Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 2

“PAOLOGK DRVE " PENED BY POLCE “Beer rand Liquor Seized, | Three Arrested in Carefully Planned Raids. A vigorous “padlock” campalgn for which the Police Department has been secretly laving its lines for the past month was brought into the open last night when it was announced that evidence collected by a “fiying squadron” in two raids yesterday and | three Friday, would be brought to the attention of the United States di _trict attorney's office tomorrow for ®.ction, with the view of applying for padlock injunctions. At the same time, it was made known that addi- tional forays are planned in an effort to suppress establishments hich the police describe as permanent | sources of supply for the retail trade The two principal raids made ves- | terday by the squadron under com- | mand of Sergt. George Little were part of a series of 10 over the city, | and took place at the erstwhile famous Mades Hotel, 300 Pennsyl- vania avenue, oncé the rendesvous of | notables high in official life, and at the Black and White lunchroom, 1240 Twenty-second street. At the former the raiders reported they were drenched with “bee a eg pped. They ported the seizure of 4lg-gallon jars of alleged liquor and 50 half-pint bot- | tles. Cleatus Franklin Michael, 20 years old, was arrested on three charges of selling liquor and one charge of illegal possession. Arrested on Four Charges. In the Black and White raid Ray- mond Carl Leimbach, 34 years old, was arrested on three charges of sale of liquor and a charge of illegal pos- ‘session. Those arrested in the first raid Fri- day were Council Mose Meismer, 18 years old, and Robert Walter Lacey, 32 years old, both of 35 M street. Marked money was seized on the raid there, according to Little, and evi- dence is alleged to be -in the hands of the police that sales were made there on July 21, 23 and and Au- gust 5. Another man is being sought in connectlon with thi. place. No Ziquor was seized. The other two raids Friday were on the Red Wing, 2200 Georgia ave- nue, where Lewis Genderson of 1516 Fifth street was drrested on three ¢harges of selling liquor and ofe of possession, _ police alleging_ they seized 40 half pints and three 5-gallon jars of colored liquor and marked ‘money; and on 1139 Seventh street, where Robert Jacobs, 41 years old, was arrested on charges of four sales Ana possession of two pints of liquor, ‘found, police say, in a trap under the wWindow behind the bar. Evidence Sought for Month. = When it was decided a month ago %o launch the drive, two policemen Avere taken from the uniformed force y Maj. Hesse and given a roving Plain clothes assignment, with in Btructions to ‘seek evidence of re- Peated violations, = Most of the month of July was spent In accumulating information and in gnaking the purchases, it is declared, Znd on Friday, the flying squadron swas given information on which to Svork. To obtain a padlock injunction it 3s necessary to prove the place to be #losed a nuisance and that it is re- atedly the scene of violations of e national prohibition law. Of the eight lesser ralds made yes- Rerday, the largest seizure was re- Pported in one at 1216 K street, where James Farrell, 33 years old, was ar- rested on a charge of sale and poses- #ion of liquor and Annie Farrell, his wife, 33 years old, was charged with Hlegal possession. Hundreds Watch Raid. Severa! hundred persons late Jast Pight watched a raiding squad from ?’o 2 precinct descend upon 1309 ourteenth street and confiscate what Police reported were 12 cases of beer £nd 8 quarts of liquor. Ernest Jeffery, 40 years old, was rrested and-charged with maintaining a disorderly house and illegal posses. slon of liquor. Twelve men and wom- en were recorded as witnesses when they were found in the place. The raiding squad was led by Capt. Guy E. Burlingame and Lieut. James Mc- Quade. e © WIFE SUES ATTORNEY. %. H. Baylies Accused of Cruelty / and Neglect. Z Lindon H. Baylies,'an attorney in fhe Bureau of Internal Revenue at 3,800 a year, was sued for a limited @ivorce yesterday in the District Su. reme Court by his wife, Jessie C. aylies, on charges of cruelty and neglect. Mrs. Baylies says they were married at Lietchfield, Ky., Septem- ber 21, 1919, and have two children. ~ On motion of Attorney Campbell Howard, Chiet Justice McCoy cited the husband to show cause why he should not contribute to the support ot his wife and children pending the Bearing of the case. Mexican’s Home Bombed. MEXICO CITY, August 6 (P).—A bomb explosion, not connected with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, occurred to- day at Guadalajara. An attempt was made to blow up the residence of Senor Villasenor, a prominent busi- ness man, with a bomb placed in front of the house. No one was injured Blthough the bullding was slightly pamaged. The police attributed this | et to personal enemies of Senor Villa- | Eenor. = July Circulation Daily... 94,754 Sunday, 104,777 of Columbia 4 isine Manager EVEN] Y ST, stemils ‘wwear that the actial number o | opies of the paper named sold and distrih- fied auring the month of July. A.D. 1027, | was as follows Canies Les adjustments ........ Total daily net eirenlation R verage daily net g: d circulation 03.75% Paily sveracs number of copies for o] service, etc 04,754 Conies. 2,463,615 ... 523.886 ifu- 104,130 038 ¢ cirenlati 108377 Average Sunday, BR6Y'W . HEREON Advertising Manager, s, Ql?‘:tmé?eauflfgfi’fi 1o before me this “BLMER F, YOUNT. e A5 LMER Fvanr Bublie, ‘rotal Sunday net circul Average net pald Sunday t ‘coples for I Dead In Crash Above: George S. Dougall, who was killed with Dall: Marshall, belo when a_motor eycle on which they were riding collided with an automo- bile on Defense Highway. CAMPS T0 RECEIVE FOURTH CITY GROUP Good Will and Pleasant to End Rest Period for Guests of Past Two Weeks. With a party of 150 children and mothers nearing the end of _their ay at Camps Good Will and Pleas- ant, the Summer outings committee is preparing to mather a part: the camps’ fourth vacation period, which begins Tuesd The third group at the camps will have bad two weeks’ stay by that day. Entertainments have been the fea. ture at the camps during the past week. Last night at Camp Good Will Leland Sprinkle gave an exhibition of the tricks of his dog, “Boots.” Other entertainments have been aug- mented by hiking parties and bo- tanical expeditions. ~There will be a swimming exhibition this afternoon, followed by vesper services by the Salvation Army. Although enough money for the fourth party has not yet been re- ceived, the committee has addressed appeals to its friends and will go forward in its plans in the hope that the funds will be forthcoming. FELLOWSHIP FORUM BUILDING CRASHES; POLICE SEEK TRIO (Continued from First Page.) which had been broken as the building parted. Thesc continued pouring on the debris until crews from the Water Department arrived and turned off the supply. The section of the buildinz that col- lapsed was about 30 feet wide and more than 100 feet long. Just this oblong section which was about a third of the building, parted from the rest leaving the remainder of the offices exposed. It is conceded that the build- ing did not fall from the weight of material stored in there, as it was said that only office furniture was in the rooms on the upper floors. There was no fire following the collapse, but if there had been a small flame, it is belleved that the water pouring from the building service lines would have quenched any spark resulting from the collapse of the materlal, Occupants of two houses immedi- ately opposite the building were or- dered out by the police because of the fear that the remainder of the build- ing might collapse and fall on the smalleg residence buildings. The in- habitafts of the alley are practically all of foreign extraction and stood and sat on their steps discus:ing and gesti- culating over the situation in their own language, and little could be learned from them by the police and other interrogators. Deputy Fire Chief Seib answered the call with the first apparatus and took charge of the situation. There ‘was little for the firemen to do, how ever, and he ordered all ccmparies back to the station except the rescue squad and two truck companies. The powerful searchlizhts on the rescue truck were played on the building and efforts were made by inquiring of persons who were in the vicinity at the time as to whether they had seen the automobile paas through the alley just previous to the collapse of the building. Policeman A. R. Houch, of the sixth precinct, said that he was in the building early in the afternoon. He said that they were digging a trench there for the foundation for a new press and other machinery that it was planned to install. He also was in the alley about 10:50 last night, but saw nothing unusual on the ex- terjor of the building. He was ac- companied at that time by Policeman W. Burke. The building is one of the citw's old landmarks on lower Pennsylvania avenue, having been erscted during the administration of Andrew Jackson. It formerly was occupied by a news. paper printed here some years ago, known as the Globe, and later by the National Tribune, the official organ of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Department of Agriculture, it was said, now occupies a section of the building as a part of its seed dis- tribution plant. The alley where the debris fell may be recalled : scene of the shooting of former S pistol fray several years ago. Senator was shot as he was passing the alley. Watchman Davis said had heen no one in the building, besides himself, to his knowledge that time of yesterday, At not o the employes Forum left, engaged in the ®xcavation work. for | the na- tor Greene during a police-bootlegger The the Pennsylvania avenue, entrance to that there since all of the employes left at noon y the Fellowship but also the workmen )|was sold before all the lu‘; mills THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, [ALL PUBLIC SPOTS INCITY GUARDED City and Federal Police Keep Close Watch to Prevent Outrages Here. Local and Federal police forces were | guarding ail public spots in the city | 1ast night to prevent any disorder in Washington as a result of the Sacco- vanzetti disturbances in New York and other cities. With the news of York bombings fresh in their local police were vigilantly patrolling “short beats” in the vicin ity of the temporary White House at Dupont Circle and at Secretary of State Kellogg's residence at Nine- teenth and R streets. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse toured the whole city looking for indications of any trouble and had failed to find any at midnight last night. Not a single arrest of a suspicious personage was reported. _Something of the spirit of the war- time preparedness for trouble in the immediate vicinity of the public build- ings of the city had entered into the work of the protective agencies yes- terday. After a conference between Maj. Hesse and Assistant Superin. tendents of Police Henry G. Pratt and Charles A. Evans, it was an. nounced that extra guards of police- men and detectives would be assigned to various sections of the city where | public buildings were located. | Special Precautions Ordered. { These plans were working out last | night, ivery precinct commander th public buildings in his jurisdic- ion was instructed to have special recautions en in guarding the xtorior: The general co-operative system |adopted has been for the publia [buildings guard force, coming under | Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, of the | office of public bulldings and parks, | to take special care to inspect all Visitors to the public buildings of \ hington for suspicious signs, while the Metropolltan Police and the United States Park Police force would ce to it that no suspicious persons were loitering about on the outside of the buildings. One of the moves with the strong- est reminiscent flavor of the war-time precaution was a conference between Maj. Hesse and a representative of the War Department yesterday. Dur- ing the World War there was a stand- ing agreement between the milita icials and local police to have troops rushed from Fort Meyer, Fort Washington or Quantico at the first indication of an emergency. The con- ference yesterday provided for similar action in case of necessi Capitol Partly Closed. While officials on all hands were de- claring there was no grounds to be. lieve Washington would suffer from radical outbursts there were none who had failed to take precautions agalnst possible violence. At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it was ascertained, every guard post had been fllled, bringing that governmental branch back to irtually the same guard force it had during the war days. All but three entrances to the Capi- tol had been closed last night, and guards were under {nstructions to in- spect every parcel appearing to war- rent the slightest suspicion unless the holder was known to them and could be vouched for by them. The Department of Justice Building also was under close observation be. cause of the many threatening letters received there during the Sacco-Van. zettl defense campalign. Extra Guard at Capitol. The Capitol grounds and the Capi- tol Building last night were being guarded with 26 men in addition to the regular force, Lieut, Farmer, in charge of the night shift, stated short. ly before midnight, but nothing sus- picious had been reported. Every part of the grounds and every wing of the building wa: under guard. The City Post Office guard force was summoned out in force last night with all leave cancelled and three extra guards placed on duty. Instead of the'customary three or four guards eight were on duty last night; sta. tioned at the entrances at North Capitol street and at First street; in the corridor and at the doors on the lower floors of the bullding. Park police had received no reports of suspicious happenings. at midnight last night. ) t | it I I | U. S. MEAT DEALERS CONVENE TOMORROW Delegates to Arrive Today for An- LEBOUFF MURDER TRID FOUND GUILTY Widow and Dreher Given Death Penalty—Life Term for Beadle. By the Associated Press. FRANKLIN, La., August 6.—Mrs. Ada Bonner Lebouef and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher were found guilty of mur- der by a jury in St. Mary Criminal Court here tonight, and James Bea- dle, the third defendant, was found gullty with recommendation of lite imprisonment. i The trio were charged with mur- dering James J. Lebouef, husband of the woman defendant. The verdict automatically sends the physiclan and the woman to the gal- lows. ‘Woman Screams at Verdict. The three defendants stood unmoved while the verdict was read, but Mrs, Beadle, wife of the trapper, screamed and sank back in her chair as the verdict was finished. Mrs. Dreher, wife of the physician, let her head sink, and her lips moved, then she was calm again. Beadle appeared worrled and did all he could to calm his wife. Plan to Ask New Trial. In the intense excitement created, one person fainted. Judge James D. Simon ordered court adjourned to Wednesday morn. ing, when he will formally sentence the trio. Attorneys announced they would ask for a new trial and carry the case to the Supreme Court if necessary. Only One Ballot Taken. nual Convention of Na- tional Association. Delegates to the forty-second an- nual convention of the National As- soclation of Retail Meat Dealers will arrive today for the meeting which will open tomorrow at the Raleigh Hotel. The tonvention will continue until Wednesday. A special train of New Yorkers, headed by Chairman George F. Kramer of New York City and Albert Rosen of Brooklyn, is sched- uled to reach here this afternoon. Other large parties are expected from Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Frahcisco, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Hartford, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Miami. ‘Wholesale and retail problems will be discussed at the convention. The first meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon with T. P. Preston in the chair., The annual dinner of the { T-Bone Club will be held tomorrow 5. |evening. A banquet Wednesday eve- ning will close the session and the next day the delegates will visit Mount Vernon. o DISABLED SCHOONER SIGNALS COAST GUARD Patrol Boat Stands By to Rescue Hungry Crew on Sail- less Ship. NORFOLK, Va. August 6.—With | all her sails carried away and her sup- | ply of food completely exhausted, the four-masted schooner James E. New- som today relayed a call for help to the Norfolk Coast Guard through a Coast Guard patrol boat which located the disabled craft oft Virginia Beach sea buoy. The patrol boat is standing by and the Coast Guard cutter Mascoutin has been dispatched to the rescue of the schooner. There are eight men in the hungry crew of the sailless and foodless ship. The schooner was due to arrive at Norfolk on July 23 with a cargo of plaster rock from Walton, Nova 8co- ia, consigned to Charles W. Priddy, Portsmouth. Her home fs in Boston and she is owned by the Boston Mari- time Corporation. The schooner is of 629 net tons and is 180 f long. While the crew is hungry it is in no immediate danger. . The verdict was returned at 10:16 pm., and the jury took only one bal- lot, which was unanimous, it was un- derstood, ‘When court adjourned the three prisoners were retyrned to the jail. They were followed from the court room by a number of relatives. Mrs. Lebouef is 38 years old and has four children. Dr. Dreher is 55 and has five chil- dren, and Beadle is 46 and has seven children. Most of them were present in the courtroom tonight, Trial was begun Monday a week ago, and testimony was started the fol- lowing Friday. Dr, Dreher and Mrs. Lebouef ac- cused Beadle of the crime, and Beadle charged the physician with commit- ting it. MRS. ALLEN ASKS DIVORCE Mrs. Marie V. Allen, 1016 C street southeast, yesterday filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an abso- lute divorce from C, Clyde R. Allen, who is employed by the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue at a salary, she say: of $3,300 a year. Mrs. Allen is em- ployed and makes §1,660 a year. Mrs. Allen says the husband maintains an apartment at 1620 R street for another woman, known as Mrs, Allen, but whose name, the wife says, is un- known to her. Allen allows her $60 a month for the support of the child, she states, but refuses to contribute to her support. She borrowed $900 from her miother to purchase an automobile, she tells the court, and has had to repay the loan out of her wages, The husband, she declares, appropriates the car for the use of the alleged co-respondent. Bhe is represented by Attorneys Whe- lan & O’Connell. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 6.—A corking good smea 'n has a cash value, whether it be true or otherwise, it de- veloped here today. The North German Lioyd liner Colum- bus limped into port last night with a damaged propeller and an engine out of commission and a passenger ilst all excited about a deed of heroism per- formed by Antone Weber, fourth en- gineer, and four of the liner's black gang. The tale was that when the Colum- Porto Rico's entire molasses crop stopped grinding this year. ‘bus struck a submerged obfect in mid- | Atiantic, Weber and four ollers, at the risk of their own lives, crawled through dense steam, turned off FAST DRIVING CHARGED. Motorist Accused Also of Assault " in Alleged Family Row. After a chase along Harewood road and North Capitol street, police last night arrested Walter Lyddane, 40 years oid, 2223 First street, charging him with reckless driving and assault- ing his wife, Mrs. Mamle V. Lyddane. Policemen K. L. Taylor and I. H. Wilson of No. 12 precinct made the arres Police stated that Lyddane was at- tempting to force Mrs. Lyddane from his car. . King Feisal Travels by Plane. BAGDAD, Irak, August 6 (&) King Feisal of Irak left today by air- plane for Carlo, Egypt, whence he will proceed to France and England. He will_discuss future relations be- tween Great Britain and Irak with representatives of the British colon- fal office. Fake Tale of Bravery Nets Sailors 3850, Passengers Insist on Honoring “Heroes” valves and saved the passengers from taking to the lifeboats. As a reward for their heroism, the passengers gave the five a purse of §850. The yarn was told the passengers by a member of the crew, and al- though brother officers said that ‘Weber had not left the bridge and that the steam had been shut off from the bridge, the passengers clung to the story and presented the purse and a testimonial of bravery. Capt. Leopold Ziegenbein, skipper of the Columbus, said there had been no acts of heroism and that there never was any.danger. The crew said the man who the yarn for tl passengers m'”'?‘poa Amagination. BECKHAM LEADING IN KENTUCKY VOTE Sampson Is Ahead in G. 0. P. Pri- mory for Gubernatorial Nomi- nation in State. By the Assaciated Press. LOUISVILLE, August 6.-—Beckham and Sampson continued to lead in the race for the gubernatorial nomination by the Democratic and Republican parties as additional returns were re- ceived tonight. i Kentucky's largest primary in point of number of candidates brought out a large vote for the gubernatorial candidates, and with more than 50 counties reperted, several of them complete, J. C. W..Beckham had a i total of 93 votes to 42,362 for Robert H. Crowe. Judge Flem D. Sampson, with 24,303 votes in incomplete returns from 37 counties, was ahead of Robert H. Lucas by more than 7,500 votes, Lucas’ vote was 16,670. Crowe and Lucas carried Louisville and Jefferson County, unofficial re- turns indicated. The Republican League, a Sampson supporter, in an unofficial statement, gave the fifth | district to Lucas by 38,000. These { figures were not included in the fore- going total, partial returns showing a considerably smaller majority. Election officials were concentrating on getting the count in the guberna- torial races before turning to the lieutenant governor and other State officials. .Gets Honolulu Post. First Lieut, Arthur L. Irons, Army Dental Cor‘;s. has been relieved from duty at Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, and ordered to v, Hawaii, for dutw | Bombs in Subway Had 70 Dynamite Sticks, Police Say By the Associated Press. % NEW YORK, August f.—Bombs that wrecked two subway stations last night consisted of about 35 sticks of dynamite each and weighed about 15 pounds aplece, in the opinion of police who today sifted every bit of debris left by the explosions. Police announced late today that they had come to the conclusion that the bombing had no connec- tion with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and had been done in revenge for a fancied Rrievance during the recent labor troubles on the subway. ! | COAL PARLEY PLAN MEETS REJECTION lilinois Operatoss Consider Central Field Agreement Is Impossible. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 6.— Coal miners and operators of each district must work out their own wage scale agreements and further dealings for the central field as a whole are impossible, Rice Miller, president of the TIllinois Operators’ Association, told Gov. Donahey today | On the part of llinois operators he rejected the governor's invitation to a conference of miners and operators of western Pennsylvania, Okjo, Illi- nois and Indiana at Toledo August 15. May Urge New Plan. The governor's office made no com- ment on the statements of either Miller or on that of S. H. Robbins, president of the Ohio Coal Operator Association, which also virtually re- jected the governor’s plan of recon- vening the wage parley which broke up in a deadlock at Miami, Fla., sev- eral months ago. It was indicated that the governor on his return to his office Monday may have some further plan for getting miners and operators together, at least in 8o far as Ohio is concerned. In addition to acceptance of the governor's invitation received from John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, the gov- ernor learned from Associated Press dispatches that Harry Fishwick, head of the Iilinois miners, agreed to the conference and that business men of New Kensington, Pa., have asked Gov. John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania to join Ohio’s governor in urging miners and operators to accept invita- tion to the conference. Meanwhile, there were no disturb- ances reported in any of the seven Ohlo counties where there have been disorders from time to time in recent weeks. Common Pleas Judge L. G.. Worstell at Athens, this afternoon issued an injunetion to the Luhrig Collieries Co., restraining 90 union miners and offi- cials named in the order from congre- gating at the Lubrig mine at Luhrig, near Athens. CONDITIONS NEAR NARCHY.” | Spokesman for Ohlo Operators Op- poses Reopening Mines. By the Assaciated Press. WHEELING W. Va., August 6.— Asserting conditions in the eastern Ohio district berdered on “anarchy,” George S. Jones of Toledo, Ohio, coal operators’ spokesman, said here to- day the operators would make no further attempt to reopen their min “until we have troops on the ground The statement was issued after a con- ference of some 30 of the district's coal operators. Reopening of the mines, Jones said, “would be suicide under present con- ditions which border on complete an- archy and would mean murder of in- nocent people.” Jones asserted the conference had authorized him to say that police of the district were not giving the opera- tors the protection to which they were entitled. Sheriff Clyde Hardesty, he said, had taken employes of coal com- panies off company property and “de- ported” them from the county. Jones is general manager of the Cambria Collieries Co., which employs 700 men. The operators also made public a telegram sent to the American Auto- mobile Assoclation, at Washington, calling on that organization ta pro- test to Gov. Donahey of Ohio against the alleged indiscriminate stopping of tourist and commercial automobiles by bands of miners on State and county highways. Meanwhile at St. Clairsville, Ohio, Albert ‘W, Kennon, counsel for ti ‘Wheeling & Lake Erie Coal Co., oper- ng six mines in Belmont County, announced a Federal injunction would be sought by his company at Colum- bus Monday. He said the petition for the injunction would charge officials of the United Mine Workers with con- spiracy to prevent operation of the mines. CONFERENCE APPROVED. Pennsylvanians Ask Their Governor to Attend. PITTSBURGH, August 6 (#).—The United Mine Workers today made pub- lic a resolution adopted last night by business men of New Kensington asking Gov. Fisher to accept the in- vitation of Gov. Donahey of Ohio to aid in arranging an interstate confer- ence of miners and operators at Toledo August 15. The resolution also contained charges of misconduct against coal and iron police employed by coal com- panies of that district. SYMPATHIZER- IS SUICIDE. Shoots Self, Police SBay, in Frenzy Over Sacco-Vanzetti Case. DENVER, August § (#).—Raymond Cualano, 26 years old, said to have been a sympathizer of Sacco and Vanzett!, killed himself today, send- ing a bullet into his head. Police believe he worked himself into a frenzy over the fate of the two radi- cals and shot himself when he could stand the strain no longer. YACHT WRECK KILLS 3. Wife of Owner, Captain and Serv- ant Drown in Lake. CHICAGO, August 6 (#).—Three persors were drowned today at Egg Harbor, 15 miles north of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., today, when the yacht of C. 'W. Johnson, president of a Chi- cago refrigerating company, was wrecked by the explosion of a gaso- line tank. ‘Those drowned were Mrs. Halen Johnson, wife of the owner; Walter G. Banks, captain of the yacht, and a Japancse steward. Johnson and his 9-year-old daughter made futile efforts to save the other three and, ined in the water for an to life preservers be- rescued them. 6TH STREET PARK PROJECT RENEWED Fine Arts Commission Urges Development of Gateways to Capital. With Sixteenth street rapidly being | pushed through from Alaska avenue to the District line under plans for construction of a monumental gate. wpy to Washington from the north, the Commission of Fine Arts last night renewed its recommendation for monumental treatment of another significant and focal point in the high- way system—the junction of Eastern and Western avenues at the northern apex of the District of Columbia. In addition to the great portal to. be con- structed along Sixteenth street on the heights overlooking the District line, the commission urged that the inter. section of Eastern and Western ave. nues also be graced with parkway and monumental treatment. The intersee- tion of the two avenues now lies in an undeveloped portion of the District, north of Rock Creek Park and not far from thé intersection of Sixteenth street with the District lin Members of the commission view that portion of Washington and the surrounding territory in Maryland as having the greatest opportunity for providing at least two impressive en- trances to the National Capital. Ane other scheme into which the commis- sion has not gone extensively would provide for monumental treatment of the area near Fifteenth and H streets northeast, thus providing a northern and eastern gateway to the city from Maryland. There, together with the western approach from Vir- ginia over the new Arlington Memor- 1al Bridge, the commission believes, will bring Washington into line with other world capitals in providing im- pressive approaches, Under the plan for the heights along Sixteenth street a great round point is to be developed, with a cen- ter parkway of trees and flower beds, from which a boulevard at least 120 feet in width will sweep for a mile to the District line. From the circle a road will extend into Rock Creek Park, adjoining on the west, and to the Army Medical Center on the east. The commission believes Sixteenth street should be widened, but that if for any reason this cannot be done, the pasking should be elim- inated and the space taken into the thoroughfare. To carry the scheme further, the fine arts body recommends that Six teenth street be extended by agree: ment with the authorities of Ma land through the now virtually uno cupied area north of Washington in that State to a junction with roads leading to Baltimore and Gettysburg, 80 that automobile travel over these roadways will have a direct highway connection over improved roads with the District of Columbia. From these main highways another road would branch off west to the other gateway at the intersection of Eastern and Western avenues. Under the highway plan, this roadway would connect with the Fort Drive, another favorite project of the Commission of Fine Arts, permitting travel north on Sixteenth street through either gat way onto the drive connecting the circle of old Civil War forts around Washington, The fine arts body holds that Washington is far behind other capi- tals in providing encircling roadways outside its boundaries and connecting roads from the heart of the city of an arterial highway nature with the surrounding country to the north and east.’ As examples, the commission points to the scenically beautiful country along the Potomac River in Virginia and Maryland beyond Great Falls, which cannat now be reached over improved automobile roads. In addition the commission points out that there are few roadways paralel- ling the Potomac to the south, and that Washington, on the whole, has meager facilities for travel through the surrounding country. Members of the fine arts body be- lieve that if the Capital would furnish adequate approaches from the down- town sections of the eity over ar- terial highways, the authorities of the joining States would furnish roadW@ys to connect with them. PRESIDENT TO HOLD ALOOF IN FIGHT FOR G. 0. P. NOMINATION (Continued fre paign after his party has chosen & standard bearer remains an open question. He is a strong party man, and i= not unmindful of the favors he has received at his party's hunds, and he wants to see that party con- tinued in power. No one could qu tion this. Therefore, it is believed that Mr. Coolidge, as the titular head of that party, will go far toward the purpose of sending it to victory in November next year. At least he wlil go as far, and will be as active, as he deems consistent with the posi- tion of President. ‘While the President maintains his hands-off attitude during the pre- convention scramble among the Re- publican candidates, it is expected that the so-called administration support will be a strong factor in this forth- coming combat. By the administra- tion support is meant the President’s friends in high office and the army of Federal officeholders all over the coun- try whom he has appointed to office. He does not figure in it at all. At the present time this support, as it is rep- resented here, is expected to be divided between Herbert Hoover, S retary of Commerce, and Vice Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes. It is not thought likely that former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois will recelve much assistance from the so- called administration headquarters, It is pointed out that Mr. Lowden's ardent support of the McNary-Haugen farm rellef bill which was vetoed by President Coolidge and the fact that he virtually assumed the field against the latter for the forthcoming nomi- nation when every one assumed Mr. Coolidge would consent to a nomina- tion for another term, are known to have injured his standing with the influential members of the Coolidge administration, Regardless of who receives the Re- publican nomination, he is going to profit at least by the President's Sum- mer in the West. There is no dis- puting the fact that the President has done much to pacify the so-called corn belt farmers by his taking such a deep interest in the life problems of the West. Also he has made a favor- able impression because he manifested nothing suggestive of an aim at politi- cal advantage, all of which will make for a more friendly feeling toward the Republican party itself in . where there has been much indif- {O‘I;mcc it not open resentment or hos- ility. Moreover, it the President's interest in the farmer and his study of the farm problem will result now in some measure of relief it unquestionably will contribute to the party's benefit. It is a fact that the majority of the farmers of this section of the West are so confident that the President is honest and sincere in his aims to help them that whatever he might do. es- pecially since he has disclaimed inten- tion to run ain, it will appear to the Weat as an honest attempt to help them. ,This opinion is shared by local Republlcans who have traveled throu the corn belt considerably since t! President arrived in the Black Hills.