Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1928, Page 2

P THE_FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, JANUARY nn =y 1928. Retired Admiral Dies {UAR PREDICTIONS ASSALEDBY BORMH Proposals . for Bigger Navyf Are “Sheer Madness,” | Senator Says. | | | | { | Br the Ascociated Press. The proposals before Congress ior & greater Navy and recent predictions of another war over commerce conslitute “sheer madness.” in the opinion of Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, and dupli ate the “insane N that marked Anglo-German relations prior to the World War. Attacking as “mischievous to the last degree” the recent recommendation of Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of | naval operations, for virtually a biliion- | dollar Navy. and the statement Satur- | day attributad to Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunket!, commandant of the Brook- | Iyn Na ar with Great Britain REAR ADMIRAL ADMR. VIGTOR BLUE CTOR BLUE. 3 4, that & Wz over commerce is inevitable. the chairman of the Senate foreign rela- tions committee in a statement last night said H “All this s a part of a well organired | plan to prepare the public mind r & naval race. A limited numb-r of cruis- ers to help police our commerce can be justified. But this program. tog. tner with the wild and excited statements about war, is sheer madness. “Those Who must the taxes and do the fighting and dying in case these people succeed in bringing on war.” he <aid. “ought not to delay in taking pari in this program. They are entitled to be heard before this mad policy be- comes fixed “Admiral Plunkett” he continued “repeats the old worn-out fable ihat the way to have peace is to prepar2 for war. When the great World War brokc out the nations responsible for that ‘ war_were armed o the o hey Bureau of Navigation here, and Dad bled e D e mean peace, | Who. 28 commander of the battleship “If one single nation could arm to Texas, took part in receiving the sur- the limit and all other nations would | render of the German grand fieet, died T ey might mean peace Io% | vesterday on a train while en route to the minute one nation bsgins to arm | this city, where he was to enter Walter all other nations begin to do so. &nd | Reed Hospital for treatment for heart e are put out and WAT | gisease. A son, Ensign Victor Blue, Jr., Whether another war comes or not, | attached to the naval survey ship. the Senator believed the new naval pro- | Nokomis, was accompanying his father | gram would not only eliminate tax re- | at _the time. /| duction but would increase taxes. Ob-| The body was brought to Washing- serving that the remaining war debt is | ton and now is at Tabler's undertaking | about $18,000,000,000 and that the nos- | establishment. 924 M street. It will | | Succumbs on Way io Walter Reed—Twice Head of Navigation Bureau. Victor Blue, U. S. N, retired, twice head of the Navy's Rear Admi: | DIES ABOARD TRAIN { dence on the surv | Kidwell in court. SINCLAIR EXCUSED - FOR SENATE PROBE Contempt Hearing Recessed| Until Tomorrow—Reporter Is Ready With Story. | At the request of counsel for Harry | F. Sinclair, one of the respondents in Wi Burns-Sinclair contempt proceed- | ings, Justice Frederick L. Siddons to- | day agreed to a recess of court until | 1:30 oclock tomorrow to give the oil | magnate an opportunity to appear be- ore the Senate public lands commit- | cc in connection with its investigation | Wto the leasing of Teapot Dome. Sin- | jair and Henry Mason Day, one of the | sther respondents, were in court today | o an absence of several days. ! E. C. Brandenburg, attorney for! {Sheldon Clark, another respondent, | ! joined In the plea to hte court, explain- |ing that h> had been charged by the | | District ef Cdlumbia to present the issue of national representation tomor- ow bofore the House judiclary com- | mittee. Don King. local newspaper reporter, who accussed Juror Edward Kidwell of | boasting about what he expected to through his services in the trial aiting to take the witness stand the recess today. Government paved the way for concluding its evi- llance of the Tea- ' ! get was Th: King's testimony by ei with an_examination ratives before reces ne taken, King's testimony will be “sd to back up the version of the inci- L. which took place in Horan's near- cer saloon on October 28. glven b‘);":i ¢ Akers former street-car con- S statements of pot Dome jurors of two Burns ope dustor, who attacked McMullin Next. : oth Akers and King filed affidavits | nnsm.q the juror which played & part | in bringing about the Teapot Dome mistrial on November 2. Defense coun- sel were unable to shake Akers’ version of the incident involving Kidwell and | will do their utmost today to trip up King. The latter has just returned | from Fargo. N. Dak. where his wife week. e e V" McMullin, the former Burns detective, who revealed the jur: shadowing to the district attorney’s office, will follow the Herald reporter on the stand. With his testimony, ceal- | ing with an allezed false aMdavit pre- | Ditals still hold victims of the last war, | be sent at 12:45 o'clock tomorrow morn= Senator Borah said “some one had bet- | ing to Marion, §. C.. where funeral| Zer have & voice in this matter ossides | service and burial will be held. Ensign | those whose business is not to declare | Blue will accompany the body. { policies.” = The deceased naval officer is a! { brother of Dr. Rupert Blue. a former | DENIES WAR PREDICTION. { surgeon general of the United States | Public Health Service. | Born in South Carolina. | Admiral Blue was born in Richmond | " #).—The | County, S. C., December 6, 1865, & son | N Y ORK. JanuArY 23 s Tins | of John G. anid Annie M. Blue. He was e | appointed to the United States Naval | Admiral Charles P. Pl e comd Academy from South Carolina and was | {graduated in the class of 1887. He: first entered the engineering branch of | the Navy when it was a stafl corps, | ll':(:’h'inl his first promotion July 1, - record; will | . as assistant engineer. However, — R ey 'sou will get some- | 0 December 12, 1892, he was_trans- | thing worth while. My remarks were | ferred to the line as an ensigr. He was | taken down stenographically. | promoted to lieutenant, junior grade, | “I am not in the habit of predicting | December 5, 1897; lieutenant, March 3, war. Preparcdness. in my mind and | 1899; lieutenant commander, June 28, in the mind of all other Navy and |19805: commander, July 1, 1909, and Army men, leads to peace and not to | captain on March 10, 1914 war.” During the Spanish-American War “The stenographic record of the ad- | he commanded the Suwanee and was miral’s address was not available. |advanced five numbers in rank for The Sunday Herald-Tribune’s ac- | meritorious services and extraordinary count of a public speech the ad- | heroism during that conflict. From miral Saturday, said he “was asked 1900 to 1901 he was on the stafl of Admiral Refutes Reference to Great | Britain. | the Times quotes the admiral as say- | | | pared for use in bringing about acquit- | tal of Harry F. Sinclair or a misirial, the Government practically will oring its evidence in the contempt proceed- | ings to an end. | With testimony Eurns operatives, the last of about 1 who have taken the stand, the Govern- | ment_concluded its evidence bearing on | the routine jury surveillance operations | and paved the way for the final stage | i | | obtained from two of its case. Siddons’ Interest Roused. Sidney Knowles and Thomas F.| Brennan were the two Burns men examined. Mr. Burkinshaw show that Knowles had been relieved from duty after an autoist observed him while he was shadowing Juror | Frank J. Herzog. - | Justice Siddons took up the examina. tion and seemed particulasly interested in. this phase of the testimony. He did | not succeed, however, in eliciting from | Knowles any more than an admission | that he believed he might have been observed while shadowing the juror. At any rate, Burkinshaw was unable to | establish whether the operative had been sent back to Philadelphia the | following day because he had been de- | Upper—Picture made this morning : at Union Station when William T. Co: grave, President of the Irish Free State, !arrived for a visit with President Cool- idge. Left to right—Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister of the Irish Free State at Washington: President Cosgrave and William A. Castle, Assistant Secretary of State. Lower—A close-up of President Cos- { grave, responding to the greetings of persons assembled at the Station to bid him welcome to the city. COSGRAVE CHEERED ON ARRIVAL; LAUDS CAPITAL OF NATION (Continued_from First Page.) for three days before sailing on the Olympic February 3. He said today he wished he could stay in this country longer. but he has to get back to Dublin for the meeting of the Dail on February 15. ' PRAL CHICAGO WELCOME. CHICAGO, January 23 (#).—Chicago freely bestowed, for William T. Co: grave, President of the Irish Free State, made it a special point before his d parture yesterday to extol the city, its| citizens and its mayor. Just before leaving for Washing- ton the sentiment of the visitors was aptly phrased by Col. Joe Reilly, body guard to Prg}s‘idenl Cosgrave, who sald. “Sure, I thought I was in America when we landed in New York. Now I Europe.’ President Cosgrave himself had the “utmost respect” for the manner in hich city officials and Irish-American leaders handled his reception. Praises Welcome. “I couldn’t have believed there was such a city if I hadn't seen it.” he declared. "I never saw such order, such control of traffic, and I was over- whelmed at the cordiality of its people.” The Irish leader remarked that it | tected shadowing the juror. IRISH PRESIDENT GREETED ON ARRIVAL HERE 5| knew today the rewards of hosplhlll!y‘ | know we were just in the outskirts of | | | ‘Man WESTERN UNION HEAD MAKES PLEA FOR BOY WORKERS, vy Would Lose Opportunities Under ‘One Death to Every| 155,000,000 Carried On Electric Lines, By the Associated Prees NEW YORK, January 23.—Only one passenger out of every 155,000,- 000 carried by American electric rallways was fatally injured last year, the American Electric Railway Association and the American Mu- seum of Safety said today. The statement was made in con- nection with announcement that the Louisville Railway Co.. the El Paso Electric Co. and the Tidewater Power Co. of Wilmington, N. C.._have been award the Anthony N. Brady Me- morizl Medal for outstanding ac- cident prevention and health pro- motion records. ' The Pittsburgh Railways Co. re- ceived honorable mention. | | | | i | | CONERESSFACN | EXTENDED SESSION Many Vital Issues Crowd Cal-| endar—Adjournment Can Be Balked. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Indications are that the present ses- | sion of Congress may be one of the longest of the “long sessions.” The only | urg: that normally would cause Con- | gress to adjourn would be the two na- { tional political conventions in June. | but a recess over that fortnight might | |be taken and Congress resume its; labors thereafter. This possibility is discussed because Tof the way many vital issues are crowd- ing the calendar and it is within the power of members to keep Congress from adjourning unless action on their favorite measures is taken. Last March Congress was compelled by constitution- | SWUGELED TALIAN . GUNS STIR NATIONS Austria and Hungary Try to Dodge Issue—Balkan Coun- tries Join Dispute. By Cable \\n The Star _and chicaro Dally News. Copyright, 192 VIENNA, January 23.—A complicated situation has arisen concerning the Itallan arms smuggling incident known as the §t. Gotthard affair. ‘The Austrian and Hungarian govern- ments each has issued a communique which revealed that each was trying to force the other to find & way to disposs of the arms. Meanwhile, five carloads of unassem- bled machine guns, lying on a side track at St. Gotthard, are proving themselves a Pandora’s box. It will be recalled that an Austrian official with Pandora instincts on New Year day peeped into one of the cars and dis- covered the shipment of machine guns instead of machinery, as called for by the bill of lading. This peep has sel | almost all countries of southeastern Europe at each other's throats in the fiercest squabble in many months, and caused much embarrassment in Euro- pean chancelleries, as did Czechoslo- vakia’ shipment of arms to China. Neighbors Accuse Hungary. On the day the St. Cotthard arms were discovered. Austria demanded that Hungary return the cars, due to the false declaration of contents. Hungary refused, maintaining that the cars | already were on Hungarian soil. Czecho- slovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania launched an anti-Hungarian press and diplomatic campaign and accused Hun- gary of arming every able-bodied man and boy in the country with a machine gun for an eventual attack on the little entente. Hungary defended herself with the declaration that the cars were merely in transit en route to Warsaw, which al provision to end its session March 4. | and Mr. Coolidge steadfastly refused o ‘call an extra session for flood control | {or farm relief. " So these two big ques- | | tions. together with sundry other Vital | measures, will have to be decided at the | present session. Tax Bills Delayed. might obiain them by claiming them. Czacheslovakia and Jugoslavia sought to bring the matter before the League of Nations in the form of a common protest of all the littie entente coun- tries. Prance supported this action, { A __Already the normal reason for haste | with in passing a tax reduction bill has| | passed. as it has been decided to post- | pone tax discussion until after March 15. It may be that the Treasury will not have its figures ready for many weeks after that so that a tax bill hard- Iy can be finally presented for the President's signature much b2fore May. The fight on a farm relief bill as well as the question of flood control will considerable time and there are signs that ratlway consolidation. Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam will take up no little time, with the increasing pros- pect that there will be more disct of tariff revision, especially to make record for campaign purposes. A number of inquiries such as that of public utilities, ofl lands and re-sale price maintenance will take up much of the time of the Senators. while the con- troversy over the size of the Navy pro- gram is only one of ‘& number of things that will come out of the various appro- nriation bills that will be time-consum- ing. Ever since the Coolidge administra- tion started. the President has been abl 0 persuade the leaders to confine their =fforts to a minimum of legisiation or at ast the measures on which there was some hope of agreement, Advantages Viewed. i ussoling | of Italy and Foreign Minister Titulescue had been arranged. At first the Bucharest government | joining in the protest. ] Lean Plan Hits Snag. As the outlook for a loan from France struck af increasing n . however, and as Dictator Mussclini gave a hint to M. Titulescu that he would be more welcome in Rome if no protest was made. Rumania began wavel. Whether the protest ever be lodged as a unanimous action the little entente depends on the the last been set | i | | i | reports reaching | for Tuesday. | . | Meanwhile, Austria and Hungary con- | tinue to according to Hungary, has delivered to When Brennan was asked about the scemed to him that “they are more But the accumulation of {mportant later if he anticipated war with Great | the squadron commander of the Asiatic | Britain.” ““Yes, I mean Great Britain or some | other nation whose interests are af- fected. Great Britain may not at the outset declare war. but she will let | mander-in-chief of this fleet during the |said he was told to “act as if I were some smaller nation do that and then get behind her.’ " Admiral Plunkett spoke at & non-par- tisan Juncheon at the National Repub- lican Club. and was quoted in the Sun- fleet. He was inspector of equipment at Cramp's Shipyard. Camden, N. J., 1902; aide for Rear Ad- iral Cooper June to December, 1903; again alde to the squadron commander, Asiatic fleet, and aide to ths com- latter part of 1904. In 1905 he served in the Bureau of Ordnance in this city and then went to Newport News, Va., where he was inspector of ordnance until 1907. He | Irish_in Chicago than we are in Ire- land.” He paid tribute to Michael . Faherty, president of the Chicago Board of Improvements, who was large- Iy responsible for his trip to America. “I also that lr!“l'lu and .l::lulyrhllbfled man, x | Mayor Willlam le Thompson.” he |crazy and turn away {sald. “If I were not experienced in | politics, 1 would have expected to meet a roughneck. I found him to be a big, kindly, genial American, so bul bling over with plans for the better- | instructions he received before picking | {up Juror Bradner Holmes, the operative said he had been warned explicitly not | to approach his subject. In the event | the juror detected he was being ! shadowed and confronted him, Brennan | want to say a word about | day Times as having made an appeal ! was executive officer of the North Car- | for preparedness, saying that ‘unpre- | olina until 1909, and the following year | paredness had cost the United States was placed in command of the York- r;-:‘mmm in the WO': Wl{ffllm} | town, attached to the Pacific station. future war was sure con! of | ” the s»a was contested with goods and | Returns to Washington. not with guns. | He came to Washington again in 1911 | AN £ | for duty with the generad board and LONDON PRESS AROUSED. | on March 26, 1913, he was selected to | head the Bureau of Navigation with ows | the rank of rear admiral He rc’rlnam;‘d_’ | here until August 10, 1916, when he Woondfin ihmaion. was placed in command of the battle- | LONDON, January 23 UP)—Dis- | ship Texas. After the entrance of the patches telling of the speech Saturday | United States into the world conflict | | { Paper Says War Prediction She OLDMARKETSHEDS SN TODISHPPEAR Bids Invited for Removal of | Those Occupying Revenue ment of his city that he talked about hardly anything except the plan W connect Chicago with the sea and make her America’s greatest city.” Opponents Call Rally. There was one “fly in the ointment™ to mar the aftermath of the executive's visit and this was of a political nature. Wiliiam P. Lyndon, natonal secretary of the Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, sent out a notice, shortly after President Cosgrave's de- purture, that -all Irish Republicans would gather next Thursday night to by Rear Admiral Charles T. PlunmLI commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. in which he was quoted as pre- dicting war between the United States and its commercial competitors are | prominently displayed in today's news- | papers. 1 The Star gave it a first page streamer | headline as 3 “! editorially says way the wind blows and the views of a | rear admiral of the American Navy may indicate the direction in which the thought of a section of the American | people iz turning.” | The editorial concluded as follows: “We needn't let Rear Admiral Plunkett make our flesh creep. 1f there is any serjous warning ' be drawn from his utterances, it is that wars heretofore have been brought about when the volce of the nrofessional war maker is raised 100 Joudly and 100 persistently in the land. We have no fear that it will be heard to an appreciable in the iand of Mberty.” The Btandsrd says: “Resr Admiral Piug speech will only stimulate ne people in both countries, who aftey wli are sume 97 per cent of their population, 1 see to it that the catastrophe hie foretells does no' come 0 puss” PROGRESSIVE AID IS PLEDGED NORRIS IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE (Continued from First Page) presicentini nomination. Mr. Lowden's “ppeal v Uk farmers of the West s & supporter of tie MeNary-Haugen farm ol nee mede 1o Impression on La Yollets followers. Indeed, they say in elr pletionm, appsrenty with refer- crice w e churges \hat Lowden dele- purchissed 1 Missour) in | President of Mexico, long an aviation | orocess ccull Uie ouLright purchase e Republican national 420 ton of & candidate for Presidenty \isosgh e orrupl and ex- ceseive Use of money or the use of Yedersl putronage snd favorr destroys Confisence i popular elections and de- feats U ende of democratic govern ment We pledge our efforts v defeat vy stempt W buy & nominetion for President 1L reference 14 the wet snd dry Ssaue, the la Follete platform says “Phe Progressive movement has oon ristently advocated the Initntive and yeterendum. dn compliance with e ole of Lie people of Wisconsin regis- 1ereq by referendum st e 1926 elec ton, we favor amendment of Volsiewd wct 3 wccordence with the Lerme of (sl referendum. confident that ruch emendment will be sustained by Vi Bug Court The platform extols the lnte Senutor Fobert M La FolieUe and reiterstes many of the Progressive princioles foy nieh e stood IU praises the Jate opetor fo1 his courage and persistince i exporing the looting of e Teapt dovine Bud Elk Jills usval ol reserves,” by the King of Belgium he | the Texas was sent to join the British grand fieet. After the surrender of the German fleet in 1918, Admiral Blue was ordered to Washington, and on December 186, 1918, he was g{fln selected to head the Bureau of Favigation. He becamc & permanent rear admiral April 1, 1918, ‘Speech by|and on July 1 of the same year he | American Admiral” while the News Wwas retired from active service on ac-| “These straws show the | count of physical disabilities incurred | Treasury advertised for bids on demoli- in_line of duty He was avarded the distinguished service medal for exceptional service n the North Sea and was decorated a commander of the Order of Leopold Since his retirement, he has made his home at Fort George, Ga. 'WOMAN NOTABLES MAY VIE IN FLIGHT fouel Calles and Boll Mentioned | as Passengers on Havana ] Hops. By the Asssiuten Fress GARDEN CITY. N ¥, January 23 —A President's daughter and a “Queen |of Diamonds” may soon be pitted | sgainst each other In & non-stop alr race o Havana | Charies A Levine's transatiantic Co- Jumbia and & new Bikorsky smphiblan sdny were both being rushed o me chanical perfection for Huvana flights | Both were expected 1o be ready for Lest filghts by the end of the week The Bikorsky will be piloted by Wilmer sultz Frances Wilson Orayson over Lhe ocean {in her ui-fated Dawn. With lim will e Miss Alicis Calles, duaghter of the | enthusinst Tavine's ship will be driven by & piot yer to be selected Reports have it (hat the New York 1o Germany siy pas senger will be accomapanled by M vabel Boll known ss the “Queen of Dismonds” for e profusion ol .“A(' gems she wears There has been no snnouncement of 0 impending 1ace. bul observers i the wetories have noticed the speed with | which ench ship ie belng prepared and nive ul lewst Winagined dehnite indics ; Lo of rivalry ‘The Blkorsky plane s 0 be delivered {0 the Pan-American sirwa al Ha- vans awn plewsure Tavine's fght Is purely o his Capt. Harris Jones Reassigned Capt Harris Jones, Corpe of Eng) necrs, has been assighed W oduty with e Awwerican Baitle Monuments Com Dinlesion st the War Department o bl W vicaney He bus been relleved fom 8l b present duties in e office of the director of public bulldings wnd public parks of the Nationai Capital nd from duty with the Organised He- werves of Lhe 34 Corps Area, | | the first man in try w fly Mrs | ! Building Site. ! ‘ | More than half of the old Farmers' | Market sheds will b> torn down next | | month to make way for the new Inter- | nal Revenue Bullding. This was assured today when the hear and honor their leader, Eamon de Valera. De Valera will stop off here en route to Ireland, where he will resume his Irish Republic, Lyndon deciared “the demonstration through which Chicago has just passed for the President of the Free State was entirely artificial, and that soon tion of the western half of the sheds | %! become known.™ The bids will be opened Thursday. Feb- | ruary 2, and the contract is expected to be let shortly thereafter. { The Farmers’ Market has been " troublesome problem ever since the Fed- eral Government decided to take the Isite 1L occuples for the Internal Reve- nue Bullding A permanent location | for this market has not yet been picked. | | Citizens’ associations througout the city | are protesting against plans to place the market temporarily along B street | near the incompleted George Washing- | ton Memortal project Agreement Rexched for Removal. By agreement with the District Com- missioners, however, the Federal Gov- ernment will now proceed to raze what will be shghtly more thw ne-hall of | the old sheds. They will be torn down from the Twelfth and B streets corner custhward 10 & point about in line with | the east side of Eleventh street. The | dismantied Jron and structural work will be transported W Gallinger Hos- bital properiy, where ft will be stred Under present prospects 1o on: cen vredict what will happen W the old sheds finally, ws Congress hus not de- cided whether there shall be & new Farmers’ Market, or where it shall go hould construetion be wuthorized. T remaining purt of the old sheds prol ably will be dismantled when the m ket in moved (o it Lemporary loci th Condemnation Delayed, The remuinder of the site for the In- ternsl Ievenue Bullding, Including Square No bounded by Tenth, | Eleventh, Littde B and C streets, 15 in 1 condemnation. but there has nents o props Ihough the court decree . of 8815,000 was ed down 1ong wgo yl‘ “( il An woon ws this property is pald for it | will be cleared of s bulldings, further | a "l"v n contraets will be et wnd progress then [ can be mude on the whole bullding About one-quarter of the excsvation al- tendy 15 comleted, tnmediately south of Ui Post Office Depattment. ORGANIST PLANS RECITAL. Clavence Dickingon to Play at Cal- vary Baptist Church, | of New York, | nposer of scred DEMAND FAIR PROBE Inquiry Confined to Limited Sec- tion of Public Utilities In- dustry Opposed. By the Amsociated Pr ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., January 23 ment Bankers' Assoclation desires that the general investigation of public utili- tes in (e United States, us proposed by Benator Waish of Montana, “should be solely on the basis of u falr, fact- finding of the conditions as a whole in | the industry and not confined to { limited section of the public utilities in- dustry orn few specific cases. The board, at the final sesslon at ithe dew Golf Club yesterday, expressed wanl of w Jetter to Senator James atson, ch dman of the Senate com- mittee on Interstale commerce, signed by Fresident Henry G. Hayes, and ex- pressing such w desire. Another resolution presented by Presi- | dent Hayes urged that muaicipally oper - ated public utllities be placed on A stundardized system of accounting “The bontd 15 opposed to blue-sky laws s s of preventing investment frauds heer: a eep Leads to Jail on woting Charge Percy Clark's distressing habit of talking I his sleep has landed him behind the bars on a charge of shootng Benjamin Butler here nine months ago, Both men are colored Perev waxed garrilous botween snores b his home In - Baltimore Baturday night His wife. alarmed al his ulleged statemonts about hav g sl o man In Wnnhll\!lull notified Bultmare police, and Clark wan urrested Detective Willlain Mesaer brought the prisoner here yesterduy, and in vastigation disclosed his _alleged Pt ation noa Aght on 8 street neiy geventh, on April 8, I whigh Biftler was shot Percy will ba arvalgned in Police Court later this weeks | | | Clarence Lickingon noted organist and o Panuste, wiil offer onglnal anthems at o veception and dinner which will be | given I his honor, under ausploes of Uie Washington Chureh Musle Counell wt Calvary Baptist Church Monday eve- oing, Junuuwiy #0. in the Intereat of | prometion of church musie. He nlso Wil wddrens ir divectors, ougRnisty Ana others Intereated i ehuiremmuste. | Meservations wre 1 charge of Misa Berthe M. Holmes, Woodward Bullding, fight against Cosgrave and for the INVESTMENT BANKERS | ~The board of governors of the Invest- | | | | | _Unfalr discrimination against the Zihlman Child Labor Bill. He Says. Newsboy Hearing Set. 30 days to two weeks. Representative bills now has become such that it is | merely a tion “for admin:stration opponents of whether more advantage will be gained by adjourning Congress in June and going into the campaign | with a finger pointed at the failure of | the party in power to pass needed bills or whether it will be better to use the Western Union Telegraph Co. and its Underhill declared it is his intention to publicity opportunities that a continu- messenger boys would result from en- actment of the Zih'man child labor who need to work properly safeguarded | opposition party. bill, the judiciary subcommittee of the House District committee was advised | today by H. F. Tafl. general superin- tendent of the company. | The bill, reported on favorably Sat- urday by the subcommittee, would pre- | vent” boys from enjoying educationa' and other advantages provided for | company employes, Mr. Tafl declared At the request of the circulation managers of all Washington newspa- rs, & date two weeks hence was set |tor a hearing regarding amendments | affecung newsboys which ths circula- | tion managers are recommending should | be made in the Zihiman bill. ! Would Cut Off Newsboys. | Previous to this, former Judge Hardi- son of the Police Court explained t! | provisions of a bill which he had draft- ed and which was introduced by Rep- | resentative Gilbert, Democrat, of Ken- | tucky, to correct abuses in the bonding business. He was directed to prepare perfecting amendments, which the com- mittee will consider at a later meeting. ‘The request for a hearing made by the circulation managers was presented to Chairman McLeod. In this they con- tended that “certain provisions of this | bill would decrease or completely cut oft the earnings of a considerable number of minors now engaged in gainful oceu: pations with the consent of their par- | ents” They further contended that “by reason of their employment on Washington newspapers these minors | are permitted to share in desirable edu- eative, stimulating, uplifting and en taining activities, promoted by the news- papers exclasively tor their distributors and salesmen Mr. Taff emphasized that the delivery | service of his company in Washington |is of unusual importance, as it must | ndequately serve at all times the re- quirements of Congress, the executive | departments of Government, the re) | sentatives of forelgn governments and | the lai COTps of news correspondents. This makes wide fluctuations in the requirements. He emphasized the Western Unlon messenger service has the Nim:‘". Indorsement of both the America | Cites Advantages to Boys, In reply to questions of committee members, Mr. Taff said he spoke with # thorough understanding of the views point of the boy nm...h. because he started ns & moessenger at the Western { Unlon office at the Capital and served for 15 yonrs, reaching his present posi- ton after 47 years. Representative Underhill, Republican of Massachusetts, used Mr. Taft as an fustration that opportunities for ad- vancement are afforded boys who learn to work under proper conditions, wid sald that such technieal training s often of conslderably more value than & college education m|l‘fll.‘ 'l|'llllfl llll'll'd that be liberalized 5o ax to allow boys between 14 and 18 to work III\II:\-' o'clock wt night nstead of 6, He point- od out that the company now has 19 part-Ume boys who are enabled to maintain themselves in busineas sohools and colleyes through thelr employment With the company. Mr. Tail said the }'fl\,lumm\ which ‘would shut off boys rom 16 to I8 from working after 10 o'clock - would eliminate about 80 per cont of the present force. He sought to have the lmit fxed at midnight* in stead of 10 o'clook. Al those emploved afler midnight are 21 and over Roprosentative — Gilbort sald that where gress had (ke the attitude of Hmiting adalt labor i eertain olass- e 1o olght hours tour of duty, it could not conslatently pass Jegistation (hat would allow boys of wmore tender venrs ob work longer houra 16 was on motion of My, Ciibort that the time vequested Ay the newspapeis 0 prepare thelr vwal » veduved fiom the proposed see the rights and privileges of boys in order that they may enjoy the same chances that he himself did to earn for ous session of gives to the Congress, to be sure, has enough on its hands to keep a session going with. | themselves advancement in life. Says Training Is Good. out much interruption until the regu- become more apparent in the next few i W._ D. Miller, circulation manager of | weeks when important committee re- | he Washington Post, made it clear that ports will be brought, many of them newspapers are not opposed 10 8 requiring extensive debate. During a vproper child labor bill, bui desire to see campaign year also the tendency, ol certain provisions modified so that the Congress to debate is greater than in boys who are doing their work well and other sessions as congressional speeches learning the value of a dollar and learn- ysually play an important part in the ing the value of service should not be | literature of presidential and congres- shut off from such training. He said sional campaigns. the papers desire an oppartunity to 1Copvri show the committee the sort of train- ing they are giving the boys. 1998 lar session of next December. This will | and the Boy Scouls of | He emphasized that the changes ad- vocated by the newspapers in the Zthl- msn bill would not result in any boy losing time from school and would in fact make it possible for verv many of them to continue in school who other- wise would be forced to stay at home Wiliiam C. Shelton, circulation man- ager for the Washington Times and Herald, said that out of 667 boys em- ployed by those papers there is not one who does not attend school Members of the subcommitiee indi- vidually expressed themeselves as sym- | pathetic to the attitude of the news papers to furnish boys employment where they will learn to work and earn money when such work does not in- | terfere with regular school attendance | GAFFNEY ON PROBATION. Suspended Sentence of Fine and Imprisonment on Two Charges. Willlam Joseph Gaffney. 34 yoars old, Who was arrested on & gaming ratd b police of the first precinet Saturda; {Dight at 1332 1 street and charged With permitting & gaming table to be | set up, was given a suspended sentence [ OF $100 a1 30 davs and put on probu- | Uon when he pleaded guilty before | Judge Robert E' Mattingly in Police Court this morning On & bad check charge he was sen- d to $35 or 30 days and the sen- was - suspended. The population of Mane | creased from 2.000.000 to | 30 years. uria has in- 7,000,000 10 eace Rules Capim As Orientals In festiva mood. Washington's € town, nestling i the shadow Capitol, today celebrated the Ol New Year and the seventeenth v {the homeland republic. Washa | Chinese papulation; estimated | tween 600 and 700, saw to 1t thai i keeping with anclent custom, the New Yoar was ushered In with debts all | patd and gifts exchanged ‘The celebration fs scheduled to last for two weeks Chinatown, between Thivd atreet and John Marshall place. | was partioularly gay, with Chinese and American flags waving in the inviting January sun and red, the festive color, nredaminsting Ths temple of the On Leong Chinese Merchanta’ Assoclatfon @iy the fourtn [ oor of 333 Pennaylvania avenue was I gala attive. Upon the aliar, fraits, burning ineense and other \otive after INgs were grouped Bach store, too, had 13 ofteriigs, of vooanut and other wathsome candy. of Uy arange tees of aranges and other frait A celebratton, with a Ohluese or- fohestea o attendance will be held at A o'elock tonight at 333 Peunavivania aenue Whe holiday spiit alw pervaded the ey THEFT SUSPECTS NABBED AS VICTIM COMPLAINS Just as Anderson McClean of 407 New York avenue finished reporting to police that two colored men had attempted to hold him up at New York avenue and Seventh street early vester- day morning. Policemen P. E. Ambrose and E. S. Groves of the first precinct brought in two suspects whom he in- stantly identified, and expressed amaze- ment at their speedy capture. { One of them. registering as Kdward | Douglas, 23 years ald: of 781 coummf road, was carrying an improvised shing- | hot. His companion gave his name as | ssac L. Patrick. 28 years old, of 1331 Kingman place. Both men were charged | | with atte: and an addi- | tonal charge g concealed | weapons was placed against Dougla The policemen explainedt that t R I they {had been tpped off by a cad dviv that a hold-up was were standing at Ninth and D sireets and that, following directions he gave. they found the men at Ninth aud New York avenue. Heavy Seas Delay Liner. NEW YORK. January 23 (.~ The Anchor liner Transylvania arrived to- day after a crossing so sirmy that it took 10 days Capt David Bone, author of sea stories and commander Of the liner. said that the storm raged from the moment the ship left Ireland. At Umes the wind and waves were so fumultnous that he had to reduce speed to six knots. The liner arrived coated With ice | I's C-}:irnatown Cclcbratc New Year Hip Sing Assoclation headquarters. at RRi) Ponnsylvants aveuue, and the stoe of Yuen Kim Lia. Ivace was apparent [ I Chinatown between the tangs (hat Dave vigorously obpased eacht other i hygane davs The enstwhile vivaly | and the war fn China meltad w the thoughts of the celebration, befare the | glowing rays of the New Year Charlie Soo mavor of Chinatown, and George Wen, his atde and tary of the On Leang were busy today wreeting thelr colleagues and exchang- g the compliments of the seasn, Owing to the difference 1 e be- ! tveen Washingtoan and China, whieh nearly 12 hours, same of the Capitaly Chinese began the festivities yestorday evening, about the thme the holiday w Chine got o fall swing AL e Chincse legation the wetta Wwas Hustess as wsual Mintsier Allved dae 15 at pissent i Flaride, so i that there W n.umwfi panned pars | Howlariy to mark the day at the legas fon I Ohinatown, 1t vas quite & |ditterent story, for, althoush dos w-i | watned locked wnill neatly noon, the WES 10 colohrate Was s apparent and e werhy Aniendeied W@ B WAL W Wil ' | tmportant anweu | Vale, “Beautital Qi ot A Hungarian communique states that the cars contain the original contents and that Hungary offered to returm them merely because they contain “un- | SUBMARINE SAFETY PLANS IGNORED BY NAVY, SAYS CELLER _(Continued from First Page) | ued. “should de of such size that a | diver can pass through without »ndan- gering his Lfe. Conditions wn this re- | spect were bad on the S-51. It 1s noted that on the V-1 and the V-2 cond'- tions are even worse as regards access through hatches and interior doors, and the salvage work on these V boats :f divers must work inside. will be hasard- ous in the extreme.” Celler said that no reference has been made to the ElSdurg recommenda- tions in the and reports . doth the S-31 and S-4 disasters and that he was advised that the Navy De- partment. when called upon to produce the recommendations soon after the I m. hey had deen pigeanholed, he added. P BUILDING BILL APPROVED. The bill already passed by the House ;HKMI::I:’ aflmw $100.000 200 or pul & hout the United States was no:thid““ favors! by the Senate public grounds committee today. $I00.000.000 the amoun authorieed in 1923 for post offices, fembecses and other m all paris of the country, urgeatly eoded bocause of the sowing wp of widing work durtng and after World War The Sehate committee » N & the b wiil b At the first opport e = BAND CONCERTS. TONIGHT By the United States Navy Sand O:- chestra. at the Sail loit. Nawy Yard 8 oviock. Charles Benter Overture, “Oberen Suite. “Coppelin®. +1xs JDetibes aSlave theme. with variatiens d Dance of the automaton and vais © Novturna, ADance of the auamMALOR and vaha © Caarchas Duet tor fate daha™ Von_Weder and clavinet, “Muwe- . Tasaan o RN Grand scenes from (e opera N Godounow o W Exverpts froon “Rio Rt | Suite, A “Humarouns Sketed DUFURNG of the Bumbdhe © - RERRY- N Rbhansadie, “Hungaian, No 1+ TSt Spangled Ranaes TONORROW. 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