Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1927, Page 2

9 % WOMEN RECEIED AT WHITE HOUSE Party-—Convention Ad- journs Tonight. | The board of directors of the Gen- | eral Federation of Women's Clubs con- fined itsalf this morning to the trant. | action of routine business and the con- | sileration of committee reports, pre- | paratory to adjournment tenight. A recess in the boginess session was taken shortly before moon. and the| 63 members of the board, represent.; ative of 16,000 woman's clubs affili- | ated with the fedwration visited the | White House, and were received by | President and Mre. Coolidge | Just befors adjournment of the| morning setsion Mrs. John . Sher. man, president of the federation, is-| sued & proclamation designating the week of March & s “American | Homes week,” and calling upon cit-} izens all over the tountry to put oo special programs in the home auring | that period in recognition of the home | s the basis of our national life. The | week of March § is the week in which | the American Home Conference’ will meet in Des Moines. Americanism in Schools. Americanism firet, in the homes, echools and churches, was _stressed yesterday by Mre. John D. Sherman. | president of the federation. as one of | the essential weapons to he used in | combating ‘‘Communist propaganda’ | which, she declared, exists in “this | country in accordance with a definite | plan to overthrow the Government. The Women's Clubs, she =aid, repre | eent & constant influence meeking o maintain the principles upon which | this Nation was founded. A million-dollar increase was voted to the foundation fund, bringing the goal up to $5.000.00D. This sum will | be raised on a State-wide basis. and 50 per cent of the amount raised in each State will be expended in that State. The money will be used to further the educational. civic and general welfare work of the feder. ation. Necessity of close study of the eco nomic and social basis of internatten el relationships was emphasized by Mrs. Rufus Dawes, =sisterin-law of the Viee President, who stated that good will alone Is not suMicient to prevent international discord. Mrs. William F. Blackman of Or- lando, Fla., chairman of the education committee, -spoke of the ocampaign against {lliteracy, and deplored the tendency of some parents to allow their chiliren to go to senmational motion pictures and to neglect their school work for the picture shows. Return Home Tomorrow. Most of the members of the board plan to return to their homes tomor- row morning, but several will attend, an open meeting of the department of public welfare of the District Fed- eration, which will be held tomorrow at the Grace lotel. It will be an allday meeting, and consideration of the general topic of “Public Welfare in the District of Co- lumbia” will include addresses by Mra. Walter McNab Miiler ' of 'St. Louls, chairman of the department of public welfare of the general federation: Dr. Mary B. Harris, superintendent of the Federal Industrial Institution for Women, at Alderson, W. Va.; Mrs. Virginia White Speel. president. Dis- trict Federation of Women's Clubs; George Wilson, director, Board of Public Welfare of the District: Dr. Loren B. T. Johnson and Dr. Thomas Parran, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Serv- fes. The discussion will be summed up by Mre. Mina C. Van Winkle, chairman of the committee on prob- lems in delinquency of the District tion. \ Miss Pigeon to Speak. At the morning session Miss Helen . Pigeon, associate secretary of the International - Association of Police- ‘women, will speak, and Miss Julia K. Jaftray, chairman of the national committee on problems in delinquency, will address the meeting at the lunch- eon session. Mrs. Willilam J. La Varre, chairma: of the department of public welfs of the District Federation of Women's El;b-. will open the mesting at 10 KING SEEKS INQUIRY OF D. C. NOMINEES (Continued from First Page.) n favorable to the candidacy of Willlam McK. Clayton for peoples’ counsel. The present Public Utilities Com- mission, which will continue to fune- tion until the personnel of the new commission takes office, will avoid action on any of the major questions now pending, it was indicated today at the District Building. The most important matter now on the commission’s calendar is the long- deferred telephone rate case which has twice been postponed because of legal technicalities. The case involves a proposal further to reduce telephone rates in the District, and although plans had been made to proceed with it some time this month, the commis- tion is expected to hold it in abeyance until the new body is organized. Bus Fares Also Pending. The commission also plans to be- queath to the new body the petition of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. for permission to charge a straight 10 cent cash fare on its bus lines in the District. Hearings started on thix application were halted abruptiy when Mr. Clayton, who hae just resigned as the special legal adviger to the com- | mission, questioned the legality of the | acquisition of the hus company's capi- { tal stock by the North American Co. | Ast a result the commission severed | its official relations with the company, and no effort has been made by either side to bring about a reconciliation. Just as soon as the new commission is organized, however, the hus com- pany is expected to make a move to| restore it in good standing. ‘Whether Engineer commissioner J. Franklin Bell, present chairman of | the commission and who Also will be | & member of the new Commigsion, will be re-elected as the presiding officer is 2 question of concern now at’the Dis- trict Building. One report is to the effect that Commissioner Bell wishes chairmanship over to one of the new members. ! Clayton’s Resignation Letter. | Mr. Clayton's letter of resignation, | sent to Commissioner Bell yesterday afternoon, follows | “I hand you herewith my resigna- | tion of the office the commission was pleased to appoint me to October 26, | 1928, to take affect at once. You will recall when at the urgent request of the commission I agreed to | accept the position temporarily 1 then stated my preference was to serve without pay. I have since re. fused to sign the pay rolls presented, and have no claima and make no claims on the District for compensa- tion, and refuse absolutely to aceept a cent. “Public service is too great an honor in itself to be measured by the dollar | i 69 Leaders of Federation inL | ueational !ICoffee Gets Two { In Trouble, One - 5 i On Serious Charge { , Coffee fzured prominently as a weapon in crime in Police Court today. Charler Rigg:. colored, pleaded guilty to pouring the steaming cnntents of a coffee pot down the neck of Mahel Butler, colored, of 14 Dingman place. Her physician snid she presented one of the worst scalding cakes he ever had rean. RBond tor Riggs was set at .00 Edward I.. Davie. a street car eonducto testifind that Willard Balderson. A carpenter, smptied a cup of hot eoffes in his face while the two were in a Iunchreom. Balderson zatd he threw the coffee by mccident, heoause some one tickled him when he had the cup in his hand. The plea fafled him. however, » $30 fine bhaing imposed. Davis’ neck was red, although not hadly burned. The twn cases were tried one after another hefore Judes Sehuldt. DAWES ADDRESSES WONEN 0F ... Discusses Direct Primary. Longworth Pleads for Up- holding Two-Party Plan. The three-day conference of Repub. dican woman leaders, called for the purpose of building up permanent Wwomen's organizations within the party and the promotion of eloser co- operation with the national commit- tee, was brought to a close today at the Carlton Hotel, where the delegaios from 35 states maintained headguar. ters. Before the session closed today ths felegates were addressed by Vice President Dawes and Nicholas® Long- worth, Speaker of the House, Mr, Dawes discussed the direct primary and Speaker Iongworth &poke in ad vocacy of maintaining & two-party system. Defends Direct Primary. Mre. Lewiz 8. Thompson, national committeeman from New Jersey, de. fended the direct primary as aa in strument that would give the pecple &till more power to govern themselves. Those opposed to it she claimed, were generally found to be opposed to uni- versal suffrage. 7 The delegates, more than 75, were Ruests at a reception this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Alvin T Hert, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, who called the conference. Assisting Mrs. Hert in re ceiving the guests were the wives of the cabinet officers. Members of the cabinet, the United States Supreme Court and Congress werc among the guests, Senator Butler's Warning. Speaking at the banquet given last night at the Willard, Chairman Wil- llam M. Butler of the Republican na- tional committee warned that financ- ing of election campaigns by the Fed. eral Government, recently suggested by Senator Borah of Idaho, as & way to prevent huge campaign expendi- tures, would result in control of pol- itios by the Government and denial to_the people of freedom of franchise. The tendency of political campaign managers, he sald, is in the direction of decreased expenditures. He urged women 10 take the lead in educating the citizenship to vote. Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work and Secretary of Labor James J. Davis addressed the women at the banquet given for the national com- mitteewomen, State vice chairmen and the Republican club presidents by the Republican national committee. Chair- man Butler presided. fits. Borah Proposal. Senator Borah’s proposed remedy Butler stressed in his address, “would only make a bad matter worse.” If carried out, he explained, it would mean that the President would have to ask Congreas to include in the budget all items having to do with political campalgns. ““Whether or not this would involve A saving to the people is not a ques- tion_of importance,” he said, “but it is of vast importance whether or not the exercise of this authority over the people in their expression of in- terest in the government is to be con- trolled by Congressand the President. There are great numbers of people in the country who believe the Govern- ment has already gone quite far enough in seeking to control the free exercise of the rights of citizenship.” One of the speakers at yesterday's session was Miss Nannie Burroughs of this city, who told of the work that is being done to organize permanent G. O. P. clubs of colored women. “1 am glad to be able to give a touch of color to this meeting,” she said. “No political party In America is 100 per cent American without this touch of color.” SENATE VOTES TO EXTEND SHEPPARD-TOWNER LAW Measure Granting Federal Aid in Promoting Maternity and Infant Hygiene Continued Two Years. The Senate last night passed the bill extending for two more vears the Sheppard-Towner law, under which Federal aid is granted to the States to carry on maternity and infant hy- giene educational work. Action was obtained at A night session after Sen- ator Sheppard had worked out a compromise with the opponents of the measure, The compromise con- sisted of an amendment providing that the law shall expire in 1928, The hill has hean hefore the Senate at intervale since hefore Christmas, with opponents arguing that s work & a State and should not be dealt with by the “ederal Government. Following passage of the maternity act, Renator Lenroot of Wisconsi sought to have his bill, placing rer. tain restrictions on milk and cream imported into the United States, tahen up, but the Senate adjourned with nut selecting any unfinished husiness THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, |GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO PAY ENGINEERS FAVOR Abolition of Department and | Creation of New One Sought in Bill. | | Proposal to abolish the Department | of the Interior and (o creats in its stamd a Department of Publie Works and Domain was indorsed by the as- sembly of the American Engineering ! Council i 1tr second Aay's session at he Mayfiower Hotel teday. A Ml smbodying this proposal in A compiete | plan of Government reorganization | will he introdueed in the House next {week by Reprasentative Wyant of Pennsylvania. A Nation-wide campaign. enlisting the aid of 100,000 engineers to win public =upport of the plan. was author ized. It will he directed by a com-, mittes headed by Gardner 8. Williame | {of Ann Arbor. Mich. Seventy allied | | technjcal organizations are back of the | | movement, among them the American | | Institute of Architects. according to announcemsnt by Dean Dexter S, Kimball of Cornell University, presi dent of the council. Would Include Utilities Burean. Under a Secretary of Public Works | and Domain thers would he created bureaus of waterwavs And ports, pub. iic roads, geologieal Rurvey, reclama- tion and power, and national parks. combined with A general land office. There would also be a burean of | ntilitles 1o administer Government. | owned utilities, such as telephone and { cable lines und inland watetway carriers, The pian provides for one aseistant | secratary tn direct a hureau of Ad- ministrative and technieal service. Directors of bureaus, not to excesd sIx, wonld he named, with rank equal | (0 that of the Assistant secretary. Some argument developed over the titlex to be given to the heads of the bureaus, the committee objecting to Any title which would include the | word secretary, on the grounds that it suggested clerical rather than ad- ministrative duties. The bill makes these transfers to the proposed department: From the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Public Roads, except the agricultural engineering divizion: from the Treasury. the office of the supervising architect: from the War Department, the rivers and harbors Improvements, including the board of engineers on rivers and harbors, and the duties of the chief of Engineers, the Mississippi River Commiselon, the California Debris Commission, 'the Alaska telegraph and cable system, and all other civil engineering and conktruction work, including all juris- diction over navigable waters. The Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska and the Inland Waterways Corporation, now under the juriedie. tlon of the War Department, would also be shifted to the new depart. ment. Would Use Army Engineers. | Engineering officers of the Armv. the Bl provides, may be detalled to certain non-military duties with projects under the jurisdiction of the new department, Secretary Hoover will address the banquet of the councll at the Willard Hotel tonight, it was announced at the meeting. Charles M. Schwab of New York also will speak. Increased production: is directly traceable to decrease in accidents, a committee of the council declared in its report at the wession Iast night. The committe: for more than a year has conducted a study of nearly 14,000 companies representing 18 basic indus- tries, “In = practically _every - industry York, “and upward tendency in pro- ductivity is accompanied by a down- ward tendency in accident frequeney. Plainly, industry cannot operate with the highest degree of success in the presence of peril.” The committee’s report declared a check had shown that the average loss of time for each accident was that of nine men, or 5.88 hours. The Average cost per accident was $24.08. PRIZES AT BAL BOHEME. Most Artistic, Original and Amus- ing Costumes Promised Awards, Prizes for the most artistic, original and amusing costumes worn at the Bal Boheme next Monday night were chosen last evening at the Arts Club, by vote of the members, from an ex hibition of objects of art craftsman. ship assembled by the industrial art committee, of which Miss Lilllan Burke is chairman. ‘The voting, which followed the regular Thursday night program, at which Mre. Ernest Thompson Seton was speaker, with former District Commissioner and Mrs, Cuno H. Rudolph as special guests of honor, was spirited and resulted in the cholce of three articler. One is a silver bowl, made by Mis Mollie Weyman; another ari electric sconce, the work of Misa Lillian Burke, and the third a hand- hound volume of the “Rubaivat,” the produétion of Mirs Marian Lane. These prizes will be bestowed Monday night At the Bal Roheme by the judges of costumes, Gari Meichers, the celebrat. ed painter: J. Monroe Hewlett, eminent architect of New York, and Clifford K. Berryman, cartoonist. MOVIE OWNER BLAMED. Asczistant Manager and Usher Also Accused in Canadian Fire. MONTREAL, Quebec, (#).—Ameen Lawand, Laurier Palace Theater, where 78 children lost their livex in a fire panic last Sunday: Michael Arle, as. sistant manager, and Camil 75 head usher, were found criminally ra. sponsible by a corone Jury last night for the death of the children. Would Lend to Veterans. Loans by the January 14 owner of the! iovernment to World | War veterans, with their adjusted | compensation certificates as security, at 4 per cent intersst, is provided for | in a bill introduced in the Senate yes terday by Senator Sheppard, Demo. crat, of Texas. A similar bill has been offered in the Houss, Students Will Brave ! By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. January 14.—Fifty young man and woman students at the Homeopathic Medical College have volunteered to be artificially “'stung’’ by a and spiders in an nttempt to determine whether the venom can he made to serve some medicinal purpose. Members of the squad with note- book and peneil will record the mental And physical effects of the poisons as v are injected, while experts make vardstick. “I thank both you and your fellow Commissioners for the honor con- ferred and the many courtesies ex te! and wish you good luck and & in the work.” careful observation. While the layman probably never bas noticed any beneficial result from n encounter with & bse or a spider, the scientists, at college hold & Stings of _Bees And Spiders in Hunt for Kidney Remedy helief that the poisons of the insects may be used as a remedy for forms of kidney diseane. Members of the squad must he will- ing to “suffer pain and mental anguish in the interesta of science.” Small amounts of the poisons will be given At firet and the subjects are expected to be able to continue at. tendance at classes. With the coming of the Summer vacation, doses will be increased 1o such an extent that hospitalization may be necessary. The volunteers have signed waivers free- ing the institution from any responsi- bility for possible ill eonsequences. Various other non-habit-for drugs will be used in the sxpe: NEWPR studled,” snld Leon P. Alford of New |— D. (., FRIDAY, JA DRY AGENTS' GAMBLING LOSSES lNTERmR GHANGEgAssistant Cor;troller General Holds StmteI Laws Were Violated to Get Prohi- bition Law Evidence. Gambling losses sustained by pro- hibition agents to get evidence against suspected violators of the Volstead act cannot be paid from Federal funds it was made plain today in a decision by Assistant Controller General Lur- tin R. Ginn The decision overrnied an ardent piea from the district prohibition ad- ministrator for Arizona that the gambling had resulted in procuring of evidence, and sucessaful prosecution of caxpe bringing sentences of « 32 yeare and X monthr and fines amount- ing_to $8.R51. The gambling loases wers explained At having been inenrred by James L. Dausman and Dougias . Baker, pro. | hibition Inpectors, acting nnder or ders from their superior offiger, F. M. Pool, then deputy prohibition adminis trator, who promised the agents they wonld he reimbursed for their expend. ftures. Declared Necessary to Cases, Dansman spent $233.05 and Baker $268.80 lamt February by engaging in gambling games of chance and the purchase of whisky." The items were combined. “It would have haen fmpossible t gain the confidence of the violators of the national prohibitlon act,” wrote the prohibition administrator in de. Tense of the expenditures, “except by the method used hy these agents OBE STORY NETTLES LANDIS Judge Explodes Over Re- puted Airing of Giants- Yankees Series of 1922. By the Ansociated Prems, CHICAGO, January 14.—Kenesaw M. Landis, commissioner of base ball, exploded angrily today in, denying that he was secretly investigating a new scandal in base ball-—the 1922 world serfes between the Giants and Yankees, The commissioner said the first he knew ahout the latest three.reeler wag when he read today’s papers. e “There's nothing to it," he ploded. ““These storiex are now being cooked up by the newspapers. They print the story in one edition and then deny it in the next. “T'm getting tired spending all my time making denials to these =silly stories. “Some of these reporters gt them- selves filled with stale beer, mince pie and oh, well—." With that he banged ceiver, up the re. FREEDOM OF PRESS DEFENDED BY REED IN TALK TO EDITORS _(Continued from First Page) restrictions that were imposed on free speech in those days. 'There never war a timé when a man in England could not oppoke the prosecution of the World War, or the acta of the government. But in America we could be sent to jail for such criticism.” 8enator Reed entered the room while the meeting was discussing the ethice of journalism. He seized the oceasion to tell some of the editors, who came here for the meetings from many parts of the country, what he thought of their ethics. He added that if time permitted, he would Itke nothing better than to lock the doors and make them listen to all he would like to say on that subject. Cleveland Editor Speaks. E. C. Hopwood, editor of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer and president of the wsociety, raised the question of “The recent invasions of journalistic rights,” in his opening address. Mr. Hopwood sald he referred to the ar- rest of newspaper men in several in- stances during the past year for al- leged contempt of court and to at- tacks that were made on reporters and.photographers who were “cover- ing” recent textile strikes in New Jersey. In some of these cases, the editors of the newspapers offended had ap- pealed to him to make an investiga- tion and seek the co-operation of this meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editfra to prevent repeti- tlon in the future. Having no funds, Nr. Hopwood war obliged to resort to writing letters to each side in the controversies. Ax a result, he ad- mitted his inability to decide the jus- tice of elther side. “Must be No Invasion.” “While the liberty of the press must never be mistaken for license” he continued, “there must be no in- vasion of the rights of the press, It we are to go into that field of our profession, we must have funds for that purpose. It i& my belief that a fund of 825000 a year would be none to large to employ investiga- tors and adequate counsel in cases where it seems the rllhll‘of a free press have heen invaded. Turning to another phase of the journalistic profession, Mr. Hopwood expressed A personal fear that edi- tors show too great a tendency to r | ment criticism directed against them- | Relver or their articles. Newspapers, he sald, must learn that nothing in society Is immutable, that the preas must learn to change with the times, and that “it ia not the part of wise men to cry down eriticism.” Profession On Upgrade. In conclusion, he expressed a heliet that as a whole the profession of journalism is on the upgrade in America. He has noticed in the past cear, A growing sense of fairness among editors, and gteater efforts to keep the public informed on events that are taking place in all Jands without bias. He expressed re- gret that some few have persisted in publighing things that are offenaive to “good taste and the tenets of good morals." Willlam Allen White, A& chairman of the committee on ethick, reported that he and his associates had a tempted to pursue a &tudy of the ethica of journalism during the last year, but that they were obiiged to return with the admission thatl tney had “no idea of what the ethics are." “In_ fact,” he added, ve have come back to ask for further inatruc. tions." “8hall our ethics apply t» advertis. ing, as well as the news and cditor, ial ‘columna?” he asked. “Of what use are high and noble editorial standards when we turn right around 4 buy syndicate stulf that is ad. dressed to moroni Again, what right have wé to buy elrculation—ot- they enter intn which required that gambling games." Quoting from Judgs Sawtells, Fed | eral judge. the defanse lstter said the judge stated that “ths condition waR the wornt that he had ever ssen In any town and that the agenta did axcellent work, And that if he were the responsible party for making the payments for the expenses Incurred hy the agents thers wonld be no ques. tion of their settlement.” Holds Funds Not Available. Indge Ginn, after quoting liberaliy m the lawe Invelved, declared: The appropriation for expenkes of enforcing the provieions of the na tional prohibition act I not available to reimburse prohihition agents for losses ‘rustained while engaged gambling in_violation of laws in an effort to detdet or secure evidence of violations of the prohibi- tion lawn.” There had been no definite show- ing, Judge Ginn said, “ar to what par Any, of the amounts claimed was necessarily expended for the se- curing of evidence.” Furthermore, Judge Ginn pointed out, “the fact that an expenditurs has Dbeen authorized by a superior officer does not always conetitute authority therefor. Tha charactsr of the ex penditure here involved is such that reimbursement therefor cannot he Authorized in the absence of specific Iegislative Authority therafor. MODEL INTRODUCED IN TRIAL OF NORRIS Layout -of Office Where Chipps Was Shot Shown to Texas Jury. By the Arsaciated Prews, COURTROOM, AUSTIN, Tex., Janu- ary 14.—A wooden modél of the Rev. J. Frank Norris' office and itx sur- roundings at Fort Worth was intro- duced by the prosecution as ite first evidence when the trial of the Bap- tist minister, charged with the mur- der of D. E. Chipps, Fort Worth lum- berman. opened today. ‘The model ahows the second fioor of the fouratory building adjoining the church in which Chippe was killed. It showr the stalrway up which he climbed to his death last July 17, the ante-room he entered hefore approach- ing Norris and the office in which he WAR 8hot three times A= he protested to the pastor Against attacks on May- or H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth, The exhibit was placed on the floor in front of the witheas stand, where the jury may look down on the roof- Iesr interior ax though it were on an adfoining bulling peering down into the Norris office. 50 Witnesses Sworm. About 50 witnesses were sworn. } Mayor H. C. Meacham dld not respond when his name wag called, but Attor- ney William Melean of the prostcu: tion said he war In town and would appear. Mrs. R. E. Parker of Fort Worth was subpoenaed by the State yester- day and was understood to be one of the witnesses expected to describe the appearance of the study of the Bap- tist Church there shortly after Chipps was found dead near the pastor's desk. Other prosecution witnessex sum- moned to support the charge Chipps wag killed when he went to the church unarmed to protest attacks on Meacham include police officers and court officialr of Fort Worth, as well as the lumberman's widow. Plans for Defense. Following a conference, attorney's for Dr. Norris indicated they would rely on two purported eye.witnesses to the slaying to prove the pastor shot only " after Chipps threatened him. L. H. Nutt, an official of the church, claima to have been in the v when Chipph enteved, while *he personal secretary she waa in an adjoining room. Objections by the defense to ex- haustive exam! declares bers of the Ku Klux Klan view on that organization overshadowed religious which featured the first two Debate on thé Klan issue hecame so spirited that the entire afternoon wa: required to melect Andrew McAngus, A grocer, as the twelfth juror. The jurors, two of whom said they formerly helon; to the Kian, were identified as a former sheriff, a dairyman, retired business man, butch- er, hlackamith, machinist, electrical worker, auto salesman, farmer, gro- cer and two labore: All are mar- ried, GLOOMY DEAN SMILES. TONDON, January 14 () —George Rernard Rhaw recently handed Dean Inge a litérary bouquet which ban- ished the gloom of that ecclesiastical dignity for several days. “I have a muperior brain,” said Shaw, leaning against the mantelpiece in the home of Lady Beecham, while talking to dinner guests, ‘but there i8 the greatest living writer in Eng- land,” and he pointed to Dean Inge, sitting in a corner. Shaw, instead of his famous tweeds, wore A neat black Kult, which the Duchess of Hamilton and the others agreed was most becomin fer premiuma and prizes to hure in subscribers who have no interest in our newspapers and are of nc benefit to our advertisers? ‘“There are questions that presented themselves and we ask vour instrue- tion on them. Along the same line of thought, what rights have the adver- tisers? Any? Are the theaters, the au temobile shows, the molves and others entitled to continue hogging their sales arguments into our news col- umna? We want your opinions on these questions?"” Mores Strauss of the Cincinnati Times-Star opened the discussion on the questions propounded. He was to be followed by a number of other edi- tors, including additional members of the bewildered committee, when Sena- tor Reed reached the meeting, As Senator Reed was obliged to be at the Capitol as early this afternoon as pos-. sible, the discussion was deferred un. til this afternoon. Kditors came into existence five years ago at a meeting in New York City. In its membership are included the editors of most of the outstanding newspapers of the country. The pres- ent meetings .will continue through to- morrow, concluding in the evening with a banquet, at which the speakers awill be Nicholas Murray Butlér, presi- dent of Columbia University; Charles Evans Hughes and Roy W. Howard, fimmnn of the board of the Eeri) rd newspapers, the State | ‘The American Boclety of Newspaper | gjded NUARY 14, 1927. - —_——— TEACHER KLLE SRDE, KN CHARGE Relatives Claim That Acci- dent Version Is False, Paper Says. Ry the Associated Prens, NASHVILLE, Tenn., The Tennexaesan savs Prof. J. A. Woodard, prineipal of the Helena, Ala.. High School, whose secret bride of two weekn war Arotwned six week® ago In Wilson Dam back whters In an automohile wreck near Lawrenceburg, Tenn.. Ik held in Florence, Ala.. on a charge of murder. Charles Battle. the girl'® brother-in: 1w, &wore to the warrant. The teachar's preliminary trial in j£et for January 19, Relativex of Mre, Wondward and her attorney, Gen. Claude 1, Boyd, prosecuting attorney of the Tennsssee judiclal cireuit, have actumulated circumstantial evidence, indicating that Woodward's version of the accdent in falxe, Mr. Boyfl said n witneas would he produced to testify that Woodward's clothes wers not wet after tha ae ecldent, and (hat a nearby resident would say that the yvoung woman wax heard to scream before she war drowned, Wondward told personk on the Keene that his bride was driving the automobils and that she dodged a Adog and drove into the water. He said he war nearly drowned. Woodward, formerly principal of the Lawrenceburg Public School, was convicted here in October, 1824, of hreaking into the County Court clerk’s office and stealing queations for a county superintendent’s sxamination he was (o take. He wax sentenced to six months in jail, hut was pardoned hy_the governor, Mr. Bovd alao maid that Nes. Wood. ward carried $18,500 life insurance, which in event ot accidental death would pay polies £10,000, carrying a double indemnity clause, har heen paid to her sstate. Another policy for $5,000 straikht, was written by Woodward on her lite & week before her death. [he also carried $1,600 payabla to her mother, BROOKHART CLEAR OF LOBBY CHARGE Committee Reports Steck Withdraws A‘zcusations. Refuses to Reveal Source. January 14 today that insurance, By the Associated Préas, | Senatoralect Smith W. Brookhart, Republiean, of lowa, was exonerated today by the Senate interstaté com- merce committee, which inquired into intimations presented by Renator Steck, Democrat, Towa, that Brook- hart was A “pald lobbyist" for farm organizations and for Cyrus E. Woods, nominatéd as Interstate. com- ‘merce commissioner. IChalrman: Watson presented to the Senate the statément réad to the Jcommittes by Seénator Bteck with: drawing the charges and the conclu: slon of the committee that in view uf this development no further action was necessary. Both Brookhart and Woods denied the charges before the committee. Subsequently Woods' nomination was ncted upon adversely, the comm! heeding the pleax of Bouthern c. States, which opposed confirmation. Holds Report Inadequate, Senator Norri¢, Republican, Nebras- ka, expressed the view the report was inadequate as a disporition of such serious charges as had been lodged against Brookhart. Senator Norris asked Senator Watson if newspaper based his charges had been examined by the committee. Watson said one newspaper clip- ping had been examined, but it con- tained no reference to the charge that Rrookhart was seeking to further the Woods nomination. Norris Demands Expreasion. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, was insistent in. questioning Chair- man Watson as to whether Benator 8teck had withdrawn the charges be- fore the committee. When informed that such had bheen the case, he asked it Rteck had declined to veal the source of the rumors. This alzo drew an afirmative reply from Watson, Finally Renator Robinson, Arkan- sar, the Democratic leader, said the withdrawal ended the matter, but Senator Norris demanded an egpres- afon from the Senate and gave notice that he would discuss the aituation further when the parliamentary rules permitted. e i i ARGICULTURE DAY SOUGHT The first Thuraday In October of each year would he observed. as Agricuiture day throughout the United Statea, under a resolution by Senator Capper of Kansas, which was fayorably reported by the Sen- ate agricultural committes today. The resolution would not make the day & national holiday, but would provide merely for a requeat to the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the governora of the States to take such Steps As they may deem advisable to bring about proper ohservance of the day. MoCULLOUGH IS FAVORED, Chief Justice F. A. McCullough of the Arkansas Supreme Court {s con. sidered a likely appointee to the Fed. eral Trade Commission and present indications point to his nomination at an early date. Only oné vacancy exists on the commission and many recommenda- tiona for the appointment have been recelved by the White House. The Arkansas jurigt ie strongly supported by Southern Democratic Senators and Representatives. reports on which Bteck said he had | pe! SHIP, 3 DAYS OVERDUE, . REACHES PORT SAFELY | Miami-Nassau Bchooner With 27 Aboard Was Foreed to Wait Un- til Storm Subsided. Ry the Amociated Prose. MIAMI, Fla, January 18.—Three | an overdus, the British auxiliary | schooner Mystery sutbound from Miami with 22 passengers and a erew of 5 arrived safely this morn- the ship's agents here sald. The message stated that the Myntery J. moon after clearing from Miami encountered high seas and aped to the banke off Gun Key, 4% milen east, to ride out the gale in the protected waters. With the ceasation af the stormy weather yeaterday the Schoonsr pro- ceeded to Ra. . MERGER OF 3LINES INWEST IS NEARER Great Northern, Northern Pa cific and Burlington Nego- tiations Progressing. By the Amociated Proas. R, PAUL, January 14.—A dream of raliroad conwelidation envisoned by James J. Hill, “the smpire build- a1, 25 yeArs AgO, WAR A Atep nearer realization today. Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Rallway, announced here that plane are “progressink” for the ing in Nassau, wirelexs dispatches to | newspapermen and camera men to (CHAPLIN EXPECTS 10 GET CHILDREN Has “Plenty of Grounds” to Justify Court Order, He Says in New York. By the Ammciathd Prose. NEW YORK, January 14.—Charles Chaplin, Alm comedian. who is Baing Aued for Alvarea by hin wite, Lita Grey Chaplin, arrived today from Chicago. and reiterated that he would ‘Aght to the bitter énd” for his He war grested by a small army of whom he refused to make any state- ment other than a denial of the charger. which he characterized As “ridiculous.” ‘The whole aftair wax instigated by her family.” Chaplin %aid. “My chll- dren xre not in the hands of respon- aible people. ‘Thev ars after monev And not the children. I will never Kive up the attempt to gain the custody of my Ronw.” Has Seen Children Once. Chaplin said he had seen his chil- dren only once recently. “Since I last saw my wifé I have made ond vitit to 368 my sons.” hé safd. “‘But my wite's family wAa there and | couldn’t Atand the anvironment. I stayed only a short while ™ He would not discloke the basis of the cross-bilt he will file against his wife. He intimated that he had “plenty of grounds” on which he thought tha court would award him the enstody ot his chitdren. He had not learned until his Arrival in New York that Mre. Chaplin'e at. torneyx had broukht in the name of Bdna Purviance, hix leading lady in hir sarly Alms. He sxplained the pay merger of the Great Northern, North- ern Pacific and Chicagn, Burlington and Quincy. Ruch A consolidation would embrace a Ayatem of IR000 miles. Details of the plan are heing work- »d out in conference qf the rail of. folals and their legal advisers and may be ready for presentation to the Interatate Commercs Commission within 90 daye. Governors of the States through which the roads oper- ate will he advised of the plans be. fore they are turned over to the com- mission. According to Mr. Budd. enly "un- foremeen problems” in his opinion. eould prevent completion of the plans within three monthe. Howard Elilott, chairman of the Northern Pacific, in a statement ia- aued in New York, said that a joint “consolidation committee’ of the three roady has been working on the sub- Ject for sk years. Within the last six months, Mr. Ei- lott's statement added, counsel for the roads have préparsd Eome plans “which may permit A greater uni- fication of the three properties than exints today." The plans already drawn will be considered at_conferances “‘during the coming week.,” and Arrangementa made to '‘complete the papers for submission at the proper time” to the commission and the shareholders of the companies. Both Mr. Budd and Mr. Elliott em- phasized the merger ik not complets, and anything to the contrary is “pré. mature and inaccurate.” MBERGER GIVEN APPROVAL. Counsel of Raflway Executives Speaks to Senate Committee. Approval of the prospéctive Great Northern and Northern Pacific mer- ger waa volced today before the Ben- ate interstate commerce committee by Alfred P. Thom, general counwel the Association of Rafiway BExecu- tives. In indorsing tha Fesa bill, which would law down a national policy favoring voluntary mergers, subject to the approval of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, Mr. Thom said the tendency toward mergera under the existing law demons‘rated the sound ness of the voluntary aystem aa against the proj 1 incorporated in the Cummins bill 10 make ronsolida- (Inn:‘(omrlulmy within a fiveyear riod. The Cummins bill waa reported out of committee last seseion. The bill proposal, introduced last month, in still before the committee. Today in Congress ake up this aft- Lenroot bill placin on milk an the United ernoon the new requirements m shipped into tes. Military affairs committee held hearing on Army promotion bill Interatate commerce committes was still working on the railroad consolidation bill. Agriculture committee met and reported favorably the Capper reso- lutton for the obser agricultural day ann ber. Finance committee continued in sension on the alien property bill. HOUSK. Representative Eaton, Repub- lican, of New Jersey addressed House on the Nicaraguan situation. Independent officers appropria- " tion bill taken up, to be followed by general debate on War Depart- ment apropriation bill. Rubcommittee on parks and play- grounds of District committee con- ducts hearing on Mount Reno com- munity development, Subcommittee of appropriations committee in executive session on commerce dnd labor and deficiency appropriation bills. Banking and curréncy commit- tee continues hearing on Federal farm loan bill. Irrigation and reclamation com- mittes in executive aesion on bilis awaiting action. Joint committes on insular af- faire continues hearing on Virgin Islands, Military affairs committes holds régular meeting in executive ses- sion. WaAyR and méank committee con- ducts hearing on Cuban parcel post. NAvAal affairs commities conducts hearing on construction of publie works. | By the Aseaciated Press. NEW YORK, January 14.—For the first time in the record of communie tions & man in New York today pre. t A meeting in London by mak. Ing & Speech over the telephone plainly heard across the Atlantie by 200 persons. The speaker was Robert Lisher, president of First National Pictures, Ino., owner of the Circls Theater in Indianapolis, who daliversd the key- note s to A convention of First Nati, salesmen Assembled The speech followed 1 een n’l bol\v-. in | hi .‘&"” and ha e American Speaker Presides by Phone Over Film Meeting He 1d in London Hotel said to be perfect. The call took 10 minutes, And cost the company $250 Lieber's voles wal loud apeakers, LONDON, January 14 U®.—Th Arat apbech aver delivered by tran Atlantle rul::hm WAS heArd Buccesa. mllg"ln London today, when Robert LA president of the First National Pleturea, Ins., spoke from Naw Yor! to the annual convention of salesmen of his company at the Hotel Ceel ere. ,Exeallent lrinsmission enabled the Lo aueta. 1o IATeR. In Sasiy 16 the ol e speaker in ulcn k | thres vi the » ment of §250 per week to the actress, however, by saving that he had Miss Purvianes under contract for several years and that hik wife “certainly couldn’t maks anything senmational out of that.” Tn Eaat Indefinitely. Chaplin said his stay in New York would be indefinite. He ia to finish hin latest pieture here. Alse he has A eivil ault invelvink haif a million dollars against the pictorial Review for alleged damaging articles that will be prosecuted hers The fiim atar laughed at reporte from Calitornia that his fortune, ssti. mated at $16.000,000, had been tied up by hisx wife. “If she thinks she In getting $16,000.000 the joke's on her” he aald. "I would be well wenm is I had three our four mil- ons. " MAY C ACTRESSES, Mrs. Chaplin Ready to Name Five It Necessary. LOR ANGELES, Janua The posaibllity that they may he drawn ifto the Charles Chaplin divoree case hung over the heads of “five prominent motion picturs aet- reases” today. 3 Lyndol K. Young, counsél for the screen star's estranged wife, vea- teriay declared hi client Was pre- pared to furnish the names of t five women ahe reférred to in her dlvorce petition having “publicly And privatel assoclated with Chaplin. Thus far the namex have not come out, but they will be profluced, Youne #ald, it they are demanded either by the court or by Chaplin's lawyers. Coplea of Suit Sold. Meanwhils, Los Angeles warmed up to the case by showing such a Hking for itx detalls that a print- ing of A booklet in which Mrs Chaplin's petition was given in its entivety has been sold. The copies brought 25 cents #ach. The county clerk’s oMce har been no hessiged with requeats to xee the petition that been sequestered from the v 14 (D). t h filex. aceivers of the Chaplin property ppointed at the instance of Mre. Chaplin had the bookr of the séreen star undér scrutiny today. - Mrs. Chaplin s sesking & ahars of the comedian’® fortune, estimated in har suit to total $18,000.080. Of this amount, she declares, $10.000,000 is community propérty. Under Cali- tornia laws the wife Is entitled to an | equal division of the community prop- o However, Mrs. Chaplin's Attor- neys point out that It her charges of extreme crueity are proven, Chaplin is llable under the divorce laws of the imnn to be penalized to the extent of losing his share of community prop- erty, Wil Open Chaplin Safe. W. I. Gilbert, one of the receivers, declared he intends to poxsess as much of the comedian's wealth ak can be | located hefors réporting to the court on the actor'a financial condition. He announced that the raceivers would vinit the Chaplin studios in Hollywood today, where an office sate. helleved to contain accounts of the actor's income and expenditures, would be opened in the presence of attorney After an Inspection the comedi an's ledgers, the receivers plan to call on bankk in Los Angeles where Chap lin and his askociates are known (o have transacted busineas and aearch all deporit_boxer rented hy the com edian, Al Reeves, hiz manager, or T. Kono, his secretary. These boxes will be searched for possible additional e curities. Receivership notices already have been served on the banka, pre ventink the withdrawal of any of the actor's tunda, pending a settlement of the divorce muit, WOMEN 0. K. CHAPLIN FILMS. tation™ Against Him. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., January 14 P).—The Miami Beach Woman's Cluh han gons on record AR petitioning lo- Miamt Beach Club Ofposes “Sitly Agl- i cal moving picture managers to show @) all pictiiren obtainable that feat Charlfé Chaplin. Mra. Clayton Sedy: wick Cooper, the elub's president, | announcing thin today said this ae, tion was thken to eounteract what sh termed “silly agitation which we an's clubs have taken in regard Chaplin pictures. She said the Miami Beach club t the position that ‘‘the patrons of pf ture theaters will be the Ioser if Chal HA's Alma are barred."” MRS. M. C. ATLEE DIE Civil War ann__wm" Lifelong Resident. Mrs. Mary C. AtLes, widow of G man York At Civil War vet disd today at the residence of daughter, Mrs. Raymond O Young, 8028 Forty-first street, Ch ase, Md. She was born in ville, Md., the daughter of Dr. J. and Mra. May Martin Croffon, :rnn a lifelong resident of Wa on. She 1k survived by two sons, Ri Ard A, AtLes of Los Angeles. Frank B, AtLes of Richmond, S gl e A Mg tion Convant, ville, MrA. Young And Mre. Alfred T. @ of Chevy .. Funeral services will be ondAy at_ 8t the et aterment