Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 23

SENATOR FRAZIER RETURNED T0 FOLD North Dakota Insurgent Is Again Accepted Into G. 0. P. Councils. By the Associnted Press. Senator Frazier, the North Dakota insurgent, 1s again a Republican in good standing. He was invited back into the party fold yesterday by organization leaders wno two years ago banished him from tneir eouncils and deprived | him of committee plums because he was in the La Folleite camp during the 1924 presidential campaign. Republican leaders asked Mr. Frazier 1o again attend their caucuses, The Kepublican commiiice on committees decided to restore his committee assignments. This means that he will be placed on the Indian affairs committee among others, which will put him in line for the chairmanship when Senator Harreld ©of Oklahoma retires March 4. The proposal that he return to party couicils found the North Dakota Senator, who recently was invited with other colleagues to a ‘White House breakfast, in a recep- tive mood. He insisted, however, that he be given his former status on committees on the ground that he had always been a Republican and his ejection from conferences and loss of committee standing were not Justified. After a Republican caucus, which probably will be held ‘Wednesday, he will be moved up from the bottom of the committees and take Fis place in line 4s a majority member. Decision vesterday of the commit- tee on committees to assign Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, to the chairmanship of the judiciary commit- tee, as the successor of the late Sena- tor Cummins of lowa, also dispelled another threatened fight. Reports had been emanating from Republican sources that he would be deprived of the chairmanship as punishment for his support of William B. ‘Wilson, the TDemocratic candidate for the Senate from Pennsylvania. Other chairmanshiph agreed upon included Senators McNary of Oregon Tor agriculture, Phipps of Colorado for irrigation and Couzens of Michigan for education and labor. Assignments to fill vacancies in- cluded Senators Gillett of Massachu- setts on the foreign relations commit- tee to succeed his former colleague, ‘William M. Butler; Bingham of Con- necticut, on appropriations; Edge of New Jersey, on finance, succeeding the late Senator McKinley of Illinois, and Gould of Maine, on the District of Columbia committee to succeed the late Senator Fernald. All those affected by the assign- ments are Republicans. MT. PLEASANT BODY _AIMS AT SALE PACT Citigens)/ Association Unanimously Votes to Get Only White Pur- chasers for Property. ; An agreement of real estate own- ers to sell their property only to white purchasers during a specified period Was officially initiated by the Mount Pleasant Citizens' Associa- tion at its meeting last night in the Mount Pleasant Branch of the Public Library when the members unani- mously voted to authorize the execu- tive committee to prepare a covenant for the assoclation’s territory and to present it to all residents. The tentative covenant presented last night by Willilam Henry White of the executive committee specifies & binding agreement for 21 years, but Mr. White said ‘that the time limit might be lengthened if the members of the association believed that to be advantageous. The 21-year limit, however, he said, was that which ‘was specified in a covenant case up- held by the Supreme Court. Mr. White declared that such an agreement of property owners would serve to uphold values of real estate in strictly white neighborhoods, but he denied that the motive was ani- mus toward other races. The signa- ture of every resident in the specified territory will be sought, he said, and in the event any owners refuse to sign, the agreement between the others will remain binding only s¢ long as those who do not enter into the compact do not sell their property to colored purchasers. At the opening of the meeting last night, 175 new members were accept- ed. Those were enlisted during the recent membership drive among the citizens associations, and the meet- ing last night was the first since that group joined the association. John De La Mater, president of the mssociation, presided and welcomed the newcomers to hte body. FRIEND IS ACCUSED OF POISON ATTEMPTS Jowan Says Family Was Endan- gered Three Times—Suspect May Be Jailed. By the Associated Press, OELWEIN, Iowa, December 10.— A poison plot, without an apparent motive, has brought the threat of death three times either to him or his family, Edward Forney told the police today. He accused' Walter Jorgensen, with whom he said he always had been friendly, but he could give no reason why he should be the victim. Jorgensen ‘made no statement. Last September, Forney said, an attempt was made to poison the well used by his family. Next came a box of candy through the mail, one plece of which made his children ill and killed a mouse. lLater, Forney declared, Jorgensen handed him some more candy, which, like the other, showed p on analysis enough poison to kill, Chief of Police Watt declared. Jorgensen probably will be taken to jail at West Union, officers said. BURGLARS GET $15. Ehret Roofing Co.’s Offices Are Entered. The office of the Ehret Roofing Co., 116 Q street, was burglarized last night and approximately $15 stolen trom a flle cabinet which was broken into. Bernard Weaver, manager of the company, told police that the exact amount was not known to him, but that a small sum only had been left there over the week end. Papers had been scattered about the floor when the police arrived. Many London women carry wall Directolre canes this season. Maj. Hodges Cannot Head Louisiana U.| PSYCHIG IGNORANCE While Still in Army Maj. Campbell B. Hodges, United States Infantry, commandant of, cadets at West Point Military Academy, cannot legally serve as president of the Louisiana State University, an office to which he recently was appointed by the fac- ulty, without severing his connec- tion with the military service, it was announced yesterday. Notification to that effect has been given by the Secretary of War to the Governor of Louisiana and the members of the State's congressional delegation, who had formally asked that the officer be given leave of absence from the Army so that he could assume charge of the institution. It is pointed out at the department that Maj. Hodges, who was graduated from the Military Academy June, 1993, will not be eligible for retirement for at least two years, and that he could not be permitted to accept emplovment outside the Army during that period in the ab- sence of specific legislative *au- thority without resigning his mili- tary commission TOWERS IS SELECTED AS LANGLEY SKIPPER Veteran Airman Will Command Navy's Plane Carrier—First Flying Man to Get Post. The Navy Department yesterday an- nounced that Comdr. John H. Towers, veteran naval fiyer, has been assigned to command the airplane carrier Langley. Comdr. Towers, who was commander of the transatlantic flight of the NC planes, at present is execu- tive officer of the Langley, on duty with the aircraft squadrons of the bat- tle fleet. Heretofore a line officer with the rank of captain has always command- | ed the Langley, with a pilot in com- mand of the flying deck. Comdr. Towers is the first officer of that rank to command an airplane carrier as well as the first pilot to hold the com- mand. The Langley is the former naval colller Jupiter and the Navy's first electric-driven ship. The Lexington and Saratoga, modern carriers of high speed, will be commissioned by early Summer of 1927, and both will be commanded by officers who have had flying experience but are not ac- tive pilots. MUSIC WILL ROGERS & QUARTET. Several thousand Washington folks, including a number of Congressmen and Walter Johnson, sat in the Audi- torfum last night and laughed until their jaws ached at the shrewd witti- cisms ot Will Rogers, “Poet lariat of America.” Upstairs there was a small group of rebels who couldn’t hear well ‘way at the back, so they moved up front, and when the ushers tried to do their duty and protest, more people at the rear came up front. Probably as Mr. Rogers would have put it, had he noticed the strategic moves, that was the way that the revolution start- ed back in the middle of the eight- eenth century. ‘Mr. Rogers gave two talks which were prefaced with groups of songs well sung by the members of the De Reszke Quartet. It looked as though the quartet sang the first group to entertain the folks who had been on time so they wouldn’t mind having their toes tread on by the many who were late. And the second oup proved a life-saver to aching jaws and -diaphragms. They sang many songs which have become quite familiar to all ragio fans including muchly curlicued versions of nlg favorites such as “Drink to Me Only, “Swanee River,” and, by request, “Love's Old Sweet Song.” The audience responded with the most enthusiasm to the negro spirit- uals, “Wasn't Dat a Wide River” and “Swing Along Chillun.” In these and other selections, Francis Luther, first tenor, played the piano in addition to singing. The others of the ql:flrlet are Floyd Townsley, tenor; krwya Mutch, baritone, and Howard Kellogg, { basso. Each singer had an oppor- tunity in one or another number for a bit of solo work and their “close | harmony” was ‘admirable. Remembering the beautiful music in | the program this quartet gave here | two years ago when they first ap-| peared with Salvi, the harpist, it | struck at least one auditor that they | were estimating the public taste too| low. Mr. Rogers’ first talk was “Kurope, | as You Won't Find It in the Guide | Book,” and he proceeded to launch upon the subject of Americans going over the big pond en masse. ‘He re- marked that we were “bad enough as individuals but taken collectively we were something terrible.” He talked on conventions and opined that were an egg-laying contest held in Czecho- slovakia we would send more dele- gates and lay less eggs than any other nationality present. Mr. Rogers gave conventionsas the real cause for all the good roads we have in America, and stated that it | was the practice of Americans going | in “gangs” that “got us in wrong in Europe.” He touched also upon the “humanitarian mission” that Ameri- cans seemed to feel toward every other nation that often brought- us “home with our legs in splints.” He poked fun at the many clubs that are formed and accused Americans of having the “jolning fever” with the obvious ob- | ject of “staying away from_home for lunch.” He talked on the League of Nations and American “reservations.” He told jokes on the Prince of Wales, the English Parliament and the na- tional British sport of cricket. | In his later talk “On Anything or Anybody” he described amusingly such high-light topics as “Being the First Guy Who Ever Laughed in This | Wop's Face” (the avop being Musso- lini), “America, the Only Nation Still Using Air Space for Speaking Pur- poses Only” and “The Night I Spent ‘With Cal.” During the talk he picked out: several Congressmen in the audi- ence, and even vaulted down to shake hands with Senator Gore and Walter Johnson. He spoke with a tinge of re- gret of the Gridiron dinner, which kept many of his friends away, and tossed & message for “Nick” up to “Miss Alice” Longworth in a box in the center of the row in front of the balcony. Mr. Rogers romped about with edu. cation and religion, the . R evolution, the new drainage canal in Chicago, the letter he got from Sol Bloom to the Pope, etc., etc., with lariat accompaniment for the last half hour of it and his audience apparently | | - |settled tightly for the night. At last he told them they simply must go home and walked off the stage after twirling his biggest lariat in his most noted circle. Daniel J. Griffin Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 11— Daniel J. Griffin, 47, former Repre. sentative in Congress, active in Dem: cratic politics in Brooklyn many years, died in St. Mark's Hospital today following an operation Friday for appendicitis, THE SUNDAY STAR LODGE GONFESSES “Doesn’t Know Enough” to Enter Paper in Sympo- sium, He Admits. ’fipevlnl Dispatch to The Star. WORCESTER, Mass., December 11. —Sir Oliver Lodge, the world's fore- most exponent of psychic principles, confessed In a letter to Prof. Carl Murchison, directing the Clark Uni- versity symposium of psychic re- search, read by Dr. Murchison at the final session tonight, that he “didn't |know enough about the subject” to |enter his papes | Sir Oliver, the only one invited to contribute to the symposium who re- | fused either to lecture or send a paper, |wrote briefly to Prof. Murchison that | he considered this symposium ‘“‘a high: {1y important event,” but expressed his great regret that the fact that he |didn’t know enough about psychic re- arch prevented him from contribut- ing. The speaker at the session tonight { was Prof. Hans Driesch, professor of ! Philosophy at Leipsig and now ex- |change professor at thea University of Wisconsin. He pleaded spiritualist mediums should be brought out into the light {on the ground that their perform- skepticism. Prof. Driesch also believed every man would be shown to possess the powers of mediumship if science only could find the conditions under which the potentiality would be brought out. The speaker paid. his respects to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the sym- posfum contributors, when he said: “The word of Sir Conan Doyle must not be taken seriously when he speaks as a sclentist.” He also spoke his thoughts of the 50-cent seance seat holder when he said 99 per cent of the spiritualists were nothing. FAMILY OF JAPANESE EMPEROR AT BEDSID Oxygen and Heart Stimulants Ad- ministered to Keep Monarch Alive. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 11.—Emperor Yo- shihito is critically ill of pneumonta. Oxygen and heart stimulants are be- ing administered to keep him alive. His eldest son, Prince Regent Hiro- hito, and the Crown Prince Nagako have joined the Empress Sadako at the bedside of the stricken monarch. The emperor’s mother, Countess Ya- nagiwara, also is at Hayama, a sea- side town not far from Tokio, where the emperor lies in his villa. Prince Chichibu, second son of the sover- eign, will take the fastest steamer leaving England for Japan. The emperor, an invalid for many years, suffered attacks of cerebral anaemia during the past year. He has been subject to fainting spells and high temperature. WO0O0D SAYS HE VETOED BILLS FOR LACK OF TIME Declares Measures Were Given to Him Only Two Weeks Be- fore Limit Expired. By the Associated Press. MANILA, December 11.—Explain- ing why he had vetoed 44 of the 122 bills passed by the recent Insular Leg- islature, Gov. Gen. Wood today de- clared he had not been given suffi- cient time to go over them before the time limit for his signature to them had expired. The governor general is required to pass upon all bills within 30 days after adjournment. He said the majority of the bills were not placed in his hands until two weeks after adjournment; and that therefore he was compeiled to veto many of them, regardless of their merits. “I do not doubt that some of the measures vetoed might be found sat- isfactory in substance, and these may eventually be approved at the next | session of the legislature if presented under conditions enabling me to exam- ine them more carefully,” Gov. Gen. ‘Wood sald. GEN. NOBILE'S RECEIPTS - GARNISHEED IN IOWA ances in light would abolish ridiculous | the State Mon WASHINGTON, C., DECEMBER 12 New Mexico's Governor-Elect Refuses To Dress, But Inaugural Group Insists By the Associated Press. SANTE FE, N. Mex., December 11. —Out here where gorgeous woolly chaparrajos cause no comment and the abbreviated costume of the In- dians causes not so much as the flick- er of an eyelash, a great stir is being raised over formal evening dress. Gov.-elect R. C. Dillon is the center of the controversy. He says he will not wear full evening dress to the inaugural ball on New Year eve. The executive committee in charge of the ceremonies says that the gov- ernor-elect must conform to custom. The matter rests there, and the outcome probably will not be known until the festivities start. Gov.-elect Dillon has stated he would prefer to have no dance rather than to have it formal. “I've never seen the necessity for wearing a dress suit in my life, and I hardly want to begin ‘to put on the dog’ at my age,” the next chief executive of New Mexico said. . The committee in charge of cere- monies has countered with a state- ment that “the ball will be strictly formal,” and that “Mr. Dillon will not direct our actions until after the first of the year, and until that time he is our guest and must conform to custom as well as every one else.” MELLETT'S WIDOW WILL TAKE STAND State to Present Murder Case to Jury at Can- ton Monday. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, December 11.—After six month’s investigation into the mur- der of Don R. Mellett, Canton editor, ay will lay its case be- fore a jury in the Common Pleas Court of Judge Idwin W. Diehl. Prosecutor C. B. McClintock in his opening argument will tell the jury he seeks to prove that Patrick Eu- gene McDermott, first of three co- defendants to be tried, was an under- world hireling who joined in the coun- ter-attack of organized vice against the editor’s crusade. The defense, counseled by E. L. Mills, James Emsley and Homer C. Durand, will declare that McDermott Davenport Audience, Unable to Un- derstand Lecturer, Holds Up $800 in Des Moines. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, December 11.—Gen. Umberto Nobile of Italy was forced to leave $800 behind when he closed his Towa lecture tour Friday. His ability as a linguist was questioned by a Davenport audience, which at- tached a portion of. his lecture re- ceipts in a Des Moines court. The complainants charged that Gen. Nobile, who accompanied Raold Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in the flight over the North Pole last Summer, because of his enunclation left the Davenport audience guessing as to portions of his narrative of the polar flight, particularly at the cli- matic moments. A suit for $1,800 against the booking company followed, and an attorney detailed to garnishee proceedings arrived here before the general had collected in full from the promoters of his lecture. Gen. Nobile left here last night for Detroit. FINED $50 FOR RAID. Cobbler Who Swore Warrant for Publisher Convicted of Contempt. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., December 11 .—C. T. Lumpkin, a cobbler of Avondale, was sentenced to serve five days in jail and pay a $50 fine today for his part in the raid last Tuesday on the home of Frederick I. Thomp- son, a newspaper publisher. Lumpkin testified he swore out a warrant for the raid because he heard a bootlegger boast of having delivered liquor to the Thompson home. The raid disclosed no liquor, however, and Lumpkin was convicted of contempt of court In having taken out the war- rant without sufficient evidence, and his punishment was the limit allowed by law. Cashier Denied Parole. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 11 () —Ths state board of pardons and paroles has declined to grant a role to Thomas B. Carroll, former cashier of the People’s Savings Bank at Jackson, serving an agreed sen- tence of three years in connection with the wrecking of the bank. This was announced today. . Nearly $2,500,000 will be spent in construction of the, electric lighting and power project of Dublin, Ireland. . | withdraw it, in view of the change in not only did not kill Mellett, but that he does not know who were the con- spirators. Jurors Locked Up. Thirteen jurors, selected in a week's edious struggle, are locked up over this week end under guard, although the only “evidence” thus far in their possession is the memory of a trip yesterday to the murder scene. They face the possibility of not being able to quit their task until after Christ- mas. Prosecutor McClintock said that he expects seven days to be taken up by the testimony of the State's 40 witnesses. Probably only a single day will be required for defense testimony, Mills has said. Eighteen of the forty witnesses for the State were named in subpoenas fs- sued today, but only a few of the names were revealed. Three defense witnesses have been subpoenaed—Tom and Bernard Mec- Dermott, the brothers who surren- dered Pat to the authorities three months after the Nation-wide search for him was begun, and Ora Slater, Cincinnati detective, leading _investi- gator for the prosecution. In addi- tion, the defense has announced it will summon Ben Rudner, Massilon, and Louis Mazer, Canton, McDer- mott's -co-defendants and alleged un- derworld leaders. Widow to Be Called. The State's first witnesses will be Coroner T. C. McQuate and Mrs. Flor- ence Mellett, the editor's widow and mother of his four little children. Before the day is over the State ex- pects to bring Steve Kascholk from the Stark County workhouse, where he has been imprisoned for nearly five months as a material witness. His story, the basis of the State's theory in the murder, is declared by investigators to show that Mazer and Rudner hired Kascholk and McDer- mott to assault Mellett, but that Kascholk backed out several days be- fore the murder. HOME OF VALENTINO DRAWS LOW BIDDERS Sale Is Called Off When Not Even Mortgage Figure Is Reached at Hollywood. By the Associated Fress. LOS ANGELES, December 11.—Sev- eral hundred persons today roamed over Wedgewood Place, ' Hollywood home of the late Rudolph Valentino, and plucked flowers for souvenirs MANEUVER PLANS ALTERED BY NAVY Army’s Withdrawal Brings Change in Program of May Practice. By the Associated Press. 5 Cancellation of the Army’s partici- pation in the joint maneuvers with the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleet off Narraganset Bay, R. I., next May resulted yesterday in Navy or ders altering the plans of the fleet. “The problem to be worked out with the 1st Corps Area,” Admiral Eberle, chief of naval operations, said, “was a minor phase of the fleet plan. The change of plans will probably cut short the visit of the Navy to New- port. R. L., where officers of the Naval War College will be picked up for participation in practical exercises. The maneuvers will probably be held at sea instead of off Narraganset, as planned.” Admiral Hughes, commander-in- chief of the fleet, has been directed to make necessary revigions in the fleet’s salling schedule. The Pacific fleet is to join the scouting fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March. A visit to New York will be made May 1 to May 16. The joint maneuvers off Narragan- set were to have followed. With- drawal of the Army was explained as due to lack of funds. UPSHAW ASSAILS BRUCE CALL FOR WET NOMINEE Georgian Denies Democrats Will Support Marylander’s Claim. Suggests New Liquor Party. By the Associated Press. Senator Bruce, Democrat, Mary- land, did not speak for his party when he contended in the Senate the past week that only an outstanding wet has a chance of becoming the presidential nominee of the Demo- ccratic party, Representative Upshaw, a Democratic dry from Georgia, de- clared. “In the name of the prohibitionized Democracy that drove saloons out of the South,” he said, “T denounce this blind, blundering statement. “I have spoken widely over the Nation and have come In personal contact with ten times more dry, sober Americans than this provincial wet Senator ever saw.” A Upshaw suggested that if a few wets in both parties are insistent that the liquor question shall be an issue in the next election, they make up a party of their own, thus ceasing to “embarrass the vast majority in both Republican and Democratic parties,” “Finally,” the dry leader concluded. “Senator Bruce's panegyric about religious bigotry _concerning Gov. Smith is cheap stuff, and it is as blind as it is cheap.” = OLSON SUSPECT HELD ,AS ARMY DESERTER Youth Arrested in Georgia Is Not One Wanted in Slaying, Officers Declare. By the Associated Press. ALMA, Ga., December 1l.—James while an auctioneer called in vain for bids on the estata. After an hour’s effort had failed to get a single bid above the $10,000 mortgage which encumbers the beau- tiful Spanish home, the auctioneer dis- missed the sale. Today marked the second day’s auc- tion of the worldly goods Valentino left behind when death took the Latin screen actor several months ago. Yes. terday his elaborate Beverly Hills estate, Falcon Lair, was sold, together with his dogs, daddle horses and auto- mobiles. S. George Ullman, who was Valen- tino’s manager, administrator of the estate, declared Wedgewood Place. with its four lots, was valued at more than $60,000. Valentino's personal effects will be struck off one by one to the highest bidder from an auction room in Hollywood next Tuesday. MARKS 86TH BIRTHDAY. Takoma Park Woman Tells of War Days at Party. Mrs. Gertrude Victor Hawkesworth, 118 Maple avenue, Takoma Park, Md celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday with a party at her home Friday, and entertained friends with stories of stirring days of the Civil War when, as a Northern sympathizer in New Or- leans, she became friends with Gen. | Benjamin F. Butler and Admiral Far- ragut. On account of her Northern inclina- tions she was ahout to leave the city, she maid, at the close of the war, but was prevailed upon by the Union offl- cers to remain and continue teaching school. ! Mra. Hawkesworth proudly display- ed at the party a picture of Admiral Farragut, which he had given her. For about four,and a half years she has lived in Takoma Park, where she resides with her daughter, Miss Violet Hawkesworth. MAY QUIT OLYMPIAD. Navy Is Undecided on Future With Association. The Navy is considering whether it will continue its co-operation with the American Olympic Association, or the organization of that body which took place recently, Secretary Wilbur said yesterday. , The Secretary declined to say what features of the reorganization were objected to. In the past the Navy has aided officials of the Olympiad by sponsoring elimination trials, supply- | ing transportation for athletes and participating generally in the associa- tion’s business. Pittman, who was being held in Bacon County jall, suspected of being Erd- man Olsen, wantéd in Prairle du Chien, Wis., for slaying his sweet- heart, Clara Olson is mnot Olson. Sheriff W. L. Johnson received a mes- sage from the sheriff of Crawford County, Wis., tonight stating that the youth is not the one wanted there. Bacon County officers said tonight that Pittman has confessed that he recently deserted from the United States Army at Fort Slocum, N. Y., where he had enlisted three months ago. He sald his home was in South Carolina. The youth, who was employed as a farm laborer, was arrested by Sheriff Johnson last Sunday when the sheriff was informed that Pittman fitted the description of the youth wanted in Wisconsin. Pittman will be returned to the Army authorities at Fort Slocum. The diaphone, the new foghorn that has a range of 40 miles’ was invented as a_musical instrument. Roup knocks out laéen just when eggs are highest. Brings serious loss during weeks that count the most. Yet we guarantee you can avoid this blight. Mrs, P. Lanford of Blake, Okla., 've lost numbers of chick- ens listening to oth ;eople’: rec- ommendations of different kinds of roup remedies. Now I am order- ing Pratts which I know will cure as I have used it before.”” — Sold and Guaranteed by DICKEY BROS. 1926—PART 1 SPEAKERS UPHL UFFRAGE REAT Representatives Norton and Houston and Charles E. Rus- sel Address Women. The right of the citizens of the Dis- triet of Columbia to have a voice in affairs of their own community and some form of suffrage was vigorously upheld by two members of the House District committee and Charles Ed- ward Russel, well known author, at a banquet of the city library com- mittee and professional section of the Women's City Club last night. Mr. Russel and Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey declared themselves definitely in favor of local suffrage, while Representative Robert G. Houston of Delaware expressed his desire to see some form of repre- sentation for Washington, particu- larly in respect to a voice in local affairs, such as educational, taxation, assessment and other matters directly | affecting the citizens of the city. Hits at Waste. “If the representative form of gov- ernment was not a howling farce in the District of Columbia, we would nave some one to stop this whittling of appropriations for our needs,” declared Mr. Russel. He added caustically, in discussing the lack of appropriations for the District Library, “If we had but 10 per cent of all the money thrown away on the Mississippi River for improvmeents, where navigation is never carried on, there would be enough money to run all the libraries in hlthe United States for years.” r. Ruseel expressed his sympathy with the club’s library committee in urging more consideration by Congress for the local library. He sald: “We should have 13 branches and we only have 3. After a fight they erected a building and appropriated no money for books to place in it, the upper story of the structure for the children is unfinished and the libraries have to close on Wednesday afternoons be- cause of lack of money.” He was caustic in his remarks about expenditures approved in the ‘“‘pork bill"” dealing with rivers and harbors, and charged that money was appro. priated for lighthouses on the Missis- sippi and other rivers where no navi- gation is carried on, and that money was spent on rivers where no water exists. Fle urged the women to take an active part in creating hetter con- ditiong of government and bring about greater accomplishments on the part of Congress for Washington. “The trouble with the conditions in the United States is not from the for- eign-born element, but from the great American fault of inertia,” said Mr. Russel. After declaring herself in favor of better library facilities and suffrage for the people of the District, Mrs. Norton declared that her problem was to find out “just what the people of the District do want.” “I think you should have suffrage, but I don’t know whether vou want it.,” she said, in citing the varied opin- fons of manifold local organizations submitted to her in reference to the Gasque bill for the election of the f | school board. Mrs. Norton urged, “Find out what vou want, tell Congress what you want and be there in sufficient force to push it.” Mrs. Lyman B. Sworm- stedt presided. . CHINA LAUDS NAVY MEN., Awards Decorations for Courtesies Extended Officers. Two civilian employes of the Navy Hydrographic Office here and three naval officers have been decorated by the Chinese government for their co- operation and courtesies extended to officers of the Chinese navy who were under instruction at the local hydro- graphic office, aboard the U. S. 8. Niagara, naval survey ship, and the International Hydrographic Bu- reau at Monaco. The decorations have been forwarded to the State De- partment where they will remain un- til Congress authorizes their accept- ance. John H. Larrabee. senior engin in the hydrographic office, haxghee:r‘; awarded the Third Order of Chia Ho m&;ldal. ar;fi A. }il ‘Weeks, chief of the ographic section, the fo DKRChlaAfu‘ ‘medal. p ear miral Albert P. Niblack, U. S. N., retired, president of the ln!g- national Hydrographic Bureau, was awarded the First Order of Wen Hi Capt. Walter 8. Crosley, naval hydro- grapher, Second Medal of Wen Hu, and Capt. Paul P. Blackburn, now in naval operations, but formerly in command of the Ni of Wen Hu. S ey 69 YEARS OF DROOP SERVICE Pedestrians Fail To Make Quorum To Solve Problems Local pedestrians evidently have lost interest in thwarting vehicu- lar digressions and jay-walking proclivities, for William Thomas Shepherd, who presides over the de« Iliberations of the American Pedes- trian Protective Assoclation, Fri- day night waited late and in vain at the headquarters, 1024 Eighth street, for the arrival of a quorum of members to conduct business. The meeting was called for 9 o'clock. Two minions of the press promptly reached the dwelling, which serves not only as the stamping ground of the wary walk- ers, but as Dr. Shepherd's pled a terre and schoolhouse, where he in- structs the youth in sundry paths of learning. An hour went by. No sign of his associates whatever. A handful of students, Dr. Shepherd and the two reporters hardly seemed to consti- tute a quorum. The question of a national highway sidewalk and a pedestrian subway for the Capi- tal remained unsolved. FARM RELIEF TALK DROPPED BY HOUSE Discussion Ends When Plan in Me- Keown Bill Becomes Involved. The House touched upon farm re- lief for a few minutes, but gave up when it became involved with the new plan offered in a bill by Repre- sentative McKeown, Democrat, Okla- homa. Explaining his relief measure, Mr. McKeown said it proposed to create a commission which would determine in advance the needs of the consum- ing public, and then would allot to the country’s farmers their quotas of the various crops to be produced. A “standardization certificate,” he said, would be issued to each farmer, di- recting him to grow a fixed quantity. The farmer then would market his crop, selling the surplus, if any, out- side the current market and paying an excise tax on it. Members ques- tioned the constitutionality of the tax, and also doubted that a farmer could be forced to agree to raise only the quantity set for him by the com- mission. Mr. McKeown upheld the constitu- tionality of his measure and explained that the farmers’ patriotism and the pressure of neighborhood opinion upon an objector could be depended upon to administer much of the act’s regula- tory power. Senator-elect Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, is in Washington attempting to line up Senators behind some agricul- tural bill that, in his opinion, will bring real relief to Western farmers. He plans to appear next week be- fore the Senate agriculture committee and declares he is for the revised McNary-Haugen bill, with some amendments that would “put more punch in it.” ANACOSTIA CITIZENS ~ GET NEW MEMBERS Fifteen Received, Bringing Enroll- ment for Association to More Than 400. Fifteen new members were received last night by the Anacostia Citizens’ Association, bringing the total results of the membership campaign up to 209 additional members, and the en- tire enrollment of the organization past the 400 mark. After considerable discussion as to parliamentary rules, it was decided to request the proper authorities to enforce the regulation which requires prompt repairs to cuts made in streets. . Several minor local improve- ments were discussed also. It was decided to request President W. F. Ham of the Washington Rallway and Electric Co. to cause the one-man type cars now operating on the Anacostia line to be supplanted by the latest style cars carrying a crew of two. The following additional committee members were named: Gardens and lawns, Police Sergt. F. M. Dent and George Williams; entertainment, Miss L. J. Usilton, chairman, and Miss Dorothy Tucker; membership, Miss Lillan Puncan, William Benhoff, George Williams, Lorenz Thompson, M. E. Cornish, Lee Scaggs, G. W. Shoemaker, Frank FEarnshaw, Mrs. Lillian M. Bu(ler.kw. T. Martin and Founded-1887 ENGLISH CHARGES DROPPED BY HOUSE Impeachment Proceedings Expected to Be Closed by - Senate Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. Impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge George W. English of Iliinois, charging wrongful use of bankruptey funds, tyrannical prac- tices in court and other “high mis- demeanors,” were dismissed by the House yesterday because of his resig- nation from.office. By a vote of 286 to 22 a resolution ‘was adopted to advise the Senate that in view of the judge having tendered and President Coolidge having ac- eepted his resignation, the House did “not desire further to urge the articles of impeachment heretofore filed” with that body. Was Sponsored Unanimously. The resolution was sponsored unani- mously by the nine members ap- pointed by the House to prosecute the case before the Senate, which sits as a high court in impeachment cases. It will be presented to the Senate tomorrow when, by special order, that body convenes as a high court to receive, the House managers. Final dropping of the impeachment articles then will be passed upon. If usual procedure is followed the Senate will accept the recommendations of the House and close the case. Right to Proceed Upheld. Adoption by the House of the reso- lution came after ® Representative Michener, Republican, Michigan, head of the managerial board, had presen- ted a_report recommending that the case be dropped but asserting the right of both House and Senate to proceed with the prosecution if it should be desired, regardless of Eng- lish's resignation. The Republicans, eight of them from Wisconsin, combined with nine Democrats, two Farmer-Labor mem- bers and one independent in opposing dismissal of the proceedings. This group urged that the case be carried to completion so, as Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York, asserted, the “trial and punishment” of English would serve “as a deterrent to others.” MANHOLE COVERS LIFT WOMAN AND ROB MAN Exploding Disc Strips Pants Half Off of Pedestrian, Carrying Away His Cash. By the Associated Press. ¥ NEW YORK, December 11.—Resi- dents of the lower West Side were giving manholes a wide berth today after a freak explosion that threw a woman in the air, tore the trous- ers half off a man and picked his pocket of $50. Three manhole covers, their vents sealed by snow and ice, blew up at the intersection of Seventh avenue and Twenty-second street. Mrs. Mil- dred Connelly was standing on one cover at the time of the explosion. She was tossed 10 feet in the air and se- verely bruised. Robert Craig was near another of the ascending discs and the blast ripped off the right side of his trous- ers, turned the pocket inside out and frisked away with his roll. The torn trousers were cast back to the street, but the money failed to reap. pear. Craig was treated by an am- bulance surgeon for astonishment and left for his taflor’s. ENGINEERS PLAN AIR TRIP TO PARIS AND BACK Woman May Make Flight in All- | Metal Plane From New York in Spring. By the Associsted Press. 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