Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Thundershowers early tonight; coo »w probably fa nperatures— lowest, 56, Full report on Bureau Forecast.) this afternoon or oler tonight; tomor- and cooler Highe: at 1:50 a.m page 9. , at noon today. s and Bonds, Page 14 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Closing N. Y. Stock tered Wa nd class matter shington, D. C, The only ev ening paper in Washington with the Associated Pre: service. news Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,426 WASHINGTON, B, € THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 —FIF TY PAGES. * (#) Means Associ ated Press. WO CENT -+ IS HURT, SMISSING, MANYHOMELESSIN MIDWEST STORMS $4,000.000 Property Dam-| aged. Communication Crip- | pled by Wind and Rain. INDIANAPOLIS AND PEORIA; FILLED WITH WRECKAGE | Buildings Unroofed, Basements| Flooded, Windows Smashed, Sev- eral Believed Dead. PEO £ons 1 ¥ floods an’ ra late Yester Thry less, a millio ™ was » outs and other were cripp the telephone s out of use Walter Mueller Peoria, 2 mi Lester "Toledo, A tracks when cauy of Le Marsh ¢ wothers d ed i a wall of water 13 feet high which swept them into the torrent. Jones escaped and said d not see Mueller again. archers otday were dragging Le h Creek and the Ilinois River, into which it empties, ‘our other persons were believed to have lost their lives in the lowlands near here, and scores fled from their homes in East Peoria as the streams overfiowed. The rainfall here was 52 inches. River Rises Again. The river, which was receding be- More the storm and stood at 18.4 feet, ‘had risen a foot and today stood at 19.5 feet No bodies have yef been recovered uthorities are checking the list sing. East Peoria bore the brunt of tHe storm. Four of the believed dead and imost of the missing p rsons resided in that section. Two schoolhouses were badly damaged. In Peoria water ran through down- town streets five feet deep. Many persons waded to their homes through Avater almost hip deep. Thousands of basements were flooded. Hail as larze as hens’ eggs fell @uring the afternoon, causing damage to greenhouses and windo Rail- road transportation practically at & standstill today. Bus lines in many directions were tied up. Con- crete bridges were washed out on many hard roads. At Pekin more than $50,000 dam- ege was done when a wind of cy- clonic proportions swept through the city. are home at al nated An s rvices still r part of said to be | mayor of ent, and the & y the flood w Jones 45 HURT IN INDIANAPOLIS. Damage Set at $2,500,000—Over 200 Homes Wrecked. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 19 (@) ~—At least 45 persons injured, property damage estimated by police at § 500,000, betwes 200 and 300 homes destroyed, several buildings wrecked, a dozen larger buildings unroofed, and badly erippled telephone and telegraph communication was the toll of a heavy wind and rain storm which Indianapolis and vicinity Il Six of the injured are in a critical condition. The storm was general over the central part of the State, sweeping Terre Haute to Richmond. The wind, which at time: velocity of 80 mil an hour, ace to the Weather Bureiu, smashed d play windows and interrupted electric transportation. Several buildings, including niture store, collapsed. Reports loss of life were unverified Rain Swells Streams. A heavy rain storm, the deluge o flooding streets and basements and | stalling numerous automobiles. The | storm indirectly resulted in the death | of thre trainmen Big Four Railroad, when a train ran | into a creck near Lafontaine after the bridge over the stream had been washed away by flood wate The engine and six fre up in creck Indianapolis 1 and R of accon the | piled Wol , were verton ed boys, r Frey, rey stepped into a r. They were buried d were extricated was jacked up. was leveled, 1 t severe American As ark the tent ny zed and om- grandst n nd « Vs | and 6 gallons of a st | Argentina Plan Law to Give Trade To Buyer Nations| is preparing ongress conver it behind the . siety's motto ym those who buy from Although the President did mention the United States, it is the United States alone against which the Rural Society and the newspa- pers are directing their campaign, to pr il to ! l R ’ BERTAUD IS OUSTED FROM PARIS FLIGHT Announcement Follows His | Statement That Fight Had | Been Settled. | | ciated Press. NEW YORK, May 19.—Lloyd Bertaud definitely will not make thé Paris flight in the Bellanca monoplane with Clarence Chamberlin, and his successor is already selected, Charles A. Levine, head of the company back- ing the flight, told the Associated Press this afternoon. Levine's announcement followed | tardily an almost night long confe: ence at the end of which Bertaud had said that all difficulties had been ironed out and that he would go on the flight as navigator as originally planned. Levine made no statement time, but when reports gained cf tion that the situation was not quite as Bertaud believed it to be, he was asked to state definitely what the results of the conference were. Successor’s Name Withheld. “Bertaud is not going.” he replied. “That is definite. His successor has been selected, but his identity will not be revealed until the plane is ready to hop off.” Levine said that Frank Tichenor, publisher of an airplane magazine, went to his house early today, taking with him Bertaud and G. M. Bellanca, designer of the plane. He identified Bertaud in his statement as “formerly navigator of the plane Columbia “Tichenor came as peacemaker and Bellanca was neutral,” he said. “Ber- taud repudiated statements attributed to him in the press and attempted to conciliate me, but I told him he was definitely out. “He offered to withdraw the injunc- tion suit he started against me if I would let him go, but I rejected his offer.” Won't Explain Silence. Asked why he had let Bertaud's statement that all difficulties had been disposed of stand for eight hours be- fore denying it, Levine said through a representative that he was not inter- ested in any conclusions the public might draw from such action on his part. He said that he was not seeking publicity and only made a statement at this time because he had been asked for it Adverse weather reports further de- layed the Bellanca flight. Stormy areas between here and the New- foundland _coast also held to earth Comdr. Richard Byrd's giant Fokker monoplane America, and Capt. Charles Lindbergh’s Ryan monoplane Spirit_of St. Louis. Marked activity about the Byrd hangar today, however, indicated com- pletion of final preparations for the flight of the America. Mechanics hustled ahout the huge craft, making it ready for what might be its last test flight preparatory to a start to-! mc. row. The Midatlantic, said weather re- ports, was clear but favorable skies the entire extent of the route probably would not appear before tomorrow. Lindbergh was ready to depart. Foodstuffs and safety devices have heen put in Byrd’s plane. The food includes enough pemmican to last Byrd, his pilot, Lieut. George O. No- ville, and Bert Acosta, their compan- fon, six weeks; maited milk, hardtac stilled wa . The safety devices include two pneu- boats, one of which fishing tackle; a box kite, to be ther as radio antennae or by a pistol for signaling declared the preparations would make an ocean landing as safe floating on the lake in Central Park, “compared with percautions taken by | fivers in the past.” Col. Theodore Roosevelt has given | Lindbergh a letter to deliver to Am- | bassador Herrick in Paris. ENDS VISIT. sail; | — | | DOUMERGUE ture store col| Entrains for Dover After Cordial| ., Royal Farewells. LONDON, May 19 (®).—President| Doumergue of France today concluded | his visit of state to England, where been the busy recipient of nu- | | ia- | merous honors during the last three| the days | Accompanied by Foreign Minist Briand, he entrained for Dover Hfll‘l': cordi farewells from King George, the nce of Wales, Prince | Henry, the railway station. science. “SURGEONS OF SOUL o ?Doctors Foresee Day When Broken Hearts and llis of Mind Will Be Cured. WOULD SAVE PSYCHIATRY e FROM FAKE ““HEALERS” Strange Cases Reported at Larg-, est Attended Session of Entire A. M. A Meeting. T will cu of present-day from the pl confessio the malignant t surgec n and sympat surgeon hysical hody, of ow of mind and memory with the s hy removes is ths out the them close at was the keynote of the sym- um on tors in diagr nosis and tr chic and emotional fac atment of dis ease held by the practice of medicine section of t he Amercian Medi As- sociation at the Mayflower this morn ing. scientific me vention, illustrating the intense int “titioner est of the g comparative! of t sience and body. But the day was predicted wher the surgeon will op instead | many instances, erate for a kills, efticientl malady. his was the largest eeting of the eneral prs ly new and he interrelatio blasted ambit ent my n ion attended ire con- % the ric mind in and the physician a broken he: iency. was brough s any it i art t other instead The broken out, jus Past of Race Involved. The whol and of the volved in t as (Continued HURTS THREE MEN Collision Occurs With Small| e past of the human his new the_spe: on P of race field ers d in itselt of ] wdividual is_in- medical bed i Tumn 6.) ANBULANCE CRASH Touring Car—Hospital Care Needed. Three men were injured today when in Emergency Hospital ambulance col- lided with a small touring car intersection Sleventh str The victim. man of the at the of Florida avenue and reet. s were Dr. Emergenc, Wilbur Dettweiler, of Thompson’s Da who avenue, was d car belonging to the dairy bert Green of 139 P street, colored |j chauffeur ol All three bruises. through the Detwelle: f the ambulan received windshi Milla Hospital staff, a wce. lacerations who was hurled | 1d of his car by | 1 F. Ott- of 4326 Geor riving a touring nd Her- and the impact, was the most seriously in- jured of the trio. He landed head-fi against the curb in front of the Wz ington Railway and Blect barn, receiving severe scalp and face and bruis cu its. Co. on car- the s to the body. He was treated at Garfield Hospital, which overlooks the scene of the acl cident. La taken to nd on nergency Hc Sidewalk. Pr. Ottmian and his chauffeur were | Dit al in a passing automobile and treated by Dr. Klent Stall ard for cuts on t he head and arms and for bruises about the body By th mac walk near the c the bi entire radia against a of both c occupants jagged gla sion, “subjected landed ol r barn aft hine iz ator and hood n t e ambulance having he side- the colli its telescoped rge tree. The windshield were shattered and the to showers The ambulance was en route to Pet- emergency worth in call when was proceed nue and wi cording to 8 police pre stigation. i ned of its speed | indicated by the effects of the crash. the esponse to an accident ding east as sounding Policeman (" ecinct, who t No estimate ca beyond what was Unable to Stop. Dettweiler car south unabl collision. Dr. Ottma the hospital tral High S Universit on de from Clifton strees to ste time to avoid was driving eventh in an s a student oceurred. on Florida ave- its Ford of e ) the in ven, an 1d be ob- touring | street, down He was | the terne at He is a graduate of Cen- chool and is finishing his | | the Duke of Connaught and others at | medical course at George Washington | Others Unaccounted for After "-"“'*";New Cl—lemical Test for Drunkenness Dam Collapses. IDAHO FALLS, Idahc stored t Gros Vent st of vealed 1c 1 waters continued to ted when 11 al feet in valanche of the Gros rduy t ted b it Shows All Degrees of Intoxicationj new chemical | Irunkenness, which | physician to tell just how ba |ebriated a man is, was described be- | [fore the pathology and physiology | section of the American Medical ssociation today by Dr, )f the University of Cincinnati. new test is expected to prove useful |in distinguishing between persons in jured and showing all the symptoms of intoxication and those * the influence of alcohol, pparatus is simple and could od effectively by a nurse, he ucoholic suspect is persuaded to blow up an ordinary footbail. | of his breath thus obtained is passed {through a solution of a chemical | called potassium dichromate, which | changes color from vellow to green depending upon how much alcohol the breath contains. Dr. Bogen has devised a oholic intoxication based nount of alcohol found in the body this test. When the quan than one-tenth of one per the person is “dry and d nt." to two tenths per cent is ckb Al as “delighted and three tenths, “delinquet and three to four tenths 1 delirious”; guore than half quantitz enables the dly in- | scale of 1 on | cent One | terized to 1sti diz. The sample | devilish™; | ive test |of one per cent, ‘dead drunk ' M than half of one per cent is likely to use deatl In stand: test o posed pl the Univer measured a lowed the them. The amount of measure ac ually ab jec Dr, half pin only mi More it tha |have heen his test da {trafic case trials where the severity | medicine. hether o1 ardizing the hysicians and sity of mounts of tests to be test docs alcohol scuratels ved n the sgen said, of pure intoxicated o 000 drunk not the hody e | picked up by the Cincin tested ta hi Dr been imbibe amount rew int Cincinnati liquor performed on | re a ol en A Be us of the sentence depended on the subject cated, A man drunk he Fonts | come maore | tion the m | their ts reve; t |1 { when tenths, showed per cent was driving while sn't always by his 1, sinee some conversation dr alcohol sroup of scientific martyrs com- | at erne: | and al the dues act sub. veal but One ulped down and e persons ti en, d in and 50 intoxl how the he oW unks rvational in their conversa e they drink less bhut than could 1 Some got tongues badly twisted when the one-tenth soberly the tests san as bigh as four | podeo Ipels | heart | It| in- | police of FA Because of Short Slew Wife, De May who TH. Mich children a2 e d With y romy nd 6 adults Iy vesterd | through its stree | stint little village of | some was just bezinning | to comprehend the full horror of the acal dynamiting vesterday of its consolidated school. ¥Forty-four oth were seriously injured; no one knows the number of minor injuries. Included in the dead is Kehoe, revenge - maddened farmer, | treasuver of the township scheol | board, who mined the school with | dvnamite and gun powder and blew | himself into eternity after watching | the blast tear the north wing of the hool o pieces and hurl the bodies | f its little pupiis through windows | fand walls | Only a vrevented | village, Investigation showed that Kehoe 1geqed because of a school tax ]'\i-vr][ inst him and nursing his opposi- tion to the erection of the building| three years ago, had carefully mined | the basement, installing an elahorate system of electrical wiring connected in death, th 10 persons Andrew | whim of fate destruction cident ‘entire or the |The firs | clocks in the wr "witeN MANIACS PLoT Kitts 45 SUSPENSON STIRS PREDIGTED INNEW .k v o Exploives Fted o Go 0 BITTER DISPUTE ON - EPOCH OF MEDICINE Circuit—Farmer stroyed Home. 1 time clock. His plans seen called for destructio? of the en tive stiucture, with its mére than | pupils_and instructors. One of wires he so carefully installe bhecame | short circuited and the electric | rent failed to complete its course. It | was this failure that prevented the | Killing of more than 150 more pupi lin_another part of the building Tn all there were three explosions ocenrred early Kehoe's home the village, and wagonsheds. All wired to the same in; | mornin: mile west the house ipparently w iming device The second at about a of arn t blast was that ool building. It came at 9:4, only a few minutes after class assembled. The time has been definitely because all of stopped at st came in front of the in the heen fixed ed wir that minute. The third b Kehoe's automobile, in 'h,’ml bout 30 minutes later. Kehoe was sitting in the Emery Huyek, superintendent schools, was talking with him, foot on the running board. Smith, village postmaster, el (Continued on F . Column car. of one RESIDENTS FLEE AS FLOOD SPREADS Thousands in Louisiana Val ley Forced Out—27 Towns Affected. the Associated Press NEW ORLEA dents of the vast Basin were sions toda mes warnings authorities ¢ reliet director. 100 to miles Orleans. Mr. Parker had phone operators at habitants to get out the spreading wa His instruc- tions were obeved by residents of towns, none of which had a popula- tion of more than 500. The section is on the route to the Guif of Mexico expected to be followed by | from 3ayou des Glaises | breaks and torrents pouring through crevasses in the Atchafalaya River at Melville, from which 1,000 men, omen_and children have departed. These floods converged 40 miles below Bayou des Glaises. A lake 250 miles long and from 15 to 100 miles wide was created. 000 in Area. inundation portion of St. I sending several feet « Beggs, Garland, Dubuis ville and into the country surround- ng Bunkie, was reported. More than 000 persons were estimated to be in the inundated territory. Rescue workers were busy notifying them to rush to the Southern Pacific Railroad line where cars have been placed to take them out of the territory The facilities of the refugee camp at Opelousas became overtaxed yes- terday and a new camp was estab- lished at Eunice, 18 miles away. Fou thousand refugees have been regis. tered at Opelousas. Some of them had been without food and water for 24 hours prior to their arrival at the Red Cross station. The highway between Beggs and Bunkie has been closed to traffic. It is covered with four feet of water in some plac Conditions were re- ported to he growing steadily worse in the section around Bunkie. Rescue workers said that the stubbornness of the inhabitants in sticking fo their homes was causing much trouble, The Port Barre and Arnaudville sections were expected to be flooded within a few hours. Many Call for By Resi afalaya posses- fleeing from their of ominous flood hy Federal weather nd John M. Parker, State Their homes are from | northwest of New v ) of tele-| work urging in- of the path of | May 19, Ate their W st | H of an addi- | ndry Pavish, water into on, White- A sudden tional Help. | | | kept busy last night and | answering a steady stream of help which came from inun tions. A h-.ndred moved from precarious positions in | box cars and on housetops at Pal- | metto. An urgent call from Garland, | where several score families were men | aced, was answered A 'naval aviator, | Melville section, reported that 200 ons were living on levees there. | He also reported that 12 others were marooned on a | Lake. A relief boat immediately and those were saved. | Two danger spo‘- in the Lower | Valley caused trouble Jast night, but | were reported holding well today. At Belle Helene, 70 miles above New ( | leans on the east bank of the Missis- | sibpi, 150 feet of a dike started slough- |ing. It later was reporte damage had been repaired danger point was at Mct north of Melville on the e the Atchafalaya There learned that the swiftness rent had caused the slough until there drop of 50 feet from | levee to the river. Melville, while it lowered the height of the water, was said to have so in creased The swiftness of the current to today alls for ed persons wer | re- flying over the 'he other a, 12 miles it was embankment to was a straight the top of the The crevasse at en it PRESIDENT IS DOCTOR. Title Is Famous Surgeons. te Medical Conferred by President low of the ate Medical America today | entit to use Coolidge w Inter ional Post-Gi iu- Association of North fie is, consequent the title of doctor of s made a fel | Dr les {of R er, | B. Peck of Ireeport, 1l president wnd dicetor, vespectively, of the clinic, | presented the diploma to Mr. Coolidge at_the White House Upon leaving, Dr. M that the President was and undoubtedly was health, « Mayo, Minn amous surgeon 1ind Dr yo remarked in excellent rams—Page 34 ¥ & | of | the Rescueé workers at Opelousas were | housetop at Swayse | was dispatched | t bank of | of the cur- 1dd to the danger rather than : | Boynton, Chicago; William | MELLONTO NAME Appointment Expected Within 24 Hours—Anti-Saloon League Meets. Sccretary Mellon hopes to settle the long pending fight over prohibition commissioner within the next 24 hours, it was indicated today at the Treasury. With sioner Acting Prohibition Commi. Roy A. Haynes having been eliminated by the administration s eral days ago, it was understood one the most likely candidates today was Dr. James M. Doran, head of the nical division of the Prohibition ureau Secretary Mellon, however, was non- committal,” denying that any decision had been reached in the matter of commissioner. Anti-S Meantime the most ardent cl athered in secret s of battle emanating from the sta hamber sessions of the executive committee. No official word was forth- coming, but there were unofficial r ports that Wayne B. Wheeler, the league’s general counsel, went info the session angry over the rejection of Haynes, and ready to open war on the administration unless something changed his mind. Many other dry ations vigorously opposed Haynes and his methods, which have proved unsatisfactory to Secretary Mellon and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrew. Many candidates have bobbed up from time to time in the long-drawn. out fight over the commissionership the new Prohibition Bureau. Haynes was given the acting commi sionership just prior to Mellon's sail- ing for Europe Easter, as a stop-tap in the fight. Senato nd Wil is of Ohio valiantly battied for Haynes, both at the Treasury and at the White House. aloon League Meets. Anti-Saloon League, wion of Haynes, sion with rumors Doran Has Held Dry Posts. Dr. Doran, now being groomed for post, it is understood, unless something serious happens the last minute to upset the whole Mellon plan, would bring to the ~emmission- ership a record hard for the Anti Saloon League to oppose. lie is the son of a Methodist minister, has been in the Internal Revenue Bureau 1911, has been in responsible the old prohibition unit, and Prohibition Bureau ever since national prohibition was enacted, and is inti- mately acquainted with the whole past history and administration of the | movement el liked He is w worked with him Reports of serious considerations were current today, however, which | might upset the tentative selection -of | Dr. Doran. Whether this had to do | with the Anti-Saloon League rumors { of war on the administration was not | divulged. Secretary Mellon said he | had no appointment to meet with any of the leaders of the league. by all who have Plan Fight on Candidates. Plans to prevent the nomination of a wet candidate for President also were under discussion today by the executive committee of the Anti- Saloon League. The committee, consisting members, met in’ secret on_ with Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler has a_pro- gram to throw the consolidated trength of the dry forces against any wet candidate, regardles tics. While the committee will oppose any one it cousiders wet, it does not plan to indorse any particular dry candidate. An attack is expected to be made on Nicholas Murray Butler, Gov. Smith of New York, Senator Reed, Missouri and Gov. Ritchie of ryland. i of Attending Meeting. in attendance at the meet- Dr. A. J. Barton of Nash- rnest H. Cherrington, Wi Ohio, secretary; Bi. | Thomas _ Nicholson, Detroit | Homer W. 'Tore, Philadelph drew Thow Huntington, W | Rev. W ve, Boston, M hw. g . Baltimore, Md.; I A. White, Columbus, Olio; Dr, E. | Shumaker, Indianapolis, Ind 3 | Coleman, Chicz Dr. E. A. Ma- | ne: Houston, D R H. T. Laugh- Dr.Arthur o Dr. F. Scott rd H. Russell, Dr. and Wayne B bterville, | i Bri Me um, i8 { Wheeler. holson . Soviet Note Received. LONDON, May 19 (#).—Soviet Rus- ‘s note of protest against the Brit- h raid on Soviet House, in London, was received at the foreign office and Iaid before the cabinet in Downing vest loday. the | s cur- vesterday | destroying | the | DRY CHIEF AT ONCE - of - | contribute to the cost of the work. of his poli- | -~ STREET PROJECTS 'Gity Heads Withhold Decision| ! Because of Sentiment on Widening. 3 |0LD RESIDENTS OPPOSE DESTRUCTION OF TREES | Commercial Interests, However, See Increase in Business on 13th Street and Connecticut Ave. | | | | | | of the 1927 | street-widening program has provoked both commendation and criticism and divided public opinion markedly | that the District Commissioners today | were reluctant to indicate whether they proposed {o proceed with the widening projects or wait for further instructions from Congress. Communications which have come | to the Commissioners and a canvass of property owners and tenants on two of the major thoroughfares designated for widening — Connecticut avenue from Dupont Circle to Florida avenue and Thirteenth street from I street to | Massachusetts avenue—indicate most clearly that commercial interests warnt the work to proceed without further delay, but that a majority of those who make their homes on these streets are bitter in their opposition to the widening, which means a sacrifice of the shade trees and in some cases por- tions of their lawns. Temporary suspension 50 | Arguments on Both Sides. Sentinmentality, which is the dominating factor In the opposition registered by the home owners, does fiot play such an important part in the demands of the business inter- lests for continuation of the street- | widening program. Wider streets | will bring more traffie, more people and, consequently, more business this is the epitome of the argument | the commercial interests. Aside from the destruction of the trees which have shaded their houses from the burning rays of the Summer sun, the retaliation of the home owners is that the added traffic will bring more noise, more accidents, perhaps, and at the same time destroy thi last vestige of residential atmosphere about their property. The opinion of the property owners and tenants on Connecticut avenue and ‘Thirteenth street was sought chiefly because they are the ones most vitally affected by the contem- plated changes in street widths— they are faced not only with the loss of the shade trees, but must One Project Favored. On Connecticut avenue, where busi- ness properties are in the majority, the sentiment, the poll showed, is strongly in favor of the continuation of the widening, which was halted ab- ruptly Monday after workmen had felled about one-half of the trees and left the remainder to form a haphaz- ard and unesthetic appearance. Suc- ein the ‘“vote” on Connecticut | avenue was at a ratio of about three to one in favor of the widening. On Thirteenth street, however, where residence properties predominate, and by the tree choppers, the sentiment is just the reverse. Here the “vote” was two to one in opposition to the widen- ing. These people do not want the street widening simply because it s the dstruction of the shade a cutting away of their lawns and the removal of other evidence of nature, together with the destru: tion of the front steps of their homes A concrete sidewalk in close proximity to the fronts of their houses will sup- plant them. Moreover, these residents, yme instances, will lose their coal . which are located under the side- Tumulty Opposes Widening. | The canvass of Connecticut avenue along the stretch selected for widen- ing showed that, with the exception of Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the late President Wilson, who owns two pieces of business property, the own- | ers of business propert avor the widening of the streets regardl of | the destruction of the trees. Tenants of these business properties, cluding one, also want the street widened. There wer several business firms, however, forced by policy to be non- committal, but the private expres- sions of the managements were in favor of the widening. Only five of the occupants of the residenc along the thoroughfare | voiced th opposition to the widen- ing. principally because it will result in the loss of the shade trees. There were several who did not object so strenuously to the cutting of the trees as they did to the fact that the videning of the street will bring more automobiles to park in front of theiv homes. Opposed by Hotel Occupants, Of the property owners and tenants interviewed on Thirteenth street, 1% | objected to the widening, while 6| voted in favor of it. In one piece of | property carrying three numbe the block and which is in the ¢: of a residence hotel, there are pants who by their long residence there felt qualified to speak as perma- nent residents. They are bitterly op- posed to the change and have notified the "owner that they will seek other quarters if the st t is widened. Should these persons be counted in the poll, then the sentiment against the (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) which has not yet been approached | His Parole Recommended | | l WARREN T. McCRAY, Former Governor of Indiana. PAROLE OF MCRAY 1S REGOM MENDED | Federal Board Urges Release of Former Governor of Indial d Press, Mec resign 2 who °n governor begin serving a penitentiar ha A been recommende ust. the month i »mes eligible for cle The recommendatio: the Federal Parole I mitted to Attorney who promised tion. Inasmuch as it na. the Indiana his office to sentence, ed for parole in n which he be- mency. n was made by 3oard and sub- Ay, ed General Sargent, immediate considera- is seldom that such a recommendation is overruled, MeCray is expected t o gain his free- dom during the Summer. Convieted The former govern nationally was convicted in 192 with the use of the m loans on cattle paper. guilty on each Feéderal indictment an to the Atlanta penitentiai The sentences were to vears on each. have been cumulative until 10 which they were were reached, afte to have hecome concurrent. known live in 1924, or, who was a stock dealer, in connection s in obtaining He was found of 18 counts of a d was sentenced for five ears In addi- tion a $10,000 fine was imposed. A determined effort by McCr tain 1 release. y's former a: has been made clates to ob- Representations were made to the Department of Jus- tice that he was in il investigation failed t why he should be par I health, but an o show reasons oled for illness. Numerous Appeals Made. Tn addition, numerof heen made to Preside eneral S be extended. with many p have been sent to Wi behalf. Attorneys for trial, based their defe intent to defraud. N signing the names of but contended that indorser established h and, that he believe financially to meet tion Since entering the A tiary he has heen edit MeC time worked on the Ambulance his sign; Surgeon us appeals have nt Coolidge and ent, asking that Petitions from rominent names wshington in his ray, during his snse on lack of IcCray admitted others to notes, ature as is responsibility, »d himself able all of his obliga- Atlanta Peniten or of the prison honor farm, | POLICE AND FIRE SQUADS GO TO AID POIS ONED FOUR Works for Two Hours to Save Members of Zeoli Family. Two hospital ambulances, the rescue squad and a patrol wagon of police reserves rushed the Zeoli family when members were stricke polsoning in their apa street early this morn Samuel Zeoli, inte father of Virgin aged 5, was the mo: fected, but is expect h Sara Zeoli, th awakened in the night She tried to arouse ofl the family, but found likewise. ~ Mrs. Zeoli from bed and staggere: ment of a neighbor, aid from Emergency ward Krause, the ami worked for two hou family. Meanwhile the police fied that the family ha % and, sending Hospital, squad and apartment hou: Canned soup is beli tending doctors to ha family. The voungest T & to the relief of | four of its five n with ptomaine rtment at 432 M ing. ior decorator, , aged 6, and Gloria, st seriously af- ted to ¢ mother by severe pains. har members of them suffering dra d into the apart- who summoned | fospital. Dr. Ed- hulance surgeon, rs to sav the e had been noti- d been overcome a hurry call tol ushed the fire eserves to the eved by the at- ve poisoned the child, an infant, did not partake of the soup and was not affected. By the Associsted Press. Prediction that a tax surplus of $500,000,000 will be in the Treasury by the time Congress meets in December was made today by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the Senate finance committee. In a letter to a North Carolina con- stituent, Senator Simmons charged the administration with collecting hun- dreds of pus of dollars out of the people lasg year and using it for pay- ing Libert§ Bonds, when the holders of the bofids were not asking pay- ment, “There when Cong another el o ould be In the Treasury ess meets next December 'my.? surplus amounting to at least said. “I presume tha tration leaders will a eturned to the peopl $500,000,000,” »| Half Billion Tax Surplus by December Is Predicted by Senator Simmons his letter. t the adminis- llow this to be le in order that the administration may have cam- paign capital in the pr tion campaign of 1 ‘The constituent sidential elec- had written' " the Senator asking his advice about re- sponding to a reques tions League. from American t for contribu- Taxpayers' “Of course, I do not know what the league ‘desires for,” the Senator sais it is for the purpos Washington or otherw’ influence legislation it proper.” to raise money n reply. “If f lobbying in e using it to bighly im- fire | NEW GROUPPLANS 10 ASSIST POLICE NLQUOR FEAT Citizens” Service Association for Law and Order Is Organized. MOVEMENT GROWS OUT OF CRITICIZED SCHEME Dr. Ellison Denies Intention to At tack “&ersonal Liberties of Citizens.” The Citizens' Service Assoclation for Law and Order, an organization de voted primarily to assisting the Police Department in enforcing the provi- sions of the 1Sth amendment here, came into heing today as an out- srowth of the Church Service Asso- ciation, which originally undertook this work, but failed of complete or- ganization. Heading the new association is Rev. Dr. William 8. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church; Rev. Dr. George M. Diffenderfer, pastor of Luther Place Memorial Church, is vice president; Dr. Everett Ellison, physician and president of the Wash- ington Round Table, is secretary, and Dr. Arthur C. Christie, an X-ray spe- cialist, is treasurer. On the board of directors, which in- cludes the foregoing officers, is Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church. aj. Hesse Approves. Final plans for launching the or- zanization were made at a luncheon in the University Club yesterday aft- ernoon, at which Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, was present and gave his hearty indorsement to the new organization. Other members of the board of di- rectors, which to date is not complet are Rev. Mark Depp, pastor of Cal vary Methodist Episcopal Churel Rev. Willlam A. Lambeth, pastor of Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church South; Rev. Freeley Rohrer, president of the Pastors’ Federation of the District; Rev. Fred B. Harris, president of the TFederation of Churches of the District; Rev. Homer J. Councilor, president of the Organ. ized Bible Class Association of the District, and these laymen: M. Bryan, president of the Bryan Printing Co.;: John H. Connaughton, attorney; Willlam Knowles Cooper, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A Dr. A. W. Cummings, dentist; Page McK. Etchison, director of religious work of the Y. M. C, A.; Bart B. Pig- man, superintendent, Wallace Memo- rial Sunday school; Noah R. Robinson, real estate operator, and Horace L. Stevenson, trustee of the Bethany Baptist Church, of which his father is pastor. Douthitt to Serve. Harry N. Douthitt, former prohibi- tion agent, and regarded as the prime mover in the organization of the Church Service Association, is listed as “acting as a field secretar: Both he and Mr. Stevenson, who was listed as president of the other organiza- tion, voluntarily resigned their offices and were elected to the board of di- rectors of the new group. Dr. Ellison, as official spoksman for the organization, today declared that all policies and methods of procedure in assisting Maj. Hesse have been and will continue to be determined by the board of directors. The association, he said, will conduct its work “in an orderly way,” and. he emphasized, “there will be no spy system or any- thing that can bring about that ac- | cusation.” Will Receive Reports. The organization is expected to re- ceive reports of violations from any | bublication, Good Words, and for a|or all citizens as they find them, to ! investigafe and determine their ex- tent, and, if the matter warrants, re- | port the e.tire information to the po- | lice, who, n turn, will get evidence, conduct raids and appear as prose- cuting witnesses, Dr. Ellison said. No member of the association would be placed in the position of having to ob- tain evidence and perform other duties assigned to the police, he added. to the “violators Dr. Ellison ared the association is after the professional, flagrant, wilfull violators of the law “There is no intention to interfere with personal liberties of citizens,” | he said. Speakeasies, bootleggers and places whera liquor is being manufactured will be the targets of the association, as well as any other “public nuisance” brought about by liquor. y¥ing” Not Intended. Informally, Dr. Ellison explained that the association would not tolerate reporting an individual, if it was learned he had a bottle of lquor in his home for beverage purposes. That, he said, would come under the “spy system,” which the Church Serv- ice Association was accused of have ing adopted. But, should the resident in a community, by excessive drink- ing, become a nuisance to his neigh- bors, a menace to women and chil- dren and an eyesore to the area, then whoever thought it proper to report the misconduct could be assured of & thorough investigation before the police were called in to finish up the job. Douthitt, around whom a storm brewed for a while because of his public utterances to what the Church Service Association proposed doing, would he the expert, it was ex- plained, in the investigation work be- cause of his experience along those lines. A central headquarters soon is to be established and indications today were that it would be located in the front office of 17200 M street, which building now is occapied by Dr. Ele lison and several other physicians. ng Pledge Required. Membership in the association neces: sitates the signing of a pledge to re- port all violations of tka -haracter outlined by Dr. Ellison. The dues are $1a year, from which the expenses of the organization will be paié Nao membership goal has been set, fut Dr. Abernethy, at the meeting yesterda; sai? there were any thousands of Christians in Washington who are willing to help in this work.” The organization, as it now exists, is not sponsored by any other group, Dr. Ellison explained, but is able to stand on its own foundation without assistance from any one. Mr. Coun- cillor, who has had a large share of the work to do in bringing about the selection of the board of directors, was —wununusd on Page 2, Column. 4.