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. 9 L4 g THE EVEN‘ G STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1927. VAN LOON AND ACTRESS ENTER {ULTRA-MODERN MARRIAGE PACT |Neither Assumes Slightest: Obligation to Other, by Agreement. D.C.HEADS TO ASK NEW POLICE COURT! $500,000 Fund to Be Sought@ in Congress—Held Urgent Need by Schuldt. APPROVED PLANS FOR TWO OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS COLORADO MINERS CEASE PICKETING I. W. W, Strikers Defy Gov- ernor, but:Fail to Show Up at Mines. e AR g%%rr"wr LETES rrhe Author and Wife Maintain| Separate Homes—Money Not Shared. By the Associated Press. WALSENBURG, Colo., November 2. —Although approximately 400 striking coal miners voted here last night to resume picketing in defia of a threat frora Gov. W. H. Adams that such action might invoke State inter- vention. there was no picketing this morning. A group of strikers met early to- day and reaflirmed their decision to start picketing again, but a check of all mines In Las Animas and Huer- fano Counties showed there had beem no picketing. Eighteen automobile loads of | strikers left the I. W. W. headquai- ters before dawn, but efforts to locate them had proved fruitless several hours later. Mines in both counties, where the strike activity has been concentrated, were working with increased forces. The Morley Mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., the largest in Las Animas County, reported that there was nearly a normal number at work today. The mine was closed for sev- eral days last weel when pickets were active, Kristen Svanum, 1. W. W. leader, who urged the strikers to picket in & fiery address last night, again ad- dressed the strikers this morning urz- ing that Gov. Adams' edict against picketing be ignored. Adjt. Gen. Paul P. Newlon, who has An appropriation of $300,000 will | the | | be sought from Congress for erection of a new Police Court build- ing in the area advocated for the | proposed municipal center, lying be- | tween Pennsylvania and Indiana and Third and Sixth streets. the District _ommissioners revea'ed today in re- | 4 to protest from Gus A. Schuldt, ‘presiding judge of the court, for their fallure to include an item for the new building in the supplemental estimates for the next fiscal year. Judge Schuldt stressed the need for lmmediate relief and recommended | that the present building be enlarged The Commissioners. however, said that they helleved a new building <hould be erected and favor its loca- tion in the proposed group of munici- pal buildings. Urgent Need Stressed. In his letter of protest, Schuldt said: . “It appears to the judges of this court that Inasmuch as there Is a specific authorization of Congress for the erection of a new Police Court, tongress should be the arbiter in this matter. The dire necessity for | » new court has been recognized hy Congress and it was contemplated | that speedy action should be mkeni to remedy this condition. | “Since adjournment of By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK. November —An ultra-modern secret marriage between Hendrik Willem Van Loon, author, and Frances Goodrich, acl is de- | seribed in today's New York Amert can. | Van Loon, author of “The Story of | Mankind,” says he does not remem- | ber the date on wl h he and Miss | oodrich, who attained rdom in | ‘Come Out of the Kitchen," : were inarried by ne e doe or the city where the ceremony to place, although he identified it as Mis; | Goodrich's native town in New Jersey 1 Three-year Courtship. | The author indicated their union ful- |lowed a three-year courtship in which he and Miss Goodrich made the terms (of their unwritten marriage bond. Among its stipulations are ther assumes the slightest obli. ation, either as regards permanence of affections. time or society. to the other, ch maintains a < cparate establish- ¥ I DETALS PREPAED -~ =5 VAN LOON. Bowditch of Boston and later to the former Helen Criswell. Miss Goodrich | was divoreed from Robert Ames, ac- |tor, in 1923, Separate Earners. Van Loon and his present wife, the American says, have individual earn- ing capacities, a particular circle of friends and definite though different artistic ambitions. Once a week or perhaps less often, Van Loon says, he calls Miss Goodrich on the telephone. In a typical con- versation he Inqulires as to her health and her engagements for the evening. If she has none they go out to dinner cr; if she is occupied Van Loon ccepts the situation with a Judge Upper: Department of Commerce. Lower: Internal Revenue Building. Murder Suspect Hypnotized to Clear %]RAGHBN MERB[Rfi Heérself of An”yw _Sflbfllimce of Guilt.| i mid- | nd SEEK MRS, FORBUSH age and Miss Goodrich in the trict near the theate: y work out a career without | town d the last 5 : 7 | 17644 state be in. | . help or advice from the all right”” Summing up the 3 Congress we have had some corre: | Corre I hypnotized and in this state be in 8! been here as the representative of Gov. spondence with Mr, Cramton of Michi. BE time in the | duced to testify. Di. Flatuo hypno- | oo s n, the author says, according!sgai today toid Svanum that the zen, who has made an extensive in- | histor nan criminology, hyp- | tized her in the presence of nolice | As there is no shal_lr{li,‘o the h'"m': | American: le, | Bovernor asked that he cease his ac- quiry as to the practicability of the | notism has been resorted to for the [ commissioners and of her attorne ere is likewise no sharing of money are we, two mature people, |/ o erection of a Jarger Police Court Build- ing on the site we now occupy. As a member of the .commission author- ized to select a site for the Police * Court Building, T would be willing to adopt Mr. Cramton’s plan for erection | Scene of Search Shifts to New England, With Repert | | detection of cri The experiment was_conducted by Dr. Georg Flatau of Berlin, noted authority on hypno- tism, on Frau Neumann, housekeeper for the lite Professor Rosen of Bres- lau, who was murdered over a year e, The testimony given in the hypnof stage differed from her previous tes- timony only in that her mind seemed to concentrate better on detai She also remembered one person as having been seen frequently with the murder- Utilities Body Will With Wilson on Program Confer | lor_property. Such assoclation as may be between | them can only be through mutual agreement. “It is an experiment,” Van Loon is quoted by the American as saying. working at our own experiment. We are educated. We think we know. So far we have been very happy. Well, why not Van Loon, who is 45, Indicated in the newspaper interview that he and | Svanum replied that the strikers had voted to picket and that he could not stop them. — LEAVENWORTH BLAST of a mew building upon our present ago under circumstances which still |ed professor during the days immedi- “If it works out this way, well and|Miss Goodrich, who i8 in her 30e, Ste. ‘This action would be prompted | of Wanderer. { Bate the police, ately preceding the crime. whom she | Tomorrow. Kood. 1EIS duemut. well wwllStiyEic) Dave hesn able w“lfnms;‘sk:%m\\lffig-l PLOT IS UNCOVERED hy an immediate need for larger |~ Frau Neumann was suspected of be- | had not recalled in her normal state. e G Wi v ot i A e i ey e quarters, | | ing implicated. She has steadfastly | Whether this name will furnish a new | - e O L e e Lo v i Raps Affliation. The scene of the active search for | denied this, and the police, after ve- | clue, remains to be seen. | Marley P Wilson, of the [a Cornell graduate, has been ma twice before, first to the former Eliza | wife was born there. | arresting her several times, has drop-{ The fact, however, that the testi hington Rapid T . will Cache of Explosives Reveals Move “The Police Court is not co-ordinate | Mrs. Ann Ramsey Forbush, wife of with either the Municipal or Juvenile Court, and any scheme to combine its activities with those of civil litigants and juvenile offenders would meet with opposition of the Bar Assoclation and other representative bodies of the citizens of this city. Its present loca- tion is most fitting and here it would only be removed from the municipal center by the width of a street. “Again it is reiterated that the Police Court needs immediate relief, and such relief has been authorized by Congress. By expanding in height and below the street level, it would he possible to erect an adequate bulld- g on our present site, and we feel t this item of $500.000 should be re- gtored and submitted to the Bureau of the Budget. INTEREST CENTERS IN HAVANA SESSION OF PAN-AMERICANS (Continued from First Page.) certain fundamentals like the doctrine, which have a tradi- strength with American public » Mr. Hughes as Secretary ite gave much of his time to this diplomacy and so has Secre- u Kellogg since his administration ot foreign policy. < President Coolidge will make the zptnln‘ address of the conference, lisiting foreign soil for the first time in his career as Chief Executive, but the importance of the occasion is felt o justify a breaking of precedent on his part. U. S. HELD IMPERIALISTIC, Poindexter Says Latin Americans’ View Is Distorted by Europe. There is a feeling among many peo- ple in the Bouth American countries q:’tll'ho United B(:ntll is imperialistic a seeking to impose its will upon the Latin American republics, accord- ing to Miles Poindexter, former Sena- tor from Washington, now Ambassa- dor to Peru, who was a caller at the White House today. The declaration was made by Am- bassador Poindexter that this mis apprehension on the part of many Latin Americans has been due to influ- ences emanating from Russia and other European countries, which he believes have been designed to under- mine the confidence of the Latin American republics in the United States. Peru Held Friendly. It was made plain by the Ambassa- dor that Peru is not one of the coun- tries §n which any real apprehension exlets regarding the intentions of the United States. He said Peru thinks the United States has been very just in its relations with her and it feels very friendly to the United States re- gardless of the fact that it was keenly disappointed over the settlement of the Tacpa-Arica dispute. Ambassador Poindexter, while speak- ing of the designs to undermine the United States in Latin American coun- tries, sald that the immense amount | of provaganda being spread is not 7 directed against the commercial mgholds of the United States but ainst political and racial relations, e added that considerable of this {_l’omnnda. bresumes to criticize the J.alted States for its Philippine and ¢ €uban policies. He admitted that con- . Siderable of the propaganda may have s been inspired in the International ¢ figut for commercial supremacy. par- ticularly so since the United tSates § fnade such tremendous gains in the #1ast few years in its commerce with the countries of South America. Will Quit Post Soon. It is the intention of Ambassador ;olndex!er to return to his post in He o private life in time to enter upon his campaign for the United States Benate. . He expects to return to this eoun- iry early in February and to start at ¢rice upon the campaign. The princi- Pal features of the platform, upon Which he will conduct his candidacy will be farm rellef of a sound and practical nature. development of the Lolumbia River basin; development of Navy. He Intimated that he will very Jikely resume his fight for the reliev. ¥ 3ng ot American merchant ships from ying tolls while passing through he Panama Canal Senator McNary of Oregon, after a rief conference “with the President oday, during which fanin reliet legis. ation was discussed, said that the sident and he are hopeful that the roponents of varfous forms of farm Tellef will be successful in getting to- rethzr and uniting on some helpful egislation for the American agricul- turalists. The Oregon Benator sald 4hat the details of a so-called com- n worked out, hut intimated that eru shortly to make ready to retire ' 4he merchant marine and an adequate | Rev. Dascomb E. Forbush, pastor of {the First Congregational Church, Ca. nandaigua, N, Y., who disappeared while attending a theater two weeks ago. today shifted from Washington to the White Mountain region of New Hampshire upon receipt of informa- tion that a woman answering her de- scription had been seen making her way toward Canean, N. I, where is situated Mrs. Forbush's Summer home. Rev. Mr. Forbush left this afternoon for Canaan. Mrs. Ellen G. Ramsey, mother of the missing woman, who is the victim of an obsession that impels her to seek solitude, arrived here this morning and will direct the local angle of the search for her daughter during the absence of the distracted husband. Should his trip to New Hampshire prove futile, he will return here. Woman Seen in Woods. Mrs. Gertrude Hutchinson, wife of the collector of taxes at Canaan, sent word here that a woman cressed in brown had been found huddled in a woods near Claremont, 40 miles away. Accosted by a hunter. who asked her it she was not afraid of being shot wlllnderhxg in the woods alone, she re- “Oh, no; you see, I'm traveling.” Tpon his return to the village the hunter learned of the disappearance of Mrs. Forbush and notified State police of his experience. Police took up the trafl and discovered that 10 days ago a woman answering to the same description had stopped at a farmhouse for food and water, and ex- cited comment because she was wear- ing thin slippers and carrying a brown coat over her arm. Rev. Mr. Forbush will be assisted in his investigation of the New Hamp- shire clues by a posse from Canan- daigua, which will motor to New Hampshire and meet him at his Sum- mer home, which many of his home- town friends have visited. Canandaigua is 350 miles from Canaan. Children Send Gifts. Mrs. Ramsey was accompanied here this moruing by Mrs. William ¥. Mac- Farlane, wife of the Mayor of Canan- daigua. She brought several roses, given her yesterday in commemora- tion of a birthday, and gave them to Rev. Mr. Forbush as a gift from his four children, who sent their sorrow- ing father messages of love. Rev. G. E. Finlay, pasto Baptist church in Canandaix will remain here following any le which may develope. Rev. Mr. For- busn will keep in touch by wire with the progress of the search here, Speaking of the kindliness which has been manifested towards him by all classes and creeds in \Washington, Rev. Mr. Forbush told of a letter bhe recelved, this morning from a 79-year- old grandmothed who signed herself “Aunt Nellie” and confessed that sne was secretly hunting for Mrs. For- bush every day unknown to her nephews and nieces who regard ker as “too old to search.” He told also of a lonely woman who drives her own car every day in an attempt 1o find the missing woman. Mrs. Ramsey is confident that her daughter is alive and well. She has never lost hope and her cheerfulness had an appreciable effect this mor- ning in heartening Rev. Mr. For- bush. f the Three Convicted on Rum Charge. Special Dispateh to The Star FREDERICK, Md., November 2.— Herbert Price of Brunswick, Lester Dailey and William Brown of this city, were convicted and sentenced in Circuit Court here yesterday on charges of seliing liquor. Price was . Dailey was fined $100 and sen- tenced to the house of correction for three months, and Brown drew $100 fine and four months in the house of correcion. Robert Palm and Augustus Parker were acquitted of similar *harges. Brown on Way Here. Waiter K. Brown, newly appointed Assist; retary of Commerce, who succeeds J. Walter Drake in that post, is on his way to Washington from ay and will formally take over the duties of his new offi to- morrow. He announced acceptance of the post after a long-dis ce te vhone talk with Sccretary Hoover week. Mr. Brown will hold a confer. ence with newspaper men at 11 o'clock tomorrow. l | | | i ped the charge. But Frau Neumann felt that she owed it to herself to be | cleared of even the semblance of sus- picion. and, therefore, accepted the suzgestion of her attorney that she be PRESIDENT [SSUES NOVEMBER 11 CALL Asks . People to Observe Armistice Day by Thanks- giving and Prayer. President Coolidge today issued a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe Novem- ber 11, marking the cessation of the World' War with appropriate cere- monies and expressions of gratitude. The President’'s proclamation in full follows: **A Proclamation. “Whereas the 11th of November of 1918 marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary and far-reach- ing war in human annals; and “Whereas it is fitting that the re- curring anniversary of this day shouid be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer, and by exercises designed to further the cause of permanent peace through the maintenance of good will and friendly relations be- tween nations; and “Whereas by concurrent resolution of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in 1926, the President was requested to issue a proclamation for the observance of Armistice day: “Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the said con- current resolution, do hereby order that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on November 11, 1927, and do invite the people of the United States to ob- serve the day in schools and churches and other suitable places, with ap- propriate ceremonies giving expres- sion to our gratitude that peace ex- ists and to our sincere desire that such amicable relations with all other peoples may continue. “In witness whereof, I have here. unto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States. “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” FUTURE OF PEACE HELD UPTO PUBLIC President Tells Church Coun- cil It Can Aid in Forming Anti-War Views. gation of the Federal = Council of Churches that by proper @rection of public opinion peaceful methods of negotiation between countries will re- place war. The delegation called to present a memorial signed by numerous promi- nent_ churchmen asking that the United States Government co-operate with France in bringing to fulfillment the proposal of Forelgn Minister Briand that France and the United States renounce war as an instrument | gress. of national policies. Mr Coolidge was quoted by members of the delegation as having said that overnments never want to go to | war. but that they were usually forced into it by public opinion.”. Such or- ganizations as the council, he believes, could be made to direct public opinion into the ways of peace and good will between nations, Such a Load Off His Mind. | From the Bulletin. Sydney. Australia Phyllis (after week end party)— Wasi't Peg u wonderful chaperon? Bill—Oh-h-h! Was she our chaperon? i By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 2—Co- >rdinated long-distance travel through air by day and on train by night, with a resultant cut of 40 hours in Eromlu plan for relief have not yet e looks for something definite in this ronnection by the time Congress as. Bembles. That we shall soon see lo Poris, is | “%e prediction of John Baird, t wowcotch inventor of television, » he | being planned by the Department | Commerce and several of th. | tion’s railways. says Willfam P. - |Cracken, fr. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. in the current issue of Popular Science. The project has been carrled far ) ot N the transcontinental rail journey, is! U. 8. Plans Air-and-Train Travel to Cut 40 Hours From Transcontinental Trip s enough to insure a trial, said Mr. MacCracken, ‘“‘unless something un-! forescen develops to dampen the in- terest of Iroad executives In its practicebility ()r:;- of the tentative combination 3 0 hours. calls fog the trip frum New York to Chicago by train at night, from Chicago to Cheyenne by ! | 1 |{ | i mony in the hypnotic te in no wa runs counter to that given when she was first heard by the police, is cited by her attorney as a proof of ner innocence, FARM CONVENTION BACKS VETOED BILL St. Louis Meeting Voices De- mand for McNary Measure or One Like It. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November sistent demand that the next pass a bill with provisions similar to those in the McNary-Haugen bill was voiced by farm chiefs from a score of States through a resolutions com- mittee instructed to report today. After a day of study and oratory, in which the plight of the farmer w3 presented from various angles, the conference of agricultural leaders crystallized its sentiment in the hands of the committee appointed after ad- Jjournment yesterday. The committee was headed by Gov. McMullen of Nebraska, a stanch ad- vocate of the McNary-Haugen bill. Members of the committee were out- spoken in their criticism of the ad- ministration for its treatment of the bill, and Senator Borah of Idaho was attacked on grounds that he fought the bill and opposed other farm meas- ures sponsored by the agricultural chiefs of the South. West and North. Jardine’s Plan Hit. fentiment was strong in the com- mittee against Secretary of Agricul- ture Jardine’s suggestion for “stabiliza- tion corporations” to take up surpluses and avoid price fluctuations. ‘While former Gov. Frank O. Lowden was a favorite with the conference, members of the committee deemed it unwise to support any presidential candidate. This was in lin> with the declaration of the head of the confer- ence, former Gov, Donaghey of Ar. kansas, who said the conference was non-political. From a committee composed of 27 members a subcommittee of nine was selected by Gov. McMullen, chairman, to draft the resolutions fo today’'s session. The members of the subcommittee are J. H. Kehoe, Kentucky Burley Tobacco Growers' Association; Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agri- cultural Association; William Hirth, Missouri Farmers’ Association; C, E. Huff, Kangas Farmers' Union; W, H. Settle. Indiana Farm Bureau; Dr. W. B. Kilgore, North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Association; Xenophon Ca- verno, Missouri Cotton Growers' As- sociation, and Robert Fletcher, Texas Cotton Growers' Association. Veto of Bill Criticized. President Coolidge was criticized in yesterday’'s sesslons for his attitude on farm relief and veto of the Mc- 5 ident Coolidge today told a dele- | Nary-Haugen bill. Senator Borah and Secretary Jardine also came in for dis- plays of rhetoric by the speakers. Clarence Ousley, of Texas, a nation- al agricultural official during the Wil- {ron administration, said the Depart- ment of Agriculture was plunged into politics for the first time in the his- tory of the country by Jardine. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas! promised his support of the McNary- Haugen bill or one with similar pro- visions at the coming session of Con- Gov. McMullen charged Senator Borah h being at the head of a movement to break up the Lowden hoom by trying to form a “Western alliance to counteract the tremendous- ly growing movement for Frank O. Lowden for President.” Discrimination by the Government against agriculture was given by the Nebraska executive as the reason for the farmers’ plight. HANGS SELF IN JAIL BROCD'NG ON DISGRACE Maryland Man, Convicted of Driv- ing While Intoxicated, Com- mits Suicide. Special Dispatch to Th HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 2. —Edgar Ridenour, 26 years old, hanged himself in the jail here last night. He was serving a 30-day sen- {tence on a charge of driving an auto- expected to cut the 92- by v w York-to-San Francisco run | man near Greencastle, mobile while intoxicated. Late in September an auto driven Ridenour struck and injured a Ridenour, who was from a prominent Maryland tamily, is said by fellow prisoners to have been brooding a great deal over plane during the day, from Cheyenne |the disgrace of his conviction, to Ogden, Utah, by train, and by plame fum Ogden to San Franclsco. The body was found hanging in his cell this morning by other prisoners. to the Public Utilitles Com- i his plan for consolidating the trans- [:nr':l:llov] systems of the District. The has arranged to confer with him at 10:30 o'clock. When Mr. Wilson officially presented the general ouiline of his plan to the cmmission Monday, he made it clear hat there were several other features 1 details which were lacking and would be supplied at a later date. Wha these features and detafls concern has not been revealed. Similar to 0ld Plans. | After a more thorough examination of Mr. Wilson’s plan, utilities experts | at the District Building, indicated to- day that aside from a few minor changes, it is virtually identical with the one submitted to the District Com- imissfoners two years ago by the North American Co. of New York. which is represented as owning a controlling interest in the Washington Railway the Capital Traction Co.’s stock. At that time the proposal was to merge the companies on the basis of a $50,000,000 valuation with a guaran- teed 7 per cent annual return of $3,- 500,000, Former Commissioners J. Franklin Bell and Cuno H. Rudolph opposed the proposition, The former objected to an agreed valuation, while [ Mr. Rudolph opposed the service-at- cost feature. As a result the plan never reached the point of considera- tion of details. i Income Requirements Higher. In the Wilson plan, it was pointed out, has heen added an additional capi- talization of $2,700,000 to represent cash to be paid in by the new com- pany—$1,700,000 for immediate better- ments, chiefly of track, and $1,000,000 for an adjustment fund to insure the consolidated company against failure to earn 7 per cent. The Wilson plan, therefore, it was gaid, raised the annual net income re- quirement from the $3,500,000 of the North American Co. plan to the pro- posed $3,689,000 of the, Wilson scheme, One other difference, it was ex- plained, is that whereas the Wilson plan proposes that existing street car fares be kept in force until one year after consolidation of the companies, the North American Co. did not sug- gest a chunge for two years. The North American Co.’s proposal was made to the Commissioners by F. W. Doolittle, one of its representa- tives, and the conference at which it was presented was attended by of- fiefals of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. NAVY EMPLOYES PRESENT DEMANDS Wage Board Is Told Super- vising Clerks Get Less Than in 1920. . The annual parade of employes of the navy yards and naval stations throughout the country began today before the Naval General Wage Board of Revlew, each leaving his appeal for higher wages to be considered when the board fixes the pay of civillan per- sonnel at these employment centers | beginning the first of January. The hearings will be continued for three days. Voluminous data and masses of fig- ures were presented to the hoard to | offset the recommendation of the local wage boards in each territory, and jthese were accompanied with state- lments that the navy yard employes iwere gradually having their wages re- jduced while living costs were going { highe: 1t was pointed out y several of the speakers that in some of the yards temployes found it necessary to work ¢n other jobs at night, not to save money, but to provide even the bare necessities for their families. This condition, it was pointed out, resulted in inefficiency on the part of the Gov- | ernment work. Luther Steward of this city, presi- dent of the National Federation of Federal Employes, headed the office group in the presentation of their {data. He srubmitted to the board a wage plan for this group of employes. The board’s attention was particu- ilarly invited by Steward to the point that the supervising clerks receive less compensation now than they did in 1920. This reason alone, aside from many other reasons that are ad- vanced by the several local boards in the country, should influence the board in determining upon a course of action that will fix rates of pay comparative to those received by em- ployes in private establishments. »nd at the same time make such recom- mendations to the Secretary of the Navy as will provide additional appro- priation under the several headings chargeable with the work of the clerical employes? | & Electric Co.. and a large share of | | Y WA, LAUNCHES | DRIVE FOR 860,000 Twenty Teams Wil Wage Campaign to Secure Main- {enance Fund for 1928. | The official start of the campaign to seek $60,00" for the 2925 mainte- nance fund of the Young Women's Christian Association was made last night in the assoclation’s new build- ing at Seventeenth and K streets, with more than 300 captains and work: ers in 20 teams attending. Reports on the progress of the nine-day cam- paign will be made Thursday and Friday at 1 p.m. and tomorrow eve- ning at 6:30 for the business anc pro- fessional women'’s teams. Appropriate parodies on war songs featured the meeting held in Barker Hall, with Mrs. Luke I. Wilson pre- siding. Miss Elizabeth Pierce opened the session with prayer, and during the dinner that formed part of the pro gram Mrs. Ethel Caghans Ziglatzkl sang. Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president of the association. and Mrs. Ruth Jeffers Saunders, in charge of the business and professional women's teams, offered an improvised skit. Team Workers Encouraged. Mrs. John Jay O'Connor. president of the Council of Soclal Agencies, and C. Melvin Sharpe were the principal speakers. Mrs. O'Connor spoke of the opportunity for practical Christianity in the work of the Y. W. C. A., and Mr. Sharpe urged the campaign workers to apply the principles of good salesmanship to the drive. Brief talks were made by Mrs. Ed- win B. Parker and Mrs. William Compton of the campaign ~ommittee, Miss Hettie P. Anderson, general sec- rel . and Miss Bertha Pabst. direct- or r?the campaign. Additional teams representing bus- iness and professional women, organ- ized by Mrs. Ruth Jeffers Saunders, include: Team A—Miss Lucy Holland, cap- tain: Eulala Flacey, Emily Raynor, Florence Lemke, Sophie Huth, Mary J. Wright, Lucille Edwards, Laura Adl Hertha Kuehmstead, Orbelle Williams, Mae Miller, Ethel Cawley, Ruth Cawley, Mary Stough, Grace Branre, Ruth Dodd, Flora Robinson. Evelyn Woolard and Margaret Lang- ley. }:renm B—Eva Galbraith, captai®: Anna Alback, Mary Holman, Elva An- derson, Fern Campbell, Pauline Hepp, Julia Maxwell, Pauline Myers, Julia Lucile Reynolds, KElsa Baughan, V heaton and Frances Wright. Team C—Lilllan Krause, captain; Lucy Lentz, Ethel Barnhill, Olive For- thaffer, Julia Haslett, Mirfam Huddle, Lorene Kreider, Margaret Ralston, Alta Smith, Constance Torrey and Lillian Zimmerman, Team D—Rowena Shephard, cap- tain, and members of the Burrell Class of Calvary Baptist Church. bridge, captain; Miss Ada F. Solean, Mrs. Marian Jones, Mrs. Emily Por- tér, Miss Majorie Daniels, Miss Ca- therine Etter, Miss Clara Noyes, Miss Helen Barnhart, Mrs. Moran. Team F—Mrs. Nan tain; composed largely of Zonta Club members and including Miss Jane Bartlett, Mrs. Mary P. Speiden. Mrs. Lucia Hendley, Miss Nancye Lake, Miss Anna Muddiman, Miss Julia j Connor, Miss Mary Bromberg, Mrs. Amelia Gude Thomas, Miss Estelle Foster, o CABLES GREEK PRESIDENT tempted Assassination. President Coolldge has transmitted A mesgage of sympathy to the Greek resident in connection with the at- tempt on his life Sunday. “I have been greatly shocked to learn of the attempt upon the life of your excellency and [ hasten to con- vey to you an expression of my sin- cere sympathy,” President Coolidge said. “The people of the United States join me in hoping for your rapid and complete recovery.,” —_———— Claim $5,000 Damages. Joseph H. Lloyd and his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Lloyd of Capital Heights, Md., filed - suit yesterday in Circuit Court against Charles Schwartz & Son, jewelers, 708 Seventh street northwest, to reco.er $5,000 damages for alleged injuries to Mrs. Lloyd. Through Attorneys Fiynn and Luck- ett, it is alleged that Mrs. Lloyd slipped on the floor of the jewelry store, May 12, S BALCHEN DENIES Team E—Miss Lucetta W. Stock- |lian Street, cap- | [ HE IS DAWN PILOT Byrd Flyer Says Acceptance Hinges on Duties as Fokker’s Aide. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, Novembe ~—Lieut. Bernt Balchen today denied ®mssertions by Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson that he. had accepted her offer to pilot her amphiblan plane, the Dawn, across the Atlantic to.Copenhagen this year. Balchen, who made the Atlantic air crossing with Comdr.- Richard E. Byrd last June, announced, however, that he would attempt a second cross- ing In the Grayson plane if he could give it preliminary tests, and if he could be relieved temporarily from his duties as a test pilot for Anthony H. G. Fokker. airplane designer and builder. Announcing reorganization of her expedition preparatory to a fourth at- tempt to span the sea by air this year, Mrs. Grayson, owner of The Dawn, said Balchen had agreed to pilot the plane that will carry her as a passen- ger in her bid to be the first woman to fly to Europe. Talks to Chamberlin. The announcement was made at the close of a day in which Mrs. Grayson flew and conferred with Clarence D. Chamberlin. She also talked with Ar- thur C. Gobel, winner of the Dole flight from California to Honolulu. Thea Rasche, German stunt flyer, disclosed she had wired Mrs. Grayson proposing they attempt the sea hop as co-pilots. Mrs. Grayson said that she had not received any telegram from Fraulein Rasche and that she would not be considered. Chamberlin eliminated himself, say- ing he was not considering a second jaunt to Europe. Mrs. Grayson and Goebel ended their conference with the statement they would meet later in the week. Goldsborough May Go. _ Mrs. Grayson said the second man in the plane might be Brice Golds- borough, navigator and radio operator ot the craft in its three previous at- tempts to fly from old Orchard, Me., te Copenhagen. Wilmer Stultz, former pilot of the oxpedition, withdrew after differences with Mrs. Grayson. Mrs. Grayson exprassed her deter- mination to make a fourth ettempt to fly across the ocean this year as soon as minor repairs and adjustments were completed. Suggestions of Mr. Chamberlin, Mrs. Grayson indicated, may be adopted before the fourth start is attempted. PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. to Blow Up Penitentiary for Jail Break. By the Associated Press. LEAVENWORTH. Kans., Novem- ber 2.—Frustration of an apparent plot to stage a wholesale prison break by blasting away the walls of the Federal Penitentiary here with smug- gled nitroglycerin was announced to- day by Warden T. B. White. Definite clues have been obtained. the warden said, to identify the pris- oners involved. The disappearance of 40 sticks of dynamite at the rock quarry outside the prison led to a search’ which re- sulted In the finding yesterday of a cache containlng half a pint of nitro- glycerin, six pistols, two boxes of ammunition, some caps and 50 feet of fuse. Warden White said he was confi- dent prisoners working at the quarry planned to smuggle the explosives and arms into the prison when they re- turned from work. The nitroglycerin was obtained from the dynamite, he said. and added he was sure he knew where the pistols came from, although their numbers bad been filed away. ARMED VIGILANTES IN CITIES URGED TO CHECK CRIME WAVE (Continued from First Page) may be sentenced to life for fourth offenses, was down for a talk on the operation of the law at this after- noon’s session. QOdell Smith, chair- | man of the public order committee of the Washington Board of Trade, and other members of the committee ar- ranged to listen in on his address, with a view to deciding whether such a law, in modified form, is feasible for Washington. Richard Washburn Child, chairman of the National Crime Commission, was unable to attend the conference because of absence from the country. but his annual report was distributed to the delegates. The report outlined the history of the commission and the growth of the crime reduction move- ment in America. ‘“Convinced" that the brazenly open operations of the receivers and sellers of stolen responsible for practically all the thefts of merchan- dise on a large scale in this country, and is directly responsible for the many murders incidental thereto.” Mr. Child's report said. “The commis- sion has recently secured a special committee of men prominent in com- mercial activities of our country to take up the framing of legislation to suppress this nefarious traffic. To this committee, the district attorneys of several of our large citles and a dis- trict attorney of the Federal Govern- ment have been added to advise them on the technical legal problems in- volved. Stringent Laws Asked. “As will be seen from our program, the commission feels that the most important thing to be discussed, and imaproved in our efforts to reduce the number of crimes of violence in this country, are sweeping and stringent laws tending to wipe out the nefarious traffic in stolen goods; the securing of at least a few simple and easily collectible statistics in re- gard to crime by all states; ‘the solv- ing of the perplexing problem of prison labor, and the general im- provement of our system of pardons and paroles. + 112 Herade 4| More a score of State crime i0h Franc commissions presentea brief reports - 117 Czarist this morning. The subject for dis- ACE—C] 6 furlo: laiming: purse. $1,300: ngs. . 117 Apple Ple b rasol .. bt SHymon % *Paganeit 08 11 Ansry Mood, 1uz7 17 *Moonyeen Claire 10:3 110 Outste 17 1z Friar 1z 108 *Darco 109 1 Kenetta "011110 108 108 FOURTH RACE—Claiming: 4-year-olds and up: 1 mile an . 111 Eb T .512-'-’:‘"3 D101 sMing PHG I 13 Nelii ‘44 118 fese= 18 L1238 FIFTH RACE—Pimli Age Race: all ages: 84,000 added: B Tariongs: 13 10 aN 3 What'll I Do ., 3 Greentree Stable b Kershaw Stal avigator entry, £ senwhrts enry. SIXTH RACE—The Pikesville: 2-year-olds: longs. purse, $1.300: 6 furlk onan's Al A iy, i napsack 111 a Salubria’ Stable ent: SEVENTH RACE—Claiming: 3- and ;. Purse. $1:0007 1 matind 78 anily .- 104 itter ‘fi Roll Call ; % ‘I;:rwl‘glchfl Danger Sigt . 112 *Xenophon *Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather clear: track fast. e Freemasonry has been h.nd.m Presbyterian 30 | Hickling, cussion this afternoon will be “elimi- nation of the receiver of stolen goods.” llnd tonight, “the prison labor prob- lem."” Chief Justice Taft will speak on means for expediting justice at to- morrow morning’s session. Presi- dent Coolidge will receive the dele- gates tomorrow afterncon st & o'clock, A list follows of delegates attending the conference from the District of Columbia: Charles V. Imlay, commis- sioner on uniform laws; J. W. Connel- ly superintendent of police, Southern Railway System; Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, George 8. Wilson, director of Board of Public Welfare; Justice F.cderick L. Siddons, District of Co- lumbia Su) e Court; Dr. D. Percy trict allenist; Mrs. John Sherman, "ederatio: D. tan Police; Leonard P. Steuart, poten- tate, Imperial Council, Nobles of the 06 | Mystic Shrine. Charles W. Darr, Chamber of Com- Research; Knowles Cooper, Y. M. C. A.; B. R. Tolson, manager Washington Termi- nat Co.; Joseph A. Burkart, Bar Asso- ciation: Dorsey W. Hyde. jr.. Chamber of Commerce: V. Haynes, Farmers @and Mechanics National Bank: Willlam J. Donovan, Assistant Attorney General: