Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 2

600000 IS ASKED - FOR AIRPORT HERE Stalker Introduces Bill in | House for Appropriation .~ to Purchase Land. Without mentioning any specific location in or near the District of lumbia, a bill was introduced in the } House today Representative | Stalker, Republican, New York, au- the@ling the Commissioners to ac- quire @ tract of land for the erection of a muntipal airport. and carrying | @ appropriation of $600.000, to be pald out of the revenues of the Dis trict and the general funds of the Treasury “in the same proportion as other expenditures of the District of Columbia.” The bill was referred to the District committee, of which Mr. Stalker is a member. ‘The Commissioners, under the bill. are authorized “to acquire by pur- chase or condemnation proceedings b able airdrome to facilitate courage the development of comme: cial aviation, and to_establish thercon necessary hangars, beacon lights for night flying, meteorological service and any necessary equipment installed for the protection and safety of air craft landing or taking off in this fleld | and to maintain such civil air field.” Provides for Expansion. “The field so established shall be large enough to accommodate all types of aircraft. and shall be so situ- ated that it will be convenient to transportation and other necessary facilities, as well as being capable of expansion as future needs may re- quire,” the bill further provides. “The field so acquired shall be re- served wholly for the use of the public and shall not be leased to any corpora- tion for public or private purposes. It shall be open to the public as a landing field for private aircraft of all descriptions, the use of the Air Mail Service and as a station for the ac- commodation of passengers from or- ganized passenger and air freight lines.” The bill also authorizes such sums to be appropriated from time to time as are necessary for the maintenance of the airport. Two Bills Before House. 50 JAILED IN RED PLOT. Conspiracy Said to Involve Many Hungarian Cities. BUDAPEST, Hungary, February (#).—Police said today they had un- earted a widespread bolshevik plot, centered in Budapest and with ram- ifications in the principal cities of Hungary. Fifty persons were under arrest, including Zoltan Szanto, brother of Bela Szanto, who was war commis- sary during the Soviet dictatership in Hungary. 3 He was caught a* the frontier station us he was trying to make his way out of the country. CLOTURE INVOKED IN SENATE DEBATE OVER DRY BUREAU * (Continued frem First Puge) Senator Bruce, Democrat. of Mary- land, and an opponent of prohibition, appealed to his colleagues to vote against the cloture rule, particularly urging those Senators coming from States that are against the Volstead law to stand together against the cloture rule. The roll call vote by which cloture adopted, follows or cloture, Republicans—Cameron, Capper, Curtis, Deneen, Ernst, Fenn, Frazier, Goff, Gooding, Gould, Greene, Hale, Harreld. Howell. Jones of Washington, Keyes, Lenroot, Mo Lean, McMaster. MeNary, Means, Oddie, Pepper, Pine. Reed of Penn- sylvania, Robinson of India Sacl ett, Smoot, Stanfield, Stewi ¥ ren, Watson and Willis. For cloture. Democrats—Ashurst, Copeland, Ferris. Fletcher, Harris, Hawes, Heflin, Kendrick, McKellar, Mayfield, Neely, Pittman, Robinson of Arkansas, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith, Steck, Swanson, Trammell, Tyson, Walsh of Massachusetts and Walsh of Montana. Total, Against cloture, Republicans—Bing- ham, . Borah, Dale, Johnson, LaFol- lette, Metcalf, Moses, Norris, Nye, Phipps, Shortridge, Wadsworth and Weller, Democrats Against Cloture. Against cloture, Democrats—B: ard, Blease, Bratton, Brouss Bruce, Dill, Edwards, Gerry, Harri- son, King, Overman, tansdell, ‘Wheeler. w cloture—Shipstead, farm and labor Senator. Total again: Should pending legislation fail for The House now has two bills before it bearing on this subject, the first having been introduced by Representa- tive Gasque, Democrat, South Car- olina, a District committee member, and calling for the acquisition of the old Washington Jockey Club property in Benning and Kenilworth at a cost ©of not to exceed $378.000. The total cost of the airport in that section would be limited at $600,000. The Commissioners, to whom this bill was referred, passed it on to the Budget Bureau to determine whether it conflicts with the financial program of the President. A public hearing will be conducted on the Gasque bill by the committee on public utilities of the Federation of Citizens' Associa: tions Wednesday afternoon from 4:45 o'clock to 6 o’cloc] ELECTRIC MACHINE USED TO PRESS COTTON BALES New Device Lessens Bulk a Third and Costs Much Less to Operate. A bale of cotton, as it comes from the gin. is quite bulky. If it is to be transported for any great distance, its limensions make the shipping cost high because of the limited number which can be put on a car or ship. To help overcome this difficulty, cotton buyers and railroad companies have devised means for further compressing the cotton. This is usually done at ship- ping centers in the vicinity of the cotton gin. All the machines which have been used up to recent times to compress the bales have been operated by steam or by hydraulic pressure. These have been cumbersome and costly to operate. Last year there was in- stalled at Jackson, Tenn., the first elec- trically driven mechanical toggle com- yrress. This mammoth machine, operated by & 125-horsepower motor, exerts a pres- &ure of 2,000 tons on a bale of cotton, thereby reducing the volume to a third and increasing the density from 10 to 30 pounds per cubic foot. As many as 130 of the bales have been compressed in an hour. The cost of operation is approximately a tenth of that of the old method. 'MAIL PILOT IS CLUB" PARACHUTE CHAMPION ‘Member of “Caterpillars” Flyers' Organization, Has Made Four Successful Jumps. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, February 28.—A civilian is the champion parachute Jumper of the “Caterpillar Club,” an organization of aviators whose lives have been saved by a flimsy bit of silk. He is Charles wir mail pllot. Four times, when his ship has be. come disabled in midair, Lindbergh has had to “go down on the silk.” His first jump was when he was o cadet at Kelley Field, T in March, 1925, while he was winn! his reserve commission as a captain. His next jump was three months later. His other two life leaps, which made him “honor member” of the club, oc- curred since he entered the Air Mail Service. Bt g American Film Producers Protest German Ruling. BERLIN, February 28 man film producers are rendering kultur a poor service in protesting “gainst the wholesale importation of foreign films, in the opinion of Ameri- can movie representatives in Berjin. The German ministry of economics recently decided to renew for 1927 the ruling whereby one foreign film can he imported for every German film ex- ported. The association of German Bim producers has protested this ac- lion and demands that foreign films be admitted only at the ratio of one foreign film for every two German productions. “TAX WINKER” DEVELOPS A. Lindbergh, an P).—Ger- LONDON, Februar ston Churchill’'s cordially hated bet- ting hus created a new kind of tax dodger, called the “tax winker.” Betting ‘nen ask their bookmaker to take a pet “without tax,” and on the later refusing they go to a street #).—Win- | manufacture of medicinal whisky un- der a new establishment for more ade- quate control and dl‘l:}!l)utt’:‘on'. tl::" Treasury Department w ore: shortly after Congress adjourns to call a conference of whisky manufac- turers to work out some kind of a new plan for replenishment of me- dicinal liquor stock, it was indicated today by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury L. C. Andrews. Following adjournment of Congress, Gen. Andrews will take a vacation of about a week to rest front the strenu- ous times he has been having with both administration of prohibition and attempts to get new legislation to in- crease effectiveness of enforcement. If Congress has failed to authorize a plan for handling the difficult prob- lem of replenishing the supply, Gen. Andrews at an early date will then call the whisky conference here to consider the problem. Features Pointed Out. Both Secretary Mellon and Assistant Sec: Andrews repeatedly have pointed out the undesirable features of the present law, which they brand as full of the most complicated kind of difficulties and dangers should it be resorted to for replenishment of the liquor supply. But the amount on hand steadily has been dwindling and something must be done to plan early resumption of manufacture, Treasury officials point out, if the country is to be sup- plied with sufficiently aged liquor for medicinal purposes. Gen. Andrews frankly admitted that the Treasury had no complete plan to handle the problem, in case Congress fails to enact the whisky legislation, as it has been the hope of administra- tion leaders that the measure will be enacted setting up a new organization to handle the problem. The confer- ence of whisky men, Gen. Andrews said, was virtually the only thing which had been contemplated, should the bill fail, and the rest of the prob- lem would have to be faced later on. Cloture Plan Attacked. The proposal for Cloture considera- tion of the administration’s prohibi- tion reorganization bill, and Hawley medicinal liquor bill, which is now be- fore the IHouse, Were attacked last night by counsel for the National As- soclation of Retail Druggists and de- fended by Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. Attorneys for the Retail Druggists, declared neither bill is necessary to promote law enforcement and the public welfare and suggested the only need for the medicinal liquor measure is to enable certain selfish interests to control the manufacture and distribution of medicinal whisky A vote for cloture on the reorganiza- tion bill, the statement said, “means a vote for the Hawley whisky monopoly bill, because it is the intention to pass the latter in the House and tack it on the Prohibition Bureau bill as an amendment if cloture is obtained.” Wheeler declared the reorganization measure would concentrate enforce- ment work in one bureau while it now is divided. Presldent Coolidge and both political parties, he said, had indorsed the measure, and the “‘advo- cates of civil service and prohibition enforcement are unitedly back of the bill.” SOVIET AIDS INVENTOR. Russian’'s Days of Poverty and ‘Wandering End. MOSCOW, February 28 (#).—Ivan Mouchkartoff, a Russian inventor with 120 important patents to his tredit, is to receive state aid after wandering homeless and famished in the Moscow region for the last year.: The inventor appealed to Nicolai Bucharin_of the Soviet central com- mittee, who sent him to the chairman of the Moscow Soviet with a note reading: Help this worthy man. Tt seems society is made up of dumb idiots and not men. This man deserves better of the state.” Flowers in Proposals. In remote Alpine hamlets and vil- lages, especially in the Bernese Ober- land, there still exist ancient and pretty customs of proposing marriage by the language of flowers. If a maid accepts a bouquet of edleweiss from a man she at the same time accepts him as her fiance, the idea being that the man has risked his life to obtain the flowers for the woman he loves, says the London Tid-Bits, ‘Another method which exists in the Canton of Glarus is for the young man to place a flower pot containing & single rose and a note on the win. dow sill of the girl's room when she is absent from home, and wait—per- haps days—tor a reply. If the maid hookie who is quite ready to treat the betting tax as a dead letter. It is said by professional backers that where sirest bookmakers dealt in shillings before they now deal in pounds, and by winking at the tax have inci thels by enermoutlia takes the rose the young man boldly enters the house to arrange matters with her parents, but if the rose is allowed to fade the proposal is re- jected without a single word having been cxchanged between the couple, 13,578,700 URGED FORU. 3. BUILDINGS $2,275,000 for Structures Here Favored by Committee in Report to House. Appropriations for 143 public build- | ing projects. with a total appropria- { tion of '$19,878.700, of which, $2.273.- 000 is for Federal buildings in Wash- | ington, are recommended in a bill reported to the House today by the appropriations committee initiating the administration’s five-year building program This measure carries $4,219,700 for 56 projects previously authorized, but which could not be completed under the limit of cost, and which comes from the $15,000,000 authorized in the public building law of May 25, hty-one new projects outside of the District of Columbia are provi for, with a total of $13,384,000. The six projects in the District of Columbia. which come out of the $50,000.000 five-year building program are to be started inftial | appropriation of § i Budget Estimate Cut. | The Department of Commerce | Building was originally planned as a | $10.000,000 structure, but the budget | estimates proposed an increase to| $16,000.000. In making its report to the House today, the appropriations committee increased this limit to $13.- 000,000, which is a reduction of $3,000,- 000 under the budget estimates. Representative Wood of Indiana, in charge of the bill, explained that this | change in the limit of cost for the | Commerce Building is_brought about | by an increase in size due to plans for ng the Patent Office therein, the sfon of a central power plant and alterations in the architectural design and treatment of the structure. The limit of cost of the Internal Revenue Building, which is to be lo- cated between Tenth and Twelfth, B and C streets, is increased frem $7.- 950,000 to $10,500,000, or by $2,550,000. This increase is due to larger floor area than was previously planned, the addition of two stories, the inclu- sion of a power and heating plant to serve a group of buildings and the change from an office type building to a monumental type. Projects Aggregate $7,850,000. Projects previously made and in- cluded under the $50,000,000 authori- zation aggregate $7,850,000, and the limits of cost previously fixed as ex- tended by the bill reported today, in- clusive of $1,500,000 for a site for the Supreme Court Building, total $44,- 600,000, out of the total maximum au- thorization, leaving $5,400,000 unallo- cated. The amount authorized for the Economic Building of the Department of Agriculture was $325,000; for the Administration Building, Department of Agriculture, $2,000,000; for an ex- tensible office buflding for the De- partment of Agriculture, $5,750,000; for the Archives Building, $6,900,000; for the Department of Commerce Building, $13.000,000; for the Govern- ment Printing Office, $1,250,000; for the Internal Revenue Building, $10,- 500,000 for the Liberty Loan Builindg, $375,000. Specific Items Listed. The specific items for the six projects in the District under the 2,275,000 sum included in the bill to- are as follows: Department of Agrieultire build- ings, toward the construction of the central part of the Administration Bullding, $100,000. Toward the construction of an ex- tensible office building for the De- partment of Agriculture, $500,000. For the Department of Commerce Building, toward the construction of the building, $500,000, and the Secre- tary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire es- timated cost of such building for not to exceed $13,000,000. For the Government Printing Of- fice, toward the construction of the building, $250,000. For the Internal Revenue Building, toward the construction of the bulld- ing, $800,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such project for not to exceed $10,500,000. ‘or the Liberty Loan Building, for completion of the construction of two additional stories, $125,000. Allotments Increased. While providing the exact amount recommended by the budget for the first vear, the committee in several instances " increased the total allot- ment for the project over the five- vear building period program. These changes include: Increased limits of cost for San Pedro, Calif., from $540.000 to $600,000; Juneau, Alaska, from $575.000 to $775,. 000; Fort Fairfield, Me., from $70,00 to $90,000: Long Isiand City, s from $300,000 to $750,000; Newark, N. J.. from $3,875,000 to $4,875,000; Southbridge, Mass., from $80,000 to $110,000; Dallas, Tex., from $1,000,000 to $1,230,000. The committee, on the other hand. reduced the total allotment on sev- -l projects, as follow argo, N. Dak., from $685.000 to $600,000, and placed a limit on the cost of ‘the site of $30,000 instead of $£135.000; Price, Utal, from $115,000 to 90,000, and limited the prico for a site to $15,000 instead of $30,000; Se- dalia, Mo., from $225,000 to $200,000, and limited cost of site to §50,000 in: stead of $75,000. ot ot | DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT House Approves Conference Report on Measure Carrying Total of $36,282,385. The Touse today completed legis- lative ction on the District appro- priation bill for the fiscal year be- ginning July 1 by adopting the con. | ference report, which had been ap- proved by the Se Saturda The measure now goes to the President for his signature. The bill carrier $36, passed the House it and as it pa: 7,077,871 [ rried §: 95 sed the Senate it carried that as finally enacted an increase of $66,690 more than when acted upon first by the House, which increase is mostiy for salaries and school purpose As enacted, the bill is $795,490 less than when it passed the Senate and $604 less than the budget estimates, g ANNENKOFF IS ARRESTED. Former Cossack Dictator Will Be Tried by Moscow. ! MOSCOW, February 28 (®).—It Ifll announced that Gen. Annenkoff, Cos. sack dictator of south Siberia in 1918. 19, whom the bolshevists charged with responsibility for the deaths of hun dreds of peasant rebe “has been sted in the territos of the Soviet Union and will soon be tried, Gen. Annenkoff fled from after his exploits in Siberia. He has been reported in recent years as urging the “white Russians abroad to abandon their struggle against the bolshevists and retury »sv-.‘ Russia Left—Commissioner to conform with the Federal ston, who will BRITISH INDIGNANT ATRUSSIA'S REPLY Soviet Note Says Trade Pact Threat Will Not Cause Alarm. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28.-—Russia's reply to the British note warning against continuance of bolshevist propaganda against Great Britain aroused further indignation today among these who for months past have insisted that the government call the Soviet authorities to task. There was no demand for severance of re- latious, however. The British note protested against the dissemination of bolshevistic prop- aganda by Soviet officials, citing as proof speeches of government leaders. In reply Russia says that British ministers have made derogatory statements about Russia. The note quotes Lord Birkenhead as referring | 8T to the Soviet government as ‘“‘a gang of assassins and robbers,” and Win- ston_Churchill as describing the au- thorities as “a band of cosmopolitan conspirators, gathered from the un- derworld from the great cities of Eu- rope and America.” Not Frightened by Threat. As for Britain's threat to nullify the trade agreement with the Soviet ar break off diplomatic relations un- less the Russians changed their at- titude, the note declares that no one will be frightened by this stand. The note adds: “The Soviet government will con- tinue its policy of peace, excluding any aggressive spirit toward any other countries, and will sincerely welcome any mutual step toward peace on the part of Great Britain.” The note says further that no sub- tantial evidence is given by the British of their charge that the Soviet violated agreements. Further Exchange Held Useless. “What can you do with people like these?” is the tone with which mest of the London newspapers comment on the reply. There is virtual agreement that a further exchange of notes between the two governments is useless, and that if, as many argue, Russian trade is worth keeping, the only thing to do is to ignore the reply. RARE FOSSIL TRACKS FOUND BY BIOLOGIST Prof. Nininger of Kansas Traces Animals and Birds of Thou- sands of Years Ago. By the Associated Press. McPHERSON, Kans., February 28. —A heretofore unknown bed of fossil tracks, clearly revealing traces of strange birds and animals which stalked the Southwestern part of the United States thousands of years ago, has been located by Prof. H. H. Ninin- ger, head of the biology department of McPherson College. Footprints of 19 different kinds of animals and birds found in the bed have been segregated and identified by their tracks, and some of them, Prof. Nininger declares, are new to modern science. Reading of the Kansas biologist's work in unearthing fossils of a giant prehistoric animal of the cat family in central Arizona last April, Lee Means, a rancher living near Valen- tine, Tex., wrote to him saying there were some unusual imprints in hard flint-like rock on his farm. . Prof. Nininger went to the Means ranch, not far from the Mexican bor- der, and investigated the imprints, Ife believes that country was, in prehis- toric days, a large shallow lake, the bottom of which was covered with a stiff muck. On this muck the animals and birds walked, leaving their tracks firmly imprinted. Then came a time when the land was submerged with a sediment known as anhydrite, closely related to gypsum. All of this was again be- neath other sediments to a depth of from 150 to 200 feet and on top of this a_150-foot layer of basaltic lava flow- ed. During the Pleistocene perfod, pos- sibly from 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, a great upheaval broke up the forma- tions and a stream has since brought to view the fossilized tracks, imbed- ded in the rock which resembles flint. MINERé’ BODIES RE«SCUED. Three Die Presumably From Acci- dental Dynamite Explosion. ‘WALSENBURG, Colo., February 28 (#).—The bodies of three miners killed vesterday in an explosion in the Cad- wel mine of the Pacific Coal Mining Co. were recovered today. Company officials believe a drill set off a charge O e “dead: . Charles Shepherd, 40, mine foreman; Alex Archuleta, 28, and Frank Rivera, 3. Curtiss Plane Design Wins. The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation of Garden Cit Y., to- day won a design competition for the Navy's new lls:nln‘ plnr'le'.m S The Navy Departmen fer to buy two or three of the planes , who presented the building program. , further the plan in Congress. Right—Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, who has ided | given the preject his highest recommendation. l ind r success R .m.; hethex -{ex, will ba uaed Emil Ax 1 of placing municij Sen!m'hmfl' Smoot, ch: PROPOSED GROUP OF CITY BUILDINGS PLEDGED SUPPORT| (Continued from First Page) | from Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue at Third street. ‘West of John Marshall place; front- ing Pennsylvania avenue, it is pro- to locate a police and traffic control building. Fast of John Marshall place and along the Louisiana avenue frontage and facing Judiciary Square it is pro- posed to erect a building or buildings for the Juvenile and Municipal Courts and for the recorder of deeds. West of John Marshall place and fac- ing toward Judiciary Square may be determined upon as a site for the new Police Court Building. Those who re making the ten- tative plans are going forward on the assumption that the action of the House on eliminating the appropria- tion for the Police Court in the second deficlency bill means that this Police Court Building is not to be placed in Judiciary Square, where the remaining space is needed for future expansion of existing court buildings. ‘This would bring all the District agencles related to and doing business with the courts into the same close | neighborhood and be important in giving greater dignity to the court oup. Buildings for other municipal agencies, such as the Municipal Lodg ing House and th#® laboratories of the Health Department and other branches of the District government, are being considered, to be placed on the square back of the pelice and traffic building between John Marshall place, Sixth street and Louisiana avenue. Would Promote Economy. The entire municipal group, it is pointed out, would promote economy and efficlency in the transaction of the public business in the District and would clean out the now decadent area. thag was once a most fashionable section. af the . & Such a group is imperatively need- ed, because the present District Building is lorably overcrowded, is not at alf to the present-day needs, adequate space for expansion cannot be provided in ‘the Mall trl- angle without seriously interfering with the orderly grouping of the new Federal buildings, and efficiency de- mands a careful co-ordination of the District government units. The délay in erection of the sadly ; needed new Police Court to relieve a condition that Mrs. Idith Nourse Rogers told her colleagues in the House is worse than war-time prison camps, because of difficulties in decid- ing upon a proper site for the new buflding near the other courts, em- phasized the need for a most careful study of all the District building needs in relation to each other and for establishment where the best working conditions of the entire mu- nincipal establishment can be had. ‘The District officials, with the ad- vice and counsel and co-operation of the other agencies concerned with the development of the National Capital will be working all Summer on this District government housing prob- lem 5o as to be ready to make a defi- nite and detailed report to Congress in December with a definite recom- mendation regarding‘ the proposed group, and exact figures as to prob- able cost. CHIMES FOR 250 YEARS AID TRAVELER AT NIGHT BOB CAUSES SUICIDE. Husband Shoots Self After Quarrel | , With Wite. i BARBOURVILLE, Ky, February| ) —James Willlamson, 28 years old, is dead, a sulcide, after differences with his wife because she had her hair bobbed had resulted in a quarrel at their home Sunday night. Willlamson grabbed a shotgun dur- ing the quarrel and fired into his head. | The first charge took off a portion of his chin. He reloaded the weapon and sent another shot into his chest, while | his wifs looked on, unable to interfere, | Mrs. Willlamson was the only witness. | 'CONNOR ACCUSED 1 buildings « irman of the pul John Marshall Place buildings commis- ADMITS HIS AUTO KILLED FINANCIER Realty Dealer Says Paper Blinded Him as Car Hit Woolsey. By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla., February 28.-—George Colburn, 39, Miami Beach real estate dealer, today confessed re- sponsibility, police announced, for the death of Milthorne Woolsey, 76, for- mer New York financier, who was run down and killed by an automobile the night of Janu Colburn was a rrested in Orlando, Three men, whose names were withheld, have been ar- rested on suspicion of having attempt- ed to black mail him. Body Found in Lot. The body of Mr. Woolsey was found in a vacant lot the morning of Janu- ary 20. Police said it apparently had been dragged there after he had been struck and killed by an automobile. Colburn told police the killing of Mr. Woolsey was accidental. He said a newspaper He fejt his car strike some- but speeded on when he saw what he believed to be another auto- moblle, because he feared an at- tempted holdup. Some blocks fur- ther on, he stopped his car and the body of Mr. Woolsey dropped from the bumper, he said. Feared to Tell Police. Seized with fear, he said he drove to his apartment. telling only his mother of the accident. She advised him to inform the authorities, but he said he was afraid to do so. - Police say they obtained their firs ¢lue to_the identity of the driver of | the automobile from one of the three men held on suspicion of baviig at- tenipred ‘to obtain money fromy burn as-the price of silenceges Modern Methods Haver‘ Cut Toll of Lives, But Fishing Trade Is Greatest Ever. By the Associated Press. GLOUCESTER, Mass., Februa X —Only one of the famous old New England fishing ports, Gloucester, re- tains the full flavor of the spicy olden days, and even Gloucester has changed in that new and improved methods have reduced loss of life among the men who go to the sea in ships. The sealing industry went the way of the seal, and the whaling ports - cumbed to petroleum and electricity, but fishing for food goes on apace and Endowment Left by Woman Who Was Lost in Snowstorm Keeps Bells Ringing. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28.—The chimes of a church bell ringing out over the midlands these Winter evenings re- call a curfew that has been kept for more than 230 years. Grimatone, near Melton Mowbray, is a picturesque Old World village which lies on the southern declivity of the Wold Hills, and still retains its stocks where public offenders are punished. Two and a bhalf centuries ago -t Grimstone’ woman lost her way while walking from Melton Mowbray to her home in a snowstorm. But for the tolling of the church bell, which en- abled her fo find her way, she would have perished in the cold.” Thankful, she bought the fleld wherein. she fir heard the sound of the bell and be: queathed its jncome to future bell ringers, provided the bell should be tolled every evening from October to pril. The bell rings out the day of the week and also the month. Although the deeds have been lost these many years, the curfew is still faithfully kept every evening at § o'clock and the woman's fleld is let at public aue- tion each Easter. 45 MEXICANS KILLED IN TWO-HOUR BATTLE Foderal Forces Execute Rebel Leaders After Victory in State of Guantajuato. By the Associated Prest MEXICO CITY, February 2 Thirty-four rebels and eleven federal soldiers were killed and numerous rebels were wounded or captured in combat Saturday near Dolores Hi- dalgo, state of Guanajuato. Gen. Cedillo, in making this report to the war department, adds that several rebel leaders who were cap- tured .were summarily executed. Three military columns attacked the | rebels, entrenched on Zimarrona Mountain. The flght lasted two hours. Then the rebel forces fled, abandoning their dead and wounded. BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. the United States Soldiers’ Home ‘Orchestra,: at Stanley Hall, 5:45 . 7 By weidh that o Gloucester has just completed what the old timers’ elaim mackerel fishing sea Gloucester in W snow banked streets, ice clad fishing schooners creaking at their piers alonz the water front cold winds whistling through frost-stiffened shrouds and flicking salt from the crests of white- capped waves in the harbor. Proud of Business. At the Fisherman's Tnstitute the landsman can breathe deep of the salt atmosphere. Oldtimers there, weath- erbeaten veterans of the banks, taking it easy between trips, a bit taciturn about “this fishing business and a bit proud of it, too, will talk with ap- parent reluctance of the old days and tory of Gloucester and they're adding to all the fleets out of here every year. And, what's more, the fisher- man’s life ain't what it used to be. In my time there were G0 women made widows when their men lost thelr livés from Gloucester every year. "I never saw the worst of it, neith- er. From 1870 to 1886 there were 277 vessels of the Gloucester fleet lost and 1,954 men drowned or died aboard. Better schooners are one reason for the improvement—that and more gen- eral auxiliary power. And life has been made easier, too. There's the radio at sea, and when the schooner docks the fisherman is through—he doesn't have to slave at unloading her.” Radio Breaks Monotony. About the room a dozen stout men in sea boots were playing pool and billiards. Behind them was a black- board with the scrawl: “Six men wanted forgchooner Mary Ann, double dory.” Andther read: “Single dory- man for ‘schooner Ageste.” These were calls to the Winter harvest on the Banks. George E. Russell, the genial chap- Inin of the institute, named over the year's dead—three men lost when the Ralph Brown was wrecked last Feb- ruary on Briar Neck, one lost in a capsized dory, and one who fell or was swept from the decK of his schooner. His records show 30 lost in 1 in 1923 and 27 in 1 it used to be worse, | Russell estimates that 100y schooners of the fleet have radio sets and a local station now broadcasts market peports on landings and prices. . 925, 18 but, | "$16,000,000 pounds less last season, : | agencies.- crop this season will | (#).—The, Itall ds than |rived at 11:06 this' morning from Rio bou, Declared to Have Sharedi lllegally in Proceeds of Firms Under Contract. | IN SHIPPING SUIT: MORE U. 5. SAILORS LAND N NICARAGUA Total Forces on West Coast Expected to Reach 3,000 by End of Week. By the Associated Fr MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Febru: forces on the west ragua today totaled Further small detachments of sailors have been landed at Corinto from the destroyer tenders Altair and Melville, With the arrival of the transport Henderson, scheduled to reach Corin. to in a week, the total probably will be swelled to 3,000. For maintaining communications and for use in obh servations, the Americans have six de Haviland planes and four two- seater scouting planes. ‘The British cruiser Colombo is now anchored off Corinto, ready to take aboard British nationals if their lives By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, = February 28—/ | Charges that T.'V. O'Connor, chair- ,man of the United States Shipping! Roard, has “participated illicitly in the proceeds” of companies operating ! by virtue of contracts with the board | are contained in a suit filed in United | States District Court today. | The action was started by John C Hackett, former deputy police com-| missioner, to void a lease by the Ship- | ping rd to the Tidewater Terminal | Co., of terminal privileges in Army bases at Brooklyn, Philadel- phia, Boston and Norfolk. Mode of Life Cited. | The complaint, based on fnformation and belief, said the contracts were made by Harvey C. Miller of Philadel- phia, who controls the Tidewater Co., and charged O’'Connor “has been living in a fashion wholly out of proportion to his presumptive means.” O'Connor’s son William is alleged in the complaint to lold a “post of great it also is charged O'Connor has given another son, Stephen, a $6,500 post with the Shipping Board. Properties Are Valued. Hackett alleged the properties leased are worth about $50,000,000 and that the total revenue received from them in 1925 was $408,409. He further charged that the total revenue from the bases since they have been operated by companles di- rected and controlled by Miller has been less than $1,600,000 and that the Shipping Board has spent about $1,375,700 on repairs. PLANS OF COMBAT HELDIN READIESS Army Officers Have Cam- paign Outlines for Battle With Any Nation. War planning is a job that keeps a small group of close-mouthed, spe- cally selected officers in the War De- partment in a state of industry ap- proaching that of perpetual motion. The plans for offensive and defen- sive military operations against every possible enemy are In their keeping. They fill huge stecl safes and are checked carefully against every inter- national controversy in order that they may be in readiness for instant application in case of a national emer- gency. Try Diplomacy First. As Secretary Kellogg and his aides, at the far end of the same corridor that borders on the war plans’ offices, strive to adjust a controversy diplomacy, the Army experts overhaul their papers relating to the military situation existing at the time between the United States and the other na- tion involved. The job of keeping the war plans up-to-date in the light of ever-changing international issues is one that calls for continuous effort. They ha to be revised also to give the correct em- ployment to new arms as their su- periority over the older weapons is disclosed. Treaties Are Submitted. The war planners are constantly in touch with State Department officials, military attaches in foreign capitals and numerous other -governmental It is no sacret that the plans in their keeping provide in de- tail for setting the military machine in motion with a full destruction force against any enemy at the earliest pos- sible moment after hostilities have been declared. For a major or minor emergenc; they tell not only how many men be needed by the Army but how they are to be transported, equipped, trained if necessary, and supplied with the many essentials a modern army needs for fleld service. The State Department tsually refers new treaties to the war planners be- fore they are given final uppm\-ux! and sent to the Senate for ratifica- | tion, and sometimes even before they | are formally drafted. That was un- doubtedly done with the pending treaty with Panama, which calls upon that republic to give the United States Army free transit in time of peace and to declare itself in a state of war whenever the United States becomes a belligerent. Biige. FhiL MASS WEDDING APPEALS | TO MEN, LONDONER FINDS But Women Do Not Like Going to Altar in Droves, He Discovers at Ceremony. By the Associated Press. LOM February 28.—Mass mar- riage appeals to men, but women do not like it. This was demonstrated in a recent wedding at the church of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, where nine couples took their mar- riage vows simultaneously. J. A. Blankthorn, the parish clerk who was intrusted with the job of getting the nine bridegrooms properly placed before the altar and with as-| sorting the veiled brides as they ar. rived, in discussing the ceremony after it was over, said the bridegrooms like the crowd, as they declared “a fellow feels such a fool stuck up at| the altar all by himself.” But the brides he found all said they would| rather have had a romantic wedding “on_their own.” ‘The church of St. George-the-Martyr, which Dickens immortalized in “Little | Dorrit,” lies only a short distance trom the south end of ondon Bridge. Pinedo Arrives at Sao Paulino. authority” with the Tidewater Co. and | are placed in jeopardy by the fig ing between the Liberal and Con- servative factions. The Colombo ar- rived here Saturday. Marines Go to Granada. With the object of gnarding ay line from Managua and to discourage the Lib. from making an attack on anada, 350 Marines have heen ordered to Granada. It is expected that naval forces will soon be ordered to the Matagalpa region, as it is in line with the advance of Liberal Ger Moncad: At the present time there are de- tachments of 300 Americans at Chin andega, under Capt. George H. Morse; 150 at Chichigalpa, under Comdr. Charles M. Austin; 600 at Leon, under th oF « Capt. anan; 478 at Ma- nagua, under Maj. H. G. Bartlett; 350 at Granada, under Maj. R. E, Messe:- smith. Air Forces Ready. The De Haviland plane fly der command of Maj. Ross E. include Capt. F. P. Mulachy, | D. Campbell, Capt | Lieut. w. Harold Patterson, British charge d'affaires at Corinto, after a confer- ence yesterday with the commander of the Colombo, said: “If necessary great Britain will recognize the Diaz regime.” At Mexico City Pedro Zapeda, min- ister of the Sacasa government of Nicaragua, asked the aid of the Red Cress for wounded Liberals. Ie said the American blocade was shutting off food and medical attention which could save many lives. NEW APPEAL BY SACASA. . un Rowell, apt. I T. J. Cushman, ¥ Lamson-Scriber and Lieut. C. Lemley. Fears Lives of U. Marines May Be Sacrificed. Fear that the State Department may be impelled “to sacrifice the peo- ple of Nicaragua and the lives of American Marines for the benefit of purely material interests” was voiced in a statement issued here last night by representatives of Juan B. the Liberal leader in the Nic: civil war. The statement bears Sacasa’s name and is dated from Puerto Cabezas. The statement continues: ° “Nicaragua feels deeply grateful to every one of the American Senators, Representatives and newspaper men who have so nobly defended her cause, and T once more appeal to the spirit of fairness of the American people to help secure justice for my country in the interest of pan-Americanism.’” Sacasa says he still is ready to step aside, providing Alfonso Diaz, the Conservative FPresident, also with. draws. BRITISH KING NO LONGER IMBIBES STRONG DRINK Practically a Teetotaller, Sovereign Adopts Hot Milk as Only Beverage in Own Home. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28.—It is being whispered about that King George, within the last year or so, has prac- tically become a. teetotaler. Hot milk is said to be his favorite drink when he is alone or in the circle of his family. When dining out the King us tastes a glass of his host’s wine, as matter of courtesy, but the beverages served to his majesty throughout the meal are always from the roval cellar, @ custom which dates back to the early days when rulers feared being poisoned. For reasons of health, the King, even in his younger days, has always been inclined to be most careful in the use of alcoholics, and the story is told that on one occasion, as Prince of ‘Wales, he staggered members of mewhat Bohemian club at dinner v diluting his champagne with soda water. PLAN SERVANTS’ UNION - TO GET INCREASED PAY British Workers Also Consider Union for Nurses to Win 4&- Hour Week. 2 By the Associated Press. 5 unions are being planned for women workers in the near future. z The Domestic and Hotel Workérs Uuion plans a servants’ organization which will give servants an $-hour day and 48-hour week with no deduc- tions for breakage, two weeks' v: tion, a mimimum wage of 21 shillings a_week for servants who live in, and 25 shillings for cooks, cook-generals and working housekeepers. 1 A trade union for nurses Is suggest- ed, with a 48-hour week, a month's annual holiday on full pay and pen- sions at the age of 55. LUXURIOUS CRAFT SOLD TO ‘RANJP THE CRICKETER Yacht Owned by Eccentric Baren, His Home for 36 Years, Taken to India. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28.—The lux- urious yacht Valfreyia, originally owned by the late Bayard Brown, ec- centric millionare, who lived on it for 36 years at Wivenhoe, has been pur- chased by the Maharajah of Nawan- ager, better known as “Ranji” the cricketer. seawofthy again and taken to Ina- The vessel will be ma+el Before the death of the American recluse some months ago the Val- | ireyia was always, theoretically, ready for sea—but the yacht's bottom was SAO PAULINO, Brazil, Februarv 28 ian flyer De Pinedo ar- . lundflly in need of repairs and she stood in for year: Maharajah dock e t the vessel at what is consid- a rate. y February 28.—Two new § '