Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 2

2w THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO LY B SA'T‘ITRDA?. MARCH 31, COOLIDGE MOURNS DEATH OF WILLIS President Sends Message of Condolence to Senator’s Widow. con- B fs on extolling the nest and eof- which he Coolidge’s nk band nt ng of your at shock to me rvice in Governor ional House and effective ad- de sym- and foilow to ng Seeretary Senator _ Willis was > Reous Senator Gov. Donahey: T was shocked to 1o ) k nk B. Willis. [Q » son, who has 1 was honest < oved by the Secretary Hoover death ot Willis of deep Willis. as d Senator . upright passing of so con- a_matter o Atlee Pomerene: Willis was a Re- dcrat. P warm _friends for occupied & prom- rs of the Nation am very deeply i timely death nator James A. Reed of Missouri: 1is comes as a great Willis was a very capab have thougt man and 1 tor able worker who rmed on those mat- State was in- one of the best the Senate, an ora- was ° Senate. where his tem- lents, his high courage ace of conspicuous ed to learn AUTOPSY ON WILLIS IS URGED BY HEFLIN nator Wants Widow to Engage Chemist in Examination of Body. to Mrs. Frank B. Willis i the ~contents of the of Senator Willis of Ohio ex- by a competent chemist was elegram sent her today by Heflin, Democrat, Alabama v Hefiin described the Senator's strange” since he was “so iroug.” and added me for suggesting that you have 2 compe! t in whom you ha dence to examine the contents smis made in a t in said it was generally 1ong Senators that Senator told Mrs Willis that if & happened to him during his g his body should be held tiful tribute Ohj this champion of the bition.” Benator Heflin would be to carry delegates and in_the Re- MRS. JULIA SCHAYER, WRITER. DIES AT 86. ow of Late Deputy Recorder of Deeds Was Resident of Cap- 45 Years. 86 3 riy a reside died al her home in Thursday, after an Bhe was the deputy re- for about 30 years Glenwood Cemetery o'clock & cotemporary and nd of the late Frances famous Ango-Ameri- Bhe had contributes magazines. and at for The Btar YERI® 2 member o) rary Society. B and came Civii Bronxville s old ? this regy ma three daughters Bronxville, Mrs York and Mrs y Mass, and Loz Angeles red end workmen ng and FRANCE PROPOSES SIX-POWER TREATY T0 OUTLAW WARS| shock. Sena- | ¢ | within the party in Ohio He will be deeply | War. | Uniform Signals For Traffic Police Ordered by Hesse Policemen assigned to traffic duty | must adopt a uniform arm signal so that motorists will have no excuse for misunderstanding, according to an order fssued today by Maj. Ed- win B, Hesse, superintendent of police Lieut. B. R. Lamb of the Trafic Bureau will visit all precinet stations in rotation beginning Monday morn- ing to instruct policemen in uniform | traffic control gy | “Complaints have been quite nu- merous of late, a condition which ean casily be remedied by closer super- vision of the men engaged in this important _branch of our service.” said Maj. Hesse's order \WILLIS DEATH MAKES OHI0 PRESIDENTIAL RACE FOUR-CORNERED First l | (Continued from Page.) w an national convention. Even be- fore the death of Senator. Willis, it was becoming increasingly apparent that the | Secretary of Commerce would make & strong race in Ohio, and might carry th ate agalnst Willls But the anti-Hoover sentiment in some of the districts is strong—the sentiment which made Willis formidable in those districts—and it is likely still to elect anti-Hoover delegates. thereby venting Mr. Hoover from having a delegation from Ohio, observers he view was expressed here today by a prominent Ohio member of Con xress. who has been supporting Willis, that ¢ delegates at large. seven in number, now will probably all be elected for Mr. Hoover. Indeed | people have been claiming such A result for some time. | The probability. too. of an effort in Ohio to bring the factions together that have been warring over Hoover and Willis, was foreseen. The death of Senator Willis makes it necessary to elect this vear two Senators in Ohio. Senator Fess is up for re-election. and now the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Willis must be filled. It may be filled temporarily by appoint- ment of the governor The alternative is continued strife There was leven talk here of picking another favorite son to oppose Mr. Hoover, and the names of Senator Fess and Speaker Longworth were both mentioned as pos- sibilities, if the Ohio laws should pro- de any loophole by which a first choice candidate could be substituted for Willis Fess Is Candidate. Senator Fess is a candidate for dele- gate-at-large on the Willis ticket | well understood. however, that Senator |Pess has supported Senator Willis merely on the ground that he, Willis, | was Ohio’s candidate, and there should be united support for him in the State {It is just as well understood that Sen- ator Fess has favored the nomination |of Mr. Hoover if President Coolidge {could not be drafted. Senator Fess declined today to com- | ment for publication on the situation | which nhas arisen in Ohio, =ithough he said he might issue a statement later In well informed Ohio circles here it was said that it was “impossible that | either Senator Fess or Speaker Long- | worth would or could become” the | favorite son candidate at this time in | Ohio against Mr. Hoover. Nevertheless, the opinion was ex- pressed by Representative Pitzgerald of Ohio that either Senator Fess or | Speaker Longworth might become “Ohio’s favorite son” for the Republi- can presidential nomination sentative Morgan of Ohio took much the same view ; BATTLE LI S BROKEN. Willis Backers to Decide Whether or | Net to Stay in Fight. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 31 (#)— | Death last night of Senator Willis brought a termination today to the heated political battle between him and | Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. | Thad Brown, manager of the Hoover {campaign in Ohio, announced today |cancellation of all Hoover political | meetings scheduled for tonight and the | closing temporarily of all Ohio Hoover- for-President headquarters. Friends of Senator Willis were ex- | pected to reach a decision today wheth- |er to continue the fight for election of | his pledged delegates. Decision to | withdraw, it was pointed out, would | mean that Hoover would secure a large part of Ohlo’s 51 votes in the Kans City Republican convention Second Choice Pledges. | Al of the 51 Willis delegate candi- dates are pledged secona choice to for- | mer Gov. Prank Lowden of Illinofs | Benator Charles Curtls of Kansas and Charles Pisher, retired newspaper pub- |lisher of Wilmington, Ohio. Election of any of these delegates would amount |10 & first-choice pledge to any of those | candidates. One alternate is pledged |second choice to Senator James E. | Watson of Indiana | Gov. Vic Donahey will appoint a suc- | cessor to Benator Willls to serve until | his successor 15 elected at the Novem- | ber election. Thus Ohio will elect two | United Btates Senators this Fall, Ben- | ator Bimeon D. Pess being a candidate for re-election | Locher Is Favored. ocrat, considerable speculation has State Director of Commerc: Cyrus Locher of Cleveland, who already has announced his candidacy for the sena- | torial nomination, generally 15 looked {upon as the favorite to succeed Ben- ator Willis. He is a member of C Donabey’s cabinet and the governor's chief political adviser The necessity of electing two United tes Benators in November may cause 1% in plans of other candidates Jepresentative James 1. Begg of Ban- y, who has formally sunounced his candidacy for the Republican nomina- tion for governor, considers the porsi ity of running for Benator Bpeaker Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati also is looked upon as & possible cahdidate Carmi A. Thompson, who sheived his political ambitions b manager Benator Willis' campaign. may also decide o weome & candidate cither for governor or Benalor Cox Is Considered, { Locher is appointed, he might con- | vinue in the race for nomination |t oppose Senator Fess for the full year term, or for the shorl four-year term. unserved by Willis For 4 d Democratic senatorial place Commiteeman W A Julian of Cincianati, former Gov. James M Cor and former Fuepresentative orge Wite of Marletts are consid d powsibilitie White 5 the olce pledge of | the Democrat clegates U b Houston convention. Former Ben- abor Pomerene 18 Ui first cholce of the wme delegnles That Mr Pomerene may enter the fild for twr W notconsidered be ond he tealm of possibility, He was defented by Benslor Willis two years P | FIREMEN NAIL ROOF. g that the Un roof of his home 7 Kunsas avenie, which hnd beer lovsered by Uie high wind last night would be Lo off, Jeremiah Gleaon puL in & cali for Uhe Pire Department to help him meke It Tast Compeny No & responded. and under the direction of Capl. McKay the quivering 1oof was naied down ‘ [ ditions slated owe o b the ¥re Americar gt of Frunce's) interns ki ke 8 member of ¢ ¢ Natipns wnd es & party | catio PORITO OF Urentiee i communication does ‘ ¢ the snti-wer pledge W wers | . o the stumnling block 1hat Glocked progress \n the wetonen Paris and Wesh . the Hoover | Tt is | Repre. | As Gov. Donahey will appoint a Dem- | tarted as to who will receive the honor. | IMPORT POOL BILL COMES UP MONDAY Measure to Aid Americans in Combating Foreign Mo- nopolies Pushed. By the Assciated Pr The Newton bill to permit American importers to form buying pools in an effort to combat foreign trade monop- olies today has the right of way in the House, with leaders prepared to press for a final vote Monday ing the approval of a majority of the House judiciary committee, the bill admittedly is directed at the alleged | British rubber monopol? and also at monopolics by other forelgn nations in s<h and sisal pactment of the measure has been recommended by Secretary Hoover, | Louis J. Tabor of the National Grange land a host of automobile and tire manufacturers. It was opposed in com- mittee, however, by three members, La Guardia, a New York Republican, and Dominick of South. Carolina and | Bowling of Alabama, both Democrats. | The measure would ament the Webb- Pomerene act to permit the formation {of such pools, but would not change | provisions of this law with reference to | export trade assoclations. “The legislation is designed to meet | [an acute situation affecting the import | {trade of the count Representative Dyer of Missourd, ranking Republican on the committee, said in reporting the | measure. port declared that during the five vears the cofintry has “wit- ed the development by certain for- nations of government controlled operated monopolies dealing in products, notably rubber. potash and sisal, for which this country depends | targely, and in some instances wholly, upon importations for its supply. | " “Whatever may have been their pur- pose, the net result has been to greatly increase the prices of the products monopolized to the American importer,” the report continued. BLANTON ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO | INTIMIDATE POLICE, he | past | ne | elgn | and | (Continued from First Page.) H.P. SPRINGER, &3, DIES INKENSINGTON Civil War Veteran Served Many Years as Superin- tendent of Mails Here. Horace P. Springer, 83 years old, a veteran of the Civil War, died suddenly at his home at Calvert place, Kensing- ton, Md., vesterday. He was born at Weston, Me., Janu- ary 21,7 1845, entered the raflway mall service’ October 1, 1866, and was as- signed to duty between Richmond and ‘Wilmington, N, C. He resigned his position in that serv- ice in April, 1871, and was appointed as sistant postmaster of Wilmington, N C. In April, 1875, he resigned his po- sition as assistant postmaster at Wil- mington and was appointed chief clerk of the New York and Washington Rail- way Post Office, from which position he was detailed to the office of the gencral superintendent of the rallway malil service in this city. November 1. 1879, he was llpfiuhlll‘(l by Postmaster General D. M. Key as superintendent of mails of the Wash- ington post office, which _position he continuously held up to November 1, 1914, resigning {rom the service on February 2. 1915 Mr. Springer was a_member of La Fayette Lodge, F. A A, M.; Lafayette Chapter, R. A. M., and a lif¢ member of Washington Commandery K. T. nie Wilkinson Springer; a brother, a former mayor of Wilmington, N. C.. and two sisters who reside in Philadelphia late residence at 2 p.m. Monday and in- terment will be at Arlintgon Cemetery, where the services will be conducted under the auspices of La Fayette Lodge MRS. FENHAGEN DIES. Widow of Dr. F. C. Fenhagen to Be Buried in Baltimore. Mrs. Madge Fenhagen. widow of Dr. Frank C. Fenhagen, and for many years a resident of this city, died in Baltimore Thursday night. In recent years she had maintained residences both in Baltimore and this city. Funeral services will in the procathedral, Baltimore. day morning at 11:15 o'clock. Rev be conducted Mon- nd toward the last asked me about taples.” “Didn't you tell the inspector that aples worked 16 hours a day to catch you?" Blanton demanded of Caldwell. | {” “He has” Caldwell replied quickly. | | “And he caught you?" Blanton asked. “Yes, sir, he raided me.” | | After the man had denied paying any i bribe money, ht admitted that th2| | names of Sergt. Little and Officers Pat- | | enode, Casey. Hunt, Strange and “five {or six more™ were brought up during the | conversation. 1t was during the questioning of these | two bootleggers that Blanton pointed ! out to them Inspector Stoil, and asked | | them to identify “this officer with all | the brass buttons on.” | Mrs. Orville Staples. wife of the ac- cused officer. came to his defense this | |morning and told of an attempt to| shoot her husband in the rear of their | !home on “the Thursday before we !came to trial” Questioned closely by Mr. Blanton, | | Mrs. Staples told in detatl mpout the occurrence. “A shot rang out she said, “and Mr. Staples ran into the kitchen. He | was very nervous and told me to call | the police.” “Is your husband a coward,” Mr | Blanton interrupted to ask | Called Doctor on Phone. ' “No. sir. He went into the front room and started walking up and down | without taking his hat and coat -off. | He was wringing his hands and saying, “This is terrible. They have tried starting shooting at me.’ 1 had never | seen him in a nervous condition like that before so I called a doctor and he prescribed for my husband over the | phone. | ! “How long did the police stay in your | home that night?” Blanton asked. “Until quarter after 2.” “How long did the officers remain in ront of your house?” “1 did not know there were any in If 1 bad, I would | ! ‘ | tront of our house have slept some.” | It developed that Mrs. Staples had | | stayed awake all night because of fear that another attempt would be made to shoot her husband. Mr. Staples. how- | ever, went to sleep, his wife said, after | taking a medicine the doctor had pre- scribed = | Kelly Called to Stand. Attorney Joseph D. Kely, called to| the stand by the defense, told in de- | | tail about bankruptey proceedings he | | had conducted for Officer Staples. He | testified that ne had known the accused { officer “since we were kids" and that Mr. Staples had “a good reputation.” When Kelly admiited that he had | dled the case without charging a fee, | Representative Blanton thanked him | for helping out one poor devil.” Aroused by newspaper yeports that |the policeman’s trial was being held | | “behind barricaded doors” and resem- |bled "an armed camp” Blanton at the autset of proceedings this morning de- ]m-u emphatically that he had called on | Capitol police for his protection Giving testimony 1o his own courage, { Mr_ Blanton said. “In 20 years of pub- lle life 1 have never carried a gun.” These same Dewspaper men Know | that night before last, 1 Went all over | |this eity unarmed” he sald, “and was [ not afraid” i Denles Being Threatened. | To Chairman Wahley, who said he never read newspaper aecounts of the | | ria), Mr. Blanton protested that he had | warned Iuspector Stoll to protect his | vithesses ut the trial and had told him 1if he couldn't do it he would call on the park police | rhere are absolutely no Capitol | police here” he added he Capitol polie leutenant Robert Browning, | who testified yesterday, was here with- [ out my knowing he was here, 1 didn't | | recognize him withous his uniform' | “There 15 another matler,” Blanton | added. "It was sald that I had com- plained 1o this board that certain | woman witnesses had threatened me | The threats were directed against Hiaples &nd not Against me.” Change in Vigilance Noted. Although Mr. Blanton declared thert was no change in the routine method of statloning pollcemen outside the doors, \here was, i fact, a decided | change in the vigllance maintained o | the courtroom. He did not undertake the ealling in of additional | pulicemen from the sticets after he had fuen kicked at yesterduy by one of the young woman witnesses After his tirade against the press, Mo Blanton turned his guns on the official, court stenographer, He complained bit | terly 1o the bosrd that he had not been | turntshed with & copy of the cowrt Lreporta sinee Thursday snd insinuated [that Assistant Corporstion Counsel Willisms, was withholding them I Mr. Willimms denled he had made any effort o do so. Upon belng told | by the stenographer in sttendance that the firm wan delayed in getting out the |reports, Mr. Blanton demanded that & subpoens be lssued for s Mr, Bissell of | the reporters’ firm 8o s 0 make sure he would get t purt records Wi Blanion warned that if he did not wel them regularly from day o day, he would stop (he pay of the reporters having explained that the peole’s money,” which he had helped appropri- sle, wha being used 1o defray expenses Previously, during his attack on the ' | to explal | to the Texan. | house when Joseph Fletcher. canon of the Wash- ington Cathedral, and Canon Arroy smith of the pirocathedral, Baltimore, will officiate. Interment will be in Baltimore. Mrs. Fenhagen leaves a niece, Miss Pearl Petticola, of this city. Chatrman Wahly Blanton that “all this is immaterial.” Finally the chairman subsided and let the defense counsel proceed in his own way. PFinally getting down to business, Blanton called Lirut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public bulldings and parks, who had been kept waiting out- side during the heated discussion. Report Put Into Record. For reasons which he did not ex- plain at that time, Blanton asked -the | official 1o identify a report on his de- | partment submitied to his predecessor, Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill. This report, which was prepared by Blanton, contains “certain affidavits,” the Repre- sentative explained. Staples formerly was a park policeman, which depart- | ment is under the jurisdiction of Col | Grant. Col. Grant was excused after this| document had been put in the record. | The next defense witness called was Kelly who identified a receipt for $10 on account paid by Staples on May 2 1927, for legal services. Prior to this newspaper accounts, vrotested to Mr. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jen- | Funeral services will be held at his | Bullet-Proof Vests May Be Sent Flyers Fighting Sandino Bullet-proof vests may be sent through to Marine aviators operat- ing with the expeditionary force against Sandino's Nicaraguans. Since the S8andino forces have be- un to take pot shots at the aviators with some success, the Naval Bu- reau of Aeronautics has been seek- ing some means of better protection for the fiyers. As a result several bullet-proof vests have been tested. While they resisted pistol bullets they failed to stop the higher- powered rifle bullets. EARLY RECOVERY O JOHNSON SEEN Should Pitch This Season, Doctor Says; Base Ball Idol at Emergency Hospital. Walter Johnson not only will be re. | stored to mormal health within a rea sonable time, but should be able fo re- sume his duties as manager of the | Newark team of the International | League and even be fit for service on | the mound before the season ends. This was the checring assurance given today by Dr. Harry M. Kaufman regarding the athlete who for more than 20 years has been the idol of all | | fandom as a member of the Washing- | ton club, but who today lies on a bed |in Emergency Hospital suffering from | the effecis of an attack of grip with which he was stricken many weeks ago in Florida “Walter rested satisfactorily during the night,” said Dr. Kaufman. “Today | nis temperature is practically normal and he is in a cheerful frame of mind. 'Whh rest and quiet he should be him- self again within a few weeks.” | Accompanied by President Clark C. | Griffith of the Washington ball club and | Dr. Kaufman, Johnson's personal phy- ‘slrlan. Walter arrived here yesterday from Jacksonville plainly showing the | ravages of the disease he has been bat- | tling since early in the year, when in- fluenza developed after he had con- tracted a cold on a_hunting trip near his Winter home at Daytona Beach last December, Assisted from the train on which he ! had spent the 20-hour run in his berth Johnson was taken in a wheel chair to a motor car in which he was conveved to the hospital which will be his home for a month or so while the building l'up of his strength and regaining the | 35 pounds he has lost is being accom- | plished. According to Dr. Kaufman, who i ! chief of medical service at Emergency and who has personally attended Joh |son for a number of years. Walter's | present condition is due to the effects of the seepage of poison from the in- fluenza attack which spread through his system and caused an infection of the intestinal tract ‘This Infection is described as of low- Igrade type and resulted in an irrita- tion of the kidneys, but is expected to quickly yield to treatment, although the regaining of his strength naturally will be a rather gradual process. Johnson was slowly recovering from the influenza attack at Daytona Beach when the players of his Newark club assembled for Spring training at St Augustine and when he insisted upon | golng there to take charge the effort reat a strain for him in condition and he suffered a setback. Returning to Daytona Beach Johnson finally wired to Dr. Kau{man, who was Wintering at Tampa. and accompanied by him was taken to the Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville proved too his weakenes date, Kelly testified, he had been em- loyed by the policeman to file a pe- | itlof in bankruptcy. Staples' debts be. in: listed with his assets. The “mystery” house, where Blanton clalms the conspiracy was hatched, was brought into the hearing again yester- day to the great *loe of the spectators and resulted in the Texan demanding that the board issue a subpoena for the owner's appearance at tke trial in the morning. |Blanton had recalled Inspector Lou J. Stoll to inquire about the location | of the house and amid general laughter | | the officer admitted: he still did not | know where it was. He tried to justify himself by saying he believed he had explained his trip there to the satis- faction of the board. Blanton declared he was not satisfied and ordered the inspector to spend “the rest of the | afternoon” trying to locate the house Shortly before the sesslon adjourned Inspector Stoll returned to report on his_search. “Inspector, are you preparcd now to tell me where you and your gang of conspirators met to get these false af- davits against Staples?” Blanton asked | him. Denles “Gang” E “Fhere was no gang.’ The inspector told the board he was ‘reasonably certain” where the house as, but this, too. was unsatisfactory Finally Chairman Wahly | obtained the information from Stoll, who replied the address was 1242 Nine- | teenth street, It was listed in the city directory as the residence of Edward J | Bastable, the inspector stated | about the | stirred Stoll's Blanton's insinuations “gang of conspirators” wrath .at ome time. The inspector pounded the table and declared, “You | can say what you please, Mr. Blanton, but you are inferring (hat wrong went on there.” | When Stoll first appeaed he said he had not questioned Lieut. McQuad who had taken the policemen to the aMdavits against Staples were made out by several women | “No, 1 rang the bell and talked to a | young man, who said he knew nothing about the afdavits belng made there as he was out thal night” Stoll explained “Why didn’t you go in?" Blanton de- | nded | T had no right to go in,” the Inspec- | tor said. Orders Him to Go Back. “ Blanton wanted the inspector to go | back to this house and make sure it was | the right one. Mr. Witliams jumped to his feet and wprned the inspector he had no right to enter the house without w warrant “Fhis house 18 getting more mysteri- ous even than I thought it was,” com- | mented Blanton The corporntion counsel has given you structfons,” sald Blanton, “now 1 m golng to give vou some “I am_telling you to go back to that house where you had affidavits taken which we have proven to be false, and. heing the inspector that caused them to be taken, you have the moral and legal right to ask anybody in that house to Jet you come in and determine to you own satisfuction that It 15 the hous (hat you were in. 1f they deny you that right you have got the right to come back to this bourd and so testity " After asking the board (o 1ssue subpoenns for the gwner of the house the Texnn was asked by th rpori- tion counsel o whom the subpoena | should be addressed “To the man who permitied this gang | 1o come " he sald 1 instst this was not a gang” put i the inspector | YL Al say Ccovey' then,” remurked | the Representative During the period that Tnspector Stoll was oul looking for the “mystery"” house Muj H. G Green of the ordnance department wis called out of order by the defense o tastify that 1 would take anly from b Lo 10 minutes (o clean | mittee also wa: {action taken by the House (o regulate for observation and treatment about two weeks ago. En route back to Washington Dr. | Kaufman stopped off at Jacksonville land at Johnson's earnest request was | accompanied by him to this city, where the patient will be under his personal care until his recovery is effected. During Johnson's convalescence the Newark team will be directed by George McBride, for many years star shortstop is ©f the Washington club when Johnson | was Its pitching ace and during the 1921 season its munager Mrs. Johnson was due to arrive here from Daytona Beach this afternoon and with the five Johnson children expects to make her temporary home at the Powhatan Hotel MRS. COOLIDGE'S MOTHER IS REPORTED IMPROVED | i Mrs, Goodhue Said to Have Ral- lied Somewhat From Mid- week Relapse. Py the Associated Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 31 | —As Mrs. Calvin Coolidge today neared the end of the first week of her stay | here at the bedside of her aged mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, the condition of the patient had since her midweek relapse Dr. J. E. Hayes, Mrs. Goodhue's phy- sictan, sald she was more comfortable but there had been no change In her general condition. Only one bulletin will be issued daily hereafter unless there is change for the worse. Mrs. something | Coolidge was with her mother twice | yesterday EARLY ACTIO'N SEEN FOR DISTRICT BILL AND FISCAL CHANGE (Continued from First Page.) mittee was told that at present. the only places where children can be held tem- porarily are under the jurisdiction of the Police Department, which does not permit of the segregation of such chil- dren from adult offenders. The com told that the United States Children’s Bureau regards (his ghange as highly desirable Land Restriction Removed. The action of the Senate committee In adding $32,000 to the fund for im- provement of the Rock Creek and Po- tomac necting rnrkll\v makes a to- tal of $125,000 avallable for this project, since the House had alrendy approved $93,000 In rafsing the allotment of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- migsion from $600,000 to $1,000,000 the Senate committee stipulated that $400,- 000 of this item could be spent for the surchase of parks without Timitation as srice based on the assessed vilues he House bill would have allowed the spending of only $150,000 of the park money without price limitation The Senate committee inserted an amendment to make more stringent the gypaies and others who practice phre- nology In the District. The House vided that n lcenso to practice phre- nology should be required, while the Sen- ate committee changed the provision in such a way as o prohibit the prac- tice entirely . Reports Theft of Jewelry, Mrs. Marion O Bower, 3107 Haw- improved slightly 100 GIFT ASSURES COMFORT FOR AGED Donation ot “Easter Oppor- tunity” Will Aid Invalids. Others Need Help. Recelpt today of a contribution of $100 for “Easter Opportunity No, 2" Insures 20 weeks of happiness, at least, | for the aged couple named as benefi- claries, it was announced today at the Soclal Service House, headquarteys of | the Easter campaign of the Associated Charities. Both husband and wife involved in this case are invalids through age. A friend who owns the small house in | which they live gives them rent free. | A minimum of $5 a week was needed | o keep the old couple together and | happler during their remaining days | The gift this morning will be of real assistance toward this end, it was | stated | Ninety-one additional contribiitions have been received since yesterday's re- port toward the “$10.000 needed, bringing the total to $3,536. Subscrip. tions may be sent to Ord Preston, | treasurer, Joint Finance Committee, | 1022 Eleventh street. | Other Opportunities Any cne who likes to help those who help themselves will find an opportunity to do %o in the three stories presented by the Associated Charities today from the active records of the soclety. These brief narratives represent types of fami- lies where the burden of support has fallen all t00 s0on on the oldest of the cnildren. The family wage earner in each offthe situations here discussed is stil in his ‘teens—"Jack,” “William" and “June,” as we shall cail them. The cause of this premature child burden and family dependency s different in cach instance. In one case the father has shifted his own responsibility to the shoulders of his children by deserting his family. In another the father is {Il and unable to work. and in the third case the father has been out of work for sev- eral months. No. 7. “Jack." the wage-earner “There is not much use living when | you have to work all night and sleep all | day.” Can you blame Jack for think- | ing so when he is obliged to assume the chief responsibility for the support of his mother and younger brothers and | sisters because his father disappeared | about a year ago and cannot be located | Jack ‘has the heip of a younger brother still in school, who is earning what he can out of school hours, but the two boys together cannot make | enugh to support this family of de- serted wife and six children. The | deficit ranges between $13 and $14 a| week. and this amount is needed if the vouth who is overgrown and under- | weight, is not to break down in carry- ing his heavy load | em Girl Carrying Burden. No. 8 “Willlam." the wage earner. William, still in his teens, is learning a trade, but it is slow work. There is a Marriage License Fee to Be Doubl 1t President Cooltdge «igns the bill today the cost of marriage licenses will jump Monday from $1 to $2. Be- cause of the lateness of the passage of the new fee bill for the clerk of the District Supreme Court there was no time to give notice to prospective bridegrooms and there- fore Col. W. A. Kroll, the license clerk, was spared a rush for licenses which had been expected by him. The ralsing of the price of licenses | will put an end to the old joke so often heard at the license counter when the would-be-bride accompanies the applicant that it Is cheaper to get married than to get a dog license The new fee now places marriage on a par with the cost of the annual assessment for keeping a dog. The bill as passed calls for the new schedule of prices to go into effect April 1. D. C. HEADS CHANGE TEXT BOOK STAND Decide to Approve Measure for Free Volumes for High School Classes. The District Commissioners vesterday afternoon reversed their decision of last Saturday with respect to the bill viding free textbooks for the senior schools and the ninth grades of junior high schools and indorsed measure A report from the Budget Bureau ex plaining that the bill is not in confli with the financial program of President Coolidge. and the action of the Citizens Advisory Council Thursday night in chiding the Commissioners for disap- proving the measure. influenced the change of opinion. The council acted on motion of Edwin S. Hege. long an advocate of free textbooks and supplies for the senior and junior high school pupils. Although the Commissioners approved the bill last year, when it came before them lest week they decided to oppose it because of the cost involved in the introduction of free text books and supplies in the senfor and junior high schools. The Commissioners then suf mitted the measure to the Budget Bu- reau, announcing their disapproval The bureau’s reply was that a year ago it had ruled that the bill was in accord with the President’s financial program and nothing had happened since to change that status. cessions. He replied that he had dt cussed the matter with the hack in- spector, who would be able to give the committee valuable information. Mr. | Gibson said he would call the hack in- spector as & witness, and that “Mr. | Gassenheimer is entitled to the same consideration as any other bus line. no more, no less. Here, apparently, is & promise ahead. for when the trade is | learned he will make good wages. Like John in No. 7, he is carrying a heavy load. but not through the fault of his father, who is a chronic invalid. The | mother, t0o. is frail. Willlam's younger | brother is in school and is too young to | help out. Willlam puts all that he | |earns back into the family, but this is barely enough for food, fuel and cloth- ing. Thirty dollars a month is needed to pay rent and incidentals | No. 9. “June,” the wage earner. Sixteen-year-old June has recently been the only wage earner in a family consisting of father, mother and five | vounger children. The father, who had worked for one firm for several years. | was laid off some months ago because | of slack times, and has been looking for. work ever since. He has been able | only to find odd jobs now and then, as | he Is getting on years and 1Is not as | active as he used to be. Until the| father lost his job the family was inde- ndent. They feel thelr present posi- fon very keenly, and nothing would make them happler than for the father | to be able to find work and to help| {June out. Their church. which they | attend regularly, helps with the rent.| but $15 a week is needed in this crisis 1 of unemployment GILBERT SUPPORTS i | HELLMUTH CHARGE | AGAINST McQUADE 1 (Continued from First Page.) | not be charged with fatlure to supply | | the Commissioners with all the in- | | formation at its disposal.” | | Mr. Taliaferro said that the Com- | | missioners felt sure the committee did | not intend to suppress any of the testi- mony. In reply to comments by Gilbert and Hammer, Commissioner Taliaferro sald | he was not prepared at this time to dis- | | cuss the testimony in regard to taxi- | cab concessions that was given at yes- terday’s hearing, as neither that de- | partment nor the license department | was directly under him | Mr. Hammer stated that the purpose | of ithe committee was to make a quiet investigation and not to try any one or to condemn any cne, but to study the situation: that the committee had not formed any opinion as to the guilt or Innocence of any person. and that if | it had such an opinion, it would not express It He sald that the commit- | tee 15 taking no part in the case of | Policeman Orville Staples, and that no | one Is authorized in any way to repre- sent or speak tor the committee | Mr. Hammer then called as a witness Lawrence Gassenhetmer, living in the Argonne apartments. who owns a sight- seeing company. He testified that he | has been In the sightseeing business | here 20 years and has owned this line | cight years. He told of an attempt to force him to buy §5.000 worth of stock in the A Lincoin Hotel Co. which his attorneys advised him not to do, and | that several months later. the same agent had demanded that he pay $2,000 In eash or he would lose his stand and that he would have to pay $125 a month and 10 per cent of his receipts for the lease of the stand he was then occupy- | ing at North Capitol and F streets adjacent to the hotel | Stand Taken Away. | They refused to make this payment « | matter of record or (o glve him al receipt, Shortly thereafter, he sald, the | stand was given (o another sightseelng bus company, which now operates four bus lines in the same block, and he has | been forced to move 75 feet west Mr. Gassenheimer gave the commit | tee fgures that, he sald, represent whas slightseeing bus lines have to pay o cer~ (nin hotels, He pays the Harri Hotel $1.000 and the Eagle Restauvant $50 a month for concessions, he sald The Hotel Washington, he sald, col lects $5.000 n year from one bus Ve, | the Willard Hotel gets $8,250 from an- other one. the Ralelgh Hotel “thou- s, but he didn’t know how many the Capitol Park Hotel $4.000 and the Commodore Hotel $150 & month. He | fd that he had offered to pay $4.000 a vear for the concession at the Crace | Dodge Hotel, but this had been rejected. | The Mayflower (akes 28 per cent of the | #ross receipts of the bus line there, Mr Uassenhelmer sald | My Hammer commented "It looks as | (hough the Information we received yesterday in regard Lo taxicad conces- thorne place, last night reported Lo po- lice the theft from her home of a pistinum bowknot pin valued st $800. wnd oll & revplver after it was fired 8o that the wenpon had been Used, Phy was unable o furnish any elues {that 1t would be Smpossible Lo detect | that might lead (o the identity of the t EMciency, if he had looked nta the thiel, stons was small in relation to what the real facta wre " Ohatrman Gibson asked Donald P, Eyans, investigator for the Bugeau of altuation regarding slghtseelng bus con- | hotels | Brown of the Traffic Bureau line of business paying to the hotels to secure a special privilege over their competitors. 1If the hotels were paying a public official it would be bribery. but the underlying principle here is the same.” Franchises Assailed. Mr. Gibson stated his views that the had no right to sell exclusive privileges for a bus stand on the public streets that belong to all the people. Representative Gilbert questioned Commissioner Taliaferro regarding the testimony given vesterday by Inspector to the effect that recommendations of the Bureau of Efficiency, in which he con- curred. for establishment of an open taxi stand adjacent to the hotels. had been laid before the Commissioners last Fall. Commissioner Tallaferro replied that the Commissigners are still con- sidering the report. Mr. Gilbert emphasized that this mat- ter has been discussed by the commit- tee for four years, that it is a situa- tion which exists tn no other city. that the aw under which it is justified was given 26 years ago. when traffic condi- tions were different. and that he be- lieved it the duty of the Commissioners to reach a decision as soon as possible Mr Gibson argued that the District should rent these concessions to taxi- cabs and sightseeing busses instead of allowing hotels to sell the space ths belongs to the people. and insisted th: under such license fees the city should be receiving several times as much rev- enue as it now receives. Intolerable Conditions. Mr. Hammer satd condition that now exist are intolerable and in- defensible and Mr. Gilbert agreed with him Stating his belief that the committee in bringing officers from the ranks who are without influence before it nd forcing them to give testimony makes it & matter of justice for the committee to protect and defend such witnesses as far as possible. Mr. Gilbert put into the record the following statement “Controversial publicity is disagree- able to me, but I would feel cowardly if T did not raise my voice in behalt of what my conscience feels to be true Regardless of what Mr. McQuade, fore man of the grand jury, has said and ¢ what the grand jury found. I am sure i my own mind, that the evidence of Officer Hellmuth and other testimony given before the Gibson committe against McQuade wa bsolutely true and every member of committee who heard all the evidence, men experi- ned on th bench, came to the same conclusion “Hellmuth's removal may have been ‘for_the good of the service.” but it was also for the good of the gamblers and was certamnly not good for the public One who has knowledge of the methods of the selection of furles and other tivities pertaining to court funetions the District does not feel t Krand jury’s report is necessarily of influence.” Representatives Gilbert and Hammer concurred in the opinion that “Hell muth told the truth the free of Embhezzling Funds Paid for Taxes. H. Clay Powell, former deputy col- lector of internal revenue, yesterday was Indicted by the grand jury for a embezziement of funds of the United States received in the ment disputed The amounts aiieged ave been taken and the dates o] taxes $473.05, October 4, 1926: 850, Fep, 1927: 825, June 11 3500 1927, and r 5 1927 Pow: s rel me time ago wh accou G tigated | Albert Holmes Welton i y posing as a naval officer and 2 out bad checks 1 me The alleged imp h last December, when he obtained deco ration of a civilian suit of clothes w naval insignia a ce and a claimed, Th the Joseph K: Langford and W seve housebreak Whitby, as mit carnal k kins, setting Johnson and robbery, r Walker 1 Cooper. ro olating Mann . abortion: David Har- rison John nce Marshall Wil- lams (three cases). Edward A. Jackson Lewis Downey Mat Francis Hay- wood Marshall and Frederick Edwa mith, joyriding: Samuel Edward K. an and John Brown, violating Har- ison narcotic law: Jerome Peters and Lindon Haddox ting national pro- hibition act; Rosa Lane, alias Rosa Love, violating national prohibi act (second offense): James A. W ter and Joseph Boyd. destroying pi vate property: Joseph Bernell Be violating national prohibition las (third_offense): Randolph E. Simm: and Raymond Tyler (two cases) destroying private _properts: Walter Phillips, changing Government cer cates, and Clinton T. Flanagan cases) forgery 27 POLIGE CHANGES voices of vear SET FOR TOMORROW Transfers to Increase Sev- enth Precinct Personnal In- cluded in List Scheduied. Twenty-seven members of the Metro- politan police force will have new as- signments tomorrow as a res general order directing the shifis today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse. supe intendent. 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