Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1927, Page 2

! ABATTORPERMIT o e sar s pscorcrmon RADIO COMMISSION 1S SURRENDERED Mace Mecting o Scck Gontrol of Gunmen: [0 HOLDHEARINGS | and to Tell World of Average Action Follows Protests in Arlington County—New Grant to Be Sought. | | i i b | 'Delays General Conference . . | Resident’s Safety. I and Extends Time for Some Applications. sious rat-tat of machine & - Chicago's | cials point out that in most e average citlz are getting t pectacular crime it w pro- | strangers 1 them if they fler gangster or bootle, e S Jootlegger. Arlington County has resulted in|& I hine handy arounc \bandonment of the building permit | house rvanted the N. Auth Co. and decision [ The normal « the company to seek a new permit | fourth largest , who go about their under recently enacted zoning regula- | normal activities with relatively no o A, er kinship with the flaring of Chi-| n s t::,;f,‘, 8 haracter | cago crime than the fuhabitants of | To advertise jts intentions 20 days In|Sauk Center, b to the con- ivance through the medium of coun- |clusion that “something ought to be | v me pd will afford the |done about it.” esting cit mple opportunity | So there will be be hes before the county board |meeting here March supervisors fold ob)j 1f the people | don't want compa by Willlar By the Associated P CHICAGO, March ~ item of business under initial meeting today, the Radio Commission au an act signed by the y b 3 o ann ruary extended the b iofe il Jumng N o fay | timefor sending in “applications for ”:;‘d\‘;:;‘k* ARBMNE TR b iu\.r:n thousand holders of & yes % and ship licenses and announc spite of these figu weve . . . In spit hese figures, how intention to call for immediate appl o Andrew A. Bruce, professor of i ..o or Broado: el Northwestern University who ‘“_,mimn;i\m{“; broadcasting and point completed a crime survey of Missouri, | 5 o . : it Urging patience on the part of the e and St Louls | public to bear with it in its huge task o homl-| of taking over Government control of A | the ether, the commission, in a state-| ! ment today, announced a series of pub liic hearings to be held in Washing- | ton, March 29, 80, and April 1. The ing tentative schedule of main was fixed for the hearings: { lening the broadcast band, {limitation of power, reducing fre. | quency separation, imultaneous broadeasting with same frequency, givision, consolidation of broad | As its first taken at it | new Federal | thorized by | President \ing tide of projected The overwhel eivic test ugainst the k 5 he & i juries in Cook County verdicts in 366 Corcnes . ) > returned murder zens of the world's | s, of rigid ¢ paper £9,000,000 in Autos Stolen. Automobiles were stolen in Those recovered 000,000, Smivol | Chicago officials say is more widely other brand The Chicago Crime Commission has | pent $500,000 since its inception years ago to help authorities | crime, Figures compiled by Hanna, assistant operating f the crime commission, over o eight years, show a great de lin the number of burgiaries and rob- beries. The reason that, he sald, is that ¢ nks the s lean to the theory that fewer and bigger robberies {are better. at $9,000,000 go last year. valued at $6,- ued hic were Arlington « build an a Jirst, ttempt te, public jons and civic horities vate o help « crime ccond, to get the idea abroud sone | v that Chicago is as safe w place ~ Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen to 1s any other metropolis The Ilinois Manufacture L 1s an in-| ciation called the hering. lication that the plant will not hi Crime Commission uilt. The supervi announced | operate. The speakers wi t ‘more than 100 resolutions of pro- | Mayor Daniel W. Hc rest have been received from civic or-|who will tell how ganizations, trade bodies, ecdicial | in his city. yups and individual | Last week, Abandonment of the original per-jhou mit was voluntary on the part of thenewal of liquor Auth interests, 1 was announced by | hooze runners, and the commonwealth’s attorney. In re-| murderers, fle sponse to a question from the roomtul | into, the city of spectators, Mr. Gloth, on behalf that k the board, declared that the appli tion for the new permit would be con-|the bullet sidered at a public meeting, at which | man in all parties at interest will be heard. |roadhouse The statement was greeted h|ous gangster cheers from the boardroom, which was crowded with representatives of many civic organizations bodies, to erime any oth t the mee the 15 Doomed. one on record the proj as taken by | advertised than suj Project nce Lhe nty has tunanimously again: , the announcement opponents of the enterp o check In view of the heavy burden expense und effort which a general | nce would impose on the broad ters and the public,” the statement “the commission does not feel ny such conference is necessary or_desirable at this time.” | Members felt that the public hear ings would amply provide for dis- | {cussion of general plans for elimina tion of interference, and promised that | ample opportunity will be given later | for presentation of individual claims | and complaints, Members of the | commission who met today are: Kugene O. Sykes of Mi: ippi, who was designated vice chairman; O. H Caldwell, H. A. Bellow Minnesota, ; Dillon, Cali- | fornia. | wds Arranged for. | Although the commission undoubt- | edly will be handicapped in its activ- ities by lack of funds, due to failure | of the second deficiency bill to pass | the last Congre 8 ar | through the courtesy of other Gov- | | ernment departments “to be able to funetion with reasonable eficienc y} and to perform tha most important of its tasks without serious handi- | cap.” Temporary quarters have been | | | | | | b 1o Robberies Show Decline. figures shiowed, ies reported; Japanese Village, Long Lost From | World, Discovered for Future Sentence. The power of the Police Court to tmpose a fine on one count of an fnformation charging liquor law viola- tions and continue the remaining counts for future sentence was de- tended in an answer filed in District Supreme Court today to the petition of Samuel Epstein for a writ of habeas corpus. United States Attorney Peyton Gordon and- Raymond Neu- decker, his assistant, advised the court that Epstein was lawfully sentenced and should be remanded to jail to serve out his unexpired term. Epstein had alleged that on June 19, 1926, he went before Judge Mattingly in Police Court and entered a plea of guilty to an information charging vio- 1ations of the national prohibition act. On one count thereof, he avers, he pald a fine of $100, the court taking his bonds on three other counts and continuing the me for sentence. September 30, 19 the court is told, Epstein was taken in court and fines aggregating $1,500 were imposed in addition to a jail term of six months. He contended he had not violated the terms of his so-called probation, but the answer of the District attorney alleged that on the latter date he was again brought before the court and charged with a third offense, violation of the liquor laws. It was then, ac- cording to the answer, that Judge Mattingly imposed the additional penalties on the old case. Hearing of the. petition and answer has been set for Friday before Chief Justice McCoy. ! bandit of the city the wine ry, said i | es Prior to Going on His Vacation. BOMB WRECKS HOME. Woman and Two Sons Hurt in San Antonio Blast. S, ONIO, Tex., March 15 (#). The home of Mrs. Pabla Judias was wrecked and her two sons were injured severely when a bomb explod- ed under the room in which they were asleep early this morning. Ignacio Judias, 4, W believed to have been fatally injured while his brother Ado received internal ¢ may meeting of the . While there i available for thefr said at the offic today, the gate; #mall cost. Their use o to the Soldiers’ gested, while anothe have them set up near the C; parts, of a gateway to the grounds. ment. the ref hes or public % in the the President has explained | there pressing matters of n-| (jovernment which require his per- fons | sonal attention and which demand diplo-| ks constant attendance at his des can |rrhe president singled out in this con- of the | hection the Icon. Conterence at |injuries. Mrs. Judias was burned Geneva as well as the al Arma- |slightly. A girl, 12 years old, escaped Dreparing to distribute to ments Limitation Conference to be |injury. the entrance x s been sug proposal would pitol a pitol within a_period three Mexican cilled one man and wounded | there were 6,108 burglar ley beside a West Side | totaled 1298, and in 1919 there were . 5 . ants to dc to prove the city's Average Citizen Not Affected. by o o st gy Legion Post Protests. | went | barrel, that crime in Chicago s not of | crime has grown in the ind that crime here is not dispropor- the executive committee of i ; the board to do all in Jucilddacn its power to Potomac River “of manufacturing resting pl: of America’s honored | ; | assigned the commission in_the De- against the slaughter house & | | | By the Associated Pres tice and offers of aid have been made i g EPSTEIN CHALLENGES sus takers have discovered a vil “In this way, although the per- | ! | modern Japanese. They dress in g : Calls Witnesses. perform i without | maining Counts in Dry Case and vegetables, and none of them tions for licenses and also forms for | counsel for Ceorge V. De Brodes.| gescended from the leike clan, casting and point-to-point radio li- statement for the defense at the trial| vivors fled and disappeared into the | ment of the commission called at-| is charged with murder in the first { control body represents the people | Brodes, in June, 1923. mplicated probiem ject to epileptic fits for many years| | degree on the willing co-operation of | | all elements interested in radio trans- | { mission, and it urges particularly on | possession of a pistol, and that ”'“t [ the listening public the importance of | Defense Testimony Offered. pidly as possible, but in order that | . | the necessary facts, and accordingly | fection of the son for his mother ana | 0, Orders Him Into Alley |’ | tant to have the work done right than Wilcox, Dr. William White, su et | fr tation WRC Thursday evening Dr. White testified that while! fThis one took advantoge £om y > and O streets { sion. was subject to epileptic fits and that | hoarded the car of Pre at the ! " At the same time the Commission | those times De Brodes would be high- | by alley and there robbed him of a jay of the Department of Agriculture, as ice o cond preeinet, with a mi- | rets P : D Bross wiis ediiased ofmogeuni il o the second precinct, with a mi- | retary has not been chosen. AAES st “‘red light bandit,” arrested yester- adio Service 4 5 s i sl male s T 000, red light bandit,” arrested yester- | ture Radio Service, which has since G | James J. O'Le: lice 'say 8 g MIAMI, Fla. March 13 | prosecution, while Lambert is assisted | e e culéhrel peollamk. smaskel repoiip, wines, consEmed e Eat Coust | (¥ L Munter, Arthur G. Lambert, | Capt. William Rt White, U. 8. A, al : formerly editor of the magazine at today. i P o | that he had pawned the watch and | casting Station. His transfer from the BIG CROWDS ATTRACTED | istrator at Savannah, who informed | was said to be a temporary move. ver. padcasting may be heard. This, o broken at the fourteenth annual INVITATIONS TO SPEAK | to be owned by = years by Secretary Hoover, nor will night, in the greenhouses at Fou the nature of an open forum, at which Members of the Commission of Fine | s LB Teacubiv e aan the Wnibe | 20V OO Lrom flower lovers, but also | (o his going away for the Snmmfl.‘; commission | qget director, and Mrs. Lord were | requesting him to addr e be removed at|,de arrangements yesterday to bor- | spee. | American Building during recey ' guns blazed in warfare, killing three om Joliet, burst | clatter of gun- | 1619, Mr. Hanr The next day was found | last year there were 89 iddled body of another guyn-| Robbery complaints last year nother victim of mysteri-| 2,912 complain vengeance What the normal part of Chicago shield is not composed of a machine t normal Mr. and Mrs. Chicago | gun rampant on a bootlegging beer ad and shopped for the Sun- | ¢ increasing any faster than is its con- 'he board was presented by s reputation as a center of | glomerate and diversitied population, W. Pumphrey with a resolution ast decade, ) Arlington | whijle it is true that proud | tionate to the magnitude of that popu- | County Post, No. 138, American | Michigan avenue has echoed to the vi- | lation. | Legion, urging kit ok prevent establ hm»m; between Arlington Cemetery and the| plants which by sight or odor would| be repugnant to the respect due the dead.” : o O r tions ol record e o G partment of Commerce Building. Anitgton Lyries Necessary legal assistance been Sl & Go0ne ‘of oitipens offered by the Departemnt of Jus- ! S TOKIO, March Far in the |by the War and Navy departments | puntains of Northern Japan ce and othor branches the G 5 {Former Federal Attorney Ac- ™oiniains of Norihern Japan cen- | and oth ranches of the Govern- | : ! lage which was lost from the world. | POLICE COURT POWER| cused of Murdering Mother. | 5,55 huinitince o ot speaic | zonnel attached to (e commission | —- | itself will necessarily be very small, | Questions Right to Continue Re- Stles of centurles gone by, blacken | the commission expects to be able to | | their teeth, live entirely on fruits | i delny.” the statement say | 5 ever had heard of the outside | New forms for all types of applica- | Attorney Wilton J. Lambert. chief| \orid, Investigators think they i construction permits will bLe nailed | former attorney in the Department| yhich was defeated by the warring | shortly to all present holders of broad- of Justice, today made the opening| ienji about 700 vears ago. Its sur- ! censees who. must file application for before Justice Hoehling and a jury| mountains, { licenses with the commission. The state- in Criminal Division 1. De Brodes | . e o ! tention to the fact that the new tadio | degree in connection with the death | of his mother, Mrs. Frances G. De »f the United tSates. “In dealing with | | the exceedingly ¢ t Counsel said the defense would dis- { which confronts it at the very outset | close thdt De Brodes had been sub- 1 it recognizes its dependence to a 'arge | and that he was Irresponsible when he grappled with his mother for the | gun was accidentally discharged, re-| | recognizing the size and complexity sulting in the death of his parent. of the task. It will proceed just sifpdsaiiett i v § { ; work with justice ind fairness Testimony was offered today by a Accosts Driver at Tenth a"dli‘., it must be tn full possesaion of | number of witnesses to show the af- i 5 % !it asks the public to be patient and | concerning his epileptic selzures. | to realize that it is far more impor- | Among the witnesses for the defense d Gets $12 y were Judge Isaac R. Hitt, Rev. Earl and Gets . i ol Y | Filfley S W 2 { to have it done so fast that mnuch of Wilfley, Dr. John E. Walsh, V. {it will have to be done over again,” | i S i # i { the statement sa perintendent of St. Elizabeth’s, and| Auother colored craflic i8] i Chatman Bikes- Wil apeak| Mrs. E. V. Wilcox. | operating in Washington. of thelat 7:45 the work of the commis- De Brodes was confined in St. Eliza- | dense tvaffic at Tentt 2 S b beth’s his record shows that De Brodes | uhout 11 o'clock this morning and | e 5 ; Robert Preston, | Pickard Acting Secretary before and after these seizures he|colored. He ordered ton, would have periods of confusion. At point of a pistol, to drive into n near- |announced the appointment of Samuel X J Plckard, Chief of the Radlo Service ly excitable, Dr. White said. envelope containing $17 Once Committed to Asylum. Preston reported the hold-up to jo- |acting secretary. The permanent sec- e = About a : brilseiss nute description of the robbe | year ago Mr. Pickard was appointed e mind and was committed to St. Eliza- | jfeanwhile, James Stacle, Colored, the | Chief of the Department of Agricul- | 'S WINE SEIZED beth's in 1923. He was adjudged of | g RABBI’S ] Tiad. Bites s by Detective Jeit and Police {that time been broadcasting through | Assistant United States Attorney|Chauffeur Wolfe, has admitted four |about 90 stations timely talks on agri- @ —a| is conducting the ipment of 900 quarts of pre-war | = g His ‘tims, Chester M. Wright, | home economics and other matters of :h“_}"”. consigned 1o Rabbl 3. ‘Shapo, | f0F_the defendant by Attorneys God-|Thomas Shanley, David Tuttrell and |interest to rural listeners. Mr. Pickard O Afiwey Hition ysetocday by Heeral | Hoopios (11 Ventman and Ausdn gL Lhave (dentifed him, police ~lthe Kansas State Agriculture College prohibition raiders, it became known | % z teele told him, Detective Jett said, |and also director of the College Broad- 'The seizure was made under orders ring taken from Wright, his iirst tic- [ Agricultural Department to serve as from R. E. Tuttle, prohibition admin- o (f:';"'sl;'\-i '.’f:,'ma.'flx‘ Wolle huve | iBeckstary/ it e Radlo Commission | been commended offieially for ihe cap local officers that Rabbi Shapo had TO AMARYLLIS EXHIBIT | cur Members of the’ Commission also not been given authority to handle _ i . - {announced a public hearing at which scramental wines for the Jewlsh pass-| 4y ,yiendance records are being | PRESIDENT DECLINES i and persons interested in Rabbi Shapo was out it was explained, will not e in the na- and the address to which amaryllis show of the Department of ture of another radlo conference such was consigned was a Eroc Agriculture, which is open daily from S y s has been called In the past three i 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.. closing Thursday | Will Not Leave Capital to Make!the discussion turn to wave lengths Adan |to be assigned broadcasters. The meet- | teenth and B streets i {ing, it Is understood, will partake of | "More than 50 white amaryliis plant | the particular achiev all matters affecting broadeasting will 2 + o Crecomn. | partment pecialists, | President Coolidge has no inten- | be discussed in a general wa :{a’;’:fl;;;‘«:: xrl‘uxl.mwl 1::%&]_:\&:;; \l!‘sm"'fl"x have been placed ir ind | tion of making any speeches outside | e 1hs 1is i ion uted s Wrgwt |11 Sumvue . Wi attention | of Washington, or even to travel prior State r,e,,"r.,"X'F';Avl\;Rrumnmm;.1 growers trom many | “j;;::“* ] '1.1,‘ ;.!,.““:’:;,, ‘;,,-;.x,,‘\i”l.,l_d(“ ak S | cline a ze number of invitations be taken up |"“Brig Gen. Herbert M. Lord, the|from various sections most of them no mONeY |y mong the many Government officlals | gather! s ik G m s | gathering or « form of celebra- removal, it WAS b visited the show vesterd il 2 laba. of the commission | " Oficals of the Pan-American Union| Ip | row 500 of the best plants, after the | g I close of the department exhibition, to | { be placed in the patio of the F {to be held by members of the corps from South Am the native hab Stephens Gets Cafritz Plea. The young women of the Junior COLORED PROGRESS |Crowd Waits 3 rHours at| | in this country | with crocodiles while your wife would | Some | gan C. TWO CHILDREN, SEEKING FOOD. FREEZE TO DEATH IN BLIZZARD [Mother and ’i'hirdbiliid in Criticgl Condi- tion From Hunger and Exposure After 36 Hours in Storm. | | | TCKARD. | | SAMUEL IS SEEN BY DARROW Overflow Meeting to | Listen to Lawyer. The upward path of the colored race y is through economic and educational progress, Clarence | Darrow, noted Chicago lawyer, said | Jast night in addressing two reetings | held under the auspices of the Na-| tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. The first meeting Metropolitan African M. K The overflow meeting, made neces- sary for the hundreds turned away from the first, was at the John Wes- ley Church, Fourteenth and Cor-| coran street: i The assemblies were in the nature of anniversary meetings. All stand- ing room was filled in both churches and at the overflow meeting the crowd waited patiently three hours for Mr. Darrow to appear. Mr. Darrow denled that there is any fundamental racal inferiority in the various hranches of the human family, holding that environment and not heredity is responsible for the different economic and cultural stages. No Differences in Races. “God didn’t make whites and blacks as such,” Mr. Darrow said. “In the course of 100 or 1,000 generations men spread out. Some went south, where the heat was too strong for the white men, and so they died off and only the dark men survived. Some went north, where the dark men could not stand the cold, and so the Nordics survived there. ' But analyze them, and all chemists will tell you there is no_differenc “The whitest man in America, trace him back far enough, and you will find he retains the tail of a mon- key and the gills of a fish. The primi- tive man has as much natural intel- ligence as anybody. Environment is all he needs. Sees Growing Opportunities. “You have better education than you had 25 years ago, and are in bet- ter financial condition. Money is pow- er; education is power. Your oppor- tunities are growing slowly, but surely. You have to ask yourselves vihether you are not glad even for slavery. i/ your colored ancestors had not been captured and enslaved in Africa you would be there now, lying on the bank of some river playin at the Church. s be feeding you on bananas. “You had no monopoly in having been slaves. My own ancestors were slaves. That was a little further back than when yours were slaves, but that makes no difference. It takes nature a long time to work her changes. I was born in this country. 1 could have gotten away If I had wanted to, but T spoke the language of America and liked her people here, so I stayed. | of your ancestors came here against their choice—captured in Afri- ca and carried in slave ships, on which half died on the voyage. And so for 300 years you were slaves, toiling without pay, with no chance and no organization” except the church. “All your chances are in the futur I don't know how far in the future. “You went through the same histor as my ancestors did. You are now get- ting a better chance to live. Nature works slowly, and so you must do the same. You are producing musicians equal to any in the world. You are having great success on the stage. You are producing novelists, lawyers and doctors, You are winning. The struggle will be long, but it will work out itself.” John Russell Speaker. Previous to the arrival of Mr. Dar- row, the overflow meeting was nd- dressed by John Russell, a New York court reporter, who claims to have been one of the two original founders of the association. A similar meeting at the Typographical Union Temple addressed by A. S. Pickett, secre- William Pickens, fleld secretary of the association addressed another gathering of about 50 people in the Playhouse, 1814 N street last night on “Sex and the Race Question.” " LEAPS FROM LEVIATHAN. Morgan C. Edgar Ends Life While Ship Is at Quarantine. NEW YORK, March 15 (#).—Mor- dgar, 66-year-old New York lawyer, jumped from the Leviathan last night while the United States liner was at anchor at Quarantine, it was reported today by ship's officers. A lifeboat was lowered and the waters searched, but Edgar’s body was not found. ~ The Leviathan had just ar- rived from Europe. dgar's leap from the deck was made in the presence of his wife, who urged him not to end his lite, Iil health was given as the reason for his act fritz Constru and other hospitals und | el in June, besides the! T'he claim of the (¢ > el d Yutiiih genprally the Blooma in the | S Euarroutineiusinees st hls ofice: Ang | tion Co, that it tled to build row | regy i at his o Louses on prope t of | exhibition s soon s the show closes. | Hecause of all Rinslio th conwinced Foxhall road. known Smith | ~“Many members of Congress who vis. | that he can serve the interests of the | tract, was referred b ‘ommis- | jted the greenhouses have promised ! ];;_I Pl O 1‘21\:(% 'u‘“ S a0 Corparation Gonnas) | thsl lupphrt to secure appropriations | cupiial sather Ahaw tayelng shout Francls Btephens for an opinion. | for a more adéquate conservatory in|ihe country shaking hands BRER S| The soned Are. | connection with the new buildings for | IN8 speeches stricted, row houss |the department in which seasonal | coustructic 'H«»\\:'Aslno\\* can be held. “ NOON.DAY Treasure Hunters in Panama Halted < | LENTEN SERVICES By “Ghost: Workers Fear Mystic Spell§ B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 o’clock the 'wo angry husbands severely beat two colored men after they frightened Mrs. Elizabeth I. Dodson, 18 years old, and Mrs. Margaret Hardy, 20 years old, who had been grabbed by |one of the colored men, as they were about to enter their apartment, 2818 Fourteenth street, late last night |through @ rear passageway. The voung women were accosted while ihe husbands were finding a nearby parking space for the automobile in which all four had been riding during the evening. The two colored men were later ar- rested when trailed by blood shed by one of them and were identified as the guilty parties. They are being held at No. 10 precinct station for further investigation booked as Clarence A. Jennings, 30 years old, janitor at 1421 Columbia road, and John E. Clemons, 29 years old, janitor at 1207 Park road, visited treasure | unday By the Asso NEW YORK, ing at old Panax when Sir Hen pirate, raided the teenth century, has the appearance of cablegraim ved @ \merican Line offices | passengers, wiho ite Saturday and laborers, said superstitious and fear @ such as was reputed (o hav the excavation of King Tut Luxor, Egypt Lieut orge Williax Keiley, glishmen, The mesgage came from Erpest G.|Bain, an American, ently - Schmolck, cruise manager on the ered Valuable gold relics and gems be- 3. Reliance, which is making a!neath the ruins of the San Jose Con cruise of the West Indies with 360 vent Speaker tomorrow \ Rev. AnsonPhelpsStokes, D.D. Service conducted by Rev. S. B. Daugherty hmolek, are | bad spell followed tomb at| British the seven balted 1 ' says Hamburg- | ty in heer Everyone Invited—No Collection v Husbands Beat Two Colored Men Who Accost Wives at Apartment Door Hardy and Dodson were jockeying into & narrow parking sSpace on Fourteenth street when screams of their wives attracted them. Armed with a hammer, Hardy was rushing to the scene where his wife was being held by one of the colored men, when a second colored man rushed past to attack him. He swung the hammer. It landed on the skull of the attacker and the pair went down grappling. Meanwhile Dodson, heavy wrench in hand, rushed the man who had Mrs. Hardy In his grip and started to beat him. Hardy's opponent had struggled loose and cscaped, allowing Hardy a chance to help his friend. But just then Mrs. Hardy fainted. In the excitement ensuing the second man got away He left a trail of biood, however, which was later traced to the Colum- bia road apartment house, where he was arrested. ; | day: By the Associated Press. LAKEVIEW, Oreg., March 15.— Driven from a barren home by the threat 6f starvation only to be trapped n a blizzard, two small children were frozen to death near here, and the storm had all but taken the lives of | the mother and a third child when a se rescued them late last night The mother, Mrs. . W. Amburger, ieft their shack in the mountains last y in search of food, while her and was in Lakeview. Shortly | they started a terrific Dlizza broke over the mountains. In Storm 36 Hours. Lost and helpless, the mother stood between her children and the storm. When the posse arrived, the two older children, 10 and The mother w years old, were d s frozen to the ko: | was formed a: and the third child w condition from hunge They had been in the storm mburger later was taken into cus. tody pending an investigation. He contradicted the story of his wife about their need for food, saying t had been plenty to eat in the Members of the posse who visi shack found no food. ‘Ther still in the plac Delayed Reporting Abse Amburger said he re from Lakeview Saturda did not report the absence of his fam. ily until Sunday night, when a posse qu possible who is about to be come a mother' for the fourth tim was in a eritical copdition in Ambur ll be bro Mrs. Amburg ght SALVATION ARMY ROW NEARS PEACE Conference Is Arranged Be- tween Disputants by Ar- lington County. The controversy between the Sal- vation Army and the Arlington Coun-| ty Welfare Board over exclusion of | the former from soliciting funds in the county will be thrashed out at a con- | ference between representatives of the two organizations, to be held in a few This declsion was reached at a meet- ing vesterday afternoon of the Arling- ton County Board of Supervisors in| the county courthouse, and followed | the formal recommendation of the | board that the two groups “get to-| gether and work out a plan of co- operation.” { The recommendation of the board was In accord with a petition present- ed“to the supervisors by the execu- tive committee of the Ariington Coun- ty Post, No. 139, American Legion. | The memorial “deplored” the charity war between “two well equipped and working welfare organizations,” com- | mended both groups for their rogial | work, and urged that the “‘arm nd | the welfare authorities ‘“meet and agree upon plans for co-operation.” Clarendon Citizens Act. The Clarendon Citizens' Association last night registered protest against | the action of the county welfare super- intendent in a resolution ‘“favuring the granting of all the privileges pos- sessed by the constituted authorities of Arlington County to the Salvation Army in the conduct of its established activitles,” The motion was initiated by C. R. Taylor, former president of the association, who earlier in the day voiced his personal “indignation” to the supervisors at their meeting. J. O. Eaton of local headquarters of the “army” opened the discussion before the board by making a vigorous verbal protest against the ban pro- mulgated by Mrs. M. E. Jacobs, county welfare officer. He declared his organization is ready to co-operate with the county, but it questions the right of the board to deny a church organization the right to pursue its ‘tivities, under the Constitution. He challenged the statements of welfare officials that the Salvation Army has not alded the county materially in charitable work. Threatened With Arrest. “We have been threatened with ar- rest in this county,” Eaton declared. “We have been orderly throughout | all the trouble. 1 want to say that | jails hold no qualms for me. We have | the interests of the county at heart, and If any action has been taken denying us the privilege to operate here, T want to hear about it now.” Mrs. Jacobs replled that there had been many complaints about “‘begging | from house to house,” and that it had | been found necessary to take steps to | protect the residents. It had been de- cided, she said, to permit only the Red Cross, the American Legion and | its auxiliary, the Tuberculosis Associ- | ation and the County Welfare Board | to solicit funds. She declared she had | never heard of the Salvation Army conducting religious services in the | county and that what charity it had | dispensed was not needed. ] Against Promiscuous Begging. ! “I am not against the Salvation | Army,” she said, “but I am against | promiscuous begging and 1 will stand | back of everything I have said in my letter to the Salvation Army." Commonwealth's Attorney Gloth in- | terposed the opinion that the contro-| versy was not a matter for the board | of supervisors to decide, but was one for decision by the county “overseer The board agreed with | and voted to let the over- | seer, William Febrey, take charge of | the projected mediation conterence. | Several citizens arose in ardent de- fense of the Salvation Army during | sion, including not enly Mr. | Taylor, but A. J. Porter, who said his | son was assisted by the “army” in | France, and J. G. Pepper, who said | the county would hold itself up to nation-wide ridicule if it shut its doors to “so worthy an organization.” The | remarks of the citizens were loudly applauded. | 10,000 AUTO TAGS ARRIVE. | Belated Shipment Precludes: An- other Cessation in Distribution. The belated shipment of 10,000 pairs of District automobile identifi- cation tags, the first quota of the 42,000 ordered from a Kentucky firm about two weeks ago, arrived in Washington today and precluded an- other cessation in the distribution of the plates. "The tags were due Saturday and when they falled to arrive yesterday railroad officials were requested to trace them. Wade H. Coombs, super- intendent of licenses, now has about 30,000 pairs of tags on hand, which he plans to issue before April 1, when the time limit on the use of the 1926 tags expires. ————— BAND CONCERTS. TOMORROW. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks, 8:16 o'clock, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 o'clock, John §. M. Zimmermann, leader; Emil A. Fenstad, second leader. American 5 and 10 cent stores are ‘being established all over Greal Britain ai Manchester, England, is to have a_Woolworth Building, five stories high. | expected the Arm | ure's failure. Girl Trades Auto For Arabian Steed With Inland King By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 15 eyed little Arabian mare named, the Arabian, Saudia, arrived yester day on the way for her new owner, Miss Bruce Crane, of Westover, Va., a few days ahead of the ship- ping from New York of a brand new motor car for his -excellency Ibn Saud, “king” of an inland sec tion of Arabia. The two objects of the trade will meet the fond wishes of the two traders involved, it was said, the Virginia girl long having desired a fast Arabian steed and his excel- lency having heard much good re- port of the American stream-line autos. PRESIDENT BLOCKS 30,000 CUT IN ARMY Expects Problems Created by"uu {zing farmers’ co-operative orgami Failure of Deficiency Bill to Be Met. By ed Prese. The possibility of a slash of men in the strength of the Army, due to failure of the deficiency bill, van- ished today, when it was said at the White House that President Coolidge he Associa care of problems created by the meas Included in the bill was a deficiency \ppropriation for pay of the Army to permit the strength of the regular | force to be built up by July 1 to 115,000 men. Some doubt has existed as to whether there was legal au- thority for creation of u deficit in Army pay. Had the decision of the administra- tion been against incurring such de- ficlencles, War Department officials have estimated that 30,000 men must be separated from the service for the remainder of the fiscal year to stay within existing pay provisions. The White House statement was construed as meaning that the administration has decided that it may incur such deficiencies as necessary to keep the Army at the strength Congress had planned. | DEBT RATIFICATION PUT UP TO CABINET | defense Not Vote on Pact With United States. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily 2 News. Copyright, 19 PARIS, March Prof. Gaston Jeze, one of F leading con- stitutional expresses the opinion after a thorough study that ratification of the Washington debt agreement by the French Parliament | is not necessary. The agreement, M. Jeze says, does not create a new debt but merely re- duces the debt already existing and due: hence, according to the French constitution and precedent, ~the Councll of Ministe can ratify without regard to Parliament. M. Jeze's opinion is highly impor- tant. It will undoubtedly strengthen the government's position, the more g0 as it seems irrefutable. It is be- lieved that most of the deputies will be delighted to escape the onsi bility of having to declare themselv with the elections on J for or against the debt settlement. SCHWAB IS OPTIMISTIC. Europe Improving Financially, He | Says, Completing 70th Trip. NEW YORK, March 15 (&) —Com- pleting his seventieth voyage, whi final trip abroad, Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- | poration, expressed optimism on his | the outlook for the Europe was id, one of return today on steel industry this v improving financiall ; the reasons being the prosperity the Kuropean steel cartel. Germany also was doing very well. “Europeans with whom I talked,” Mr. Schwab said, “were greatly inter- ested in the fact that we have five billion dollars invested in the steel in- dustry in the United States, and we are only getting a 5 cent yield on 5 per our money. America will not have to worry about forei gn competition in the steel industry Judge ¥ a hos- | 30,000 | ¢ to be able to take 1 Ford | |+ | | torney: ifiuni!\' and wa | series of | libel is ¢ | then of a sin it | | copied, | keting or Aaron Sapiro, who brought JURYINFORDSUIT BEING SELECTED Auto Manufacturer Not in Court as Maze of Argu- ments End. Associated P 'ROIT, March 1 jury in the $1,000,000 libel suit of ‘Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford was started in United States District Cour today after the maze of technicalitie and legal arguments on amended con plaints had been ended by a ruling of ed M. Raymond rd was not in court v he jury began and whe ally been ved with « \pparently still was in DE Hen selection of er he had subpoena e plaintiffs to phs of the fed by the judge ne defendants, howeve would have to point out the paragraphs to which the ng in admitting evidenc ntiffs asked the plea out on the grounds that ustify the accusatior s evasive. rned t speeific re re The iibel b Contempt Action Thr against in Abeyance contempt proceadings Ford were held in & g selection of the j srted that although hi ited the conte rneys that upon the dy to appear 1 be an impossibility.” sai mond in criticising the » defendants, “to point c graphs that sufficle graphs tha insufficie manufact when ask heen serve Le was rea | “It would plea of t the p: the pa are are | and the paragraphs that are sufficien: and insufficient he court is of the opinic that it is not necessary to pass tho: various questions. “In many instances the defenda refer to some 413 paragraphs of ! plea in justification of some certa libel. It would be obviously impec sible for the court to peruse the tire plea. Counter Charges in Suit Sapiro charges that his reputation in accusing him o being a member of Jewish cor sy to control agriculture and in in some others. respects Ford injure a On the ms that no zations for personal galn. other hand, Ford unsel o-operative marketing is on trial. neither the Jewish rac “We claim,” sald Senator James Reed of Missouri, “that Sapiro was selfish in motives, domineering in his tactics, harmful in his activities and dangerous to the agreultural move | ment because of his attempts to con | trol it. | sapiro, Chicago lawyer, and for 13 years organizer of co-operative mar | keting organizations, who Is suing in connection with a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn In dependent, a Ford publication, in 1924 |and 1925, was admitted to the bar on Willlam Henry Gallagher his attorney. This would permit Sapiro at any time during the trial to take an active part. Denieés Ford Is Subpoenaed. J. | motion ¢ Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent, an early ar rival in the courtroom where the Ford-Sapiro libel suit is being heard, declared Mr. Ford had not been sub- poenaed as a witnesy. but would ap- pear in court any time Judge Ray mond wished to summon him, “Service positively has not been made on Mr. Ford,” said Mr. Cameron “He will come to court any time the fudge believes his presence desirable.” The courtroom was crowded to the doors as the trial opened, men and women scrambling for seats. Bailiff« permitted hundre to stand around the back of the room and in the aisles Around the counsel table sat Senato James A. Reed. chief counsel for the Richard J. Higgins s William I mond Watson of Kan French Expert Says Chamber Need | liam ienr Gallaghes sel, was assisted by Walter F. Lynch his Chicago partner. Veniremen Are Questioned. Judge ymond asked the veuire men if any of them was acquainted with Ford, Sapiro or any of the at nected with the se. Mrs Helen Girard said she knew the Ford dismissed. “Have any of you, prior to the articles that appeared in the Independent and in whicl ®ed, read anything con cerning Jewish power or life?” asked the judse. “Or have Dearborn u read an ar nature? He received no reply. The prospective jurors were usked if they had read any booklets pub lished by the Degrborn Independent concerning © so-called _international Jewr: None said he had. las any of you seen any articles in the Dearborn Independent. or re concerning co-operative mar thing since this suit?” he asked. transatlantic | s h he thought might be his | of | One man replied that he had, but said he had not formed a opinior and would be able to judge solely evidence introduced during the tria Asked About Prejudices. tie asked if any were members «f societies that taught Jews were u: desiruble residents of the country, and if any members of their families be tonged to such societies, but receives no reply. Judge T prejudiced 2 aymond asked if any were inst men who had rved in the Army, Navy or with the Marines, or if they bad any an tipathy toward farmers’ organizations or marketing assoclations. Several admitted having lived or farms, but uot in recent years. None of the veniremen belonged to farm o co-operative organizations or had am prejudice against lawyers, the judge's questions broyght out. All they could give the same fair aration to claims of persons out the city of Detroit and the State of Michigan as they could those livin therein. After years' absence, Preside Kruger's carriage commandeered 1 Lord Kitchener during the Boer Wa has been returned to Pretoria, Sout Africa, from London. Fireman Arrested as Eight False Alarms Keep Department Busy: Companion Held Bight false fire alarms were sounded last night and a_member of the Fire Department has been arrested on sus- picion. All the alarms came in from the Southeast and Southwest sections be- tween 10:02 and 11:08. Fire service in that part of the city was badly erip- pled and police reserves were turned out. Shortly after the eighth false alarm, Frank Willlam Mitchell, attached to No. 13 Engine Co., and a-companion, Norman E. Humphrey, a mechanic, were taken in custody by Policeman Willilam J. Carter of the Fourth Pre- cincet. Mitchell is held for investigation on suspicion_of having turned in the alarms. Humphrey is accused of driv- R ing while under the influence of liquu Both men, it is alleged, were intoxi cated. Deputy Chief Philip W. Nich olson of the Fire Department, has suspended Mitchell. “If the police say I turned in the alarms,” Mitchell is alleged to have told Nicholson, “I guess I must have done it, but I have no recollection of ®.” ‘ Police are looking for a third man, who is sald to have accompanied the fireman and mechanic. Humphrey, who is 23 years old and lives at 608 I street southwest. was driving the car in which Mitchell was o passenger and which Carter overtook in a commandeered automo- bile in Cullinane court, southwest. {