Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 2

'HOOVER DECLARED FRIEND OF FARMER "Former Agriculture Commis- sioner Recalls Record of Commerce Secretary. Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce is pictured by Don Liv- tngston of Watertown, S D. former agriculture. not his_ene i today urg Hoover by the Republica conv the same time the Nation. liberal weekiy While these interchanges were fired tn the Republican battle for the dential nomination, the Reod-for-F dent headqy & statement claims that Democratic pocket are propaganda " Fear Smith § The Reed support something is charg! Gov nomir nothin gston, who has co: T mar Hoove: rar. whe: w was food work in be-| in con- In Septem- he grain ex- nd han- | were not fair 1o the) to Washington. took the matter up with Mr. Hoover, and it was tmmediately corrected *Two months later, we had a b uation because of the great amo soft corn and lack of cars to move grain to the dry Every effort 1 been made to secure cars. without ayail Again 1 went to Washington, took the matter up with Secretary Hoover betore I got back to South Dakota t garmers had been given priority of ! %o move their corn. This saved milli i of bushels from spoilage “From that xzm‘: m‘rfln o Iv. When the wheat price f .‘g:x;‘mn was appointed the speaker of the South Dakota House of Repre- { gentatives wired me fo g0 to Washing- ton in the interests of the farmers. My i contact at that time gave me absolut !information that Mr. Hoover had noth- ‘4ng to do either with the delihatations of the committee or wang € lhe; price of wheat { Supported Farm Board. { “His whole public record since the - r’,hmmnuthgs it touches agricylture st all. has been toward the | Aarmers’ best -interest. th Herbert Hoover of ons I met him fre- I would 4ay specifically what revisions had NING Defense Testimony Lost - BREAKS INTO ROUT {Na(ionalists Capture Rail ! Point—Army of 20.000 ‘SHANTUNG DEFENSE STAR. WASHT ONMURDER MOTIVE 'Rockville Police Act on The- ory Jealousy Figured in Reported Destroyed. PEKING. April 19 Collapse of lht‘{ Shantung defense before the onslaught | of the Nationalists, who recently opened a drve on Peking, has caused a retreat of the Northern armies on all fronts, Latest reports from the battle front | stated that the Nationalists had cap- tured Yenchowfu on the Tientsin-Pukow ! Railway line, about 75 miles south of the City of Tsinan | News of the ecapture of Yenchowfu | by the Nationalists also has come from | Nanking. capital of the Nationalist Gov- | ernment. The Nanking dispatches told | of three concerted Nationalist drives | toward the north or with Peking as ultimate goal At least 750.000 | are believed engaged in the fight- EDWIN DENBY, Former Secretary of the Navy, who was prevented from testifying as a defense witness yesterday by a court ruling. The photograph was taken as Mr. Denby left the court. P_0_A_Phe LEADERS INDICATE FLOOD ACREEMENT Conferees Believe Jones Bill Can Be Revised to Conform to President’s Views. ARMY OF 20,000 DESTROYED. Advance by Feng Frustrates Offensive of Shantung Governor. SHANGHAL China. April 19 (®.—| Destruction of a Northern Army of | 20,000 men in unusually ficrce fighting | during the past few days near Yen- chowfu, southern Shantung, is reported in dispatches from Peking. 1 advance made by Feng Yu-Hsiang. once known as the Christian general| and now h the Nationalists. has comp ¢ frusirated an offensive | ched by t Northern general an %, Governor of Shantung had for its object cutting the | Railway at _Kweiteh ~and thence turning the left flank of Chiang Kai-shek, commander in chief .of the | Nationalist army The result of this battle was the de- | uction of Sun's armies of 20.000,men and the occupation of Tsining,~ just southwest of Yenchowfu. by Feng Yu- hsiang. The debacle forced Marshal C [ which Lunghat Ass House Republican leaders and Sen- ators and Representatives from the Mississippi Valley States today indi- cated. after a conference. that they had reached 8 tentative agreement on the revision of the Jones flood control bill to make it conform more closely to the views of President Coolidge the third successive day opposing groups have be ce on the measure now by in the House on Yenchowfu and ultimately to seek to concentrate his forces at Tianfu, 40 miles south of Tsinan. PARTS FOR BREMEN REPAIRS ARRIVE BY RAIL IN QUEBEC was he Madden of | said visions of the bil d submitted to (Continued from First Page) Caolidge. | ing to luck, they zig-zagged for 400 miles until dawn broke and they could fix their position. But the gas was running low Present to President. Madden said that the conference with e President might take place either late today or tomorrow s expected that ‘adden and Tilson will present the proposed revisions at the White House The Mississippi Valley members at | the conference were Senators Rans- ds1l of Loulsiana and Stephens of Mis- | sissippl, and Representatives Driver of Arkar as. Whittington of Mississippi and | Martin ;and Wilson of Louisiana, all| None of the participants | A dense zard howled through the mist. Koehl and Fitzmaurice thought they must be somewhere above the Strait of Belle Isle, and when a hole finally broke through the fog. Greenly below and ahead. PROPELLOR IS ON WAY. NEW YORK. April | prompted | Robe | House general now in the field, to fall back | fog swept up toward them and a biiz- | Island was | 19 P.—A pro- | Slaying of Mills. Be o Staft ROCKVILL ondent of The Star. 5. April 19— Mrs. Bertha Mills, widow of Edward L. Mills, whose murder Samuel T. being held in jail here was questioned today by Montgomery County police in their search for & motive which might help them in their effort to link the Bethesda contractor with the vear-old mystery crime. Acting on the theory that the killing of Mills on his farm last July 7. county authorities were running down a number of clues in the vicinity of Rockville and Bethesda. From Mrs. Mills no neldi- tional light was thrown on the appar- without bond ently remote friendship between her | courtroom roared, drawing from Justice | substantial contribution was made husband and Robertson, who lived on | an adjoining farm about a mile distax | at the time of his marriage some years ago. Alleged quarrels between son and four neighbors in Bethesda district were also being in- | quired into by the police Robert. Peter, State’s attorney of Montgomery County. issued a statement today saying that the only ment he would reveal to the press at this time was the summoning of Joseph R. Cissell. former State's attorney, to assist him in the case. Youth Not Needed Now. There is no intention at this time to bring Clarence Miles -year-old farm hand snd only eye-witr to the mur- der of Mills, to Rockviile for the pur- | Miles | pose of confronting Robertson has been an inmate of the Maryland of Correction, at Jessups Cut Md It w explained, however, that eye-witness may be brought he to find whether he could identify Rob- { ertson, whose denial of any connection { broken after attempts by Baltimore and Rockville officials to force an admission from him Moveme: of Robertson immediately before July and on the day itself | when the body of Mills was found, form |an important part of the objective in | the attempt of officials to uncover som { motive to back the circumstantial ev | dence on which the prisoner is being held So far as was learned today Robert- son has not tried to prove any alibt, although his wife has told police offici- ’ah that at 8 o'clock the morning of {July 7. when Milly' body was found. | her husband was in bed at home. | Typewriter Tests Figure. nite information soon from the Bureau of Standards expert who is making tests with the typewriter taken from Robertson’s home. Its writing is de- clared to be almost identical with the typing on the “death note” which was pinned to Mills' body by his slayer. This typewriter and the two pistols obtained from the prisoner constitute the eir- cumstantial evidence on which he is being held | | WIDOW QUESTIONED for Robertson is Jealousy | the develop- serving a short term following his | | conviction on a charge of larceny. OhehE. iy - GIhng. /cnist Y NoEshers | 1S She CRE OF SN reinnins s Mr. Peter expects to have more defi- | D. O« THURSDAY. PEKING O TUNGCHAU® |CASE OF SINCLAIR WILL REACH JURY (Continued from First Page.) | with the defendant, asking Dunn this question : “Did yot hout. ofl? |at | “Not -~et” replied Dunn. and |Bailey a reprimand against such fu- | ture conduct Trom Senator Elkins. Roberts drew |the fact that he had been interested in Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Co.. which got the lease on Teapot Dome Then followed the story. as the de- fense views it, of the $25.000 advance by Zevely to Fall in Liberty bonds and Fall's trip to Russia as counsel for the Sirclair interests Through Dr. A. C. \ealch. president of .he Sinclair Exploration Co.. Daniel T lished the fact that Fall was employed in May. 1923, to accompany a party to | Russia to negotiate for concessions on petroleum land Turns to Bond Turning sharply to the $25000 bond transaction, Wright read to the jury por- tlons of Zevely's testimony before the | Senate committee. In effect this was that he. Zevely, asked Fall to go on the expedition. Fall said he would follow shortly after the party departed and he | needed somp money. as he had one or | two things to do with respect to the acquisition of some small ranch prop- | erties and further wanted time to get the approval of the administration even though he had left the cabinet at that time. He wanted $25.000 and Zevely told Sinclair, who said that if Mr. Fall wanted it, he would have to have it. The amount in Liberty bonds was or- dered sent in a package to a bank in El Paso in June, 1923 with directions that it be deposited to Fall's account Zevely told the Senate committee this money was a loan and that he received | Fall's note for it on the return from | Russia. At the time Zevely approached | Fall no arrangement was made as to | contpensation and nothing was said| about it. When Zevely ordered the | bonds sent to El Paso he said he did not | tell the person who actually put them in | ! the mails who they were for Roberts then read a portion of the testimony which he regarded as bearing on the Government's contention that the $25.000 was not a loan. This read- ing showed that Zevely was asked by | Senator Walsh why the arrangement | had not been made by correspondence and Zevely's reply was. "I suppose we did not want to write about it | | EARLY SATURDAY ever write any Dooley stories | w Wright of Sinclair counsel estab- | APRTT PLEA MADE FORAID OF NURSING SERVICE Mrs. Breckinridge Tells of | Work in Mountain Districts of Kentucky. 19 Hanged i i | | | Humanitarian Kentucky mountains by nurse on horsehack was seribed yesterd: fternoon to a di tinguished audience at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Myers, 2310 S street, by Mrs. Mary Breckinridg of the Frontier rsmu; service rendered in the trained vividly de- N Il a registered trained nurse Breckinridge related in pictur- {esque style her experiences and those! of her co-workers in this enterprise, | which is designed particularly, she ! pointed out. to save the mothers and, children who otherwise might die for lack of expert attention Appeals for Mothers. the conclusion of her lecture a | by | CHARLES BIRGER. Who today paid the penalty for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West | City, . HOOVERITES PLAN INDIANA CAMPAIGN the | At | | hose present for the rvice, of which Mrs the directing head Mrs. Breckinridge. who has her headquarters at Wendover above Hyden, | center far removed from raiiroad | | communication In the heart of the| Kentucky hills, made a stirring appeal | {for the lives of mothers and babies | who she said were being sacrificed in |the United States at a greater rate| | than in 15 other countries of the world. | “We lose 100.000 babies in the first | month of life in America from causes connected with childbirth,” she said. | ‘more than from all other causes a all other ages. We have in addition | \pproximately 100000 stilibirths, W 20000 mothers every year. W have lost more mothers in childbir(h in our history as a nation than men ' in battle.” support of t Breckinridge i Prominent Speakers Will Visit State Prior to Pri- mary Election. ] lose INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, April 19—A peaking campaign with some of the | ablest national Republican jeaders tai ing part will be conducted throughon | | Three Centers Operating. The nurses in the Frontier Nursing | Evans, Service, she said, were trained not only as registered nurses, but also in mid- wifery, and worked out of centers in the mountains, to the remoter districts riding on horseback, fording rivers and following lonely mountain trails. Mrs. Breckinridge paid high tribute to tne chivalry of the Kentucky mountaineers. characterized by the most severe prin- ciples of honesty. Three centers have already been constructed. she said, and others were going up, including one do- nated by Mrs. Henry able work of the nurses, she said. in | addition to midwifery, was for the care of gunshot wounds. Mrs. Breckinridge was introduced by Rear Admiral T. P. Magruder. who praised her work among the women and children of France during the World War. STUDENT PARLEY Problems of College Life in Capi- tal to Be Discussed at Says He Was Trustee, | American U. Ford. Consider- | OPENS TOMORROW| Indiana in behalf of Herbert Hoover presidential candidacy. during the | two wecks prior to the State orimarv. was announced last night at the Hoover headquarters here. Both men and women from various parts of the cougtry will come here io | i | among those for whom itineraries are being made are Ogden Mills, Assista: Secretary of the Treasury; W. O. Hard. ing. former Governor of Iowa: Repre-| sentative John C. Ketcham of Michi- | san, Representative Theodore Burton of | | Ohio. Gov. Fisher of Pennsylvania. Rep- | resentative Franklin W. Port of New | ! Jersey and Robert Taft, son cf former | President Willlam H. Taft 1 Under the direction of Dr. Ameiia Keller, State woman manager of the Hoover campaign, arrangements are be- ing completed for an adequate ~orps of | woman speakers and among these are Mrs. Robert Taft: Mrs. Anua Winters. | president of the National Pederation of Women's Clubs. and Mrs. Robert Bur- dette, a director of that orgenization Definite dates for the various speax- ers will be arranged at the end of this | week, it was announced UTILITIES BODY ASKED and <aid the people there as a rule wese | AUEMeNt the forces of local speakers and | _ MORE NEN NANED - INCHARTY DRIVE Salvation Army Preparing for $350,000 Campaign A list of promine fessional men of W been named as add, Salvation Ar to aid in the dri organization’s $500.000 at Sixth and F streets terday. The camp: ducted from May 4 to 14 ‘The committee is headed b N. Harper. The added membe: W. T. Galliher. J. H Hanna jr.. E. C. Graham. A M Dr. James F. Mitchell, W. W D. Biackistone, Rear Admiral Strauss, Peter A. Drury. F. § Joseph Himes. Frank W. Mond: Coolican. William P. Lipscomb seph P. Tumuity. Although actual campaign does not begin until May 4, a preliminary gift campaign is now under way Members of the preliminary gifts com- mittee are as follows Mr. Harper. Rudolph Jose, chairman of the Salvation A advisory board and vice chairman of the committes on campaign organization: Dr. W. J. Showalter. chairman of the commuittre on information for the campaign. Mr. Himes, Mr Bright. Mr. Mondell, members of the advisory board Gans, Victor B. Devl et Keever. William H | Capts. Ernest R. Hol of the Salvation Arm: Plans for e can { cussed at a joint meeting and di of members of the advisory boas headed by Mr. Jose, and the campal committee, headed by Mr. Ha the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday n QUICK ACTION SEEN BY NEW COMMISSION ON PLAZA PROGRAM _(Contin: lowering of the street car tracks o street. so that they would pass thr the plaza in a subway and would go around the Senate Office Building via First street east, instead of up Delaware avenue and out B street. as at present. This plan also contemplates removing the car track between Union Station and the Capitol from Delaware avenue 1o Pirst street east. Tracks are already on First street east. beginning at B street and running south from that i corner. Another feature of the second | plan. which is now being considered. is | an underground garage in which to keep | the vehicles used by the Capitol. which are now quartered in the oid fire engine house on Delaware avenue and which would be torn down. Lawns and Shrubbery. | Both of the landscape plans woul | convert the plaza into an attract vista of lawns and shrubbery between | the Capitol and the station. The new commission is composed? of i TO HOUSE HEARINGS Zevely said Fall got $10.000 for ex- | penses. When Walsh said that Fall | told the committee that is all he got.| ! Vice President Dawes. Speaker Long- i o % a worth, Chairman Keyes of the Senats Zevely emphasized that the $25,000 was | _Problems of student life tn the col- | Proposed Merger Legislation Under fubh%hlfiudinzs é‘l‘x‘; !crm!m?sr comm: - . why Fall | le8c€ and universities of the v . i ee. rman tt of the simila a loan. Zevely did not know why Fall| Capital will come under scrutiny Way Tomorrow Morning Be- | committee of the Hi . Minority Lead | er Robinson of the Senate. Minority did not forward his note to Zevely im- o y | prominent speakers and students from MaciMEly” upou feeuipe of: i oo | these several insti- | Leader Garrett of the House, Semator He may not have approved the Mc- i p ggreed to. but declared that they \Nary-Haugen measurc in its entirety. | were based on the proposals upon which “but he was one of the first to advocate | conferences between the administration Federal Parm Board. He has always and flood groups have been negotiating “pelieved that the Federal Farm Board | durin : the past three days “should assist in direction of farm mar-| The major revisons in mind are that | One pistol was obtained from Rob- ertson last month after the latter had trouble with Wilson Trout at the Trout home, near Potomac. during which a cartridge was discharged. The bullets fired from the two revolvers are sim- peller to replace the one broken when | the transatlantic monoplane Bremen | landed at Greenly Island was on its| way today to Murray Bay, where Maj. | James Fitzmaurice walts to take it back to his two German comrades so | | fore Subcommittee. Xeting. working es far as possible | the States instead of the Pederal Gov- through co-operative associations. | - “He has repeatedly said that the farmer must have as full and adequate | Araiff protection as has industry | . “He has stood for downward re\'\sloni of transportation rates on farm; Pproducts. | “He has not believed in Government 3 fixing. Most people have come | fully agree with him in this” Mr. lowden. former Governor of fuinois, Mr. Villard comsiders “an old- fashioned anti-imperialist™ He is not 100 oid, in spite of his 68 years, Mr.| willard says, pointing to the fact that Giladstone, in_Engiand, became prime | minister at §3 ihe last time he took oifice. Although Lowden is tich and “alled 20 some of the greatest capitalistic en- | T s in the country” and should. in | Mr. villard's opition, “be as easily | 1 & page And classified as one | s. mounts and eatalogues a famiiar | trerfly.” still. says Mr. Villard, once tn a while he cuts Joose and does the unexpected—as. Jor example. in sup-| the incoe tax and in espous- | g the McNary-Haugen bill This is| the sort of thing which makes him | Ppaiatable 1o progressives. Mr. Villard believes it is not fair 1o Lowden to say that his support of the McNary-Haugen bill is stmply an effort 1o win the farmer vote “No man knows the farming situation beiter than be” says Mr. V. Other snags Lowden will run agains #s a candidate, Mr. Villard points out 8re the fact that he will not have the delegation of his State solidly behind him. due to the bitter feud with Mayor ‘Thompson begun in war tme, when | Lowden's intlerance alienated the foreign-born groups, whose champion ‘Thompson became, and the fact that Lowden's 1920 campaign for the presi- dency collapsed under charges of brib- ery and corruption. That Lowden him self has been cleared of all blame not help him much, sccord Villard, who says that the Republicarg are bound 1o be wary of g Democra y her opport talk along this line Presents Reed Viewpoint. 1#e Meriwether, vice chalrmen of the Reed neadquarters nere, said “wild claims made by overen ustastic friends of the New York go r wil not stampede delegates o the nation Houston He presented w of cal sas Wes eonvention at the Feed the tion in Arka M ginis, Pennsylvanis, 1 fornis. He said They wre trying Houston delegates “To schieve tnis thess o 80 €ven U the mpsurd length of | 1ing Missourl In the Bmith Y6y, of course. Knows that Mis- | Sourie Aelegales were not only SUrucled by te Btate convention U 3 for Benatmr Feed untll released by | But Biso thet the delegates wre per sonsily devoud 1o him Benslor Sued vietory in Oklato gengiste dure clwl Former Senslor Gore gote s Gelegates, nder w0 Beneior fued The propegend sithough the two Dem from that Blete Carews o s Arennser Fr v > s Calt- tampede he candidat rovalous men magnificent thwese prope- Oklshoma nimself a dele Oklshoms's U rule, wil) the un " se cluim Arkar and Ju opped O Peny #eslous Bt jemst will e opposen $er Will probebly exceed 39 uhes claim 2 Yenn 60, bul 81 [ mey Virginie casting # byt wa who know We winis trom eng werrant me saving 1hat York gorvernor will be foriunate s oul of that Blate propagendists claim 52 voues, byt Jued senti exceedingly SUong i 6 Lumber dele We e Tret a4 ces from Dem oorete end tie New yorr 2 Tie Bmi of Ihinok ment s pid will give gates oul i belleve tha thet Blate on May wory, bt 1 make ne cud me eleetion b & feed vk clsam, ¢ pos | Jones-Reld fiood control measure now tinue their flight to ernment_would pay the cost of levee | hiy o " < rights of way and that the control | " rhe propeller was taken from the work would be placed under the super- | gremen’s sister ship. the Junkers F-13. Vislon of the Wit Depretunt flown back here from Montreal vester- | Earlier today Senator Sackeit. Re- gy and immediately was sent by train publican, Kentucky, reported to Presi- | yaci 1o Montreal. 1 dent Coolidge that siow. but decided | \essages {zom the Irish commandant | progress. was being made in COongress | and Baron Gunther von Huenefeld set Oy leaders in sympathy with admin-|a¢ rest previous indications that the| istration views on flood control | fiving triumvirate would arrive here The Senator indicated that the efforts | conarately, or that they might leave of administration sympathizers would | tne Bremen at Greenly Island and| be directed 1o introducing in the flood | come out in & relief plane | relief bill a more exact definition of | | Will Come Out Together. | the final cost of flood control work guarantees for the fair award of con- | From Clarke City, Quebec, Ma). Fitz- maurice wired Grover Whalen, chair- | tracts involved in the works. and ex- action from the local communities of | man of Mayor Walker's committee of | the necessary land for levees and flood- | welcome, asking him to correct an| | erroneous report that he (Fitzmaurice) ways Senator Hawes. Democrat, Missourl, | would come on to New York alone o | after & conference at the White House | sail immediately for Ireland. He wired yesterday raid that he was convinced | Mr Whalen that he would fly the re- | pair parts back to the Bremen from | that the President’s objections o the Murray Bay and come out with the Ger- | ! mans in the transatiantic plane. T. A. Smiddy, Irish Pree State Minis- ter to the United States, talked by tele- phone with the Irish commandant at | Murray Bay after C. A (Duke) Schiller | and Pitzmaurice had landed there after | a fight from Clarke City, their second | stop on the way out from the ice-locked { little island off Labrador where the ocean flight ended last Priday. before Congress could be met by slight modifications in the bill without fun- dementally altering its provisions The Missouri Senator said that the President’s views did not cause him con- cern, because “Mr. Coolidge is obviously sympathetic with handling flood con- trol as a national problem, but wants t0 eliminate from the measure adopted matters which do not constitute ficod control proper.” Ma) Fitzmaurice told the Irish Min- The first indication that » patching ister that his object in leaving Capt up of differences between tue Repub- Hermann Koehl and Baron von Huene- lican Jeaders and the group headed by feld was to be able to give first-hand Chaitrman Reid of the flood control|information as to what repairs the committee, who Is in charge of the|Bremen needed and expedite their re-| bill, was near came last night with a turn | statement by the chairman that he! ould be willing to accept several Te| Fred Melchoir. Junkers =i 4 s o Y flew the P-13 back to New York from | e wol ppose amend- | vjonireql, sald the Curtiss Alrplane Co., | the section dealing with the survey |yt nmis i | ibutaries of the Mississipp! River which had been commissioned o lfll)ld; 1 provhis that ey o ‘E‘“ coutd |® propeller for the Bremen, had been be 'started on the propased feseres ‘l'"‘~ unable to complete it without a Junkers | 3 report must be mege s Congeers | motor on which to it the hub. He and | o+ ot L i e By Herta Junkers, who is at Murray bod o WAL Bay directing relief operations. decided | hie quickest way o get ald to the Brem- 1 was 1o bring the F-13 back here and He also expressed willingness to elim- | ¥0d her propelier to the ocean plane inate & section holding the Federal | Myicholr sald he expected to return to Government lable for damages sus- | Mon{real in his plane Friday If the new tained I carrying out the control pro- | PTOPeller can be fitted by that time. gram, thus foreing those claiming | € Would then be in & position to guide | fosses to seek redress in the courts un: | the Bremen on her flight to New York der existing law. Me likewise said he| He laughed at reports that Fitzmau- would not oppose provision for tribu-| FiCe Was quitting the expedition to come tary control work being provided for (0 NOWEORE L il sor them upon the basits of local intere - b B b oy By Lyl e thete | 10 do 10 send Fitemaurice out for the three changes would be in line with Waterials” Melchoir said. “He in the | isi0ns sought by the House leaders. grhnln Jone In the outht who speaks Eng- As 1o meeting the cost of levee | sty spiliway Jands. feid remained firm 00| 9 Ouo Senwrer, engineer tor the | Sisting that this should be shouldered! Junkers Co., left for Montreal last night Foderal Government alone with the propeller to join Miss Junkers. | 1t ulen was sndicated that Reid would | Miss Junkers, meanwhile, hud secured accept a change that Republican lead- | 300 gallons of benzol, the high-pressure | s are considering—the placing of | el needed by the Bremen, at Montreal, | Supervision of the control work under | A0d when the fuel and repairs get safely w bourd 1 be composed of 1he chief | through to Greenly sland it ia belleved of Army engineers, the head of the |the ocean plane can continue succens Missisippi Btiver Commission and w | fully her flight to the gonl she set when civiian_engineer to be appointed by | she let Baldonnel, Treland, u week wgo | the President Whether this formaliy | Wday i will be proposed remusined prob In his telegram to Whalen, sent Sastbting i erday, Ma) Fitamaurice suld he It 1 known that Republican leaders returning o Greenly Island today. | eful uf an mgreement, snd even nformation that I am on my way o e 50 far s W discuss the best | New York incorrect” the message read puriiamentary procedure for carrying | "Am on my way to Murray Bay o ar- aut the prospective revisons, 16 18 be- | tange for spares o repair Bremen und d 1hist, If up wgreement is reached, | conduct business on behalf of Koehl | w new bl will be introduced and of- | &nd Huenefeld. Am returning Greenly | the floor &s & substitute for | Island omortow. Please arrange cors | | expert who New Propeller | Reid Firm on Land Cost. fered from Henste mensire rect this wrong dmpression, Regards, | Pitzmaurice " GIFT FOR HOSPITAL. | ‘M ! Happy o teceive your good DEWS Have relensed W the press your wire 857,000 Provided From Hose Keel ing Hutehing' Estate Cortecting dmpression Ll you ure coming Lo New York in adyance of | your companions, Capt. Koehl And Bar on von Hueneteld, - Would appreciate Inmediate information as o your dale pital monounced o ‘The Blar yesterduy | of srrival in New York | camne from the estate of Rose Keeling | Whalen announced that plans for | | sutehine gnd not from that of Btlson | e reception were taking detinite form THutehine ae the seticle said Rose | now that the deciston of the fyers ap- | Keeling Mutehins wee the widow of | peared 1o be definite. During the cere- Billeon Hutching { montes e City Mall when the fiyers will be oMeially welcomed o the ity e planned Lo have a squadion of whiplanes circle overhead and inter fiy up and duwn the line of march Ac Liivaties of civitian airplanes are Lo be | restiicted duriog the day w0 &8 1o Jewve Ahe wir free for military platios, | 7000 Tl tor Chtldren’s Mo 85 g . Yankees Beaten, 7 to 6 Apnil 19 (AY - Thie Aropped el fis Laday, huwing 1 e the thud geme 1ON BOS Hew Yk of th Hed Beier, B of y thie x the 8 flar to a bullet found in Mills' body. cording to his attorney, Stedman Prescott, the prisoner will not be given a preliminary hearing until a week or 10 days. Meanwhile he must remain in jail without bond, under the pro- | cedure in Maryland involving a first- | degree murder charge. From Mrs Mills, widow of the siain man. police received practically no assistance, although she willinglyk told what little she knew When seen by newspaper men who traveled the rustic dirt rcad to her lonely farm this morning Mrs. Mtils admitted she had been questioned by police officials “Find a motive and you will find the man who killed my husband,” she de- clared nless & motive is uncovered I can be of little assistance.” Not Personal Acquaintance. Although Robertson lived on the ad- | joining farm for several years, she said today that she did not know the man gflwmfil_\‘ Between the prisoner and er husband there was only neighborly friendship. she explained. and she had never heard of any quarrel or disagree- ment between the {wo men “1 am quite sure that they always got along on_friendly terms” Mrs. Milis added. Since the Robertsons moved away Mrs Mills said she had not heard their name mentioned Mrs. Mills' sister, Mrs. Jessie Ma- gruder, who was at the home, could shed no light on any of the investiga- tons now being followed by officials. According to Mrs. Mary Roberts, wife of Wilburn Roberts, Mrs. Robertson was | ralsed on a farm not distant from the Mills' place. She was an orphan and reared by Mrs. Roberts’ brother Slightly more than a year ago she sald that Mrs. Roberston revisited the farm to nurse her mother, and re- mained several days. ‘The woman said she never had heard of any difficulty between Mills or any members of the Robertson family, Officlals today in- tended o interview Wilson Trout to in- quire into rumors which they believe might shed some light on evidence in volving Robertson. During the alterca- ton between the two men, Robertson is declared to have made a suspiclous utlerance Robertson was declared today to be in & cheerful frame of mind and confi- | dent of being released after w prelimi- nary hearing. To relatives who visit him In jall he again made a categorical denial of any connection with the Mills case. He is under a striet injunction from his attorney not to divulge what ! his defense will be at the time of the hearing or trial FIREMAN SAV CHILDREN ES HIS TWO + KILLS MAD DOG Animal, Shot Park Pol but Chases Get azed Benst eman Fails to at € Seelng his two children threatened by & mad dog that had been vainly pur- sied for blocks by a bloyeling park po- leeman this morning, Sergl. Charles L Byram of No ngine Company snatehed his children up i s avms e them sufely within his hom» Capitol street, then, armed with & base ball bat, chased the dog wcross seversl Jawns and killed nim ns he ueared wnother group of frightened child The policeman hud chused the mad dened animal from North Capltol street but hind been unable Lo maneuver o w position where he could obtatn a shot At him. He arrived Just sfter Hergt Byram swung his bat The sergennt's children, 6-year-old Katherine, and f-yvear-old Leslie, wit- nessed thelr father's vietory through the window Hergl Byram sald that he had been bitten once by & mad dog and had re- cotved the rables treatment 5o ihat he comntdered himsell a mateh for any dog He conldn't do me any more harmn thni | ocould Bim: he explained, “and A necessury, 1 could have bitten him explaining that it was not until their | return from Europe that the note was iven. . Walsh could not understand why the note should be made payabie to Zevely when it was Sincl 's money, and the latter replied he was trustee on this particular transaction. George T. Stanford. general counsel of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor- poration, who went abroad in 1923 on the Russian mission. stated that Fall | joined the party in London a week iater and that the former cabinet offi- cer represented the expedition in a five | weeks' perfod of negotiation with the Russian secretary of state at Moscow for concessions in the oil fields. When they left Moscow, about six weeks after their arr the matter was still open and it was not finally disposed of until July, 1925, Another chapter of the story was contributed by Henry A, Wise, New York attorney and counsel for Fall in 1924. who testified he, at Fall's request in 1925 presented Fall's bill against two Sinclair companies for services ren- dered on the Russian trip The bills were against the Sinclair Exploration Co. and the Intrnational Barnsdall Corporation, aggregating $25 - 000, Wise sald he was told by Fall to {adjust the note he had given Zevely, and Wise collected checks from the |two companles for a total of 1 In turn he gave these checks to !who returned Fall's note, wiping out the 000 bond loan Fall's note was dated May 28, 1923, and was payable Lo Zevely 12 month: from date at Washington. he in: dorsement on the back read. “Paid, November 23, 1925, J. W. Zevely." Wise sald while he was negotiating for the claim on behalf of Fall he told Stanford, with whom he dealt, that Fall had expected to recelve & very substantial fraction of the proposition they negotiated for in Russia had it been successful. Wise added that he felt the obligation Fall had should be wiped out and that $25000 “was an extremely modest fee for & man who had been a member of the forelgn re- lations committee of the Senate and a member of the cabinet™ BLACKLIST SCORED AS UNINTELLIGENT BY RELIGIOUS LEADERS (Continued from First Page) i | founding fathers, who were themselves on & consplcuous black list for daring 10 express their opintons, will repudiate the policy of honoring thelr name. but desecrating (heir memory by violating the very principles for which they Pedged life, fortunes and sacred honor. “We commend # re-examination of those principles of the Revolution, that unprejudiced discussion and free speech may be perpetuat “The council, which through its ex- | ecutive committee made the uttack on Mrs. Brosseau, explained o its state- ment that it had "no official relation with any national peace soclely and It s pueifist only 1 the sense of the dictionary definition that its members believe that fnteryationsl controversies can be settled without recourse to war ' The executive commitiee consists of Di. Devine, dean of (he Craduate | Hehool, Ameriy University, D Jay | Johnson Dimon, or of St Andvew's Protestant Episcopal Chureh: Dr. Fred vick Brown Harcls, pastor of Foundry Methodist Church; Merrill L. Ml Rev. J. Hillm Hollister, pastor of Chevy Chase Pre byterian Church; Rev. Murray 8 Kens worthy, pastor of Friends Chureh Thirteenth street: Rabbl Julius T Loch { Ohey #holom Synagogie, Rey Mones R Lovell, pastor of Mount Pleas ant Congregational Chuveh . Mis. David W. Lum, missionary to India, retived Lydia Burkltn, social service worker Mrs Laura Puffer Morgan, formor member of the Washington Seho Hoard: D Albert H Putiey, divector of the Behoul of the Political Scler American University John A Ryan professor of morsl (healogy and oo nomies, Ontholie University of Amer dea, and Babbl Louls ), Behwelel ot Adas Isvacl Hynagogue, | Mayflower Hotel from May 20 0 M4 tutions themseives in an “all-college- student confer- ence,” opening to- morfow morning | at Hurst Hall. on the American Uni- versity campus. Invitations have been sent to.the institutions of the city and advance indications are for a substantial at- tendance of repre- sentative groups from the various | colleges and uni- | versities here for the sessions, last- ing_through tomorrow ‘The speakers will include Dr. Charles | Pergler, dean of the school of econom- | “fembers of the Public Utilities Com- | mission were requested today by Rep- resentative Zihiman of Maryland to at tend the hearings before the House | subcommittee on public utilities on the | propc °d transit merger legislation | which gets under way tomorrow morn- ing at 10:30 o'clock in room 377 of the House Office Building. Earl V. Fisher. | executive secretary of the commission, | and Ralph B. Fleharty., peopie’'s coun- ! sel, also were notified to be present. | \{r. Zihiman is chairman of the sub- commutte Other members are Repre- | senta ives Mcleod of Michigan, Reid of | Illinol Bowmar of West Virginia, | Blanton of Texas. Lampert of Wiscon- | sin, Hammer of North Carolina. White- head of Virginia and Cole of Maryland Dr. Pergler. | l | i Robinson, Radio Head, Addresses 8. AR A warning against the dangers of drifting away from representative re- publican government in this country was sounded by Ira E. Robinson, chair- man of the Federal Radio Commission, | at a meeting of the Distriet of Columbla | Soclety Sons of the American Revolu- ton in the Washington Hotel last night ‘The primary system and direct eloc- tlon of United States Senators were blamed as & great contributing cause toward what the speaker called the tear~ ing down of the representative repub- lean form of government. Mr. Robinson also warned against further federalizing of th CGovernment at the expense of State rights and against further amendments to the Constitution, adding, however, that most of the amendments made during the past 20 years were for “expediency The soclety ndopted a resolution ex- tending felicitations to the D A R, holding their congress here Constitutional — amendments — were adopted extending the right of resident membership i the local soclety. 8. AR to all eligible porsons lving within 50 miles of Washington Announcement was made at the meet- Ing that the Congress of (he National Soclely, 8. A, 1. will be held in the FIRST \ W Purer turlongs 1y st ifcs and government of National Uni-| versity: Rev. Dr. Joseph Sizoo. pastor | hio Bidder Gets Work on Excava- Church. Arthur Moor of Temple Uni- tion Project. | versity. and William Knowles Cooper, | | it | vation project on the Department of The conference tomorrow nhxnung'Comm"N Bullding site late yesterday who was formerly Minister from Czecho- | of Dayton. Ohio. was found to be low slovakia to the United States, discussing | bidder with an offer of $15.490. in_International Co-operation>” [ 10 feet deep an area in the middle of | Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 Dr |the commerce site. It is expected a discussion on “What Is the Attitude of | The Shartzer company was low bidder | the Modern College Student Toward |on demalition of bulldings i square 350 student discussion will be. “Is the Atti- | but contract for that wrecking has not | tude of the Modern College Student |As vet been let ested. Unfavorable. Indifferent, Hostile, |been completed near the House of De- | Critieal?” | tention on the commerce site. and a| cusston on the attitude of the college | tion Co. now is at work on the second | student toward other races, and the con- | €xcavation contract, which will take out with a discussion of present ideals of | the site. The complete excavation under | the college particularly American Unt- | the three contracts will run from B to frank discussion of the student atti-|teenth street, and will be longer than tude toward drinking. smoking. fra- !the Capitol 1 it i 3177 7 FOR TOMOKROW, RACK 0 kew of New York Avenue Presbyterian | general secretary of the Washington ¥ | Bids were opened for the third exca- | will open at 11 o'clock with Dr_ Pergler, |t the Treasury. when G. H. Shartzer the question. ~What Is America’s Part | The work will be to excavate about Sizoo will- deliver an address and lead | contract will be let within a few days the Church?” Among the questions for | Ot the Bureau of Internal Revenue site. | Toward the Church-Favoraple. Inter- | Already one excavation contract has | Friday night Mr Moor will lead dis- | steam shovel of the Hyman Construe- | ference will close Saturday morning |earth on the north and south ends of | versity. At this session there will be |E street and from Fourteenth to Fif- ternities, athletics and dally chapel. | | {HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES i N on U, 8 Government. Aviateix 17 1 e Riuehart a Seloct Rl Beay () Riand: s Ross OND RACKE iin aned up sxhasta Lad SR and W N At The Meahen SBudy Guar am Garth K Revson KD RACE Furse 3 ves Tha FOURTH he W w Iearahin High Hope Rel i Eries FIETH St and the Nov N T W 10 H SINTH RACK JACOB FRANKS EXPIRES. Who Was Slain Grlel for Son, by Leopold and Loeb, Blamed CHICAGO, April 19 () Jacob Franks, father of Hobby Franks, who was kidnaped and slain in 1934 by Nathan Leopald and Richard Loeb, died today AL the Diake Holel where the Fianks family moved after thel son was alain Ho had been 111 for wany months and | Aoctars atiribited hix Hness 1 part (o Briel vrer the death of his som, Slanony *Merida SEVENTH RACE Ayens alde and N siloeny Time Rlliws 113 ] Lind t Reed of Missouri ranking minority member of the Senate committee on buildings and grounds: Representative Lanham of Texas, ranking minority member of the H committee, and Architect of the Capitol Lynn. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy and much colder tonight: minimum temperature about 35 degrees. tomor- row partly cloudy and colder. Maryland—Cloudy and colder to- n tomorrow partly cloudy and coider Virginia — Cloudy and colder to- night, preceded by showers in south- east portion. tomorrow cloudy and slightly colder. West Virginia—Partly cloudy and much colder tonight. tomorrow partly cloudy; colider in east portion. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 pm., 57: 8 pm. 4 12 midnight. 49; 4 am, 55 8§ am,_ 61, noon, 73 Barometer—4 pm. 3011: 8 pm. 30.04; 12 midnight. 2994: 4 am. 2980 8 am. 2977 noon, 29.70 Highest temperature, 73 noon today. Lowest temperature, 46. occurred at 11 _pm. vesterday Temperature same date last vear— Highest, 80; lowest, 52 Tide Tables (Purnished by U and Geodetic Survey ) Today—Llow tide. 1 pam.: high tide. 7:10 am Tomorrow—Low tide. 2:43 pm.; high tide. pm. occurred at The Sun and Meon. Today—Sun rose 3:27 a 649 pm Tomorrow--Sun rises 5:23 am; sets 6:30 pm Moon rises §:21 am.: sets §:19 pm Autamobtle lamps to be lighted ove- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls—Sightly muddy. Weather in Various Uities. Statone v Atian B Hismare Moion Wia ity W Y A FOREIN Gresnwich time. today ) Tempacature Weathe: BT o o k) s v Vanal soe X . - Clasgow will bulld at once 1,000 ma- s ipal howmes for workers, — .