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g \WEATHE (U, S. Weather Fair and colder, with freezing tem perature, about Tomorrow fair and continued cold. Temperature—I p.m. yesterd today. Closing N. Y. Mark 30,516. s Entered No. Full report on page 9. Burean Forecast.) 30 degrees, tonight. 70, at 3:15 at 8 am. lighest, ets, Pages 14 and 15 second class matter post oice. Washington. . e ch WASHINGTON, RED CROSS TAKES CHARGE IN TORNADO-SWEPT AREA; LOSS IS SET AT $1,000,000 One Dead, 50 Injured in Wake of Gale—D: C. Officials Confer on Temporary Housing. WORKERS CANVASS STORM ZONE TO LEARN PROPERTY DAMAGE Rehabilitation Plans Speeded in Face of Cold Spell—Victims Aid in Relief. Nearby Suburbs Hard Hit. Awakening to a grim realization of the toll exacted by ves- terday’s phenomenal tornado—a toll that included one dead, half arhundred injured and nearly a million dollars in property damage —Washington today turned to e mergency measures of relief for the hundreds rendered homeless in the face of a sudden, frigid spell. ferring at the District Building While municipal, Red Cross and other authorities were con- on plans for temporary housing and eventual rehabilitation and reconstruction, victims of the tor- nado joined with the police and bles left in the wake of the terri firemen in untangling the sham- fic storm. Emergency relief stations were set up by the Red Cross today in the heart of the scenes of dev: astation, both in Eastern Wash- ington and in stricken Alexandria and parts of Prince Georges County, Md. Af the relief conference, attended by the three District Com- missioness, Maj. Gen. George Barnett, chairman of the. District of Columbia Chapter of the Red Cross, and Robert E. Bondy, disaster expert of the American Red Cross, announcement was made that the Red Cross will take complete charge of relief and reconstruction work. The initial step of making a detailed survey of the damage was begun today by Red Cross house canvass. In the meantime officials, who began a house-ti a preliminary police survey dis- closed that more than 150 houses in Northeast and Southeast Washington were blown down, unroofed or otherwise (la]z\aggd. with a loss put at $750,000 by John W. Oehmann, building in- spector, after a survey. To these figures must be added the widespread havoc wrought in Alexandria, where scores of houses were ripped open and many of their occupants hurt; at the Naval Air Station in Anacostia, where hangers, planes and buildings, valued at $300,000, were tossed about and ruined; at the N: avy Yard, where damage totaled $100,000, and in Cottage City, Hyattsville, Colmar Manor and other Maryland suburbs which felt the force of the hurricane- like wind. Weather Bureau Had No Warning. Strangely enough, the Weather Bureau had no knowledge of the tornado until newspaper men began to query the forecasters about it. - The barograph at the bureau which, Forecaster Mitchell said, would record the disturbance of a full-fledged tornado as far as 5 miles away, showed no indications of it at all, and this leads the forecaster to believe that the twister, while very destructive, was not of the intensity of a “full-grown” Texas or Kansas tor- nado The tornado apparently started out as a freak Fall thunder- storm, induced by the conjunction of vastly different atmospheric pressures with the arrival of a cold snap from the North. It took the form at first of a scowling, dark-gray cloud, but as it began scudding across the countryside reached down with a merciless, in nearby Virginia, it suddenly unnel-shaped arm and struck its first devastating blow at Alexandria. the | From her window high in Wyoming Apartments, Mrs. W, Beaman sat and watched that omi- mnous arm as it dipped to earth time and again—about four times in all, she thinks. Having seen Wes twisters at work, she knew that each time that dark arm rcacked down there could be no escape from its ter- rible clutches, and she was little sur- priged, she said, when she learned of the disaster at the other side of the city. Whirled Up Channel. The whirling, roaring cloud of rain and wind steered its Irregular couise of death and destruction close to the river after leaving Alexandria. Army officers at the War College saw it coming up the channel, flashing | forth its lightning and tending now and then to send down a vengeful grasp in search of further prey. In a few brief moments it had elutched at the Naval Air Station with relentless fury. crashing its way through the hangars and other huiid- in; | gs. Police of the ninth precinct report ed that 72 houses in the Northe section were seriously hit hy the tw er, with a resulting property los: approximately $57.425. A poli wey in the Southeast area disclosed 20 | residences completely wrecked and | some threescore unroofed or less se- riously affected, Scenes of Desolation. The hasty surveys give no picture of the real desolation in the section of Eastern Washington near the Po- | tomac River. They tell nothing of the tree-cluttered, debrisfilled streets , in the guict residential area east of the Capitol; of the sh 1 homes of dazed fam of whose members today limped a bors’ homes and nurs heads and limb=: of wrecked automobile: careening trees or W A check-up of th revealed that on sulted. June : 4 Quander street southeast, was struck and killed by lightning while crossing & bridge at New Jersey avenue south east. From the Anacostia side of the river the cloud betook itself diagonally peross the river to the navy yard and vicinity, where it sent earth again and renewed its orgy of gestruction. Into the great vortex of Wind, it seemed, were sucked trees tin roofs, automobile tops, bricks, ma; t of sive timbers and what not, including { human beings. | Procior L. its funnel to! and on toward Cottage City, Hyatts. ville and Colmar Manor. Each time the roaring whirlpool of wind and rain touched earth houses and trees bent and swayed or finally collapsed as though being toved with by some gigantic hand. Tin roofs were rolled up crazily, some almost neatly, and deposited great distances away. Other roofs were lifted by the &reat suction and draped whimsically over nearby trees or houses. One whole row ol full-grown trees on Elev- enth street southeast lay down and ;-xmrl'd across the right of way, block- ng emergency vehicles and impedi the work of rescue i ot satisfied with having leveled or unroofed these houses, the storm poured on top of the disarrayed wreck- age great sheets of water that ruined what was left of furniture and walls, and after the first onslaught added a final deluge to complete the joh. With the approval of the District Commissioners, the American Red Cross took charge of all relief meas. ures, following the conference at the District Building. While emergency relief is 1o be continued, plans are being made to extend financial aid to those persons who are unable to re. pair their damaged homes. Headquarters were opened by the District Chapter of the Red Cross in Noel House, 1663 Kramer street north- east, this morning, with Miss Edith Spray, an experienced relief worker, in charge. Canvass Is Started. At the same time, a party of Tted Cross workers was sent out to make a complete house-to-house canvass of the stricken area, to check up on all injuries and ascertain the exact ex- tent of the ge to homes. Simi. lar survey are being made in Alax- {andria and in the Maryland suburbs where the tornado struc When the survey of p age is completed, Red Cross authori- ties will determine what form its finan- clul assistance will take, The District Commissioners at the perty dam Ited Cross as the offi relief agency for the city in the emergency. Present at the meeting were Cominissioner Doungherty, chairman of the hoard; Commissioner Sydney F. Talllaferro. Col. Willlam B. Ladue, Engineer Commissioner; Gen. Barnett, {Mr. Bondy and Earl Gates of the headquarters staff. Gen Barnett ouilined the plans of | the Red Cross for relief in the stricken part of the city and the Commissioners said they would stand back of any- thing the Red Cross does. No special appeal will be mada for The latter included Albert Franci chief acrologist at the n tion who was swept into puited to earth again, safely little Laura Brinkley of 1521 Fifte street southeast, who was more than a block by the wind On through sections of Southeast YWashington swept the funnel, hesi- tating now and then as though look- fng for a good spot 1o wreak its fury. and then dipping again as it raced aadly over Northeast Washington nd nd nth rried funds by the Red Cross. according to ! Gen. Barnett. He said, however, that | it would gladly receive contrib {10 he used for relief work in \Wash ington. Members Are Sought. “The proper way for the people of { Washington to help in this emer- | gency.” said Gen. Barnett, “is to join I:h- Red Cross by paying $1. Our annual roll_call for members has been {Continued on Page 0.~$ohugn_ [¥) ¥ meeting this morning designated the | | | The Injured John Rutler, colored, sexton at St. Cyprian’s, bruised about head. Bertha Rutler, colored, 12 street southeast, bruised and cut. Laura Brinkley, 9 years old, 1521 Fifteenth street southeast, minor 19 years old, 1006 C street southwest, fractured leg. and Mrs. Frank Cauffman, street southeast, cut by glass. John M. Crawford. 24, colored, 1636 Third street southeast, cuts and shocks. L. C. Clem, telephone linesman, cut about he: Alvin Clark, 4 years old, 431 Eleventh street southeast, fa W. H. Darmstead, 903 street southeast, minor cuts. Mrs. Martha Dodd, 4. 308 East Capitol street, hruises about head. A. J. Fairall. 50, 332 Twelfth street southeast. cuts. Raymond Grimm, La Plata, Md., fractured arm. Thomas Harbaugh, 21, 913 Ham- lin street northeast, possibly frac- tured skull, 12 stitches taken in head. J. J. Hallock, 29, 1026 Bladens- burg road northeast, minor cuts. Policeman E. T. Hinsley, Fifth precinet, shock and bruise Lucy Johnson, colored, Virginia avenue, cut about head. Lena Jones, colored, 32 Quincy place, broken ankle, cuts and bruises, Mrs. John Jaeschke, 42, 540 Ninth street southeast, slight cut on face, 2300 heast, cuts. 431 Eleventh street southeast, side wrenched. Mgr. James R. Mathews, St, Cyprian’s Roman Catholic Church, slight cuts. Gladys Purks, 19, 507 Tenth street southeast, cuts, twisted back. Mrs. Hedwig Patzche, 53114 Ninth street southeast, hysteria. Mrs. Emmanuel Ream, 1243 C street southeast, injured back. Mrs. Agnes Reinburgh, 1340 B street southeast, cut about face and e H. Ryan, 1007 K street south- east. cut Mary Spalding, 33, 1237 C street southeast, cuts and brulses. Mrs. Rose Thomas, colored, and children, Ernestine, Alice and Jose- phine, all of 1225 C street south- east, cuts and bruises. Patroiman ~ William Truesdell, fifth precinet, pinned under tree, infured ribs. Mrs. Susie F. Whittington. 65 vears old, 730 Tenth street south. east. cut and bruised, sprained ankle, Edward Wood, 23 years old, man- ager Sanitary Grocery, Fifteenth street and North Carolina avenue northeast, smashed hand. Air Station Injured. Injured at Naval Air Station: P. T. Brady. 32, bruises to face, arms and legs. J. Bushing. 35. cut over nose and right eye injured. A. R. Charlton, 36, rupture of stomach. J A. Clements, 23, injury to right eye. O. K. Conklin, 32, back and legs bruised. H. Ford, 30, nail in foot. face cut. 2R . 20, cuts to face, head and hody. .: Ironfield, 35, face and head cut. A. Kingbaum, 29. struck by tim- ber: head cut and rendered un- conscious. t\ J. Roberts, 30, face and head cut. J. P. Speaker, 26, face and head cut and bruised. Alexandria Injured. _The list of injured who were given treatment at the Alexandria Hospital is as follows: William Carter, colored, Lom- bard’s lane, fractured skull. Mrs. Clifford, 413 North Payne street, lacerated tendon in hand. Ada Franklin, Smoot Buildin suffering from shock and lace- rations of face. Rev. A. A. Graves, 808 North Washington street, lacerated head. Mrs. A. A. Graves, 808 North Washinzton street, lacerated face. Charles Jackson, colored, 932 Madison street, scalded about foot and leg. J. H. Kretchner, Spring street and Russell road, Rosement, lace- rated neck. _Grace Littlejohn, colored, 607 North Henry street, minor abra- sions and wounds on legs. _William Littlejohn, colored, 607 North Henry street, broken arm. Louis Peverill, Slater's lane, hend lacerations. Phoebe Sorrell, colored, TLom- hard's lane, suffering from shock and probably a fractured hip. Mrs. Thomas, 411 North Payne street, ractured finger and bruises about side, All of the injured, with ‘the ex- ception of William Carter and Phoebe Sorrell, have been dis- charged from the local hospital. John Winston, jr. colored, 4 old, 917 Madison street, suf- from exposure. o AMERICAN STARTS FLIGHT TO AFRICA {Former Baron Leaves London l Seeking to Set Record in 1 Cape Town Hop. y fering By the Associated Press. LONDON. November 18.—An at. tempt to fly from London to Cape- town in record time was started at 8 a.m. today by John Carbery, who is really Baron Carbery, an Irish peer, but who dropped the use of his title on becoming a naturalized American recently. Carbery had Kkept his plans secret, and only a few people saw him hop off from ydon in a Fokker monoplane. He was accompanied by a mechanic. Ho expects to reach Cairo in four days. From there he will follow the jroute across Central Africa traveled | by the Royal Air Force in its recent flights, Actor’s $1,000 Coat Stolen. CHICAGO, November 18 (#).—Hol- W WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRIDAY, CITY OF ARLINGTON PLANIS DEBATED Some Opponents of Move Ob- ject to Charter on Score of Taxes. Note—This is the second of four ar- ticlea dealing with the problems which confront_the people of Arlington County and Alexandria Citv. The third article will be published tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Although many persons in Arling- ton County tell you that the question of whether the county shall become a city Is not now before the people and cannot be until the General Assembly of Virginia passes an enabling act to put the question to a popular vote in the county, the underlying issue, of course, goes directly to the compara- tive benefits of city and county gov- ernment. Opponents of the enabling act spend most of their time pointing to what they régard as the disadvantages of a city form of government for this sec- tion of Virginia. Those who want a city are trying to keep that issue tem- porarily in the background, because they do not wish to prejudice their opponents against the enabling act, which they must have before the city question can be decided, under the present plan. The agitation for the enabling act started as the result of a conviction on the part of many men and women that the county form of government has outgrown its usefulness in this rapidiy developing region. They con- tend that Arlington County some time ago reached a density of population and assumed an urban character which rendered county form of gov- ernment wholly inadequate. Amendment for Arlington. It appears that the principal duty of the Arlington County delegate in the General Assembly at Richmond has been in recent years to obtain the enaciment of special and local legis- lation pertaining to Arlington County giving the county special powers pos- sessed only by cities and towns, in order that the needs of the county, arising from its urban character, may be met. One of the amendments to the State constitution, submitted to the people of the whole State in the recent elec: tion, is for Arlingon County’s particu- lar henefit. It gives the county the same power to assess abutting prop- erty for the cost of sewers and side- walks as is now possessed by all cities and towns and which the constitution expressly denied to counties. The last extra session of the General Assembly was facetiously dubbed by the members the “Arlington County session,” because a large percentage of all the bills enacted were for Ar- lington County. These measures, say the advocates of incorporation, would not have been needed if the county hAd been a city. Many advocates of a city form of government say that the most im- portant reason why Arlington Coun- ty should incorporate is the complete lack of control, under the present government, over public utility cor- porations. Gas, electric and teles phone companies are rapidly extend- ing their mains and lines into every part of the county. “The county government is abso- lutely without authority to impose franchise conditions upon these com- panies,” said Arthur Orr, member of. the Arlington County Better Govern: ment Commission, in a discussion of this phase of the question with The Star correspondent. “The county is empowered to grant permits to occu- py streets and highways, but it can impose none of the ordinary franchise nditions for the protection of citi- zens, nor can it levy any franchise taxes against the properties of the companiex. City governments have complete control in this field, both as to imposing conditions and levying franchise taxes.” Utilities Acquiring Rights. 1t the creation of a municipality is much longer delayed, its advocates say that the Public Utilities Corporation will have completely occupied the streets and highways of the county,! and “they will be forever free from the imposition of franchise condi- tions by the city, as to"lines already laid, should the county incorporate, for the reason that they will have ac- quired vested rights which the courts will not disturb.” It is claimed that Avlington County, by default, is al- lowing the most valuable franchise rights to “slip from 1its control into the hands of private corporations.” The losses to the county and its eiti- brook Blinn, actor, notified police last night that his $1,000 fur coat had been stolen from the dressing room of the theater where he was playing. (Continued on Page 10, Column 1.) —_— Radio Programs~-Pages 38 & 39 — To PLAY A SURE WINNING HAND Grave of Prince Of Ur of 3500 B. C. Reported Found By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 18. —The grave of Prince Meskalam- dug of the biblical City of Ur of the Chaldees has been discovered by the joint expedition in Palestine of the ‘British Museum and the Mu- seum of the University of Penn- sylvania. Word to this effect was received by cable from C. Leonard Woolley, director of the expedition, who also stated that in the grave with the prince were his arms, helmet. cups and gold ornaments. The cablegram contained no other detalls, hut Pennsylvania Museum authorities expressed the belief that Prince Meskalamdug was of a period prior to the first dynasty of Ur, which is dated about 3,500 B.C. . BRITISH TROOPS Will Relieve Marines on Duty There—Rumored Move on Hankow Denied. By the Associated P SHANGHAIL ‘ovember 18.—The British cruiser Vindictive, which yes- terday was reported headed for Han- kow. mow is said to have started for Nanking with 350 British troops to re- lieve Marines on duty there. No troops have been sent to Han- kow, where the situation is quiet to- day. FAMINE HITS SHANTUNG. 20,000 Persons Reported to Be Begging on Streets. PEKING, November 18 (#).—Refu- gees from the famine in the Shantung Province are flocking into Tsinan and it is estimated that 20,000 persons are begging in the streets. They are with- out shelter and scantily clad despite the wintry weather. The Chinese International Famine Relief Commission is without funds at present, Lut is hopeful of obtaining a small grant from the Government Re- lief Bureau. The resources of all the Chinese agencies, however, are not sufficient to mitigate the suffering ap- preciably and the war lords are too ab- sorbed in their conflict to help greatly. Hundreds of thousands in the Prov- ince of Honan are likely to share in the suffering this Winter not because of any national calamity, but because of the constant sweep of armies across the province ravaging the farmers’ stores. PEKING RUMOR DENIED By Radio to The Star and the Ne: Copyright 19 TOKIO, November 18.—Newspaper dispatches from Peking have endeav- ored to show that the foreign powers are disposed to combine in support of ‘hang Tso Lin, while Great Britain, with the approval of Japan and the United States, propases to reoccupy the concessions at Hankow and else- where. News dispatches, intimated that a forceful settlement is favored by Premier Tanaka of Japan. Cables from London today, "containing Sir Austen Chamberlain's denial, have silenced the uneasiness aroused by the propaganda, which now is generally credited to Moscor BRITISH AVIATORS APPARENTLY SAFE Capt. R. H. McIntosh and Bert Hinkler Reported to Have Landed in Southern Poland. hicako Daily By the Associated Press. WARSAW, November 18.—Word that Capt. R. H. McIntosh and Bert Hinkler, British aviators who started on a flight to India Tuesday morning and have since dropped from sizht, made a landing in Southern Poland on Tuesday afternoon was recejved today from ‘Lemberg. The Lemberg dispatches stated that the British flyers landed at 2:30 p.m. at Bialokrynica in the district of Pod- shajce, after havinglost their bear- ings. Assistance was given them by the local authorities and they resumed their flight to India on the same day. SENT T0 NANKING ¢ Foening Star. NOVEMBER 18, 1927—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. TR , BULLETIN CaLiFornIA BRIDGE PLAYER LAYS DOWN A PERFECT HAND, THINKING 1T A Ho COOLIDGE SUPPORT - PLEDGED BY CLUB Philadelphians Cheer When Sproul Refers to An- other Term. BY J. RUSSELL YOU! What was regarded by many as a blanket indorsement for the Repub- | nomination if he should change | his mind about hecoming a candidate | to succeed himselt was given to Presi- | dent Coolidge at the Union League Club of Philadelphia last night, when former Gov. William C. Sproul of Pennsylvania, president of the club, in introducing the President assured him that in whatever course he may “choose™ to outline for his future, he will have the support of the Union League Cluh. Mr. Sproul's reference to the word “choose,” which was the first time it has been made at a public gather- ing attended by the President since his startling announcéement last Sum- mer that he did not ‘‘choose” to run for President next year, was greeted with tremendous applause. It was quite evident that Mr. Sproul was voicing the sentiment of the more than 2,000 members of the club gath- ered for the occasion of the Presi- dent's visit. President Pleased at Applause. Mr. Coolidge, the only other person sitting on the platform in the club auditorium besides Mr. Sproul, sat calmly and without any outward man- ifestation ot his feelings during all this. Neither was it possible later during the course of his address to get the slightest inkling of his feelings regarding this approbation of his ad- ministration and the mentioning of his use of the word ‘“choose.” He made not the slightest reference to the implication of an indorsement con- fained in Mr. Sproul's introductory re. marks. He confined himself to the speech he had prepared and which was praised by many afterward as one of the most significant and im- portant public addresses Mr. Coolidge has made for a long time. It was plainly evident that the Pres: ident was pleased at the frequent out- bursts of applause during the course of his speech. and was made especial- Iy happy afterward at the praise and compliments he received. In this re- spect his pleasure and satisfaction was made more complete by the scores of telegrams of congratulation awaiting him when he reached his desk this morning. The President's speech last night was readily accepted as an advance outline of the more important sub- Jects he will treat in his forthcoming annual message to Congress, which he is now engaged in preparing. He gave assurances of internal improve- ments, expansion of the Nation's de- fense, the promotion of peace, and the encouragement of industry He di- vulged his hopes and plans for the future of the Government more freely and completely than he has ever been known to do before, except in his message to the Congress, Not only did he promise the people a moderate tax cut, and adequate ap- propriations for flood control and de- velopment of the inland waterways, more cruisers and submarines, and as- sistance in the development of com- mercial aviation, but he sounded a ringing warning against Government ownership, which he pictured as be- ing paralyzing, and strongly demanded a protective tariff. In issuing this defiance to those who are advocating revision of the tariff, the President declared that any material reduction in our general tariff rates would ultimately result in drastic deflation of agricultural nd industrial values. in the rate of wages, and in the standards of Hy- ing. e contended that without the l service. * Eight Woman Jurors Find Men Stubborn;; Will Sew It Out By the Associated Press. | KANSAS CITY, November 18.—| Eight woman jurors who found the | four men of the panel too stubborn to | reach a verdict in a liquor case here after a 13-hour session have agreed to resume deliberations today—but they | will bring their sewing. “There i: no hope of agreeing. cause the men are so stubborn Nettie Reid, foreman, told the court. he indicated all the wemen favored conviction. Frank Belmont, only one of the jurors who sampled the evidence in the courtroom when four flasks of al- leged whisky were presented for in- spection, told the court the men were satisfied with ike evidence at hand. “DIPLOMA MILL” Measure Would Limit Activi- ties of Fake Universities in District. Legislation designed to end for all time the “diploma mill” situation in the District of Columbia has been agreed upon by the education commit- tees of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. A set of proposed amendments to the corporation code of the District has been drafted and efforts will be made to obtain passage in the next Congress. These amendments, which originated with the Chamber of Com- merce committee, were approved yes- terday afternoon by the Board of Trade committee after Miss Pearl Mc- | Call, assistant United States attorney. had told the members of the latest developments in the practice of low grade schools here, which were ex- posed several months ago by The Evening Star. The salient feature of the proposed amendments is one requiring that any institution incorporated in the Dis- trict shall first secure a license from the Board of Education before grant- ing any academic degrees and that this license shall ge granted only after a thorough examination of the qualifications of the applicants. Six Universities Exempted. This shall apply, it is stipulated, to all institutions granting acadeinic degrees except thuse already in exist- ence which operate by special act of Congress. Georgetown, George Wash- ington, Catholic, American, Howard and National Universities thus are e.empted from the provisions of the act. The requirements for establishing colleges and universities with full de- gree-granting powers are ridiculously easy to meet as they now stand, Miss McCall pointed out. Any five per. sons, who need not éven he Ameri- can citizens or residents of the United States, need only to file with the recorder of deeds a certified paper stating their intention to establish such an institution. The recorder has no authority to refuse the paper, how- ever ridiculous it may appear to him, so long as it is made out in proper form. Once this statement has been placed on record the institution has full power to grant degrees, even medical, and to sell them without re- quiring any qualifications, except mere formalities. A search of the records of the re corder of deeds shows that this loép- hole in the law has been taken full advantage of by all sorts of persons. Scores of “universities, colleges, in- stitutes, sanitariums, hospitals, etc.,” h.ve been incorporated in the last 10 years, many of them specifyving that they will grant degrees in medi- cine and surgery. Most of Them Hidden. Most of these institutions never are heard of by the general publi The “‘universities' are hidden away industy attics around the city or may consist only of post office boxes where money orders can he received in exchange for degrees. Others never are set up in ‘Washington at all, but operate “under authority of the Congress of the United States” in other States or in foreign countries. An especially profitable business in degrees has been carried on between the District of Columbla and various foreign countries and, according to David A. Robertson of the American Council on Education, who has made an intensive investigation of the situa- tion, this traffic has had a serious ef- fect in cheapening all American de- grees abroad among reputable scholars. The reputable institutions of the District continually have found the value of their degrees discounted because of the activities of these psuedo “universities.” The proposed amendment to the cor. poration code provides first that a fee shall be paid to the recorder of deeds for filing such incorporation pers. In the past this has cost about $1. Tast Winter a rather pretentious “university"” was incorporated, in an effort to expose the situation, for 93 cents. Must Provide Facilities. It provides further that before the Board of Education shall issue any license it shall be presented with sat- isfactory evidence that the persons making’ the application are qualified to conduct an institution of learning. that the rcquired.work shall be of suitable standing, that degrees will b granted only after a required resi- dence period, that standard adm irements will be set up and sonably larg Ity, with (Continued on Page 5. Column 1) By the Associated Press. FEZ, Morocco, November 18.—The phrase “it is the will of Allah” was heard on every, hand throughout Mo- rocco today, but even Oriental fatalism failed to relieve the sense of loss felt at the death of Mulal Yussef, Sultan of Morocco. All public buildings and business houses were closed today and will re- main g¢losed ‘until the obsequies are ended. Hired official weepers and four brothers and two sons of the late Sul- tan stood death watch as the digni- taries of the Sherifian Empire arrived in the picturesque mourning robes to attend the last rites. (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) lOriental Fatalism Fails to Relieve Moors of Sense of Loss at Ruler’s Death dore Steeg, arrived to represent his government. When Mulai Yussef ascended the throne 20 years ago Morocco was in a state of complets anarchy. By execu- tive ability and progressive views and by acting in close co-operation with Gen. Lyautey, the French adminis- trator, he brought successively prac- tically all the territories constituting his empira under his real and uncon- | testad authority. He did all this and at the same time gained the reputation of being “the most democratic hail fellow well met” that ever occupied an Oriental poten- tate's throne. This was due to his re- fusal to ride in the palanquin borne on the shoulders of 12 giant negroes The msl sesident general, Theor- brom the famous black bodyguard. » () Means Associated Press. BILLIS PLANNED “fcqurse I should pursue in The-only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 107,016 TWO CENTS. MAJ. GORDON QUITS CONTEMPT INQUIRY INOIL-FRAUD CASE U. S. District Attorney Says His Convictions Make Serv- ice “Inappropriate.” SIDDONS SCORES ACTION IN PEPPERY EXCHANGE Judge Excuses Official, but Does Not Name Successor on Committee. TUnited States Attorney Peyton Gore don, declining to be put'in “an anome lous and inconsistent position,” toe day announced his resignation as a member of the committee of three law- yers ordered hy Justice Frederick La Siddons to determine if there is rea. | sonable cause for inquiry as to wheth. er 2 criminal contempt of his court had heen committed by persons in- olved in the Government's charges jury tampering that led to the mis- vial in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case, The resignation, which caused wide- spread comment in courthouse circles, was given publicity in an exchange of bluntly worded letters between the United States attorney and Justice Siddons. Maj. Gordon made it plain in his letter of resignation, dated November 6. that he is proceeding as a U'nited States attorney in prosecuting before the grand jury charges contained in the Government affida used as a basis for the mistrial declaration. Con- vine that a criminal contempt of | the court had already been committed, Maj. Gordon stated to the court it would be “inappropriate” as well as inconsistent for him to serve on the committee investigating the contempt charge. He added in no uncertain terms that he had “quite positive views as to who should be prosecuted™” and the course that he should pursue in that capacity. Siddons Defends Course. Justice Siddons, in accepting the resignation today, defended his course in ordering the contempt investiga tion, and suggested that Maj. Gor- don's a tance. to be of use, would have to he “ungrudgingly and wholes heartedly given.” “The inquiry ordered to be made as to the allcged contempt is not a mere adjunet or make-weight of the crimi- nal prosecution and trial during the course of which the contempt is said to have been committed.” wrote Jus- tice Siddons. “It is an inquiry to de- termine whether in the National Cap- ital the administration of justice in one of the established courts thereim 4m:d\'”he successfully flouted and de- Maj. Gordon's resignation did not come as a_survrise to members of the | local bar in view of the unusual eir< cumstances under which the court ordered a committee of lawyers to des termine whether criminal contempt proceedings should be prosecuted against citizens for violation of the court’s order. Since Maj. Gordon ix prosecuting the charge before the grand jury, the view was held by many that the coyrse pursued by the court in not determining for itself whether a criminal contempt had been committed was an unusual o Plea for Bond Cut Withdrawn. Another development in the grand jury investigation arose today when Henry Mason Day, contact man for Harry F. Sinclair in the shadowing of the trial jurors, protested to his counsel here that the motion made to reduce his $25.000 bond to $10,000 had proved exceedingly embarrassing to im. “Glaring headlines” in papers had hinted that the desired reduction of the bond was for the purpose of escaping the bond, he declared. As an upshot of this, his attorney, Daniel Thew Wright, appeared before Chief Justice McCoy of Criminal Di- vision 2 and withdrew his motion for a reduced bond, a hearing for which had been set for Monday. At the same time, Justice Siddons approved application of Edward J. Kidwell, jr., juror No. 11, accused of discussing the trial, for a_pastpone- ment of the hearing on his petition that Don R. King and J. Ray Akers be adjudged in contempt of court “for |approaching him as a juror.” Maj. Gordon’s Letter. Maj. Gordon's letter of resignation as a member of the contempt investi- gating committee, dated November 16, reads, in part, as follows: “I was counsel of record associated with Atlee Pomerens and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel for the Gov- ernment in the case then on trial, and as said special counsel I presented and filed said affidavits, and was then and . am now, as were also the special Gov- ernment counsel, convinced that there was reasonable cause to believe that a ' iminal contempt of the court has heen committed, and I and those with whom I was associated, were ready and willing to prosecute such persons against whom the court might see fit to issue a rule to show cause, or a citation, why they should not be ad- judged in contempt of court: and the afidavits thus presented and filed in court were the basis and cause of the action of the court on November 2, in withdrawing a juror and discharzing the jury from further consideration of the case and declaring a mistrial. Since then. in my official capacity, I nave presented to the grand jury evidence on every phase of the situa. tion and have quite positive views as to who should he prosecuted and the that eca. pacity. “In these circumstances it would seem to me that to act in my individ. ual capacity as one of the committes or with others not connected with the Government and to make an inquiry into a matter of which I am already cognizant, which I have already de- cided in my own mind, and as to which T am already committed might, as to the action I should take, place me in an anomalous and inconsistent position.” Referring to the resignation of tha United States attorney, Justice Side dons saying “he noted it with regret,” added, “not so much on my account nor on account of the court, as be- cause a member of the bar of the court of many years' standing and who believes that a contempt of that court of a grave character has heen commit- ted, vet, nevertheless, seeks to be re- lieved or excused when called upon by the court to assist it in ascertaining if that contempt has been committed and if =0 to ald in the administration of justice by vindicating and maintaining its authority, if that authority has been defled.” “The alleged contempt, you in. formed the court. took place durin; (Continued on Page 22, Column 1) b