Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 2

oF e DEVANDS RENOVAL * OF JUDGE SCHULDT Gallivan Accuses Police Court Jurist of “Terrorism” for Dismissina lury. &2 9 Summary removal from the | bench of Police Court Judge Gus| #rhuldt of “star chamber” proceedings tion case was de- | 1 the House late vesterday by | ntative Gallivan, Democrat, of He branded as an act | dt's | \ harge of & jury because it ecquitted two men charged with vio- lation of the Volstead act. In concluding a lengthy speech, in which he censured Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department racked ice and ginger ale cru- sade,” Mr. Qallivan said: “The United States today looks like & bad €OPy Of Mexico; the America of George Washington has ceased to func- i the Goddess of Liberty has been into a drab in the gutters, and vonscience of the with opium drugged. Cites Jury Discharge. shington, in the pitol. housi manded —the court o restored and an ancies ¢ has been revived. that gove¥n- can do no wrong and that jnties h refuse to obey its behests and { make indictment and conviction synony- mous. are guilty of crime and the fit| targets for judicial anger and ustign-‘ few weeks ago two maen were he Police Court to be charged ation of the Volstaad law, own rights under the Con-| had been invaded. A jury of| n and two women, all persons of | character and repute, deemed the| charges weak and strained, and within| £ve minutes acquitted the two victims| . ©f Volsteadism The judge. one| Schuldt. expressed angry as‘onishment at the verdict and ordered the foreman ! o repeat it. Then and the’e he sum-| Above: Representative Gallivan of marily harged the jury from! Massachusetts, who demanded in the further duty, as a warning to all and}nouse yesterday that Police Court Judge several that insult and humiliation were! Gus A. Schuldi, below, be removed from to be the portion of those who did not| the bench for dismissing a jury in a bend the knee to Voistead and the|prohibition case. TOAVTOSURANCE “In the vear of grace 1354 Mir Nicho- Jas Throckmorton fell into disfavor with the crown and was broight to trial charged with vague contempts. and the jury that acquitted him was promptiy ~ imprisoned and injuriously fined for their strange independence. for the crown of that age, like the Anti-Saloon League of this, was above the law and could éo no wrong &nd| held that conviction must follow indict- i |Residents of Nearby States ment. It took war, rebellion, revolu- tion and the decapitation and de- Would Not Be Liable Under Law. i | thronement of kings to cure England of that evil. Are we to pay the same price to rid America of prohibition, the Anti-Saloon League and government by lawlessness and judicial terrorism? Wants Judge Removed. i alling for | : el e e dge Schuldt, an-| The presence daily in Washington of other Jefirys come to judgment, who more than 20,000 motorists from Vir- shmz‘lg {be nr&&el.vb::(dh 1“:‘“:‘“3&:'?5"‘"" and Maryland constitutes a se- o) rom 1 - :gi‘ch he would attempt to set up a Star | rious drawback to the plan for com chamber in the very heart of the Re-| pulsory automobile liability insurance, public. Judge Schuldt and his pec\l!\;r it was brought out today at a prelim- act are part and W"l't:‘ ‘;5“‘ O;Xhm,v hearing on the Treadway bill outrages and infamics growing 4" Vo1, befote the Underhill subcommittee on meer;:ns of prohibition an( wmg and insurance of the House steadist trict committee. “We of thisciuge base o guty and | “The visiting motorists could not We| responsibility o "’"“;_”h“‘s_-e e ompelied to take out liability insur-! 1y. Let us answer «ht‘“ My warn. Ance. under the Treadway bil, but ;‘1\ late. Remember, please, would be “invited” to do so. ! % resentative Linthicum. Republi- ey B ot Hearing on Thursday. ean, of Maryland. who is chairman Opponents of the bill are to be heard the House unofficial committce on the ai" 3" hearing Thursdsy morning at ihERion :r(o fif:q;:hmm n';'we_lého.ar;l oclock in {he caticus room of clared t e | the House Office g. vented an increese of Uquor conRED | Mr. Treadway testified today that tion ;';;xfl flmntl-m m;%‘fihem nt, Dis bill is based on the Massachuselts . sory automobile insurance law, and to establish true temperance. | red that crime has increased adapted to the most applicable local | conditions. He said that similar legis- v throughout the country BRGH Jation has been considered in 42 States. | rohibition enforcement 10F% The bill does not cover property dam- beginning hes been characltel | ag. put only casualty insurance. | by graft, bribery and other eorruption Representaive Hammer, Dvmocrm.! ce Growing. | of North Carolina, said his impression | "'(,".k":'_,,.” M,f insolent |15 that the rates in the bill are high S rant @aily ” declared Galli-'and that he desired to see an insur- B R e o disiort law and | 8nce code first established giving the ing f insurance commissioner authority to 7, il a Fooars ““.JE#&??‘Z O’p-?p‘gm fhe | control rates. Mr. Treadway said what- ;mzmm' 717 of “pronibition are strangling| eter rates were proper would be sat- Dot American Gulliver and insugurat- | isfactory to him. He explained that y’ did not want to load up the isrule. m’s: :eeig;)“'o: oo to the pass where | bill with property damage, because, he the laws framed to guarantee the per- said, you cannot exercise too much gonal. political and religious freedom of | compulsion, and personal tnjury was ot citizens are as though written in | the main thing to be safeguarded. water.” he continued imit-| Mr. Treadway put into the rccord a e right of search of homes” he ! statement from Frank A. Goodwin, reg- 240ed. “have been torn to tatters by | ster of mowr vehicles of Massachu- n am aks and smellers.” | from the supermtendent of ) an, however, de- showing | t Commissioner Dorsn of the that the nu eaw was the most offi-| increased d ‘official ever in charge | there had been a decrease in ac since e Jaw went into eflect; | is furnishing not only direct protec- tion, but also is a valuable safety meas- ure and is discouraging the purchase of cars by people who cannot afford !them. It is eliminating broken-down COOLIDGE WILLING TO |NS!ST ONLY ON ;;::l l‘/’:drxg}%&(dg‘\;:' .H;:fl"fi;’ 25 NEW CRUISERS | Zreadway said : 12 he decla matenall y said. Massachusetts Law. He also read a letter from an insur- \cd States Marine Dand Orchestra. THE EVENING 1. PEPAREDNESS (RCED ATBANQUET Speakers at Military Order Gathering Plead for Ade- quate Defense. Military preparedness and anti-mill- taristic propaganda were the keynotes of the speakers at the annual banquet and military ball of the Washington Chapter of the Military Order of the Worla War at the Mayflower Hotel last night. Rear Admiral T. J. Cowie, U. S. N, after the invocation had been pro- nounced by Licut. Col. Thomas J. Dick= son and “The Star Spangled Banner” played by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, delivered the address of welcome and acted as toastmaster, He touched briefly on the history of the Military Order of the World War and how it stood as an organization, composed entirely of officers, to cher- ish the memories and associations of the World War, to foster fraternal relations among all branches of the military and naval forces, to encourage and assist in the holding of commem- orations and the establishment of me- morials of that conflict. Admiral Cowie then introduced Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, presenting In the course of his speech of apprecia- him with a medal of the organization, Gen. MacArthur paid tribute to the sol- diers of the World War. Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald of Ohio, an ex-service man, a member of the House military affairs committee, told of the constant flow of propaganda received dally by members of Congress, and particularly at this time, in con- nection with the Nicaragua situation and expansion of the Navy, now re- ceiving the attention of Congress. The need of military preparedness was expressed by former Senator W. Rice Means of Colorado, also former national commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans. He re- cited instances in the formation of military organizations at the outbreak of the World War, and told of the readiness of certain agencies to supply returning veterans with red propagan- da as they came down the gangplanks. He sald these veterans have taken p their battle in civil life and in re-enter- ing civil life have won their greatest victory. Representative Burdick of Rhode Is- land, a member of the House naval af- fairs committee, followed, saying that the present program as eutlined for the Navy should be adopted. and that it is & program of peace and not of war. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army, told of the opposition of various organ- izations to military preparedness and of the propaganda to check a contin- uance of the military training camps | c- ing, music being furnished by the Unit- J. T. CARR HONORED FOR LONG SERVICE Baltimore & Ohio Employes and Of- ficials Pay Tribute to Veteran. Rounding out half a century of serv- ice as an employe of the Baltimore and ©Ohio Railroad, Jesse T. Carr, 4715 Piney Branch road, today was showered with the greetings and congratulations of his friends and fellow workers, honored with gifts and publicly felicitated by the executives of the company. ‘The chief feature of the celebration | arranged by J. H. Peak, chief clerk of | the Baltimore and Ohlo freight depart- ment at Florida avenue and Eckington place northeast, was the presentation of an easy chair to Mr. Carr by T. W. Galloway, first vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio, who came to Washington from Baltimore this morn- ing especially for the occasion. The presentation was made in Mr. Carr's office in the Eckin rlnco huilding. The chair is the gift of the friight de- partment. Its presentation was followed by the bestowal upon Mr. Carr of a gold serv- | ice button by G. W. Sturmer, grand | president of the Baltimore and Ohilo Veterans' Assoclation, an organization composed of employes with the com- pany 20 years or more. Two baskets of flowers were also received by Mr. Carr from personal friends. D. M. Fisher, another employe of the freight department, who has worked for the Baltimore and Ohio for 52 years, presided at the ceremonies, Mr. Carr was born in Portsmouth, Va, in 1857, and has lived in Washing- ton since he was 16 years of age. He is married and has two daughters, Mrs. E. P. Dowyer and Miss Jessie Carr, and two grandchildren. G. A. R. AUXILIARY CONVENES TONIGHT Woman's Relief Corps Will Hold 39th Annual Convention. Speakers Listed. With Mrs, Lizzie Bassett, department i from Pirst Page) | PSS —————— | ance agent refiecting views expressed he said. “No | &t a recent con 2éopt 8 waund a year-in- g Out very satis- neerned. This agent i the law i the District puid be made o cover e way lie highways and that 1 some 10n for prop- ve man Underbill called attention e Governor of Matsachusetts s the largest sutomobile dealers rong advocate of the compulsory insurance law. 'x’{w District superintendent of insure ance has made & careful study of the bill and has suggested several changes, the most important of which is in re- gard 1 definition of the certificate | 30 a8 1 allow reciprocal and inter-in- . e excnungs by responsible organ- :flding rock 2 redu proportionstely. 7 phuilding industry ofed 1n recent years and | ezrs 2gn his compsny had & reserve fund of $5000 000 lomses and thst n . He eompany was comstructing crufsers at present, but 810480 000 was e bov- 2t - i DISTRICT WOMAN DIES. " L five large shipraid ned and 1hat only vere equipped v M Kutherine Akers Buc cumby at Garfield Hospital Mrs Kstherine E. Akers, 51 years oid, 5421 Eighth street, died at Gar- neld Hospllel yesterday after a brief iiness, Mrs. Akers was born in Alexandris, Va, but had lived in Washingwon since she was 2 years old. Bhe was & mem- Income-tax returns sre required of | ber of the Eastern Btar, Bhe is sur- every gingle person whose v inoome | vived by her hushand, Robert$ Akers, Sor 1re tayable yesr 1927 wae 81,500 or | un employe of the District Repair De- Yore. every murried person, Lving with | partment] two sisters, Mrs. Grace Mil- Youthand or wite w net ineome was burn of Kensinglon, Md, and Mis 500 oF Imore, and every persun, single 2 whose BIOMS MOUIe WaE 5 0f nel noome Tressury | l | No. 2. Buchannan of Uhis ity be conducten Chateh at J. Bohanon Wil be Edwara Funeral services Vomorow Ky, ¥ officiate Bnad nurlal Tk Creek Cemetery. Dies in Philadelphia. or marri 5990 o Grose wiil tneonie, e opal et personal and pre ofits from seles ano My, Interest, rent, @i Bud gails pronls. end Income Drom By UCE Whalever, ubLiess €X- empt from tax by law” Special Doapsten 19 The Ster. Ket income, upon which the tex 18, LYNCHEUKG, Va, February 14 Sesensed, $8 grose income less ceriain | Howard Floyd, a former resident of this epecified deduetions for business ex- (ily, died Balurdey in s hospital in 1”"" losses, bhad dente, taxes, contri-' Philadeiphia. He wae 38 years of age . urione, €. ' 840 is burvived by his widow and & son, g | il president in the chalr, the thirty-ninth | of the Potomac Woman's Relief Corps, | suxiliary to the Grand Army of the | Republic, will open at 7:30 o'clock to- | night at G. A. R Hall. Reports of vork by the corps during the jast year will be fir't on the program. The of- ficers will summarize the effort of each | |corps to secure employment for the needy and other welfare activities, Among those who will make reports are: Mrs. Mary H. Wyngate, Mrs. Char- lotte M. Carey, Mrs. Dell: O'Brien, Mrs. Rose Pennell and Mrs. Clara ‘Tr ‘The patriotic work cf the year will be outlined by Mrs. Helen Temple, pa- triotic instructor. Others who are ex- pected to be speak are: Mrs. 1 lle Worrell McElroy, councilor for the de- partment; Mrs. Nora Atkinson HBeaty, installing officer; Miss Jennie Hamilton, inspector: Miss Anna Hage, sentor aide: Miss Augusta Palmer, musiclan; Mrs kanh Denbrocder, Mrs, Carrle W | Doyle, Mrs Addie Hickman, Mrs Mary ¥ Bowen and Mrs. Maud L. Hanoa, | colorhearers | A banquet vall be glven at the Ralelgh | | Hotel womorrow evening, and the next | | day sessions will be resumed at . A | K. Hall o finish the business of the convention, WALLER S. POAGE DIES. Treasury Counselor, 68, Was R ing at Wytheville. Waller 8. Poage, 68 years old, coun- selor for the division of solvent national Eily Jonet of Whis €ily. and one BIowher, | ook i the office of the Controller of | teligious problem. No sueh problem ex- ! Currenryedressawy Department, died at | uis home i Wytheville, Va, yesterday. | He wes epponted W Cie Treasury post | A s, Mr Puage for some Ume. 19106 K sticet & fe a rest period a who had heen in 111 health JefL his residence, at dnys ago o spend his Virginta home. He is survived hy a Waller 8 P Jr., snd a daught Miss Emily Poay [ tiefields” had “continued to the | who were present at the time of his | death, | Funeral services will he held Wytheville tomorruw afternon &t o'clock, -~ [l at Empower Congress to Grant D. C. Political Equity; Do Not Try to Command It In 1916 by the first Chamberlain constitutional amendment Washing- tonians urged a mandatory amend- ment which should by its terms give them directly and immediately the status of citizens of a State for the purpose only of representation in Congress and the electoral college. This amendment was rejected be- cause it was mandatory. In 1917 by the second Chamberlain amendment Washingtonians urged only an amendment which, as an irreducible minimum of justice, should empower Congress in 'its discretion to give them this national representation. The latter form of amendment is that which is now pending, Spol sored by Senator Jones in the Sen- ate and Representative Dyer in the House, Rejected in 1916 because it was mandatory, our amendment is now sometimes assailed because it is mot mandatory. An article of 1917, reprinted below, explains and Justifies the change: A constitutional amendment has a long road and a hard rosd to travel. It must run the gantlet of two-thirds of Congress and three- fourths of the State Legislatures. It must be stripped for the race. It must carry not an ounce of super- fluous weight either externally on its body or in fat upon its bones. ‘Washington thought that the first Chamberlain amendment—S. J. R., 32—was trained for the purpose of running its course to the highest- rossible point of racing efficiency: that it was absolutely rid of all 1 peding non-essentials: that it was handicapped by a minimum of clogs and hazards. But experience hag shown Wash- ington's mistake. The fitst Cham- berlain amendment is halted in the judiciary subcommittee of the Sen- ate District committee. Some in- fluential Senators are not willing to give today for immediate enjoyment the status of American citizens for the purpose of national representa- tion to the residents of the District of Columbia. A few fear partisan disadvantage from immediate Dis- trict representation in a delicately balanced Senate and House. A few doubt whether the District's voting constituency is today entitled to na- tional representation. Some who favor votes for women believe that explicit and unmistakable enfran- chisement of women of the District should be simultaneous with the ac- tual grant of any form of national representation to the male residents of the Capital. From this condition springs the second Chamberlain amendment—S. J. R., 196—which is printed at the head of this article. It has all the merits of the first amendment and avoids the objections aimed at the latter. It does mot grant direct immediate representation to the Di: trict, but empowers Congress to grant such tation at its dis- cretion in the future. It thus dis- arms the opposition of today’s parti- san apprehension, of votes-for-wom- en sensitiveness, and of doubters of the immediate fitness of the Dis- trict’s voting constituency. Merits of Present Amendment. And yet the second Chamberlain resolution effects the vital essential of the ideal constitutional amend- ment. Nothing whatever should be sought thmush & two-thirds vote of Congress and a three-fourths vote of the States which can be secured through & majority vote of Congress. An absolute minimum of alteration of the Constitution, affecting onlv the vitally necessary change, should be_pr by amendment. The second Chamberiain amend- ment does not directly and imme- diately give to wuhmgtanllm na- tional representation, but it takes that vital privilege from inaccessi- bility and places it within reach. After its adoption only a majority vote of Congress will be required to do equity in this matter, whereas now a two-thirds vote of Congress and a three-fourths vcte of the State Legislatures are necessary. 1Its sole effect is to remedy an ac- wiedged evil and to do equity by Congress to declare the and judicial status of the residents of the seat of Government. All of the controverted issues con=- cerning the make-up of the local electorate, the qualifications of vot- ers and the form of 1oval govern- ment upon which both Washingto- nians and our national legislators redically differ among themselves are postponed to be decided by the majority vote of Coneress ufter the great and vital question of the con- stitutional status of the Washing- tonian has been answered. proposed constitutional amehd- ment affecting the District is doom- ed to defeat which provokes the active opposition of either Demo- crats or Republicans; of progressives, conservatives or reactionaries; of prohibitionists or anti-prohibition- ists; of those for or against a liquor referendum, or any other kind of referendum; of those who either favor or oppose votes for women; of those who advocate or oppose an educational or property qualification for voters; of those who favor or condemn a change in the form of local government; of single-taxers or anti-single-taxers; of champions or belittlers of the half-and-half law, and of those who either advocate or abominate the “new nationalizing™ of Washington. In short, any active group of Americans, sufficiently strong to be able to Influence one-third of either house of Congress, can defeat this constitutional amendment. Our proposition, however, is now so stripped of every strife-breeding feature and so centered upon a sin- gle principle of undeniable equity, that all of Washington can and should enthusiastically get behind it and push it to success. It is so worded as to reduce to a minimum opposition to its immediate passage in Congress. Our legislators may reasonably be expected to favor this Jjust enactment. Rounding Out Power of Congress. ‘This provision giving Congress power to grant national representa- tion to the residents of the seat of Government «in respect to whom it has already the power to exercise exclusive legislation), is appropriate- ly inserted at the end of section 3. article 1V, which gives to Congress power to admit new States and to make all needful regulations re- specting the territory belonging to the United States, from which these new States are carved. It is under this section that new Senators, Rep- resentatives and territorial delegates come to the Capitol. The three political subdivisions of the United States under the Constitution are States, territory (inciplent States), and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States. When our proposed amendment fs adopted this section will be rounded out and perfected and the power of Congress in respect to national rep- resentation will be equitably extended to all three of the parts into which the United States was thus in the beginning in effect divided. The Constitution does not define the political status of the future population of “such District (not exceeding ten miles square), as may by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress become the seat of the Government of the United States.” Nor does it ex- plicitly and undeniably give the power to Congress to deflne or change this status so that it shall approximate gradually the status of the citizens of a State. In Status Less Than Aliens. It has resulted from this uninten- tional omission or oversight that the residents of “such District” have a standing as suitors in the courts of the United States which the Su- preme Court has said is less than that of aliens and a relation to par- ticipation in national legislation and presidential elections which is the same as that of aliens. It was not intended that “such District” should remain untnhabited. The United States advertised its ‘Washington lots for sale not only in the republic, but in Europe, and at- tracted settlers and lot purchasers here by glowing assurances. George Washington predicted that the Capi- tal's population would in a century be certainly exceeded only by that of London. It was not intended that these inhabitants should be from any point of view permanently aliens. It was not intended that the peo- ple of the Capital should forever re- main politically outside of the United, States, no matter what the numbge and character of the popu- lation. Sympathetic commiseration of the District’s lack of natianal rep- resentation has been expressed in Congress and the White House at intervals trom 1800 down to the present day. ‘When it had only the population and resources which entitled its peo- ple to the nominal representation of a territorial delegate, & voteless leg- islative agent in the House (not con- templated by the Constitution). that representation was vigorously urged by President Jackson, was heartily seconded by President Johnson and was given under President Grant. District National Representation. ‘The words of these Presidents and of a long series of National legisia- tors and other statesmen, who argued forcibly and conv!ndn?ly for terri- torial representation for the few residents of the District in their time, are today equally sound and convineing arguments for voting na- tional representation for the present District. TELLEZ DEFENDS MEXICAN RELIGIOUS AND LAND LAWS Mexican Envoy Tells Gathering of Country’s Problems With New chula- tions. Speaks at Kosciusko Event. Declaring that Mexico did not have & rence that the Massa- ' annual convention of the Department |religious problem but & simple matter of obedlence to the laws of that coun- try, Ambassador Tellez, in an address to the Sons of the Revolution last night, asserted that his government “wishes only to give every individual the op- portunity to follow the belicfs of his own religlous creed.” The Ambassador, in the presence of diplomatic representatives of 17 _na- tions, including Undersecretary of State Olds of the United States, frankly dis- cussed also the agrarian and labor questions of his country. Contrary to reports, he declared, Mexico was not excluding forelgn individuals an lr- ital, He spoke at a banque! the Wil- lard Hotel commemorating the 181d an- niversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kos- cluszko, the Pole, who served as major general in the American Revolutionary Army. The Minister of Poland, Jan Clechan- ownki, declared that the “link of friend- ship formed by Kosciuszko on your bat- et ent duy. ‘The Mintster appealed for preservation of the spirit of idealism in thess “years of materialism” and pratsed the Sons of the Revolution. Dr Thomas E. Green of the organization eulogized the contribution to American rogress of such forelgn friends of f(mu-hluko and extoljed the ideals of the Bons of the Revolution. Defends Church Law. ublicity and an importance which it has not in Mexico has been given abroad,” sald Ambassador Tellez, “to what has been called the Mexican “Great fsts in Mexico, since the government in | enforeing 1aws that have been in exist- ence sinee 1857 wishes only o give every Individual the possibility to follow the bellefs of hix own religlous creed, preventing the undue |)|0Pmmru of any particular denomination only iew provision put in fores by the regu- ations which seemingly have produced {he present situation Is the requirentent that ministers of all religlous dq 3 jons register before the eom) horities of the place whers they ex- ercise thelr mintatry, a8 professional men of all callings are requested Lo do, Rrovwon which has been complied with )y all except the ministers of one de- nomination. This problem is not in Mexico a religious problem, but & sim- le matter of obedience to the laws of hat country. “It also has been sald at times" sald the Mexican Ambassador, “that our policy has been tending to exclude forelgn individuals and capital from Mexico. A country. which, If it is true, has at its dis, 1 unlimited po- tential richness, in tural resources, also lacking the active potentialities of eapital, could follow no more ill-ad« vised policy, especially at a time when we are just beginning to work for our development in all the branches of our activities, and I may assure you that instead of adopting that policy Mexlco will continue to be glad to obtain in pursuance of ita endeavors the co-operation and sympathy of all lmnl';l. broad-minded men of the world." Tells of Labor Problem. ‘Taking a simple rule from one of its mreat patriots, Benito Juares, the Ambassador sald “due respect o the right of others brings peace” waa the ru:ls that “guides our international policy.” “We are respectful of all”” he sald, “and the only thing we expect from others ia respect (o ourselves and to our inatitutions.” ‘Taking up oriticlsam whioh He sald had branded Mexicans as ‘“extreme radicals because our government, which comes from the people, exerts its efforts In the betterment of the condition of our people, as our Inbor Institutions ‘u\\r been assalled on that pretext,” the Ambassador said “let me atate once more that the Inhor organtzation of Mexico 15 stmi lar In its origin and ita purposes to the American Federation of Labor, with which 1t Is afiliated in a common en- deavor for fhe welfare of all the workers “If our labor laws are humane and Christian, they o enacted in this cot hey afford greater proteotion rom_patrons greatér considi womén and ohlldren’s labor " Disoussing ¢he agrarian problem, the ry in the fact that @ exact ation for STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1928. MADDEN EXPLAINS CYANAMID OFFER Sends President Chart to Correct Ideas About Mus- cle Shoals Bid. By the Associated Press. A comprehensive chart of the financ- ing plan of the bid of the American Cyanamid Co. for the Government's| Muscle Shoals properties in Alabama was transmitted to President Coolidge yesterday by Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee. Madden, sponsor of a bill to accept the Cynamid offer. in a personal letter to Mr. Coolidge said that the communi- DR. SIMON TO DEBATE. ’ Will Argue With Judge Lindsey | Here on Companionate Marriage. Dr. Abram Simon, rabbt of the| Washington Hebrew Congregation, has accepted an invitation to meet Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, in a public debate, March 8, in the Washington Auditorium, on, “Shall Companionate | Marriage Be Legalized?” | Judge Lindsey is one of the recog- nized advocates of the companionate marriage movement, while Dr. 8imon will present arguments against the legalization of such unions. BOY, 17, ACCUSED INFATAL SHOOTING Technical Charge Placed| cation was prompted by a desire to “correct some of the misunderstandings and misrepresentations of my bill by many who have not investigated Muscle Shoals facts.” Seeks Public Welfare. After discussing the charge in detail, the veteran committée chairman sald that his activities regarding the Shoals prope: interest in the wel ment, concluding as follows: “Mr. President, in the interest of Government economy, in behalf of farm relief and national defense at Muscle Shoals, let us adopt a policy of business | common sense.” | Madden said that the Morin and | Norris bills for disposing of the prop- erties “are both power bills open to se- rious objections and that under the “Morin-Norris plan we go deeper and decper into a hazardous commercial venture without even an estimate to guide us as to the financial demands | that we must meet.” Called Financing Plan. ‘The Cyanamid offer was described by Madden as & financing plan on the “same basis as the Panama Canal, 3 per_cent bond issue.” He satd that under his bill. which is sponsored in the Senate by Willls, Re- publican, Ohlo, the Federal Government leases its properties to competent pri- vate operators and is out of both the fertilizer business and the power busi- ness. He added that in the end the Govern- ment would receive “in full both the | principal and interest on its entire in- vestment on the water power properties in addition to a substantfal surplus.” BRICK FIRM HEAD RENEWS CHARGES committee He Has Been Dis- criminated Against. Henry E. Stringer, vice president of the Hydraulic Press Brick Co.. contin- ued his charges of discrimination against his concern on District brick contracts by the municipal architect's office, at a hearing today before the Gibson subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee. Albert L. Harris. municipal architect, denied Mr. String- er's charges, while admitting that he did not like the product of this brick | company. Mr. Harris will be provided | with a stenographic copy of Mr. String- er's testimony and given an opportunity later to make reply. Mr. Harris was questioned by Repre- sentative Hammer as to what was wrong with the Hydraulic Press Brick Co.'s product and replied that they were not suitable. He stated that when the Garnett-Patterson School was to be built he had taken two samples of Mr. Stringer's brick to the Commission of Fine Arts, which had rejected them. After more detalled testimony today regarding his experience in endeavoring to get contracts for brick from the Dis- | trict. Mr. Stringer sald that for four | vears he had been trying to sell his | bricks. to the District, but was unable to | get them by the municipal architect's | spreifications. | "He appealed to Engineer Commis- | stoner Bell and later to Engineer Com- missioner Ladue, and finally. got & hear- ing from Col. Ladue. At that hearing he made his charges and asked that the Commissioner study his testimony. Mr. Stringer told the Qibson subcommittee that after a three-hour session, Com- missioner Ladue had made a statement summarizing his itfon: “We want some one to bring in here some written charges with his name signed and then we will sue that person for libel." The next tday when Commissioner Ladue had been Informed that publicity was going to be given to this statement. Mr. Stringer said that Col. Ladue appealed 10 him to stop the publicity, saying that. “if that statement is published. it will Mrs. Virginia Bull Dies. Special Dispatch 1o Th LYNCHBURQO, Vi February 14— Relatives here have been advised of the death of Mrs. V. ia Withers Bull, widow of Marcus Bull, for 20 years con- nected with the old Southern Express Co. here and later agent for the same company at Petersburg. She is sur- vived by a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Bull Venable. Ambassador said, “We are encouraging the creation of small patrimonial hold ings among the rural classes, and to make (hese Roldigs prosper and be rofitable we are exerting ourselves in he establishment. of schools of a culture and experimental farms. 8y tems of rural credit are being estabiish ed and irrigation and reclamation works and road building have been one of the most important undertakings of the present administration' James M. Beck, president of the Sons of the Revolution, and toast master of the evening, characterised Kosclusko as the “George Washington of Poland." and praised his valor and friendship for America. He saw & growth in the “spirit which unftes the two Americas In & close bond of amity and friend- ship ™ .\'I‘\l\h‘ Band Orchestra The dinner committee conssted of Robert R. RBennett, Conway W. Cooke, Qilbert H. Qrosvenor, Frank 8. Hight Walter 8. Penfleld, Qeorge Richards and James M. Beck. Diplomatic _guests of the soclety representing 17 countries were: Senor ‘Teller, Mr_ Clechanowski, Senor Dr. Don Carlos . Crisantl, Min- fster of Vencruela: Senar Dr. Ales andro Cesar, Mintster of N nor Dr. Dop Francisco A. Lima, Min- ister of Salvador; Senor Dr. Don Adrian Rectnos, Mintster of (luatemala; Senor Don Eduardo Dies de Medina, Mints- ter of Rolivia; Robert K. Olds. Under- secretary of State; Scnor Doa Rafael | Rodrigues Altunaga, Charge d'Affaires fot Cuba; Conradoe Travérso, Charge i) | L Vasquer. Charge ¢ Aftalves of Dom- intea; Benor Don Juan B Chevalier Charge d'Affalres of Panama; Senor Don - Jose Coronado, Charge (Aftalres of Colombia nor Qutliermo E Qonzales, Charge d'Aifatres of Costa Rica; Dr. Hugo 'V de Fena, Charge ('Affalres of Uruguay; Senor Dun Carlos Mantilla O tache (n charge of Legation of Keuador; Lieut. Paul Dugan, assistant naval attache of French Embassy e was by the Marine the | Japan. told a luncheon meeting of the Affalres of Argentina Senor Maximo | | | Against Riverdale Youth After Second Inguest. Special Dispatch to The Star. RI ALE, Md, February 14— [VERD. rty was prompted solely by his | Wilton L. Todd, 17 years old, last night | discuss Ifare of the Govern- | was held for the grand jury on a techni- | whether cal charge of manslaughter after he had confessed at a coroner's inquest that he fatally shot Roger L. Johnson. 19. . Sunday while scuffling in play. was immediately released upon his own recognizance when the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. | In an inquest held vesterday morning, the jury returned a verdict of accident. of Police E. 8. Aldrich that he held the gun which killed his friend, Justice of the Peace Oscar K. Fuller called an- other inquest last night. Todd admitted his part in the case and told the jury that relatives had ad- vised him to give the impression that Johnson had shot himself by accident. ‘The discovery of the true account came after employes of Gasch's under- taking establishment in Hyattsville and the back of Johnson's wrist, indicating that he could not have held a gun in a himself in the abdomen. closed {if the accident verdict was re- turned, but the jury placed the techni- cal charge merely as a safeguard. It is generally believed that the grand jury will exonerate Todd. 5 o DEMOCRAT URGES “DRY” NOMINEE Stringer Tells Gibson Sub-|R. S. Morris Predicts Party| Will Choose Man to En- force All Laws. The Democratic party. at its na- tional convention in Houston. wiil not }:ll]”w mmlnl‘:ul m\m l:m will faith- enforce ws. incl those on prohibition. Roland S. Morruw“ of Philadelphia, professor of interna- tional I t the University of Penn- sylvania and former Ambassador to Woman's National Democratic Club yesterday at its headquarters, 1526 New Hampshire avenue. His address, form- Ing one of a series of lectures con- cerning the nex:t Democratic platform. pictured the 1928 platform as embrac- ing justice to the country’'s agricultural interests, downward revision of the tariff, a reaffirmation of the ideals of Woodrow Wilson to the moral leadership of the world, and a declara- tion in favor of the enforcement of all m"v?“eed ‘e need some leader that will come into our national life and release us from all the suspicions that surround us.” Mr. Morris said. “We've got to ‘Todd | but when Todd later admitted to Chief | Chief Aldrich noticed powder burns on | position to burn his wrist and shoot ! State's Attorney J. Frank Perrin sug- | gested that Todd be freed and the case | SETTLERSNEEDED FOR 300,000 ACRES U. S. Should Give Financial Help to Farmers, Dr. Mead Says. By the Amociated Praes. The Reclamation Bureau is spending $56,000,000 to irrigate 500,000 acres of land, but 300,000 of them require set- tlers, Dr. Eiwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation, declared today in an address opening a two-day confersnce on irrigation and reclamation at the In- terfor Department. ‘The great problem of reclamation is | to make sure that when works are com- pleted the land will be settled and the fields wiil be farmed, Dr. Mead said, adding that costly projects were worth nothing until the land was cultivated. Many of the completed projects are only partly settled, he sald. Policy Change Seen. “This conference has been called to this situation, to consider leveling land and building houses is not as much a part of recla- mation as bui rs and exca- vating canals “If we don' {for this pu | them?” he provide all the n than they can d canals. we do means a radical change in p ent polic have come to realize that the economics of reclamation are as im- portant as its engineering. We know that the successful settler must be & good farmer. He mu ve experie ence and a certain am: of capital. We cannot require them to have all the capital thev will need, because f we did we would cut off the suppiy of settlers. Should Help in Cost. “If we require them to have enough capital to underwrite the money need- ed to develop their farms we should provide from some source the remainder of the development cost. Until we do this we have not thought reclamation out to a final conclusion. nor do we deal fairly by the settlers.” Under the law. the Reclamation Bu- | reau lacks authority to help efectively |in both settlement and farm develop- ment. and for the last three years the limitation of the efforts has worried those connected with reclama- tion, he said. As a result the conf ence was called in an effort to fin |a solution. | . Work Cites Progress. | Federal frrigation is now on a safe footing, Secretary Work toid the con- ference today. He explained that Federal engineers , had made a splendid job of getting water to dry land. but that nothing | i was done to solve the further economic problems of settlement, development, marketing and co-cperation among the settlers. “Tne settlers became repudiationists from necessity,” he added. “for they could not pay for their farms. But { now irrigation is a going concern: ihe oid 1dea of repudiation has disappeared. The farmers want to own their homes eventually and we have shown them that they can” LINCOLN-DOUGLASS {PROGRAMS ARRANGED | Colored Citizens Will Honor Two Leaders at Several Exer- cises Tonight. Lincoln-Douglass celebrations will be held tonight at two colored ‘churches and at the colored Repubdlican ciud- Col. James A Moss. retired, director general of the United States Flag As- socistion, is announced as the prin- assume the people are honest and you | Cipal s don't have to have spies and agents war fear" Sees United Democracy. |, No Democratic nominee will be un- faithful to enforcement of all the laws, he insisted. adding that there be “confidence in the body of the people and relief for them from things that are hoiding them down.” While the Demo- cratic party in convention st Houston will disagree on the application of prin- ciples, a sign of party strength. he said. the 1.100 delegates will be absolut united on the traditions of the party The party will be better prepared to meet the problems this year than it has e | in the last quarter of a century, he as-| serted. Justice to America’s agric | terests Mr. Morris character: on to soive the currency problem, so wi {they be called on constructively to giv | gram. more strongly than four vears |row Wilson, he said. . Protection for Immigrants. ‘Turning to the question of immigra- tion, Mr. Morris protested against “the relentless, cruel and unfair way" in which newcomers are treated. through separation of immigrants from their wives and children and the injection of superfority and inferfority into the situ- | ation, instead of treating them as “real | fellow citizens.” Miss Anna G. Connally of Towa pre- sented the speaker. Prominent party leaders present at the luncheon included Mrs Woodrow Wilson, William B. W vania, Representative Kent of Pen: vania and Joseph { IRISH POET SPEAKS TOMORROW NIGH Q@eorge E. Russell Will Lecture at Catholie U.—Bishop Shanan Invites Pubdlie. fer known as %, is to lect Mahon Hall at the Cathalie U tomorrow night at 8 o'cloek Shahan today tsued an fnvitation to those in Washington particularly mter- ested 1y lreland to attend. Mr. Russell is a mystie, poet. painter, economist and edttor the Iriah Statesman, tahed in Dublia, He was assoclated with Sir Horace Phunk- ott for several years in the work of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Soclety, the purpase of wWhich was to teach Irish farmers better methods af ralung and marketing crops. He first became known throughout Treland as a man of letters through his storfes an Oriental relighon He s the author of several volumes, ta- | cluding “Cullectad Poema ' “Tmagina- tlons and_ Reveries " “The Candle of Vision " “The Tuterpreters™ “Vawes of the Stones” and “The Natinal Heing which ts & study of palitical phiksophy With special reference to condithans lieland In apite of the fact, however, that he WAS Ot 0 accord with the majority of the people of Ireland an political ques- tona and not & Oathalie, Mr. Russell holia & position of hanor in Trelas and fow en evercise on the Trah . nd | We have got to get over the post- o and Dr. Emmet treasurer of Howard Unt The general totuc of ail speec be “The Negro's Contridution W vements of Americs.” There | will cial vocal music. Detach- ments of soidiers from Fort Myer, Wash- |ington Barracks and the Districs Na- | tional Quard will be gv ‘The Washington and ation of Wo 1 Achi be Fifteenth Stiree: Pres. John K Wi destroy my usefulness as Commissioner.” | justice to agriculture. The 1928 pro- make e n Clud and the Coolx League will join in & celedration at the new Republican clubhouse. How Lin coln and Douglass openad the way | universal education will de discussed, ft {1is stated. { . {SOCIETY OF SPONSORS OF NAVY TO CONVENE Langdor at Annual Session Open- Mrs. Russell Preside ing Tomorrow morrow | Mrs. Russell Langdon, president of the [society, will preside and among the membders from this el L | present are S Fraderick Hicks, vice | President: Mxs Louss Tur st spensar for & <hi e W St and they have formed a soeiely [ than 400 wembers, wivse N 8 to mantan clee contact with and - terest I our first line of nse. W afternovn T, Rrooke Lee will entertain the her home in Stiver Ry the United States Suldiers’ Home | Rand Orehesira, at Stanley W s ek John K M. Zinumermana, | bandmaster Ata Ky FOvert i Twe characteristie skeieh | @) Chinese © () “Soathern ™. 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