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2 * SENATORS APPROVE ‘REVISED ALIEN BILL Finance Committee Favors _ American Retention of 40 Per Cent of Property. By the Associated Press. Forty per cent instead of 20 per cént of the alien prop held by the American Government would be re tained for the settlement of claims of American nationals against Germany under an amendment to the alien property return bill approved today by the Senate finanée committee. In Final Shape. The House proposed the lesser per- eentage, but members of the Senate committee said investigation showed that this would not be sufficlent to satisty Amierican claims growing out 6f the World War. The bill was put into final shape to. day, but probably will not be present- ed fo the Senate before Thurs s a com: eh e report is yet to be prepared ‘ge Voices Objection. + Some objection to the payment provision was vi ator George, Democrat, Geor, said that if the basis of payment were changed from the House plan, was approved by the administration, there would be no possibility of get ting legislation at this session The House proposed payment the seized ships on an appraised not to exceed $100.000,000. while the Senate committee proposed payment on the basis of the appraisement of naval architects, plus interest, mak- Ing the sum total $55,000,000. for alue FEAST OF CONVERSION. MARKED AT ST. PAUL’S Most Rev. Furnasoni Biondi, Apos- tolic Delegate, Present at Services. The feast of the conversion of St.| Paul was celebrated with special devotions yvesterday at St. Pauls Catholic Church, Fifteenth and V streets, when Most Rev, Pietro Fumason! Biondi, apostolic delegate, was present. The panegyric on St. Paul was delivered by Very Rev. Charles Lyons, S. J., president of Georgetown University. Father Lyons reviewed the life of St. Paul from his youth. Clergymen who served as chap- fains to the apostolic delegate were ohn M. McNamara of St. Rev. Henry Wolfe of the Charleston, S. C., Cathedral and Very Rev. George Leach. Rev. Edmund Fontaine was master of ceremonies and Very Rev. George Dougherty, vice rector of the Catho- e University, was the celebrant. Rev. Leo J. Fealey assisted as dea- con and Rev. J. C. Broderick served as subdeacon. Very Rev. Paul Marella, Rev. Thémas E. McGuigan and R. Cotter Fitzgerald had places in the sanctuary. The musical pro- was arranged by Edward onovan. CAPT. E. A. EVERS HEADS 'NAVAL RESERVE OFFICERS Board of Directors in Annual Ses- sion at Willard Fills Other Posts. Capt. E. A Evers ot Chicago was ehosen president of the United States Naval Reserve Officers’ Association by the board of directors of the asso- clation, meeting in annual session at the Willard Hotel today. Capt. A. H. Woodbine of Los Angeles was named vice president, and Comdr. J. A. Scho- fleld of Washington secretary-treas- urer. Decision to admit _to membership officers and former officers of the Ma rine Corps Reserve was taken at the meeting of the association which fol- lowed the directors’ meeting. More than 50 delegates are attending the sessions, which continue throughout the day. Lieut. Comdr. Donald Macmillan, the explorer, was elected an honorary member of the association. Officers connected with Naval Reserve affairs at the Bureau of Navigation were guests of the association at luncheon at the Willard and attended the ses- sions in the afternoon. MASTER MASONS TO HEAR MR. McSWAIN TONIGHT “Fraternal Life as Patriotic Force” Subject of Address Before Temple Club. Representative McSwain of South Carolina will address the Temple Club of Master Masons from the Post Office Department tonight at the monthly meeting, in Odd Fellows' ‘Temple. “Fraternal Life as a Patriotic Force™ will be the subject. Mr. McSwain will be introduced by Dr. M. McMiilan, the newly elected president of the Temple Club. Dr. McMillan also will sreak on the development of the na- tional Masonic educational program, which is being sponsored by Masonic organizations throughout the country. Dr. McMillan has announced the following committees for 1927: Advisory board, R. T. Bouton, chairman; Ros- coe E. Mague, C. H. Stephenson, L. G. Buehler, O. L. Ballard, E. W. Satter- white, H. A. Mount, B. Wentzell, E. W. Van Metre and J. H. McAl lister; representatives to District of Columbia advisory boards, S. M. Mc. Millan, Thomas M. Chunn and P. E. Bartholow; membership, E. C. Green, chairman; King, G. W. Trexler, H. ‘W. Hotchkiss, W. L. Jenkins and L. J. Gross; welfare, W. P. Davis, chair- man; H. L. Albaugh, J. M. Priest, F. M. Newkirk, G. J. Fehrman; en- tertainment, J. W. Lyons, chairman; 3 Worley, G. C. P. M. Gardner, W. Fellers; initiatory, F. A. Nichols, chair- man; R. E. Mague and T. W. Davis. GREETS U. S. STUDENTS. Constantinople Pleasingly Wel- eomes 500 Making World Tour. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 31 P —Turkish students, professors and eity officials gave an eathusiastic wel. come today to 500 American students | who are making a world tour on the steamer Ryndam, the “floating uni- versity.” Arrangements were made for guides to show the students about the city. The Turkish University is to give a reception in their honor. —— Presbyterian Minister Dies. DAYTON, Ohio, January 31 (#).— Rev. Wilbur C. Mickey, 62, one of the best known Presbyterian ministers in Ohio, died today. T which | NESE STEAMER PIRATED ON HIGH SEAS !Five Europeans Reported Held as Hostages on Seang Bee. ‘!y the Associated Press, !cm HONGKONG, _January 31—The steamer Seang Bee was pirated re | cently on the hizh seas while en route | trom™ Singapore to Hongkong. and | was taken to Bias Bay. pirate strong | hold, where the oot was carried | News of the seizure was received here {today. It was rumored that five Euro. peans were taken as hostages. Other details were lacking The Seang Bee is a Chinese.owned ssel under Bri registry. Th piracy was the firet recorded case this year. More thun 20 such piracies occurred last year. AN SHOOTS SELF WITH IFE AWAY Roy S. Sandifer Uses Pistol., | Mother Had Taken Child to School—2 Were Asleep. While his wife was taking his little | daughter to schonl this morning,’ and two other young children lay asleep in an adjoininz reom, Roy &, Sandifer 35 vears old, shot and fatally wounded himself in his bedroom at 702 C street southeast, dying a short while later at Providece Hospital. where he was taken in the fifth precinct patrol Mrs. Sandifer was stunned hy the shock of her hushand’s death, which she discovered upon her return from St. Cecelia’s School, where she had taken 6-year-old Catherine. Certificate Says Suicide. The coroner issued a certificate of | suicide, although the young wife in sisted that he must have shot him. self accidentally. She could imagine |no reason which would make him | want to take nis own life. Sandifer vas connected with tne Independent Taxi Co. The two children in the adjoining room, a 5-vearold boy and a | year-old girl, did not realize what had { happened when the report of the' re. volver, a .45-caliber automatic, rang through the house, and it remained for their mother to discover the body. Temple Is Penetrated. The bullet had penetrated the tem ple, and. although Dr. M. H. Prosperi, 216 Eighth street southeast, rendered emergency treatment, he realized from the first that there was no chance for recovery. A Lieut. O. T. Davis of the fifth pre- cinet took charge of the investigation of the fatal shooting and sent Sandifer to the hospital. SLEEPING SICKNESS GRIPS PALMER HEIR Grandson of Chicago’s First Social Leader Stricken in Afri- can Jungle. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 31.—D'Orsay Palmer, son of Honore Palmer and grandson of the late Mrs, Potter Palmer, Chicago's first soclal leader, is a victim of sleeping sickness, con- tracted in the jungles of Africa, the Herald and Examiner said in a copy- righted story today. The 20-year-old heir to millions is now in a Paris hospital undergoing treatment, the paper said. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are in constant attend- ance at their son's bedside. Young Palmer was helieved to have contract- ed the ailment through the sting of a tsetse fly while he was on a lion hunt late last year with his parents, a brother and other Chicagoans. The youth was rushed by motor 150 miles to the nearest hospital at Mom- to Paris for treatment. Favorable re- ports were received here by friends of the family. Enemy of Gov. Wood in Prison. MANILA, January 31 (#).—Antonio D. Paguia, who expressed a desire to do bodily harm to Gov. Gen. Wood during & speech in the last political campaign, today entered Bilibid prison to begin serving a sentence of one year on a charge of sedition. The in- sular Supreme Court recently upheld the sentence. Today in Congress SENATE. The Senate is considering the French spoliations claims bill, which has been before Congress from time to time for many vears. The bill to regulate the importa- tion of milk and cream from other countries will be taken up as un- finished business later in the day. Naval appropriations bill prob- ably will go over until tomorrow. Judiciary committee met to pass upon nominations. Finance committee held another meeting on the alien property bill and is expected to complete the measure within a day or two. Senator Shipstead of Minnesota introduced bill to have Fine Arts Commission regulate the - appear- ance of private buildings erected near Government buildings or parks in Washington. HOUSE. House authorized the appoint- ment of an assistant parliamen- tarian, to be trained for the position of parliamentarian, as the incum- bent, Lehr Fess, is soon to vacate the office to take up the practice of law in Toledo | House fixed on Tuesday next for a consideration of the agricultural relief measure, which is the earliest possible opportunity for its consid- eration without interfering with the appropriation bill. Subcommittes on parks and of the House District committee held a brief hearing today on the Bloom bill for acquisition of the Patterson tract Gibson subcommittee investigat- ing District government will con- tinue its hearing tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Ways and means committee in executive session. Rules committee orders special rule making farm relief legislation in order for early consideration of the House. Interstate commerce committes in executive session on rallroads consolidation. Military affairs committee con- tinues hearing on Muscle Shoals. Immigration committee holds regular meeting in executive ses- ston. Subcommittes of the post office committee conducts hearing on C. 0. D. mail matters. Subcommittee of judiclary com- mittee conducts hearing on pro- posed leglslation to provide punish- ment for desecration of the United States flag. Banking and currency committes n seasi e basa, East Africa, and later was taken | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1927 'TREADWAY HOME ROBBED BY THIEVES {Get Jewelry and Money: | Valued at $1,000—Fright- ened Away by Maid. ! v into the eadway of pla | Burglars smashed their w home of Representative ] Massachusetts, at 2400 Tr |1ast night and escaped with jewelry {and money valued at about $1.000. It {18 halleved they were frightened away iby the entrance of a maid before they | |could steal other valuahles I ‘he thieves galned admission by | smashing a smal pane of glass in a {French door in the rear. Among the | articles stolen were three necklaces {And two pairs of earrings, valued at | | $850: other small articles of less value iand $170 in cash. A Hudson seal {coat, valued at $1,500 was dropped in |the back yard. the robber apparently not having stopped to pick it up Mr. and Mrs. Treadway discovered the robbery when they returned home i,g 11 o'clock an hour earlier, probably while the thieves were at work, but had gone directly to her room, unaware of their presence. Several other robberies were re ported this morning. Ida Jordan, 411 |R street. said some one with a dupll |cata key had entered her home and stolen three dresses worth § |F. Carty, said thieves had m {unsuccessful effort to find in his office, 1808 Fourteenth street Abraham B. Barnhart, 53 I had his wallet, containing $40, from his pocket yesterday afternoon The theft occurred in a theater. |ACH ACCUSES FOUR | FROM WITNESS STAND AS BUSCH SLAYERS {___(Continued from_ First Page.) with Ach on his left. east on gles During the walk Upshur street, Ach said, Ea stepped back and whispered 4. { something inaudible to the man in the blue suit and the latter in something to McCabe and resumed their positions. turn satd then they Men Changed Positions. “During the walk I asked McCabe where he was from, and he said am from Washington and the cther three are from Baltimore” [ said, ‘You are in damned bad company,’ and then he left me and walked about three feet to my right and in front.” Ach said he cautioned the men about walking so fast, recalling that he said: “All right, you wise guys, you've got plenty of time, you're not going to any fire.” The party passed No. 47 police box and no one in the crowd said a word, the witness con- tinued, then the man in the blue suit announced the broken-down car was on the right side of Upshur street and near another hox “I knew there was no other hox." Ach said, and after testifving that he said something to ‘Busch, he grabbed McCabe in the middle of the back and seized the left arm of the man in the blue suit. “As I did this,” he declared, “the man in the slicker broke away from Busch, took one step forward, turned and sald, ‘Stick em up,’ firing as he spoke. “I was about 10 feet back and a little to the right of him. The whole thing happened quickly. * Busch was ahead of me and on the sidewalk. As the man in the slicker fired, 1 turned the two that I had loose, Then everybody turned around and fired, |and 1 mean Fagles, McCabe, the man in the blue suit and the man in the slicker. Bullet Hits Him. “At that time something pierced my stomach. T grabbed for it and fell. I could not get up without using both my hands. As I tried this, the men were firing all the time. I got up and fired directly at the man in the green slicker. 1 saw ‘my buddy, Offcer { Busch, lying in the gutter 10 feet for- ward of me, but I was shooting at the man in the slicker. I fired five times.” Ach said he was shot in the elbow as he started to get up and when the crowd scattered, one man ran past him and as he started in pursuit he was shot in the left arm. Ach then related how he staggered across the street to a_house, where he saw a light and where he received aid. In view of the question raised by the defense Friday that no evidence had been given to show that Busch was not shot by bullets from Ach's gun, O'Leary questioned the witness closely on the positions of the two officers. As Ach described it, the man in the green slicker, Busch and him- self formed a triangle with Ach as the apex. Busch was to his right, while Ach sald he fired at the other man to the left. Frequently Ach referred to “green slicker,” although he had identified the black one as resembling the one he saw that morning. Never Saw Busch Fire. O'Leary brought out an additional questioning that meither Ach nor Buech had pulled their pistols from their pockets until they had been felled by the firing. Ach could not recall having seen Busch fire at all Ach was permitted to state to the court that when one of the men re- ferred to the car as being further on up Upshur street, he said to Busch: “These fellows are lying. You take twe and I'll take two.” Ach could met recall seeing Busch actually take his two, but he did see hig colleague move over toward them. “Why.did you catch hold of McCabe and the man In front of you?” asked O'Leary. Becanse I had this lookout and they told me they had an automobile by the first police box and I knew they were lying.” Attorney James A. O'Shea, for Mc- Cabe, vigorously objected to the last five words of the answer, declaring, “He’s pumping feeling into this case. This witness should glve testimony impartially The lookout Busch and Ach re- celved, the witness testified, was “four young white men in a large touring car, mavhe a Cadillac, wanted for hold-up and robbery near Berwyn this am.” Ach was still on the stand and under direct examination when court recessed for luncheon. TWO ;OLIvCEMEN SHOT. Bandits Open Fire When Surprised in Robberies. NEW YORK, January 31 (#).—Two policemen wers shot by robbers in hold-ups today. Patrolman Hugh Clark, who entered the basement of an apartment house on West Forty-seventh street, was shot in the right eyve and abdomen by two robbers, surprised as they were binding and gagging the superin- tendent and manager. The robbers escaped with $83. An $800 pay roll was in the safe. Patrolman James Masterson, caught in a hold-up of a restaurant on West One Hundred and Third street, fell under a shower of bullets from the re- volvers of five robbers. He was struck in the and abdomen. The rob- bers escaped with $1,000 taken from The maid had entered | valuables | gles, and McCabe brought up the rear, | U. S. MARINES AND SAILORS IN NICARAGUA 4 Marines on duty in troubled Nicaragua, shows a_detachment guarding prisoners saized by the Diax troops, who are supported by this Government, at Bluefields, Nicaragua. ailors of the United States Rochester, establishing a neutral zone in Bluefields, Nicaragua. URGES RELIGIOUS DEVOTION AS NEED Speaker at K. of C. Vespers Presents Antidote for Evils of Social Life. Religions devotion is the only anti- dote for the evils of social life in the prevailing perfod of lawl:ssness, as- serted Rev.Thomas D. Coakley, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church of Pitts- burgh, in his discourse last night at the annual vesper gervice of the Knights of Columbue in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at the Catholic University, which was at- tended by 2.000 persons. By teaching its 20,000,000 members in the United States to obey the law, respect authority and to love their neighbors, Father Coakley said the Catholic Church is striving to offset the wave of lawlessness that is ex- emplified in daylight robberies, bandit gun battles and in the appearance on the streets of many large cities of machine-gun-bearing armored motor cars. Brjtish Envoy in Audience. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambas. sador, and several members of Con- gress were among the guests of the members of the Knights of Columbus. Charles W. Darr, state deputy of the order in the District, was present in his official capacity. Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, who was to have officiated at the services, was unable to attend. He is sufféring from a severe cold. Officiating Clergymen. The Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the Catholic University, was the celebrant of the solemn pontifical vespers, while Rev. Michael J. Rior- dan assisted as deacon and Rev. Thomas E. McGuigan as subdeacon. Mgr. George Dougherty, vice rector of the Catholic University, was the as. sisting priest. e T, Bligh, chafrman of the Washington Chapter, Knights of Ci Jumbus, and Rev. James V. Buckley, chaplain of the Washington Chapter, were in charge of the plans for the services. CHILD'S CRY OF ‘FIRE’ STARTS MOVIE PANIC 900 Stampede for Doors as Plaster Falls in New Jersey Theater. Three Injured. (B, N. J., January $1.—A shower of plaster falling from the ceiling, combined with a shout of “fire’’ by one of 900 persons in the audience at the Strand Theater, caused a panic, resulting in the injury of three esterday. Michael Torello, 31, his wife and 15- vear-old daughtér were knocked down and trampled. At Bayonne Hospital doctors feared the man and girl had concussion of the brain. Mrs. Torello suffered shock. g The audience consisted mainly of children. A serial film entitled “The Tirefighters” was being shown when laster fell. ey of fire is believed to have come from a child affected by an ex- citing socene on the screen. The audl- ence rose in a body and hurried for exits. A number wera knocked down, but they regained their feet, as thr’ doorways readily cleared the crowd into the street. The plaster, about 4 square feet came from the balcony ceiling. PENN STUDENT ARRESTED Denies Holding Up Taxi Chauffeur at Point of Pistol. PHILADELPHIA, January 31 (®.— Harold L. Yoh of Van Wert, Ohio, a student at the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsyl- Vvania, was arrested yesterday, charged with having held up a taxicab chauf- feur at the point of a pistol last week. Yoh, it is alleged, took $6 from the driver and escaped in the cab. Yoh, was arrested when the same driver answered his call for a cab and recognized him. George Handschu- macker, the driver, told the police he was positive in his identification. Yoh denied the charge and said he would prove he was in another student’s room at the time of the hold-up. He M i be settled-by KILLED IN GUN BATTLE. Quarrel Over Theft of Mash Proves Fatal to Man. PHILLIPPI, W. Va., January 381 (#).—A shotgun battle followed a quarrel over the theft of mash at Berryburg Junction, near here, last night, and when the firing ceased one man was dead, another wounded seri- ously and three were arrested. Fleming Male was killed. Tke Nor- ris was shot in the back. Hoy Nor- ris, Bertie Male and Jasper Collins were placed in the county jail. cording to Tke Nor he and Fleming Male were ambushed by the others after they accused the trio of stealing mash from them. DRAWINGS ORDERED FOR NEW BUILDING Contract Signed for Studies of Central Unit of Agricul- ture Office on Mall. An fmportant step in carrying for- ward the Government's big building program in Washington was taken today when Secretary of the Treasury Mellon signed a contract with Rankin & Kellogg, architects, of Philadelphia, for preparation of certain studies and drawings for the central part of the administration building for the De- partment of Agriculture, connecting the two existing white marble wings. The two members of the architec- tural firm, Thomas M. Kellogg and John Hall Rankin, were members of the firm of Rankin, Kellogg & Crane, drew the plans for the two original wings. Under_their new con- tract they will cooperate with the supervising architect’s office, but their specific task will be to study the needs of the Department of Agriculture so far as they affect the arrangement of the center wing and to complete these studies and make preliminary draw- ings. The actual working drawings, however, upon which bids will be asked and contracts awarded, will be prepared according to provislons of the publie huildings act in the office of the supervising architect. In addition to the central unit of the Administrative Building, author- ized to cost $2,000,000, on which the outside firm of architects will work, Congress has authorized an additional expenditure of $5750,000 to buy ground and erect an extension build- ing on ground immediately south of the present group of administration bufldings on the Mall. Looking to- ward this plan, the Treasury already has authorized the Depariment of Justice to acquire by condemnation proceedings square No. 264, bounded by Thirtee.*h street, Linwood place, B and C strcets southwest. Appropriations already are available to the amount of $400,000 for the cen- tral connecting building project and the sum of $1,200,000 for the project south of B streef The moot questlon as to whether the connecting building between the two white marble wings will have a dome or not is atill undecided, it was learned at the Treasury today. The new oentral portfon, it is known, however, will be at least monumentai in character and will be constructed of white marble to match the two wings. i e Oy CHILEAN PAPER LAUDS STAND OF U. S. SENATE Approving of Robinson Resolution. Seen as Tranquilizer for Latin America. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, January 81.— By approving the Robinson resolution, says La Naclon, the United States Senate has voiced its true opinion and assured the world that all sovereign nations, large or small, may expect from the United States the same treat- ment that the United Sta expects from them. The newspaper describes the Senate’s action as a tranquilizer for Latin America, “which had reason to ba apprehensive over the policy of the White House. The Senate's stand, it adds, may be the beginning of reaction re-establish- ing mutual confidence between the COOLIDGE SPEECH NAVY ROV CIMAY Significance Seen in His De- parture From Custom to Discuss Preparedness. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Coolidge's speech at the semi-annual meeting of the executive officers of the Government was a sig- nificant address, not merely because Mr. Coolidge departed from custom and discussed military preparedness in relation to Government expenditure, but because it marked the climax of a controversy which has been smolder- ing ever since Congress convened. * Mr. Coolidge, through Gen. Lord, di- rector of the budget, has been cutting down military and naval expenditures. Although military and naval officers are prohibited from influencing Con- gress on the matter of appropriations, the situation has been so maneuvered that there has arisen in Congress a distinct current of unfriendliness to the President's viewpoint and a marked friendliness to that of the mili- tary and naval men. Policy Flagrantly Thwarted. Mr. Coolidge has been fighting to prevent exces expenditure all along the line, but in no instance has his policy been so flagrantly thwarted as in the matter of an enlarged naval buflding policy. The President realizes that senti- ment for a larger Navy can be trans- lated into action the moment com- parisons are made with what other countries are doing. That is why he has let it be known that he favors another conference on limitation of armament, and hopes Congress will not appropriate for the three addi- tional cruisers until he has sounded out other governments and made ar- rangements for a conference. Mr. Coolidge will enter such a con- ference with the argument that his own legislative body is eager to resume the competition in armament, and that the power and resources of the United States are adequate to revive competition, if that is what the various governments think is inevit- able. For, once the principle of com- petitive armament is renewed, the President knows that there are other inequalities as between American naval strength and that of other countries which would have to be corrected. Holds People Favor Economy. Mr. Coolidge feels that the, spirit of America today favors economy and a reduction rather than an increase in armament. . The recommendations of the director of the budget on military and naval expense are much more in line with what the President desires to do from an economy standpoint than the suggestions of the two depart- ments of natlonal defense. But while there has been little satd about it, the man in the War and Navy Depart- ment have looked askance at the tendency to reduce, especially since other governments have not kept pace with the principle of reduction. Mr. Coolidge’'s discussion of what is adequate preparedness is not ac- ceptable to the military and naval group because there is no definite Aagreement among world powers for everybody to reduce. The President is compelled, therefore, to move toward an international conference on arma- ment reduction much more rapidly than had been anticipated. If the President can get Congress to postpone appropriations on the extra cruisers this time, he will not be able to secure another postponement in the next session of Congress, which be- gins in December, unless definite steps have been taken for another agree- ment on th limitation of further naval armament. (Cobyright. 1927.) 4 MINERS ARE KILLED. Fatal Blast Shakes Mine Ilsey, Ky. ILSEY, Ky., January 81 (®.—Four miners were killed in an explosion in the mine of the Ilsey Coal Co. a subsidiary of the Norton Coal Mining Co., here today. The bodies were re. covered shortly before noon. TT dead: Ndland Va married. 4 at ul:hn. 27 years old, un- Americas. (The Robinson resolution declared, in effect, that the troubles between exico and the United States should kS SLEW MRS. HALES WHILE SHE SLEPT William N. Coffey, Wisconsin Man, Says He Murdered to Hide Bigamous Marriage. By the Associatad Press LANCASTER, Wis.. January 31. A desire to hide his bigamoue marriage 1o Mrs. Hattie Hales from his wife and children Induced William M. Coffey to slay Mrs. Hales as she lay asleep, he told authorities in his third and latest confesaion. After holding for several davs to & story that he accidentally slew the former Lacrosse woman. who eloped with him to Winona last September. the itinerant bond salesman broke down under a ceaseless fire of ques- tiona and admitted that he deliberately plotted Mrs. Hales' death. A base bail bat and a hammer were the instru ments of death, he said. He converted to his own use $5.000 in securities which the woman possessed. Confesses to Sheriff. Coffey’s latest confession was given to Lyall Wright, the youthful sheriff of Juneau County. “I killed her deliberately: there was no quarrel,” Coffey said in'a whisper “I struck her first with the bat and then with a hammer we used to pound tent stakes. “She was asleep in our camp in Bratton's Woods. I knelt beside her bed, and there on my kneas I lifted the bat and struck her across the temple Then I picked up the hammer and hit again. It must have bheen the last blow which fractured her skull. Feared Fxposure of Bigamy. “1 was afraid this bigamous mar- riage would get back to my family in Madison. “I murdered her and am willing to pay the price. I have tried my best to conceal the crimg, J am guilty.” Coffey was questionad in connection with other unsolved slayings in Towa and Wisconsin, but he denied any knowledge of other crimes. LETTERS BARRED OPPOSESDROPPIG OFTEACHERS T Representative Griffin Scores Cut of $121,100in D. C. Supply Bill. Strenuous opposition was mads in the House by Representative Grifin Democrat, of New York. o member of the subcommittee that drafted the District appropriation bill, when that | measure came up for debate in the { House today, to the elimination of the budget estimate of $121.100 for the pay of 74 additional teachers. Mr. Griffin emphasized that this item was passed upon and allowed by the budget and he said that after all 1 allowance of this $121,100 is no mo than an authorization Defends Dr. Ballou. “Some of my colleagues have been shocked at_the disclosure that Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, had not appointed the full quota of teachers allowed during the current year,” said Mr. Griffin. “He was authorized to employ 2:668 teach- ers and it seems that up to date he has appointed only 2,630, “This does not seem to me to be a just grievance, yet failure to appoint all of the teachers allowed in the c1 rent fiacal year was harped upon con. siderably in a ‘long and grusling cross-examination. In my opinion, in stead of being a dereliction it s evi. dence of his restraint and sound dis. cretfon and demonstrates that he may be safely intrusted with authority appoint the additional teachers when he deems their services necessary In fact, he assured the committes of § this quite unequivocally.” Spoke for Anacostia. Mr. Griffin also spoke in behalf of clitizens of Anacostia section. Two other features of the pending appro- priation bill are opposed by him. One of these {s the allotment of iteme for streat and road Improvements and're- pairs. In this ftem the bill excasfed the budget allotment by $144,500, and Mr. Grifin considers that in the allot- ment of this the Anacostia section has been neglected and unfairly discrimi- nated aaginst He also is opposed to the elimination of two items for the completion of { the Alabama averme water main in ATBROWNING TRIAL Diary Kept by Wife Before Marriage Also Ruled Out. Rebuttal Is Opened, By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., January 31.—Edward West Browning, the New York real estate man and center of Interest in his separation suit with Frances Heenan Browning, opened his rebuttal today of his wife's cruelty charges, A court ruling, however, kept much of the expected sensation out of to- day's hearing. The letters written by his young wife to girl friends prior to his mar- riage were ruled out as evidence Supreme Court Justice Seeger as heing irrelevant to what happened during the married.life of;the real estate'man and the 16-year-old girl. Thousands who had ecrowded into the courtroom expecting to hear the trial's most outspoken testimony stood up in the halls or jammed the courtroom to listen to testimony far from exciting. Girl Friend Testifles. Before noon six witnesses had been called, four of whom took up the alle- gations that Mr. Browning had sug- gested to Marian Tussey, girl friend of Mrs. Browning, that she “try to recollect something adverse to Mrs. Browning prior to her marriage.” Miss Tussey herself testified that Browning had asked her if she had not seen Mrs. Browning before her marrfage act improperly. She sald she had denied that she had so seen “Peaches.” The justice later modified his order slightly to allow some of the evidence regarding Mrs. Browning’s pre-marital life to be introduced in order that it “might be on the record” and “as there is no jury to be influenced.” Justice Seeger said that he would halt the testimony when he thought it had gone far enough. wife of the land- Louisa Crone lord, denied that Mr. Browning had said in her presence that he would “make it worth while for anybod to recollect” things agalnst Mr: Browning. Says Advice Was Asked. Leslie Fullenweider, who works for a newspaper feature syndicate, testi- fled that he saw Mrs. Browning on the Thursday before she left her husband. “She told me Mr. Browning was becoming unbearable, and asked ‘what shall I do?' " said the witness. “I sald, ‘We are newspaper people, not lawyers.’ " Nothing, he added, was said about writing any articles at that time. The following Tuesday, he said, he saw her and her mother, but news paper articles were not discussed until Wednegday. A contract was signed Saturday, October 9, for $1,000. It was introduced as evidence. Other Witnesses Called. Fullenweider was followed by h sociate, William Waddell, who co! roborated details of the transactloi and sald that for two or three day Mrs. Browning and her mother had stayed at his home in Demarest, N. J and at that time there had been co versatjons about articles by her for the syndicate. John 8. Garden, associate of Wad- dell and Fullenweider, testified that he ‘“wrote -or- compiled” the articles under discussion. Belle Edwards, waitress at Kew Gardens Inn from August to October, who tended the Browning table most of the time, said that the real estate man was “always very attentive” to his bride in the dining room and had flowera on the table nearly every day. Frank M. Golden, head waiter at the Kew Gardens Inn, testified regarding his service to the Brownings, includ. ing the daily order of ‘“coffes at 8 o’clock in the morning. - Edward F. McDonald, manager of the Kew Gardens Inn, always found Browning ‘“very fair and that the couple appeared to be happy. Leo Ehrenreich of Kew Gardens, told of a visit the Brownings paid to his home on July 3. He had seen the couple at the inn later and on all occa- sions they had seemed happy together. Frank Dolan, tabloid reporter, also testified, saying that Mrs. Browning needed “some urging,” “but not a great deal,” to pose for photographs. HUB PAPER DROPS CASE. Browning Trial Menace to Morals, Says Boston Traveler. , BOSTON, January 81 (#).—The Bo-ton Traveler announced today t it would print no further de- s of the Browning suit. nduncement said, in part 'The n;lol of filth that has Its an- | been the Routheast (Anacostia saction), which were recommended by the buget, amounting to $63,500. ‘‘Thess extenafons,” #ald Mr. Grifin,.“are in my opinion absolutely needed for firs protection and safeguarding the heaith of the inhabitants. ALEXANDER WINNER OF HARMON AWARD Atlanta Man Excels in ‘“Notable Service” for “Improvement of Race Relations.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., January 31. Harmon award, established in 1926 by New York, as an award for the “most notable service in improvement of race relations,” vesterday was pre- septed to Dr, Will W. Alexander of Atlanta, director of the commissien on ipterracial co-operation. The presentation was made here. at a meeting of the commission presided over hy Dr. Plato Durham of Emory College, Atlanta. The award, aside from the medal, carries with it a cash award of $500. Dr. Alexander, in accepting _the award, called from the audience Mise Amy Chadwick, superintendent of the Leonard Street Orphanage for Negro Children here, and presented her with nection with the work at the orphan- age. The Harmon foundation was cre- ated in 1926, providing for an annual award. The commission of which Dr. Alexander is head was organized in Atlanta in 1919, with its purpose “the promotion of a better understanding and co-operation between the white and the colored races. in the South.” ‘The commission has now 12 differ- ent State commissions and several hundred local organizations. A e BILL EXTENDS FINE ARTS COMMISSION AUTHORITY Measure in Senate Gives Jurisdic- tion Over Private Construction Near Public Buildings. The Fine Arts Commission would bhe given awthority to pass upen the height aml exterlor appearance of private bufldings to be erected in the vicinity of any public buflding in Washington under: a bill -introduced in the Senate today by Senator Ship- stead, Farm-Labor, of Minnesota. It was referred to the District of Co- lumbia committee. In explaining his reason for intro- ducing the measure Senator Shipstead eaid that the Government is ‘spend- ing a large amount of money for new Federal structures here and that other sums are being expended from time to time to improve the general appearance of the National Capital and that he thought some steps should be taken, if it is found prac tical, to make the property surfound- Ing public bufldings conform fn a gen- eral way to the efforts to beautify the city. In substance, the bill provides that no permit be issued for the copstruc- tion or renovation of a building which is to be more than 40 feet in height and within 200 feet of a public bufld ing until the plan has been passed upon by the Fine Arts Commiasion. WILSON ESSAY PRIZE DONORS ANNOUNCED By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 81.—Named of the donors of the two $25,000 prises, announced recently by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for the best essay by a boy and a girl on the War Presi- dent were announced by Norman H. Davis, president of the foundation. They are Bernard M. Baruch, FEdward W. Bok, Raymond B. Fos- dick, Jesse H. Jones, Cyrus McCor- mick, Henry Morgenthau, George W. Morris, Miss Caroline Ruutz Rees and Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. “The aim of the contest,” sald Mr. Davis, “Is solely to direct the atten- tion of the young people to Woodrow Wilson's ideals as expre in b4 written and spoken words. — BAND CONCERT. Tomorrow, By the United States Soldlers’ Hoi..a Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 decency and a further publication of the details, the Traveler feels, is a menace to the morals of the com= munity. » 3 A The Traveler wishes to apologize on a to its reads for embarking that to_the de ‘beyon g:“‘:fl%’fl & t..hum: the Willlam E. Harmon Foundation, \ the check, which will be used in con- \ A ) { \