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2 * TWO MEN ARE SHOT AND OFFIER HELD Row Arises Over Remark About Money—Taxi Driver Is Critically Wounded. Two men were seriously wounded and Policeman James Warren Mat- thews, 32 yvears old, of the fourteenth precinct, living at 2407 Eighteenth | street, was arrested for the shooting about midnight last night in front of his home, tollowing an altercation er a_remark ahout money. | C. Bland, 24 years old, of { 1424 W street. said to have accom- | panied Matthews on a party with two unidentified g is at Garfield Hospi tal with bullet wounds in the abdomen | and legs orge Milton Fox. 24 vears old, driver serving Bland and at the time, was shot in n also, He is at Emer- ital in a critical condition, geney Hosp holding out little hope of physicians recovery. Police Give Version. According to a statement =aid by police to have been made by Matthews after being taken to the eighth pre- cinct and suspended from the police force shor after midnight, he and Bland early last night formed an ac- auaintance with two girls, and hired a taxicab operated by Fox. Matthews said last nignt he could not remember where they had gone, according to the police After leaving the girls. and when Matthews was about to leave the taxi cab in front of his home, the police say, he heard a remark “Don't let nim go; he has too much money."” Matthews, it is said, then drew his revolver and started firing. Whisky Is Reported. Policeman H. C. Hinton, on duty in the neighborhood, attracted by th shooting, says he found Matthew emptying his pistol. Hinton arranged for taking the two wounded men to the hospitai and placed Matthews under arrest. Headquarters _Detectives Fowler and Flaherty, who also investigated the case, reported that their investi- gation disclosed Matthews and Bland were in a lunchroom when they met the two girls. The detectives learned that they taxied first to an apart- ment on Rhode Island avenue to get whisky and then went to an apart- ment on V street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets to drink it, leaving there about 11:30 o'clock. Upon arriving at the home of Mat- thews, the detectives learned, the argument ensued and the shooting took place, according to their investi- gation, when the taxicab driver sought to prevent Matthews from leaving the cab. Interviewed in Hospital. Bland was interviewed brifly at the hospital. He said he had been with a man and two girls, although he did not know the man was a po- liceman, and corroborated the out- standing points in the story attributed to Matthews. Bland was under the impression, it was reported, that Matthews had paid the bill to the taxicab driver before starting to shoot. Capt. Robert E. Doyle of the eighth precinct instructed Sergt. Balderson today to make an effort to have the District nttor‘rxy's office provide for commitment Matthews to Jail to- day to await the outcome of charges of assault with intent to kil ORLANDO HA_i-IN AWARDED BOK ADVERTISING MEDAL Head of Audit Bureau of Circula- tion Gets Prize for Meritorious Advertising Work. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 16. —The gold medal for distinguished personal service to advertising, one of the annual Harvard advertising awards founded by Edward Bok, has been awarded for 1926 to Orlando Clinton Harn for his work as presi- dent of the Audit Bureau of Circula- tion. Mr. Harn is advertising man- ager and chairman of the sales com- mittee for the National Lead Co. of New York. Other awards announced last night included: The Blackman Co. Advertising Agency, New York, and Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, $2,000 cash prize and certificate for the national campaign of a specific product deemed most conspicuous for its planning and execution; the Campbell 2wald Co. Advertising Agency, Detroit, award of $2,000 and certificate for real estate campaign of the Kreider Rotzel Realty Co.. Youngstown, Ohio, deem- ed the best.local campaign in cities of more than 100,000 population. Today in Congress SENATE. The branch banking bill may be voted on before adjournment, since cloture,. limiting each Senator to one hour, is in effect. Public lands committee continues hearings relative to timber land in the Malheur National Park in Oregon Foreign relations committee met on the Borah resolution to exterd the life of the commission. con- sidering Mexican claims. Agriculture committee hearing on a pending bill. Joint committes on territories &nd insular affairs held a hearing on a bill for a leprosar Alaska. P it held a HOUSE. Committes on territories and in- sular affairs calls up bills on its calendar in the House, following which the House will take up the private calendar, House District committee reports <four bills and indulges in free-for :n talkfest on Sunday blue law fil. Subcommittee of appropriations committee in executive session on gecond deficiency bill Gibson subcommittee of House District committee continues its hearings on municipal administra- tion at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Banking and currency committee continues hearing on Federal re- serve pension bill. Insular affairs committee con- ducts hearing in joint session with the Senate committee on leprosy in_the Philippines Interstate commerce committee in executive session on railroad consolidation. Census committee continues hear- ing_on reapportionment Military _ affairs committes through subcommittee on real estate considers Senate bill for re- moval of Aqueduct Bridge. Ways and means committee con- ducts hearing to fix salaries in the customs service. Veterans committee in executive session on cmnibus pension bill i -—— Tt 18 estimated that 500,000,000 tons of hellum are going to waste in this | contended that employes would get |SPECIAL OFFICER THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927. | Court by his associate, Judge George Nathan Cayton, 28 vears old, today took the oath of office as judge of the Municipal Court as successor to the lata Charles V. Meehan. Judge Cayton will preside in Part 6 of the court and the induction ceremonies were held in that courtroom. The bench was literally covered with flow ars sent by friends. George . Aukam. presiding judge, | administered the “judicial” oath, by which the new jurist swears to do equal justice to the rich and the poor NEW MUNICIPAL JUDGE SWORN IN Oath of offive is administered to Judge Nathan Cayton (right) of Municipal 0. Aukam, and to perform all the duties of the judgeship to the best of his ahility and understanding, in addition to sup porting the Constitution. Following the oath, Judge Cayton. who has the distinction of being the voungest man ever raised to the hench in this district, was congratu lated by his assoclates, Judges Aukam, Mattingly, O'Toole and Cobb: hyv Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt and by hundreds of lawyers and friends, who had crowded the small courtroom during the ceremonies BILLS FOR WORKERS WARMLY DEBATED Employers and Labor Repre- sentatives Discuss Pending Compensation Measures. The relative merits of the Under- hill and Fitzgerald workmen's com- pensation bills were debated for three hours before the Citizens' Advisory Council last night by organized em- ployers of Washington and repre- sentatives of arganized labor. The employers were unanimous in support of the Underhill measure, while organ- ized labor aimed shafts of criticiem at it and gave their indorsement to the Fitzgerald bill. The debate developed as a repult of a public hearing called by the douncil to consider the various workmen's compensation measures now pending before Congress. The council already has gone on record as favoring the Fitzgerald bill, but criticism of its ac- tion moved this body to reconsider all forms of proposed workmen's compen- sation legislation. Council Takes no Action. ‘The council, however, took no ac- tion after the debate, but accepted for future consideration the verbal argu- ments, documents and briefs of the opposing factions. The fight of the business men against the Fitzgerald bill was led by W. W. Everett, vice president of ‘Woodward & Lothrop's, who pointed out at the outset of the debate that the business men of Washington felt that the council had made a ‘‘big mis- take” in indorsing a bill that so wide- ly affects the business interests of the city without consulting them. Those who indorsed the Underhill bill and outlined its merits were Ed- win C. Graham, president of the Washington Board of Trade; Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation; Walter Balderson of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, C. H. Warrington of the Washington Autorhotive Trade Association, W. J. Eynon, representing the Employing Printers; Thomas L. Baldwin, jr., superintendent of insurance of the District; James P. Shick of the Wash- ington Real Estate Board, Edward S. Brashears of the Washington Insur. ance Club, and James L. Madden of the United States Chamber of Com- merce. Labor Forces Led by Warren. The forces of organized labor were marshaled behind George A. Warren of the.Central Labor Union. Labor’s opening attack on the Underhill biil was made by Edgar Wallace of the American Federation of Labor. Sup- porting him were John B.sAndrews of the American Association for Labor Legislation, and John B. Colpoys, editor of the Trade Unionist. Epitomized, the arguments of the business men described the Fitzgerald bill as communistic, monpolistic and a vehicle for Nation-wide propaganda. They also contended that it would in- crease taxation and provide for en- croachment on private business by the Federal Government. Mr. War- rington pointed out that the bill would “destroy the inalienable right of free- dom of contract,” while Gen. Stephan declared its provisions provide oppor- tunities for fraud. Adverse View Voiced. “The labor men, on hte other hand, more compensation with greater cer-| tainty under the Fitzgerald bill, and | explained that it was carefully planned to meet a unique situation guch as | exists in Washington, where they said the employment hazard is high. They also declared that it would provide cheaper insurance for the employers and more prompt payment for em- o "’xn. Andrews told the council that the House District committee has in- dorsed the Fitzgerald bill three times, and he appealed to the body to con- firm its previous action in supporting the measure. FIRES ON COUPLE, WHO FEARED HOLD-UP (Continued from First Page) | these officers identified Coyner and | | apologized for the incident, he said. | “arter did not make his identity | il he overtook us in the! town.” Coyner stated, “and when he | stopped my car 1 thought 1 was the | vietim of a highwayman. He stopped me by slewing his car across the road directly in front of me. | ™“When he approached the door, and tried to open it, still without saying a | word, T threw my machine in reverse {and made off. He fired six shots after me. One of them passed through the geat between my companion and my self: another was deflected hy a post close to my head, while others punc- tured the right rear tire and my REED OPENS DRIVE ONG. 0. P.RECORD Missouri Senator, Recognized Presidential Aspirant, Makes Sweeping Denunciation. Br the Associated Press. INDIANPOLIS, Ind., February 16 —With corruption as his theme, Sen- ator Reed of Missouri, soon to be brought forward formally as a Demo- cratic presidential candidate, delivered a sweeping denunciation of the Repub- lican party in an address here last night before a State association of Democratic editors. After tracing alleged Republican ir- regularities from the day of Alexan- der Hamilton to the present, the Mis- sourl Senator, who was the guiding spirit behind the Senate inquiry into campaign expenditures, declared “the red line of corruption runs through the Capitol of the Nation and crosses the White House grounds.” Assails Coolidge. « He charged President Coolidge with acquiescence in the ‘“Pennsylvania election corruption” and ‘with dere- liction of public duty by failure to move toward prosecution of former Attorney General Daugherty and the principals in the oil scandals. Turning on Frank O. Lowden, the Senator declared the former Iilinois governor “is now appearing on the horizon again as the special angel and champlon of the farmers."” “He is about as well qualified for that position,” Reed said. “as T would be for leader of the angelic choir.” Lowden, he added, had been re. tired from the presidential race of 1920 by the exposure of the ‘“pay- ment of $38,000 to certain politicians of the State of Missouri in considera- tion of the Missouri vota in the on- coming Republican convention.” Describing the recent Pennsylvania election as the “Pennsylvania in- quiry,” Senator Reed declared that “here again we must literally start at the White House.” Mellon Campaigp Donation. “The Secretary of the Treasury, doubtless with the consent of the Presi- dent,” he continued, ‘proceeded to Pennsylvania, publicly declared in fa- vor of Pepper, and actively engaged in the business of organizing his cam- paign. Together with his brother and nephews, the Mellon family contrib. uted $75,000, which is admitted, and engaged at once in the gathering of the largest slush fund ever accumu- lated to nominate any man for the United States Senate. : “The fact has already been dis- closed that this campaign, largely con- trolled and dominated by the Mellon family, raised and expended in the primary campaign alone $1,804,000. “At the same time Vare, the oppos- ing candidate, was gathering his sinews of war. The curious thing about his contributions is that men known as notorious grafters at elec- tion were admitted to have given sums ranging from $50,000 to $75,000, and some of them refused to disclose the source of the money. Vare Campaign Cited. “Against Vare and his cohorts the Mellon forces pronounced anathema maranatha. They declared Vare unfit for the office of United States .Sena- tor, that his methods were villainous and corrupt. These same forces ral- lied to his support. Mr. Mellon became the chairman of the commit- tee to conduct Vare's campaign. “The election was held and William B. Wilson swept to the corporate {limits of Philadelphia with a major- ity of 50.000. But the Republican machine at Philadelphia did its work. It rolled up an apparent vote so great that Vare apparently was elected by a majority of approximately 200,000 votes. “And so I say that the red line of {corruption runs through the Capital of the Nation and crosses the White House grounds.” Ly O Reed Will Address C. U. Seniors. Senatdr James A. Reed of Missouri will address the Catholic University senfors tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in McMahon Hall, at the fifth annual senior night tendered to the gradu- ! ating classes by the Dod Noon Club, and a oneact play “The Game" will be given by the Dramatic Association. Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the university, will introduce Sena- tor Reed, reached: a lighted street stopped his machine. Then it was that Carter and the prohibition officers, wha were following in another car, drove up. As far as has been ascertained the two prohibition officers had nothing 1o do with the shooting and absolved Coyner from all blame as soon as they saw him. Commonwealth's Attorney Furr stated that nothing of the Kind had ever occurred in the county before and promised that the matter would be thoroughly investigated. He stated that Coyner was well and favorably known in the community and possess- ed of an excellent reputation. What action will he taken in regard to Carter will be determined by the re. sults of the investigations and sub- apare.” Coyner stated that he made for saleti ol 1ha 1OWD 304 85 5000-A5 the | indicatede |SENATORS SPONSOR REVISED TAX SALES District Supply Bill Hearings Show Sentiment for Im- proved Method. Failure to appropriate for any ad ditional school teachers at this time will mean * s ardship’ to the school system, Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintend ent of schools, told the Senate sub. committee in charge of the local ap- propriation bill before the measure was reported to the Senate without provision for the 74 new teachers re quested. The printed record of the Senate hearings on the local supply bill, made public teday, shows the sub. committee devoted much of its deliber- ations to conditions in the school system and to the necessity of giving property owners proper notice before selling real estate at auction for non- payment of taxes. “We can run the schools without these teachers, but we will run them by retrenching,” Mr. Kramer testl fled, referring to the request for T4 additional instructors. “We shall be forced to retrench on lines which wa have embarked upon and which we believe are for the benefit of the chil dren.” Aid to Backward. When asked by Senator Jones of Washington to specify some of the retrenchments, Mr. Kramer sald 15 of the new teachers would be needed for new buildings that will come into use before September of this vear. and that without them it will be necessary to withdraw 15 from the force engaged in coaching backward children and children who have lost time through sickness. He said there are 61 teachers engaged in coaching work and explained in detail how the local school system is endeavering to give special attention to those children who appear to need it in order to be successful. Senator Kendrick of Wyoming in- dicated he thought this one of the most important works done in the schools. Answering a question by Senator Capper, Mr. Kramer said it will be necessary to withdraw 25 of the 61 coaching teachers for elementary school work as a result of disallowing the additional number. Maps Out Survey. Senator Thipps, chairman of the subcommittee, stated vesterday that if the survey to be made by the Bu- reau of Efficiency between now and next Fall bears out_the request of the achool board fo: 74 more teachers, they could be provided for in a de- ficiency bill in December without wait- ing_until next vear. The hearings show committee outlined to Herbert D. Brown, director of the Bureau of Tfficiency, just what ground he is to cover in the forthcoming survey While Mr. Brown was before the sub- committes Chairman Phipps made this statement with relation to a survey of the need for more teachers: “It appears sometimes as though certain teachers were assigned to these special duties, such as coaching, for instance, a very small number of puplls, whereas right at the moment there is a demand for teachers to take care of full classes of pupils to whom teachers have net been assign- ed. We should want you to go to the full extent of making recommenda- tions on the whole matter of man- agement.” Notice of Taxes. At least half of the 20,000 parcels of real estate sold for non-payment of taxes in Washington annually would never go on the tax collector's auction block if owners had adequate notice that their taxes were due, District of- ficlals admitted before the Senate sub- committee. The printed record of the hearings reveals that virtually all the members of the subcommittee believe the Com- missioners should work out some sys. tem that will insure notice to prop- erty owners. As a result of the hearings the Sen- ate appropriations committes has written into the bill a new clause re- quiring the Commissioners to publish in_the newspapers a complete list of delinquent properties before they are sold for taxes. Heretofore the law has called for the printing of a pam- phlet containing the list and the pub- Tication of a small legal notice stating that the pamphlet s available at the District Building. Twenty Pamphlets Sold. Testimony at the hearings showed that prior to the last tax sale only 20 pamphlets were sold, whereas there were 23,000 delinquent parcels of property to be put on the auction block. “And. therefore,” observed Senator Glass of Virginia, “they do not get any notice in the world that their property is to be sold.” Chairman Phipps added that he tas been trying for four or five years to get something done on this situation. Senator Phipps further expressed the opinion that of the 20 tax list pam- phlets sold last year probably most of them were bought by speculators, “who want to come in and buy these properties up at tax sale.” Senator Kendrick asked if 50 per cent of delinquent property sales would be eliminated by proper notice to the taxpayer, to which District Au- ditor Donovan replied: Outsiders Get Benefit. “I should say easily that. I would add this statement for the informa- tion of the committee, that recently the Commissioners recommended legislation that would cure certain defects in our tax sale laws. At the present time -there are a certain group of men who come into the District once a year and bid in this property at tax sale. They get a tax sale certificate and they are en- titled to 12 per cent interest on the money. If at the end of two years the property owner has not re- deemed his property from the tax sale, the law gives the holder of the tax certificate the right to ask for a tax deed, and the law provides that such tax deed shall convey a fee simple title to the property. “Where the property is not hought by one of these outsiders, the Dis- ct of Columbia buys it in. Last year there was prepared, at the re- quest of Senator Phipps, and intro- duced in the Senate, a bill that would permit the District of Columbia, after bidding in these properties, to sell them through court procedure should the owners fail to pay the taxes within the period of two years. To my way of thinking the District of Columbia should buy in all the property at tax sales, and get the 12 per cent interest, instead of collect- ing the 12 per cent and turning it over to an outsider. “Not only that, but when the out- sider gets a tax deed on a piece of land for which he paid not more than $50 or $75, while the property may be worth $5,000, it is difficult for the property owner to remove the cloud from his title.” o Following Maj. Donovan's state- ment, Senators Phipps and Glass both declared the whole situation could be remedied by proper notice to the tax- payer. Maj). Donovan testified the assessor is working on a list of prop- erty owners with a view to mailing tax bills for real estate, as is already that the sub- sequent recommendations to the court, | being done in the case of personal Aproperty fax-bills;- DEFENDANTS' SPLIT OVERBUSCH AIRED Moreno Testifies Eagles and Proctor Threatened to Frame Him. The lack of harmony among three of the four defendants in the Busch murder trial was alred before the court and jury today in Criminal Di | vision 2 by Samuel Moreno, who testi- fied that Nicholas Lee FEagles and John Proctor had declared openly at the jail “what they were going to do to me when they got on the stand.” Moreno had submitted to cross. examination by Assistant _United States Attorney George D. Horning, jr.. James A. O'Shea, counsel for John 7.'McCabe, the fourth defendant, and Louis Tannenbaum, attornev for Eagles, before James B. Archer, Proctor's attorney, pounced upon him with a serfes of questions as to what the witness had said about the Jail. Annoyed at Grilling. Moreno admitted having made sev eral statements about what he would say against Proctor on the stand, but stoutly affirmed that anything he said was not “under oath.” whereas his direct testimony and answers to the crossexaminations ‘“were the truth.” Becoming annoyed at being present ed with statements he was said to have made to several prisoners at the Jafl and since the trial has been in progress, Moreno snapped out at Ar- cher: “'Look here, T go around the jail | talking and what I say {sn't under oath. I heard a lot_of things about what Proctor and Fagles <aid they were going to do to me when they get on the stand. T can bring a ilst of Ruys up here, ton." Archer hegan his eross-examination by asking Moreno it he felt like he is 8 years old, evidently referring to tes- timony of a psychiatrist that Moreno has a child’s mind. “I got good enough brains to remember what occurred, and I don't feel like I got 8-year-old brains,” Moreno fired back at Archer. The witness then was asked if he told George De Cellle at the jail that Proctor had no gun on the night of the shooting, which Proctor aas al- ready said himself on the stand, al- though Moreno has testified he did have a revolver. Admitted Making Statement. “Whatever 1 say is off the stand and it ain’t under oath,” he replied. Justice William Hitz then asked Moreno If he did make the statement credited to him and the defendant re- plied that he had, adding that his lawvers told him to say whatever he wanted to as long as he did not get into an argument. “Did you tell this man that you were going to burn Proctor?” asked Archer, and Moreno shouted, "N “Do yon know Harry Sweet asked Archer. “That's all right about Harry Sweet. He comes and tells me lots of things,” replied Moreno, heatedly “Did you have any conversation with him?" demanded Archer. “Yes, the punch of stool pigeons,” replied’ Moreno. “DId you say vou could put Proctor on the street, but because of his hit- ting you in the jug down here rou would burn him?”* asked Archer. “I didn't say anything like that,” replied Moreno. Then the witness was asked if he recalled saying to Proctor at the jail on Monday that: “I have said a lot of hard things about you, but I have gone too far and it's too late to take them back?" “Yes, I said it and I'm not going| to get into any trouble,” he replied. Hit “in the Jug.” The reference by Moreno to being| hit “in the juf” aroused Justice Hitz's curiosity and the court asked if there had been a fight. Clifford Grant, | Moreno's attorney, then called on the | witness to relate the circumstances and Moreno explained that after James Callan and Harris Atchison, two prisoners at the jail had testified about Moreno, they were approached by the witness in the cellroom and accused of having “lied.” Moreno then sald Proctor “called me a name about my mother,” but he only replied “that’s all right” and turned away. He then was struck in the left eye by Proctor who wore a ring on the hand, he declared. Moreno added that he accused Callan | and Atchison of “lying on behalf of Proctor.” L4 An objection was raised to this line of testimony, but Grant insisted it should be given to show that his client has been “dominated by Proc- tor while he has been at the jail.” Held to His Story. Horning hammered away at Moreno for the entire afternoon session yester- day on the facts of the shooting, but the witness held to his original story. Finally he announced he was “tired of answering questions” and the court adjourned at the usual time. Several times the witness was called upon to detail the actual positions of the four men and two policemen as they walked up the street in search of their broken-down car. Moreno ap- peared confused several times and told Horning he had “seven or eight ways of explaining it, while I have only one.” In substance he told the prosecutor that it was Eagles who shouted "Stick 'em up'’; that at that instant Proctor fired as Busch walked toward the two; that he felt a sting in the leg, saw Ach firing at him and returned the fire, and that McCabe jumped up on a terrace, did not fire and then fled. Moreno was positive that at no time during the shooting did Ach fall to the ground. He stated, also confi- dently, that Busch was “shot and dropped” before he had an opportu- nity to draw his gun. The witness emphasized that he and Eagles fired at Ach, while he saw two “fires” come out of Proctor’s gun. SHANGHAI IN PERIL. AGAIN BY VICTORY OF CANTON'S ARMY (Continued from First Page.) them pass. If he defles Chang and attempts to exclude from the province | all troops except his own he likely will | be surrounded by enemies on all sides !—Chang and his ally, Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang of Shantung on the north and west, Feng on the east and the Nationalists on the south. A serious mutiny occurred recently in the Nationalist army, belated mail dispatches from Kiukiang disclosed today. Troops of the 3rd Army at Nanchang, capital of Shansi Province, mutinied during the Chinese New Year celebration, shot many officer: looted the provincial treasury and marched off to join bandits. No Break in Negotiations. LONDON, February 16 (#).—Al- though official advices from Hankow are incomplete, the foreign office stat- ed this morning, there is no indication that the negotiations concerning the British concession there have broken down. The phrase “living on tick” dates back to the geventeenth century, when a_ tradesman's bill was known 03 a tickety ) {oil, LADY ASTOR TALKS WITH "HOME" BY RADIO-TELEPHONE SERVICE Virginia-Born Member of British Parlia- ment Surprised at “Call” of Richmond |estimony Holds Bonds Were Publisher—Governor "Listens In.” By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 10— Lady Nancy Astor talked with “home” this morning in the first transatlantic radio telephone conver- sation between Virginia and the Brit- ish Isles. The Virginia-born first woman member of the British parliament. was sitting in her home in 8t James Square, London, shortly after her luncheon hour when the tingle of the bell called her to the tele- phone. ‘Hello! Who is this?” she asked. This is Stewart Bryan in Rich- mond."” she heard. “Heigho, Nannie!"” “Hey! Why A telephone call from News Lead- er Square, Richmond, to St. James Square, London, was too much for the former Nannie Langhorne of this city. She was too surprised to talk for a moment. Mr. Bryan, publisher of the Rich- mond News Leader, took the oppor- tunity to explain the situation. Governor “Listened In. “Here are a lot of your Virginia friends listening in, Nannie. Here's Harry Byrd (the Governor of Vir- ginia) and here's Mavor Bright and Eliz Scott and Eugie Fairfax and many others. And we had a speech ready to make to you. to tell you in this first conversation across the sea that we all still love vou and want you to come to gee us again soon." “I'm thrilled to death.” sald Lady Astor. “I can’t belleve I am talking to you folks. I can't belleve it. Well, teli them they cannot love Virginia We wanted | more than T do. Give 'em my love, Stewart, every one of them. “Where are you now, home?" “Yes." “On St annie, at James Square?” Yes. I'm in London.” And then Lady Astor remembered something that ehe had on her mind at the moment the telephone bell rang: rememhered that her Virginia might help her find a few elusive Virginia atudents at Oxford whom she wanted at a luncheon she purposes giving in honor of the Prince of Wales. Seeks Virginians at Oxford. “Doen anyhody there know any Ox- ford students from Virginta?" she asked “Tell them that if there are any | Virginians in Oxford to let me know. T want them here on the 21st. The Prince of Wales is coming here just to meet them.” I right. Good luck and good- ‘Good-by The informal conversation lasted just three minutes, from 8:40 until |8:43 a.m., Eastern standard time, and from 140 to 1:43 p.m. London time. The call was entered at 8:34 a.m. and 6 minutes were required to complete | the connection. A coincidence was that H. L Brown, in charge in New York of the | transatlantic service, and E. J. Pad- more, London. representative of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., are natives of Richmond. Th were in direct charge of the operations today, which marked the formal open- ing of radio telephone service hetween England and Southern Bell territory. PRESIDENT ASKED 0 SIGNFARM BILL Southern Senators See Cot- ton Growers Aided by Mc- Nary-Haugen Measure. President Coolidge was appealed to today by Southern Senators who voted for and agaipst the McNary-Haugen farm bill not to veto the measure but to give it a chance to work. P In the aftermath discussion of the measure, passed last Friday by the Senate and which is now before the House, Senator Caraway declared that the cotton farmers already had profit- ed by the Senate action, as cotton had advanced on the prospects of the bill becoming law, but that it had de- clined again when Secretary Mellon issued a statement criticizing the bill and indicating the President would veto it. Critical of Mellon. “Why was the bill referred to the Secretary of the Secretary df 'the Treasury?” asked the Arkansas Sen- ator. I knew he was a specialist in liquor and aluminum, but he wouldn't know a cow from a horse if the cow was dehorned. 1 want to protest against the slight to the Sec- retary of Agriculture. What time he has not been in Chicago conduct- ing a school for speculators, he has heen reasonably servile to the admin- istration.” Senator Smith declared the bill would dispose of the surplus, and svould mean millions to the farmers of the South, and Senator George, Democrat, Georgia. who voted against the bill, declared he hoped the Presi- dent would sign the measure, as he believed it would dispel the belief that it \ould aid the tarmers. “ull_credit for the e of the bill should not be gi\'finp::s(alfe former Governor of Illinois, but ‘should go to Vice President Dawes, because of his genius in steering this important measure to its happy conclusion,” the Georgia Senator added. Harrison Wants Law. Joining in the discussion, Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, an- other who voted against the bill, ex- plained that although he voted against the measure because it did not defer the equalization fee on cotton for two years, he hoped the President would sign it, as it was a much better hill than the original McNary-Haugen proposal. Senator Frazier, Republican, North Dakota, voiced pleasure over the ex- pressions of the opposing Senators. Heartened by their victory in the substitution of the Senate version of the McNary-Haugen hill for the House measure, {ts advocates today are marking time and consolidating their forces for the final vote on the legis- lation. A hiatus in the fight on the meas- ure, which is nearing the end of a three-year consideration by Congress, occurs today as the House devotes it- self to the consideration of minor leg- islation on its calendar. Concrete Test Tomorrow. Although the substitution motion was carried by a vote of 201 to 62 yes- terday and constituted a parliament- ary maneuver to block filibustering efforts by the bill's opponents to send it back to the Senate for conference, the action was not regarded by the legislation's supporters as an impor- tant index to the measure’'s chances. Tomorrow a more concrete test is ex- pected when the bill will reappear on the floor with amendments in order. The announcement by Represen tive Aswell, Democrat, Louisiana, at the close of yesterday's session that he will move for the substitution of his own farm measure for the Mec- Nary-Haugen bill is considered a chailenge, which will probably result in a real test of strength in the voting on the motion. If his motion is lost, then another substitution—that of the Curtis-Crisp bill—will be attempted. Vote Expected by Saturday. Following consideration of amend- ments to the blll, its supporters ex-the boxing board of the House of pect to have the final vote on the measure by Friday or Saturday, and if the legislation is retained in the form approved by the Senate so no conference is necessitated, it will be immediately sent to the White House. The belief that President Coolidge will veto the bill was volced at ves- terday's session Ly several Represen- tatives. Many members would “vote for the blll beciuse they think the President will veto it,” Representative O’Connor, Democrat, Louisiana, de- clared, “while others are planning to vote for it although they openly admit it is unconstitutional.’ An announcement by the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers that the governors of five New Eng- land States had urged the 28 Repre- sentatives of their five States to vote against ghe bill came as an eleventh hour assault on the legislation. The assoclation is sponsoring & drive JURY SAYS DEATH IN TUB ACCIDENT Asphyxiation and Scalding Are As- cribed as Cause of Demise of Miss A. F. Quinn. A coroner’s jury this afternoon re- turned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Miss Ann Florenca Quinn, 24 years old, who was found dead in the bathtub of her apartment in the Earlington, 3033 Sixteenth street, early last night. The jury found that death was caused by as. phyxiation as a result of scalding. Dr. Herbert Martyn, deputy coroner, who performed the autopsy, testified that apparently scalding water from the faucet had run on her head and face, causing swelling of the throat, which choked her. Miss Quinn's body was found by her roommate, Miss Rose Nickolai, upon her return home from work shortly before 6 o'clock last night. She sald Miss Quinn was Iying on her face in the tub with her head under the run- ning water spigot. A curling iron at- tached to an electric fixture was in her hand. Witnesses today testified that the voltage carried by the curling iron was probably insufficient to cause death, althouhg enough to shock her severely. Miss Quinn, a native of Elmira, N. Y., came here last November to visit her sister, Miss Agnes Quinn, and continued to live with her sister and Miss Nickolal. She was employed as a manicurist. FIGHTING 69TH CONGRESS ASKED TO ORGANIZE OWN BOXING BODY Language used in a Pickwickian sense shall not be sufficient provocation for a fight.” Must Be Finished. ‘The Carew resolution also says that no such challenge bout, fight or duel, when once made or started, shall be interrupted or balked until finished. If suspended temporarily it shall be continued to.a finish at the earliest opportunity on the floor of the House or Senate or the floor of the rotunda of the Capitol. Colleagues of each combatant shall act as a posse com- itus to preserve order and prevent in- terruption of and continue the fight to a finish. Mr. Carew's resolution also stipulates that the joint com- mittee shall provide suitable and read- ily distinguishable medals, charms, bars and other appropriate insignia to be conferred on members who have participated in finish fights. Finished fights on the floor of either the House or the Senate in the pres- ence of a quorum or after notice in the rotunda of the Capitol shall en- title the participants to an adjusted service compensation certificate or bonus of a life and accident insurance policy No lady member of the House or Senate shall take advantage of these rules to join in a fight without the previous consent and approval and personal co-operation of the respec- tive presiding officer of the Senate or the Speaker of the House, according to the Carew resolution. omething must be done,” Mr. Gallivan argued, “to make certain that contestants are more evenly matched hereafter.” “Personally, I am inclined to think these bouts have been due to prohi- bition,” he said, “as the bouts so far have been between dry: Mr. Gallivan's measure sets forth that the “physical exercise of hostile encounter by means of human fists is becoming a daily occurrencs in the House of Representatives. Such en- counters are being conducted in an irregular way, with small regard to race, weight, reach, height or class! fication of members to insure equalit; and fair fighting. Most of the prinei- pal communities of the United State® have boxing boards or commissions, whose duty it is to rexulate the sport an_;lhln ure fair play, erefore, Mr. Gallivan proj the following: s “That a committee be appointed by the Speaker of the House, who shall be chairman ex-officio, to be known as Representatives, to have full authority in arranging of bouts between mem- bers, according to weight, corporeal and mental, age and experience. Statuary Hall Selected. ““That said board shall arrange to hold the bouts in Statuary Hall, un. der the paternal eyes of the fathers of the Republic, and under no circum- stances shall said board authorize bouts either in the House of Repre- POLITICS INJECTED IN DAUGHERTY CASE Used as Payments on Funds Advanced to Smith. By tha Associatad Press. FEDERAL COURT, NEW YORK, February 18.—Testimony to show that Liberty bonds traced to Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General, wera given him as payments on funde advanced in political matters was given today at the Daughertv-Miller trial Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian, are charged with defrauding the United States of their best services in con- nection with the transfer of $7,000, 000 of tmpounded assets of the Amer- fecan Metal (‘o. Frevious testimony showed the late John T. King. then Republican national commit from Connecticut, was paild a of $441,000 for alding Richard Merton, agent of the Soclete Snisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux, in obtaining the impounded assets. The “fes" was pald $50,000 by check and $391,000 {n Liberty bonds. Five Bonds Traced. Taking the serfal numbers, the Gov ernment traced five of the $10,000 Merton-to-King_honds to Daugherty's account in the Midland National Rank at Washington Court House, Ohio Mal S. Daugherty, president of that bank and brother of the former cabinet member, under cross.examina tion today eald that Jess W. Smith, Harry Daugherty's right-hand man brought the bonds to the bank and gave them to him as part payment on a $65,000 deficit in a political fund which had been advanced by him. mith came into the bank all ex- cited,” Mal testified, “just a few davs before he committed suicide. He hand ed me those five bonds, a check for $3.000 and $4,000 in cash. ‘Here, take these,’ he said to me, handing them to , ‘and put them on that deficit. I'll give you the rest later. Harry never knew of this transaction until after Jess had killed himself.” Mal Daugherty also testified that a check for $2,1 was given him hy Smith as payment on a $2,500 note of Smith's that Harry Daugherty held. Says Sheets Were Burned. Mal was called for crossexamina tion as the trial began for the day He had testified yvesterday about miss. ing records of the Midland National Bank, one of two Washington Court House, Ohio, banks, of which he is president. He told of how his brother, Harry Daugherty, burned ledger sheets which the Government contends would have shown that part of an al- leged bribe of $441.000 went to Harry Daugherty's account. Leaning back in the witness chair, Mal Daugherty sketched the history of the Daugherty family. His mother, he sald, was in her ninetieth year, still living on the spot of ground in Washington Court House where she ‘was born. Tells of Rise. Harry Daugherty, he said, s 67 years old, two years older than him- self. He told of how, at the age of 19, he became janitor in the Midland National Bank, rose to bookkeeper, and after filling every position in the bank became president. He is also r\r;lldenl of the Commercial Bank, he said. Harry Daugherty, he said, married early, and in 1890 moved to Colum- bus to practice law. He told of how they mingled in politics, and of how Harry became an Ohio legislator. " Harry, he said, married when young. His wife, Mal said, was an invalid when Harry was Attorney General and was in the hoepital. Going into the receipt of Liberty bonds bearing serial numbers of those Richard Merton, agent of the Societe Suisse paid the late John T. King, then Republican national committee- man from Connecticut, Mal Daugherty said that Jess W. Smith, Harry's friend, who “lived just across the street from me,” brought them into the bank a few days before he com- mitted suicide. FAVORABLE REPORT ORDERED ON FOUR BILLS FOR DISTRICT the House District committee at- tempting to “try it out on the dog" and foist it on the people of the Dis- trict. “I am sick and tired of such attempts,” he said. “The people of Washington, if they havent’ a vote, have some rights and under the Cone stitution they are guaranteed the right to worship God according 1o the dictates of their own conscience. At the hearing last night on the Sunday closing law an employe of the Government Printing Office had been led to testify that he was an agnostic, and considerable horror was ex- pressed by Mr. Reid and Mr. Blanton, both at the hearing lst night and at the committee meeting today. Mr. Underhill referred to this, saying that the real question regarding such an employe was whether he was a_good printer and not what his religion might be. Mr. Underhill said he de- plored action on the Sunday bill be- cause it made the committee appear ridiculous, especially, he pointed out, that the committee can report out any number of bills it wants to but there i8 no chance of the House tak- ing action upon such a controversial matter. Again Mr. Rathbone insisted that a week ago the committee had agreed to take up today the insurance bill and to face that issue squarely. Lampert Backs Reld. Representative Lampert, Republi- can, of Wisconsin, seconded the mo- tion of Mr. Reid to send the Sunday bill back to the subcommittee. He heartily indorsed all that Mr. Under- hill had said in opposition to the bill or any bill of a aimilar nature. He also said that it was a distinct under- standing that the committee had agreed to make the insurance code legislation the special order of busi- ness for today's meeting. He said there was only 15 minutes left of the committee’s time, and said that he, himself, would prevent any action on the Sunday bill. When Representative Hammer attempted verbally to chide him for this attitude, Mr, Lampert replied, with consider: ble heat, that “For fairmindedness or religious liberty he would not take a back seat for any member of the committee. Representative Bowman, Repub- lican, of West Virginia, ended the wrangle by insisting upon a motion to adjourn. Mr. Gibson sought to have this amended so as to provide for a meeting again on “A day ce tain,” when the insurance code would be the order of special business, but sentatives or before the committees of the House unless contestants si, written agreements, approved by the chairmen, to abstain from hair-pulling, profanity and tobacco chewing, and the use of wrist watches or flasks. hat the Hon. William D. Upshaw of Georgla be appointed permanent referee of all bouts held under juris- diction of said board, his salary and expenses to be paid out of the contin- gent tund of the House,” when Mr. Blanton and others op) this, Mr. Bowman pressed his original motion to adjourn, which was carried by a vote of 8 to 7. BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 ‘elock, John 8. M. Zimmerman, leader; Emil A. Fanstad,