Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight: continued cold; frost it wea remains clear; he Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ¥ S - 4 . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday's Circulation, 103334 Sunday’s Circulation, 111,740 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 30,666. PAGES. TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. \\';\éfiINGTON. DG, l\ZION])AY, APRIL 16, 1928—FORTY STAY, REPORT SAYS Schiller Forced to Land Twice for Fuel| on Desperate Flight—Icy Winds, Wireless Operators Say Schil- | | Special Dispateh 1o The Star and North American Newspaper Alliunce, Rain and Snow Met. fer, First to Reach Island, | MURRAY BAY, Quebec. April 16.—-Duke Schiller and two brave companions Jaat 2 have landed at Greenly Island to the rescue of the crew of the transatlantic 'S Brmgmq |I'|Shman. plane Bremen, after a desperate and spectacular flight from Murray Bay. Word of their arrival was received here last night, The dispatch said the | plane had landed at 10 o'clock at night. There were no details of the under- taking, which will take rank as one of the greatest in the hislnry of aviation. | Schiller’s plane carried the first men from the outside world to reach the Bre- men's maronned crew. Schiller's flight was arranged by the North American News- Second Aircraft Starts—Junkers| . paper Alifance through its Toronto member, The Sister Shlp Leaves Mitchel Star. Schiller will get from the transatlantic fiyers the full account of their experience, and he Field for Canada. hopes to take them back to Murray Bay with him. e Schiller's hazardous and courageous flight to the bleak goal of Greenly Island, & trip approximating 1,000 miles, was a battle against savage weather and a race against a rival plane. The second ship was chartered by two New York newspapers, li press association and a news picture syndicate. | Flying skill, alertness in selzing the “breaks” and reckless, but glorious disregard of rain and snow and ice and fog were the factors which gave victory to Schiller and to his companions, Dr. | Louls Cuisinier and Thibault, a mechanic. ; Volunteers to Go to Rescue. | As soon as the plight of the Bremen became known, Schiller and Dr. Culsinier volunteered to They refused to listen to talk of danger. They thrust aside BARON AND KOEHL STAY [ TO COMPLETE REPAIRS Br the Associated Press QYEBEC, April 16.—Wireless opera- tors at Clarke City this afternodn sstd‘ that Commandsnt Fitzmaurice of the crew of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen had left Greenly Island in a Canadian Transcon tal Airways | Co's plane. The Irish aviator will be taken either to Father Point or Quebec as weather | conditions permit, and will proceed when possible to New York. His com- | panions in the transatiantic flight, Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl, | remain on the island and will attempt | to Tepair the plane 5o as to complete | the flight to New York. ! The plane which is bringing Com- | mandant Fitzmaurice from the lonely ixland where the Bremen landed on | Priday is that flown to them vesterday | from Murray Bay by Dr. Cuisinier and C. A. (Duke) Schiller. Father Point. or Farther Point, is on | the Gaspe Peninsuia, forming the south | shore of the St. Lawrence. It is near | the town of Rimouskie. in the county | of that name. where both railroad and telegraph communications with the out- side world may be had. Across the St Lawrence. which is broad at that point, is the Saguenay River. SISTER PLANE TAKES OFF. | | | | | | | i DUKE SCHILLER. £0 to the rescue. all objections. “Get us a plane,” Schiller demanded. “Get us a good plane. the rest.” A Fairchild plane was found. Schiller and Cuisinier approved it instantly. It was the ship they were looking for. The Fairchild was built especially for Winter air mail service on the St. Lawrence. It has a wasp engine of 420 horsepower, and it develops a maximum flying speed of 160 miles an hour. Best | of all. skis had taken the place of its landing gear. “With that baby,” laughed Schiller, “‘we can go to the Pole. Let's get going.” At 10:05 o'clock Saturday morning the Fairchild took-off from Murrey Bay. It lifted swiftly and gracefully, to a parting salute of cheers and shouted well wishes. Quickly it was lost to sight, making for its first objective, Beven | We'll do Ferta and Erhardt Junkers Leave Mitchel Field for Canada. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ~=mnaas NOBILES DIRIGIBLE | GENEVA APPROVES ARRIVESAT SEDDIN; - ANTI-WAR TREATY monoplane 1o strip ‘of any parts the transatlantic | | monopiane Bremen might need 1o con- | tinue its journey to New York. | [ The brave German-Irish crew of the | { ! ! | agency | way across | 1 Fighting Storms on First Leg of Pole Flight. By the Associated Press. | By the Asmociated Press. STOLP, Pomerania, Germany, April| GENEVA, April 16.—8egretary Kel- 16—Gen. Umberto Nobile brought his!| jogg's efforts to secure a multilateral mr%m mmuhnnk:;:‘iuu!y for the outlawry of war meet with winds electrical storms - | general approval in League of Nations' ing at Seddin Airdrome, six miles from here this morning. OF| The Italian airship, with which he hopes landed to explore North Polar n'hmj at epairs, | immediately placed in the hangar. It Kellogg Proposal for 1 Multilateral Pact. it E: -3 5 - | expressions of hope that the American initiative will succeed. The opinion is that any agreement to remove war from national policy Seddin at 8:35 am., and ‘“t only furthers the League's efforts toward | Government Counsel Fails to { the General Praises Ship After League Circles Favorable to, | circles where there have been numerous SINLAR DEFENE SCORE AS DOREN STORY IS XCLUDED Get Alleged Bond Deliv- ery in Record. TEAPOT DOME DRAINAGE TESTIMONY RULED OUT Prosecutor Opposes Introduction of Expert Evidence and Maps. The defense in the Sinclalr con- spiracy trial today began the presenta- tion of its case after Justice Jenning: Bailey had prevented special Govern- ment counsel from introducing the story of the delivery to former Secre- tary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of $100.000 by Edward L. Doheny, jr., buf did permit the prosecution to present evidence showing that Sinclair's attor- ney in 1923 sent a package containing $25.000 in Liberty bonds to Fall's bank in Texas for deposit to his account ADEQUATE DEFENSE PLEA 15 DELIVERED BY MRS. BROSSEAU |D. A. R. Head Attacks Critics of Society’s Militant Stand. MRS. BAILIE IS PRESENT AS CONGRESS CONVENES i Frederick S. Libby Excluded From Floor, With Other Men—Open- ing Address Applauded. Full reports of the D. A R. Convention, April 15 to 22, inclu- sive. Mailed—Postage prepaid. United States and Canada, 35¢ Foreign, 70c Leave or send list of names ‘The Evening Star Office. El stfeet and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. to th i | ‘Hurling more firebrands into the | camp of those who have criticized the The QGovernment Friday had nolle prossed the bribery indictment against Doheny, who is a son of the California ofl magnate, in order to have his testi- mony. At the opening of the afternoon session, Justice Bailey sounded a warn- ing against publication of the deposi- tion given by Fall at El Paso a few weeks ago, declaring that if the state- mert by the former cabinet officer is printed he would regard it as con- tempt of court. and “shall have steps taken to punish accordingly.” The deposition is to be introduced by the defonse in the course of its case. What purported to be part of the deposition was published this morning. Just as the defense opened up what was %0 be the first thorough and de- talled presentation of its side of the the Government | By the Associated Press. Investigation of all lobby activities about Washington was asked in a reso- lution proposed today by Senator Cara- PROBE OF LOBBYING, ASKED Y CARAWA Urges Inquiry Into Activities of All Seeking to Affect Legislation. certain phases of the evidence offered. | Justice Bailey upheld the Oovemmm'i‘ o 5 el |way, Democrat of Arkansas, Wwho Fight on Drainage Evidences. charged a particular drive by lobbyists George P. Hoover, counsel for HAIY | against his oill for regulation of cotton maps and a e relief model of 8 Femot Dome. pad propared to lay her| The resolution, which must lie over fore the jury the geological and other |8 day under the rules, would have a technical facts concerning the condition | special Senate committee inquire into of the naval ofl reserve with respect |efforts of the various associations in to its il being subject to drainage by | the Capital to affect legislation, what private operators on the borderline and | methods they use to obtain funds and ¥ Show tha Deceiy So ki | what sources their contributions come Branded as “Fakes.” of | Discussing his resolution, Senator 'fCll’l'll! declared there were more than or the necessity | 350 associations in Washington and Hoover, howerer, | many of them he declared were “fakes.” feature was abso- | He mentioned by name the National necessary. in order to complete | Reclamation Association, of which he the entire pieture. and in the course of | sajd George H. Maxwell was executive his argument for admission of the |director. A letter from the assoclation he declared it was the Navy |relating to flood control was termed by and not Secretary Fall that made the | Caraway a “lie.” decision to lease the reserve. In the| "If the Senate really investigates this light of this he wanted to show the |lobby evil” Caraway declared, “there facts that actuated that decision. | will be more ‘Por rent’ signs around ‘While denying him the opportunity of | Washington than there have been since ving the detalled evidence Justice [the war, Let us find out about these y, however permitted the defense | parasites, these leaches, who are abso- evidence tending to show | lutely without power, but who pre- that ¥all had been informed of the|sumably sell their influence on Con- condition of the reserve with respect to | gress. They are living by ill-gotten drainage. Acting under this permis. | §ains. under false pretenses. They are sion the defense, through Arthur W.|not better than ordinary pickpockets, Ambrose, former chief petroleum tech.| “There is one tion here for ! (Glass Eye Explodes |{As Man Steps Out {Into Frigid Weather and “subversive doctrines,” Mrs. Al- | fred J. Brosseau, prgsident general of {the D. A. R. decried proposals for | total disarmament without national CITVWDEPOLIE = e SHIFTS ARE DUE o s thirty-seventh Continental Congress of l society’s militant stand the National Society of the D. A R in the Washington Auditorium. The address, delivered before an | enthusiastic audience of 4.000 woman | déscendants of America’s colonial | patriots, was construed as a ringing | answer to “lay members” who have jaunched a broadside on heads of the | society for actively supporting the Navy oill and for opposing “radical” speakers. Attacks Atheism. Mrs. Brosseau sounded a wamning against “destructive | By the Associated RANGER, Tex., April 16.—The near-freezing weather which struck this section Saturday made a total wreck of T. H. Brown's glass eye and caused serious injuries to his good one. The glass eye exploded when Brown stepped from a warm room into the cold temperature outdoors. Physicians who removed particles of glass from Brown's eyeball sald | the explosion was caused by the sud- | den change of temperature. EXPRESS ROBBERS | i -~ SLAY POLICEMAN (Escape With 3 Safes From ! Truck—Capture Youth Who Intervenes. |Maj. Hesse Announces Fur- ther Changes to Follow Several Made Today. | 1 ! | A city-wide shift of police pre- .| cinct captains is in prospect, it was an- | | nounced this morning by Superintend- | |last week were put into effect. marriages. teacl | “This is only a start.” said Maj. Hesse, | sanct details of life” in the schools and | “for, before 1 am through. it is doubt- | Sweeping aside of essential American di ful if & single commanding officer wil | FRSIanS T e the pack- remain in the precinct to which he "?ad m’m ‘ul‘:gy which gmlsg‘gl now attached. I feel that this is the | presidens general's remarks left nc most effective way to enforce the law.” | doubt that she had struck a populas Four captains and three licutenants | chord—and there was no surface indi- exchang>d commands this moming. the | cation of the discord threatened from { certain rebellious quarters as an out- {shifts coming hard on the heels of | o no o tn " hiack hist” controversy. i charges and counter-charges launched | | | { | lery m"n“ l““.l LM!P!!(;;II%: o | and one of the speakers mamed t ents were as follows: iy ve up their old S By the Associated Press, | Sy Seemmony. TOLEDO, Ohio, April 16.—Patrolman | Pt George Zientara was shot and killed | 5, A b here today during a gun fight with & fourteenth to third: esca, 4 taining | teenth: Lieuts. Michael Raedy. | Thoney ahd chocks wid 10 toar $10000 | to the cghth. W E.Houmes. from | b | the fourth to the third. and E. T. Har- | ‘The robbers. after holding up the ot ““im ‘the eighth to the # |truck near Unlon Station, forced the!gergt. J. J. Knight of the driver to take them to University Circle, | Sergt. J. W. McGinness of the el | | where they transferred the safes to both of whom were ordered transferred. | their cars. were today directed to remain in the | John White, 21. a student at the Precincts to which they are attached University of Toledo and son of Russell Hesse's Exoneration Put in Record. t of a bigger Navy w’{'hr Massachusetts member pointed out that she had not called certain lists nes. can await the government r, which could carry them and plane to & Canadian port, They can z2wait spare parts and fuel | #nd complete their flight. | On a train speeding to Quebec with | spare paris was a mechanic of the| Junkers Co. branch office in New York. Efforts were being made to locate { i i the Bremen—in Canada 50 that it | might be at hand if repairs on the big m are made and she attempts 1o continue her flight | Jee Holds Rescue Boat. | ice-ciogged waters of Belie Ixle which surrounded the ocean | Siyers’ island prison, stopped the efforts | ©of the Canadian ice-breaking steamer | Montcalm 1o reach the fiyers by water The Montealm t last accounts was 75 miles from Greenly Island The three fiyers in the meantime were seemingly aware of the varnous eflorts being made 1o reach them, as biizzard-swept territory separated them | from the radio station at Point Amour which notified the .world of thelr ianding Messages side work The Brral a from the fi weliing of yers 1o the out- their plans and their hope wve in the Bremen “shortly” presumably were carried by Gog team L Point Amour, 25 miles from Greenly Isiand Many thiese were believed sent by ma “Why P sege? No reply receives Huenetels wired M messages, however slong with those W the fyers W our mes- Baron yon by dost sent 10 the associates 500, and must lnst storm-swept York for the cluding o have b part of The folloving reg von Huenete Mechenic and rive sl Quebee sflernoon. Benwm) (ollowing By F-12 0 Montres) b permilting a4 v there ¥ ordey . ent o Baron riber aetion rmed of fur- B No_ propedies the omly otiwr the pisue ¥ wnd Fred Melchos, the company ol we 0 £ porth, The Bremen metel propelier destgned especislly for whie Bight, und ks . was probebly only bent, Jyukers officials here believed ) omild be straightencd end reshaped by ¥ooeh) wnd Filnmaurio As the fiyers, undoubtedly worn and pervous from thelr bettie with the elements, lbored v repair their plane they 6i6 ot forget the usuel mterns tionel courtes Premier Mackenzie 8t Otlawe, received Uitk message Ha ving lended i your grest country (Continued on Paye 6, Column 2.) o Worin 4, which Juniker King of Cenada Minimizes Poison Gus BAN FRANCISCO, April | Decluring st poison gus 3 inore Buane o wari Wiaks high explos M. Boemm, political s California fesr ruther {had taken the craft 30 hours and 40 maintenance of perpetual peace. 1ing mascot Titania, the dog which flew | used w | minutes to come from Milan, which is | about 680 miles from here by airline. | Apparently the only damage suffered by the ship was the tearing of the left stabilizer. The hum of the Italia’s motors was first heard by those on the field at 7:55. The weather was cloudy, with a little wind, and the sun was beginning to shine through the clouds. Ten minutes after the motors had been heard the a large circle and then reappeared. The | baliast was thrown out and soldiers | :zuprd the landing ropes, puliing it ! wn. PROJECT - IS PRAISED, German Paper Sees Danger of World | | Strife Eliminated. | BERLIN, April 16 ().—Secretary Kel- logg's outlawry of war proposal pre- | sented to the powers last week con- tinues to hold the attention of the Zeitung, for example, says: | “The United States undoubtedly Is| right in expecting enormous moral effect | from the conclusion of a treaty between Nobile and Dog Mascot. ::: lr;:nl“ pzvrn in woo'vdlnee with When the gondola touched the | !he submitted text, even if Russia for ground. Gen. Noblle stood at the door | the present does not become a party of the cabin and beside him his shiver- | "",‘! Mhtieton, Sonon vk ik grer the North Pole with him in mpy‘?:: and 3'21',24.',‘..2"‘.12 s A_al:ulr:‘ri h,';,‘:,,y ,h;ff::, ,:;' {’h,"":p,f"‘,:iu:,',‘“ WA% | strument of national policy the danger “We had a terrible storm over the °f @nother world conflagration will be Carpsthian Mountains.” Gen. Nobile | Climinsted, whatever smallgr nations, 1old the Associated Press correspondent, | Who 10 tUme will be taught a peaceful “And 1 um exceedingly proud of the Sittude may do e ek i 90 NOWN DEAD TOLL - IN BULGARIAN QUAKE | ton will be & success The motors and our instruments functioned per- 100 Injured—S8evere Weather Adds to Hardships—2,000 Homes fecty in spite of electrie storms, so 1 thing that could be wanted for the Destroyed in Village, expedition “AL Gleiwltz alrdrome the suthori- tes tried 1o persuade us 10 come down, but we were determined 1o proceed, We did, however, ask for meteorological in- formation, &s we had lost uur“flrlnn and had t crulse back and forth for 1wo bours until the information came | from Lindenberg and Prague “The Ttalia was in real danger only during the electrical storm, but 1 neyer for s moment thought of back. ‘The erew was excellent, 1 am confident that the Italia is every- By the Awsocinied Press, BOPIA, Bulgaria, April 16.—With 20 turning | known dead and about 100 persons in- o ST he best | jured, all avallable raliroad cars today . were being sent 1o the region of south- “Let Everybody Bee Italia” |ern Bulgaria, which was devastated by There were only about s hundred |an earthquake Baturday, to house the (':"'"u’: I‘:llnn"m.l:-lla“m"l’l 10 'Iafl'l the | homeless, Unusually severe weather ship besides soldlers, police and news. | cremse ' ! it e s bt et L PEE- | Two thousand houses were deatroyed talin, Dut Gon't smoke Vosee Ihe | ot Tehirpan, where 12 persons were Representattves of (he federal, state | ©06d. Elght others were killed in sur- (Continued on Pess 11 rounding villages, and at Borrissovgrad | tined on Page 2, Column 6.) | 1,000 houses were i ruins FLYER’S OWN STORY To Appear in The Star Commandant James Fitzmaurice, ehief of the Irish Free Btate Alr Foree, accompanying the German fiyers, Capt. Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld, in thelr now epoch making flight Lo the American continent from Germany and Ireland, will write of the Bremen's effort and the sxperiences of s navigators, b This graphic story will be published in Washington only | clalr, noligist of the Bureau omln-s. ROL be. fore the jury testimony that it was th opinion of experts that unless action was taken the northern portion of Tea- pot Dome would be drained of its oll by private operators on the southern and adjoining border of Salt Creek PFleld Ambrose, likewise, testified that he told mu‘e granting of a narrow strip of nd on the border for operation would not be ample Eroucu»n against drainage. Under this procedure the Government would have given a lease of a narrow strip on the north border | of the Dome for the extraction of ofl on a royalty basis. Ambrose testified he told Pall early in 1922, that more drilling would have to be done for the proper protection of the reserve Ambrose likewise testified that follow- ing this conference with Fall the cabi- net officer had directed his attention to the Sinclair pi ition of February 3. 1922, for operation of Teapot Dome under a lease and subsequently he was charged with Incorporating the features | of Binclair's proposal in the regular In- terior Department ofl lease form. He was engaged six weeks in this matter and sald Becretary Fall kept abreast of the progress. He had no conferences with the Navy until the lease was finally ar;'m up ready for signature, he testi- ed. Letter Mentions Honds. Having recelved authority from Jus- tice Balley wo&ll’l-unl the Zevely-8in- clair-Fall $25 Liberty Bond trans- acton, Roberts, through J. E. Benton president of the First National Bank of El Puso, n Government witness, present- ed the following to the jury: ‘That early in June, 1923, the bank | received a letter In PFall's handwriting and on Zevely's letter head paper which read: “I am having forwarded from New York Monday, $25,000 in Liberty bonds to you, Kindly sell same for my account and please credit my drawing Aceount,” The letter gave authority for Fall's son-in-law, €, C. Chase, to draw up to $2,600 on the account, It closed with the statement: “I am salling to- morrow for London and possily other parts of Europe.” That on June 5 1923, the bank re- ceived & letter from Zevely, stating that “We are sending you today by ex- press & package which Is the property of A B ‘Yull‘ und to be received for his account.” The deposit alips showing the 826,000 in bonds had been credited o Fall's sccount, together with interest of $671.36, was introduced, CGustay D, Wahlburg, private secretary to Sinclair In 1023, told of & conversation between Zevely and Sinclalr, st which he was present, on May 26, 1023, a day or two fore Binclair sajled for Kurope. Bin- coording to the witness, “told me if Col. Zevely asked for honds 1 should give them to him." Zevely did make a request for bonds and Wahlburg sald he caused them to be delivered to him. Defense Case Opens, The defense then opened Iy case A huge rack of maps was trundled nto the courtroom by seversl men and placed 1 a position whers the Jury could see 1L T4 was then extended ups wird and ut dls maximum helght resched ahout three-fourths of the wa in The Blar, Watch for It t to the nmn{ Hoover called J, Bleele an lhn. rat defense witnoss who Btecle, des Wt Onspar (Continued »n& 4, Column 1., About a week later | | national parks. Its head gets a salary of $7,500 a year. It made & report on a park in my staté, but no one on the 'nmhtkm saw the proposed park. Attacks His Bill. “There are associations ranging from those for the hard of hearing to those for the protection of trians. Near- ly every avocation of the human being is being capitalized under the head of some association. “There is a lobby here from every State in the Union calling Senators from the floor of this chamber to tell about ‘he passage of this bill of mine to make speculators speculate on their own money. They tell the Senators { how the passage of this bill will de- | stroy the orderly marketing of farm products.” | sent to the House, requiring lobbyists | o register LOCHER TAKES SEAT. {Senate Oath Administered to Ohio Democrat. The Senate today welcomed its third new member since the beginning of the | sesston—Cyrus Locher, Democrat, of | Cleveland, ‘apopinted by Gov. Donahey |of Ohlo, to succeed the Late Frank B. Willis, Senator Locher was escorted to the dias by his Republican colleague, Sena- tor Feas, and the oath was administered by Vice President Dawes. With the swearing In of the new Senator, the political Ihle-llfi became the same that it was after the Senate {denied the oath of office to Senator- elect Frank L. Smith of Illinols, and Republicans, Farmer-Labor Other new Senators sworn in at this session are Hronson Cutting, Repubs lican, New Mexico, who took the seat (made vacant by the death of Andrius A, Jobes, Democrat, and Arthur A Vandenberg, Republican, appointed to succeed the Jate Woodbridge N, Ferris {of Michigan, also & Democrat, | . | TEMPERATURE OF 28.9 46 Democrats, and one Thermometer at Low Mark Early Today~Frosts Predictod for Tonlght, | A temperature of 209 degrees re- | corded al the United States Weather | on record for April 16, 1t was announced At the bureau. Light to heavy frosts, with a low temperature of about 33 de- grees, are predicted for tonlght. To- morrow will be falr and with rising temperature A‘llmulh 8.9 degrees 15 the loweat temperature on record for this specific date, similar temperatures have been recorded both earlier and later in April, It was pointed out. A temperature of 3 wah vecorded April 20, 1026, end & temperature of 38 on April 20, 1005, Radio I rugru.ms —Page 35, s Senator Caraway was author of the | bill, recently passed by the Senate and | Willlam 8. Vare of Pennasylvania—47! RECORD FOR APRIL 161 Hureau here early today 1s the lowest | |B. White, general manager of the rman Gibson of the special in- express company here, noticed the men \.,f‘h,:l‘un‘ _“?mm“u, of the House making the transfer and attempted 1 | pyciricr committee today put into the intervene. He was taken captive bY | racord the report made by the District the robbers. Police soon took up the | Commissioners exonerating Maj. Hesse chas® and cornered the robbers. | of the famous Blanton charges. | _The bandits opened fire on the police | ~"The subcommittee then continued fts |ear with machine guns and after an | study of the methods em in the | exchange of shots succeeded in escaping. | office of the District pure agent. ‘The driver of the truck, guards and | concerning which testimony by mem- student were injured. bers of the staff ot the Bureau of EM- et | clency and the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District was techni- DISTRICT APPROPRIATION |cal in”character and_ considerably in- |CONFEREES HOLD SESSION o vol! n H. resenting limousines without a meter. prowsted No Conclusions Reached at Initial against favoritism shown in parking | privileges. He said that these public | hackers have no place to park. His | complaints will be heard in full at | another session of the Gibson subcom- mitee tomarrow morning. DU PONT HAS RELAPSE. Family Says “He Is as Well as He Was Week Ago. IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON. N. Y. April 18 (# —United States Senator T Coleman du Pont of Delaware. who has been Il for several months, suffered a relapse yesterday, but it was said by members of his family today that he was “as well this morning as he was & week ago" Senator du Pont's condition was re- ported to be not eritical and the slight | relapse was atiributed to a cold . ! Bavarian R. R. Men to Tour U, §. Colliery Destroyed by Fire. | NEW YORK. April 16 (# - Twenty- " ‘nine representatives of Bavarian rail- SCRANTON. Pa., April 16 UP.The | ;,agy and industries arrived today on Whipper Wil colliery of the Archbald |the liner Munchen for a survey of e Coal Co, at Archbald, was destroyed dustrial conditions in Awmerica. The by fire late last night, with a loss es- | group plans a tour of New York. Ph‘l\l~ timated at $100000. Several lumber | delphia, Washington, Pittsburgh. Chi- plles and coal cars near the breaker cago and Detroit, paying particular at- were also burned. The colliery Iudllemmn W0 American transportation been fdie since last May [ methods. Fisher, a public hacker, vep- 100 drivers who oparate Meeting on Dividing Costs of City. Conferees on the District appropria- tion bill today began deliberating over ;mc points of difference between the two branches of Congress, including the main issue of fiscal relations, but no | conclusions were reached. The confer- | ence will be resumed at 2:30 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. | The outstanding question to be settled 118 how the cost of maintaining the city !should be divided between the United States and District governments. The House again this year woted for the $9,000,000 lump-sum contribution, and the ate voted in favor of the law of 1922, which calls for a ratio ap- ortionment, 60 per cent by the Dis- rict and 40 per cent by the Federal Government, Miss Margaret Haltigan Is First Woman Juror Ordered “Locked Up™ in District Miss Margaret Haltigan, 26, of 1860 | to be occupied by California street, engaged in research The "‘,‘l}’l‘m:‘“:‘:‘" s:.:"}m“"“;“:“‘ ": work, has the distinotion of being the | qaiiliy marshal and Miss Haltigan wilt first woman juror to be “locked up” in | be n her care throughout the irial the District of Columbla. With 11 | men Miss Haltigan was sworn today as the Sinelair 1y ‘The other members of the O'Donnell Jury are: Delbert F. Balley, J. Joseph Catloth, John P, Collins, Bdward T Towers, Ceorge L. Volth, Harey A Hamuel L Gallavan July 23 last. A Hilleary, Edward Tillow, Harry J. Pers former hearing of this case resulted tn | singer, Stephon J. Ryan, J Frank A mistrial and Justice Frederiek L | Leach and Patrick B Fineel No - Hiddons decided that this new Jury | mation had been gived the jurors of shall be Kept together. {the court’s intention (o keep thew Unitod Blates Marshal Edgar O, Snys | together, and surprise was manifest on der has made arvangements for the | the faces of all when the news was board and l«ld‘h\&u( Miss Haltigan, & | broken o them daughter of Patrick J. Haltigan, veading | Miss Haltigan will be tn consultation clerk of the House of Iwmnmlvu‘lluh her Iel‘\m jurars throughout the and the 11 men at the Metropolitan | day. as Is ordinary i eourt tor other Hotel and will not be subtected 10 | ohses. but will be accompanted by s the ineont nee of the crowded room | Soarborough when she goes (0 meals at the jouse, Which ROW happens | and when which 13 expeeted to last about 10 davs. | of unwelcome speakers. supposedly cir- culated by the Massachusetis D. A. R. as “black lists,” but that the term had | arisen througn press reports. Mrs. Bal. { lie, in an interview with a Star report | denled that D. A. R. officials had the { right to appear before Congress in behalf | of the Navy bill. and said: “The Thirty-sixta Continental Con- of the Daughters of the American volution. whether wisely or not, a a resolution merely in support of $-—35—3 naval ratio with regard | to pending legislation for 13 cruisers. It had no knowledge of the big Navy bill | and therefore could not have indorsed {1t and I consider it unauthorieed for | committee chairmen to appear in sup- | port of it before the House committse. ™ Defends Mr. Liddy. Mrs. Baille ardently defended M. Libby for his efforts to reduce the swe ’4" the naval building program. and she | eriticised the soctety for “ousting M. Libby from speaking defore iis gr s and pestering him more than any ot of the ‘undesirable speake “The issue is 100 big to let pass.” sh asserted, “it must be threshed out. We ::;\' win because we are on the right That the official Masachusetts dele- gation will not support Mrs any effart she or others may bring the controversy before the ocom- gress was seen today in the disclosure that the Massachuselts representativ met last night to discuss the squabddic and decided to stand squarely bahind Mrs. Brosseau and Mrs, Walker. In unanimously taking this action the delegates supported also thetr State regent. Mrs. James Charles Peabody. | WIth the opening of the annual con- | gress 2ffected smoothly and colorfully | the throrn of delegates hurried through the routine business of the afternoon Preparation for the hmpressive session { tonight, when President Coolidge. Sec- retary of War Davis, Sir Bxme Howard, the Rritish ambassador. and former Gov. Charles 8 Whitman of New York | were 10 address the great assembly in the auditorfum. The coremonies will be broadeast from WRC and a cham of radio stations. The delegates wore warned this marn g to be i their seats at T30 welock (his evening. as the deors will be closed when President Coolidge beging o peak What Amerioa needs. Mrs. Brosseau declared I referring to the “subversive clements, are some “oheer-leaders same earless citizens to st on the sidelines and do & little talking W the interest of this country.” W the face (ol the “extraordinary fanfaronade ! plaved for other countries.” | She made but an indirect reference to the “black list™ controversy tha looms as one of the make Bsues of the six-day conclave. Having i mind evi- dently Willtam Allen White, she re- marked that “the ediar of a Ml Weslern Rewspaper ook ssue with we recently Upon my statement that hu WMan nature has nob changed so very | much since the thue of Adam™ (regard g WAT ARd peace), and said, “HB ae {guments falled to convince we of the | error of my logle. ‘The primal qualities i luwmbou 3 " :‘ lt\n.\.mhc.(w- | sation and progress have-taught W | finssse and the m‘hl may be | employed I making application of the man.* holuded with & wiving_pley i B g8 o Wie nigbhy e N