Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1926, Page 2

U. . ASKS DOHENY OIL DECISION FIRST Supreme Court Requested to Consider Sinclair- Case Separately. Br the Associated Preas. Consideration of the Sinclair and Doheny civil oil suits separately, and | not as one proceading. was requested | of the Supreme Court today by the | Government's oil counsel. l i It i8 customary for the court to eon #olidate suits which come up concur- | rently from separate jurisdictions and deal with similar subjecte. and there had been indications that such a course would be followed in the two oil cases. The Government couneel asked the | court to decide the Doheny cass. which involves lease of the Elx Hills ofl re serve In California. before taking up | the Sinclair case, involving lease of the Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming. | In both cases the Court of Appeaix has upheld the Government's plea. for cancellation of the lease on the bas of evidence of irregularity brousht ti light in the Senate ofl inqui It was argued by the Government that the Sinclair case involved pre cisely the same questions of law as those already presented in the Do heny case, except some questions of evidence, and that these questions| would become unimportant should the | court afirm the decision. NEW GOVERNMENT ASKED FOR CAPITAL AT HOUSE HEARING. | { | (Continued from First Page.) Federal agency to stand heiween the Commissioners and Congress. Advocates Civil Service. There should be some sort of mu- | nicipal civil service, Maj. Donovan | told the subcommittee. He empha- sized that this is_the only large city in the United States that lacks | such a thing. He explained that all| appointments are made by the Dis- trict Commissioners and to serve ! at the pleasure of the Commission- | ers, but that he never knew Commissioner who had misused this authority In _reply to questions by Mr. Reid, | Mr. Donovan said: “You will not find | any government anywhere that will| compare for honeaty, efficiency and | real honest-to-gondness service with | the District organization.” Mr. Reid asked what there was to | Representative Davies attack in the | last session of Congress regarding | time.wasters and clock-watchers in | the Government employment. M. | Donovan replied that the District | has a model municipal organization. | In reply to a question from Chair- man Gibson, he sald that the Dis- trict has been non-partisan and that no politics has crept through the rank and file. He helieves in a civil service to obtain employes and to | protect them in their johe as long as they give efficient service, but he | made it plain that employes can he removed now on their efclency ratinge, Mai. Donovan sald that he s in favor of a board of three Commis- sloners as now organized, rather than a single Commissioner or a board of five Commissioners, as hags | been proposed. He believes that when the Commis. eioners are relieved of their present duties with the Public Ttilities Com mission they will have sufficient time for other primary dutes without mak- ing enlargement of the hoard desir- able. Codification of Laws. He diecussed with the suhcom mittee his recommendation for mod- | ernization of the organic law, calling it at present a crazyquilt structurs that ought to he rewritten to me-t conditions of the present day. He alsn spoke i1 faver of a codification of | District laws and was told by Mr.| Reid that a eommittee of Congrees is | now having that work done. Mr. Donovan alto pointed out what he believes will be an acute problen in the future In the care of the in gane. He said the city I8 now paving a bill of $1.200.000 A year at St. Eliza- | beth’s Hospital and pointed out that the time i& coming when the District might be ealled upon to care for | own {nsane in its own institution or might take over St. Elizabeth's Hos pital, where now mere than 50 per cent of the inmatex are per diem charges against the Distric Maj. Donovan advised the commit. | tee that fn his opinfon the board of | education ought to be appointed by | the Commissioners, saying that the Judges of the superior court aré not the proper appointing power for a| munieipal agency. He said the Com. | missioners ought also to have the pow- | er of removal for misconduet He epoke In faver of some sort of | suffrage for the District with a spokes. | man in Congrase to better present the needs of the District and to protect local inter: The park situation was discuzesd at length, emphasis heing placed an the fact that while the park lande are pald for from District tax funds, the title rests (n the Federal Government. | The point wae made that two items of $600.000 sach have heen taken from | District funds during the current year with no Appropriation from the Federal Government. Chairman Gib son again repeated a statement mev eral times previously made that it was the intention of Congress. when the bill was passed eetablishing the | National Capital Park and Planning Commission, that an appropriation of | $1,100,000 should he made annually | at the rate of 1 cent for each in habitant of the United States, { | | Opinion on Surpl In reply to questions Mr. Donovan explained at length the acrumulated | curplus of $5.237.000. which he said| was not appropriated by Cong . provided under organic law and the final expenditure of which he called | equitable” since he heliever the ¥edaral Government should have matchd a like sum from the Federal Treasury. | It was pointed out that the bulk of this secumulated surplus is heing ex penéied on the fAve.vear schonl build. | ing program and that 3.000 children | from Marvland and Virginia atrend these schools at a cost to the District of about $300.000 a yvear and occupy- | ing the equivalent of ten 12-room | echool buildings. | Chairman Gibton asked Mr. Dane van regarding the 25 per cent limit above assessed valuation an purchase of sites for schools. Mr. Donovan answered that either thit limitation must be repealed or it will be impos sible to get the school sites. School Program Halted. Mr. Gibson asked if this limitation had been resppnsible for haiting the | school program and Mr. Donovan said | it had. The hearing will be resumed at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Some girls are easily won and some strugele against it until they lose out .nunu"says the Ofice Boy. any iy | as founa |in the alley off N street when Scriven- BLADENSBURG FLOODED AFTER STORM uai_condition af heavy resulting in stalled automobile THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, rain prevailed today at Bladensburg, VOICES IN ALLEY BEFORE SCRIVENER CAME, WOMAN SAYS | (Continned from First Page.) | ecarf, which lent a touch of color to | the ensembl. Ringold Hart, assistant corporation counsel, appeared, representing the Distriet of Columbia, since Scrivener was an employe of the Distriet. John M. Littlepage, aleo of the Dis- trict_attorney’s office, appeared with Mr. Horning as representative of the rict attorney’s office. Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coro- r formed the autopsy on the - 13, waa Wihiness sworn. exhibited to the jury the course the | fatal bullet took when it entered the left side of the vietim. At _the request of (eroner Nevitt, Dr. Rogers exhibited the light over cont worn by Serivener and explained | to the jury the gunshot tests which | made at the morgue, showing the | v the nvercoat riddled with huliets, | Rogers explained at what range | each one of the hullets was fired. He cald that the bullet fired closest to ihe coat made the hole which corre- | sponded almost identically with tha: | de Ly the bullet which caused rlvensr's death. Dr. Rogers said that the overcoat was not rumpled and that the bullet entered the chest under the fourth rib, passing on the other side under the fifth rib. He said that Serivener's denth was due to the bullet wound in his heart. Shows How Pistol Could Be Held. Whila Serivener's coat was being shown to the juryito demonstrate the effects of firing "a pirtol at ranges | from point blank to 12 inches, Cor oner Nevitt invited the ju atten- tion to tha similarity between the sing® on the coat made on the right lapel at a 10-4nch range during the | teste and the singe from the death bullet on the left lapel. Dr. Rogers interjected that 10-inch range ‘‘seemed conclusive. The word “suleide” first came into the inquiry when Dr. Rogers was asked to demonstrate the manner in which the pistol could he held by one attempting suicide. He held the pistol in his left hand in an awkward position with the barrel uppermost, stating that this was the only way in which it could so he held. The thumb was on the trigger and the forefingers were twisted around the butt of the pistol in a tense, strained way. He did not attempt to shww the jury that the pistol could have heen held with the barrel lowermost and butt uppermost, thumb on the trigger, whirh was a demonatration made by other investigators earlier in the case, Dr. Rogers stated that it was im probable that a pistol held in such a manner wounld inflict such a wound in Serivener's hody and added that the aim also would be in- accurate. Holds Gun Defective. Tr. Herhert E. Martyn, deputy cor- oner, was the next witness called. He testified that he' was present at the ahove tests. He pointed out that when the tests were male the gun was defective and could only he fired after one discharge by turning the evlinder into position. 1le stated that if the bullet went straight with the gun held in the left hand it would describe the same sort of a course as that found in Serivener’s body. A detailed description of the scene er'a Wody was found was given by Dr. Charles N. Lally of Georgetown Uni: versity Hospital, the next witness. He ‘was called in the morning Oc- toher 12, he said. by policemen from tha aventh precinct. fle found. he | testified. the hody Iving on Its back | with ite feet three feat from the en. | trance of the alley, and a pisto! on the | ground hetween the outstretched feet He identified the necktie found in Serivener's right hand and stated that the fingers had clenched it in a post. | mortem spasm. He noted that the | portion of the tie ahove the knot was very small. He said he finiehed his| examination of the hody at ahout 1:40 | oclock--ahaut 30 minutes after death. | The word “suicide” again came into | the inquest with the testimony of Pyt A. & Rohrer of the seventh preginet, first policeman on the scene. “1 turned in at 1:26 that merning and was told over ihe wire that a man | was drunk or sick in the allay néar Wisconsin avenue and N strest, | roda there and found three or four men on the sidewalk. I parked my mator cyele and saw the hody with the feet stretched out slightly to the light. A citizan said. “Officer. this man must have committed suicide.” | He deseribed the scene in deta el added that he looked at the tie in the hand of the dead man and saw that a necktie wae ahout his neck: se, he | he “figured it was A murder.” ring that she heard footsteps ' |and it flashed in my mind that some | steps after the. | tracks. hortly after the report which ended vener’s life, Miss Catherine Louise Doering’s testimony appeared fo im- | press the jurors and caused them to| ask her a number of questions. Miss Doering, however, was -unable{ to tell the fury how =oon she heard | the fontsteps after she heard the re-| volver's report. She said. however after she heard the revolver, she ran from a baek room to a front room to see if any one would come ont of the alley. She says no one came out of the alley. ‘It was shortly after 1 o'clock.” Miss Doering tesetified. “when & heard a loud report. I thought it was an auto- mobile. soon as the noise died out 1 heard a sound I do not know how to describe.” “It war not a moan. it was not a war more like snoring or heavy breathing. I went to my window one had gone up in the alley and shot himself. After the heavy breathing had died down I thought I heard foot steps, but 1 may have heard them aimultaneously with the breathing. T thought at the time that the footsteps were caused by the man who had shot himeelf.” “Could Not Have Walked.” “I felt somebody was dying and I was responsible. and when T went to the window 1 saw the hody Iving in the alley, with the hat tilted back of the head. 1 then called my brother.” Coroner Nevitt, evidentiy hent on straightening the jury out on the sup position that it would have heen im possible for Scrivener to have taken wound he recelved, Rodgers to testify, in whether this would be calied on Dr. his opinion, possible. In my opinion,” said Dr. Rodgers, crivener must have dropped in his He couldn’t have taken two steps. While Miss Doering was testifying about hearing the footsteps, she was asked whether they were fast or slow. She sald, “T thought they were rapid.” Tt was at this Juncture that Assist- ant Corporation Counsel H. strenuoua effort to have Mi Doering state. if she could, the interval of time between the shot and the foot- steps. { After pondering a few seconds, she | sald. “I'm afrald I can't.” Preceding Miss Doering on the stand was her brother, Robert Doering, 3128 N street, who testified that after he Was summoued by hix sister he went out and obtained police ald. Heard Two Men Tal Shortly before 1 o'clock Detective Kelly was interrupted In his testimony | by Coroner Nevitt, who explained that Miss Annie Stauff, an important wit- ness, was feeling badly and wanted to | be heard #o she could go home. | When Miss Stauff was escorted to the witnese stand it was found that | her voice was o feeble that the jurors | were requested by Coroner Nevitt to leave their seats and stand ahout her in a circle, After Coroner Nevitt had given her time to tegain her composure and Dr. Rogers had given her a glass of water she began her testimony “I knew Detective Scrivener and used to see him every night he brought his car in. My window faces the alley where hit garage is. On the night Mr. Serivener was shot I heard two men talking in the alley. They came up to my gate. It Is a thin hoard gate and I heard them stand and talk together. “Suddenly Scrivener drove up in his | automobile. 1ie never spoke to them. | nor they to him. Soon after Serivener | put his machine away and had turne the corner as he usually did to go down the alley the two men stepped | in back of him and followed him. It was few minutes later that T heard | the hot.” At this point Miss Stauff raised her head and said dramatically, “1 dldn't | know then they had killed the poor man."” xhibit Tie Tests, Just prior to Miss Stauff's festi- | mony Detective Kelly had exhibited hefore the jurors twa ties upon which tasts had heen made at the Rureau of Standards and in the Detective Ru-! rean. He made a point of showing the | jurors that the circumference of the| tie which Serivener held in his hand | war apparently too small to go around | a man's neck. He alto called their at- tention to the fact that the tie Scriv- | ener held in his hand was not tied| the way the average man ties his tle. | The jurora took a great deal of in- | terest in Detective Kelly's testimony | and asked him a number of questions regarding the ties and about the lul- | lets which were found in his locker, | and were sald to he identical to the | one used in the shooting. | One of the jurors asked Keily if the bullets found In his locker coald have | haen evidence in some othe.: Kelly then explained that he had | worked with Scrivener for eight and a half vears, and that if the hullatz found had been obtained in line of Auty he would have know about them. After Detective Kelly left the w it- | Eentr;l Hig}; Probes. Game Score at Entrance to Building ie An investigation underway in | school circles to determine the iden- tity of the boys responsible for defac- | ing the front entrance of Central High School by painting in black let- | ! tars the score of Saturday's foot ball | | game. Weatern, 6 Central, 0. | Tndignant over the prank, students of Central High School held a chapel | vesterday morning for determining a | coursa of action A group of Weatern High School chear laaders and cadet officers at- | tended the chapel for the purpnse of | reassuring the Centralitas thay did not approve of the lettering of the | achool and volunteering to help find Painting of Last Saturday is emblazoned in two dif- ferent placee on the front of the achool in black lettering, which can he read for some distance. While the officials at both Central and Western are reluctant to talk | about the matter, it was maid at Weatern that they felt no one had the right to take it for granted that the lettering was done by Weatern students. A few Weatern bovs, it is «ald, admitted that they lettéred the goal posts at the stadium, but denied any part in the lettering of the front of the buildin, Tt was stat sistant Superintapdent Stephen E. Kramer tods in the office of An of Schools that the | Conrt | not seen the pistol in the ¢ | five or six dave after the death of ONE COURT-DEEDS BUILDING PROPOSED | Fine Arts Body to Study Plan to House Police Judges and Recorder Together. A propesal for a combined building to house the Police Court and the office. of the recorder of deeds will he breached when tha National Com- mission of Fine Arix confers on De- cember 2 with the fudges’ committee on a Police Courg site in the cfice of Chief Justice MeCoy ‘of the District Supreme Court. The commission con. ferrad more than a momh agn wi'h ths judgee’ committee, hut was unable to arrive at a decision at that time a8 to A site for the Police Court. Judge Gus Schuldt represents the Po- lice Court judiciary on the_committee and is its chairman, Viewing the two projects as present- ing possibilities of combining hoth offices under one roof—a recent de- velopment—the Fine Arts Commis son, according to officials, will discuss with the judges’ commiitee the feasi- bility of such a proposal. Plans for the building to house the office of recorder of deeds have heen in exist ence since, 1923, whan they wer: drawn up hy ‘David Lynn, architact of the Capitol, and placed before the Houue of Representatives, The plans for An imposing structure of the Georgian and Tonic type fo be erected on the Fourth street side «f tha Su- preme Court Ruilding at a cost of 625,320, and to halance the proposed of Appeals Building or_the Fifth street side of the Suprema Court RBuilding. Will Meet December 2. When the commission met with the Judges several weeks ago_strong ob jection Is understood to “have been vofced te placing the new Palice Court Ruflding hetween the prolonga- tion of E and F strests in Judiclar: Square. ax had been muggested mev eral months earlier. The judges were said to hold the viéw that a site more suitable to the Police Court would be on the Fourth street side of the Municipal Court Ruilding or acroas the street on Indiana avenue It was pointed out at that time, how- ever, that it was the evident intention of Congress to surround Judiciary Square with an impressive group of court bufldings. The meeting of the Fine Arts Com- mission on December 2 is expected to clear up also the attitude of the Puhlic Buildings Commission on placing the new Commerce Department Ruilding on B mtreet hetween Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, The Fine Arta hody a few weeks ago announced its opposition to this site or to any Mall site for a department building, and suggested that_the original site pro- poxed by the Commerce Department that in the triangle hounded by Fif- toenth street, Fourteenth street, Penn. ‘lvania avenue and Ohio avenue, or even extending south to B street-—be used for this purpose. Would Cost $1,000,000, Plans for the Police Court building have not been prepared, although Congreas has_authorized negotiations for a site and the beginning of work on the plans. The building will he a mitlion-dollar structure of the simplest possible design. according to the Fine Arts Commission, and will be con- structed to h ent Municipal Courthouse, which was remodeled several years ago. Within the projected double build ing would be fireproof vaults and other equipment necessary to handle the husiness of the office of Recorder of Deeds. PLANE CRASH KILLS FOUR. Two Chilean Military Aircraft Col- lide at Santiago. TAGO, Chile, November 1i ur persons were killed yes when two military airplanes d at the Chilean army aviation SA P). terdny colli: sehool. gers were the vietims. The collision occurred at an alti- F | tude of about 450 feet. nese stand on the conclusion of his teatimony. which consisted in sub mitting to the coroner written data concerning teste of the pistol by the Bureali of Standards, communications from the company manufacturing the pistol and the report of Capt. Hatcher of the Ordinance Rureau of the War Department, George 8. Weber, detec- tive detailed at the District attorney's | office and a friend of Scrivemer, took the stand. “I last saw Scrivener about afternoon of October 12, he testified “He had given me a watch full of | rust to have fixed for him and I had told him that it needed a new move- ment. He had told me to order one and had paid me for it. He came to | my office that afternoon and held out his hand." “Mitt me,” he said, and I took his hand and asked him, “What's up?” Then he said he was going to ba married the next evening. and 1 was about to ask him who he was going to marry when he asked me what | had done” with that watch. [ told him that it was hard te get a new move ment and that it might he a couple OE HonthR:Befors (ohe eama tRESIEE “Then he told me when jt cane back to fix it up in a nice box. & it wouldn't get hroken, and mail it to Mise Helen Parker of MclLean, Va. Thea. ha safd. that if it was two monthe (o he «ure and send it. There were a few more remarks and then he said good- by, and that was the last 1 saw of Arthur Scrivener. The next day when I read the paper and saw that he had | heen killed, and found out that the name of the girl he was to marry was Miss Helen Parker, 1 thought it rather strange and reported it to th» spector.” Gave Similar Pistol. Detective Sergt. George Darnell was the last witness to appear today. He told the jury that he had given A pistol similar to the one that was shown him on the stand to Scrivener some time in August. ife could not positively identify it as the one found At the death scene. He sald. how- ever, that it was one of exactly the eame make. He declared that he had <o until ener, and added, in response to vman, that to the case Se a question from a jury had not heen assigned from its outset. Subjected to a Amination by igorons stant District At {sgrney Horning. Darnell declared that the numbers of the pistol he had given Scrivener were not filed off nor was the spring in the trigger bhroken. as wae the case in the pistol found At the death scene. He said the pistol had heen found in his drawer at head- quarters. and he did not know where it had come from, it being there whe he took over the desk five or i vears ago. The trigger was in good working order when he gava ii to Serivener, but he never saw it there After in the possessioh of S and never spoke to him about it 3 At this juncture Corgner Nevitt an- out the identity. of the responsible | matter has not been hrought to the | nounced a récess, stating that the in- parties. | The defeat of gu‘\u eieven on | attention of the Franklin School of Acials, quest would be contifiued tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. rmonize with the pres- | Roth pilota and two passen- | 15 the | in-| he | cross-ex- | ivener | D. C. TUESDAY | | | Picture made In the board Scrivener. At the table, left to right Distriet Attorn poration counse the District Building today at the ing ohn M. Littlepage, assistant District Attorn Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner; J. Ramsay Nevitt, coroner, | { » the death of Detectivid Arthur George 1. Horning, fssistant and Ringgold Hart, assistant cor- 3 MANY REELECTED HEAD OF BAPTISTS e | Columbia Association Hears| Reports From Pastors . of 27 Churches. Rev. James W. Many of the ka Waehington Heights Raptist Church, | who for 30 vears has held official po- sitions in the association. today was re-elected moderator of the (olumbia | Aseociation of Baptist Churches, which is composed of 27 churches of | Washington and nearby Maryland, in | the firet deliherative meeting of the | four-day convention heing held in the | National Raptist Memorial Church, | Bixteenth street and Columbia road. | With the moderator, the entire slate | of incumbents was re-elected: Fd ward H. de Groot. vice modera- | . G. Nottingham. clerk B.| Shaver, assistant clerk. and George B. Bryan, treasurer. In each case the elsction was unantmous. | Reports hy Pastors. The morning session was ocenp hy the reading of reports by the pas tors on progress made in membership, financial and spiritual matters, and by the presentation of new pastors and ixitors. Moderator Many presided and pravers were offered by Rev. N M. Simmonds. Rev. Dr. John F Rriggs, Rev. Dr. Samuel Judson Por- ter and Rev. (. V. Van Der Linden. Mr. Nottingham also pre<ented to the association a detailed statistical survey of the work of the churches| throughout the District. This showed that there Is a total membership here of 14,096 Baptists, the largest envoll- ment being At Calvary Baptist Church, which has 247, A total estimated valuation of the properties of tha varfous churches | was set at $2.513,000. Mr. Notting- | ham alse reported that expenditures | for home uses in the year ending Oc- tober 31 Iast amounted to $357 and that the total bhenevolences fo all purposes amounted to $48 aptist Mer reported $113.787.22 heing sa was from the National rial Church, which tlons amounting to vary Baptist Church KT.64. Baptist Church have the largest Sunday with a total of donn nd, ) was reported t school enrollment 2,637 members and_an average at- tendance of 1,484. The total average ! attendance of all the Sunday schools | of the local Baptist churches was set | at 6.643. | This afternoon Dr. W. A. Wilbur 1 will deliver the annual report for the | executive board, of which he is chair- | man, and statements also will be | made on hehalf of the Raptist Chil-| dren's Home, the Raptist Home for | Aged and other church organizations. | Addresses will he made tonight by | - Dr. Harold ¢, Phillipe of Mount | Vernon, Y.: Rev. Homer .| Councilor, H. Degroot, jr., and | E. B. Percy S. Foster wiil ead in a song service. The conven- tion was opened last night with a sermon by Rev. K. O. (Tark of the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, who took as his theme “The Captivating Christ.” A report of the executive secretary, Rev. Dr. H. W. O. Milling- ton, also was given. INCREASE IN .TAXES _IS THREAT TO FORCE TRACTION MERGER (Continned from First Page.) may he written into it when it is put into final shape for intreduction in Congress, The commissfon, it was in dicated. will leave intact the provi slons in the tentative draft. Refore the commission hegink prep- aration of the proposed leglslation the car companies were asked to sub- mit A meiger plan on which they had agreed. The commission promised to include the recommendations of the two companies either as alternative | paragraphs in ite own bill or submit them to Congress in a separate hill. The companies, however, have not vet given the commisaion this informa. tion. although utilities officiala feel certain that the companies will in. cist on A service-at-cost plan, with a fixed valuation for the merged com. pany. 2 These two features were proposed | by the companies as the cardinal prin- ciples for any plan of merger that would receive their approval during a recent hearing conducted by the com. mission for the purpose of considering proposed lexilation to force a con- «olidatfon of the city's transportation units. MISSOURI HEAD HONORED. Alumni of University Here Give Dr. Brooks Dinner. Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of the University of Missouri, was tend. ered a reception at the Coemos Club last night by the Washington alumni of the university. Dr. Brooks is here to represent Missouri at a meeting of the National Aseociation of State | Universities. | In the receiving line besides Dr. | Brooks were: Frederick B. Mumford, dean of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture; Dr. Louise Stanley, Carter Alexander, James Hubert Van Wagenen. Walt Mandry | and John S. Hornback, president of | the Incal alumni organization. After the soclal hour Mr. Hornhack introduced Dr. Brooks, who spoke of the many recant developments at the | university, Including the new m morial ~ tower and the memorial stadium, which will be dedicated and ! presented to the university on November 20. . | the Republ The largest henevolent sum received xecre le anme Heads Baptists REV. BUTLER TO RETAIN CHAIRMANSHIP OF G. 0. P. COMMITTEE JAMES W. MA (Contimied from st Page.) in which will he held the Repub- national convention. where President Coolidge esident Dawes were nom- ady has urged that turn to that eity. of other citfes the committee ity lican Cleveland and Vice P inated in 1924, alr ans Bids from a number are expected hefore meeting is held. The detern m of Senator But- ler to retain the chairmanship of the natioral committee doubtless will he interpreted as indicating the probabil ity of the candidacy of President Coolidge to succeed himself. It is no :t that many of the Republican srs expect the President b he didate for another tery tion will be made « But the Pre: ident has so far made no ment regarding hix plans fo Year Will Show Trei The impression grows, however, that the President ix the logieal man to succeed himself. A vear will show the trend. But it will not he surpr ing if history repeats itself and the Republican party demands the nomina tion of President Coolidge in 142X, just as it did in 1924, when it was badly in need of rescue. It was admitted then that the President “was stronger than his party.” The race he made in that campaign was quoted as a conclusive proof of that fact. Senator Butler is making no ex- cuses for hisx defeat in the senatorial election. It is undeniable, howeve that the wet and dry issue cut a ver large figure fn the outcome. Senator Butler stood on a law enforcement plattorm, while his opponent, Senate elect Walsh, atood on a Wet platform and declared for a modification of the Volstead act. It was clear weeks ago that this Issue was to be potent in Massachusetts, particularly in the towns. Many of the textile worker ordinarily Republicans. but incensed because they have heen deprived of their wine and heer and the socinl clubs to which they have heen for years accustomed, took this oppor- tunity to register a protest. The opinion is expressed today by leaders fn the Republican party that the wet and dry issue will enter into the national campaign of 1928 unless | prior’ to that time the issue can he dleposed of one way or another. There seems no passibility of such disposi- tion at this time. Democratic Party Split. While the Democrats have a hand- ful of presidential possibilities who are wet or liberal. it i equally true that the Democratic party is still split over the wet and dry issue. It is an iteue that has divided both parties into fac. tions, although for the most part the Republicans must be regarded as pre dominately dry. The elections recsntly held have demonstrated that it Is going to he a difficult_matter to sidestep the liquor issue. Tt i likely to give the leaders »f hoth the Republican and Democratic organizations copsiderable worry be- | fore the 1928 campaign and during that fracas. If the Democrats are to get the full henefit of espousing the wet end of the issue, should they de- termine so to do, they will have to do more than nominate a candidate for I'resident who 18 recognized as “wet.” They must campaign for the wet cause. One advantage which a wet Democratic candidate for President would have i= that he would carry along with him the electoral votes of the dry States of the South. for the sonthern Democrats are Democrata hefore they are anything elee, Should Goy. Al Smith of New York, a wet, he ‘chosen the Democratic standard hearer, ho-vever, it 4s not un- likely that the issi' wonld hecome re- ligious—with a div n between Cath. olick and Protestat . We're Immortal—Potentially. Why do we necd to die? Interest in this age-old question has been re- . with the discovery by Prof. Max Hartmann of Berlin of a microacopic one-cell creature which apparently can he made to live forever. By carefu treatment, which’includes pruning off | portions of the creature’s body at in- tervale, Prof. Hartmann claime to have kept it alive for many timea the length of its normal life. If the same results could be obtained with human beings, he says, our lifetime could be extended indefinite | today RED CROSS COMS . DEPARTENS Gratifying Response tr:; Roll Call Reported—Firms:Aid- | ing Campaign. § again when This iz “Government day’ for Red Cross roll call worker those who toil for Uncle Sag here will be asked to renew old nfmber- ships or begin new ones. Yes rday ton, was devoted largely to % con certed drive in the Governm de- partments and bureaus. Eneogaging | results have heen ohtained. 3 | imployes of the Navy Depagtment | the Qistriet t contribuied $43 to A Chapter of the Cross. §Totals tabulated up fo noon today ifought the grand total since the palgn opened 1o % 1. The $quota sought is $40,000. Many of thegooths and stations had not gotten tigir re turns to hendquarters. howeved. and it was predicted the total we be g 1d ine A considerably by tonight. K Gen. John A. Johnston. whd is in | exibesred | sa of the | charge of the local drive, satisfaction with the pre voll call. Many business housfs are | enrolling their employes 100 peg cent. he said. Literature. hlanks ar§l hut tons will be furnished any fothe: Washington firm that wishes tdria a perfect enroliment. Headagirters is at 1405 F stieet. 3 Employes of the epart ment have contributed $1.335.28 thus far. Rooths have heen instafied in virtually all departments nowd and with pay day due in some off .hem keen rivalry for departfaental honors is looked for. S Gifts _from St John's G urch totaling $184 also were reportedzaday SWOLLEN RIVERS FLOOD CUMBERLANY VALLEY IN MARYKAND i trom) Eient l':u%-i) By tow- | £ | v (Continued fr ranch of the Anacostin Rive over its banks this morning, | [ the water up across Bladensbur Many cars became stalled and ing crew had plenty to do. The water covered portions $i¥ the | road near the Bladensburg ling ito a | depth of about 3 fest at nchi to day and it was still rising. A} Mary- land State traffic officer shed Hhie log gings and donned hip hoots. sthriding in the middle of the flooded arpa and directing trafc. H | Although many mote slowly through the wate vere | others whose engines stalled miv;hpu. BALTIMORE STREETS FLOABED. 1 Water From Overflowing Streams Washes- Into Cellars. | Special Dispateh to The Star. $ BALTIMORE, Md.. Novembe This city. was visited with one | heaviest rainstorms for the pagi § | veare this morning. when 2.60 § of rain fell within a per hours. The rain, which was ‘panied by wind which reached & vhloc- ity of 60 miles an hour, floodfd} the | downtown section, and in some ud ihe suburban sections water & - the. s|treets rose » a_ height of ¥ = iwynne Falls and Jones Fallg, 4wo | through th i hegan to oderfiow running on filled and | their bank, the rising water Mching | up inte the eellars of adjoiningihdmes and business mees, i Schools in several sections iof’ the | city were diamissed, as the wartey in | the cellare put out the fires *in”the | | furnaces. Considerahle damage Avas | also done in adjoining counttes most 1,000 telephones heing pit jout | of commission. According to 36 | Wari division manager §f .the | Chesapeake and Potomac Te®pions Co. Fiber Branch of the Pjtaps River is reported to have ovedflogved |its banks near Ellicott City | At 11 o'clock thit morning toertial rains had been falling steadilx xgm- 10:30 Jast night. i stréams BOATS WASHED ASHORG:. Wind and Rain Storm Viclnity of St. Michaels. Special Dispatch to The Star. ST. MICHAELS, Md., _ —The heaviest wind and rain st 10 vears hit this vielnity last n. and continued through todav. a¥out 24 amall hoats were hlown ashors F and four were wrecked. Seves craft had difficulty weathering | storm. At Tilghman Jsland ¥hall hoats were washed ashore and & ferx were battered against the piling dfthe wharf. Similar conditions weig” re. ported from Relleview and Oxfofd: 1t was still raining early this ader. noon, H [ Heavy 1] H SEES LIQUOR ISSUE. ' Dry Leader Says Wets Seek Return to Former Status. CHICAGO, November 16 (83 tWet forces in the 1928 presidentiall cam. | | paign “will abandon their heer and i Ifor the restoration of the entire liquor traffic,” F. Scott McBride, :kan- eral superintendent of the nti- Saloon League of America, cha in a statement vesterday. sald the gener ! t elections “are veryien. | couragin and that the niign and propaganda of the wets ~fere preliminary to their supreme at“empt to overthrow the eighteenth ~abnd ment by winning. election forgFres 1dnt and Congregiiin 1928, | but | him | zation was eruel and ug! T0 FATIGUE MARIE Sleep, Good Appetite and Ex- ercise Keep Weariness Away, Queen Says. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 16.—Sound sleep, & hearty appetite, plenty of x- ercise and good humor enable Queen Marie untiringly to face the sxtensive | daily programe of her vieit hare This was the fatiguecombatting | preccription furnished for an offictal of the University of Chicago when he euggested during a visit to the uni versity that perhaps her majeety had been wearied by the continuous sn tertainment arranged for her in Chi cago. “I slecp soundly. my appetite fe splandid. T get plenty of exercise, and I keep in good humor." she said. "“So, fou see, there is no reason why I should get tired “I feel as fresh as though I'd just come out of an egg." She maid that just after she had epent most of vesterday inspecting steel mills at Gary. Ind. and visiting a country club, & hospital, Y. M. C. A, the Art Institute and the university. a% a preface to further receptions and a dinner to follow in the evening. RBusy Time Ahead The same extensive program fa the Queen of Rumania to v ginning with an inspection of the new Illinols Women's Clubhouse in tha morning and enclnding with a vislt to the Chicago Civie Opera in the evening. the guest of Ira Nelson Morr her Chicago host. followed by a supper at the Rlsckstone, The Queen paused in her program to authorize a statement through Maj. Stanley Washburn, her alde, de nying emphatically that her visit was to have a reflex in a Rumanfan loan in connection with reports from Bucharest that American and British bankers were engaged in negotiations It American bankers have arranged a loan to the Rumanian government Queen Marie has had no part in the negotiations and knows nothing of it, it was stated. As a matter of record, Maj. Washburn declared. the Queen takes back to Rucharest but one hit of largess to her people. That ia a £5 hill which an aged woman pressed into her hand In New York, impor tuning her to fake it back to the needy in Rumania, “Her majesty authorizes me to state,”” Maj. Washburn said, “that cince the moment she firet put feot on American soil until the presant she has not discussed loans or the possibility of loans with any person. Polities Also Denied. Likewise, the Queen denied through her alde t sion te shorten her trip it of political rather than personal pleadings. The only messages which Queen Marie had recsived from Bucharest, the alde sald, have heen personal ones from King Ferdinand, from one of her daughters, Queen Marie of Serbia, and from other members of the family. Cables from Bucharest last night stated that King Ferdinand again was Indfsposed. suffering from sibmoditis (inflammation of the large intestines), that his zeneral condition con- sinued satisfactory and that it was Noped that the treatment given would vield favorable resuits A reference to the King was made by his consort vesterday when she visited agi. M. (. A. and sent a wide zrin to he face of James Godfrey, 10 vears old, by pralsing his stamp collection. King Likes Stamps. “The King of Rumania is very fond of stamp collecting,” she said. “He much tme with his collec oad Re visit to President remembance of her of Chicago, As a the Univer | Max Mason presented her with a book. work, entitled he Na of Man," a sclentific ture of the World and in {the authorship of which a dozen of the university's professors had col- laborated. The eueen turned the leaves of the tome. inspecting the geometric dia {grams in the treatise. he something like Fin “You know, 1 nnderstand Nieolas “This m stein he remarked lke Einstein, but I don’t w0 very well. Now, here — The prince entered tion with ve read some of Ein ateln. Remember. mummy™ (turning to the Queen). ve read vou te sleep with him. vhe thig book will serve the same purpose.” ACCUSED TEACHER BACKED BY BOARD First the conversa (Continued from Page.) to & reporter for The Star in the fol lowing mann “The case ar Gen. Fries, ear ing my atriot se over a_letter from in October, eriticis m hecause of my ar ticle in The Farum. | did not see the general's letter, but | understand he asked for my dismissal from the teac h- ing staff of stern High Schonl 1 was called to the office of Dr. Ballo who requested me to make a atate. ment to he presented hefors the next xossion of the Roard of Education, to- gether with (fen. Fries’ letter. ' ahout Octoher 11 1 anawered that 1 could not enter into a discus- ainn of my political, religions or other private views in such a manner. | #aid that | had never discussed them in the classroom, and that I could not do =0 before the Roard of Education T held then and I hold now that 1 have A legal right to #xpress my views on socialism, republicanism, prohibition or any other private he- Jiet outside of the classroom. “A® to my patrotism heing ques- tioned, however, I did Anawer that. | showed Dr. Ballon my honorable dis charge from the United States Army I did not have to serve during the I had a wife and family, and plenty of opportunity to escape. But I volunteered, and w in training at New Orleans to go overseas when the armistice was signed. I felt then, and I feel now, that it was my duty to |go ahead in that war, and 1 wanted do my part. In the article that brought Gen. Fries' eriticism I aald that socialism was a big question mark. I asked why it was that children were still am. ployed in factories; why with increased efficiency and sclentific apparatus in industry, the workers were still slaves. And I expressed the helisf that civill These are the outstanding things in my artiele which I call to mind just now. “Many teachers in Washington have heard of this case and they have joined me in expressing indigna t {tion that a teacher should be called upon to explain his political and re- liglous views. They have held it to he impertinent, insolent and plain 1, says the Popular Science Mag- | Wine pretense and come out opénly | mean that my dismissal should have heen asked on such a premise. If Gen. Fries disagreed with me he could have replied in The Forum. That is a broad-minded, respectable magazine." . 30 Feared Dead in Japan Blast. TOKIO, November 18 (®).—Thirty men are reported dead and injured in an explosion today at the Oyahn ~al llcqn. at Kyusho, owned by the Mitsul .