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o - * §2.750000 PLEDGED | FORC. L. NSTIUTE $550,000 Available Now for D. C. Resident Pays $228 to Treasury “Conscience Fund” On His Way DAM GOES OUT TO TAKE HUGE TOLL IN INERGER FIGHT LA 0 FOREIGN RULE Claytcn Holds Opposition Is The Treasury Department yester- day received from some unidentified person in Washington a $228 con- tribution to the “conscience fund." New Research Laboratory at University. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. A gift of $250.000 in cash. and pledges totaling $2.500.000, of which $300,000 has been paid. give assurance that the propased chemo-medical research cen- ter at Georgetown University will be a reality, and the work will soon be started on thes building, library and equipment, Rev. George Coyle. 8. J. direetor of this project, announced to- day. An endowment of $4.000.000 is re- quired for this project which aims to focus co-operative study in all branches of science to seck out the fundamental causes of discase. In this connection the announcement emphasized that 28 per cent of all the deaths are due to five diseases about which science knows relatively little—heart disease, pneu- monia, cancer, chronic nephritis and | tuberculosis. chomo-medical center at George- town is to carry out the recommenda- tions made by a committee ol nine of the most eminent scientists for the American Chemical Society. As the work grows it is expected that ibe original endowment will be muitiplied and fellowships created. Group to Be Impressive. With the addition just erected to the | Georgetown University Hospital and | with plans to start next month on the | new medical school west of N_street. between Thirty-sixth and Thirty- seventh streets, the chemo-medical headquarters on the joining square will give Georze!{own L‘;n:l%r::;: an im- ressive group of new buildings. | p'l'he gfll of $250,000 which Father| Coyle snnounced today is made by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Maloney of Waldwick, N. J. Other large contribu- tions to the endowment fund that have been pledged during the last five years will now be Immedujm‘v available for i out the project. | "_‘ffi;“‘m remml:nendluons of the scientific leaders to the American Chemical Society for a concentrated attack on _disease, Georgetown recog- nizes a call to duty and to humanity. and to meet its obligations of national service to the present age and to gen- erations yet unborn.” Father Coyle said today. “it proposes to erect a chemical laboratory which, while supplying need- ed facilities for its arts and science schools, will at the same time contain a completely separate institute of chemo-medical research, equipped with all modern facilities of apparatus and materials. Here, eminent specialists chosen only for their performance and atimulation of original investigations. free from the burdens of teaching and in the security of a comfortable living. can devote themselves to chemo-medical research in almost ideal conditions, to the end that human suffering may be | relieved. We are confronted with this | high duty. since it is agreed that the Nation must look to private institutions | rather than to industrial or govern- mental laboratories to perform it. Co-operation Planned. “In the investigation of its vital prob- Jems, the late war has taught us that amazing rapidity and successful results are best attained the systematic co-operation Jf trained investigators in the various fields of science which bear on the problems under consideration— that the work of research '!;':ur‘\.hmd and eonference, their united efforts will be most fruitful.” of the center that in Washington vast array of Government laboratories | on t every type of scl- | entific problem. Employed therein are scientists numbering more than eight thousand The Chemo-Medical Re- | search Institute will enjoy the advan- tages of close contact with these work- ers and make available for consultation their varied knowledge and experience, besides enlisting the advice and aid of inevitably come to the National Capital. The lbrary facilities here are also of Congress and the library of the Army and Navy Medican Museum—justly famed for its special collection of the rarest and most varied works on medi- cine—all valuable to investigators. SIZABLE TAX SLASH Capt. HINCHCLIFFE OFF ON ATLANTIC HOP (Continued_from_First Page.) Iter Hincheliffe. “I am starting out from Cranwell on an attempt to fiy the Atlantic.” HINCHCLIFFE AIDE INFORMED. ative Recelves Message on Flight. NEW YORK, Gillesple, press representative in this Press Repre: { country for Capt. Walter Hinchcliffe, made public a cable today, which he sald established that the Britisher was on his way along the perilous western air passage to America. ‘The message, filed in London at 8:45 this morning, read: “For purpose ad- vising you our friend left 8:45, details later.” It was signed Lloyd Radmalyon, a name unfamiliar to Gillespie. Gil- lespie said that he had arranged with Capt. Hinchcliffe that when the cap- tain took off for this country he should have a friend cable the information in the form of the message received today. MAY WIN $25.000. Hinchclife Has Chance for Prize Of- fered by Newspaper. PHILADELPHIA, March 13 (#).— Capt. Waller G. P. Hinchcliffe, British fiyer, who left Cranwell Airdrome, in England, today for an unannounced destination, would receive a prize of $25.000 if he made a non-stop flight to Philacelphia. It was offered August 4 last by the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and stands for one year. An attempt was made late last Fall to withdraw the prize when weather conditions became severe, but, under the rules of the Fed- eration Aeronautique Inte; mnale and the National Aeronautic tion, it remains in force until the completion of the period for which it was posted, August 4, 1928. TWO STORMS OVER ATLANTIC. Avoid Them. Lieut. F. W. Richelderfer, aerologist in the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, said today that if Walter G. P. Hinch- liffe s flying westward across the At- lantic Ocean he will encounter the most favorable weather he could ex- pect at this season of the year. He added that a westward flight at this time of the year is “quite an uphill propesition.” Indications are that there are two storms over the Atlantic of moderate intensity, but if the British pilot flies over the northern route he will avold them, the expert said. B. L. Mitchell of the Weather Bureau said that reports from Iceland and Greep'and indicate that easterly winds are biowing and it is possible that the take-off was prompted by this fact. Mr. Mitchell said that a storm was moving south of Newfoundland in an easterly direction and that another was eastward from the Great Lakes The second storm, however, March 13 (#).—John | U. S. Aerologist Says Hinchliffe May | No explanation was given. The contribution is the largest in_many months for this fund from a Wash- ington donor. INOT WISE TO SLUR DISTRICT FOLKS AS INCURABLY UNFIT (Continued from First Page) clamor for participation in American sovreignty, when, if secured, it may not add a dollar to one’s purse?” One asked of old: “For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lo: his own soul?” The modern query i “What is a man profited if he regain his soul. but lose a nickel or a dime | The suggestion, however, that the mn- . | consistency between the treatmeat of | Americans of the District and Ameri- can principles and ideals does no in- jury is not tenshle This_inconsisten:y 1s vitallv _nuritul not only to its victims of the District, but to the Nation which inflicts .t It brands the Washingtoniun who assents to the suggestion that he is bet- ter off without this right and power than with it as hopel-ssly and incura- | bly unfit to exercise it, an unpatriotic | degenerate not resenting the insult of | classification with those un-American | Americans who slur participation in American political sovereignty as weari- | some, annoying and worthless: a ”tm I not to be treasured and protected, but despised. It debases the complacent, | 'assenting Washingtonian to the level of the Scriptural swine before whom | pearls are foolishly cast. | 1t not only substitutes shame for hon- | or. but it robs the Washingtonian of a | genuine, concrete, substantial power— that of. participating. man-fashion, in the councils of the world's greatest tion. Possession of this power has giv- | en the small States prestige and in- fluence In the national councils. ‘The possession of full American citi- zenship gives greater honor and power By the Assaciated Pross NEW YORK, March 13.—Loss of life in outstanding flood disasters: AMERICA. 1889 —Johnstown, Pa., 2,000 died when dam burst. 1900—G 1913—Ohio River, 7. 1913—Brazos River, Tex.. 500. . 6,000, following tidal wave and tornado. 1921—June—Pueblo, Colo., 500. Arkansas River. 1927—Mississippi Valley, about 130, including indirect deaths from accidents. 1927 —Novembrr— Valley, Vt. New England, about 100, including 54 in Winooski FOREIGN. 1887—China, Hoang-Ho River, estimated 800,000, 1911—China, Yangtze River. estimated 100,000. 1926—September—Spain, 100. 2,000, | than that conferred by Roman citizen- ship. “I am an American” is to be an | announcement involving greater reason- | | able pride than the proclamation “I am | |a Roman." Does the American suffer ! ! 1o loss who must modify his proclama- | | tion by saying: | | “I am politically an emasculated, de- | fective, delinquent. impotent American | | I am barred, like the convict. from | participation in the National Govern- { ment which governs me, taxes me, i makes laws for me and sends me to war. Am I to be mocked when I demanc | this right and honor and power of othe: | Americans by the reply that I suffer (1o real loss from this cruelly debasing deprivation?” Vital Injury to Nation. | How can the Nation i'self escape vi- tal hurt from complacent vielding to an assault upon Ametican principles {and ideals which contemptuously ap- | praises and depreciates the basic prin- | ciple of American representa‘ive gov- ernment? This incopsisiency encourages anti- | American bolshevism and radicalism. It vindicates that slurring appraise- ment of the dignity and value of Ameri- can citizenship and of American prin- | ciples and ideals in which anti-Ameri- can bolshevism and radical communism are rooted, the present-day deadly menace to the fine sirong spirit of American natlonlmg. It disables Uncle Sam in fightingAhis unpatriotic indifference or contempt of which the non-voting evii is a p- tom. For example, Uncle S8am s to the patriotism of ant nofi-vot- | | ing Americans, he denounces . and threatens them. But how can Uncle Sam appeal to or denounce or threeten with any effectiveness when he himself at the seat of government sets the ex- ample of contemptuous sllu’llnf of the vital principles of represcntative gov- ernment? How can he lash the ktay- at-home potential voter when he him- self arbitrarily bars from the possibllity of perticipating in their National Gov- ernment & community of half a mil- lion Americans with over three hundred | thousand residents of voting age who constitute one of the most Intelligen:, | conservative, progressive and Intensely | American communities in the republic | and who are urgently petitioning for the | right, privilege and power of partici- | pating on American principles in their own National Government, An evil condition maintained by the Nation at the Natlon's Capital is righ ly viewed as typical and characteri.uc. The shame is national, not jocal. Autocratic non-representative govern- ment in the only Americain territory governed exclusively by the Nation | brands the Nation itself distinctly and indelibly as un-American. As is the Nation’s City ro is the Natfon. ‘lhe Capital fs the Nation's hcart. If the Republic is tainted with un-American- 1927—July—8axony, Germany floods and storm. HUNDREDS SWEPT TO DEATH AS CALIFORNIA DAM BREAKS | came from linemen of the Southern California_Telephone Co.. working be- | low San Francisco Canyon, ptlrlbul(‘d{ the dam break to an earthquake. Ten bodies lay in an improvised | morgue at Saugus, near here, this morn- | ing. These dead. however, represented | in the opinion of Wiillam Bright, chief | of the county shenfl’s rescue squad, | only a small percentage of those that | died in the tremendous gouge of the| loosed flood. Two of the bodies were part'y identi- fled as brothers, Marvin and Perle | Caspar, employes of the Barnett ranch The $100,000 Southern California | Edison plant, half a mile below the Carey ranch, was reported to be a mass of smashed cement work. 50 Employes Sought. What became of the 50 or more fm- ployed around it remained for lhl‘} growing army of rescue workers to discover. The dam sent out one warning of | disaster as its crumbling walls loosed | the flood on the canyon. Dr. C.. Ashley, proprietor of a sanitarium :i Saugus, reported that shortly after mid- night he saw two tremendous flashes, | evidently from the breaking of a power line Scenting trouble, he ordered his | assistants to stand by to render aid. The Los Angeles water supply is in no immediate danger of being seriously affected, according to the Bureau of Water and Power. It was said there was sufficlent water in the San PFer- nando Reservoir to last more than 40 dnys. (Continued_from First Page) POWER LINES DOWN. Wires Leading Inte Santa Barbara Swept Away. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 13 (#).—The power supervisor of the Bouthern California Edison Co. offict here early this morning announced that the power lines of the company leading into Santa Barbara had been swept away by the flood of water released by the breaking of the 8t. Francis reservolt dam In San Francisquito Canyon. 1 NO RECORD OF QUAKE. Georgetown U, Seismograph Fails to | Record Temblor. ! from playing on streets w List of Californians Believed Killed as Huge Dam Collapses By the Arsociated Piees. NEWHALL, Calif., March 13.— The following is a partial list of residents in the flooded area who are believed to have perished in the St. Francis m disaster. They are: Harvey S. Berry and wife. Henry S. Mathis, his wife two children. Henry J. Burns, his wife two children. Griffith Hughes, his wife two children. William E. Weinland, his and one child. Carl J. Mathews, his wife three children. and and and wife and [ CITIZENS WOULD KEEP PUMPING STATION OPEN Congress Heights Association Agninst Senate Action in Elim- inating Estimate for Project. The closing of the Second and Bry- ant streets pumping station because ol the elimination of estimates for its maintenance in the Senate would creatc a serious “fire menace” throughout the District, it was declared last night at a meeting of the Co"i"“ Heights Citi- zens' Association In the Congress Heights Baptist Church. It was pointed out that the discon- | tinuance of the Second and Bryant streets station would throw the entire burden of pumping water on the Dale- carlia station ‘The association directed that a letter of commendation be sent to Willlam Roberts for his work in representing the Federation of Citizens’ Associations At the merger hearings of the Public Utllitles Commission. William 8. Kelly was nominated as a candidate for clection to the Citizens' Advisory Councll. The parent-teacher | assoclations were asked to co-operate to | lower the number of accidents among school children by kw‘plng the children here the traf- ‘The St. Francis Dam (upper), nea | today, loosing a raging torrent to sweep on toward the Pacific Ocean. More than |in the flood. | Map (below) showing location of S dated by the swirling waters. Based on Control of Qutside Owners. william McK. Clayton told the Public Utilities Commission today that oppos. “foreign control” r Newhall, Calif., which collapsed early down the San Francisquito Canyon and 400 persons are believed to have perished Associated Press Photo. t. Francis Dam and the territory inun- LOSTA RICA HEARS OF PANANA PACT Boundary Disputej Reported Settled With Resumption of Relations Near. By tha Associated Press 8AN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 13.— Diarfo de Costa Rica today says a cenvention between Panama and Costa | | Rica scttling the boundary dispute will be signed in a few days. The boundary has been in dispute since 1921, but lately secret negotiations are | said to have been conducted to end it. ‘The paper says it has learned from confidential sources that the frontier |in the region of the Atlantic coast is !not to be varied, but is to remain |in the status quo which has held for | the last 30 years. Both countries are | to_make concessions regarding the Pa- cific frontier. SURPRISE IN PANAMA. Assembly Votes to Quiz Foreign Min- ister on Rumor. PANAMA CITY, March 13 (®.—A | near-sensation was created in yester- | day's session of the Assembly when | Deputy Enrique Jimenez introduced a | | motfon for summoning the foreign min- | | tster betore the Assembly to explain | current reports regarding relations with | | Costa Rica. The motion was adopted | unanimously and the minister is ex- | pected to appear this afternoon. | " The motion caused a surprise be- cause ft was not known publicly here that there had been any new move, towe 'l resumption of relations since the iailure of the mission intrusted to Dr. Julio Fabrega in 1925 Jimenez said he had heard a well that official relations | | 35 COALCONGERNS MERGE N DISTRET Griffith Corporation and Con- sumers Company to Be . Headed by H. R. Dulany. Consoiidation of the Griffith Coal Corporation and the Consumers Co., two of the largest coal supply concerns in the District of Columbia, and the formation of a new corporation, headed by the directors of the two separate | companies, to become effective April 1. was arnounced today by H. Rozier| Dulany, who s to be president uf tie to be known as tne Co., which will operate under a Delaware charter. The consolidation of the two concerns has been approved by the boards of directors of the two companies and rati- fied by the stockholders of the concerns, Mr. Dulany said. W. W. Griffith, presi- | dent of the coal concern of his name, to be chiirman of the board of directors of the merged company.: the three vice | presidents serving under Mr. Dulany | will be Pere A Wilmer, Charles H. st. ! John and W. D. Griffith. Mr. Wilmer will be treasurer and M. O. Chance, now vice president and secretary of the Griffith company, will become a director and secretary in the new organization The new concern plans to take over Al the assets of the two existing com- pantes and to issue 5.000 shares of 7 per cent preferred stock in the new | company, and to issue 3000 shares of no-par common stock. It will main- tain the four main distributing coal | yarda of the two compantes. Three of these. now owned by the GriMih Co. | are loeated on the Baltimore & Ohio) tracks at North Capitol and M streets | {and at Bethesda. Md.. and on the Penn- | and that | sylvania tracks at Rosslyn, Va. and the | ! declared Clagton. tion to the traction merger agrecment Vi chiefiy on the njection of s ot lca‘Lwd by the ‘ux(|:l'—- dow"” of the North American Co.. Y;lgga he declared, is the main g.’\c\- ance that is “worrying the public. 1f the heads of the two traction com- panies had come before the commission with a merger plan of their o Clay- ton gave assurances there wo heen no public outery. The people o Washington are anxious for a merger. he declared, but are opposed merger agreement linked as it the control of the North American Co. Ison, a director, wi ownership of the bus li : ized as h‘a)vmg “a string attached o0 1t The merger proceedings entered r final stage today when William A. Rob- erts, Clayton and Ralph B. Flehar people’s counsel, made the conc! arguments on behalf of the pi oppositicn to the plan before t mission. Counsel for the traction ¢ panies will bring the hearing to a late today Urges Separate Valuation. Clayton took the position that neither valuation nor a rate return should be written into the merger agreement and urged the commission to make its own valuation as of today The public is perfec 4 accept a proper valuation, he said, but | “we do not accept this.” “When this merger was brought here. “the company said ‘Here i3 a $530.000,000 collar which w= ask the commission to put around th neck of the public, padlock it and throw presenged,” Clayton adde: hands have been laid upon it. resul in some confe: but no_con: { North American Co. son. | He denied the heads of the two irac tion companies have virtually closed door on the merger, provided the a ment is not accepted, and declared 1 Congress yet would have the final » to say about it. Mr. Roberts. who opened the argi- ments for the public, attacked the valu- ation and the 7 per cent return as nui fying the powers of the Public Utilities Commission by breeching the law with provisions for legisiating the valuation and return in perpetuity. Asks Commission to Act. “We do not wish to destroy the hope of a merger.” Roberts said. “As sane men we don't want to sec the com- panies put on the rocks.” He declared it was the public’s pos tion that the commission itself, a due consideration and investigat propose some effective and reasons way to effect a merger. Roverts declared that the commiss even in the event the merger agre ment fails. could enforce the law by requiring the companies to effect re- routing of cars and other measures of economy which he said the comparies claim would result from a merger. In this way. Roberts said. the public would retain some of the benefits and im- proved service. Why the companies had not effected these econcmies long 2go. Roberts de- clared. is a matter which they will have to exolain to their stockholders. With the conclusion of the merger hearinz todav ‘the stockholders of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. 2bie | meet tomorrow to vote on the unifica- tion plan. The stockholders of the Capital Traction Co. will do likewise Thursday. GORCON IS OPPOSED AS DISTRICT JUDGE AT HEARING TODAY ___ (Centinued from First Page) he had nothing to add. Maj. Ge declared he did not know the individua! referred to by Mr. Smith and had never Assistant District Attorney N Burkinshaw cross-examined Mr. Sav about the details of each of the spes cases tn which Savage had com; ot the ac office. Answering @ Burkinshaw, Mr. Sa: he had been sent to Fort Leavenwort Prison in 1919 as the result of charges of alleged use of the mati ' ter he was transferred to St Elizabeth's Hospital from which he was | gone on such a fishing trip. DOUBTED BY SMOOT | i’ ism at its heart the whole of the bedy founded rumor politic is thus tainted. | *Will the Natlon perpetunte an evi ourth is owned by the Consumers' Co. on the Pennsylvania tracks on South Capitol street. bly would not be encountered by | the British fiyer as it is not expected | to reach Newfoundland until after the | fic I8 heavy. later released Witnesses Are Examined. were About to be resumed. In order| An exhaustive research todny falled | | fixciose any not to prejudice diplomatic negotia- | to disclose any trace of an earthquake | Forecast of March 15 Returns Indicates Revenue Loss, He Declares. By the Asocicted Press Bomewhat dubious over the prospects ©f & measurable tax reduction this sea- the Benate | finance committee announced today 1hat the tax cut measure already passed by the House would be kept on the commitiee shelf until at least March 25 aweiting & study of the March 15 tax returns, Senator 8moot explained his lack of optimism for an appreciable reduction at this time on the basis of a recent survey, which he said revealed that in- eome for 1927 on which taxes will be peid this year. was spparently from 9 10 10 per cent less than in the previous year This preliminary survey, eonducted by an official sgency, he said, would show & loss, if correct, of ahout $140,- 090,000 in receints this year from cor- | poration tax returns slone. The House b1l provides principally for e slash in this tax “However, 1 thould hate tn sce the sestion end without some form of & tax et the finsnce committee chairmsn #2160 “The returns for the first quarter Wil soun give us & true guide” . A pisce that disappesred from his- Wry #nd hws now only Jubt come Jght is Bethel in Palestine. For cen- turies the site of this Old Testament tuwn hat been unknown, but hss now brer Gianvered by srcheologisie NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES KEITH'S THEATER 12:20 10 1 O'Clock Auspices Washinglon FEDERATION OF CHURCHES SPEAKER THIS WEEK Pashop William Fraser McDowell of the Methodist Egiscopal Church AlLL CORDIALLY VITED time the fiyer would b: expected 1o 1S FOUND ' DYNAMITE IN CHU | | { 1 Pastor and Workmen Discover Ex- plosive While Moving Heat- ing Apparatus, | Special Dispatsh 0 ‘The Star | STAUNTON, Va, March 13.--Three | sticks of dynamite, 8 inches long, weigh- ! ing about’a half-pound each, (ogether | with 40 feet of fuse, and 25 caps, were discovered in a discarded furnace in the | basement of Olivet Presbyterian Church, | one mile from Staunton, by the pastor, | Rev. H.E. Truitt, who, with four work- men, was moving the furnace for tem- | porery use 1o the new Woodward apart- ment here No fire had been in the furnsce for severs) mouths, as & new steam heating Appartus is in use Mr. Truitt could not presence of the explosive. LINDBERGH HOPS OFF explain the FROM CURTISS FIELD Leaves With Attorney for Unan Destination—May Go 1o West Connt nBounced By tha Assiiuied Piee WTISE PIELD, N Y., March 13.- Col. Charies A Lindbergh, accompanicd his counsel, by Menry Breckenridge, ook off in an alrplune st 12,34 o'clock ihis alternoon for en destination 1t ehry plages believed, would be st Albany, N. ¥ plene cariica 300 gallons of gasoline, “The field was muddy without ditheuity . Koray the By e of the Springhield, Mo 0 diamond o the stomsch of w woiien who was socused of the theft of Ve stone The | upon afier a thorough search of g wombn by police resiilta, Pulice RCH FURNACE| unannounced was belleved (hat he lnteuded (o iy ultimstely o SBan Diego, Callf, in The Drst stop, his friends “The due 1o recent id ralne, bt the colonel hopped succecde 1 bocatn g A-ruy wae decided mations had falled of il Apringing from its own unpatriotic neg- E lect, from its own lack of appreciation | of the spirit of true Americanism? H Should not the Nation, irrespective of | the just pleas of the Washingtonian and purely National concern, al National Capital, itory under exclusive Natlonal con- ance with the spirit of the times and in ity own vital interest, that thete shall body pelitic this foul abscess not Amerieanisxm, with its threat of bloo poisoning? A constitutional i mendment s now | pending which en Jongress (0 cure | this evit condition. Will not every red- blooded American petition and demund that this remedy be immi istely ap- plied? How long, O Amerle hingten be compell | sing: | "My country, ‘tis of thee, Not fand of liberty For District folks, Where rights for which the fathers died | Are now denied und crucified, Mock'd at an jokes,” 'TRADE BOARD MARKS i MARYLAND NIGHT| must we of | o say and to| | ftate Officials to Attend Meeting Tonight at Willard—8peak- ers Listed. | Maryland night will be observed by the Washington Board of Trade at its monthly meeting this evening at the Willard Hotel, when & score of officiul of newrby Muryland, members of the Maryland delegation in Congress and other officials having to do with co-an- eration hetween the Distict and Mury- tand will be guests of honor Bpeakers of the occasion will include Senator Tydings of Maryland, Repra- | sentative Zihlman, chulrman of the House District committee, Ma) Brooke | Lee. apeaker o1 Delegates; T Howard Duckett, chalr man of the Suburban Banitary Com- mission, snd Col. U, B Grant, 3d, cx- utive otficer of the Natoanl Cepital K and Planning Commisston Probiems affecting hoth the Nation | | Angeles, had boen a resident of Wash- the Maryland House of | qperin O'Bannon in Califfornia on the selsmograph at Georgetown University. | Director Tondorf declared there “is not the slightest sign of a disturbance,” in the region of the St. Francis Dam. MRS. J. B. ROANE 39, DIES AT FAIRLAND Former Los 'Allfl;i;l ‘R.euident Had | Lived in Capital for 20 Years. Special Dispatih (o The Star BURTONSVILLE, Md, March 13 Mrs. Jeanctte B. Rowne, 39 years old, died last night at her country home, Falrland, near here, fter a long fliness, Mirs. Roane, who formerly lived In Los ington for 20 years. | She I8 wurvived Charles A Ron and two brothers Funeral services will be held al Liberty Grove Methodist — Episcopal Church at 2 o'clock Thursday after- noon. Rites at the grave will be con- ducted by the Burtonsville Grange. Honorary pullbearers will be Howard | MeMarlen, Silver Spring: Be Ine- man, Washington, Lacy Shaw, Bur- tonsville; 8nowden Athey, Laurvel; Arthur L. Smith, Washingloh, 1. R Cissell, Colesville Active pallbenrers will be Dr. IFred Campbell, Washington; Charles 1* Dowd, Washington; Peter Schuub, Washington; Val Iseman, Washington; Willlam McMarle Falrlund, and Toliver McMarlen, Falrland. MRS. COOPER DIES. Widow of Capt. Sllas Cooper Sur vived by Two Sons. by her husband, a retired contractor, | | | | Soecral Dispath (o The CULPEPER, Va March Cooper, widow of Capt. Bilas Cooper, died at her home 1 Culpeper yestorday moining fter an axtended period of Nl health Hurviving ale two sons, Henry O'Ban- non Cooper, & prominent attor of 13 Mrs, | Capital und Prince Georges s Monls | womery counties will be discuxsed | The meeting Is (o be presided over by Kawin C. Grahsm The thiea Dishilet Commilssiones huve been nvited (o #llend, Alexandrla, and Robert Cooper of flocky Mount, N. € Also one brothei Col. Pressley 1, O'Bannon of Rappe hannock. The funcral will take place from 81 Elephien's Episcopal Chureh this aitesnoon, | the SINCLAIR ON WAY EAST AFTER VISIT WITH FALL | Former Cabinet Officer’s Illness| Will Bar Him From New Trial April 2, Magnate Says. clated 1 EL PASO, Tex., March 13.—Harry F. | Sinclalr was en route East today after inspecting oll properties in this district and visiting with Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior and co-de- fendant with the oll magnate in the ‘Teapot Dome conspiracy trinl Other than to reiterate his belief that Il health would prevent Mr Fall from attending the scheduled reopening of conspiracy trial In Washington April 2 Mr. Sinclair declined to com- ment on the case. He previously stated he did not come here to confer with the former Secretary of the Interior on the trial 61 Japanese Sailors Lost. TOKIO, March 13 (4. All hope for the safety of the schooner Dalicht Maru and the gonstal coal boat Kashin Maru, which disappeared Saturday night dur- ing a heavy storm, was abandoned today hen floating wreeknge was discovered. B dered with all hands, totaling 61 Under the “Information at sourco provision of the revenue act of 192, all persons, “In whatever capaeity uot- Ing." are required to report to the Com- missioner of Internal Revenue payments to others durlng the taxable year of $1,600 1f the reciplent of such payments Is single oport. need not be made If the pay- ments nguregate less than $3.600 I the mavital status of the payee is - known to the payor, or if the mariial atutus of the payes changed during the year the payee ta constdered w single pevson for the purpose of Allng an in- lormation veturn A separate return of Informat for each employe 18 ve- quived of employers ‘The requirement 1 not limited fo periodical payments, but o single payment must be reported Infrmation veturns are earetully checked with the individual veturn of the mxlmyrr o whom such payments are made. During the year 1027 many delinguent returns weve reeured s w 18- sult of the exwmination of information veliiue, th vessels were belleved to have foun- | It the veclpient 1s married | tions, he suggested that a secret sesslon | of the Assembly be held to hear the foreign minister. FAMOUS PERSONS FOUND | AIDED BY JESUS CHRIST/| | Rev. W. M. Depp Speaks at Noon Lenten Service in Keith's | Theater Today. “All famous men and women became | reat through friendship with Jesus | Christ,” Rev. W. M. Depp, pastor of | Calvary Methodist Church, declared in| his address at the noonday Lenten| services held today at Keith's Theater, under the auspices of the Washington | Federation of Churches. His subject was “The Friends of Jesus.” “If we become friendly with Christ and share the beautiful friendship with | his spirit,” Dr. Depp sald, “it will mean moral elevation and bring us our own | distinction. Every generation produces pumerous men and women who through | | triendship with Christ are transfigured | Innd become the Idol of the people.” | Dr. . M. Diffenderfer. pastor of | Memorial Lutheran Church, prosided | and offered praver Bishop Willlam F. | McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal | Church, who was to address the services | this week, was unable to attend yester day and today, but will speak tomorrow | “The Dutles of Religion." . Glee Club to Sing. Niecial Dispatch to The St ! STAUNTON, Va, March 13-The| Qleo Club of the Manch College of | Music will give & recital Thursda eve. | ning at Fishburne Military 8School, Waynesboro. Hecause her litle Pekiness dog 1s so | | suffielent stee to SUpport & muzale and, | I8, therefore, prohibited from viding on | street oars. Mrs. Thomas N MoLaugh- Tin, 1780 Conneotieut avenue, called at the Distrlot Bullding today (o complain to Commisstoner Dougherty and wrge that something be done (o corvect the njustice 'he Commissioner was busy with momentous questions when Mis Mo Laughiin ealled and she was fnvited to e her protest with the Polive 1 partment. A few minutes later she nde el ApDeRIaNge W the oiice of | more, ‘The Griffith-Consumers' Co_also will | take over the fuel ofl and building ma- terials business of the Griftith Co.. and. | for the present at least. will mainta the business offices of the two comps nies, located at 415 K street and at 1319 G street, the latter being the of« fices of the Griffith Co. For a year or it Is announced. the Consumers' Co. 1s to be op ed as a holding con- cern, and eventually both the presen: Qriffith and the Consumers' companies are to be dissolved as such. Assets of the Grifith Co. now are list- ed at $310.000 and the Consumers' Co. | At $190,000. and. under the merger | cement, the Iatter interests are to acquire $150.000 of the personal hald fngs of W. W. Griffith. This would | make the holdings of the Consumers’ Co. | in the consoitdated organization about $340.000 and the Griffiths about $160.- | 000, MIr. Dulany sald PUT UNDER $10,000 BOND. ! Driver Captured In Running Fight | Held for Grand Jury. James A Jackson, colored, driver of the car which figured in a vunning gun fight February 7 between Juckson and | two motor eycle officers of the tweltth | police preetnet. (rom Mount Olivet Cem- tery, nlong Rladensburg road to Vista, Md. was held for the grand jury under | 410,000 bond when arraigned this morn- | g before Judge Isaae R, Hitt in Plice Court on (wo charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. He was also sen- | tenced to 80 qays for veckless deiving. | has been in the hospital | since the Nght recovering from a blow on the head delivered by Officer Wat- | son Salkeld with the barrel of his gun after he had (ried to drag Jackson off his pariner, Ofticer Krnest ¢ Spaulding. | iExcmptiun Is Asked Ur;dcr Mu.z;lc: Law For Pekinese Dog W ith Diminutive Nosci Mal Kdwin B Hesse and Liewt. Lo 1| [unfortunate as 10 be without a nose of [A. Kdwards, assistant personnel officer, | (e sehoat furned a WHling ear to her story | The mueh maligned Nede Pekinese | accompanted Mrs © MoLaughltn on a | leash. He did not have the appearaice | of being bellicwse and Mrs. MeLaughtin | assured Lleut Kdwards that he s pers } wetly havmless and theve is no apparent | veason why he should be barved fram | (he street cars. U1 have tried everywhers o got & mus ale ' Mis Melaughlin said. “but none WL AL BB You aeo B has na nose. and & musede Wl not sty on A dog that hias 4o nog." | that odist Enbscopal debt oF e bewid oF Waaees Mr. Savage declared, howe he obtained his release on corpus proceedings and not bec the expiration of any ter his release by habea dence that he had been illegall He told Senator Deneen that the rea- son he was transferred to St. Elizaceth’s Wwas because he had investigated condi- tions at Leavenworth and had sought to bring them to the attention of the Department of Justice. After Mr. Adriaans had made his complaint Senator Deneen inquired as to how long had practiced law here and whether he had ever had aim. culty with the courts. Mr. Adriaans ad- mitted that he was disbarred in 1917 in connection with a perjury but contended that he had been an_injustice One of the charges of Mr the district attorney's office had obstructive methads to prevent patients at St. Elizabeth's from abtatn- ing their freedom, and that the district AMtorney was counsel for Supt. White of St. Elizabeth's. In answer to this. Ma. Gordon told the subcommittee that » was required by law o represent only the supermtendent of that h. but the heads of all Government partments in ltigation, NATIONAL BiBLE SCHOOL PLANNED FOR CAPITAL Columbia Training Qroup t a; [ Savage was used o Dis cuss Campaign for Funds Tonight. Plans (0 raise s budget to deve the Columbla Bidle Traming Scho Wio & natknal Bitle coliege. o be o cated here in & new ventral buildig housing all the activithes of the sehw, WL be discussed At & meeting o de held under the ausplees of the student STOup at 8 o'clock tonight at the Wash- ngton Hotel Representative Robston of Kent Wil be the prineipal speaker of the ning. and other speakers an the v Bram inelude Benjanmin Mooks, who Wl outline the tuture development of Rev. Rav Palmer. Miss Ehle Wade Stone and Rev. Thomas Hiowne — Soks Wil be sung by ¥R Heartsil and Mvs. Fanade Shreve Heart- Al and W students number will be ghven by the student group. The suppirt of the Columbia Ridle Traliniing Soal i s new praect wiit be Aceamplished entirely by voluntary kv | contributions and gifis, and the seheol | Will e endowed by wen and wamen miorested W religtons education. - Rev Robert Lo Fuls slxmr of Asbury Meth areh South. s prests