Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (T, 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy “tonight: somewhat warmer, with lowest temperature about 85 degrees. Tomorrow fair and colder. day; lowest, 28, at 6 a. Temperature—Highest, 48, at noon to- Full report on page 9. today. @h Fpenin £ WITH Slmzfl MORNING EDITION g “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. S No. 30,626. post office, Wa Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entored as second class matter G shington, D. WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, BRIAND SOUNDS OUT _ OTHER POWERS ON ANTI-WAR TREATY Seeks Views of Europe. and, League Before Replying to Kellogg's Note. GERMANY AND JAPAN FRIENDLY TO PROPOSAL Council at Geneva - Refers St. Gotthard Machine Guns Ques- tion to Committee. BY JOHN By Cadle to The GENEVA, M\ Europe | #nd the League of Nations think of the American proposal of a multilateral | treaty for the outlawry of war is what | \Foreign Minister Briand of France is ving to find out these days. Secretary Kellogg's last note has | keen interest but | dearty respect and. coupled with ctner | phases of the disarmament problem, “i the chief issue at Geneva, where the League Council is now in session. AL Briand will not reply to Mr. Kel- Jogz until he has fully sounded out the other powers and probably in any case not until after the French elections. | The French viewpoint is &till un- HOFFMAN REVEA | | | | Louls W. Hoffman, physiotherapist) | with offices in the Victor Building, who now is awaiting action by the xmnd“ jury in connection with the death of Miss Eleanor Lehman, 23 years old, 30, K street, who died on a treatment table | after he had given her a chiropractic | treatment last Saturday, was himself | one of the three incorporators of the school where, he testified. he received | his instruction in the technique of | physiotherapy. Hoffman, under questioning from Miss | Pearl McCall, assistant United States attorney, testified at the inquest at the | District morgue Monday that he had| studied physiotherapy at the “Washing- | ton College of Physiotherapy, located in the Victor Building.” He was un- able to remember the names of the| president or dean of this institution of | learning. i The incorporation records in the | office of the recorder of deeds reveal that the Washington College of Physio therapy, 724-726 Ninth street. was in- corporated on April 8, 1922, by Harry | B. Wright. Dr. Charles E. Willard and | Dr. Louis W. Hoffman. The signatures | of these three men on the articles uf{ incorporation e attested by a notary. The college incorporated to teach “anatomy, physiology, massage, Swedish movements, medical - and orthopedic methods of corrective gymnastics. hy- drotherapy, electrotherapy, thermo- therapy, heliotherapy, pathology and hygiene.” Hoffman was “professor of physio- therapy” in 1925 at the Central Chiro- LED AS FOUNDER OF SCHOOL GRADUATING SELF Was One of Incorporators of Physio- therapy College: Taught at Institution Accused in Probe. practic College, 1914 Seventh street, ac- rording to a catalogue for that year in the office of Miss McCall. Central Chiropractic College, an institution for colored students, was conducted by Gilbert Patten Brown, nmow under in- dictment on the charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with the incorporation of institutions of learning here. Miss McCall said today that she in- tends to go to the bottom of the Hoff- man case and revealed that last night the telephone at her hom» was ring- ing continually with persons caling to inform her of injurics done them by practitioners of various healing arts in Washington whom they believed to he inadequately educated to deal with the human Lody. Miss McCall also i5 mvestigating a report that some practitioners of the various drugless s ols are displaying in their oftices M. D. degrees, vhich are comparatively easy to obtain fiom diploma mill schools. This practice ap- parently does not violate the present law so long as the men do not .ractice as M. D.s, but it gives them *he op- portunity to claim that they are lu- miliar with the methods of physicians and have abandoned them as worthless in comparison with “more advanced methods.’ Miss M. H. Donner, president of the District of Columbia chapter of the American Physiotherapy Association, said today that Hoffman is not recog= nized as a physiotherapist by chat as: ciation. “This is due,” Miss Dol said, “to the fact that he is not a grad- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) changed, holding that the American | general outlawry proposals are 1m:om~' patible with France's commitments under the League covenant. Germany and Japan Friendly. The power most friendly to the Amer- Jcan scheme is Germany. A member of the German delegation visited the Jeague secretariat today and got copies of the text of the Kellogg note. It is understood that the Germans favor the scheme in principle and desire to raise two questions: First, what exactly does the United States mean by “war as an nstrument of national policy”? second, in what manner could actual negotia- tions begin? The Japanese are also very friendly to the American scheme and would ac- cept the last Kellogg note as a basis for | formal consideration. Great Britain is hesitating and is temporarily cold to new American suggestions of disarm- | ament of &ny kind, and she is apt to be suspicious of blanket schemes to outlaw war. But a definite feeling of poten- tial British interests, if not actual sym- pathy, is manifest. The only out and out opponent of the American scheme is Italy, which ! | numerous transport vehicles and ambu- ¢ | airplane base was established at Koweit, !at the head of the Persian Gulf. of 10 BRITISH ESTABLISH AIR BASE IN PERSIA Prepare to Send Planes Against King of Hedjaz in Holy War. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 7.—British alrcraft was ready today for combat in a holy war. The possibility that ‘Ibn Saud, King of Hedjaz and Sultan of Nedj, would attack the borders of Irak and Trans- jordania, mandated British territory, | was met with active preparations by | Great Britain. Advices from said an | Basrs, Irak, bombing machines, 10 armored cars and lance cars. the clcse similarity between | tenor of the American and Russian proposals. So far as the League itself is con-| eerned, after preliminary hesitation, it definitely approves the American plan. There was at first a general suspicion that the Kellogg scheme was unwar- ranted, in fact mischievous, if not a Machiavellian eflort to spike the League's own carefully prepared peace plan by offering what on the surface seemed to be a simpler and more dramatic scheme and put the League in the light of an organization devoted to war and not 1o peace. But in general the League agrees with Benator Borah that its own system and the American system are not incompati- bie. It also says that two continents, . having the same idea on the abolition of war and suddenly reaching two dif- ferent schemes to this end, ought to get together xt least to explore the ject. A careful poll at the secretariat of Bl nationalities shows sympathy with the outlawry plan, and it is even sug- gested and hoped that Minister Gib- son will formally put it on the table when the disarmament commission sits o ch 15. This, however, is hardly Bikely question is the i Security Group Action Helps. | Meanwhile, a spur has been given 10 jan by the results of the ‘The Royal Air Force detachment n Irak, to the north of Koweit, consists of 45 bombing planes and a dozen ristol fighters. The correspondent of the London Evening Star said he had jearned from an authoritative source that arrangements were made to hold in readiness aerial reinforcements in Egypt, Palestine and India. Force Estimated at 30,000 Ibn Saud, who was reported in an| Exchange Telegraph Dispatch from Je- rusalem to have made formal declara- tion of hostilities against the mandated district, was estimated to be able to place 30,000 fighting fanatics in the 1d. There was no confirmation ,of the Jerusalem dispatch at Basrs, which is the chief news source of the region. Masra, however, gets little teliable news 5 conditions in Iin Saud’s desert realm except that which is obtained by air- scouts. ’h'l'x'l:ere was reluctance in London to believe that Ibn Saud has voluntarily avowed himself an active enemy of countries under British protection. It was held that if he was actively sup- ing raiding tribesmen it was because he felt that to remain aloaf would cause | his dominion to be threatened by power- | ful tribes over some of which his con- trol is loose. Ex-Minister Urges Cautlon. The Daifly Sketch today quoted Sir{ Percy Cox, yl'hn was Minister to Persia st the end of the war and afterward British high commissioner in Irak, af| advising l"fll advices from Jerusalem | y committee which closed its| sessions day. Its proposals, in the | ghape of 8 draft of conventions of an | vhsure and tech: nature, and 23 ly nothing vital v the disarma- ! ment problems, will be referred to the Beprmber League assembl 1 enthusissm for the March 15 ing of the disarmament commis- Afier a spirited public discussion, the Trugue councll has yeferred the Bt Gortnard m gun sffair 1 & spe- €l eon ¢, on motion of Foreign 3inister mberiain of Great Britain 1t would be dargerous ¥ begin & prreral disc i the full Council,” seerted Signor Bclaloja, the Jtallan member of the Cou in supporting the Cham n mot of the com Ho) tiee are | said the ruler hitherto had dealt in a | statesmanlike There is ’ and Basra be regarded with caution. Sir Percy knows Ibn Saud well and nd correct manner with government and been grate- | the British support in the past ful for the latter's He was quoted as msserting: {1t i certain that a rupture of his | friendship with Great Britain would be extremely repugnant to him. Tt 1s un- | doubtable that he finds himself in & | gimeult position in relation to his | Wahabi subjects, and, being unable to | check their raiding, has been obliged | either to swim with the tide or find the | tide against himself.” TELEGRAMS HELD IN SHIPPING PROBE Passed by Interests on Pacific Coast. | By the Associated Press. A drastic order impounding tele- grams that passed between Pacific Coast shipping Interests and Joseph L. Bley concerning money said to have been furnished to W. S. Hill, former member of the Shipping Board, and also opposing the Government Shipping Board program, was signed today by Justice Frederick L. Siddons in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The petition for the order was filed by Assistant District Attorney Joseph V. Connolly. ‘The order divulged that the grand jury was making an_.in ~of the Shipping Board fight. The order prohibits any one except the district attorney or his assistants from sceing the telegrams. ‘The grand jury investigation hinges on allegations that section 37 of the United States Criminal Code had been violated. This section covers conspiracy against the Government. Opposition Charged. ‘The Shipping Board controversy grew out of the program for selling the West Coast lines, a proposal which the district attorney’s office holds the Pacific Coast shipping interests tried to block. ‘The petition includes digests of 89 telegrams exchanged between Bley and persons outside of Washington. Many of them were addressed to Lloyd Swayne of Swayne & Hoyt of San | Francisco, ing Bley's signatures. The names of Commissioner Hill and Commissioner Teller also appear fre- quently throughout the list included in the petition, Some of the telegrams have to do with exchange of money. In August, 1927, Swayne wiring Bley referred to a loan, saying he would fol- low Bley's suggestion that the amount be $10,000 and more Jater if necessary. A few days later Bley wired Swayne that $15,000 was required immediately. Program Outlined. The next day Swayne wired Bley say: ing that Swayne & Hoyt had con- cluded to make the loan to Bley person- ally. The telegrams show that the West Coast interests sought to bring influence to bear upon Commissioners Plummer and Benson as well as Hill and Teller, put there is nothing to show that these efforts were successful. In October, 1927, Bley telegraphed Lloyd Swayne, advising him of proposals made to the Shipping Board by Stanley Dollar requesting that the data be kept confidential, Later in October Bley sent Swayne (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) MEXICO CITY, March 7 (4).—Dis- | REPRISAL MOVES REPORTE | i Tribesmen Said to Be Indignant Over Wahabi Raids. JERUSALEM, March 7 (Jewish Tele- graphic Agency).—The recent ralds of patches from Guadalajara today sald Ilulu chieftains and 12 of thelr insurgent followers were killed in various parts of the State of Jalisco, according to re-7 | purts from different army Jeaders to | Gen, Figueros, military commandant, | Antonio Carrille and two men captur- {ed in u battle with federal troops at | Terna Agria, were hanged. Bix of his who began Hungary's | ipe Wahabl on transjordanian villages \men were slain in battle, leafting bad_relations h M. Briand, in d that Hungary must First, where (e | renrisal were said w be in full swing | Palomino, Refu guns caine second, why Hun- gary defie s a waching guns was Jialy PATROLMAN KILLED. . Officer Found Dying Wound in Back March 7 UV, 24, patrolman last pight by an Benoen was foune hie howe with ® bu ‘B vmck e Jgit was in by pend e diwed withoul giving detaiis Folice believed Schoen might have beer, elain by bootleggere. His wije suid he had expressed s fesr hguor punners might ki him rdiene With INIIARAPOLIE Honns nded assatiant . Wales Second in Cup Race. BICESTEI, Eng o Jrinee of Wl i Cul Jubbs yace for the Loid ittt et " .. Sadig Prograns - §age 3 | and twns has called forth great indig- | clamoring for revenge. Expeditions of when Emir Abdullah, ruler of the terri 0 'Heir Says Executors | Of Estate’s Rare Liq frain from thely inten Ky the Awsiciated Pices | NEW YOI, March - Charging the executors of his tather's estale with | wronglully sppropristing more thsn - {830,000 and drinking 450 hottles of pre< war Jiguor, Pearce Balley, jr, son of wh died In 1922, has Hled pult asking [tiw remaovel of his uncle, Charles N Plack of Ban Franclsco, and Robert Thorne of this eity from those positions. ’ The $30000 represents 815000 each the two men paid themselves as s 6d- | vance fee, the suit wileges, and nmong e 450 bottles of liguor he charges were tuken from his father's cellar he & e folluwing i quarts of Handerman brandy, 24 yuerts of ‘Three Blar whisky, 1 quart of Duibnnet, 9 quarts of Green Buipe Beoten, 19 quarts of Lansan 01, 15 quarts of Krag ‘04, 85 4. £ of Haut terie, 4% quarts of Hermitage 11 | 14 yusrts of Menenberg V1, G4 quers Four other insurgents were killed In w0 ption among the tribesmen, who sre s clush with troops under Col. Azacar- | raga, at Mexquite, Chileftains Juan fo Aranda and Augis- re summarily executed tin Garcla, w ¢ | ory, intervened, urging the tribe leaders | uiler being captured individually in va- wlous districts Drank 4;0 Bottlc; uor and Took $30.000 (of Bacardl rum and 34 botties of Dog's [ Heud ule Thie plalntitt declared that when he asked wn wecounting of the lquors ‘Thorne fled w supplementary aecount- ng conteining un item "mlnw'llnnrum’\ U wound i | the noved neurologist, Dr. Pearce Butley, | household supplies reduced o cash o {83,619, and Haley asked the court to determine 1f Thorne considers 450 bot- tes of pre-war Hguor us “miscellaneous houseliold supplies.” Thorne admitted that he and Black | drank the liquor, the petition Aled in { the sutt nays, giving us his reasons that | the Nquor “was not good for growing | oys.” Bulley and his twin brother, James, are 26 years old. One sister, Kdith A, Butley, who his also resched her mie- | Jonity, lives in Bunta Barbara, Callf, Land the other sister, Gersldine Balley, 5w ostudent wi Bmith College and & Lnor, He brought Wie suit in behalt of wll four hels, regular-| Court Impounds Messages| : committee would like to see us get out MEXICAN REBELS KILLED.. MOVE FOR RECALL OF MARINES FROM NIGARAGLA BEATEN Senate Committee Orders Adverse Report on Heflin Resolution. BORAH SAYS AGREEMENT PREVENTS WITHDRAWAL Election Machinery Would Be Left in Hands of Conservatives, He Declares, By the Associated Pross. An adverse Teport was ordered today by the Senate foreign relations com- mittee on the Heflin resolution prop ing withdrawal of American Marines from Nicaragua. Chairman Borah said the committee took the position that withdrawal at this time could not be accomplished | because of the agreement entered into with the Nicaraguan government and the leaders of the Liberal party to hold | {an election and to protect all partics in their rights to a fair election. Cites Approaching Election. “Upon the strength of this agreement to hold an election,, the Liberals laid down their arms, and not only laid down their arms, but surrendered their Senator Borah said. “To with- at this time would not only leave the entire machinery of the election absolutely in the hands of the Con- servatives, but leave the Liberals per- fectly helpless to defend themselves or protect themselves, either in the elec- tion or against the violence of their antagonists. “Whatever may be our views with regard to matters transpiring before that agreement, the agreement places an obligation upon us which we cannot at this time escape. I think the entire of Nicaragua, would like to sce the Marines brought out. If we could hold a fair clection and recognize the gov- ernment resulting from that election there would be some chance of getting | out and staying out. Predicts Liberals’ Victroy. “It is my judgment that the Liberals constitute 75 or 80 per cent of the peo- ple of Nicaragua. And it is my opin- jon that if a fair election is held the Liberals will succeed. Backed up by the people of Nicaragua and by our recognition there is a hope of stability.” MARINES MA FOR DRIVE. Supplies Moved for Concentrated At- tack on Sandino. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 7 (#). -—Preparations of American Marines to end’ the revolt eldej by Gen. Augus- tino Sandino continued apace today. Supplles were moving regularly into the mountainous jungle of Northern Nicaragua and the Marine forces north | of Matagalpa were strengthened. Mata- galpa is the center of the rich coffee | growing region and has a large foreign population. It was near there that San- dino was last actually seen when he visited a British-owned coffee planta- tion The chief of police of Bluefields ad- vised President Diaz that Marines cap- tured four men near False Bluff with | 1 machine gun, 50 rifles and 5.000; tounds of ammunition. False Bluff is! 10 miles north of Bluefields. Training Field Cleared. Officers of the Nicaraguan National Guard under command of Maj. A. B. Sage, who will be in charge of the cast coast, arrived at the old commandancia (military headquarters) at El Blufl. ‘This is being repaired to house the men and no recruiting for the National Guard will take Ylm‘c until quarters | are ready. The drill ground which was, used by former President Zeleya, but | has been In disuse since 1912, is being | cleared off. Recruits will be trained | there. Reeruiting will take place at Puerto Cabezas. Detachments of the guard, upon the completion of their training, will be sent to the main ports along the East Coast. They will also be sent to El Gallo Rama and the mining district. ‘These men are to take over the police dutles of the towns, and in addition to co-operate with the customs sefvice in stopping the running of contraband. Pleased With Prospect. Maj. Sage is pleased with the pros- pects. He expects no difficulty in gain- | ng recrults. If enough capable men | cannot be found on the East Coast, men will be brought from the interior, While guns, ammunition and food for the Marine detachments in the mountains of northern Nicaragua went forward steadily today from this base there was talk of transferring the head- qguarters of the regiment commanded by Col. R R. Wallace from this city to Matagalpa. A pack train of 80 mules took the rond for Matagalpa, the big American animals causing ws much excitement among the native small boys as a herd of elephants would create in an Amerl- can town. ‘The native mules are about | n third the size of the Marines’ animals |and the appearance of an American pack train is always a signal for an outpouring of youngsters. Some moun- tain artillery also went north today. Artillery Moved North. - local developments followed close upon yesterday’s announcement that motor communication had been established to Ocotal, the northernmost and westernmost base of the Marines, “The trucks run from Leon, which has rall connection with both Managua and the port of Corinto, They displace pack trains and ox carts Matagalpa, the destination of the mules from Manuagua, 1s about 650 miles eant of Ocotul and only slightly south, Marine headquarters sald nothing us o the significance of the i Ny, FIRE HITS SPARTANBURG. BPARTANBURG, 8. ©, Mareh 7 (4" Four hutldings were destroyed or bad - Iy damaged and for a time i large por- tion of the business district of this eity was threatened by a fire that broke out m oA bowling alley on Kast Main street here at 7 o'clock this morning. No estimate of the damage was available “The e spread rapldly from the bowt- Ing alley bullding 1o the Btandard Clouk Confectionery und the Converse Hut Co. stoves. For nearly two hours fives men were forced to thetr utmost efforts 0 save the J. D, Collins depaitment slore, the luigest Ju the wily, 1 These MERGER VALUATIO INQUIRY APPROVED Utilities Commission Permits Public’s Representatives to Probe Methods. The Public Utilities Commission let | down rhe bars today at the merger | hearing in permitting representatives of | the public to inquire fully into the| methods and elements employed by the two traction companies in-determining the fixed valuation contemplated in the merger agreement. Willlam F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., pre= viously had warned that, unless the Public Utllitles Commission agrees to $50.000,000 as a rate base, the present merger negotiations are off. With today’s ruling by the comniis- sion, Mr. Ham was put through an ex- haustive cross-examination by William A. Roberts, vice chairman of the public utilitics committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, relative to all methods usca in calculating the valu- ation, whether approved by the courls or otherwise, Companies Cite Precedent. The action of the commission in paving the way for this inquiry was | based on a motion made by Mr. Rob- | erts that he be allowed to pursue these | questions. Consideration also was given | by the commission to the motions of | S. R. Bowen and George R. Dunlop, | counsel respectively for the Wasaington | Railway & Electric Co. and the Capital | Traction Co., offering an objection to| such questions being brought up at this | time. Counsel had contended that in | the matter of the Capital Traction Co,[ {the final valuation and its method of | 'MAYOR WALKER FUNDS T0 ACQUIRE SHENANDOAH PARK NOW HELD CERTAIN Smoky Mountain Gift Brings Assurance of Help in Virginia Project. PLANS TO GIVE EAST TWO GREAT CENTERS Tennessee-North Carolina Enter- KEEPS COOLIDGE EAND CABINET MEMBERS WAITING today kept the President of the United States and three cabinet officers wait- | ing for a half hour to see him. | On a visit to Washington, at the| invitation of Secretary -Mellon of lhe‘ Treasury, to discuss a proposal for removal of the Federal Building in New York City, and having as the one other purpcse of his visit a meeting with the President, the jaunty mayor sipped | coffee until Mr. Mellon called him per- sonally on the telephone to hurry him up and then talked so long with the | Secretary that Mr. Coolidge had to wait | half an hour for him to reach the White | Mellon invited Mayor | CBSONHEARG Géand Jury Foreman Seeks| Chance to Deny Patrol- men’s Charges. Martin D. McQuade, foreman of the | MQUADE WILLASK | Walks Into Mellon's Office Half Hour Late, Then Talks So Long He Is Tardy at White House. Majyor “Jimmy” Walker of New York | Walker to Washington to discuss with | him, Postmaster General New and At- torney General Sargent the mayor's | proposal to take the Federal Building across from the City Hall in New York in exchange for two or three other buildings which would be more suitable for Government purposes. The city wants the site of the Federal Building for a parkway and, according to the proposal outlined by the mayor this morning, would offer in exchange two other buildings nearby for use as a post office and Federal offices. The conference was scheduled for 10:30 o'clock this morning in Secretary Mellon’s office. At that hour Mayor Walker, who arrived here last night and retired I reakfast \(Continued ) COAL CONSPIRACY CHARGED BY LEWIS Says Railroads Sought to Batter Down Wages—As- sails Private Police. Br tha Associated Press. prise Needs Only $140,000—Byrd Moves to Combat Price Boosting. Establishment of two great national parks in the East, along the . rocky watershed of the Appalachian Moun- tains, now virtually is assured. Along with announcement yesterday by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller e« morial Fund of a gift of £3,000,000 to- ward creation of the Great Smoky Mountain Park in eastern Tennessea and western North Carolina, came as- surance today that similar donations by individuals and foundaticas =ill make up the deficit of approximately $2,000,- 000 needed to purchase the area come prised in the proposed Shenandoah Na- tional Park, only a short distance south of Washington. Condemnation proceedin cquire the area lncludflf in the 537‘,395 u:rue provosed for the Shenandoan Park are to be started shortly and it is hoped that the entire area may %e deed-:1 over by the State of Virginia to tke Federal Government within two or three vears. Names of the donors to the fund for purchase of the Shenandoah Park area are being withheld, but both Gov. Harry Flood Byrd and the State Conservation and Development Commission have been assured the million raised by small private contributions and an appropria- tion of a million dollars by the State will be matched by outside contribu. tions to make certain the establishment jof the national park within a short automobile ride of the Capital. $4,000,000 Fund Needed. Approximately $4,000,000 is n is estimated, to purchase the l-l;;d:'\d:‘hl-‘ inthe limits of the Shenandoah Park from the 3,000 small landholders within the area between Front Royal and Waynesboro, Va.. extending east to the Piedmont plateau and west into the historic Valley of Virginia. The region includes some of the most picturesque country in the East, & section of the State of Virginia that has never been tapped except by unpaved and poorly kept roadways, and which is practically ilna state. It runs along the | Blue Ridge Mountains for the entire north and south length of the park. “The appropriation announced by the Laura s'nmun Rockefeller Memorial the Great Tennessee and North Carolina, v!v-m vided by act of Congress. approved May 1926," Secretary of the Interior lvmx declared today. Mr. Work was | one of the first sponsors of the plain for establishment of the two parks and | early say their possibilities in Virginia, | Tennessee and North Carolina. “The fund will be used to pledge dol- lar for dollar each contribution re- ceived for the project. It is estimated thl; 310.000.000;‘5 n;eded 10 secure the park acreage. Work of acquiring the park lands to be donated to the Gov- ernment will be in charge of the park commissionis of Tennessee and North Carolina.” presentation has been definitely set- | grand jury, who was accused by two | tled, and that, in their opinion, a prece- dent thereby being established in this policemen testifying before the Gibson | committee of the House of secking to | Conspiracy among the railroads, mis- use of the judicial function and the | Only $140,000 to Be Raised. . | and basis. case, the Washington Railway & Elec- | | tric Co. s permitted to make its claim | Protect gamblers, announced today that | for valuation upon the same principles he will ask Representative Gibson for | an opportunity to appear and deny the “While we do not believe that the | charges. The foreman visited Clief questions propounded by Mr. Roberts | justice Walter 1. McCoy in the laiter's | State by private police in the central bituminous coal fleld were charged to- day before a Senate committee by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. exercise of the sovereign powers of the | With _establishment of the Great | Smoky Park assured by the gift frowm | the Rockefeller fund. the Tennessee | Park Commission has requested Got. | Henry H. Horton to issue Tennessee's | bonds for $1.500.000 in accordance with and Mr. Clayton are at all times rele- vant to the iss he Public Utilities Commission ruled, “still we belfeve that any questions asked having in view the bringing out the fullest and most com- plete information and data covering all points at issue should be permitted. We have decided that such questions may be gone into by them with the provi- sions only that any questions involving legal matters should be covered in briefs filed during the hearing. or in the sum- ming up at the end of the case.” The commission based its ruling on ! the fact that this is a hearing in the broad sense of the term and should not be bound by legal technicality. Statisties Are Studied. The entire morning was given over to detalled statistics bearing on methods In arriving at depreciation, betterments, reproduction costs, retire- ment of propertics and numerous other factors In determining valuation of the Washington Ratlway & Electrle Co, When the hearing recessed at noon Mr, Ham fnally was excused ‘The traction official, in reply to one of the numerous questions, sald his company has never reached an agree- ment with the commission as to the actual cost of properties in service in 1914, Me estimated t present his- torical or actual cost as of Junuary, 1025, at $13,506,505, but explained that this is only about half the actual cost based on reproduction values, which, he sald, have doubled sice 1014, Ham testified to a total accrued de- preciation reserve fund of $4.219.965.95 created, he explained, through charge: to operation expenses fixed by the Pub- e Utllitles Commission W & E. Income Shown, In o closing statement he put statistics showing ‘the income of washington Rallway & Co, in the Distriet of Columbia available for return upon investments with sup- porting statistical data for the years 1914 to 1027, Inclusive In 1014 the operating revenue was $2,744.443; the operating income, $927 670 lens expenses, taxes and mi eous, and a faly value of $14 ‘The return for that year cent 1927 the operating ve the operating inean falr value, $1886 o was 00 n the e wis . $740,- H03, on 4 which the tocent PLAN “COUR.TING NOOKS.” New Clubhouss for Working Wom- | {\ en to Provide for Bweethearts CHICAGO, March 7 () “Conrting nooks” are planned for each foor of the proposed $3,000,000 clubhouse and hotel For"working women Lo be butlt by the Hinaks Club, “Pho nooks, sald Miss Julle Deal, elub 2n budlding, the Elte Oufe ana | president, will provide places where the | YOURE Women may entertain thelv hoy frtends. Boundproof rooms for muste students wre Included i plans for the huilding, on - which constiuction s (o alart n May, the | | chambers at the courthouse this morn- | ing and repeated to him his cental of the statements made against him. | The chief justice informed Mr. Me- | Quade. that the transcript of the pro- | ceedings containing the charges had not | et reached the court and that on its | arrival he would consult with the other | | Justices as to what steps were pecessary. | Denies Knowing Gambler. “Their storfes,” sald Mr. McQuade, | { concerning the testimony of the tw: | policemen, “are absolutely and un- ! equivocally false and are manufactured {out of whole cloth. So far as I am concerned there is not a word of truth in_what either of them said.” | McQuade said he did not know the gambling house keeper mentioned per- sonally and would not recognize him if he saw him. He sald his acquaint- [ance with Policeman Hellmuth con- | sisted of a visit form the officer to the | the act of the 1926 Legislat o Appearing as the first witness at the | ing tor such an issue. The ‘!x!roecg;efl‘g; opening of the inquiry into conditions | it will be made on condition that a in the coal fields ordered by the Senate | ke amount is raised from outside Lewis declared that among the first | Sheces: | A total of $4300.000 has companies to abrogate their wage | Tennessee :n'; North c‘:‘mlmammd agreements with the union miners were | from outside sources, and with the im- the Consalidation Coal Co., of which, he | petus of the Rockefeller gift, it is hoped said, John D. Rockefeller, jr. “is a ! the remaining $140.000 necessary will controlling factor.” and the Pittsburgh Coal Co.. which is generally recognize in the financial world as a Mellon com- pany. Cites “Political Afiliations.” “Due to its large financial resources and political afiltations,” Lewis \:\‘;\1. the Pittsburgh company Inaugurate a non-union drive big way to deunionire its coal mines. “Wholesale employment of coal and ron police. detectives and deputy sheriffs followed,” he said “Former employes were evicted from [ gas ofice where McQuade s chief clerk when the question was referred to him of permitting a change of gas meter in & house owned. by some of the Hell- muth family without requiring a de- posit. He declared he looked up the necount and finding that payments had be made promptly allowed the | change without deposit { The grand jury foreman sald he is | acquainted with Detective Cox, whose | father 1 also an employe of the Wash- | Ington Gas Light Co. but denied that ihe had even asked Cox about a war- vant for the keeper of a gambling house and had not sald that the pro- prietor was a “gocd fellow.” nor had P he ever advised that the officers “keep (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. MRS. COOLIDGE RETURNS FROM VISIT TO MOTHER | First Lady Recuperates From Cold During Northampton Trip.. Mis. Goodhue Recovering. | Murs. Coolidge returned to the White House (his morning from Northampton, Mass, whete she was visiting her mather, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who has been Al for more (han two months Apparently the trip helped Mrs, Cool- fdge, who hersell way teouperating [ cold that had confined her fo the White House for more than three weeks hen she left Washington last Wednes- day. Mrs RCBOHIS A schoolgiel [ triend and a native of Northampton, who was Visiting the White House at the tme Mra. Ooolidge went to Northamp- ton wnd who aecompanied hev, ves turnod to Wishington with hov today Mis. Coalidge brought back word that her mother 15 tmproving and that hee complete recovery 1s hoped for. During her atay in Nor l\h\\uvlun My Oonlidige lived at the Ooolldge hame on Massasoit » atreet, but took most of her meals at | the home of Mus, Mills, ‘l\ul he sald it had been taken up by their homes and a reign of terror 2 0! and intimidation inaugurated that has ex- celled for brutality and lawlessness any | union-busting —ndeavor this has witnessed fn recent years. The story of the outrages fn western Penn- sylvania, perpetrated upon an innocent populace by thugs and gunmen em- ployed by the Pittsburgh Coal Co., will bs “submitted to this committee in & separate report.” " ardly ha Lewls swung wel his prepared statement. before. ll&o"'::: tary Davis of the Labor Department entered the crowded courtroom. At the direction of Chatrman Watson of Indana, Davis was immediately :l"\llill:rtl 0 A seat at the committee Continuing, abrogation of the eontract with union hmuxwm by the Consolidation € 0, the largest producing com the Fatrmont, W \'a,“m-m.\‘t\ 0 other operators fn that reglon, as well as i the adjoining Morgantown fleld to abrogate ke contracts, * Accuses Raitroad Companies, “The bituminous coal industry today I8 In the worst demoralised state that 1t has ever known," he sald Nation 60 per cent. conl s belng mmed and tors, while the mining coummunities steadily ave being ground down pauperised lovels." A ratlroad drive to reduce coal prives | was attributed by Lewis largely to W, W, | Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Ratlvoad, | other roads, eluding the New York | Central, the purpose belng to secure cheaper fuel for thelr own use and to reduce mine workers' wages so that | they could not be used as & vard- | SHCK measurement of wage rates by which matntenance men and other ratt- road emploves could make comparison i oseeking wage advances “The compelitive telutonship of the | i a} Lewis asserted that the | governor to fworld “ln Pennsylvania and Ohto, where | S ron . Nere | S o s fores wages have been reduced from 30 to| ot b i B TR L T warketed WIthogt profit o the operas | L s, ROARS to available almost immediately. The maximum area of the tract pro- posed for the park is T04.000 acres, and | the Federal Government is ready to act in the establishment of the tract, {lying in both States, as soon as the | designated lands are conveyed. Pro- | ceedings of a special conferen on the | park establishment, at Rale N. C. were speeded up yesterday when a copy of the Rockefeller resolution was vought to the conference from Knoxe vilte, Tenn, by airplane. Pilot Frank Andre, accompanied by Gene Deering | of a Knoxville bank, left the Tennessee | ety a plane to bdring the document {to Raleigh. After being halted on a d non-stop flight at North Wilkesdoro, N. €., by & shortage in | pply, they arrived at Rale: { midafterncon yesterday. Bond Action Pestponed. Action on the isuance of the park | bonds was postpened. however, until | tomorrow, when Gov. Angus Mclean of North Carolina will hold an or meet- 'mg of the Counctl of State, which jexpectad to take action under the im- “\e!\g« of the Rockefeller gift. An- | vb(‘ | | sehed nouncement of the gift was made at a {meeting of the Tennessee Park Commis- {slon at Knoxville by Col. David €. | Chapman, ¢hatrman of the commission, and after the commission had passed & resalution requesting the Tennessee tsue the Stale's donds for the | $1,300.000, Gov, Horton wired the North oal | Carolinag {bonds would be lssued when the State | Was notified that North Carolina would executive that Tennessee Ke stmilar action. In magnitude the Great Smoky Park, FWHD LS approx@mate TO0 square miles of area, will compare with the greas national parks of the West, such as the famons Yosemite, Yellowstane, Grand Canyon and Glacter parks. Ap- SO0.000 actes of the Qreat there are within its borders & soore of TR Wore than a mile aBve sea level Rundreds of peaks [ E raise thelr toek-boynd battements more an 3000 feot high Within the (rvat Smoky area ts one OF America’s JArgest DARRAl game pres SIVRS A tecent survey of the wid | wnimal Nte of he area showed there are more than 3200 ved deer and that black bear, #lk and swall game are to be found Woabundance. The atea & a tteral flshermany paradise, for it con- falns mwe than 400 mites of trout Sheams and streams stocks with the gamy black bass, Condemnation Planued. Prelimtnary surveys of the two pros Psed park arvas were wade thive years cont indusiey, superiinduesd by the vail- {ago by sn Appalachian Park Cormmiss WContinued on Page 3, Culumn 30 3 wWulitinued o Page > Qluma 89 )