Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1928, Page 2

ENSIGN IS FOUND SLAINBY OWN ACT John M. Miller, St. Elizabeth’s Patient, Declared Suicide by Coroner’s Jury. With a bullet in the brain, the bo of gn John M. Miller, U. S. N. patient of St. Elizabeth's Hospital here, was found in the woods near Odenton and Joscphine Lowman, 11 and 13 years, re- A verdict of sufcide was ¢ ' coroner's fury, impaneled after finding the bo ff Michacl F. Ca nty. is mak d ter of Anne g a further in- confin the whom was stigation. dealer from which Miller Dr. examined the nd through t0 the new killed had | A ammond. who | body. declared the | the mouth into the brain ade by shooting the physician said. explaining the 100- foot distance between gun and body and marks on the ground first thought to d a struggle. The gun| nd under leaves. A light over- nd beside the body, to- a box cont 49 car- | Decides Wound Self-Inflicted. i R. A Hammond. who was sum- reported that the v been dead about caused ©of the mouth and gave it as his opinion that it had boen self-inflicted. sinc> of the teeth had been injured d at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Miller had been an inmate since July last, that he had shown no suicidal tendencies. He had been given s as a messenger in the adminis- tration building and was constantly un- der the eves of the doctors there. In a room was found a note leaving his class ring and other property to a brother, Dr. M. L. Miller of Auburn, Mich. Permitted to Visit City. ‘The patient was entitled to the free- dom of the grounds and was frequently given passes to go into the city, but ‘was required to be back each evening at supper. He left Friday morning on & city pass | He was born in Michigan July 13, | 1901, and entered the United States Naval Academy as an appointee from M:chigan in 1921. Upon his gradua- tion in 1925 he was sent to duty aboard ; the cruiser Rochester. on which he served until May of last year. when he was transferred to the destroyer Gil- mer. Hé next of kin is given as his father. J. M. Miller of Bay City, Mich. CONFLICT BREWING, MRS. CATT TELLS WAR CURE PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) these was held under the chairmanship of Miss Morgan, who pointed out that presidential candidates are going to talk definitely on the foreign policy of the United States ln?l %‘ ‘women must keep informed on al velopments to vote intelligently. The Congressional Library will send special books on in- ternational affairs to city libraries to 8id in this work A joint conference of all readers went into session shortly before mnoon to consider perplexing points in the study of the cause and cure of war. The first question presented was: *“How Can Seeret Diplomacy Be Elimi- ring iofk on this topic from the floor, oné woman asserted that open diplomacy in the United States would not be possible without a change in the Constitution, due to the powers given to the President. Miss Morgan Replies. Miss Morgan, answering this, said that the Senate could be informed at the beginning of treaty negotiations in executive session of the situation and that power existed under the “advice and consent” clause of the Constitution. Taking a hand in the discussion, Mrs. Catt said that newspapers of France and the United States by ther criticism of the secrecy surrounding the Briand anti-war treaty caused information to be forthcoming on it. The League of Nations, she contended, has done away with the old-time secret diplomacy, due 1o the necessity for registering treaties a8t Geneva. The discussion turned on the differ- ence in make-up of the United States and British parliamentary systems, Mrs. Catt explaining that the premier and members of the cabinet in Eng- land. also elected members of the House of Commons, can be asked ques- tions directly from the floor. United Btates, where the President picks his own cabinet from men who 2re not members of Congress, Mrs, Catt pointed out that these men are subservient 1o the President in person. Ergland hes a closer, more democratic tem than the United States, Mrs, sald, but, on the other hand, treaties may be signed there without ratification, Preparedness Defended. That agreements cannot preserve peace alone was the consensus voiced Bt the opening session of the confer- ence last night by Becretary of War Dwight F. Davis, Assistant Becretary of Bae Willam R. Castle, jr., and Rear Admirel Frank H. Bchofield. All rellerated the theory that W preserve | Deace @ nation must be prepared for war Becretary Davis, however, developed the i6ea @ sep further and distin- guished between prepuredness for ag- @ression wnd prepuredness for defense, “There are two kinds of prepared- nese” Le sald. “The first and best known 15 for sggressive war, and is | Characteriezd, Birst, by & large Foyu- | £ Uy under arms, | e abllity W mob- e entire Nation in wrms within vt ol m few days, The second kind it preparedness for defense. No| nation plotling v stteck its nelghbors ever prepured W o L by means of | & partisly twined cuizen army It must have & greal and overwhelming | eloking force. resdy for instant mouilization, and no miita system | Buch e Wis' conwemplaed by our | Conpistution — provides an effective #UEinY force unul many months have | €npred wlter the declaration of war No naton turns more nstinctively | from sl twought of war than the Unied Buates” Le omtinued “but we must Jusiet upon security within our nwlonel frontiers, the free right | navigste e igh scas wnd the right | V) Getend American lives and prop- | erty Thie Becrerary warned thit, although | She Unied Bretee does ot wish W pro- | Woke war by overpreparedness it should WA Anvive it by underpreparedness. Castle Outlines Policy, The Blate Department wes repre- | sented by Aseistant Becretary Caelle us | being e agency for preventing war. He Knuw oul thatl “peace, U be real, must state of mind " Thie deparunent’s policy wae outlined | by Mr Castie ss jivolving efors w| settie wll justifisble questions by erbi Vation. and by eonciistion b prevent B8 sy questions ss possiiie 110 even yewrsing e stage of wrbiiration e nisisted 1hit Ve depsrinent should 1t be rushied 10U making imporent de- cisone Faterring W Uhe proposed tiesty be tween L United Blawe wnd Fraiw W Kills Self in Woods. ENSIGN JOHN M. MILLER. | TESTSFORPOLICE. AND FIREMEN NEAR Promotions to Depend on Re- | sults of Civil Service Examinations. One hundred and seventy-four mem- bers of the Metropolitan Police force and 152 members of the District Fire Depariment will take competitive ex- aminations at the Civil Service Com- mission Wednesday in an effort to qualify for promotion to the grades of sergeant, lieutenant and captain, it was announced today at the District Building. Although Congress decreed in 1919 that all promotions in the Police and Fire Departments should be made from eligible lists created by the Civil Serv- ice Commission, the promotions in the Fire Department continued to be based on seniority and fitness. As a result the forthcoming examination will be the first in which eligible firemen have had an opportunity to compete for ad- vancement in rank. 27 in Police Tests. The situation has been somewhat dif- ferent in the police departinent, al- though only two bona fide competitive examinations have been held, it was said, to determine promotions since 1921. The first was held in May, 1921, for privates seeking promotion to the rank of sergeant. The other was held in December of that year for licutenants who were candidates for advancement to the grade of captain. Since that time, however, there have been no bona fide competitive examinations. To cor- rect this irregularity, 27 police officers who were advanced without taking a civil service examination were required to undergo a non-competitive test this week, which Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, su- perintendent of police, said, would not cause a change in their present status. ‘The District Commissioners and the Civil Service Commission made an agreement last October under which all future promotions in both the Fire and Police Departments would be based on the results of examinations given can- didates for advancement. The exami- 1ations Wednesday will be the first since this agreement. Fifteen lieutenants, 32 sergeants and 127 privates will take the police wxami- nation. There are only three vacancies in the rank of sergeant to fill in the Police Department at this time. All those who pass, however, will have their names placed on the eligible list, and, vacancies heredfté? will this list. Four Vacancies to Fill. The Fire Department has four va- cancies, each in the rank of captain, lieutenant and sergeant, which will be filled from the eligible list created as a result of competitive examination. Fire Chief George. S. Watson also pointed out that there are several ap- plications for retirement which, if ap- proved, will create additional vacan- cies to be filled from the eligible list. The examinations for both firemen and policemen will consist of mental tests, practical questions and experience and fitness. Fifty points will be al- lowed for the latter, and 25 each for mental tests and practical questions. Under the agreement adopted in Oc- tober, privates applying for promotion in either department must have served at least five years, sergeants, two years and lieutenants one year. No candidate will be admitted to an examination for any grade other than that next higher to the grade in which he is serving on the date of the examination. NOTED NEWS WRITER EXPIRES IN TOKIO John Russell Kennedy, Former Associated Press Correspondent, Victim of Heart Disease. By the Associated Press TOKIO, January 16-—John Russell Kennedy, 66, former Assocluted Press correspondent at Tokio ané once gen- eral manager of the Kokusal News Agency, died today from heart disease John Russell Kennedy was born in Bray, Ireland, November £ 1861, and educated at Trinity Coliege, Dubll,. He became successively soldier, war corre- spondent and editor Kennedy joined the Associated Press in 1899. In 1907 he went to Toklo as chief of the Far Eastern bureau of the Associated Press From 1014 o 1923 he was general manager of the Kokusal Bushin-eha (the International News Agency of Japan) He werved w correspondent In cam- paigns in Egypt and Chine. He was onee mnh“f“‘ director of the Japan ‘Times Publishing Co. He was deco- r1ted by the Jupanese government with the Order of the Bucred Treasure, htird clase, DIES FROM PISTOL SHOT. Man goged in Mack Fisher Filesia, Md Ui Colored Buid 10 Have Eu- Fight, colored, 30 years old shot in w pistol batle in vicinily of Plscataway, Md, late urduy uight, died while being brought o Cususlly Hospital Fisher's body was morgue. Prince Georpes € thorities, acting unde direction Ehenft Chasries 8. Early, arrested Arthur B Alexander, colored, as the alleged slsyer. Thiee other colored men were wrrested on suspicion of belng wccessories. ‘The four were taken 1o 1 at Upper Mar where un in- quest_will Ihro, p outlaw wer, Mr Castle supported Boe re Kellogy's COUBLEr-propuosals W Fremier Briand, for 18 0 referred w Wime Awe nulions slone, he sald, i would e looked oy by the olhey slates ws wkin U a defensive ulliunce On Becretary Wil ® behal! Admira d the confercive wid Wit bane powes for Uhe e of dtesnatimal s, wn wel WE PIepRIcQiiony BE Whi, B8 necessly, ‘ilied " trom § MAY DEN THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, JANUARY: 16, 1928, OVIETAGTVITY INU.S. SEEN PERIL National Civic Federation Asks America-Russian C. of C. to Aid. “Apprehensive” that the Russian Soviet government, under the guise of trade relations, is “seeking to carry on its destructive and subversive propa- ganda” in America, the National Civic Federation today appealed to the Amer- ican-Russian Chamber of Commerce, in New York for co-operation in sti- fling this movement. In a letter made public here today, Matthew Woll, president of the Inter- national Photo Engravers' Union and acting president of the National Civic Federation, requested officials of the chamber for a “joint conference” on the matter. The letter was addressed to Reeve Schley, president, and S. R. Bertron, chairman of the board of directors of the chamber. The American-Russian Chamber of Commerce is referred to by Mr. Woll as “an organization having for its | avowed purpose the advancement and safeguarding of American financial, in- dustrialand commercial interests in Rus- sia,” whose members “are also devoted to the interests of our own country, its institutions and the policy of its | government.” U. S. Protection Aim. “The National Civic Federation,” the letter states, “is concerned solely with the safeguarding of the best interests of our American Government and its institutions. It is apprehensive that, having failed to secure recognition by the United States, the present Russian government is now appealing to the financial, commercial and industrial in- stincts of our people as a means of circumventing that attitude. In fact, it makes no secret of its contemptuous estimate of the business ethics and patriotism of our manufacturers and bankers.” Quoting from an article in this con- nection in the New York Times of De- cember 18 last, Woll says: “It would appear that the Russian Soviet govern- ment were depending upon the selfish- ness of American business interests to make possible the destruction of them- selves and their own country as well.” “Many American business men have been misled by propaganda circulated for the purpose of obtaining credits—to the effect that the present ruling fac- tors in Russia have long since departed fro mthe principles of Communism,” the letter asserts, characterizing the re- ports as “utterly false.” Loans Held Aid. ‘The chamber is advised of the ar- raignment of “the poison propaga~da of Soviet Russia” at a recent meetint of the National Civic Federation, and of the adoption of a resolution denounc- ing granting of loans and commercial credits to the Soviet because it “heips to finance the promotion in this coun- try of the infamous doctrine of com- munism,” and appealing to “Ameri- can commercial interests now dealing with the Soviet regime of Russia to demand of that government the sup- pression of the subversive propaganda which it is now promoting in the United States.” The letter, in part, continues: “It is in pursuance of this resolution that we are appealing to you not to discontinue trading with the Soviet government, but to use your powerful influence in demanding and in causing that government to cease the propa- garda compaign, which, as pointed out in the resolution, it is carrying on in this country. “You will note that our concern is not about what the Soviets are doing in Russia, but about what they are do- ing and are attempting to do in the United States at the very time when they are sending commissions here to beg loans and credits which in turn sed<hy them to further their revolutionary programs. Boomerang Effect Seen. “I need only point out to you that any one granting a term of credit on a tractor, mining machine or cotton, | may find it difficult to realize that he is helping to finance Communistic propa- | ganda here. The facts are, that,| through her exports of manganese, | wheat, lumber, furs, et cetera, Russia | is building up large credit balances | abroad which she has to use for the purchase of the raw materials and ma- chinery to keep the country going. 1f, therefore, she can obtain credit with which to make these purchases, a like amount of her foreign balances is re- leased and can be used for propaganda purposes. Therefore, any one who grants credit to Russian, even though 1t may be in forms which cannot be directly use, 15 opening a way for its indirect use and that use is quite ap- parent " Woll inclosed, as “a conspicuous llus- tration” of the “despicable character of this propaganda,” a copy of the Daily Worker, communist organ, “telllng the workers in detail just how to proceed in accomplishment of their alm to un- dermine not only the labor movement, but our institutions and our Govern- ment as well” Quotations also are made from a letter to the Communist party of America from the executive committee of the Communist Interna- tional. 13 GIRLS NAMED FILM “BABY STARS” “Wampas” Favorites Picked as Those Actresses Leading in Race’ to Top of Profession. By the Assoriated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Callf., January 16— Thirteen new lights twinkled in Holly- wood's movie sky last night They are the 1928 “baby stars” choen todany by the Western Associn- ton Motion Picture Advertisers as the leading actresses in tis year's race toward flm stardom Those who gained the coveted honors by vote of the chiefs of pieture pub- leity, whose organization 15 better known us the “Wampus,” are Lina Basquette, 20, San Mateo, widow of Bamuel Warner, film producer Flora Brunley, 18, former actress of London Bue Carol, 19, Chicago Miss Anne Christy, 19, Logansport, Ind June Collyer, 19 Durothy Gulliver, 19, Salt Lake City Gwen Lee, 22, Hastings, Neb Juth Taylor, 20, Portiand, Oreg, Molly O'Day, 17, youngest of the stars, duughter of the late Judge | Thomas Francls Noonsn and Mrs. 1 1 Novnan-Gordon, Bayonne, N, J Lupe Valez, 18, Mexico City Hallie Filers, formenly of New York Cily, now under contiact W Warner | Biothers | Allce Day, 10, and Audrey Ferrls, 18, | both of Los Angeles New York City $1,700,000 to Spanish University. MADRID, Bpain, January 16 (4 | Dr Gregorio Amo, & Californtan, will | #ive shares of his oll holding W the | wiount of 10,000,000 pesetas roughly $17000000) for the establishment of a fund o torelgn students o dy ut the Oentral Unversity of i, b wnnounced on bis aiiival | here I i ol @ Ami also presented King Alfonsn G000 b be used i Lhe creation Loty eity, LIEUT. COMDR. EDWARDS, U.§. N.. WHO SAVED 300, DIES HERE Hero of Gallant Act at Sea, Saving .Wounded French From Burning Ship. Achieved Notable Record in World War, Winning Brit- ish Decoration. Lieut. Comdr., Walter Atlee Edwards, United States Navy whose gallant res- cue of 300 wounded French soldlers from a burning hospital ship in the Sea of Marmosa in 1920, wrote one of the most spectacular pages in the his- tory of the American Navy, died yes- terday in Garfield Hospital after an ill- ness of two months. He was 41 years old. The Marmosa incident, for which the officer won high honors both from his own and the French governments, oc- curred while he was in command of the destroyer Bainbridge. Speeding to the rescue of the doomed vessel, Ed- wards saw it was sinking too fast to permit the transfer of those aboard unless extreme measures' were taken, so he calmly ordered the Bainbridge head- on into the hospital ship, ramming it, and then holding it above water on the prow of the destroyer, while flames licked over both craft, until the French injured and crew could be evacuated. Awarded Medal of Honor. For this feat he was awarded ‘the Congressional Medal of Honor, while France made him a member of the Le- glon of Honor. Comdr. Edwards also had a notable record during the World War. He was on submarine duty for part of the time, and later was placed 1n_charge of naval aviation on Admiral W. S. Sims’ staff. For his services the British Dis- tinguished Service Order was con- ferred. After the war Comdr. Edwards served as aid to Admiral Sims and later as aid | to Admiral Lee, with station here. He | | F. P. Lyons of St. Paul's College, Cath- 2 7 UHDERWOOD i/ ! LIEUT. COMDR. W. A. EDWARDS. was on a tour of duty in China when ordered back to the Capital about two months ago to become executive officer of the presidential yacht Mayflower, but his illness prevented him from taking this post. Native of Philadelphia. Comdr. Edwards was born in Phila- delphia and was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1910, He resided in the Martinique Hotel during his stay in this city. He is survived by his widow, his mother and a brother, E. Baldwin Ed- wards. Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel at Fort Myer tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Interment | will be in Arlington Cemetery, with full military honors. Comdr. John'T. Casey. Navy chaplain at Quantico, and_Rev olic University. will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be Comdr. T. S. Wilkinson, Lieut. Comdr. Richard Barry, Comdr. Fitzhugh Green, formerly | U. S. Navy; Lieut. Comdr. R. M. Griffin | and Marion Eckley of Newport, R. L. ‘BANK DAY' T0 OPEN THRIFT CAYIPAIGN Civic, Business, Educational and Religious Groups to Mark Franklin Birth. “General Thrift.” or “Bank.” dav to- | mérrow will open Washington's annual Thrift week campaign, sponsored b- civic, business, educational and religious organizations. The opening tomorrow | marks the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birthday. A mass meeting in Ke.a’s Theater at the noon hour tomorrow will start a drive of the various banks co-operat- ing in an effort to impress upon the public the advisability of saving. At the banks numerous budget books for the housewives will be distributed so that they may record their expend:- tures and work out a budget plan in their homes. Bishop James A. Frec- | man_and Representative Arthur Free of California will speak at the mass meeting tomorrow. | Special Committees Named. Tsaac Gans, chairman of the cam- paign. announced special commitices as_follows® | Finance committee—Frank W. White, chairman: Mrs. W. E. Chamberiin, Joshua Evans, jr.; Isaac Gans, W. C Hanson, J. A. Herbert, jr.. A. J. May, | Howard Moran, W. S Quinter, ¥. D. Roach, Stephen H. Talkes and W. J Waller. | Budget day committee—Mrs. W. E Chamberlin, chairman; E. A. Drumm, . L. Flather, E. C_Graham, M Catherine T. Morse, Mrs Helena D Reed, L. P. Riddle. Mrs Edith C. Sali bury. F. P. H. Siddons and Mrs. Har W Wiley. Share-with-others day committe Rev. Dr. W. L. Darby, chairman: Rey J. H. Balthis. Rev. H J. Councilor, J W. Craven, Rev. D. W Curran, Rev. J R Duffield. Rev. J. P. Hand, Rev. Henry Manken, jr. Rev. H. W. O Millington, Rev. John O'Grady, My Minnie Sandberg, Rabbi Louls Schwetel, ward D. Shaw. Vineent Toomey, Miss | E. K. Vall, Ben T. Webster and Joscph A. Wilner. Life Insurance day—John Bullough, | chairman; Cochran Fisher, Wallace Hatch, Robert Hill, W. P. Jackson, Miss Alma McCrum, Frank Roach and Paul Sleeper. Safe Investment Group. Safe Investment and Make a Will day-—Thomas W. Brahany. chairman: /. E. Booker, B. L. Colton, A. C Flather, C. E. Fleming. Richard Hatton, H. G. Hoskinson, R. W. Hynson, F. W Patterson, Louls Rothschild, Edward C. Stone and W. J. Waller Own Your Own Home day—J. A ¥ bert. chairman; C. C. Ballz, Miss Sue E. Gantt, Warren Helphensiemn, A. C Houghton, C. C. James, Fred T. Nesbit, Charles W. Schafer, James P. Schick, J. L. Sherwood and’ Henry K. Willard, Bank day—Frank Ghiselll, chairman; B. A Bowles, Bertram Chesterma Wade H. Cooper, R. V. Fleming, Ernest Gerstenberg, T. P. Hickman, W. D. Hoover, John B. Larner, Howard Moran, L. P. McLachlen, Maurice Otterback, John Poole, L. Scl rer, R. L. Schreiner, J. L. Sherwood, W. W. Spaid, F.J. Stryker, G. O. Walson and George W, White Pay Bills Promptly day—Stephen H Talkes, chalrman. O, W. D. Brown, F. W. Buckler, Charles W. Clayton, Louts 8. Grigsby, L. M. Hewlett, John M Moore, P. F. Nachman, K. A Pearson. John 'E. Rellly, David Sanger, J. A | Bchnetder, Ben' Stein and Wiliam £ Blockett, jr. y E Meat Exports Show Loss. Exports of meat and meat products declined more than $50,000,000 in 19 the Institute of American Meat Packers declared todny Although the quantity of such ex- ports dropped only 12 per cent in the first 11 months of the year, ns com- pured to the sume perlod in’ 1926, the value of the exports, due largely to lowered prices, was approximately per cent lower. Exports for the were mostly pork and pork products, | while beef and its products expoits | were relatively nmall lies 1800 Miles| To See Sick Buddy Of World War Days | By (he Assuclated Pross WORCESTEN, Muss, January 16 A fiendslip which started on the battefelds of France, where both were dnthe air service, prompted Lieut, Btewart Chadwick to fly here from Georgla, o distance of 1,800 miles, t be at the bedside of Capt Henry B Btickney, serlously injured Inst “Tuesda & plane crush st Whittall Fleld Chadwick learned of the njury to Capt - Bilckney Uwough press dia itehies and on Foiday startod by ale Plane tor Waie v He arived yoa | led to blows between O'Leary and Mar- teiday Lleat Chadwick nh-l.p.d on the vay mb Greenshora, NGO Phil adelphin wnd Freeport, N ), where hie paid w short \In‘l 0 his parents, DLEARY CORNERED BY OIL DEFENSE U. S. Prosecutor Admits Plan to Impeach Testimony of Kidwell. Cornered by defense counsel, James | J. O'Leary. Government prosccutor in the Sinclair-Burns contempt proceed- | ings, was forced to admit today he | was laying the foundation to impeach | the testimony of Edward J. Kidwell, jr. trial juror in the Teapot Dome case, called as a Government witness. Mr. O'Leary was being forced into | a position of either seeking to dis- credit the Government's witness in the | contempt pro. gs or to let stand | a flat denial by Kidwell that he recog- | nized Barton P. Stewart, a Burns de tective, as the man who approached ! him during the Teapot Dome trial in | the Museum Grounds. Affidavits signed by Kidwell name Stewart as the man who approached | him, but during the hearing of the in- | timidation charges the juror charged | that O'Leary had coerced him iato identifying the detective. O'Leary Is Blocked. Confronted by Kidwell's denial O'Leary sought by every means within | his power to introduce the affidavits in order to refute the juror imany, | but was blocked Defense counsel charged that the Government was try- | ing to impeach its own witness and ould do so only under a section of the code wh requires & lawyer to: be surprised” by contradictory testimony | kiven by a witness, | Justice Frederick L. Siddons, who| had taken frequent parts in the pro-| tracted arguments, cornered O'Leary into admitting that he was trying to impeach Kidwell as a witness The Government attorney, after consider- edging, finally admitted that he urprise by Kidwell's dental of facts set forth iIn his amdavit ‘ Counsel on both sides engaged in the battle of words over what Day and Justice Siddons admitted was the vital point in the case, namely, whether it could be shown that detectives in the employ of Sinclair had ever established | “contact” with Kidwell as distinguished | from “shadowing,” which has been ad- mitted. Counsel for the respondents denfed that the Government has pro- | duced evidence to show “contact” and challenged Maj. Peyton Gordon, United States attorney, to do so. Object to Quiszing. They vigorously objected to further questioning of Kidwell by Government | counsel n effort to show that tl Juror had been disturbed by persons | who had approached him durmg the trial, unless it could be proved or indi- cated by evidence that the persons who approached him were in the employ of | Sinclalr. b Before permitting O'Leary to question Kidwell, “Justice Siddons asked that further light be given on the legal ques- | tions involved Harry F. Sinclair, Whose absence from court Friday nearly | th | | | tin W. Littleton, the ofl man’s counsel, | was present when proceddings were re- | sumed today. At the outset O'Teary's method of examining Kidwell precipi- | tated verbal clashes between counsel TEN-YEAR-OLD G;IRAL HELD AS POCKETBOOK THIEF| Florence Highes, Colored, Sent to House of Detention Charged With Robbery, Ten-year-old Florence Highes, col- ored, of 900 Half street southwest, was | arrested Saturday night as the thiet who a short while before had snatehed | a pocketbook from ear-old Margaret | € Hayhoe of 925 SIXUh street southwest Florence's mother ld police that she refused Lo go to school and that she hiad run away from home last Thurs- day. Bhe was sent (o the House of De- tention o awalt tial - the Juventle Court The Hayhoo girl told police she was walking on Heventh stréet between I and (0 streets early Saturday night when the accused giel grabbed her pocketbook, Willlam W. Webster of 637 G street southwest, who happened to be Jassing nearby, chased the colored givl nto an alley, whero ahe was caught . Heads County Farm Union, Bpecial Disy o The Slar HTAUNTON, VA, January 16 Belection of & former legislator, Homer B Colner, as prestdent of the Augusta County Farmers' Unton marked the monthly ng Haturday Others wlected wore: W 1) Heleer, Middiehrook vice president, Iiving R Sworteel, re cording secretary . (leorge A Harpey secretary and treasuier. 1B Oolner and WA MoComb, fegislative vepre sentives, and Koy, Gevige Shuey, chaps lain, (4 | Baltimore American will appear i tab ot torm | DRY AGENT TESTS ATTACKED BY FISH Legislator Says Civil Service Commission Has Vio- lated Law, Charging that the Civil Service Com- mission in its examinations for prohibi- tion agents, had “violated” not only the spirit, but the letter of the law giving preference to veterans, Representative Hamilton Fish, jr, Republican of New York today launched a fight “to bring the commission back within the law if it is necessary to go to President Cool- idge himself.” Correspondence with the commission, Mr. Fish said, disclosed that veterans' preference requirements had not only been “violated” in prohibition examina- tions, but may also have been violated in other civil service examinations throughout the United States. Under the act of July 11, 1919, and the executive order of President Hard- ing, March 3, 1923, Mr. Fish explained, disabled veterans are given a preference | of 10 points and all other veterans are | given a preference of 5 points in ad- dition to their earned rating. | In its recent examinations for pro- hibition agents, Mr. Fish said he had determined that all agents who failed to make the grade of 60 per cent, re- gardless of whether they were vet- erans, were immediately ousted. They were not allowed to come forward for | either oral tests or character tests. This, he charged, is violation of the law and the executive order. A letter from the commission re- ceived today fails to meet the issue, | Mr. Fish said. making public the docu~ ment. The letter was signed by Com- missioner G. R. Wales, who said the | position set forth also had the concur- | rence of Commissioner Deming. Representative Fish said he was bringing the matter to the attention of the civil service committee of the House. MARNES ADVANCE | ON SANDINO'S BAND 600 Reinforcements Land in| Nicaragua and Move at Once Toward Front. MANAGUA, Nicaragua. January 16 — Six hundred American Marines were | moving forward today to reinforce com- | rades aligned against the rebel general, | Augustino Sandino. Disembarked with airplanes. muni- | tions and other supplies at Corinto, the reinforcements were taken directly from | the port to points where they are need- | ed most. For military reasons the des- tination of the reinforcements and the | number in the various detachments into which they were divided were kept secret. aed P Gen. Lejeune Arrives. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com-| mander of the Marines, and Brig. Gen. | Logan Feland came here from Corinto, where they landed with the reinforce- menit€. They immediately went into! conference with Col. Louis Mason Gu- lick. commander of the Marines in| Nicaragua. on the present military sit- | uation and plans for the campaign agaifist Sandino. Gen. Lejeune came to inspect the Marine organization. while Gen. Feland will reassume the command which he relinquished when he went to Washington A glant three-motored radio equipped Folkker plane was added to the Marine arma was flown here fro: Miami, Fla, by Ma) L. M. Bourne. Diaz Advised to Resign. President Diaz has been advised by his brother to res.gn from the office to which he was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress after the arrival of the Ma- rines, he President has been a victim ot malaria for some time. His family con- siders the strain of the coming elec- tion, in addition to the present stratn brought about by the pressnce of Amer- ican Marines and political pressure, oo great for him. his brother, Gen. Car- men Diaz, said. A CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE T0 COST $20,000,00¢ Three City Projects Will Total $175,000,000—"Aviation Island" Is Planned. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 16 —Three monu- mental enterprises in Chicago's forwacd march, calllng altogether for the ex- penditure of $175,000.000, were made public yesterday. One was the disclosure by Samuel In- sull of plans and specifications for the $20.000000 home for opera, on which work will begin In time t0 have the structure ready for the 1929-30 season of the Chicago Civie Opera Co. | A second was the announcement that | enrly construction will begin on the | $5.000,000 “aviation island,” with its claborate arrangements for accommo- dnting every type of atreraft, including dirteibles The thitd was the report of Ma) Rufus W. Putham ot the Chicago Har- bor plan, which provides for an ulti- mate expenditure of $150,000.000, to | make Chicago the world's greatest in- land seaport EIGHT HURT IN WRECK. | Five Cars Rerailed on Penusylvania Railroad in Ohio. | CLEVELAND. Ohto, January 16 (¥ | Elht persons were teported 1o the | Pennsylvania ratlroad office here to | have been tnjured when the tender and | five cars of the Alltance-Pittsburghy passenger train of (hat ratload were deratled two miles west of Summits- ville, Ohlo, this morning | Ofelaly of the road sald they had | been unable as yet (o determine the | canse of the accldent. None of those | fjured was reported W have been serlously hurt { PAPER BECOI.AES TABLOID. Awme Changes Form With Today's Issue. HALTIMORE, January 16 (1 Re- g WIEK (s Bssue this moarning the Baltimore oan The American was purchased in 1924 | by Wil Randalph Heatst, who also owis the Baltimore Newa, ctim of Slayer, INDUSTRIAL LOANS TOFRANCEGET0.K. U. S. Bankers Advised by State Department Ban on Transactions Is Revoked. American bankers have been offici Iy notified by the State Departmen that the ban on the making of indu trial loans to France has been lifted. and that they are again free to enter into such negotiations. Private bank- ing interests in the United States have been restricted in the matter of indus- trial loans to France for the past three years. ‘The decision of the Washington ad- | ministration communicated to the bank- ers represents the rescinding of the ban which was placed upon industrial loans to France or to other countries which had not made war debt settlements with the United States. Reasons for Revocation. In a general way, it is nunderstood that the decision to revoke the ban. so | far as France is concerned. had been under consideration for some time. since the application of this form of pressure 0 obtain settlements of the war depts has been ineffective. Some Washington officials are said to believe that the loan ban policy has had an exactly reverse effect so far as France is concerned In any event. the communication which has been sent to each bank or banking house interested makes it per- fectly clear that in future such projects will receive, so far as France is co: cerned, the same treatment in Wash ington that is accorded industrial loan proposals for other countries. Loans Made Indirectly. - Washington officials, particularly in the Treasury Department. are said to have been conscious throughout the period of the ban on French industrial ioans that American capital was being provided for French industries indirect- 1y._even if direct loans were impossible. In view of this circumstance. ad istration officials are said to feel t the ban on industrial loans to Prance WAS NOW Operaling merely as a handi- cap to American enterprise. . Lee-Jackson Dinner Speaker. Spactal Dispateh to The Star STAUNTON. January 16.—Hugh A White of Lexington will be the speaker when the Staunton Kiwanis Club holds its Lee-Jackson birthday anniversary celebration Thursday wit] the ¥ M. € A rooms 3 Dr Hunter MoGuire will be p: Stonewall Jackson Camp, U. C. V McGuire s eterans. Sons of Veter- ar o the Conl d. a banquet at | A portrait of | ed As & surgeon in Jacke ° TAXI SLAYING CLUE IMPLICATES THREE Police Seek to Connect Men Held for January 10 Rob- bery in Jones Murder. Working under the direction of Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, detectives of the homi- cide squad today centered their atten- ‘tion on identifying three colored men | who held up a colored taxicab driver | January 10 as a means of leading to i the solution of the murder of Willlam Harvey Jones, 23 years old, driver for the Black & White Cab Co., who, police now have found, was shot to death while driving a fare Saturday night on fth street between M and N T of a taxi, was held up by th: colored passengers just after the cab | turned Into Twenty-Aifth street from M, according to his report to the police. Jones' cab is believed to have foliowed the same route and had proceeded & short distance on Twenty-fifth street when the driver received the fatal wound. One of the alleged hold-up trio of Small taxicab is in custody at the eig! precinct station. charged w robber; He gave his name as Charles Harris. 24 years old, 1847 Seventh street. Ac- cording to the police, Small has ide: fied hi Small was to have appearsd | at police headquarters this afterncon o | view several colored | on the theory advance | that one or two of those being held for | investigation may have been occupants | of his cab at the time of the hold-up. Four men and a woman are in cus- Two of these are claimed by e to have been seen in Harris' con v on the day of the robbery. of the col n ¥ dete s 1 they e right track in their efforts to apprehend the murderer of Jones. Fun ns Made. tion went forward let-up from the moment Jones’ body was found slumped over the wheel of his cab, whi driverless for a half block into a tree af Mrs. Irene Jones of 2601 M northeass, | Servin= d ept mer. at no date had been set 1 n is s “my husband sh i | he had & ver tab- | r the police checked i the woman, according | cers. admittd she tioned her s 8 by Jones, they went to the scene of the shooting and found that the meter turned over | to 55 cents when they reached the point the cab had stopped In its crash against the tr The meter in Jones' cad reached 55 cents when his bodv was { found. James H. 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