Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 25

THE EVENING BSTAR., gASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 TRAAL OF HICKMAN ASKLLERASSURED {Youth Loses Plea to Be Made Ward of Juvenile Court. By the Associated Press. 1.OS ANGELES, Januar & plea of not guilty by re sanity stood today between William | { put them i Edward Hickman and the gallows The last legal barrier before the prosecution in the relentless move to| was take | Ford's Theater, across the street. Old bring Hickman to trial in Superior Court here was hurdled yesterday when Juvenile Judge Robert Scott dismissed a petition that made Hick- man a ward of the Juvenile Court when he was on trial for forgery last Summer. Hickman could not be sen tenced to hang, nor even brought to trial in Superior Court while he was rnevs here said. rlier in the day State and de e alienists became involved in an| en Dr. O. R. Shelton, told two | bel r. Blan! - | lected relics that had belonged to or | {the second story of the house with a | great number of pieces of unusual a ward of the Juvenile Court, nx~}""‘"-‘"“‘d" ADMISSION FEE STILL CHARGED | TO HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED Failure of Congress to Provide for Upkeep When Oldroyd Purchased The house where President Lincoin died has been bought by the Govern-| ment and now is officially known as the Lincoln Museum. but it still costs a quarter to get inside. For many years O. 1. Oldroyd col had heen associated with Lincoln, and the little brick house at eet, where the President | ter he had been shot in | 316 Tent royd devoted ma vears of his life to this hobby and succeeded in filling historic interes:. To pay for the upkeep of the house nd to reimburse him for some of his expenditures. Capt. Oldroyd charsed cents to go into the | house and view the relics. House Bought in 1926. Then. on May 11, 1926, after some agitation on the part of those who | ieved the Government should own s collection and show it to the pub- Collection Was Is Reason. this museum hecame the property of the Nation, all persons, who spend five minutes or an hour in the house still must pay a quarter for the privi- lege. : The museum is under the Super- vision of the Welfare and Recreation As ion of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. H. A. Jones of this association says that when Congress paid $50,000 for the house and relies it made no provision | | |for the upkeep of the house as a museum. It just paid $30,000 for it and left it to take care of itself. Even- tually it found its way into the care of the Welfare and Recreation Asso- ciation. Barely Makes Expenses. Now, Mr. Jones pointed out, mu- seums have to be heated just like any other kind of house. And they have to be lighted so people can see what they came to They have to have a caretaker to keep dust off valu- light bill is mounting and people are thinking more about Christmas than they are about history, it loses. Yearly it barely pays for its upkeep. Something is going to be done about it, though, Mr. Jones said. Congress has been asked to set aside enough money to keep the place running and 1f the appropriation goes through the charge will be removed. Rathhone Offers Bill. Representative Rathbone has intro- duced a bill in Congress providing for the conversion of the old Ford Theater Building into a national war memorial museum and veterans' head- quarters at an expensc of $100,000. It is proposed in the bill to alter and repair the bullding to house the Oldroyd collection. and to be a' head- quarters for the Grand Army of the Republic. The District Commissioners in. dorsed the Dbill on condition that no portion of the expense of the project is horne by the municipal govern- ENGINEERS DECLINE POWER SURVEY PLEA Refuse to Lend Influence to Dis- suade Congress From Mak.- ing Investigation. The American Engineéring Council at the closing session of its annual convention yesterday at the Mayflower | Hotel declined to lend its influence to- | ward dissuading Congress from malk- {ing an Investigation into the water power utilities of the Nation. The organization held this was outside the purview of the scope of its authority and removed from its mission of deal- ing with technical matte, L. W. Wallace of hington was reclected executive secretary and James T. Grady of Columbia Univer. sity was re-elected publicity director, Other officials_of the group were chosen at T s 350 ATTEND BANQUET, Chamber of Commerce to Observe 21st Anniversary January 24. Approximately 350 members of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and their guests will attend the an- inual banquet of the organization to be held at the Mayflower Hotel Janu- ary 24 in observance of the twenty- first anniversary of the chamber, offi- cials in charge announced today. Ivan C. Weld, general chairman of the banquet committee, announced to- day the appointment of the seating committee, as follows: Henry C. Cole, chairman:’ Allen Rogers, Leo B. Aber. nethy. Bernard A. Haer and Ralph A. avis, The executive committee In charge of the event is composed of Mr. Weld, Wwho s first vice president of the chamber: M. A. Leese, chamber presi- dent; les W. Darr. Dorsey W, | Hyde, jr: Rudalph Jo C. Ken' | dall and Joxeph Dy Yen WOULD CALL AMERICANS 25 Hemisphere shall be called “Ameri cans” or “Columbians.” , “COLUMBIANS” INSTEAD | ,,"}i5t i, i aieestorof tne Giving U. 8. People Sole Right to Present Term. By the Associated Press MADRID. January 12.—A new twi troveray over whether inhabitants the two continents on the Weste: Sty | National Library, who says that if Spaniard Would End Confusfon by | residents of the two Americas, ex- | clusive of citizens of the United States, | would call themselves “Columbians" | the confusion arising from the present | sweeping use of “Americans” would | be eliminated. ., | Marin ist] of the U Un they are really entitled name ““Americans.” of | of Amer rn ! to use t Edmonston & Co., Inc. Exclusive Washington Agency PrvsicaL ]gu'u HO!S LAST TWO DAYS Congress author- | able pieces and to show people around fon of $50.000 to| With no chance of getting any nd its contents. On money from Co o tests by § trists. District Attorney A until this ses was consulted immediat Blank. with the result that D ton was told that either the 4 examine Hic . would n Hickman State examin: the appropriation was | made and subsequently a check was | tate | delivered into the hands of Mr. Old- d Thus the house and the relics passed | nerations to | ook upon assumed that ¥ hearing set {along with ot ims and places \, chief | of public interest this museum* would | . Costello, | exact no toll from those who wished continued | to_visit it. | from classmates| But todav, more than a year after ! < of Hickman at h said he would the young farian Parker developed an lex while a student t Kansas City. Bankruptcies Show Drop. 8pe-ial Dispatch to The Star. Y Va., Januvary uptey in the - t here during the . were 68 less s of the year. { 1927 wi 174 1143 Conn. Avenue total for the year A Choice of 40 Different Routes to California Given in This Free “40 ways and more to California and | == Pacific Coast.” Select the | = Toute best suited for this season of = the vear. Detail maps indicating these | = routes from Chicago together with fares and other information sent free on application to R. O. Small. General Asgent. Chicago & North Western Ry. 201 Franklin Trust Bldg., Philadel i Pa.—Advertisement. $15 to §3 {are many, the museum makes money . We have gone through our remaining stock of Winter models and regrouped the various lots, in many cases making further reductions. sion, the association thought the mat ter over and came to the conclusion that the only solution was to keep on charging people to see the relics, and that is what it did. 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