Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 2

2 LS TARES OV 5 PLAZASQUARE Capitol Architect Gives Check for $1,568,484.04 to - Real Estate Firm. Five squares of the piaza lying be tween Union jon and the Capitol, destined to become un attractive part of the Capitol grounds, passed into possession of the Government today after years of d David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, handed a voucher for $1.568,484.04 10 a representative of the R state Improvement Co. of Baltimore, hold- ers of the five squares in question A small part of the plaza area was hased by the Government more than s ago, but acquisition o) the squ owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Baltimore Improvement ¢ were not com pleted at that time. The war came nd the project dragged in until the last session, when the ry authority to buy the re- as given Are Examined. nee (omgress adjourned Department of Justice sy examining title to the land Al closed this morning does complete the trarisaction. Title several other squares in the 1y 1wt is still being examined, but 15 ave available to take over thoxe squares also as soon as the Depart ment of Justice finishes its examina tion, In P in July The not to addition checked paid to the funds out today there remains to be to the Baltimore and Ohio 113.60 and the Washington Terminal Co. $5,000. When those payments have been made the United States will own all of the plaza, but further legilaihpn then will be needed to remove the Government Hotels and a few re- maining brick houses. tion also will include a request for a small appropriation to prepare an appropriate plan for the landscape treatment of this gateway to the city in front of the Union Station. Squares Taken Over. The squares which became the prop- erty of the Government today are as foilows: Between Delaware avenue and First street east and from D street to the driveway in front of the station. Two squares extending from North | Capitol street to First street east and from C to D streets. Area from F street to California street and from Second street east to the station. From North Capitol street to the station and from Massachusetts ave. nue to E street. 1926 TAGS EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 31 Failure of 1927 License Plates to Arrive Prompts Action by D.’C. Commissioners. / District motorists may use 1926 automobile identification tags through January 31, 1927, the Commissioners decided today in view of the delay in the arrival of the 1927 tags. The ex- tension was granted on recommenda- tion of Traffic Director Eldridge. Motor vehicle commissioners in all States east of the Mississippl will be notified of the order, which makes legal the use of either 1926 or 1927 tags during January. o Distribution of the new tags will ‘be started just as soon as a sufficient number “arrive from Chicago. Only about 2,000 of the 1927 tags for pleas- | ure cars have been received by Wade | H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses | of the District, and an additional | nhlp‘:nen! is"not expected before next | week. $100,000,000 ASKED FOR U, S. BUILDINGS OUTSIDE CAPITAL (Continued from First Page.) to purchase the land at a reasonable price. At the same time it was learned that condemnation proceedings on the old site for the Archives Build- ing have been temporarily withheld, and efforts are being made by the Treas: to purchase the new site bordering on_Pennsylvania avenue next to the Post Office Department and bounded by the Avenue, Twelfth and Thirteenth streets and C street The site formerly picked for the Archives Building, squares Nos. 294 and 295, located directly south of the new site and facing B street, had been ordered acquired by condemna- tion. Pending the new legislation at the Capitol, however, which in all probability now will authorize purchase of the entire triangle be- tween the Mall and the Avenue, Fifteenth and Sixth streets, the condemnation proceedings on the old Archives site have been temporarily | | 0 has been | $1,556,- | This legisla- | |ing | making regular AN A STEWART S AT AGE OF T IWall Street Financier Was |+ Adviser to Presidents Lin- coln and Cleveland. il By the Associated NEW YORK Press December 17.—John Aikman Stewart, 104 vears old, Wall Street financier and once Assistant Secretary of the United States Treas: ury, died at his home in this city today” of pneumonia. Iy When he discontinued making regu- v trips to his office in Wall street several month sed his 99th birthday anniversary, John Aikman Stewart insisted that he had | not retired, but merely was acting | upon the advice of his physician. For several years previous to that time ! he had gone by automobile three | times each week from his home at Morristown, N. J., to attend to his duties as chairman of the board of the United States Trust C He was suffering no physical ailments at the time, and the discontinuance of the trips to his office was suggested by his physician as a means of conserv- his strength. Emphasizing his declaration that he had not retired, Mr. Stewart continued to go through a regular daily routine almost to the time of his death, keeping in touch | with the affairs of his office and with | the general news of the world by reading two newspapers daily. The fact that Mr. Stewart had been trips to his office when nearing the century mark had | been generally overlooked, except by his close associates, until in 1921 at- tentfon was called to it by John D. Rockefeller when he was receiving congratulations on his own birthday anniversary that year. The oil king, | declining to regard his own case as out of the ordinary or remarkable, said: “I have a friend 97 years old, who, living in Morristown, 3oes to hi bank three times a week.” He re- fused to divulge the name, but later it was learned that Mr. Stewart was the friend to whom he referred, and it also was discovered that Mr. Rocke- feller was in error by two years re- garding his friend’'s age. Mr. Stew- art was the oldest active financier in ‘Wall Street, and perhaps in the coun- try. He contended there was no segret about the good health he had | enjoyed so many years and attrib.ated since his tobacco in it to abstemious habits youth. He had not used any form since he was 20. Only Rule Was Moderation. “I believe ihat is one of the rea- sons I have kept my heaith,” he de- clared. “The only rule I have is moderation in everything. Eating too much is just as bad as drinking too much. T do not live differently from other people, but I eat and drink carefully.” Mr. Stewart often recalied with ap- parent pleasure the intimate friend- ship he enjoyed with many Presidents of the United States. Born during the administration of James Monroe, he would recall the first President he saw was Andrew Jackson on an oc- casion when the President delivered an address at the City Hall in New York. From Jackson's time he had seen nearly all the Presidents and was personally acquainted with most of them. He was one of Lincoln's close advisers during the Civil War, and entered the service of his country in 1864 as assistant treasurer of the United States. Afterward he took part in the councils of leading financiers and participated in plans to fund the national debt. He came to the Government's aid again in 1894 during the second admin- istration eveland, at a time when the country's gold reserve was dangerously near depletion. He was Influential in obtaining the re. sumption of specie payments, and took a leading part in financing the needs of the Government. President Cleve- land, in his book “Presidential Prob- lem: sald of him: “He rendered most cuspended. For the Department of Agricul- | ture Conzress already hasappropriated | $1,200,000 toward the construction of | an “extensible” building and acqui- | sition of a sjte, and has further | thorized the entire project to cost not more than Plans for the heing drawn in the office of the supervis- ing architect, but it was understood today that no final decision has been reached. One of the matters still the building ornamental dome, have an Hurricane Kills Islanders. Portugal, December persons were killed or communications were A violent hurric d of Madeira vester day. Advices said the telegraph of. fice and a number af houses at Funchal were destroyed Moon Will Avoid Eclipse Tomorrow By Small Margin injured, and stopped struck th The full moon tomorrow night may not be quite so bright as ordi- narily because it will fust miss passing through the edge of the earth’s shadow This phenomenon is: known as lunar appulse and occurs ahout once in 15 years The satellite will shine with full brilllancy at its southern end. but will not be quite so bright at its northern end. The astronomical section of the nd Academy of Sciences in more plans to make a special study of this rare event. At the Naval Observatory here it was said that there will bé no particular astrcnomical interest in the svesf. 17} ane | useful and patriotic service in making thiz and the previous offer of bonds suceessful.” Brother Was Admiral. Mr. Stewart was born in New York August 27, 1 the son of John and Mary ewart. His father | Alkman was'a native of the Island of Lewis, one of the Hebrides group, and his mother wae born in New York. A brother, Rear Admifral Edwin Stewart, | {born in 1837, was for many y | pavmaster general of the (uated from Columbia Universit | 1840, John A. Stewart at the time of | hix death was the oldest living grad- | uate of that institution. For several {years after graduation he engaged in | civil engineering and had heen a clerk in the Board of Edueation in New York and actuary of the United States Life Insurance Co. In 1853 Mr. Stewart organized and became secretary of the United States | Trust Co., with which he remained {until his death. He was made presi- | dent of the company in 1865 and re. tained that office until 1902, when he | resigned to become chairman of the | board of trustees. He was the last | survivor of the original board of | trustees, which included Peter Cooper, |John Jacob Astor, Joseph Lawrence. John J. Phelps, John J. Cisco, William E. Dodge, Royal Phelps and William | . Macy. . Was Princeton Trust. Mr, Stewart took a great interest in’ Princeton University, an interest that was second only o that he man- ifested in the United States Trust Co. | He had been a trustee and counselor of Princeton since 1868 and was large- |1y instrumental in having the call sent | to President McCosh, whose adminis- tration marked the beginning of the modern Princeton. He served as pres- ident pro tem. of Princeton during the period between the resignation of Woodrow Wilson to become governor of New Jersey and the installation of John Grier Hibben Mr. Stewart was at his desk within 100 feet of the e of the Wall Street exploston 1n Septenher, 0, aid, ac- THE EVENING |GERMAN JUNKERS PLANE STOPS HERE Daughter of Designer Acting as Relief Pilot on Trip to Wright Exercises. | In the airplane “which has flown er the airways of Europe and the | United States, and for a total distance greater than twice the earth's cf cumference, Miss Herta Junker: daughter of Dr. Hugo Junkers, noted Jerman aircraft designer and build- | er, stopped off at Bolling Field for a | few moments yesterday, en route to Kitty Hawk, N. C., where exercises commemorating the twenty-third an niversary of the Wright brothers' flight will be held today. The plane is an all.metal cabin jtype Junkers, and Miss Junkers is acting as relief pilot of the trip. After a_brief rest on the ground at the field here, the plane took off for | Norfolk, where it spent the night. The trip to Kitty Hawk was to have heen made this morning and this aft ernoon the return journey to New York i planned. | Before the plane was the United States it was flown in| regular alrway service hetween Ber- lin and Moscow. Frederick Melchior, formerly of the Swedish Royal Air | Force, is the pilot. Others in the plane are William Knight, vice presi- | dent of the Juwkers Corporation of | America: J. Otto Scherer, chief en- zineer of the corporation, and John Goldstrom, whose attempt about six | months ago to circle the globe in 30 | days was halted in Japan. SOUTHERN HAS LAID NO PLANS T0 MOVE Railway Has Taken No Steps, President Tells Trade Bodies’ Delegation. | { | brought to | i i | | { . Fairfax Harrison, president of the| Southern Railway, assured the presi-| dents of - Washington's three irade| bodies, who visited him today, that| no definite plans had been made for ) moving the rallroad’s headquarters. | He explained to the committee inj conformity with his announcement | Monday that no decision would be| made untfl his company came to a| final understanding with the Govern-| ment in respect to the taking over of | the company’s property at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue for use of the Government. i The committee was composed of | Martin A. Leese, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; | Edwin C. Graham, president of the Washington Board of Trade, and Ross P. Andrews, president of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers Associa- | tion, Plans No Opposition. While Mr, Harrison assured this' committee that no decision had been made by his organization thus far, he did state that'the railroad officials | would under no circumstances think attempting to oppose the Federal Government if it should finally de-| cide that it wants the headquarters | property. Mr. Harrison admitted that the Federal Government, through the Na- tional Capital- Park and Planning Commission, had, asked him if the railroad would' sell, and that he had sald that his company would sell at a fair price. During his conversation Mr. Harri- son made an explanation of the recent policy of the Southern Raflway which the committee declared after- ward they felt somewhat significa This policy, according to the commit- tee, was one of decentralization on the part of the railroad. Staff Cut One-Third. The staff here had been cut about one-third since the war, and many of the activifies formerly at the head- quarters have been established el where. According to members of the | committee, Mr. Jarrison stated that his company would follow this policy. Whether or not this would have any thing to do with the company’s head quarters location, however, could not be ascertained. One of the advantages that Mr. Harrison admitted were gdined from location in Washington is the plenti- ful supply of competent and trained clerks and reasonable wages. He as. sured the committee if anything defi- nite was about to be concluded he would allow them another interview further to discuss Washington's de- sire to keep this organization’s head- quarters here. The assessed valuation of the South- ern Rallway headquarters is now $1,750,000. MAN, 106, CANNOT VISIT " PRESIDENT THIS YEAR Hoboken Butcher Prevented 'by ‘Weather From Making Trip to ‘White House. By the Associated Pre HOBOKE 1 J., December 17.— Recause of the cold spell J. Kupper | Bier, butcher, doesn’t feel equal to celebrating his 106th birthday anni- versary tomorrow by calling .on President Coolidge In the White House. Instead, his 9 children and 42 grandchildren will give a party in his honor at his home. Mr, Bier visited the President a vear ago and at that time Mr. Cool- ldge expressed the hope that his guest would return on each birthday for many vears to come. He was born in Austria and came to America 35 vears ago. ADOPTS FRENCH BUDGET. Will Send Measure Chamber for Approval. PARIS, December 17 (#).—The French Senate today adopted the budget of the Poincare ministry, the | first balanced budget accepted by Par- llament since the war. The budget | will go back to the Chamber of Depu- | ties for approval of some amendments, and it is expected to be out of the way before Christmas, setting up a recors for speed in the voting of annual ap. propriations. The surplus was reduced to 107,000,- 000 francs by Senate amendinent, the final figures being 39,620,000,000 francs appropriations and 39,627,000,000 esti- mated receipts. Benate to cording to an associate, gave a fine displayof his nerve and physical vigor by remaining the only calm per- son in the office. At the time of his death he retained membership on the hoards of directors of several corporations hesides the United States Trust Co. Mr. Stewart married Mary Olivia Cagron of Baltl- more November 23 i | nece {eredentials of Col. | urged, as well as Bmith, | dential election which has raised the is | by the Senate STAR. WASHINGTON PRO-RELIGION B -.D. €., PRIDAY ALLOTS RETAIN BIG LEAD IN WASHINGTON POLL Last Replies With 2,000 hallots counted in The Star's poll on religious sentiment in Washington, which closes today, a widespread belief In God and in the ity of religlon s indicated in a 93 per cent return of affirmative an swers to the fifst question and in a #1.5 per cent return to the other. Indications are that between and 2,600 Washingtonians will have availed themselves of the opportunity of recording their religious senti- ments before the close of the poll. All persons desiring to have their votes tabulated should have the ques tionnaire answered and in the mails tonight. Ballots thus far recelved contain a considerable number of emphatic views on religion, but the vast m jority had favorable annotations. here were hundreds of blanks for pme questions, especially those in which family procedure is mentioned. many explaining that they had no fam ily life and thus were unable to answer the eleventh question, regarding send ing children to schools of religious in struction. In fact, more than 45 per cent of those answering the question naires left this hallot blank. Belief in Immortality. About 8 out of every 10 hallote showed that the voters were brought up in religious homes and almost this number expressed bhelief in immor tality. Although 93 per cent expressed he- lief in God, there were but 85.1 cent affirmative returns to the ques tion regarding belief in Christ's Prayer as a means of personal rela- tionship with Giod was cited as the professed belief of 88.9 per cent of those voting. and 83.2 per cent stated thit they believed the Bible to be in- spired. ixactly 78.85 per cent of those an- swering ballots stated that they regu- larly attended religious services, while SENATE POSTPONES DECISION ON SMITH UNTIL HE APPEARS (Continued from First Page.) Col. Smith asx Senator was the sub- ject of some s=peculation. It was pointed out that he might issue a public statement declaring that the Senate had ridden roughshod over the sovereign rights of the State of Illinois in refusing to accept the Smith. He might even refuse to send in the appoint- ment of another man as Senator and lay the basis for the contest in the next Congress over the right of Col. Bmith to he seated then. Procedure Is Debated. Sentiment in the Senate in favor of denying Col. Smith the right to be seated on presentation of his creden- tials of appointment by the governor, which yesterday apparently had in- cased in strength, today was less noticeable. Some of the older heads were more favorable o permitting the ceptance of the credentials and the swearing in of Smith, with the under- standing that a contest to ousf him would fmniediately follow. ol. Smith will find few Senators ready to go to the bat for him when a contest actually arises over his right to retain a seat In the Senate. When he presents himself in the Senate, either under appointment or under a certificate of election, the principal plea. of his deferders will be that the Senate has no authority to question the qualifications of any Senator save those specifically mentioned in the Constitution—namely, age, residence, citizenship and loyalty to the Govern- ment. The right of States as sover- cign units, with full power to say Who shall be their Senators, will be the pronom‘lon ‘nm there is no law or constitutional re- \"I‘nmn which makes primaries a part of the election machinery for the elec- tion *{ Senators, as prescribed by the Constitution. Special Session Feared. ere at this time with an o from Gov. Small. Col. accepts appointment, credentials wm;;h are o way directly related to the cre- et s he will receive for the Rev- ress, to which he has been diture in that rue ‘he Comin appointment if he would present entleth Cong elected. It is the expen mugt now confront. 0! Senators wl ln":::l::lmn those credentials Jfl to in- vade the sovereignty of the hl‘atffl\ln their right to choose a HOH“K(’.'I are perplexed as to what to do when a motion is made to reject Col. Smhh.n tredentials under the appointive pow- er of the Governor of Miinois. | The Whole matter is complicated by the keen desire of Senators not to have the Smith contest come up in the Senate during the present short ses- sion. They fear such a contest would “ompel a special session of the next Congress after March 4. SMITH MAY DECIDE TODAY. No Intimation Given on Nature of Senator-Elect’s Decision. CHICAGO, December 17 (®).—Frank 1. Smith of Dwight, Tl bought Christmas presentd in Chicago's loop today with no intimation whether he would accept appointment to the pres- ent short session of Congress. While in Washington a perturbed Senate awajted hix decision, the most definite thing Mr. Smith would say was that he might have a statement later in the day. Aside from a con- ference with Allan Moore, Republican ational committeeman from and manager of Smith's successful campaign for Senator, Mr. Smith had no meetings with party leaders on his day's program. ho feel that even He said he had received only news-/ of action contemplated in the event he decides Len Small's appoint- ment to the seat vacated by the death of William B. McKinley, He would not comment on the Senate sentiment which opposes his sitting in the Sen- ate at the present session. Reed's Report In Senate. “I have no statement at this time of my intentions,” Mr. Smith sald night. 1 am here with my wife do some Christmas shopping.” That was all; but at Washington much was said. The Senute had be- fore it the report of Senator Reed's special campalgn expenditures com- mittee, dealing with the Illinois sena- torial campaign. The report was sub- mitted without recommendations or conclusions. It presented a table entitled “‘Smith Contributions and Expenditures,” ving a “provisional total” of 782, including personal expendi- tures by Smith of $253,5647. The re- port pointed out that the figures did not represent “the possible total ex- penditures of Frank LI Smith's can” paper reports to accept Gov. por | inois | Must Be in IV;uT Tonight to Be Included in Final Tabulation of Questionnaires. 3 recorded themselves as active church members. Only 13 out of every hundred were willing to have their families grow up in communities having no churches Family Worship in Home. That “family worship” in the home is not widespread was indited in the return of only 35.5 per cent affirmative | replies to this question. Many de- clared that “grace at meals” was regu- | larly said in their homes, while others answered this qu fon by stating that private worship was the rule. The returns for the 2,000 hallots now count ed are: 1. Do you believe in God? Yes, 1,860; | no. 130; not voting, 10. 2. Do you beleve in immortality? Yes, 1.780: no, 189; not voting. 31. 3. Do you believe in prayer as a menns_of personal relationship with God? Yes, 1,778; no, 206; not voting, 16. 4. vine Do you believe that Jesus was di as no other man was devine? not voting, ard the. Bible in in a sense t no other | literature could be said to be inspired? | Yes, 1.664: no, 311: not voting, 25 Are you an act member any chu Yes, 1 no, 415 voting, 19. 7. Do vou religious services? not voting. 21. $. Would you of not tend any no, 40 regularly Yes, 1,577 be willing to have your family grow up in a community in_which there is no church? Yes, 208: no, 1,758; not voting. 39. 9 vou regularly have in your home? B not voting, i Were you brought up religious home? Yes, 1.813; no, not_voting, 13. 11. Do you send your children to any school of religious instruction? Yex, 861: no, 235: not voting, 904. 12. Do You think that religion in some form is a necessary element of life for. the individual and for the community? Yes, 1.831; no, 148; not CRATS URGED TO UNITE FOR 198 Davey Sees Ohio as Scene of Battle Over Presidential Candidates. By the Associated Press. A battle cry to democracy to unite for the presidential campaign of 1928 was sounded here last night at a din-| ner tendered the Democratic con- gressional campaign committee and| Thomas FE. Dye, Democratic State chairman of Ohio. The host, Representative Martin L. Davey, an Ohio Democrat, portrayed | Ohio as an open baftleground for the | campaign two years from now and as- | serted that under certain conditions it could be won by the Democrats. He cautioned, however, that he was referring to “no particular candidate,’ and denied the dinner was for launch. ing a boom for Gov. Vie Donahey of Ohio. No Boom Is Launched. Pre-dinner talk had been to the) effect that one of its purposes was to initiate such a boom, but no names of possible nominees were mentioned in any of the speeches. “Elections are won in the so-called typical States,” Davey said. “I am offering as my humble opinion that Ohfo can be carried in 1928. It, of course, will depend largely on the atti- tude of Democratic leaders, and we must have a leadership entirely differ- ent from that which the Republican | leadership stands for.” Urges Education Progra Mr. Dye, manager of Gov. Donahey’s succesaful campaign for a third term, asserted there was “no room in this country for two so-called conservative | parties,” and urged Democratic rhief-i tains to take the lead in a construc- | tive campaign of education,” as the preas of today ‘‘is either bitterly partisan, Republican or independent, or filled with capitalistic propaganda.” Representative Oldfleld of Arkansas, Democratic whip, indorsed Dy re- marks that there was no room for two conservative partles, while Rep- resentative Garrett of Tennessee, the | Democratic leader, reiterated his | statement that he would do all in his power to get the $335,000,000 Demo- cratic tax reduction bill before the | House. HEADS MISSOURI SOCIETY Representative Manlove Elected President Last Night. Representative Joe J. Manlove of the fifteenth Missouri district was elected president of the Missouri So- ciety of this city at its annual meet. ing for the election of officers in the Washington Hotel last night. Repre- sentative William L. Nelson was elect- ed first vice president. Other officers_elected were: Bessie Parker Brueggeman, vice president; Mrs. M. E. third vice president; Mrs. Badgley, secretary, and k. liams, treasurer An address was delivered by Repre- sentatfve J. Banks Kurtz of Pennsyl- vania. Miss Miriam Leota Herr of Kansas City entertained with violin solos. Mrs. second Wil BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. By the United States Soldiers’ Home | Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmerman, leader; Emil A. Fenstad, second leader. didacy,” but it added that 93 per cent jof the contributions to the Smith {primary fund were made “by traction powers and public utllity owners." Insull's Gift at Issue. It is around & contribution of $123, 000 by Samuel Insull, public utilities owner, that the Senate contest against Smith has revolved. Smith formerly was chairman of the Illinois Com- merce Commission, which fixes rates and controls the operations of Illinois public utilities. Smith would take office by election next March 4. Several Senators who | have Indicated they will favor seating him at that time have expressed themselves as opposed td his presence DECEMBER 17, { clared 1926. HOLSEMAY PRIT HOSPTAL REPORT Blanton Wants McCarl Docu- ment Made Available for Distribution. The Controller General's report on St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, which was received by the House vesterday in reply to a resolution adopted at the | last Congress, may be printed as a public document | Representative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat of Texas, author of the resolution calling for the investiga- tion, asked permission of the House today to have the report printed. It would not otherwise he printed but | would. he referred to the judiciary committee for its files. Mr. Blanton emphasized that even members of the Gibson subcommittee, which support- | ed his plea for the investigation, are | unable to secure copies of the Control- ler General's report. and they are | much interested in it. The Speaker | stated that he would take Mr. Blan- | ton's request for printing under con- | sideration. Dr. William A. White. ent of St. Elizabeth’s today he was pleased” with the Mc ticularly because it he has been recommending in his an nual reports for several years. The | superintendent also called attention to the fact that not one word of eriti cism of the care and treatment of patients—the institption's sole pur- pose—-was uttered. “The report found no evidence of any abuse of patients.” Dr. White added, “and 1 am particularly pleased | to have this brought out hecause, | wing to the recent investigations | which linked up Elizabeth's, rela- tives of patients had become appre hensive for their welfare.” Dr. White said he had repeatediy urged in his annual reports of t past that new legisiation be framed for the commitment of patients. The criticism of the McCarl report regard- ing ward equipment and buildink equipment was justified, the doctor said, because he had been unable to get money from Congress, for which he had asked repeatedly, to correct these conditions. LINKS POLICE HEAD IN MELLETT CASE Witness Says Co-defendant Conferred With Lengel on Murder Night. . superintend- | Hospital, de “very much By the Associated Press. COURTHOUSE, CANTON, Ohio, December 17.—Ben Rudner, co-defend- ant of Patrick McDermott, who is on trial for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canten publisher, conferred on the night of the slaying with S. A. Lengel, who was then police chief of Canton, according to’ the testimony of a city policeman’ today. The witness was John A. McDonald. Lengel was the target of Mellett’s attacks in his newspaper, in which he declared that vice and crime was rampant in Canton and that the police department was doing nothing to stop it. £ Dismissed as Chief. Two public investigations resulted in Lengel's dismissal as chief. The specific charge against him was that he maintained a close contact with Rudner and other alleged characters in_Canton’s underworld. McDonald, suffering from a severe cold, was brought to court in an am- hulance. He testified he was on dut at police headquarters the night of the slaying and that he saw Rudner come there for a conference with Lengel. Prosecutor (. B. McClintock has charged openly that some members of the police department were in, league | with a “bootleggers’ " plot to get®rid of Mellett. That Louis Mazer left the home of “Doll” Carey, underworld figure, car- rying a gun the night Mellett was siain and had not returned at 1 a.m. was hrought out today. Mrs. Thelma Harrie, State witness, testified that Mazer and Floyd Streit- enberger, former Canton policeman, who furnished an alibi for Mazer, conferred alone in the' kitchen of the Carey home egglier on the night of the crime. The morning after the murder, Mrs. Harpis testified, Mazer and Rudner off the Carey house together in an automobile. Both Mazer and Rudner are also charged with the murder. Norman Clark, former Canton police prosecutor. facing a liquor law conspiracy charge in Federal Court, testified that twice before the Mellett slaying' Mazer told him “if Mellett keeps this up he'll be bumped off.” Druggist on Stand. Testimony pertaining to Rudner was given by Stanley Baltzly, Mas- sillon druggist, who said that two weeks hefore the murder Rudner told him, “Something is going to happen in Canton.” The State made its first effort to bring before the jury the story of M Dermott’s three-month “hide-out” in Cleveland, when it placed Dan Pfaff of Cleveland on the stand. Pfaff ad- mitted that he aided in concealing the | defendant In Cleveland while search Falls With Cabinet of German bourgeols coalition ministry, who resigned with his cabi- net today as the result of a non fidence vote In the Relchstag. FULMER HAS PLAN FOR FARM RELIEF Introduces in House Bill in Line With Senator Mc- Nary’s New Measure. By the Associated Press. companion measure to McNary's new farm relief bill was introduced at the House end of the Capitol today by Representative Ful- mer, a South Carolina Democrat. The development grew out of an effort to associate the West and the South in support of a farm relief plan, and settled a week of discus- sion over the naming of the legisla- tive newcomer. It will be the Me- Nary-Fulmer bill, succeeding as center of farm relief debate ihe Mc- Nary-Haugen bill of last session Mr. Fulmer's bill differs in bu respect from that of Senator M 2 It would suspend operation of the equalization fee on cotton for two vears after passage, but Mr. Fulmer sald he understood Senator McNary was agreeable to the alteration. The measure might have hecome the McNary-Purnell-Fulmer hill had not Representative Purnell, Repub- lican, Indiana, delayed attachinz his name to it while he waited for the opinion of Chairman Haugen. AIRCRAFT CARRIER RULE. Navy Axiom Applied to Weight Required for Anchoring. A pound of anchor for every ton of ship is an axiom of the sea, and in keeping with this the Navy's new afrcraft carrlers now being con- structed will_have 30.000 pounds of weight to hold them fast. These huge masses of cast steel, says the annual report of the chief of Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, will be the “largest anchors supplied o far for the Navy.” “Service tests are bheing conducted,” the report adds, “with a new design of stockless anchor which promises to give greater holding power with the same weight of anchor.” STOCK PRICES SOAR IN “BULL” MARKET ON STEEL DIVIDEND (Continued from First Page.) below that figure, but few of them sold, and their faith in the corporation ap. parently has been justified. _Trading in the “new” stock of the United States Steel Corporation on a “when_jssued” is started on the New York Curb Market at 10:30 a.m., the first sale being 115%. Crowds in the customers’ rooms of the large commission houses testified to the sudden revival of public in- terest in the market. Pools, which had striven valiantly to attract an de following in a number specialties which give promise of spe- cial merger or dividend developments, ; renewed their activities with increased vigor. dollars being distributed and other millions available on call loans secured by securities collMeral, there was no lack of ammunition in the campaign for higher prices. In the first 45 minutes of trading total transactions in United tes Steel common alone were 367,700 shares, or at the rate of over 8,000 shares'a minute. The enormous trad- | ing in this stock indicated that the | single day's record of 875,000 shares in Steel common, established Decem- ber,21, 1916, would be broken. A sensational buying movement also developed in Allied Chemical and American Smelting, both of which | have heen associated with stock split up rumors in the last few weeks, American Smelting scored an extreme advance of 41 points and Altied for him was in progress. YOUR RELIGION What Do You Believe? THE QUESTIONNAIRE QUESTION jeve in prayer as a h_God? Do you b was”divine? 'ou regard the Bil other literature _could g to have y ich_there is n 9. Do you regularly have “fami at the short term. ‘These Senators say they hope to avoid at this time the Senate fight which is certain to be waged because of the charges of excessive expendigires in hehalf of Smith's candidacy the primarfes. you __struction? vou think that religi slement of life for the individual ble as inspired In a sense that no be d to be inspired? Chem| 5 points in the first hour. ‘means of person: our famil o_church worship” in _your home? Senator of | With hundreds of millions of | IFOREIGN OIL FIRNIS WARNED BY MEXICO Right of Redress Denied Those Who Fail to Obey New Land Law. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 1 Warning that forelgn ofl companies not complying with the new oil and land law by December 31 will have “renounced their rights and will have no redress against the Mexican gov- ernment,” fs given by the minister of industry, commerce and lab~ Luis Morones, in a telegram to th oil men made public today. The telegram served as a denlal of reports that the time limit for the companies to apply for confirma- tlon of their titles would be extended. Senor Morones took occasion also to announce that varfous foreizn oil | concerns had applied for concesstons under the new law. Kl Aguila and transcontinental | companies, he sserted, in making | thelr applications, included & request { for confirmation ‘of certain titles to land quired prior to adoption [the Mexican constitution of 1917. This assertion challenges a statement by the companies that they had not ap i plied fo tion of such titles. Observers point_to apparent inconsistencies in the telegram to the oil companies as given out. Declar- ing that non-compliance would mean rencuncement of rights, Senor Mo rones at the same time asserted that the law did not establish “forfeiture for violations. Again, the telegram sald, the Mexi- can government had “shown its good faith in g teeing the acquired {interests of foreigners in the petro leum industry,” and that “pre-consat tutional property rights acquired foreign corporations or Mexican com panies composed of foreigners may be retained by them during the life of the company in question” as de termined -by the charters and con {tracts of such companies. Observers Still Mystifled. The first reaction of observers here was that, until skilled legal advisers had carefully analyzed this statement, mystification would continue as to what would happen after January 1. A further statement in the telegram which caused comment was that num- bers of the biggest oil companies which are popularly considered for eign concerns, such as La Coro Fl Aguila and others, are not foreign. but according to their articles of in- corporation are Mexican. If this Is true, no foreign government would have the right to interfere in their behalf. WOMAN FOUND HURT NEAR THE CAPITOL Collapses in Front of Policeman. Believed Victim of Automobile or Assault. g her mnds to F last night, After labori across the Cidpitol G and B streets, about § a4 woman, police as Mary (' reet, plainly dressed and about G0 years old,*fell unconscious at the feet of Police- man C. . Penn as he was standing at a police box. She was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where it was discovered that she had a possi- ble fracture of the skull and severe cuts on the head. She was still un- conscious this afternoon. It is thought that she may heen strue by an automobile, the other hand, police found tra a heavy object having been dr jacross the grass. The trail ended in a pool of blood. This led to the as- sumption that.she may have been as saulted. Two hoys who saw the woman stag- { ger through the Capitol grounds are said to have been discovered hy De tectives Fowler and Flaherty, investi gating the case. ler footsteps Iy imprinted in the snow, led o ss. where they disappeared. ran was living with t 2020 G street where she came some ne ago from B Letters found where she fell failed to reveal to the police the whereabouts of her family or friends, or even if she is married. FOOD ;llABLETS FOR COWS. | Cheaper Milk as Result Forecast by Briton. MARLBOROUGH, England, Decem- ber 17 (#).—Food tablets for cows | have been tried successfully by A. J. Hosier, a dairyman of Wexcomhe | House. mear here, | The tablets are of Mr. Hosier's own | prescription. He says that by experi- ments covering five vears he has dem onstrated that milk ean be produced at from 4 to 6 cents a gallon ‘below normal cost. He keeps his cows in the open the vear round and milks them Iy machine. have on - the Today in Congress SENATE. The Senate adopted resolutions romoting Lieut. Comdr. Richard . Byrd, United States Navy. re- tired, one grade and hestowing a Congressional medal on him fi his successful flight to the North milar honor was accorded 1 Bennett, who accompanied yrd ax machinist. River and harb to come up at ished business. Commerce committee contirined hearings on the proposed sale of Shipping Board vessels Milit ffairs committee held executive session. tesolution was received from the House and referred to a com- mittee providing for a Christmas recess of Congress from Decembe: 22 to January 3. HOUSE. House completes consideration of alien property resto ion bill House takes up consideration appropriation bill report on upper Mis souri River received by the o~ Subcommittee of appropriativns committee continues hearings on War Department, independent of fices and State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments appropria tion bills.~ Labor committee calls regular meeting in executive session. Committee on agriculture con tinues hearing on Jones cotton bill scheduled o'clock as unfin- of wend your children to any sel and for-the report bill. Military affairs committee tinues hearing on real estate. Foreign affairs committee con ducts hearing on payment of in- demnity to Great Britain. Post office committes continues ,. . hearing on rellef bills. i con ‘ v