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WEATHER. U, 8. Weather Burean Forecast.) Snow or rain today, clearing by fo- night; tomorrow fair with slowly risfng temperature. ‘Temperature: Highest, lowest, 34, at 4 am. Full report on page 7. 40, at 4 pm; *From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Sta.'s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION *% of he Sunday Star = No. 1.200— No. 30,637. Intered as second class matter pos* office. Washington. D C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1¢ —110 PAGES. (/) Means Associated Press. $4 1§ RECLAIMED FROM OCEAN GRAVE BY NAVY ENGINEERS Sunken Submarine Raised After Three Months® Work of Salvage Crews. TUGS TOWING DEATH SHIP TO BOSTON NAVY YARD Six Bodies of Victims Are in Tor- pedo Room—Two Others Are Believed in Craft. BY BEN McKELWAY. £1afl Correspondent of The Siar. PROVINCETOWN. Mass.. March 17. —Three months to the day and within 15 minutes of the hour she sank with 40 men aboard beneath the waters of Cape Cod Bay off Wood End, Province- town, the United States Submarine S-4 poked her connming tower and battered superstructure through a blanket ot white foam this afternoon and a mo- ment later was resting easily, swung in a cradle of chains between six huge pontoons. Within an hour she was on her way to Boston. preceded and towed by two tugs, creeping along at two knots, and | followed by another one, pumping steadily the air into her compartments and the pontoons that keep her afloat. The convoy, moving ke a funeral train, is expected to reach Boston Navy Yard early tomorrow morning when the S-4 will be put in dry dock. her hull to be searched for the tragic secrets it may hold. Final Salvage Work. v t 3:37 on the gray af! r‘-!‘Drmt ‘l;x\:er317 when the S-4, ra 2imost within hailing distance o oon mmed f the | went down with 40 officers | f;m: trapped without a chance in ! teel huill. he{!s\afi at 3:22 this afternoon that she rose again. The sun was shining bnzl‘-u- 1y. A slight breeze rippled the blu water. The spot where the S-4 sanl marked by a fleet of Navy shij mwr;:: were the Mallard and ore, two mine sweepers, anchored | w0 shflot:-!r the spot where the S-4 lay of the salvage flo ;:'r her thpe Wandank and th: Lark, | two other mine-sweepers. | TRACTORS COMB SILT IN SEARCH FOR BODIES OF FLOOD VICTIMS 'Known Dea d in Dam Catastrophe Now Total 244—Governor Appoints Probe Committee. By the Associated Press | LOS ANGELES, March 17.—A bat- tery of 55 tractors traveling in forma- tion like military tanks so as to leave no ground uncovered, today rolled | through the Santa Clara River Valley in a final search for victims of the St. Francis dam disaster of last Tuesday. One additional body was found and those directing the search expressed the | belief that all bodies vigible on the sur- | face or partly buried in the silt and debris left in the wake of the flood !had been recovered. The total known | dead. as compiled from official and un- ‘nmrial sources, reached 244. Other tractors, steam shovels and | teams were at work throughout the val- {ley on the job of rehabilitation, the cost of which, Mayor George E. Cryer | of Los Angeles announced. would be | borne that city which had owned the destroved dam. Uncomfirmed reports of epidemics in the affected section were current but health officials of Los Anggles and Ventura Counties denied this, declaring that every possible meast (s bein; | taken an outbreak of disease. to prevent Survey of the flooded area brought | the total area of orchard and farm acreage inundated and badly damaged to 79,000. No estimate has been made et of the cost of rehabilitating this land. Mayor Cryer said this work would be undertaken by Los Angeles City through a bond issue. The special investigation committee, instructed by Asa Keyes, district attor- ney of Los Angeles County, to inspect the ruined dam and report to him what, in its belief, caused the structure to give way, finished its inquiry today. Keyes announced the report would not be made public at present, but that it it formed any basis for criminal | prosecutions involving county officials or |others connected with the building of |the dam, the evidence would be sub- mitted to the county grand jury for | indictment purposes. Gov. C. C. Young at Sacramento, appointed a State investigating com- mission which he instructed to “ascer- tain the facts” in connection with the collanse of the dam. “The _prosperity of Californta ! "(Continued on Page 3, Column 2y | | §214.000,000 NAVAL BILL PASSES HOUSE Fifteen Cruisers and One Air- craft Carrier Supported by Large Majority. By the Associated Press Strengthening of the American Navy by the construction of 15 new 10,000- | shore by the Coast Guard Destroyer |ton cruisers and one aircraft carrier of | droj 13,800 tone was approved yesterday by the House. The cost of the proposed ships, exclusive of aircraft equipment, has been estimated at $274,000,000. ‘The House action came with passage k was | by a standing vote of 287 to 57 of the | ican ide: ps stand- | Butler bill to authorize the building of | h and help in the resur-|the vessels. The measure now goes to | ei the Senate. An unsuccessful effort was made by ichresenum-z Blanton, Texas, Demo- | crat. to obtain a record vote on final Under House rules this is possible only by the consent of one- BRIAND MAY DROP WORD ‘AGGRESSION . Minister’s Reply to U. S. o Anti-War Pact Seen as Modified. By the Associated Pre, PARIS, March word “a s ggression” seems likely to be pped out of the French version of the proposed multilateral peace pact. Foreign Minister Briand's forthcoming reply to Secretary of State Kellogg in | circles closely to approach the Amer- 2. M. Briand's conversations with For- gn Minister Chamberlain of Great | Britain and Foreign Minister Strese- | mann of Germany, during their sessions | at Geneva, are believed to have satis- | fled him that the proposed pact can { easily be made compatible with League | of Nations obligations. One way suggested Is release by th |Afth of the members present and less signatories if one of them violates the After three months of hard, unceasing | than that number supported the Texan's | pact, this being in line with a sugges- dangerous work, the preparations | !‘\xfl: been made and all was ready. Lying | 102 feet beneath the surface of the bay. | hugging closely between them the wreck of the S-4, were six big steel pontoons-- ; four of them forward of the c,nnmg‘ tower, two of mmu ‘Be‘:::‘z: xlxln:e‘ o - | E“.:‘fl“ e . so that when they | lifted, they would Hft the lhlp.l - -§ usand feet of air lines led | f'li:lx .u:mrol manifold on the bridge | of the Palcon to the compartments of | the S-¢ and the six pontoons. and at | 11:04 o'clock in the mo: ot blowing air into the sub and into | the pontoons began First the control room of the sub- marine was blown clear of water. Then the motor room. the torpedo room. the sttery room. the main ballast room | tanks, fuel tanks and safety tanks were | cieared 2and filled with air. §-4 Filled With Air. Then the pontoons themselves, each with a lifting force of 80 tons, felt the nrush of air under an average pressure | of 50 pounds to the square inch. | At 2:15 o'clock Comdr. Harold E. faunders. chiet! salvage officer, standing | a' the controls on the bridge of the| motion. Arms Parley Urged. The bill as passed carried an amend- ment by Representative Sproul, Re- publican, Kansas, to request the Presi- dent to urge the “necessity” for a fur- ther international conference for naval arms limitations. It also would give the President power to suspend any or all of the construction in the event of such an agreement being reached. Another amendment, sponsored by rning the WOIK | Representative Dallinger, Republican, | Massachusetts, was written into the measure to provide that half of the ships must be constructed in Govern- ment navy yards. The cruisers, the largest that can be tion attributed to United States Sen- Borah, 5 | ator { 200 INMATES SAVED AS HOSPITAL BURNS Nurse Hurt as She Misses Net in | Leap—Firemen Carry Many to Safety. By the Associated Press. " —The modifying | a few days is expected in semi-official | ALBANY, N. Y., March 17.—Two | undred patients were carried to safety down ladders, fire escapes and eleva- tors here today within 20 minutes after fire started on built under terms of the Washington naval pact, would be laid down at the rate of five a year during the fiscal ears 1929 and lfl:{lh ‘ncll;“l‘{“lhe 'r'he ;! tha size =3 f;“lcacr.rl;:;e;ukxfiuwnnlna Saratoga, | Memorial Hospital. A nurse, falling to would be started prior to June 30, nw.i strike a life net squarely in her leap The measure fails to propose 2 from an upper floor, was hurt serious- e the | Cemels. bt The. maval commitice which | ). One patient leaped into the net | without injury, while several jumped drafted the program argued that the|grom jower floor windows. The latter the upper floor of | alcon, said the submarine was full of |Provision that the Secretary of the| ot WOIL G000 WRCOWS W The Intter -/E’.r Sallors began making bets on whether she would rise. Soms 30 or more divers, hanging over the| ryail of the Falcon. made up & pool, each ng pellets naming the hour and te the sub would lift above the Minutes passed. The word be- w0 go around that the Navy would time the tzising of the S-4 to make minute that she ; was work- up before the three waters near the stern 0! the Peicon, 20 feet or 5o away, be- g0 10 boil Buddenly two big pontoons, swir red and black barrel-like sides fashing in the sun. leaped above the m, then bobbed under, then floated sgain, Cown st the bow, high at the sern “She's up” went up the ery. but stbing else happened. The rumor be- zan 1 By about that the two stern pon- 1oons had broken away But Comdr. faunders. his hand at the valves, his eyes on the gauges, shook his head Submarine Reaches Surfa g, 8t 2 somehod * she come One with great geys i Digh int the air surface B ness, the e the ® v ber supersiructure 4 or torn swsy. ‘The four pontoons that held her Torward of the conning wWwer bobled up Like big peinted coriks A great cheer went oon thet e up from the Pal- was echoed from the suilors But hardly hao away when hoats shiph and leaded U of tiem with the pontoons Atard 1 y crevs waiting #00 muke ©verylning 1, ¥aloon offoers Crovded 2 I chprge of the opere Haunce congraty Jeting them on Lhe sucresstul oulcome of & hazardour end difficult feat of Jove) engineering For when Ui oori- ning ower of on he B-8 popped shove the surface of the water, it merved the end of the Drst stage of frantc work thet began three months syo, #nd which has peused but little since. The -4 hase been down 91 dsye wLa o e 441, of them that weather permitted divere under the ses #nd hundreds of nen wbove the purface bave beer, work ing o gel her up sgelr »iance, have gone dow DUt geiting the 84 up of the job. Touuht the conve eding Howly 19 Boston hen one Desrt beeting fast from U Vhougit thet in the BO-mile 1rip some Jing might give way $nd the 8.4 yi cown Sgein. A SIOULL bed and B CALIET PIOmISER BUCOess Tuwever e Lipie Lomoriow e B-4 L b In Uik GryQok Uist e Charlesown “ Expc e ie b In the forward eontiol yoom of the nilh men B v £.4 are the bodies of soncwhere ele in the ) ~ \Gontinued on Page 3, Column 4 Navy annually submit estimates to the e of the Budget Bureau to carry on the con-| struction would insure buildi ships and prevent them from only & “paper fleet.” Competition Denied. ‘The bill also would direct the Secre- tary of the vy to submit to Congress, by December 10 next, specifications and the estimated cost of two salvage ships for use in submarine or other ship disasters. Bupporters of the bill argued that the program represented the original American proposal to the unsuccessful Geneva naval parley: that it was de- signed to meet the needs only of the American Navy and was not competi- tive with the naval bullding programs of other nations. ‘Twenty of the 21 members of the naval committee concurred In the statement that completion of the 16 ships still would leave the United Btates second o Great Britain in sea power. Opposition 10 the program was sded by Representative MeClintie of Oklahoma, & Democrat on the naval commitive, who wught unsuceessfully 1o provide for the construction of 15 ubmarines in # of the eruisers. and by Representative La Guardia, a n, who argued that was no danger of war within a tion snd thst the ships would thelr usefulness without ever hot in battle After passage of the bill. La Guardia issued u statement declaring that he, Blsnton, fell that mction should Limve been taken by & record vote, udd- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) ng of the becoming The Star's policy for beneficiaries, developed 16 a higher pla Any Compl Beneficiaries Honest Advertising injury. | The fire originated in the X-ray room {on the top floor of the five-story build- ing. A pall of thick, suffocating fumes | rolied from the room and through the | upper floors, handicapping the frantic { work of the corps of nurses to rescue their charges Firemen and police reaching the hos- pital found the nurses and patients leaping from upper windows to escape | the heavy smoke. Patlents from the lower floors already were being hurried from the bullding on stretchers and in | the arms of hospital attendants { Firemen swarmed up ladders and ef- fected many rescues. A fleet of ambulances carried the pa- | tients to other hospitals. | DIES AFTER BOAT BLAST. R. E. Harnden, New York, Drowns Near Monroe, La, MONRO) . March 17 (#) Hernden nbian Ralph E sarbon Co. of New York, lost Jate today ut an isolated point Ouachita River, 14 miles above hen the Loulslana Conser urtment boat ‘Tarpon blew up |out from shore and was demolished Harnden drowned while treing to swim ashore with Capt. R. P, Webb, his son, K. P, Webb, Jr.. and Harry Oitver wnd rlen Easterling, Monroe attor- neys. ‘The survivors said they saw Harnden go down while trying to reach +hore, bul were unable to save him Attempts will be made tomorrow morn- ing Lo recover the body of years past of rejecting all undesirable advertising has borne fruit and honest advertisers and the public have been the greatest In no city in the country has advertising been ne and Washington adver- tizing men and the merchants who have helped make this possible are to he congratulated, aint. Will Be Immediately Investigated . controller of the Co- |1 'SENATORS BAFFLED IN QUEST OF BONDS DONATEDTOE. 0.2 ;Efiprts to Trace Sinclair’s| Gift Continued at Chi- | cago Hearing. HAYS MAY BE RECALLED FOR $85,000 REFUND QuIZ Committee Seeks Further Details on Return of Bonds to Sinclair. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 17.—After que: tioning seven more witnesses, the Sen- ate Teapot Dome subcommittee closed its hearing here today without finding further trace of the Continental Trad- ing Co. Liberty bonds which Harry F. | Sinclair turned over to Will H. Hays in 1923 to help extinguish the deficit of the Republican party. Seeking to trace the item of $25,000 appearing on the records of the late Fred W. Upham, once treasurer of the Republican national committee, and credited as a contribution from the Cook County Republican committee. the Scnate investigators interrogated Alexander Fyffe, “harmony chairman™ in Cook County in the 1924 campaign, but he knew of no such gift from the ounty organization to the national body. Homer Galpin, chalrman, and| Charles V. Barrett, treasurer of the reg- ular Cook County committee, have tes- tified they had no knowledge of such a contribution and the Senators are pro- ceeding now on the theory that $25,000 | of the $60,000 of Harry F. Sinclair Lib- | erty bonds which Hays sent to Upham | were sold for use in wiping out the deficit and the Cook County committee | credited with the donation, Discrepancies in Records. Several other discrepancies in the Upham records have been found by the | subcommittee, which during its sittings | here found that $2,000 of the Sinclair bonds were turned over by Upham to B. A. Eckhart for a like contribution in cash. Eckhart sold them Several witnesses who testified here sald they made no political contribu-~ tions at the time they were credited on | [ FIVE CENTS. WE SEE SURE \ VICTORY! /) f THE FEAPOT TWINS, $1.000 Is Offered FEDERATION BARS 500 = Oterea By the Associated Press, Citizens Refuse to Reject! WICHITA, Kans, March 17— Members of Utility | Having announced the belief that the air-traveling public as well as Corporations. those who speed across the highways of the earth need signposts to point the way to their destinations, the Wichita Chamber of Commerce has offered $1,000 in cash prizes for “the best, practical suggestions on meth- ods, systems and designs for mark- ing a ys and airports.” ‘The designs submitted will be ex- hibited and tested during the air- way marking convention in Wichita, The question of whether it is ethical | for the president or any other elected | official of the Federation of Citizens' | May 10 and 11. Associations to hold office in a public | utilities corporation operating in the District arose on two occasons at the meeling of the federation last night, ! causing sharp debate, and both times the Upham records with having done so, and the Investigators assume that | soms of the Liberty bonds were sold | then In small blocks and the transac- | tions concealed through “dummy” en- | tries on the records. | | Irl G. Hipsley and A. V, Leonard, for- | mer assoclates of Upham, reiterated at ; the last session their statements that | Upham had told them that Wilbur W. Marsh of Waterloo, Ipwa, had suggested | in 1923 that neither party make a re-| port of contributions for that year since none was required by law. Marsh Denied Agreement. Marsh has emphatically denied that ! {he entered into any such agreement with Upham. subpoena directing him to appear before the entire com- mittee at Washington next Wednesday | has been {ssued by Senator Nye, Re- | publican, North Dakota, the committee hatrman, who wants to question Marsh :bgul, the Democratic contributions in Testimony that Philip D. Armour and F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co., meat packers, contrib- uted $4.000 each to the Republican campaign fund in 1924 was given by them. They said B. A. Eckhart, assist- nt treasurer of the Republican com- mittee, had solicited them and that they had not been reimbursed for their *u‘b\cl'lpuona by Liberty bonds or other- wise. One witness, F. I falled to respond. hen called toda’ Senator Nye indicated Mr. Siddons was expected to tell a rather startling story. He may be called later after further inquiry, | Aside from tracing more of the Sin- clair Continental bonds here, the sub- committee turned up what to it w rather interesting testimony and ceived the Continental and Comme! clal National Bank records showing some rather large deposits in that in- titution late In 1924 by Robert W Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Ofl Co. of Indiana and who was present when the Continental Oll deal contracts were signed late in 1921 May Recall Hays. | As a result of the testimony of James Connery, Chicago conl dealer, the committee may recall Will H. Hays, Connery acted as intermediary between Sinclair and Hays In the return of $85,- 000 which the former chairman of the | Republi national committee patd |10 the lessee of Teapot Dome to com- | plete the return of the $160,000 In | vecuritles which Sinelair advanced in o help the Republican pi | deficit Connery told the Senators that he | and Hays had long been partners in | stock and bond deals and that litle | o the $85,000 reached Hays, as it was | d o cover his stock necounts. Some ol the deals were in Sinclalr Consoll dated Ol Co. stock, Connery sald, | which had been bought on the advice | of Binclair iddons, Chicago, | | | i WOMAN, 60, KILLED "IN FLORIDA STORM Nearly Two Score Injured as Tor-| nado Sweeps Towns in South. | 1 By the Associated Press. BORRENTON, Fla, March 17 One person was killed upward of two- score were Injured when a tornado struck this city late today, cutting a swath sbout one and & half miles long Mrs. Maggle Blackwell, 60, was killed when her house blew down on her About 10 other houses were damaged. Al Lake Gem, northwest of here, one man was Infured, seversl houses dam- sged, trees uprooted and other slight damage reported AL Leesburg the ontskirts of the city were touched by the high wind nnd trees were uprooted with other slight damege renorted Among the n d heve one woman lost an eve and another sustained frao- tured hones, Estimates of those in- fured range from 6 to 40 The storm also steuck Mount Dora crippling wire communications, The extent of the damuge there was ot known, il | is aimed at m p PEECa LY motions to place in the constitution | restrietions against oMcers holding such | posts were rejected by decisive vote. The question came to the fore re-| | cently during discussion of the proposed | merger of the transportation lines of ' the District when it developed that James G. Yaden. president of the fed- Father Finds Body—Victim cration and ex-officio head of the Cit- | 0 izens’ Advisory Council, was a director ing to Dress | of the Washington Rapld Transit Co Preparing t Subsequently, the federation at a recent meeting acquiesed In his holding office | for Dance. on the board of the bus concern, the Pl approval being by unanimous vote, | TLeaning out of a second-story win- Offers to Quit Post, dow at_her home to close a shutter. When the matter again arose at the Miss Eleanor Harriet Morgan, 19 ye meeting last night, Mr. Yaden turned old, 425 Manor place, last night fell the chairmanship of the meeting over |39 feet onto a concrete sidewalk coping to George C. Havenner, vice president. pelow and was killed instantly. and declared that “this motion evidently |~ nfics Morgan, a student at the Wash- He reminded the Fed- | ington School for Secretaries, was eration delegates that he had asked their consent and obtained their ap- proval before accepting the position on the board of the W. R. T. During the debate on the qnnllnr;. {injected into the session first by W. I.| | Swanton of the Columbia Heights Cit- | oy izens' Association, Mr. Yaden declared “1 will resign here tonight if any dele- gaie to this assoclation can rise to his feet and show that at any time I have used this office to Influence the vot of any member on any question affect- about to dress in preparation for at- | tending a St. Patrick’s dance at the City Club when she attempted to close !the shutter. which caught in vines Rrowing on the side of the house. Her father, Arja Morgan, an employe the Isthmian Canal Commission |heard a thud and rushed to the rear { vard of the house to find his daughter {Iving on_the ground. Dr. 1. Ruthkoski of the Emergency Hospital staff pro- nounced her dead from a fracture of SMITH HELD CHOICE OF .. DEMOCRATS Governor to Get Six Votes of Capital Delegation, Costello Says. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. “The six votes of the District of Co- lumbia in the Democratic national con vention in Houston undoubtedly will be cast for Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York,” John F. Costello. District nation- al committeeman, said last night after conferences with party leaders. “Among Democrats in the District 1t is conservative to estimate that 80 per cent are for Gov. Smith.” Mr. Costello continued, confirming an estimate pre- viously made by organizers of the Al Smith for President Club recently es- tablished here. “No other name is be- ing discussed seriously. The popula- tion of the Capital is cosmopolitan Here one gets a cross-section of the political mind of the Nation. More nar- ly than in any of the States can senti- ment in Washington be said to repre- sent the political trend of the masses. Called People’s Choice. “It is my opinion that Gov. Smith is the overwheiming choice of members of his party, but even more important than that is the fact that he would be truly the candidate of all the people regard- less of party. The time has come when the people should have some say in the naming of their candidates. Personal ambitions, sectional jealousies and big- oted fanaticism should be done awa: ov Smith is a statesman any way you look at him. He has a gift that many other statesman either lack or ignore, which is an understanding of humanity in the mass. He more nearly personifies the thing in public life which 15 desired by the average citizen v other character in American FFECT OF OL QU UPON CANPHEN REPUBLIGAN TOPC | Results of Inquiry Viewed i Blow to Bosses’ Rule [ at Convention. |CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE | TO REACH SENATOR BORAH “Redemption Fund” Swelled; Dem- ocrats Lay Corruption Issue at Door of G. 0. P. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. While contributions to the “redemp- tion fund” continie to flow into the hands of Senator Borah of Idaho, the | effect of the dealings of Will H. Hays with Sinclair bonds to pay off the Re- publican deficit in 1923, upon the com- ing campaign was widely discussed here vesterday. The consensus among Republican leaders was that much depended upon the choice of candidates by the party in Kansas City next June. If the nomi- nees for President and Vice President are without connection with the tran- action, directly or indirectly, the fee ing among Republicans was the revela- tions before the Teapot Dome com- mittee would not be effective as cam- paign arguments by the Democrats. If, on the other hand, the Republi- cans nominate a man for President who should be found to have been connected even remotely with the Hays transac- tions. the burden of defense would fall immediately upon the Republican party. Boss Control Hit. In some quarters it was urged that ‘he revelations, linking the Harding ad- ministration still further with Harry F. Sinclair, the oil man, made it more and more unlikely that delegates to the Re- publican national convention would submit to a nomination for President growing out of midnight gatherings of a few party bosse: In other words, it was said. the chances for the nomina- tion of leading candidates. going in the convention with the votes of man: delegates back of them. have been en- hanced still further by the investigation of ths “oil scandals. The Democrats. not unnaturally a very different view. They tnsist t here is no escape for Republican party from the issue of corruption. which they claim has been successfully made against the Republic: They are plenning to make the most of it. Senator Reed of Missouri, who has at- tacked the Republicans as corruption- ists during his recent Western trip. is about to go to North Carolina to de- liver an address, and he will. it is said, deal with the Hays-Sinclair transaction without gloves. ‘The likelihood of a Senate eommit- tee, invested with power to hold hear- ings and investigate the expenditures in the coming campaign. Al- ready the introduction of a resolution for the appointment of such a commit- | tee is being discussed among Senators. and it is only a question of time before (such a resolution is prepared, it was | said last night. Resolutions Offered. In 1920 Senator Borah offered such | @ resolution, and the committee which |made the investigation was headed by Judge William S. Kenyon, then Senator from Iowa. In 1924 a similar resolu- jdon was offered by the late Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, and Senator | Borah chairman of the committee !in that year. | The present Reed slush fund com- mittee, which was appointed to investi= | gate the campaign expenditures in sen- than h the skull and Coroner Nevitt gave a since Abraham Lincoln |atorial primaries two_years ago, has | by a speclal committee headed by Jesse { an_employe of the Federal Government. | ing_public utility questions.” The federation last night also adopt- | ed numerous amendments to the con- stitution of the organization, submitte certificate of accidental death While Coroner Nevitt was conduct- ing his investigation the young man with whom Miss Morgan had expected 1o attend the dance called at the home C. Suter, and adopted rules for the elec- | o her. | lon of members of the Citizens' Advis St. Louis Feels Quake. ST. LOUIS, March 17 (®).—Slight earthquake tremors, belleved to be cen- | tered 12 miles from here, were recorded by the St. Louis University seismograph |today. The tremors bagan at 3:15 pm {and continued for three minutes. No ory Council, which s to be held at the | next regular meeting of the federation, | April 7. President Yaden announced that a special meeting would be held March 31 for the consideration of.com- mittee reports and other unfinished business. On motion by Dr. Havenner the federation indorsed the Brown bill now pending In Congress, which would make avallable for the purchase of pi lands in the metropolitan area of National Capital, a portion of the funds | which accrued from the sale of excess war material TODAY'S STAR Increased Dues Barred. ARt | One Important proposed amendment s " I~ | to the constitution of the federation, | ART ONE—28 PAGES. which would have provided for an in- Gf]“flk\‘l ‘Nv\\s Local, National and crease in the dues o Forelgn. | llrlruurull:‘nl o ember bodies of | o [ilical Survey of the United States— Pages 15 and 16. Radio News- Page 18 Schools and Colleges ART TWO-—12 Editorial and Editorial | Notes of Art and Ariists Review of the New Hook. Financial News - Pages 7 PART ielety Tales of Well Known Folk Around the City --Page 7 celved, however | | ton of d_amendments st the federntion constitution, Mr ton offered wa an amendment to Ar- Hele ction to read “No employe or officer of a publie utlity operating within the Distriet of Columbia thall be eligible to take or | hold offics n the federation, nor shall any delegate who has agreed for com- ton to support or oppose, or to .nuun Lo Support or oppose, mat- T pending before the federation be | ne ¢ C p ligible Lo Vole. Upan (hese tbom O e s My Suter immediately came to the | vy A. Activities—Page 9. uvh-n;r of F u'l;ltlrul Yaden by propos- 1y AR Activities - Page 10 g to amend the motion by "M, | parent-Teacher Activities— wanton o make it read as being ef- RRCRIETAE e AN INE VAR, feotive against any officer of the federa- PART FOUR—I16 PAGES. ton_except “an employe of the Federal | Sereen and Muste { or District governments.” My, Yaden Is | News of the Motor World - Pages 6 8 and 9 Veterans of the Great War Army and Navy News District National Guard-Page Cross-word Puszle —Page 12 Serlal story, “The Devil's Mantle" Page 13, Fraternal News—Pages 14 and 13 Distriot. Naval Reserve—Page 15 Marine Corps News—Page 1. PART FIVE—4 PAGES, Pink Sports Section, | { Page 4 Pae 4 8 and 9 THREL—16 PAGES. Page 1. | 1" Delegate Suter added, however, that his amendment was made Balf i jest as Dr. Havenner took the chaiv vacated by Mr. Yaden and ruled that the Awanton motlon was not gasential to the question of amendments to the constitution then pending before the organization, Proposal Ruled Out. The federation then proceeded with consideration of constitutional amend- ments proposed by the Suter commits tee. but the matter of the Swanton pro- wosal again bobbed up when (. M Koockogey of (he 'I'Ilnlllull Cltizens' Association, supported by Lewis Gelb- man, proposed that the latter half of the Bwanton amendment be consid- d as an amendment to seotion 4, fole B of the constitution. This would have made it impossible for any dele« wate to the fedevation who engaged for compensation - either supporting or apposiug matters affecting publio utility ! questions (0 vote on such matters when before the federation. Chalrman Havenner again ruled the proposal out af order, As &N amends (Continued on Fage 3, Column 1) nge 10, Page 11 12, g mmunity Centers Hpanish War Veterans W.CT. UL Aotivities Civillan Army News Boy Hcouts— Page 8 PART NEVEN—& PAGES Mugarine Seotlon—Floton and Humor GRAPHIC SECTION-11 PAGES, World Events in Pletures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES, Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellors ontli sl of uhlurp Page 8 Page 8 Page & Page 8. | | 1 High Lighta of h || SOVIET “Let the platform be short and to, the point. Let it be a fighting plat- form for simple honesty ment. It could well pivot on the slogan of ‘turn the rascals out and return the Government to the people.’ Roused by Oil Probe. “The recent revelations of the Tea- pot Dome Inquiry have had a tremen- dous effect here. Men and women in every walk of life are disguested at such a revolting state of affairs. Re- publican leadership stands before the bar of public opinfon. This for the Democratic party if it has at its head a man like Gov. Smith. “Throughout his remarkable career. | as four times the chief executive of | great State, Gov. Smith has become | §1.440. a symbol of efficiency in government— and the keynote of his success is plain, old-fashioned common sense." INTERNES SCORE CO-EDS. Five London Hospitals Ban Woman Students on Men's Complaint. LONDON, March 17 (#) - Women students have been banned by five large London hospitals because the men stu- dents complain that the women inter- fere with athletics and distract men from their studies, says the Sunday Express Hospital authorities expect dramatic unter-attacks from women's organi- rations. and It s reported that the Senate of London University intends to take up the cudgels in behalt of the co-eds. ‘The hospitals affected are Kings' College, Westminster, Charing Cross, London and St Qeorge's. e SR RUSSIA | The Good and the I of It By Theodore Dreiser | { | Famous novelist and | author of | “An American Tragedy" A sertes of dally articles beglnning tomorrow in n_Govern- | D¢ convicted | presidential nomination, and Senators La Follette and King, |both of whom are up for re-election. It is not likely that any Senator who s A candidate for election will serve, i* was said. on an investigating com- mittee for the coming campaign. Nearly a score of new contributions to the fund which is being raised by Senator Borah to return to Sinclair the $160,000 contribution he made to help pay off the Republican deficit in 1923, were received vesterday, ranging in amount from $200. given former [reports of any quake have been re- condition makes success & certalnty | Senator Calder of New York, to §1 cone | tributons. | . The funds will be deposited in a local | bank as fast as they come in, the first | deposit made yesterday, amounting to Telegrams and letters to Sen- ator Borah promise many more contri- butions, including a contribution of | from $1.000 to $5.000 made by Sen- ator Goft of West Virginia. Receipts Are Listed. The actual receipts listed by Senator Borah so far are as follows Senator Cutting N Mexteo, | $1.000. George A Schreiner. Washing- {ton, D. €. $10. Herbert Gutman, { Washington, D C. $1. J. H. Yost, Winches Va W. G Simp- son, Detroit, $10: J. H. Hamilton, Washington, D. C., $3; Gilbert Rosen- . James W. Remick, Con- 3 H. $10, Leo M Hivseh, r | Princeton, N 85 H. Qruening | Portland, Me. $100. S O. Levinson, Chicago. $100, W. P Burbank, Cleve land, $1; Harry L. Benedict, Boston, $3: 1 A Reluhart, Patterson, N, J. $3 B P Qrunaver. Cleveland, $1. J. F Youse, Charleston. W. Va. $1: Koy Harris, New York, $2. Harty W, Yourg- er. Athens, N Y. $5. Rev. Bdward | Radeliffe, New York, $1: ¥ E Rell New York, $1: G W. Egbert, Rrooklyn, $1. Willlam Gray, New York, $3. Stmon T. Stern. New York C. P. Con- nolly, Newark, N J Homer 1. Loamis, New York, $1; Fred L. Perry, | New Haven, $2; John F. Eliot, Winter HUL Mass, $2. Ben Dantels, Galdsboro, N. C, $1: A B Haley. Newton Center, Mass., $1. Frances Keller, New York, 43 Miller P. Allen. Albany, $1; Mrs. Benjamin Nichall, New York, $1. Senator Borah has received & total Of $1.701. He ts confident that the total amount, $160.000, will be contridbuted, and that he will be able to return the whale amount te Sinclair, either through the Republican national com- mitiee, or personally, should the cwn- mittee be unwilling to aot in the m: ter. He has veceived no further word from Chatrman William M. Butler since the letter I which Mr. Buttler took the view that those who were respon- sible for ralsing the contribution from Sinelair were responsible for its return, and that he would consider the matter further “after the Senate committes nad made its vepart. The Evening Star RUTHIT SR - Senator Barah yestorday returned to Representative Bovian, & New York Democral. & contribution of 83 seny (Continued o Page 3, Qolunia &9