Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1927, Page 1

The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. 0 much colder it ni temperature | | tar. —FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. @he Fpening V. B NING TION ) = 5 R BISE R Bk Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,647 WASHINC (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENI 'ON, D. €. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 192 VARE DEFEAT SEEN DISTRICT AGAIN FACES BATTLE WITH GOVERNMENT OVER FUNDS FINE ARTS VIGTOR HUGHES SURGESTED ~ ASKEY SPEAKER AT Rcncrval of 1915 Struggle Resalte 12-Year IN SENATE ACTION G' 0 P EUNVEN“QN Fight for Equitable Fiscal Policy Carried | RE][B“NG SM”’H Post of Temporary Chairman May Be Offered to Ex-Secretary. OBSERVERS SIGHT RACE BY HOOVER AND DAWES Selection of Kansas City Viewed in Some Quarters as Blow to Lowden's Chances. LINCOLN ination RBY G. h oven The over e ever real fight It will he where al th Sec e presidential a ar during on can national rary chairman of the natio eommittee. and keynote convention Selectior the yon that 18 speake 3 Due Soon. subcommittee Mr. Hughe nt choice. Whether 2y, Hughes would accept. if the offer of the temporary chairmanship were made to him, remains to be seen. The subcommittee 1= empowered to seiect #the temporary chairman. and a s tion may be expected within the next month or With the selection of a conv city behind them, those mem #he national comn ington were takin; situation in which the p: left by the elimination ¢ 1 Mr. Huzhes as the presidential Members of o pressed the opi would be an excel ‘ tion v of stock today of the has been "resident ential members of the d the view that the to a_fizht be of the De and \ Hoove: More and more, commitice expre contest W hapir tween Secretary Hoover partment of Commerce Tresident Dawes. Neither Mr nor the Vice President has announced his candidacy. Indeed, the Vice Presi dent has deciared he is not a cand date for the nomination, but that he | ‘Mavors the nomination of his fellow | Illinoisan, former Gov. Frank O.f Lowden. Mr. Hoover, it is declared. | Plans to continue in the cabinet, at- tending to the duties of his office. Seen Blow to Lowden. The selection of Kansas City for the eonvention city is cons lered in some s a hody blow to the pre of Lowden for the nomination. Missouri was the cause in large par of Mr. Lowden's failure to W Republican nomination in 1920. senatorial committee developed at that time that Lowden mone: —though , without Mr. Lowden's knowled had been expended in Missouri in the preconvention campaign in an irrezu- Jar way fa the selection of Lowden delegates. To stage the natior ~ention in the very State wh 7 old scandal is sure to raise it il be in no way helpful 1o Mr. Low- den, it was pointed out today ] While there has been no present in- L gication that Mr. Lowden eventually Will withdraw from the race for the nomination, and many of his friends jnsist that he is in the r Ihere is a_rumor that he, oo withdraw. Should he do so. situation confrontinz Vice sident Dawes would be distinctly different Tnder those conditions. he would be compelled to make the race himself for delegates. His friends, who now | hope that he will be the residuary Jegatee of the Lowden strength in the convention if Lowden ils to make the grade, would have to rustie for Dawes delegates without delay. Dawes Foreseen Loser. « 1t Mr. Lowden remains in_the 1a the Vice President runs the risk Josing his chance for the nomi e | | nomi- | | control | until | structures ation | Citizens on by . first of fwa articles (i \ts form i the Citize Cony- nited camtable tomorw t from e LWAY, itselr 3 vt Mcek peatin at tantive law in appropriat District of Columbiat ibont a condition in Washing sitnation | ught i comparable in some respects to Ul n 1915 \ smanded when temporarily to cast oil on be that t there i the marked di 1415 renee i in situation in fronts the District to the citizens of W 1 over threatened part of the House to serap sub- ive Jaw and increase the burden | of taxation in the District on the | 0f loose and carelessly arrived at !sumptions of what this burden should he Citizens of Washington were able to show that these assumptions were ton action ' Joint Comm: arvoused | antive law and secured from | Congress a fair hearing which served | threatened, but avert troubled | 1413 | Washington is protesting ttee. ‘ | were possession Qevice against | a device which v described ¢ and n of definitely | = ratio, the ex- the Capital between the Dis- | wnd the Federal Governments, | 1915 € 5 | today, as another session of Con stting under way, the citi Washington find that four onsistent disy d of suh have brought them face with a condition which was d, in 1915, In Wakhington was protesting uainst threatened conditions. Today fgainst con ditions brought ab by Areying woma of those threats into offect. In 1915 the cilizens of Washington were devoting their gitention o preventive wsure Today they are hoping to elfeet A cure. Activities during the past Summer of the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association in exam- | ining_the District’s Sudzet, conpted (Continued on and malicious, and thereby sful in maintaining ole protective rtionate taxation has been picturesqu the District’s shield which lies in the syst ipportioning, by fixed faal s of their oxt as prnses of Face n cress is Zens years of tn tace age b, Column 1) PRESIDENT URGES ‘I FLOOD CONTROL iArmy's Plan for Mississippi Calling ‘or $296,400,000 Sent to Congress. ttee stll in Wash- | he Associated Press the~full support of his ad tion hehind it. President Cool- smitted to Congress [the Army Engineers' plan for con- trolling Mississippi River floods. The proposal deals with the lower {valley alone, from Cairo, Il to the | Gulf. and would cost $296.400.000. to | be expended in 10 re. It pro for a spillvay above New Orl | diversion floodways in the Atchafalya {and Tensas Basins in Louisiana. a viverbank floodway from Cairo to New Madrid. Mo., the strengthening and raising of existing levees and the stabilization of the river channel he KFederal _Government wonld r 80 per cent of the cost of the project, estimated at u total of $185,400,000 and all of the $111,000.- 000 expense for stabilization and map- | ping of the channel. The valley States would assume 20 per cent of the flood control cost. ‘The National Govern- ment now pays only 66% per cent of flood control cos Tributaries Left for Future. Although the lower cour: of the ssippi's tributdries directly con- with so-called alluvial valley are included in the plan, the | problem of controlling the floods of those streams left for the future the Army Engineers complete survey by the last 8. n of reser- voirs is deemed “too costly” by the report in proportion to their value as flood control measures. The large cost of the project “is manifestly justified.” the President | declared in his special communication | to Congress, “by the necessities of the uation and the benefits that will result,” The plan is described by Mr. Coolidge as “comprehensive, and ippeals to me ns being adequate in 1ts engineering.” ““The Federal Treasury should bear its portion of the cost of engineering for flood control,” con- tinued Mr. Coolidge. “that is justified by the national aspects of the problem !and the national benefits. In deter- the distribution of the costs idered not only the f the valley itself. who receive benefits. but also the great he: ins their Congr people the majo at the same time that Mr. Lowde defeated. if he he defeated Fer a Jaowden defcat, unless the convention 1 Gendlocked, muay mean a Hoover 3 ¢ or a victory for some othet 1 r that when the Lowden str ngth eaks up it will be impossible to ing all of it. or even a Jargs of it, to the Yice Pre jon of Kansas City s displeasing o the " Seeretary Hoover. His ¢ o Zhe support_of the K Star and the Kansas mewspapers which hs fnfluence in that ““countr: €O Despite the drive which has bheen e for Mr. Lowden in Missouri, it K}x:nn{\'n that Mr. Hoover has many friends in the State. An uninsiructed delegation may he sent to the con vention, which would not be unfavo Shle to Hoover. In Kansas, the joining State. there congide 3ioover strength. alihouzh the del gation_of the Sun Flower State will Eist its ~votes for Sena Charles Curtls. its favorite son “There is no little speculatis cnom the administration :;‘Hmt‘:o in the race for the presiden- tlal_nomination, with hoth President ‘Coolidge and Mr. Hughes out of the picture. _Predictions have been made fhat Prosid < will maint neutrality a support to the aman the ¢ nominats Mr. Hoover, however has 1 arded a8 exponent Coolidge Do icie With him white House, it is contended, policies will be continued and ifed. Both Vice Presiden: Dawe ‘Mr. Lowden have b rat iponents of some of { policies. N ‘farm legislation. Hoover ( The announcen ghat he would not I the nomination lus st didacy of Mr. Hoover e drive for ver the Wil be launched by his friends e ittle delay In New York State up-State and in the city. Ttis likely that the del jon will split_in Hughes has withdrawn, but in al prob: pility Mr. Hod r will have a considerable number of votes in the delogation New York Jpecting of gomimittee. " s by friends nendons £ the stion n as to strenzth on re of the in the These mpi and o iion with n ir Mr. Hnzhes candidite for nzthened ean Undoubtedly il in the politicians, here for the the Republican national d=clared they would have o back for conterence hefore they ,“.1.154 shed ht what W “(Continucd on Pase 4, Column 3 Also there is always the| spavers who suffer less from the Mississippi River nd upon whom most of the Federal taxation falls.” Signed by Jadw Enginee report containing much technical | mass of | directly | foods { burden [ ad im a _ bulky number of The ument and | xigned by chief of A who_pe | sonally supervised much of its draft- In a letter presenting the r | port to the President, cretary Dav | of the War Department said the ! plan “seems to afford the masimum Jof protection with the minimum of sommended. plan “fundamen- « from the present project it timits the amount of flood arried in the main river city,” the report nds the surplus water thr {eral floodways.” | The scheme of levees of sufficient zht to coniain the maximum pe «ible floods, which was the past meth- od. it added, was discussed and found inadvisable The of the “The fi | Madrid. 1ch | w outlined as follows iro to New an W dways from C: from the Arkansas River th the Tensas Basin the Red iver and from the Red through the Aehafala Basin to the Gulf will relivve the main channel of the water it it carry and lower the floods to stages at which the levees can carry them Would Widen trolied spillway down to New O wocal | a Bottlenecks. to, hold s at the and | [ tov [ of levees in the lumn 4. | committee. ssential features and functions | NEW REVENUE BILL REDUCES TAX CUT Green Announces Slash Will Be but $7,735,000 Above Mellon’s Maximum. By the Associated Press. The new revenue bill will call for a | total cut in taxes of $2 in- stead of $236,000,000, heretofore esti- mated hy members of the House w and means committee. Chairman Green formally advised the House of the estimate today in report on the measure. mate is only 000 above the maxi- mum of $225.000,000 recommended by Secretary Mellon. The chairman said that requests for reductions aggregating more than 500,000,000 had been received by the and that it was “obviously it mossible™ to make all of them. Specific Cuts Listed. The chalrman’s report estimated that the total reduction would be made up of specific cuts in tax rates as fol- Tows: Reduction in the rate on corporation incomes from 1312 to 1113 per cent, a loss in revenue of $164,000,000, which with a loss of $12,000,000 as a result of an increase from 00 to $3,000 in the exemption granted corporations with net income of 000 or less, would bring a total loss of $176.600,000. Increased exemption from 75 cents to $1 on admission tickets, loss $8.000,- 000, Club dues tax per cent, loss $5,000,000. Automobile tax, reduced from 3 to 11, per cent. loss $33.000.000, Cereal beverage tax. repealed, loss 5,000, Tax on the sale of wines, reduced to pre-war level, loss $930,000. Stamp tax on the le or transfer of capital stock. reduced from 2 to 1 per cent on each §100 of value, loss $8,800,000. Stamp tax on the sale of produce on exchanges. repealed, loss $3,000 000, Total loss in revenue, $235.515,000. | i reduced from 10 to 5 31 Increases Are Provided. Increases in revenue from the fol- lowing sources were provided: Withholding of the tax at th> sou on tax-free covenant honds (no dent aliens and foreign corpora $2.000.000. Prize fights, an increase from 10 to | per cent in the tax on admissions and over, $750,000. | Foreign-built boats, an increas the annual tax on such boats tracted for after December 1 $30.000., Total increase in revenue Net loss in revenue $2 000. he plan adopted in the bill and| approved by the majority of your com- mitiee,”” Mr. Green’s report said. “is believed to distribute the duction | widely as possible. apportioning it | monz the taspayers where ihe need emed the greatest, and at the same | (Continued on Page 4. Column 4. . COLD WAVE TO RETURN TONIGHT, BUREAU SAYS Temperature of 25, Season's Rec- ord, Expected Here—No Snow in Sight. ons) | | of in con- 1927, | | The coldest weather of the season | ers predicted today, although no snow ix in sight A minimum temperature of 25 de- grees ix anticipated, one degree lower than the low temperature registered several days ago “Fair and cold” is the forecast for tomorrow. A strong wind from ng up this morning mercury down 10 degrees in an hour. mperature stood at 61 degrees | this morning. but at 9 and still falling. rance of a cloud of inky | ness shortly after 8 o'clock struck terror into the hearts of residents of the in northeast and south- | east Washington which were visited | the West sending the | recently by a havoc.wreaking tornado. | Lincoln Instituted Thanksgiving Day | In America in 1695, Paris Paper Holds | By the Associated P PARIS, Decemix { ent aris newspaper thinks Abr bam Lineoln instituted the annual ob- ervance of Thanksgiving d United States | he statement w on the avers of Americs wadition dispel i ee, the newspaper s “The American fete of Thanksgiving ¥ made in com e Frenchm u history of e s | menting rorance ml that was instituted three centur in the 0 by |of the fete.” | | | | Lincoln. following an astomlshing event. | “In 1695 while some of the settlers | were dying of hunger, others had mar- velous crops and were able to come | 1o the rescue of their distressed [brethren. Very religious himself, | President. Lineoln saw in this a mir- | acle. and named w day of thanksgiv ing, upon which God was to he |ihanked for His mercy. He fixed |arbitravily. upon the lasi November (i | didate in a sm; 780,000, | 4 a_bathroom connected with a room he 'FLETCHER NAMING DENIED | Cleveland American Thursday of | ¢ the annual observance | | Refusal to Seat Pcnnsylvania‘ ‘ Senator-Elect Expected ‘ as Vote Nears. | REED ASKS “FAIR PLAY” IN “APPEAL FOR STATE" Illinois Delegate Given Desk and; Office, but No Pay Pending Committee Inquiry. The ward an early Senator elect Senate was moving today to- | vote on the siatus of Vare Pennsylvinia, | and all indications were that the tion of yesterday denying the oath of | office to Senatoreloet Smith of 1| nois, pending a commitiee investiga- tion. would be repeated Senator Edze, Republic Jersey, speaking in 1 ministering the oath to vaised an interesting que today 15 1o the meaning of the word “mem bers” in that part of the Constitution which says that each braneh of Con s shall be the judge of the election and qualification” of its members. After quoting the dictionary meaning of the word “member.” Senator Edge | declared he did not see how a man could be dismissed from membership until he had been made a member, of Now | of ad Vare, Mr. | Cities Spending Quota. [ of the | to have Turning to the imount of money been spent in the ania pri- | mary, Senator said that, assum- | ing for the sake of argument that if as| much as £600,000 had been spent in b half of Mr. Vare in conducting campaign, it would have heen vents per State s Pennsylvar He argued that a_can 1 State spending funds | at the same rate per voter would reach a total of perhaps $3.000 or £6.000, | Senator McLean. Republican. of Con- | necticut also joined in the debate to- day, appearing to Senators to adhers to the principal that every man is en- titled to a trial before a disinterested tribunal, After voting 50 to to refuse th oath pending further inquiry, the Sen- 1t by an add rin of 8 de- cided to refer Smith's claim to t special committee on campaign ex penditnres, headed by Senator Reed Democrat, of Missouri, In preference vileges and This vote, inci- fect of recognizing | the continued existence of the | committee, the status of which was | questioned after the | gress adjourned in M Smith Permitted to Speak. The Sedate took another most un usual step in the Smith case when it adopted an amendment by Senator Reed of Missour! extending 1o the li- linois Senator-elect the privilege of speaking in his own behalf in the Sen. | ate before the question of admitting him is finally passed upon. present time he has an office as to him and has a desk at which to sit | in the Senate. But, under yesterday action, he cannot take the vath while his case is in committee. Although Senator-lect Smith w entitled automatically to receive his pay as a Senator during the Summer, | beginning with March 4, he is now off the payroll, it wi on Page 4, Column 5.) question reported ARMY MAN ENDS LIFE : IN HOTEL WITH PISTOL | Capt. Lewis B. Willis Commits Suicide—No Motive Found for Deed. | | | visited the ba The body of Capt. Lewis B. Willis, | who had been attached to the office of | the quartermaster general since July | s found early this afternoon in had taken last night at the Powhatan | Hotel with a hullet kole through hi head and a service automatic pistol lying by his side. Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, the coroner, issued a certificate of suicide. (Capt Willis, who unmarried, was 4 years old. Since heing stationed in Washington, cominz here from Fort Adams, R. I. he had lived at 1844 Mintwood .. No Motive could be assjgned for his . A note he left behind directed a friend, Col. R. H. Jordan. to take charge of his will. Capt. Willis, a native of Georgia, is sury P sister. Apparently in zood health spirits he had declined an invi to a dance last night, talking c fully to his friends. Dr. Nevitt® that he heen dead for sevi before the hody was discove izabeth Hill, o maid. H He was fully clothed and the hed | had not been slept in. A $5 bill was | found pinned to a m ze which stated that it was intended as pay- ment for the room. Duving the World | apt. Willis < executive | harge of port utilities at and t Hoboken. Bradley Says Yankee Coach Has Not Been Appointed Manager. CLEVELAND. Ohio, —Alva_Bradley, pri League today that Arthur of the New Yo Ynalk not been appointed as | manager of the Cleveland Indians, | Reports from Dallas were that Billy | Evans, general manager of the In. Qians, had announced appointment of Fletcher. | December announced ch club, -1 Exploding Shell Kills Three. . WARSAW, December § (P).—The bride and two other members of a | wedding party were killed in the ex-| plosion of a shell which had been picked up on an old hattisfield and was heing examined one of the wedding guests in a vills Vilna. Four zuests were Injured seriously and others suffered minor hurts, The house was demolish | read. | O'Reilly’s report being sent to Henry INFIGHT ON CIGAR STORE'S BUILDING New Plans to Be Prepared at Once for Structure on Pennsylvania Avenue. EDIFICE TO BE IN KEEPING ‘ WITH GENERAL SECTION Simplification of Design Will Cost but Little More and Will Be Better, Board Says. As a victorious stey in its endeavors wutifieation of Washington | adiacent ta public buildings the Com- of Fine Arts today won United Cigar Stores qnestion of jur tion by the commission over private lding in Washington. At the con- conference with the com- . lasting more than an the Cigar Stores rts body a new the to which mission |its fight v d over n arch told to | hour, the fi des ace one DETECTIVE VISITED KIDWELL'S FATHER Operative’s Report, Read ati Contempt Hearing, Shows | Juror’s Parent Approached. That one of the Burns' detectives had approached the father of dwell, jr. the juror who bout the stablishea vernment today in offering s of the juror trailers to ubstantiate its charges of ecriminal ntempt of court against Harry F Sinclair, millionaire oil operator; liam J. Burns, and the four associate respondents. Defense counsel sought to bar the presentation of the Kidwell repo prepared by one O'Reilly, an oper tivew who also figures in the alle false affidavit involving Juror Nor- man L. Glascock and Horace R. Larah, a_special assistant to the At- General. Justice Frederick ons overruled objection of de- 1se counsel and ordered the report by the ( further r Justice Siddons also pointed ont to Government counsel diserepencies in the reports of this same operative con- | cerning the shadowing of Lamb from the Department of Justice Building to his home cquet Club, to the Congressional Country Club golf links and other plac The dates ziven by O'Reflly in his reports were October.| 2 nd 28. whereas Justice Siddons | out meerning save the date as Octobe vious Lamb's movements 24, two days Looked Up Father. under instructions from tuddy, the Philadelphia e of the branch op. stated in his it his busi- “brothe: Acting Charles G in ch erations here, O'Reilly wort that he had made to look up Kidwell's who he said was a harber named Ed- ward Kidwell. The Bdward Kidwell in question is in reality the father of Juror Kidwell and maintains a barber Shop in the Myrtle Hotel in Congr Heights, . O'Reilly told of going to the man residence and making a “suitable pretext” rined from the woman who the door information concerning subject. Later he ser xhop, and by using er “suitable pretext able age Kidwell's father in conver- | nes ol wered the anoth to en; sation, The report which O'Reilly made in writing to Ruddy was dated October 24 and was sent to W. Sherman Burns in New York. Ruddy, who ain on the witness stand today. testificed he had no recollection inclair offic nagnate (o snpervis He adnsitted. that he had spoken to garding the contents of the report. Explains Lamb Episode. Ruddy seemed anxious to explain to the court the “Lamb episode” and the court finally permitted him to do Mason by the explanation was that on Octo- 2 a yeport was made by “the sc Loug™ that he had seen an au- tomobile bearing the license number following juror Glascock and ww the owner of the automobile Potomac Flying d_in con- with the juror. On Monday . Ruddy said. he instructed O'Reilly to learn the name of the man ! who owned the car, and on the same ay he sent Operator Paul D. Steer to the automobile license identification bureau. He learned the owner of the a special agent of the artment of Justice, who lived at Sixteenth stre This incident was so suspicious nd Jus- for n ended cour | Ohioan Says He Is Not Seek- [ | committee. L will | tiny Ruddy said, “That I talked the matter over with Mr. Day. O'Reilly picked up Lamb on the morning of the | and made him his sub, 1 reg: bim as being so suspi portant that [ pers took over the subject. 1 followed him to lunch at the Racquet Club and back to the | courthouse.™ Here the explanat tice Siddons adjourned luncheon . J Ruddy identified reports of the op- | eratives who shadowed Miss Bernice | J. Heaton and Chatles Holt, two of the | jurors who were put under the closest Surveillance. Holds Trailing Ts Contempt. Tn opposing the motions to dismiss the charges United States | Atto on Gordon contended that surveillance of a criminal tr jury in any manner constitutes a con tempt of court. Defense counsel, on the other hand, takes the position that the legal right exists o long as no effort s made to approach or contaminate any of the jurors. Justice Siddons evinced | interest in this controversial point by reserving his final ruling on the motion to dismiss the Government's charges | (“ontinued on Page 2, Column 4) ' Skyscrapersof U.S. | Will Topple in 40 | Years, Expert Says| By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December S-— American skyserapers if allowed to stand more than 40 years will rtainly tumble down, says Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect. e says the methods employed iral steel construction giving the steel only a “coating paint or one of mud and water where the danger chiefly lies gives little protection from atmos pherie penetration. DONAMEY DECLINES, BUT BLOCKS SMITH ing Nomination, but Would Accept It. % By the Associated Press. COLUMBLUS, Ohfo, December $.— Gov. Donahey not only is not a candi- date for President, hut he will not be ndidate for any fied State Democratic party This became known toda tion with the fight being nor'’s friends to | ! gation to the Demoeratic national convention heing selected in the in- terest of Gov. Al Smith of New York. | While the governor is not a candi- date he has let it be known he would not_refuse the nomination were it| tendered him. His friends are anxions | that the delegation be favorable to the | governor and stand ready to support | him for the nomination if and when such a chance for his nomination might arise. 3 When the committee convened word passed to the Donahey supporters that arrangements had been made to in- dorse Pomerene for President with no res ions that would prevent the Ohio delesation being turned over en | e to Smith after preliminary Immediately they issued an um to the Pomerene adherents that if the suggested plan went through a_slate of opposition candi- tes would be put up in the pri- maries. The delay was thei reed upon and a subcommittee of five was named to report in January on the “favorite son’ recommendation. The action was taken by Donahey friends despite the governor's repes ed statement that he is not a candi date. n connec ed by th cent Oh URGED FOR D. C. BODY. Three Members of House Named as Possible Appointees. No effort has yet been made by the Republican committee on committees to fill vacancies on the House Distriet veral names have heen | urged. however. These include Repre. | sentative White of Maine, who will be | chairman of the House committee on | ate commerce: | Represent Thompson of Ohio. who has 1 member of the House for the past eight vears, and a new member, Representative Bohn from Michigan, who is recommended for the District committee by former C! r- | an Mapes. The committee on committees is to meet again tomorrow to pass upon a tentative slate for a number of the | minor committees of the House. After these assignments have been made. | the District of Columbia committee | be taken up for consideration The Democratic minority has not vet taken any action toward filling the waney caused by the defeat of | ! Representative Little of Kansas. | tion strenuous « ction had been raised by nd by various civi i architects' organizations, will be prepared immediately for fur- ther submissions. Julius Wenig. Washington architect, whose plans for the ed ‘ourteenth and the storm center dispute over SMITHSONIAN GIVES | daxy with H. G. Mitchell, consulting Regents Bestow Langley xi the ‘conciusion of “the contarene the following atement was issued on Award on Flyer Here Today. Secrctary Not Named. behalf of the commission the commission s bodies and nl iz “Representatives of the T Stores e commis- sion toda uit of the dis- cussion a new design will be prepared | for further submission fmme mith. | The commission pointed out that the netitation ot thelr. anmual | JesiEn of the building could be simpli- S % i "vm] and a structul more suited to this morning. bestowed the! pennsylvania avenue could be con- Langley Medal for aviation on Col.| structed at little additional expense Charles A. Lindbergh and received | and with advantage to the company. the promise of the transatlantic fyer Lusk Sent to New York, that his famous plane, the Spirit of | St. Louis. eventually will be turned | - - r“-w“"x;m r:_cx[»::, !e_],trk!h:‘t over to the institution’s aviation eol-| .ag¢ contracted for. but within these RSRIGHS limits they were disposed to meet the The desires of the commission. Smithsonian, Protests against the original plans since the death by the cigar company arose first at a Waleott last Spring, was not filled | meeting of the committee of the Wash- iy s <iq. | ington Board of Trade on public and by the regents. This caused cousid-| jvate huildings a little more than & erable surprise to members of the | yopth ago, shortly following publica- staff of the instituti who had ex-|tion of the plans for the proposed pected a definite announcement today. | building. Fears were expressed that the type ¢ building planned. which from its location on the northeast corner of Fourteenth and I3 streets would over- onts apparently have been unable | 100k the spacious park on the south to come to an agreement. The secre- | Side of Pennsvlvania avenue west of Ship of the Smithsonian is consid. | the District Building. would be a detri- 1 the most important in American | MeNt to the beauty of the great Fed- ence—partly because of the tradi- |eral building prozram. | leadership of the institution and | Rufus . Lusk was sent to New partly because of the number of CGov- | York te confer with officials of the “nmient _institutions under its direc- | U'nited Cigar Stores Co. of America as making it almost the equal of a | Ahe representative of the Board of thinet position: Trade comumittee. the local chapter of Since the death of Dr. W the American Institute of Architects ot T Been Kt by Dr s (3 | and the Operative Builders' Associa- Abbot, assistant secretary head | tion. At that conference officials of of the astrophysical obse and | the company voluntarily: sgreed it was thought by many of his friends | Submit their plans to the that Dr. Abbot would be given the sec. | Commission for review. aryship. The failure of the regents Disapproval Was Defled. o make an appointment today throws the whole matter once more into the | Ten davs azo the Fine Arts Com- atmosphere of mystery. which has | mission in a letier to the United Cigar surrounded it from the fi What- | Co. voiced its disapproval of the plans ever deliberations the regents may |in their entirety. Four days ago the have had on their choice they have |cigar store company countered with sen attended by absolute secrecy, so | the proposal that they intended to that members of the staff ave entirely [ <0 ahead with their plans regardless in_the d the opposition of the Fine Arts This Spring one of the directors of | Commussion and the building angd the American Association for the Ad- zanizations in Washington. vancement of Science took the initia- nasizing the zeal of Congress tive of sending a questionnaire to a | !0 continue and preserve the beauti large number of scientists in the Gov- | fication of the National Capital and ernment departments, universities and | its hearty suppert of the stand taken other institutions asking them to_ex- the Ar on in this choice for the secretaryship, |respect, Cole, Repub- s move, which caused much com- n House today ment at the time, was intended to se-|spe the pro- judgment _of _the _scientific olumn BRITISH “PEACE LETTER” | IS SIGNED BY 128,000 ted Cigar The hoard of regents of the sonian | position of secretary | which has been v of Dr. Charles D Agreement Doubted. More than a score of candidates have en mentioned for this post, and the i i ion B s G Commission d . “In connec h this big item the deticiency appropriation bill,” Cole said. when the appropriztion continuing work on the $50,000.000 Vederal building pro: “it may not be out of place to speak about a situation which has grisen Column 7.) 5 of the Fine A in Mr. (Continued on Page RADFORD MOSES NAMED TO HEAD KIWANIANS LO December 8.—A “peace | letter” bearing the signatures of 128.-| Is Sole Nominee for Presidency 0 persons who declared they would| ¢ club Edgar Morris Also refuse to sWpport any government re " sorting to arms, was presented to Is Listed. Premier Baldwin at 10 Downing stret | padg today by Arthur Ponsonby. Laborite [of W. B, Moses & Sons, was t member of the House of Commons. s/le nominee for president of the “We, the undersigned, are Kitanis Club to succeed William that all disputes between nations are | Quinter, at the club’s annual nomina- capable of settlement either by diplo- | tion of officcis at a luncheon in the matic negotiations or some other form Washington 1t v. Edgar of international arbiteation. and here- | ) nominated for the office by solemnly declure that we shall re-|of first vice president. fuse t support or render war service | Other nominations were as follows to any government which resorts to - second vice president, James arms.” the letter stated Imunds: for district trustee, It is understood that Mr. Pensonhy | 3 Kimball, the incumbent in collected the signatures without the office, and Cliwude W. Owen aid of any organization. The Laborite, | For directors, seven to he elec After seeing the premier, said that Mr. [ Stephen H Talkes, Edwin F. Hiil, Baldwin promised to give a considered . Baker, Charles H. Frame veply to the letter. Evans, Dr. O niger, . Hinton, Howard. Laborite Member of Commons Pre- sents Document to Baldwin. Reply Promised. By the Associated Press. rd Moses, seeretiary-tr Blanton Demands Congressional Probe Of Jury System Here After Oil Mistrial By the Associated Press. A demand for congressional seru- of the jury system in Washing- as a result of jury tampering s growing out of the Fall-Sin- made in the House to- ntative Blanton, Demo- ton charg: clair trial wa: by Repr 5. In every State in the Union, Blan- ton said, juries were kept in cl of an officer, but in the Nation's C tal, on an important case a jury permitted to go unguarded. . As a result, he said. the charge ha heen made that “a bunch of Burns' detective agency men, at the insist ence of one of the defendants,” shad- owed jury members, looking for an approach “Recause of this,” he added. *it be- hooves the chaiflun of the appropria- ST | les W 3 . Frank J aude H. Woodward and Paul Morrison. The elections will be held at the luncheon of the club next Thursday. FRESSES H_I(;HWAY BILL. 2 Determination to press for early ac- Blanton added that in his opinion [ ., ypon his bill APhith ba ranits. trials_such as the FallSinclair trial | ceq yesterday for construction and should be held outside of Washington |, it U8 (S D0 TONAN highway to because of the jury system and also | .ioyoct Mount Vernon with the Arling- because he had been told a number | i PNTE O e i expressed by of Washingtonians wers prejudiced | jrapresentative Moore of Virginia, in azainst the Government. | order that important fills may be made The Texan's demand marked the ;,y Army Engineers within the next first outhurst in the present Congress few l\lnl\‘"l!. over the oil cases, which were a fre-| Afr. Moore and other leaders in Con- quent subject of debate during the '.ress emphasize that this work must past session, when Senator Heflin of | soon be done in order that the long- Alabama vepeatedly attacked Justice | sontemplated memorial boulevard may Hitz. who presided at the Fall-Doheny |» opened for traflic in celebration of teial. 1+ hicentennial of Washington’s birth, +4 1952, It Is expected that this houle: vard will be one of the main features of the najional celebration. nmittee and the judic mittee to look into the jur; here.” ¥ tions Radio Programs—Page 44