Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 2

. : Ao MADDEN URGES .. PROTEETION \}Varns Against Attempts to Put Capital’s Burden on Nation, However. 3 ’ < Protection of the taxpayers of Wash- dhgton from special interests, so that | no persons, no matter how influential, ©an 1mpose unjust burdens on a voice- Jrss and voteless pecple, but watching earctully “any effort to unjustifiably Joaa wne buraen of the people of the rict beyond reason on the people the rest of the country”—is the policy ©! the House appropriations committee gccording to a statement by Chairman Madden made available last night. This apparently reflects the attitude %0 be taken in regard to fiscal rela- | tions in the District appropriation bill Which will be reported to the House on Friday and taken up immediately dor consideration. Mr. Madden's state- ment was made on the day the hear- ings opened on the $40,000,000 District Pudget before the subcommittee of shich Representative Simmons of | Nobraska is chairman, with the Com- missioners ana other District officlals | csent. That was an executive | :‘1\. but Mr. Madden released his state- | ment last night for publication. Board Gets Hearing. £HA Photos Upper: John D. Rockefeller, jr., head of the Standard Oil Co., testifying be- fore the commiitee. He is shown be- tween two of the official reporters of the and Senator kota, chairman of the committee, leaving the Senate Office Bullding. OIL INQUISITORS WILL QUERY HAYS IN BOND TRACING On the closing day of the hearings p delegation from the Board of Trade was granted a courte- ous hearing on their arguments in favor of res.oring the 60-40 percentage of contribution as between the District xpayers and the Federal Governmeni flhn support of the Capital City, instead of the present temporary, unscientific Jump-sum_arrangement. Mr. Madden's statement is as follows: “I thought it might be well, before you started on the hearings, for the | chairman of the committee on appro- | priations to say to these gentlemen who | are conducting the affairs of the Dis- | trict that, notwithstanding the as-| sertions from time to time that we have no interest in their local welfare, be- cause we do not live here, that we re- gard ourselves as custodians of their hopes and of their protection, and we feel that we have the Iflp\vnslbfllll of seeing to it :;I.l'! no mjung ;fl::se. to anybody: no person no mylt!er how MuTu:meeurl‘g ::‘ allowed to impose unjus! that part of the people who themselves have nothing whatever to say abou!! shaping the policies of the District; that as the representatives of the American people. charged with this particular res] ity, we feel a spe- cial interest in the welfare of the peo- ple of the District and in the proper development of its territory. | Would Net Shift Burden. “At the same time, we feel, or I do, that any effort to unjustifiably load the burden of the people of the District be- yond reason on the people of the rest ©of the country. who in many places pay $4 taxes on the same valus that Washington | | While this was going on Walsh was pro- | ceeding with the examination of still __(Continued_from Firs Page.) to literally fight a way through for him. | Another crowd gathered at the front of the Senate Office Building while Rockefeller and Chairman Nye made brief addresses for the talking movies. another witness, sent voluntarily by | the Dominion Bank of Canada. finan- | cial agent for Osler and the Continental | Trading Co. Rockefeller prefaced his testimony with a statement to the committee in which he listed his own stock holdings in the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana at | 402,280 shares or 412 per cent of thti total outstanding. Holdings of the Rockefeller Foundation he placed at 406,760 and those of the University of Chicago. a Rockefeller donation, at 30,000 shares. In addition, he said. 500,000 shares are held in a trust| created by John D. Rockefeller, sr., for his daughters. Wants to Be Fair. | Incidentally, the financier testified that at no time had his father or the Rockefeller family held more than 25 per cent of the stock of the original Standard Oil before the Supreme Court decree of dissolution was entered. Tha | original 25 per cent, he added. had now | shrunk until the total of all Rocke- feller holdings in the company. direct or indirect, was “just under 15 per | “;:'wed by Senator Walsh as to his | THE SUNDAY: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MAGNATE APPEARS BEFORE SENATE OIL. COMMITTEE : | CAPITAL AND ALEXANDRIA PLAN JOINT F_ETE ON VFEBRUARY 22 Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge Will Review Patriotic Parade as Honor Guests of Virginia City. Washington, named for its revered | Orvel Johnson, Rear Admiral Hilary founder, and Alexandria, historic Vir-|J. Jones, U. 8. N.: Licut. Col. J. Mil- ginia town where the then youthful ler Kenyon, Mrs. J. Jerome Lightfoot. Father of His Country worked, studied Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt, Reeves T. Strick- and fraternized with his fellow man, | land, Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Mrs. will join hands across the Potomac | Thacker V. Walker and James Q. Wednesday, February 22, in an un-| Yaden feeling people pay $1.70 on wili not be nmc(h'ed with special favor. | “We feel that m:e bglt‘:lln ;n 'dennnd. and insist uj of a gov- | ernment tmmn be had at the lowest | cost. oSOt ‘course, we know that this is the | Capital of the Nation. but we also kno'{ that the Nation has other of directs. prepa with regard to Stewart or any ficial of the companies in which I he 1s a stockholder in connection with | the ofl investigation, the financier said: “I want to be fair to Col. Stewart and | to every one else concerned, but red to act as my best judgment The moment I feel that the I am| usually elaborate observance of the! The theater ceremonies will be pre- | birthday anniversary of the Nation's|ceded at 8 o'clock in the morning by | first President. | a flag demonstration at the Monument, The Capital will start the memorlal | The flags of the 48 States will be raised program in the morning with impres- lon stafls surrounding the base of the sive eulogistic ceremonies at the Wash- | shaft, and wreaths and floral pleces ‘Theater, while Alexandria will climax then be placed at the foot of the tow- the day's tributes with a colorful patri- | ering memorial. One of the wreaths ington Monument and in the National | from organizations and individuals will | evidence is such that I cannot belleve in their integrity, 1 am prepared to withdraw my support.” otic parade in the afternoon to be re- | will come from the White House. viewed President and Mrs. Coolidge,| Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. director WARNS POOL HALL MEN OF BLUE LAW Fowler Says Decision Free- ing Le Paradis Prompted Sunday Opening. Proprietors of pool rooms and bowl- ing alleys who keep open on Sunday will be prosecuted, Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel Walter L. Fowler an- nounced yesterday after recommending that a warrant be issued for the arrest of C. H. Olive, manager of the North- east Amusement Co., which conducts a bowling alley at 1119 H street northeast, for an alleged violation of the law last Sunday. Sergt. J. T. Whitstatt of the | ninth precinct applied for the warrant. | Mr. Fowler stated that until the re- cent decision of Police Judge John Mc- Mahon dismissing the case against the Le Paradise Cafe on a charge of vio- Iating article 16, section 16, of the police regulations, the proprietors of bowling alleys and pool rooms had ad- hered strictly to the law. Since then, he declared, some of them have begun to open on Sundays, under the misconception that the Le Paradis decision exempted them from the law. The pool room law, however, is an act of Congress passed in 1897 and has never heretofore met any opposition. UABOR ININCTIONS ASSAILED BY GREEN A. F. of L. Head Voices Sup-| port of Shipstead’s Bill. | | | By the Associafed Pross | A picture of organized labor writhing in discontcat because of the tssuance by equity courts of injunctions against its activitics, a practice which the Ship- | stead bill seeks to restrict, was drawn | before a Senate judiciary subcommit-| tee yesterday by President Green of ths American Federation of Labor. Meanwhile, the Senate interstate | commerce committee failed to get a| quorum for expected action on another | phase of the labor question, thz reso- | lution of Senator Johnson, Republican | California, for an invest!gallon of the| situation n Pennsylvania. West 7ir- ginia and Ohio bituminous coal fields | Chairman Watson of that committec | has declared that an inquiry would b= | ordered and that is expgcted to ma- | terialize Monday. | Green's case for the bill of Senator | Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, was backed up by John Frey. secretary- treasurer of the metal trades depart-| ment of the American Federation of | Labor. who deciared that abuse of th>| injunction writ in labor disputes had | resulted in the most serious problem | that the country has faced since th- | negro <lavery issue. “A ‘Frankenstein’ has been created | through the ‘medin of the courts,” Frey said, “which threatens to prevent | FEBRUARY 12, | known. and all treatment had been |and St George by Great Britain 1928—-PART 1. (0L ASHFORDENDS 3 YEARS SRV Work in Porto Rico Brought Discovery and Eradication of Hookworm. Col. Bailey K. Ashford, Army Medical Corps, a native of Washington and a graduate of Georgetown University, was placed on the retired list yesterday after 30 years' distinguished service. It where he was stationed during the Spanish-American War, which led to the discovery of hookworm disease in the Southern States and formed the basis for successful eradication cam- paigns. Following the San .Ciriaco hurri- cane of August 8, 1899, and while he was stationed at San Juan, Col. Ash- ford cared for many civilians who had been prostrated with “tropical anemia.” Discovered in 1899, For generations that disease had been widespread among the Porto Ricans and was the direct cause of much loss of life. Its cause was un- without avail. After careful research. Col. Ashford reported on Movember 24, 1899. that “tropical anemia” was pro- duced by an infestation with hook- worm. It was determined that the! parasite was_a new specles, which | ultimately was named Necator Ameri- canus. Col. Ashford's work was of the | greatest importance not only to Porto | Rico but also to the United States. In 1904 Col. Ashford was appointed | president of a board for the study of hookworm disease in Porto Rico, known as the Porto Rico Anemia Commission. From 1904 to 1910 the commission treated approximately 300,000 persons, nearly one-third the population of Por- to Rico. for hookworm. The result is shown by its effect on the death!} rate from all causes. which decreased | from 33 per 1,000 per year prior to| 1904 to 21 per 1,000 in 1910. \ Published Studies. In 1915 Col. Ashford published a series of studies showing that the dis- casc known as sprue was caused by a fungus. Sprue is prevalent in many tropical regions and affects particu- larly the white race. Col. Ashford’s discovery of the cause has made pos- | sible many improvements in the meth- | ods and treatment. In the World War, Col. Ashford | served in France as division surgeon | ot the 1st Division, as commander | of the Army Sanitary School at Lan- gres and later as corps surgeon for Tth Corps. He was awarded the Dis- | tinguished Service Medal by the United | States and the Order of St. Mlch:;l; o has been recently attached to head- | quarters of the 3d Corps Area at! Baltimore. 1 was Col. Ashford’s work in Porto Rico, | COL. BAILEY K. ASHFORD. TENNESSEE IS SEEN ON REPUBLICAN SIDE _(Continued from First Page) i black and tan leaders are more inter- | patronage which goes with it, than they IF SMITH IS CHOICE! ested In keeping control of the Republi- | | can party in tie Slate, and the Federal | 0.C.AFARSFL WEK'S EALENOAR School Contracts, Boxing Bill and Representation Up to House Group. The coming week is a busy one of the House District committee. The Gibson subcommittee will meet tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock to con- tinue the hearing on brick contracts for local school and sewer requirements, | with the municipal architect charged |with having so arranged specifications | that one particular brokerage house |pots most of the business. At 10:30 o'clock tomorrow the judici- {ary subcommittee of the House District committee, of which Representative McLeod of Michigan is chairman. will meet to consider the Clancey bill to legalize prizefighting in the District, and for the ‘appointment of a boxing com- mission. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the subcommittee on banking and insurance. {of which, Representative Underhill of Massachusetts is chairman, will hold a hearing on the Treadway bill providing for compulsory automobile liability insurance. Wednesday the full Distriet commit- tee will hold its r-gular meeting and is expected to report out several important measures. | Thursday the Howse judiciary com- are intercsted in making the State a!mittce will continue its hearings on the Republican State and carrying it for a | Dyer resolution providing for national Republican President, electing Republi- can Scnators and more Kepublican Representatives. The patronags e these latter conditions. would be con- trolled in a vastly different manner, they say. The black and tan leaders, naturally, deny these charges with vigor and cry “sour grape: Another charge made by lily whites is that rather than have representation for the District of Zolumbia through Constitutional amend- ment. CAPPER PROMISES AID TO SAVE WEST MARKET Atandonment of Any D. C. Sites the State go Republican and lose con- trol of the patronage, certain black and tan leaders wou!d play into th~ hands of the Democratic machine in Memphis. which is painted by Repub: cans gs more effective in handling elec- tion feturns than ever was Tammany in | New York or the Vare machine in Phi adelphia. This charge, too, the blaci and tans say is mere piffle. Seen Debatable Ground. Tennessce, sometimes referred to as a “border State” rather than as part of the “soid South,” because 1t has gone Republizan in gubernatorial elec- uons now and then, and once reconsiruction days has gone £ lican in a presidential election, ceriainly pe debatable ground tais y If Gov. Smith be the nominee, and Democrats herc seem to feel that he will be, Rzpublicans insist that enougn Democrais will remain away from tne polls and enough other Democraiws wikl vote the Rebublican ticket to bring about the choice of Repubilcan presi- aential electors next November. A sample of the bitter feeling in some 'HOOVER TO ACCEPT WILLIS’ DEFI AND ENTER OHIO RACE (Continued _from First_Page.) have the support of many of the out- | Tennessee quajters against omith s 'lound in meetng here last week ot the Methodist kaucational Association. {'she association .adopted a resolution | aslacking the proposed ‘nomination of Smith ana nanung the New York SOvAIMOL. It leaq: “Resoived that it is the sense of this | association tnat the nomination of Al { om:ith would be unioriunate, end in our since | | Unwise, He Says, in Letter to Commissioners. ! Reports that the District authorities contemplate abandoning th: Westerr | Market. Twenty-first and K streets, i prompted Senator Capper, chairman of | the Senate District committee. to write | to the Commissioners yesterday, asking |for intormation and offering to assist {in obtaining any legislation that may :);‘ needed to keep the market in opera- ion. Senator Capper said he understood the abandonment proposal is based on {lack of funds for the repair and up- | keep. “It seems to me,” the Senator wrote. {“as a general proposition, it would be unwise to abandon any of the public markets of the District of Columbia. I believe they serve a us2ful purpose and benefit a great number of residents of the District. I believe that they should be maintained, and adequately, if at all possible.” +and. incidentally. some of the lily white faction are for Lowden rather than for Hoover. But ¢he lily whites appear considerably in the minority at this time. They are planning to hold a con- | vention here late in April or May and | to decide at that time whether they \éflrl‘l s@:d a contesting delegate against urch. opinion would not enlist the support I found two prominent Republicans o the cducational leaders of the " who doubt that will go Re- publican even if Smith be the nominee, labor {rom organizing and to destroy | Rockleller. thanked the committee | Gov. and Mrs. Byrd of Virginia, Lieut. | of public billdings and publle parks, | labor from organizing standing political leaders of the State. |Jouth.” but both of them are at outs with the mku’ "Tucverywmmmlflfl. ““We wap! from the Commissioners down—if they are on top, and I assume they are—to understand that we are friendly, but Y. “1f the people want & lot of things that are ex traordinary things that they think they want, or that thel leaders think they want, because places 0o great & burden upon them And to the extent that the facts disclose a need for our dnter- | vention 10 stop extravagant waste any- | ®here in the District, by any elements in the District. official or otherwise, we feel calied upon to exercise the power and the supervisory control that our office gives us. ‘ ying that, I want you to underetand that it is said by one who Bas the warmest feeling that s person could have for the welfare of the com- munity, and its constant, proper de. velopment and conduct, and the proper conduct of its affairs. “80, if by any chance the subcom- | mittee agrees with the policy I have | indicated, you will probably have to make a good case on everything you have to present, if it i out of the ordinary, if you get the money.” —e RITES FOR ADMIRAL 70 BE HELD TUESDAY George C. Remey, Retired Na Officer, Will Be Buried in Arlington. 4 time I was chairman of the Republican Bervices for Rear Admiral Georg: Collier Remey, retired, who died Friday night. will be held Tuesdsy morning at 11 o'cock in Bt Thomas Episcopal Church Rev. C. Ernest Bmith, rector of the church, will officiate and burial will be 1 the family plot in Arlington Nations) Cemetery. Admiral Romey was the old- et relired officer of the Navy and old- et graduste of the Naval Academy, heving been born’in 184) Admirsl Femey saw sctive service in the Civil War, commanded the naval beia &l Key Vst during the Epanish- Awerican War, wnd wesr commander- u-chiet of the Asiatic squadions during the Philippine insusrection wnd the Boxer reeliun in Chins He war apinted b midshipmen June 9, 1659, wdvanced through e virious renks W rear admiss! Novem- | ber 22 199: 1898 sua retired August 10, During the Civil War he parucipated W e weige of Yorkown end other en- gagrments. wid commanded » sqQuUadron of wosle in the night atteck on Port| s,un Cyele Pollcemun James (3. Helm | Hobert Johnston, voctor of 8t Bum'er Feplember 8, 1863 He war taken Prisoner wud spent the next monthic . Columbie Jall snd Libhy | Prison w!f Wer Novewier 1 heing exchsnged as & prisoner iB6e ir that | ing. for- the opportunity to appear and as- sured the Senators that they would have his hearty co-operation in their efforts to uncover all the facts about i the ofl scandsl. He was on the stand | exactly 58 Ininutes and testified under oath administered by Chairman Nye. ‘The committee's information as to the purchase of the Liberty bonds for the Continental Co., by the New York agen- cy of the Dominion Bank of Toronto came from Clifford 8. Howard, now in- of the Toronto bank, but at its chlef agent in New York. dignitaries. | Plan Record Affair. Those in charge of arrangements for | the exercizes in the venerable Virginia town assert it will be the most pre- tentious patriotic celebtation jever held in northern Virginia. Theé program includes o preliminary reception to the President _at the _hisirie ~ Carlyle | House by Gov, and Mrs. Byrd, a buf- fet luncheon for the guests of honor | pageantry, begin- | and the review of the ning at 2:30 o'clock. | ‘The entire personnel of both houses of ress and of the General Assembly of Virginia have been invited to at-| tend. Other distinguished guests Invited | include members of the United States | Supreme Court, the Virginia judiclary | and other Federal and State offic! Ten thousand persons are expected 0 take part in the parade, and every pat- riotic, military, social, educational and other civic group in nearby Virginia will be represented, it is stated. The presidential and gubcrnatorial | parties will witness the procession from a glass-inclosed and electrically heated | reviewing stand, to be erected at Prin- | cess and Washington streets, To Arrive on Mayflower. The presidential party will arrive on | the Mayflower, which will dock at the | had not never inquired of Osler the reum’u for these transactions, | that he would have regarded it as | “an impertinence” to have so ques- ned a bank client of Osler's stand- HAYS DI ES KNOWLEDGE. Notifies Committee He Will Testily, But Says He Can Tell Little. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 11 | P .—Will H. Hays, directing head of | the Motion Picture Producers and Dis- tributors’ Assoctation, when informed today that the congressional Teapot Gov. Junius West and a host of other announces that the Monument will be open to visitors from noon until 4 |o'clock thet day. | FALLS BRIDGE PLAN . PUSHED BY MOORE; OPPOSITION SLIGHT _ (Continucd_from First_Page.) neighboring counties to come into the city to cross the river and would pro- vide an opportunity for viewing the patural beauties of the Potomac gorge below the Falls { “Unless this bridge Is constructed by his means, no bridge will be bullt,” Mr. Moore said, ndding that he has sounded sentiment in Virginia and Maryland and has ascertained that neither State {8 ready to construct a bridge across the Potomac near Wash- ington. “If the toll bri is not con- structed at Great Falls,” he sald, “the people on each side of the river above Washington will be without a bridge for an indefinite period ” He amplified, however, that he did not mean a bridge never would be built, but that none but a toll bridge was in immediate prospect. | Dome investigating committee would 13| invite him to appear before it, said he would gladly comply. » Mr Hays added that he had no knowledge whaterer of the Continental Trading Co.. concerning which the com- mittre wished to question him. | Pollowing 1s the telegram which Mr | Hays sent tonight to Benator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Benate public lands committee: “The press has just informed me of dispatches from Washinglon that your committee may desire me L Kppear personally. May I take this oppor- tunity of assuring you that I shall be very glad to do this if the committee 0 desires? Did Not Know of Company. | “For the information of your com- | mitiee may I state that neither at the | national committee, nor in the three | yeure thereafter during which the deficit was being raised, did I have any knowl- edge whatever of the existence of the Continental ‘Trading Co. nor do 1 have | any knowledge now of its sctivities, nor | of any bonds ever owned by it “Any contributions ahout which 1 testified In 1924, or of which T have any knowledge whatever. were from Indi- viduals and were not related In any ! way W the Continental Trading Co. nor | | W any ol leuses | | “Furthermore. I may state thut 1 did | | not know, directly or indirectly, of Ml( | negotimtions on the part of sny ind vidual or eompeny for the leasing of wny governmental ol reserve until the subject appeared In the press.” | 'DEATH OF POLICEMAN | CAUSES INQUEST ORDER Coroner's Jury to Convene Tomor- vow in Coxe of Jumes G. Helm. A coronier’s Jury will hold an inguest | at the Distriey Morgue Wimorrow morn- | ing w1180 o'clock into the death of {of the twelfth preeinct widay us & result of Injuries he re- ceived when w Lruck Lirned beross la- | AL Ve war e officer served on | densburyg rosd 1o front of him when he pevers! Seseels snd et navml post Lnrougl i country including Wi | car eurly ‘duesdny United $eter Navil Oboervatory and | fie NBYY 7a1d here 3k st mppoint et Wb & chisiimin ot the LAgH s Bowd Hesider bile wite, Admiiel Memey ) ourvived By e soun, Cheries Mo il B8 Wemney. both of Terry Memey of two asughters, Mise | s Hemey of thia city wnd | Min Jubiny wdletgh of Newport, R 3 .,j two ®endciiidren, John Remey | o) vice iadieigh 890 Genige Remey Wadlelyh S e chusing & speeding Hguor-laden Lawrence Moreland. | Y yesin old, driver of the truck, wh aleo was Injured 1o the seeddent, I Phierly under 82,000 bond. dn e cus Loy of bis attorney, A W Jacobsan of [the finn of Newinyer & King, pending )| e dnguest el vue 34 years old wnd lived wt 4981 Twenty-ninth elrest, Mounl Hal Burviving hiin wie his widow Lilllan Helm, ana Awo ehildien Murguret, 8, and Lote, 12 Puneral | was day. 4 | addye Helm died at Gususlty Hompital yes- | + Drohably will"le hald Wednes- | Prince street wharf about 1:30 o'clock | in the afternoon. The pnx will be con- veyed to the Carlyle House, where George Washington often entertained his friends, and they will become the uests of the Virginia Governor and | s wife. It is expected the famous Richmond Blues, trim military organization of the Virginia capital, will form the escort for Gov. Byrd, but In the event that | unit finds it impossible to serve, the escort will be formed by the high school cadets of Arlington County, officlally known as the Arlington County Battal- fon, Reserve OMcers’ Training Corps, Regulars of the United Btates Army, stationed at nearby forts and n-mrn, will march in the parade, as will also saflors and Marines from posts in this vicinity. ‘The District of Columbla Na- tional Guaurd, the Washington High 8chool Cadets, fraternal and civic organ- izations, Boy Scouts, members of the American Leglon, volunteer firemen and many bands will be among the march- Ing_contingents. President wnd Mrs. Coolldge have heen invited to attend the earller cere- | ' 1) i TeRt seen monles in the National Th “ier, Which | o constructod 25 fret s the 1’ will be under auspices of the DIMTICL | wyier mark of () ol e the high- Commissioners. Elghty-nine patlotie, | ity hacker, are o sl o, JUYeE and historical. fiaternal, civic and ngton men who see i s Honei organizations are co-operating, | necessity & community Marine Band to Play. Fosltion of Federation, "l'hr exerclsen, which will begin at!| The Montgumery County Federation | wclock, will be preceded by & con- | orlginally opposed the bill in fis 1 cert by the Marine Band, start t et i y the Marine Band, starting at|g,q,, g Inter amended ita position clock: Benntor David 1, Walsh of Massa- | ME. Bmith expluined that the <limina- chusetts will preside and make the i tion of the language referving to van- BIMCOD | yondy 11y the biL I8 agreeabls to the of greeting. Benat chulrman federntion, It it s specifically under- D. Fers of Ollo, who I8 vie of the commitiee for the celebration of otood no rallway use will be made of the structure the two hundredth anniversary of th birth of Geome Washington, “will de ver the princlpnl address “Both the committes on fnternal Gen .Iu[m J. Peishing will make the | county improvement und the legilation nward of @ gold mednl oftered by Wie g, jegal netion committes of the fed- Honx of the Revolution In the DISC [ peion, 10 s understood, realize tht of Columbin w the pupll of the publie | (e sentiment in Montgomery County 15 I favor of u hridge wh s I ae- aordunce with the resolution of the fed- or private school who submits the best | wunny In the annual Washington's birth- ovation, and they further realise that if there 13 no imniediate possibility for duy competition of the soclety, " llll;lltl'Alcrum Himon of the Washing- Wi Hebrew Congregution will free bridge, o toll brid s # e at Clroat Falls Nounce the Invogation, and Rev Is probubly 1o be preferred to no bridge, hut bath commiitees, on the other hand, are working earnestly to protect the John's Ohurch. will swy the benediction. Mins free hridge proposition from opposition on the part of the Great "Irln Bridge Helen Howlson will render vocal music Hhe dnars of the nn"nm will e onen | “ o'clor teserved seuts, for which ' ¢, Chine ' Uekets have been ixsued, will b held |y et diranthine foren tol bridge not Inter than 10:40 o'clock. ‘Thie 880~ | aammiites that Liovd 5. Cuntor o par s an Lpen committee that Tloyd urter of Bl timore, w member of the Arm which 1s Arvangements Commitier. |t Nwnee tie Lo bridie. has admit ‘The commidttes on arrangements con- | ed to the federation that if the present Inls of Wrig Gen George Richnrds | b 15 ted it daw the grantoes U B M O, chwrman, Miss Bibyl | would oppose, by court proceedings and Baker, Mu) Gen Geoge Barnett, 0 otherwise (e catablishinent of w free BOM Corethed. Miss Mabel ‘T Bonrd- | bridige ot Geat Falls i, Miw Artr 'E. Brie, Qapt. Con- | He sald, alter tie eartng bind closed way W. Gooke, Mev. Ly, Willlam 1 | that he had yesterday teceived a tele [ Darhy, Charles W, Lury, Mrs. Henry ¥ | gram from Gol. Chavles Keller, former Dinigck, Bobert V. leming, Mis. Jamen | Englneer Conumtssioner, now associnted Carroll Praver, Inawo Gans, Jupmes ‘T | with the lomue River Oorporation, Gibbs, D Thomes B Green, Willinm | declaring that the latter rm[ululhlll n Green, Giiberi W Grosvenor, Brig, Gen | tends to push it applioation for de William B Horton, U. 8. A Lieut, Ool, velopment of the Potomac River, Investigation of the projects for power development at Great Falls are matters that will take several months to clear up. Gen. Deakyne told the committee The Montgomery County Clvic Fed- eration does not oppose the bridge, Mr. 8mith sald, although the Federation would prefer a free bridge to the pro- posed’ toll bridge. He urged that a provision be Inserted in the bill to re- move the possibility of action by the bridge company against power develop- ment of the upper Potomac, and its accompanying free highway bridge pro- bosed In the plans of the Potomac River Corporation. These plans, ac- cording to Mr, 8mith, contemplate con- struction of a free bridge across the top of the proposed dam at CGireat Falls He also told ‘the committee that the Federation wants to see the bridge con- structed within 18 months from the :.l::l:"l:n'1'0')‘n<lm('lmn 18 approved: to event stock mantpulntior o ':wmm""‘ Il lon and transfer r. Landreau dercribed the brf In some detail, decla ng it wuulfl‘ulldkr up n View of the “great scenle wonds other The pending suit of the Interbor- rough Rapid nsit Co. of New York | for an injunction against the Amalaga- mated Association of Street and Rall- way Men and the American Federatian of Labor, was cited by president Green | in his argument that the injunction power has been misapplied in prejudice Support will come from all walks of lite. Leading clergymen, leaders of women's organisations, farm- ers and laborers are already enlisted. extremely hopeful that we in Ohio will be permitted to work for the selection of delegates for Mr. Hoover.” to organized labor. A conspiracy is charged in that case, he said, merely because the federation had declared against company unions at {ts con- | ventions. Green assatled company unions, de- seribing them as “creatures of the cor- porations,” because organized and con- | trolled by corporations. | “We are not opposed to injunctions | to restrain violence,” he continued, “but we oppose them when they are aimed to prohibit men such as are! employed in the Interborough Rapid ‘Transit Co. from peacefully joining organizations affiliated with the Amer-i ican Federation of Labor.” Wom;n Dies at 120 Years. SANTA CRUZ, Calif, (P)—Mrs. Narcissa Arals, who claimed | she was 120 vears old, died today. She | came here from La Paz, Mexico, 80 vears ago, Pebruary 11 | Galc Dcclares Mem Are lnve the atheistle Mterature | Denlal that which was found in Eastern High School Friday morning by Charles Hart, prin- cipal, was distributed “offcially” by the local chapter of the American Associu- tion for Advancement of Athelsm and that the distribution constituted the in- wuguration of the announced plan to organize a funior lengue of athelsts tn | the local high schools, was volced yes- terduy by Linn A, E. Qale, member of | the national board of directors of the association hen the tracts were described to | nim My Gale readily identified them | as “officlal propaganda® of the national aesocintion, headquurters of which are in New York, but he declared that the g of the literature contained in in envelopes in Eastern High School wis not_authoriged by the local chap- ter 80 far as ho knew. He said that lind the distribution been ordered by the loowl chapter he, as one of its | members and one of the national di- vectors, would have known it OfMcluly Make Inguiry, In the meantime, school officials are conducting & quiel Investigation Into the manner in which the person who placed the literature on Prinelpal Hart's desk und on top of studenta’ lockers - slde the entrance of the bullding gained entry. Btephen K Kramer, assistant superintondent ot schools I oharge of high schools, said © yeaterday that he win interested not so mueh In the faot that the discovered lterature was athe- tatle, but that some one had ontered the school bullding without authority wnd L Upropagandiall evidently Wis way, Dr. Frank W. Ballon, supevintendent, expressed a similar objectlon to the Nterature — disteibution. He decla; further (hat he doubled an ongani plan of propagandiaiig i the liteveat of athemm was being launehed The Merature which was: discovered o the school and which My, Gate identitied an CoMoial e three printed clrenlars One of these, (he alce of W shest of aMee stationery, pur ported o announee” the oy Athelstie League for boys and " giils from 1t 1T O it wie sel forthy the Imrpunrn and genernl program of the pagiie, moluding the pramise that “the league will remaove bhoys and wivle from the evil influence of the olergy," and the apnouncement et “the magical, antmistic and phallie, or sexual, origing | dor to Mexico, taking his first vacation ATHEIST DENIES FAMPHLETS REACHED SCHOOLS “OFFICIALLY" Soon Start, However—Principals | specified to be 25 cents a year, To Renew Efforts. While Col. Brown was unable to make any definite announcement regarding Mr. Hoover's attitude after leaving his office he was preparing to return to Columbus to make renewed efforts in behalf of the Becretary of Commerce. Ohio will have 51 delegates at the June convention. In 1920, Leonard Wood went into Warren G. Harding's home State and, after a bitter primary fight .took nine of the delegation from the man who later was nominated. Morrow Takes Vacation, MEXICO CITY, February 11 (#).— | Dwight W. Morrow, American Ambassa- since he b ~ame Ambassador. Is on veck end visit to Cuernavaca as the guest of Esmond Ovey. British Minis- ter to Mexico. Mr. Ovey has a Sum- mer nome at Cuernavaca. ber Campaign Will stigating. of religlons will be explained in simple | T language,” while “the attainment of happiness in, this world rather than eternal bliss in a world to come shall be taught the rising generation as the chief alm of man." On the bottom of this sheet is printed an_application blank, which s ad- dressed to Christine Walker, nationat sneretary, who is described as a 16-year old girl of “exceptional exccutive abil- Iy." Dues in the proposed league are nd it I3 explained that when 5000 members are enrolled the leaguie’s printed lessons will be malled to its members. Discunses Recrulting Plan. Discussing this paper, Mr. Qale ex- plaled that the 16-year-old Christine Walker in now 19 years old, as the literature was printed three years ago. Asked the plan to ur.uulv‘v- Jm\fur league of athelsts in the high schools here, as announcoed several weeks following » meeting of the local ¢ ter of the national wasociution, Qalo declared that no organiration at- tempt had been made yet, but that an organkation meeting Wil be held “in | # weok or (wo at the most." A pamphlet 15 included I the | propaganda discovered i the schoals on- Whioh 15 printed, “Don't let the Hible make a fool of you!" The paper setd forth a lst of Riblleal reforences A “the Althlest Inmorality oxtant.” The third pieoe of the atheistio Ntera- e contalne pen-and-tnk portraits of “Hible Patvlarchs” fneluding — Adam, Noah, Abra) Lot, Jaoob, Muses, Joshua, L. lomon and Klisha, who are ribe varlous types of un- wholesome oharacters. Offlcers at aeveral of the high schoola Yesterduy declared they proposed o do All I thelr power (o prevent the diss teibution of thia sort of literature amang the studonts of thelr respective schools Al Wo Miller, prineipal of Qentral, | devlared that about 10 days ago print ed matler bearlng the nane o’ the Athelatio Assoctstion was plaoed i the hands of woveral Oentral students by A ANdenticd man near the sehool bullding. — The elroulan weve prompt Iy turned over (o teachora by several aludents wnd & oscareh was tiited educators. | “I am returning to Columbus tonight | Preily strong siuff, and broadcast all over the State of ‘lennesses and the | rest of the South. Tha resolution approved with only one or two disscni- C. Selecman, president of Southorn Methodist University. The Al Smith issue was thrown into the meeting by | Dr. Stonawall Anderson, educational leader of the Methodists. He praised Smith as o man, but attacked him as a wet. But others insisted that the re- ligious issue would be paramount in the campaign if Smith were eiected, though this was deplored by Rev. C. A. Rush of Andalusia, Ala. Another Aiabama minister, Rev M. Glenn of Cherokee, raised the old cry of “Rum, Romanism and rehel- iton” against Al Smith, just as Burchard raised 1t in New York years ago in the | Blatne-Cleveland campaign and defeat- ed Blaine. In Tennessee it is mors | likely to defeat the Democratic nominee | be Smith. Religious Prejudice. | The effort is being made by many churchmen and laymen in the South opposed to Smith to sound only the wet and dry issue, but really it appears that underncath the feeling against Smith | 1s on religlous grounds. It must not b~ | Memphis the Scopes trial took place a couple of years ago, with the anti-evo- lutionists ‘and fundamentalists up arms. Whether this State will ever vote for the election of a Roman Catho- lic as President is exceedingly doubtiul The Democrats are expected to segd to the national convention tn Houston n delegation that will vote for Repre- sentative Cordell Hull, a favorite son Where they will go if Mr. Hull cannot make the grade remains to be seen. It would seem spicidal for the Democrats of Tennessee to desire the nomination of Smith, knowing the feeling it would 5 talk of coming newspaper support on a large scale for the New York governor. 'h mocrats, however, have always put forward dry candidates for o and how mer will square support for Smith with thelr dry professions re- mains to be seen. Some of the Democrats here are hopeful that Cordell Hull may be the nominee for Vice President if Smith be the party cholce for President. They feel that Hull's name on the ticket would help greatly Looks Like Hoover. One of the most important Demo- atic leaders here told me that i Huall uld not be the nomince, he did not know whom the Democrats of Tennessee would favor, that sentiment had not crystalized for any of the other candi- dates, though there was plenty of senti- ment aj st Smith. In this the Tennessce democracy s like that in other southern SHtates. It looks more and more as though the New Ywrk governor would win the nomination by default, unless he should take hinwelf out of the race. the Kansas Clty national convention Wil do 1a st matter of sowe specu- lation, though it looks now as though 15 ultimate chotee will bo Hoover. J WL Taylor, the Republican national committeeman. has sald he favors the nomination of the Secretary of Come merce. But the State committes do- olined o wdopt & resolution ndorsing the Hoover candidacy, and Chureh, the Republican leader in Shelby County, s saying nothing for publication as to | whom he favors for the nomination, | The #helby County convention. held here a week ago, elocted Chureh a dele- gate to the national convention, with- | Oub Instructions. And Chureh s oling- Ing (0 that fact. In same quarters this In rogarded as opposition 10 Hoover Home of Hoovers supporters inalst WAt the organization palitieians do not feel thev van “do business” with My [ Hoover when 1t comes 10 landing out | the Foderal patronane, (that ke might it upon pleking men e offtlee who wie qualified. rather than appotiting Wen Who are recommendad by the o wantaation. May Lne Uy Bu AE It wppears (hat Hoover 1 going for the distributor, who, however, had llluwnl-«l Nu attempts to diatribute the literature In other sohools had come o the attention of thelr respective prin- Cipals yeaterday. It the sonvention with s commanding lead next June the Tennessee dolega- | o probably will be found i line. | e s atill considerable Lowden sen- | iment among “vumw Republicans ing voices. It was offered by Dr. Charies | el | forgotten that only a few miles from | stir up in the State. Yet there are in- | | fluences here at work for Smith. There What the Republican delegation to | present Republican o ization. I found. too. that some of the ibli- cans are talking about the Pmublmy of nominating Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas. The Senator has warm per- sonal friends in the State, who believe | that he is well qualified and is the logi- cal candidate-this year for the Republi- can nomination. acceptable to both West and East. There is mention here. too. of Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio for the nominaiton. But in the r;:in the talk is all Hoover and Low- n. Kian May Be Revived. The Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee has not been strong in recent years. But the nomination of Smith may give 1t | new life here. Certalnly it can scarce- | Iy fall to stir up the anti-Catholic feel- |ing which gave the Kian its strength here not so long ago. Klan leaders ! are moving now in Mississippi and Ten- nessee to line up their forces and to gain new members in the event of the Smith nomination. Fred E. Wankan, ! grand dragon of the realm of Missi=sip- Pi, in an open letter to the edito: of {the Commercial Appeal. declares that | ‘1t Smith and his wet allen backers I'still ‘persist in running roughshod over |the will of the rank and file of the Democratic party, they will rekinile in every cross road of the Nation. the flame that they alone so successfully ignited in 1924, and generations yet unborn will hold them responsible. The vote cast in presidential yeats in Tennessee is somewhat illuminating of the situation. In 1924 President Coolidge received 130.882. votes to 158404 for Davis. Democrat. and 20656 for La Follette, Independent Harding carried the State by 219.82¢ to 206,538 for Cox. Wilson beat Hughes in 1918 by about 28.000 votes. The resentment against the Democratic administration immediately after the war made itselt | felt in Tennessee as in other States that swept Harding into office. The | same kind of resentment in the South Against the nomination of Smith may. it he is nominated, carry the State for the Republicans, Much interest is taken here in the contest for the Democratic senatorial nomination, waged Dbetween Senator ! McKellar and Representative Qarret!, ! the Democratic floor leader of the House. The general impression here is that McKellar will win In some quatters it 18 predicted that the Sen- fator will defeat Qarrets by & very substantial majority. | January Circulation Daily...102,617 'Sunday, 109,597 f o ot gwium: v e | X VR N M, e S THE BVENING it SUNDAY STAR & ear Thal the actaal number W papel naend skl an. 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