Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1927, Page 2

GO0LIDGE FAVORED -BY MORE LEADERS 3. 0. P. Committee Members Continue to Discount “Third-Term” Issue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ’Members of the Republican Nation- a1 Committee, in their replies to The Star's questionnaire, continue to ap- prove the nomination of President Coolidge in 19 ad to discount the so-called “third-term” issue Representatives on the national com- mittee of more than half-of the States of the Unton are covered in the re- sults of the poll, with the publica- tion_today of .a a group of an swers. Twenty-six States in all, plus the District of Columbia, in the answers so published. The questions put to the commit- | teemen and committeewomen by The | follov i In your opinion would another term of office President Coolidge constitute a “third term” as the term | is generzlly understood? 2. In your opinion would the so- called “third-term” issue be a serious obstacle either to the nomination or | re-election President Coolidge in 1 3. In your opinion is President Cool- 1dge the logical candidate of the Re publican party for President in 1928 Replic cattered States. The third sroup of answers, pub. lished today, include replies from Florida, Kansas slana, Massachu- setts and West Virginia. A fourth group of answers will be published at an early date. Of the 26 From § | ates from which re- plies have now heen published, in- Cluding those published today, 17 are of the North and East, 11 are of the Middle West and West, and 8 area of the South, the so-called *Solid South,” which has been the backbone of the Democratic party for many yesrs. The entire list of the States from which raplies have now been publish- ed follows: Alabama, Arizona, Arkan- sas, California, Colorado, Delaware, orida, Kansas, Loulsiana, Massa- usett; higan, Missiseippi, souri, Nevada, New _Mexico, New York, New Jersey, North Carolin North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvan , Vermont, Virginia, West Vi ginla &and Wyoming. Called Logical Candidate. The replies have invariably de- clared that President Coolidge is the logical candidate of the Republican: for President next vear, with one ex- ception, and in that case the national committee woman from New Mexico, who voiced no opposition to President Coolidge, but merely said that she thought it too early to discuss candi- dates. “The replies have shown an over- whelming opinion that the so-called third-term ue does not apply in the case of President Coolidge, and that this issue, if raised against him, would neither prevent his nomination or_his election in 1928, Mrs. Charles Sumn Bird, Repub- Hean national committeewoman for Massachusetts, replies to the ques- tions of The Star as follows: “In her opinion, another term of office for President Coolidge would not constitute a ‘third term’ as the phrase is generally understood. In her opinion, the so-called ‘third term’ issue would not be a serious obstacle either to the nomination or re-election of President Coolidge in 1928. In her opinion, President Coolidge is the log- | jcal candidate of the Republican’ party in 1928. Mrs, Bird, it may be well under- stood, is expressing the views of many Republicans in the President's home State, although in her yeply to The Star she speaks only for herself. Approved by Mulvane. Approval of the President’s renom- fnation and re-election comes also from another national committeeman in the “corn beit,” David W. Mul- vane, for many years Kansas' repre- sentative on the committee. Mr. Mul- vane says: “President Coolidge served about 19 months of the unexpired constitu- tional term of his predecessor, War- ren G. Harding. He became Presi- dent by operation of law and not by an election. The minor fraction of an unexpired term should not be con- sidered a ‘first term,’ otherwise a few weeks, days or hours could as prop- erly be considered a ‘first term.’ “Opposition to President Coolidge on account of a so-called ‘third term’ issue would ba confined very largely t0 those who, for other reasons, favored another candidate. “In my opinion the Republican party wiil be fortunate if President Coolldge consents to be a candidate in 192§, as there would be little doubt about his renomination and re-elec- tion.” In connection with the reply of L(r. Muivane, recent reports from Kan- sas indicate that President Coolidge is popular in that State despite his veto of the McNary-Haugen farm re- lief bill. One observer reports that nine out of ten of the Kansas Repub- licans favor his renomination and re- election. Indorsed in Loulsiana. Both the Republican national com- mittee woman and the committee man from Louisiana reply that Presi- dant Coolidge is the logical candidate of the party for nomination for Presi- dent next year and that the third- term issue cannot lie against him. Mrs. Rosemund E. Kuntz, the Re- publican national committee woman, ating that President Cool- not having served two full is eligible for election to an- other term, of four years, and 1 can see no serious acle which will prevent nd re-elec tion in > doubt that Preside logical candl- date slican party for Pres| . because swapping horse s time would be a politi- here is no other man an party today who f the people nt f he accepta terms, in 2 would re of c idge s country th will receive in 1 tional committee > Kunt ird-term case of Presi- mar er sayir does not_apply in t dent Coolidge in President Coolidge | te of the Repub- President in 1928 be- record he has the o 1¢ for splendid incumbency chievem which have re- best interests of the people of this country during his ad- ministration.” Supported by Florida Leader. Mrs, F. W. Morse, Republican na- tional committeewoman for Florida, says that another term of office for Pr dent Coolidge would not mean a “third term,” that the “third term” 1ssue would not prove a serious obsta- cle to his success either in convention or at the polls next year, and finally: “If President Coc » will take the office for another term I think he is the andidate.” A. Yost, Republican na- man for West Vir- r reply, #ays or term of office for Presi- olidge would not constitute a nor do 1 k those who 2 a splendid sulted f logical ¢ h aro included | | servanc start out en their assignm Corps, who ted i Corps, supervisor of nurses and to: called **Summ Acsisting in the physical examination of ¢ | day, were thece student nurses from the Walter nts. In the center in uniform is Mrs. C. H. Jewett, 2 their transportation. Directly behind her is Miss Ruth I. Taylor, first lientenant Army Nurse | tructor In the School of Nursing. These forces have been mobilized for Washing- | priconers also 1w childhood by the Distriet of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, to assist in May day and the so- pers + roundup” of children for health. THE SUNDAY STAR, ildren at 13 cli eed Hos pital Army School througheut STUDENT NURSES JOIN CHILD HEALTH DAY CELEBRATION terday, Child Healt arsing. are _shown ready to g captain of the Red Cross Motor of dent Prevention With the public observance of Child Health day yesterday, Washington turned today to May. day itself, plan- ning special attention in Sunday schools and churches, and police ob- of “No Accident Day for Children.” Rain prevented the outdoor health demonstration yesterday afternoon on the Ellipse, where 10 Army tents hal been’ pitched, and the United Army Band was driven from its stand by showers, but the major program £ > the day, stimulation of interest in physical examination and welfare of children, was pronounced by Dr. Hugh J. Davis, chairman of the committe2 in charge, as highly successful. A record number of children. more than 700, went with their mothers to the 13 cilnics throughout the city to be examined by physicians and den- tists, assisted by nurses of the clinics and volunteer workers. Gratified by Response. ‘While deploring the inclement weather, which spolled the health demonstration on the Ellipse, Chair- man Davis expressed himself as high- ly gratified by the response on the part of parents. eneral interest was stimulated in the proper medical supervigion of children,” Dr. Davis said. The number of children examined, he sald, was more than had ever been presented for examination on similar occagions. But they were considered by the Child Health day-May day com- mittee' as_an indication of a much wider public interest. Many persons also took their chlldren to their fam- ily doctors for examination, it was estimated, and within the next few days and weeks the message of Child Health day is expected by its pro- moters to continue to bear good fruit. The public celebrations throughout the country sponsored by the Ameri- can Child Health Assoclation, of which Secretary Hoover is president, were held April 30 this vear, as May day itself falls on Sunday. Usually May 1 is celebrated. Churches through- out the country have been appealed to by the committee, however, to ob- serve the “national rally day of child- hood” today, and it was believed that the Sunday schools especiallyq would participate in generous fashion. Accident Prevention Today. Yo accident day for children” will be observed today by police through- out the city. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, s -erintendent of police, officially designated the day to this purpose und sent out notice to all members of the force in the daily bulletin. Every ef- fort vill be made to keep Sunday’s record free of accidents to children throughout the National Capital. Although the skies threatened yes- terday, early morning saw mothers with children in arms, in baby car- riages, .or on foot converging on the thirteen centers where examinations were conducted. At several of the clinics the mothers were outside be- tore the doors opened, waiting to be first in line. Doctors and dentists ex- amined children for physical defects, and recommended corrective meas- ures. The little folks were carefully weighed and measured Although final reports of the vari- ous clinics had not been returned to headquarters of the committee last night it appeared from preliminary reports to Dr. Davis that the Child Welfare Board Clinic at Children’s Hospital stood at the top of the list with about 125 children, while 900 desire to make it appear & third term 1 be able to do so, The great confidence which the American people have in the integ- rity and ability of President Coolidge and thelr respect for his courage and 1 convictions would prevent the alied ‘third term’ issue being an tacle to {8 nomination or re- election in 1928, “President Coolldge, in my opinion, is the logical candidate of the Repub- lican party for President in 1925 Contention that President Coolidge will have served one term as Vic President and only one term as President at the conclusion of his present term of office is made by a correspondent of The Star, who has taken an interest in the poll of the Republican national committee on the “third term” issue. This correspond- ent maintains that the duty of the Vice President is “to serve as Presi- dent in the absence or death of the President,” and insists that for two after President Harding's des Coolidge merely served as Pry dent, although he remained always Vice' President. This correspondent called attention the fact that Thomas Jefferson ed for a total of 12 years wcity of Vice President and then President. Under the interpre- tation placed on Mr. Coolidge's oc- cupancy of the White House fol- lowing the death of President Hard- ing, the length of President Jeffe son would exceed that of President oo ge, if President Coolidge were elected next year and served another four years. Jefferson was Vice Pre dent “for four years during the ad- ministration of John Adams, and y Mr. to had_ser in the c: RAIN HALTS CHILD HEALTH DAY PLANS, BUT CLINICS SET RECORD! More Than 700 Children Examined at 13 Stations Throughout Capital—Acci- Stressed Today. Maryland avenue, of the Health De- partment, was second with 111. The clinie at 5. Georgia avenue was third with 80. Other centers where examinations were conducted included John Bur roughs School, Tenleytown School, Miner Normal School, Freedmen's Hospital, and these other clinics of the Child Hyglene Service of the Health Department: Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital, 925 Twerty-second street, 330 C street, 408 E street south- west, 1205 Pennsylvania avenue south- east and 1201 Talbert street, Ana- costia. The annual custom of presenting Mre. Coolidge with a basket of flow- ers at the White House was carried out, with three little girls going this year to the temporary White House on Dupont Circle. Appearing there about 9:30 o'clock, they were greeted by Mrs. Coolidge, who graciously re- ceived the basket, expressing her pleasure and delight, She always looked forward to May day each vear, she told the little vis tors, as she recefved a real “thrill” out of getting from little children a,baskat of lovely flowers on May day morning. Mrs. Coolidge was presented with the basket of daisies by Nan Norton. Th least one, Elizabeth Ann Taylor, Mr: Coolidge gathered into her arms, gi ing her a big hug and kiss. The other was Margaret Le Clere Cooley. The visit of the May day girls to the White House was arranged by Mrs. E. R. Grant of the District of Colum- bia Tuberculosis Association on behall of the Child Health day-May day com- mittee. Daisies were emblematic of the American Child Health Associ- atio Arrangements for the health dem- onstration on the Ellipse had been completed under direction of Miss Margaret Craig, chairman. Ten tents had been set up for physical and den- tal examination of children and for exhibiting displays concerning health in this city. The United States Army Band started its concert on a platform nearby at about 3 o'clock, and & big truck with a picturesque sign of a brownie carrying a pail stood nearby with the legend urging “Milk for Health,” one of the slogans of the committee. Rain Stops Program. Doctors and members of the com- ‘mittee were on hand, and a few chil- dren came to be examined, Boy Scouts of Troop 3, under E. L. Mattice, as- sistant to the Scout exacutive of the District _of Columbia Council, and Lieut. Frank Balke, scoutmaster, were ready to present a demonstra- tion, including tower bullding and mass drill. Girl Scouts under Miss ‘arolyn Thom also appeared in their uniform to present a plcturesque drill. Dr. W. C. Fowler, health officer of the District, and Dr. J. A. Murphy, hief medical inspector of the public schools, in addition to Dr. Davis, were on hand, together with representa- tives of numerous organizations inter- ested in forwarding the cause. But the drizzle soon turned into a down- pour and the demonstration was aban- doned. The swan boat of the Child Welfare Board of Children's Hospital carried a few children on free trips yester- day, celebrating May day and the opening of its second season. It wilk continue through the summer to carry passen ‘ers on its pleasurable voyage about the Tidal Basin for the benefit of the clinic at Children's Hospital. Capital Traction busses going to Hains Point from south of the Treas- ury now make a regular stop at the Tidal Basin boathouse, where the swan boat is ready at its pier. Organizations Co-Operating. Among the many Sroups co-operat ing yesterday were student nurses from the Army School of Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital, whose help was enlisted through Mrs., Harold R. Smalley_of the District Congress of Parent-Teacher Assoclations. Mrs Smalley is chairman of the Summer round-up of children, who will enter school for the first time next Fall. This round-up opened yesterday, through co-operation of the Parent. Teacher organization of the city, and the assistance of the nurses. Efforts will be made by appeals to the parents to have each of these children enrolled and examined during May, have their defects removed in June, and have them re-examined in September, so they may enter school | ally fit. The work is carried on in co-operation with the health department, Child Hygiene Clinies and the student nurses from Walter Reed. Much pre- liminary work was done during the past month in preparing the Summer round-up. Physicians volunteered thelr ser fces for the examinations yesterday through Dr. Davis, and the dentists co-operating volunteered through the committee on oral hygiene and public instruction of the District of Columbia Dental Society. ‘Weighing and were maintained & mittes at“three j rounds, whe children were weighed and measured, s follows: ¢ etown, 120; Rosedale, 2, and How: 5. Tents belonging to the District play- measuring stations the general com- then served two elective iterms as President of the Wnited States, grounds were pitched by a detail of enlisted men from Fort Myer, MAIL SCHOOL CODE | BEING FORMULATED ‘ IN CLEAN-UP DRIVE _(Contluued from First Page) will than the 1t the mini- | tions upon which money funded, or requiring other | return of text books furnished | request of the student within | mum period of 30 days. ““The use of instruments or papers | simulating court documents in the col- | leetion of aceounts, | “Misrepresentation arding the office, or exaggeration the_building or and the equipment of same. ‘The misuse of such pictures zs the tional Capitol, Uncle , or the misuse of any title or statement that would lead the reader to believe that the institution or its instructors are, or have been, connected in any with the United States Govern- ment. “To advertise that an institution i conducted, not for profit, when inter- locking management exists with an- other corporation not so organized Washingtonians Attend. In addition to Mr. Nugent, the fol- lowing Washington men attended the meetings: Herbert E. Morgan, director of Information of the Civil Service Commission, which recently launched a campaign against misleading ad vertising of civil service schools, in- cluding correspondence schools; A. J. Luchs, the Washington School of Auto, Inc., Washington School of Cartooning and Washington Show @ard School; J. E. Smith, Natlonal Radio Institute, and Clifford Lewis, the Lewis Hotel Training School and Lewis Tea Room Institute. Mr. Nugent safd that correspondence schools now constitute an importart industry in this country, with revenues last year of more than $70,000,00 “Yours is_an important industry, and vou are rendering a valual service,” he sald, "but the Federal rade Commission has been advised that certain practices are unfair, both to your competitors and to the public interest. During the past year many complaints have been flled with the commission and I now call upon you representatives to cléan up the in- dustry yourselves. Complaints Are Suspended. “The commission has placed these complaints upon the suspense calen- dar to give you @ chance to eliminate these unfair practices and the Gov- ernment will ablde by .whatever is arrived at in this conference and is approved, by the commission. The agreement you reach it to bet set in writing in the form of a resolution to be presented to the commission. The commission is desirous of co- operating with you to rid the c respondence school industry of unfair methods. We ask you to advise the commission what you consider to be unfair practice. For any school fol- lowing these unfair practices in the future, if the commission is advised, there will be prosecution.” The conference went into executive gession to consider and e: rine the complaints and prepare the code of ethics. 'With the complaints were shown many advertisements from magazines in which the schools ad- vertised for persons to take the course on a guarantee. An example was glven of a trade school promis- ing the student a job when he com- pleted a 10-lesson course in bricklay- ing. The complaint pointed out that at the end of the lessons, which lasted 30 days and cost $30, the prospective brieklayer was told he should study 110 days more and must pay $107 in addition. was told to “sign up” for 75 days more and pay $54. At the end of this period, the complaint sald, he was told that being now a qualified brick- layer, he should find no difficulty in obtalning a job. PRET S PADLOCK ON CIGAR STORE IS DEMANDED Temporary Injunction Sought Against H Street Premises on Rum Charges. A temporary “padlock” injunction gainst Louis Rock and 8. E. Noyes, who conduct the Indlan Head Cigar Store on the first floor of premises 719 H street, and against Wilhelm Muel- ler, owner of the property, was asked of the District Supreme Court yester- day by United States Attorney Gordon nd Assistant United States Attorney Orcutt, on affidavits submitted by Harry N. Douthitt, former prohibition agent, and Policeman Dowell Mansfield that they bought drinks at the store. Douthitt, who is executive secre- tary of the Church Service Associa- tion now being formed under the sponsorship of the Organized Bible Class Assoclation, according to the membership application card, con- ducted his part of the investigation as an individual and the Church Service Association was not identified with any phase of it, as the organiza- tion movement did not begin until two days after Douthitt, in his af- davit, said he bought drinks at the place. The Indian Head Cigar Store is opposite the Calvary Baptist Church, The affidavit of Douthitt and Mansfield said they bought drinks and bottles of colored whisky at the store March 4, 15, 16, 17 and 21, ” i WASHINGTON. be re- | | buildings occupied by the instituticn | Still failing to qualify, he | D C. MAY FEDERATION URGES JAIL IMPROVEMENT Better Municipal Lodging House Is Advocated—Air-- port Is Considered. 9 recommendations for of conditions at the jail, and for the provision of a better municipal lodging house ap. proved by the Federation of Citizens Associations last night at a meating in | the boardroom of the Municipal Build- | ing, when it adopted a report of its | eor arities and correc: | tions, presented by Mrs. H. M. Phillips, | chairman. he report recommended that ade. ‘.um:» medical attentlon be provided | the prisoners, it being pointed out that cf ter n now is being renderes graduate from the Hospital. Such medical atten- | Specific im | provement | were linger | tion should be provided, the commit- | | tee duate phy sician It also recommended provisicn for a | sraduate pharmacist at the intitu tion, the report imparting the informa- tion that pharmaceutic duti now were performed by a prisoner. i Adequate Salaries Backed. | id, by a competent 5 It recommended adequate salaries v week for the guards of institution. These men, the re- id, now get $1056 a month, out they must purchase their and a six- | the | port s |of which | uniforms Removal of the laundry from | building was urged, as it results fn | excessive heat. Employment s urged, so prompt and adequate legal advice ould be given those awaiting trial. | As to the municipal lodging house, | the report pointed out that the pres- |ent one on Twelfth street is in the ame condition as it was in 1916, | when $40,000 was appropriated for a site and new bullding. It pointed out that a site was purchased at Sixth apd Louisiana avenue, for which $10,000 was paid, and the remaining $30,000 was insufficient to provide the building. The money is still avail- able, and the committee recommended | that either additional funds be ob- tained with which to erect a building on the site provided or that the va- cant site and the unexpended balance of money be used for some other use- ful purpose. Norris Bill Indorsed. | The association adopted a report of its public utilities committee, present- ed by Vice Chairman Clayton E. Emig, offering to the Public Utllitles Com- mission the ald of the federation In ob- taining a reversal of the ruling of the controller general of the United States, prohibiting the employment of expert ‘witnesses hefore the commis- sion except at rates fixed in the clag- sification act. The federation also indorsed, on recommendation of this committee, the Norris bill providing for the de- velopment of a hydro-electric plant in the vicinity of the Great Fails of the Potomac. After a lengthy discussion, it em- powerad the public utilities committee to study the merits of the one-man car in comparison with an increase in fare, and instructed the committee to appear before the Public Utilities Com- mission and urge that body to defer any action on the one-man car ques- tion until the constituent bodies of the federation could have an oppor- tunity to act on certain requests for information on this question sent out by the commission. Airport Special Order. It also adopted the report of this committee urging that the Utilities Commission direct the sale of three tokens for 20 cents by the conductors of cars: the abolition of the charges for transfers between the two com- panies, . and the transportation of school children at reduced fares. While on public utilities matters, the federation adopted a recommenda- tion of Mr. Emig that the report on an airport in this city be made the special order of business at the meet- ing next Saturday night. It was pointed out that this matter was ur- gent, as Baltimore was trying to get the place on the malil airways which belongs to the Capital City. The federation adopted the report of its committee on highways, parks and waterways, presented by Thomas Lodge, chairman, that Benning road be widened from Fifteenth and H streets to Kenilworth avenue, and that the latter thoroughfare be wid- ened from Benning road to the Dis- trict line. Aunother report adopted recommend- ed the immediate construction of a sidewalk along Glesboro road south- east, and also that the Highway Be- partment of the District glve early consideration to the widening of this road, now said to be a main thorough- fare to Blue Plains and the Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, Interfederation Dinner. The federation also adopted a recom- mendation of this committee that pro- | vision be included in the 1929 budget for the widening of Connecticut ave- nue from M street to Dupont Circle, and that the Witherspoon Statue be moved to another site. It also adopted a recommendation for the appointment of an advisory committee on tree space and public parking, to consist of three members, one to be a landscape gardener, one a forester and the third to be the chairman of the highways committee of the federation, The report of the action of the traffic advisory council concerning traffic lights, presented by E. 8. Hege, was adopted, and subsequent- ly the federation gave its indorse- ment to the proposal for an inter- tederation dinner, to be held in the Fall, to be attended by the citizens of this city and those of the metro- politan areas of Maryland and Vir- ginia. Mrs. the H. 8. Parsons, chairman of committee on education, recom- mended the development of the branch library system and a five- year building program for branch jibraries, and also the provision of free books and supplies for all public school pupils. The report was adopted. It also adopted a recom- mendation of this committee favoring an increase in the dental inspection work in the schools and an increase in the number of dental clinics. RESCUED AFTER FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT Man Believed to Have Tumbled Three Floors During Raid Near Fourteenth and I Streets. Thomas C. Thomas, aged 27, was rescued in an unconscious condition by the fire rescue squad last night after he is believed to have fallen three stories and through a skylight over a drug store at Fourteenth and 1 streets. The police had raided an apartment on the third floor at 826 Fourteenth street and arrested several persons. A crash was heard through a window in the rear and the broken skylight discovered. The firemen were sum- moned and rescuers, going down & rope dropped through the hole, found Thomas dazed. He recovered quickly and is not believed to have been seri- ously hurt. Benjamin Morris of Clarendon, Va. ked on a charge :?. arrested and of conducting a di rly house. 19 Gal- | the | of a counsel for the| that | 27—PART 1. {Tens of Billions of Dollars] Faded Into Oblivion at His Orders. Ends 45 Years’ Service to| Retire to Farm on Eastern Shore. Having survived the sight of the| destruction of more money than any | other person in the world—literally tens of billions—John G. McGrath, 71 vears of age, vesterday closed his desic for the last time at the Trea: ury Department and retired at the end of 45 years of service. | As chairman of the destruction committee of the Treasury Depar ment which supervised the destruc-| | tion by maceration and fire of the worn-out and imperfect money and | securities of the United States Gov-| |ernment. Mr. McGrath has taken| | part in the final rites over more paper | money than any other person. | Mr. McGrath also holds an _enviable as clvic worker. He was| n of the committee which | ars ago drew up the by-laws and | | constitution of the Federation of | Citizens’ Assoclations. He was the | founder and long-time president of | the Park View Citizns’ Assoclation, | and recently was re-elected to the| post, after having been out of it for | years. | ! Mouey Demand Grows. | For 25 years he had been connected with the destruction committee at the Treasury and had been chairman | since July 16, 1920. Although the actual figures on the value of the wholesale destruction of old money, canceled securities and obsolete in- ternal revenue stamps are carefully concealed by the Treasury Depart- ment, it is known that the amount of destruction has been greatly increas- ing within the past few years, as the prosperity and demand for money in the United States has been growing by leaps and bounds. Huge macerators and incinerators at the Treasury Department, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing were the instruments of destruction over which Mr. McGrath held his sway. Their hungry maws have been the scene of amazing sights running through the years, as the enormous | Mr. e livion, ashes and pulp. For Shee “Counters.” The consequent pulp of silk-fibered | McGrath and his committee sold to contractors for various uses in making low-grade paper. Some of it had come to low estate, indeed From the pockets and pocketbooks of happy spenders, -carefree spend- ers or meticulously careful spenders thousands of dollars have been con- signed by way of the. macerators to the stiff “counters” of shoes. | Many curfous novelties are. also made of this pulp. Nine of the macerators which chew up and make pulp of the old paper money are located in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, ome mace- rator is located in the Treasury Building for the destruction of n: tional bank currency only, and the two incinerators are located in a values in money and securities, which | sed upon, were consigned to ob- |3 paper used in paper money has been | O i O e WUCOINS Y JOHN G. Me building near the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing Mr. McGrath first became a mem- ber of the destruction committee when he was employed in the office of Treasurer of the United States from 1902 to 1919. During this time he represented the Treasurer on the committee. He was transferred to the Public Debt Service on October and in July of the next year made chairman of the destruc- tion committee, in which post he has since served. Began as Printer. The first connection of Mr. Mc Grath with the Government was in the Government Printing Office 2 printer, May 15, 1882, prior to enact- ment of the Civil Service act. Upon_ the occasion of his retire- ment, Mr. McGrath was given two letters of appreciation. Frank White, Treasurer of the United States wrote concerning his former record in the Treasurer's office: “Your service in this office was always of the high- est character.” W. S. Broughton, commissioner of the public dept, under whose jurisdic- tion comes the destruction committee, expressed his “hearty appreciation ef your faithful and loyal service.” “As chairman of the committee for the past seven years, said, Mr, Broughton, “you have per- duties of this jmportant 5 osition in a highly Moran New Chairman, Mr. McGrath wil be succeeded as rman of the committee by John ", Moran, now a member of the com- mittee. Mr. McGrath will be succeeded as day to retire to his farm in Maryland on the Eastern Shore, n2ar the town of James. With him goes his som, John A. MecGrath. A few chickens will be raised on the place, according to the retiring officer, but he doesn't intend to let work interfere with his convenience in doing just what he I[vlc-us(w during his retirement to the | peace and quiet of the farm. With a | motor boat available along the shore of his farm, and plenty of fishing to beckon him, Mr. MeGrath, who has long been a lover of the waters of the bay and its finny tribe, is geing to a happy retirement. BANDITS ROB TWO ON CAPITAL STREETS Money Is Taken at Gun fointl | by Colored Hold-up Men. Maynard Rothgeb, 516 Rhode Island avenue northeast, a driver for the Corby Bakery, lost $58 and a gold watch to an armed bandit at Twenty- seventh and N streets at dusk last night. Two hold-up men also robbed John C. Turner of 1148 Fourth street northeast, an employe of the Griffith Coal Corporation, of $88 last night at the viaduct at Second and M streets northeast. All of the bandits were colored. In the first hold-up the bandit asked Rothgeb for some buns. He reached back into the delivery automobile for them, and as he descended to the pave- ment the bandit put a pistol against him and demanded his money. The second hold-up was staged as Turner was walking through the via- duet on M street. As he reached the eastern end of the viaduct two bandits stopped him. One flashed a pistol at him, while the other ripped his inside coat pocket with a grasp and took ap- proximately $88.50, constituting Turn- er's wages, which he had received a short time previousl Detectives Kuehling and Wilson are investigating the cases. FLOWER DISTRIBUTION PLANS TO BE DISCUSSED Executive Board of Guild to Pre- pare Tomorrow for Sending Blooms to Hospitals. Final plans for the distribution of flowers by the Washington branch of the National Flower Guild in the Jocal hospitals, May 9, will be made at a meeting of the executive board of the local guild branch in the home of Mrs. George Barnett, president, 1622 Rhode Island avenue, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. 3 Present plans call for the distribu- tion of the flowers on the morning of May 9 from the new Young Women's Christian Association Building, Seven- teenth and K streets, which will be used as a headquarters on the occa- sion. Mrs. Barnett, the local presi- dent, and Mrs. George Thorpe, local vice president and chairman of the xecutive board, are to be in charge. The Washington branch of the guild functioned last year and was ently reorganized, it s stated. The distribution of flowers will mark the first of its major activities this year, it is sald. Mrs. George E. Hill of the National Flower Guild staff recently visited Washington for the purpose of re-establishing the work of the local organization. FOTERn WILL OBSERVE MAY DAY. Meeting to Be Held Tonight by ‘Workers’ Party. May day, which is observed In- ternationally as the workers’ labor day, will be celebrated in Washington this evening at a mass meeting to be held at Typographical Temple, 423 G street, under the auspices of the local branch of the Workers' Party, it was announced last night. J. Lovestone, acting secretary of the Workers' Party, will make the principal address of the meeting, in place of Willlam F. Dunn, editor of the Daily Worker, who was announe- ed as the guest speaker. The meeting will open at 8:15 o'clock. . Justice Guilty OKLAHOMA CI'E Contempt. , April 30 (P).— NEW AIR REGORD CAPTURED BY NAVY Barner, in Vought Corsair, Averages 136.023 Miles Per Hour With Load. By the Assnciaied Press. Flying the same Vought Corsair which recently broke records in its class for altitude and 100 kilometer speed, Lieut. James D. Barner yester- day established a new world's speed record for seaplanes, carrying a spe- cific load of 1,102 pounds over a 500- kilometer course at Hampton Roads, Va. Barner's average was 136.023 miles an hour. The preyious record was made by A. Pasaleva, in Italy last year, when he averaged 118.445 miles an hour, Official announcement of the new record was made by the Navy De- partment upon receipt of certificates submitted by the National Aeronautic Association. Barner's was the first attempt made by an American to cap- ture the 500-kilometer record, which is the fourth to be annexed by the Navy during the last month. Three of these were made by naval aviators flying the Vought Corsair plane. Lieut. Barner was born at Albion, Mich., and was enlisted in the Navy in 1907, being commissioned an en- sign in 1918. During the World War he served on the staff of Vice Ad- miral Coffman and became a qualified naval aviator in November, 1921. ADMIT BANK ROBBERY. KANSAS CITY, Kans., April 30 (®). ~—Clarence Howard, forme ssistant cashier of the Montgomery County National Bank at Cherryvale, Kans., and Lyman Ford, pleaded guilty in Federal court here today to charges in connection with the robbery of the bank. Howard was sentenced to four years and:six months, in the Federal penitentiary and Ford to two years and three months. C. R. Robertson, ?rgé;ldent of the bank, is awaiting rial. ‘The bank was robbed May 26, 1926, by three men, who obtained $66,000 in securities. Howard was in the bank at the time and later confessed the robbery was “framed.” He implicated Rokertson and Ford, Lee Flournoy and Charles Mayes, destruction | N AR R . TROOPS IN CHINA Rumors of Concentrations in Manchuria Held False by Moscow Agency. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, April 30.—Tass, the semi- official Russian Soviet news agency, denies today any concentration of £o | viet troops in Manchuria. All such re- ports, it adds, from Mukden are fabri- | cations. (A delayed Reuter's dispatch from Mukden yesterday said persistent re ports of unusual Russian activity on the Manchurian frontier were current in Mukden. The dispatch also declared | that a body of Mongolian cavalry, com | manded by Russian officers, was re | ported penetrating inner Mongolia.) | The third (Moscow) communist inter- national issued a manifesto today pro testing against the execution by | strangulation of Chinese communist in Peking. The manifesto calls on of the world to intensify paign in protest against th acts of violence perpetrated perialists and militarists on the wo ers of China.” WOULD RETAIN POWERS' UNITY. tollers cam- “new the their | Japan, Report Seeks Common | sround for U and Britain. SHANGHAT, April 30 (®).—A Jap anese emi-official dispatch from ¥ king says that “in view of the like lihood of the United States opening | negotiations with the Nationalist g¢ |ernment independently of the other {pm\-m—s concerning the Nanking out ges,” ( Britain appears to favor prompt presentation of a second note to the Nationalists without waiting {for America. | The dispatch adds that Japan js ex- erting herselt to find a common ground between Great Britain and the United States in order to retain the unity of the five powers. The original demands on the 2 | tionalists for satisfaction for the anti- foreign outrages at Nanking were presented in identic notes by the | United States, Great Britain, France, | Japan and Italy early this month. The | notes were addressed both to the Han- | kow faction of the Nationalists and |to Gen. Chang Kai-S9hek, who has since set up a separate Nationalist government at Nanking. REPORT3 SURPRISE CAPITAL. Dispgtches of Japanese origin in Peking intimating that the Wash- ington Government was considering opening negotiations with the Chinese Nationalist government caused sur- prise in official quarters today, since it has been said repeatedly that the Washington authorities do not know what particular group in China is the actual controlling factor in the Na- tionalist party. Pending a better understanding of what the results of the split in the Nationlist party between the radical and moderate wings is to be, indica- tions here are that there is littls likeli- hood that the Washington Govern- ment will reach a decision as to fur- ther action to enforce its demands for satlsfaction growing out of the Nan- king outrages. Document ¥s Identified. LONDON, April 30 ).—The Peking correspondent of the Daily Mail, who viewed the documents seized in the northern Chinese raid on the Soviet embassy compound there, says that among them is the original draft of an aide memoire from the British Min- ister to his negotiating officlals in Hankow. (This is apparently a refer- ence to Owen O'Malley, the British charge d'affaires, who went to Han- kow and arranged for the transfer of {ths British concession there to the Chinese.) The - British Minister, Sir Milos Lampson, confirmed that it was the original, the correspondent adds. An American legation official attended the whole investigation of the seized docn- ments, as the representative of the foreign powers. TAFT DONATES $10,000 TO YALE ENDOWMENT | Gift Announced By Fund Commit- tee Accepted as an Example to University Alumni. Chief Justice Taft has followed his own advice to Yale Alumni that they contribute to the $20,000,000 Yale en- dowment fund being raised to provide better pay for members of the faculty. A contribution of $10,000 from the Chief Justice was announced yester- day by the fund committee here. Re. cently, at a “‘round-the-world dinne: Mr. Taft appealed to Yale men every- where to give generously to the fund. In his letter to George Parmly Day, treasurer of the Yale endowment fund, Chief Justice Taft said: “I should like to make a contribu- tion to the Yale endowment fund in this way; I have made a bequest to Yale in my will of $10,000. "I now want to carry out what I recommend- ed in my remarks over the radio to the alumni the other night. 1 should like to contribute $2,000 a year for five years. Should 1 die pending the payment of these Installments, I should wish those which have been paid to be credited on account of the legacy.” Chief Justice Taft is a graduate of Yale, class of 1878. 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