Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 2

SCOTTISH BISHOP HAS NO FEAR OF MEETING CHICAGO'S MAYOR Agrees With Thompson on! ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY SMOOT APPROVES GOVERNMENT WINS RETIREMENT ACTS PAR"A[ TOHOOVER Prograss and Patronage of Papet Kuep Step With the Steady Growth of Capital. L Congressmen Favor Secre- " tary for President if Cool- idge Is Fot Available. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Hoover-for-President movement | i New England took on added | strength today. The Maine delegation | h Congress, it hecame known, includ- | ing Senators Hale and Gould, is united | in support of the nomination of the Secretary of Comm it President Coolidge is not available. A poll of the entire Maine delega- tion, all Republicans, showed the dele- gation to be united in its loyalty 10 ipresident Coolidge. But the poll “showed aiso that, in the event the :President is not available for renomi- “nation, the members of the delc: *tion are equally united in favor of the nomination of wr. toover. Gov. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, .who was in_ Washington to 1 “ready has declared himself as ‘in favor of the nomination Hoover. Attitude Secms Fixed. Jess something now unforseen ar- it appears almost certain that ee rongly of Mr Ty the Maine delegation to the Repuh- | s [ lican national convention next June will support Mr. Hoover. - Members of the delegation made it clear today, however, that their fitst choice for President is still Calvin Coolidge. Some of them are unwill- ing to admit there is no chance of renominating the President, notwith- standing his recent statement to the Republican national committee. The Hoover strength in other New England States is mounting, accord- ing to all reports. The New Hamp- shire delegation, whether instructed or uninstructed, will be for Mr. Hoover. There are two schools of thought there, one headed by Senator Moses. which believes the delegation should #o uninstructed, but friendly to Hoov- er, and another, headed former Gov. Winant, which wants an in- structed delegation. In Vermont, the President's native State, the feeling for Mr. Hoover has been strong, provided, of course, the President s entirely out of the ‘run- ning. Recently there has been a whis- pering campaign directed against Mr. “Hoover in Vermont, however, pictur- ing the Secretary as pro-British. This has not helped his candidacy. Vice President Dawes, regarded as a po- tential candidate for the nomination, is looked upon favorably by many members of the American Legion in, Vermont, and the legion has no little political influence in the State. Hughes Had Following. Some of the rock-ribbed Republican ‘Vernionters are shaking their heads, 100, over the stand whicl Mr. Hoover is said to have taken during the war with President Wilson, in urging the election of a Democratic Congress in 1918. On the whole, Mr. Hoover is looked upon in Vermont as the man most likley to continue the admini- stration of the Government along lines similiar to those of the Coolidge administration. Before Charles Evans Hughes of New York, former Secretary of State, took himself out of the race for the presidential nomination, there was reason to believe that the delegation to the national Republican conven- tion from the other three new Eng- land States, Massachusetts Connecti- cut and Rhods Island, would favor Mr. Hughes, provided again, of course, President Coolidge himself was not available. But even before Mr. Hughes’ recent statement deelaring himself not a .candidate, there was no little Hoover sentiment in these States. Since the Hughes statement, the drift towards Mr. Hoover appears to have been pro- nou At least three New Englanders have been mentioned as actual nominees for Vice President in the event of the nomination of Mr. Hoover. They are Representative Tilson of Connec- ticut, majority leader of the House: Senator Moses of New Hampshire, President pro tempore of the Benate, end Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts. None of them is an avowed candidate for the vice presidency. Geographical Feature. Geographically, however, any one pf them would be available for the vice presidential nomination should Mr. Hoover of California head the Republican ticket next year. —_— STIMSON CHOICE HAILED. Philippine Senators Cougntulne‘ President in Appointment. | President Coolidge today was con- ratulated by Senators Quezon and mena of the Philippines for his se- lection of Col. Henry L. Stimson to succeed the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as governor general of the islands. The Philippine legislators as- | sured the President that Col. Stimson ‘would have their fuliest support and co-operation, and they told him alsc that they felt very sure that Mr. Stimson's appointment will do much in the way of advancing the economic interests of the islands. Senators Quezon and Osmena, who have been in this country for more than six weeks, principally for <he purpose of discussing insular affairs, informed the President that they will gail for home early in January. Sl HELD IN WATCH THEFT. George Kline, under $5,000 bond for appearance before the grand jury on = charge of forgery preferred last week, appeared before Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today in connection with the alleged theft of a ‘watch, valued at $115, from Schmedtie Bros. Co., jewelers of 1217 G street, November 28. He was held under $2,- 000 additional bond for the action of the grand jury. Kline is almost totally deaf and was compelled to read the lips of witnesses who testified against him. He is alleged to have stolen the watch while pretending to examine it with the purported intention of buying it. The watch was recovered from a Baltimore pawn shop and the ticket found in Kline's room at a local hotel. l December 16 9 Days to Christmas Buy Christmas Seals— Protect Your Home | children and their children’s children { was {on the matter which went into that Nation's The history of a newspaper is a his- tory of the times. From day to day and year to year, its pages catch and hold in printer’s ink a fleeting picture of what each rising sun has brought and each one, settin taken awa The ar is 75 years old toda B tween the hound covers of some of the pages yellow now and brif e with age, lies the story of its growth, a story written by the men | and women of W hington. Many of them have told their tale | nd gone away, leaving it for their | to take up and carry along. It is a long story, of which The Star is proud. It cannot be retold as it hs been told. But a seventy-fifth birth- | day anniversary is one which lends it seit to retrospection, as brief as it may be. Started In 1852, | Seventy-five_years ago today, De- cember there issued from a one man press, housed in a building on Sixth street’'between Pennsylvania | and Louisiana avenues, a newspaper carried on its first page the great head,” of Daily Eve. S It contained four thera were five columns to a The page forms measured 161, | inches, and at its masthead | tacked @ ‘“salutation” to the | 40,000 people of Washington explain- ing that “Today the 'Daily Evening Star’ appears on the horizon of the | ewspaper world, and greets, with m and kindly beam, a metropoli- tan public. * * * Whether it shall be | a fixed or a wandering ‘Star’ depends | upon the patronage which it will at- | tract. ® * *> | The Daily Evening Star. which 75| vears ago thi fternoon was Sstrug Zling for a foothold on the slippery grade which has sent some 900 jour- | nalistic enterprises in Washington to the bottom and oblivion, had good reason to plead for the patronage upon which its position in the firma- ment would depend. That it has re-| ceived this patronage is indicated in | the fact that today it is observing its | seventy-fifth anniversary and that its fixture as a Washington institution is | as secure as the Police Department, for instance, which was born only a few months before The Star. l'-tr;mnge Increases. Something of what this growing as The Star has grown, has | meant to the paper may be indicated briefly by some interesting compari- sons between The Star of today, De- cember 16, 1927, and that first Star | of December 16, 1852. The type for the first Star was set by hand. There were five compositors and two ap- prentices in the composing room, at Eighth and D streets. It is interest- | ing to note, in this respect, that the grandson of one of the five original compositors, who served as foreman for a_number of years and was suc- ceeded in that position by his son, tor day holds a position of trust and re- sponsibility in the present composing room, and that when The Star ob- served its fiftleth anniversary 25 years ago, one of the original compositors still on the pay roll of the news- paper. The type was set at Eighth and carried to the , aad the forms l‘;x;eud.‘bom between Louisiana and nr4ylvania avenues on Sixth street, seveitil blocks away. There the paper was vrinted on a press operated by one fan and capable, at high speed, of turning out 350 copies an hour. The first edition of The Star was 1,000 ies. -In addition to the com- posing foom &nd press room crew, there was-the editor and proprietor, Capt. Joseph B. Tate; an editorial writer, Rev. Charles W. Dennison; an editorial and poetical contributo., Frank !"cNerhany, and one reporter, W. W, Tucker. Their Star contained, as mentioned above, four small pages, on which were printed 3,120 lines of type. 11 62 Pages Today. Your Star today contains 62 pages, which represent no special edition, but portrays the day's demands in news and advertising. In place of the 12 men whose combined efforts produced that Star of 75 years ago, 1,356 per- sons labored in Washington today to produce and deliver The Star at your door this evening. The 3,120 lines of type contained in that Star of 75 years 1g0 have grown to 144,160 lines of type ip your Star today, of which 112,728 lines portray advertising by the mer- chants of Washington and elsewhere, and 31,432 lines carry the mnews of Washington and of the world. The five men and two boys who set the type for that first paper have been replaced by 187, who are regularly employed in The Star composing room today, and they turn out their daily product of type from 43 linotype machines, any one of which could have set in 14 hours what must have required that first composing room crew something over 16 hours to set. If today’s com- posing room crew were turned loose first Star, it could put it in type in an hour—yet’ the composing room today at The Star must run almost 24 hours a day to set the type which goes into the paper these days. In the place of that one reporter, who covered the news of Washington for the first Star, 31 members of The Star staff were getting news out of ‘Washington for your Star today, and 13 others supervising their work and editing their copy. But in every ham- let, village, town and city of the United Statés, and scattered in every corner of the globe, other meu, thou sands of them, were combing th earth for mews and sending it over the wires of the Associated Press and other famous news services to go into the columns of your Star today. 37 Men in Press Room. In place of that one man who inked his rollers and his forms by hand and by the strength of his good right arm turned out the 1,000 printed copies of that first Star, 37 men are working in the press room of The Star today, climbing and darting like agile sailors over the four big octuple presses, the average running speed of each being about 28,200 papers an hour. It re- quired ahout eight oumces of ink to print that first Star. Today's Star required some 1,700 pounds of ink. The paper that went into the first 1,000 copies of The Star must have weighed about 32 pounds, The paper required to print your Star today weighed about 101,184 pounds, or 50.59 tons. | as interesting points of cont first Stars o the business office on his back, and later as the bundles grew larger. wheeled ‘the entire edi- in a wheelbarrow. Today The is being distributed by a fleet Star trucks, and most of them © many trips, returning from their first lond for more papers as the later editions come off the presses. and many other comparisons which go unnoted here, might be cited st be- tween that first Star of 75 years ago and The Star you are reading this evening. But the growth of The Star, its modern and labor-saving equip- ment, its present home—all these are but mere symbols, as it were, of the growth of Washington and the prog- ess of mankind in the past 75 years. No review of such progress is con- templated in this short glance back |over the years that have rolled over the hill since the first Star was print- ed. But the few fa ich follow tell something of and growth of The Star. Founded by Printer. the origin Tate, a_printer with aspir: own and edit his own newspaper. {Tate had previously been associated with three other men in the founding of the American ‘Telegraph, a political organ created to heip Gen. Winfleld cott in his presidential campaign. When Gen. Scott was defeated the Telegraph went out of existence. Mr. Tate’s founding of The Star was a courageous enterprise in itself, | for not being born and only were papers dying almost day in the Capital of those but two previous attempts to found .a tar had resulted in failure—the Co lumbian Star in 1852 and The Wash ington Star in 1841, Mr. Tate knew his Washington and he thought that a neutral paper, which would take an interest in the development of the city, keep its skirts clean, refuse to be entangled with political parties and report the news fairly and decently would succeed. It did But he was proprietor of- the paper for less than a year. In July, 1853 W. D. Wallach and W. bought it from him, an . Tate retired to the cashier's cage, continu- ing as cashier of the paper until his death five yvears later. Until May 1, 1853, The Star was put in type in a small office at Bighth and ) streets and another office on Sixth street be- tween Pennsylvania avenue and Mis- souri avenue. A few doors away from the latter address the paper was printed by Buell & Blanchard. print- ers. But in May, 183, the offices of The Star were moved to the south side of D street, between Twelfth and Thir- teenth, adjacent to where the fire house now stands. Here editorfal, mechanicaf and business branches of the paper for the first time were assembled under one roof. When Mr. Wallach and Mr, Hope hought the paper they enlarged its pages, but kept them to four. In 1835 Mr, Hope sold his in- terest in the paper to Mr. Wallach, and in 1867 Mr. Wallach sold it to Crosby 8. Noyes, Samuel M. Kauff- mann, George W. Adams, Alexander R. Shepherd and Clarence B. Baker, who_conducted the newspaver under the firm name of Noyes, Baker & Co., later availing themselves of a charter by Congress, incorporating The Eve- ning Star Newspaper Co., which pub- lishes the paper today. Two Owners Sell Out. In 1869 Mr. Baker sold his shares in the paper and they were equally divided among the four remaining pro- prietors, and in 1874 Mr. Shepherd sold his stock, which was bought outright by the three associate own- rs, Messrs. Noyes, Kauffmann and Adams, In June, 1881, The Star bought and remodeled a building which stood at the corner of Pennsyl- vania avenue and Eleventh street, and another adjoining structure fronting on Eleventh street. Ths building was commodious for those days, and all of the equipment and furniture was new. Seven years later The Star ob- served its twenty-first anniversary undér the new management by ap- pearing in eight-page form. And one year later, due to growth in the busi- ness and increased size of the paper, work was begun on The Star annex. During this time The Star had bought what were then’the fastest printing presses made, replacing them as new inventions and improve- ments were made. In 1893 a battery of four double-deck Potter machines were bought and installed, and in the same year hand-set type began to give way before the latest invention, the Mergenthaler linotype. Fourteen of these machines were installed in 1893 The Star was one of the first papers in the country to change from hand-set to machine-set type. Paper Held by Families. The Star_had bought in 1891 prop: erty at 1103 Pennsylvania avenue and in 1895 the property just west of it. In 1899 work was begun on the new building at Eleventh and Penn- sylvania avenue, which is a_part of The Star Building today. The new bullding was occupled July 1, 1900. George W. Adams died in 1886; Crosby 8. Noyes died in 1908, and Samuel H. Kauffmann died in 1906. The owner- ship of the paper passed on to their descendants and to the Adams estate, in whose hands it now rests. In January, 1920, additional land had been bought north on Eleventh street and work was begun on a new 10-story annex to be completed and occupied the year following. The new building had been necessitated by the constant growth of the papen, nd as the demands became apparent new equipment was added to meet them. There had been The Sunday Star, for instance, which was estab- lished in 1905, and the size of the daily papers had grown to 30, 40 and even 50 pages. In 1918 the rotogravure section was added as a feature of The Sunday Star. December 14, 192 The Star estab- lished what was then a world's record in printing, in the regular course of businegs, and without special effort or solicitation, a 70-page newspaper. Never before in the United States. or had a regular issue of a e ceded s later The Star broke its nd sct a new one, when H. " Hope own rec it issued a daily edition, under similar | circumstances, containing 78 pagos. These vecords, and the day-hy-day production of the newspaper, are mat- ters of pride at The Star—a pride that does not spring alone from the me- chanical and journalistic endeavor The first Stars were sold over a counter in a small building on the South side of Pennsylvania avenue near Sixth street. Today, 10 minutes after the presses were started on the first edition of The Star, big bundles of them were on their way to Union Station for_distribution _throughout the United States, and when the sun goes down this evening, some 102,000 Stars will have been printed and cir- culated—64,146 to be placed in as many homes by regular carriers of The Star in Washington and within a radius of 25 miles of Washington. This evening, The Star is being read by from one to five persons in 90 per cent of the homes of Washington and in an area of 25 miles in Virginia and Maryland surrounding Washing- ton. Oldest Employe Dies. Two years ago, George Johnson died. He was the oldest employe From Tuberculosis then of The Star. He had been with the paper. almost from the first, and he ber having cairied the volved, but because The Star is a flection of the prosperity and the con- fidence of Washingtonians today. ‘Without them it is felt that The Star would not be observing on this day, December 16, 1927, its seventy-fifth an- niversary. . o CALL ON SIMMONS. Commissioners Pay Respects’ to| D. C. Subcommittee Chief. The District Commissioners inter- rupted their semi-weekly board meet- ing today to go to the Capitol to pay a courtesy call on Representative Sim- mons of Nebraska, newly-appointed chairman of the District subcommittee on appropriations of the House a propriations committee. i Following Mr. Simmons’ appoint- ment as chairman of the subcommit- tee, thé Commissioners made a special trip to the Capitol to visit him, but h-&ld not be located at that ti N S 64 pages. | ¥ | Vesterday CONTEMPT POINT Prosecutor Succeeds in Hav- ing Conversation With Kid- well Barred by Court. The Government :§on a highly portant point tod in the Sin Burns contempt proce=dings, when Ju tice Frederick L. Siddons barred testi mony sought by the defense i Irank J. O'Reilly, one of the Burns tectives engaged in surveillance of the Teapot Dome jurors, relative to con- versations he had with the mother and father of Juror Edward J. Kidwell, jr. Defense counsel had resorted to pra tically a full day of arcument yester- day in efforts to put the conversation into the record. Nerves that were kept continuously jumping under suspense during the protracted period of the contempt pro- ceedings, found temporary relief at noon when O'Reilly stepped from the witness stand after two and a half | days of grueling examination. | | Another Verbal Clash. The end of the ordeal did not come, however, until after defense counsel and James J. O'Leary, the persev !ing Government prosecutor, had en- gaged 1n a final verbal clash. |~ Before O'Rielly was excused for the time being at least, prosecutor O'Leary had appealed to the court at one time during an argument by the defense to “put an end to this nonsense.” P. Hoover of counsel for Harry F. Sinclair jumped to his feet, his face flushing angrily. He protest- ed to the court against some such language. | won't tolerate it,” | dectar Mr. Hoover | |0'Leary stop making such remarks. The controversy subsided as quick- Iy as it arose. Shortly thereafier | O'Leary said he through with his re-direct examination of the wit- | ness, hut requested that the witness | remain within calling of the court as further testimony from him was de- sired. During his testimony this morning O'Reilly denied emphatically that he had ever “shadowed” Juror Kidwell, his father or Lis mother. The Burns detective also disclosed that not one of the operatives had ever reported hav- ing been “burnt up,” the term applied when a subject realizes he is being | shadowed. | Query Draws Sharp Reply. O'Leary drew another sharp denial from the witness when he asked O'Reilly about a statement said to have been made by Charles G. Rudy, chief of the Burns operations here, on October 19. The Government prose- cutor asked whether Ruddy had told him that if any of the operatives’ identities were discovered, “for God's sake don't disclose who they are.” The question elicited from O'Reilly a sweeping and indignant denial. The next witness called was Barton Stewart, operative S-71, who told about motoring to Washington with other Burns men to report for duty in connection with the jury surveillance. He was accompanied on this trip by William J. McMullin, “alais Long,” and a man named Belmont, the latter having taken the next train back to Philadelphia. ‘When O'Reilly concluded testifying it was a-signal for Mr. O'Leary to drop temporarily out of the case. Examina- tion of witnesses then was taken up by another for the Government by ’lj‘nned States Attorney Peyton G. Gor- lon. Conversations Barred. Teelimony bearing on conversations between O'Reilly and the mother and tather of Juror Edward J. Kidwell, was barred by Justice Siddons after the sessions were resumed this morn- ing. _The court’s ruling came as a clean- clit victory for the relentless Govern- ment prosecutor, who had held his ground throughout a bitter legal ar- gument that started early yesterday and still continued when court had adjourned for the day. O'Leary contended throughout the argument that the rule of evidence which prevented the introduction of new matter in cross-examination held good in this instance. Testimony Slipped in. Justice Siddons in his ruling pointed out that if anything was clear in the record it was the fact that the pros- ecutor had gone to great lengths in cautioning the witness not to mention a word of the conversation that took place between him and Kidwell. De- spite this warning, the judge pointed out, the witness introduced voluntarily a fragment of the conversation rela- tive to the fact that Kidwell's father had a barber shop in the Myrtle Hotel. This fragment of conversation, which was slipped into the record, was used by defense counsel in contention that they were entirely within the scope of cross-examination and ques- tioning the witness about what was said at the time. Justice Siddons held that since the fragment of conversation was put into the answer mads by the witness without being asked to do so, he feit it his duty to hold that this paricular matter was beyond the scope of cross- examinatioh by the defense. Paases Over Defense Charges. Arraigned yesterday by defense counsel on charges of brow-beating witnesses and seeking to deceive the court suppressing evidence, O'Leary only referred to these charges casual- 11y in his closing argument this morn- ing. He told the court that he was not seeking to close the mouth of the witness and added that the defense could call O'Reilly as their own wit- nes when the time comes, a point which the court re-iterated in making known its ruling of the question. ““There has been much mouthing, bickering, tweedle-de-dum.and tweedle- de-dee about the sacred rights of the frespondents in this case,” O'Leary told the court, but reminded it that the public had some rights, too. He ex- plained that he had sat silent through a lot of “hokum and bunkum" involy- ing churges against the District At- ||urnvy'.~ office because he did not thi Siddons’ ruling today ended longest and the bitterest clash I that has ensued since opening of the contempt trial. cely halt an hour was devoted to the taking of testimony, nder of the time being de- lely to legal argument. Suppression Charged. The defense contended that it was more concerned with the effect of the Government's “suppression of evi- dence” and treatment of witnesses in its direct examination than it was with the blocking of testimony re- warding conversation which _took place between the detectlve and Juror Kidwell's parents. The sole object of the respondents in cross-examining the witness regarding this conversa- tion, the defense contended, was to sked light on a matter which the Government evidently was seeking to suppress in order to create a wrong impression on the court. Cross examination being resumed by Charles A. Douglass, attorney for William J. Burns, the witness was asked regarding his activities on the day that he went to Juror Kidwell's home. O'Reilly had testified that he had done so on instructions from Charles G. Ruddy, his chief, but in- sisted emphatically that he was not asked to see Juror Kidwell. Douglass cautioned the | the | between coun: | the | Sc ‘Ihfl ren | votea witness 10 BE CONSIDERED House Group Promises Thor- ough Study of Civil Serv- ice Measures. Thorough reconsideration of all phases of civil service retirement Jeg- islation is promised at this session by the House civil service committee which is now assembling the numer- 15 legislative proposals for liberal- izing the retirement law Hearing: will mot be started, however, until after the Christmas recess because the committee is moving its quarters to a room on the second floor of the old library space in the Capitol. Very material liberalization of the present retirement law is provided for in the bill introduced in the House to- day by Representative Gibson of Ver- mont, a member of the civil service committee, who explained that this measure is introduced at the request of a group of postal employes. The Gibson bill calls for optiona? re- tirement of civil service employes aft- er 30 years’ service if the employe has reached the age of 55 years. tirement annuity would be equal to two-thirds of the average salar: ing the last five years of servi a maximum of $1,200. The contribu- on of the employe to the retirement fund would be increased to 3 per cent of their salaries up to §2,100. DR. $1Z00 PREACHES AT NOON SERVICES Describes Scene of Christ's Birth From First-Hand Informa- tion From Tour. “Look for Christ not in palaces but in poor, humble surroundings,” Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York, Avenue Presbyterfan Church, said in his address at the Christmas services held under the auspices of the Federation of Women's Clubs, at Keith's Theater at noon today. Dr. Sizoo related the story of the tirth of Christ and described the town of Bethlehem and other places in the Holy Land, which he visited last Summer. Mrs. G. L. Peckham, member of the Bible committee of the federation, presided. Special music was furnished by the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Quartet. Dr. George Fiske Dudley, pastor of St. Stephen’s Epis- copal Church, offered prayers. Co gregational singing was led by Percy two | I Foster. “The spirit of Jesus Christ, that has been knocking at the door throughout the year, finds the door wide open at Christmas time,” Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, said in his address at the Christmas serv- ce vesterday. ‘Christmas a break in the routine of the year’s work which gives men an opportunity to love one L.another,” he stated. The annual Children's day Service will be held tomorrow. Mrs. Charies Wood will present a Christmas story with illustrative pictures. Children’s Christmas carols will be sung. Prayer will be safd by Rev. Mark Depp, pastor of Calvary M. E. Church. Mrs. Howard Hodgkins will preside. e VALUE SET AT $3,000,000. Application Made for Administer- ing Alonzo 0. Bliss’ Estate. A. S. McGregor of Jefferson County, Ala., who claims to be the largest creditor of Alonzo O. Bliss, who died in Miami, Fla., last March, today asked the District Supreme Court to appoint him as administrator of the estate, which he avers is worth in excess of $3,000,000. McGregor says he holds $27,000 of the notes of the Bliss properties bearing the indorse- ment of Mr. Bliss. More than six months has elapsed since the death of Mr. Bliss, who left no will, and no steps have been taken by any of his heirs toward administration in the District of Columbfa. As the largest creditor, the petitioner says, he is entitled to letters of administration, that the assets may be marshaled and applied to the indebtedness. He is represented by Attorney George D. Brabson. about not repeating anything said dur- ing the conversation with the juror’s parents. Government Upheld. Government counsel objected when Douglas asked the witness if, on the had made inquiries of any one about Juror Kidwell. It looked for a while like the attorneys would settle down to another protracted argument, but Justice Siddons finally ended it by upholding the Government's objec- tion. O'Rielly testified under the con- tinued cross-examination that at no time did he ever shadow Juror Kid- well or members of his family. ““‘What were your instructions to do about the Barber Kidwell?” Douglas asked him. O'Rielly replied that Ruddy had merely asked him to see the juror's father so as to establish his identifi- cation, The witness was next asked about the shadowing of Horace R. Lamb, the special assistant to the Attorney General, about whom counsel for Al- bert B. Fall, co-defendant in the Tea- pot Dome case, had sought inforga- tion, O'Rellly testified that he was able to identify Lamb through the descrip- tion given him by William V. Long, ‘William J. McMullen, the Government “spy” was known to the Burns de- tectives, Lamb Identified. “Long told me that I could recog- nize Mr. Lamb because he threw his feet sideways,” the witness testified. He was questioned regarding previous testimony relative to establishing the ownership of the car seen trailing Juror Norman L. Glasscock. O'Reilly shed no further light on this matter. Defense counsel then ascertained from the witness what instructions Sherman Burns had given him when he was detailed to the Washington job. These instructions, O'Rellly stated, were that no juror should be ap- proached and no contact formed, and that he was to give such instructions to Ruddy. Any detective violating these instructions, O'Reilly stated, was to be returned immediately to New York. O'Reflly told the court he was not present when Ruddy gave the instruc- tions to the men. He added that when he himself had broached the subject to the men, they informed him that Ruddy already had given them the insfructions, which were being carried out to the Jetter.* “What did Burns or Ruddy tell the men to do if any of the jurors cus- pected they were being shadowed?” he was asked. “To report at once to Ruddy,” the witness replied. O'Rellly declared he had never met William J. Burns until November 7, when the retired head of the detective agency came to Washington in answer to the Government's subpoena during the grand jury investigation. day he visited the Kidwell home, he | Some Eighteenth Cen- tury History. Companionate Marriage |s Declared Merely Passing Idea in America. Bishcn of Aberdeen and Orkney land, 34 going to visit Chicago, la ore of cities in this count is not because he is afraid of Bill” Thompson fayor Thompson and 1.” says the | bishop, not quarrel over eigh- { teenth century history. In Scotland we had our own quarrels with George 111, and we were in sympathy with the Amerlcan Revolution. It absurd to lay the blame for the stupid policy of George 1IT either on Eng land or on Scotland.” However, Bishop Deane said, the campaign of Mayor Thompson is ac- cepted in the British Isles “with the utmost good humor. Jut, no matter how well the Scottish bishop and the Chicago mayor agree on the subject of the Hanover kings, the bishop will hear no_word spoken fnst King | Right Rev. Frederic I, Deane that “Bi ion. Views of Chicago Mayor. Bishop Deane gave his views of Mayor Thompson today at the house of Bishop James E. Freeman in the Cathedral Close, where he is stopping during his week’'s visit to Washing- ton. He will preach Sunday at the evensong service in Bethlehem Chapel and at Epiphany Church. He also gave his views on such other American subjects as prohib tion, H. L. Mencken and Si Lewis, Boston, companionate riage; New York subways, plum! skyscrapers, press , prosperity Senator Borah, newspapers and the new Ford car. He expects to drive the first new Ford in Scotland. While he was inspecting the new Ford in New York one of the com- pany's press agents tried to get him to pose for a photograph with some chorus girls, he said. He was quite amuBed over the press agent's in- genuity, but declined the invitation. Liquor Sentiment Appraised. The British Isles will follow America with respect to doing away with the saloon, Bishop Deane believes, but “will never go the way of prohibition.” He believes the system in Ontario is the soundest, but thinks England and Scotland are solving the problem of liquor by two different methods. In the first place, there has been a change in the public mind and drunkenness is regarded as an offense rather than a joke. In the second place taxes have so raised the price of whisky and beer people buy less. ‘The thrifty Secot in particular has become quite moderate,” he said. It is a pity, the bishop thinks, that America has been interpreted to the British by H. L. Mencken's “Ameri- cana” and Sinclair Lewis’ “Elmer Gantry.” “Th seem to misrepre- sent the country,” he said, although he admitted that Mencken might be a good influence because “when a minister makes a silly ass of himself he gets written up in the “Ameri- cana.” He was quite surprised to learn that Boston not only banned “Elmer Gantry” but a dozen or so other books. “The city seems to be imitating the Roman Catholic Pope in having an index,” he remarked. Companiate Marringe Opinion. Companionate marriage is a “mis- chievous movement,” but not indica- tive of the soul of America. “It's only a little foam,” he said. “America is making the biggest ex- periment in the world by trying to mold all nations into one. Com- panionate marriage is like bootlegging, murders and hold-ups. They receive notoriety and some foolish people imagine America is lawless, but after being here a while they realize that these things are the exceptions, played ANNEXATION COURT 10 SEE TERRITORY Inspection to Be Made of Land Sought by Alexandria. Appeal Planned. admi ma bing, | By a Staff Correspondent. Va., December 16.—In compliance with a request by counsel for Arling- ton and Fairfax Counties, the tri- partite court hearing Alexandria’s an- nexation suit will make a personal inspection of the territory which the city seeks to include in her bounda- ries. Just when the tribunal will adjourn for this purpose is not known. The trip probably will be made by auto- moblle and on foot. The judges are Samuel G. Brent, Don Halsey and Frederick Coleman. Day Still Undecided. In view of the recess until Monday taken in the proceedings yesterday afternoon, it is possible that the | judges may decide to undertake the survey tomorrow or Sunday, weather permitting. So far as could be learned today, however, no decision in this connection has been reached. Most of the territory in dispute lies in Jefferson magisterial distriet of Arlington County and includes numer- ous fine residentlal sections in addi- tion to thev aluable revenue-producing Potomac frelght yards. A small sec- tion of Arlington magisterial district is included in the proceedings. Por- tions of two magisterial districts in Fairfax County also are wanted by the city. Plan Appeal to Court. During the recess counsel for the two counties will file with the State Supreme Court of Appeals in Rich- mond a writ of prohibition in an effort to halt the trial on grounds of unconstitutionality of the annexation act of 1024. This writ cannot be acted on until the court meets Janu- ary 9. Most of the session of the court yesterday afternoon was taken up with an explanation of numerous maps of Alexandria and contiguous territory by Paul Morton, city man- er. The introduction of each map was vigorously objected to by defense counsel on the ground that it had not been prepared personally by Mr. Mor- ton from measurements taken by him. The court overruled the objections in each instance, defense counsel noting exceptions. . LISBON 0. K.’S GAMBLING. LISBON, Portugal, December 16 ().—The Portuguese government has invited tenders for licenses to run gambling casinos in Portugal, Madeira and other authorized zones. This is in conformity with a recent decision of the government to adthorize gambling in authorized zones subject to tax. S George V; for him he has the greatest || COURTHOUSE, Arlington County, | | __RIGHT REV. F. L._DEAN up in the press. Newspapers would be ddll if they recorded only the ordi- | nary goings-on of an ordinary house- hold.” Bishop Deane thinks America has ;Ih best roads, the best houses, the ¥ plumbing and the best buildings the world. However, he doubts {the wisdom of building skyscrappers ““The bigher you go the more d traffic becomes,” he said. “A v ride at the rush hour is the est appreach to inferno that the mind can imagine.” He contrasted the prosperity of the untry to the condi- tions in Great Britain, “where millions are idle and many near stravation.'In ‘Svmmnd many old families and mem- {bers of the nobility are in poverty and have had to tear down old houses be- ‘auge they couldn't pay the taxes on them. i\vnrkm! in this Admiration for America. “I have an jmmense admiration for America and the overwhelming kindness of the people to visitors is like nothing else in the world,” the | bishop continued. “T am certain that, | whatever Amerfca thinks of the | League of Nations, she cannot escape her destiny and assume the leader-| ship of the world.” He said he wanted to visit the Senate and hear | | Senator Borah speak. | Bishop Deane is the sixth Bishop of Aberdeen. He is in this country with Very Rev. H. Erskine Hill, provost of St. 'Andrew’s Cathedral, to return a visit paid to the first Bishop of Aber- deen by the first bishop-elect in Amer- {ica. 1In 1784, when the English gov- |ernment under George 111 had refused to permit the consecration of Samuel Seabury of Connecticut as the first bishop ‘of America, Seabury went to Scotland and was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Aberdeen in an upper room in a back street. The house in which the consecration took place was torn down and re- placed by a small cathedral. The Bishop of Aberdeen now is asking America to replace that building with a new cathedral, which would be an American shrine commemoratifig the long connection between the" two churches. The British and American flags would hang together above the altar, and windows would be installed as memorials to American citizens, Early Ties With America. It seems that in the carly days of the American Episcopal Church it was very close to its. sister church in | Scotland. In fact, the Scottish church was also being persecuted by George 1II. There -was a pénalty of six months in prison for any minister who conducted services in _Scotland which more thaw'‘féur’ hérsons wel present, and the penalty for a second offense was life imprisonment. Serv- ices were held in secret. And once, says an old letter the present bishop has, when the first Bishop of Aberdeen ordered all his clergymen to pray for George I1I there was heard in church “such blowing of noses, such significant hums, such half-suppressed sighs, such smothered groans and such. confusion as could hardly be imagined.” ‘Which explains why the bishop doesn’t altogether disagree with “Big Bill” Thompson. LUNCHROOM MAN FIRES AT BANDITS Two Get $47 in Fourth Rob- bery in Three Blocks With- in 36 Hours. An exchange of pistol shots early this morning between Alexander P. | Eliades, proprietor of an all-night lunchroom at 1616 Fourteenth street, and two colored bandits, who had taken $47 from the cash register failed to prevent the escape of the bandits and marked the closing episode in the fourth successful hold-up within three blocks In 36 hours. Eliades was alone in his restaurant when the two men, one tall and one short, answering the description fur nished yesterday by three previous hold-up” victims, entered and pro- ceeded to rob him, one man covering him with a gun while the other looted the cash register. As soon as the men reached the street ‘Eliades seized his 45-caliber revolver, which was out of his reach when he was held helpless at the point of the bandit’s pistol, and fired four shots at the fugitives who were disappearing down Fourteenth street, deserted at 1:30 o’clock this morning. One of the bandits wheeled and re- turned his fire, shooting four times, but the bullets went wild. FEliades thought that he might have hit one of the men, but police, who came when they heard the firing, could find no trace of blood to indicate that a man had been wounded. Wednesday night, men answering to the same general description held | up three nearby stores, including the Zarouni's delicatessen, five doors | away. Three men participated in | that robbery, which netted them $49. Two of the trio resembled a pair which held up on the same night the grocery store of Morris Phillips, around the corner at 1347 R street and a Chinese laundry, owned by Sam Lee, at 1621 Seventeenth street. FRANK W. HALDEMAN DIES Funeral Services Tomorrow for Veteran U. S. Employe. Frank W. Haldeman, 42 years old, plate printer at the Bureau of En- graving and Printing for the past 21 vears, died at his residence, 1340 Fair- mont street, Wednesday after a sud. den iliness, Mr. Haldeman was a. native of Cape May, N. 5. He was a member of the Plate Printers’ Union. He Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances D. Haldeman, and a daugh- ter, Miss Dorothy Haldeman, both of this city, Funeral services will be conducted in Wright's undertaking parlors, 1337 Tenth t, tomorréw morning at 10:30 o'clock. Interment wilt be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, | with the general MARKET SITE PLAN Favors Location on Mall as Temporary Step Only, He Declares. The proposal of the District Com. | missioners to establish a temporary 7 rmer's market in the Mall between Sixth and Seventh streets will he agreeable to Senator Smoot, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission he indicated today. : He declared that the locating of the farmers’ stands there would e ac- ceptable only as a temporary step. He sald the Commissioners were familiar plan for the ime. provement of the Mall and the tri. angle, in which the new public build- ings are to be located and that he fet sure they understood that a farmer's market at the proposed location would be a temporary arrangement. The Public Building Coramission, of which Senator Smoot is chairman, will meet at his office tomorrow morning to take up further detail of the Federal building program. Plans for the Ar. chives Building, which is tha next to be started, may be gone over if time permits at the meeting tomorrow. Vigorous Fight Planned. Advocates of midcity location are planning a vigorous fight before Con gress to defeat the plans of the Dis trict Commissioners to establish the market temporarily on a site on the Mall or on the Southwest site' bounded by E and G and Eleventh and Twelfth streets, it was indicated today by A. J. Driscoll, president of the Midcity Citizens’ Association. \As leader of the group which sought to have the market located on the so- called mideity site, Mr. Driscoll said. he is preparing a petition of protest to be filed with the House District committee and the Gibson investigat. ing committee against the recommen- dations_of the Commissioners. The Sonthwest location, he added, not only would “choke the market to death,” but would defeat the purposes of the market completely, as well as be counter to ibe wishes of ‘the ma- jority of its patrons. Final selection of a new location for the farmers’ produce market now rests with Cengress, which receéived from the District Commissioners late yes. terday the recommendation that it be established, temporarily on Federal- owned property on the Mall The Commissioners, however, ad- vised Congress that should a perma- nent lbcation be immediately neces- sary they would prefer the proposed site in Southwest Washington bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth and E and G streets. < The recommendation of the Com: missioners Wwas contained in an 18 page typewritten report, which out- lined advantages and disadvantages of the eight proj privately owned sites and other factors on which they based their conclusions. The report was drawn up after an intensive study of the market situation in accordance with a resolution adopted at the last session of directing the Com- missioners to recommend a new loca- tio nfor the farmers’ market, not to 3xceed $600,000 in cost, by mber 15. The southwest site suggested for a permanent location is one of the two in this section which were considered by the Commissioners. It is located in squares 354 and 355 and contains 158,289 square feet. 'The assessed vilue of ‘the land is $53,984, and the improvements $57,300, making a total - of: $111,284, Charles A. Douglas, at- torney for the group advocating the selection of this site, had advised the Commissioners that_ it could be Ac-. qulr:d'x;rfly by oam:mnn,\:lon and partly by purchase at a price not exceeding $300,000. Other Sites Eliminated. The several other privately owned sites urged for the farmers’ market were eliminated by the Commissioners for various reasons. The mid-cil site, which was vigorously. supporte by A. J. Driscoll and the ¢itizens sociation of that territory, was jected because it has no rail and wats transportation, and also because th Commissioners believe that the exis ing market at Fifth and K street serves a sent need for a retall market.and will continue to do so. The Commissioners recommended the southwest site as their preference for a permanent site, chiefly because the cost of the land is low in com- parison with the other proposed loca- tions. The existing railroad and water transportation and cold-storage facili- ties available, as well as its accessi- Dbility to the farmers of Maryland and Virginia, also were important factors. The development of the southwest location as a general market area, the Commissioiners pointed out in the report, would be entirely south of the railroad tracks and would therefore not intertere with the proper develop- ment of the Mall, nor would it en- croach upon the harbor front, since a commercial street would separate it from the latter. . FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS HITS RAISE ON PHONES Resolution by Citizens’ Body to Be Laid Before Committee of Civic Federation. Special Dispatch to The Star. FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md., De- cember 16.-—Protest against an in- crease in telephone rates from $5 for unlimited service to $6 was made at a meeting last night of the Citizens’ Assoclation here, The ‘extra 5-cent toll on incoming calls also would be charged, it was said, and while the change in area proposed to take effect February 1 would eliminate Bethesda charges, the saving would not com- pensate, the citizens held by resolu- tion, for the extra rates. The matter will be laid before the executive com- mittee of the Montgomery County Civic Federation Tuesday night at a meeting.to be held at the Battery Park Community House. Refuse collection problems were dis- cussed and referred to a committee, which will sound the sentiment of residents. The association nominated Emory A. Bagley and John A. P. Farnham as members of the Bethesda fire hoard for 1928, subject to con- firmation of the Frlend!{nlp Heights Citizens' committee. . RITES FOR GEN. ROBINSON Funeral Tomorrow for Retired Of- . ficer Who Died in Arizona. Funeral services will be held at the Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow atternoon for Brig. Gen. Frank U. Robinson, U. S. A, retired, who died at Phoenix, Ariz., last Monday. Gen. Robinson was from New York and served in the Civil War as a second lieutenant in the 4lst Infantry. In 1369 he was transferred to the Cav- alry, in which he served until April, 1905, when hé reached the grade of brigadier general. He was retired in October, 1908, at his own request. His widow accompanied the funeral party to this city. —_ PR ed for Examination. Col. John J. Brady, United St Infantry, in New York City, on leave of absence, and Col. Robert H. o United States Infantry, in Atlanta, g:-. g:vo been ordered to examina-