Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1928, Page 2

2 = THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1928, ('DONNELL ONTRIAL INFIRERANSDENTH ‘Autoist Indicted in Collision' Fatal to Hose Cart Found Dead .. James O'Donnell $'Fifteenth street soutt f on trial today before J1 Criminal Division 2. to old, 123! s placed dons, n in- years ROSCOE C. MITCH| PLAN TO PROMOTE NATIONAL OPERA £ Prominent Women Ask Sup- port of Washington for Concert in April. s ——— trial was delayed O'Shea and the new court | the right to nbers of the that urors is obtained fr and the court t insisted a com- who are opera foday an- opera concert for nounced a next month. Heading the committee supporting the opera are Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman The concert will be held the evening of April 23, at 9 o'clock, in the large ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel. Paul ! tenor. and Rosa Low. o- ted their services for artists are popular nong patrons of grand opera in Wash- they said. and has become | ght of a defendant. The new claimed is discriminatory | plies only to criminal cases. | voir dire examinations may still tvil cases. and amounts | the court and equal pro- ourt 1S empow- “to render more pensive and ex- in all suits, ac- " and t as- right of exam- > things. Coun- Seen as Outstanding Event ‘The concert is expected to be one o the outstanding nts of the local musical and social season. Committee members have agreed to undertake the sale of boxes and seats and to attend the concert with parties of guest Conflicting social functions will gned by at I tices and not by the chief justice alone Provisions of New Rale. adopted January 6 by the Court eneral Term, at wl\:rh‘a\-m:zvd it 1s state were present Chief Justice McCoy and| “The time has come when every one Justices Stafford. Siddons and Bmlmz)m the city of Washington should stand provides: “That rule 70 of Law Rules |strongly behind the work of the be, and it hereby is, amended by adding | ington National Opera,” Mrs. Tucker- thereto & paragraph as follows: In!man declared in announcing the criminal cases the examination of cert on behalf of the committee. jurors upen voir dire shall be conduct- | Albion has done a remarkable work i ed by the justice. Counsel may suggest | pringing the Washington Nationa! such questions as they desire to have | Opera to its present high standard of | it, and the justice shall put them if | artistic excellence, and has achieved an | {in his opinion they are proper. _ | enviable record as a business executive | { The new rule upsets the practice of in handling the complex affatrs of the § many years in the local courts, and Was | opera as well as difecting its artistic § passed with zlxlxe idea Szf expedxung“'-:; | development.” H criminal | Bikotion of Se Wy | Artists Invited to Serve. LR Both Miss Low and Mr. Althouse DETROIT STEAMER |or; seca e 6. 5 oo b GROUNDS IN RIVER | appearances in opera here. Rosa Low 268 Passengers From Cleveland | “stopped the show” when she sang the | waltz song as Musetta in “La Boheme' | Taken Off Safely—Tugs Standing By. N be { with the Washington National Opera | last season, and Mr. Althouse's singing | {of Siegmund in “Die Walkure” in the | international festival in Pebruary proved a sensation to opera initiates Perfection of further details of the concert will be the subject of anoth~r committee meeting which has been called for 11:30 o'clock on Saturday morning in the home of Mrs. Hicks at By the Assor | ~ DETROIT. March 27.—Five powerful | 1302 Eighteenth street Stugs today stood by the steamer City of Detroit III. aground in the Detroit | River channel 4 miles south of Am-| herstberg, Ontario, since early yester- day morning, ready to lend assistance | today if the big ship is unable to free Sherself. i The 268 passengers aboard the steam- | Prominent Clubwoman Is Survived ‘er when she left Cleveland Sunday ' night her regular trip to Detroit by Husband and Three Sons. brought here at midnight last ht ¢n the steamer Promise of the | Mrs. Annie Tylor Miller, prominent for many years in civic and social af- t & Windsor Ferry Co. The | v of passengers was accomplish- #ed in 10 minutes without incident. | fairs of Washington, died yesterday at Officials of the Detroit & Clevelend | Emergency Hospital, Easton, Md., after | ation Co. sald that the steamer |an iliness of several months. Mrs, Mil- | hor early yesterday in |ler's residence at the time of her death el 1o aw the lifting | was in Easton and the fact that the | Mrs. Miller was twice president of the 1d was not revealed until Twentieth Century Club of Washington | e was the big and was a member of the College Wom- er. they stated en’s Club, by virtue of her graduation it III 45 all steel, 456 feet ' from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. long and bas a beam of 56 feet Mrs. Miller 15 survived by her hus- . . band, Guion Miller, an attorney, former legal advisor of the Indian Bureau of HAYS FACES NEW | the Department of the Interior, and SINCLAIR INQUIRY BEFORE SENATORS s, Edward T. Miller of Page ) MRS. A. T. MILLER DIES IN MARYLAND HOSPITAL n attorney 4 commissioner nkruptey for ‘the Eastern Shore Guion Miller of Salisbury and er of the Baltimore i, and one brother, Wilson M. Tylow ! be held tomor- Third Haven Meeting House of the Bociety of Friend 1 ston, Interment will be in the y adjoiny merting house WOMEN’S AID IS SOUGHT IN MARKET CONTROVERSY Club Delegates Urged to Have Or War in the Package Story Exploded ganlzations Protest Location South of Avenue ie delegates v | eration of Women's ter their White Bpeel District Fed by were told yes- dent, Mrs, Vir- Lo urge their clubs ter com ¥ location Market south of Penn and particularly which provide I'he Hote) 106 dele wnd ¥rederick | of Columbia was al ates atborney, s Jon on the markel ined the provision r bill alyo wdvocated selected north of Penn for the Farmers' Mar- pointed out that the mar e placed where it is most who are gong 1o ‘.2 Cultivate Children’ To Bring World Peace. Grew Suggests | NOrFLE dopephs € Grew, American s Turkey, bas s peace plan of his own, L e retun | which he confided b (he American itee prose- | Women's Luncieon Clab of Uhis city 3 U | wfter summarizing Uhe Various peace Wichilgen | plans now current hroughout e % March 21 h J wnd suld the ol Aeavor cheerfulie Arnibis #nch him nee, eouy ! wnd P g o himor et parlaments and blie of the nations are composed ams and daughters Govern 1anis pariiaments and public opinio oF gpalulein pesce, And if, I aluve wnn e v yoni i i and of the wial Another contingent 692 wewt W Bwilu lond, ¥ L p > and make var 2 meeting, | Ambassudor | R. C. MITCHELL DIES AT FRIEND'S HOME Found Dead by Neighbor. Autopsy Today. Roscoe C. Mitchell, 48 years old, vet- N newspaper and publicity man 2138 California street, was found dead | this morning at the home of Mrs. Ida | Hays, at 2158 California street. An autopsy ordered by Coroner Nevitt revealed that death was due to acute gastritis with other complications Besides his wife, Mr. Mitchell is sur- vived by three sons, Harvey H. of Chi- cago Palo Alto of Vancouver Barracks, ( Wash.; Phillip, 16 years old, of this | ity two daughters, Helen, 20 years old, and Dorothy, 14 years old; a broth- er, W. A. Mitchell; three sisters, Mrs {3.8 Rocky Mount, N. C.; Mrs W. J. Squire, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. M. L. Nicholson of Troy, N C., and his moth- | Norri; Asks Recall Of Marines to Guard Deneen’s Residence ‘The bombing of Senator Charles §. Deneen’s house in Chicago last night was called to the attention of the Senate today by Senator Norris of Nebraska. “The newspapers carry the start- ling report the house of the Senator from Illinois was bombed in “hicago,” sald Senator Norris ‘Sen- ators who have influence with Presi- dent Coolidge should suggest to him that some of the Marines in Nic- aragua be withd vn_and sent to Chicago. It mppears that American property is safer in Nicaragua than in Chicago." Senator Deneen was seated a few feet away from Senator Norrts, but made no comment in reply to the Nebraskan DUTLINES FIGHT FOR COAL MARKET er. also a North Carolinfan. | Covered Capital 15 Years. Mr. Mitchell was born in North Car- olina. He had been engaged in news- paper and publicity work here for the | past 15 years, covering many impor- | tant assignments and_ serving as a| White House correspondent during the | Roosevelt and Wilson administrations He was a former manager of the Oys- ter Growers' Association, Friends of Mr. Mitchell stated that | | Head of West Virginia Miners Scores Operators’ Com- petitive Tactics. By the Assoctated Pt The competitive str Southern and Cent gle between the bituminous min- he dropped in at the home of his neiy bor, Mrs. Hayes. where he is a frequent | visiter, to sse her son Stuart and other | members of the household. most of them newspaper men, late last night. | He appeared to have fallen asleep in a | chair, it was stated, but this morning | {when' Mrs. Hayes entered the dining | room she discovered his body lying on | Ithe floor, She summoned Dr. James F. O'Keefe, who pronounced him dead. | Mrs. Mitchell stated that he had been | in ill health for some time i | Returned Here in 1915, After several years of newspaper work | including two § with the Raleigh | News and Of . owned and edited | by Josenhus D Mr. Mitchell came | to Washington He joined the staff n{} Assoclated Press in this city in Three years later he went to New where he was connected with | ailies th During t campaigr odre Wilson in 1312 h> was as- d to cover Mr. Wilson for the New | World He returned to Washin | ton i 1915 as correspondent for the | Public Ledger | During the World War Mr. Mitchell | was engaged in various activities in war work. He was istant foreign trade advisor for the State Department and iater went to London on a mission for | the United States Shipping Board. Dur- | inz the past five vears he has been en- | saged extensively in publicity and ad- | ertising BILL ON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY APPROVED | BY HOUSE COMMITTEE ___(Continued from First Page) | from the Capital, is the most sacred | sald Senator Swan- | “It s visited by 500,000 persons y year, and vet the Government has done nothing for this spot | “What this road will cost will be | a paltry sum compared with what | Prance has done for Napoleon's mem- | ory, or Germany for the memory of Frederick the Great. 1 am ashamed of the failure of our Government to build a fitting approach to the tomb. “What will be the condition, if this bill is not passed, when the world sends | throngs here to honor the memory of Washington in 19322 Wil Congress not be ashamed?" “I have been wondering how would handle those great crowds, Representative Robsion of committee chairman. “I don't sce how you can do it under present conditions,” replied Sen- ator Swanson. “I appeal to this com- mittee for an early favorable report | on this bill, so that the work may be_started " Representative Colton of Utah asked | how traffic would be regulated on the | boulevard. It was explained by Sen- ator Swanson, Mr. Moore and Mr.| MacDonald that the bill authorizes | the Secretary of Agriculture to make | regulations for the road, and that po- licing would be left to the State of | Virginta, “Virginia will be glad to co-operate | with the Federal Government In car- ing for this road,” said Senator Swan- son Che General Assembly of Vir- ginla passed an act for that purpose.’ It was explained by Mr. MacDonald and others that the State would adopt the Federal regulations as its own and enforce them | Mr. MacDonald sald that the bureau | of roads has recommended the river | route, because there is an opportunity along the river front to ac- quire land for parking purposes in addition W the right of way for the boulevard. He sald the National apital Park and Planning Commission and the Pine Arts Commission have approved the river route. Lieut. Col U 8 irant, director of the office of public bulldings and public parks, and # member of the planning commission was present and answered a few quen- tions. but did not address the com- mittee Mr. MacDonald said the Bureau of Ronds had planned tentatively for a 200-foot right of way with four lanes of travel--iwo each way—and parking and bridle paths on both sides. He sald that 85 per cent of the land needed for the right of way was either owned | by the Government or would be donated, 1f the road is to be finished by 1932, he said, the work should be- in at once, because 1t would be neces- wary, If the river route I selected, to bulld most of it over hydraulic flls which must have time to settle we. sald | Kentucky, New Comet Is Discovered. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 27 (#) Discovery of & new comet by Glacobini at Nice made known twday | at the Harvard Observatory, where | report of the astronomer’s observation was recelyed I'he comet was described s belng of low visibility and traveling outhward rapdly. 1t position at the | Ume it wis frst observed was approxi- | i maulely 8 degrees north of the star Orfon nthe southwestern sky France Scnse Uf Humor ( s Ume goes on, the governments nd parllaments and the public of the | nations become more optimistic as re- | gards their neighbors, more ch land so tending 1o smile rather | scowl upon other nations about th | more tolerant of divergent views in pol | Ues und religion, more courteous in the conduet of th relntions and thun less lable W gjve offense, more oultured, |wnd thus more able o wppreciate the culture of other nations. snd withal porsersing that sense of humor which veduces mountalis o molebills and | scothies wwny potential friction with # lbugh - why, there you s /e my pesce | Pennsylvania or Ohio. | might have been reached at ing fields for the Northwestern markets was outline the Senate coal inv Ation committe today by Percy Tetlow, president of th West Virginia section of the United Mine Worke The union leaders contended that the West Virginia operators had conspired to break the collective bargaining prin- ciple, even though they were having the advantage in the winning of markets through a favorable freight rate dif- ferential and ability to produce good quality coal cheaper by reason of a lower wage scale than prevailed else- where. "I could never understand the reason behind their fight on coilective bargain- ing in view of these f: he added Tetlow sa t of the coal mined in the southern West Vir- ginia flelds went to markets outside the South. He then launched into a de nunciation of the system of | m- missjoned by the id by the operators. Northeastern and t s Police Power Is Abused. “Police power has been abused West Virginla more than any State in the Unifon,” he continued, “largely be- cause the operators do not believe in the union or collective bargaining " The union leader also criticized the system of company stores, charging that miners in West Virginia were prohibited rom purchasing else e Senator iofl. Republican, West Virginia, a Ing the inquiry for the first time, in- in quired whether Tetlow knew of an in- | stance where a discharged for company store, “Oh, yes." replied the witness, “th, is no doubt of that.” . The West Virginia Senator, who re- turned to Washington last night after recuperating in the South from his re- cent iliness, followed Tetlow's presenta- tion closely “Living Wage” Demanded. The unfon leader then declared that his organization had engaged in a fight to maintain a “living wage” for the miners cver since the decision of the coal commission for a 27 per cent in- crease in wages. “The fight to reduce wages,” he went on, “started among operators in Kana- wha County, W. Va. They deciled not to renew any wage agr ent unless it carried a reduction, which was opposed by the Upited Mine Workers ~From this one spot has grown this tremen- dous struggle, because the operators in this county decided they could not com- pete with the Logan County operators, a closed ngn-union county, paying a lower wige scale mine employe had been dealing away from the Except to say that “we need legisla- | tion.” ‘Tetlow was unable to suggest specific remedies for the coal problem Gov. Fisher Temporarily Excused. At the outset of today's Chairman Watson announced that the second invitation for Gov. Msher of Pennsylvania to appear would be j.ost- poged due to the large number of wit- nesses already called. It has been de- cided to complete discussion of the Wost | Virginia situation before ‘everting to Watson also de- nied published reports that the com- mittee 1 considering calling Henry Ford as a witness ‘The conference between John L. Lew- is, president of the United Mine Work- Scranton, Pa., will be resumed here. Internal affairs of the district are under discussion, but no announcement has been made of any conclusion ‘hat the first meeting last night. It 1= unders.od that Lewis has informed Rinaldo Cap- pellini, president of the district, that he would not act in the con'rovrsy cen- tering around Pittston, Pa., except in an advisory capacity. SYMPHONY MERGER HAILED IN NEW YORK Two Leading Societies Consolidated With Sound Financial Backing. By the Ass NEW YORK, March 27— Consolida- ton of the Philharmonic Soclety of New York, second oldest symphony or- chestra in the world, with the Bym- phony. Boclety of New York, was an- nounced yesterday by Clarence H M kay. chafrman of the board of dire of the Philharmonie Boclety ‘The merger, 1t was stated was prompt- ated Pross | €d by u desire to establish an orchestra with sound financial backing that will guarantee continuance of the musical traditions of the two soc creute a pension fund for old members of the orche undertake erection of u new hall 1 serve as @ permanent home for the orchestra and in; ¢ numbe: of concerts at w lower wdmisslon price The new organization will be known wn the wonle-Symphony Bocl- ety of k" Harry Harkness of the Bymphony Boclety will he president of the new soclely and Mr. Mackay will be chair- man of the board of directors. Arturo Toscaninl will be chief conductor and Dr. Walter Damrosch one of the guest conductors Vice president of the new soctety will Inelude Frederic Julliard, Otto 1 Kahn Murshall Fleld, Paul D, Oravath and Henry Beligman Charles Triller will be treasurer and Richard Welling, scc- relary The Phllharmonie Boclety of Now York was founded in April, 1842, and I8 older than wny other similar sovlety with the exception of the London ors ganization which dates from 1813 The New York Symphony Orchestra was founded in 16878, by Dr. Leopold Damrosch who was its director until his death in 1866, when he was sucs ceeded by his son, Dro Walter Dam roneh ' V. Flager, president United States and Rassia yrow the plan, and 1 confide it willingly to you mothers, leachers, guldes, counselors and friends for 10 1s you and you only who can put it lule eftesl/ most wheat In 1026 the United States produced #32,000,000 bushels snd s #la 790,000,000 bushels, aecording to the Liberly Magneine, ttend- | hearing | ers, and offlcers of District No. 1 irom | TWO DIE, HUNDREDS FLEE FLOOD ZONE California and Nevada Towns Threatened as Rivers Continue Rise. By the Asodiuiet & | "sAN " FRANCIS March 27— ood waters roared through northern |'and central California and western | Nevada with renewed violence today. Hundreds of persons were homeless California, where two deaths were tributed to floods, and property |damage was estimated at upward of | $500,000. ‘The city of Reno also was threatened with further inundation. Continuous rains over the northern portion of the State, high winds, snow flurries at Reno and in the Sierra Range near there aggravated the situa- tion Reno, | the m |in already partly inundated by h of water from the Truckee | River, was in the path of another 4- |foot rise and a flood warning was spread through the lowlands this morn- ling. This move was decided upon when it was learned that 4 feet of water was roaring over the Boca Dam, 22 miles upstream. Authorities sald the peak of the flood would not reach Reno for several hours, but that the | situation was serfous. | Peak Not Reached. | The Caiifornia flood center shifted emvarily from North Sacramento alley as reports received here showed s of places inundated by the | Feather Sacramento and Yuba Rivers | “The crest of these flood waters will not be reached for about 18 hours at | points below Marysville, estimates made at Red Bluff and Dunsmulr, farther up the valley, indicated. At midnight the town of Biggs was under 14 inches of water when the flood gates of the Sutter-Butte Canal system were opened to save that water- way from destruction. At Oroville, 25 miles away, 50 fami- »s were rendered homeless when the | Feather River went over its banks, | flooding the west end of that com- munity. | The United States plant on gardens, as well as the State land | colony, near Durham, were flooded by Butte Creek. a tributary of the Sacra- mento River dreds were forced to flee from their home |n Transportation Crippled. Transportation by rail and water north of Sacramento was badly crip- pled. Oroville was completely shut off when the Western Pacific was forced |to re-route trains over the Southern | Pacific, and the Sacramento Northern, an electric system, was forced to sus- pend service to all upper valley points. Hamilton City, an agricultural com- munity, 25 miles from Red Bluff, ex- ed to receive the overflow from the cramento River today, with the crest | expected later at Chico, Biggs, Marys- ville and Sacramento. At Sacramento, however, the authori- ties were confident that elaborate prep- arations would prevent serious damage. | In another sector, along the Russian | River, trains were stalled, sections inun- | dated, wires were down and waters of the river were rising as the rewult of | heavy rains yesterday. Fureka reported that rivers in that| reglon were streaming bank full, with numerous slides occurring in the Eel | River Canyon, delaying trains. Slides along the line of the Redwood high- way, paralleling the railroad, also closed that artery of travel to the north. The Mokelumne and Stanislaus Rivers, |in the upper San Joaquin Valley, were out of bonds in several places, Inundat- ing thousands of acres of orchard prop- | erty. | The property damage in that area was estimated at $250,000. NORTH’ MARKET SITE PROPOSED IN BILL |Senator Tydings' Measure Au- thorizes $300,000 for Land Above Avenue. amendment to the House bill | providing for Farmers' Market in the District of Columbia was introduged today by Senator Tydings of Maryland. It directs the District Commissioners to acquire land north of Pennsylvania avenue within the District for a site. It authorizes $300,000 for purchase of the land and also the expenditure of whatever sum is needed for the necei- | sary grading, removing old tulldings and the construction of the new mar- ket, and for conducting and operating the market The Commissioners are authorized to fix rents and to govern its operation. The site s to be selected jointly by the Commissioners, the director of pub- buildings and public parks and the Secretary of Agriculture The funds are to come out of the revenues of the District, and the money | collected from the operation of the market 15 to be credited to the District The House bill is now before the Senate District committee An ACCUSED OF FIST FIGHT Albert Connor and His Mate Ar- rested While Afring Domestic Troubles in Publie. A window beneath the quarters of the Detective Bureau is not a healthy place to alr family difficulties, it was learned last night by Albert Conmnor, 35, and his wife, Mrs. Elinor K. Connor, 23, of w prominent downtown hotel. Heandquarters Detectives Dennis Culli- nane and Lawrence J. O'Dea, who were assigned to night duty, had the win- dow on the Fiurteenth street side of the Distriet Bullding open to admit the balmy alr when the sound of a scuffle on the sidewalk awakened them from their lethargy Arriving at the front door they found Mr. and Mrs, Connor engeging in s fistie combat, they say, so arrested both and charged them with disorderly con- duct. Connor furnished ball for him- self and left his wife at headauarters, It Ix satd, returning to bail her out after she nttempted to tear a telephone out and otherwise damage the fixtures. BAND CONCERT, TODAY By the United States Soldiers' Home Bund Orchiestra, at Stanley Hall, at 640 pm John B M. Zimmermann, | bandmaster. March, “Boau Ideal” Overture, “La Burlesque”. ... .Suppe Iransoription, “Andantin Lamare Hoenes from musleal comedy, “The Velvet Lady"” . Herbert Fox-trot, “No Wonder I'm Happy" . . Walta sulte, . Sousa “In It Possible That 8She Me " Dixen The Hiar Bpangled Banner.” $60,000 in Whisky Stolen. # FRESNO, Calif, March 27 4" Whisky valued at 880,000 was stolen from internal reveiue warehouse No. 7, 4 miles south of here, by A band of slx menc who overpowered wad bound wo wnl"hm-u Inal night, Finale, Lo At the land colony hun- | HUSBAND ANE) WIFE HELD; | HELD ON | ber a of Sergt. Little st on a charge of extortion. EXTORTION CHARGE 1 FIRSTLADY FINDS. NOTHER IMPROVED Mrs. Coolidge Reaches North- ampton to Be at Bedside of Mrs. Goodhue. By the Associated Pre NORTHAMPTORN, Mass., March 2 Mrs. Grace Goodimie Coolidge, w the President, spen® haif an hour at bedside of her aged mother, Mrs. Lex Goodhue, early today, after a hasty from Washington. She had been summoned bellef that Mrs. Goodhue's long iliness had reached a critical stage and she might not live for more than few hours, but when Mrs. Coolkdge arrived it was to hear the cheering news that her mother had rallied. It was Mrs. Coolidge’s third yisit here within as many months. She yas ac- companied by Lieut. Comdr. Joel T Boone, the White House physician. who was here once before with Mrs Coolidge; Mrs. R. B. Hills, a girfhood friend; John Coolidge, her son, and Jack Hill, an Amherst coilege friend of John's. ra a Await Report at Home. Lieut. Comdr. Boone went at once ' the Dickinson Hospital, where Mr Goodhue has been since last December while the President’s wife and her part waited his report at the Coolidge hom: on Massassoit street How the White House found the 7 old sufferer clined to say, 1l ing Dr. Justin E. Hayes, personal medical adviser. physict Mrs. Coolidze Policeman Paul Tobin of the fourteenth precinet (in plain clothes), a mem- repaired to the hospital after Boone's liquor squadron, leaving police headquarters today after his return, but she found her mother had Washin| 'YOUNG GIRL TAKEN IN RAID ON BAND |Four Men and Woman Also introduc- | ! Held in Series of Robberies. With the arrest today in a house near |the District Line on the Scuthern | Maryland road of four men, a woman and & young girl, detectives of the local homicide squad believe they have solved | the looting of many homes and offices | here and in Prince Georges County, Md. | Those arrested and held as fugitives | from justice, with Sheriff Charles Early fof Prince Georges County as com- | plainant, are: Henry Thomas Green, | Seat Pleasant, Md: Joseph Ellsworth Green, 10, Forestville, Md., Lewis | Seltzer, 22, Seat Pleasant; Mrs. Amelia | Emma Green, 36, Seat Pleasant; Ada Green, 17, Seat Pleasant, and Ray Noble, 20, Warren, Ohio. { As a wsult of the arrests the police ized typewriters, adding machines, adio sets, floor lamps, autamobile tires, chairs and a small truck load of cloth- | Ing, valuzd at several thousand doliars. Other than to say that they expect to solve many burglaries, principally in Prince QGeorges County, the police proceeded far enough to reveal the facts They say that they have already identi- fled some adding machines and type- writers as having been stolen from Washington and nearby Maryland. The task of assorting the articles and hav- |ing them identified will require several | days, it is said | s - |POMERENE LEAVES 0H!0 FOR FALL QUESTIONING Government Counsel Will Conduct Croes-Quiz After Sinclair At- torneys Take Deposition. | By the Associated Pross " CLEVELAND, March 27.—Former | Senator Atlee Pomerene of special Gov- {ernment counsel in the Teapot Dome oll lease fraud case El Paso, Tex, to question Albert B Fall, aged and alling former Secretary {of the Interior. Pomerene intends to cross-examine | Fall after depositions are taken by at- nate, who faces retrial alone soon on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government he first Sinclair-Fall trial was declared a mistrial Pomerene _expected questioning | Fall to require several da PRAISES HUGHES' WORK. | House Member Urges Havana En- voy Be Publicly Thanked. BY the Associated The work of Charles Evans Hughes aL the Havana Pan-American Congress was called to the attention of the House forelgn affairs committee today | by Representative Bacon, a New York Republican, who urged approval of his resolution to extend the thanks of Con- Rress to the former Secretary of State “The Havana conference will be con- sidered a milestone on the path toward permanent international good will and understanding,” Bacon sald. “It is the first time in any International confer- ence that obligatory arbitration of judi- clal disputes has been unreservedly ad- vocated and the first time it has ever been adopted " of | | | | | | | | Plans were launched today at Treasury Department (o keep the hoot- teggers out of Houston, Tex., and Kan- sus City, Mo, during the conventions this Summer of the politienl parties Alf Oftedal, assiatant commissioner of prohibition, left Washington last night, and 18 on his way to Kansas Qity to map out the campaign of the Prohibition Bureau for preventing vio- lation of the law in that city By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Mareh 27 Examination of & camel skull found recently tn Utah has convinced Prof. Alfred 8 Romer, paleontologlst at the University of Chi- ongo, that native camels, belleved ex- tinet for 600,009 years, lived in the weatern \nul of the United States in comparatively recent times Flosh still adhered to the skull, the goneral appoarance of whioh indicated, Dr Romer sald, that the antmal “lived quite possibly ax late as 100 years ago.” “The most obvious explanation seemed 1o be (hat the skull was one of an m ported dromedary released in the South- west in the 708 But olose examination vevealed (hat while It was undoubtedly ber of the eamel family, it dif- fored In 14 particulars from (he skull Miss | ciaim that their investigation has not | (Continued from First Page.) on Star Photo. | fallen asieep. After half an b FRPTETR A — | wait the mother awoke and her daugh- ter was admitted. The two chatted for CRY RAIDER HELD 30 minutes, and then Mrs. Coolidge left. | Hospital attaches said Mrs. Goodbue | ON EXTORTION CHARGE |scemed to have enfoed the visit. Dr. | Hayes described his patient’s condition OF ALLEGED VICTIM |#s unchanged ST | Stricken in December. | Mrs. Goodhue was stricken Witk — |influenza last December. She has sur- v street | Vived several sinking spells, but suc- Waters. colored, 25, 1250 Linden street ) .,,qins" crises have left her incapable northeast, a p informer, was ar-|of sustained rallies. rested last night on a charge of perjury | At 7 o'clock this morning attendant: when police reportsd they grew 5“5'3:;n!hga%*:m;em}:fp:”m‘Tdne['r‘f..: picious of his operations and set a trap. lfhin at the same hour yesterday, when Walker had been used by Pfl‘ClnCtihgr condition was very gmve.1 h dap. Detective A. T. Fihelly and Policeman | peared brighter than the previous day ;e and apparently had slept well through C. C. Stepp of the ninth precinct for | 18 APPOrEACY AAC, more than three weeks as a paid in- S former in making liquor cases. While he was there.they made bevween 60 ana| REPORTER MAY DIE 70 raids on informations sworn to by | him in which they found no whisky | FROM POLICE cRAsH and made no arrests. In the same time | they made but 10 arrests where liquor | ——— was_actually found 4 5 % Then they loaned Walker to the sec- | Indianapolis Patrol Hits Wall ond precinict, and as result of the infor- & mations swom to and signed by Wal-| When Right of Way Is Blocked. ker second precinct police made nine : { raids during the week end. They did Six Others Hurt. not find any liquor and did not mnkel AR any arrests. Policeman R. B. Carroll, liguor man | By the Arsociated Press. of the second precinct, became suspi-| INDIANAPOLIS, March 27—One clous and placed the facts before As- | Rewspaper reporter was probably fatally sistant District Attorney Ralph Given hurt and two other reporters and four and United States Commissioner Need- | policemen suffered severe injuries when ham C. Turnage and procured a war- | the police emergency car, which was rant for Walker's arrest. | speeding to a call yesterday afternoon. Before using the warrant, however, | SWerved to avold ;fl:uknz ?1“"‘{.'{,: cc:; Carroll informed Fihelly and Stepp of | And crashed "“.;0!' h'.fie ol what he had learned and they arranged | Shich was said fo have heen (Tovelts for Walker to cal] las.night at the mmel" “_m‘; S mmt)s Pt of Rose Carroll, colored, 644 Brewm.m‘z);mm N‘l"”bl“k jured reporter for the court northeast. to make a purchase “ a S e daah WIS They hid in the house, heard the Car- | [NG!AN3Polis Hews. ne roll woman tell Walker that she had no | fFactured skull. Donovan Turk, 25 reporter for the liquor and rushed back to the station 1 b Rotse: Chas: Lals Indianapolis Star, dislocated left shoul der and severe lacerations of the lef! left last night for | | torneys for Harrry F. Sinclair, oll mag- | Dry Chiefs Start t(; L;\y Plans to Keeé Liquor Away From National Conventions the | Native Camels Lived in West in Recent | Years, Skull Found in Utah Indicates! When Walker came in, they said, he | | displayed a small quantity of whisky | that he said he had purchased at the| woman's house. The policemen then | took him bafore Commissioner Needham | C. Turnage, where he signed an infor- | mation and was then arrested Carroll said today that one of the ralds was on the home of a colored preacher, who was preparing his sermon. | | Another was on the home of a man who | has been in jail for the past six months | and a third was on the home of a| | woman who was critically ill with pneu- | monfa. 1 DR. POLING SPEAKS. New York Minister Preaches at | Midday Service. | God was described as “a God of | benovolent. moral and inteliigence pur- | Pose and possessing a definite personal- ity, “in a sermom by Dr. Daniel A. Pol- ing of New York at midday Lenten serv- ices in the New York Avenue Presby- | terian Church today | Wroth of ch, Georgetown ces. Dr. Poliy Marble Col! nt of the In | rector Christ E| presided at v | Who is pastor of the Church and presid tional Soctety of will delive the New Y 4 Church again tomorrow 10 Whaling Ships Reported Los MURMANSK, U. S. 8. R, March | ().—Ten Norweglan whaling vessels are reported wrecked and thefr crews drowned near Cape Kanin in the White | Sea, as the result of a terrific Winter gale and snowstorm. Four other ves- sels with 45 sailors wore re: by four Russian steamers, which responded to lealls for help and carried food and clothing to the whaling fleet | | The offictal announcement of the rea- son for this activity w couched at the Treasury In very diplomatic terms | referring to evention of untoward | Clroumstances™ i “elther of the two | elties | From Kansas City Oftedal [ Lo, Galveston, Tex, a port vear Fous ton, and line up an organtsation to pre- | Lent the smuggling of Lquor to Hous ton, will go ot the present-day Asiatie camel | no tmportant teature from the skull of the “anclent 1 which s sup- | posed o have disappeared during the plelstocene period. The cave i which the skull was found probably was ore- | | ated during the fourth glacial period,” | he said | Prot. Romer belleves the came! origi- vated - America and spread by way ) the Berlng Stralts to Asia, where it | developed humps and other features [ The American camel had hump | His discovery lends welght o storles {told by prospectors of the 40s, who Wwere sald (0 have seen queer camels lke humpless antmals i Nevada With Paul Miller and Bruce Crandatt aduate students, Prof. Romer started oday o dig fossils near Seymour, Tex, but no 8. Benjamin Makoroff, 19, reporter for the Indianapolis Times, fractured hip and possible internal injuries. John Gish, driver of the emergency car: Lieut. Victor Houston, Peter Mause, patrolman, and Thomas J. Harrison, also a patrolman, were severely injured The car was speeding to & reported robbery at a bakery when an automobile driven oy John B. Stickel pulled out in front of it. Etickel was arrested last night on a charge of assault and bat- ry and failure to give a police car the right of way. The robbery the bakery was com- mitted by gypsies, who took $5 from the | cash register and fled tn their auc bile. NEW PARLEY PLANNED ON MERGER PROJECT Putlic Utilities Commission to Con- fer With Transit Officials on Proposals. ‘The Public Utilities Comm planned another executive with representatives of the Was! Railway & Electric. Capital Tract and Washington Rapid Tr consider features of the tion plan over which unable to agree The first conference between two groups last week fatled to an agreement over the points a: which are said to be the fixed va and a definite rate of return the companies have sted SNy included in & plan of merger The commission, it is understood posed o & fixed valuation and rat return as provided in the unity agreement, and will make a determ effort to have the companies approve a compromise on thase (wo features de- fore it draws up a merger plan for the ratification of Congress. Since the last conference with the representatives of the transit compantes, the commission has held several exocu- tive sessions, at which the unification reement has been considered. but the results of these meetings have not deen revealed Ralph B. Fleharty, people's counsel before the commission, attended all but one of these meetings i Excavations at Beisan show that this ancient city was inhabited for more than 3,300 years, up to early Arabic times. w NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 12:20 to 1 O'Clock Ausploes Washington FEDERATION OF CHURCHES SPEAKER THIS WEEK Dr. Daniel A. Pohng / Christian Endeavor Unton ALL CORDIALLY INVIL n