenditure was by the national organization of the Anti- Saloon League and all the State or- ganizations. E Pinned down by Senator Reed, Mr. Wheeler said he thought that expendi- tures ran from 1917 to 1919 and that it was the best estimate he could give, although it might have been a little more or a little less. Mr. Wheeler handed to Senator was that ex- asked Senator Reed a_statement covering the re-| o | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Mother in England, Refused Reprieve, Hangs Tomorrow By the Associated Press LONDON. June 23.—England again is faced with the unwelcome task of hanging a woman for mur- der and the country is muth dis- tressed. The condemned woman is Mrs. Louise Calvert, 33 vears old and the mother of three children, the voungest being a baby boy. She is condemned to be hanged tomor- row morning at the Strangeway jail in Manchester for killing her landlady, Mrs. Lily Waterhouse, a widow, with whom she lived after being separated from her husband. Robbery was suggested as the mo- tive for the crime during the trial. Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, after a careful ex- amination of the case and consi eration of a petition for mercy signed many thousands, has refused a reprieve. Rumors that Mrs. Calvert was about to become a mother were {nvestigated and were stated to be unfounded by the home secretary. HAGEN'S 68 BREAKS ST ANNE' RECORD Mehlhorn Lowers Mark With 70 Earlier in Play foy Brit- ish Open Title. By tha Associated Press. ST. ANNE'S, England, June 23.— The St. Anne's course record was shat- tered for the second time today when Walter Hagen, American professional champion, returned a brilliant round of 68 in the British open golf champion- ship. Hagen's record-breaking card: ut 334434443 B . 35454335 4—36—68 Bill Mehlhorn, Chicago professional. broke the course record earlier this afternoon, completing the 18 holes in 70. Leads in Early Returns. Mehihorn's 70 led all the returns up to that time and set a new record for the course since the championship alterations were made on it. The strong wind coming from the sea did not seem to bother the Ameri can in the slightest. He played methodically all the way around, and sank every putt within reasonable dis- tance of the cups. The St. Anne's traps gave Watts Gunn plenty of trouble, the Georgian being compelled to play his ball out of five hazards in the first seven holes. At the sixth tee a spectator walked in front of him as he was addressing the ball, increasing his unsteadiness. He missed a short putt at the seventeenth. while a lost ball at the eighteenth cost him dearly. He took an 82 Fine Weather Prevails. Fine weather, with bright sunshine and northwest breezes, which were not expected to hinder good play, pre- vailed this morning. The crowds arrived early and paid their half crowns to see the grand old man of golf, Harry Vardon, send the firse drive whizzing down the fairway. Tommy Armour was: the first entrant from the United States to tee up and get away for the day’s 18_holes. Vardon set a fast pace for the voungsters following him. He start- ed off with a par 3 and a birdie 3 for the first 2 holes, and made the turn in 35. This also was Armour's total going out. Al Watrous and Fred McLeod, American pros, who played together. 3. | sailed in with cards of 71 each, the lowest among the first 20 to return. McLeod started brilliantly with two 3's chipping dead at the first and hol- ing a 4-yard putt at the second. He | FENNING REPORT FALS TOAPPEAR Committee Disbands Without Announcing Its Findings. Due Tomorrow. The House judiciary committee failed today to meet the general ex- pectation that it would determine upon a report to the House on the impeachment charges against Com- missioner Fenning. After being in session for two anda half hours the committee disbanded with instructions from Chairman | Graham that no announcement would be made regarding the discussion of the Fenning case, on which the com- mittee had been engaged. Mr. Graham stated that the special subcommittee of 12, of which Repre- sentative Dyer, Republican, of Missourl, is chairman, and which has been conducting the hearing on the Fenning charges, had been directed to complete its work and make a report in writing to the full judiciary com- mittee. Mr. Dyer stated that this subcom- mittee will meet tomorrow at 10 o'clock to finish the drafting of the report. The full committee is to meet a week from tomorrow to receive this report of the subcommittee. BEATEN AND ROBBED IN EXPRESS CAR R. H. Wallace, Formerly of Wash- ington, Victim of Bandits, Who Escape Train. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. June 23.—Two robbers held up a messenger of the American Railway Express Cc . in an express car in West Philadelphta early today and escaped with a package and a suit case, both of which were be- lieved to have contained valuables. R. H. Wallace, formerly of Washing- ton, D. C.. the messenger, was heaten, gagzed and bound. He was shut in the car and was not found for two hours. The two men, Wallace re- ported, searched the car and, after failing to open the safe, jumped, tak- ing with them the bundle and suit- case. Their flight was noticed by a brakeman, who gave the alarm. The car by that time had been at- tached to a Washington-bound train. It was stopped at West Philadelphia station and Wallace released trom his nds. R. H. Wallace, who is mentioned in the above dispatch as living in Wash ington, no longer makes this city his home, according to local officials of the American Railway Express Co. S THREE ACTORS KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE UPSET By the Associated Pres MODESTA, Calif., June 23.—Three vaudeville performers were kjlled and three others serjously injured when an automobile in which they were driving from Stockton to Fresno, to fill an en- gagement, turned turtle on the high- ‘\;‘ay 1 mile south of Modesto early to- ay. The dead: Mrs. F. B. Kincaid, New York City, wife of the driver of the machine. Bert Brown, 17. Harry Dodson, Springfield, Mo., who died at a Modesto Hospital. The dead and injured were brought here by passing motorista. F. B. Kincaid, the driver, who is suf- fering from a fractured skull, believes a blowout caused the car to turn ove Rain Postpones Nat-Mack Contest; 2Games Tomorrow Special Dispatch to The Star 1 PHILADELPHIA, June ‘ Rain today caused postponement of the Washington-Philadelphia base ball game. Weather permit- ting, a double-header will be played here tomorrow. Manager Harris and Connie Mack decided to call off toda: game a little before noon, after a steady downpour this morning had rendered the field too soggy for play. PRESIDENT TOLEAD WELCOMETOBYRD Polar Explorer Will Receive Famous Medal in Cere- mony Tonight. Washington, seat of Government and center of scientific research. was prepared this afternoon to extend the | official hand of welcome and congratu- | lations to Lieut. Comdr. Richard | | Evelyr Byrd, jr.. U. 8. N., upon his | triumphant return to the Capital this evening from his epochal flight over the North Pole. The Nation, through President Cool- | idge, stood ready to felicitate the vouthful naval aviator for his out- standing polar achievement, and science, through the National Geo- graphic Society, had completed ar- rangements for commemorating the | daring exploit with coveted medals of | official recognition. | President Coolidge. on behalf of the society, will bestow upon Comdr. Byrd | the famous Hubbard gold medal. here- tofore awarded to but six men for ex- traordinary deeds of exploration. and also upon Aviation Pilot Floyd Ben- nett. U. 8. N.. who accompanied Byrd to the Pole. a_special gold medal of the Natlonal Geographic Society. Before Notable Audience. The presentations are to take place before a distinguished audience in the Washington Auditorium, Nineteenth street and New York avenue. The ceremonies are schedyled to begin at 5:30 o'clock tonight. Every seat in the huge building. holding some 6,000 persons, will be occupled, it was indicated by the ad- | vance demand for tickets, already ex- | hausted. On the platform, in addition | to the President and the honored | viators, will be Secretary of the Navy ilbur and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robingon, representing Byrd's | branch of the military service, and | Dr. Gilbert Grovesnor, president of the National Geographic Society, who will introduce President Coolidge. | Planes to Meet Byrd. Comdr. Byrd and Chief Petty Officer Bennett were due to leave New York this afternoon for this city by Navy r convoy, dispatched yesterday for| that purpose. The convoy is made up | of planes piloted by Comdr. John | Rodgers, hero of the Hawaiian flight, | and Lieuts. Conant, Curtin and Coun- cill of the Naval Air Station. Anacos- tia. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson also will make the trip from | New York, having gone there to greet the flyers upon their arrival aboard the Chantier in New York Harbor early today. Byrd and Bennett are expected to reach Anacostia about 6 p.m.. whence | they will go to the Willard Hotel. Among the special guests for the presentation ceremonies will be An-! thony Fokker, Dutch airplane builder, who designed Byrd's polar plane; Gov. Harry Byrd of Virginia, brother of Comdr. Byrd; members of the cabinet and of the United States Supreme ! Court, many foreign diplomats, high officials of the American military services and members of the Senate and House. Wife Will Be Present. Mrs. Richard E. Byrd, wife of the aviator, will be among the interested spectators in the Byrd family group, which will include also Capt. “Tom" Byrd of Richmond, a younger brother. | Mrs. Robert E. Peary, widow of Ad- ! miral Peary, discoverer, by land. of | the North Pole: Mrs. Edward Staf- ford, daughter of Admiral Peary, and | Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will be among other woman guests. After the formal presentation of the medals Comdr. Byrd will describe his experiences while flying over the polar | wastes, and v..Il exhibit for the first time motion pictures which he filmed during the notable dash to the Pole. Music _will be furnished by the; United States Marine Band Orches- tra. ! Plane Shown on Medal. Comdr. Byrd is the fourth Amer. ican to receive the Hubbard medal. The first was Admiral Peary, then commander in the Navy, presented by President Roosevelt in recognition of his “farthest north” explorations, prior to his supreme achievement of reaching the Pole itself. Peary, on the latter occasion, was awarded a special gold medal of the National Geographic Soclety. Other reciplents or the medal are Capt. Roald Amundsen, 1907: Grove Karl Gilbert, and Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, 1909, Sir Ernest Shackle. | ton, 1910, and Vilhjalmur Stefans- son. 1919. Byrd's medal will be different from ~{Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) NAMED TO TARIFF BOARD. Sherman J. Lowell of New York and Edgar Bernard Brossard of Utah were nominated by President Cool- PROBE OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION S PROPOSED N HOUSE 1Gibson’s Resolution Would Give Joint Subcommittee Power of Subpoena. COULD MAKE WITNESSES TESTIFY UNDER OATH Plan Also Calls for Study to Re- lieve Congress of Details of D. C. Legislation. Thorough investigation of the mu; |nicipal administration of Washington by a joint subcommittee of the Dis trict committees of the House and Senate, with power to subpoena wit nesses and to force testimony under oath. is proposed in a joint resolution introduced in the House today by Rep. resentative Gibson, Republican, of Ver: mont. This resolution would carry into ef- fect one of the most important recom mendations in the report made about three weeks ago to the House by the Gibson subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee, which had been for two months investigating Commis | sioner Fenning and the general admin- istration of the District government. The resolution introduced tod specifically provides for two important and distinct phases of the proposed in- vestigation. Two Distinct Phases. (1) “To make a comprehensive sur- vey of conditions relating to the Dis- trict of Columbfa, the administration of its affairs and the expenditure of public money therein, to determine if legislation by the Congress, and to re- port their findings with such recom mendations as are deemed necessa s (2) “To make a study of the pro- visions of the Constitution of the United States relative to the District of Columbia, to determine if it is pos- sible to relieve the Congress of some of the details of legislation affecti the District, and to report its rece mendations.” This resolution would authorize the creation of a joint committee to con sist of five members of the House Dis trict committee, appointed by the Speaker, and five members of the Sen- ate District committee, appointed by the President of the Senate. This joint committee would be authorized to sit during the sessions of the Sixty-ninth Congress, or during any recess, to issue subpoenas, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ such clerical as- sistance as may be necessary. Would Split Expenses. The expenses of the proposed sur- vey would be paid one-half out of the contingent fund of the House and one- half out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the House and Senate committees, respectively The second phase of the proposed investigation contemplates relief for Congress from the necessity of acting upon many items of minor legislation affecting the National Capital, thus obviating repeated criticism on the floor of the House and Senate that the time of Congress is taken up with the consideration of a very large number of small matters which members of both houses feel they should not be bothered with. Mr. Gibson said today he will con- sult witk House leaders and with the rules committee in an effort to get early action upon this resolution. MEXICO CURBS AGITATORS Cuban Leader of Protest Before U. S. Consulate to Be Deported. MEXICO CITY, June 23 (#).—The foreign office announces that the gov- ernment has decided to take drastic steps to prevent a repetition of demon- strations similar to that before the American consulate last Sunday when Communists spoke in protest against the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, for murder in Massachusetts. The ringleaders in the Sunday af- fair will be severely punishec and the Cuban Communist Mella and other foreigners arrested for participation in the demonstration will be deported, according to the foreign office’s an- nouncement. FOUR MEN RELEASED. Evidence Connecting Them With Hi-jacking Case Held Insufficient. Hi-jacking charges against four col- ored men were dismissed by &dudge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today because of insufficient evidence. The defendants were Charles Red- mond, Elmo Williams, Alphonso Wil- liams and George Thomas. According to Andrew Davis Minor, colored, of 1732 Seventh street, the complaining witness, four men held him up at Sixteenth and R streets early Sunday morning and stole a hired machine he was driving and 10 cases of whisky. The court held Minor's testimony as to the identity of his assailants to be conflicting and insufficient. At- torney Harry Whalen represented the defendants. . idge today to become members of the ‘Tariff Commissio: Two Riot Guns and 500 Tear Gas Bombs AWARDS CAMP CONTRACT. Maj- Grant Acts on Field House for Auto ‘fowrist: {New York introduced a resolution | require refunding of all taxes for the icurrent fiscal year not used for actual pleted some time during the after- W noon, the men began shortly after (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) dark to lower themselves from their Issued to Police, in Case They’re Needed The contract for the construction of the permanent fleld house in the tour- For Citizens’ Constitutional Rights cell, which was on the second floor. The ladder they used was made of hemp cords taken from their bunks. Once on the ground they scaled the stockade surrounding the jail vard and dropped into the adjoining almost dry bed of the Los Angeles River. Wa vells of other " prisoners, jailers rushed from the building only to see the last of the escapes scrambling over the wall. Two hundred police - responded to emergency calls, but ware unable to overtake the scatter- ng fugitives. All of the escaped prisoners were confined to tank No. 27, known as the “hop-head” tank. ned of the jail delivery by the | Government operating expenses. ! $5,000,000 FOR ZIONISTS. ! Lord Rothschild of London to Aid Palestine Reconstruction. 1 | OTTAWA, June 23 (P).—Announce- | ment has been made here by Dr. Elias Margolis of Mount Vernon, N. Y., that Lord Rothschild of London, Eng- land, will soon give $5,000.000 condi- tionally to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the world Zionist organ- jzation toward the cost of reconstrue-| tion werk in l’;xlv:].me.l ¢ Dissatisfied with the ethics and eti- quette of some of Washington's “hard- boiled” policemen, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse began the preparation of a gen- eral order today calling upon the commanding officers of the various precincts to familiarize their men with the principles of the Constitu- tion of the, United States insofar as the rights of citizens are concerned. “Our men are getting entirely too rough,” said Maj. Hesse. “Complaints have been made that they enter homes without a search warrant: that they make unwarranted search ures, and inflict unnecessary punish- ment on a prisoner. It must stop.” It was just a few months ago that ||| Maj. Hesse, then somewhat chagrined at the tactics of some of the police, gave birth to a slogan which was widely quoted all over the country. The now famous admonition was: “If you must hit a man; hit him cour- teously.” The order will direct the command- ing officers not only to familiarize the police with the Constitution, but six- page section of the police manual which outlines the “General Principles and seiz- |of Law to Gulde a Patrolman,” A St RELY, there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will gladly send one dollar or more to honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the District of Columbia who served their country in the armed forces in_the Great War. Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum- bia_ Memorial Commission, Federal- National Bank. The Police Department augmented its riot fighting equipment today with 2 riot guns and 500 tear gas bombs. The riot guns will be i stailed on the reserve patrol wagons of the third and ninth precincts. The 500 tear gas bombs will be dis- tributed equally among the various precincts and will be carried at all times in the police patrols. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- ent of police, announced that he in- tends to add to this modern riot fighting equipment from time to time, as funds become available, so that the department will be able to cope with almost any mob disturbance. The tear gas bombs were purchased from the War ‘Department. The riot guns cost the department approxi- mately $150 each. It is Maj. Hesse's plan to equip every patrol wagon in the service with a riot gun in addition to a sup- ply of the tear gas bombs. The Police Department several years ago acquired three tear gas guns, but these are effective only, it was sald, in a small room. One of the guns is now at the first precinct. another at the sixth and the Detective Bureau has the third. S ist camp in East Potomac Park has been awarded by Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Farks, to As thur L. Smith & Co., of this city. The contract price is $33,357. There is pending in both houses of Congress at the present time a resolu- tion to defer the expenditure of this money because of the bellef that to put up this structure now would give the present location of the tourist camp a permanent standing. Radio Programe—Page 35.