Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 2

S TRACTION MERGER COMES UP MONDAY Plan to Be Presented to Com- mission at That Time. Prompt Action Sought. WHAT IT IS AND I. What it is and does: Electoral College, it will The public utilities commission made Active preparations today to receive the street car merger agreement which has been subscribed to by the boards of directors of the Washington Railway and Electric and the Capital Traction Cos. The directorate of the former ratified the agreement Wednesday and the directors of the latter company took similar action yesterday afternoon at their regular monthly meeting. According to information reccived at the commission, the agreement wili be formally submitted Monday, coinci- dently with the return from Haiti of John W. Childress, chairman. The com- | mission plans to make it public imme ciately upon receipt. Consists of 4,500 Words. The agreement. it is understood, con- than those of aliens denied, to the duty, that government by manent political numerous than the P sade to that end. sists of eight legal-size pages typewrit- 6. ten single spaced. or about 4.500 words. Capital Much of it is said to be written in s i language that can be understood only voice in its national by lawrers. While the commission is anxious to expedite public hearings on the merger pian with a view to getting it to Con- gress for ratification soon as possible, it may be forced to delay the procedure | for 30 days on account of a section of | the organic act of the commission | which stipulates that a 30-day public | notice must be given before undertak- | ing a hearing which involves a valu- | ation. The commission, however. not | having been apprised of any of the details of the agreement, except through the press reports, is not cer- tain that it contains an agreed valu- ation provision. Neversheless, steps have been taken to preclude a delay over this point, and Corporation Coun- sel Willlam W. Bride, who also serves II. What it 1. Does net propose the square” provision of the slightest degree perpetuation of the tribution law. NATIONAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: By enabling Congress to give the lumbia voting representation Remove the present stigma, humil and political enfeeblement resulting from per- impotence of a people more as the commission’s general counsel, has been asked for an opinion as to whether the commission will be requir- ed to wait 30 days before starting hear- ings should an agreed valuation be em- bodied in the agreemen.. Confined to Financial Plan. ‘The street car companles, it was learned, are having the merger agree- ment mimeographed in anticipation of a demand from civic leaders and others interested in the plan under which it is proposed to consolidate the companies. Col. H: Brand. acting chairman of the commission, already has put in 8 request for a number of coples for the use of the commission and the press. Aside from the details of the agree-| The hands of time were turned back ment which leaked out after it was|16 years at the Naval Air Station at learned that the companies were in-|Anacostia today when Capt. Holden C. volved in merger negotiations, John H. ' Richardson, chief of the design and Hanna, president of the Capital Trac- | material division of the Bureau of Aero- tion Co., revealed in a communication | nautics, made two brief flights in an old to representatives of the Amalgamated | Curtis pusher seaplane of the season of Association of Street and Electric Rail- | 1912, way Employes of America that it con-| Capt. Richardson thrilled a small tains no plan of operation, but is con- | crowd of naval aeronautical officials fined to financial details, both as to the | with his brief performance in a manner method of securing reasonable return | never before witnessed by a demonstra- on valuation and distribution of bene- | tion flight of any sort at the station. fits. Having flown this type of plane back Attaches of the utilities commission | in 1912 as one of the Navy's first avia- also believe that the plan contains some | tors, Capt. Richardson was familiar with features that the companies can hardly | the general operation of the craft whose expect either the commission or Con- |control system is radically different gress to approve, which will be used for | from that in use today. He volunteered the purpose of bargaining while the|for the flight to demonstrate the egreement is under consideration. It |marked progress made in the design has been reported, t0o, that the agree- | and construction of aircraft and many ment has considerable public appeal in | aviators with a number of years flying the form of improved service and uni- wersal transfers. Another problem coufropting the commission which will be ironed out mitied b whetnes i sun pegany be W) [ y considered im m'nungd by the stockholders of the companies. The car companies, however, intend to sub- it the plan before it has been acted on by the stockholders, and if the com- mission decides that it cannot legally consider it without such action, it will be withdrawn and resubmitted follow- ing the approval of the stockholders. POLICE PLAN SURVEY OF UNEMPLOYMENT House-to-House Canvass Started to Determine Exact Conditions. A city-wide survey was started today by the Metropolitan Police Department 10 ascertain the extent of unemploy- ment in the District. Patrolmen will make & house--house canvass on their regular beats, and the infornation they procure will be sent o the administra- Uve offices of the department and com- plicd. Inspector Henry G. Pratt, acting su- mm!r,ndmt of police in the absence of ). Edwin B. Hesse, announced that the survey is being made at the request of the Department of Labor and other agencies which are making a study of unemployed conditions throughout the eountry. A report of the results of the survey, Inspector Pratt sald, will be given to the Labor Department. Inspector Pratt estimates that the po- Moe w0 take seversl weeks 1o complete the investigation. as it is not planned :.u‘)(n men W this work in special de- s, LINGBERGH NOTES PROGRESS MADE IN CUBAN AVIATION (Continued from First Page ) Feceive tne highest honor of the Cuban sovernment ‘Tne grand cross of the Order of Car- o8 Manual de Cespedes will be conterred Lpon the fiyer by Pr 1. Machiado st he end of he presidential banguet v Landvergh in the Navions! Theater Women outnumbered men by et jeast Qour ) one st & receplion s' Ui Ameri- Can e Blbended by thousauds of Americans wnd rgsdents of Havans Liuwiwigh pmied on sll, bt only rarely QIS Tk brenk bis rule by shaking hends The fig of the Officers’ Club ab Camyp Columbia was given Linabergh wien the Byer was eulogind by Becretary of War Jrurrside of Cutw st s lunwhionn here Linciergh tile morning enuered upon 8 program of oMcial receptions sched us s L entire day In b hed & gol8 medsl cast commemnorsting | SUrong supporter in Mis. Jumes g s Urensatiantic fight. An oullne of deughter of the lale Bpoaker Liw Atsntle Const lines of America ¥, and wleo I8 tavored by wnd Europe with sumall sriows Uecing Bz voute from New York Vo Faris wes ergrnved upon i g, On ) St Lie inscripiion, in Epanish “Dorwted by Wi Provice of Hevans | W Charies A Lindlergh 1or his heroie service W Ve scleiue of wvistim Government, oficisls and aiplamats wie invited Lo Liw presentsiion of Lhe Cel wl tie Culmn Blele Department AIRPORT ILLUMINATED, Plooslights to Greet Lindy ¥ He Arrives In BL Louis at Night ET 1OV, Feoruery 10 (A W sl 0ot laninated by puwer fond wnd bescon Sghte vl gree Chrisrles A Lindbeigh ugam hie er o vel biere from Hevana Moudey, should Twi Jaale wfier sundown 218000 candlepower Misibie for 50 milee, will hike angis ' Gprer sach Boror, e Frovince of Havens | reverse A be inibluljed Igisa of 132 000 nn& Will ke sl to their credit, and who are flying modern, strongly-built planes, stood by in apprehension as Capt. Richardson gave the old plane “the gun.” Takes Off in Wind. Seated out in front without any pro- tection from the wind and grasping a | wheel mounted vertically, Capt. Rich- ardson took off in the teeth of a strong west wind and headed direct for the Hains Point sea After the motor had been thrown wide open the plane with its crudely constructed pontoon ran about 100 feet and without the slightest warning leaped out of the | water into the air at an aititude of WHAT IT IS NOT. trict of Co- in Congress and the become possible to— 1. Make Americans of a half million people—soon to be a million—whose present political prospects are le: elsewhere in America, 2. Put into §orce (though tardily) the principle of “no taxation without representation” at the center of the American republic Add representative participation in government, now always borne, of supporting paying taxes and fighting. n and moral population in each of seven American States (1920 census). . Make the heart of our own Nation “safe for de- mocracy,” having recently engaged in a world cru- Make it no longer possible to say that the American v is the only national capital that has no government, not and does not: Our constitutional amendment— admission of the District of Columbia as a sovereign State. 2. Does not propose the destruction of the “Ten-mile- the Constitution or lessen in the complete control of the Nation over the District. 3. Is not a measure for local self-government. 4. Does not disturb in any w of the Nation and Capital, either by the ab y the financial relation n or definite proportionate con- CAPT. RICHARDSON ASTONISHES PILOTS BY TRIP IN PIONEER PLANE Aeronautics Official Gives Demonstration of Old Pusher Machine Built by Curtis in 1912.° about 10 feet. Capt. Richardson im- mediately leveled off and held the old craft at this height for several seconds, nosed down and made a perfect landing on the rough water. Owing to the strong wind, Capt. Richardson did not deem it wise to give an exhibition of turns or any extended flying. In mak- ing this decision he harked back to the policles enforced by the ploneering lead- ers. Taxi-ing back to the air station, Capt. Richardson and the plane were turned around for another flight. This time the pilot asked that the plane be held fast while he opened up the motor in order to get sufficient speed and make a shorter run. About 20 bluejackets held on to the tail while Capt. Rich- ardson opencd up the engine, and on a signal from him they let go. The plane shot out on the surface after a fash- ion of being catapulted and with only a few feet of taxi-ing it again leaped into the air, this time a little higher and in a little more thrilling manner, . Plane’s First Flight. Capt. Richardson found himself head- ed directly toward the seawall around | ‘War College Point and he nosed down. The plane appeared to be headed for a dive into the water, but the pilot leveled off and made another perfect landing. ‘The plane never has been flown be- fore and was, until a short time ago, hidden away In packing boxes at the Navy Yard. It 15 the last of the old pusher type used by the Navy and was abandoned in 1916. | LOUISIANA PARTIES FAVOR SMITH AND HOOVER FOR RACE | ever, are for Mr. Hoover so far, al- though there has been & suspicion in some quarters that perhaps Frank O. Lowden would have some support. ‘The Uly whites seems certain for Hoover, ‘They control the Republican Btate committee and at & meeting not long ago put through a resolution in- dorsing Mr. Hoover's work in the Missis- sippl flood area and prasing him very highly. They came as near to indors- ing him for President as they could without actually giving him that in- dorsement, Bome people say that this fallure to ctually indorse st this time 15 typical of the Southern Republican. 1f later they decide here that some other candi- date 15 more to their liking, or more likely to be the nominee, they will have no past indorsement W worry them, or % look back upon with regret The Republicans in some of the Bouthern States have s formula upon which they call when they are asked early in the preconvention campaslyn for “whom they stand. ‘They explain that the Bouthern States, which cast no Republican electoral votes in the | general election, must naturally look | for leadership 10 the Republican States of the North and the East and the West, which do elect Presidents losking for Guidance, [ Mean lenders in Loutsiana todsy. They are looking to the big Btates of the | North and East u give them the cue, o | take the lead In the selection of & presidentisl nominee, ‘The only Democrat who 18 promi- nently mentioned for the presidentinl nomination in Louisians, outside of Al Bmith, 18 Benutor “Jim” Ieed of Mis- sourl. Reed I8 well lked in some qua- { vers, but not so well liked among (hose Democrats who partieularly revere the memory of the lute Presdent Woodrow Wilbon Jeed 15w Mississippl Valley man. He knows the food problem and bie wppeals 1o wet ndividiuals snd 1 Lot 80 objectionable W some of The diys wnd ik Provestants n Ui norhenn part of Ui Biate ws Al Bmith He has w “Phompson, the poblisher of the New Opleans 1wem and “Siibune Gy, Bmith's nominston, however ves recently predicted by Col. Raberl Pving, publiher of the New Orlenns Blates, WL W meeting of Ui Bouthern publishers i Chat\unoogs, "Tenn , and Col Kwing went o far ss Lo say he wught 1o be nomineted and elected This i strong support in Loulstana for Smith This i triue of som= of the Repib- | tion held In May, and the new gov- ernor, who takes over office then, has usually a good deal to say about who is selected. The fact that Long was elected by the dry rural votes may give him something to think about when it comes to picking delegates to the na- tional convention. On the other hand Mr. Long was warmly supported in his race by the New Orleans States and by many Al Smith men in New Orleans Not all the Democrats here belleve that Gov. Smith is to be nominated by the Democrats or that Mr. Hoover i to be the cholce of the Republicans. One prominent man of the Demo- cratic persuasion 15 offering to bet even money that Smith is not nominated, and that Hoover 18 not named by the Kansas City convention. But this view of the situation is unusual here to say the least. . The people of Loulstana are vitally interested in flood control. It is & ques- tion which surpasses all others in their minds. They belleve that upon its prop- er solution depends the future of a large part of the State and particularly of New Orleans, Assall Present Program. ‘They are looking eagerly to Washing- wn today for flood prevention legisl tion. They are bitterly opposed to the administration’s plan which has called for & 20 per cent contribution by the Btates to meet the expenses. They do not see how it In possible for the States to make this contribution, ‘They do not belleve that it is falr o call upon the States for this con- tribution. In some Democratic quarters it 15 argued thut Mr. Hoover has lost caste in the Btate hecause of this ad- ministration plan, that the people look- ed to him to bring ahout the submission of & flood control plan that was satis- factory to residents of Loulsiana and that he fatled to produce. But th publicans do not belleve this, They say he 15 still enor mmmly})’ml ar with the people and they say further that they Petteve the matier of food control legin- Jation “wil) be worked out so s Lo meet the wishes of the people of the Missts- sippt Valley ” o sum up, the probubilities are that Smith will have a favorable delegation from Toulstana, though It may go un- tnstructed; that the Republicans will send n delegation favorable to Hoov though 1t too, 18 1kely to be uninstruet - ed. und that no matter who the nomi- nees of the two parties mny e, the general election next November will find Loutstena in the Democratie col- winn ¥8 usial Girl As n. Waltzes On Radio to Make Youth Sentimental By the Assoiiated Fie NEWARIK, N0, Pebruary 10 In olden Umens the herolne of this story Drys Named Governor, cently been through & gubernwioriag race and Huey ¥ Long was the viclor withough by & minorly vote, for his Twao apponents polled o grewler com 1} ubne vote (han did e Jong's sicoess { In due v the hiewvy vine which bhe re thern Protestant snd dry Lo the purel vile Je bost holte Veryiwry snd New Orlewns ‘The Democrata pick thel oV Biate delegates 1o the Demociatie Hansl convention in Lhe Blale conven The Democyate of Liislann have re- might have gone to & witeh for & | ove potlon, bt helng & modern | Mapper, she naturally turned o the raaiy, | "hwur sl rewd a detler ecelved | by Wrosdeasting stetion WOR, “will | you plewse plny some waltues Wed | nesday nlght? - they make my hoy frlend sent I 8o the clude A Kiss In the D) FOR MINE STRIKE Union Leader Tells Senators Lines Threatened to Boy- cott Fields. By the Associnted Press. Charges that the Pennsylvania, Bal- timore & Ohio and the New York Cen- tral Railroads had forced the bituminous operators to abrogate wage agreements with miners were made to the Senate interstate commerce committee today by Phillip Murray, international vige presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America. Urging adoption of the Johnson reso- lution for an inquiry into the bitumi- nous flelds of Pennsylvania, West Vir- ginia and Ohlo, Murray said he could produce evidence that the raflroads had threatened a boycott of the fields if prices and wages were not cut, o Holds Wage Agreement Broken. Murray complained particularly of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which he said had rerediated its wage agreement with the miners. He said that R. B. Mellon, a brother of Secretary Mellon, was a member of the board of this company, which was operating now with “strike breakers, Opening the hearing before the Sen- ate interstate commerce committee on his resolution for an inquiry, Senator Johnson of California said he preferred that the interstate committee, rather than a special body, make the investi- gation. Murray was the first witness, and he said that President Coolidge, Sec- retary Hoover and Secretary Davis of the Labor Department had intervened in the former dispute between the miners and operators, and that out of the conference the Jacksonville agree- ment of 1924 was reached. “Since then,” he said, ‘the Penn- sylvania Rallroad, the Baltimore & Ohio and the New York Central Rail- roads have been conducting a cam- paign for cheaper fuel and for the destruction of the United Mine Work- ers of America. “These railroads consume 28 or 29 per cent of the national consumption of soft coal. With this tremendous pur- chasing power the railroads have taken undue advantage in the campaign to break wages and coal prices. “They worked on the operators hav- ing agreements with the miners to break the agreements. The operators have admitted to us they would not have abrogated their wage agreements with us if the railroads had not forced them.” Senator Sackett, Republican, Ken- tucky, announced he would oppose the resolution if the amendment proposed by Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, for an inquiry into freight-rate | prices was approved.” Senator Johnson sald that while he had agreed to accept the amendment, he did not want to press it if it would endanger his reso- lution. Murray urged that the committee go into the coal fields. “The Pittsburgh Coal Co. Invited their employes to come to work at lower wages,” he said. “This was re- fused. In six months they evicted from the Southwest. Charges Gunmen Were Imported. “The company also imported a large army of professional gunmen. They had the Governor of Pennsylvania legalize these coal and iron police. They intimidated the miners."” “They manhandled some women,” of the prompted Senator Wheeler, Montana. “They shot Into the camp.’ “They did.” continued Murray. “They often beat up strikers. They offer no pretext or justification. The fields of Pennsylvania have been pol- luted with an army of 4,000 of these men, dressed in uniforms and armed with machine guns and tear bombs. “The government has been turned over to this private army.” “These so-called police report to no authority except their companies?” asked Senator Wheeler, “That is right.” SEEK REFINANCING OF PRESS BULDING Companies Offer to Take Over Local Project at Low- er Interest Rate. Because of the avallability today of Investment funds at considerably lower Interest rates than were current two years ago, when the project was started, the directors of the National Press Bullding, Fourteenth and F streets Washington's largest private office striucture, are considering proposals made Lo them by large financing com- panies of the country for a refinancing of this huge bullding, it was lewrned authoritatively here today. ‘The National Press Building, which cont In the nefghborbood of $10,000,000, arded by Press a3 unusual succeas for a project of such size, in view of the Kreat amount of new office spuce which hus become avatlable in the District of Columbia In the past two or (hree years, Bullding Nearly Filled. With the recent leasing of six and a half floors of the bullding to hause the income tax offices of the Federal Gov- ernment, the bullding now virtually s occupled In it entirely and plnces the concern in an advantageous position o negotlate new finuncing, ofcers of the corporation belleve. Beveral offers for the floating of new bond tssues are known to have boen mude o the directors of the Natlonal Press Bullding Corporation, although the names of the ron interested weee ot made publie Itefinancing of the bullding, 1t 15 un- derstood, probably would niean the calling of the fist and socond bond Isnien on- the bullding, having a total value wt the time of (el bausnce of 80,600,000 ‘These bond Issues ure call uble. I yefnancing plans wre carlod through, 1L In matd, new bohd Isstes bearnlg lower lnterest vates tha " present 6 per cent on the existing Orst Lswue of 85,000,000 &nd 7 per cent o the socond e of - §1,600,000 probably would be floated. Preferved Ntook Stu This ulso would muke possible, officisls smy, the retiiing of trusts held by the George A Fuller Co., bullders of the structure and the Fox Theater Co., and other minor obligations. ‘The existing preferred wtock In the bullding, however, would not be disturbed under pla now heing studied Interest chirges on the two existing hond tssien have been v-m regularly, aMcials report, and it the refinancin 16 wgreed to the firal and second hond e probably would be called at the Hine for payment of the next interest June 1 The Arst Issie of mortgage honds on the butlding, having a vate of @ per cent and wmonniing to- 86,000,000, Wil ran under exiating Nnancing o December 1, 1099, and the second morigage s alte of 1,600,000, having & interest rate of | per cent, will run to Devember 3, 1m0, almost all of the employes and there | came in a steady flow of strikebreakers | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C,.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928.° RAILROADS BLAMED| [omeos s 111 T MICHENER DI DEATH THWARTED BY WOMAN'S HAND Wife Knocks Gun Upward as Mate Shoots at Her Companion. ‘That Mrs. Elizabeth Sale saved the life of Kennon T. Davis when Ernest Sale, her husband, fired a revolver point blank at Davis yesterday while he and Mrs, Sale were seated in an automobile on Connecticut avenue across the street from the Mayflower Hotel was revealed today . A Davis' brother, who visited the wounded man at Emergency Hospital, declared that the former toid him that Mrs. Sale knocked the gun upward as her husband pulled the trigger. Pow- der from the explosion burned his face, but the bullet went through the top of the machine. With a shattered right arm and an- other bullet wound in the head Davis, 24 years old, 24 Bryant street north- east, was improving today at the hos- pitai, where he was taken after being shot by Sale, 20 years old, 2111 First street, who resented Davis' assoclation with his wife. Sale is booked at police headquarters under the technical charge of “investi- gation” pending the outcome of Dav wounds. His wife was held likewise un- til_this afternoon, when she was freed. Detectives indicated that Sale, who admitted freely his part in the affair, will be charged with assault with in- tent to kill while his wife, who is 22 years old, will figure in the case as « material witness. Arranged for Meeting. After denying at first his wife's state- ment that he forced her to call up Davis, who was a mutual friend and is employed at the Patent Office, and make the appointment which was ter- minated by the shooting, the husband, detectives stated, admitted that he had Induced her to arrange the meeting Sale explained to police, it was stated, that he had recelved an unsigned er telling him to beware of “the man in the brown roadster” and had other rea- s0ns to believe that his wife was meeting Davis when he was not present. He stated that he encountered the two to- gether in an automobile Monday and t he engaged In an argument with Davls, making his wife get out of the car. On Tuesday, he sald, he followed her but she failed to meet Davis Lieut. Fdward J. Kelly, head of the homicide squad, revealed that Sale had told how he took a taxicab yesterds from his place of employment at 8 mar- ket on North Capitol street, and waited for hix wife fn front of a grocery at Eighteenth and M streets, where she 1s employed Listened to Conversation. Meeting her when she came out for luncheon, he entered a telephone booth with her at @ nearby drug store and listened to her conversation s she, at his direction, made an appointment to meet Davis, expluining, he told police, that her husband wished o “talk the matter over with him."” Hule told detectives, 1L was stated, that he had planned to confront Davis and let hia wife take her cholce between them, but that when he appeared in his car he became so angry that he emptied his revolver at him. Thres of the five shots went wild. One bullet fiat- tened itaell againat Davis' skull, fail- g to cause a fracture, and the other his arm. Detective Sergt Warfield, standing n short dis- tanee nway, rushed to the apot and wirested Sale an he tossed (he gun n the rondster STREET WIDENING URGED. Copeland to Seck Increase for Block on W Strest, ‘The widentng of H atieel between Heventeenth und Kighteenth stveets to 80 feet will be sought by Henator Cope Iand, Democrat, of New Yok, when the Diatrict appropriation bill o the Henate Iater I the se mator Copeland gave notice t effect toduy by Introducing an amend- ment which hie will offer when the Distitet supply bl s taken up. 1t provides thst 40 per cent of the cost of the widening nid vesuifacing of this blook b asacased agalint the abutting propeity, FRAZIER GETS BACKING. BIBMARCK, N. Dak, February 10 (AN The non-partiaan Hlate conven ton tant night ndovaed Untted Htates Honator Lyni 0 Frader an w candidute for the Hepublican venomination (o the Henate Frank O Lowden of Hinols was favored for Prestdont Henntor Frasier will oppose a candi date (0 be selectod by independent Re Publicans n this Btate TH Thoresen, 8 sloner, was named as o ernor, nmis o tax I dida IN EIGHTIETH YEAR Deceased Was Prominent in Legal and Political Affairs for Many Years. Touls Theodore Michener, & native of Indiana, prominent in legal and politi- cal affairs in his own State and also in the National Capital, where he had re- sided for the past several years, died suddenly in his sleep last night at his residence, 2009 Belmont road. He is survived by his widow. who was Miss Mary E. Adams of Shelbyville, Ind., and by iwo daughters, Mrs. Barry Mohun of this city and Mrs. Griffin Halstead of New York. Mr. Michener was in the cightieth year of his age. Born in Fayette County, Ind., in 1848, Mr. Michener was the son of William and Mary Blake Michener. After a period of study at Brookville College he was admitted to the bar in 1871 and was married a year later. He early became interested in poli- tics, both State and natlonal, and was a delegate to the famous Republican national convention held in Chicago in 1884. He was the political manager of Gen. Benfamin Harrison from that year until 1892, which period embraced the Indiana statesman’s nomination and election to the presidency of the United States. He was cuairman of the Harrison nominating committees which ;Plflrcl&d Harrison both in 1888 and 892 From 1884 to 1886 Mr. Michener was secretary of the Indiana State Republi- can committee, and in 1880-90 was chairman of the same committee. From 1886 to 1890 he served his State as its attorney general. His affiliations inclvded the grand mastership of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. He rose to the thirty- second d in Masonry. He was a member of the American Bar Associa- tion, the American Soclety of Interna- tional Law and of the National Geo- graphic Soclety. For the past five years Mr. Michener had been associated in business with his son-in-law, Barry Mohun of this city, and during his period of residence here and previously, as a visitor, had made a wide circle of friends and won the professional esteem of fellow mem- bers of the bar. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ANTI-THIRD TERM PROPOSAL ATTACKED BY SENATE REGULARS (Continued_from First Page.) of Senator Willis from Ohio, the Re- publican leader, Mr. Curtis; the English statesman, Herbert Hoover; the great dirt farmer, Mr. Lowden,*and in the name of the great Republican party, that with all its faults it is not abso- lutely forced to nominate one man. Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis- sippl, described Mr. Fess' re; “the nominating speech for term for President Coolidge,’ and asked if this did not affect the candi- dacy of Senator Willls. Fess replied he was speaking on his own authority, and Willls smiled as he added he thought he spoke in harmony with his colleague. Mentions Dawes. Senator Fess finally put Mr. Cool- idge and Vice President Dawes in the same position respecting their avail- ability for the presidency by comparing their statements declaring they were not _candidates. “I put the same force to the state- ment of President Coolidge as I do the statement of the Vice President,” he said, “and that is while he is not a candidate, he can accept the nomina- tion “There is a contingency whereby the convention might reach a point where it would want to tender Mr. Coolidge the nomination again. Whether he would accept it I do not know. He certainly could gwithout a scintilla of dishonor of & ach of faith. You Democrats are fearful he will and are trying to make a case of dishonor against him in that event. Replying to persistent inquirie Senator Robinson as to the * shown by the President during a visit of the Ohlp Senator to the White House last Fall. Fess told this story of his “chastisement” by the President: Tells of Rebuke. “I don’t know just how far one ought to talk about & newspaper eplsode. talked with the President last August just after he sald he did not choose to run again. 1 learned the President de- sired to leave office. I got the argu- ment that this is not a one-man fob, that there were plenty of candidates and that the ofMice was a burden. 1 got no intimation then or siyce that the third term ever entered his mind in reaching his decision. “Later in an interview to the New York Times I sald I did not think the | Nt Spring street American people could be denied the right to renominate the President “A few days later 1 went to the White House. 1 was not called there. We had & good time. Before leaving I said 1 hoped my frequent references to Mr. “oolidge being called tn 1928 were not embarrassing. He frankly let me know they were. He sald he did not think the people understood that I was tal ing for myself and without his approval "1 satd, "If you think this, 1 will clear the situation immediately’ So upon leaving I saw the newspaper bovs. I told the boys to make it clear that I was speaking for mysell always when poke of Mr. Coolidge for another term. Then 1 ded that which was not true, that the President was greatly displensed One question after another was asked then found they came to the conclusion that 1 had been rebuked It was getting the thing across that | wanted, but I didn't want (o pay that price for ft—that 1 had been rebuked.” Asks It “Door Is Open” Benator Harrtson wanted to know it it was so that “the Prestdent took a plece of gum out and gently tapped you on the wridt as you spoke?” while Rob- timon of kansas nquired Coolldge na fiee 10 nccept tlon as it he had made no o Henator Feas nnswering in (he afMimative. When Senator Heftin, Democrat, Ala- bama, asked 1t My, Fess did not think the President had “left the door open,” the Ohloan replied “That 18 the Democratic interpreta- ton. ‘That party is very fearful the door In open - not only the 1 Henators, but the New York © other Democratic papers favoring the election of Gov. Smith Henntor Walsh, Demoerat, Massachu- selta, opened the debate with a plea for “"World War's Grcatc;!t Hero™ Locked Up | Power of Earning Held Alimony Basis For Idle Husbands By tha Associated Press, NEW YORK, February 10.—Rich husbands who do not choose to work should pay alimony based on their full capacity to earn, Supreme Court Justice Levy ruled in ordering James J. Faye, son of the fate “emerald king,” to pay $7,500 a year Instead of $6,600 to Mrs. Eunice Hamilton Faye, former “Folli girl. ‘The court held that “if a hushand does not choose to enter a gainful occupation he must be content with the court’s estimate of his unused faculties for earning money.” BRITISH ANNOUNCE OCEAN AIR SERVICE: Passenger-Mail Dirigible Wil Make First Trip to U. S. in Three Months. ! Passenger and mail service across | the Atlantic by aircraft is to be inaugu- | rated within three months, with the! British dirigible R-100 scheduled to make her initial fiight. The air vessel is now_under construction in England, and will use as her American terminal . The plan was revealed yesterday by Secretary Hoover, who has conferred | with British representatives here. Further conferences are to be held with the Post Office Department with a view to giving the R-100 a special mail con- tract at a premium postage rate, such as the land air mail services are a wot M. The vessel is designed to car 100 passengers and 10 tons of cargo.| Her tentative schedule will require 48, hours on her westward voyage and "!Si hours on the eastward return. ‘Officials of the Commerce Department acronautics branch said the difference in the westward and eastward time is due to the drag of the earth in rota- tion through its air envelope, and the prevailing westward winds across the Atlantic. The winds do not always| blow from the west. they said, bu prevailing wind is from that dir and the higher the altitude stronger and steadier the wind. The difference in time between mail plane: | eastbound and westbound is strong felt In the Air Mail Service. ‘The venture is to be opened to Amer- ican capital, Mr. Hoover indicated. the trial trips are successful case, & number of additional air cruis- ers will be built British sponsors are represented here by C. Dennis Burney, a member of Parliament. Mr. Burney has been ad- vised by the aeronautics branch that 1t will apply to the dirigible only the treatment given foreign ships in Ameri- can harbors, which means that B: regulations and supervision with res to the safety of the air liner and its| design would be accepted by this Gov- | ernment, ¥ ————e CITY HEADS CHARGED WITH VIOLATING LAW/ Boat Builders Claim Commission- ers Were Lax in Seek- ing Bids. Charges that the District Commis- sioners have violated the law by fail- | Ing to advertise adequately for bids on | the new speed boat for the harbor po- | lice precinct were filed today with Con- i troller General McCarl. i ‘The charges were made on behailf nf; | Algonac, Mich., by Robert Malone. local representative. Malone previously had protested to the Commissioners again: their methods of advertising for bids, which he scored as utterly inadequate and now has taken the matter direct to Controller General McCarl. At the District Building it was said | today the Commissioners already have given an order for delivery of a power | boat to a company which was the only bidder in answer to their advertisem “The price of the speed boat. which is to be used in patrolling the river, is $5.800. Malone claims his company. had it known of the prospective pur- | chase by the District, could have bid much less than this figure the naval mooring mast at Lakenursr,r} N. J. M. In that . | tion probab the Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. of | o HICKMAN MAY LNV MONTHS ON APPEAL Jury Out Only 36 Minutes tq Find Slayer Sane and Guilty. B7 tha As P LOS ANGELES, February 10.—Wile ilam Edvard Hickman is sane, and, therefore, accountable to the law for the kidnaping and murder of little Marian Parker. sterday required only 36 that A jury ye minutes to reach Whether the 19 the gallov conclusion. Supe- rior Judge J. J. Trabucco, who will determine his punishment and pro- nounce sentence tomorrow. Judge Trabucco's sole indication of what his decision might. be carried lit- tle comfort for the slayer. The judge said: “I cannot state in advance just what my sentence will be—but you can rest assured that this defendant will be given all the law. allows.” Disdainful of Crowd. the court and the attorners ay through the and untested law ning in: cases, Hickman v €00) ho were staring him, “wise cracks” on the wa s cast and the State wins v " he said. A 24-hour guard was ordered over him. Mrs. Eva Hickman of whose alleged mental n paraded through the trial by se in an effort to show heredi- tary insanity. heard the result in the {office of his attorneys. Overcome, she | wandered out into the street and some= time afterward was found by Hickman's | brother Alfred standing on a street col hat rang with the shouts of new defe ! dict was received almost listlessly. Th mother of the 12-vear-old girl victim ved it in s ce. fied—satisfied and wanting father, Perry Parker. California law™” under which the piea “not guilty by reason of insanity”™ was entered and receivs In addition they will file a motion for a new trial. District Attorney Asa Keyes said he would fight eve: case, but admi were senten d court ac- would delay the execu- tion for several months. The prosecution also said it was probable that the prosecution of Hick- man on a second murder chdrge—the ¢ C. Ivy Thoms, druggist, dur- 0 ttempted hold-up—would not be pressed until the present case had been settled in the higher courts. Hick. man’s attorneys said they anticipated t the Thoms trial would be delayed. especially if Hickman's accomplice in the hold-up. lby Hunt, pleaded guilty and placed himself on the mercy of the court. = In his cell Hickman co: uest, said to have been telep! the University of Chicago. asking for his body. He discussed the request in a humorous vein, and d he would consult his attorney about it. Under the new stat: the jury did not pass on the question of Hickman's to declare hi plea of - ¥ was a . committed the off. Hickman's lease on life sentenced to death. wo months at Should his to the g his appe perfect an appeal TWO AWARDED PRIZES | IN HIGHWAY CONTEST| D. C. Man and Chevy Chase Resi-| dent Named in List of 10 | Winning Essay Barry Mulligan of 22 Third x!rm‘!' northeast and Albert C. Rose of 103 | Chevy Chase, Md, wer prize winners on the list of 10 honored by the American Road Builders' Asso- | clation in a national highway safety contest, it was announced today. F. A Boggess, 8 high school princival of Boulder, Colo., won first prize, $500, and outliined a dramatic pageant to be pre- sented in schools of the country. traying dangers of streets and and presenting methods for them. This plan will be distributed by | the association to schouls of the country improvements of streets and highways | Durtng the road show and convention | of the assoctation in Cleveland. early this month. the fudies held their fna meeting. The contest Was_conducte under the direction D! ham, divector of the ¥ . New Indorses Postage Cut. ‘The restoration of the l-cent for post cards and the estab of & munimum of 1 cent per plece third-class madl matter has been tee ommended o the House post oilice committee by Postmaster_General New. | aragraph of the | the elimination of the resolution commending the observance of (he two-term prece t. belteving 1t would amount to the Senator La Follette dectined to sane ton this amendiment atguing that 1 would fust place the Senate on tecord ax necepting e stncerity of Prestdent Coolidge's statements and him While Police Investigate His Record ! A man, who police de ° masque- vaded as an oulstanding her of the World War, ts held by pollve (oday under a chiarge of attempling (o pass @ worthleas check, while word Is awalted fram Philadelphia and Ohester Pa concerning alleged opevations i those oltten When Arreated yesterday by Doteo tives Keok and ‘Thompson after ho had attompted (o cnsh an alleged bad oheck | for #1800 buy fewelty worth s80 he | gave (he name of Fank B Fowler, 33 years old, altas Jordan Mois and n hia poe ve found citations which would appear (o eatablish him &y the Waorld War's greateat hefo - if they w aohuine, Although representing himself us hav- | g been A mafor W the Canadian expeditionary forees and having been made & Kulght Commander of the Hath, police stated ho admtited that Nix vanka Hke Ris eltations, were bogus o and that he came here aftor serving & Manuseripts submitted oflered new | Idens to prevent accidents, embracing f tor 1 legialative measuves and engineertag | Walsh Prestdent | (¢ commend | Supreme Court after b frorts State Supreme Co be certain of s it was said a The case n days. PROTESTS DELAY IN IDENTIFICATION Senator Wnls—hages Hospital With Laxity in Prof. Bassett’s Case. ay be heard unst the unnece: of Prof. Ju A complat v in de’ was fat Prof. Bas. ency Hos ampton, Mass when the mquest It se o m 1 ' Wi Ihe widow of Prof throush w 1 cons! eh o Senate questiontug the good fatth of F o 5 Mr. Coolidge n making iy anpownees | (o 8 tnaie ments, which he characterized as sin AN 1t Matt e treatn e may e passibl shoutd e o rere Prat hent after Wiy sutu tnstruet i come ¢ hoa- v for 1 te- Hasse Ak ed o tgence, U fed o due where syinpatiietic conaideration: would e given (o (he patient. and & teal ef- Wl made (0 communicate with vela. tives and friends . BAND CONCERT, TOMORROW Hiates Soldiers' Home A at Stantey Hall ag 3 40 Jahi 8 M Zinmerann, band- Hy the U Hand Orehes URNY naster sentence I the penttontiary at Prenton Alavch F Ztmmermann CHAIONS Pporting o have been | Overture, - Nabueo Verdi tantiedt by e BRI goveriient. potive - Chatacterhtic. - Tone Motures of the atwted, ovedited him with winntig the | Notthand e S Bendix Distingiished Bervice Oider by captin | Exceiits G mwsical somedy, Lol g Ewo mavhine guns and B3 men s Nowmans ahigle handed, and the Victaria s | Fon (ot vhaiactenstiv, “Sadapw® by Laking 43 men and another paly ot Doivaldsan MAChine BURE Another award went 0| Walta Loves Turments Vo Carise M for savige & teglment ailer v | Finale, Howa L Fand Dabogy munivation been ou\ off. “Uhe Slar Spangied Bannes.