Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1927, Page 1

WEA (U. S. Weather Fair tonight; cloudy: not g0 coo Temperature—Highest, av; lowest, 40, Full report on page 9. p.m. vester: today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 o No. 30,494 post oftice, THER. tomorrow partly ol €9, at 2:10 at 6:30 a.m. | l ! Entered as second class matter Washington. D. C. PRESIDENT SHUNS INTERFERING N MAGRUDER BASE[ Confers With Wilbur and In-! dicates He Will Not See Admiral Before Nov. 5. APPEAL “F OFFICER | GIVEN TO EXECUTIVE, Commander-in-Chief Seen as Op- posing Undue Publicity of Controversy. BY J. RUN President Coolidge has no inte of complying with the appes Admiral Magruder for a revo the order of the Secre Navy detaching him from his. com- mand of the fourth naval district, ac. cording to indications at the White House today. Neither is it thought | likely that the President will grant| the admiral an audience, at least not | n advance of the time set for him to report to the Secretary of the Navy. | Mr. Coolidge was represented by one of his intimates as feeling that the | Magruder case already had been given undue notoriety, and that regardless of personal feelings he may have or opinions he may entertain, he cer- tainly has no desire to assist in focus- ing the public’s attention to what ap pears now to ba a_fizht between the admiral and the Navy Department. ‘Wilbur Confers With President. These impressions were gained fol- lowing a long conference between the President and Secretary of the Nave Wilbur. It was said afterward that Admiral Magruder's appeal, which was in the form of a letter addressed to the President through the Secre- tary of the Navy, was formally laid before the President by Mr. Wilbur | and was discussed, but it was an-| nounced that the contents would not be made public at this time. During this conference President Coolidge and the head of the Navy Department are known to have talked at some length about the varjous phases presented in the Magruder case, and that the President made known to his Secretary what he de- sired the jatter to do in disposing of the case. Following this conference Secretary Wilbur was not inclined to be talka- tive. 1le admitted that he brought the admiral's letter to the President, and that he made some comment to the Jatter upon it, but he would not ven- ture an opinion as to what the Presi- dent proposed doing. He did say that jt was not his personal jntention to receive the admiral before November 5. the time set in the order issued by him detaching Admiral Magruder from his command and directing bhim to re- port to the department. Wilbur Is Emphatic. etary Wilbur spoke with con- siderable emphasts in announcing that he would not receive Admiral Ma- er before that date, and this was faken by those who heard him as be- ing a strong hint that this was one of the decisions reached during his con- ference 'with the President. It was| taken also to imply that the Presi-| dent certainly would do nothing re- garding Admiral Magruder in the antyme. _ *Associates of Mr. Coolidge felt con- fident today that regardiess of what his personal opinions may be of the magazine articles and subsequent in- terviews attributed to Admiral Ma- gruder, in which he is accused by the Secretary of the v of criticising the naval establishment, the President will back up the Secretary of the Navy in the latter's punishment of this of- ficer and that he will do nothing to contribute to the publicity of the case or to what his intimates referred to as “helping to make a martyr” out of the naval officer. Loyalty Is Questioned. TWithout considering the possibility of there being any merit in the claims made by Admiral Magruder in his re- cent magazine article that the Navy is wasting public money because it i overorzanized and is otherwise uneco- nomical, the President is known to be | bitterly opposed to officers of the Army and Navy indulzing in public criticismz_of their respective depart- ments. He not only frowns upon such tactics, but is represented as question- ing them as being loyal. This attitude of the President was made very plain only a week or s ago when he recalled Maj. Gen. C. P. Summerall, chief of staff of the Army, from a Western trip because of his al- | leged criticism of the Army housing | conditions and is known to have se- | verely rebuked him when he discussed | the matter with him later. It is point ed out, however, that the cases of | Gen. Summerall and Admiral Magru- der are mot parallel. At least they differ to the cxtent that Gen. Sum. merall was not finding fault with the administration of the military lishment, but was complainin hy conditions. It opinion at the White House ] Summerall was probably prompted by a degire to influence an increa in | appropriations for the Army. In th case of Adm Maugruder, his erit cism is looked uj; sgainst the Nav Economy May Affect View. The opinion has been advanced th because of President nounced Views on eco b e might look upon Admiral Magruder's criticism of th Navy for what he 0 be a ™ te of money in favorubic t Howeve t wle The sident h reason to know that has thoroughly inquired int th zes of waste made ny the admiral t his information has been cient to satisfy him and to cause to give his fullest suppor: to K v Wilbur in his handling of 1his cage. Morcovel he I'resident ix known to have remarked thit he would have been more imotessed with Admiral Magruder's «barges had the latter offered some remedy to correct the condition he was publicly eriticis- ing sides, the President has been Tepresented a8 not agy with_the (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) ation of of the } | | claims @ more s 0 ¥ chi ar 5 b | | The full text of the correspond- ence exchanged between of the Navy Wilbur Adiniral T. P. Magruder, which led 1o the orders relieving Ad- miral Magruder as commandant of the rd | rescued them and their a RETIRING BOARD | Stephens { the National Guard would be used if | . dictator, | properly police mines. ah WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, SURVIVORS OF SHIPWRECK TELL OF HEROI Cobw [Jikad SM AND TERROR o Quii Woinen's Fears RULE OF MILITARY, French Skipper's Daring Saves 110: 68 of 1,238 Aboard Lost By the Associated Press. BAHIA, Brazil, October 2 lief that Capt. mander of the camship Principessa Mafalda, perished with his ship off the coast of Brazil was | expressed by members of the ship's crew who landed here tod the rescue ship Mosella. —Be- com- By the Asso RI1O DE October 2 ship sped toward this port | ng hundreds who were snatched from death when the Italian liner Principessa Mafalda sank after | an explosion 80 miles off the coast of | | Brazil | 600 miles opposite Porto Segura, about | north of here, | were that the rescue ships, the first of which is due here it midnight tonight, picked up ail but 1l of 998 passengers and a 0 ahoard the Mafalda. The surviv told graph stories to the commanders of the ships which ccounts were Tndication: forwarded by wireless, The passengers, 300 of whom were | Italian emigranis bound for the | promised land of South America, were in high spirits as the Mafalda | | appr the coast. Soon they the heautiful harbor fertile hinderland ched be in 0 or settled in the of the Argentine, Supper had been se was singing and danci fillment of the d. The mq est in the the emi; woul and there as the ful new home wits 158 quarters, nts traveled. ame to a brusque adio frantically The nearest ships T sponded to the call under forced draught and re the call to 3 others to the Te: The radio later message said that dent had occurred aboard la because of dryness in the boiler plates Joicing among the passengers turned to consternation. The coolness of the ship's officers prevented a panic The orchestra, which hi aying for the merrymakers, ing the Italian nthem with a more serious in mind, quieting of of the terror- stricken passengers Capt. Simon Guli Sea; stood on th ved called 8 O 8 cu purpe the fe Dbridge, outwardly undisturbed, barking his orders, The officers and’ crew directed the passen- gers to the lifeboats stations and as- (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) TES 31 OLCE Eight Officers Ordered Be-| fore Meeting Today in D. C. Building. Thirty-seven members of the police | force have been ordered to appear he. fore the Police Retiring Board. It is certain, however, that all will not be recommended for retirement. Kight of them were cited to appear before the board at a meeting held in the boardroom of the District Building at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Assistant Corporation Counsel . H. :8 chairman of the be other members being Inspector W. H. Harrison of the Police Department and_Fourth Battalion Chief Charles E. Schrom of the Fire Department. The eight members cited to apnear this afternoon were Detective Robert Livingston, Thomas L. English, Sam- uel “D. Gibson, Jacob E. Larrick, George W. Sollers, Charles C. Grim. sley, ~ Alexander McKie and J. J. O’Brien. Miss Gladys Black, member of the | force of the Woman's Bureau, is scheduled 1o appear. Others arve De- tetcive Thomas D. Walsh, W. H. Ver. million, Henry Blackenheimer, James P. Barrett, Frank B. Owens, Henry C. Lee, Christopher C. Saunders, Al- fred R. Levi, Charles P. Powell, Charles H. Cowne, John C. Bunn, John F. Bradley, John E. Hartman and Ed- ward M. Jett. Richard N. Spicer, Anthony Fennel- | Iy, Alfred V. Brown, W. J. Canfield, | Robert L. Carroll, Edgar Downs, Hen- ry H. Frye, John T, Herbert, Thomas Orianl, Joseph’ Bassford, James P. Hendricks and Herman Holz GOVERNOR IS READY TO SUPPRESS STRIKE | Colorado Executive Threatens Ac-| tion as I. W. W. Defies Authori- ties in Mine Dispute. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Col. October Defiance of authorities by Industrial Workers of the World in extending the Colorado coal strike to new fields today found Gov. W, H. Adams ready to order State interference. In referring to picketing, which h; resulted in suspension of the majority of mines in the southern field and many properties in northern Colorado. the governor declared this was un- lawful and that hé would use every instrument available to enforce the| law and protect life and property. This was interpreted to méan that county authorities were unable to The adjutant general revealed that all Guard equip- | ment recently had been inspected and company rosters checked to assurs rapid mebilization. e STV ALVAREZ REPORTS ROUT | OF VERA CRUZ REBELS the Associated Press, » L PASO, Tex., October Continental, Spanish language new paper, prints an official statement to made by Gen. Jose Alvarez, chief the presidential staff in Mexico in which he says that federal = have succeeded in routing and defeating all rebel groups in Vera tate, en. Alvarez adds that in view of 1 triumphs reporte agents in _Mexic i in the United State: | Zovernment extends cordial invitation | | newspaper men, Mexicans as well as foreigners, to go to the are of military operations to themselves of the effectiveness campaizn of fede The govern give every fa lity to newspaper men. | | its CLERGY OPPOSE DRY AGT IN POLL Episcopal Minicters, by Vote of Nearly 2 to 1, Say Pro- hibition Is Failure. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—A poll on prohibition taken among clergy; of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States reveals 1,032 of them favoring modification of the Volstead act and 593 against modification, ac- cording to Rev. Dr. Charles Living- ston, chairman of the publicity com- mittee of the National Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Dr. Livingston said the poll showed that 1,138 clergymen do not believe that prohibition offers the hest solu- tion for the problems of intemperance as against 624 who do. The ministers as individuals de- ctared prohibition bad had sufficient | trial and-even gave a scant majority to the question of repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. “The Protestant Episcopal Church is officially in favor of law obser: ance,” said Dr. Livingston in mak- ing public the results of the survey, but our survey shows that the clergy as individuals are not in favor of the Volstead law.” A tabulation of survey follows: Is prohibition a locality ?—Yes, 445; Have we had th for a fair trial?— Regardiess of one's attitude toward the use of liquor, do you believe a prohibition law offers the best solu the vote in the success in your No. 745. law long enough Should the Volste. ct be modi- fied ’—Yes, 1.032. No, 543, Should the eightesnth amendment be repecaled ?—Yes, 0. T93. PANGALOS IS HELD BUILTY OF TREASON Former Greek Dictator Con- demned by Commission to Be Tried. By the Associated Press, ATHENSE, Greece, October 27.—Gen. Theodorus Pangalos, former Greek has been found guilty of high on by a commission ap- pointed by the government to inquire into his activities. He will not be placéd on trial, however, for two months, Gen. Pangalos was overthrown & Gen, George Kondylis, the present pre- mier, in a coup d'etat in August, 1926, while Pangalos was enjoying a holi- ay at a fashionable seaside resort on the Island of Spet He arrested and hrought to Athens, Gen. Kondylis declaring Pangald held to strict ability for the “regime of tyranny of the last eight months, alos in ated In Augu committee uire into his power in 1 It was prov findings were to be Parliament, which would e tion of eulpability I decis After this was made known a speciul court of 30 members of Par- ment wotld he convoked for a pub- trial Pan in ap re of led that referred to mine the fore giving a was a arlismentary pointed to i que o8 was sed Octo- examination into nst the presen: gov- ernment in favor of her hushand. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, October 27.—A woman may be only a woman to Rudyard Kipling, but two of them today con- stituted an Intricate problem for | Sheriff Charles B, Graydon. Two judges have fssued seemingly contradictory mandates in the c se | of Mrs, Tina Wortman and Mrs. Hoine, two November election | =, under & year's sentence each | for ballot frauds. If Sher!ff Graydon | oheys one court order he Is liable for contempt tnder the other, b :-Sherifl “Disappears“ to Solve Problem of Women's Arrest Judge Jarecki ruled that the two women must start serving their jail sentences at once. Judge Klarkowski held they should be sdmitted to bail under haheas corpus writs, Sheriff Grayd by “disapp locate him told the women efforts to Judge Klarkowskl to 5o home under their %5000 bonds, pending & habeas cot hearing November 8. The writs were oblained on the around that election laws specify that only men shall serve as election offi- cials and that the women, therefore, were not liable for the frauds the ! | a veteran of the would be | a| un | BUCHAREST UNDER BELGRADE HEARS Capital Said to Be Seething as Arrest of Peasant Leader Looms. ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS ARE HEAVILY GUARDED | Government Declared in Stern Drive to Suppress Any Attempts to Return Carol. By the Associated Pr BELGRADE. Jugoslavia, Reports reaching here through underground channels, since tightly closed because v that the is extremely October various the frontier i sorship, said t | of the cen: <itua in Bucharest ituation Public buildings, ministries and rail- road stations are heavily guarded by troops and gendarmes, it was stated. All gatherings of more than four per- sons in the cit streets are imme- diately dispersed, it was said. Troops were reported to have been called in from the provinces and now practically surround the capital and | occupy strategical points throughout the city Bucharest was said to be seething when the report circulated that the Bratiano government intended to ar-| rest Juliu Manin, leader of the Na- tional Peasant party. CAROL DEPLORES FORC Former Prince Blames Government | For Tense Situation. PARIS, October 27 (R).—Advices from the Rumanian border indicated today that the government had taken stern measures to suppress any at- tempt to restore former Crown Prince Carol to the throne which he renounced. Many supporters of Carol have been arrested, according to reports from Belgrade. In Buchares', it was stated that the government firmly intended to defend the established constitu- tional regime and that complete calm prevailed throughout the country. which is under martial law. M. Manoilescu, former ‘ungersecre- tary of finance 1n the Averescu cabi- net, awaits trial before a military | court eharged with plotting for Carol's | return. On Manoilescu were found | letters. from Carol to leaders of the | various nian political parties position. . who is at St. Malo, on the French seaconst, sald that the letters carried by Manoilescu were intended to bring before the party leaders his statement issued afier the death of his father, King Ferdinand. This, he asserted, had been suppressed by the | government of Premier Bratiano. “It is the government that keeps the dynastic question boiling,” he declared, “hecause it refuses to allow free discussion of it.” Leaders of various parties had | asked confirmation of his declaration, OCTOBER 27, CITY PLANNERS HIT LACK OF FORESEAT | so that the people might understand | the question, he said. | “The government has taken a grave | responsibility in arresting Manoilescu,"” | he "asserted, nd the consequences will fall upon it. May God protect my country and give it wisdom to act | according to its interests.” | Carol said the general tenor of the seized letters was that recent events and advices had compelled him to put aside the reserve which he had im- posd on himself. Declarations denied publication in Rumania were published by Le Matin here. July 31, he con- tifued. NEW SPANISH PLOT REPORTED IN PARIS Dispgtches From Frontier Tell o!i Mobilization to Halt Latest Revolt. By the Associated Preas. PARIS, October ~Paris new pers in dispatches from the Spanish frontier reported today that another | Spanish revolutionary plot had been discovered. The police were reticent, but it is known that large numbers of police and soldiers have been concen- trated on the frontier, A dispatch to Le Matin from Foix | says that during the last few days the police have been keeping the closest watch on all foreigners in the Ariege department and in the Valley of Ariege. Yesterday sendarmes began to concentrate at Foix to watch all roads leading to the frontier. In the evening an automobile truck loa with gendarmes and chevaux de frise left for Upper Arie Troop have | been restricted to quarters, being held | |in readiness for eventualities. | A dispatch to the Pavis edition of |the Chicago Tribune from Narbonne ys that bands of conspirators are be- | |licved to be assembling in the Repub- |lic of Andorra, where Col. F) Macin, convicted and _exiled unce for h v 18 being held in re: nan to ol the frontier the vis 1 Alfonso is ex to make at Olot, Spain, near | r. lese In at Pe hec pected the bord TROTSKY CENIES PLOT. Ousted Communist Ridicules Data of Secret Police Probe. MOSCOW, October 27 ().—A sensa- tional account of the secret police in- vestigation which led to expulsion of Leon Trotsky and Gregory Zinoviev from the central committee of ths | | | | | ing Communist Party, “alleging that the investigation ‘established contact be- tween non-Communist Trotsky adher- ents and counter-revolutionists who were planning armed rebellton, s printed today in Pravda, official organ of the central committee, When faced with these data, the op- position leaders, Including Trotsk) and Zinoviev, ealled it a “Q. P. i detective novel.” The G. P. U, is the abbrevation for the state political de- partment which formerly was known ae the chelm ¢ Fhening THE 1927—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. ar. “From Press to Home With in the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,928 ¥ (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SPIRIT OF NAVY DAY N Civic Association to End Tour of Providence Dis- trict Tomorrow. BY BEN McKELWAY. Staft Correspondent of The Star, PROVIDENCE, R. I, October 2 When Roger Williams, driven out of Massachusetts, founded what is now the State of Rhode Island as a haven of refuge for all of those who were persecuted for their diverse beliefs he founded at the same time a tradition of independent thought and inde- pendent action, plus resentment to coercion in any form, which lives to- day and which has served in a charac- teristic manner to hinder the solution of problems confronting the metr politan district of Providence. Williams invited into his *haven Turks and infidels, but his invitation was accepted by Quakers and other solid citizens who have prospered and multiplied mightily, but who neglected to plan in advance for the inevitable results of such prosperity and ‘mul- tiplication. End Two-Day Tour. 's attending the “traveling meeting” of the American Ciy ciation concluded a two-day tour the metropolitan area of Providence today, and prepaved to end their meet- ing tomorrow after a visit to Spring field and the Connecticut Valle have been impressed during in Providence with the peculia tion resulting from the existence with- in a wmall area of a multitude of corporate divisions and jurisdictions: towns and cities so close {0 each other that their boundary lines are to b found only by searching th: map € dotted lines, Each of these tovns ous of its political and_ suspicious of a might be interpreted aperceding The result today is that while the metropolitan park district of Prov dence plantations, established officially some 22 years ago. has resulted a fine system of parks and Kways throughout the northern section, par- ticularly of Rhode Island, other pro} lems which are as pressing as the need for p: have remained unsolve The majority of villages and citi in Rhode Island, for instance, have adopted zoning regulation it the city of Pawtucket, a few miles from Providence, remains the only city of its size in the United States which lacks any zoning law and which show no intention of having one—a spiri undoubtedly inherited from the spi of the founders. The matter of sewer- Visits independence’ move which NURSE CONVICTED OF MOSSER SLAYING Second-Degree Verdict in Cumber- i land Case—Landlord Shot at Farm Woman Rented. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND. Md., October 27.— s Mabel an, former Baltimore nurse, was convicted of second-legree murdes by a jury here today for slay Daniel Mosser, her landlord. She admitied shooting the farm sha rented from him Swanton, Garrett County, last 26, but pleaded self-defense. She de clared he broke in the door of her home and threw a brick at her when she refused to pay him the rent until he had made certaln repairs to the I M te contended she shot ause she suspected him of informing prohibition agents she had liquor on her farm, which & raided three weeks before the shooting. he Mosser he THREE DIE IN WRECK. Passenger Train Between Sarajevo and Mostar in Jugoslavia Crashes. VIENNA, Austria, October 27 (#). —Three persons were killed and one injured when a passenger train was wrecked between Sarajevo and Mos tar, Jugoslavia, yesterday. An Exchange Telegraph dlspatch to London last night reported that 260 persons were killed when a passenger train plunged over a precl- pice In Jugosiavia. . . Radio Program—Page 34 Mosser on HoneymoonDispute Ends With Divorce * After 37 Years By the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES, October 27.—A honeymoon argument over the proper place for knives on a well set table has ended after 37 years in divorce court here. A decree was awarded to Mrs. Martha Bucher, who favered the right- nd side of the plate. Charles Bucher, who remained, according to his wife, a stanch de- fender of the left-hand side through- out the 37 years of bickering, did not contest the suit. “It began right after we were married,” testified M Bucher concerning the knife arzument. ‘He kept arguing about that all the time and would never'let up. At Jast I told him to forget it. I thought vears long enough to argue about anything. He started a violent quarrel and then left me.” DIPLOMAT CALLED RECKLESS DRIVER Policeman Declares * Mar: | chetti,."*alian Embassy Of- | ficial, Drove at High Speed. Marchetti, counselor for the Itlian embassy and acting ¢ha Vaifaires in the absence of Ambassador Martino, | with speeding and reckless drivi | was forwarded to the State Depart ment today by the District Com- missioners. i The complaint was made hy P R. N. White of the thirteerth police precinct, whp said he paced a high- priced roadster which the diplomat was driving south on Geo avenne Sunday morning about 130 o'ciock at a speed of 50 miles an hour and was unable to overtake the machine nntil after it slowed down to make a turn into Colorado avenue. He said | stopped the machine between Kennedy | and Sixteenth streets. Policeman’s Report. The veport of Policeman White, hich the Commissioners sent to the tate Department, \0ut comment, 1 = “About 1:30 a.m. October 23, while standing on Georgia avenu posite Walter teed Hospital, my at- tention was to an auto coming south ¢ Georgia avenue northwest at a very fast rate of speed. There had just been an this point and about 20 gathered in the street whon I heard this machine coming at such a rate of speed, T stepped into the roadway and tried to stop it by wiving I hands, but the operator paid ne at- tention to me and wed through the erowd at what I judge to be 60 miles an hour or faster. 1 jumped on my op- motor and within one block of this car when it slowed down to turn into Colorado avenue, I paced this car from this point at 50 miles an hour and could | not gain on it for three blocks. T | then moved up on it and stopped it | between Kennedy street and Sixteenth | street. 1 asked the driver for his | permit, which he showed me, as well {as an’ identification card from the te Department, showing he Alberto Marchetti from the Ita ¢, He was driving a_roadster {hearing a District of Columbia license ilug this man had in my opinion wi and a menace to the ) heen arinking 4 | reckl | public ‘IPulmolor S(-]_u_ad | Works 13 Hours To Save Tiny Baby Bv the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 27.—A pul- motor squad, working in relays of 13 hours, apparently had saved the life of the B-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mra, John Fitzgibbons to- day, s Artifictal ration was first employed at 1 p.m. yesterday XEFa0 s loday breathing had :30 a.m. ea been brought to near no Dr. D_D. Goldberg, attending, sald. The haby, In good health at birth, developed lung paralysis yesterday ! A formal complaint charging Alberto | he | L?:i\t“ chase for 11 blocks and caught up| ARTS COMMISSION SPEEDS MALL PLAN Completion of Major Details | Hoped for by 1932, Date | | of- Celebration. | ng toward 1932, when the 200th of the birth of George ashington will be celebrated here, | the Commission of Fine Arts is mak | ing surveys and laying plans for early development of, at least part of, the | roadway plan of the. Mall, and parti- | cularly that part lying between Sev- nth and Fifteenth streets. parred from utilization of much of the Mail area between Seventh and Fourand-a-half streets by the pres- ence of temporary buildings now being | used to house vernment units, the | commission plans to proceed with de- | | velopment of curb lines and plotting | of roadways on both sides of the Mall area, €o that when the final composi- | tion is ready, the plan will have been | worked out. Part of the grading of the Mall in connection with roadway construction, | particularly between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, is expected to be | taken care of when work starts early | vear on the central wing of the | rtment of Agriculture Building, | anted by Congress. Forms New Group. Dedication of the Meade Memorial statue last week, forming a completed architectural group with the statue to its east, perfects the plan and makes necessary early pletion of the eastern section of the | Mall to bring the entire project into | harmony. At the same time, it is| | hoped that temporary buildings front hg on the plaza between the Capitol | nd Union Station may be removed by 1932, At present, however, and for the next year the commission will be busy with establishment of at least two | parallel roadways, one on each side | of the Mall, to mark the building line on each side of the east and west vista through the city. In later years two | more inside the two major voads will come, to be overshadowed | by elm trees, leaving an open space | down the center from which a visitor stand on the west steps of the | tol and look past the Washington | Monument to Lincoln Memorial, and | across the new Arlington Memorial Bridge to Arlington. At present, the vista is blocked by | temporary buildings at Four-and-a-half |and Seventh streets, and the mass of | roadways and parking. The Mall cen- ter is marked by the line of two brick | smokestacks on one of the temporary | buildings at Seventh street. The plan to construct a sunken oadway through the Mall to a m- nodate east and west traffie, broached eral months ago, virtually has been yabandoned as without value and one | | " | that is almost certain to destroy the { beauty of the central vista. Counter {plans for sunken roadways erossing the Mall from north to south are un- derstood also to have been cast aside. Marked by Buildings. The Mall huilding line is now de- fined by several permanent Govern- { ment structures, occupying permanent | sites in the central composition. These | include the old Freer Museum. the National Museum, the Department of Agriculture group, the Smithsonian {Institution and one or two more strueture: Involved in the scheme to conform the Mall plan with original lines for great central composition on the {east and west axis under the I'Enfant | scheme of 1792, is the plan for con- isll'll4'li4)n of tne Monument Gardens, jall ntemplated in modification of the L'Enfant plan by the McMillan plan of 190 It is on these plans that Charles Moore, chairman of the ¢ of Fine Arts, who has vir- given up his at the Li- of Congress, now is concentrat- ing. in the hope that much of the| { work on the Mall may be completed by | 1932, | MISS COUZENS TO WED. Eldest “Daughter of Senator En-| gaged to Ohioan. DETROIT October 27 (#).—An- nouncement was made today of the engagement of Miss Madeleine Couz- ens, pidest daughter of Senator and Mrs, James Couzens, to Willlam, Rumer ¥aw. Yaw attended Ohio State University and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Yaw of Gloucester, Ohlo. He had lived In Detrolt about five years. ., Misa Couzens will complete a law course in George \Washington Uni- versity, Washington, D, C. next Spring. T { | authorization for which has been [ | ment's offer of Sinel: RELATIVE OF FALL BALKS AT QUERIES INOIL FRAUD TRIAL | . = |Everhart Declares Answer on Business Dealings Might Incriminate Him. SINCLAIR'S TESTIMONY 'BEFORE SENATE BARRED Bank Official Testifies to Delivery of $90,000 in Bonds for Fall. AL T. Everhart, son-in-law of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, testifying as a Government wit- ne in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial this afternoon, declined to answer a question put to him Ly Owen J. Roberts, special Govarnment oil coun- sel, as to whather or not he had any business t tions with Harry Sin- clair_or Sinclair's oil company prior to February 1, 1922, Everhart de. clared he would not answer on the ground of “self-incrimination” and of- fered to tell the court his reasons. Justice Frederick L. Siddons excused the jury until after Everhart had made known his stand on the matter. As an official of the Tres Ritos Land and Cattle Co,, the Government previously had shown by its evi- dence verbart deposited a large amount of Liberty bonds in a Pueblo, olo.,, bank for “Senator A. B. Fall.” The Government contends these bonds were given by Sinclair to Fall a month after the Teapot Dome lease was signed. Sinclair Evidence Barred. Upholding Section 859 of the re- vized statutes whieh provides that no testimony given before congressional committees by a witness duly sume moned and sworn shall be used g t that witness in subsequent criminal proceedings. Justice Siddons blocked efforts of special Government oil prosecutors to place in evidence, as an admission against Harry F, Sinclair, his testimony before the Senate oil committee on December 4, 1923, in which he stated he visited the co-defendant Albert B. Fall at the latter's ranch in New Mexico to {discuss the leasing of Teapot Dome on December 31, 1921. Roberts immediately opened up the most sensational elements of the Government's charses by producing testimony to the effect that Liberty bonds with a var value. of $90,000 re deposited in the First National Bank of Pueblo, Colo, on May 29, 1922, a monih rfcer the Teapot Dome lease w signed, hy M. T. Everkart, son-in-law of Fall, with instruction | that they “be placcd m a box carried under the 11" and w Ever] bond. me of Senator A. B. 1 the udled remark by t that they were “Mr. Fall's Cashier Tells of Bonds. The Government charged that fol- lowing the signing of the Teapot Dome lease between S:nelair and the | Government on April 7, 1922, Sinclalr “delivered or caused to be delivered” and Fall “received or caused to be received from kim” a large amount of Liberty bonds. Rule, assistant cashier of the ational Bank of Pueblo, was the Government witness from whom Roberts drew ais evidence which the prosecutilon claims was the sixth overt aet in the aileged conspiracy between the two prominent men to defraud the Government in connec- tion with the lease of Teapot Dome. tule testificd over a storm of ob- jections from Fall's counsel, William Leahy, and in answer to a rapid fire of questions from Roberts that the bonds “subsequently were shipped suth,” that the coupons were de- tached and deposited in the bank October 5, 1922, to the credit of the Tres Ritos Cattle & Land Co. in which Fall had a major interest; that the deposit slip for the coupons hore the word¢ “from A. B. Fall bonds,” and that they amounted to $1,575. Rule could not recall where the bonds were shipped when pressed by Roberts to explain his testimony that they were “shipped South.” He ‘“pre- sumed” Mr. Everhart gave him the instructions that they be sent. and testified that later 000 of the bonds and othe: were brought back to the bank by Everhart. These $20,000, the witness saidegvere later purchased by the bank, and the amount, $20,436.88 was deposited to the Tres Ritos Co.'s account. On June 18, 1923, the bank disposed of the $20,000 bonds as part of a lot of $50,000 to a New York bank- ing house, Rule stated. Justice Siddons' ruling against the admissibility of , Sinclair's testimony came at the end of a 50-minute state- ment, which he delivered orally on the opening of court. When the presiding justice called for facts and circum- stances as to Sinclair's appearance in a prepared statement which he read Monday morning, counsel for botn sides entered into a stipulation as to the exact state of affairs. As a re- sult of this stipulation, the Govern- ir's testimony «f December 4, 1923, became enlarged to include his statements before the Sep. ate oil committee of October 29, 192,.. Counsel agrced that on the Octobgs appearance, Sinclair appeared in con - pliance with a notice, but was nct sworn. On the December appearanc i he had been notified, and was sworn. October Statement Privileged. The court permitted the Governmen! to offer in evidence the October state ments it it desired, but in ruling ool the December testimony Justice Sid dons declared “to admit it is to deny the efficacy of the plain language of the statute and compel Sincluir to-be 2 witness against himselt. Justice Siddons emphasized that the question at issue before him was in no sense similar to that which Justice Adolph Hoehling decided last year in the Fall-Doheny trial when he per- mitted the Government to place in evidence a letter by Fall to the com- mittee and the testimony of Edward L. Doheny. The court explained that in both instances neither was under oath and both voluntarily submitted their testimony to the committee with- out having been sworn. In permit- ting the Government to enter the October 29 testimony of Sinclair, the court construéd in it effect as not be. ing testimony because the witness was not sworn. This testimony has & bearing on the ofl leases and the Qowv: ernment was uncertain today whether it would offer it along with some W~ (Continued on Page 4, Column B