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x " DSTRCT FNDBIL DELAVEDFORDAY Hbuse Adjourned Yesterday With Fight Waging on 16th Street Extension. This being calendar Wednesday in the House, consideration of the Dis- trict appropriation bill went over until | tomorrow. J ‘When the House adjourned vester. day it was just beginning a fight on the $22,000 authorization for the grad- ing of. Sixteenth street, from Kalmia road to the District line. Representative Zihlman and Senator- elect Tydings had conducted a suc- cessful fight for reinsertion of the budget estimate by a vote of 21 to 18. A point of no quorum, however,; was made by Representative Funk.| Attacking the amendment, Mr Funk said he had investigated this lpcation and had found that “it leads Rowhere.” *“This is simply a real estate de- velopment proposition,” he declared. “It will serve to ro purpose and I think this money will be thrown away. The gentlemen who support this amendment will say it is proposed by the State Highway Department of Maryland _to bring a road to this point. When they do that, if I were on the committee I might support this amendment. But to spend $22,000 over a country that is a gulch "Fl Jeads nowhere I think is foolishness. Mr. Blanton jumped in at this point and supported Mr. Funk. He charged that Mr. Zihlman was merely ng to keep some of his campaign pledges by backing the proposal. Zihlman Explains Need. : Supporting the amendment, Mr. Zihlman pointed out that last year's Congress appropriatal $60,000 for the grading of Sixteenth street [from | avenue to Kalmia road, and t the Maryland Highway s;:mrnls» n had pledged to connect the pro- posed extension with the Maryland system. The extension, he said, has Dbeen approved by the District Commis. sioners, by the National Park and Planning Commission and the Fine Commission, znd by everybody is interested In the development the Capital. “My purpose in offering amendment in spite of the oppo- on of the subcommittee,” he sald, “4g that there is a fill that will have be made and we want it done now, i order that the work may settle so We can have the street paved to the M c'?\‘;g::-n pointed out that (Mr. inted ou! com- pletion of this grading would make a *«:t highway from Baltimore to fashington along this route, which would be the most used route for au- témobiles and trucks. Maryland has provided funds for building to the Dis- Iine, he said, and when the Six- th street project is undertaken the t"o routes can be hcoked up. ' § Debate on Teachers. ' iDuring debate on the item for new yesterday Representative Col- Democrat, of Mississippl chal- 1 as inaccurate the statement of . Ballou that there is an excess of 1707 puplls over the capacity of the ‘There is a school rule, he ted out, to the effect that a class- ought to house 40 pupils per in the elementary schools and 30 to 33 pupils in the high “Dr. Ballou himself,” Mr. said, “has said these numbers constitute ideal classrooms.” Telling about a chart he prepared investigating conditions, Mr. pointed out that the average of pupils per: teacher in the was found ‘to be 19.97; the junior high schools, 19.54, and the elementary schools, 31.24. This average “I submitted the table to Dr. Bal- and asked him to prepare one,” Mr. Collins. The table the school tendent prepared showed an of 22 pupils per teacher in h_schools; in the junior schools, 21.2, and in the ele- tary schools, 35. Ballou’s _esti- ‘was reached on a basis of the enrollment. Whichever table is used, Mr. Col- declared, they show there is no of 1,707 pupils, as Dr. Ballou , or else the table prepared by inaccurate. . Collins said his table showing number of pupils per teacher did nt take into account some 400 teach- who were not regulars, so that, he ntends, Dr. Ballou's assertion of a lacks confirmation. AT S BRI WOULD LEGALIZE BOXING. Representative Johnson Says Bill ‘Will Be Introduced Soon. Announcement that a bill would soon be introduced in the House to 8 in the District of was made to Vincent B. Costello Post, American Legion, last night by Representative Royal John- son of South Dakota, during a briet eddress. Mr. Johnson sketched the progress of . boxing n in his own State, attributing much of the support of ‘boxing to the interest taken there by the American Legion. Capt. H. L. Miller, chairman of the post boxing committee, declared that the present law banning boxing bouts here was in sore need of change. It was enacted more than 50 years ago, and Wi “antiquated,” he said. Comdr. Willlam Mitchell presided at the meeting. During the session Maj. Frank Kennedy, holder of the Victoria Cross and other decorations received . during service with the Canadians, and Capt. Willlam C. Burdett, holder of the distinguished service cross, received while with the Ninth Infantry, were admitted to membership. Capt. Burdett is now assigned to the American consulate in Brussels. ADDRESS COMMERCE BODY Two Speakers Make Talks Before Bethesda Chamber. The Chamber of Commerce of Bethesda, Md., at its semi-monthly meeting last night heard addresses from Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Assoclation, and J. L. Strieby, regional manager of the Chesapeake and Po- tomac Telephone Co. Mr. Strieby spoke on the needs of the community for increased tele- honic service and said during the gpflu underground coduits would be completed carrying all telephone lines into the Bethesda district. A very interesting and instructive film was shown {llustrating the mechanics of a telephone call from the first sig. m the call, throughout its trans- m and completion, and also scenes showing service disrupted by storms and its rapid restoration by the wrecking crews in action. A buffet supper was served at the close of the meeting. _At the recent annual election of officers Col. Wallace M. Craigle was elected president to succeed Walter R. Tuckerman; Lewis Keiser and John Imirie were elected first and sceond vice presidents, respectively; Paul A. Heideke, secretary, and §. Walter Bogley, treasurer. The executive committee elected is composed of Wal ter R Tuckerman, Thomas Hamp- . Wasnington Waters and 15,000 Youngsters In New York Will Hear President Talk A comic skating contest and a epeech by the President of the United States will be twin attrac- tions at Madison Square Garden on Washington's birthday. Tex Rickard, proprietor of the Garden, offered its use for an as- semblage of New York school chil- dren in response to a request from Representative Sol Bloom. There the children will hear President Coolidge’s Washington's birthday address by radio from Washington. Mr. Rickard offered to provide 15,000 seats and to arrange for the skating contest. Mr. Bloom, in an- nouncing the offer, expressed the desire ‘that similar meetings be ar- ranged all over the United States during the period the President is addressing Congress. PARK POLICE BILL 0K DFORREPORT House Committee Omits Pro- vision to Make Headley Inspector. Without a dissenting vote_the Hou District committee mdm-_nfifi favorable report on the Blanton bill combining the United States park police with the metropolitan police force and three other measures of less importance. Before acting on the police bill the full committee accepted the recom- mendation of the subcommittee strik- ing out a clause providing for the ap- pointment of former Inspector Head- ley as an additional inspector under the combined police forces. It also struck from the bill section 5 abolish- ing existing law under which the street railway companies now are paying the salaries of special traffic policemen at street car intersections. Omission of these two provisions, Representative Blanton explained, was due to the insistence of the District Commissioners. He pointed out that provision had been made for the salary of former Inspector Headley in the District supply bill and that the matter of abolishing policemen’s sal- aries by the street car companies is included in the street car merger bill. Fish Measure Favored. A bill prohibiting the sale of large and small mouthed bass in the District was ordered reported when Mr. Blan- ton accepted an amendment including deep sea. This bill already has been acted on in the Senate and Blanton promited to support it in the House. The fiduciary bill, amending the District of Columbia code so as to provide greater safeguards in the handling of trust funds, also was or- dered reported, as was a Senate bill to regulate pharmacists and require permits for the sale of poisons in the Distrigt. Representative McLeod of Michigan was authorized to report both these bills. Considerable discussion arose over the park police bill when Mr. Blanton submitted the report of the subcom- mittee on police and firemen. Ap- proval of the bill, he said, had been given by the Board of Commisaioner: Maj. Hesse, superintendent of the Traffic Department “and the the salaries of park policemen are now being paid.” Representative Houston asked {f there were any provision in the bill which would vent the chief of po- lice from witl iwing police protec- tion from the public parks. ““He wouldn't dare,” replied Mr. Blanton. “He could be impeached for that.” Clash on Pay Question. Mr. Blanton's motion that the sec- tion relating to the pay of traffic policemen by the street car companies oe omitted from the bill caused sharp objection on the part of several com- mittee members, but these were later withdrawn. 1t was concluded that the clause had no place in the bill. Mr. Reid declared existing law which permitted the traction com- panies to pay the salaries of police- men was ‘“‘a monstrosity. In the opinion of Representative Gilbert there is no more reason why a private corporation should pay the salaries of policemen than in paying the sal- aries of the Commissioners. In reply to questioning, Mr. Blan- ton said the street car companies were expending about $100,000 in payments to policemen, and he sug- gested an amendment whereby this sum would be turned into the general fund of the District. Members ob- jected that this did not remedy the policy involved. Chairman Zihlman declared the $100,000 “was charged against the car riders,” and Mr. Houston added that it was “that much in the com- panies’ pockets.’ “I object to giving them this $100,- 000 unless the companies put it to- ward a reduction in car fares,” Mr. Reld interjected. Under the original provision in the bill the money now paid to the po- licemen would be devoted to the re- pair of paving between the street car tracks, Mr. Blanton withdrew his amendment and on his suggedtion the committe struck the whole section out of the bill, Mr. Hammer brought up the ques- tion of additional teachers in the District schools and the committee authorized Chairma, Zihlman to make a fight on the floor for an amendment to restore the appropri- ation for 74 additional teachers. Ask $35,000 Damages, Aloysius J. Fealey, 3300 Twenty- fourth street, was sued yesterday in the District Supreme Court for $35,000 damages by Harry A. Krake and his wife, Fannie F. Krake, for alleged pe: sonal injuries. Mrs. Krake asks $25,000 and her husband wants $10,000. They were crossing Rhode Island and Mills avenues northeast, January 22, when an automobile operated by Fea- ley collided with them, they say, and inflicted serious injuries. Attorney Louis Ottenberg appears for the plain- tiffe. 1f the ground hog came out into the open for a fleeting moment today and then crawled back in his hole for an- other six weeks, it wasn't because he saw the sun and feared another spell of Wint ‘weather. It wal show his face after the miserable rec- ord he has made for himsel L ho of 15 4 zens of Washington from whm&fflwm : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1927. ALLEGED ROBBER SBROUCHT HERE Ulric Brownee, Colored, Ac- cused of Robhing Erlebach- er’s, Found in Gotham. ‘With approximately $10,000 worth of the furs and dresses stolen from Erlebacher's store last week, Ulric Brownee, colored, native of Panama and resident of the United States for almost ten vears. was brought here from his New York home last night by Detectives Cox and O'Brien on a war- rant charging complicity in the rob- hery. Brownee before a United States Commissioner In New York sought to evade his transfer to this eity. It was held, however, that a prima facie case was established and the com- missioner signed removal papers. Grilled by Detectives, Questioned by quarters, Brownee proved close- mouthed. He said he was born in Panama and_ came to the United States in 1917. He sald he enlisted in the Army in September, 1918, and was discharged at Camp Dix, Decem- ber, 1918. He served mostly as a waiter at hotels and aboard boats, he declared. The scene of his arrest was an apartment building in a colored dis- trict. The apariment in which the goods were discovered secreted in a dumbwaiter was rented by a colored achool teacher, Mrs. Whitiock Forbes, who. convinced the police that she had subleased it January 15. In It were found three empty steamer trunks, in which, it 1a believed, other loot had been stered and which the school teacher sajd she had never seen before. Attendants'in the apart. ment house declared that none of them had seen the trunks taken to that apartment. ver Here Before, He says. Brownee told police that last night was the first time he had ever been in Washington, although he had lived for a considerable time in Phila- delphia. The total value of the goods stolen from Erlebacher’'s was $13,700, leaving approximately $3,700 worth still miss- ing. The goods recovered are now in the hands of the property clerk at police headquarters ad arrangements for posting bond ané regaining pos- session of them are being made by the store. The goods ar» held as evidence. Denying strongly any complicity in the Eriebacher or any other store rob- bery, Brownee also denied knowledge of any one connected in any way with the robbery. No hint was given to the police, it was said, of any leads to the Rizik robbery or the wholesale looting of exclusive shops on Connecticut ave- nue which preceded it as a result of the arrest of Brownee. FLEET CORPORATION IS SAVED LARGE SUM Nearly $200,000 Is Amount Jury Trims From Claim of Maurice H. Eichberg. The Emergency Fileet Corporation was saved nearly $200,000 by the ver- dict of a jury in Circuly Division 2 of the District Suprems Court in favor of Maurice . Ei bile, Ala., trading as the A ber Co., for $9,600, with August, 1917, less 1 credit of §1,440. Eichberg had a contract to furnish timber for the proposed wooden fleet during the World War, which the Shipping Board canceled two weeks after it had been awarded. He sued for $121,000 and interest, and the audi- tor of the District Supreme Court, July 17, 1919, awarded him $127,484.28, which included interest. Interest on that amount would bring it now over $200,000. The case has been pending nearly 10 years and was submitted to th Jury late yesterday ufrernoon by Jus- tice Frederick L. Siddons following a trial of nearly four weeks. The Jury deliberated all night and an- nounced its verdict at the opening of court. The case went three times to the Court of Appeals before being sub- mitted to a jury. The plaintiff claimed a wrongful cancellation and - based his damages thereon. Counsel for the Government insisted that the contract had been conditional and that the plaintiff was not entitled to anything except actual expenses. g Attorneys J. Harry Covington, Clin- ton Robb and Dean Acheson appeared for the plaintiff, while the Fleet Cor- poration was represented by Attorneys Henry T, Davis and Bolitha 5. Laws as special counsel. The plaintiff, it is expected, will file a motion for a new tr] CARELESSNESS BLAMED. Coroner’'s Jury Holds Man Xilled by Street Car Did Not Look Out. A coroner’s jury heard evidence at the Morgue today in the case of Ed- ward 'W. Turner, colored, 77 years old, 2304 Sixth street, ally injured by a street car at Ninth and F streets Friday morning. The jury reached the conclusion that the accident was due to the pedestrian’'s failure to take the necessary precaution while crossing the street. Funeral services for Turner will be conducted at Lincoln Memorial Church, Eleventh and R streets, Fri- day afternoon at one o'clock. Rev, R. W. Brooks, pastor, will officiate, and interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be select- ed from the several fraternal bodies with which Turner was affiliated. Col. Cusack Retired. Col. Joseph E. Cusack, U. 8. Cav- alry, recently stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of disability incident to the service. He is from New York, and was a cor- poral in the 6th Cavalry when com- missioned as a second lleutenant in. that arm In November, 1892, During the World War he served as a colonel of Infantry in the National Army. He ‘because he was ashamed to caster. The turry prognosticator has ruined his reputation during the past 15 years, according to a statistical study made by F. W. Saward, a meteorolo- The check-up shows that the has been right only # orcasts during the entire was made a colonel of Cavalry in the regular establishment m July, 1620. Shame and Not Wintry Weather Should Keep Ground Hog in Hole, Says Expert period. This stamps the little animal not only as a poor prophet, but a worse guesser. This explains, no doubt, why the forecaster dared reporters to mention ground hog today. “I suppose you want to know about the ground hog,” he snapped to a re- porter for The Star, who called up 3 ““Well, you can't learn about ground hog from me. I know nothing about them.” "B'QI:. they say——" the reporter pro- “It'll be a nice day tomorrow,” the ‘weather man broke in, “and also a nice day today. That's all thers is, there is no more, and that's that.” detectives at head- | Will Eventually Fear that radlo programs might at | some future time be broadcast in such {a way that owners of recelving nets could not listen-in without renting a special device has prompted Repre- | sentative Sol Bloom of New York to |introduce a bill in the House intended to prevent such a posshility. | 'In_a statement explaining his bill { Mr. Bloom declares that hy means of | new broadcasting arparatus, “not vet in use, but already available,” it could be made impossible to listen:in over a recelving set without a special attach. {ment. Through such an attachment, | Mr. Bloom contends, it would be pos- | sible to levy a charge for listening-in by making it necessary for the listener to rent the device. Pending Bill Tnadequate. The New York Representative, In |offering this separats bill, takes the | position that the radio control legisla- tion recently agreed upon by Senate and House conferees does not specifi- cally protect the public against a pos- sible method of collecting a fee for lis. tening-in. Senator Dill, Democrat, of Washing- ton, who worked out the pending radio control legisiation with Representative White, said today hs knew of no rea- mon for fearigg such a situation at this time. Senator Dill sald it is Imperative that Congress complete at this session the legislation setting np Governmen- tal control over the licensing and oper- HOUSE BILL WOULD BLOCK POSSIBLE FEE ON RADIO SETS 'Representative Bloom Fears Broadcasters Require Use by Listeners of Special Apparatus. ation of broadcasting stations and that this important measure should not be jeopardized at the last moment by attempting to provide against all pos- sible future contingencles. Dill Is Not Disturbed. Radio is a new field of communica- tion.” sald Senator Dill. “and un- doubtedly, as time goes on, questions ay need the attention Congress. When the Interstate Commerce Commission was first created the law was not perfect and had to be changed later, nd it such a situation in radio, as has been described. should arise later it can be dealt with then hy Congress. The essential thing now is to enact the legislation, which has been agreed upon in conference, establishing reg- ulation of broadcasting.” The conference agreement on the radio-control bill has been approved by the House and Senator Dill will make every effort to have it taken up for ratification in the Senate this afternoon, or, at least, within the next day or two. If the Senate con- curs in the agreement the bill then will be ready for the President’s sig- nature, The ,conference agreement provides for a commission to fssue the broad- casting licenses for one year, after which t uthority would pass to the Secretary of Commerce, with the com- missfon from that time on handling controversies referred to it by the Secretary. SENATORS DISCUSS SMITH CASE AGAIN Elections Committee Ad- journs After Two Hours Without Action. By the Associated Press. For nearly two hours today the Sen- ate elections committee discussed the case of Frank l. Smith, Senator- designate and Senator-elect from II- linois, but came to no conclusion. “We met, we discussed the matter and we adjourned until tomorrow just as though we had held no meeting," #ald Chairman Ernst. Other commit- | teemen disclosed, however, that the | consensus was that ne action be taken until 8mith .has been given an oppor- tunity to testify. A number of Senators took the view that it would be a waste of time to make a preliminary report recom- mending administration of the oath, sinee there was slight possibility that such a report would be approved. VOTES TO BE SEIZED. Four Senate Officers Reach Pittsburgh in Vare-Wilson Fight. PITTSBURGH, February 2 (@.— Armed with subpoenas, four officers of the United States Senate arrived in Pittsburgh today to confer with Alle- gheny County commissioners on the procedure to be followed in seizing the disputed ballots in the Vare-W senatorial fight last November. At the outset, David 8. Barry, Sen- ite sergeant-at-arm#, said he would not PRESDENT TALS .0.P PROSPEET Texas Delegation and Four Senators Silent After Break- fast, However. By the Associated Press. The Republican outlook for 1928 was talked over at a White House breakfast conference today which at- tracted unusual attention among those who want to know whether Presi- dent Coolidge is to be a candidate to _.succeed himeelf. The conference was attended by four Senators and a group of party leaders from Texas. Afterward they all discreetly referred inquiries to the White House, which maintained its customary silence. But some of the generalities of the discussion, gaining currency among the politiclans at the Capitol, caused them to prick up their ears and express a desire to learn more. They heard that most of the break- fast table conversation centered about politics, but they did not establish that Mr. Coolidge either asked for or was promised directly any support in a possible campaign for renomination. The callers from Texas were headed by R. B. Creager, the Republican national committeeman for that State, and the group as a whole was recog- nl%\\ol ling potential contrel of the’ delegation to the 1928 Re- publican natfonal convention. It was Tim. from {the first time the President had en- larged his breakfast conferences to in- elude political groups of this kind. Besides the Texans, Mr. Coolidge's guests were Senators Moses of New Hampshire, Gofft of West Virginia, Sackett of Kentucky and Means of Colorado. DEBT OF $56,000,000 ORDERED FORECLOSED Chicago Traction Line in Hands of Receiver Probably Will Be Reorganized. By the Associated Pross, CHICAGO, February 2.—Federal Judge Wilkerson today ordered fore- closure of the first mortgage secur- ing $55,000,000 {n bonds of the Chicago Railways Co., one of the surface lines corporations. ‘hat company already is in the hands of receivers, and the anticipated foreclosure had been discounted for. months since the formation of protec- tive committees for the security hold- ers. The foreclosure petition was pre- sented by the Harris Trust and Sav- ings Bank, depositary for more than 50 per cent of the first mortgage bonds. The receivership and foreclosurs are forerunners of reorganization which will depend largely on the action of the city council and the State legis- lature relative to franchises which ex- pired at midnight January 31. . DEFENDS NEGROES’ EXCLUSION AT POLLS Texas Holds Right to Keep Them Out of Democratic Primaries. By the Associated Press. The right to exclude negroes from participating in Democratic primaries in Texas was asserted by Attorney General Pollard of that State in a brief filed today in the Supreme Court, in a case brought by L. A. Nixon. Contending that the primaries are not elections, within the meaning of the Federal Constitution, the brief as- serted inat the right to inject one's self into the nominating primary of a political party is not a right which can be enforced in the Federal courts. Local officers of a political party, it was argued, have the right to refuse to permit a negro to participate in a primary of their party when it refuses to recognize negroes as members of the party. The law of Texas sanc- tions such a refusal, the attorney gen- eral said, and is valid. He cited the constitutional provision reserving to the States all powers not specifically granted the Federal Government, and declared that decisions in Nevada, Min- nesota, Ohio, West Virginia, Louisiana and New York, and the Supreme Court’s own decision in the Newberry case, had sustained the contention that primaries are not Federally-con- trolled elections. Nixon was denied the right to vote in a Democratic primary at Bl N under the orders of the State Demo- cratic executive committee. Persia plans to engage 12 American and German rallroad construction en- gineers and a Belgian director general of posts. A CITIZENS INDORSE BELL. Devonshire Downs Association Favors His Reappointment. Following his explanation of the business operation of the various de- partments of the District government, Col. Franklin C. Bell, Engineer Com- missioner, was indorsed for reappoint- ment by ‘the Devonshire Downs Citi- zens' Association at that body's meet- ing last night at the home of Mrs. Marguerite V. Baughman, 3805 Van Ness street, secretary. Irving Priest of the Richmond Park Citizens' Association also addressed the meeting, outlining the Richmond Park project, which calls for the es- tablishment of a Government-owned public park on an 80.acre tract near the Bureau of Standards. The Devonshire Downs citizen body also adopted a resolution request- ng ‘the completion of Van Ness street from Reno road to Connecticut ave. nue. Mrs. Baughman presided. COOPER CHARGES SET FOR EARLY HEARING Ls Guardia Impeachment Pro- ceedings Against Federal Judge Taken Up. Hearings on impeachment charges against Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the northern New York district will be opened by the House judicial committee next week. The charges were preferred by Representative LaGuardia, Republic- an, New York, who declared Cooper had conspired with R. Q. Merrick, former prohibition administrator at New York, to entrap prohibition law violators. The opening date of the hearing will not be set until Judge Cooper can come to Washington to answer the charges. Mr. Merrick, who will be summoned by Representative La- Guardia, probably will be the only other witness. A resolution by Representative Cel- ler, Democrat, New York, demanding impeachment of Judge Cooper, also is before the committee, but it is ex- pected that the hearing will be con- fined to charges in the LaGuardia resolution. Today in Congress SENATE. Senate paild tribute to Theodore Shuey, who is 82 years old today, and who has served for 59 years as officlal recorder of Senate de- bates. ent was reached to vote at 3 pm. Friday on the Harrison tax reduction resolution. Conference report on radio legis- lation went over until tomorrow. Senate took up as unfinished business the bill to regulate the portation of milk and cream Privileges and el tes in executive session on the case of Senator-designa Frank Smith of Illinois, whose credentials ‘were held up by the Senate. Interstate commerce committes continued hearings on railroad con- solidation. Judiclary subcommittee continued hearings on the work of the Fed- eral Trade Commission in its bread investigation. Foreign ations committes held executive session. Privileges and ctions commit- tee meets this afternoon to con- sider the charges against Senator Gould, Republican, of Maine, in- volving the alleged payment of $100,000 to a former premier of New Brunewick, in connection with the construction of a rallroad some years ago. HOUSE. House sends Navy appropriation biil to conference. Calendar Wednesday program in House with committes on terri- tories having the. call. Judiciary committee encourages hope for representation in na- tional affairs for the presidents of the Natfonal Capital, but defers action until & new measure can be presented in the next Congress. House District committes favor- ably reports four bills, one to merge park police with the metro- politan police force, another to regulate the practice of pharmacy, to regulate the sale of black bass and to throw safeguards about an-uruon of Y;julinul with per- s or corporations in cl fl%udlr{taxsndl, e o ‘omm!| on public bulldin and grounds conducts hearing o': proposed new House Office Build- ing, which will be concluded Fri- “Banking ana nking currency committee conducts hearing on Federal farm loan bill. Committee on mines and mining conducts hearing on war minerals. h::‘ om“mgoml’t;ao conducts ng on future cy of Post OCensus commitiss ensus ee considers reap- portionment legislation, . Naval affairs committes, in ex- ecutive session on the committee g and means committee in executive session on several policy take back to Washington the six ballot boxes which form the basis of Dis- trict Attorney Samuel H. Gardner's investigation of the elaction. Indict- ments wers returned yesterday by the MRS. D. V. DOV AVIATION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HERE Navy Plans to Train Phy- sicians in Selection of Prospective Flyers. Creation of a_school of aviation medicine at the Naval Hospital here was announced teday by Capt. J. C. grand jury against 30 persons growing out of irregularities at the election. Besides Barry, the campalgn fund committee representatives wers John P. McGrain, deputy sergeant; Attorney Jerry South, counsel for BSenator James A. Reed, chairman of the in- estigating committee, and John Han- lon, a special deputy. BUSCH’S ACCUSATION OF MORENO AS SHOOTER REJECTED BY COURT (Continued from First Page.) ¥F. McCabe were brought to the bed- side. Kelly testified that Busch said: That's the one I got,” pointing at Moreno. Then Sweeney. was brought in and declared Busch said, “I think that's the one I got.” Waldron fol- lowed and testified that Busch said, this tes- timony as beis their best recollec- tion of the incident and also stated they were several feet away from Busch. Dr. Kilroy was right beside the wounded officer when he said he heard Busch say to Moreno, “You're the man that shot me.” Court Is Not Satisfled. Immediately after this was disposed of the court took up the question of the numerous confessions or state- ments by the defendants which the Government -seeks to place in evi: dence. Decision on this matter has been delayed from day to day by Jus- tice Hitz, because, as he stated, cou sel have falled to supply him with au- Pryor, commanding officer. The school will be a branch of the Navy PRIEST AND GIRL ELOPE 70 CHICAGO Missouri Pastor Resigns Aft- er Marrying Daughter of Miner. By the Associated Press. MARCELINE, Mo., February 2. — News of their marriage in Chi January 18, yesterday cleared up the ! mystery_surrounding the disappear- ance of Rev. D. V. Downey, 36, pastor of the St. Ronaventure Catholic Church here, and Miss Maude Myers. 21, daughter of a Marceline coal miner. The marriage was revealed yester- day by Robert M. Sweitzer, Cook County clerk at Chicago, who said the couple was married by Judge Henry W. McEwen there. The disappearance of the priest the night of January 17 stirred Marce line. Then it was learned that Miss Myers had disappeared the same night Police found that Father Downey had checked his trunk to a Chicago hotel and bought a ticket for that city and that Miss Myers had ?!Ih"hued a ticket for Fort Madison, owa. Resigned as Pastor. . Police {n Chicago were asked to search for the priest and the girl but no_tracs of them was found. Then ‘a sister of the girl here re- vealed that she had received a letter from Maudle saying: “Am well and married. know who to.” The supposition was that the two had been married, but there was no confirmation until yesterday. It was learned that Father Down sent a letter of resignation to his sistant here after he left and other letters to bhe forwarded to the bishop at St. Joseph, Mo. Guess you Medical School and will train Na: prysicians especially to examine pro- spective aviators. Work will begin Monday Seven Navy physicians will report for training Friday. They will be taken on their'first flight February 11. Their training will be centered on the practical side of flying to give them insight into the conditions aviators must face. In addition to learning to operate planes, they will be gi raining in meteorology at the Weathér Bureau and in psychol ogy and pschiatry at St. Elizabeth's ospital. Establishment of the school, Capt. Pryor explains, is the result ‘of the need for careful selection of flving personnel. This personnel must be chosen 8o carefully that it was felt that Navy physiclans were not fully equipped to pass on all their qualifi- cations without special training. The physicians, therefore, will be brought here and put through an intensive courss of instruction covering the practical side of aviation and its psy- chology. After finishing the course, which will cover several months, they will be assigned to the special task of passing on prospective pilots. DEMANDS JOHNSON QUIT. Parents’ League Executive Commit- tee Takes Action. The resignation of Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, as a member of the board of education, was demanded yester- day by the executive committee of the Parents’ League. It was decided to send a letter to both Dr. Johnson and thorities. He announced from the bench that “I am not at all satisfied with any of these statements.” Assistant United States Attorney J. J. O'Leary offered a written state. ment by Eagles in evidence, but the court refused to accept it at the time. James A. O'Shea, counsel for McCabe, argued at length for the admissebility of his client's state- ment, but opposed those of the other defendants. James B. Archer, coun- sel for John Proctor, the fourth de fendant, vigorously opposed McCab: statement, asserting that it wa petition for the Nobel prize. Statements’ Not Confessions. The court indicated that the state- ments were not confessions because “sach man confesses somebody else does the shooting.” The argument was interrupted by the court recessing at 12:30 o'clock for luncheon, leaving the matter still open. The Government's argument in favor of the admissability of the statements, as set forth by O'Leary, ‘was based on the fact-that the prose- cution would show by the four declarations that each man was present at the time. O'Leary fur- ther declared that each statement was offered solely against the author of it and did mot bind any one mentioned. He was willing to concede that no other names need be mentioned in order that the state- ments could be received in evi- denct Heard McCabe's Version. Just before adjournment yester- day afternoon the court and jury heard McCabe's version of the shoot- ing as he related it to Detective Curtiss Trammell on the night of September 26, in which he declared that “those three men should be hung,” the detective testified. Trammell, in company with De- tective Dennis J. Murphy and “Law- ver O'Nelll,” MecCabe's attorney. called at 1208 K strest about 9 o'clock at night and upon entering a room where the defendant was Mc- Cabe asked, according to the wit- nes: ‘How are the officers? When In- formed they both had been seri- ously wounded, he replied, Trammell said, “What a shame the way those officers were shot down' MocCabe told the officer he had no gun, did ut the others did,” and “If ever there was anybody that should be hung, those three men should be,” Trammell said, “McCabe ed in capital shooting the board advising them of their action. Dr. Johnson, according to the pro- test voiced at the meeting, Is “not representative of his pecple and not in sympathy with their problems or their aspirations. Two weeks ago at a meeting of th executive committee of the D. C. Pub- lic School Association, the resignation of Dr. H. B. Learned, another board member, was demanded on the ground that Dr. Learned had gone to California for three months at a e he was needed in the school Col. Marcellus G. Spinks, Artiliery, at Fort Totten, N. Y. Col. Charies D. Herron, Field Artillery, at Fort Sill, Okla.; Maj. Arthur B. Conard, Cavalry, and Maj. Douglas C. Cordiner, Quartermaster Corps, at the Army War College, this city, have been detailed as members of the Gen- eral Staff Corps. Col. Spinks is or- dered to the Panama Canal Zone, Col. Herron to the Philippines, Maj. Conard to Panama and Maj. Cordiner to Hawall. e————————————————————— me up and they began walking to here the car was broken down. When the shooting started the first thing McCabe kenw was that some one shot through his arm at the officers. He fell over on a lawn, and, after the shots, ran away, caught a North Cap- ftol street car and went home. He tatked with “Lawyer O'Nefll” in the early part of the day, and O'Neill re- Dorted McCabe's car stolen. McCabe Was waiting for the morning paper to see about the condition of the officers, after which O'Neill was to turn him over to the police.” O'Nelll Led Officers. When Trammell arrived at the K strest house he said McCabe had been drinking, and was partly under the influence of liquor at the time of their conversation. O'Nefll was the one who led the officers to McCabe's house, the witness sald. Louis Tannenbaum, counsel for Eagles, asked the witness if he read McCabe's statement, whereupon O'Shea objected. James B. Archer, attorney for Proctor, snapped out: ‘'You have no right to object.”” O'Shea said he was willing to have McCabe's state- ment lald_before the jury at that moment, but Archer declared he have a “hard time putting it in. Archer told the court he had hoped to present some authorities against the admissibility of that “self serving declaration against my client,” but he could not find any to cover that type of statement. Court was adjourned Coast ever heard of,” Trammell quoted him as saying. En route to police headquarters, Trammell said McCabe told him the following story: Bought Some Liquor. After leaving his place of employ- ment in his car, he went down on Ninth street and chkfid up Proctor. They went to Righteenth and L streets, bought some liquor nearby and later went down Southwest, whe they bought more liquor. Then they went to a house on C street and picked up two other men. MeCabe ot in the back seat of the car 5mm drove into Maryland avenue. MecCabe fell lllltp\"rh‘ next thing he remembered was that they were hold- ing up some one. car was aban- doned, and the cgr of the man held This later e 3 toward Washington. Here MeCabe tried to get away by lying down in the grass. Moreno found him and said Yhou y':!ow dog, get up or I'll blo B Rnother car and it broke M.MMM a thro Theyr got in before the wrangle progressed any farther. In placing Trammell on the stand, Horning announced the detective testimony was offered solely against McCabe and the jury was advised by Justice Hitz to so consider it. Before Trammell's testimony, Ralph C. Proctor, 1102 Seventh street south- west, brother of one of the defendants, took the stand. He began to relate how he was awakened about 5 o'clock on the morning of September 26 by John and inf ied that he was shot. Horning at this point announced the testimony was offered against Proctor e and Archer, looking at the wit- ness, added: “Yes, it's offered against your own brother.” r stated that his brother in- sisted on being taken to the home of ‘Walter, another brother in Baltimore, and refused hospital treatment here. Ralph drove the wounded man in the Qdetendant's automobile to the Balti- John told a doctor ‘Bel Air, Md., the witness testified. ‘The names of the girl, who is & Protestant, and the pastor, had not been linked until their disappearance. Father Downey was popular among the Protestants as well as Catholies of Marceline. CHURCH TO TAKE NO ACTION. Archbishop Holds Priest's Leaving Church Is His Own Business. ST. LOUIS, Mo., February 2 (#). Archbishop John J. Glennon last night sald the Roman Catholic Church “as body would take no official cognizance of the elopement and marriage of the Rev. D. V. Downey, Marceline, Mo., prieat. “If aman wants to leave the church, that is his business,” Archbishop Glen- non said when questioned as to what action might be taken against the priest. ““There is really nothing that can be done.” MANY EXHIBITS SURE FOR TRADE DISPLAY Third Annual Show at Auditorium in March Promises to Be Impressive. Exhibits of the most varied t3 business ever entered in the industrial expositions held under the auspices of the Washington Chamber of Com. merce will be seen at the third a: nual display of the National Capital's trade development, to be held at the Auditorium March 9 to 19, according to an announcement at headquarters today. That such will be the case this year is made certain, officials state, as & result of the recent signing of con- tracts for space by an important aum- ber of local enterprises. The housewife will be attracted by exhibits which will include displays by dairy and bakery companies, to- gether with appliances designed to re- duce household drudgery and to make n::‘- home more comfortable and liv- able. The ever-increasing army of radio enthusiasts will find much to hold their interest at the third annual in- dustrial exposition, where exhibits in- dicating the most modern trend in aerfal communication will be shown, it is said, and, in addition, two jewelry concerns have signified their intention of taking part in the exposition. % Martin A. Leese, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, announced the personmel of the pub- licity committee as follows: Ivan C. Weld, chairman: Charles W. Darr, Al Robert N. Harper, C. Sharpe, Ross P. Andrews, F. P, Guthrie, Jerome Fanciulli and Mr. Leese. PROPOSES TO TEST LAW. Local Association Protests Iimit- ing Number of Taxicabs. The validity of the regulation limit- ing to 1,250 the number of taxicabs in ‘Washington is challenged in a petition for mandamus filed today in the Dis- trict Supreme Cq ent Taxi Ow A operates the Diamond Cab Co. company asks a rule on the Distriat Commissioners and Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses, to show cause why they should not be com- pelled to issue licenses for 25 addi- tional cabs of the plaintiff company. ‘Through Attorney Henry M. Fowler the court is told that the company row has 100 cabs In service, which has been giving satisfaction, and the busi- ness has so increased that additional vehicles are necessary to care for it. The action setting the limit is claimed to be arbitrary and unnecessary as qu number of persons using taxicabs is inereasi with the increased population of Washington. The Com- missioners denied the company’'s re- quest because of the regulation and the fact of the traffic congestion. SENATORS DEFER PROBE. By a vote of 8 to 5 the Senate foreign relations committee today in- definitely postponed action on the Norris resolution proposing an inv gation of published reports that the State Department sought to dissem. inate propaganda about Bolshevik ac- tivities in Mexico. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebras- ka, author of the resolution, appeared before the committes to urge action. Chairman Borah declined to discl how Senators lined up on the roll call. Rathbone to Be Guest at Howard U, Representative Henry D. Rathbons of Illinols will be the guest of the faculty and student corps of Howard University tonight at 6 o'clock, when he will dellver an address. Justice mton W. Booth, a dean of the How. ard University School of Law, extends an invitation to the alumni ‘and ds of the university to be present at the reception, which will be held in the law buflding, 420 Fifth street.