Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1927, Page 1

\WEATHER. (T8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably showers tonight and tomorrow. Cooler tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, 78, at today; lowest, 70, at 545 a.m. Full report on page 9. noon today Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 1 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNI Entered a second class matter post offic 3 Washington, D. C WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, BODIES OF VANZETTI - AND SAGC WILL BE DISPLAYED ON TOUR OF EASTERN CITIES First Will Lie in State at De- fense Headquarters—Cop-‘“\x,l Genern manitestots ies of Death Masks of Both“\_‘-; te and being beaten oft by th to Be Distributed. persing Mobs United Stat the Asso e NEW YORK, Aug strations in behalf of zotti were staged before their execution in various ind South American cities. Demon ropean after con the po hall eva the States of the library of the League of tions Palace. From the palace the crowds went to |the American agency of two picture ters showing American films and bezan to attack it. Streams of water had to be played on the demonstrators hefore they could be dispersed. In the course of the struggle with the police some one fired a shot. killing an on Attorneys Abandon Efforts to Gain | iooler. .| The Geneva correspandent of Respite Only When Executions Iixchangs Telegraph Co.. Londor his version said 5.000 person Start—Cries of Sister and Wife part the rioting. attacking Arouse Neighborhood—Prison Is Heavily Guarded. TWO RADICALS FOLLOW | MADEIROS TO CHAIRI the took in and Br the A BOSTON, ! of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo \ an- zetti are to be taken in specially con- 1S, CROWDS QUIET the Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit- Meetings Throughout Coun- tee today. First they are to lie in state at the | try Disperse Orderly—Scores committec headquarters, on Hanover | 3 street, in north end of this city.| Of Sympathlzers Arrested. When this will be the committee was | unable to say at noon, as they had| 5 | Bs the Associ . not been informed at that time when | 57 1he Associated Press. NEW YORK, Augu SACCO PROTESTS CAUSE STIR IN MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES Dl in Gttt Boeco gt By .| INPINET HESHYEE HOOVER T0 REMAIN and Guarding es property‘ PRESIDENCY BOOM i j : ) i Secretary Will Retain Post, described rauds on motion picture the- | A“hough in ForefrOnt Of 1928 Possibilities. ters where American films were be- | shown, films of Douglas Fair ban Pickford and Norma Tal- madge I'wenty-five persons were injured. =00 as news was posted that the | mvr\,0!\\\&[;![I.“v{rl\:’,;llll_\”’!':u;:xe“r;h-rlrnv1COMMERCE HEAD SEEN AS LEADING G. 0. P. FIELD two oftic | nos Aires, Argentin the United States com- mercial houses. Only with the aid of reinforcements were the police able to_quell the demonstration. To the strains of the “Red Flag” ind shouts nd Vanzetti | must not die,” a procession marched | nto the Mall in London this morning. | his is the wide thoroughfare in front of Buckingham, and as the marchers | neared the pa mounted police scattered them. arresting a number. Those wha took part in the demon stration apparently were men and | women who ate; (Continued on Observers View Chances as Partic- | ularly Good, With Favorable | Turn in West, ! BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, . Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, has no intention of resign ing from the cabinet 1o become 7= |active candidate for the Republican nomination for President Hoover, who has just returned 1o Washington from the West, is giv ing his atiention ta the work of his department. {e is not talking poli He is not estahlishing a “Hoover President organization.” All this, however, does not mean that Mr. Hoover is not very much in | the picture of the next national cam- NEW FLEET JOINS 15 Destroyers and Cruiser |t =o to work for him at the slightest sign. and some of them without any | Ordered to Aid in Final |%3» whatever | Scrutiny of Pacific. ‘ erbert an ties, for | | Soon Must Take Stand. Within a few months at most M Hoover must either assent or decline | to allow his name to go before the Re- | | publican voters in a number of S | tes | | where pregjdential primary elec By the Associated Pre e light | t- | Fifteen destroyers and one ¢ Foenin AUGUST the bodies would be turned over to them by Medical Examiner Magrath. The visits to various cities might ex- tend as far as Chicago, it was added. The body of Celestino Madeiros, who was executed with them at the State prison early today. will be de- livered to a New Bediord under- taker. This is at the request of his mother. The Charlestown district and all other parts of Boston were quiet to- day. An echo of the demonstrations in svmpathy with Sacco and Vanzetti came with the arraignment in the Municipal Court of pickets arrested in front of the statehouse, Death Masks to Be Made. Mrs. Glendower Evans, heeni active in the Sacco-Vanzetti de- fense, said today that death masks would be made of both men and many copies distributed. She visited the Northern Mortuary, where the bodies were taken from the State prison, but Medical Examiner Magrath said he was too busy at that hour to admit her or her companion, William Grop- per, a New York artist. 1t was learned today that among the personal effects left in the prisoners’ cells were letters written by Vanzetti to his father in Italy and to Henry Ford and by Sacco to his mother and to the defense committee, They have not been made public. Sacco and Vanzetti died calmly shortly after midnight in the electric chalr at the Charlestown State Prison protesting their innocence of the erime, afirming their belief in an- archy and refusing the benefits of re- | ligion. In hie nati #1ong Jive anarchy” as he seated him- zelf in the death chair. “IT am an in- nccent man” were among the last words of Vanzetti. The two were convicted of killing | = ¥rederick A. Parmenter, paymaster. |armed and another had & mysterioas | &MOUR and Alexander Berardelli robbing them of $15, 1 on a street At South Braintree, Mass, April 15, 1920, guard, and Follow Madeiros to Chair. Celestino Madeiros, sentenced for the murder of a Wrentham bank cashier, preceded to the chair by a few minutes the two men whom he had attempted to save by a confession that he was present at the crime of which they were convicted, and that neither Sacco nor Vanzetti was there. This confession was used as the basis for a motion for a new trial, but was discredited 1"p to the hour set for the execution, and even later. the seven-year legal struggle to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti had continued. When every court and legal recourse had been exhausted, defense attorneys still strove to find new means of gaining a respite for the condemned, men. Four attorneys hastening by automobile to Wiiliamstown to lay an appeal for wiay before Justice George W. Ander- son of the United States Circuit Court ned back only when they heard hy telephone that Madeiros and Sacco al 1eady had been executed and that the fate of Vanzetti was a matter of min- ntes. Then at last the defense counsel finally admitted defeat. From his cell in the death Madeiros alled, w ed the ir in the exec ion chamber with show of emotion. He walked steadily and seemed indifferent to his fate, He entered the chamber minutes 47 second fter midnight, and seconds past the houl He spoke no word n of recognition of any ses house few feet to the he was d gave no 1he witne of Sacco Says Farewell moments 1he empiic few cell ) the execut ren d to the down shouted in a rin Anarchia.” While the straps wwere justed he spoke in derate tone, “Farewell, my wife and child and all my friends.” After a P he looked around at the silent witnesses of the State and xaid, “Good evening gentlemen.” His final words spoken as the head strap was tights ened, were “Farewell, mother He had entered the chamber at 12:11:: and was pronounced dead at 12:19:02. Once more two guards leit the cham Yer and returned with Vanzetti. He 1s the most collected of the three #nd seemed quite at ease as he entered e shook hands just inside the door heing ad glish in a more with a guard whom he recognized and | pey then he wvalked to. the chair. Without aviver he took his place and said wish to tell you I am innocent yover commitied any crime, but some (omtinu-d ou Pa, mn 1) i last-minute | who has | the first of the three to be | and | and | nouncement of the execut and Vanzetti was received quietly by crowds that gathered in public squares and before newspaper bulle tin boards in many cities after a day of unceasing police vigilance and gen- eral uneasiness. At midnight in Union Square, York, where police estimated persons had gathered. placards read ing “Sacco murdered,” “Vanzetti mur | dered,” were posted by a Socialist | newspaper when word of the execu N | tion was received, but the crowd dis persed quietly shortly thereafter. In Boston crowds that filled the streets before bulletin boards received word | of the execution in silence. Dispatches from various cities told of a day of unremitting watchfulne: with public and semi-public buildings transportation and public service fa- cilities under heavy guard. They told for the most part of strike calls that received little response, of mass meetings animated but orderly which were dispersed in the main without trouble, though a Pennsvl- vania State trooper was shot and ! killed in Acmetonia, Pa., and scores of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers were arrested in_variovs cities. In New York City the entire foree of 12,000 police was on duty, and six chine-gun companies, with wartime ammunition issuance, were held in re- | serve on Governor’s Island. | In St. Louis police ejected a crowd of 100 persons who tried to hold a | Sacco-Venzetti memorial in the Labor Lyceum Temple. One woman wis ar- | rested. | One hundred and twenty-sever, sym- | pathizers were arrested in San Fran- cisco as they passed the Hall of Jus- tice. These arrests ciimaved a da tongue Sacco shouted, | unrest, in which thres demonstrations | { were blocked. Police rushed the first, | a mass meeting, and vrevented speak | ers from addvessing the gathering. Four men were 2 ted in Jersey City. One of them. police said. was | bag. | Tn Detroit police broke up a mass of | several thousand men and women in a demonstration at City Hall. Banners were knocked down with nightsticks. WOMEN WORRY POLICE. Two Girls Arrested in Chicago—6,000 Officers Kept on Duty. CHICAGO, August 23 (#).—Women offered police most of their worries so | iar as Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations here last night were concerned. Two girls, both still in their | were taken from soap boxes on which | they were addressing a crowd of 2500 { men and women. The crowd was scat- |tered by the brandishing of | sticks, Aurora D'Angelo, schoolgirl, who has b inspiration of Chicago’s two principal demonstrations, spent the night in custody of police, They expresed a | fear that another svmpathy parade | might organize to march upon the | 1oop district it she were at lberty. Six thousand policemen were kept {on duty last night and early today, | but the city, including the turbulent { west side, where most of the trouble has been, was singularly calm, and word of the execution of Sacco and Venzetti was received without dis- of any kind Sacco-Vanzetti case has done | more than any event in history to in- fure the reputations of Italian-Amer- jcans, Oscar Durante, school trustee and a leader among Chicago Italians sa teens, the 1S.year-old 1 the militant mistake was in earry e on from year to year The men could ~ have just trial in a much The gre: ing the he declar heen given s 1av has meant torture to them and has made the matter that concerned only them and the State of Masachusetts {an international issue The riots cco-Vanzett pathizere cannot be condoned lialian descent resent them TODAY’S GAME OFF. Prevented by sym We Nationals and Tigers From Playing by Rain. | | DETROIT. August 23 (#).—The | zame scheduled today between Wash ton and Detroit was postponed on ceount of rain —_ . Poindexter to Visit Capital. | NEW YORK, August 23 ().— & Minister to Peru and for nator from Washington, ve- |for a visit. He will spend several days here, journey to Washington to report to the Secretary of State and | then visit his home in Spokane for a week or s0. ‘ companies of Infantry and two ma- | night | ter length of time. The long de- | of | cruiser, under command of Rear Ad-| miral Luke McNamee, were ordered | {today to join in the search for th | missing Pacific aviators In ordering the additional force Rear Admiral Jackson, commander of | the Pacific Fleet, pla 10 make a| thorough scrutiny of the area where | the planes are supposed to have land €d on the water before calling off the | Navy operations Thursday. ARCH OUT-0F-WAY PLAC [to Mr. Hoover because of his known Scaplanes and Ships Comb Areas Near Hawaii. By the Associated Press HONOLULL, {under August 23.—Acting orders from Washington, the | search for the missing Dole | | flyers was extended today to cover ious small bits of Hawalian waters which have not been closely inspected during the larger and more general operations. Rear Admiral commander John D. McDonald, v of the fourtecenth naval | district, declared he is still hopeful the { lost aviators may be found. eaplane patrols today continued to search the area to the north and east of the islands of Oahu and Kauai. The tugs Pelican and Sunnadin were or- dered seaward over that region last Inight to remain there ready to aid the planes if necessary Two civilian aids in the search ap- peared Monday. Capt. William Ande: ! son, master of the fishing schooner nikai, who sailed at 5 o'clock yes- today afternoon for a six-week | cruise off Pearl Harbor and Hermes | Reefs, northwest of the main group of | lands, announced he would keep a xharp lookout on his outward voyage. | The other civilian aid to the search ! which set out yesterday was a sampan {chartered by a navigator, Frank ¥, with the purpose of searching | the region southwest of the island Barry carried enough fuel to | {run the sampan 2,600 miles, and has radio. His gasoline was furnished by the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., of which James D. Dole, donor of the flizht prizes and the $20,000 reward | for finding the missing fiyers, is head. | HOPE OF SAFETY WAN 0S. Lessons Learrned From Dole Rale Are | Pointed Out. SAN FRANCISCO, August 23 (#).— While the search for the lost flyers in | the Dole race from the Golden Gate to Honolulu continued with unfagging | zeal though dying hope, efforts to derive profits from the flight's lessons were under way today, just one week after the start of the 2,400-mile air mavathon Lieut. Benjamin W | Air Corps, who inspe and their compasses for the flizht committee, declared that two indis | putable lessons had been learned from | { the flight's disasters. First—All planes to undertake an extended _over-water flight _should (Continved on Page 6, Column 1) tt of the | i 1 i i ed the planes THIEVES TAKE SAFE | quarters ! nomination of Mr. |is far different from that which existed | | have supported Senator | the past are known to be strongly in | | tion and will not | ~(Continued 'FLOOD AREA FARMS | | Half of Inundated Land Replnmedi ve held for the purpose of instruct- | ing the delegations to the Republican national convention, due to meet next une. Mr. | Hoover is regarded in many | as one of the strongest, if | not the strongest, prospective candi dates for the Republican nomination. | The situation gives promise of clear- | ing in such a way as to make the Hoover extremely obable. In the farm States of the West, where there has been opposition enmity to the McNary-Haugen farm | relief ‘bill, conditions are beiter, with | prospects of good crops, and even that | the corn crops may be satisfactory. Change in California. rthermore, the political situation | in California, Mr. Hoover’'s own State, | in 1920, when Mr. Hoover's name was presented ta the Republican national convention. 1 At that time Senator Hiram Johnson was the choice of many of the old Bull Moosers and Progressives for the Re- sublican nomination. He dominated the Republican organization of the State, and he went to the national conven- tion with the delegation in his vest| pocket. | Today, however, the suggestion that Mr. Hoover be a’ candidate for Presi- dent has brought a real response in | California. Not a few of the men who | Johnson in | favor of placing the State delegation | solidly back of Mr. Hoover. | The Hoover candidacy would he ! greatly strengthened in the national convention in that event. Johnson Wants Re-election. Senator Johnson next year comes | up for re-election to the Senate. He wants to be re-elected. Life in the Senate suits him. Many months ago he renounced all idea of becoming again a presidential candidate. His failures in 1920 and 1924 give him no reason for advancing his candidacy again. If he wishes to return to the Senate, Senator Johnson would have little to gain by launching an attack in California on a movement to send a Hoover delegation to the national convention. While Mr. Hoover is not an active | candidate for the Republican nomina- | lift a finger at this | obtai Column TO YIELD THIS YEAR and Showing Signs of Production. By the Associated Press About one-half of the Mis ppi | River farm lands flooded last Spring | by levee breaks have been successfully | replanted and are now giving pros- pects of some production this year, Secretary Hoover said today on the basis of a preliminary survey The Red Cross has reported the re- turn of practically the entire popula- tion to homes washed out last Spring and the relief work has been main- tained, he said. WITH STORE’S CASH Grocery Strong Box, Containing $130, Carried Off by Burglars. entered the Sani Eleventh work last ltary Store | southeast throt | carried away night t 811 400-pound safe which Dbeneath the store counter, open it at their good time else- where. The police were told the safe | contained $130. The robbery was discovered shortly hefore 7 o'clock this morning when James B. Everett, 822 Kentucky nue southeast, manager, arrived to Spen the store for the day’s business. Mr. Everett entered the store through he front ddor as usual and upon go- ing to the rear to hang up his hat for the day discovered the double doors ning into the back yard wide open. ‘urther investigation revealed a { smashed window in the washroom of store through which it is believed ves gained entrance. z to the counter beneath which af2 has been kept “to sce what ndition it was in,” Mr. Everett di covered the vault had been carried ! was kept to asped the hands of others as| yred today on the liner Santa Ana|away with no damage to the store | equipment. The stock was untouched |and the safe was carried through the hack door up six steps to the level of the rear allev and out, probably, to 4 waiting automobile. Burglars with a penchant for leisure- | fjon street | h a rear window and | ave- | ‘All of the questions as to the amount of funds that will be necessar 10 rebuild the levees and the pre, ion of a legislative program for gu ing against repetition of the disaster,” Air. Hoover said, “must be worked out during the Fall. We shall have the| | light of further experience with the situation to guide Congress in its ac- Hoover will return to New Or-| next week. | Mr. leans early 'MAN IS FATALLY SHOT IN QUARREL OVER BEES | Neighbor Demands Rent of Vacant House When Hives Are Blamed for Condition. By the Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W. Va.. August 23. —A neighborhood quarrel over the keeping of bees has resulted in the fatal shooting of one man here. Thomas B. Stafford, 65, protested to his neighbor, Green V. Meek, 64, con- cerning the ‘bees kept by the latter, and yesterday asked him to pay him rent on his house, claiming the bees were responsible for keeping the house vacant. Meek refused to pay and fired. he sald. when Stafford drew his hand to his hip pocket as if to draw a gun. | Buckler, 3346 Prospect avenue, Was scharacter witnesses testified as to the good reputation of Ridley and Harry in the courts and their patien | Goodacre, | pany | the NG EDITION o Star. service. Yesterda; 23, * New Yorwk Lap FALLS INTo SEwer IS CARRIED MoRE THAN A MILE Ay PICKED UP Sapg % 1L KEEP g7 AN EYE ON oo AR /4@ PRESIDENTIAL PP, CAMPAIGN FIVE FOUND GULLT ON ATTACK CHARGE Maryland Negroes to Be Sen- tenced Today for Assault Near Oxon Hill. Special Dispatch to The Star UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. August ive young negroes, three of them under 21 rs of age, faced a possible sentence of death here today when a jury in the Prince Georges County Court found them guilty of an attack on Miss Alberta Rice, 22 years old, of 1422 N street, Washington, who, with her escort, John M. h dragged from an auto- mobile parked near Oxon Hill the night of July 20. The defendants wiil be sentenced later this afternoon, | and it was indicated that one of them ington, was would probably receive the extreme Flyer Announces He Will appli penalty. The findings of the court were an- nounced by Chief Judge W. Mitchell | Diggs of the seventh judicial circuit, who, with Associate Justices William M. Loker and Joseph C. Mattingly. heard the case yesterday. Indicted Last Week. The men, Herman Proctor, Harry Proctor, 17; Alfred Simms alvin Rialey, 19, and Richard Brown, 21, all of Oxon Hill, Prince Georges County, were indicted last week by a | special session of the county grand | jury. Each was charged with two ! capital offenses against Miss Rice, and with assault with intent to Kill. Yesterday in court the men testified | that they had driven from their homes the night of October 20, bound for Oxon Hill. After passing a parked car on the road, which contained Miss Rice and her escort, they returned to “get a match. An argument followed and Alfred Simms admitted striking both Miss Rice and Buckler and Her man Proctor admitted hitting Buckler. Mise Rice accused Simms of a capital offense, which he denied, and Buckler charged Herman Proctor with holding | him in the car after Miss Rice had heen dragged from the machine. Hari Proctor, Richard Brown and Calvin Ridley all denied being there at the time of the attack. A number of} Proctor. All Tdentified in Co State’s Attorney J. Frank nd former State’s Attorney .J. Wil on, who assisted him, called the case e most atrocious in the history of Prince Georges County. < Parran said that no crime in his memory had so stirred the people Mi the county and said they were to be congratulated upon mllowing the men | to come to trial, indicating their trust | Buckler and William | 1514 Connecticut avenue. Washington, who happened along in time to help rescue Miss Rice and | Buckler from their assailants, all | identified the men in court. M_l Rl(-? picked them one by one, relating just the part each had taken in the strug-y gle. Miss Ri: | | | Sear on Forehead. She exhibited a scar on her fore- head which she said resulted from a stone thrown by one of the men. The men were arrested by Patrol- man Robert. Manning of the eleventh precinct, Washington, who lives near Oxon Hill, who went to their homes after getting their descriptions from Miss Rice in the hospital and in com-! with Deputy Sheriff Clinton Perrygo as arresting officer took them into custody. The case has aroused much feeling, but the plain clothes men on duty here so far have had Ihttle to do The negroes were taken back to the Balti- more City Jail last night and brought here again_this morning / George B. Merrick of U boro, and John ¥. Mudd. brother of late Representative Svdney Mudd of the fitth Maryland congres per Marl | sional district, were defense aftorneys ENGLISH DRINKERS UPSET Complain Because Whisky “Cheaper in New York.” POOLE, England, August 23 (#). This little Dorset town is all upset be- cause it has learned that whisky is! being sold in New York cheaper than it is in England. Mr. Hall Caine, local member of’ Parliament and son of the famous novelist, is responsible for imparting | the knowledge to the town, thereby letting himself in for some criticism. In a speech before his constituents he asserted he knew that *‘prohibition is a fraud because on a recent visit to New York I bought better whisky than I can get in England for $2 a Is | The quarrel, of six months' stand- ing. caused at one time a delegation of Meek's neighbors to protest te the city commission, but‘ without result. % bottle.” The of medium quality whisky in and is about $3. 2 J———— Radio Program—Page o i Baby Is Drowned et o e RIGHT T0 MARK On Kitchen Floor SITE IS QUESTIONED By Associated Press. LODI, N. J., August teen-month-old Roger Olivier drown- ed in a bowl of soup on the kitchen floor of his home today. |Roberts Holds Transfer to (#) Means Associated Press. a W The infant’s mother set the large howl on the floor when she left the home to go to a nearby store. She was gone but a few minutes, When she returned she found the child with his head submerged in the soup. | County Physician William E. | Ogzden said that death was due to drowning. COURTNEY DECIDES T0 DASH AT ONCE | | Leave in Half Hour—Whale | Is Refueled. | By the Associated Press. | SOUTHAMPTON, August 23.—Capt. Frank T. Courtney, British aviator, | who is planning a transatiantic flight by way of the Azores, was preparing | shortly after 6 o'clock tonight to start | within half an hour. | s he put on his clothes, Capt. | Courtney announced that his flying | boat, the Whale, would hop off for the Azores en route to the United | States immediately. At the time the | Whale was being refueled wita 800 | asoline and at 6:30 was llons of «dy for the take HAMILTON TO British Airman Plans Hop-off Tomor- | row for Canada. PEWSEY, England, August 23 (#).— Capt. Leslie Hamilton, British aviator, this afternoon told the Associated Press that he was ready to start at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning from the Upavon Airdrome near here to Ottawa if the present 30-mile-an-hour wind from the west moderated “And I am going to put in a good night's sleep,” Capt. Hamilton, who will make the flight with Col. F. F. Minchin, added. The allons of gasoline which they will earry have been loaded into their Jupiter Fokker for the flight which 1t is hoped eventually will take them to London, Ontario, for the 000 prize which has been offered. ] n to fly over Bath he Irish Sea, touching Ireland at Cahore Point, fly over Galway and then leave Ireland at Clitden, where they will be met by two Irish Free | State planes which will escort them put over the Atlantic. They then plan to take a direct line for St John's, Newfoundland. The aviators expect to be in the | air for 37 or 38 hours, but have sufficient fuel for an estimated flight of 44 hours. Their plane has no wireless and no floats, the aviators relying upon their single 500-horse- power Bristol-Jupiter engine to carry them without faltering. They will take a collapsible rubber boat in case of emergency. TART. Bank Robbed of $11,000. INDIANAPOLIS, August 23 (P).—| Three men who held up the Forty-| sscond Street State Bank on the Northside here today escaped with $£11,000 in cash. While one of the men covered with a gun customers who came nito the bank. the two r robhers looted the-vault of cash. | 1on, should be handled carefully. | quired, Treasury Must Have Ap- proval of Congress. Holding that the District would not authorized to turn the Farmers' Market property over to the Federal Government for any other purpose without congressional legislation, George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights and measures, recommended to the Commissioners today that the | Treasury Department be informed it is impossible to state definitely when the property can be vacated. The superintendent suggested that the Commissioners explain to the Treasury Department, however, that they expect to submit to Congress in December a recommendation for a new Farmers' Market, together with ation for authority to vacate the present space, which the Federal Gov- ernment is anxious to get possession of in order to begin work on the new Internal Revenue Building. The Commissioners probably will take up the recommendations of Mr. Roberts at a board meeting Friday before answering the Jetter received last week from Jamed A. Wetmore, supervising architect, in which he in- quired how soon the farmers’ market could be vacated. Report to Commissioners. n his report to the Commissioners d: Supt. Roberts points out that the zround upon which the market is located was turned over to the District_ by an act of Congress ap- proved May 20, 1870, to ‘hold and use’ as a market.” \The superintendent savs that from the statutes and the opinions rendered last year by the corporation counsel “it appears im- possible to reach any conclusion other than that the ground in ques- tion cannot be lawfully taken and devoted to other than market pur- poses witkout future legislation by Congress granting authority so to do. This market proposition affects a large number of people both in and out of the District, and has, as is well { known, aroused much public interest. |1t is of greater importance than might | be readily suspected and, in my opin- agreement for demolition of the mar ket at this time without awaiting ac tion by Congress might result in un- favorable reaction. “[ realize that from one viewpoint it m t be desirable to vacate the ground, but the Commissioners under- | took at last session of Congress to ob- tein legislative authority to relieve the situation in an orderly way and, as stated, Congress refused to grant it at that time. Would Cause Inconvenience. hould they now go ahead and do that which Congress refused them permission to do, especially at a time when it would create much dis turhance?” Mr. Roberts tells the Commissioner: that if the Farmers’ Manmket is vacated soon, before another location is ac- much inconvenience and probably much loss to farmers would result. He said he knew of no place in the vicinity where the business can | be taken care of temporarily and in his opinion the market would be prac- tically destroyed by any attempt to move it temporarily to a distant iocation, Watson Goes to Hospital. MICHIGAN CITY, August ! United States Senator James <on today departed from his S home here for Rochester, Minn., where he will undergo a thorough examination and treatment for an ail- | ment which followed an attack of in- testinal influenza two weeks ago. Weird Cries Startle Telephone Operator And Send Detectives on Wild Ride About 4 o'clock this morning Mrs., Lillian Thomas, a telephone op-| erator at the “Main” exchange, was | tled from her reverje by a serfes | of hlood-curdling cries coming over | the wire from the Capital Wall Paper Co., 1221 E street. The receiver at the wall "paper store had been lifted off the hook and she could hear groans and shrieks, punctuated now and then by other weird noises. It sounded like a battle to the death between a wo- man and some murderous fiend who clutched her by the throat and sought to stifle her outcrie: The operator called Miss Mary Letts, night chief operator, and held a hasty conference and then plugged in to police uarters. “It sounds “someone is being " 1 E street,”” the op- erator gasped to a detective. “I can hear yells and other strange noises, s of mortal combat!” Headquarters Detectives Cole and Christianson rubbed their eyes, jumped to their feet, hopped into the police car and were off in a swirl of smoke. They leaped from the car before it skidded to a stop near the wall paper store and crept up to the front door. Everything was dark within. Drawing their guns, they forced op2n the door, switched on the light and swept their gaze over the room. Their eyes focussed on the telepihone. Something dark was moving away from the instrument. It was ap- proaching them. Something rubbed trousers. “If that ain't the cat's whiskers!" ejaculated one of the sleuths. It was, in fact, the cat's whiskers. against their Any The only evening in Washington wiflll” 5; Associated Press news ’s Circulation 96,730 TWO CENTS. BASING OF TRAFFIC ‘CASE COLLATERALS - ONFINES OPPOSED Corporation Counsel Advises City Heads Against Pro- posed Procedure. 'WOULD LESSEN RESPECT FOR LAW, HE DECLARES Expresses Doubt That Plan Will Relieve Congestion in Police Court. al that police s eral for traffi tided by the minimum imposed in court may w tions in violations be fines usually k well in ex- but would not to effective traffic en- forcement ounsel W. W. Bride told the Commissioners in ren- dering an opinion today on the Bureau of Efficiency recommendations relating to Police Court congestion. The corporation counsel said he hesi- tated to report adversely on this recommendation, bearing in mind. ywever, that the proposed schedule of minimum fines is to act merely as 1 guide and not to deprive the station | keepers of the discretion vested in | them by law in the matter of collat- | eral. ourt business, icive " Corpor Likely to “Take a Chance.” r instance,” said the corporation counsel, “when a citizen knows he will be fined, or permitted to forfeit, not more than 32 for overtime parking he will ‘take a chance,’ and, if caught, consider the fine as really a rental charge for public space. He would be slow to take such a chance if unin- formed as to the penalty he might have to pay and with the knowledge | that it could be from $1 to $300, or imprisonment for 10 days. “The same theory holds true when the usual fine for ‘failing to give the right of way to through traffic’ is fixed at $5. This is an important safety regulation and its violation is re- sponsible for a great number of our serious traffic accidents. It is not conducive to best administration and enforcement to inform a motorist in advance that $5 is all he will have to surrender for such violation. If he knew it might be $300, or 10 days in | jail, he would be far more careful to | keep within the law, and thus make the community a safer one in which to live.” After giving these illustrations the corporation counsel said that in the end, however, “the question of fines is one exclusively in the hands of the judges of the Police Court, and it may be an injustice to require collateral greater than the fines now imposed by them for particular violations. For that reason, and that alone, I hesitate to report adversely on this feature of the scheme of the Bureau of Efficiegcy, having in mind, of course, that the proposed schedule is to act merely as a guide and not to deprive the station | keeper of that discretion vested in him by law.” | Opposes Report by Police. | The corporation counsel further ad- vised the city heads that he does not believe the courts would sustain the other proposal recommended by the Efficiency Bureau of having polic men make out on a blank form at the station house the information they now swear to at the Police Court Building. He said no good would be accomplished by such a change in pro- cedure and that the legality of such a practice undoubtedly would be ques- tioned. Although it is generally admitted that the Police Court is badly con- gested, the corporation counsel said it is his opinion that so-called minor violations are not the principal cause of the congestion. “Hundreds upon hundreds of such cases have been in the past, and can be in the fut disposed of under existing practice,” he continued. “I believe the congestion in the Police Court is caused principally by the many offenses for which jury trials |are permitted by existing law and | demanded, coupled with an inadequate number of judges and prosecuting of- ficers to handle the great volume of | business coming before it. I do not | believe the scheme suggested by the | Bureau of Efficiency either practi- cable or desirable | Mr. Bride further contends that it s | not the time spent in preparing the | paper= at court that keeps policemen | from their other duties and from | hours of rest, “but that the real rea- | son therefor is the time spent in the ourts awaiting the calling of their | cases for trial. ‘This is one of the hardships of police service for which s known.” The opinion recommends that an ad- | ditional policeman be detailed to the corporation counsel's office at Police Court on Mondays and on days fol- |lowing holidays to assist in preparing | papers. in view of the large volume of work that accumulates on those days. Defends Present Practice. | The corporation counsel told th | Commissioners that the proposal al- | lowing collateral to be placed and the appearance in court of a defendant | merely to elect a trial at some future | date, ‘convenient to all persons, can result only in unnecessary delay and confusion. The present practice, he said, is of long standing, has worked well and should be continued. The corporation’ counsel indorses | the movement to obtain a new Police | Court’ building, and adds a further | suggestion that the might court be |abolished. With the addition of an- |other judge, which would make five Judges, sitting throughout the day, |or even with the present four judges. | he believes more work can be accom- | plished than with only three sitting |dnr!n1.: the day and one at night, as |at present. Mr. Bride adds that the | present judges are of the same opinion. He further recommends at least two additional assistants to the corporation counsel at Police Court. HELD FOR (;RAND JURY. Mail Carrier Is Accused of Takin Money From Letters. | James P. Connor, a mail carrier of | 4117 Thirteenth street northeast, who | has been employed in the Post Office Department for the past 20 years, was held for the action of the grand jury today by United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on a charge of tampering with the mails. Connor pleaded not guilty to charges of taking 34 and $8 from two letters. Bond was set at $1,500. He was repre- sented by E. Russel Kelly.