Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1928, Page 2

THE . EVENING CAPITAL TRACTION VOTES FOR MERGER Steckholders Register Ap- proval of Plan by Two- Thirds Majority. today, greement by ¢ 8.000 votes 33 Voo §8.043 vo prehensive re- | by W. Roland | engineer for | tor of the North | T of the Wash- T Co., which is in- proposed merge! | { Counsel to Submit Briefs. stions also | ted by counsel for the | ies and the Federation | These will in- agton Railway and | ¥ the North American Co. | will be made by the com- | ws of the lmcuon1 the demands of the | members of the com- | uld be brought about it would be disas- r plan “cool down t least two mem- | n are opposed to the present this question undoubt- e chief bone of conten- | TAYLOR TRIAL DELAYED BY ABSENCE OF WITNESS| ceman Will Face Board Sat- on Charges of Hi- | jacking Liquor. | of a necessary | exs today forced post. | i Saturday of the case of | T suspended _poiice | ¢ having hi-jacked a | from a truck in | street and | on the ‘ The potics Jomon. Taylor's | that he would | ance be- his client cause of his loss charge is hanging over prosecution o AcGee, bondsman. supposed h Josepn P. fied conce jacking an for the post- STREET WORK DELAYED BY LEGISLATIVE INACTION Ay Bill Must rogram Can ropriation NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES NI KEITH'S THEATER O'Clock 7. to 1 Ausp It FEDERRTION OF ” Bingum 1 SPEAKER THIS WEEK Bishop William Fraser McDowel) of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh | of a number of States. | public and private employ, our depart- « trial of | who testi- STAR, WASHINGTON. D. ¢, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928: QUEEN OF SHEBA WAS MALAY, SAYS TRADER HORN OF AFRICA j'Chief Character in Book Is Sure She Originated in ] Madagascar. ) fTeIIs New York Audience of| ? Hostility to Explorer Stan- ley and His Work. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK. March 15.—Alfred Alo- | ysius Smith (Trader Horn), who at the | age of 75 left his peddling of pots and . pans in South Africa to dictate a book ! which has been a best seller in this country for months, has a new slant on | the Queen of Sheba which he expects to put into & book. ) The first beauty of her time was ¢ & Malay lady out of Madagas c old African trader, fighter nere to prove to a doubt- | ica that such a person as the igure that stalks across the Ethelreda Lewls™ book | He made his announce- at a tea given by the Literary of America, i TRADER HORN. and Longfellow, is very bitter again Stanley and sug ts darkly that the fate of some of Stanley's white assist- ants on the expedition was not en- due to natural causes *That last 'un, that chap that was re- ported went over the falls. They say he did go over the falls” Then squinting angrily: “Maybe so-he could havc. The natives would tell you what hap pened. I'm not pleased bocause h turned the Congo over to that song and dance artist. Leopold. anyhow.” Unembarrassed. as he stood knee deep in authors and literary critics at the tea, he showed sears on his arms and legs to prove the truth of some of his tales. Turned to Witch Doctors. “Rocks and spears. folks, rocks and | spears.” he explained as he showed a leg scared decp and ugly just below ti The white doctors fold me i putation, but 1 nt to the tors, and here's my old leg—the orig- fnal” The old_soldier of fortune, who is averaging $4.000 a week from his book royalties, fingled a few coins in his pocket when queried as to his wealth. “Do you know how much money I've got.” he asked. “All the money I've got Tight now is two pounds, six,” and he chuckled, Informed by Natives. ladv, but came make her mark he said. “I got the natives. * They knew all nd told it to me straight. | od solid proof of it. and you | to that, on a totem pole later. | up_the old and new. You have then to India and back | it all up: but it's there— ther 1 told John Gals- t it and John Galswort n vou've got it' and I have.” | ni; from the Queen nf\ ba to Stanley, the African explorer, he was a Malay t of Madagascar to | i i i n and history,” ! o Africa heh-heh ddle my own cance. I carr 1. 1 discovered more than | d. Stanley discovered Liv- he knew he was there all aye, he knew it.” Bitter Against Stanley. The old bewhiskered man, who xv-j sembles portraits of Walt Whitman FAVORABLE R“EPORT EXPECTEb ON REPRESENTATION MEASURE ge.) a petition signed by the national com- | mittcemen of both the Ro))ubllr"m: m\g n's loyalty onservatism against | Democratic parties in the District an e Crcoraos a | bther \prominent party leaders “to de= Bod Rusdia Soviets, and that in the |monstrate that the demand of the peo- World War the colored population of | ple of Washingten for national repre- the District contributci more than its | sentation is in no sense or degree a quota to the fighting Jorces. | matter of political partisanship.” This < was signed by Edward F. Colloday, W. Voting Strength Cited. T. Galliher, T. Lincoln Townsend, Mrs. S <t refuted the imputa- | Virginia Hoyt Speel, A. J. Speilman, !in“n(.(;fr}anél(:‘sofnstztm:ur; fa the Disiricts | all Republican leaders, and by Jobn F. voting constituency, saying that this is | Costello, Robert N. Harper, Charles W. o?iyfif’c'én'.lmhfincy He cited that the | clair, Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Charles total population of voting age under the | T. Clayton. James Conion. and E. T. 1920 census is 305,255, exceeding that of | Dickenson, Democratic leaders. nine States, and that after deducting| To show further that national repre- those who retain voting residence in’ | sentation is not a political issue between other States, those who would not vote | parties or factions, Mr. Suter cited that here even if they could, fearing that it |the Al Smith-for-President Club has might imperil their civil service status, | declared for national representation and the voting strength would exceed that | will ask that it be included in the party | platform at the Houston convention, He quoted. statistics showing that ' and that at the same time William G. 1 v ent | ir ecent speech here heart- ! residents of Washington in Governms McAdoo in a yece P \g:mla)'mem are only one-half of the!lily indorsed the campaign for national corkers in private employment | representation gfing;:?g;;sm fh' District's total| Mr. Suter sarcastically stressed the wage-carning population. These fig-| fact that the chief opponent in many ures, Mr. Noyes said, show that with| years has built up no following, which two Senators the District would have | he said clearly shows the fmpos a smaller percentage of representation |of crystallizinz sentiment that d {in the Senate than seven States, and | exist, and to clinch this conclusion vith only nator it would have a | showed that the same man in two weeks o o diege of representation | had developed strong public support to han 15 States. National internal rev- | keep the Western Market open. enue taxes received from the District s g g i) in 1927 were greater than those paid, s 5 respectively, by 25 States and higher | He declared that this sv)f-chn.wp lead- T capita than in 44 States, Mr. Noyes |er of the npposition found his chief iy support in the musty and dusty atmos- e phere of old book shops Assails Capital Slurs. | Mr. Suter secured from the commit- osi s - | tee permission to insert in the record S A TaE e D Piow- | statements by leaders of public opinion g . | representing more than a score of or- ed out to the commitiee. “emphasines | il ations signatory to the petition the evidence of a potentlal ¥obig SO | for national representation who were Sen ey e ced i quality in | deprived of an opportunity of teitifying e A e Gnton. . Our business (at the hearings due to limited time. AnY professional men. the educational, | Mr. Lesch, an attorney, made a schol- P terary and artistic elements | Arly summing up of the refutation of i tion, our working men in | arguments presented by the opposition, S S oA privats e | showing how irrespansible and unfair 1 Dent clerks and other Govegnment em- | Statements made by the opposition were, ployes, our Winter residents in process | He quoted particular paragraphs which | 5 vers 6 Washingtonians, com- | he believed every member of the eom- e ute one of the strongest, | mittee would immediately recognizs most intelligent, most public-spirited and | being_frrational and an_ nsult to most American communitics in the | citizenship of the Nation's Capital. whole Republic.” He strongly censured | John H. Small, former Representa- slurs passed upon the fitness of Wash- | tive from North Carolina, closed the inglon's population for national repre- | hearing with an emphatic plea for pas- sentation. | sage of the resolution, saying that ft ““The objections to our amendment | does not deprive Congress in the slight- when analyzed.” he said, “are almost in- | est degree of its exclusive jurisdiction variably found o be attacks upon some [and dominion over the Federal area, and non-existent imaginary i1, whic Iht;lh:ll it does not “lnl!..ur curtail the p carefully avolded.” Mr. | powers of Congress. The only effect, ed with a sarcastic refus | Mr. Small sald, 15 to give the qualified ure which the opposi- | electorate of the District repres ation jon had painted would | in Congress, because it is a fundamental sution were pwsed. [ of our form of Government that when real danger t the republic,” Mr. 1dll|ll>.'.‘ obligations nd taxes are im- es emphasized.” 15 that by fatlure | posed the body imporing such burdens of the Nation either to retrocede to[must have within it representatives of Maryland or o ggant rep | those on whom the burden §5 imposed CITY PROVIDES SPACE FOR FARMERS’ STANDS Jllion people, an area inhabited by in- wle political aliens, taught 1o be- | and despise the vital principles the republic i5 founded; bly for the intensive and e sve cultivation of colones o mera|Growers Forced to Leave ised i perversion of State laws y the party or the candidate with the srgest purse--a totten spot of un-| f the heart of the body | g blood possoning” | Father Favored Plan. Rep Will Be Permitted to Use B Street, ers who are to be forced out of the Farmers' Produce Market negt when the sheds on the razed will be permitted o do business preeeded h“‘“ ong the south curh of B street, by OF 0% | tween Beventh and Ninth srects, under oppoued. D Ive plans made todiy by the DI veplied th the featber- | | T ature, but niot the kind of | Conuress ought under this reso- | ment of @ . that be had permitted | outh side of Bitreet betwe s, 55 sssoclated edivor, | Ninth stre that DA the same vigor | could be erccled for the protection of b o “,y,,’,, al ’,",,,,,»‘,’:,H the furmers, An sppropriation of $20,- UEWIE Sin et ¥ 000 been requented for that, purg HEheas on the stern half of et farmers’ o o iitcan, regard- tather, the late Fepresen discratleia: il authorize the ovary matkes wlong the o wooden nheds tes, Republican, of y clear 4 vernment U which Cros- was vt b wl the | ! By under tie Dyer ves- B under e DT et | Comminsone that of his| move the thed At s | bout Mareh 20, ' Il record parking of ury e automobiles. The has notified the Proposes 1o re- the eastern half and thal o1 the ity Lation ere naent " Ui committes by the Ped acbiation in wi- ot | Bgenty ax Returns End At Midnight; Filing Data | - G b tore jon taken ns' A ) present e that orgatzaton n favor of ustlonal representation. dn reluting Ve state ment e by thie bader of e oppo o Ve daeb bewring that four | Wushitiy\on paiars o sl depresantation wnd Wbl Tie Blar ulone Crowis filed thiough e ol wdvocuten It ME BUber put into the | office of the Interngl fevenne B record copies of editorialy and aiiicl veust ul 1422 Pennsylvio enue from wli (e other Jovsl e wall b apen up 1o midnight o and ouoied the editors W take of dute vomies, tn ed i ranted Gl ont tie 1etin, und y e e oath s opposed Ui netional 1o W were helnig tie Colty Baltunore, Midnight tonight Is the Just iy nbe for Blng ieome s vt e wist 1) o adiinisten Man maid 1o Heveie, filed by for b Interna) [} pewenied 0 e commitleg ur upon the quality | Darr, R. P. Andrews, A. Leftwich Sin- | Maryland and Virginia truck farm- | week | tern halt ure | 1 B1xLh and | the | lany | ale | opening of an all-American canal from j the Colorado River to Imperial and ! Coachella Valleys, Calif. I la | and Examiner as saying over the long- | { fornia, Willlam H. Stanley testified that | | Wrigley gave $26,000 to the committee | | In September and October, 1920, and | | | }nl the | tributed 82 Sheds | | contribution. BOULDER DAM GETS FAVORABLE REPORT Bill Involving $125,000,000 Uncertain of Consideration on House Floor. By the Assoctated Pres The six weeks of sflence on the new Swing-Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam measure was broken in the House today when its irrigation committee re- ported the bill with a favorable recom- mendation, ‘The bill would authorize the expen- diture of $125.000,000 for the construc- tion of a 550-foot dam and power plant at Boulder or Black Canyon, on the Nevada-Arizona boundary, and the ‘The additional time granted by the committee to enable the river commis- sioners of the seven Colorado Basin States to continue their negotiations for a compact allocating the waters of the river among the States had brought no intimation of the perfection of any agreement. While the bill now is out committee, there is no indication that it will be brought up on the floor for early con- sideration. Representative Swing, Re- publican, California, co-author of the measure, said he was uncertain as t the place the House leaders would give | it on the schedule. The report described the paramount purpose of the bill as “the protection of human life and property in Imperial Valley, Calif., which is under constant menace of destruction from the floods of a rebellious and treacherous river.” The project, it added. will “put its wasting waters to work in the interest of society, creating new homes, building up new industries and adding to the wealth of the Nation BORAH HAS $5,000 AS START FOR PAYING BACK SINCLAIR BONDS __(Continued from_First Page.) lican committee made a gift of $25,000 to the national Republican organization. The Senate investigators want to know whether the Cook County committee handled any of the Sinclair bonds and | nade its contribution in cash. est today termed “utterl morning~newspaper would resign his June at the national convention, He said his position and those of Hodges and Willam M. Butler, chair- man, automatically become vacant at that time, as did all committees named { four years ago. “Whether 1 would serve again as secretary would depend on conditions, the nominces, other appointees and the location of headquarters. My associates have been unusually congenial and I was able to carry on the work here in Chicago, my home city.” Mr. Hodges was quoted by the Herald i fooli: story that he position in distance telephone from Denver that he had no intention of undertaking the task again, First Witness in Denial. Hines on taking the stand wday said he had contributed to the Republican | natlonal campaign fund from 1920 to | 1924, but was unable to produce the records from 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923, explaining that they had been destroy- ed m a fire at his plant. In October, 1924, ne gave $5,500, he | testified. Nye sald Republican committee rec- ords showed Hines gave $1,000 in 1921, 1922 or 1923, but but Hines could not remember it. The lumber dealer told Nye his gifts in October were made through B. A. Eckhart and not Upham. “Your contributions were made with- out any assurance that you would be | reimbursed? “Yes, sir.” “Did" you get any Liberty bonds in that connection?” “No, sir."” The witness sald he had never re-| ceived any Liberty bonds from Upham, | Sinclair, Robert W. Stewart of the! Standard Oil of Indiana or any Repub- lican leader. “Have you any oil holdings?” Nye “Yes, in the Texas Co. and the Phli- lips Petroleum Co.” you come into possession “In the past year.” | Appearing for Willam Wrigley, r. | who is with his Chicago Cubs in Cali- | $20,000 in 1922, but declared that in | 1923, the year Hays got the $260,000 Sinclalr bonds, he made no_contribu- tion. He sald Wrigley owned stock in the Texas Co. only. Tells of Father's Gift. John F. Jelke, jr. the commit- | ed records showing that John | sr., had contributed $2.600 to | Republiean national commiitee i | 1922 and 1924 | “My father has given varlous small | sums, fn return for which he has re- celved nothing.” Jelke sald E. A. Baldemann, former secretary to the elder Jelke, testified that the Chi- cago business ‘'man held no Liberty bonds for whirh he had not paid. They were bought during the loan drives, he added Questioned by Senator Norbeck, Re- publican, North Dakota, Joseph J. Mo- rand, a Chicago business man, said that solicitation of Upham he con- 0 cash to the Republican ommittee in 1923, his ondy He testified that the def lelt was “welghing heavily on Upham'’s mind.” Testifying national that Upham would call him up oceastonally and tell him it was time “to come across” Edward F. arry, president of the Pullman Co., ald he yave $10.200 to the Republican 1 committee in 1921, 1922, 1923 were four cheek 5,000, dated November 27, 1923, about the tme Hays was distiibuting the incladr bonds, Carry sald he did not recall detadls, but assumed that Upham called hifm - on the telephone. Wi you offerea any Liberty bonds iy ? Hot at that time or any other tme,” Carry veplied with emphasts one for na Lady Bailey Reaches Malta. VALETTA, Malta, March 15 (4" ady Balley, British aviation enthusinst | wrote, __EDWARD P. COSTIGAN. COSTIGAN RESIGNS, REOPENING BATTLE ON TARIFF ISSUES Continued “little tariff importance.” Among the | rates lowered were those on Bob White quail, mill feed and paint brush han- dles.” - Hits Farm Policies. Instead of making corrective reme- dies, Costigan said, with reference to the Senate committee's faflure to re- port on fits investigation, that Con- {gress once more has “voted the com- mission’s annual appropriation; agri- culture is making proper demands for national relief, and it is easier to use the commission to convert farmers to A mistaken belief in tariff salvation than to apply real and permanent agri- cultural remedie: The commission further was charged with failure to meet its statutory obli- gations by reporting on the effect of the tariff on industries and labor. “An open-minded performance of his task by the commission,” Costigan ould have disclosed the use of ous tariff fallacies to mislead farmers and industrial workers in the United States. If the commission had been properly constituted, long before now it would have clearly pointed out the limited benefits deprived by farmers from many agricultural tariff rates.” LAW LIBRARY GIVEN TO SUPREME COURT) Senator Gerry, Rhode Island, Do- nates 30,000 Volumes Collect- ed by His Father. One of the largest and most valuable law libraries in this country or else- Where is to be given to the United States Supreme Court by Senator Peter G._Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island. The famous collection, consisting ' of more than 30.000 volumes, was gath- ered over a long period of vears by the late Elbridge T. Ger father of the Senator from Rhode Island. It was bequeathed-to Scnator Gerry after the death of his father. Senator Gerry sald his father began collecting his law library when he en- tered the practice of law in New York in Civil War times, and continued to add to it over a long period. It includes a collection of year books and a number of rare legal volumes. A bill to be enacted by Congress au- thorizing the Chief Justice of the United States to accept the gift for the Supreme Court was introduced in the Senate today. The turning over of this large collection of books will add great- ly to the court’s library in the new Supreme Court Building to be erected facing the Capitol between Maryland avenue and East Capitol street. FRENCH WOMAN GIVES | GIFTS TO MRS. LINDBERGH | tnquired | Presentation Made in Detroit High School—Marble Bust of Flyer Included. By the Associated Press, DETROIT, March 15.-Mme. Ger- malne Gosselin of Valenciennes, France, who came here three weeks ago to present gifts from the people of North- ern France to Mrs. Evangeline L. L. Lindbergh, prepared today to leave for home, happy that her mission has been accomplished. The gifts were presented yesterday at an informal ceremony at a high school here, where Mrs, Lindbergh, mother of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Is & teacher, Mme. Gosselin had fatled In several previous attempts to obtain an audience with Mrs. Lindbergh, who expressed regret that there had been delay and said it was due to & mis- understanding A book of signed messages from French notables, a tapestry depleting the Statue of Liberty and the Elfrel Tower flanking Col. Lindbergh's por- tralt, and & marble bust of the aviator were the gifts presented MAJ. COVELL TO LEAVE. Awsistant Engineor Commissioner to Get New Assignment, Maj. Willam E. R. Covell, Assistant Engincer Commissioner of the District, will soon sever his netive of- ol conneetion with the municipal government, Although Ma). Covell's present as- | shtnment does not expire until Jur at which e e wil be transter to nnother post, a8 appl three months' leave of nbses on the date he will ussume his new dutles clsewhere. The leave, however, has not yet been’ eranted. 1o, ed 1,500 to Dine With Lindbergh. NEW YORK, March 15 (4. -More than 1,500 e 15 hiave been made for the dinne A Lind- bergh at the Hotel Astor next Monday night, when he will be presented with the Woodrow Wilson medal and the v on w solo fight to Cape Town, ed at 2 o'clock this afternoon from | Cotanin, Biclly. | 1y e Assciated Prose, The radio will be wsed by Heerelary [ Hoover in his campiign for Ohlo and | Indiana delegates to the Kansas City feonvention and 1t is probable that he [ will deliver two I each L stte hetore thelr Repablican primaries | When he assented 1o entry of his sume 4 the Aprdl 24 Ohlo primaries Lagainst Senator Willls, the Commerece [ accretury tndicated he would make no preconvention campalgy speechies. In View of the persistent altacks made on Him by Wis political foes In Ohlo, he 8 W mpesch o 23,000 award dn recognition of his service to peace through his good-will Aght to Latin America. Hoover to Use Radio in Campaign For primary Vutc in Two Statcs now belng wrged o go lnto the Siate for st least one speech 10 was wald today thit serlous con- stderation wis belng given by Mr. Hoo- ver (o the advisability of kolng elther o b oF Cleveland, perhinps (o both whout o ddte of Aprit Eht slo s belog glven (ot hility of speaking i Indiana before (he May B primary, in which Hoover §s matched agaliat Henator Watson Avrangements are belng made oy vadio hookups, which will enable (he Heorelary of Commerce (o reach Ohio and Indiana voters through the al with & statement of his stand on cam Pl Isauea raiaed against him, 4 sentor | 24 NATIONS RENE EFFORTTO DISARM U. S. Strongly Represented at Geneva—Russia and Tur- key in League Parley. BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Datly News. 28, pyright, 192 GENEVA, March 15..-The Prepara- ftory Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations opened Its session here today under the chairmanship of J. J. Loudon of Holland, and with 24 nations participating, including Rus- sia, Turkey and the United States. After a 20-minute session the com- mission adopted the resolution of Count von Bernstorfl of Germany to adjourn the discussion of political matters until Monday, when the Turks will have ar- rived. The commission adjourned dis cussion of the security committee's re- port witil Friday. The agenda has been shaped in three parts. The first is discussion of the se- curity committee’s report; second, con- sideration of the Russian disarmament proposals, and third, discussion of the — | present status of ths disarmament work achieved so far. N U. S. Delegation Strong. The American delegation is one of the most important that Washington has yet sent to Geneva. The chairman is Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Swit- zerland, and the chief experts are Ad- miral Andrew Long and Maj. George Strong. The chief direct issue before the commission is whether a full dress dis- armament conference, with most of the natizns of the world participating, will be FwY this year. The chief element of septation is the possibility of further Russitn proposals toward sudden, dra- matic, and complete world disarma- ment. Maxim Litvinoff heads the Soviet delegation and he is said to have a plan for scrapping the navies of the world in his pocket. The chief underlying question behind the technical deliberations is the at- titude the United States'will express toward the league's dis together with the pos ¥ Gibson may formally present the su; gestion of the United States for the outlawry of war by multilateral treaties among the great powers, Divided on Conference Date. As to the question of a world dis- armament conference this year, the Germans and the Russians want it, while France and England are opposed. In fact, Germany succceded at the December meeting of the commission in having it adopted as a principle that the conference must be called in 1928. France and England are known to feel that the time is not yet ripe for a full conference, the failure of which might be a disastrous blow both to the league's prestige and to future disarmament ftself. It is a fact that France and England are entering even this preliminary commission somewhat half heartedly. The_opposition betwen the French and German viewpoints on disarma- ment is profound. France wants the »resent frontiers maintained and is sup- ported in this thesis by all the coun- tries which, arising strong from the World War, are still in France's orbit. France wants, generally speaking a serfes or regional security pacts guar- anteeing the present frontiers as an essential preliminary to disarmament. Locarno 15 typical of such regional pacts, but it has not been followed by others. Germans Want Action Now. Germany on the other hand assumes thdt the present frontiers may some day be changed and therefore is in- clined to oppose strict regional pacts. She prefers some general disarmament arrangement to which the problems of security are subordinated. Germany points to the stipulation of the league covenant that all states should disarm and to the fact that Germany itself is the only great power toward which this stipulation has been exerted. Thus the Germans want to force a general airing of the whole question at a full dress conference. ‘The British attitude s a compromise between the French and German view- points with, however, the important reservation that Great Britain can undertake no_guarantees and regional pacts unless British interest are defi- nitely involved. At this session the Russians have a seconder for their proposals in their ally, Turkey. STEWART IS GIVEN DELAY IN HEARING Standard of Indiana Head Pleads Not Guilty to Contempt Charge. By the Associated Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana, pleaded not guilty today to charges of violating the law In refusing to answer questions asked by the Setate Teapot Dome committee regarding whether he had discussed Continental Trading Co. bonds with Harry F. Sin- clair. The oll man was arralgned in the | District Supreme Court and his counsel was granted 20 days in which to vre- pare to attack the indictment. Chief Juatice MeCoy continued Stewart's bond hurried away with his coun- C. Adkins and Frank Nesbit ashington and Albert L. Hopkins | “heago. Sewart’s writ of habeas corpus s | still pending PEOPLES DRUG TAKES THREE 0'DONNELL STORES 4 Ninth Street, 1118 F and 1 lll'\\ H Change Hands—Chain Now Has 49, Three of the downtown O'Donnelt | drug stores will be turned over to the Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., today fol- lowing completion of negotiations yes- terday for thele purchase, Joseph © Sheelty, secretary and treasurer of the O'Donnell Co., has announced The stores which will chinnge hands are (hose at 604 NIth stieet, 1118 F slreet and 1405 W atveet 1L ix belleved the fve other O'Donnett stores wre not (o be sokl Today's ad- ditlon brings a total of 49 stoves wnder | the Peoples management. ‘The Peoples ehatn was established in 1905 and now ownsstores I Virginga, Maryland, West Virginta and Pennsylvania . Valentine Miller Buvied, Snecial Diapitch @ Tha St TIPPETT, Md, Mareh 1 servives for Videnting Miller, brather af Judge Php G Miller ' of (he Prince Ceorges County Orphans' Count, wha died suddenly Sunday at his home heve, wged 67, were held Tuesday morn g st S John's Catholie Ohweeh Burtattavilie — Interment was n (he cometery adioming the chureh. My Miller was steicken 1 while attending marning services I SU dohi'y Chateh and died shortly afterward, Funeral | teanspived Tower of London Has Fire, But Loss I s Reported Light the Associated Pr LONDON, March 15.—There was a lively few minutes in the Tower of London this morning when a fire broke out in one of the towers of that historic structure. The flames were quickly extin- guished with a stream of water from the tower hydrant, however, and damage was confined to the top floor, which s used for offices. The fire was in the “round” tower, which one of lesser historic im- portance than most of the other towers, Several rooms in the lower part of the structure suffered from water, COAL INQUISITORS Newspaper Man Gives Sena- tors Company’s Alleged Orders to Employes. By the Associated Press, A memorandum purporting to be an order from the Pittsburgh Coal Co. to its mine superintendents “to clean up all unsightly conditions” prior to the Senate subcommittee was introduced in the Senate investigation of the bitu- minous industry today by Harry T. Brundidge, a reporter for the St. Louis Star. Brundidge, who went through the mining territory recently for his paper, said he had paid $25 to a mine em- ploye for the letter, which read: “To All Mine Superintendents “The United States Senate investi- gating committee is now visiting the Pittsburgh district. Clean up all un- sightly conditions. Keep our police in the background. Avoid all arrests. In. struct our men to keep out of trouble. If the committee desires to question any of our employes see to it that you present men you can tr and who can be depended upon to give the right kind of answers. If you are examined by the committee do not answer any u think might be harmful | terests. The company will | protect you. The company has mailed a spirited letter to each individual em- { ploye. If you know of any unsatisfac- barracks see that it ionce.” is eliminated at Describes Conditions He Found. ‘The reporter would not vouch for the authenticity of the document, but said he had secured it only afier an employe had told him that conditions had re- cently “been cleaned up.” This was while the Senate subcommittee was in that secticn, said Brundidge, adding that he had informed Senators Good- ing, Republican,” Idaho, and Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, of the matter at the time. Brundidge then went on with a de- scription of conditions in the strike- breakers of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horning No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation. Reports Food Shortage. The reporter recounted a visit to min- ers' homes at Avella, Pa., where he said that 35 families could not afford shoes for their children. “There was not enough food in the whole camp for me alone.” said Brund- idge, “and the peoplé there said that was ‘starvation week in starvation camp.' " Turning to the Coverdale camp of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corpora- tion, Brundidge said that “conditions could not have been worse for squalor, filth and vice." “Men there sald they virtually were kept prisoners,” he continued. “and the coal and iron police would not let the men off the ground even though they were not working " GROUP TO COME HERE. Operators From Upper Potomac Will Confer With Legislators. Special D The Star CUMBERLAND, Md, March A | delegation of coal operators from the Georges Creck and Upper Potomac fleld: Will go to Washington tomorrow to con fer with Senators Bruce and Tvdings and Representative Zihlman, all of Maryland, with reference to proposed legislation pertaining to the coal in- dustry and proposed changes in the regions as_compared wtih T competing flelds. The following operators will be in the partv: Theodore F. Shaffer, Robert 1 Stallings, J. Wesley P. Somerville, W' Roose Charles S. Jeffries, John J. Broph illiam Jenkins, James C. McDonald, Thomas D. Campbell, thur Hoffa and R. A. Smith. 15 MINERS AWARDED MEDALS FOR HEROISM Rewards Given by Joseph A Holmes Safety Association Meeting Here. Medals for herotsm and resourceful- | ness i the face of extreme peril have been awarded 15 miners by the Jasaph A. Holmes Safety Assoctation, meeting here | Gold medals, given only in cases where life was risked in saviog a lfe. were presented to Piere Du Pree and Lewis Thompson of Krebs, Okla., w David J. Roach of Cokeburg, Pa e medals for assisting i saving of human life at the risk of their own were awnrd- Cooley and H.H. He nder VIR warning of in onal sk Was given to Hee el Henryetta, Okla Bronze medals for attempting to save life at great personal ¥k were awarded to A Otten, Daniel Seed, Thomas A thews, many Hoover, = nomas Mason Hasil Wallman. Earl Skinner, 1 homas “TySon and H. M. Hansen, all of Lowell, Atz THREE SENATORS SILENT ON WHITE HOUSE CALL Speculation Follows Visits of Cur tis, Borah and Norrls to Presidont, Separate conferences with tho Prest- dent held at the White Howse today WHR Senators Curtis of Kansas of Wdaho and Norrts of Nebraska bave RIVEN The o constderable speentation becawse of the retwsal on e part of these Henators o reveal afterward what was disenssed snator Norrls who invariably poses the wdmbisteation policie Who seldom visits the Whitte Howse, did whinlt, however, that the Prestdent had sent for him fo disews several judicia Appoltments which will come betore e dletary committes of the Senate of which Mr, Nomvis s ehatoman, very hortly Henator Cuets doclined (o say what Auring s oonference, a it the Senator from tdabe The et ter sald, however, (hat his call had notiding (o do with fareign aftairs., op * (UERYREPORTER recent inspection of its mines by the! tory condition in company camps or| camps at the Moon Run mine | Borah | wnd | MARINGS SPURRED INWAR ON SANDINO Supplies Gathered for Attack to Wipe Jut Bandit by Rainy Season. MANAGUA, Nieiragna, March 15— | American Marines thday were under or- |ders of their conmander to make | stringent. efforts to wips out the San- | dino revo For weeks supplies have been m | steadily nto northern Nicaragua, | Gen, ino Sandno has been arc- | tive. Airplane, motor iruek, pack train and oxen were used. Today observe: orandum of Pri em- Logan Feland on for | tions. o1, fort in the immedi that the task of the completed in the shorte “The next ¥ reduced reso because of 3 I that In May the rain: ing roads :ets from the Cri to take the pia being moved northward. SANDINO WARNS SENATE. Inti nates Reprisals on American Of- ficials in Nicaragua. As | The occa 1 j withdrawal _from American Marines “Gen.” Sandino, in T peace, have been added to by one from Sandino hi In 2 me he Senate, {clares that w laway he could | the safe fictal resident | _Replacement | Presid>nt. of | guan not a candid: | supervision of the coming elections hat count v Latin American re) ead of the Marines s conditi for peace down by Sandini | Brought Here by Writer. His messa gether with correspon= dence betwi A and Rear Ad- | miral David: F. Sellers, commander of | the American special service squadron lin Nicaraguan waters, relating to peace inr:n ations, were made public yester- day after their submission to Chai; Borah of the Senate foreign r | committee, by Le Gannett, - | sociate editor of the Nation. Borah had no comment to make on the documens. which were brought to this country Sandino by Carleton Beals, special cor- responden: of the magazine. gned, “For the Fatherland and Lib- . A. C. Sandino.” the message ad- dre d to the Senate, said: “In the name of the Nicaraguan i people 1 protest against the continued barbarism of your forces in my country, such as the recent total destruction of the town of Quilali. I shall n recognize a government imposed foreign power. I demand the diate withdrawal of the inva troops.” Admiral Gives Warning. the ge. to his trail to “insure complete peace Nicaragua and cal | obligation: under protect America of other fo forces. ose exploits have, n Ma- origin the was not only the t a feeling on the recently protesiing aga poc of good w “PAN-AMERICAN" ARMY ASKED BY COLOMBIAN | Forces Recruited From Woestern Nations Proposed as Police Body. Ry NEW YORK, March on the United Sta policy in 3 SuR was made by Abraham Martin | director of the Colombian go New York, in n of the Pan- vesterday presence of 1y lombian delogate ¥ whom I My said We, the Latin An onvinced that the U N ter fcans, are firmly | BAND CONCERTS, | 1% | B the United the Marine ¥ | Branson | Mare oy fes Marine Rand & T oclock, Tayl AR Triba Chambers “The Yellow Py e Samt Saens re, I Solas for vibraphone: 1a) “Songs My Mother Taught Me D A1) “Where My Caravan Has Rested Lo i 1 Danza k Grand see Finale ca es fi Fourth | Martnes' hymn “The Sta TOMORROW By the United | Orchestra, at the {280 avhwk Mareh, “and N v Hatracks Noturne | Chand seenes Valse de vong Overture, "R Marines' hvinn Uhe Halls of Mo “The S Spaugied B, mat ¢