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14 WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature, followed by rain. Tomorrow warmer. Temperature, highest, 53, at midnight; lowest, 32, at 10 p.m. Full report on page 7. No. 1,132—No. 30,161. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. O, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1926.—120 PAGES. 'FINE ARTS COMMISSION SEEKS MRS HAU— BENESQ CONTROIi OF PRIVATE BUILDING MLLING AND DOUBT OFHUSBAND'SLOVE Unshaken by Cross-Examina- | tion After Calmly Maintain- | ing Innocence on Stand. | UNAWARE OF SECRET LETTERS, SHE SWEARS “No,” Widow Replies Composedly as Prosecutor Simpson Shouts, “You Murdered Them?" By the Associated SOMERVILLE, N. J., November —Mrs. Frnaces Noel Stevens Hall went to the witness stand today to add her dental to that of her brothers, Henry and Willlam Stevens, of any knowledge of the slaying of her hus- band, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills. Over a period of two hours she #0ld of her confldent bellef that her dusband was faithful to her, and denled emphatically that she ever knew that he was carrying on a clandestine correspondence with Mrs. Mills, & choir singer in his church. | Cross-examination had just begun When the court was adjourned until Monday, and Mrs. Mall will resume the stand with the opening of the final week of the trial. She testified for 1 hour and 42 minutes on direct examination and had answered the questlons of Special Prosecutor Simp- son for only 18 minutes when the hour for adjournment arrived. Defense to Close Tomorrow. “It'll take me quite some time,” ®said Simpson, when asked by the oourt how long his cross-examination would require. Three of four minor defense witnesses were to follow the defendant to the witness stand, and indications were that the defense case would be closed Monday about noon. The State’s rebuttal will follow, with a possibility that the case will be given to the jury not later than Wednesday. Mrs. Hall was calm as she testified. She spoke in a firm but low voice and paused early in her examination with & camera focused on her. Photogra- phers were excluded from the court- room by an order from the bench is- sued yesterday. A photographer’s cam- era was seized today and the photog- rapher was ejected as the testimony ‘was resumed. The defendant began her recital with the assertion that she was born in Aiken, S. C., 62 years ago. She told of the removal of her family to New Brunswick, N. 1, when she was an infant. She sald she taught a Sunday school class in the church of Bt. John the Evangelist, of which the Rev, Mr. Hall was pastor, although the was a communicant of Christ Church. In 1911 she mariied Mr. Hall, explaining, in reply to a ques- tion as to any differences in ages, that she was seven years clder than her husband. Calls Hall Devoted Husband. She declared that throughout their married life and at the time of his death, September 14, 1822, Mr. Mall was a devoted husband. She roticed no change in his attitude toward Ler, ®he said, and declared that rhe never suspected there had been an exchange of letters between Mrs. Mills and ner husband other than correspondence church subjects. “ars. Mills was a_devoted church worker, Mrs. Hall said. In reply to a Question if any member of the congre- gation displayed greater zeal, Mrs. Hiall said that Mrs. Minna Clark was perhaps as active. Mrs. Clark has been charged by the State” with re- porting to Mrs. Hall the intimacy be- tween Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, and has been arrested as an accessory in o case. m}wmung a time in February, 1922, when Mrs. Mills became sick, Mrs. Hall testified that she took her to the hospital in her automobile, visited her there and drove her home when she left the hospital. She sald that she paid a portion of the hospital bill. Reaching the night of September 14, 1922, when Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were killed. Mrs. Hall's acoount of her husband’s departure ~ from thelr for the last time between 7 T80 o agreed with other eriptions g:sh-(“ with the explanation that he was going 1o see about the “Mills pill,” referring to a hospital account. Retired About 10, She Says. she retired about 10 o'clock, she .dhdh.afl,fler her brother Willie had gone to his room. She replied in the Pegative when asked if she commu- micated that night with her brother, Henry Stevens, or her cousin, Henry Carpender, indicted with her on a charge of murdering Mrs. Mills. did not sleep when she went to ] said, and after reading | \me so worried at her hus- e that she awakened | ompanied by him, went | bed, she awhile be band's abss Willie and, o the church. "1:1 direct examination, Roboxt H. McCarter questioned Mrs. il mi- nutely as to her movements quring the interval between her husband’s departure from his home and the dis- covery of the body. She told of tele- phoning the minister's sisters, of summoning her lawyer with a re- Quest that he communicate with the yolice, and of asking her cousin, Ed- win R. Carpender, to come to her Folhe State suc ully objected to ! introduction of imony that Mrs. | Hall and Mr. Ha ers had d covered, on examination of his c book, th ge sum of mon: been withdrawn from the bank. Mrs. Paul Bonner, sister of the slain inister, was in the courtroom as rs. Hall testified, sitting near the gefense counsel and defendants. Supports Brothers’ Stories. Mre. Hall was asked many questions @0 support the stories told by her brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens. Bhe sald that she had not seen Henry Stevens since Summer before the | slaying until he came to her iome the | day the bodies were found. She said | that her brother and husband were very friendly. ‘Willie Stevens had a revolver, Mrs. | Hall satd, but about three years before her husband’s death Le filed down the firing R.ln without letting Willie know The tion then began the e on Tres &, Colum@ Bl Wants Next Meeting to Define Authority Over All Const raction Affecting L’Enfant Plan for Capital. Movi its _powers of Jurisdiction over the esthetic devel- opment of Washington. the Commis- sion of Fine Arts js to have placed before its meeting, December 2, a proposal to bring within its power of recommendatory authority plans for large private bulldings In Washing- ton which mdy in any way conflict, hinder or mar progress on the $50,- 000,000 Federal building preogram or interfere with the growth of the city under the L’Enfant plan and its mod- ification of 1901. Visualizing a possibility ark areas and arveis of major ance in the public building m may be encroached upon by te structures architecturally and structurally out of keeping with the Washington plan and the Federal building plan, the commission will be urged to define once and for all its powerr of authority over private projects in so far as they affect Fed- eral or District government con- structlon. Numerous instances, according to commission officers, already exist of cases where private builders have encroached upon desirable areas to such a degree that the beauty of these areas and their availability for nlarge that desir- poration in a parkway or drive- system has heen destroyed. Notable awmong these is the sacrifice of the old valley roads leading into Rock Creek Park, and particularly the manner in which Piney Branch from the Tiger Bridge to Fourteenth street has been treated. ‘Within the past few months the commission has had occasion to pro- test encroachments upon park areas and upon areas contiguous to that to be used for the Federal building pro- gram. Members have careflly noted the recent action of the Zoning Com- | mission in denying an application to rezone part of the area north of Rock Creek and west of Connecticut ave | { nue and have viewed with some alarm | possible encroachment of “unsightly” | structures near the south side of the | Mall, adjacent to sites proposed for public buildings. In order to clear the atmosphere and remove all doubt as to the juris- dictlon of the commission over private structures which may mar the beauty of Washington or interfere witk the Government bullding program, H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the commis- sion, plans to lay the entire matter before that body on December 2 apd seek a final ruling as to its author ity over private construction projects. Ample authori ists in the " (Continued on lumn 1) ELEGTION OF GOULD Republican Candidate Held Helped, Not Hurt, b'y Slush Charges. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Voters in Maine will determine to- morrow whether the Republicans or the Democrats shall have a plurality in the Senate in the next Congress. The contest is for the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, Republican. At present the political complexion of the next Senate is 47 Republicans, 47 Demo- crats, one Farmer-Labor Senator and ome vacancy. The Maine campaign winds up in bitterness and a burst of charges and couptercharges, alleging bribery, ex- cessive expenditures and undue in- fluence by the Ku Klux Klan. Despite the charges made against him by his Democratic opponents and concurred in by Gov. Ralph O. Brew- ster, Republican, Arthur R. Gould, Republican nominee, is expected to win over Fulton R. Redman, Demo- crat. Maine is strongly Republican. No Democrat has been elected United States Senator there for generations, with the exception of Senator Jol son, who came in during the Bull Moose raid on the Republican party. Brewster Breaks With Parfy. Gov. Brewster, who is credited with an ambition to succeed Senator Hale after the election of 1928, has broken with the Republican organization of the State, which is supporting Gould. Maine Republicans in Washington insist that he has killed himself politically in the Pine Tree State, The Ku Klux Klan, which sup- ported Gov. Brewster when he was elected in 1924 and again this year, when he stood for re-election, is after the political scalp of Mr. Gould, who has a Catholic wife, according to re- ports here. Brewster, as governor, must sign the election certificate of Mr. Gould if the latter is elected Senator tomor- row. Should he refuse to sign fit, court action probably would follow to force him to do so. If Gould is elected, he will come to the Senate at the opgning session De- cember 6. If there is to be a contest against him, it will come before the Senate at that time. Senator Hale and the entire Maine delegation in the House have been campaigning for his election. Split Works Both Ways. The Klan opposition to Gould may cut both ways. While it may take a number of Republican votes from him, it is doubtful that these Republicans will go to the extent of voting for Redman, a Democrat. On the other hand, many Democrats in Maine, especiallv among the voters of French extraction and Catholics, may not sup- port Redman because he will be re- garded as the Klan candidate, The election in Maine holds a keen interest for the administration and for the Democrats. If Gould is defeated then the Republicans must be assured of the aid of the sole Farmer-Labor Senator, Shipstead of Minnesota, to tle the Democratic strength on ques- tions of organization. In such an event the Vice President might cast the declding vote for the Republicans. The Republicans will feel far easler, however, if Gould is elected. The charges brought against Gould (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) |George Washington's FORECASTINMAINE| FLAME AND LAVA VESUVIUS SPOUTS - Molten Rock Pours Down Mountain, Destroying All Vegetation in Its Path. By the Associated Press. NAPLES, November 27~Vesuvius is again aroused. A lava column 6 feet deep and 20 feet in width is flowing from the huge mouth of the crater. The gount re- sumed violent activities toddy and the column of steaming molten fluid to- night had attained more¢ than 1,500 meters, destroying all ‘vegetation in its path, and was moving with un- usual speed down, ‘the side of the mountain. £ Simultaneously & new eruptive cone, about 200 feet in diameter, was hurl ing skyward huge masses of incan- descent material and showers of heavy flaming cinders, while deep, ominous rumblings were punctuated by violent inner explosions, heard for many miles. Awe-inspiring Spectacle. A ‘gigantic column. of enflamed smoke, studded with enormous sparks hing forth, presented a magnifi | marl ‘ent and awe-inspiring spectacle, not often seen in recent years. Prof. Malladra, head of the Royal Observatory, spent most of last night and a large part of today studying the phenomenon and he gave assurances that there was no immediate danger, as the lava. was moving at a speed guaranteeing its rapid sol n. Nevertheless, the residents of the hill towns are maintalning a sleepless vigil because of the dreaded power of Vesuvius, which is respect almost ously here as “the mountain,” like some deity. Prof. Malladra explalned that the explosions were due to large quan- tities of rain water in the crater form- ed in 1905. Soon afterward an erup- tive cone broke out along the north side, sending forth & new stream of u;va, which invaded the northern slope. ‘Within two hours the cataract of lava had reached a distance of balf a kilometer (about one-third of a mile) in the Valley of Inferno between Vesuvius and Mount destroy- ing all vegetation. At 6 o'clock this evening the column had reached to! within 200 meters of the wall inclosing Inferno Valley, above the town of Terzigno, steadily. Predicted by Scientist. Prof. Malladra. declares that he pre- dicted in the last few weeks that the internal activity of Vesuvius would cause just such a violent outbreak. He now adds that the volcano will probably return soon to a more mod- erata state. Even If activity con- tinues, the scientist maintains it is llkely to be checked by cold weather before it destroys the planted valley of Terzigno. No panic is felt among the residents, although peasants by the hundreds are melng fervently for Divine inter- cession. and was still moving $3,000,000 Railroad Planned. ST. PAUL, Minn., November 27 (#). —Announcement of construction of a; $3,000,000 rail project in Montana was made tonight by the Northern Pacific Rallroad. The new line will extend through 63 miles of territory. Road clals estimate that 800,000 acres of land will be opened to agriculture by the project. Cherry Tree Cut Out of New Cleveland School History By the Associated Press. ’ CLEVELAND, November 27 (®).— “Academic patter,” detalling such events in American history as George Washington's mythical cherry tree episode, will be excluded from the |y, textbooks In Cleveland’s public schools. . Scheol heads announced, at the completion of a year's investigation, that hereafter terse, clearly written textbooks will be used in American history classes and that romantic stories, such as that of the Liberty Rell being cracked on Independence {day, will be eliminated. High echool pupils’ graded new | books considered and their choices were passed upon by public school offictals. “None of the new books is character wrecker,” said R. G. Jones, operiniepdens af ecbesit, MG k- do eliminate academic patter which pleased teachers, but lent little to a student of American history.” The textbook which Jones praised most highly asserts that “strikes are a wasteful method of settling dis-, utes,” declares that the Government sent men into battle in the Spanish- American War “with hot woolen clothing they wore while fighti Indians on the Northern plains,” an blames all nations for the World ‘War, declaring they ‘‘cherished old hatreds and kept enormous armies and navies to use against one an- | other if need arose.” “ George Washington, shorn of his | childhood veracity, is described as ‘“the one man fitted to face revolu- tionary discouragements,” and & man of swift action who “often saved a Es 7/ ARMY-NAVY GAME ENDS IN 21-21 TIE ASDARKNESS FALLS | First Battle of Kind Ever Held in West Sets Record as Dramatic Spectacle. FINAL SCORE IS FAIR SPLIT AFTER SEESAWING Highest Hopes of 110,000 Crowd Exceeded as Future Officers Put Up Dazzling Fight. By (e Associated Press. SOLDIERS’ FIELD. November 27.—In as throbbing, sen- eational a struggle as any gridiron crowd has ever seen, the stalwart elevens of the Army and Navy bat- tled into the darkness today to a 31- to-21 tle before a throng of 110,000 spectators, the greatest and most colorful outpouring in American foot ball history. Coming to-the Middle West for the first time to play the star parts in a dramatic spectacle that has had few paralléls in the annals of any sport, the ‘midshipmen and cadets supplied a smashing climax to it with a pulse- stirring fight for high stakes. It was a tussle of titans that ebbed and flowed with first one then the other eleven ascendant. For sheer thrills, it has never been surpassed in the long record of Army-Navy battles, and, heartbreak- ing though it was to rival hopes of triumph, there was something of poetic justice to the fact that hon- ors were divided at the finish be- tween these. fighting forces. Darkness Blankets Plays. ‘The final score was a fair division ot the spoils of this record-breaking gridiron conflict, but it was ‘the that came nearest to triumph as the warring forces struggled through to the finish in a pall of darkness that made the players and the play almost indistinguishable. Counter-attacking in the last few minutes of the game, after Alan Shapley had, rushed to the Navy's rescue to scére the touchdown, and Tom Hamilton had kicked the tying point, West Point headed for the Middles’ goal in a last desperate charge. Harry Wilson, blond ace of the Cadet backfield, who had shared the brunt of the attack most of the aft- ernoon with the flest Keener Cagle, led this final onslaught, carrying the ball almost single-handed in a succes- slon of dazzling dashes to within st distance of the Navy goal. But en the Annapolis line held at last on its own 18-yard line and ushed back the Cadet charge, Wilson fled in his last resource, an at- tempted fleld goal from the k. The kick from placement, CHICAGO, | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ' OIL GASE TO BRING WEEK OF BIGISSUE Judge’s Important Ruling on Doheny’s Testimony Leads Off Tomorrow. The conspiracy trial of former Secretary Albert B. Fall of the In- terior Department and Edward L. Doheny, multi-millionaire oil man, enters {ts sécond week in Criminal Division 1, District Supreme Court, tomorrow morning &t 9:30 o'clock with the promise that the immediate. succeeding days will bring important developments. Chief among them and around which interest is centered at the moment, is Justice Adolph A. Hoeh- ling’s decision on the Government mo- tion to place in evidence testimony given by Mr. Doheny January 24, 1924, before the Senate oil investiga- tion committee which relates, in de- tail, the story of his loan of $100,000 to Mr. Fall, and which the latter previously had maintained was ad- vanced by Edward B. McLean, Wash- ington newspaper publisher. The disposition of this matter by Justice Hoehling who, because of the gravity and importance of the ques- 25-yard | tion, reserved decision Friday after- noon, when opposing counsel’s three with |and one-half hour arguments were Harding holding the ball, went wide | concluded, in turn will produce an ex- as the mighty throng stood, stilled in stirring suspense. Echoed then a roaring cheér from the blue-coated brigade of midshipmen and the last real chance of breaking the deadlock had gone. Pass Is Intercepted. ‘With the end in sight in the gath- ering gloom, Army advanced a short distance around midfield before being forced to punt. Then Murrell, Army fullback, intercepted a forward pass well into Navy territory, but the final whistle blew as he was tackled on the 35-yard llne. The defense of the Navy, in the final analysis, was equal to the task of warding off possible defeat, just as its offense, in an earlier crisis, had rallled in the same period to square the count. The vast and notable throng that filled the far reaches of the newly dedicated stadium, on the edge of Lake Michigan, came in expectation of a sensational battle, but its high- est hopes were far exceeded by the battle waged beyond the Alleghenies for the first time. They saw what seemed an irresist- fble Navy attack sweep into a two- touchdown lead in the rarly stoges of the game on the wings of a dazzling aerial drive, engineered by Tom Ham- ilton and punctuated by the dashing runs of Bruce Caldwell. As swiftly, in turn, they ssw‘tho Army ‘fllngligs regulars into the fray to replace the tottering reserves, who had started the game as a strategic move that failed of its purpose. Strengthened, then, with Wilsén, Cagle and Murrell carrying the burden of attack, the spectators saw the Cadets launch a counter-drive that swept them back on even terms, then them to the front in the third period as Cagle swept 42 yards to & touéhdown. The costliest and only outstanding “break” of the game—a fumbled punt by Ransford, substitute Navy full- back, that was converted into a touch- down by the alert Army end, Har- bold—contributed the second touch- down of the Cadets. This was really the climax of & twin stroke of mis- fortune for the Middies, because Ransford’s presence. in the game was due to an injury that put Caldwell, the most formidable Annapolis ball carrier, out of the game altogether in the second period. Shapley Is Hero. It might have been a different story with Caldwell in his mzdullu' role, but Navy was undaunted, anyway, as ::"}ous;?{ its way to the third and final touchdown of the game in the final quarter. 5 Alan Shapley, playing his last game in Navy colors after four years of varsity foot ball, was the hero of this tying score. Rushed into the game as the Middie forces seemed tiring under the impact of the Army attack, Shapley rallied the Navy with his brilliant running m passing. (Continued on Page 2, Column, 2.) Outstanding Foot Ball Games of Yesterday hibition of legal tactics and strategy yet unseen in the trial. Important to U. 'S Case. ‘The admission of Mr. Doheny's Sen- ate committee testimony is important to the Government because it will es- tablish, as prosecution evidence be- fore the jury, the heretofore unproven fact that Fall received the $100,000 loan from his friend and co-defendant. Once this is in the minds of the jury all the Government needs to complete the famous loan story in the way of legal evidence is to bring in Graham Youngs and Charles L. Little, officials of the Blair & Company, New York Bankers, from which institution Ed- ward L. Doheny, jr., withdrew $100,- 000 and brought it to Washington. Denial of the Government's motion by Justice Hoehling, it is contended, will make it necessary for special prosecutors, Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, to call young Doheny to the stand as their witness and have him relate the facts about the advance of funds. The junior Doheny, how- ever, is under indictment on a charge of bribery and it he chooses, he can refuse to testify. Just what position Attorney Framk J. Hogan has taken with respect to Doheny junior testifying, even though he 1is under Government subpoena, was not revealed last night. Other Ways to Prove Facts. ‘While it would appear on the sur- face that denial of the Government's motion and refusal of Doheny's son to testify would blast the hopes of the prosecution to get the loan story be- fore the jury, it was said last night that such is not the case. A repre- sentative of the Government's staff of counsel let it be known there wers other available sources to draw upon for this evidence. The effect of the defense case of a denial of the motion was represented last night as being distinctly favorable to the cause of Mr. Fall and Mr. Doheny. Opportunity then would be available for Mr. Hogan to place his own story of the loan before the twelve men, a8 a part of the defense, when In reality it should be part of the prosecution’s case. Mr. Hogan, 1n his opening statement, indicated he might offer this as defense evidence and then proceeded to give to the Jjury, in minute detail, the facts, as he sees them, the motives which actuated Mr. Doheny’s advancement of the sum through his son and the reasons for guarding the demand note given by Mr. Fall. The muttlated note, understood to " (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.,) gifts will- arvive om time. iy Star. £ TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—32 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Forelgn. Bchools and Colleges—Page 20. D. A. R. Activities—Page 33. Boy Scout News—Page 36. Girl Scouts—Page 37. Veterans of the Great War—Page 40. Around the City—Page 45. . W. C. A. News—Page 46. At the Community Centers—Page 48. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 49. Radio News and Programs—Pages 50 and 61. Clubwomen of the Natfon—Page 62. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Autumn Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 13. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Am‘usamems—'l‘hea.lers and the Photo- play. Music—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, T and 8. Army and Navy News—Page 9. Serial, “Lafla”—Page 9. Fraternal News—Page 10. National Guard—Page 11. Clvillan Army News—Page 11. Spanish War Veterans—Page 11. PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—® PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 8. PART SIX—12 PAGES, Classified Advertising. News of the Clubs—Page 8. Financial News—Pages 10, 11 and 12, GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. - COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES, utt and Jelf; Reg'lar Fellows; Mr, and Mrs.; High Lights of H;'mqni —_———— QUAKE ROCKS IDAHO. Reports From Four Towns Tell of Shocks. WALLACE, Idaho, November 27 UP).—Earth tremors were felt in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho at 5:24 p.m. today. Buildings shook in Wal- lace, Kellogg, Mullan and Burke, but no damage was reported. The disturbance was apparently most serious in Mullan, where dishes were uth.rawn from shelves in several 22 BELOW IN CANADA. Intense Cold Snaps Telegraph ‘Wires Near Winnipeg. WINNIPEG, November 27 (#).— Tele ‘The gero point. low. It was 18 below here. —_— GARROTER RESIGNS. American Finds Cuban Prison Job Too Strenuous. HAVANA, Cuba, November 27 —Garrotings at the Santiago Jall h(l’;')e. n_increasing of late and Frank because he nt for his not alto- duties. Foot Ball Injurles Fatal. NEWTON, Kans., November 27 (#), —Linford Ewert, 14, died here today of injuries received in a junior high school foot ball game. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. (UP) Means Assoclated Press. ARRANGING TO PAY DE VALERA BONDS Irish Free State Likely to Reveal Redemption Plans Soon. Definite announcement fs likely within the next year of arrangements for the redemption by the Irish Free Btate Government of the so-called De Valera bonds, it was learned yes- terday on the highest authority. Large blocks of these bonds are held in Washington. They were sold throughout the United States, to the face value of more than $6,000,000, during the Winter of 1920-21 when the Irish revolution was in its most active stages, The question probably will be settled simply by calling for the bonds and paying them in cash, with acoumulated interest. The proposed redemption, it is explained, will not be affected one way or the other by a lawsuit pow pending in the New York Supreme Court by which Free State Government seeks obtain possession of about $2,500,000, raised by this bond sale, which now is on deposit in New York banks, never having reached Ireland. Dublin Not Obligated. Three years ago, it was explained at the Irish legation here, the Dail guaranteed the ultimate redemption of these securities, and it has been only a matter of time until the actual repayment. The Dublin government, it was explained, never has been under the slightest legal obligation to pay a cent on the bonds, and the ar- rangements for repayment, which now have progressed considerably, can be considered only as the meeting of an intangible moral obligation.” In the first place, it was brought out, few of the Americans who sub- scribed to this bond issue, which was inaugurated by Eamonn De Valera with a speaking tour of the country, ever expected that they would be re- deemed. De Valera in his speeches never actually promised that they would be, and local committee chair- men often admitted frankly that the money might be considered as only a contribution to the revolutionary cause, which was given a more digni- ::lg‘tll‘:undms by calling it a bond pur- Republic Never Established. Secondly, the bonds themselves stated on their face that they were redeemable upon the establishment of “The Irish Republic.” This never has been established. The money obtained from the United States was practically the only source of revenue for the revolution- ary government, which did not con- trol any machinery for taxation. It all passed through the hands of the late Michael Collins, who was min- ister of finance at the time and dis- tributed it to finance the movements of the revolutionary ermy. The se- crecy of the operations naturally made any accounting difficult. Col- u::t.nhlmelt lbee:ms vnbel of the strong- e igures in the establishment Fr_;; (e ent of the e money subscribed for the: bonds went into the hands of Ame:]’- can trustees who deposited them. With the establishment of the Free State government some of these trustees refused to recognize it as the actual heir to the republican cause and entitled to the undispensed money, which is the cause of the present legal action. Fascists at Krassin Rites. LONDON, November 27 (#)— appeared along the line of march today when the body of Leonid Krassin, Soviet eharge d'affaires in escorted by 6,000 Soviet sym. pathizers, was taken to Golders Green for cremation. The black shirts, how- :v:‘r‘ mnii‘e:_“r;;)l serious efforts to In- erfere. n's ashes will be to Moscow for burial. e 14 Stowaways Found Buried in Liner's Coal Pile, Using Plank Stocks to Get Air By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 27,~The erring gentry of Puritan times whose heads were stuck through a stock on the village green at least had plenty of fresh air. Not so 14 Portuguese and Spanish stowaways who arrived from Porto Rico today hidden under soft coal and with their heads projecting collars at the bottom that, after & harbor customs ® staff that boarded the Munson liner Munorleans in search of contraband when it docked from San Juan. After a three-hour search the customs men started on the engine room coal pile. A shovel struck something soft and brought an “Ouch!” from the coal plle. Six Portuguese and eight Span- iards were exhumed and released from their plank collars. They were taken Ellis Island mbera‘ot the ship’s grew questiontng, for speedy return, and | that FIVE CENTS, ECKINGTON BACKED FOR FARM MARKET ORU.S.STOREHOUSE Officials Favor Saving Land Behind District Building for Municipal Expansion. BIG WAREHOUSE THERE WOULD CONGEST TRAFFIC Study Reveals Locations Announce ed for Structures Are Tentative. Some Changes Pending. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Either the General upplles Bufid- Ilnz. now charted to be erected south of the District Building and the Southe ern Rallway Buillding, between Thire teenth and Fourteenth streets, 7 and D streets, or a wholesale market or commission building, with provision on the ground floor for a farmera’ market, is likely to be built on tho large undeveloped square in Ecking- ton between Firat and Second streets northeast, N and O streets. If the Federal Government does not take this square, which contains slightly over five acres, as an ideal locatlon for its warehouse for all Gov- ernment supplies, the District Com- missioners will endeavor to acquire it for immediate and future needs, which would include the possibility of lo- cating the much discussed farmers® market there for the next 25 years or so. It is the opinion of Federal and District officials who have been study- ing the publ buildings and market center problems, and of Baltimore and Ohio officials who have been making a special intensive study of the pos- sibilities of relocating the market cen. ter that this square is the best ware- house site available, and will probably dominate the solution of the market problem. Wood Advocates Site. Representative Will R. Wood, Re- publican, of Indiana, chairman of the Republican congressional committeo and a member of the House appropria- tions committee, and who for more than five years has been urging the establishment of a central warehouse for Government supplies in the in. terests of economy and efficient serve ice, advocated erection of the general supplies building on this Eckington site rather than on the proposed site south of the District Bulilding, which is needed for expansion of housing of municipal agencies. District and Federal officlals will discuss the public building program and the reloaction of the market ecn- ter at the next meeting of the Na~ tional Capital Park and Planning Coms mission on December 10. In the mean- time & special committes of that ore to | Banization is looking over the triargle between Pennsylvanfa avenue and B street, Third and Fifteenth streets. For purchase of all the privately cwned land in this triangle Congress 1s to be asked to authorize an expendi- ture of $25,000,000. Within this tri angle it is contemplated that depart- mental and other Government build- ings of a museum or library type will be built. Preliminary to that conference of the city planners on December 10, the following facts have been established: Favor Purchase Now. Thero is unanimous support of the proposal to acquire all of the triangle property now, under an appropriation of $25,000,000, and no other considera- tion will be allowed to impede that legislation. ‘The proposed location of public buildings in this area—Justice at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; Commerce, south of Justice to B street; General Supplies, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, C and D stgeets; Labor, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, facing B street; Archives, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, Pennsylvania ave- nue and C streets; Independent Estab. lishments, between Twelfth and Thir teenth, B and C streets; Internal Rev. enue, between Tenth and Twelfth, B and C streets, and General Account- ing, between Ninth and Tenth, B and C streets—has not yet been approval by either the Public Bulldings Com- mission or the Planning Commission, It is a tentative layout sketched by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago, re- cently employed as consulting special- ist in architectural matters by the Treasury Department, and is likely to undergo considerable change before the buildings are actually put up. Feor example, no provision 1s made for expansion of District business, which is already overcrowded in the present Municipal Building. Authori- zation already has been glven for a new Police Court Bullding and record- er of deeds office. But with the carry. ing out of the Federal building pro- gram some seven other important Dis. trict activities will be driven out of their present quarters. The Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee is pledged by its chairman to support legislation to provide for a municipal group of buildings just south of the present District Bullding —yet this area has been allocated to the General Supplies Building and La~ bor Department. Bell in Counsultation. Because District business needs larg- er quarters, Engineer Commissioner Bell has consulted with members of the Public Buildings Commission and was informed that the Hennett layv- out has not yet been adopted. As a member of the City Planning Commis- sion he will discuss the District's re- quirements at the next meeting on December lu.{ l;re\;;us to the an- nouncement of the Bennett proposal for placing Federal bulldings in the triangle south of Pennsylvania ave- nue, the District Commissioners had persuaded the Budget Bureau to sub- mit to Congress estimates for acquir ing the land between Thirteen-and-a- bal? and Fourtenth streets, C and D ;trsnn for an annex to the preseny uilding. Since the announcement of the Bene nett plans a special study has beeu made of the possibilities of purchas. ing the Southern Railway Bullding, which stands pext to the District Building on the east. The advantage of buying this property is that it would immediately afford office space for a number of District activities while & new building is belng erected, It would probably mean, however, the Southern Rallway would re- move its offices from Wi te {Continu flnmn.fia