Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 1

. WEATHER. . 8. Weather Burean Forecast ) Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder to- night; minimum temperature about 30 degrees. ‘Temperature—Highest, 63, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 38, at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 4. Closing New York Stocks, Page 14 @h ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as seco post office, “No. 30.620. MARINES MASSING IN NEARAGUA AS i Versailles Court RESULT OF AMBUSH Casualty List for Monday’s Engagement Shows 5 Dead and 8 Wounded. DETACHMENTS UNITE AFTER FIGHT IN JUNGLE| Lieut. 0'Day Spends Night at Bat- | tle Scene Burying Dead and Treating Injured. Marine Casualty List Br the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Febru- ary 29.—The casualty list of the American Marines ambushed by rebels, announced today, is: Killed in Action. Pit. John C. Pump, Council Blaffs, lowa. Was | longer are content with fictitious resi { dents in France and the special judge | who has been detailed to handle foreign | nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGT D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928 & | “TY-TWO PAGES. ny Slar. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. news _Yesterdaf: Circnhti_ggl, 105,639 * AMERICAN DIVORCES IN FRANCE COLBY DECISION CHECKED BY Residence Rule Will Be Strictly Enforced. | Verdict Has Bearing on Many| Other Cases Now Await- -~ ing Judgment. By the Associated Press, PARIS, March 1.—Easy American divorces in France have ended with a ing Bainbridge Colby's suit for divorce because his residence here was deemed insufficient. The Colby case is likely to be appeal- ed. but both French and American law- yers think that the higher courts will be even more severe than the Versailles tribunal in their determination of French residence. The courts no divorces in Paris now asks whether ap- plicants have sold their homes and busi- ness in their own countries and really intend to live here. ‘The Colby decision is a h t in the recent French policy tcl;'k str;gto en- forcement of the law, but nevertheless caused general surprise, particularly as Pri. George E. Robbins, San tonio, Tex. A Albert Schlauch, James- town, N. Dak. Died From Wounds. Corpl. Cicero D. Austin, Crock- ett. Tex. Pvi. Curtis J. Mott, Trenton, Wash. | The Wounded. Pvt. Lem C. Davis, address not given, shot in left shoulder, seri- land, Colo. Prt. Raymond B. Carter, Pay- son, Utah, shot in leg. Dy the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 1— wWith five American Marines dead aner| being trapped in a jungle ambush Mon- | ¢ay. the leathernecks were massing in northern Nicaragua today. Followers of the rebel Gen. Augustino | Sandino dealt the Marines the severest blow they have suffered since they drove the insurgents from their strong- holds at Quilali and El Chipote in Jan- uary when they ambushed the patrol of 36, Eight Marines were wounded in hich occurred near Daraili. I As soon as word of the encounter was | seceived three detachments of Marines were sent from points in the vicinity. Capt. William K. McNulty of the 11th with 85 men, also joined forces Wik} Lieut. Edward F. O'Day, leader of the Three Marines were killed in the ac- | died from th:lr “;“34‘.;. pped detachment was o2 i of 80 mules from | Yali, M Mll’uc':n delivered lies, ir base dega. s thw-dvuwed through the rug- machine gun and yifie fire from the heavy brush mowed dovn their ranks. The 1 rebels were finally driven ofi. Whether they suf- fered any casualties was not known here. Spends Night Burying Dead. Lieyt. O'Day apparently spent the night at the scene of the battle bury- ing the dead and treating the wounded. Other Marine patrols came into con- Charles G. Loeb, Mr. Colby's attorney, had retained Alexandre Millerand, for- mer President of France, to plead the case. Only French lawyers are entitled to appear in the courts. M. Millerand chose to try the case in Versailles, his { home town, where every one knows him | {and even the mayor testified as to the genuineness of Mr. Colby's residence | there. Other Cases Pending. It once was necessary to live only a few days at a hotel to establish a domicile. the court is to require full compliance with the spirit of the law. There are a number of pending American divorce cases, among them that of Mrs. Virginia Harrison Gross, dauchter of Francis Burton Harrison (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Indicates decision of the Versailles tribunal deny- | | | | Then a few months were | demanded, and now the disposition of | | | Upper: MRS. COLBY. Lower: BAINBRIDGE COLBY. FRAKGE MAYDELAY RELY 10 KELLOG Cenfusion Over Havana Pacti Fresh Outbreaks Expected as | The Tinges Anti-War Views With Gloom. By _the As fusion, now reigning in the con- Prench | toretgn office which s confronted by two texts of resolutions adopted at Havans, outlawing war, may delay the Prench reply to the last note of Sscre- tary of State Kellogg several days. The text of the Havana resolution published in Prench official circles yes~ {terday “outlawing wars of aggression” was cabled by Prench Ambassador Claudel on Tuesday, the Ambassador adding that this was the resolution to which the Kellogg note referred. The other text of the resolution adopted February 18, by the Pan-Amert- can Congress at Havana, was de- livered to Foreign Minister Briand last night by Myron T. Herrick, American Ambassador to Prance. This outlaws ‘war as an Instrument of national pol- icy” and consequently presents a differ- ent angle in the negotiations now In Jrogress between France and the United States on 8 treaty outlawing war. The French government today was awaiting a reply from Aml RENEWALOF MG VOLENGE FEARED Police Hunt Slayers at Pittston. By the Associutod Pruss, ool PIVSTON, Pa. Mareh 1, Whilc o police were making an intensive drive to run down tae three gummen held re- sponstble for ihe latest slayings in Pitts- ton's mine wmon war, citizens of the community today freely vredicted that there would be another outbreak in the factional warlare. ‘There appeared to he a general ac- ceptance of the likelihood that revenge would be fortiicoming for the shooting to death Tucsday of Alex Campell, checkweighman at No. 6 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., and Peter Reilly, recording secretary of Local Union, 1703, United Mine Workers ¢f America. Hired gunmen, imported by thelr ene- mies, were believed by police to have fired the barrage of shots that killed the two men. Lewis’ Help Is Asked. Mayor William H. Gillespie has ap- pealed to John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, to come to Pittston at once and help restore jeace SUBWAY WALKOUT NEARS IN GOTHAM AS PARLEY FAILS Rail Employes Demand Rein- statement of 23 Dis- charged Men. REJECT COMPROMISE OFFERED BY WALKER Moyor Warns Traction Company of City's Power of Seizure in Default of Contract. By the Associated Pross, NEW YORK, March 1.—A strike on New York City’s main subway and ele- vated lines apparently was but a few hours away today. Demanding that 23 members dis- charged by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. be reinstated or the ques- tion submitted to an impartial arbitra- tion board, the local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, a national union affiliated with the American Fed- cration of Labor, rejected the compro- mise which Mayor James J. Walker had reached with the company and the I. R T. Brotherhood, the company union. The company and the ‘Brotherhood agreed to allow its legal department to review the cases, but James A. Coleman, leader of the Amalgamated, termed this proposal entirely unsatisfactory. The men could not hope to get a fair trial from the I. R. T. or the Brotherhood, he satd. Calls Statements “Lies.” He also termed as “lies” the state- ments reported to have been made to the mayor by the company and the company union, that the men were not discharged for membership in the Amalgamated, but for an “infraction of rules * The mayor, newspapérs report, was not entirely satisfied with the agree- ,ment, but was inclined to view it as a ‘concession on the party of the company land at least cause for a delay of any strike for a few days. After the conference, the mayor ask- ed the Amalgamated to defer action for week, but Mr. Coleman answercd, ‘The men are expecting action in behalf of their discharged fellow employes.” mayor was described as agreeable to submitting the question to a board of arbitration. ‘The conference of Mayor Walker and lling attention to the ity's contract with th e hetd' : or strike if they provoke it connive at it. Responsibility Seen. sible for the impending strike, he reported to have "mllnud out, and its lines subject to re by the eity for default of contract. The Interborough Co. was admitting new employes to its 147th street car barns by the hundreds today. During previous strikes, these barns have been used as headquarters for men staying at work and the new ones employed to . | replace strikers. Many of the new employes carried bundles of clothes, which some ob- servers took to indicate they had come from out of town. In the meantime the question of a 7-cent fare, pushed Into the back- ground by the threatened strike, s still pending in Federal and State courts Fares have becn 5 cents since before ! the company officials and union leaders, | ., held behind closed doors, was described as one of the most stormy in years, with the mynrdcl The company might be held respm:; 000 TRANGIT CAPITAL Hanna’s Estimates at Merger Hearing Indicate Increase in Figures. The capitalization of the proposed | Capital Transit Co. may exceed the $52,400,000 as set out in the merger plan of Harley P. Wilson, it developed today when hearings were resumed be- fore the Public Utilities Commission on the transit merger agreement. This was brought out during the cross-examina- tion of John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., by Ralph B. Fleharty, people’s counsel before the commission. lfir. H‘-n{n'efismnud thnr'.mt:;’ ;\:t cash capital o company tween :?gw.m and $1,750,000. Unde e merger agreement these asscts would be turned into the consolidated company and matched dollar for dollar ‘n the Washington Railway & Electric Beate May Reach to $53,500,000. In his ted summary of fication T as the represent additf capital, which added to the Initial $50,- 000,000 rate base gave a capitalization of $52,400,000. Based on Mr. Hanna's calculations, however, the additional capital will range between $3,000.000 and $3,500,000, and bring the total val- uation on which the new company would be entitled to earn a return of 1 ger cent to between $53,000,000 and $53,500,000. Mr. Hanna explained that the pro- uiring the Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. to transfer to the new company net current assets equal to the current assets transferred to the new company by the Capital Traction Co., to provide added capital, was in- serted because of the bellef that it would be more desirable to the public to obtain the additional capital in this way than to borrow it at a high rate of interest. vision 1y MAY BE $53.500,000 v S Wi, used. 83400, | fonal “The Eight Bells,” Where Dick Turpin Guzzled Rum, Goes| By the Asso ed Press. HATFIELD, England, March 1.— “The Eight Bells,” famous old “pub” in which Dick Turpin guzzled his rum between “jobs” on the highway, has been forced out of business. Residents voted they had too many saloons. Bill Sikes, the tough old thief- master of Dickens' “Oliver Twist,” also was a patron of “The Eight Bells,” whose ancient doors will never again open to the notorfous or the c:u:nud who pass along the North road. PR YOUTH, 13, ISHELD Loot Recovered, Police Say. May Solve “Cat” Mystery, Officials Believe. Solution of Cleveland Park's famous “cat bandit” mystery was believed near today by police, following the arrest of a 15-year-old boy, Francis Snyder, of Broad Branch road, and the discovery of a large cache of loot. ‘The youth, who has the appearance of being about 20 and who answ.rs the general description of “the Cat” who terrorized the Northwest residen:ial sec- tion with his series of daring house rob- berles last November, is being held for Investigation at the House of Detention. He is said to have confessed many rob- beries in the Cleve!and Park section. ‘The stolen property recovered l.y po- lice of the fourteentn precinct will be used as evidence in the preparation of tle; cases of petty larceny against the Y. Confession Claimed. ASBANDIT SUSPECT 2. (#) Means Associated Press. [ SENATE RECEIVES FLOOD-AID BILL Jadwin ~ Recommendations Are Included in Commerce Committee Bill. Following out the engineering features of the administration plan, providing $325,000,000 for Federal payment of construction cost, but leaving to a com- sum, the flood-control bill was introduc- ed in the Senate yesterday by the com- merce committee. ‘The bill, bearing the name of Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, chair- man of the committee, while recom- the construction plan of Maj. Gen. Jadwin, chief of Army engineers, also leaves to the commission final de- termination whether that plan or an- put forward by the Mississippl ission, or & combination of be adopted. The committee the creation of a com- as suggested by Presi- and the members, the engineers, the president commission and a pointed by the other River both, Work Would Be Started. The commission would decide after a survey how much and when the affected States would pay toward the cunstruc- tion cost, but in the meantime tue con- trol work would get under way at Fed- eral expense. ‘Under the Jones bill as it stands now TWO CENTS. SINCLAIR DONATION OF $160.000 10 AID G.0.P.FUNDIN T REVEALED BY HAYS Former National Committee Chief Holds Oil King Added $85,0C0 to First Gift When Deficit Threatened. FINANCING DESCRIBED FOR SENATE PROBERS | Knowledge of Continental Trading Company and Bonds Denied, However, in Report of Magnate's Generosity to Republican Cause. By the Assaciated Press. The disclosure that Harry F. Sin- clair made a net contribution of $160,~ 000 to the Republican national com- mittee after the 1920 campaign was made today by Will H. Hays, who ap- peared at his own request as a wit- ness in the Senate Teapot Dome in- vestigation. Hays, who is a former chairman of the national committee, testified that in addition to the $75.000 which Sin- clair had previously been credited with giving the committee, he had turned over $185.000 in bonds. These bonds were later returned, but Sinclair gave back $85,000, he said. The former Republican chairman dis- claimed all knowledge of the opera- tions of the Continental Trading Co. m which Sinclair was interested and whose financial affairs the committee is investigating. Reimbursed Hays’ Loss. He explained that it was the inten- tion to return the $185,000 in bonds to Sinclair, but at the ena of a campaign to wipe out the party deficit he found that he lacked $85,000 of the amount. “1 felt bound to reimburse Mr. Sin- clair in full and I did so, hoping at the i time that I could get some further help later from others.” he said, “but this did not materialize. I had suffered financial losses, of which Mr. Sinclair knew. He did not feel that I shonid bear this burden personally, he vol- untarily returned the $85,000. Hays, who appeared as the secund witness of the day, sat close by Rep- resentative_Cordell Hull of Tennessee, who was Democratic manager of the 1920 campaign, and who has denied nendal Bonds The Repablean foraer chairman was by sena- tor Walsh, Democrat, Montana, who | sought to get details of the detivery of | the securities by Sinclair. Except to soy that it took place in New York, Hajs could not recall the exact location. Help to Liquidate Debt. Hays read a pared statement on the financing olpfiu 1920 campaign. The witness said that at the end of the 1920 campaign the Republican na- tional committee found itself in debt to the extent of about $1,200,000. Although he had retired from the committee in 1921 and from the cabinet in March, 1922, he said he felt 8 sense | | i and until the commission should decide that communities must pay their share of the cost, the Government would bear the entire burden, except that the com- munities would furnish levee rights of way not already acquired and pay one- third of the agreed cost to bring the levees up to the 1914 standard. The Jones bill differs from the Reid legislation introduced in the House, in that the House committee recommended of responsibility because the deficit had { been incurred while he was cl | and that he responded to a request from | the treasurer of the committee in 1823 |to aid in the endeavor to liquidate the ! remaining indebtedness. Tells of Financing. Appearing at his own request before the Senate oil committee, which is in- vestigating the disposition of the profils i Querled on Rate Base. Mr. Flcharty subsequently subjected | an appropriation of $473.000.000 and the | of the Continental Trading Co., Hays bassador tact with rebels at scattered points dur- Claudel on the text matter before be- enlargement of the Mississippl RIVeT | read a prepared statment on the financ- inz the last few days, Six Marines |ginning the drafting of an answer. and order. ‘The mayor placed the responsibility Precinct Detective J. Depalna, In end nine National Guardsmen drove | off a band of 30 which fired at them | at long range when they were about| 2 miles north of Telpaneca. { A plane was fired on near Jicote | from a barn, The fiyers, Lieut. Michael Wodarczyk and Sergt. Thomas Whit- | man, returned the fire and bombed the bullding. NAVY GETS FPELAND REPORT. | General Says Best Information Is That I Four Marines Were Killed. ] & Arsodzied Press. Department has been in- | By o The Navy formed by Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, | commandent of the 2d Brigad: In Nicaragua, that “on the basis of the | most authentic information avallable” | e has learned that four Marines were | 4. one seriously wounded and eight | rines engaged bandits” Monday | The officer said the engagement took between Yall and Condega, but | no further Cetalls, EXPLOSION IN BOY’S POCKET INJURES FOUR is Hurt as Shotgun Bhells and Dynamite Cap Are Bet Off, B ZERESVILLE, Ohw, March 1 & Awsiriated Preve Four of the Kelly Bebool, seven miles of here, were hurt, one of them y, when several showgun shells 4 dynsmite cap exploded in a Lot one of the hoys us they were plsying marbles on the sehool grounds yeserday, Arthur Kinney, 16, bad one hand &) vorn 3 s W be amputated and feared he will lose one beg. The or boys, Varold, John snd Robert Te0y. 15, 10 end & were less seriously punt Lt supposed Kinney accidentally explesed Ui dynsmille cap slopped with his hand o bis % snout el & marble . 1,000 Prisoners Freed. DAPEST, Hungary, Maich | () sral Morihy, regent of Hungary granved wmiesty W nearly 1,000 tical prisowers who were charged wiln diskoysity W U 10 crimes wnd Qelinguencies of Varius stires, Py weriously, wne pr 1, Prince of Wales Wins Race TEFTBURY, Englend, Muich } (A4 i Prinee of Weles won the Welsl Guerds' yace 8L the Besufort o Buint v-point ruces hese boday ers injured, not seriously, when | hie | existing regime | A most pessimistic atmosphere pre- vailed today mn Prench officfal circles, more 50 than at any time since the 1egotiations were opened. It was point- ed out that had the United BStates approved’ the Havana resolution ax rabled by Ambassador Claudel, it would have been so similar to that adopted at Geneva in September, 1027, that grounds of an agreement were certain L0S ANGELES TRP HOME IS RESUMED Huge Dirigible to Make E;(- cursion Over Cuba Before Return to United States. | By the Assoviated Press The alrship Los Angeles left her mooring mast on the tender Patoka In Guacanayads Bay, Cuba, at 10:43 | o'clock, Eastern time, this morning for | the fight back to her hangar at Lake- | wood, N. J,, the Navy Department was informed by radio, Her pilot-in-chief, Licut, Comdr, C. E. Ropendahl, had planned to continue the fiight from Pansma w New Jer- | sey after refucling at the Patoka yer terday afternoon. but decided to re main over Guucanayabs Bay overnight when sdvised that conditions would be unfavorable for a landing at Lakehurst oy An excursion over Cuba and Pmsalhlv Havans was in swre fur the C8-foot cruft wday before she pointed her nose up the cosstline of the United Btates. | Comdr, Hosendubl had informed the Navy Department tist the 1,300-mile “\uyant: would take wbout 26 hours, {which would bring the ship into her [ home station some Ume WINOITOW, | for the strife on the “bitter hostility ex- sing between mine officials, mine con- tracts, unjon labor leaders and insur- gent lubor leaders connected with the Pennsylvania Coal Cu.” He told Mr. Lewis the city of Pittston end vicinity were in a state of fterror and turmoil with. “murders, attempted niurdecs and dynamitings of fraquent cccurrence.” Mr. Lewis, who is in Washington, indicated the most careful considera- tion of the situation would precede any steps on his part to support or replace any of the Jocal union leaders in Pittston. Expressing the belief that a meeting called for next Bunday afternoon to discuss the slaying of Campbell and Relflly was sponsored by radicals, Mayor Gillesple intimated that the gathering would be stopped. The mayor was frank in stating that information had come to him from many channels that more killings by way of reprisal were contemplated. ‘The deaths of Campbell and Rellly bring to four the fatalities In the wur- fare since January 18. Another man was seriously wounded and several have had narrow escapes through the dyna- * | miting of their homes, Factional Fights Blamed. All the shootings are attributed to | Internal troubles in Union Local 1,703 | Camphell was a leader of an insurgent |group that gained control of the local at & meeting January 17, a few hours before the first slaying. Reflly was one of his leutenants, Frank Agati, district organizer, who was shot and Kkilled February 16, was & prominent member of the deposed administra- tion, which had the support of Rinaldo Cappellinl, president of the district. Thomas Lillls, a member of the griev- ance committee of Local 1,703, was shot o death January 18, ‘The strife 1s the culmination of fac- tonal disputes which began after the strike of 1920. Up to that Ume the contract system was in vogue, | Briefly, thin system calls for the giv- | Ing out o individual contractors of u colliery or section of & colllery for them to mine, They hive thelr own men, mine us much conl & day s they can und puy their miners what they like, V50 long as It does not go below the union minimum, Through this system, 1t Is alleged, the Bucking & s0-mile-an-hour head- vind, the Los Angeles ook more than 26 hours W complete the 771-mile hop uver e Cartobesn from Prance Fiel | Canal Zone, W the Patoke, o whicl she moored wt 1 05 yesterday afternoon, Fetore heading seross the tropical ses, she cruised weross the Isthmus ol | Panwms 0 Panema City, Arriving at L1100 man. over the entrance (o Guacan- 1uyhh: Hay, she moored nearly 1wo Uiumas Jater, making an unexpected Laverage speed of more then 38 miles an hour for (e journey, oy » o Croge v contractors rulhllud thelr own groups and puid them slightly higher than unfon wages, bringing ebout condiilons that furced miners not allled with these onbractors out of work, Contract Bystem Rovived, Cuppelling, with Campbell and Rellly, ' were lenders of the revolt in 1020 which did away with the system. For a tme | there was no more contract mining snd all was quiet, Then contractors Fee | sumed. operations, 1 Ohwrging Cappellint with signing with P combract miners, Camphel) revolted | bl oup the Ansurgent group, N R KENLY IS End Comes at Wilmington, N. C., Home—Had Been Il for Some Time. By the Associuted Press. WILMINGTON, N. C, March 1.-— John R. Kenly, president of the Atlantic Const Line Rallroad, dled at his home here at 11:30 o'clock this morning. Aside from the announcement of the death of Mr. Kenly, made by officlals of the Atlantic Const Line at the gen- eral offices here, no information was available an hour after his death, Inquiries brought the information that a statement was being prepared and would be made public In an hour | or s0. It 18 known that Mr. Kenly had been 1l tor some time, Mr. Kenley was 81 years old Inst June. A nafive of Baltimore, Md., he began his rallway career in the employ of the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Rall- road In 1868. He had been president of the Atlantie Const Line since De- cember 8, 1913, JUSTICE HOLMES ILL. EBupreme Court Jurist Confined to Home With Cold, Assoclate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes _of the Supreme Court, who will be 87 yewrs old March 8, is confined to his home by fliness, It 15 reported that he has n slight cold, and upon ad- viee of his physiclan, 18 taking the pre- caution Agalnsl UNNECEssATY BXposure, RUBBER BAN HIT. COLOMBO, Ceylon, March | () A motion recommending vemoval of the present vestrictions o the export of rubbeg i Ceylon has been introduced 1n the Legislative Councll here A shmllar motion was presented o the counchl last year. The motion reads, i part: “That this counell recom- mends to the government the urgent desirability of acceding to the general destre evinced in the country for re- maval of the present yestriction in yes NArds Lo the exportation of vubber," wl HSHEADUFAL.L 2 Mr. Hanna to a barrage of questions concerning chiefly the proposed $50.- 000,000 rate base and 7 per cent re- turn provision in the merfic agreement, and when he completed. Willlam A. rts, vice chairman of the public utilities committee of the Feceration of Citizens’ Assoclations, took up the cross- examination. The people’s counsel endeavored to bring out the purpose of the parties to the merger agreement in insisting on an agreed valuation and a fixed 1ate of re- turn of 7 per cent. Mr. Hanna stanchly defended the $50,000,000 vaie base, re- iterating that it is 20 per cent Jess than the real value of the rellway proper- ties and that the valuation was scaled do m])r!mar(ly because the companies wan to offer an inducemen® to the public and Congress to approve the merger plan, Mr. Hanna also defended the provi- sfon which would entitle the companies to earn & return of 7 per cent. Thir figure, he pointed out, s a minimum rate now allowed by the commission and probably will never be lowered. Holds Increase Needed. Mr. Hanna completed his direct testi- mony at the afternoon session of the commission yesterday and resumed the witness stand when the hearing con- vened this morning to undergo cross- examination. At the very outset he deo- { nied reports that he had said in his testimony yesterday that there would be an increase in car fares, merger or no_mergor. “What T did say was that unless there 15 merger, the Capital Traction would be forced to ask for higher fares, he declared, “and that with & merger the fares would ultimately be lower than under a separato operation of the onr compantes, ‘The situation Is simply this—the present rate of fare ia too low for separate operations." Questioning Mr. Hanna regarding the $50,000,000 valuation, Mr. Fleherty sald: “Why I the reduced value included In the merger agroement? “It was made primarily because the companies want to offer an inducement o public_ and Congress o approve wer,” Hanna answered. T don't y other reason." a “Then you would be as well satisfled without fixing & value In the agree- of ment?" respanded the “F onn't answer for all the companies, but only for my own vnmmuy." Hannn replied, "We would be as well satisfied with # value fixed by the court \m-ule'n connnel The statement of value s a part of all serv- ie-at-cost plans, particularly those Chicago, Olnelnnatl and Hoston, It should be desirable to the public, as it wisumes & great veduction In valye Mr, Fleharty: “Does the fixed value berome permanent " Mr, Hanna: “Yes, subject to addi- Hons." Mr, Fleharty: “In the rate of return?' My, Hauna: “Yes, the minimum vate (Continued on Page ¥, Column 6) [the same tiue to charge of preparation of the cases, stat- ed that he had obtained a confession detailing a series of minor robberies dur- ing the past six months, coupled with a (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) COOLIDGE PARTY ARRIVES IN NORTH §Ars. Goodhue Has Restful Night, Say Northampton Hospital Aides. By the Assoclated Pross o NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 1. Mrs, Calvin Coolidge arrived here at f:30 am. today to visit her mother, Mrs, Lemira Goodhue, who is 11l in the Hickinson Hospital, At the hospital it was sald that Mrs Goodhue had passed a very comforts able night. Mrs. Coolidge was accompanied by her triend and Northampton nelghbor. Mrs. R. B. Hills; Lieut. Comdr. Joel T ‘avone, White House physiclan, and o cret service man, She was driven to he Coolidge home in a taxicab ey~ prted by two State troopers, Hoapital oficlals had informed Mrs oodhue of Mrs. Coolidge's plan to ane heve. This, they uf , prevented e excitement over her coming whioh 'nded to make Mis. Goodhue's condi- on less favorable at the time of Mrs, Qooligge's previous visit in January It Waa said by & member of the White flouse party that Mrs. Coolidge would Commission to 13 members. “(Continued on Page 3, Column 7) — o RICH DIAMOND FIND REPORTED IN AFRIC Fabulous Field, Assem- bly Hears. By the Awsociated Press, March 1.-Discovery of a fabulously rich alluvial diamond deposit in Nama- qualand was reported African Assembly today. “The biggest diamond fleld ever dis- covered anywhere." is the way Sir David Harrls, member of the Assembly for Kimberloy, described the diamond fields. one speaker, that they were lying on the surface waiting to be picked up. Minister of Mines Bevers informed the Assembly thal an Kl Dorado of the country OPPOSES BORDER Outario Liquor Roard Prewent Sale System Be Continued TORONTO, Ontario, March 1 (9 nique in the history CLUBS. ment of clubs along the international boundary is expressed in the first ve- part of the Ontarie Liguor Control oard, which was tabled in the Legis- lature yosterday. The repart recommends no changes In the present system of liquor sale, v‘.«m:ln in Northampton for -rlnn ) ook, Leads Nation in Chicago Court Figures Indicate City assorting that obtained thus far, Number of Divorces Wy e Associated Pross CHICAGO, Maveh 1--Ohloage was called the divoree conter of America to- day by Thomas O, Wallace, olovk of the Clrenit Court. Flaurea he has tabilated shaw that n anly five Btatea of the tnlon are wwre soparations ted than n Ow County, Twice as many divoives were wranted hove last year as there weie In the enthve Btate of New York, . ! The dally average of divorves i Chis QARO TRat yoar, ho sald, was slightly more than 23 Wallace palnted out what he ealled “two remarkable trenda fn diverce wes tona. Move husbands we esking fov and recelving wparations, and albmony awards have nearly doubled. Last vear POr cent mare divoroas were grant- usbanda than n 1006, and wives were allotted $478.983 ln 1907, coampared 10 $T4,304 I 106, Five of these members would be selected from | Stones Lying on Top of Ground in CAPE TOWN, Union of South Africa, i to the South So plentiful were the diamands. said | t the discoveries were Requests Opposition to’ indiseriminate establish- | ood Tesults have been | ing of the 1920 campalgn. “I desire to say at the outset.” Hays | said, “that the only information that | has come to my knowledge about any { Government bonds once owned by the { Continental Trading Co. ever having been used for the benefit of the Re- publican national committee is the re- | port from the investigation of this com- mittee. “1_did not know of the existence of { the Continental Trading Co. at the time | 1 assisted in raising the deficit of the | Republican national conunittee, and first head of it in the public reports ‘u( the trial in Cheyenne, Wyo. “I do know. however, that Harry P Sinclair did turn over to me for the | benefit of the Republican national com- | mittee in connection with Jeficit A certain anm and these bonds may or may not have been originally n ihe possesston of the Continental Trading Co.™ Committee $1.200.000 in Debdt. o sald at the end of The witness a the 1920 can national com 10 the extent ot Telling of hits ppeal 1o the wealthy oil operator for funds for the committee. the former chairman sald | Stuclatr had told him he would make personal contribution which, he 1 thought, should not exceed $73,0000 “He satd he would turn over to [ us approximately $183,000 . Govern- | ment bonds in addition 10 his contridu- ton for such use as might became | RECESSATY upon my assurance that he fwould be repaid the total amount ad- vanced I excess of the $T300 con- tribution,” Hays continued. | “Both the $75.000 and the $185,000 [ were, 1 think, W Qovernment dbonds. JA portion of the $183.000 of Quovern- ment bonds was used as herelnafter Dstated, and this advancement, along with contributions by many othars, enabled the treasurer 10 antounce to the committee at the December meeting | that the indebiednass was provided for | Bonds Not Recorded. “S0 far as 1 Know no reowrd was jmade of the numbders of (hese [ Bands an even of their partiewlar issue | Bonds totaling $73.000, constituting PNy Sinclalrs personal | cwntridution, | were applied on the conunittee’s indedts {eduess at the Kmpire Trust Co., tha jthe chatiman of ©s hoard, Qen. |Culeman du Pont, and 330000 of the original - SIS 000 revelved from Sielair were returned by me o My Sinelaw “Of the n\-.\\\wlmnlelv $83.000 e waining 1 delivered $23.000 10 Sevtes tary Jahn W Weeks of Boston o be wed by him i his eftorts t0 vaise money far the defieit and they weie waed by i for that purpose. CThe approximately $60.000 rematn- mg 1 deliverad t0 Fred W. 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