Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 2

" & * “THE RMBLER, DIES Staff” Ha? Great Fund of Local Histary. ARRY SHANNON, Weteran_“Member of Star| { | ‘The. constitutional . amendment which we favor does not propose the" admission of the District of Colum- bix Into the Union as a soveireign State: it does not propose the d struction of the “ten-miles-square’ provision of the Constitution: it does J. Harr§.Shannon, veteran member | ©f the r‘dimfirf 3 of 'I‘he“‘s‘\l'enllasi ;Star and popularly known to sands | of readers as “The Rambler.” died ves- terday morning at his home, 4200 Forty- | second strect, following a relapse from a ! previous iliness. 3 - Althous‘ he had been in poor health | since 1822 §HEN“he Sufferec a severe | nervous collapse. his death came as a | istinet shock to his legion of colleagues | in the newspaper. world. who had. watched him gamely battle for a return to health apd his beloved ramblings. His death marks an untimely “thirty” to a newspaper career as varied as it was colorfill, and deprives the District ent whose fund of informa- on. history and reminiscences of the | ional Capital was unexcelled in his Had Large FolNowing. i While himself only 58 years of age.; Rambler was intimately familar - h the traditions and historical asso- jons of the Capital as far back as times, and in his weekly “ram- he detailed interesting bits of in- formation concerning persons. things | and happenings of “the good old days His articles. written in picturesque. narrative style and enlivened by a racterissic wit. had a-remarkable fol- | Jowing of readers of all ages. Forced o interrupt his writing by an_attack akin 1o sieeping sickness in 1922, The Siar was besieged with anxious inquiries “Tb from his followers. to the majority of whom he was snown simply by his nom do pi fight for health was a long. slow process. -marked by frequent medical consultations and numerous treatments 8t Johns Hopkins and local hospitals. Although not completely recovered. he insisted on returning to his office at The Star. but was forced \O‘ ‘!‘:&“D‘i‘sh derings o the confines of - \anflfm Columbia. Previously he had ced mto countless forgotten phases early life in nearby Maryland and hia. gathering notes for his column &nd snapshots to illustrate his articles 25 he tramped or grove from one county to another. Last “Ramble” ‘December 11. spite his rapidly weakening c nogfigurm the past few weeks | Shannon conunued his contributions to megazine section. his last| “rambie” appegring Sunday. December | 11. and dealing with the old racetrack ; which once flourished near the Govern- i m-nt Hospital for the Insane in Ana-| costia. the Sundsy s ! jeral services will take place to- mamngi morning at 10 o'clock. at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Sixteenth street and Park road. Rev. Peter Guilday | of the Catholic University officiating. | Interment wili be at Fort Lincoln Cem- etory. The pallbearers will be Rear Ad- miral C._W. Dyson. U. S. N. retired: Thomas D. Geoghan, James Fitzpatrick. Gideon A Lyon. C. Fred Cook mdi v G. Hanford" B';r} Harry Shannon and Miss Ellen Spofford Bray were married in New | York Oity March 20, 1897. Mrs. Shan- pon and_one brother, George H. Shan- non of Prince Georges County, Md., survive him. Born in Baltimore. Mr. Shannon was born April 3. 1859, in Baltimore, Md. He resided in | eeriy boyhood and for many years in | , D. C. As a boy he was| rested in natural history and | ~relifs,” and this- interest Ly inte: B eotkecting with hig thro the years. | No b.-fifr insight fnto m“";.m learn- | fngs isFavailable than that givem in his racetrsck arucle Sunday,, Becembey n‘ 1927. when he wrote: &, # “I was never much of a young fel-| low fof race crowds or other crowds. | On b days 8 ghe National race; course ¢ [ ‘d;w steayed through P:n-’ coost’s, w t and cracking quartz! pebole? in hope of finding al g .lor arrowheads, and al- ways keeping the eyes open for tracks of Indians ‘1 do not know :udx 1 Sfl; !o\mg‘ such tracks. byt 1 found paths through | tangied copses that seemed mysterious t me, and [ came on many places ware 1 thought Indians had sat around | 2 OOUD fire. You will understand that | was not in the crowds that; seerhrd at ihis. racetrack on days when | horses ran or trotted. but I write of | thsse thins because once they inter: | ested many persons. and perhaps still it 2 considerable number.” i Enters Service of The Star. | Friering the s ¢ of The Star in 1830 M7 Shannon “covered” news of Anacostia and the river front. Often he would row out W some newly anchored ship in the harbor to interview the £k learn his mission. His krowledge of shipping and river lore refiected many of his later "1‘"1( the service of The-Star in} and became affillsted with the ! established :ding at the southe i street and Penn- He re-entered the ! T r in 1900 and 1y on the stafl since During recent years. in ad- | is Raibler articles. he wrote sriais on special Vplcs Began Series in 1512, serving zs exchange edi- in 1912 that he began ol Fambler co butions. For | rs 16 rude norseback or nearty country roads, | nhox and note traditions and walked slong canara, | SYories attrace ol w early land 1 EWRY On musty Lhions 4 1 of ploneer fam- s was suthorita- staring methods s dstz, and in 1924 his sr- perios of 10 years from * end indexed st the servation and ire the | he material | wrest for persons all the out-of- | tures and his and s en- slunble Lisvrirally.” y contein de- of the old famn) ! 3 . iron | #n4 road The o4 bothely greeyarQe, end the g were ob- the Ram Vond of Saddle Horses Vi dnteresting pagers n the piurer st the Library sre ater end players of g Accounts wur Gramstic or- s BnG clube from which masny vere gradunted w L auf of the well known wisioul clubs ot other aishie tor huorse | wee extremely | and he kepl s Guring hir ning & 5 Active in Bational Gaard e fie Netio ne 1. L of Colyniin i service being PG TEeO LY BB CLBPBC R LIRLE €r J5i6e I LT He enlivied in the old Ist t . ela Ayt n o sng flf.u, 22, 1008, reccived & warrant 8s | the night { to tender his resignation May 15 191% not lessen in the smallest degree the control by the Nation of the “ten miles square.” It does not disturb in any way the financial relation of Nation and Capital. It is not based upon either | the abolition or the retention of the half-and-half law. It is not complicated with changes in the municipal government of the District in respect to which Wash- ingtonians widely and radically differ. It repeals mnothing: it destrovs nothing. It alarms no éme. alienates no one, wounds nobody’s sensitive- ness. What the Amendment Does. This constitutional amendment as- sumes that the Nation will continue to control its Capital through Con- - gress and asserts that the time i: close at hand when the ‘prople .f the Capital should be represented in that Congress. The tem-miles- square provision of the Constitu- tion set up a peculiar political en- tity—not a State, not a territory. under the exclusive control of the Nation. This amendment is supple- mentary to the ten-miles-square provision. It says, in effect, that, after a century of increase and de- velopment, the Americans collected in the seat of government, entitled at all times to every American right and- privilege consistent with con- tinued national control of the Cap- itzl. are now or soon will be en- titled to representation in the Na- ' tional Government. g It cnables Congress to make Americans of a community of a half million people, whe are now politic- ally aliens; and to naturalize them for the purpose of representation in the National Government. The constitutional provision es- tablishing the ten miles square is responsible for the monstrous para- dox of unrepresentative government at the Capital of the great republic. This tonstitutional amendment will ultimately correct it ,Olr proposed legislation is’ sup- plementary to existing law, ada; ing the latter better to the cond: tions and needs of today. It is thoroughly constructive. It is not in the smallest particular destru=- uve. It leaves undicturbed and con- firms the pational contgol of the Nation's City and the correspond- ing national obligation of adequate financial participation in the main- tenance and upbuilding of the Na- tional Capital. The act of 1878 and the exclusive legisiative clause of the Constitution are alike un- touched. It enables Congress ' to make American citizens of the people of this community. giving them effec- tive representation in Congress their local and national legisiature, which may deprive them of their property by taxation. and of life or Wmb by sending them to war. Such representation is not inconsistent with the exclusive power of legisla- tion concerning the District pos- sessed by Congress. On the con- trary. such representation is th2 more essential since Congress is not only Washington's national legisla- ture, but its municipal and State legislature. - The effect of this amendment is not to admit the Dis- trict into the Union as a State. but Americanize the Capital To Benefit Both Nation And Washingtonians | | | to the half million people of this | does not think that the half million | titled to representation in the leg- | islature which alone makes laws for | them and taxes th>m and may send THE EVENING within the United States, even con- taining its eapital, but politically outside of the United States. The States uniting under the Con- stitution had the power, which they exercised, of creating this unique unrepresented, Canital-containing, Nation-controlled District. Two- thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the States have the same power, which they should exercise, to give unique District an equally unique political status. Who is there in all the world who Americans in the seat of Govern- ment of the United States are en- every man of them to war. pearhaps to be wounded or killed? Who con- tends that these half million Amer- icans are not as intelligent, as patri- otic, as public-spirited. as American, in short. as the same number of Americans anywhere else in the United States, or as the smaller number of Americans collected in seven of the States? What new State has ever been ad- mitted to the Union which at the time of admission had so large, so intelligent and so thoroughly Ameri- ¢an a populaticn as the District? What new State at the time of ad- mission, measured as to its taxable resources, was raising so mwuch in local taxes and contributing so much in national taxes, as the District of Columbia? The District today is cantributing in national taxes, to bs disbursed by a legislature in whicn it is not “represented. a greater amount_absolutely than twenty-five | of the States and a greater amount per capita than forty- i y-four of the Statehood Not Demanded. Though the District can make this showing of fitness for admis slon to the Union as a sovercign State, no demand for such admis- sion is presented. Our proposed legislation confirms the national control of the Nation's city and the exclusive legislation clause of the Constitution is untouched. All that is asked is that the Con- stitution empowr Congress to de- clare that residents of ‘the seat nt Government are on the same foot- _Ing as citizens of the States in rc- lation only to Congress, the electoral college and the courts of the United States. This action. though it will Amer- icanize a community. now politically alien. which is larger than any on- of ‘seven States. and will empower Congress to enlarge the basis of congressional representation. does not bring into the Union a new soy- ereign State. Surely Congress will not quibble or delay in co-operating to secure to itself by constitutional amend- ment the power to cure the evil and shame of completely non-repre- sentative government in the. seat of Government of the great represent- ative republic. To accomplish this good ead Congress ought not ‘o hesitate to propose to the States this enlargement of its own powere. fil::fr“ Congress does not distrust The injury to the Naton from this condition is as great as that in- cted upon the de-Americanized community. The national shame 1s the greater, Is the Nation Impotent? It is sometimes suggested that the Nation is impotent to cure this evil to enable Congress to give to the | 8nd this shame. that the condition half million Amerfans Tesiding in | 18 unchangeable. e o the ten miles square undér the ex- This suggestion is_an insule to clusive control of ngress :he ;nm‘ fi:‘m“;‘rfl“figmm gh lplz“:ly. tate nation T o e Qe ocioral col. | is degraded below other cities in na- in Congress and the electoral col- lege. A New Political Status. Not a new State, but a new politi- calstatusisto be evolved. This amend- ment operates as a t of the ten-miles-square empower- ing Congress o define explicitly, in view of the changes of more than a century, the political status of the residents of the Federal District. It American constitueney with repre- sentation in Congress and fhe elec- toral college; not a new State, but a politically uplifted District of Co- lumbia, an enfranchised ten miles square already unigue by the Constitution. This new factor in our scheme of National Government representation may be unusual. peculiar, extraordinary: but it Is not so unusual peculiar and extraordinary as the original erea- tion and present-day retention by the great republie of the totally un- represented ten miles square, the seat of Government. a district physically corporal His proficiency soon won furs l ther recognition. He was commissioned second lieutenant. He rose to be first heutenant March 9. 1910, and then captain, commanding the battery, De- | cember 28, 1910. | ‘This service was prior to the tine when the National Guard was regarded seriously as a military factor. Capt Bhannon, howevcr, took advantage of | an_opportunity offered by the War De- | partment, proceeded to Fort Ri) | Kane., and there pursued the Field A.- tillery course of instruction. He mad« #n enviable record, among other thiner | solving a “night problem.” which had | been announced as a_fjoke by some c1 the other student officers, but which Bhannon regarded seriously. With the | ald of the stars, he covered. on foot, miles of strange and woll-infested country. and returned to the post of | daylight with the problem solved, after | many mounted patrols, much alarmed | as to hix safety, had scoured the conn- try searching for him during most of | Lack ot time 1o devole o the Na- | tional Guard prompted Capt. Bhanncn but hie interest did not wane, He at-! tended weveral of the citizens’ military | training campe, held at Plattsburg, N, | Y At the outhreak of the World War | te volunteezed his services, und en- dezvored steadfastly to secure an ap- pointment. He was deeply disappointed tnat due 1o impaired health, he was unsuecessful I that quest Mr Shannon only recently had moved 1t & new hone whizh he built on Porty-seeond street just off Nebraska avenpae There he had intended o ke lite eaxy auring his declining years. TiPS FOR TAXPAYERS F¥orms for fling returns of individual income now are available Coples will be sent U Laxpayers by collectors of in- ternal revenue Fallure Lo recelv form, however, does not relieve the U payer of his obligation to fle a return and psy the tax within the period pre- woribed. Porms mey be obtained at offices of the collectors of Inlernal reyv- enue snd deputy collectors and will be turwarded upon reguest, Persons whose net income for 1927 was arrived chiefly from salaries or | wager and wae Dot in excess of §5,000 should make thelr income tax returns ot Furm 10804 Fertns whose net fneome wes de- | Mved Lrom a protesaslon or business, in- cluding farming. or from the sale of property or tent, though the ‘mwml { vt lesh than 85000 are required 1o use the Jurger form, 1040 ‘The use of Form 1040 15 1equired aito I cases where the net dncome wus in excess of §5.000, re- gosaless of whether from salary busi- & piufestion, of olher leaable sources, 4 [ tional representation. No excuse !s found in the fact that our Capital is in a Nation-controlled Distric: Mexico and Brazil and Argentina have copied this feature af our Con- stitution. As nations they control. like the United States, ‘federal dis- tricts in which their capitals are In- cated: but they have not found themselves impotent to give full na- tional representation to the res, dents of these capitals. Is Washington in some way de- fective or tainted and unfit to stand n the same representative footing as Buenos Aires, Rio or Mexico City? Is the American Republic less de- voted to the principles of represent- ative Government and less capable of enforeing them than Argentina. | Brazil or Mexico? Who will eonfess permanent na- tional impotency to free residents of the seat of Government from the class of defective and delinquent Americans? Or to rid the Nation itself of a ecanker at the heart of the body politie, collecting alien matter and threatening blood . soning? g o PROTECTION TO U. S. EMPLOYES PLEDGED Gibson Subcommittee Re-empha sizes It Will Aid Workers Who Give Testimony. Continuing the hearing regarding the | | dismissal of engineers from Gallinger | Municipal Hospital because they had wid tales on a former chief engineer who was appropriating Government property for private use, the Gibson subcommittee of the House District com- mittee today again emphasized its de- termination to protect District em- ployes who are discharged as a result of information furnished to the Gibson Investigating_committee. John H Lorch. business agent for the Engineers’ Unfon, sald that he had | gone 1o see Joseph Dobeck, then chief engineer at Gallinger Hospital and who was Jater discharged, after he had heard ahout the series of dismissals of engineers. At that time Mr. Dobeck was stli in charge and sald that these other engineers had been making 1t hard for him, so he was going o rake them down unti) he got rid of them Mr. Lorch told the Gibson subcom- mitter that the dismissal of these men had had a detrimental effect on mem- bers of the Englneers’ Unlon as well us on other .mployes of the District “There are many *tuations in the Dis- tric' government that ought to be in- he sald. but advised the committee that such dismissals make vestigated,’ the employes afreld to testify, because they fear they will not be protected by the committee. Cecll Ward, a former firemen at the a | hospital, testified that he had lost his Job wfter he had given Information o the Gibson subcommittee. Mr. Dobeck had dismissed him and Mr. Dobeck successor had refused to take him back becuuse he knew Wo much, he said. Chairman Gibson of the investigating commivtee sald that he had boen warned during the early stages of the inquiry Into District of Columbia uffairs that men who gave information W the com- mittee would be discharged. He sald that he hiad been careful (o shield most of them, but 1n the case of the men in he engine room st Gallinger Hospital, the names of the Informers had been disclosed wnd they were discharged “which 1s conclusive evidence that the waining was well founded,” sald M1 Sibson. (“‘:l o will soon be the second gold- pro@acing country in the wull‘,{l‘!ulflv I8 Lo ubservers, STAR, WASHINGTON, New Corps Coanmander INORRWEOD, it Above: Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, relieved from command of the Philip- pine Military Department, to take over the 3d Army Corps. Below: Maj. Gen. Douglas Ma Arthur, present commander of the 3d Area, who will go to Mani!: TRACTION MERGER * PLANS COMPLETE | Agreement Ratified by Local 1 Companies Will Reach Util- ities Body Tomorrow. ‘The strest car merg; be formally submitied | Utllitles Commission tomorrow. attaches of the commission were advised today by Brice Clagett of the law firm of McAdoo. Neblett, O'Connor & Clagett, | which represented Harley P. Wilson, agreement will to the Public | Co., in the proj tiations. Houndreds of copies of the agrezment were printed todav and delivered to the two traction companies and for dist bution 0 the offivials and stockholders, but the contei:t: were guarded with ut- most secrecy. The agreement. however, will be wede public by he commission immediately upon its receipt Publication of Pact Planned. Publication of the text of the merge: plan, it is understood, is to be follower 1 by an intensive advertlsing campairn to familiarize the public with its various | details by Mr. Clagett, assisted by representa- tives of the car companie | The merger agreement was subscribed i to last week by the boards of directors of the Washington Railway & Elre- tric and Capital Traction compapics. Despite the secrecy which surrounded the negotiations, the details of the agreement which leaked out indicated that the consolidated company would s1 unification nego- recommended by Mr. Wilson in_ the merger plan submitted to the utilities commission last October. The 7 ver cent guarantced return provided in Mr. ever. Trustees to Represent Public. It also has been revealed that the merger agreement provides that the board of directors of the consolidated company shall consist of six representa- tives of the Capital Traction Co. sii representatives of the Washington Rafl- way & Electric Co. and tiyee repre- sentatives of the public. to be known s trustees. These would be appointed by the Utilitles Commission under the plan of merger. HISTORIC PARIS HOMES GIVE WAY TO PROGRESS 0ld Houses in Narrow Streets Torn Down Sanitary Campaign. in Correspondence of the Assorinted P'ress PARIS.— Historic old houses in nar- row little streets 700 years old are be- ling torn down. to the joy of sanitary experts and the despair of lovers of lold Parts | Light, virtue and cleanliness never flourished In the dark houses with cracked wglls, crazily leaniug {ronts and dungeon-ilke cellurs. | est streets of the old city, however, were born the early systems of street light- | Ing, sweeping. policing, garbage collec |ing and the natlonal opera. rhe rue de In Reynie was nared for | an anclen t chict of police, who ordered !the bourgeofs of the district to main- taky, light at nightfall and extinguish “‘I dawn, candle lanterns at specified wtervals De Ia Reynte also organized day and | night patrols of “archers,” who traveled | in squads because swords often flashed {in those days. ‘The rue de Venlse close by was the quarters of the usurers. In Ithe rue Brise-Miche, famous because |of an old bakery there that once sup- | plled m nearby monustery, there are | the hooks to attach a chain that barred the street on occasions in the days of Louls X1 000 of Stolen Goods “Fcnccs,“ BQ‘(C!‘ S(I_VS business, even the robbers themselves being no longer the old-fashioned type of lone-hand yegyl but fairly well educated and enterprising young men supplying u national market “Obvious! Mr. Baker sald, “where the theft occeurs in one State and the receiver has his secret fence In another Btate, neither Htate 15 i w position to deal effectively with and punish the whole ertme.” ‘The national stolen property bill would permit the Foderal Government to prosccute tnteratate shippers of stolen g‘Morc_Than $500,000, | Handled Yearly by By the Assaciated Press NEW YORK, February 13--More than §500,000,000 worth of stolen prop- erty 1s disposed of yearly by “fences' [ the middlemen of crime, according to former Becivtary of War Newton D Haker Bpeaking of the n erty met, which i tonal stolen prop- W before Congress and which was prepared by a spectal committee of the National Crime Com- mission of which he is acting chair- man, Mr. Baker asserted (hat Federal tegisiation 15 imperative i the fences ate o be curbed Beca'i . of the operations of (he fences, he sald, robbery had assumed the rnh portions and some of the methods of hig be capitalized at $50,000.000, the figur: | Wilon's plan has been removed. how- | In these narrow- | - lanswer the letter of Senator Borah of n. GEN. SLADEN MADE THIRD CORPS HEAD Gen. MacArthur to Exchange Posts With Commander in Philippines. C.. MOXNDAY., FE Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, command- ing the Philippine Military Department, at Manila, was assigned today to the command of the 3d Crops Area, which includes the District of Columbia, Penn- |station at Baltimore, and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, now commanding the 3d Corps Area, is assigned to the command of the Philippine Department. The actual change will not take effect, however, before September, as Gen. Sladen has been granted leave of absence for scveral mont and Cen. | MacArthur_has been authorized to at- {tend the Olympic gam s at The Hague | in May, and return to the United States | before starting on his long trip to Ma- Inlla. Gen. MacArthur is a member of | the United States Olympic games com- mittee. These orders supersede those issued several weeks ago assigning Gen. Sla- den to the command of the 8th Corps Area at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. and delay somewhat the plans for Gen. Mac- Arthur’s departure for the Philippines. ‘The coming change in command of the 3d Corps Area will not change the | status of Brig. Gen. H. O. William: commanding the 16th Infantry Bri- gade, stationed at the Munitions Build- ing. who represents the commander of the 3d Corps Area in direct superv {sion over all the Regular | Washington and Vicinity. Gen. Wil- | llams recently relieved Maj Gen Thomas Q. Donaldson. formerly in command in this ci who is now in command of the 2d Division, at Fort ,Sam_Houston Other important changes announced | today include the assignment of Maj. Gen William C. Tassiter, now in com: mand of the 6th Corps Area. at Chi- | cago, to command of the 8th Corps | Area. at Fort Sam Houston: the as- signment of Maj. Gen. Malin Craig. now in Panama, to the command of the Panama Canal Department, and the assignment of Brig. Gen. George Le R. ! r . at Fort Sill, Okla.. to the com- |mand of the Panama Canal division. Maj. Gen. William S. Graves, former | commander of the Panama Canal De- | partment. has been ordered to th: | United States at his own request for | carly retirement, 'HOOVER SUCCESS IN OHIO MAY BRING NATION-WIDE DRIVE (Continued _from First Page) the Florida coast where an amateur | fisherman could hope for a catch Declines Further Statement. ‘The Secretary of Commerce declined to add- anything to his letter accepting | the invitation to enter the Ohio pri- mary. He reiterated his intention to remain in his present office and to de- | vote himself entirely to his job as Sec- | retary of Commerce. He will continue ! the policy of not discussing politics. A | suggestion that he would thereby &s-| sume a dual character was chalienged | owner of the Washington Rapid Transit| by Mr Hoover who insisted that his | | public pronouncements as a presidential candidate would not in any way inter- fere with his duties as Secretary of Commeree. |~ Mr. Hoover's determingtion tg enter | TUPtion of the Republican organization | gunator Hawes contends that ths: by the Government { the Ohlo prima¥y was ahnounced in a I Ohio through Hoover's action. | President views the flood situation honor would Dot have besn letter to Thad H. Brown. chairman of | Called Regrettable. { “through the spectacles” of the Secre- | shocked” Hoover said the Ohio Hoover-for-President | mittee. . { “I have recelved. through you and others,” Hoover's letter said. “requests | from very many Republicans of Ohlo | that 1 per mit my name to be entered | in the presidential primaries of that | State. “The Secretary will retain his cabinet do so. | post, and he indicated that he will not com- This campaign will be directed | be able to make a personal campaiga i ‘before the primaries. | No Personal Campaign. | “My conviction that I should not ‘SLH\\‘ for the nomination.” he said “and my obligations as Secretary of Commerce preciude me from making jany persor:al campaign. I must reiy | wholly upon my friends in Ohio to con- duct it. and to conduct it in a fair man- | publican success In the State and the | Nation. It is my special desire that ex- penditure of money shall be strictly limited and rigidly accounted for" Sénator Willis followed the Hoover statement with one of his own, declar- ing he was personally in no fear of the results of the contest now to develop. “The people of Ohio know about my Republicanism.” he said. "I have been ) there all my life. and all of my ac- | tvities have been there. I haye had part in helping every Republican. My pleasure and platform are well known | When the primary is over, Mr Hoover { will know then whether these sclf-ap- i vointed friends of his. who have drag- ged him into this contest apparently | nounced plans for formation of Hoover “H: not only was the personal n | against his own wishes, have advised | Clubs in Cincinnati and Hamilton sentative of the President in the him corvectly.” | County trict. but he is an engineer of | | Receives Congratulations. day that many telegrams have been vecetved, congratulating Mr. Hoover upon his decision to accept the invita- tion. What Mr. Hoover will do in re- | gard to entering other primary States | has not been announced. In many of | the States no formal declaration of his | candidacy is required and his friends | will_enter him This is true for e: | ample, in New Hampshire, where the year. The State is strongly pro-Hoover. Direction of Secretary Hoover's cam- paign in Ohlo will fall to Walter F. | Brown of Toledo, now Assistant Sec- | retary of Commerce. He has gone to the State to aid the Ohio organization selecting the convention delegates he voters will be asked to elect. Hoover s expected soon to {in whom t |Idaho asking his views on prohibition. Mr. Hoover has been, his friends say, {strongly in favor of strict_enforcement of the prohibition law They do not belleve that he will lose any “dry” strength through his reply to Mr. Borah. Senator Willls has been an out- standing dry in Ohio and in the Senate. It does not appear that the Ohlo Sena- tor will be uble to make the wet and dry question an fssue In his campaign | against My Hoover Twenty centers for the supply ot | free medical ald have been opened Iy the district in India where the malaria epldemic has been severe. {sylvania, Maryland and Virginia, with! troops in | BRUARY 13, | 1928. i Wperwoop UNDERWOOD | CRETARY HERBERT HOOVER. HOOVER ENTRANCE HAWES 0 DEMAND - SPLITSOHIOPARTY HOQVER RIVER DATA i Bkl {Two Factions Prepare for Contest to Win State’s Delegates. | Wants Testimony as Presi- dent’s Flood Envoy, He Tells Committee. the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 13.— Ohio Republicans, split into two fac- tions by the presidential candidacies of Herbert Hoover and Senator Frank B. Willis, today were marshaling their forces to wn Ohio's 51 delegates to the national convention for their fa- By the Associated Pre The appearance of Secretary Hoover to testify relative to the administra- tion’s flood control policy will be de- manded tomorrow at the executive session of the Senate commerce com- mittee by Senator Hawes, Democrat. Missouri. “As the Secretary of Commerce, Mr Hoover's opinion is of no more !mpor- JURY-SPYING PLEA STOPPEDBY COURT Siddons Halts Effort to Prove U. S. Agents Trailed Panels. Efforts of the respondents in the Sin- clair-Burns criminal cantempt proceed- ing to introduce testimomy for the pur- pose of showing that the Department of Justice has engaged in the practice of jury survelllance over a long period of years and that the “usage and custom” of jury shadowing has made is a lawful, act were blocked Justice Frederick L. Siddons today, who in no uncertain terms set forth his objection to suct a practice, no matter whom it carried on. The respondents have had on their | waiting list of witnesses several former Department of Justice investiga® who were to testify if permitted by ti: court that they had shadowed juries in the past. In refusing permission for them to testify Justice Siddons reiter- ated his decision several days ago on the motion of the respondents to dis- miss the case that shadowing of an “unsuspecting jury empaneled and gaged in trying a cri | tends to be an obstru | and therefore contempt of Court Repeats Decision. | The court repeated his decision be- cause #t appeared that there was som: | misunderstanding by some counsel as the degree of positive | ration several days ago. Justice recalled that Charles A. Dol counsel for William J. and W. 3! B i i about that ruling. Mr. Douglas.” Justice Siddons was clea sympathy with the “right” partment of Justice to shado ‘and declared the court ‘shocked” if that or any other depar ment sought to trespass on its domain. He said it will be “a sad day for this Government” when it shall be estab- |lished as a law that each head of 2 Government department may chu:gz the cummon laws <o that the Federal courts are bound by them. The action of the court was taken with Jchn R. Kissell. former Depari- ment of Justice investigaior. on the i stand as a witness for the responden { The Government had objected Fri | to any testimony by him to the effect | that he shadowed juries for the de- | partment and arguments on the matter | were not concluded w: an hot ter court opened this morning. O'Leary. assistant United ney. in concluding his arguments. which began Friday. declared the question at issue was not whether the Depart- ment of Justice has the power 0 in- vestigate the jury. George P. Hoover. attorney for Har F. Sinclair. vigorously mamtained shadowing by cor ripened into a cusior vorites. 2 paigns followed the statement of the Secretary of Commerce at Washiugton last night that he will be a candicate for the Repub) sident: 3 the impression in New Orleans, ' he accepted emplovm l:;ruunemsn:'ulfr:fiosre;g!e:fl;‘g x:gm;? mphis. St. Louis and a number of jon behalf of Mr. Sind | tance than that of the Secretary of In- terior or the Attorney General,” Senator ' claiming ignorance of ihe law. Hawes said. ~But he spent consideraple | clared. “woTe claiming knowledge of time in the flood area, and. apparently. the law. and Mc Sherman Bums had was the official representative of the knowledge of President Secretary Hcover distinetly | has been engaged in Announcements of conferences to o anize both Willls and Hoover cam points that the flood situation ner and with steadfast regard for Re-/ At Mr. Hoover's office it was said to- | first presidential primary is held this | l presented. to voters of Ohio in the pri- maries Fred W. Warner of Marion, chaiiman | of the State central committee, which | has indorsed Willis, saw possible dis- tremendous popularity in area, based on that impression.” Sees President’s View. | Warner said he had expected Hoover's ; -+ t efitrance, but that “it is regrettable. | Nis personal representative, Mr. Hoover He declared the move “imperiis” the State organization, but that “Mr. . | Hoover will see a real battle before it is tover.” Warner said one purpose Jt the | cortimittee indorsement of Senator Wil- lis was to “keep some semblance of a State party organization” and that the | nfove of Hoover's friends in contesting ! for the Ohio delegation “will tend to disrupt the organization's work.™ Col. Carmi A. Thompson of Cleve- land. Willis' campaign manager. was toeconfer with friends of the Senator here today on plans for the coming ! fight for delegates | of the cabiines arles A. Jones. the Senators | °f ' cablnet ,Efi"f\i‘ srhmurly, in cm‘rge of head- Fears Conflict. arters here temporarily, said War-| .. ) v ner will be here tomorro 1o outline | 1f We call on Secretary Hoover prz;lxmmary maves for' the' Willis' cam{ 3'0¢, Ransdell said 7it wil paign. trol, we ought to know it.” the Missour: Senator said. ! sentiment in the commerce committee. to testify.” ana, agrees with Chairman Jones of Sen- | Campaign Is Pushed. i The Hoover supporters have the' |names of 4,000 Ohio Republicans on petitions _ circulated during the past week These will form a nucleus to ex- tend the Hoover organization into | Ohio’s 88 counties. in 75 of which con- |tacts already have been formed. ac- cording to Hoover headquarters. On the other hand. the Willis group has the indorsement ot the State central com- | mittee. ! _Robert A. Taft of Cinrinnati, son of | Chief Justice William H. Taft of the y United States Supreme Court. an- ta cause we have the plans of engineers ubmitted both by the Army chief of Engineers and the Mississippt River Commission. opinion an the economic phase of the questio: because flood areas certainly know more abou the financial situation in their spective districts than Secretary Hoover ws. " enator Tyson. Tennessee, another Democratic commitiee membder, delieves the secretary should be called. dis Hoover's entry means that names of ‘and I think we should have ! 102 candidates for delegates and alter- ore we decide what must de nates in Ohio will have the personal give relief.” Senator Tyson said. | approval of Hoover to represent hia |Senator Hawes had not announced "at the primary April 24. nte: Names of 44 delegates and 44 alter- |er's presence before the commuttee, I 1a- nates for each candidate from the 22| (ended to do it myself.” { Ohic districts. will be filed with the | | District Board of Elections and names | of seven delegates at large will be filed | | With the Secretary of State. before ! | February 24, the final date for dele- gates to enter the list 1t s BIDS TO RAZE TAX UNIT OFFICE ASKED -Time Structure Will Be Torn Down to Make Way for V. §. Building. REAR ADMIRAL REMEY BURIAL TOMORROW | War Retired Officer Will Rest in A lington—Navy Men Named Pallbearers. ; .\noxh'::hw-humv relic will disappear Puneral services for Rear Admiral| (oM Washinglon next month. when Qeorge C. Remey, U. 8. N. retired, (N huge wooden structure housing the income tax unit at Fourteenth and B sireets will be tarn down 0 make way for the new hame* of the Department of Commerce. This was assured who died here Friday night. will bei held at St. Thomas' Church at 10.30 | o'clock tomorrow morning. it was an. nounced at the Navy Department to- E v ingtan: Nus | oday when the vl Surial will bo In Arlington Na-}qyequuy advertised for bids. to The following rear admirals on the pPEed March 3, to demalish active list were designated as honorary . b o pall bearers: Arthur L Willard, com. | When this buliding is torn downy mandant of the Washington Nayy . (€8 WL O Quiy ase more oo Yard: W. H. Staneley. director of fieet O the entire site for the Cuimmerve structure, the offices now oevupied by the House of Detention Arrangements have been made for this dn move mto A building now und struction at 40-42 B street so but when it will be able to vacate its | Present hame i3 an uncertainty | Moving of the tax unit to the new Na- tHonal Press bullding may be fiihes { today. This transfer has been acow | plished with & mintmum of hst tme © the Qovernment. The system followed Was (0 have moving done at nght In addition to the tax unit. there Was alw moved the accounts and ool lections unit of the lnternal Revenue o Bureau training, W. D. Leahyv. chief of the Burean on Ornance: Richard H Letgh, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, L. E Qregory, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and (leorge H Rock assistant chief of the Bureau of Con- struction and Repaty LIFE RESIDENT DIES. W. R. Collingsworth, 63 Will Be Buried Tomorrow W. R Collingaworth, 83, of 701 Flor. 1da avenue, died yesterday morning i | ‘Puberoulosts Hospital He was a life- | long resideat of the District Mr. Caltingsworth had been 1 failing | health stnce his Wite, Who was the sis- | ter of Headquarters Deteotne Charles | E Warfleld, died last September Aoverment that & band 130 anuad Funeral sorvices will be conducted ag | Sreeks have ciassed ke Phiactan his home tomottow Afternoon at 2 30 TWREY heat Lule Butgas The govern. o'elock Y Rev. ¢ Primm of the Secs | Ment has ordered army detaciunents w and Raptist Churel Burial will be y | PUrswit Armed Gr;cls Invade Turk Soil CONSTANTINOPLE. Feguary 13 (@ A peasant has teported (8 the Turkinh Boods, Repreaentative F.H. La Quardia | Fart Lincoln Cemetery. He 18 survived | . of New York, who troduced the bill [ by & son, Earl Oollingsworth, and &{ A surglval operation was ane of the sald that If the fences were vemoved [ daughter, Florence Oollingsworth, both | prises oftered i the recent Londaa | 5 per cent of the lnrge crimes would be " of this eity, and & brother, L. Barl (v tock Knohangs “Help Yoursell® Sow-' climinated, Angsworth, abo of Wasnington, ly competit was & national problem. and he had a the flood v of War, Gen. Edgar Jadwin and | expected to prov “I! Secretary Hoover has changed hie mind about flood control being a na- | tional problem as indicated in the ac- ministration recommendation of con- “There is a division of | but I intend to urge that he be asked Senator Ransdell, Democrat. Louisi- the committee that one member of the President’s cabmet should not bde re- quired to testify regarding a matter under jurisdiction of another member create a conflict which should be avoided. 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