Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 4

T e —— AVILA IS BRANDED AS “NOTORIOUS™ American Says Document | Obtainer Is Known as Seller of “Secret Papers.” Br the Associated Press. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927. Miguel Avila, who said he had ob- tained the Hearst-Mexican slush fund documents for William Randolph Hearst, was described hy a witness in the Semate's i gation material today as being “notoriously known Mexico City as a pur vevor of such pay ves! the Sum- Avil me Avila said McLaughlin said that i nn of 1928 nt on what business, at McLaughlin a game on American typewrit embassy Held Very Dangerous. ported to be t secretary of 1o sell the Mex- 10,000 the in- and Avila came the next morn with two photostatic of 1 ments. alled Irving E. Swift merly of the Department of J and a friend of the embassy him to show the copy to the embassy Swift replied that Avila was a very dangerous man. I assume Avila t 1 would call this to the at- y of Mexican officials. Said He Was in Trouble. “Avila came later and said 1 had gotten him lot trouble by = 1 never for- n a2 of &poke 1o out it : . McLaughlin said that Avila came to him with a wireless » e purporting to have heen sent by the Mexican undersecretary of war, and ordering e shipment of arms to rebeis in ua. Avila. the wit ness continued, always gave the im pression he was working for Ambas gador Sheffield. whom he called “the old man “Avila's salesmanship was unique. He would bring a plain copy first and later photostats. He would leave two photostats. He never asked for Jarge sums but would always accept a small Joan.” $10,000 Offer Claimed. Amplifying the document supposed to have been put out by Mr. Lane, McLaughlin said it was not It offered £10.000, includinz $1,000 in cash, to reveal what trapspired be. tween Ambassador Sheffield and Sec- retary Kelloggs during the Ambassa- dor’s visit to the United States. The one word “ambassador” was misspelled, McLaughlin declared. He roiterated that Avila represented that Lane, the first secretary of the Ameri- can embassy. was supposed to have been the author of the document. Me- Laughlin said that Avila insisted that Lane was downstairs in an automobile. | “But T regarded it as some more of Avila's home brew.” he added. A copy of the socalled Lane docu ment has heen asked for from Mexico City, Chairman Reed said, but it had not arrived. CHARGES IN DOCUMENTS AGAINST OCTAVIO DENIED Brazilian Embassy Statement De- fends Mexican Claims Com- mission Arbitrator. The Brazilian embassy here today sent to The Evening Star the follow- ing communication “The Brazilian embasey proper to state publicly that the Bra zilian Ambassador in Mexico has heen deems it the dismissed | copies of the docu- | signed. | of the | ‘CALLES OIL REFORM BILL APPROVED BY MEXICAN DEPUTIES First Apartment Fire Victim ‘ | __Acontinued from Page.) of the rvights to which icle refers and which have not been the subject of con firmatory petitions within the period | fixed in this arricle | “Transitors, Regarding _confirma- | tions sought within the vear 1926 and in respect thereof titles e not heen issued, These shall be granted in ac- cordance with present reforms, { ““In the terms of the same shall he rectified confirmatory titles already sted.” Lindbergh Gets Credit. | To Col. Charles A. Linah will flight to Mexico, in the opinion of both Mexicans and Americans, may | be artrit President Calles’ unex- pected move for amendment of the pe- troleum . i The President sent a messaze to ii"‘n:'-‘(fl saying in effect that the oil iaw should be amended, but public »pinion in its first reaction seems con- | vinced that the good-will flight of the “Lone Eagle’—the gesture of friend {shin from the United Statex. which in the Mexican mind that flight he iokened—Ambassador Morrow’s policy »f friendship and his establishment of ! close personal relations with President | Calles and President Coolidge’s seem PRINTING BE PRIVATE ngly warmer policy toward Mexico—- g | 2il combined to form influences lead-\ G. P. 0. Does Not Have Type ling the President of the Mexican re- | public to take this important step. Styles Desired, He Tells | The Calles amendments confirm the | les acquired before 1917, and allow | — one vear for the publication of the | amended law in which the companies | | may apply for such confirmation of | their previous titles. confirmatio to the foregoinz ay gh's good- WILLIAM JOSEPH KELIS. BALLRU ASKS DIPLOMA Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintend ent of schools, requested the District | Commissioners today to make an Lexcept to an order issued seve Az the Mexican people view it. this | XCeRtion or \ B e s ey Jt this | months ago requiring all printing for | and Christmas present to the Ameri. | the municipal government, whenever , wssible, to he done at the Government can people in response to their good \‘, e il e atave fn 4’ Printing Office. so that the Board of | Education can have diplomas for pub- | MOVE SURPRISES CAPITAL. lic school graduates printed by private | printers. { The school hoard has discovered that FIRE IN BOLLING FIELD WARE HOUSE DOES $500,000 DAMAGE | way and that he said to him, *) burning b | corridors JAPANESE DOLLS GIVEN AS ENVOYS Daughter of Tokio Ambas- sador Presents Toys o Chilcren of America. tive costume, Miss ighter of the presented the | of good on Dressed in 1 Matsudaira, apanese Ambasador, Jupanese doll am adors | will to the children of America | hehalf of the children of Japan as | the chief feature of the off ception to the dolls | Theater this mornir notahle gathering eived by little of the Seeretary extended thanks to the Japanese children who had sent them. The principal speaches of the re- coption were made hy the fathers of the two children, Ambassador Ma | daira personally welcoming them b “from now on [ will hav dore (o as and ¢ 0t the possibilities of the dolls n even ater work than he could, as “they have access to the entry into the world of child- Woors of which are but v open to official ambassadors all speak the lang | iny peace d good will) Ambassador - said, “and are sure contribute to international good will ind friendship.” Mrs. Peabody Is Chairman. In response Secretary Davis ‘“Where Lindbergh inspires with oldness, th dolls are touch kindly and filled with good humor well as good will™” CORONER PROBES Man Who Died in Blaze Noti"umnnn children, |'|‘||‘I.ip‘:L nrv“‘.\lr,vrf'fl.“ fied Many to Flee, Wit- e nesses Testify. sa dolls ne Davi of Labor, | cause | ambas Vitent the o atary’ Davis' speech on hehalf of hool children of America. < who spoke were Mrs. Jean- Emrich, secretary of the World Friendship . who told the story can doll messengers i hip: B. Sekiva, envey accom X ¢ the dolls, and Dr. Sidney tittle gir Gulick serret K | had not heen | gn International this morning | Wi, Federal Conneil of Churches. | fore a coroner's jury which decided | The meet as called ta order by | that his death was aceidental v B R, Harris, president of the | rtley. who had taken his 12.year «hington Federation of Churches: | old daughter Frances and 10-vear-old | prayer was offered by Bishop William | Marjorie to safety, testified that he sneountered his fritnd. an employe in the office of Representative Sirovich |read an origin of New York, on the smoke filled stair- | Across the Sea.” Uy.| "~ Musieal features of the program in- don't go up. everything's aflame and | cluded singing of patriotic songs by everybody’s out.” Then he left the |the audience under the leadership of ding believing Kelly L. Darby and several numbers he behind him. Apparently hecoming the Marine Rand, including | confused, Kelly ran into the Rartley | izavo.” the Japanese national an apartment where his charred hody |was found iater under a hed a few feet from a half-burned doll of one of the children : Notified Other Occupants, Pvts. J. E. Walters of No. 11 En ne Company and L. P. Clements of the same company testified that they saw Kelly runnipg up and down the notifying people that the building was afire and that there was I no time to lose to get out. Dr. Rich- | ard T. West, 2519 Fourteenth street, | testified that Kelly probahly suf tocated before the flames reached him. Dr. W. K. Smith of Garfield Hos pital testified that the body of Kelly | | was burned badly in several places. Gas Masks Needed. education, _delivered esponse to Committee Ch 000 Ame s old,, life vest morninz “when hed inio irtments he helief that hix friend, 1. W caved, was deseri the two sador to Ttaly. “Friends Johnson, former Am! poem, Flags Are Presented. The American flag was presented by Boy Scout Clavde Le Vare, and a bugle call sounded by Scout Charles Kocher. Peter Sawada. son of the counselor of the Japanese legation. presented the Japanese colors. The flags of the two nations were then placed on either end of the stage with five of the doll ‘envovs,” arranged hetween them. | Motion pictures of the reception of | the American dolls in Japan last pring were shown as the closing | feature of the program. A guard of honor of Boy Scouts under the leadership of Allen Colburn received Ambassador Matsudaira as he arrived at the theater, and other Boy | oldest employe on Uncle {1owing Decem | employment policies have a | ernment busine: CABINET MAKER AT 90 STILL ACTIVE IN GOVERNMENT POST Warren F. Brenizer, in Arm; Medical Museum, Has Held Position 19 Years. Superiors Praise Ability of Civil War Veteran—Will Return to Work. ren F. Brenizer, cabinet maker Army Meaical Museum and Li ry, In the Smithsonian zrounds, the m's exten- sive pay roll. today observed his nine tieth birthday annivers auietly at his home 627 A street southeast, with the members of his family and a few friends. He hax not vet exhausted the annual leave to which he is entitied and will not resume his regular duties 1t the office until next Tuesday, first working day of 1928 Born in Harrishurz, I'a., December 1837, Bienizer enlisted in the jon Army in Compuny F. 131st neylvan August 71 L and w was wound He in Virginia in the fol On his recovery, in 1864, he rejoined the Army in onstruction Corps and served to the close of the v Subsequently ton and he came to Washing. employed with V Moses & Sons as a cabinet maker for more than 10 years. In December, 1908, following comjctitive examina: he was appointed a skilled work- in the office of the Secretary of and remained there until Decem. when he was transferred the Museum and Library of ‘he Surgeon General's office, wheie his WARREN ervica has heen F. BR continuous. — | “kind of international Federal Reserve | system—or gold Leagus of Nations'== | was urged by Dr. Edie to prevent & long-time price decline, which ne pre- d would begin ahout 1935 ‘uniess thwarted by wome fortnitous event.” He deciared that the shortaze of gold production eould be offse: b n s use, Panics Are Recalled, “Recollection of a quarter of repeated panics A% ner persuade the Un tion of the hold of o post-war political tho make one dubious of ¢ the v 11 disarn gold them 1o mtage A 1he ired d on cour His ompensation has been increased and his tenur times on the of the offic De manu; Brenizer ind e the duties his chief < o replace him tion for execu his would he i service and is capable arge. his of of office extended several pecial recommendati in.e ad character of reported to be physica performi ned him, and recen inced age and the work, would not be possible at commended.” salary | RADICAL ECONOMIC CHANGES FORECAST | AT MEETING HERE (Continued_from First Page) | RIS < | overnment ertain ef- | upon employment standards in third, because Gov- and private business are so closely interwoven that any lach of efficieney in Government establish- ments, any delay in Government proc esses, affect private industry: and fourth, because the great variety of | ployes; secondly, because fect private business MeDowell, and Robert Underwood | duties performed by public servants| oot have so much to do with the daily | comfort and convenience of every citi- | zen." At the same time an attack on al-, leged slipshod employment methods of the United States Government was de- livered by Fred Telford, director of the bureau of public personnel admin- | istration, who addressed the opening session of the American Association for Labor Legislation. He declared that the Government's personnel sys- tem wa hodge-podge, with much | overlapping, duplication, inefficiency and downright lawlessness.” and that although legislation guided the selec- | tion of postal employes, no selective process was used to recruit 125,000 | other Government worke: James Harvey Breasted. historian of the University of Chicago, was nominated for president of the Ameri can Historical Association, the ses-| sions of which will open tomorrow. | The official election will take place | Thursday. Dr. Dr. Henry York and v Breasted will succeed Oshorn Ta develop the'truths of Amer tory, of $1, Prof. Washington, Boyd of The societ 4 ican Council cieties, in addition to those mentioned The American Statistical Asso- cia . American Farm Economic Association, American Association of chools of B Association of University. inting, National As- Teachers of Market American nal Nation of Educa- American Political sippi Val- American ociation, Society, Collegiate ican structors in Accou sociation of and ciological munity Center Association for onal Soci: ey Historical ricultural § Money 24 ons. World po John | College, secr Library ination | equivalent to election. affiliated with Learned So- Advertising. Society, logy. fence Association Assa Catholic Historical History for which an endowment 10,000 has been raised. Other Officers Nominated. Harvey “The Mind urer; of nes: Na Associat the & on, Association. 0 delegates are attending the ses- g of gold reserves fund Robinson of the | n first vice presi. Greene of Co- nd vice pre: Rassett of Smith Charles Moore of Patty Washington of Washington, assista | secretarv-treasurer, and Allen of Congzress. is considered Amer- as a cure for t} 1f depar! gether to the e | chain departm. he s=aid, would pents as a | r departmen making the severs city into one big store Fear of Style Changes. Increased fear of style charge stampeded consum t mouth buying, western Universi to-mouth buying was given | by developments of post.war da said. Among causes he of falling prices, the fear of purchases following the ors n t after the war and of style changes. classed style cha basic chang the introduction of oil ic refrigerators and radics and sea. | =onal style changes or changing ions. the fear —_— RECORD FLIGHT HALTED. gwnther Again Delays Brock and j Schlee Endurance Trial. DAYTONA, Fla.. December 27 —Strong northwest winds caused continued postpone: the start in the attempt to esta a new airplane endurance record by ertake the flight in the Pride of Detroit. d north winds prevail z a takeoff with plane extremely tim WYY YY Y Y Y NN N XYY XX State Department Silent Official Mexico Report. Pending | (e public printery opted last vear for the i does not have in | stock the distinctive style of type it diplomas The fire, which originated hasement and shot upward through | in the | Scouts and Girl Scouts acted as ushers. The details of the reception were ars Mrs. | The action of President Calles iIn| 5 moving to amend the Mexican ofl |24 Dr regulations in conformity with the re.| N0t desire to depart from that st cent decision of the Mexican Supreme Rids submitted by private printers for Court in the case of the Mexican Pe-| ! diploma job, the Commissioners | troleum apparently ame as a Wore told, showed next year's supply complete surprive to the Washington could be done in the private shops for Government about $100 more than in the Govern It was sald today at the State De. ment Printing Office. partment that no information on the| The hoard is expected to act on Dr. subject had been received as yet from | Ballou's request tomorrow morning. the embassy in Mexico City. "Pending | —_— —— an official report the department de ined 1o comment. | INDIA CONGRESS MEETS. Despite this reticence, however, ft | was apparent that the latest develop- | N A ment was regarded on the face of Self-Government Urged by Presi- | press reports as another move toward | dent in Opening Address. Co. Ballon said school officials do | e an elevator shaft, which caused it to|ranged by a committee headed by { spread through the two upper floors{ (. O. Goodpasture, assisted by Mrs. of the building. It caused gmoke of | Harvey S. Irwin, Mrs. William ¥ sue hdensity that firemen were com- | McDowell, Mra. W. S. Abernethy and pelled to don masks. and, despite | Mre. W. H. Hurd as vice chairman. | that precaution, two firemen were| Among the distinguished guests overcome by smoke and another fire. | Present were: Mrs. Herbert Hoover man and a civilian alightly injured | Mrs. Woodrow Wiison, Mra. William while groping about in the smoke. | Howard Taft, Mrs. Curtis A. Wilbur | Sergt. J. R. Rest of No. 9 Engine | Mme. Sze, Mrs. James J. Davis Company received a sprained hack,|Mrs. Harlan F. Stone, Mrs. Gilbert but reports from the Emergency Hos. | (rosvenor and Mrs. Charles Wood. pital this morning were that he was resting easily. | " Kelly's hody will be taken back to | his old home in Kansa The cost of living In Greece con- tinues to mount, and has just reached City tomorrow. | a new high for the year. X % & & % & Commencing Today CLEARANCE SALE =S & . WINTER SUITS lumonw:‘w the Mexican government | an ultimate friendly solution of the o categorically deny the substance of | controversy between American ofl in-| 1 v 2 . MADRAS, a, Decembe the alleged documents recently publish- | terextn and the Mexican government | _ e sory. o D ber 2 ed in fac simiie by a rertain North over the oil laws. To what extent the | oot (M ESEQNC, (IEAT MO American press, in which appeared |amendment widens the scope of the y 5 adlenl i the name of the Brazilian jurist Dr. Rodrigo Octavio, who, at the invita tion of the Governments of the {'nited States of America and Mexico, cted as arbitrator in the Joint Claims Com missfon agreed upon by the two gov ernments. ““The Brazilian embassy further states that the denial of the Mexican government having heen communi cated by the department of foreign affairs of Brazil to Dr. Rodrigo Oc tavio, the Brazilian jurist. in a letter which has been widely circulated in the Brazilian press, has completely re pudiated the unworthy Insinuations made against him.” INDIAN, 108, KILLED. Correspondence of The Btar ILLAHEE. Wash —Duckabush 1In éia typical Northwest tribe, Jive to ripe old funeral services were held for Joe Dan, 106 e chief mourner, his brother David alked briskly alongside the bier ‘These tvo brothers were born in ca noes anchored on Puget Sound, which Custom wak common a century ago It was believed that the Greal Spirit endowed infant hoys as master and Jucky fsherman — Joe expert canoeist, was killed while 1o dodge an automobile Highway Marriage Licenses. . Raley and Ruby 1. Meyerh Rexrode ot Pranklin, W ) Winer of Brands wine < § Woanmian ook frer Ya va Va worer Brows Va. and A and Char Table—Floor Bridge and Boudoir LAMPS and shades % MUDDIMAN 5, 709 13th 51 N.W. 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