Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 2

. - the offices of municipal architect and 3 r R L R e e Z 5 : 7 . i 2 - HOLADAY-ASSAILS - THREE OFFICIALY Ballou, Harris and Recorder of Deeds Accused of Inef- ficiency in House. - Dissatisfaction with the conduct of recorder of deeds and the school system | of the District was expressed by Repre- sentative Holadav. Republican, of Illi- nois. & member of the District subcom- ittee of the House appropriations committee, when the District appropria- | tion bill for the fiscal year 1929 was taken up for debate in the House late yesterday. He was interrupted by Rep- Tes tives Casey of Pennsylvania and Griffin of New York, minority members of the subcommittee, who stated that Mr. Holaday was expressing his own personal opinions and not any conclu- : sions of the subcommittee. Mn satd that in his ownj e school system of the city on is one of the best in the conomically and capably Government In General Praised. Mr. Holaday tald his colleagues that *we are waranted in saving as a general proposition that the public affairs of the District of Columbia are being efficient- dministered.” He THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928, FEDERATION OF CITIZENS’ Fundamental American Principles Are Involved BY J. G. YADEN, President. Federation of Citizens’ Associations The movement on the part of the peo- ple of the District of Columbia for na- tional representation, participation in the electoral college and equal rights before the courts is In accordance with the fundamental principles upon which the republic of the United States was | founded and is truly American in every particular. The half million people in the Dis- trict of Columbia are completely dis- franchised and yet they possess all of the qualifications to cast an intelligent vote that can be found in any State of the Union where the people do enjoy the right to vote. ‘The excuse that the people of the District of Columbia are well governed and therefore should be satisfled with the present form of government is un- sound and un-American for the reason that there may be a good government under a monarchy or an autocracy and no intelligent persons in this country are willing to surrender ths right to elect those who govern them because they may be able to secure good gov- ernment without voting and electing those who are to govern them. The status of the half million people of the District of Columbia is different from that of the people of any State in the Union and one or the other is cer- tainly fundamentally unsound and to all practical purposes wrong. We e not heard of the ple in pecifically a few of the e he believed those in | ed to public commend- { good work. He headed | ith the Fire Department. say- ing that “under Chief Watson it is be- ing eficiently and economically admin- | tered so that the city of Washington { is receiving adequate protection.” Con- | tinuing his commendation ef particular | District officials Mr. Holaday mentioned Dr. W. C. Fowler in charge of the| Health Department; Daniel J. Donovan, the District auditar; M. M. Bamnard. in charge of the penal institutions; Wil- lLam P. Richards, the assesor; J. B. Gordon, in charge of the sewer division. In making his criticism of the three units of the municipal government, Mr. Holaday said: i | “The first department with which I, have not been satisfied is the office of | the municipal architect. It is not my purpose to go into details with refcr- ence to that office, as there is another committee of this House that is now investigating his office. I do not want 10 prejudice tbeir work. and I presume | that :n due time they will report to this House, with recommendations as to what Congress should do, and as W what other agencies of the Government should do. should the facts warrant action by Cites Brick Purchase. “Let me call your attention to this specific instance: The District of Co- lumbia is manufacturing brick at the Occoquan Workhouse. The evidence shows that brick can be delivered by ‘workhouse the architect went to a pri- vate individual and purchased brick g LR ] management in our public schools. Let it be understood at the outset that I Not Satisfied With System. “1 experienced great difficulty in se- curing accurate and complete informa- tion from Dr. Baliou, the superintendent ©f the schoo] “] have not been satisfled with the administration of school affairs from an educational standpoint, and yet 1 realize that it is a difficult matter for one who is not an educator o under- take w criticize the methods of ml teaching administration. “The Bureau of Eficiency points out certain criticisms along this line, Ballou admits there is some merit in these criticisms and that he is making eflorts 15 remedy sich conditions, Some changes will be made in the coming he expects 1o make further in the years to come. “On the whole 1 am happy 1o be able 1 that I believe the afairs ict of Columbia are being ntly and as economically ad- ed a5 are the public affairs in In making this derable pride in t Congress is eptitied to ecord wilth some degree of TELEPHONE CALL TO GIRL GETS MAN INTO TROUBLE Friend “With Quart” Cells ss Po-|tion, as did the Btate Rallroad Com- | lice Aze Reiding Apartment. Nine Arrested. | is unnecessary—that | of the National Capital is - | their wisdom. did not so provide. t115 KILLED, SCORES any of the States being so rably impressed with the form of go ment | in disfranchised Washington that they wish to surrender their form of govern- ment to conform to that of the District of Columbia. The same desires that actuate the people in the States to cling tenaciously to their right to elect those who gov- ern them is equally applicable with all of its arguments to the people of the District of Columbia in their desire for an opportunity to participate in the Government by which we are governed. Enfranchisement Not Contrary to Original Ideas BY JESSE C. SUTER, Chairman Committes on National Repreacnta- tion, Federation of Citizens' Associations For every reason underlying the founding of this great Government the voteless half million residents of the District of Columbia are of right as fully and as justly entitled to voice and vote in the National Government as are the citizens of the States. Possessing in high degree every qualification for the exercise of full citizenship. no valid American reason can be advanced for its_denial. ‘These voteless people have never fal- tered in the performance of any duty or the bearing of any of the burdens or responsibilities of cmmnsm,). either in war or in peace. No group of Americans now represented in Congress have a keener or more vital interest in the af- fairs of the Government of this Nation than W] only legal residence is here at the seat of Government. Na- tional obligations and laws rest as sure- ly upon us as they do upon the voting citizens of the States and consequently there same reason for our i regular participation in the National Government. Some remind us—but such 1eminder the management the Nation's business, for the Constitution has clothed Congress with the power of ex- clusive legislation in all cascs what- soever over this enchanted realm. In Heaven's name, are we not a part of “we, the people of the United States’? that | should we not in all fairness be entitied to the same tion In the exer- cise of that exclusive legislation thrcugh W"m of our own ehoosing in houses of as do the people of the snm present rep- resentatives compose the ? Congress' Some tell us that the lounaen,'ml: RESCUED IN SERIES OF SHIP DISASTERS (Continued from First Page) about half-way point across the bay, at normal speed. About half way between Goat Island and her destination the boat lurched, and many of those on the lower forward deck were swept over the side before any one knew what was wrong. Water surged over the deck. Panic eénsued. Women screamed and prayed, while men scrambled for life- preservers. Those in the water cried for help. For an instant it nyrnred Lo the passengers that the big ferry was going down. Then in an instant she righted herself and stopped. Lifeboats were launched from the Peralta and from the ferry Hayward, which was but a short distance away. Bezgtl persons were fished out of the water. Sallors Aid Rescue Work. Prompt action by sallors stationed at Goat Island Naval Training Station resulted in quick rescue of several per- sons. Capt. George Landenberger, com- mandant, and Lieut. H. V. Perron, who witnessed the accident, dispatched two parties of rescuers. The sallors were among the first 1o reach those strug- gling in the water. Those taken aboard the Navy boats were suffering mostly from cold. John K. Bulger, supervising inspector of hulls and bollers for the Federal Government, expressed the opinion that the accident was caused by a freak tide ‘and other conditions not accountable 1 the vessel” He started an investig mission. FREIGHTER BREAKS IN TWO. mas McNichols, 1829 M street, wrong lime Y lepbone & i nis way up nignt, and as & ged with ilegal rsportation of liquor. e spied, headed by nan, had cohosen the OF & 1814 on the wpertment wiepnone el ra 2ius answered the call | L yourg men e aparunent one Guart,” the 4 of the wire o he police o up.” MeNichols was Wid he epvered sperument 502 st reet & lew minutes laver he e wordx T arrest n 2t 106 1 48 years old wes cung & gisgrder)y 7 relensed on 8300 bond o hie, were chiarged Wi B18 lule AIwrs except L QarGerly O BAND CONCERT. TODAY. By the United Blates Boldlere’ Home and Orciestis, sl Blanley Hal, st 40 oclock, Jonn 8. M. Zimmermans, . Americe” Mydss” Patrio Fisher ¥in Eitracie Or, the Nile” Glorets Feminiscences of the Boys Rollinson | My Aeroplane Man, Take Up i Heaven Pierrot snd Pierretiie Lady Lgied Banper.” | Bhermen | Kawards Levey | Entire Crew of Stranded British Vessel | YMUIDEN, Holland, Pebruary 18 A, —Thirty-elght men, the eritire crew of the British freighter Bhonga, which stranded and broke in two yesterday, were resciued day Life boats, which swod by all night, | 1k the men off the fore part of the snip 0 which they had elung LEVIATHAN RUNS AGROUND. | Tide Enables Liner to ¥loat Off Bar at Kovthampten. | BOUTHAMPTON, England, February 1% (A% Freed from the grip of & sand- | bank, the United Buates liner Leviathan is expecied Uy maintain her schedule “The ehip, on which Commodore Harold A Cunningham was making his trip ex master. ran sground on | Bramble Buik, & wift bar, when enter- ugs tried futtlely to pull her 7 the flood tide eased the ."nvl off, and she docked four hours ate Commndore Cunningham, then I ptiot, hsa guided the vessel safely {through many & mine feld and su jmarine sone during the war T) |levisthen was in the hands of & Trinity House pliot when she stuck on the bank was not demaged Valers, Jrish gepublican leader, 21 OF TANKER'S CREW SAVED, ‘TOKL0, hazardo L February 17 (W) - Atwer ASSOCIATIONS DEMANDS NATIONAL REPRESENTATION fact of the matter is that the founders fully realized that even as complete and forward-looking a document as they had produced in the Federal Con- stitution it would not, in all probability, meet in its original form all of the changing conditions which might arise in the carrying out of its great purpose. The founders undoubtedly showed their greatest wisdom in the substantial rec- ognition of its incompleteness as well as a proof of its incompleteness by pro- viding the necessary procedure for its amendment. To meet the changed condition rep- resented by our half million voteless ple we are now earnestly pleading or the approval by Congress of a pro- posed amendment to the Constitution which will empower Congress, by ap- propriate legislation, to “Americanize™ the Washingtonian. Federation’s Record In Support of Plea BY DAVID BABP. ¢ of the Fedoration ot Citizens® Associations. The Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions has long been actively identified with the campaign for national repre sentation. It has been regularly repre- sented in the citizens' joint committee and has appeared by its official rep- resentatives at all hearings on the sub- Ject before committees of Congress. For many years a special committee was maintained to work in furtherance of the cause, but on January 26. 192¢, after a thoroughgoing survey of the status of the campaign, a standing committee was created with very dennite instruc- tions as to its duties. The action cre- ating this standing committee on na- tional representation is as follows: “1. That there be constituted by the federation a standing committee of not less than seven members, of which the president of the federation shall, ex- officio, be one, to be known as the com- mittee on national representation, which committee shall, on behalf of the fed- eration, co-operate to the fullest possi- ble extent with all other organizaiions, and especially with the citizens' jeint committee, in furthering in every le- gitimate way the passage by Congress and the ratification by th= States of the joint resolution giving Congress the power to grant national representation to the District of Columbia, the right to participate in presidential elections and to be placed on the sam: plane as citizens of the States before the Federal courts. “2. That the committee so appointed be instructed to take up with the citi- zens' joint committee the question of strengthening. enlarging and quicken- ing the activities of the special cam- paign committee of the joint commit- tee. “3. That the new committee of the federation be instructed to urge upon the citizens’ joint committee the ad- vl{»ab!:;g*‘.‘ tl;ro\:’gh’lu f;lnlnoe comunittee, | of ra un or the purpose of es- tablishing and mmmnflu headquar- ters until the victory shall be won. “4. That urgent overtuses te made to the Central Labor Union and to or- ganized labor, both local and national, designed to cause the local body to re- sume its place as a constituent member of the citizens' joint committee, or, as an alternative, to co-operate independ- ently with the citizens’ joint committee through both the local and national bodies in the common cause, “5. That steps be taken to have every civic organization m the District not now on record on the question of na- tional representation to take a positive and earnest stand in its favor.” Agreeable to this action, such stand- ing committee has been appointed each r and earnest work has been put ol’tht m:o ea‘:'ry oullg: Y&W and it Rn a TVals rej progress to the federation. ) It is interesting to note that there were only two dissenting votes when the report was adopted creating the standing committee with the specific duties as above outlined, and he feder- ln‘-‘m& has never since receded from this stand. of the crew of the American tank mflmer Chuky were safe in Yokohama ay. The ship exploded Wednesday about 100 miles southeast of Cape Noshima while en route from San Pedro, Calif., to Yokohama. The captain and 14 oth- ers were either killed or drowned. The vernacular papers today said in launching the life boats one was wrecked. All its occupants were picked up by the other life bozt. After rowing for 26 hours on the open sea, the 21 men rescued were picked up by the Japanese fishing trawler Mat- suchi and brought to Japan. ‘The survivors said oil poured from the burning tanker and spread over the sea, making the launching of life boats & hazardous task. They were unable to give the cause of the explosion. Those killed or drowned were listed by the vernacular newspapers as Capt. C. Hermes, First Mate Kellogg, Second Mate Carlstrom, Third Mate Rasmussen, an unnamed wireless operator and 10 of the crew. Those rescued were Chief Engineer J. L. Sheehan, First Asst. Engineer P. H. Buckley, Lucerne, Pa.; Second Asst. En. neer C. C. Herbert, Third Asst. Eng 8. J. Dreytuss, New London, Conn. J. L. Leslie, Rochester, N. Y.; E D. Btringer, J. Basques, Joseph Steppany, P. Rapol, E. Truelson, Henry Marti, Ban Nagpusao, George Rolll, H. Schullen- berg, Oscar Naldasaum, R. Book, H. Marks and L. J. Thomas. Dispatches indicate that those who perished included Lester J. Honstra, wireless operator; J. MacDonald. Phila- delphia, ofler; Lee, chief steward; Ben Marte and Pagaycen, mess boys: Boyle, N N. J.. R. J. Mc- Dermott, Gardner and Ballard, sallors. STEAMER MENACES SHIPPING. British Vessel From United States Fire Danger at Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, England, February 18 ) A fire menace to the shipping of Liverpool, the RBritish tank steamer Varand was aground at the mouth of the Mersey today. The captain and erew of the vessel, 41 In [ were en off In a bold rescue by a New Brighton lifeboat. ‘The Varand left Norfolk, Va., on ¥ri- Asy, January 13, having stopped there for comling on her maiden voyage from New Orleans. Since then she has been the victim of what the crew called & “Friday hoodoo " On Friday, January 20, the ship was hammered by what officers lermed the worst storm n 50 years, Eight hun- dred miles off the Irieh coust the vessel Jost her rudder, propeller und part of her stern post in striking a submerged object Each succeeding Friday, the officers sald, the ship has barely escaped com- in life boats over “mofl.llm Federal Board of Vocatlong) plete disuster in tempesiuous seas, REHA>BILITATi0N URGED. Bill Would Provide Ald for Dis- abled D. C. Residents, Voeational rehabilitation and return Eilenberd | Juspection revealed the ship's hull |' €mployment of permanently disabled Bmith Hildreth residents of the District by the Federal Thie pussengers tncluded Kamonn de | Bourd of Yocational Education 18 author- ired under & bill introduced late yes dey by Representative Summers Washington ‘This authorized an l[l;:lu riation of ahall be expended for salaries to the 416000, not more than hali DIES AFTER FALL ATY.M.C.A. POOL Youth Slips While Trying to Dive From Stool—Spine Is Fractured. William Otte, 20-year-old student at Schadmann's Preparatory School, 1444 Rhode Island avenue, died this morn- ing at Emergency Hospital from in- juries received yesterday afternoon when he slipped and struck his head on the edge of the Young Men's Christian Association swimming pool, at 1736 G street. Otte, according to C. Edward Beck- ett, director of physical education of the Young Men’s Christian Association, was attempting to dive from a stool instead of the regular spring board. ‘The stool was held, he said, by a fellow student, Alexander Coxe. Rolled into Water. “Otte slipped as the stool wavered,” Beckett said, “and he fell to the floor, hitting his head on the concrete side of the pool. His body rolled over and tell into the pool, and Coxe, aided by others, pulled the unconscious boy from the water.” Beckett was summoned from his office, and he called for an ambulance from Emergency Hospital when he saw that the youth was seriously hurt. Blood was streaming from a cut on the side of his head. Spine Found Fractured. The boy's mother was summoned from her home in Baltimore, and she brought with her to the hospital last night Dr. Bagley, a surgeon of Johns Hopkins Unives v Hospital. Dr. Bag- ley and Dr. Shands of the staff of Emergency Hospital, found by X-ray examination that Otle's spine was broken near the neck, in addition to the head injury. They operated last night in a desperate effort to save the boy's life. He dled shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. Coroner Nevitt will conduct an inquest later. Young Otte was preparing to take ;,he‘n tem"n“ examinations for West oint. MRS. MARTHA S, TUCKER DIES IN ATLANTIC CITY ‘Wife of Representative Had Been I11 Year—Was Graduate of Vassar. Mrs. Martha Sharpe Tucker, wife of Representative Henry St. George ‘Tucker of Virginia, died at the Brighton Hotel, Atlantic City, at 5 o'clock this morning, after an iliness of a year. Mrs. Tucker was a native of Wilkes- Barre, Pa., and a graduate of Vassar College. She is survived by her hus- band, a Frother, Richard Sharpe, and a sister, Miss ry Sharpe, both of Wilkes-Barre, and a stepson, Maj. Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker of Washington, all of whom were present when death came. Funeral services will be held tomor- row afternoon at Lexington, Va. Boy Scouts Robbed of $13.25. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 18.—C. B. Woodhead, Bey Scout executive here, has reported to the police department that thieves broke into & box in the Scout office and stole $13.25. THE WEATHER District of Columbla—Cloudy and colder tonight, minimum temperature about 18 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy and colder. Maryland—Cloudy, with snow In ex- treme west portion tonight and prob- ably tomorrow morning; colder tonight and tomorrow. i —Cloudy and colder tonight, preceded by snow in the mountains; tomorrow partly cloudy and colder. ‘West Virginia—Cloudy, with snow to- night and probably in north portion tomorrow; much colder tonight and to- morrow. Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 pm., 46; 8 pm., 44; 12 midnight, 40; 4 a. 39; 8 3 11 am, 40. Barometer—4 pm, 12 midnight, 29. 8 am, 2042; 11 am, 2 Highest temperature, 47, occurred at 2 p.m. yesterday. west temperature, 36, occurred at 8 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 71; lowest, 46. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Burvey.) Today—Low tide, 12:10 a.m. and 13:11 pm.; high tide, 5:40 a.m. and 6:02 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 12:58 a.m. and 1:::) pm.; high tide, 6:32 am. and 6:52 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose, 6:58 a.m.; sun sets, 5:48 pm, Tomorrow—S8un rises, 6:57 am.; sun sets, 5:48 pm. Moon rises, 5:19 a.m.; sets, 2:46 pm. Automoblle lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls—Very muddy. Weather in 7 Temerature, id &% i F] o 040 ¢ 0o N It ialtinore Bicuinghany Hismarck Hoston ittt ‘ WA N 0 148 Cl 08 i ol 10 WK 1w g ‘ woi ok I 0 D o Clrar 014 Suowing IS S P e S T iz —ese FORKIGN, Greenwich (ime, today ) Tomperaturn Weather Al it i A (7 am wland. ., " honimark s wedei) Bl « a0 kb tibialtyr N of which Erei REED TOUR ROUSE UNUSUAL INTEREST Senator Leaves Capital To- day for Speeches in Western States. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator James A, Reed of Missourl, hailed by his supporters as Democracy's second Andrew Jackson, will leave Washington this afternoon for a cam- paign tour in the Southwest and West. Senator Reed's first speech will be delivered at Dallas, Tex., Monday. From there he goes to Tulsa, Topeka, Denver, and then into Arizona, New Mexico, California and Utah. ‘This excursion into the West by Sen- ator Reed, in quest of delegates to the Democratic national convention, will be followed with the keenest interest by politicians all over the country. The Reed campaign for the Democratic nomination is the first real effort to win the nomination over Gov. Al Smith of New York. Pleadg for Harmony. Opponents of Smith have been seck- ing, so far without success, for a candi- date who can challenge the New York governor at Houston with some pros- pect of success. Senator Reed, it 1s true, is listed with Gov. Smith as a wet, but Senator Reed is a Protestant, and has called upon the Democratic party to forget its differences over the prohibition question and get down to the business of turning the Republican | “rascals” out of office. The Missouri Senator has made a strong plea for harmony in the party. That he will be unsatisfactory to the ultra-drys in the party goes without saying, but there are Democrats who firmly believe he would be more acceptable to the South and the West than Gov. Smith, who 1s a wet, a Catholic and a Tammany man. One_element of weakness which Sena- tor Reed has is found in the fact that Wilson Democrats, Elnlcuhfly in the South, still resent his opposition to the late President following the World War. Move for Curtis. So much interest has been aroused in Reed's preconvention trip that represent- atives of press associations are to travel with the Senator in order to send broadcast reports of the speeches and receptions. This is an unusual proceeding so early in a political cam- paign. The Curtis-for-President boom in New York is to be aided during the coming week by Senator Capper of Kansas. The head of the farm bloc s to go to New York Thursday for con- ferences with the Curtis leaders there. A banquet will be given in his honor. FOUR WOMEN ROBBED BY PURSE-SNATCHER Footpad Attacks Three of Them, All Believed Victims of Same Man. { A colored man is thought by police to have snatched the purses of four wom- en last night, striking three of them | from behind. | His victims were Mrs. Esther Landry, 2113 N strest; Miss Anna Fogleman, | address unknown; Miss Rosalie Malone, | 2408 Massachusetts avenue, and Miss| Ann Arthur, 1221 Thirteenth street. i Mrs, Landy was the first vietim. | She was felied and robbed of heri ketbook containing $17 in front of’ er home. A hnl‘r’ hnukrm_l-li:r Mt;sy; Malo; to nees. s hln'!"‘f’n.;l gmd while walking on 8 street near Massachusetts avenue. The purse contained only 30 cents, she told police. Miss Fogleman was at- tacki in front of 2412 Tracy place and her pocketbook containing 81 stolen. The ketbook of Miss Arthur was snatched as she walked on street near Sixteenth. It contained $8 All of the women described their |assatlant as a young colored man. RAPID LIQUIDATION OF DEBT OPPOSED Garner Would Prevent Propagan- dists Getting Opening for New Argument. | Fearing that forelgn countries would insist on cancellation of their debts to the United States if the American debt is wiped out too quickly, Representative Garner of Texas, ranking Democrat on the ways and means committee, op- pid liquidation of the public debt in the House yesterday. The Texan predicted that in such event propagandists would charge the Government with using foreign money to defray its expenses, adding that no such charge can be made so long as the public debt stands. His argument pre- ceded passage of the Burton bill for funding the $62,850.000 debt which Ju- goslavia yet owes the Government. Garner did not oppose the bill, which now goes to the Senate, but said he could not approve the principle behind foreign debt settlements that has been defined as “the capacity of debtor na- tions to pay.” He argued that the Gov- ernment had no “moral or legal” right to lend “the taxpayers’ money” to for- efgn countries after the signing of the armistice, and that every cent of such loans should be repaid. FORMER CAPITAL MAN KILLS SELF IN HOTEL Aylett R. Woodson, 41, Leaves Note Indicating Worry Over Health. Ty the Awsociated I ATLANTA, Ga February 18- Despondent over i1l health, Aylett R Woodson, 41, a World War veteran and former vewspaper man of Washington, shot himself through the head at a local hotel hers, yesterday. Woodson lef note declaring: *1 have (ried every way to regain my e h, and 1 see no use in ll)fllfllll’ money and suffering again as I have™ ‘The note was left on & table in the room and was addressed to P. J. Bur- ton, & cousin, living here, who was only relative, Woodson was & native of Hillman, Ga. Aylett R, Woodson, who recently com- mitted sulcide in AUanta, Ga, ‘Was a veteran of the World War, having been stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, and the training school at McArthur, Tex. He recelved an honorable discharge us rporal in 1919, At one time he was totally disabled. and was a patlent in a Georgla hospital and the Walter Reed Hospital in this elty. It is sald that he was connected with one of the local Hewspapers at one time. 0il Curtailment Protested. NEW YORK, February 18 (M .-A protest against the plan to curtail pro- duction of crude oll In the Seminole area of Oklahoma, oposed by ol operators, has been ed with the Okmulgee District Oll and Oaa Asso- clation by J. Edward Jonea of New York, who represents royalty ol inter- eats in the midoontinent area, Mzrs. Lindbergh to Receive Gold Emblem As Token From Teachers’ Organization By the Associated Press. For ‘characteristics of modesty and idealism and outstanding work in the teaching profession” Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh will be awarded a gold em- blem and life membership in the Na- tlonal Education Association at its con- vention in Boston March 1. Secretary J. W. Crabtree of the asso- ciation, who signed the certificate to- day, said, “It {s a source of distinct pride to the teaching profession that the youth whom the nations have so | singularly honored is the son of a fel- low worker.” The testimonial to Mrs. Lindbergh, representing the high regard in which she is held by more than 180,000 teach- ers in all parts of the country, will be presented while her famous son, Col. Lindbergh, looks on, just as she has lnnlfit}d while the world heaped honors on him. SOCIETY OF NATIVES EXTOLS J. H SHANNON Adopts Resolution of Regret at Death of “The Rambler.” Others Paid Tribute. Suspending its usual program of en- tertainment, the Soclety of Natives at the Washington Club last night held a special memorial meeting for two of its members who died recently, Dr. Samuel S. Adams and Rev. Page Mil- |burn, and for J. Harry Shannon, “The | Ramtler,” of The Star editorial staff. Resolutions expressing regret over the deaths and the consequent loss to the society and Washington were adopted. Dr. Adams, the immediate past president of the socfety, and Mr. Shan- non dled Sunday and Rev. Milburn died January 31. Coples of the reso- lutions are to be sent thc families of the three men. The three were eulogized by Lee D. Latimer, president of the society; Wash- ington Topham and by John Clagett Proctor. Mr. Proctor, who introduced the reso- lution regarding the passing of Mr. | Shannon, asked that although the lat- ter was not a member of the society, the resolution be adopted because of Mr. Shannon’s “long public service.” VISITOR FOUND DEAD IN GAS-FILLED ROOM Friend Had Given Man Permission to Sleep in Quarters—Door Open, Jet On. Found about 9:15 o'clock this morn- ing lying in a room on the third story of 806 F street, Stanley L. Douglas, 23 years old. of 1314 Levis street northeast was pronounced dead by Dr. C. B. White of Emergency Hospital when he was summoned by police of the fourth precinct. The odor of gas was detected in the room. The windows were closed, but the door is said by Joseph Glace, a roomer at the house, who found Doug- las. to have been open. Glace awoke this morning with a headache. Smelling gas, he went to the room on the third floor from which the odor seemed to come. The gas jet was about three-quarters on, he said. Willlam A. McGuire, who rents the room in which Douglas died. gave Doug- las permission to sleep there last night, he_says. The coroner will perform an autopsy on tl'l‘. podx g0 determine the cause of death. = “= HAVANA DELEGATES READY TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION PACT (Continued from First Page.) has been recognized by a number of other governments. ACCEPTS RESIGNATION. pr A BUENOS AIRES, February 18 (#.— The Argentine government has accepted the resignation of Honorio Pueyrredon as Ambassador at Washington and also as president of the Argentine delegation at the Pan-American Conference ot Havana. Foreign Minister Gallardo in a mes- sage to Dr. Pueyrredon said that the Argentine government had at first not wished to accept his resignation for patriotic reasons, but as the matter had been given publicity, it deemed accept- ance was the only course open. Claim Dm;xet to Home. Chatles M. Galloway and Lyda M QGalloway, 2015 Belmont road, have filed suit in Circuit Court against the Valley Vista Apartment House Co., Inc. and Harry T. omumfi, contractor, to re- cover $5,000 for alleged damage to their home. Through Attorneys Douglas, Obear & Douglas, the plaintifis say that the defendants on May 1, 1927, commenced the erection of an apart- ment 60 feet from the Galloway home and by the use of pile-driving machin- ery, which set up a tremendous vi- bration, damaged the Galloway home. Trade Suit Dismissed. The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed the complaint against the Na- tional Association of Stationers, Office Qutfitters and Manufacturers, involv- ing alleged formation of combinations for_maintenance of retatl prices. Other respondents against ~whom complaints had been filed included the Wholesale Stationers' Association of the United States and its members. Al of the complaints were dismissed. Child Badly Burned. Phying with matches proved disas- trous yesterday afternoon for Bertha Brown, colored, 3's years old. 822 L street, who was burned badly about the face and body, before her parents reached her and smothered the flames ‘The matches set fire to her dress and the flames spread rapidly She was taken to Emergency Hospital Reserve Council Elects. PFrank O. Wetmore of Chicago was re- elected president of the Federal Advis- ory Council of the Federal Reserve Board yesterday. Other officers for the year are: John F. Bruton of Richmond, Vice president; members of the execu- tive committee, James 5. Alexander of New York, L. 1. Rue of Philadelphia, Harrls Creech of Cleveland and Wal- ter W. Smith of St. Louts. MOST STUDENTS HELD IRRELIGIOUS Only 10 Per Cent Actively In- i clined, Educators Told; Plaoe in Curricula Urged. ‘The War Department and the National Aeronautic Association are co-operating in_arrangements to bring Mrs. Lind- bergh to Boston by plane. Col. Lind- bergh is expected by the assoclation to fly to the convention in the Spirit of St. Louls, although no detalls of his plans have been received. The presentation will be made by Dr. Joseph M. Gwinn, superintendent of the San Prancisco public schools and president of the department of supflt‘;‘mltlnd’ence 101;‘"\9! education body, on the closing night of the conve ! March 1. sl onvention, { 5. the Asso | . Acronautics in its relation to educa- tion will be the keynote of the closing sesslon. The speakers will be William | P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of | Commgree for Aeronautics, and W. F. | Durand of Leland Stanford University, | | @ member of the national advisory com- | | mittee for aeronautic: | ANTI-U. S. MOVES ated Preas, PRINCETON, N. J, February 18— More than 200 educators, including t. presidents of some 60 Eastern univers: ties and colleges, here today for a con- ference on religion among ecollege men, were confronted with the assertions of one delegate that only 10 per cent of the student body of the average institue tion could be fairly termed iglously minded." The delegates, in addition, gravely as- {sumed the burden of responsibjlity for lack of religious training in coileges FOILED AT HAVANA | {at the opening session last night, | was devoted to a sympost State of Religion Among College Men. the subject could be reached and that | Presenting the viewpoint of the uni- it should, therefore, be postponed five Versity administration, President Ernest years longer. | H. Wilkins of Obe: College declared It is. of course, in strict privacy,|that of a representative group of 1,000 thoroughly admitted here that this re- | undergraduates 800 assumed a passiv mote prospect of “progressive” arbitra- |attitude toward religion, 100 were ag- tion is absolutely no equivalent at all |Rostic or atheistic, while the remainder for the instant satisfaction of con- |Might be called “religiously minded.” (Continued from First Page.) sructing international legal institutions, which would hold and bind and fetter the United States. Some other ex- planation is needed for the riddle. It is a double explanation, The first part is the fact that the Latin Americans could not agree among themselves either on how the United States should be fettered or on whethe) jor not it should, in fact, be much Xeg tered at all. Senor Ricardo J. Alfaro of Panama was appointed to be the “ponente” or “‘reporter” on conciliation and arbitra- tion and courts of justice and all other such devices for bringing the United States to time. He did not present his report and his suggestions until within a very few days of the close of the conference. The reason was manifest. Every one of his suggestions produced instant dissension among Latin American colleagues. An Unbeatable Trio. The second part of the explanation is personal The two ablest intellectual and preliminary performers among the Latin Americans turned out to be Fernandes of Brazil and Maurtau of Peru and they turned out to be not anti-American but pro-American. Fer- nandes and Maurtau and Hughes to- gether were potentially invincible in a debate. ‘The two parts of this explantion put together were triumphant. The radical reformers of the conference divided | | | | | nandes and Maurtau and Hughes, sat patiently and wiltingly vesterday after. noon through a protractec debate on the second rate subject of the rights and duties of aliens in foreign lands. Then very late, the clerk got up and read the report on “intervention.” It contained only a few words. It dis- missed “intervention™ from this confer- ence. It was all over. The vociferous revolt against the United States died. ‘The rest of the proceeding of this conference will be words. The curtain | on the chance for anti-American action is down. i INN FIELD, PAYING, DRAWS AMERICANS, CLASS TOLD Acute Demand for High-Type Hotel Employe Exists Today, Staley Says. Americans are just beginning to real- ize that the catering field is a lucrative and neglected one in this country, H. J. Staley, registrar of the Lewis Hotel ‘Training School, declared in an address to the students Thursday night. Mr. Staley reviewed the history hotels and inns in the world and en- larged upon the industry in the United States, where, he said, an acute demand exists for hotel employes of the highest {type. While aliens have been foremost n the catering fleld here in the past, he declared that Americans today are en- field of endeavor. { During the week, Miss Alice Bradley. | principal of the Fanny Parmer's School of Cookery of Boston, visited the school. Members of class 29 presented and |served their class dinner last night 1 when 15 members of the faculty were ,‘sursu. The dinner, in effect. was a lemonstration of the principles learned lin the cooking and serving of meals while studying the “back of the house™ section of their course of hotel training. Class 30, which was organized rec-: | cently, will hear Ralph L. Polio, assist- ant to the president of the Mayflower | Hotel. who will present a lesson on the ; duties of the “superintendent of serve | ice,” Friday night. o ‘ WINS WOMEN'S DEBATE. Ohio Wesleyan University Team Defeats American U. debate team last night defeated a women's team from American Univer- sity at Hurst Hall by & two-to-one vote of the judges. The visitors, who took the affirmative side of the Question, “Resolved, that the United States should not aford | military protection to American private | investments in fore: countries.” were Alice Stofer, Josephine Hattle Teachout, Ethelwynne Hine and Jane Lytle. Miss Mary Loulse Brown. dean of women at A. U, presided, and the judges of the contest were: Miss Kathleen Duggan, national secretary of Delta Sigma Rho, the national honorary de- bating fraternity; Representative Homer Hoch of Kansas and Judge Vernon W. Van Fleet. GUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE. Fourteen Members of Congress At- tend Breakfast. breakfast at the White House this morning. Those tn this company were Senators Bruce of Maryland and Johnsan of California, Representatives Snell, New York: Burton, Ohto: Willlams, Dlinais; Michener, Michigan: Ransley, Pennsyle vania; Ramseyer, Towa: Frothingham, Massachusetts. Rankhead. Alabama, Mrs. Langley, Kentucky, Beers, Pennsyl- vanta: mpbell. Pennsyivania, and i Luce, Massachusetts, Father Slays Girl as He Re-enacts War Service to Her Piano Accompaniment By tha' Assaciated Pross CHICAQQ, Fehruary 18.--The unend- ing tragedy of the gun that wasn't loaded has come to Ralph Ferwerda. 1t was after dinner last night and hiy daughter Alice, 18, was at the plano Her mother and two sisters sat nearby. A martial echo of the World War in hich her father fought ralled from the yer's fin 1t stirved memories in o heart of Ralph Ferwerda. Up and down the Hving oom foor he marched—head up. chest out, stam- ach in. From the wall he anatehed an old Army ritle. “Halt!™ he erled, “(let ready ! “Atmin At the laughing face of Alice, who had turned to watch, he leveled the weapan ro 1™ Ralph Ferwerda told the police he it & ICRTACR R among themselves and gazing at Fer- tering the industry to find it & )uenu\'eI Ohio Wesleyan University women's | ‘Two Senators and twelve Representa- | tives were the President's guests at| (miy his of such depe: ceased D0 U antied 0t SR Have Native Idealism. The latter group was not readily re- \ducxhle to type, kins said, and t he irreligious class el ’L‘.xcr simpi |of mental excitement,” but | fish desire to do things that are worth- | fact that fairly extensive and intimate fidence in their native ideal. adequately maintaining and developing | stood out in bold relief from among | college curricula. place for religion. be expected to pay attention to a slight. | we who are trying to foster voluntary it deserves.” | the viewpoint of the university nessed as “slovenly” and without dig- | MRS. CAMPBELL DIES. Widow of Robert G. Campbell, 84, Robert G. Campbell, for many years & « long iliness. She would have been was the daughter of the late John Mc- three sons, James ! Williams and Miss Anna Campbell of ::ucmmn. ferred “the way of physical and me: vice or threw over religion as a matt | percentage, despite its indifference, s | affected by “an undercurrent of | while.” | “I should like to bear witness to the contact with college men in rec years has given me an increased c Wilkins added, “and I must con! that the college in my opinion is not that idealism.” | Keeler, whose youth and black hair | gray headed educa‘ors, made an ea. plea for the inclusion of religion in I Urges More Religion. “The curricul out until it s on a par | department? Surely students can ed subject. The situation, gentiemen. is largely in your hands, in spite of what | religion among undergraduates may do. | We expected you to give it the attention President Henry Sloan Coffin of Union | Theological Seminary, speaking from .. with the youth, character izing many chapel vices be had wite | mity. | | ‘Was Capital Native. | Mrs. Hanpah Campbell widow of lumbing contractor here. died at her ?eszdence. 1837 R street, Thursday, after 34 years old tomorrow. = A native of this city, Mrs. Campbell Devitt, who was in business here prior to the Civil War. She is survived by Joseph D. Campbell. g three daughters, Mrs. Emma C. this city, and Mrs. E N. Hill of Mon- ; six grandchildren and four great- Punera! services will be conducted in Paul's Catholic Church Menday | St ©of | morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be {in Rock Creek Cemete: MARKET SITE HIT. Disapproves Proposed Southwest Location. Emphatic objec | Gibson ity report filed vesterda by Chairman Gibson o |tee of the House Dis which investigated sil sites. Mr. Gibson includes a I ment from the Bureau which rul gainst the Southwest site, and which {avors a site norih of Penne sylvania avenue Mr. Gibson said: "I am convinced that it would de a mistake to locate the Parmers' Produce Market south of Pennsyivanta avenue. Aoy one of the sites north of Pennsylvania avenue would be preferabie.” —e DEFENDS OIL INDUSTRY. Representative Howard Declares It Is Patriotic and Honest. Spencer and | Mary Kigore. The local debaters were | ana, a fellow Democrat | Robert Stewart of 1 €0, contended b ber of telegran ts stand before the Sel {and the names of these o i de made p e, TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS | Ne. & atus of & taxparer rahges I the st the vear. 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