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[ o obligation over and above that which is imposed solely by the fact that a city is a capital, X The Nation's Intention. ‘The general Government, by the fact of planning & magnificent Capital, covering a large area and character- ized by broad strects, avenues and | reservations to an extent unsuitable |for a self-supporting commercity city, {and by founding the Capital in | place comparatively uninhabited, as {with the owners of the soil, and by | the declarations of its representatives | at the founding of the city and after- | ward, showed an intention to build up a National city, at the Nation's ex- OTHER CITES THAN OURS ENJOY " SUBVENTIONS New York 18 Millions—To Chicago, Detroit and Others Many Millions. pense, on & grand scale, irrespective of | the future population of the District. The Capital was to be primarily a cen- ter of Federal action, and the occupa- tion of. the ground by settlers was { merely incidental to this great purpose. | It was to be a meeting place for the | use, convenience and entertainment of | the people of the entire Union, and the | expense of its support and adornment | was not to be limited by the scan | resources of what permanent popula- | tlon it might acquire. | "The original owners of Washington } Correepondence of The | donated: five-sevenths of the cit THEODORE W. NOYES. land yielded the right of self-govern- doos the Nation expend | ment to the Nation on the understand- the District | inf and implied agreement that the s 5 | Natton was to build up here a mag- fbution) upon | nificent Capital at its own expense, re- the | imbursing itself from the proceeds of le of donated lots. A preten- : was planned and lots were the Government on the of this understanding. For fourths of a century the Nation ted or neglected the obligatio it had thus incurred. In 1 vernment. which had in the be- impliedly undertaken to meet | expenses of capital making and § hifted that burden, in the main, ivate citizens, decided that jus- v one-half of the NATION'S OBLIGATION TO CAPITAL UNIQUE toward al expenses. Washington's Equilies. idy of the equitable foundations m whith proportionate contribu- toward capital maintenance by m State well as by the terms of the bargain | { | | | e Nation is based brings the convic n that no fixing of that proportion be just which ignores national { cs | neglects of obligations in the past in | he | determining the equitable measure of proportionate contribution for bventions in t subventi 1923, page an annual contributor | liberal amount the Nation has since ! 3711878, under the wise and fair legisla- tion of that year, surpassed other na- jons in this form of patriotic expendi- | The result has been to restore {the Nation's self-respect as a-fulfiller of Capital obligations, and to build up the Capital of today, in which every | American has a proprietary interest | and in respect to which every American now feels a proprietary pride. Obligation Follows Power. | The second obligation, that which is | coupled with and measured by the de- gree to which the Nation controls its | Capital, is, as I have noted, extraordi- | parily great in Washington's case. The teaching of these comparisons | is that obligation is coupled I’flhi \power: 1 e, financial obligation is | coupled with political power. If the | Nation cantrols. it pays; and to the | extent that it controis, it pays. | 4 Calif g 21231 (Contributions United States for Capital maintenance correspond to subventions by States to cities and by United States to States combined. Dis- trict of Columbia paid Into National Treasury as Federal taxes more than #t took out of Treasury as Federal lump-sum contribution. This contribu- ; tion is from national tases, to which |, Washington is the only capital 1o the District of Columbia is itself & !poced policies prevail, the Nation large contributer.) would do all of the controlling and In considering the character and|Dome of the paying Parls wants amount of the Nation's expenditure of | ;’;‘:um;: :";nd‘-"‘::“,‘: xfi""fim nine or ten milions annually for | States control without paying Capital maintenance and development; In Canberra, the new capital cf | | Australia. a supreme national con- it appears that the Natlon pays In o 700 oh, ‘canital may be exemplified subsidies to some of the small States | g in the case of Washington: but if 5o, | more in proportion to their contribu- | this condition will result from the fact tions to mational taxes than to the|that the Nation will secure and retain . g . fee-simple title to all the land In the District of Columbia; that other cities | ro4ora) gistrict and will simply lease receive substantial subventions from ilo individual residents. It will logically the State corresponding to that which ?1'3* national (cvemm‘em trol - Washington receives from the Na-|With national government cont an socialistic experiment. In tional Government in the relation fo it ‘Washington, if certain theories prevail, of State, and that Washington con-|the Nation will retain exclusive and 1 tributed te the fund of national taxes, | COmplete control of the Capital, equal to that of Canberra, without extin- foun Wil 3o, Oppiied smnfitesance | sutstivg by all individual title purchase money is derived. more in 1924 (even 5 property and without even recogniz- after the subtraction of an abnormal | ing and meeting the obligations which payment of nine millions of back | A7ise from partial ownership and full & control. tazes) than 23 of the States and more The assumption and exercise of ab- than nineé States combined. solute and exclusive legislative power © #Hl Nations Foster Capitals, b the | a to mu- | pal maintenance in a definite and | {Smoot Resolution to Take A pony and a goat ran from their and today found themselves imprisoned ters to claim them. GEN. S, H. LINCOLN DIES IN HOSPITAL | Officer Who Rose to Colonel in Civil War Retired in 1902 After Long Career. | Brig. Gen Sumner H. Lincoln, one of the oldest retired officers of the Army, who had a distinguished record of 40 years' active service, ending shortly after the Spanish-American War, died last night at Walter Reed Hospital. Gen. Lincoln had been a patient at | Walter Reed since January 27, due to | a complication of diseases brougat about by his advanced years and wounds re- | ceived In some of his early campaigns, from which he still suffered o donal- ly. His health began to fail in last year, although up to the time he en- tered the hospital he was remarkably active for one of his age. Since his retirement from the Arn June 9, 1902, a few months after his | promotion to brigadier gere Lincoln had lived in Ohio and Pennsyl- vania, He came here last Fall wo make | his home with a nlece, Miss Natali | Sumner Lincoln of 3104 Hawthorn | street. Served in Civil War. During his long service in the Army Lincoln served gallantly through- out the Civil War and later in cam- | paigns against the Indians. He dis | tinguished himself in the Cuban cam. | paign, where he was severely wounded in action. He was wounded three times during the Virginia campaigns in the | Civil War, being promoted from private {to the colonel in command of his old NTER MARKET IS DOOMEDBY SENATE Over Land Reported Favor- ably by Committee. A favorable report was made to the Senate this afternoon by the public bulldings and grounds committee on the Smoot resolution to provide for the closing of Center Market, after Janua 1, 1929. The report was made by Sen: tor Keyes, Republican of New Hamp. shire, and the resolution goes on the calendar for consideration at a later date. “The land upon which this public market stands is owned by the United States and a part of it is intended as a site for the Department of Justice building, which is to be constructed n the near future,” the report stated Members of the Public Buildings Com- mission indicated that it probably would e some time after January before the Government finds it necessary to begin taking down Center Market and that the main purpose of the resolution was to give the market dealers ample warn- ing to look for other accommodaticns. Since the resolution was introduced there have been reports of plans being hy private groups to deveiop a new retail market center. e D. . HEALTH NEEDS Joseph Rhelnstrom was indicted by | the District grand jury today on a| charge of obtaining money under false pretenses in connection with a fraud- ulent scheme to_solicit names for the soclal register. The indictment specifi- | cally charges that Rheinstrom on h 19 falsely represented himself as an agent of the Social Register As- | sociatjon and obtained $100 from Mrs. son of Rev. Sumner and Gratia Lin- ment. In 1863 he was promoted to first ous Indian campaigns. At the -out- next month at his own request after {subpoenas were issued at the request| iy, incion | the case. He was a member of the Loyal Le- | coln. He reccived his collegiate educa- | lieutenant and before the close of the break of the Spanish-American War he rounding out a vigorous career. |of United States Attorney Leo A. Ro- | "mneral services will be held at the Rbeinstrom was arrested at the Carl- | glon, the Grand Army of the Repubiic | regiment, the 6th Vermont Infantry, | with which he served during most of the war. home and took to the woods yesterday | Gen. Lincoln was born December 21, in the dog pound, awaiting their mas- | 1840, at Gardner. Mass, and was the tion at Norwich University. In 1874 he | married Miss Ruth A. Goodwin of Cin- cinnati, Ohio. who died some vears ago. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Vermont Infantry, May 2, 1861, and upon being made a corporal that year was transferred to the 6th Regi- |war he had been put in command of — | his regiment < . He was appointed a lieutenant in the Rheinstrom Charged With | seventeenth Tnfantry after being mus- ur;ddoul;r service when the Civil War 2dd ended and served a long ti th Obtaining Money Falsely (gmurn 'of Texas and other States in the West, where he engaged in numer- From Mrs. Waller. was promoted to & major and in 1899 to lieutenant colonel of the Infantry. Brother of Late Dr. Lincoln. He was made colonel in command of the 10th Infantry Regiment in 1901, and on May 29, 1902, he was promoted to brigadier general. He was retired the Gen. Lincoln was & brother of the Louise J. Waller of 2138 Wyom o BosiNon Sl o s YOmINE | In addition to Miss Lincoin, he is sur- Stite Sl A ot t“{":Lby 8 nepl®w, G. Gould Lincoln Mrs, Waller is the only one to an- | 9f this city. and Mrs. Hadley D. Rich- swer out of 10 men and women promi. | #r3%0R, with whom he had been mak- | nent in Washington soclety, for whom | ;nf, hi3 home for several years at Car- ver, who desired them to appear as wit- . | metien apmmst: Rheiactrom u the grand | Fesidence of Miss Lincoln at 1:30 o'clock [ . - tomorrow afternoon. Chaplain A. C | jury tnvestigation. The subpoenas Were | GIUCT o ‘Walter Reed Hospital wii issued after several persons listed as omciate. Gen. Lincoln will be buried | witnesses had declined 10 testify volun- 1 ek *niiiare honors at 3.30 oclock 1o | tarily and had asked that their names | thy afternoon in Arlington National {be not mentioned in connection With | Cemetery. where he Will bo Iaid to et beside his wife. ton Hotel and accused of oblaining money or attempting to obtain money | and other for the social register and a publication [ Army and fi:‘&"‘&}.‘ffi’ ;}‘S:gmt'cnl e which he described as “The Soclety oo Women in America.” It is alleged that he collected or solicited money from some of the most prominent social lead- ers in Washington U. S. ENVOY ASKED TO FIX AR ED AT MEETING by the organic act were coupled with Wot only does the Nation contrib-| tte to & number of the States a great- er percentage of the money paid by these States in Pederal taxes than it pays from the District's Pederal taxes | in upbullding the National Capital, but these expenditures upon the Na-| tion's City are more unmistakably constitutional, more distinctly appro- priate as national eutiays, and more in accordance with fhe precedents set by other mations than most of the subsidies paid to the amount of hu @reds of millions 1o the States. Most| of these subsidies have been vigorous- iy opposed as National outiays not contemplated by the Constitution and not justifisble on their merits as ap- propriate national expenditures and pot in accordance with the procedents set by other of the highly civil- t2ed nations T ed States, however, is not peculiar smong nations in providing Yherslly #5 & proper national expendi- | ture for the maintenance and upbuild- for thelr capttals without de- the capitsls any oo or ju- wed by other na- table and comment In ent before Joint fiscal committee Vol pages 299 Nation's Pecullar Obligation. teble obliga- ) maintain and s peculiar na- | They had a recognition of a pre-existing and con- tinuing financial obligation. The Na. tion cannot equitably repudiate or re- duce to a minimum its financial obliga- tion and retain and exercise its full despotic and exclusive power to tax and to govern. SAYS HAYS SOUGHT DATA ON BONDS HE GAVE G. 0. P, LEADER ) mittee E Before Chase was excused the mys- terious memorandum found in the com- mittee records in 1924, detailing Pall's version of the purchase of the Harriss ranch, was redd. Chase did not know who prepared it, but said Pall may have done so. The memorandum said that Pall never had “secured from or through Mr. S8in- clair any monies upon this or any other account.” The record of the committee now is that Binclair did pay over $233,- 000 to M. T. Everhart, Pueblo banker, | and son-in-law of Pall, for use in eon- nection with the reorganization of Fall's New Mexico ranch holdings and sresumably for the creation of a hunting and shooting lodge on the ranch. LITTLE CONGRESS TOPIC. Members to Debate Federal Inherit- ance Tax Tonight, rt in Republican com- | in 1920, [ 1 Sanitarium for Tubercular Children Indorsed by Gibson. | Group to Study Plan. The proposed establishment of & modern sanitarium here for tubercular children received impetus last night when it was indorsed by Representative Gibson of the House District committee and by leading school and heaith au- thorities at & meeting of the Monday | Evening Club in the Young Women's Christian Association. Mr. Gibson declared he would sup- port & bill for & sanitarfum and advo- cated decided increases in various health facilities in the District He urged & nursing service that would be able to case for all cases needing care, a more adequate school nursing stall, a trained feld service and a sep- in the District Heaith urpose of train- arate division Department for the ing personnel. The be expsnded greatly, he said. He also declared there should be 200 beds pro- vided in the District for communicable diseases instead of 100, and a tuber- culosis hespital with double the facili- | ties now provided. Mr. Gibson criticized the lack of’co- operation on the part of doctors here in aiding in keeping statistics which would tend to ald the Health Depart- ment in other diseases Others who Indorsed the proposed sanitarium for tubercular children fepartment should | combating tuberculosis and | {lnst night were Dr. P, C. Smith, assist- The Little Congress, composed of sec- |ant surgeon general of the United retaries o Benators and House mem- | Btates Public Health Service, Dr. Frank | bers, will tonight debate the Federal! W. Ballou, superintendent of schools nherftance tax question |Dr. W. C, Fowler, District heaith of~ John Robsion of Kentucky and Robert | ficer: Dr. George M, Kober, president Davie of Tennessee, will contend for|of the Tuberculosts Assoclation, and the aboliton of the tax, while Arthur | George 8. Wilson, director of public ‘The authorities have refused all along and still refuse to make public the list of witnesses for whom subpoenas have been issued. An effort may be made to bring some of them before the grand Jury at a later date, \VICTIM OF HOLD-UP MAN EXPECTED TO RECOVER Bandit Buried in Virginia as Fill-| ing Station Proprietor Gains Strength. The condition today of Arthur Le Roy Gardner, 66, of Featherstone Sta- tion, Va., who shot and killed & bandit Saturday night after he had himsell been wounded twice, was reported today by Emergency Hospital officialy to be s0 greatly improved that his recovery is now assured. | Gardner, proprietor of a filling sta- tion and restaurant, was shot twice | about midnight Saturday by a bandit who fled after the shooting. Although wounded, Gardner got his pistol and killed the thug when he returned to complete the robbery. ‘The bandit was identified by his fin- ger prints as Robert Johnstone, 36, and found to have served a sentence in Wilmington, Del, for carrying con- cenled weapons. He was buried yes- terday near Dumfries, Va, by Prince Willlam County authorities. McKERNON LEAVES A. P. Buperintendent Resigns to Publhhl Rochester Papers. | NEW YORK, April 17 (P —Edward McKernon, superintendent of the East- | ern division of the Associated Press for the past seven years, has resigned from the news organization to become the publisher of the Rochester (N. Y.) | Evening Journal and Post Express, He thus becomes associated with Col. Frank | Knox, who recently was made general | BOUNDARY IN HONDURAS Minister Requested to act Mediator in Dispute With Guatemala. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 17 --The joint boundary commission of Honduras and Guatemala has been un- able to reach an agreement and there- | fore has requested Roy T. Davis, Amer- ican Minister to Costa Rica, to act as that will serve as the status quo until final settlement has been made through arbitration by the President of United States. i Mz, Davis declded to make a com- Kplwe inspection of the disputed terri- iksry and the government is sending | him an airplane to help him in this | survey, i et LOST PATIENT’S BODY IS FOUND IN WOOD Charles Nash, 44, Disappeared Sun- dny From Tuberculosis Hospital. Charles Nash, 44, a patient at the Tu- berculosls Hospital, who disappeared Sunday, was found dead today near the foot qf Webster street. The thorough- body 1s believed to have lain there sev- eral hours. Hospital authorities had failed In a search. Nash lived here before going to the relatives here. The body was taken to the morgue. ' HELD IN AUTO THEFT. Man Arrested on Suspicion Identi- fled by Prints. Arrested on suspicion last night by Headquarters Detective Prank M. Alll. | Perry and Prank Potter, both of Texas, will argue in behalf of its retention. At the close of the regular order there will be general debate, relation %0 (1) That stances of the 4 that measured TODAY the Nation's By the vand Orchestra, st Stanley MHail, st 530 pan., John B. M. Zimmermann, DnAmsst®. March, “The Bocia) Whifl” Overture, “As You Yike 1U° Becond movement from “Symphony No. 3, Opus 86" C“The Angelus”), Hadley “My Romberg Another Duy ligut hewt any et In respect xien, Paris Kome) second Kind tie degree Excerpis from musical comedy Maryland Fox trot Wasted” Wallz, “Her Littie Highness”, De Koven Finale, "Vy-Lete” (“Violets”).. . Benson The Blar Bpangled Banner.” TOMORROW By the United Btates Marine Band at the Marine Berracks, st “Laylor Branson, leader Fairest of the Fair', . Bouse Overture, “Hunyady Lasrio” Erkel (a) Indian love song, “Fale Moon,” 1ogan ) Purto Rican natonsl sir and dence, “Ia Boringuens”, . Aso) Violin sulo, "Concerto Militalre,” “Just . Turk end Roime Mexicn snd Paris tall fer behind Waeh ugion in the helght end bresdin of this obligetion The true basis of this Nation's ob- Yigation of propurtionste contribution Loward Lhe iwaintensuce snd ment of the Cagital b not solely primarily wntaxed ownership of Dis trict real estate, though o substantial aud contingous obligation dovs wrise s conpection with such ownership De Bertot e strongest obligations resting upon | Grand selection, "Gems of Blephen the Dation are eyuitable in thelr Ds- | Foster’ > yor “Toban sure snd based primaniy on ihe cirs | Valse de concert, “Dreams of Child- eumstances of the Capital's erestion | lood Waldieutel #nd the treatment of Capital by e the Nation eser since the bist Nation's eity By this epecisl obigetion 1 ?a % B Atonement of Pan Bums " “The Blar Bpangled Banner” BAND CONCERTS, | United States Soldiers’ Home | | Foote | Bmith, Dr ‘Towant | ler and Dr. J. W. Peabody, superintend- {in | needs of the proposed sanitarium welfare, Mrs, Ernest R. Grant, presiding stressed the need of the sanitarium, stating that at present there 18 no suit- able place 1o send ehildren in the inter- mediate stages of the disease, pointing out that they cannot be admitted to cunes Mrs. Grant was authorized 1o u) a8 members of 8 committes o A making & detalled study ppont i her of Dr Kober, Dr, Ballou, Dr, Fow- ent of the Tuberculosis Howpital, were named members of the commitiee. WILLIAMS' RITES TODAY Bervice 46 Yenrs, Puneral services for Lowell C, Wil Nams, 61 years old, chief stock distribu- tor of the engraving division of the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing, who versily Hospital Saturday, ducted In the funeral parl N Lee's Bons, e, Lhls sfternoon et 2 o Lermient was in Glenwe Cemetery, My, Willlams hegan us sn spprentice oy 10 the engraving division “go wnd with the exception of & short period whien he held a clevical position had eantinued there slnce, He had been were ons of the | Marines' Liymn, “The Halls of Monte- | Mr Mre, haries W, Ward, Miss Katherine €, Wil id & sheter, Children’s Hospital until they are bed | the | Bureau Employe Had Been In U, 8. | dled in Lhe George Washington Uni- | 6 years | | chief lllfl'fll distributor for many years, | Al He resided at 025 Eighth street | v Wilinms Is sursived by s daughter, | manager of the Hearst daily publica- tlons. Mr. McKernon began his newspaper cyreer as a reporter on the Springfeid (Mass) Union. Later leaving editorial work temporarlly with the purpose of obtaining an sall-around experience, he engaged successively for brief periods in advertising writing and the placing | of advertising, then becoming advertis- ing manager and publisher, He has been with the Associated Press for )B' yenrs, good, who saw him on Pennsylvani avenuie In a car bearing Ohlo tags, & man, who first gave his name as Fred Bovd, 34 years old, of, “Chesapenke,” Ohlo, was identified today through War Department fingerprint flles as Noah Leonard Kineald of Charleston, W. Va. He 13 held for the authorities of Chi- cago, 111, from where the car was stolen on April 3 from & rental concern, nce cording to a telogram. Kinoald gave conflicting accounts of his sequisition of the car. Enroll me as a member of he Foening Sfar Golden Rule Safe Drivers Club Name Address I agree to ahide by the Golden Rule of Motordom, “Drive you would have others drive,” and st all times be rians and ehildren, | 13th | the | fare ends in a clump of woods and the | hospital, but is not known to have any | | rereading the old. WAST, ARGENTINE NOVELIST, BOTH REALIST AND ROTA Writes of Life on Pampas, - but Finds Nothing to Sneer At. Does Not Oppose Anything and Does Not Favor Any- thing, but Tells Truth. Mr. Mencken may snicker and Mr. | turn up his nose—— fact remains that Hugo Wa: s foremost novelist and itiner- nary of Argentine culture to pe and North America, is vice pres- | ent of the Rotary Club in Duenos | Alres and is 5o proud of it that he wears | the well known Rotarian insignia con- splcuously on his lapel. | . Wast, who came into prominence | ceived last year the $30,000 f the Argentine government for | ry_merit and whose most famous | novel, “The Black Valley,” has fust been | translated into English, didn't even| other to cover up the little gilt wheel hen he received iconoclastic reporters t the Mayflower this morning. | Modernist Withal. | But for all that he is a modernist—a | painter of rural life as it is lived on the ast pampas of his native land so simi- s o ar to the North American prairies| He has worked particularly to pro where the Lewis-Mcncken school has | duce a realistic picture of the lingering found s0 much to sneer at. The Argen- | atmosphere of old Spain still to be tine novelist, however, is opposed 10| found in the rural sections of the Ting, because there is nothing wi Argentine but disappearing rapidly with sneer at. Rather, he is not opposed t0| the development of & distinctive na ything and doesn't favor anything, so | tional culture. It no longer exists. he far as his work is concerned. He is realist, painting things as he finds them | he makes his home. without prejudice or passion. | “I am not a philosopher.” he said, He doesn’t know much about modern | “but a writer of fiction. I have nothing schools of fiction, he admits. “I am |I want to prove when I write a book. getting to the age now, he says, when | I have no particular story to tell. I I read little new, but am content with | start in with the first page and end George Eliot, he | with the last page—that is. the book says, is his model so far as he has any | is developed as I work and not by a model in English. That is, the basis | prearranged plan. I never know wha of his work is the development of char- | the story will be, except very generally. acter at the hands of circumstance, have, of course, & general idea of the and he has no static charactes | characters in my mind.” “I may have been fortunate.” he said, | ~ Mr. Wast speaks at George Wash- “in opening the doors of other coun-|ington University tonight at tries to the literature of my native land | o'clock on “Argentine Literature and and I expect that many of the works| Customs.” N s SIFEBLOWERS GT S0 N CHURCHES NEEDED FOR RESERVE | St. Stephen’s and All Souls’ Offices Looted With Electric Drill. of greater Argentine novelists than m: self will find their way into transla- tions. I suppose that this is because I deal so much with a rural background and rural backgrounds are interna- tional. Even in Russia, I find, my books are having a very good sale largely because of this. Spanish Atmosphere Going. Robisen what the Navy was going to do about the matter and Robison gave it as his personal opinion that the re- serve should be leased. Bain told of discussing with Fall the proposal of the Texas Oil Co. to lease the Dome, and after that concern made clear its proposition with respect to fur- nishing tha Navy fuel ofl Fall said there was no use going turther with that com- pany, according to the witness. This | conversation took place a few days be- | fore the lease was signed Using an electric drill, cracksmen son of the proposition s Texas company and the one by Sinclair | total of $400 in bonds and cash. and reported the Sinciair proposal| Two men, | would give the Navy more oil himself told Fall th: requirements laid down by the Navy. the Sinclair proposal came more nearly | nfeeting them. He also testified he told | window. church yard at All Souls Church. | more ofl and there would be a larger office of the custodian, E. M. Waller | number of big wel's. | i !l‘tnm‘e C. Staples. had been entered Two Firms Excluded. also and a filing cabinet pried open, but Fall. Arthur W. Ambrose, former Gov- | Bothing taken. The robbery was dis- ernment geologist, who testified yester- | covered by Ernest Strother. colored day, and Batn had a discussion lu to f;;‘;::;‘ when he came to work what other companies might be inter- 3 ested in mlkmcp: bid along the lines | Rev. Ulysses Grant Pierce is rector ltness declared. | Of the church. of the Sinclair bid, the witness declax T e RIAN| a{said, in cities like Buenos Alres, where | 8:30 | Bain said | opened safes in St. Stephen's Episcopal some one in the peiroleum division of | Church, 3017 Fourteenth street, and All | the Bureau of Mines made a compari- | Souls’ Unitarfan Church. Sixteenth and | Margaret's Episcopal Church, Connec- bmitted by the | Harvard streets, last night, taking a|ticut avneue and Bancroft place, this i one of them unusually Bain | large, evidently participated in the rob- . in view of the | beries, as evidenced by tracks in the The thieves entered by breaking a They got $175 in bills and Fall the Sinclair ofl Jease would yield small change from the vault in the | The office of the executive secretary, HAYOROF TAXOHA QUSTS 80,90 |Parkway Controversy Ends When Council Votes to Take Possession. Under an ordinance promulgated by the Town Council of Takoma Park las§ night, settling the dispute over the | legality of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road siding at North Takoma, Mayor Ben G. Davis served | session of the strip of erty, with orde for trespassing. Since the 0 to arrest any person not bee the rafle moles< ordinance doe: come effective that date road may use il iding witl tation, but on and after May s said. the strip of land. whi opinion, i3 legally owned | town, will come under the | diction as other public prop | A letter was presented to | from the Title & I | Maryland stating tha he land records of Montgom | disclosed the fact the | ferred to was acqu | Park Loan & Trus pany gave the propert for a park and plat 3 H. B. Hendrick, 2 member koma Park Chamber of sented a petition sign 3 men and property owners f; continuance o the action of the Chambe merce. H. k. Thorn p the organization. on the subject tion of the Chamber J. Bond Smith. inf . that unloading ! { | 1 | | Park station, where w: and land could be acg At the conclusion | Mayor Davis made h | closing the case. The report of Town Davis for the month of M sented and approved by showed receipts amount which, with the balance | $12.249.88, made a grand tot 997. 7 ;amounted to $2 ,bdlnee of $17. | € | Mayor Ben G. Davis. wi {John R. Adams. M. D. Fir | E. G. Salisbury, Capt. Chas. V. Johnson, |E. V. Crittenden, Town Clerk Brvan | Davis and Supt. of Public Works Maj. tw. H. Pischer present. |RITES FOR JAMES H BECK. | Services This Afternoon in St. Mar- garet's Episcopal Church. Funeral services for James Hopkins Beck, 69 years old, who died Sunday |in the Homeopathic Hospital following {an operation, were conducted in St asirer Bryan rch was pres g | | | | | afterncon. Rev. Robert Shores offi- | clated. Interment was private. | Mr. Beck was for many years m the | Government service, having first | worked for 35 years at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where at one time he held the record as the fastest gl:‘:epflnwr\n!he(h!sofl&dd id presses. | Later he was employed | with the Mixed Claims Commission’ of | the United States and Germany. While | with the bureau he was secretary of committee of | Mr, Beck, who resided at 2711 Thirty- | sixth street. was a member of B. B. | Prench Lodge of Masons. He wss a The Standard Ofl of Indiana and the Mid-West Refining Co. were excluded from consideration by Fall because they already dominated the Salt Creek fleld, 0 the north of the Dome, Bain declared, adding that Fall wanted to bring in & new company with larger buying power | i order to influence prices. When the | Texas Co. was mentioned Bain said they | \greed that concern would be quite com- | petent to do the job if it could be in- | terested. The Gulf Oll Co. was men- | tioned, but Bain said he told Fall it was very conservative and had shown no dis- position to_expand. Furthermore, the mediator and trace a provisional line | Mellons of Pittsburgh controlled it, and In view of the fact that Andrew Mellon | was in the cabinet there would be some | question of propriety in interesting that concern. As to the Pure Oil Co., which | Bain said occupied & strong position in the mid-continent field. Fall was given | | the same explanation in that it was | controlied by the Dawes brothers and | Charles G. Dawes was then director of | the Budget Bureau. | Bain recalled that Fall told him Ed- ward L. Doheny had thought of leasing the Dome, but that Fall had persuaded him it was & long way from Doheny’s | interests in Mexico and California and { Doheny agreed. The Producers & Re- finers Co, was considered, but Bain sald it was & smaller company and not of the same magnitude as the others. Bain added that some one at the con | ference said the Producers & Refiners | Co. would probably not be interested in | | leasing the whole of Teapot Dome and | presumably would not be able to fi e [ the large project which the Navy had adonted. In answer to questions by Hoover. Bain declared he did not recall Fal |giving any instructions about secrecy | |in the Teapot Dome negotiations, but did remember that Fall had ordered ) against publicity because the Navy had { requested the reserve leases be kept | confidential at that time. | Roberts Cross-Examines. | | with their surroundings the safeblowers | native of Rahway. N. J., coming to this | walked through the auditorium of the | city when a young man. neighboring church of St. Stephen’s into He is survived by his widow, Mrs. | the office of the rector, Rev. Dr. George | Elizabeth L. Beck. and a son, Wiliam F. Dudley. Employing a drill and ham- | H. Beck: secretary to Secretary of State mer they opened the safe getting about $4. Search of the desk, however, re- sulted in the theft of two $100 bonds of the Texas City Terminal bonds and a gold watch, which had belonged to the rector's father. The filing cabinet was also pried open. Burton Montgomery. colored. who has been sexton at St Stephen's for the past 26 years, discov- ered the robbery. STATUES GIVEN 0. K. Passes Bill Authorizing Erection of Two in D. C. Two new statues in Washington are authorized in bills that passed the House late yesterday. One of these is the Zihlman joint reesolution authoriz- ing the Knights of Columbus to erect a statue in memory of the late Cardinal Gibbons In front of the Sacred Heart Church on Sixteenth street This measure already has been approved by the Senate and now goes to the Presi- dent for his signature The House also passed the Bulwinkle joint resolution authorizing the Peter Muhlenberg Association to erect a monument to Peter Muhlenderg at Elli- cott street, Connecticut avenue and Thirty-sixth street BUS LINE EXTENDED. Utilities "> “Autl creased Service by W. R. & E. The Public Utilities Commission has authorized the Washington Ratlway & Electrie Co. to extend its Rhode House Board Authorizes In-| Island avenue motor bus line from Fourth and Franklin streets northea: to Bunker Hill road and the Distrie | Owen J. Roberts, special Government | prosecutor, then took the witness for a ! gruelling cross-examination, He drew | : - . t from Bain that while the Iatter was |jine, The extension will cary the . {busses east on Franklin strect to en route to the West Coast in Decems | gay Rl 4 ey (Seventh street. north o Michigan bor. 1831, B stopped Off Al Thre® “venue and Bunker Hil road and Rivers, N. Mex, for NOUTS, whete 10e to the District line. The return he met Sincialr at Fall's home, Rob- erts asked Bain during the conference about what companies might be inter- ested in bidding on the reserve if he told Fall that the, Secrotary should test the market and fifid out whieh company large enough to carry on the pro, © and Bain replied In the negaty When asked by the Goverlunent pros cutor if he suggested advertising for bids, Bain replied that Fall had told him on & previous oceasion that he had not found anything in the law requiring ad- vertising for bids and, further, that he did not belleve that was the way to get the best campany, Roberts then produced Rain's testis mony before the Senate Teapot Dome committee in 1923 and also a letter he wrote (o the committee in response (o & request from the committee and in- quired why he had not mentioned the oll companies on those oceasions that were the subject of discussion as poss | alble bidders. After admitting that the | namea of the Ploneer, Pan-American, | ulf and Pure Oll Cos. were not in elther the tesdmony or letter, Bain ex- rlmlnrli that he had deponded on in- ormation from Ambrose, which he incorporated I his veply to the coms mittee. Roberta asked Bain If he had met Binclair often between April 7, 1822, when the Jease was slgned, and Febyt ary 9, 1023, when the contract for ef ton of storage tanks by Sinelai’s coms Ny Was consummated, Hain replied o had met Sinclair several thwes o Fall's office, and Roberta then shot back | ft, o will \be made over the same route. The company asked the commission last week for authority to extend the | route pete for intra-District passengers with the Hyattsville Hills bus line | MELLON NOT TO RETIRE. {Secretary Denfes Rumpr He Wiltl Abandon Activities. Secretary Mellon proamptly dented & n-;rut that he planned to retive from politics and business at the end of the present administration, upon his retura o his office yesterday {rom @ vacation | in Bermuda. | “That is the first I have heard of | that.” he said 1 do not know what take care of me” . ; Henry Erok Deelared Suicide. | Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy cors | oner, 1ast night tssmed a certificate of | sulelde in the case of Hemy Erob, 53 | years old, who was found dead yes- | terday in his room in the Saivation Army Hotel, 119 Pennsyivania avenue. | e was shot through the head and clutehied & S2-caliber pistol i his | hand, Police ave seekilly his relatives. | quired Into the seven-day ip Hain took oan Hinclairs private car and the question A% o whether he had not spent seven days on SInclirs private car I Oviober. 1032, ““That's right” veplied the witness On redirect examination Hoover e developed testimony that Bam with Sinelalr, Burean of Mines and Navy oMelals was on an Inspection trip of | sites At which storage would be cons | stiucted Batn sad I‘x- A was affielal and was y&d for by the Qovernment. | | Kellogg. | i 30: pruiciin e WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS MRS. ELLIOTT'S SUBJECT Fife ‘of Union Theological Semi- nary Professor Addresses Lead- ers in Girls' Friendly Movement. “Our Work With Individuals” was the topic of a discussion led by Mrs. Har- {rison Elliott, wife of Prof. Ellioit of Union Theological Seminary, before 75 leaders in the Girls’ Friendly movement | at the annual fleld division conference { of the arganization thi | discussion was part of a | gram which opened new national e Priendly Society shire avenué. The co: { first ever held in this and has as its_theme “Creative Guidance Dr. Adelaide P. Case, professor religious education at Co sity, Jed a discussion of rell tion vesterday Mrs. Edward M. \Meigs, p the diocese of Was | the delegates at the o HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR TOMORKOW. RACK os. 4 i | | | | FIRST vearwid The extended service will coms | o T ¥ s URD RACE- 1 aroils aud WB b gressional W miles 1 will do. but 1 suppose Providence will | 1 FINTH RACE —Purse 31 son Purse . 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