Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1927, Page 2

TH E EVENI - WHISKY SHORTAGE STIRS MERGER PLAN Voluntary Action by Distil- leries Hope of Treasury Department. Voluntary consolidation under pres ent law of the whisky distillers of the country into a few responsible. powerful groups for t and distribution of new whisky along a program like that contemplated in the bill which fafled of enactment last Con gress, is now the hope of the Treas ury Department, it was announced today by Assistant Secret Andrews Immediate steps will be taken to working out some such plan to re plenish the fast diminishing medicinal Tiquor supply, Gen. Andrews said. He expressed confidence that both the public and the whisky manufacturers now understood the problem more clearly on account of the widespread discussion during the time the Treas ury Department's proposal for a “beneficient monopoly” to handle the whisky was before Congress Returning this morning from a week's vacation following the adjourn ment of Congress, Gen. Andrews also plunged into the problems of reorgan izing the prohibition and customs or ganizations of the department, under the terms of the new law providing a bureau and a commissioner for each. To Consider Appointment. The appointment of commissioner of customs and commissioners of prohibi tion will be considered at a_confer ence, probably tomorrow morning, be tween Secretary Mellon, Under Secre tary Ogden L. Mills and Assistant Secretary Andrews, it was indicated today. Officials were careful today | to refrain from any statements which might disclose their personal prefer ences in the appointments, but it has been taken for granted that much more difficulty will be experienced in | making the selection for prohibition | commissioner than for customs com missioner The ‘appoigtments wil he made as soon as possible, as law the provides that reorganization of the Treasury will become_effective April 1. Failure of the whisky bill ress was a disappointment reasury, as it had hoped to begin replenishment of the medical liquor stock of the country under the im- proved system which some such bill would have set up. The House passed the whisky bill, but it never came to a vote during the Senate jam. The attempt has not been entirely in vain, however, Gen. Andrews feels, as the whole question of medicinal Jiquor has been well aired hoth before Congress and the country at large, 80 that the "boiling up" process which the matter received is expected to be very helpful in developing sorhe plan now. Already Gen. Andrews has been in conference several times with the lead- ing distillers of the country and has discussed the problem generally, with a view to replenishing the stock. Set- ting up a new organization under the present old law, will be more difficult, it was explained, than under the new legislation. But an attempt will be made, so far as possible under the old | law, to approximate the line-up pro- posed in the new bill. Gen. An- drews believes an approach to the plan can be made. No date has yet heen get for the conference with distillers here, but it is xpected to be soon. No Definite Plan. No definltely well formed plan has been completed by Gen. Andrews, but he hopes to work the proposal into voluntary groups of _the owpers, strong enough to ! take- care of! the #mall owners, the whole plan to be developed on the basis of co-operation among the whisky men and the Gov- ernment. Heavy responsibility would medicinal somewhat in Con. to the he manufacture | |Spring Visits City, | Sending Record Crowds to Parks| visit, the the Spring paid Washington a vesterday and brought into parks the largest crowds of season, At the Zoo there was close to record Sunday attendance for early in the season—more than 6 000 " persons. Rock Creek and Potomac parks were massed with autos and park police had a diff | cult job handling the heavy traffic, | the brunt of which came between | 2:30 and 5 pm Overcoats were discarded and evervhody who could got out of doors. The warm Spring sunshine was permeated with the odor of burning leaves and grass raked from lawns. The only blossoms, however, were on forsythia bushes with uthern exposures. ale vellow ribbons for the infant Spring. KELLOGG PONDERS EFFECT OF HAITI'S EXCLUSION OF KING| (Continued from First Page.) j 5 in { L A ri It th m pa ic fa ;| it was is little the United dent reference to the exclu King, if he persists that position. REFUSAL MAY SET PRE said that there States can do to force Pres. Borne to change his mind with on of Sens in maintaining o sel ur al '"EDENT. Seek Right to In- |\ vestigate Foreign Conditions. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Refusal of Haiti to per Senator King of Utah to enter that on the ground that his presence would lend to agitators againet the existing government is in itself an incident of no great im portance, but its use as a precedent by other countries is quite another matter. Members of the American Senate have lately developed the idea that they are as much empowered to con- duct inquiries abroad and even to dis- | cuss with forelgn governments pend- | ing questions as are officials of the | Department of State. The theory has been bullt up hecause the Senate im pressed the world with its treaty making power by rejecting the Ver- sailles treaty. Iver since that time foreign governments have heen look ing to the Senate almost ag much as to the Department of State for a hint { of American foreign policy, though, to be sure, under the Constitution the enate was nrerely to he asked its ad-| ce and consent when treaties had | actually been negotiated and signed. Presidents Recognize Power. Inasmuch as the Senate, by round robin ecirculated by the te Senator Lodge, indieated that it had | a right to express itself in advance | of the formal iequest for consent, two Presidents—Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge—have felt it advisable on im- | portant questions to sound out the | foreign relations committee. Senator | 4 Borah recently took the position that | If he could seek information anywhere | Bl in the world without going through | the Department of State. Members of the Senate who between sessions of Congress make trips to foreign lands | to have told* thelr constituents that they |V are studying conditions so as to be b better informed. While it might not he politic or dis- | creet for a nation like France to bar;no senators who have attacked her poli i the cies, nevertheless Frange would he just as much. within her right in bar ring American senators from landing | at_her ports as Is Haiti. The right | to exclude Is an inherent aftribute of | sovereignty. The only people who | cannot be excluded are officials who | are clothed with diplomatic immunity. May Seek Immunity. Many Senators av of it country of encouragement ton ah in M ac st t It pa tic ha th its | w m b recent I’resident light was succeeded by sumed office in word as exact ilar wards of Kellogg post Canada, Brussels, ice men DENNIS CHARGES WILL BE PROBED State Department Formally Denies Giving Preference to Men of Wealth. Promise of an inquiry of favoritism and partiality shown in | assignments promotion the foreign ser Aawrence Dennis, meri 1 ch igua, was made wrtment today v retary of Sta fing trip in So Pending the %, which m e State Dept " rmal denial tha ar ¥ reial position” was dec always ore, it artment ir treatment s an viee until a'aft at pon t uth vival be early ment izance of the imbro; t deli the lared had the into i as alle recen ir st fairs the re Kellogyg i rolin here Hex took su to t ber matter T that the charges pzed hy iy the n Nica- e De turn of from i Den t weelk, ificient o make prefer- ence is shown to “men of wealth and | in signments and promotions. f as urther de- attempted to e that all men in the foreign serv e given a “square deal No Light on Stateme As to ument nt to the exist reporte Dennis by out the election of was shed tod o clever “Me: 1thorized Th favoritism whic in Dennis. aheyan, M T has heen res ence 4 as Seer of Nicaragua, Tay xican I ha ce rhe ur la ceiv of an havin, etary Adolfo no Neithe contirmation of statements forger ve stir ntil atte the hs John MacVeagh g ua. i from to the date of his arrival whereahout day. Iy will be the Latin 1o that acVeagh, Secretary squainted irred up by De irned to hts was made cl irtment that assi Ame) held Kel with wh favoritism, growing m offered by orgia, of fact, eless would look sis Kellogg Assumes It was made cl personally lity for rvice. The men invol “flson, to whom at Bern, Swi Sterling, who ish Free State; 1dape and Hu, These the President said, and th s wa gned rican ree logi the Pnnis office roat hile it Representative app: s not to a divisie ently was cont when this m; the he of cha the ntly h the department Kel ing him to do all he could to b State and alleged heen BE g Diuz_as furth teaial pat it was, v matter, along with the charges ved dis content in the State Department, will be held return as heen who as ay. No ennis and his known Upon his return here he prob position n, sim by Mr roversy he re- orning De- rges resol Ed ave no never into the matter. ear t assy the assignment dozen “men of wealth tion™ to posts as ministers Dennis had reference to these recent appointments or nol they were made for the good of the L it ved was tzer is & hat imes of na so was are H assigned and; Fr Responsibility. Secretary responsi half a al posi Whether 1 that igh R. the rederick ssigned to the Lfre and took Chish Rutler Wright, at t: William Phillips. kh M Pe by & « b Kell, onnel d nothing to do with them. to their” soci: individual ab “If we are going 1o have service of the highest order Al pos hility. )W sition, a 1 is reported as having said, nst hility, be appointed in it m Mraws on, at appointments were suggested ogg, it Board They | were characterized as #eminent serv- and, their selecti vas due but to foreign an offi “there en of Remedy Up to Congress. The State Department, it w paid to consular offic s point of | 3 Ing, were pinned by colliding automobil other way at the HITT CAR WRECKED WITH ALLEGED GIN Fairfax, Va., Lights Fail to Function After Crash, Chauffeur Arrested. Two cases of alleged bottled-in-hond dry gin and the remains of a luxu limousine belonging Willlam F. Hitt of this city and Middleburg, Va., are in the hands of Fairfax, Va police today, following a crash late vesterday which wrecked the car, in jured James Chisholm, its chauffeur, and plunged the village of Fairfax into darkness for nearly an hour Jast night. Driving from 1o Washington to Hitt's estate near Middleburg about o'clock yesterday afternoon, Chishoim forced {o the side of the road, hit a rut, overturned the car and crashed into an_electric light pole in front of the home of Commonwealth’s At torney Wilson Farr, just outside of Fairfax. Farr, the first to the scene found Chisholm pnconscious and the car in flames. FHe extinguished the Im_in his own car Alexandria Hospital. The flering from cuts and was not in a serious to the chauffeur, loss of blood, condition. ! County Officer Appears. A few minutes after wood Durr, county road officer, ap- peared and found two cases of al- leged liquor in the car. He said the bottles were packed In a wire crate, and noted the name of the importing | company and the person to whom | they were addressed. The car, he | said, had heen driven only 600 miles. | Durr followed Farr to the hospltai {and arrested Chisholm and took him | to the Alexandria jail. He later re. { moved him to the Fairfax County jail, “arr left, Hey- | od out. has ‘no contrel over salaries| Where he charged him with transpor s and if there | tation of liquor. It was against this lamppost that was moved back fro of collision. 58, three weeks ago today, and les at 1 land avenm |SECOND BOY HURT | PATROLING TRAFFIC NEAR PIERCE SCHOOL (Continued from Kirst Page) voung Langford against before he could dart to and pinned the lamppost safety. | Bystanders pulled the ear back, and the half-conscious lad was taken to Casualty Hospital in the passing au tomobile of Robert Gulick, 323 Four- teenth street northeast Dr. Go dolfo was forced to take between and 40 stitches in the boy's leg, which | was severely lacerated, and he hoclk Polfceman Sirola took the ope | of both machines to the station house | but Greene was not Leld. The ofticer | declared that Smith's car was trav ng “too fast,” but Smith denied thix He said he saw the truck, but not the officer, and, supposing the truck was going to slow up for him to pass, he | drove ahead. The previous collision at this corner was ween two sedans. Sidney Shostek, eighth grade pupil of the Pierce School and also a school patrol man, witnessed hoth accidents. -He was assigned to Joe Bass' rner when the latter was injured, and have heen on duty there instead of Langford, had he Sidney doesn't about what are late. to [ | | | not been' slightly tardy. | believe now all they say | happens to hoys who school | School Officials Investigate. School officials conducted an investi gation of the accident and Indfeations were that some modification in the patrol system at the Plerce School might result. Miss Katherine C. Babbington, principal of the school, | expressed the opinion that neither ac- cident would have resulted seriously had the lamppost, recently erected, heen further away from the corner. She sald she favors removal of the lamppost. Fafling In that, it is likely the station of the hoy patrol will be changed. The personnel of the Plerce School seems beset of late by traffic accidents. Hardly more than a week ago Miss Barbara C. Clements, a teacher at the school, was instantly killed in a | | 1 to extricate young treated the patient for contusions and | this | Geor, nortl today. The truck was head- flmmm SCHOOL PROBLEN |Census Work Will Be Rushed. | Probe Actively Starts to Obtain Data. | | | | 1180 | Waork the school censiis of completion of the 1926 and the tabula £ some 200,600 cards, which will 0 the first time a of statistics concerning the public system, hegan in earnest at nklin School to under the of Paul Rapp. one of the two Bureau of Efficiency experts, who have heen detailed hy Herbert D. 3rown, chief of the bureau, to hold the sweeping school inquiry ordered by Congress, Two hours were spent by Mr. Rapp and his interrogating Miss Fay L. director of school attendance, on tion re vital school the Ir sidance for score u this merning Bentley. regard | with the result that the Bureau of Efficlency expert ordered minor re- organizations in her office to facilitate he census completion. perts Seelc Data. Decision to complete the censusand tabulate the census was veached by the experts they sought to obtain certain basic infor- mation regarding the school system from Miss Bentley's office. They found that the information was con- tained in the some 200,000 cards which must he tabulated before it ould he placed at thefr disposal. Estimate was made today by the experts that it will take 10 weeks to complete the census and tabulation work, with the probability that some of the tabulation and sorting will be turnéd over to the Bureau of Census employes, ixtra Help Authorized. Four Bureau of Efficiency clerks assistants in | ing the condition of the census cards, | ? | | | | | I | plants. | the various trade bodies, with the Woman lIs Given | Almost Full Rule ; Of London Theaters/| By the Associated Press. LONDON, Murch 14— Miss Rosa mund Smith Is to have almost com plete charge of London's theaters. The London County € < the aters and halls committee has elected her as chalrman. The post does not trench upon the Lord Chamberlin's task of censoring plavs. It was proposed recently that censorship he trans ferred ‘to the theaters and music halls committee, but Miss Smith does not favor the suggestion he is anxious for the public to know she is not a prude nor a “kill joy." but she says she means “to Show the people that i woman do w man's work in just the way us une music “ man. INDUSTRIAL BODY BETS ORGANIZED C. Phillips Hill Named Chair- man—Committee to Prepare | for Coming Survey. A permanent joint industiial council to.carry on the movement for expan sion of industries in Washington and its metropolitan area was organized at a meeting of trade body delegates in the City Club early this afternoon. The new body will be known as the Joint Industrial Council, that name having heen unanimously adopted at today’s organization meeting. (. Phil lips Hill, former temporary chairman of the proposed council, was elected permanent chairman, and Dorsey W. Hyde was chosen secretary-treasurer. A special committee composed of the chairman, secretary-treasurer, Edward D. Shaw, Richard L. Conner and Robert Cottrell was appointed to draw up a_questionnaire which will he used to further a survey of Wash- ington and its metropolitan area in- dustries. Subjects in Questionnaire. The information to be ascertained through the questionnaire will in clude the number and kind of indus- trial plants in this are, their pro- ducts and the number of employes in each plant. The committee will fur- ther outline a program of activity for the council as a functioning organiza tion. Those who attended the organ ization meeting included, the follow ing delegates from their respective organizations Board of Trade—C. Phillips Hill, Harry Blake and Richard L. Conner with Robert J. Cottrell as secretary Chamber of Commerce—John . kert, Jerome Fanciulli, with Dorsey Hyde, jr., as secretary. Merchants and sociation—John H, Hanna ward D. Shaw as secretary. Arlington _ County Chamber Commerce—W, K. Handy. Realtors Lend Support. A letter from the Washington Real Estate Board announcing that or- ganization’s readiness to participate in the activities of the council was read at the meeting. The real estate hoard’s delegates as appointed are Carl Mackintosh and Morton Luchs. The Industrial Council will have for its purpose the making of a complete industrial survey of the metropolitan area of Washington. This survey, which will take, it is thought, nearly a year to compiete, will be used as a basis for the bringing to thix section of additional “light” manufacturing with of striction of ‘“hea manufacturing Manufacturers As-| J.] According to the delegates of | |ar | siderabie | lieved ! | PROGRAM OF ARMS PARLEY DEBATED ‘ Fighting Class of 10,000-Ton Class Expected to Claim First Attention. Ry the The 10.000-ton size of fighting craft, the stopping point of the Washington s conference, ix looked upon by e officlals in the Capitai the natural place for further lmitation of naval armament to begin With the three-power naval ference al Geneva now assured speculation has arisen and size of craft that 1 by xtension of limitatigns the Washington placed upon battleships and carriers, and number of feal that the 10.000-ton the first 1o bhe taken up fo at the fortheoming One argument advanced for begir ning with this class arises from the fact that the three powers that will sit in at the conference already have initiated 10,000-ton cruiser building program. the ships to be equippel with §-inch-caliber guns, also the maximum size permitted under the Washington treaty _ for all comba eraft except battlexMips No nation ax yet hax any « Treaty eruis i comimis though Great Britaln has luunched several and both the United States and Japan have a number under siruction and others authorized The American cruisers will rouxhly $16,000,000, while those of t other powers will approximate the same amount. and the expense of such competitive cruiser programs he to have been one of the chief factors prompting agreement the Geneva conference. 53 INEQUALITY CITED. Associated Press. con cor uver iy the will discussior class cost Temporary Situation in Accord With Treaty, Says Wilbur. NEW YORK, March 14 (). A tem- porary inequality in the 55 tonnage ratio of capital ships does exist he- tween the United States and Great Britain, but this is in accord with the Washington Armament Limit: eaty, according to Secretary of th avy Curtis D. Wilbur. In an inter view with Clinton W. Gilbert pubh- lished in the current issue of Collier's Weekly, Secretary Wilbur says that the temporary finequality exists be cause the ratio provided will not “be exactly reached until 1942, ‘England is modernizing her capital ships in accordance with the treaty, Mr. Wilbur says. America. he asserts, is doing likewise. “I regard.” he says, the modernization of the older bhattle. ships, a8 authorized by Congress, the most important and remarkable recent accomplishment of the Navy “The cruiser problem is the one re. quiring most attention and largest ex penditure,” Secretary Wilbur sa Although the treaty’s ratio applies only to capital ships, ships of more than 10,000 tons displacement, Japan is following the treaty ratio in regard to cruisers, he savs. American cr tonnage s now 75,000 as agai 000 of Britain and Japan combined Present building programs, when com pleted, will give the United States 125,000, as against 488,000 for Britain and Japan, he declaved. JAPAN CONSIDERS DELEGATES, Minister Takarabe May Head Party at Conference. TOKIO, March 14 (#).——The foreign office announced today that Japan's delegates to the forthcoming three | power naval arms limitation conference at Geneva would be selected after ad- journment of the Diet, March 25. It is not known at present just who will be selected to head the delegation, but it is understood the government ) started 1o work today in the office of Miss Bentley and Mr. Rapp and his brother, Herbert Rapp, have received structions from Mr. Brown to en- be laid on the few big organizations charged with manufacture and dis- tribution of whisky: | wishes Admiral Takarabe, minister of | the navy. to accept the place, believ- | ing this would he the most expedien 1| The force of the impact of the car [ turned the electric light pofe half way around. As darkness came on collision at First street and Florida avenue. is a disproportionatement hetween s aries in the consular and diplomat services, as alleged in the House reso- plants, such as those which would mean belching smokestacks and other objectionable features, the industrial In view of the fact that some mem bers of the Senate insist that the up- 1 A fight by the Anti-Saloon League against the naming of any ‘‘wet Army officer” to he prohibition com- missioner was disclosed today by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the league, who sharply eriticized the activities of some such officers. Explaining an official statement is- sued for today by him, Mr. Wheeler said many leaders of the league were pushing Roy A. Haynes for the new commisgionership and that the league was making a direct appeal to the President and to Secretary Mellon to prevent, if posdble, the naming of &ny one who personally was not a friend of the prohibition law. “A number of wet Army offcers went_into the prohibition service, Mr. Wheeler said, “‘just long enough to get out and talk as ex-officials for the wets. If the people knew these men and their former wet records they would realize what has happen ed.” But these men appear to the publie now as ex-enforcement agents and s by their statements do more “harm“than all their services ever did good.” Ip.hi§ formal statement today Mr. Wheeler, without ing the name of Roy A. Hayres. who holds the title now, but not the re- gpongjbilities of a prohibition commis- Elonef “gaid == @@hgpAnti-Saloon League and other ary i»», are making a united ap- g tBhthe President and Secretary jMellon to appoint a commissioner who v- in the law he is to enforce. {¥he Secretary appoints the commis. {1Boner. but the President is required iby the Constitution to see that the ilaws are enforced. There is joint re- {#ponsibility Asked why the name of Mr. had beagr omitted Mr. Wheeler ex .T“axwl‘m many league leaders were {In favér'ef his candidacy, while others fverdsmot, but preferred some other {Pandidate i} PMaj. Haynes made a good record {i#s, commissioner,” said Mr. Wheeler, {lgommenting for the first time directly n the candidate “fany handicaps and inadequate leg- fstation. Consequently many league =deaders of the country feel he should {§bave a chance to act as commissioner ifvith equipment and & better chance {10! make good. There might be other #iplicant§ who are friends of the Jaj, Who have had experience also e will'not oppose them, but if ap painted will give them all the help oy & FIRE CHIEF IMPROVES FOLLOWING OPERATION ‘Watson Goes Under Knife at Emer- published mention- f Haynes gency Hospital After Sud- den Tllness. Chiet George §. Watson of the trict Fire Department, was rallying this morning at Emergency Hospital from the effects of an operation for appendicitie, which he underwent yes. terday afternoon at 5 o'clock Stricken suddenly at his home, 3927 Fourteenth street, early yesterday morning he was removed to the hos- pital, where the operation was per- formed by Dr. Daniel L. Borden, po lice and fire surgeon It was stated ut the hospital th morning that Chief Watson wax “do- ing as well as could be expected” and that he was reacting satisfactorily after the operation Deputy Chief R. W. Nicholson will be {n command of the departinent dur- ing bis absence, ; ‘although he had | per house of Congress is co-ordinate with the executive branch of the gov ernment in handling foreign relations, the next step may be a request to | foreign powers to clothe American | senators with all the privileges: and | immunities which attach to ambassa- | dors and ministers and members of | their staffs, i The argument might be advanced that since a third or fourth Secre- tary holds all the. diplomatic priv fleges, surely members of the Senate foreign relations committee might have the same right. This would per- | mit Senator King, for example, to in- vestigate conditions at Haiti _and would enable Senators to visit Nica- ragua and the other trouble spots of the Western Hemisphere. Mr. King visited the Near East last vear in order to inform himself on the pending treaty of Lausanne, which the Department of State had nego tiated with Turkey and which failed of adoption at the last session of Con- gress. Amerlcan Senators are taking more and more interest In forelgn | questipn and their desire to get first hand the facts is one that the Depart ment of ate is not trying to dis courage. Indeed, the department asked Haiti to let Senator King make his Burvey. (Copyright. KING “HOPES" TO VISIT HAITL re: th: th sa 1927.) Declares He Has Been Told Great Reception Awaits Him There. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 14| (). United States Senator William H. King of Utah salls today for Santo Domingo with “the hope” thai he may be able to continue to Halti where, he savs, he has been advised that great reception awaits him. Senator King. who is now in West Indies with the announced tention of surveying conditions Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Haiti, nhas persistently attacked the policy of the American Government | in Haiti and has sought the with| drawal of the Marines from the land by in fic al the in in fr W in m is- | 18 try Was Declared Undesirable. The Haitian government gave no tice Saturday that it would refuse to let him enter Haiti because of his at titude. The Haitian legation in Washington said the foreign minister | had notified Senator King that “it con- | siders him as undesivable, and the ac e territory of Haitl Is for to him. | 10! | pl lof cess of bidden | Not untfl mingo, the Senator said, would he determine whether 1o proceed to Haiti if President Borno still opposed his visit, Holds Russell in Charge. | “The Haitians consider me their champion,” Senator King said, “be cause in the Senate I have opposed | the prasent American bayonet rule | and urged the return of the Haitian | government to the Haitians under a constitution of their own enacting and oMcials of their own selection I have wired Commissioner Russell (John H. Russell, American high com- missioner in Haiti) that T am sailing for Santo Domingo. He Is the power ti. President Borno does what Russell savw. If Russell wants me to enter Haltl, Borno will say the word.” Senator King said he would return afo Rico later, . ftles and deeds must be written in longhand in France under the old laws acopted before there were type- writers, y L] | | he reaches Santo Do n w o b i i and when there would he one. the Department toward sular service everything has been done to give its members time, Re been ch Bellevue, that to arrive |and organization of Re: 4. travel Taylor, national legislative commitiee, Wailing for the (o0& Lo lilts tion. that medied only As yet no answe sponse to Mr, there was at in its attitud If certain men to Central and South against had thefr will, | el vice, ised as 2 however, be perfec i rges. 1d to oper time. no o ha Bdwards intimation de it s been At th made be it the a matter which can be | by Congress filed in resolution today he same clear con square deal. have heen assigned | American was selected solely flitness and training for American lizing the dissatisfaction that has result of the Dennis posts d, they ause of Latin the department is thy willing this matter a thorough airing at the | b D. C. ASKS TRACING to give OF DELAYED TAGS 10,000 Pairs of 1927 Issue From ! Kentucky Missing—May Hold Up Distribution. Railroad M. C. agent, Hargrov, g to tr: 10,000 pairs of 192 ation ta Wade H. manufa. ags sta the the ashington om the ight canse anoth & distribution Thursds aturday. arrival of the tags. officials were District purchas- a shipment e, urged 1 today of automobile identi etur arted her ce en ro it wi exsation . scheduled to arrive from | B turday. Coombs, superintendent of licenses, resumed the issuance of tags | last week upon the receipt of a wire | announcing | ute fc ¢ and were due A further delay aid in the The Kentucky firm was given a con act for requested to the , rema v ving lled for in the contract. 10,000 § be re inder lieved of |after the award of the cont; the A deliver irs was promised 10 days 12,000 pairs of tags several | weeks ago when the original contrs of sup tags t. PARIS MEET ASSURED. ident Coolidge. President rmed by pmmanders of other promin: a grou applications ext September. the Coolidge ip ent of Among those in this Howard T Secre Nide ar; Mi nd Col. J. ere mmander: nford Ma hicagg tonal hing, ander; rerall honor: Maj. Ge chief of Admiral 11 Wicker, jr.. ¢ committee, o tary er, A iton ame ry 1 staft ngh rman of the r today of past American officials of that that a sufficient have made to make certain national convention Legion will he held In Paris, France, alread that t the A Legion ige of W Legion Leaders So Inform Presi-| was in national Legion number v been he next merican 1 group national r Davis, stant Secre. man of A. Drain, past Gen nation Charles P, of the John J. 1 com- Sum. Army Rodman, John John nce Thomas the lights of Fairfax failed to light. | Workmen; sent to investigate, found that the current had been broken. They repaired it within an hour. Released in $1,000. Chisholm told Farr, the latter said, that the car belonged to Mr. Hitt. He told th torney he had driven Mr. Hitt to Washington earlier in the day and he had boarded a train for New York He was on his way back to the Middleburg estate when the crash occurred, he said. Chisholm was arraigned this morn- | ing and released in $1,000 bond for his wce in Circuit Court next Mon rr immediately filed con ldemnation proceedings against the automobile. Chisholm was represented today by George Robey. At his Middieburg home and at the home of his mother, Mrs. Sallie R Hitt, 1501 New Hampshire avenue here, it was said that Mr. Hitt had not returned from New York., Mrs. Hitt, at Middleburg, declined to be in- terviewed Hitt is the son of the late Repre sentative Robert R. Hitt of Illinois, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Racquet, Chevy Chase and Alibi elubs. Mrs, Hitt was Katherine Elkins, daughter of the late Senator from West Virginia. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY IS SOUGHT FOR M'CRAY Representative ~ Wood Presents Petition in Behalf of Ex- ' Indiana Governor. Representative Will R. Wood of In- Qiand presented to President Coolidge today a petition signed by a large number of prominent citizens of In- diana, including the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, asking for exec utive clemency for former Gov. War- n T. McCray, who was sentenced to the Atlanta Penitentiary three years ago to serve 10 using the malls to defraud. The President was informed by Mr Wood that Mr. McCray will be eligible for parole August 10 next. It was et forth in the petition that it is be- lieved that Mr. McCray should he ex tended clemency, inasmuch as he has expiated his offense and because of | his poor health. | Mr. Wood informed the that he expects to leave shortly for the Philippines, where he will, in a semiofficlal capacity, make an exam ination of the American expenses in connection with the islands for the purpose of making a report to the appropriations committee, of which he is a member, FOG DELAYS LINERS. 3,000 Passengers on Incoming Ves- sels Held Up at New York. NEW YORK, March 14 (#).—Three thousand passengers aboard incoming ocean liners were delayed landing today by another dense fog that blotted out the coast line The pussengers were seppl Verdl, the Fort the Ceiba, which reached antine station during the night. The Leviathan, which was scheduled to reach quarantine at 10 am. with 1,300 passengers, will not reach here until late this afternoon. The cania anchored off Ambrose Channel, vears for President on the Giu- Vietoria and the quar more than | | | | | | ST.LOUIS LEARNS -~ OFVOTELESSCITY | Ballots for Washington Are Urged by Wile in Ad- dress in West. Special Dispatch to The Star ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 14.-—Vote- less Washington's cause was vigor- ously pleaded in the heart of the Mid dle West today by Frederic William Wile of Washington, a member of the District of Columbia’s national repre- jon committee, His audience ted of men and women from the ed Jewish Organizations of St. Louis, assembled in their magnificent new community auditorium After_conducting his hearers for a | tour of what Mr. Wile called “he hind the scenes at Washington,” he said: “One of these days vou citizens of the Middle West will be asked through your State Legislatures to ratify a constitutional amendment granting atiansl tufitoge: rixia: (o the" dis: franchised Distriet of Columbia. 1 find that here as elsewhere (hs un- American and humiliating _political disabilities under which ~Washing- tonians suffer are practically un- known. They are intolerable from our standpoint, but we cannot remove them without the country's aid. We believe that aid will be forthcoming when the Nation comprehends our plight. when it realizes that all that Washington seeks is relief from a sy tem of injustice as iniquitous tos as it was in 1776, ‘Taxation without was tyranny in the American « Then it is no less so as enfor the District of Columbia today.’ Mr, Wile predicted significant po litieal results from President (ool Fidge's Summer in the West this year. “His decision to pltch the vacation White House out here for the_first time in history the Washkington writer and broadcaster said, “is bound to be a good thing, not only for him, but for the West and the whole coun tr x Mr. Wile added: “If they come to Missouri, let even Jim Iteed heware Mrs. Coolidge’s smile will conquer this end of the corn belt.” | “CHILD ART” INCREASES. PARIS, March 14 (#).—Child art is increasingly common in Paris exhibi- | tions. Lately there have been displays devoted entirely to the younger set. The latest of these displayed water- colors by children from 11 over France, from ¥ ta 11 years old. Some critics say they see much fine art in the young ldea. Others are more conservative., All agree the children do remarkably well for their age. A few caustic ones observe that & child of 10 should have little difficulty in producing things as easy to look at or to understand as many picture made by their elders that get wall epace in the large exhibitions, Ay representation lonies. od in gage any other clerical help they need in order to rush out the census figures at the earliest possible moment. It was explained today that the completion of the &chool census i of outstanding importance, inas. much as it will serve as the foundation for the far reaching school Inquiry. that this is hut one of many angles which will be pursued hetween now and next December, when a full re- port will he rendered to Congress. Support Is Pledged. Bureau of Efficiency ~experts and_ their clerks have _established headquarters at the Franklin School, and already have been in conference with Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin tendent, and the other officials there, also have visited the repair shop and interrogated Maj. Raymond Wilmarth concerning the business ad- ministration of the schools. -y have announced they will forward at this time with that part of their investigation which can better he made while the schools are while he . Ballon and other school officials pledged their heartiest co-opera- tion to the Bureau of Efficiency rep- resentatives, and are convinced that the fact-finding probe they have under v Wil prove to be in the interest of the school system. a ROBERTS UPHOLDS_ RIGHT OF SENATORS TO SWEAR SINCLAIR (Continued from First Page.) public lands or ofl committee is a standing committee, and that on April , 1922, a Senate resolution directed the Secretary of the Interior to send to the Senate certain papers and also authorize the committee to investi- gate the subject of leases with par ticular reference to the rights and equities of the United States and i natural resources. That resolution gave the committee no power to sum mon witnesses, he said. By Senate resolution 294, adopted June the committee received wuthority to subpoena witnesses and | administer oaths, and the resolution also stated that any one refusing to answer questions pertinent to the in vestigation should be punished provided by law. to Suys Power Explred. contended that with the | expiration of the Sixty-seventh Con- gress on March 4, the com mittes’s power granted by resolution No. 204 likewise died, Therefore, when Congress convened for the ixty-eighth session in December, 1923, and when, on December 4, Sin clair was called and was placed under oath, the committee had no power for such action, he said. Sinclair's’ counsel then explained that on February 5, 1923, resolution 434 was adopted, continuing the ! powers of the two resolutions affect- ing the committee, und which had been adopted at the previous session, but making no mention of No. 294, | which gave it authority to compel the attendance of witnesse Therefore, when Sinclair appeared on March 22, 1924, the @il committee had no au- thority whatever te compel his at- tendance or his answers to questions, Hoover lared. Furthermore, the counsel sAld, the oath was not ad- 4ninistered on that date.- Hoover [ life of the metropolis could be greatly | enhanced. SEGREGATIO NLAW DECLARED INVALID Supreme Court Reverses In- junction Prohibiting Rental to Negroes. By the Associated Press. The J.ouisiana and New Orleans segregation laws, stipulating condi- tions under which residential property may be occupied by whites and negroes in ‘communities where the opposite race Is in {he majority, were declared invalid in the Supreme Court teday in an appeal by Benjamin Harmon, who sought to rent 232 Audubon street, New Orleans, in a white community, to negroes, without complying with tne_conditions. Under the ordlnances owners of property have heen required to ob- tain the written consent of a ma- Jority of persons in a community be- fore renting for residential purposes to persons of the opposite race. Injunction ¥s Reversed. Renjamin Hagmon, a negro, who sought to convert a house into a two- apartment flat, with the intention of renting a part of It to negroes, was enjoined and the State Supreme Court sustained the laws, notwith- standing Harmon's contention that | the restrictions were invalid and un- | constitutional The Federal Supreme Court re- versed the lower courts today on au- thorities cited "The Supreme Court today merely an- nounced that the case was reversed on “the authority of Buchanan vs. Warley." Held to Be Unconstitutional. The Buchanan-Warley case involved w segregation ordinance of Louisville, Ky., and was decided in 1917, The ordinance prohibited negroes from oc- cupying houses in blocks where the greater part of the buildings were oc- cupled by white persons. Declaring tife effect of the ordinance was to pre- vent the sale of lots to negroes, the court held it to be uncenstitutional. ORDER WINS APPEAL. Negro Shriners were granted an appeal by the Supreme Court today from an injunction issued in Texas re- straining them from using the name, emblems and insignia of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. U. S. EMBASSY GUARDED. TOKIO, March 14 (#).—Special po- lice guarded the American embas: today, following a visit yesterday by a committee from the so-called “Black League” to file a protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, now under death sentemce in Massachu- r L i | | wi i period by the eight deaths from ace course, sin he would not have refer his decisions back to Tokio. Ministdr Takarabe has not expressed his Intentions thus far, but prepar- ations already are under way to send a big staff of naval experts to the conference. Minister Takarabe, answering an in- terpellation in Parliament, said 575, 000,000 yen had heen saved under the Washington naval agreement, Aas against 375,000,000 spent on discharge allowances, the scrapping of ships and other things. This, he added, made a net saving of 200,000,000 yen. TRAFFIC KILLS 12. Four-Week Period Ending Febru- ary 26 Takes Toll. Twelve persons died in Washington as the resuit of traffic accidents dur ing the four-week period ended Feh ruary 26, of whom elght died from traffic accidents occurring within the city limits. Nine persons died In the corresponding period last vear, the Census Bureau announced today. The death total for Washingten « brought up to 73 for a s2-week dents in the city for the four-weex period ended February 26. The ra‘s for accidents occurring in the citv limits was given as 13.9 per 100,000 population. New York again led all citles in the number of traffic deaths, with §9 f talities during the four-week period JAPAN GETS $50,000 GIFT. TOKYO, March 14 (#).—Ambassa- dor MacVeagh, acting in behalf of the American Red Cross, today presented a check for $50,000 to Foreign Min ister Shidehara to be used by the Japanese Red Cross for the reifef of vietims of the recent earthquake, Baron Shidehara accepted the check with .thanks. He said that the relief work, delayed for a time by had weather and damaged communicatinn- resulting from the earthquake, Was now progressing satisfactorily. o Plans Philippine Survey. Representative Wood, Republican, Indiana, talked over with Preaident Coolidge today_the plans of the In- diana Represefative for a visit to the Philippine Islands this Summer Mr. Wood expects to obtain data for information of the House, but is not representing the President on his visit. He will leave April 13. NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 0'Clock Speaker Tomorrow: Rev. AnsonPhelpsStokes,D.D. | Services conducted by Rev. W. D. King Every One Tnvited—No Collection.