Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 2

| -~ R % SEEKS 2 CHARGES AGAINST HOFFMAN Rover Instructs Assistant to | Ask Indictments Tomorrow. T ed States Attorney Les A. Rover today d A istant, Miss Pearl the grand jury to- two indictments S ree murder and ng the performance of A C tion, against Louis W Hoffman, physiotherapist. The principal witness against Hoff- man will be Mrs. Dorothy Monroe also known as Dottie King, who has charged | that Hoffman broke the neck of Miss | Eleanor W. Lehman March 3 in his, office. o go befo and ask fol Hoffman Still in Jail. n is in the District d last Frida Mre. Monroe had told ted Sf orne; he Hoffm se to | ¢ and ask for degree mu s are returned they o try t and Wi 4 States attorney ness before the grand jury | puted father of Miss Leh- | aborn infant. Lieut. Edward J. | f of the homicide squad of e name of im to police ood to be about 30 d, but has not been living w Kelly refused today to divulge the man’s name. Although no charge may be placed against him. the author- ities want to discover whether he knew in advance of Miss Lehman's visti to | Hoffman's office and it purpose i Campbell Howard, one of Hoffman's attorneys, may also be a witness. $90,000 OF SINCLAIR | BONDS GIVEN FALL, OIL WITNESS SAYS| ground, where it is subject to constant ainage. er, ’.f Stanford, counsel for Sinclair and general counsel of the Mammoth 0i] Co., which was organized to operate | the Dome, testified briefly as to the for- mation of the corporation on February 28. 1922, with capital of 1,000,000 shares ; without par value. This capitalization, he added, was increased a short time later to more than 2,000,000 shares and, with the exception of the few shares held by the incorporaters, all the stock was issued to Sinclair. Gave Lease for Stock. In return for this stock Sinclair con- veyed the lease on Teapot Dome to the company. Pmci’lnk this testimony Sinclair's formal application, under date of March 11, 1922, to Fall for a lease on the Dome, in which Sinclair said in the event he is granted a contract he will become owner of -all capital stock of the Mammoth Co. and personally guarantee that concern’s performance. was read to the jury. The formal ap- lication was included in Sinclair's let- and also read to the jury. The testimony of Zevely at the| Cheyenne civil suit proceedings relating to the visit of himself and Sinclair to Pall the last week in December, 1921, was read by Roberts to the jury and | showed that the question of leasing | Teapot Dome was brought up only once and very briefly at that. Sinclair in- | quired if Fall would lease the Dome and Fall said an investigation then was in progress and upon a report he would determine a leasing policy. Zevely's testimony could throw no light on how Sinclair obtained the proposals he made | in his proposition to lease the reserve or where he learned of the requirements then considered necessary before the Jease would be granted to any one. Upon the completion of this testimony | Roverts read the lease itself, bearing date of April 7, 1922, between the Government and the Mammoth Oil Co. Everhart Tells of Deals. Everhart, called to the stand by the Goverhment yesterday _ afternoon. | roved a better witness than he did | ast October, when he refused to tell | the court and jury from whom he re- ceived more than $250,000 jn Liberty bonds and cash on the ground that to | do 80 would tend to incriminate him. | Eince that appearance the statute of | s has been reduced from six | ears, and Everhart showed no | his transactions | after the Teapot Dome lease was given 10 the ofl magnate by Fall. These tran: rtions, Everhart testified were as fol- | | 19, 1922, in Binclair's private | ear at Union Station here, he received $198.000 Liberty bonds, first 3'; dssue as part payment by Sinclsir for | one-third interest in the Three Rivers Cattie & Land Co., of which Fall was the owner along with Everhart. " A short time later, in New York, he received $3500C as final payment on that interest in the ranch property. At | the same time he received $1,100 which | 5 4 was 5 be spent on im- | In the latter part of 1922 etved $10,000 in | used In clear- | ndebtedness, and | o | | Says No Records Were Kept. Binclalr re- | Pall made no books of the company, iiness said in answer 10 questions Foberis oduced a suock certificate | iy and pointed s written, “M. ‘T nart, trustee” The witness ex- piained that at the time Fall wrote that #lub and the corresponding stock cer- | Uficate he Evernart that he was | Sincislr, Binclair's the SUOCK booK L received 81,100 unprovements” the > nelair cleck 7 8 like mmount in peyment for some i 0l magnate had sent o Pall Interior Becretary though for, the witness tes. therefore, instructed his wrn over & check 19 & slub on which w BERLIN populeed districls hes been regulated by &5 i tiom of the Prussian Min- sstry of Trafie, making 3t obligatory for wirplanes fiy over citles or other communities ( sucient eltitude W ng beyond e e villege In cese of Apr it eneble a forced la fines of the e Lor secident bridges or sguedurts or within of eny butlding s slso forbidden | election commissioners. beopie | inglpanaen yerds : THE EV. NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©C., . Upper, left to right: Representative Rathbone, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, candidates for seats in House, and Louis C. Emmerson, candidate for gov- ernor. Lower, left to right: Otis F. Glenn, candidate for U. S. Senate, and Judge John A. Swanson, candidate for State's attorne: THOMPSON'S FOES WIN IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY BALLOT (Continued_from_First_Page.) the close political liaison between Republican county and city politics ould be broken To Senator Deneen, who returned from Washington several days before | the election to conduct the campaign in behalf of his slate, vesterday's vote indicated that “the people appreciate fully the political conditions which ob- tain in our city and coun “Those classes of our community which are in chronic rebellion against the law and all authority sought yes- terday to control both major political parties.” he said. “Their influence and power have been felt in all departments of our Govern- ment. The vote yesterday will restore law and order and will elevate the standards of public service.” It was Senator Deneen who, when delays in reporting were noted in several wards, went to County | Judge Jarecki, in charge of elections, | and urged drastic steps to prevent fraud. His complaint led to the send- { ing of several hundred policemen to the several precincts from which returns had not been received. Coolidge's Name Written In. ‘There was no contest for presidential preference on the Republican ballot which carried only the name of Iliinois’ war governor, Pra was, however, a “draft Coolidge” cam- paign fostered by Mayor Thompson, whose avowed effort was to win the Tllinois delegation to the Kansas City convention. A large Lowden vote, how- ever, defeated this sentiment, although several thousand voters wrote in the name of President Coolidge. In the Democratic primary, which was a drowsy affair in comparison with the strenuous Republican balloting, the names of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York and Senator Reed of Missouri were written in by many Democrats desiring to give an expression of their presidential preference. The division between these two was so close that incomplete returns early today ‘fafled to show which had been favored. The well advertised expectancy of vote day thuggery and terror failed to materialize in full measure. There was a daylight slaying of the type which has come to be called typically Chicagoan—a speeding automobile car- rying gunmen whose weapons pour death through curtained sides—and there were numerous sluggings and a few kidnapings of candidates. The slain man was Octavius Granady, negro candidate for committeeman against “Boss” Morris Eller of the twentieth ward. Granady, an attorney was riding with two aides in an auto. mobile when another machine, carrying seven met, sped past and revolver and machine-gun bullets were fired into Granady's body. His driverless car, with Granady slumped over the wheel, careened crazly to a halt against the curb. Ballots Are Stolen. Granady was a Deneen candidate, like Diamond Joe Esposito, who three weeks ago fell before assassins’ shot- guns, 58 slugs in his body. Four men with revolvers held up eight man and woman judges and clerks of election in the forty-third ward, early today and escaped with 45 Republican ballots and the entire vote on the $77,- 000,000 bond issues on which Chicago | voted. The men represented themselves | special police from the office of the ‘The patroiman detailed o guard the ballots was tem- perorarily absent from the polling place when the hold-up occurred. The bond issues calling for wide- spread improvements were opposed by several civic associations, who objected not so much to the bond issues them- selves s to placing control of such a sum in the hands of officials at this time Litsinger Appears Winner. Another hot local fight, that for nc ina 10 the Board of Review, ap- pa y had been won by Edward Lit- singer, the man who unsuccessfully op- posed Mayor Thompson for the mayor- alty nomination a year ago. It was Lit- singer in a final week of the campaign who hurled violent philippics against Thompson, sending sharp darts Into the “America firsi” standard bearers. Litsinger's “America first” opponent was former Judge Barasa, an active Thompsontan as Although Illinois is his home State, | former Goy. Lowden remained as retir- ing in the matter of winning voter ap- val s he has n other Blates where bis name has appeared on the ballot The resull of yesterday's voung ap- peared o have given him control of the coming Blate Jtepublican convention, #t which the national delegation will be picked. The Thompson organization, how will have probably s dozen draft Coolidge” delegates, although if Mayor Thompson proves o have been beaten in his own ward the “Coolldge” delegates may be leaderless Today, as the tardy precinets were | last night k O. Lowden. There | |AUTO PRICE SL UNDERW 'Mrs. McCormick Follows Her Father's Footsteps and Upsets Illinois Vote By the CHICAGO, April 11 | pertubable Mark Hanna used to do his Associated Press, i What the im- | election, she sald Democratic opponents in the general she does she will be the first woman Representative at large from Illinois. | daughter has done—upset an election. | *smiling a characteristic Hanna smile, Like her father, Ruth Hanna McCor- chance to win one of the two Republi- cen nominations for Representative-at- | daughter, Katrine McCormick. large. _Although the two incumbents, r.ick felt Illinois' political pulse several |night. months ago and decided she had a |porters, Mrs. McCormick heard the retutns last With her were scores of sup- among them Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. McCormick's “I im delighted,” she beamed. | Henry R. Rathbone and Richard Yates, | nomination marks the greatest step and five others were in the field, she | forward |made a vigorous State-wide campaign. | ‘Today, apparently she led the field. | that has been achieved by women, politically. The predictions in the East that I could not win makes She was certain of victory over her'our victory all the greater.” | getting in their returns, the office of | Judge Jarecki concentrated on an in- | vestigation of the several irregularities charged in yesterday's voting. Senator Deneen prepared to press vigorously for | prosecution of all frauds that may be uncovered. SEES GAIN FOR DRYS. P. Scott McBride. general superin- | | tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, la: night claimed a victory for the “drys” in the Illinois primary elections and predicted that the State would have “at least 18 “dry” members in Congress.” “that at least tw thirds of those nominated by the major parties in the different districts are ‘dry’. These will beyond estion be elected on election day. 'S are nominated who favor enforee al- though not expressing themsélv in favor of the principle of prohibition. He predicted, too, that the State| Senate “will be ‘dry’ two to one,” and | declared that “the indications are that | there will be gains for the ‘drys'” in | the lower house of the Legislature, | ASH TO EQUAL TAX CUT, (Continued _from_First Page.) Democrat, Utah, added that he had re- ceived no plea from auto owners among the thousands of letters sent to him asking repeal of the levy. Senator Reed finally asked Weeks if he knew that the Ford company was collecting the $25,000,000 in “imagmary” freight from automobile owners, and Weeks said he did not. Senator Shortridge, Republican, Cali- fornia, interrupted to remark this sound- ed like obtaining money under false pre- tenses. Senator Couzens replied there was no false pretense about it, where- upon Senator Reed said he got his fig- ures from court records. MANUFACTURERS SAY | | | BURLEITH ASSOCIATION THANKS SENATOR PHIPPS Citizens Vote Appreciation for Re- storing 60-40 Ratio in Dis- trict Bill, Appreciation and approval of the Senate District appropriations subcom- mittee in restoring the 60-40 principle in the District appropriation bill was expressed last night by the Burleith - | Citizens’ Assoclation, meeting in West- ern High School. A letter will be sent to Chairman Phipps on the matter. A committee was appointed, consist- ing of W. Carl Hunt, J. S. Gorrell and Mrs. Carl Smith, to obtain, if possible, 8 playground on Government property | on the west side of Thirty-seventh street north of T street, which is to be used later as an entrance to Glover Park. Mrs. H. L. Parkinson, for the com- mittee on parks and gardens, reported that the city soon will plant trees on 8 street between Thirty-fifth and Thirty- sixth streets. Sidewalks will be constructed soon alongside the property of the House of the Good Shepherd, it was reported by | the committee on streets and sidewalks. It was proposed the assoclation take | steps to get the Burleith busses re- routed 50 as to run over Q street to the corner of Twentieth and Q, instead of branching off into Massachusetts avenue, in order to carry passengers nearer the transfer point on the Mount Pleasant car line. The need for addi- tional bus stop signs, especially at the corner of Thirty-seventh and R streets, was emphasized. ACTOR UNDERGOES KNIFE. LOS ANGELES, April 11 (#).—After undergoing an operation for appendi- citis, Richard Dix, film star, was re- covering well last night. Dix was stricken yesterday morning and was rushed to the hospital, where the op- eration took place in the afternoon. Janitor. Mo | By vocation George R. Nokes, col- |ored, 39 years old, of Halls Hills, Va., |18 a janitor, employed at the White | Co., 2101 New York avenue, but by avo. cation he is a hunter of coons, & fol lower of the baying dogs through the woods and over the hills. ‘The only thing George doesn't like about being a janitor is the circum- stance that it interferes with his coon | hunting. ~ Yesterday he was standing {in the doorway, leaning on his broom and refiecting mournfully that he had Ihad 50 few opportunities to go coon | hunting the past Winter that he dis- which won fame in the vicinity of Halls Hill. Buddenly his wandering gaze was wrrested by a familiar, but in the sur- rounding of the city, an almost unbe- llevable sight Clinging high in & tree in front of the Boulevard Apartments, a few doors away, was a raccoon. With a glad cry | the coon-hunting janitor went into ac- {ton. Throwing his broom aside he selzed & gunny sack and advanced on the treed coon | posed of his pack of dogs, several of | | OPPOSING THE KLAN IN LEGAL BATTLE 1eft o vight: Dr. Charles 5. nun ¥. Oyer counsel along with Al are defendants in the Klan' Barrickman, sult to recover damages wl urning End of Hunting Days, { Climbs City Tree to Capture Raccoon In the meantime, Walter Proctor, colored, living across the street at 2114 New York avenue, had also seen the coon. Not being’ a coon hunter he called up the police. He also called up_the White House to see whether Rebecea, the presidential pet raccoon, had escaped from her cage, but was told that Rebecca was safe behind the bars. George climbed the tree. The rac- coon climbed higher. Proctor crossed the street and stood beneath. CGeorge maneuvered with his sack. Then things began to happen George, coon, sack and Proctor were suddenly mixed up in_a whirling mass beneath the tree, Finally the janitor emerged triumph- ant, coon in hand. He put his prisoner, Who ‘proved 10 be of the same sex s Rebecca, In & box and I her owner does not put In an_ appearance he plans to tame her and keep her for a set. A faded mark about the neck ndicates that once upon s time, prob- ably months ago, the captive was some- body's pet, but shes as wild as the wildest now. AT PITTSBURGH , Moy, V. ¥, Strayer, V-‘A. Barrickman, Lewls A, Walkinshaw and Dr, Oharles My | LONDON INTEREST INELECTION HIGH Defeat of Thompson’s Fac- tion Gets Prominence in Newspapers. By the Assoclated Pres LONDON, April 11.—Chicago's pri- ! mary election result was the big news in_England today. | The London afternoon papers played it up strong with flaring headlines such as “Rule of Big Bill Thompson at End” and “School Book Foe of King George Falls in Election Struggle.” The papers make much of reports of one murder and rioting and what aenerally is captioned as “Chicago’s Reign of Terror.” This newspaper re- wetion showed obvious evidence of what ! was generally conceded to be intense public interest in the outcome of w ampalgn affecting & man who has been one of the most talked about and severely lampooned figures in American political life by the British press and public. | ‘There was no editorial comment as the news from Chicago was received too late in the day. Many Exaggerated Stories. | By Cable to Th News. Copyright, 192 LONDON, April 11.—"Chicago Shoot- ing Its Way to the Polls” and “Polling | Day In Big Bill's City,” were the main headlines in the London morning papers, which were front paging Chi- cago’s elections with as much promi- nence as the late Iraq war danger or the early stages of the war in China. Most of the journals sent special cor- respondents to Chicago and they cabled | hourly fresh reports of the “amazing elections,” They reported that the lives of honest citizens were endangered to such an extent that most of them left the city ! “The exodus of honest people from | | Mayor Thompson's city is similar only | | to that from London during the grear | plague in the days of King Charles II,” | one correspondent cabled. | Another English journalist reported | that Chicago officeholders, gangsters, | bootleggers and other hooligans who had prospered under Big Bill's admin- istration, were frantic because of Mayor Thompson's threat to resign in case Gov. Small was not re-nominated and that “they will stop at nothing 1o insure the continuation of outlawry in | America’s Shanghal 300 YOUTHS ENROLLED IN SWIMMING DRIVE Campaign at “Y,” Which Is Mee(-E ing With Fine Success, Closes Tomorrow. With approximately 300 boys en- rolled and classes being instructed in rapid rotation, the annual Learn-to-! Swim drive of The Star and the Y. M. C. A. was entering the final stages today at the “Y” boys’ pool, 1732 G street. The campaign will close tomorrow | afternoon, at which time it is expected | that a large majority of the pupils will have learned to swim and become | dirt eligible for the Red Cross swimming| buttons to be awarded successful| entrants. Four classes were given advanced in- | struction this morning and a like num- | ber will take the third-day course this afternoon. Some of the boys already | have demonstrated an ability to swim | short distances, and these are ready | “beginners’” buttons. To win this| button the novice must swim two, widths of the pool, or a distance of 50 feet. A total of 180 boys took part In| yesterday's exercises. | The swimming campaign for colored | [ boys also Is making rapid progress at| the Twelfth Street Branch of the| Y. M. C. A, at 1816 Twelfth street.| Classes are being instructed nightly| from 5 to 8 o'clock . VERMONT FO | Dale Says United Delegation Will Be Elected. | A prediction that Vermont will send | R COOLIDGE. | | | | | WEDNESDAY. APRIT 11, 19783 Survivors of Wreckéd Pony Cart Mourn Loss of Faithful Shetland i WOMEN INDORSED FOR SCHOOL BOARD | Mrs. Philip S. Smith and Mrs. - | Ernest R. Grant Proposed for Vacancy. | | ) Indorsement of Mrs. Philip Sidney | Smith, president of the Twentieth Cen- | tury Club, and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, | vice president of the Monday Evening Club, as candidates for appointment to the Board of Education, to succeed Mrs. | William H. Herron, resigned, was voted by the public schools committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The committee recommended that a woman be named by the Dist S preme Court justices, the appointing agency, to fill the vacancy. The committee also indorsed the bill | now pending in Congress, providing for payment of tuition by pupils | Maryland attending schools in trict, and recommended also that pup: | living in the District and att | Maryland schools also be required to | pay tuition. Another bill providing tf records be kept concerning the ber of Maryland pupils attending | schools here and of District pupils at- | tending Maryland schools, and tr the end of the school year the costs be | balanced, was indorsed. Another bili, providing for the ex- emption of District public school teact - | ers from the $20,00 salary limitation in cases where such teachers are em- ployed as teachers in night schools also | was indorsed. The purpose of the bill it was explained, is to aliow extra pay. ment for such extra teaching service The committee approved the bi | which is designed to exempt members of the Board of Education from liability for the actions of the board as an or- | ganization, while holding that members Frank Stetson with Frisky. They escaped yesterday, but the other member of of the board are responsible for their the trio, Doc, Eleven-year-old Prank Stetson, Frisky, his dog, and Doec, his Shetland pony went gayly out for a ride yesterday afternoon. Frank and Frisky went back home two hours later mournfully and badly shaken up. Doc didn’t return. Frank left his home, at 1847 Forty- seventh street, in his pony cart, driv- ing Doc and with Frisky in the seat beside him. On the way around the drive which surrounds First High Rev- | ervoir, the pony stepped on some loose d lost its footing. plunged down a 25-foot embankment. Frank grabbed Frisky and jumped. | When he picked himself up he saw The three | broke his neck. | Doc lying still at the bottom of the drop, the wreckage of the cart on top f him. Neighbors who heard Frisky | barking for help found Frank in tears working desperately to_free the pony |from the wreckage. But the pony's | neck was broken and death had been instantaneous. | Mrs. Mildred D. Stetson, Frank's | mother, today was giving thanks that | Frank was only slightly cut in the faH, | ut Frank was unreconciled to the loss {of his pony, which was given to him a year ago by a friend of his father, Frank A. Stetson, former White House l;omspondenz. Frisky was subdued to- ay, too. MERCHANTS PLAN OUTING ON RIVER | Annual Boosters’ Trip Will Last Three Days on Po- tomac and Bay. Plans for the annual boosters’ outing of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, a three-day trip down the the steamer Southland, are being laid by committees of the organization ap- pointed by Charles H. Frame, general chairman. The trip is to be held June 8 to 11 and the itinerary this year will be ex- tended to Include Baltimore and An- napolis as well as Norfolk and Old Point Comfort, Edward D. Shaw, secre- tary of the organization, has an- nounced. Committee assignments are as fol- lows Commissary—Bert Olmsted, chalr- man; G. H. Budd, Joseph A. Fisher, Fred Buchholz, E. C. Wallis and Frank Fenwick. Entertainment — Mark Lansburgh, Avalear Executive committee—Charles Frame. TRAWGLE EAL PUSHED Y .. Means Action Soon—In- cludes Outside Land. Large areas of land in the Pennsyl- vania avenue triangle will be acquired by the Government in the near future to take the final test for the official | potomac River and Chesapeake Bay on | 8ccording to plans now in hand. | This developed today from official | sources, following the submission te | Congress yesterday by President Cool- | idge of an estimate for $9,750,000 to buy land under the act authorizing pur- chase of the entire triangle between Pennsylvania avenue, Fifteenth street and the Botanic Gardens. Much Outside Land. | Details of all the land designated by the President were not disclosed, but it was learned from the Department of Justice that condemnation proceedings for many blocks, both inside and out- side of the triangle, will be carred for- now under way, for acquisition of prop- a united delegation to the Republican | chairman: Gen. Anton Stephan, Claude | erty directly to the north of the Con- | national convention and that it will be | | was made in the Senate today by Sen: | “for their native son, Calvin® Coolide ator Dale, Republican, of that State. Senator Dale began by saying he had | been disturbed by newspaper reports | | from New York to the effect that Ver- | mont would have a split delegation, | with stx_for Coolidge and five for Sec- retary Hoover. He declared that Ver- | mont has never sent a split delegation, man. He said the members of | from that State do tate to hteir people, | consult with them. ngress | ut that the people | Rejuvenation Scientist Hurt. | MADRID, April 11 (#)—Dr. Serge | Voronoff, the noted rejuvenation scien- | tist, was slightly hurt today when his | ! automobile overturned. The accident | occurred while Voronoff was proceeding | from Seville to Madrid. ! | ‘ BOWIE ENTRIES FOR TOMORKOW. FIRST RACE $1.200; maiden 2 year-old filies " : in 3 Low Shoes ty : el Pretly Michelle. v it . Nelln R. ....... 118 Curdle . L Kathicen § londe ible— i Chatier Doni o Hikhland Fling b Ave Maris . Tose Smith 1o Crrerse o ECOND RACE claiming olds. 6 furlo a g Also eligible Gold Het oo, | 101 & Roason 112 Tuckaonville Wey THIRD RACK 4-yeur-olds and up Maxiva v SHucky Harie Attillersmian FCandy Pk Buchid atLitti Purse, $1.200 By furlongs clatming 100 | 3 108 fle Jollon MeAull . Lo Livingston and Sunnyland Stabl 1400 o up nd A FOURTH RACE Koyl buree: 4 ye W0 yrds, et .. 108 Willle K. Hucky Wariis 112 a Cromse Lt Shasta Lad . n“‘ - & Wildross Karm entry FIFTH RACE s #1200 claiming Hoyear-olde and up: L mile and 70 yards 100 Moroce 108 o Fa eorke Domar. 106 SIXTH 0 4 yuurolin e 104 *Highwayma 1astivhland ¢ srirsl K " " b 1Y sharhee dan SUanmise, Cah 11 olioh 100 Harey Chrrant Pucee, $1 0 T il Declure Hheny 1 *hentaria itheat EYENTH KA Your-ulds wnd up ::} b ey . Ty Owen, Levay. Itinerary—Claude Owen, chairman Prank W. Harper iy George S. De Neale. Refreshment—A. A. Auth, chairman; Peter M. Dorsch Souvenir—Isaac_Gans, chairman: R P. Andrews, Dr. M. G. Gibbs. Eugene Cochran and Richard L. Lamb. “Ficket—L. A. Payne, chairman: A.J.|chives Building, and a so-called “shell” | but has always been for or against & | gundiun, James E. Collifiower. Joseph | bullding to suiround it en three sides. A. Burkart, ley. Frank Low and Harry G. Taylor. Publicity—A. J. Sundlun, chairman; R. E. Buckley and Sylvan King. i e VOTE TRADING CHARGED. Wholesale trading of votes in the Senate and House on such major pro- posals as farm relief, flood control, charged in & statement today by Charles J. Brand, secretary-treasurer of the National Fertilizer Association. “Pew persons realize,” he said, “the extent to which our Government is rapidly being plunged into privat business by this four-cornered vote trading.” BAND CONCERT. TONIGHT. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks, at 8:15 o'clock, Taylor Branson leade! Grand march, “Pomp and Circum- stance"” & .. Elgar Overture, “La G Paque Russe,” Opus 36...........Rimsky-Korsakow Characteristic, “Mosquito Ballet,” Cortelyou CGrand scenes from “La Gloconda,” Ponchielll Prelude, “Lohengrin®. ... .. Wagner Valse de concert, “Southern Roses," Strauss “Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 9" (Peste! Carntval) ... . . Lisst Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Monte« suma " The Star Spangled Banner.” Enroll me as @he Foening Star Mark Lansburgh and Louls | gressional Library. In their order. condemnation pro- ceedings will be instituted by the De- partment of Justice as follows: |” Square 264 for the Department of Agriculture extension building, bounded by B and C streets southwest, Thir- | teenth street and Linworth place. This |is outside the triangle. | Squares 380, 381 and 382 for the Ar- 7" C. Callahan, John .| The location is bounded by Pennsyl- | resolution. ot attempt to dic- | pinn, M. A. Leese, William E.Russell, | vanta_avenue. Ninth and Tenth streets A. H. Brewood, Isaac Gans, J. E. Hal- | and B strect. This includes property of a large number of dealers of stuffs, ‘both wholesale and retail, in the |area ndjacent to Center Market. |~ Squares 292, 203, 294 and 295. This | comprise a block of land between | Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Pemn- | sylvania avenue and B street. Abstract of title for virtually ali of this prop- erty was obtained by the Department of Justice when former plans called for | location of the Archives Building, first | Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals Was|on the south end of this area and afte | ward on the north end. along the Ave- nue. Archives, however, later was transferred again to the site just west of Center Market. Evacuation Indefinite. This broad-guage program of con- demnation will keep the Government busy for & long time. When particular pleces of property in these areas will have to be given up by their present owners Government officials could not | promise definitely. While Treasury officials declined to discuss the specific sites to be acquired {under the $9,750,000 appropriation, it |was deemed logical that | would be instituted for the entire aite for Archives and its surrounding build- | ing. and for the large area west of the Post Office Department, on which the Qovernment already has developed ab- stracts. These areas will probably fi short of using up all of the $9.730,000. especially as the Archives Building has specifically authorized in fts original appropriation of $6,900,000 funds for purchase of a site. Thus the new ap- propriation will have to be used propor- tionately only to buy land on which the “shell” building around Archives will be built a member of Golden Rule Safe Drivers Club Address I agree to abide by the Golde: you would have othe: considerate of pedestrinne drive,” and at wll ti f| | within a block of the | bullding, were loased |Fund Asked by Coolidgei rd. In order of their precedence, the con- | | chairman; Harry Crandall and F. P. demnation proceedings for the site of | the Supreme Court ranks first, and is| procedure | | personal acts as members of the board | The movement to provide free text books for pupils of the public schools | above the eighth grade also was in- dorsed. | MAJ. HESSE URGES | DRASTIC MEASURES TO IMPROVE POLICE (Continued from Pirst Page) trial board showing the conviction any member of the force in an of competent jurisdiction of a: inal or quasi-criminal offense.” ‘The manual as it now stands provvides that officers “may be” removed upon conviction for such offenses, and as a result Maj. Hesse points out, re than 500 members of the force who have been | convicted by the trial board in the last | three years are still in the service. The | amendments proposed by Maj. Hesse | provide that any member of the force convicted on any of the following of- fenses shall suffer such penalty as the | trial board may recommend and as may be a wved by the Commissioners: y {ving money or other valuable consideration contrary to the rules anc | regulations of the department or the | Jaws enforced in the District of Colum- | bia. ! “2. Inefficiency as evidenced by re- | peated and well founded complain from superior officers concerning per- formance of police duty, or neglect of duty. Repeated convictions before the <rial board upon charges involving vio- | lations of the rules and regulations of the department shall be prima facie evidence of inefficiency. “3. Absence from duty for three day: without leave. | Violence Would Be Banned. “4. Wilfully maltreating or using necessary violence toward a prisoner or other person. | . “S. Neglect or refusal to pay & ju: debt contracted during time of service provided the debt. unless admi‘ted shall be evidenced by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. 6. When frequent i department is required to compel tc hqu.’\dlle his just debts. “7. Conduct unbecoming an officer. which may include. in addition to ac! detrimental to good discipline or ten ing to bring discredit on the force, th violation of any law of the United States, or of any law, municipal ordi- nance or police regulation of the Dis- trict of Columbia. |, “8. Any conduct not specifically set f;fl.h helv:; which is prejudicial to the reputation, good order or discipline |of the police force.” o Maj. Hesse believes that the system under which the trial board now func- tions is responsible for existing eond:! tions and the keeping of undesirables on the force as shown in the report to the Senate in response to the Carswas | This system, Maj. Hesse explained, has permitted one member of the force in particular to be retained in the serv- ice. although he has been before the trial board 34 times since his appoint- ment. This officer also, he said, took & recent examination before the Civil | Service Commission to qualify for a | promotion to the rank of sergeant | Another officer, according to the police | superintendent. has been cited before | the trial board 21 times in the last 3 vears and he is still on the force. A repetition of these conditions, he de- clared, would not be possible it his recommendations are approved by the Commissioners. Maj. Hesse made an attempt las | Winter to partially correct this situa- tion when he recommended to the Commissioners that radical changes be made in the composition of the trial board. These recommendations, how- ever, were not approved FRENCH CHANCERY GETS NEW BUILDING | | ;Rmden« at 2034 Sixteenth Street ! Leased for Staff Now Housed | ‘ in Embassy. | | The Prench government has leased | the four-story brick residence loca | At 2034 Sixteenth street for the use of the chancery staff of the o it was announced today bv rie Knobel. second secretary of the French | embassy. The chancery staff, it is ex- | peeted. will move from its present | Quarters in the cmbassy. 3460 Sixteenth | W lts new home Monday Provision of new quarters for the l| | chancery staft was made necessary due | to the limited quarters in the present | | embassy building and the new loca | ton 18 to house the mrlm\nn\- affices {of the embassy untll the French | EQyernment erects its projected new em- | bassy bullding on the site on Sixteenth | street, immediately above Meridian HUl Park, acquired for that purpose in recent months. The new chancery quarters, located Nt erbassy the French | government from Frank E. Bell. through Rule of Matordom, “Drive s be 0d ohildren. l Ambassador he offices of Sondos, Ine. The French Paul Claudel, and his family, will continue for the present 10 make their residence at the embassy Proper. i nu;-.lnlm to Rome, ROME, April 11 (M -Premior solinl retws © Ro Milan, wm nfery