Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 2

- g, RESIDENTS OPPOSE NEW FIRE STATION Proposal to Erect House on 16th and Webster Site Draws Protests. i A vehement protest against the construction of a fire engine house on the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Webster streets was made to Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty today by a large group of property owners and residents In that vicinity, as well as representatives of the Hamline M. E. and Grace Lutheran Churches. The verbal objections were aug- mented by petitions signed by 105 residents on Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Webster streets, the couneil of the Grace Lutheran Chureh and the board of trustees of 1{he Hamline M. E. Church. See Property Depreciation. The erection of the fire engine house on the Sixteenth and Webster streets site, the opponents pointed out, would materfally depreciate prop- erty in that neighborhood, which is nog a highclass residential section; destroy the scenic beauty of the Six- teenth street boulevard and would be dangerous from a traffic standpoint because of the 30-mile speed limit that prevails in this area, The churches based their objection chiefly on the noise that would be cre- ated when the engines respond to alarms of fire and thereby disturb thefr congregations. Maj. Layson E. Atkins. assistant engineer commissioner, pointed out that a number of sites for the engine house on and off of Sixteenth street were investigated, but the one finally selected, at the corner of Webster street, was the only one that could he purchased within the 125 per cent limitation on assessed valuation. House to Cost $74,000. He also poinied out that the fire house, which will house Engine Com- pany No. 30, would cost approximately 74,000, comparing favorably with the prices of homes in that section, and that it would be of a bungalow type, with as much of a residential char- acter as possible. Fire Chief George 8. Watson also explained that the new house would be one of the “prettiest fire engine houses in the country.” and instead of depreciating property values, it would have the effect of increasing them. Chief Watson also explained that the location was ideal for a fire house, as it would be on a direct fire run and that there would be no unnecessary noise caused by the apparatus in re- sponding to an alarm, as an arrange- ment would be made to warn traffic on Sixteenth street of the coming of the engines by traffic lights. Site Held for Residence. “This most valuable corner plot at the crest of the hill has been held pssumably for a splendid private de- tached residence, such as are being built from Varnum street to Walter Reed Hospital,” said the petition of protest. “Two_beautiful new churches, the Hamline M. E., at Bixteenth and Allison, and the Grace Lutheran, at Sixteenth and Varnum, are only onc block from the proposed fire engine house. “When Washington and L’Enfant planned the great, straight boulevard Jeading from the White House cut to the hills and to what bas become the most_beautiful natural park in the world, little_did they dream that it might be afflicted with the fatal Gis- ease of -pulmonary consumption by | posed by commercialism, Can any one fmagine s ngine house or a public utility building on the Champs Blysees, a drivews for private vehicles and taxis only? desire to make Washirgton the most heautiful capital in the world. What is done to preservs the integrity of its 7-mile-long and principal boulevard? “Fourteenth street, a parallel street, 1s available for all of the fire engine houses needed, and one is badly need- ed in the Piney Branch section to serve not only Sixteenth street (which for some miles has the park and no residences on its west side), but to serve the thousands of small homes to the east of Fourteenth street. Want Drives Preserved. “Washington as the Natlonal Cap- ital, belongs to the whole country and its driveways to the park must be preserved from any encroachments that are unnecessary and dangerous.” Commissioner Dougherty indicated that the protestants were rather late in making their objections, as the site site already has been purchased, and the appropriation for its acquisition ‘was provided about two years ago. He explained that the District has been handicapped in acquiring a suitable site because of the 125 per cent limi- tation, and that finally a deficiency appropriation bad to be ned in or- der to purchase the property at Six- teenth and Webster streets. During this two-year period, he said, the three citizens’ associations in the vi- cinity were urged by the Commission- ers to assist in finding a suitable lo- cation for the engine house. Commissioner Dougherty was told, however, that the residents on upper Sixteenth street were not aware that the Webster street site had been pur- chasd and plans for the fire house tentatively drawn, until last Sunda Mr. Dougherty promised to lay the protest before the Board of Commis- sloners at thelr semi-weekly meeting tomorrow. The speakers for the group of pro- testants were Mrs. Cabot Stevens and ¥dward 8. Brashears. Others in the group were: B. Frank Wright, Mr. and Mre. Charles L. Ritzer, E. F. Dougherty, F. T. Hurley, 8. R. Bowen, Rev. Dr. J. T. Herson of the Hamline M. E. Church: Oscar F. Bryant and Rev. Dr. G. E. Lenski of the Grace Lutheran Church, MRS. EDWIN F. WILEY SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS Funeral Services Held Today for Woman Prominent in Fra- ternal Work. Mrs. Susie F'. Wiley, wife of Edwin ¥. Wiley and for many years proml- rent In fraternal organizations here, died at the home of her son, William . Wile 2024 Fourteenth street southeast, Tuesday after 10 weeks' fllness. She would have been 69 years old today. Mrs. Wiley was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Daughters of America, She had re- aided in this city since a young girl, Funeral services were conducted in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church this sfternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Luther ¥, Frank officiated. Interment was in Clenwood Cemetery. Seven grand- children were the pallbearers, rs. Wiley leaves her husband, two mons, Willlam E. and John F. Wiley; three daughters, Mrs. Pearl Ford, Mrs. “label GafMeld and Mrs. Mamie Hun- gerford, and a slster, Mrs, Emma ®mith. . Flyers Reach Buenos Aires. BUENOS AIRES, October 20 (#).— Trieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph Jo Brix arrived hLere in the Nun- messer-Coli shortly after noon today. completing a flight of more than 6,000 miles, which carried them from Paris to the coast of Africa and ncross the south Atlantic to South Jamerica. . ‘e hear orators talk of the | Preside: SLANDER VERDICT GIVEN. | | $300 Damages Awarded by Jury to A. Fernandez. | A verdlet for §300 damages for al-| leged slander has been reported by a jury in Clreuit Division of the Dis- trict Supreme Court in favor of Al phonse Fernandez, 2631 Fourteenth street, against the Columbia Mosalc & Tile Co., and its manager, Frank C. Lombardy, 114 C street. The plantiff charged that in the Summer of 1924 Lombardy uttered defamatory remarks concerning him in the presence of others. Attorneys Rudolph H. Behrend and Milton Stras- burger appeared for the plaintiff. . HOOVER AND WORK SPONSOR MERGING OF PUBLIC WORKS First (Continued from Page.) the last Congresr, and others sug- gested by the Secretary of the Interior. “There lias been umitted from the revised bill any reference as to what the internal organization shall be after the transfers are made, with the exception that the revision specifies there shall be an Assistant Secretary of Public Works, who shall be quali- fied by experience and training to direct work of such character. “To include organization matters in the bill would unnecessarily add to the difficulties of securing favorable action. If the transfers are made. the character of the organization will be a departmental question which can be dealt with at the proper time. “Upon the suggestion of the two Secretaries, the provision remains that members of the Engineer Corps m: upon request of the Secretary of War and with the approval of the Secre- tary of the Interior, be temporarily transferred to the Division of Public Works for training and experience. “The revised bill is a proposal to transfer certain agencies of the Gov- ernment from the departments in which they may now be to the Depart- ment of the Interior, so that a unifi- cation of planning. direction and con- trol of public works activities may be realized.” Provision for the centralization of the public works functions is con- tained in section 2 of the revised ‘Wyant bill, which makes the following transfers to the Department of the Interior: “From the Department of Agricul- ture, the Bureau of Public Roads, ex- cept the agricultural engineering di- vision thereof. “From the Department of the Treas- ury, the Office of the Supervising Ar- chitect. “From the Department of War, the rivers and harbors improvements, in- cluding the board of engineers on riv- ers and harbors, and the duties of the chief of engineers thereto appertain- ing; the Miseissippi River Commission; the California Debris Commission, and the Alaska telegraph and cable sys:. tem, and all other engineering and construction work of a civil character, including all jurisdiction in respect to navigable waters, except such as may pertain to his military duties. Alaska Board Abolished. “The Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, under jurisdiction of the Department of War, is hereby abol- ished; and the authority, powers and duties conferred and imposed by law upon said board shall be held, exer- cised and performed by the Secretary of the Interior through such instru- mentalities as he may determine, with the approval of the President. “The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital is hereby abolished, and the authority, powers and duties conferred and im- law upon the said office shall be held, exercised and performed by the of the Interfor through such instrumentalities as he may de- termine, with the approval of the nt. “The Inland Waterways Corporation 18 hereby transferred from the juris- diction of the War Department to that of the Department of the Interfor, and the Secretary of the Interior shall have and exercise all the powers and duties now imposed by law upon the Secretary of War in respect to said co"'.l‘h "'l’a;ck Creek e ‘reek and Potomac Parkway Commission is hereby abol- ished, and the authorities, powers and duties conferred and imposed by law upon said board shall be held, exer- cised and performed by the Secretary of the Interior through such instru- mentalities as he may determine with the approval of the President. “The Commission of Fine Arts is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, and the authorities, powers and dutles conferred and improsed by law, execu- tive order and otherwise upon the said commission shall remain with the commission, except that the Secre- tary of the Interior shall dfrect ef- forts of the commission to conform :ll:hde:m-t publ:c mrks functions of ment, w! .M};;“um" the approval of “From the jurisdiction of Con (l't‘:l Office of the Architect of the‘cr:p.-' Hostility is Foreseen. Section three of the Wyant Bi relates to the Engineer Cgrps. I‘z’n‘ provisions, hostility to which is fore. seen, though they are declared to have tz:; _approval of Secretary Work, fol- “That_ engineering officers of the United States Army may be detalled by the Secretary of War to non-mil- itary duties having to do with river and harbor improvements, the Missis- sippt River Commission, the California Debris Commission, or other civil func- tlons, with the approval of the Sec. retary of the Interior. “All officers of the Army attached to the Department of the Interior shall retain their military rank and suc- cession, and receive the compensation, commutation and emoluments pro- vided by law in the case of Army officers of the same rank not de- '.J:ehed from the Regular Army ser- vice.” The question of reorganizing the public-works functions of the Gov- ernment, though nearly half a cen- tury old, has been pressed continu- ously since April, 1919, when there met in Chicago a convention of dele- Rates from engineering, archi ural, manufacturing and business men’s or- ganizations, representing 74 societies and 105,000 members. A permanent federation was organ- ized which was known originally as the Engineers, Architects and Con- structors’ Conference on National Public Works. The organization’s scope soon broadened, and the name was changed to the National Public Works Department Association. Committees of the assoclation were formed in many cities, and a nation- wide campaign was conducted to bring about appropriate legislation, A New York City committee, com- posed of leading engineers, architects, financiers, business men and civic lead- ers, was headed by Adolph Lewisohn as chairman, with J. Parke Channing, who contributed largely to the finan- clal support of the aseoclation, as vice chairman. In 1920, the Fedcrated American En- | gineering Societies, now known as the American Engineering Council, were organized in Washington under the presidency of Herbert Hoover, and as- sumed direction of the pi works n’ctl\'ltlel of the engineering profes- sion. The new plan is the culmination of all of this engineering effort in the direction of the “rationalization of Government business conduct.” The American Engineering Council's committee on Government reorganiza- tion, of which. Gardner 8. Williams of € Ann Arbor, Mich., is chairman, now is in charge of public worke activity. ~ |a dozen children lost their school b THE_EVENING, STAR, WASHINGTON, D BB SRESCUED ASTHONESBURN Stove With $7.000 Saved, Trousseau Destroyed as Whole Block Is Threatened. A paby was rescued. $7.000 hidden in a gas heater was salvaged, a trous- seay was burned, necesituting the post. ponment of a wedding, and more than s in a fire early last night which dam- aged seven frame houses in the 100 block of Seventh street northeast. ‘Within a few minutes after the fire broke out, apparently bhetween 13- 136 Seventh street northeast, the side- walk avas littered with furniture carried out by residents who feared the flames would sweep through the block. A second alarm was .turned in, about § o'clock, and 18 pleces of apparatus were employed in confin- ing the blaze to seven houses, several of which were only slightly damaged. Saved by Grandfather. Groping his way up a smoke-filled stairway to the second floor of 136 Seventh street northeast, Lawrence I. Payne snatched his sleeping 7-month- old grandson, John Myers, from his crib and carried him to safety At the same time Mrs. Jeanette Hulse, 65 years old, 132 Seventh street northeast, attempted to enter her burning house. crying that she wanted to get her stove. Firemen held her back, since the rooms were filled with tlames, but Capt. T. Buckley of No. 8 Engine Co informed by the frantic woman that the stove contained $7.000 in bonds and bi dashed in and bore it safely out. The valuable contents were extracted at a corner store. Orville Thomas, a meter reader, 633 Massachusetts avenue northeast. who was hailed by Mrs. Hulse with the “You read my meter—now you save my bonds!" assisted in the rescue of the precious stove. Troussean Is Destroyed. The tears of a 22-year-old bride-to- be, Miss Pear! Grisso, 134 Seventh street northeast, at first passed unno- ticed in the general excitement until it developed that her entire trousseau, including 14 gowns and Aaccessories the result of more than a year of care- ful preparation, had been destroyed in the fire, She had planned to be m: ried the first of next month to R mond Groves of Alexandria, who was at her home when the fire broke out but her father sald this morning that the wedding would probably be post- poned until a later date. Miss Grisso, her flance, her brothers David and Jacob, and a friend, James Mothershead, were playing cards in the living room on the first floor when the fire broke out in the rear of the second floor, spreading through the upper story and sweeping through the closet in which was locked her trous- seau before it was discovered. Her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Daniel B. Gris- 80, were eating an oyster supper at the Bretheren Church, Fourth and North Carolina avenue southeast, when called home by the news that their house was ablaze. Ine Igtle girl in the block today was disconsolate, She said she liked to go to school and was going any- way, even if she didn't have any books or any dresses left except the one she had on. The total property dam- , tentative imates by firemen indicate, will not exceed $10,000. IMMIGRATION WORK DESCRIBED TO GUILD Sibley Hospital Group Hears Deaconess Manrer, Angel Is- land Alien Worker, Approximately 100 members of the Women'’s Guild of Sibley Hospital this morning heard Miss Katherine Maurer, a deaconess of the Women's Home Missionary Soclety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tell of some of the conditions and incidents met with in her work at Angel Island in San Francisco Harbor, the Ellis Island of the Pacific Coast. The meeting was held in the chapel of Rust Hall at Sibley. Miss Maurer, who is known in San Francisco as “the Angel of Angel Is- 1and,” has been intimately connected with the work of the society there among the immigrants for the past 15 years, She described the routine of her life and said that although it might sound romantic to those inex- pericnced in welfare work, it was by no means all play and the romance often disappeared In the ugliness of reality. ‘The preparatory work for “Hospital glchl" to be held by the guild on riday. November 11, was discussed and the members were urged to put forth every effort to make it a suc- cess, Mrs, C. H. Lambkin is in charge of the arrangements. She is assisted y M Albert Fisher, Miss Ruth Clark and Mres. C. 8. Cole. Entartainment was furnished by Miss Mary Apple, contralto soloist of the M»>unt Pleasant Congregational Church, who was accompanied on the pianc by Stewart Dickson, organist and chofr director of Columbia Heights Christian Church. ——— GIRL TELLS POLICE OF PISTOL ATTACK Fired on While in Auto With Es- cort, Says Hyattsville Tele- phone Operator. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., October 20.— Frank Morris of Washington is today being sought by Chief of Police Carl . Blanchard of Hyattsville on a charge of assault and battery with in- tent to kill. The warrant was sworn out upon statements of Miss Ruth Hunter, chief operator at the Hyattsville telephone exchange, who told Chief Blanchard that Morris fired at her and her es- cort, Layton Morris, also of Washing- ton, but not related to Frank, as the two were starting from the Hunter home, in Maryland avenue, about 11:30 o'clock last night. Miss Hunter told Chief Blanchard that upon leaving the local telephone exchange last night about 9:30 o'clock she was met by Frank Morris. She said ‘she told Morris that she did not wish him to accompany her, but that he_insisted. When they reachel the Hunter home Layton Morris was there, and, according to Miss Hunter, a fist fight ensued on the front porch. It was broken up by Miss Hunter’'s father and Frank Morris went away. ‘When Miss Hunter and Layton left her home later in an automobile, Miss Hunter declares, Frank jumped from behind a tree and fired at the front seat, the bullet going wild. Woman’s Execution Stayed. CHICAGO, Cetober 20 (A.—The ex- ecution of Mrs, Catherine Cassler, et for tomorrow morning stayed for one_week hy an order issued todav by Judge William V. Brothers, chief Jjustice of the Cook County criminal courts. " | \ SAVED Jonn Myer, jr., | erandfather f { mortheast. BY COPELAND (Continued from First Page) assumed. They lave hoped that it would _reach a erest and the.: sub side. 1t may do so vet. But that is .{doubtful. The anti-Smith forces ap: parently have yet to realize they must of Democrats aligned behind the N York governor. The Smith suppx ers are not looking for a comprom candidate. 1f one is forced on them, they are not likely to swallow him. It Smith is turned down finally, the st and the North in a'l probability will be lost to the demos . The problem of the Democrats in taa event will be to build up their party again in the West and in combination with the solid South seek victory. While the Simmons machine in North Carolina, the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan are becoming more active in opposition to Smith’s nomination. there is evidence in the Tar Heel State that Smith's friends are on the job. Smith-for-President clubs are making . their appearance, Smith group in the State circulates constantly the suggestion that if 8mith be nominated the State may go Republican, breaking the solid South. Solidarity Yet to De Seen. Whether the South is to prove “all too solid” for Gov. Smith's chances of nomination remains to be seen. There are plenty who insist that once he has ben nominated the South will as usual be found in the Democratic column on election day. Senator Copeland has spent two months_in the West, conferring with many Democrats. He might be re- garded as a Smith emissary. He in- sists that everywhere he found a_gro ing interest In Smith as a presidential possibility. He insists further that many of the former McAdoo men and women, now that McAdoo has taken himself out of the race, are for the New York gzovernor. Discussing California, Senator Cope- land said: “It was a surprise to me to find thousands of natural Democrats en rolled as Republicans in that section particularly in California, because of their interest in Senator Hiram John- son. I do not mean to intimate, of course, that I am surprised at Sena tor Johnson's popularity, but 1 was not prepared to find among his followe such an overwhelming number of per- sons who are really Democrats. Sen- ator Johnson's progressive ideas which we never regarded as Repub lican ideas, have caused many Demo- crats of tha Coast to espouse hic cause. Mr. Smith measures up to their stand ards of progressiveness,and their re- turn to the Democratic fold will insure the selection of delegates favorable to Smith’s candidacy Doubts Opposition’s Strength. “In all the statements 1 have read the opposition of the South is empha- sized, Everybody speaks of the ap- parent unwillingness of the South to permit: the nomination of this able man, “'Of course, I do not believe there is any such solidarity of opposition as has been indicated. I have such confi- dence in the generosity and sense of fairness of the South that I cannot be- lieve the matter of religion would con- solidate that great section of our coun- try against the sterling manhood of Altred E. Smith, Surely the South would not deliberately = flaunt the wishes of a larger group of electoral voters than the South possesses. “What do 1 mean by a larger group? “Disregarding for the moment the ‘solld_South,’ it is my judgment that Mr. Smith would carry' the following States: Arizona,“Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Mas- sachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Neva- da, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wyoming and West Virginia. “These States represent a total of 180 electoral votes. The South has but 126 electoral votes. It will be seen that the Northern and Western States which would be likely to go for Mr. Smith have a much larger num: ber of electoral votes than is possessed by the combined States from the South. . Were we to omit Colorado, Oklahoma, West Viriginia and Ken- tucky from the list of States I ha named, it would still be true that the South is in the minority.” Predicts Hughes Nomination. The New York Senator, not content with naming a New Yorker as the Democratic standard bearer, also undertakes to predict the momin: tion of a New Yorker on'the Republican deal with an uncompromising group | The anti-| . | Tilden, IN in the arms of his mother. The bahy was rescued by his the fire which destroyed several homes on Seveath street BOOM FOR SMITH IS AIDED AND POMERENE (ticket, Charles Evans Hughes, say- ~ | ing: | “Everywhere, in the East and_ in |the West, I have found among Re- publicans of prominence the dominant idea that Charles . Hughes of New | York will be the Republican nominee —that Smith inevitably will be the | Demaczatic nominee, and that Judge | Hughes is the only Republican with {a chance to defeat him. Without | detracting from the popularity of | Judge Hughes, I have no fear of the ce between him and Smith will be our | outcome of a | Gov. Smith. € | next President. | Senator Pom { gelf finally to G | He s “We have many leaders who are capable and worthy. The time is not ripe for Democrats to commit them- selves unequivocally, either for or against any individual whose name may be presented to the convention.” Cites Smith’s Record. But the former Senator discards this | enutious attitude when he comes to | his discuss'on of the merits of the ne does not tie him- . Smith’s candidacy | | governor. He say “We have 4% States with 48 gov- ernors. but in service to his e Gov. Smith leads them all. Four times as governor he has sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of New York and no one is able truthfully to charge that he has not kept the faith. His has been a record of achieve- ment, He has a genius for statecraft. Among the great Democrats who have been elected Governor of New York since the Civil War three outstanding men come to our minds—Samuel J. Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill. But, great as these men were, Gov. Smith, in purpose and achieve- ment, i3 the equal of any of them. He is not a prophet without honor in his own country Ridiculing fears of the Governor's religion, he points out that in the Smith cabinet are thirteen Protest- ants, two Catholics and one Jew. He concludes: When I remember that Thomas Jefferson was the autho- of the stat- ute glving religious liberty in Vir ginia and through his great influence this same guaranty was put into the Bill of Rights, I do not ses how any Democrat can raise the religious is sue for or against any candidate. When I remember the guaranty of these privileges in the Constitution, I do not understand how any Ameri- can who belfoves in our history can raise it. And when I remember thot Holy Writ bids us do unto others as we would he done by, T cannot under- stand how any Christian can raise it.” Senator Pomerene’s praise of Smith is welcome, particularly as he comes from a Middle Western State, which boasts at least one Democratic presi- dential possibility and perhaps two, Gov. Donahey and Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War. Both Don- ahey and Baker are drys, Gov. Smith’s record on enforcement of prohibition is defended by Senator Pomerene, who “It is better to have a governor or a President per- sonally wet who will inforce the law, thana governor or a President who is pergonally dry who will not or cannot inforce i Mr. Pomerene, however, did not undertake to that New York had been made entirely dry ter- ritory during the term of office of Gov. Smith. LEOPOLD JONAS, 70, DIES; BURIAL IN SOUTH Leopold Jonas, 70 years old, died at the residence of hjs daughter, Mrs. Louis Loeb, in the Cathedral Mansions, today after a short illness, He and his wife recently had come here from Nashville, Tenn., to make thelr home. Besides Mrs. Loeh, Mr. Jonas leaves three other daughters of this city, Mrs. Harry S, Louis, Mrs. Mark S. Goldnamer and Mrs. Joseph D. Kauf- man, His widow, Mrs. Ricka Hirsh Jonas; a, son, Sidney Jonas of Nash- ville, and two grandchildren, Elizabeth Ann and Jonas Kaufman also survive. Brief funeral services were held here this afternoon. Burial will bé in Nashville, Mr. Jonas was for many years executive director of the firm of L. Jenas & Co., jobbers and manufac- turers of ladies’ cloaks, hats and milli- | | |nery in Nashville, where he had taken | an “active part in civic and business | aftairs for nearly half a century. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 20.—The Mich- igan University Greenland expedition at Kangden-Luggsdak, South Green- land, has been forced to relay a message more than 6,000 miles by ra- dio and cable to order fuel from a point 100 miles from its base. The procedure was described in a radio lispatch from the expedition, published in today’'s New York Times The order for pe- troleum fuel for use in oil heaters in place of gasoline stoves that had gone bad during increasing cold was dressed to Gov. Bistrup at Holsten- borg, Greenland's protectoral capital, Arctic Explorers, Snowbound, Radio 6.000 Miles for Fuel 100 Miles_ Away but it was sent first to New York, then by ble to Copenhagen, Denmark, thence by wireless to Iceland, then to the Godhavn radio station, Greenland. ‘There it was to be broadcast by ra- diotelephone by a prearranged sched- ule that the governor might receive it at Holstenberg, which as yet has no radio station. This procedure was described by Paul Oscanyan, radio engineer with the expedition, who also said that as soon as weather permitted the expedi- tion would excavate the ruins of a stone house which the Eskimos say was occupied as 8 Summer home by Norsemen in the time of Erie the Red. » THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927 PRO-BRITISH DRIVE HELD WIDEINU. S, School Fight Witness in Chi-| cago Says England Wants i to Get “Colony” Back. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO. October 20 —Echoes of | Mayor Thompson's mpaign slogans, | “America first” and “Down with King George.” came bounding back with power tube volume vesterday at the board of education trial of William MeAndrew, suspended superintendent! of schools Testimony that aimed originally to show that Mr. McAndrew was foster- ing pro-British teaching in the Chica- o echools was augmented to lend s stance to Mayor Thompson's char that a carefully directed propaganda campaign favorable to England sud avorable to America s being ca ried on throughout the entire Nation Attacks Rhodes Fund. Frederick Bausman, former Su- preme Court justice of the State of Washington, was the witness, and he denlt almost entirely with the nation- wide propaganda he said exists. At one point in the hearing he volun- teered the statement that he knew nothing “about your local school- books." Mr. Bausman said Rhodes trust fund hrs as one of its objects the return of the United States to the British crowi, and that thiv is the apparent origin of the overseas propaganda. that the Cecil The United States, “influenced by Britlsh propaganda,” gave up su- premacy of the seas, Mr. Bausman said, “because it was foolish enough {o sink part of the Navy at England’s suggestion. The witness said that American colo- Injes in England and France are | “toadying to France and England, | that every member of the English- speaking unlon favors debt cancella- tion, and that George Locke, until re- cently president of the American Li- brary Association, is a Canadian and was England’s war-time director of propaganda. Hits Social Climbers. The American Library Association, he said, has been an agency for the alleged pro-British propaganda, molding the literary habits of America while acting as an agency of propaganda distribution. “This (propaganda) is not a nebu- lous thing,” said Mr. Bausman. “It is the deliberate work of human minds, aided by financiers of England who seek, first, the full cancellation of Eng- land’s war debt to the United States and second, the placing of the Union Jack wherever now' flies the Stars and Stripes.” Social climbers in America with mar- riageable daughters have “'sickeningly alded” England's cause, the witness said. “England maintains In New York an English bureau of information which sends out an amazinz amount of literature. all political,” Baus- man testified. “England fears that if America gets fo know England was a guilty party in the causes for the World War Americans no longer will fawn at her feet, as some do. Will Resume Monday. “Only one newspaper in England, the London Spectator, .deals fairly with us. All the rest hold us in the lowest contempt.” There was an indirect reference to the McAndrew charges when the wit- ness was asked his experience with books writteh by Columbia University ofessors. Mr. Bausman replied that he wealthy classes of Europe have a tremendous influence at Columbia and Princeton.” Prof. Muzzey of Columbia is the author of a history text used in Chi- cago which has been characterized as pro-British. When Bausman stepped from the sgand counsel for McAndrew moved that the entire testimony be stricken out. The motion was denied. The hearing is to be resumed Monday. I. W. W. THREATEN FORCE IN STRIKE OF COLORADO MINERS (Continued from First Page.) vent extension of the strike through picketing, “It picketing is a violation of the law then the county commissioners have to keep us, hecause we all in jail” Seidler replied. the majority of the 4,000 strikers in the southern field, author- ities concentrated deputies in the Walsenburg area. Wives of strikers were on the streets with thelr hus- bands early today. Seidler declared 500 man and woman pickets would be used at Walsenburg. Twenty pickets arrested Tuesday were held on charges of violating the strike statute. Searched for Arm: Referring to the reported attack on the part of the two I W. W. pickets on miners yesterday at the Lakeland mine, near Walsenburg, Seidler as- =erted every man was being searched today for firearms before he reported for picket duty. Mine officials announced that a large part of the strikers were of toreign descent and that at least 40 per cent of them were Mexicans. All special officers of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad were assigned to duty in the Walsenburg district, where it was reported a car- load of munitions had been smuggled to strikers. I W: W. leaders denied knowledge of the shipment. Claims of progress came from both sides. The State declared it had been successful in preventing the spread of the movement and strikers de- clared more men would leave work when the mines were picketed. Oper- ators reported a sharp slump in pro- duction in the Walsenburg section, while several mines in the Boulder, northern fleld, were said to be at a standstill, PICKETING STARTED. | Strikers Defy State and Take Up Posts at Mine, VALSENBURG, Colo., October 20 ). iking coal miners, headed by Industrial Workers of the World, started picketing mines in this dis- teict this morning in deflance of au- thorities, Eight automobiles, carrying seven men each, left I. W, W, headquarters for nearby mines shortly after b o'clock this morning. All were searched for firearms before they left headquarters. The men were instructed to mining properties, despite the order to arrest all pickets. Ofticials of the Rouse mine, 12 miles south of here, reported 30 pickets had evaded guards and entered camp. .. Flight Abandonment Urged. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Octo- ber 20 (#).—Premier Thomas R. Bavin has cabled Capt. Kingsford Smith, now in the United States as flight commander of the plane South ern Cross, saying that he cannot see his way to granting further financial assistance for the projected flight from San Francisco to Sydney. He urged the aviator to abandon the project because of its danger. enter State 'RADIO BOARD POST DEWEY POST FILLED. Name of Mellon’s Choice to Be An- nounced Later. Secretary Mellon has selected a suc- | cessor to Assistant Secretary of the | Treasury Charles 8. Dewey, who is re- signing soon to become fAnancial ad- viser to Poland, but the name of the new assistant bas not been disclosed. The position has been tendered to a man selected, it was learned today, but he still has it under udvisement, and until his official acceptance is re- ceived the Treasury will not announce his name. —_— GV TOBUTHAN News Service Head Is Named Secrelary to Succeed Sam T. Pickard. versity, and later went to Cornell and George Washington University. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta fra- ternity. His first position in Washington was with the Smithsonian Institution, where he served from 1909 to 1917, later becoming identified with the Creel bureau and with the News Bu- reau of the War Department. He then went with Air Service Journal, and later with the International News rvice, Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal. He organized the Washington Radio News Service in 1922 and is the present head of that organization, dealing with radio news from Washington. He is ma ried and lives at 3207 Cleveland avi nue. w Mr. Butman's dutles as secretary of the Radio Commission will be to keep in touch with all the varied interests that constitute the many phases of radio communication, and to handle the secretarial business of the com- mission. The Radio Control Board is legally in existence, but an appropria- tion to pay salaries to its members at the rate of $10,000 per year. was lost when the second deficiency act failed of passage in the last Congress. PRESIDENT SCORES SENATOR FESS FOR TALK OF DRAFTING (Continued from First Page.) the White House in an advisory ca- pacity, and throughout the debates in the Senate has been the real cham- pion of the President on the floor of that body. He was at the head of the vanguard of Republicans who commenced booming the President for another term ang has been most ac- tive in the past year or so making speeches over the country for renomi- nating and re-electing Coolidge. He has devoted cunsiderable speech and writing in answer to the third- term” opposition voiced by members of the Democratic party and others who have not been favorable to Mr. Coolidge for another term. He was one of the first of Mr. Coolidge’s intimates to talk with him out in the Black Hills following the announce- ment of the famous “I do not choose” statement, and immediately after that talk with the President Senator Fess {gave an interview to newspaper cor- respondents in which he stated that he believed the President was ab- solutely sincere in his purpose, and that i was his wish to retire, but. regardless of all this, he still was cer- tain that he would be the next Pres- ident. He was the first to set up the cry of drafting the President next year, and has continually since that Black Hills' talk with the President been making speeches to the effect that the Republican party ul-::ld draft him ir- respective of his wishes. The Semator's call at the White House today was for the purpose of discussing a matter of patronage for one of hig_constituents and the dress- ing down he received at the hands of the President was totally unexpected. He said that he is just as honest in his purpose regarding the President in another term as the latter is in his choice not to be a candidate again, and even though his activities may centinue to displease the President, even to the point of bringing their triendehip to the breaking point, he | proposes to continue. Wyant Another Caller. Representative Wyant of Pennsyl- vania, another caller at the White Huse today, sald the Republicans of his district wang President Coolidge for another term and that so far as he is able to ascertain there is little or no sentiment for any of the others that have been mentioned in connec- tion with the Republican nomination. He stated that al lof the people of his district have not been in sympathy with the President's policy at all times, especially the course followed in connection with the coal strike, but, regardless of this, they would like to see him serve another four years. o PRETZFELDER ELECTED Eighth Street Temple Group Names Officers and New Board Members. Five new board members were chosen and Leon Pretzfelder was elected president last night at the first annual meeting of the Brotherhood of the Eighth Street Temple. The other new officers are: Harold Lichtenstein, vice president; Harold Strauss, secre- tary, and A. D. Frank, treasurer. Elected to fill the expired terms of board members were: S. Sherry Stein, | i TOLEAVE RIS Parole P‘apers Fail to Arrive Early Today, but Release Is Expected in Afternoon. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, October 20.—Parole pa- pers for Earl Carroll did not arrive in the first mail delivery at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary today and War- den John W. Snook indicated that it probably would be mid-afternoon be fore the Broadway producer would be econd is The around noon and after the papers arc delivery of mail received there will be formality of signing the parole and checking out | with the record clerk. | | Appointment of Carl H. Butman, former newspaper man and editor of a radio news service, as secretary of the Federal Radio Commission was announced today by Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, chairman of the com- mission. Mr. Butman succeeds Sam T. Pickard, who has been named a member of the commission and will take over his new duties on Novem- ber 1, the effective date of the resig- nation of Henry A. Bellows, a mem- her ! Ma Mr. Butman, who is at present act- ing as news director for the Interna- { tional Radiotelegraphic | was born in Chelsea, Mass., and educated in the public schools of Massachusetts and Washington, where he came in 1900. He is a graduate of | McKiniey Manual Training High hool and was a captain in the cadet corps at the school. He attended col- ;7: the radlo board since last| lege for two years at Dartmouth Uni- . HEAD OF BROTHERHOOD 3 Carroll was at the “honor farm where he served as librarian, early to day, waiting to be brought to the main prison, 10 miles nearer Atlanta, during the morning. Mrs. Carroll Arrives. Mrs. Carroll reached here today and went to a hotel to await the New York theatrical producer’s release from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on pa- role during the day. Accompanying Mrs. Carroll were Carroll's sister, Mrs. Alice Schneider, and one of his brothers, James Carroll. Another brother, Norman, is In charge of the Carroll show now In New England. The closing act of the impresario's prison drama found him eager to appear on the street that won him fame as a producer of musical revues—and a sentence in the Federal | prison for his widely reviewed bathtub party. His signature to papers authorizing his release on parole was the formal | gesture necessary to cut short his | confinement and re-establish the identisy of prisoner 24,909. Dinner Is Canceled. | Early this morning Carroll waw all | readiness. He would brook no delay for the trip that takes him back to New York. Even his gratitude to the people of Greenville, 8. C., where he lay in a hospital for a month after sudden fliness had interrupted his journey to Atianta and prison, could not slacken his program of a speedy return. A proposed stop-over there was canceled and regrets were sent to those who had planned a dinner in his honor. All of his personal effects were packed yesterday in his little hut on the prison honor farm. Because he was well supplied with smartly tailor- ed clothing, the regulation “civilian suit” given to departing inmates when they cast off prison garb was not offered him. The creator of the “Vanities” offered no word of future plans, even to inti- mate friends, as he arranged the de- tails of his departure. Remembers Convict Friends. Carroll's thoughtfulness for his friends among the prisoners caused hjm to order many of his personal pos- sessions left for their use, including an expensive radio set and a sum of money he had on deposit at the prison. The latter he ordered used to help his friends Warden Snook saw fit. Another gesture came yesterday when Carroll voluntarily wrote out a check for $2,000 to pay the fine that his sentence had also imposed. This was not due until his sentence and parole have expired, but Carroll ex- pressed a desire to “pay it now and avoid any encangling technicalities.” ‘Warden Snook made the comment that Carroll was one of very few prisoners then within the walls who could write such a check and have it honored. PR e REALTORS ON TOUR OF NEARBY VIRGINIA D. C. Party on Inspection as Guests of Arlington and Fairfax Coun- ties and Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 20.— Realtors of Washington, D. C., are Auests today of the Arlington County, Fairfax County and Alexandria Real Estate Boards and the Chamber of Commerce of Arlington County on a tour of inspection, starting at 2:30. . The visitors, including members of the Washington Real Estate Board, will be guests at a dinner tonight at g;fih“'llhlnxlon Golf and Country ub. The committee In charge of the pro- gram is composed of K. A. Brumback, chairman; William P. Ames, John G. Graham, W. C. Fitch, Ashton C. Jones, M. E. Church, Guy Church and C. A. Keefer. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, in' Stanley Hall, at 5:40 o’clock this event John 8. M. o o] A Scuthern tone poem, “Carry &p. Back to Old Virginn; Hosmer edy Excerpts from the musical com o Rita” T & Memory". “Russian Lullaby, Berlin Finale, “It All Belongs to Me"...Berlin “The Star Spangled Banner." LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse, $2,000: claiming mhellln: Gmnflm Igdogg: about 2 Valse popular, oruchohn esee jurch Brampton 137 Silk Scarlet. s 4 S S 18 R i SECON! CE—Purse, Pe Lol f“mumu ST waes & Jefferson Livingston entry. ACE—] THIRD R. - for 2.year-olds: 1 mile. - Darco ogal Caitis . a*Burning aP. H. Faylconer and J. P. A B T UEE Ty i FOURTH RACE—Purse, < apdiisie: for a-nmm‘u« up: o 2 6 furiongs. n Harold Ganss, Allen V. De Ford, Nor-|D man C. Kal and Henry Jaffe, Reports of committee chairmen were accepted. R. B. H. Lyon was elected to fill the honorary office of counselor ot the brotherhood. He appealed for support for the Boys' Club campaign. A team of elght was named to meet whlh the Boys' Club committee and assist. Rabbi Willlam Franklin Rosenblum by #spoke on *‘Brothering Our Youth.” He introduced Franklin Blumenthal of Los Angeles, who will conduct a high school class at the temple. The new board will hold its first meeting at the town house of the!s | 290 choico 1 Town and Country Club Monday eve- ning, to appoint committees and plan the year's work. 185 & tof Biear-aids und wpreL miie nd 76 Fards. 108 *Sox t 12 e 112 Royal Highness. 111 VE . $1,300: claim- imd e S5 AR Rl S *Harlan elor’ uban Rouxe . 110 Archer ... 7 b 93::’1;..““1 E § e U N K T CARROLL READY S