Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1927, Page 4

* e —— COURTBULDING DEFEAED I HOLSE Mrs. Rogers Offers Three To Sing for Board | Amendments to Deficiency | | Bill, but All Are Lost. H | store to the second de- | tion bill in the| av an appropriation for | on the new Police Court horizes substantive i fored successively three amendments 1wo of which were rejected on points of ovder and the thivd by a vote of] 51 1o 22 1 Chaliman Zihlman of Tiouse | rict committer and Representative | Klanton, the acting member, argued stubbornly port of Mrs. Rogers’ ame carrying out the instruction of jegislative commiitee by @ unanimous vote Madden and Zihlman Clash. When the third amendment wasx offered Chairman Madden of the ap wropriations committee asked: “Why was not that offered in the firet place? Why did vou not play fair with the committee Mr. Zihlman, to whom it was addressed. heatedly repiied that} he had not prepared the amendment | and hed <o stated and resented the | implied doubt s to his veracity. | The distressing conditions at the Police Court and the delay in carrying | out the provisions of the substantive ‘aw for velief of those conditicns were Rogers, who said of xou the deseribed by Mrs [ do not belleve many vealize the horrible condition in District Police Court, the polica court | «of the District of Columbla. 1 should not have realized that « on it 1 had not been there as a witness and if 1 had not gome there to inspect the conditions. It seems incredible to me that any one who has been there <houid not be willing to support this amendment in order to secure @ prompt remedy for those conditions. At least, we ought to recommend the heginning of a_new bullding. ‘Do you realize that in the cells the | prisoners are crowded in to the num- ber of 150 or They are so crowded there that in the morning, when they are given their cup of{ coffee and their sandwich, which is the ration for the entire day, they can scarcely lift their hand with the cup of coffee to their lips. Cites German Prison Camps. “1 know something about the Ger- man prison camps, and 1 do not believe the Germans 1ireated their prisoners during the World War as we are allowing the prisoners to be treated in the District courts. It is owing, of course, entirely to the crowded condition. It is not inten- tional. The people of the District and the courts do not want to be in- human even to prisoners. You know & good many of these prisoners are found not guilty.” ! Mrs. Rogers introduced a letter from the Fine Arts Commission, which stated that the location of the Police Court Building had been fixed in Ju- diciary Square end emphasized ihat the Budget Bureau supports the recommendation for appropriation of $400.000 and contract authorization for an additional $500,000 for the Police Court; that it is supported by the Chief Justice, all the justices and lawyers and by the citizens’ associa- tions. Representative Cramton of Michi- ean opposed action at this time say- “My own opposition to action at this time is that the information which ecame before the committee on appro- priations demonstrated that a building which would meet with the approval of the Fine Arts Commission. erected on the site that is proposed, which will halance up the existing bullding for the Court of Appeals on the other side of the square, and that as large a building as can be erected at that point to properly balance up With the other court building will accommodate only four or, at the most, five court- rooms. There are today four Police Court judges. The number is entirely insufficient. More Judges Asked. ““There is a request today from the #isirict attorney of the District for two more judges, and the clerk of the Police Court urges additional judges. I say that if this motion carries and vou spend $900,000 for this Police Court building under the existing plans and at.the place proposed, the very minute you make the appropria- tion it is insufficient to meet the needs of the court and the situation does not permit of proper expansion thereafter. "Lxel me 'u‘.hn“‘l;: what I say. 1 n sympathy with havt ‘proper court facilities, but I am Il;:'\n sym- pathy with our spending money for a huilding to the extent of $900,000 and then when the building Is ready for occupancy find it is already insuffi- cient for the things for which it was built and that it can not be enlarged without running up against the Fine Arts Commission.” Representative Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, a member of the sub- committee on District appropriations, also spoke in favor of deferred action until a complete agreement is reached a® to just what is needed and as to the site on which the new Police Court Building is to be located. 'BOYS HELD IN ROBBERIES. Six Colored Youths Accused of Burglaries in Georgetown. Six colored boys are under arrest n connection with robberi>s in stores ind vacant houses in Georgetown the nast few weeks. They were arrested hy Detective Dennis 1. Murphy of the seventh precinct and Policeman M. Caussin of the fourth precinct. Four of them, charged with house- hreaking, registered as Cecil Jackso: 14 vears: John Hay Isaacs, 12 veas Vrederick Tillman, 11 years. and Ra mond Bell, 12 years. Two others, hield for investigation, were booked as Emanuel Chambers, 15, and Elmer Murray, 13 years old The boys were locked up at the House of Detention. PANAMA BUSINESS MEN REQUEST U. S. INQUIRY Ask Borah to Include Country in Proposed Investigation of Mexico and Nicaragua. By the Amsociated Press. PANAMA, February 26.—The Cham- ber of Commerce of Panama wants an American committee o come to Panama for an investigation. It has <ent a message to United States Sena- tor Borah urging that he add Panama 10 Mexico and Nicaragua in his pro- posals for a senatorial investigation committee. Such a committ could acquire fir oncerning the Panaman . the message says, hand information " being done to because of the nmercial competition missary ted by 1he canal authorities, anking minority | K WILLIAMS, be the soloist the Board of nittee’s tesii E. Gib- tenor, evening t LEGIONV POST 7T0 DANCE. Series of Monthly Entertainments Begins This Evening. Stuart Welcott Post, the American Legion, Department of the District of Columbia, will hold the first of ity series of monthly dances at Franklin Square Hote! om 9 to 12 o'clock. The series of dances will be informal. Junior Vice Comdr. J. 0. C. Rol erts, chairman of the entertainment committee, assisted by the following members of his committee, ¥ this evenin pleted arrangements for these dances: | John R. Dower, Fioyd V. Wo James O. Reid, N. J. Beausolefl. F G. Caskey, Frank Poch, Allen Ergood, George R. Bruce. llenry Fones, Charies J. Catanach, Au F. Werner, Frederick W. & Roy 8. Hayes, Robert D. Edwin 1. Kincheloe, Dennis 3 Roscoe G. Lamb. R. P. McCandlish. Casper Cook, Paul K. Carr, Robey « Best, Judson C. Dale, Samuel J Mountz, George H. Davis. Fred W. Coil and Charles L. Curtiss. Tickets for this dance may from members of the commitiee or may be purchased at the hotel. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy and colder tonight: minimum tem perature 25 degrees: tomorrow fair. Maryland—Partly cloudy and cold tonight: tomorrow fair and colder. Virginia—Partly cloud: colder in north portion: partly cloudy. West Virginia—Partly cloudy to- night: tomorrow increasing cloudiness not much change in temperature. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m.. 48; 12 midnight, 41: 4 a.m. 36: noon, 45. Barometer—4 29.62: 12 midnight. 8 am. 2 ) Highest temperature, at 3 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, at 4 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 53; lowest, 35. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 9:26 am. and 10:28 p.m.; high tide, 2:45 am. and omarrow—Low tide, 10:26 nd 11:25 p.m.; high tide, 3:47 and 4:1% p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 647 am. sets p.m. Tomorrow—Sun sun sets, 5:38 p.m. Moon rises 2:38 a.m.; sets 12:21 p.m. ‘Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls at 8 a.m.—Tem- perature, 39; condition, very muddy. Weather in Various Citles. w Temperature. ®X H i ‘Evhnhur. H tonight tomorrow p.m., 34, codst a.nv. a.m. sun rises 645 am; 131] seics | * *IqIIT ew] ssess| VRIS Stations. 2RETsERasEsr 22 DD G E2E aR- Cloudy Clea: . Clondy E lear EFRE El Pax Galveston elen Huron. S D. Clear b Pt.cloudy Philadelphia 2 lear Phoenix 2 taburgh. . Portland AR AN ID AN T O £t S A EE St 1253 20n 3 0.0 udy 007 Clear FOREIGN. (8 a.m.. Greenwich time. today.) Stations, Temperature. Weather. fon. Ee 52 Bart Goudy Part cloudy Show Part cloudy vy } Ciear Hamilton, Bermiida. Part cloudy Hama Chava) - Avores Forey Citva. . b Clear Colon. ‘Canal % Part*Cloudy be had | occurred | i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927. THOUSANDS HELD UNFIT FOR COLLEGE | Pressure by Parents Adds to Problem, Declares Prince- ton Dean. N YORK. February 26.--Thou- sands of men in the colleges have no ihere. in the opiniun of Dear Gauss of Princeton Uni- He gave his views to the Evening Post toduy - problem is @ phase of | the problem of the whole countyy.” he id. “1f it_is acute in the colleges it because of the emphasig—the over —on the colleges todey. | » are tnousands of men in the wio have no place there, and 1 know it. But they ave | th - of the belief of their parents that it is a social necessity. Between 'Two Pressures. : part of the problem hat | These fof the o student tod: {men are betweer r | pressure thei N | pressure of (he colege which is tryving | to mould them to a form it is impossi ble for them to fit. Add to that pressure as much more of the chaos nd unrest of modern life as cannot be kept oul of the universities, and it lis evident that your college man will sed it [be o nervously strained, ha |type.” Novels of the so-called sophisticated | tvpe and modern Broadway plays. | which coliege students read. are “full | of the modern unvest,” Dean Gaus: sa 1" read them myself,’ he says. “but I'm case-hardened. They can't hurt we. But to a man suddenly re- | leased from prep school. where eve | thing is done for him, into the compar- | ative freedom of college life, such books are bound to be unbalancing. full of the modern unrest. thing that has caused col- Disputes Overwork Theory. “The talk about overwork s in | correct. College men aren't killed by hard work. A man who comes to col- lege because he wants to be, say a st | chemist, will work night and day to be one, and never feel the strain. It's | the men who have no right in college, who perhaps are pushed into col- | lege by their parents and are snatched up in the present-day unrest, who kill themselves.” | Dean Gauss believes the remedy is a | return to the old type of ‘“residential college.” Ile says Princeton’s recent | restriction on automobiles is a move | toward academic seclusion. He also | says that athletic competition is help- { ful in giving the undergraduate the feeling “'that he is not just a pawn in the modern unbeaval.”” . \GRAVE IS GUARDED " FROM DYNAMITERS | S | Citizens Rise to Protect Cemetery Against Which They Once Made Militant Protest. | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGU, February 26.—Armed . citizens who recently patrolled nearby Worth township to prevent a burial in '| the rural community, again have gone on duty, but now to protect the lone grave against which they first rose in militant protest. | Scarcely had a_body been lowered into the earth under the protection of |a court order vesterday when there | came reports of a plot to dynamite the grave, and in an equally short time a group of residents mustered them- selves in as guards and warned their neighbors that bullets would uphold the law. “We want to see that nothing un- lawful is done,” said Willlam Roulo, * all carry on our _ The guards remained on duty, but it appeared today that Alsip folk were agreed with Roulo on the nature of further moves in their fight to prevent establishment of a cemetery, which a plot of land becomes, by Illinois law, with the burial of one body. Pending proposed incorporation of the community as a village in which a burfal ground would be prohibited by law, the villagers mounted guard and turned back one funeral arranged by the corporation which purchased a township tract to establish a cemetery. The corporation, however, obtained in- Jjunction and yesterday proceeded with the burial of James Nimmer, a negro, while an armed escort and the protest- ing citizens looked on. WOMAN'S CAUSE GAINS. French Political Leaders Attend Suffrage Mass Meeting. PARIS, February 28 (#).—The steady advance the cause of wom suffrage is making in France w shown strikingly at a crowded meet- ing here last night organized by the Union for the Woman's Vote. It was presided over by Maurice Hervey, one of the leaders of the ultra-Conserva- tive section of the French Senate, who was supportd by an imposing array of Deputies and Senators. A feature of the proceedings was a speech by Senator Francls Saint-Maur, announcing his conversion to the cause. After what women had done | during the war, he said, no one could pretend they did not have the quali- ties necessary to take an active inter- | est in the welfare of the nation. | il |BOY INDICTED AS SLAYER. Accused of Killing Woman and Her 5-Year-Old Son. ASHTABULA, Ohio, February 26 | #).—Two first-degree murder indict- | ments were returned by a special grand jury vesterday against Floyd Hewitt, 16, confessed slayer of Mrs. Frederick Brown, 27, and her five- vear-old son, Frederick, jr., of Con- neaut. About 14 witnesses were examined. Mrs. Brown and her son were found slain with a base ball bat in their home two weeks ago. ALBANY, N. Y., February 26 (®) Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, lwho came to Albany with a group of Richmond officials for a conference with Gov. Smith, denied that there was any political purpose in his visit. Asked whether his two newspaper had had anything to say editorially concerning the prospects of the New York governor as a presidential candi- date, Gov. Byrd replied “No. The convention is a year and a half off, and we don’t gencrally be- gasaki, Japan, is one of the greatest fish markets in the world. -+, gin to talk about such matters until the first of the convention year.” ““Well, what reaction has the Smith 3 Virginia Governor on Albany Trip Not Thinking of 1928, He Says candidacy caused in Virginia?’ he was asked, one.” To an inquiry as to whether Vir- siutu wonldgeIIpIE [oriie ayariis son at the next Democratic national convention the Virginia governor also replied in the negative, but one of the Richmond officlals who accompanied him_interjected: I erhaps vou are talking to him | The Virginia delegation came to iAlbany to ask Gov. Smith to lend his |support to proposed legislation, now before the New York Legislature, to |liberalize the law governin, ments by New York savings municipal bonds. invest- nks in ! FUGITIVE IS CAUGHT. | | Lambath, Who Fled Occoquan in| 1924, Captured. Augustus Jennings escaped from the workhouse at| Occoguan two years ago last Labor | 1tln\'. was recaptured yvesterday by | Detect.ves Davis and Aliigood of the | wutomobile squad. | i Lambath. who ! "The capture was a matter of luck Davis and Alligood were at Twenty and California streets on other | ness yesterday afternoon when | they saw a young man come out of & | { house and start running. It laoked suspicious and they overtook him. Lambath had visited rhe house, he told the detectives after admitting his | { identity, because he had been told that | !a woman lived there from whom he could borrow money by tellug 2| pitiable story. ke didn't get the an \WALSH URGES PROBE " OF CORPORATIONS | Montana Senator Would Learn| Methods of Financing Utilities | and Capitalization Growth. Senutor Walsh, Democrat, Montana, | [ will press today for consideration of a | rvesolution directing a special Senate | committes of five to investigate meth- | ods of financing public utility, elec-| gas corporations. The in-| would be directed mainly “into ! the growth of capitalization ! companies: the corporations holdi ir stocks; ways in which these | stocks are issued, and the price re ceived for them The committee would be directed to determine “the extent to which ad ditions or extensions to the property of the operating companies have been made, and the value or detriment to the public holding companies owning the stock or otherwise controlling such operating companies.” | In line with a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission on its in vestigation of the holdings of the Gen- eral Electric Co., in which the com- mission suggested a need for legisla- tion governing interstate transfer of power, the committee would be in-| structed to make and recommend measures for the correction of “any abuses that may exist.” Hearings would be held during the congressional recess at whatever places the committee might consider necessary. No provision was made as to the time when it would report. L= L JEWELER BATTLES THUG. Bandit Shoots Store Owner and Steals Gems. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February (®).—Jacob H. Reinstatler, 55, jeweler, was beaten on the nead with a re- volver and then shot in the neck dur- ing a struggle with a robber who held up his store yesterda After shooting the jeweler the rob- ber fled with a tray of diamond rings valued at $1,000. YOUTHS HELD IN MURDER. Nine Sentenced to Reformatory “One Year to Life Each.” CHICAGO, ~ February 26.—Nine vouths, convicted of manslaughter for the slaying of Stanley Ciesla last Hal- loween, were sentenced vesterday to serve one vear to life each in the Pon- tiac Reformatory. Ciesla was beaten to death and robbed. The vouths, ranging from 17 to 19 years, were in- dicted for murd Wosdward 10th, 11th, F and G Streets and lines. under skilled enced supervision—in the Hairdressing Section. A Representative from the Contouration Will be in the Hairdressing Section—Second floor Monday Afternoon February 28—1 to 5 O’Clock To answer personal ques- tions on Contouration h | Charles A. Goldsmity | congregation, who | tinguishers. | Fracture of Skull Explains His A new, easier, safer and more effective method of beautifying the contour— removing localized fat— smoothing out wrinkles This new service is given TEMPLE RECORDS SAVED FROM FIRE Some Scorched, But Still Readable—IJanitor Held. Safe Looted of $135. | ; Mo of the recoids which werel tored in a safe in the Kighth Street Femple of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, the interior of which i was burned and looted of $135 | rency vesterday, ave still readable. althouzh many of them ar mnu'lll’d‘n | in cur and burnt about the edges. Joseph ‘Abel, secretary of the congregation. stated this morning. Police were holding for investiga- tion Raymond Jones. colored janitor} of the temple, after releasing his as- sistant, 17-year-old Henry 1igh- {ower, colored. Detectives planned to question Jones today. Mr. Abel had not had an tunity this morning to ’l(} the various records saved. The history of the temple Is told through these records. he said. They detail the proceedings of yarious important meetings and anniversary celebra- tions. oppor- Woman Detects Fire. o e odor of smoke, Mrs. S ice At president of the was in her office late yesterday afternoon. summoned the janitor, who investigated and dis- covered that there was a fire in the rge safe. h“!\'i M Goldsmith called the Fire De- partment, while the janitor and Mr Abel fought the blaze with fire ex As soon as the fire was Abel began a check of the safe. Finding that $135 was missing, it was supposed the fire was of incendis origin in an at- tempt to cover traces of a robbery. Several minor robberies have oc- curred in the building Guring the past 14 months, Mr. Abel told detectives who are investigating. Charter List Missing. Records stored in the safe refer to the activities of the congregation cov- ering a period of mdre than 75 years. Mr, Abel had not found the original list of charter members of the congre- gation this morning, but since he had not completed his examination of the papers he was hopeful of locating it. out Mr. ents of the SEARCH OF FIRE RUINS REVEALS MAN SLAIN Failure to Leave Bed as Flames Razed Home. By the Associated Pres HENDERSON. N. C., February 26.— Hiram Justice, 81, is believed to have been Kkilled by unidentified persons who fired his house and burned the body late last night in Dana, 3 miles from here. Persons attracted by the blaze crowded around the house in time to see the man lying in bed, apparently making no move to escape the flames. When the charred body was examined, after the fire had all but consumed the house, the skull was found to have been_ fractured. Friends of Justice declared that another of his houses had burned in a mysterious manner some time ago. but could remember no enemies that Justice had. Police today were re- ceiving details of the tragedy and an investigation was launche & Lothrap DOUBLE CHINS Vanish Before Our New GORJZOMTO.{iOYL TREATMENTS and experi- Laboratories CALL MAIN 5300—FOR APPOINTMENTS FOR INTERVIEW, OR TREATMENTS Hairdressing Section, Second floor. 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