Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1927, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 00 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably rain or snow today and tomorrow: much colder today. Highest, 73, at 2 p.m. he 1,140— No. 30,217. Entered post _as second class matter ofice, Washington, D. C. | | i BRITAIN MASSING TROOPS T0 GUARD RIGHTS IN EHlNA’» LONDON DENIES MOVE CONSIDERS AGGRESSION | | | | Serious Disorders Disturb Shsng-: hai—Apprehension Grows Over Plight of Americans. By the Ascociated Press. LONDON, Januar bat- | talions of British troops have been or- | dered to be in readiness for embarka- | tion for China. This is in addition to the 1.000 marines who will probably embark at Portsmouth Monday for the Far East. From India comes re-| ports that an Indian brigade is also preparing for a rapid movement. The government decided today to take the country partly into its con fidence and official communiques an nouncing the new preparations were | issued by both the foreign office and | war office. There has been consider able m cation over the con between the ministers’ constant assur ances of a conciliatory policy toward | China and the unusual naval and | military preparations, which are daily | increa: ! 22.—Four No Aggressive Intention. Official quarters still maintain that these preparations are nothing but precautionary measures for the pro- tection of British subjects and inter- | ests and that there is no aggressive in- | tention. They assert that negotiations with China are continuing, and also that, although general conditions in China contain the seeds of possible grave developments, there is no im mediate danger. A high ministerial authority tonight deni¢d that.yesterday’'s cabinet coun- cafled owing to the receipt of from China. On the con- trary, it is understood that no news of importance has been received within the last 48 hours from either the Bri‘- i¢h Minister. Miles Lampson, or Charge O'Malley. Hankow Situation Better. Press dispatches today indicate an fmproved silg& at -Hankow, but less favorable where. = The.report that British busifiess houses have re- opened at Hankow tends to show that Charge O'Malley’s negotiations with Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign min- s have been progressing satis- factorily. Shanghai dispatches, on the othér hand, report serious disorders, The cabinet will undoubtedly hold turther councils for the coning week, and the negotiations looking to an un- derstanding between Great Britain and China will probably be prolonged, owing to the difficuilties and slowness of communication. There is also ap- prehension that the censorship is| being freely applied to dispatches from China, thus preventing the Brit- ish public from learning the true sit- uation. Dispatches from India declare that rumors are rife in Delhii of the| mobilization of an Indian brigade for service in China, but neither official | confirmation nor denial can be oh- tained. Ome dispatch asserts that, among the troops ordered to the Far | East from India are the Durham Light Infantry, the Gloucestershires and a battalion of Punjab Infant PROBLEM IS PRESENTED. Apprehension for Safety of Shanghai Americans Increases. . By the Aseociated Press Apprehension { over the plight of | Americans in China increased per- ceptibly here vesterday, due to an outbreak of rioting in the internation- al settlement at Shanghai The situation was not clear enough in the absence of complete official re- ports to permit comment at the State Department, vet it was obvious that the outbreak was regarded in official quarters as having ominous possi bilities. Reports previously tved from Admiral Williams nghai, in command of all Ame naval forces | in Chinese waters, told of an increas- | ing number of local strikes among | Chinese workers of the international ment. Such disorders as these aused suffi cient to warrant official reports | May Be Serious. i The demenstration of Chinese street | railway emploves on el in the heart of the imr ShoDoIE district of the inter itk | munity, and the result fash with the international police observe here, ho @ D agitatior at ay be getting out of hand 1t Hankow and elsewhere No additional steps to val forces now quickl ection to Am \ hanghai disclosed tc Washington Government aspects developme nis nths wh i d upplement availahle for residents of 1y by the There are | n China in| Not Molested. rioting in Only at F to local cond any direct atiack « chief apprehension in ton arises fro; that paign of of by Chinese s been the a pr 15 powers d officials, . the inter hai would if its evacua There are mis five 1 to oblem \Wemen and_children_and (Continued. on P: some _me; lumn 2.y vain | e | foreigners | WASHINGTON, MUSSOLINI ANTICIPATING MORE AND FURIOUS WARS/ Duce Believes Conflicts May Come With| Hurricane Suddenness—Warns of | [NT0 COLLEGE BUS Too Much Optimism. The following is the first of three articles which will appear. exclu- | sively in The Star and other membe: which Mussolini has outlined the philosophies un- Nrwspaper Alliance. in derlying his statesmanship. r newspapers of the North American BY GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK. “Do you think,” T asked Mussolini, “that the skies for mankind are Hr tening, that the war that slew Mussolini‘s lips curled. The res a "It seems to me,” he remarked, are destined to live in a gloomy per tragedy. “Your sexcellency.” I replied, “is ten million men was not entirely in t of his face remained cold and im- ve, as if it were chiseled from marble, _“that the twentieth century people iod of history, in an age clouded by It is our duty to accept that fact like men a pessimist. Brand—" “Intelligent pessimism,” the Duce replied, without waiting for me to finish my sentence, “is much better t really acerbity, rope, if not the world, between those terrible | years of 1914 and 1918 is to be the last of which | history w believe,” han unintelligent optimism. Do you he added, with considerable “that the war which devastated Eu- ill bear record? . "I am glad to say that many do not share this fine and splendid but dangerous faith that everything is to go well with the world in the future.” “Do vou, then, consider war a necessit: “All t he wars of which history bears record can be explained upon the basis of the histori- cal facts. seems to the days of Cain down to our own, that cannot | be explain explained. But war itself, the fact of war, which permeate the story of mankind since ed. At any rate, it has never yet been “Perhaps war is one of the inscrutable things—or ne of the facts which, like so many other inexplicable facts, must remain too much for a merely human wisdom to account for. It may be that war is the origin of all things | great, as_an ancient' Greek philosopher ‘once | said, ‘or it may’ be of divine origin, as the | BENITO MUSSOLINL & French th inker, Prudhon, has affirmed. “War may be the root from which human progress springs, as Renan said. Whatever one chooses to say me to be certain that war is not exterminated. we have all lived and through which (Continued on pa about war as a fact, it continues to The war through which I fought as a humble private in the ge 3, Column 2.) FARM RELIEF VOTE INHOUSE ASSURED Advocates of McNary- Haugen Bill Also Predict Senate Action. BY 6. GOULD LINCOLN. Without much blare of trumpets, the advocates of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, with its equalization fee principle, have manouvered that measure into a position where it is practically assured a vote in the House at the present sesson and- where it may be voted upon in the Senate. The bill was reported to the Senate yesterday by practically the unani- mous vote of the Senate committee on agriculture. Some of those voting to report the measure reserved the right to oppose it later in the Senate, it is true. But the bill goes to the Senate calendar. The bill was already on the house calender, waiting the disposal of the appropriation bills before being taken up in the House. Hard Drive for Vote. From now until the close of the short session, March 4, the drive for action on the bill is expected to in- crease in strength. It remains to be seen whether the opponents of the measure can resist successfully the pressure that will be brought to bear. The political pressure in the agricul- tural States is having some effect. That the bill is stronger today in both House and Senate is the opinion ex- pressed by it supporters and ad mtted with reluctance by its oppo- nents. The vote, however, will be close, in all probability, Whichever way it goes. "The Curtis-Crisp bill will be offered as a substitute for the McNary- Haugen bill in both houses, when the farm relief measure comes up. The Curtis-Crisp bill goes a long ways, it is said, toward what is demanded by the farmers, but it does not contain the equalizaton fee provision. The equalization fee principle is sine qua non upon which many of the farm organzations are insisting. In some quarters attempts have been made to dub the Curtis-Crisp bill as an admin- istration measure. So far, however, the administration has not formally put its seal of approval on that or any other bill now before Congress for farm relief. President Coolidge has made no direct statement regard- ing his attitude toward the revised McNary-Haugen bill. President for Farm Relief. Frankly the administration has been friendly to farm relief legisla- tion. It would like very much not only to aid the farmers but to put the farm relief issue behind it suc cessfully. The President in his an- hual message to Congress dealt with rm relief legislation and his op. position to putMng the Government into the business of production and g and selling farm produce was clear. He insisted that the ation should be sound econom 2lly. For the rest, he left the mat- ter up to Congress. Senator McNary wd Mr. Haugen both insist that their NEN PEAGE PARLEY PROPOSED BY DA Conference of Nicaraguans Only Urged by President to End Strife.» By the Associated Press. o MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 22.—A proposal to end the civil strife in his country by another conference of Nicaraguans in Nicaragua was voiced today by President Adolfo Diaz, head of the Conservative gov- ernment. Coincidentally, he announced op- position to the principle of settlement of the Nicaraguan conflict by foreign countries. His views were made known in a statement to the Asso- ciated Press. ““What we now hold out for,” Presi- dent Diaz said, “as the only dignified and satisfactory means of geaching a solution of our problem is a confer- ence of Nicaraguans, by Nicaraguans and within Nicaragua. Approves Neutral Zone. “For such a conference we are will- ing to have a neutral zone declared and maintained by the United States in our territory, but we are opposed to the principle of the settlement of Nicaraguan political disputes by for- elgn countries, and particularly by countries where the governments have openly expressed hostility to us and whers the revolution against us has found a base of operations for expe- ditions, as has been the case in both Guatemala and Costa Rica.” A conference, as suggested by Presi- dent Diaz, was held in Corinto, Nica ragua, last October, but failed despite heroic efforts made by Lawrence Dennis, American charge d'affaires, and Rear Admiral Latimer. The Liberals refused at that time to have anything to do with a Conserva- tive President because, they argued, Dr. Sacasa was elected by the people as vice president, and since Carlos Solorzano, now a resident of Cali- fornia, had resigned, Sacasa was in line for the presidency. HUDDLESTON ASKS FACTS. Wants Congress Taken Into Kellogg's Confidence. By the Associated Press. Activity here yesterday with regard to the Nicaraguan situation was con- fined to the House of Representatives, where two resolutions dealing with the administration's policy toward that country were introduced by Rep- |resentative Moore, Democrat, Vir- ginia. On the floor Representative Huddleston, Democrat, Alabama, re- newed his criticism of the administra- tion and demanded that Secretary Kel- |losg take Congress into his con. fidence, As for the controversy with Mexico over application of the new oil and land regulations there were no de- velopments here. Asked to Oppose Intervention, < <ound and that it does not put ,vernment into business. To » contentions the opponents of the bill vigorously demur. Indeed, a mi- | “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) | Representative Moore, who has been | outspoken in his criticism of the Wash- | ipx}nn ,(,;""_"'",",'e“,l ,K policy (Continued on Page 4, | By ¢ i 2. —Children in home: aus forgot on | Christmas are going to have their | share of cheer after all. A belated { a Claus in the form of lassies |of dvation Army will visit them. bringing some of the things for which children of the poor looked in vain in the stockings they | hir en who re- giverr-to-the Salvation Army to Collect Discarded Toys for Children Santa Forgot| poor children, who will probably treasure them second-hand more than their original possessors cher: ish them new. The one-eyed dolls, the three- legged doms, the battle-scarred tin soldiers and the like, many of which have gone into the discard since Christmas, will find new homes where they will bring happiness. The toys will be collected by the Salva- tion Army campalgn” which. will extend, throug! h In one of the resolutions offered by | . WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION iy Star. and service will | start immediately. D. C, SUNDAY MORN ING, JANUARY 2 1927—102 PAGE TEN ATHLETES DIE AS TRAIN SMASHES {Cream of Baylor University’s Talent Wioed Out in Texas Wreck. (FIVE OTHERS INJURED, ONE PROBABLY FATALLY Only 6 in Party of 21 on Way to Basket Ball Game Escape. Driver Blames Rain. By the Associated Press. ROUND ROCK, Tex., January 22 The cream of Baylor University's ath- letic talent was wiped out here today when a fast International-Great North- ern Railroad train crashed into a motor bus and took the lives of 10 and injured 5, one of whom is not ex pected to live. Six of the party of 21 escaped injury. Coach Ralph R. Wolf and his bas ket ball players were scheduled to meet the University of Texas Long- horns tonight at Austin. They had completed all but miles of their trip from Waco to the State capital | in the university's parlor bus. The | driver apparently did not see the train until it was almost upon the bus crossing the tracks. Turns Out Too Late. The big machine was turned, but too late, the locomotive crashing into | it and dragging and tossing bodies of the dead down the tracks. _Joe Potter of West, freshman, offi- cial driver of the machine, was driv ing at the time of the accident, it was determined tonight, although there had been reports that Coach Wolf was at the wheel. Wolf escaped injury Potter was taken from the scene of | the wreck, suffering from shock. Six of the students were killed out- right, two died at Taylor, Tex., and two in an ambulance en route to Georgetown, 11 miles away. The Dead. Jimmie S. Walker, Greenville: Ivey | Foster, Taylor; W. E. Murray, Gates ville; Sam Dillow, Fort Worth; J. Clyde Kelley, Waco; Merle H. Dudley, Abilene; Bob Hailey, Lott; Jack Castel low, Ennis; Bob Hannah, William Winchester, | 1 The Injured. * Eid Gooch, Ennis; Fred Acree; Wato; Wesley Bradshaw, Waco; Joe Potter, ‘West, driver; J. G. Berry, Smithville. Walker, Dillow and Hannah were members of the first-string basket ball five. J. Clyde (Abe) Kelley was the outstanding athlete of the Bap- tist school. Last Fall he was named all-Southwestern fullback, largely be- cauge of his punting ability, and he was captan-elect of the 1927 eleven. Kelley ‘was a star catcher in base ball and played guard in basket ball. ‘Winchester and Hailey were mem- bers of the varsity basket ball squad, while Foster played on the freshman team. Murray was manager, while Castellow was listéd as club manager. | Fred Acree, team member, was the most seriously injured. His back was reported broken. Berry was the other member. of the team on the in- Jured list. Gooch is student assistant in the athletic department. Captain Escapes Injury. Capt. Louis Slade, basket ball cen- ter, and Keifer Strickland, forward and the scoring star of the team, were not_injured. Wesley Bradshaw, who was injured, is well known in Eastern professional foot ball. In 1925, he played with Jim Thorpe’s Rock Island (Illinois) eleven. In 1922 he was all-Southwestern quar- terback on the championship Baylor eleven. : | Coach Wolf, uninjured, is rated | Baylor's greatest track star of all, time. He specialized in the dashes. The top of the bus was crushed as | though it were an eggshell. Despite | the force of the impact the automobile was not turned over, it was knocked | almost in a complete circle. Several eye witnesses said that the driver, apparently seeing the train | just before the bus reached the track, jammed on his brakes and attempted | to turn parallel with the track, but| that the bus skidded on the wet pave- ment and swerved directly into the train's path. | Train Runs Half Mile. The train, the “Sunshine Special,” | stopped within half a mile of the| crossing and backed up. The train | crew saw four men extricate them-! selves from the wreckage. | Part of the body of one man was wedged beneath the cowcatcher. Vith the exception of two of the injured, who were started in an ambu- lance for Georgeotwn, the dead and | injured were placed in the baggage car and taken to Taylor. Weir Washam, diminutive quarter back of the 1926 foot ball team, leaped from the rear of the bus and was un. injured. About the shattered automobile were bits of green and gold cloth from the jerseys the Baylor players would have worn tonight as they entered the gymnasium at Austin. Bloody clothes and even more gruesome reminders of the tregedy were in evidence. “When it became evident that there would be a crash, the driver turned | the machine and the train sideswiped | it,” said W. R. Woolsey, Round Rock | mayor, who was an eye witness, | Two players, caught on the front of | the speeding engine, were carried a distance of about 100 feet. Each had his arms locked around the other. A took W' { 1 " (Continued on Page 4, CALLES CLEARS ROAD TO RE-ELECT OBREGON' By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January —Gen | Alvaro Obregon, ‘who became Presi- | dent of Mexico, after the Carranza revolution, again looms as the most potential successor to the presiden by virtue of a decree, signed by Presi- dent Calles today, permitting a for- mer President to resume the presi- | dency after one intervening term. President Calles’ decree puts into effect a constitutional - amendment SPEAKING OF WESTERN MOUSE E % (P) Means Associated Pres: FIVE CENTS. PIDEMICS. MURDER DISPROVED | IN GLARKE AUTOPSY Physician Claims Body Rich Spinster Shows Natural Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAPE MAY. N. J., January An autopsy today revealed “absolutely no evidence of foul play” in the death | of Miss Mary Clarke, wealthy burgh and Washington spinst a week ago today. With this announcement, first defi- nite light was shed on the tangled situation 1n which State police have resolutely heid to their theary that the aged woman probably met death by exposure while wandering in the blizzard, a victim of amnesid. This attftude of the State police has been just as resolutely opposed by Coroner Wililam H. Thompson, whose belief in a theory of murder with a robbery motive has been shared by most of the townspeople, many of whom had known Miss Clarke as a visitor here during Summer months. The autopsy was performed by Dr. Julius M. Way, the coroner's physi- cian, and atter he had made an ex- ternal examination and had examined the chest cavity, heart and lungs, he issued his statement, contradicting a murder theory. Died of Natural Causes. Dr. Way announced that with the exception ot the chemical analysis of the stomach, yet to be made, there was no evidence of foul play. He declared in his examination of the vital organs in the body the woman ‘died from strangulation or natural causes. Strangulation could have been caused by sand which he found in the bronchial tubes and the lungs and this could have been inhaled by Miss Clarke as she staggered along the beach in the blinding gale. The bruises on her arm, Dr. Way sald, were caused by those who re- moved the body from the beach as they were compelled to chop it out of the sand where it was frozen Nome of the organs, such as the heart, liver or stomach, gave any in- dicatipn she had taken poison of had been poisoned, he added. A superficial examination of the stomach, Dr. Way said, showed the woman had no food for upward of 24 hours, and that she was in a weak- ened condition when she staggered on the beach. The stomach will be sent to a chemist in Atlantic City for an analysis, the fesult of which will not be known for four days. hile Dr. Way's findings were ac cepted by State police as a confirma tion of their disbelief in the murder theory, the mystery of the wealthy spinster’s death did not come as near ultimate solution as had been ex- pected. An inquest was to have been held | at noon today, and the production be- | fore the jury of all evidence thus far | gathered was ‘expected lo go far toward clearing the situation, but at the last moment the coroner post- poned the inquest. He -gave no explanation for this action, other than that he has power to set a date for the inquest and will order it when he feels disposed to. When the inquest is held, the State police are prepared to submit evi- dence to prove their doubt that Miss Clarke had $40,000 worth of bonds in her possession just before death, and their dishelief in the presence of a well dressed woman companion on her trip to the shore. The State po- lice declare that they can account ioy (Continued on Page 4, Column 8) TWO HOLD-UPS REPORTED IN SUBURBAN SECTION Same Bandits Responsible for Both Robberies in Northeast, Police Believe. Two hold-ups, which police believe to be the operation of the same group of bandits, were reported last night from the northeast suburban section. Andrew L. Mundyj 70, of Tifty-third street northeast, told police he was held up at the point of a pistel by two colored men at Division avenue and Blaine street northeast and robbed of $14 in bills, He gave a good descrip- tion of the bandits. A short time earlier George E. Wil- jams of Maryland Park, Md., a taxi- b driver, reported that three colored passed through Parliament by Obre. inaugurating its first “toy | gon's friends, who are working, they | near Central avenue, not far from the most confidence and, claim, with the success, 1o eleét men held him up on Benning road, scene of the other hold-up, and robbed him of between. uo;amrm’ billse - TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—16 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign i Schools and and Girl Scout News—Page 22. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 22, Parent-Teacher Activities—i-age 25. cout News—Page Colieges—Pages 20, 2 | Veterans of the Great War—Page 26. C. T. U.—Page 26 , “Judy's Man"—Page 27, Spanish War Veterans—Page News of the Clubs—Page D. A. R. Activities—Page 34. Around the City—Page 34. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 35 At the Community Centers—Page 35. Radio News and Programs—Pages 38, 39 and 40. Financial News—Pages 41, 42 and 43. PART TWO0—12 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. hington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Winter Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Am;uements—'[‘healers and the Photo- play. Music—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 and 8. Army and Navy News—Page 10. District National Guard—Page 10. Civilian Army News—Page 10. Fraternal News—Page 11. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 11. PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. | Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—i PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and M High Lights of History. FAMILY IS RESCUED IN MIDNIGHT FIRE Parents and 3 Children Carried Down Ladders as Smoke Fills Apartment. A man and his wife and their three children, ranging in age from 2 menths to 8 years, were carried down ladders from their smoke-filled second-story room at 702 Rhode Is- land avenue, shortly before last mid- night, while firemen fought a stub- born rubbish blaze in the basément delicatessen store at Seventh and Rhode Island avenue. r. and Mrs. Isaac Wolfstein and | children were sleeping when awakened by smoke. They ran screaming to the windows just as firemen of No. 4 truck company ar- rived in answer to an alarm and they were carried to the street by Sergt. J. J. Listun and Pvt. Diegel- | man. The fire was confined to the base- ment of the store of A. H. Chaconas. Damage was done also to the Reese tire shop at 704 Rhode Island avenue. PONZI IS REQUESTED. Bay State's Plea to Moody Goes to Attorney General. AUSTIN, Tex. January 22 (#).— A requisition asking the return of Charles Ponzi, held at Houston, to Massachusetts was presented to Gov. Dan Moody today. It was referred to the attorney general's department for examination. MARYLAND BACKS - GREATER CAPITAL | Leaders of Nearby Counties Pledge Support to New Planning Work. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. On the wing of the spirit of co-opera- tion and co-ordination, born of a de sire for a capital city the peer of those of the world, regional development plans for the metropolitan area of the National Capital in Montgomery and Prince Georges County, Md., went forward toward an early reali- zation last night. Federal, State, county, township, corporation, town officials of the two counties figuratively threw their arms across their political borders and unitéd for the proposed development, heartily indorsing every step looking toward realization of plans of the Na- tional Capital as well as State park and planning commissions. Nearly one hundred persons were the guests, at dinner at the City Club, of Maj. E. Brooke Lee, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates and chairman of the de facto Maryland Planning Commission. They were called together for the ex- press purpose of determining whether of the opportunities held out to them by the Federal Govérnment through the National. Capital Park and Plan- ning Commision for becoming the front door of the Nation's Capital. Willing to Pay. For this privilege they are willing to pay, as the proposed bill which will be introduced and pushed through the “urrent Legislature provides for a tax of 7 cents on the $100 for the purpose of providing the necessary funds with which to purchase lands for parks and playgrounds, zone the area, provide wide boulevards, avenues and streets. Some of the speakers thought the in- vestment was so good that it ought to be 15 cents on the $100. After the plan of the Maryland planning commission was laid down, following the pointing out of some of the advantages by officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, there was not a dissent- ing voice. While some of the mayors and other representatives said they had not sounded out their people, they felt sure that when it was properly presented to them and explained, as it was last night, that they could do nothing but approve it. Maj. Lee, in opening the meeting, explained that the proposed bill was purely tentative and it was the pur- pose of the meeting to get for the legislative delegates the feeling of the people toward the measure, and re- mind them that it would be subject to revision up until it was passed by the legislature. One of the greatest | aids to the proposed plan, he said, was | the Natfonal Capitdl Park and Plan- | ning Commission, which provided a | central agency with which the Mary- | land organization could deal. Hereto- fore, he pointed out, it was necessary |to deal with three agencies. Congress, the District Commissioners and the | officers of the Army Engineer Corps. State Aid Pledged. He let it be known last night that if the people of Montgomery and | Prince Georges Counties stand to gether on this planning program, that they can expect a substantial appro-| priation as aid from the State in the | supplemental budget. He declared only yvesterday he had a talk with Gov. Ritchle, about the matter, and | that he found him in a more recep- | (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) Bell County. Ky., Peace Officers Quit When Two Are Convicted for Murder By the Associated Press. PINEVILLE, Ky., January 22.—In protest against the precedent set by the conviction of two of their number for murder, most of Bell County's|J. peace officers resigned today. The county judge then dismissed his 14 county patrolmen. Constable Botner Smith and Deputy Sheriff - Frank Bowman were sen- tenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the murder of » R. L. Latti- more. The physician was slain at his home at Blanche on Christmas when Smighii Bowman and seve other officéfs went o arrest him on a minor clarge, The other officers were indictlid but released on bond. Capnty W. T. Robbins, ties Juunr‘y) li-l i the Baptist ministry. dismissed the county patrolmen. 'udge Robbins said that because of his own inexperi- ence in office he thought that Sheriff . S. Helton should police the county. His patrolmen, too, were inexperi- enced, Robbins added. Sheriff Helton said today that he did not intend to swear in any more deputies for the present. Sherift Helton said he would require his remaining deputies to make bonds of $15000 each as a protection to themselves and him. It was under- 1 | i eral | stood that the action was to cover ny damage suits that might be filed as a result of persons being killed by_deputies. *“Bell, a mountain c in. the heastern pagh of the State, has| flore than+ 35,0004 HOSP or not they wanted to take advantage | | nurses’ training school alike. ITALS UNITED HERE INTO GREAT MEDICAL GENTER G. W. U. Group, Garfield and Foundlings’ Home to Form “University”” Nucleus. CLINICAL FACILITIES TO BE EQUAL TO FINEST New College, Cancer Hospital and Laboratories Will Be Built in Connection. The first steps toward the creation of a great medical center in Washing- ton. which in a few years will rank high in the Nation, were completed vesterday when papers amalgamating Garfleld Memorial Hospital, George Washington University Hospital and the Washington Home for Foundlings were formally signed. Under this agreement, the Washing- ton Home for Foundlings will build on the grounds of Garfield Hospital a cancer hospital and extensive cancer research laboratories; George Wash- ington University will erect a new medical school building nearby, and the work now being done by George Washington University Hospital will be transferred to the same center. Soon, it is hoped, two other promi- nent institutions, each specializing in distinct departments of medical science, will join the group at Garfield Memorial Hospital, thus establishing in the National pital a medical cen- ter equipped not only to treat the diseases that afflict mankind, but also to condyct researches in preventive measures with exceptional opportuni- ties for success. Will Rank With Greatest. Such a “hospital university” would take rank immediately with the great- est medical centers in the country, and eventually with such world-re- | nowned research institutions as the extensive laboratories conducted by Johns Hopkins University in Balti- more, it is stated. The ultimate goal is to make the National Capital one of the world's focal points in the science of medicine. Announcement of the agreement between the three originating institu- tions was made yesterday afternoon by Dr. William Mather Lewis, presi dent of George Washington Univer- sity. Once before efforts were made to bring about a similar amalgama- tion but they failed to materialize. @ final achievement of the new plan itéd from conferences extending through several monthbs. It is probable that plans will be started almost immediately for the erection of the cancer hospital and research laboratories adjoining Gars | field Hospital by the Washington { Home for Foundlings. The building | will be known as the Helen L. and Mary E. Warwick Memorial, in rec- ognition of the $500,000 bequest which makes it possible. Will Continue on Present Site. Early arrangements also will be made for the erection of the Medical School building on the new site. George Washingten University Hos- pital will continue on its present site, however, until the trustees have able to sell both the hospital and Medical School property, now located on H street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, upon favorable terms. Because of the location of the site in the heart of the business district, little trouble is expected to arise from that point, however. The property has increased in value so rapidly that the funds from this sale are expected to provide the university with adai- tional money with which to carry on improvements that have long been contemplated. When the two hospitals have com- bined physically, the faculty of George ‘Washington University Medical School yand the hospital staffs will be reor- ganized in a manner to carry on their clinical and laboratory work in Gar- field Hospital and the Cancer Hospital under conditions highly favorable to important hospital service and medi- cal education alike. Nurses’ Homes to Combine. The nurses’ homes of the two hos- pitals will be combined, and when nurses graduate they will receive cer- tificates in the name of the Washing- ton Medical Center Nurses' Training School, instead of in the name of the two hospitals. The combination of the three hospitals will give nurses, incidentally, an opportunity to extend their studies in directions that other- wise would be impossible. None of the various ladies’ boards of the hospitals interested in the affili- ation will lose their identity. Instead, they will all have even broader activ- ities for work in the hospitals and the Each party to the amalgamation will con- tinué its independent corporate exist- ence and control as heretofore, it was explained. : The definite agreement was reached, however, that George Washington University, through its Medical School, will direct all teaching in the hospitals. Furthermore, the general conduct of the hospitals and the school will comply fully with the re. quirements of the council on medical education and hospitals of the Ameri- can Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. Specialization to Be Possible. Under this plan, the group will cons stitute a veritable ‘“hospital univery sity.” The cancer hospital will have its specialized work, and the general hospital its wider variety of cases. Should the other two institutions join the group, they will continue as before along their specialized lines of work. Each, however, will contribute the benefit of specialized knowledge to each other by working together on common ground. For the Medical School and th Nurses' School the arrangemeat pointed out as offering exceptional op- portunities. Only through such a co- operative plan, with all institutions and the schools brought together in a single group, would it be possible for the students to have the advantage of actual clinical work in specialised cases. The same holds frue of researen. For a single laboratory to undertake such diversified. lines of work would require an outlay of enormous sums y. Where various