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WEATHER. D. . Weather Bureav Forecast.) Cloudy today. ing temperature. Temperature: Highest, p.m.; lowest, 35, at 2 p.m. Full report on page 7. — e Tomorrow rain, ris 37, *No. 1,151—No. 30,204. e Sundin WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Star, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 10, 1927—114 PAGES MOSCON RECALS | OHARGE AT PEKING INPROTEST0F RAD Soviet Government Orders Return of All Officials of Embassy. 0 | ONLY PERSONNEL LEFT ARE CONSULAR AGENTS Repulse of Cantonese Army North of Yangtze River by Northern Troops Reported. i | 1 | i \' | ; | [ By the Associated Pres April 9.—Saviet Russis alled her charge d'affaires in | as protest against the raiding | rthern Chinese authorities | Soviet embassy compound in | All embassy officials have been | ordered to leave by their government. The only personnel which will re- maln are officials entrusted with car- | rying out consular functions. Soviet Demands Redress. Tn a note delivered tonight to Chang | Yen-Si, Chinese charge d'affaires, here, the Soviet government gave notice that pending satisfactory redress for the Peking raid, it will be compelled, as a sign of protest, to recall its charge d'affaires, M. Tchernik, with| the whole embassy staff from Peking. The Soviet government demands that the police be immediately evacu ated from the compound; that all ar rested must be released; that all documents taken from the embassy * quarters be returned; that all posses- sions, money, personal property, household effects and books, taken by the police and the military of the| “army of pacification” that is Chang Tso Lin’s northern forces, must be returned to the owners. Only the consulate staff will be per- mitted to remain in Peking. the note states. Disclaims Reprisal Moves. After exhaustively recounting the events leading up to the embassy raid the note explains: “The Soviet government confines it- solf to elementary demands without putting the Peking government into an embarrassing position.” “Any imperialist government would " resort to cruel reprisals, but the-Soviet government, while - possessing . the technical means for repressive meas- ures, nevertheless, dmm;&“( :l::nll}n ly rejects such, astep. y d)ersmj:%n that frresponsible foreign imperialists are provoking Russia to war and fully undefstands that the Peking cabinet has become a tool In the game played by foreign imperial- ist groups. “Therefore the Soviet government 18 and will be guided in its policy by the interests of the workers of the world as well as by the interests of the masses of the Chinese nation. Expresses Desire for Peace. “Responding to the Peking provo- cation, the aim of which is to make worse the internatienal situation. transform the hostilities at the pres- ent time led by several imperialist powers, into a new world war, the Soviet government declares it will not ' allow itself to be provoked by any- body, but will by all means defend the peace between nations.” The Soviet note coneludes: “The Soviet government has no doubt that in its desire for peace it will find support by all workers of all countries and first of all by the people of China and the Union of Soclalis: 4 Soviet Russia. CANTONESE DEFEAT REPORTED. Twice Repulsed North of Yangtze River, Dispatches Say. HAI, April 9 (P).—The Can: northward advance toward Tientsin and Peking has met with an unexpected reverse. Reorganized Northern forces under Gen. Sun Chuan- Fang, whose army crumpled under the | Cantonese advance on Shanghai in February, are reported to have re- pulsed the ntonese on two fronts— along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and on the Grand Canal to the east. The Cantonese on the railway, dis- patches say, were forced back toward Fengyang. northwest of Nanking and 25 miles southeast of Pengpu, which they occupied only a week ago. News % of the operations along the Grand Canal is meager, but the Cantonese are pictured as retiring steadily to- ward the Yangtze. Another Reverse Reported. Another Cantonese reverse is re-| ported on the north bank of the| Yangtze, opposite Kiangyin and some distance east of the Grand Canal. This may open the way for a flank attack by the Northerners, threaten- ing Pukow, across from Nanking, in SHA tonese | concerning the proposal laid before it {m it in administration quarters, has served as commissioner of the Department of Cuirrection of Massachusetts; he was ternational Prison Conference in Lon- Whale Bites Cable, Cutting Army, Line | To Sitka, Alaska| By the Assoc SEATTLE, Wash., April 9.— This is the tale of a whale, or e versa. The United States le steamship Deliwood reported today that a whale, hungry or curious, had bitten into the Army Signal Corps’ Alaska cable last Sunday, thereby severing communi- cation. Once before, 20 vears ago, it is asserted, a whale bit into the Seat- tle-Sitka cable and caused a break On that oc on the whale became entangled in the wire and fished up by the repair ship. NATIONAL PARLEY ON CRIME LIKELY President Expected to Call; Session Here After | Lawyer’s Plea. Wi the Department of Justice ntinues to maintain a strict silence le some weeks ago that it sponSor a na- onal conference in crime, the belief s in some quarters that the de- rtment will see fit to adopt it and that the call for such a conference will come from the President. While the nature of the proposal | has been kept a secret, it has been iearned that Sanford Bates, a well | known lawyer and criminal expert of Boston, is the individual who made the proposal to the Attorney General. Mr. Bates has declined to discuss it in any way, preferring that any com- ment come from the Attorney Gen- eral himself. Attorney General Sar- gent, meanwhile, has said nothing, while the only information forthcom- ing from the department is that the matter is still under consideration. Two Factors Favorable. Two factors, however, give the sug- gestion weight. The first is that Mr., Bates does not fall within the classi- fication of those who make sugges- tions solely for the publicity involved, ! and the second is that the National Crime Commission, organized in the Summer of 1925 by a group of public- spirited men who met in the office of Judge Elbert H. Gary, has about reached the limit of its activities un- less some further move is made in the way of enabling it to co-ordi- nate and centralize the results of its work, Mr. Bates, who lives in a section of the country. which is always ] ed “with™ w"i‘nd‘ssmwhy the official representative of the United States Government at the In- don in 1925; is vice president of the Institute of Criminal Law and Crimi- nology and is a member of the Com- mission to Investigate Criminal Law. Sugzgestion Opportune. His suggestion, believed, in effect, to be that the Department of Justice or the President sponsor a national conference on crime, comes at an opportune time. The National Crime Commission, as a resuit of its work, would be able to furnish such a con- ference with a vast amount of data gathered during the last year and a half and bearing on statistics on crime in the different States and measures which the States have adopted to remedy existing defects in their criminal codes. At the outset of its existence the National Crime Commission found that in many States there are no available statistics relating to the amount of crime of violence, or the adequacy or efficiency of punishment, and that no agency existed in these States for the gathering of such sta- tistics. One of its first moves, there- fore, was to urge the different States to take up the collection of such sta- tistics without which a thorough un- derstanding of the existence and causes of crimes of violence cannot be reached. At its first annual meeting, held here last April, the executive com- mittee of the National Crime Cormmis- sion announced its conclusion that the efficiency of justice and the laws relating to crimes of violence, as well as general conditions, varied so widely in the different parts of the country, that the obvious thing to do was to make the application of remedies the subject of special investigation by sep- arate State crime commisisons, fam- iliar with the local situations. The suggestion was made to the State| governors that they consider the for- mation of such commissions. Action Before States. w comparatively have and created official State commissions, empowered by the Legislatures to go into the whole matter of crimes of violence, indications are that as the few States the rear of the Cantonese column oper ating up the Tientsin-Pukow line. The Cantonese flag is reported to have been hauled down at Chinklang, midway between Nanking and Kiang vin on the Yangtze. Hundreds of + Cantonese wounded have been brought southward across the river. Meanwhile the American, ialian and Japanese Ministers in Peking met today to consider, it is believed, the demands to be made on the Ci onese in consequencs Nanking outbreaks of a fortn in which a number of foreign killed or injured and foreign p destroyed and looted (London dispatches say the der will be presented earl will call for reparations and punishment of those re: \ for the outrages.) Americans Still Leave Peking. Groups of Americans continue “to leave Peking, thern and many B are passing through toward Tientsin from points in the neighboring provinces ot Shansi and Honan. Virtually héve left the interfor of Shantung province, reaching Chefoo and 308 Tsingtao, both on the coast The Japanese evacuation of Han kow on the Yangtze, which began after Chinese mobs sttacked the con- cession there, is on in full force. Two steamers brought 1,300 Japanese here today, leaving about 800 in Hankow. All’ Japanese are reported out of % Changsha, Hunan province, While the Raritish evacuation of points above ¥iankow is complete, and the Italians are beginning to come out. Further south measures are con tinuing for defense of Shameen, the foreign quarter of Canton, against possible Chinese aggression. Trouble ks teared next Tuesday when a Chi- s were pperty Page 4, Column 4) ©ontinued on British, | formation received capital, | | Americans | subject becomes more thoroughly | unde ood th example of those States which have created crime com- |ninth Congress | down the appointment on the ground | that the committee is dead. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL EED HITS DAWES FOR KEEPING ALIVE SLUSH FUND PROBE Denies Vice President’s Au-| thority to Appoint Fess to Committee Vacancy. REPUBLICAN SENATORS DRAW LINES CLOSER| Political Battle at Next Session | Over Investigation of Expendi- ! tures Is Foreshadowed. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Vice President Dawes' authority to fill a vacancy in the Reed slush fund committee is challenged in a state- ment issued last night by Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, bitter opponent of the committee. | nator Reed also reiterates his as- sertion that the Reed -committee, died with last session of Congress. Those Republican lines which at tecked the proposal to continue the Reed slush fund committee in the last fiiibustering days of the Sixty- were drawn close again yesterday. Senator Keyes, Re: publican, of New Hampshire, chair- man of the committee on audit and control of the contingent fund of the Senate, announced he had not changed his original opinion that the Reed committee is dead and not entitled to spend any more of the Senate’s money. Senator Keyes did not personally take part in the filibuster. He has been the principal agent, however, in halting the activities of the committee since the close of Congress. He declined, or indichted he would decline, to approve any voucher for new expenditures by the committee. This effectually dried up the source of supplies of the committee, although S nator Reed of Missouri himself recently dug down into his own pocket to finance the expedition of Jerry South, a special deputy of the com- mittee, to impound ballots case in the Vase-Wilson senatorial contest in four counties in Pennsylvania. Dawes Takes Hand. Vice President Dawes was projécted into the controversy over the existence or non-existence of the Reed com- mittee recently when Senator Goff, Republican of West Virginia, resigned. The Vice President, declaring the com- m'itee to be alive, appointed Senator Fess, Republican_of Ohio, to fill the Goff vacancy. Right there he has run counter to some of the Republi- cans in the Senate, who are intent upon preventing any further action by the Reed committee during the present recess of Congress, and who would, if they could, prevent a resuscitation of that committee when Congress meets again. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, a leader of the filibuster against a reso- lution in the last Congress extending the life and powers of the Reed com- mittee, intimated last night he was prepared to continue his fight against the committee in the next session of Congress. He did not dodge the fact, however, that the Democrats, aided by a group of Republicans could, and probably would vote to give the Reed committee authority to continue its work. But Senator Reed of Pennsyl- vania, like some of the other Repub- licans, is tired of the use of the Reed committee to attack Republican Sen- ators and Senators-elect, He believes the party should rise up and strike back. No Corruption, Reed Insists. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania in- sists there was no corruption in the Pennsylvania senatorial election and primary which resulted in sending Mr. Vare to the Senate. The cry of cor- ruption has been raised, however, and he fears it will have its influence on certain members of the Republican party in the Senate, even though it is not based on fact. The Pennsylvania Senator takes di- rect issue with Vice President Dawes over the propesition that the Reed committee is a contlnuing committee, and also denies the authority of the Vice President to fill a vacancy in the committee, even if it is alive. He sharges that the Vice President has exceeded his authority in the appoint- ment of Senator Fess. The decision of Senator Fess regard- ing acceptance of his appointment to the committee is awaited here with much interest, Opponents of the Reed committee are hoping he will turn Missour; Senator »9s expressed such an opinion some Political Battle Forecast. The determination of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and other Republican Senators to stand up on their hind legs and fight the Reed Committee is the forerunner of a political battle in s will be largely followed. | New York, one of the first States to follow the suggestion, has created | crime commission and through leg- itive actlon has given thority and an annual appropriation of $50,000. It is too early to prophecy t additional progress will be mad tion of such State commis. , as many of the State | Legislatures are still in session, or such bills that have been passed have not received the signature of the ate executives, But according to in- from the National ue Commission, number of proposals’ for_the establish- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) neret, it wide au- | the Senate when Congress meets |again. They will seek to make it jarpear that the Reed Committee is a | mere instrument of the Demacrats to develop political capital to be used by | Senator Reed of Missouri to boost | his own caudidacy for the Democratic | nomination“for President, and to be 1sed by the Democrats in the coming | national campaign. | Before issuing his statement last | night, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, who has just returned from a vacation in Bermuda, consulted with other Republican Senators now here. In his_statement he said: “The special committee of the n. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) | Mus;olini Has Plain | | By the Aseo ROME. | tectives both sides of | when Premier rides through fares of the ated Press. April 9.—Plain clothes de- stationed 10 feet apart on the streets, stand by Mussolini walks or the public thorough Sternal City. This is a noticeable aspect of the protective | measures inforced on behalf of the | premier. They apparently have been strengthened during the past few months, althéugh no official announce- | ment has been made of the fact. | The streets are patrolled by a veri- table army and grim agents of the law, who make their appearance at their stations long before the time of the premier's arrival. They permit the movement of traffic fhrough the guarded thoroughfares, by they care- 10 Feet Apa-r_t During P‘ibli,c Appearance Clothes Men Active , fully scrutinize all passers-by, particu- larly those who bear the aspect of being foreigners, The correspondent, who was com- pelled to walk through the lines of march during a ceremony the Duce was expected to attend last week, was stopped four times within 100 yards. Bach time he was forced to show identification documents. Every door- | way was occupied by plain clothes- | men, and guardians of the law also { lurked behind trees or walked up and down lanes and alleys abutting on the main thoroughfares. At some places even windows had police wateh- ers in them. headed by Senator Reed, Democrat, of | the close of the | 1 | PoLiTicaL ok CHIROPODIST RELIEF 1S SOUGHT FOR YOUNG WARDS 468 Welfare Board Proteges Face Privation as Funds Run Low. Emergency measures to provide for the juvenile wards of the board of public welfare who may be subjected to privation to a point of hunger and hazardous exposure as a result of a ruling by Controller General McCarl yesterday to the effect that 1928 ap- propriations cannot be drawn upon for their support, will be planned to- morrow by the District Commission- ers. There are 468 of these children who have been placed in the care of ‘boarding mothers” and supportel at public expense. Already a number of the ‘“boarding mothers," have served notice that they will be forced to turn the children back to the wel- fare board, confronting the authorities with the immediate danger of having a large number of wards brought into their office with them. Fund Lost in Congress. The present situation is one of the results of the fallure of Congress to pass the second deficiency appropria- tion bill which carried an item of $40,000 for the care of the children during April, May and June. The Commissioners appealed to the con- troller general to find some loophole in the law, whereby an advance. could be made on the 1928 appropriations sufficient to meet this and other obli- gations of the District for the re. mainder of the year. Mr. McCarl ruled that advances could be made for the beneficiaries of the employes’ com- pensation fund, the retired school teachers, firemen and policemen, but not for the care of the children. The Commissioners viewed the situ ation seriously, while the Board of Public Welfare, discussed possible steps to be taken, even considering the possibility of housing the children ir tents. This idea w discarded, how ever, as too dangerous to their health. May Seek Private Loans. Commissioner Sidney F. who has direct supervision over the Board of Public Welfare, intimated that it may become necessary to find a group of public spirited persons of wealth who will loan the “boarding mothers” sums_totaling $40,000, until the deficlency bill can be passed by the next Congress. An alternative sug- gested by James E. Stuart of the board contemplates the issuance of certificates of service to the “board- ing mothers” so that they might get credit for food at various stores that would honor them The 468 children by the 1 directly affected MecCarl decision are among the .759 juvenile wards of the board. The rs are quartered in Institutions which are already crowded. All of ime ago, before the ruling of the Vice | these children have been committed s vet adopted the suggestion | President to the care of the board by the Juve nile Court. Some are orphans. Others were taken away from parents be cause of neglect or cruel treatment. About 90 per cent of them, however, are the innocent victims of broken homes, Decision Is Cited. The controller general's decision which denied the Commissioners the authority to draw an advance on the 1928 appropriation for the care of these children was contained in one paragraph, phrased as follows: “While the act of March 16, 19 * * % imposes certain duties on the board with respect to these children and made certain appropriations avail- able for its activities for the fiscal year 1927, there appears nothing in the law that could be construed as requiring the board to incur obliga- tions during the said fiscal year in ex- ye The appropriations made for the expenses of the board are strictly fiscal year appropriations. The 1928 appropriation will not in any event become available for payments due for servives rendered during the fiscal year 192 Mr. Carl added, however, that he appreciated “the distressing situation (Co The Star, for today, presents its news and comment on ac- tivities in the realm of sports in an 8.page section, twice the space usually allotted to this class of matter on Sunday. With the opening of the ma- jor league base ball season but two days distant and other lines of competitive endeavor getting a fresh start with the advent of Spring, it was deemed It is noticeable that Mussolini has greatly curtailed his program of ap- pearing before the publiev advisable to in the space for this feature, | Taliaferro, of its avallable funds for the sald | v PART ONE—44 PAGES. 1 News—Local, National ign. Schools and Colleges—Page News of the Clubs—Page 3 R. Activitl and Veter: Civillan Army D 5 Radio News and Programs—Pages 40 and 41. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials Features. ashington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Arti Page 4 Reviews of Spring Books—Page 4 Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. W€ Notes—Page 11. PART THREE—10 PAGE and | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- ¢ News—Page 4. Motors a Serial, Gray mance”—Page 8. Distriet National Guard—Page 9. Spanish War Veterans—Page 9. PART FOUK—8 PAGES. Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Sectlon—Fiction and ture Pages 6 and 7. Phantom's Ro- Fea- [ The Rambler—Page 3. no place to send ART SIX—I2 PAGES. | Classified Advertising. District of Columbia Naval Reserves— Page 9. Financial News—Pages 10, 11 and 12. Clpbwomen of the Nation—Page 12, At the Community Centers—Page 12. Around the City—Page 12. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES, World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 PAGE: Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of History. “PADLOCK” ACTION 15 HESSE'S THREAT Determined to Wipe Out City’s “Speak-Easies” in Steady Campaign. Determined to wipe out Washing: ton's “speak-easies” and ‘near-beer” emporfums 'where forbidden intox- icants are sold, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, announced yesterday that he would seek ‘“pad lock” injunctions against the pro- prietors of such places arrested in the future, One tempor already has been “padlock” injunction issued by Justice Bailey of the District preme Court against George P. Rock, Charles K Whitlock, Wilfred Hooe and Llla P Rock to prevent the sale of liquor ai 2 Seventh street southeast. The pe- tition for the injunction contained the allegation that Harry N. Doughitt, a prohibition agent, and Pol Dowell Mansfield bought colored corn whi at a nearbeer saloon con ducted by the defendants, or some of them, last month, Scores of Places. Maj. Hesse does not deny that there are scor of places in Washington where a_thirsty individual may pro cure a drink of liquor of doubtful quality by merely flashing a card signed by the proprietor or by glv ing a signal. The proprietors of most of these establishments already have been arrested one or more times, he said, but they continue to sell liquor because of the small fines imposod by the courts or the opportunity to es- cape punishment by demanding & jury trial and having the case thrown into the congested court docket. “The mere arrest of the ‘speak-easy’ proprietors, we have learned,” said Maj. Hesse “has not had the effect of stopping the sale of liquor, We are forced to resort to more drastic measures, and I believe the desired results can be accomplished through the ‘padlock’ injunctions. In any event, I shall attempt to ‘padlock’ every place in which the police find that the prohibition law is being violated.” To Prohibitionize City. M Hesse's latest move to drive the “speak-easies” out of business is a part of his general campaign to prohibitionize the District. Only last week he called his prohibition en- forcement squad into conference and gave them instructions for a con- certed drive agalnst rum runners, bootleggers and all persons engaged in an {llicit liquor_ traffic. The campaign, Maj. Hesse assures, will not be one of the spectacular sporadic type, but a continuous and persistent attack on the liquor sellers, oy _ | Treasury ENGRAVING BUREAU FRICTION SETTLED and Employes’ Representatives Reach Understanding. Officials of the Treasury Department and representatives of the National | Federation of Federal Employes | reached an agreement yesterday after- noon at a conference on working con- ditions in the numbering division of the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing, which had been attacked by the federation in a statement Friday as being highly unfavorable. Beyond the assertion that there was a meeting of minds on the subject of working conditions, nothing was di- vulged in relation to a chang. of pro- gram or policy in the numbering di- vision, where, it had been charged by the federation, yowng women were being pushed beyond their physical endurance in an effort to speed-up production Present at Conference. The conference was held in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury C. 8. Dewey, and in addition to him, Director Alvin Hall of the bureau and Luther C. Steward and Gertrude M. McNally, president and secretary-treasurer of the federation, were present. A statem.nt issued by Treasury officlals after the meeting said “The questions of the amount of output and the general working con- ditions in the numbering division were discussed. Agreeable to Federation. “The administrative officials at the bureau gave assurance that the con- clusions reached will be entirely satisfactory, not only from the stand- point of the Federal Government but from that of the employes as well.” Miss McNally sald after the meet- ing that it had been agreed to leave all announcements of the conference to the Treasury Department and explained that what “ad been decided upon was agreeable to the federation. The federation Friday, in its formal statement, had demanded an investi- gation of affairs at the bureau. MME. éCHUMAN-HEINK GETS DOCTOR’S DEGREE Academic Recognition in Music, ““Honoris Causa,” Conferred in Wisconsin. By the Associated Press. APPL] N, Wis.,, April 9.—Mme. Ernestine Schuman Heink became a doctor of music today when an honorary degree was conferred upon the famous contralto by the Lawrence College Conservatory of Music. In an impressive ceremony before 2,000 students and friends, President Henry W. Wriston conferred the degree “Honoris Causa’—the first to be given by the conservatory of music “Because you have known the mean- ing of education, because you have always grown in power of understand- ing and interpretation, because you have forever been eager to enlarge your experience and to broaden your outlook, we delight to honor you, President Wriston told Mme. Schu. mann Heink. SOLD FOR $3,000,000. NEW theater YORK, April 9 (#).—Three . situated on land near Broal- way and Forty-fifth street, acquired originally by the Astor family for a few hundred dollars an acre, were sold today for $3,000,000 to Walter Reade, owner of a chain of theaters in New Jersey. The City Investing Co., which sold them, acquired the play- houses for $1,150,000 when the hold- ings of the late Henry Astor were disposed of at auction. The three theaters are The Astor. The Bijou and The Morosco, Staff, ‘Whfle Only / Attesting to the alarcity with which office seekers are clamoring for prohi. bition enforcement jobs, it was an- nounced yesterday that f\xll¥ 25,000 persons have applied for the 2,500 po- sitions in the Bureau of Prohibition which were classified under the civil service by the act of March 3. Under this act all en et The Star is Sunday i 60 cents * to month. Telephone and service will start i (®) Means Associated Press. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” delivered every evening and Washi homes at Main 5000 FIVE CENTS. Cat Adopts Four Skunk Kittens to Replace Her Own By the Associated Press. CY, 1L, April 9.—Maternal instinct in a cat resulted in a strange nature story told by F. Jones, farmer, living in ~Brook- field, Mo., near here A gray mother cat kittens to his hon children prepared to mother and her brood able home, but Jones, I ideas on the sut onsigned four kittens to The next aay, to his small son informed the kittens were sound. Recalling the tr “nine lives” attributed to cats, Jones in- vestigated and found that the cat i acquired four other kittens without doubt, but instead of their being some other feline's off-spring, they were of the genus mephitis, or common American skunk CAMPAIGN SIGNS with bhis surprise, n that Months in Advance of Nominating Season. e Associated Press. Party weather maps are beginning to reveal unmistakable signs of an early Spring and a warm Summer in presidential politics. A generous handful of months still must pass before local primary and convention have developed the respec- tive strengths of those who aspire to leadership in the presidential year, 1928, but already the torchlights have been fired in many a far precinct, and ‘Washington s filled with questionings. Three Main Questions. Just at the moment three search- ing Interrogations stand at the head | of the questionnaire of the politicians Will Coolidge run again? : Will prohibition be a predominant issue? Will Gov. Smith’s religion prove a determining factor in his candidacy? Many diverse answers to these questions are obtainable among the supposedly well-informed in the National Capital. There are those who think they know, those who hope they know, and those who candidly concede that they can only guess. But they all agree that it will be exceedingly fascinating to observe what changes time will make in a political picture which today, 14 months in advance of the nominating season, presents so many high lights to catch the political eve. Smith Writes Reply. As it stands in its uncompleted state thig picture presents President Coolidge silently busying himself with ChinaZ® Nicaragua. and the budget while his friends talk unceasingly of another term for him and his poten- tial oponents make their plans on the assumption that he will be a candi- date; Gov. Smith, taking a night oft amid his assiduous labors at Albany to pen & yet-unpublished pronounce- ment of his conception of the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, of which he is a member, as they might relate to a man in the presidency; and both Republican and Democratic chieftains poo-pooing the idea that prohibition will become & party issue while two distinguished Re- publicans, Senator Borah and Nicho- las Murray Butler, debate that very question before applauding voters, and such celebrated Democrats as Senator Glass and Edwards keep up la longrange wetand-dry argument by means of statement and Interview. Nor are tliese the omly important unknown quantities. Republicans are wondering what will come of the Low- den boom, which within the week has emerged from its native West to set up a branch headquarters in New York, the center of a district that in 1920 gave the former Illinois governor some of his most able support. 1f Lowden candidacy proves a washout, ask the politicians, will Vice President Dawes, also a McNary-Haugen sup- porter, step into the breach; and again, if Coolidge steps out, will Sec. retary Hoover or some other wheel- horse of the administration fail heir to his leadership? McAdoo Is Enigma. On the Democratic side there are at least two major enigmas—whether | the McAdoo legions who fought so | valiantly in 1920 and 1924 will again go into action in 1928; and just what presidential maneuvering may be ex- pecied from the resourceful Senator “Jim" Reed of Missouri. To compli- cate matters, the usual Democratic phalanx of favorite son candidates in- cludes this year such unusual repea ers-in-office as Govs. Ritchis of Mary- land and Donahey of Ohio. In the end, Washington's specula- tion on all of these subjects returns to the question of another nomination for Mr. Cvolidge. In few other mat- ters has the President so ganuinely fulfilled his traditional role of silence. Even those who have gone to the White House to hand over the sup- port of tempting blocs of delegates say they came away uncertain whether the offer would be accepted. Some of those closest to the President declare he has nct made up his mind whether to stand for a term which would carry his service beyond the elght years which heretofore has rep- resented the maximum tenure of a President. But in great numbers his followers have accepted the assump- tion that he will run, and the move- ment for his renomination already has shown definite outcroppings in many States. ‘The campaign to make Gov. Smith the Demccratic nominee likewise has developed reactions that are almost nation-wide. Holding as much as possible of the great bloc of strength (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) By 25,000 Apply for Places on Prohibition Few Are to be Filled By no means are there 2,500 vacan- cles to be filled in that sense, it was pointed out, for the incumbents were all reappointed on April 1, with few exceptions, subject to qualifying in the examinations now being held. It s reasonable to presume that a ‘majority of these 2,500 employes will ualify and retain their positions, so &- crumbs that are likely to fall to the lot of 25,000 office seekers will be few. Examinations are being con- Efilm nmue:vll m’:‘ rules positions range ‘administrators te APPEAR IN CAPITAL 1928 Thunder Is Heard 14| SACCOVANZETTI WARNING FLASHED TOALUS ENVOYS iState Department Notifies Diplomats to Protect Selves as Sentence Is Passed. BOMBING OF LEGATIONS RECALLED BY OFFICIALS Little Hope Seen for Doomed Men Through Appeal to Federal Supreme Court. Mindful of the reprisals, threatened and actual, which followed the denial in the early part of last year of & new trial to Nicola Sacco and Bartol- |omeo Vanzetti when American lega tions and consulates in foreign lands were the subject of bomb attacks and demonstrations by communists, the State Department last night flashed around the world to the American for eign representatives a warning to guard against any eventualities fol- lowing the news of the passing of the death sentence on these men. It was merely an advice, and the American diplomatic representatives will be ex pected to use their own judgment to whether they should make any ar rangements for their protection. Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted in July, 1921, for the killing in April, 1920, of a paymaster and guard, F. A. Parmenter and A. Barad in a hold-up at South Braintree, Mass, The Massachusetts Supreme Court denjed a new trial to the murderers May 13, last year, and four days later the American embassy in Buenos Alres was bombed. This was believed to be a carrying out of reprisal threats of which the American officials had warning. On June 4 a bomb ex ploded in the United States legation at Montevideo, Uruguay, following which 20 radicals were arrested, four of whom confessed. Diplomats Were Warned. These two bombings caused the American State Department, June 10 to send a warning to the foreign rep- resentatives of the United States to be on their guard against further plots. The reds in Switzerland be- came menacing in Jyly and on the 17th of the month, when they threat- ened the American legation, a heavy guard of Swiss police was placed around it. The latter part of July, the scene shifted to Paris, and the Federal officials became algrmed over threats to kill Ambassador Myron 7. Herrick. As late as October 26 of last year, the American embassy in Paris was still under heavy guard to prevent communistic demonstrations, resulting from the Sacco-Vanzetti cases. Two openings remain for the two doomed men before exhausting all op portunities for saving their lives. First, they may go to the United States Supreme Court on writs of certiorari, or they may appeal to the Governor of Massachusetts for execu tive clemency. It was pointed out that if a motion should be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States before Ma:' 31, that tribuna: will have an oppor tunity to pass upon it before the pres ent term ends June 6. Stay Is Possible. If the move is made after May 31 electrocution could only be staved Ly appealing to the Massachusetts State courts for an order suspending se tence until after the Supreme Court returns next October. In the event the State judge re fused to stay execution, they still would have open the possibility of obtaining such an order from one of the justices of the Supreme Court No motion which they may file in the Supreme Court would of itseif have the effect of staying execution Lawyers of wide practice before the Supreme Court expressed the opinion yesterday that Sacco and Vanzetti would have great difficulty in con- vincing a Federal judge in Massa- chusetts or the Supreme Court here that constitutional or other Federal questions are presented in their ¢ which would warrant Federal vention. Little Federal Efforts have been made h many times to have Federal officials in- terest themselves in the case, but there has been no indication that any encouragement has been given to such moves. The question has been discussed briefly in Congress, where on one oceasion a resolution was intro- duced asking an investigation of charges that two department agents obtained false testimony against the men. The main consideration here has been the matter of seeing that Ameri- can diplomatic and consular officials abroad were protected as a result of threats received intermittently for several years and attributed to sym- pathizers of the condemned men. BOTH PROTEST INNOCENCE. Sacco and Vanzetti Charge Court With Tyranny. DEDHAM, Mass, April 9 (P)—After seven_years of waiting Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti heard the sentence of death pronounced upon them today. In those seven years echoes of the case have been heard on several continents. In the same dourt here they were convicted of murder by a jury in 1921, they were con- demned today to be electrocuted at the State prison in the week of July 10. Sentence was imposed by Judge Webster Thayer, who presided at their trial. Both men accepted the court’s in- vitation to make statements before sentence was pronounced. In dra- matic addresses neither asked for mercy, but each protested his inno- cence of the crime of which they were found guilty—the murder of two pay- roll guards during an attempted rob- bery at a South Braintree shoe fac- tory, April 15, 1920, and accused Judge Thayer, the jury which con- victed them and the District attorney who prosecuted them, of prejudice. Hold Trial Unfair. They contended that they did mot get a fair trial on account of their radicalism, a charge that has resuited in world-wide agitation by radical organizations for a new trial. Neither showed any change of emotion as he heard himself condemned to dle, al- though both interrupted the sentence, Vanzett! to ask to speak to his counsel, and Sacco to out: “That {(Continued on Page 4 Column Encouragement.