Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1928, Page 2

2 THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. MRS, WILLEBRANDT DISCUSSES RAIDS DeniesA Ordering Home Pad-| locking and Says Citizens’ | Rights Are Not Violated. e Asso Attention drawn to the enforcement aibition by more or less spec- | ¢ raids in large cities has led | Mabel Walker Willebrandt to de- | ally that the Department de in its war | ssment of | ated Press or needed | direct comment uted to J. H. 8. ict Attorney W made warrant and prescribed t ned “a n section of brandt said to be a hysteria among ct of prohi- that we sit to devise means in the enforce- I would emphasize attitude. We have ights of the pub- otection for these nds, and | (he administration of the department WILLIAM F. ] Right). New Secretary of Commerce, and Herbert Hoover, retiring S photographed at the Department of Commerce today when the former t WHITING ok over Associated Press Photo. we have no int of overstepping the-Jimits laid dow “It is plain.” she continued. discuss-|ner, “and at present arch warranis as applied to homes, | dozen private homes under padiock pro- the law does make a_distinction | ceedings because o: prohibition law vio- s home and his place of | lations No search warrant can be | private dwelling unless an | OFFICIALS HERE DENY ORDER. been made that liquor is S > After this afidavit is passed upon by a judicial officer, and if & warrant is issued, then, and then only can the dwelling be searched | business. issued for affidavit b being sold Te. Dry Heads Not Seeking Spectacular Raids on Homes, Says One. Washington prohibition authorities Fine for Illegal Search. have issued no specific orders to pad- “Nor is that all. Under an act sup-|lock homes in the work of enforcing plemental, the Wnlh-Cfimefll act S;;& the prohibition law, Alf Oftedal. act- }‘3";1&15 asaon 3";,:,1,:;‘95 ?,‘pif,ff,f:,vwnqg commissioner of prohibition. de- first offense on conviction can be & | €T ang polic e BTt 61000 and imprisonment of one | i “prohibition enforcement as usual B O bath. You sce that the penalty | The bureau’s officers, he insisted, are §& “greater than that ordinarily given | certainly ~mot —campaigning against homes, but are apparently proceeding r a first offens I law viola- | i tféna f{ ];;flfl;“ ".{:’m’;‘:‘ ?{,,m is little | against certain residences. in part being danger of the invasion of a home until | used as saloons and lllicit distilling it has virtually been turned into a|places. saloon. and, to my way of thinking,| The administrators are not endeavor- n v T b actacular things to get their when it is turned into a saloon it is no | ing to do spe longer a home.” {names in print. he asserted. Certain In Mrs. Willebrandt's opinion there is | prohibition violators, Mr. Oftedal de- popular confusion also on the work that | clared, realizing that it is more diffi- the Department of Justice does in the|cult to obtain a warrant against a enforcement of the Volstead Act. She|home. have been utilizing homes in was asked if any orders had been issued | part for liquor sale. There is no in- by her office that might have beeen re- | tention on the part of the prohibition sponsible for raids on homes in Min- | authorities, he said. to interfere with a neapolis and St. Paul. hox\ak as such. - e $25 Denies Ordering Raids. sked to comment on $25.000 prize for “the best and most practi- “It should be understood,” she replied, | cable plan to make “that the prohibition agents are work- | amendment effective,” ing under the Treasury Department and | not under the Department of Justice Mr. Oftedal said it was “very interest- and I am in no way sesponsible for the ing” and it will no doubt be helpful orders issued to°thefl. This is not a toward getting some good ideas. criticism of the Bureau of Prohibition, | “I shouldn't wonder but if some of but ¢imply a reiteration of the obvious | our agents might try to assist in offer- fact that 1 have me-control over is|ing a better solution for the employes. I could not issue orders that | Mr. Oftedal said in response to a ques- would be directly responsible for nldxiuon_ any place” b 2 . She also declared that no orders is- | sued from the Department of Justice| BLAST WRECKS BUILDING. were responsible for Gifford's action in | instiguting padlock procee g sots. | INDIANAPOLIS, August 27 () —An The Assistant Attorney General said | eXplosion followed by fire wrecked a wished especially to emphasize | building on Washington street directly that there were no encroachments on |"across from the State capitol last night he his of citizens in thefr homes ' c3using a loss of $100,000. The origin the rights of citizens in thetr LOmet|of the blast 1s unknown. The building RS0 ST R - was occupied by a clothing store and a e w0l subject.” she said | SPOTUIDE goods company. o e - 4| Harold Libowitz, 22, was severely “It should be understood that the laws |y ;neq ~ ye was found in an alley be- on ‘the subject ‘are plain. that these | LT T Wiore ™ e out con- laws have been on (he saUite Pookes sciousness before poiice were able to Lor some sears and thal In 50 187 an | Question him regarding the explosion no action that cannot be taken legally. | “] am trying to enforce the law. It| 1s my sworn duty. but I am proceeding | toward that duty under the law and the interpretation of the law as rendered by the courts.” QUICK COURT ACTION. announced by she Prison in Postal Shooting. ATLANTA, Ga., August 27 (A)- Harry M. Deeran, who was discharged from the postal service in Massachusetts |'several years ago, today was sentenced 0 15 to 20 years in the State peniten- tiary for shooting and wounding Joe P. Johnston and Harry Griswold, postal in- Home Padlock Cases to Be Advanced ' spectors, at Atanta on Federal Calendar. | MINNEAPOLIS, August 27 (A).— Abatement . proceedings to padiock| | FLOOD BLIGH homes &nd apartments used for vend- | ing liquor wil be advanced on the Federal Court calendar, it was indi- cated today by J. H. 5. Gifford, assist- ited States district attorney. who 1 close 26 homes in 8t. Poul and \neapolis for a year. jons for injunctions to close Minneapolis and 10 in 8t.| ul, where liquor violations have heen nd filed by Mr. Gifford and are part of a docket of 61 requests for abatement of various establishments before the Federal Court | were ame As Bars.” | ent pro- | prohibition law ap- stringently to dwellings as to of bmsiness, such as soft drink | or clubs, was reiterated by Mr. Gif- bars He at variance with Willebrangt, Assist- ral in charge of pro- i1 though the lat- in Washington dealt with | earch and not specifically he pointed out | % distinction be- aces as far rant is con- | was make and business ce, uniess » obtained, k e senses also | arging liguor | | Partial Padlock, our procedure in Minn t ding, be it hon iness exclusively, usually ted by the padiock pro- re may have n o occurred in resi- heen ye the the et up in P A proceedings (he whale house and | f beer where families een foreed 1o move | CUSTOMARY IN PEORIA Woman Prosecutor Says tomes Now Are Under Lock PEORIA, L., August 27 (A%.—Di ches from Minneapolls detailing s the Government’s figh prohbition brought from Warner, assistant United the statement that such Musual here the emple Tos Minois orce Gertrude tormne “Drowned” hy th trees are endin Photograph shows q have about a the eighteenth | W. C_Durant, motor car manufacturer, | continued high water and between 15 an example of the damase that b TWOARE ACOUSED - IN SUBWAY PROBE | Officials Find Switch Was Thrown as Train Passed. | SR | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 27.—A second larrest appeared probable today in the investigation of the Times Square sub- way wreck, which caused 16 deaths | District Attorney Joab Banton has | summoned several witnesses to his office | today for questioning | “This inquiry will be pushed right | through to a definite conclusion,” he sald. “We have three weeks until Sep- | tember 17, when Willlam Baldwin, the maintenance man charged with homi- | cide, will receive a hearing in court.” It was Willlam C. Lancaster, chief en- gineer of the transit commission, who |indicated the second arrest would be | made. | “There were two cases, not one, of man faflures.” said Col. Lancaster. “The maintenance man, Baldwin, and his helper, Carr, should have spiked the switch. They had plenty of time and | tools to do it. But the human element failed there.” In the second place, he said, some one operated the valve that threw open the switch as the ninth car of the subway Itrain was passing over it, causing the wreck The sixteenth death was that yester- day of Elizabeth Siebold, 19, of Rock- {away Beach, in Bellevue Hospital. Her |body had been plerced by a wood | splinter. | Hysterla caused by seeing the wreck victims brought on a_heart attack that proved fatal last night to Mrs. Jennie Lockridge, 56. former dramatic and vaudeville actress U. S. Aircraft Tender Aground. CHEFOO, China, August 27 (#).— |Three other American naval vessels | were unable today to budge the United | | | States aircraft tender Avocet, which | went ashore early today in a heavy | storm. The engines of the Avocet had been dismantled for repairs, which up to this evening had not been com- pleted in and 59 Pots are 5 heen wrought ~Stai Staft Photograph. . Second Arrest Near When, vk, nearly 200 of A total INTERNAL REVENUE SLUMPISREPORTED Decline for Fiscal Year From ' 1927 Record Is Placed at $75,147,592.23. Internal revenue receipts of the coun- try from all sources declined the ear ending June 30 Ias 7, dropping from $2,865.68: for the fiscal year 1927 to $2,790, 537.68, and receipts in the District of ! Columbia kept pace with the Nation- | wide downward trend, slumping from | the 1927 figure of $18.227,332.03 to 18 11, although income taxes creased. The general decrease here | is attributable to the great drop in mis- | cellaneous tax receipts from $2,207, 1409.65 to $824.708 in the Distriet While the Nation showed a drop of per cent in receipts from income ta: for the fiscal year ending last June from the 1927 figure of $2,219,952,443.72 to | $2,174,573,102.89. the District showed a | 2 per cent boost, going from the 1927 figure of $16,019,92: In the income t: column, while Mary- land registered a de e of 5 r dropping from $20,6: : 996.29, Virginia showed a gain of 5 per nt, advancing from the 1927 figure of 780,578.76 to $21,980,640.09. Drop in Maryland District In the Maryland collection district, in which Washington is located, internal revenue receipts dropped 4 per cent for the fiscal year, sliding downward from the 1927 figure of $50,706,30 $48,496,695.38. Looming prosperously on the other side of the picture, the Vir- | ginia_collection district showed a gain of 6 per cent, advancing from the 1927 figure of $79,160,328.61 to $83,694,871.58 These figures were today at the Treasury Department, with the publication of the annual prelimi- nary statement of the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue. Income tax receipts {the District for the fiscal vear 1928 showed that of the $16.360.745.95 gati- cred in by Uncle Sam. $8.371.684.04 v from corporation sour apd $7.989.- | 061.91 from individual returns. Tncom | tax receipts for the District for the scal year 1927, showed that $9.215 322.87 was for corporations and $6,804,- |599.41 was from individuals Maryland and Virginia were among the States reporting the largest col | for 1928, which accounted for the prin cipal increase in the revenue Imwcl‘]h\nvuu&' taxes. The increased | manufacture and sale of small cig- | arettes was responsible for the jump in the levy on tobacco manufactur { which amounted to $20,279,835.99. though the collections from mis | laneous taxes, which include all sou: of internal revenue except income tax fell $29,768,251.40, slumping from the 11927 figure of $645730,686.19 to $615 962.,434.79. Under the manufacture of tobacc Maryland reported collections of $318 620.66 for cigars, $178.03 for cigarettes and $441.72 | and snuff reported collections of §1,034,092.90 for cigars, $57,793,020.54 for cigarettes- | the second largest figure in the Nation | $182,052,936—and for manufactured to- | bacco and snuff, the Old Dominion re- | ported collections of $2.654,034.66. | Pennsylvania paid the largest tax on | cigars, it amounting to $6,850,000. There was a decrease of $14,809.651 | In collections from tax on automobiles and motor cycles, which amounts to $51,628,265 in 1928, with Michigan lead- | ing the States with $37,372,668. Collections from tax on admissions to theaters and other places of amusement decreased $215,684 to $17.724,952, while the tax on distilled spirits and cercal beverages decreased $5947,098 to $15.- 447,034. The tax collected from docu- mentary stamps increased $11.215412, while that on playing cards increased $268,242, bringing the total of stamps taxes to $48,829.208. Of the income tax collections in 1928, $1,201,845,989 was from corporations | and $882,727,123 from individuals. The individual income tax for the year 1927 | amounted to $911,839,910. | During the fiscal year refunds for | taxes illegally collected in 1926, 1027 and 1928 and prior years, amounting to | $142,308,567, were made, while interest | allowed ' on refunds ~amounted to | $28,258,170. Collections by States. | . The internal revenue tax collected by | States was ! Alabama, $8,647,663.38; Alaska, $150 - 108.02; Arizona, $§1.920,161.67; Arkan. | sas, $4,332,021. California, $137,218, 113.63; Colorado. $11,879,300.33; Con necticut, $36,114,139.76; Delaware, $21.- 017,644.03: Florida, | Georgia, $14.183,347.60: Hawali, $6.244 - 382.23; Idaho, $114443151 linois, $222,019,661.52; Indiana, $34,604,78662; | Towa, $11,082,309.80; Kansas, $19,300,- | 282.58; Kentucky, $24,010,435.59; Loulsi- {ana, $14,214433.67. . Maine, $8,469 - 596.97; Maryland, $31,311,205.27; Massa- | chusetts. $105417,386.22; Michigan $173,978,227, Minnesota, $27,844,87253 Mississippi, $2,769.433.37; Missourl, $65 084.979.76; Montana, 978,439 40: Ne- | braska, ,732.668.22. Nevada, $802.- 849.32; New Hampshire, $39944490.81; New Jersey, $105,601,861.53 New Mexico, $788,57 ; New York $753,185.023.14: North Carolina, $225.- 315,303.63: North Dakota, $788,49241 | Ohlo, $130,686,998.61. Oklahoma, $20.- 514,887.53; Oregon, $6,109,383.21; Penn | sylvania, $246,742,684.60: Rhode Island, | $14,770,434.43; South Carolina, $3.897 - | 411.79: South Dakota, $74! | Tennessee, $17,835,751.50: Texas, |332,628.04. Utah, $3.771.438.938: Ver- | mont, $2,302,703.03: Virginia, $83604 - 1 #71.58; Washington, $12.738,997.07. West | Virginia. $15,88: 0.46; Wiscons! $48.151.586.17, Wyoming, $2.166,883 | Philippine Islands, $387,05344: total $2.790,535,537.68. | JAPANESE CHERRY " TREES DYING: POOLS OF WATER BLAMED (Continued from First Page) and unable to take up or pass off the ponds that have formed “Our only hope and the program (o which we have committed ourselves for the future. to guard against a recur- rence of the present conditions, is to raise the level of each tree two or three feet to a point of safety” Lieut. Col Grant sald today. ‘This work is expected to be carried on over a perlod of from four to five years On both sides of the point, the single blossom trees on the south side and the double-blossom trees on the north, about midway of the neck of land. are dying More of the torrential rains vractical- :V will spell the doom of the whole ot The condition that exis unforescen. Before, heavy left pools about the ftrees drained off through the through the artificial outiets before any appreciable damage has been done “The situation 18 one which is the re sult of abnormal occurences and we are doing everything to minimize the damage,” Col. Grant said now ralns have but have ground or was Wrong Address Given. Jumes Joseph Grace, who was sen tenced by Judge Mattingly i the Police | Court on Saturday 1o serve 180 days in Jail, and also held for the action of the wrand jury on @ charge of housebreak ing, did not reside at 115 € streel outheast, as he told the police and w was printed in The Star, according to Mrs, M. W. Quirk of that address Mrs Quirk stated today she does nol {know the man, and no one by that name resided at her home, 2.38 to $16,360.745.95. | made available | | lections from manufactures of tobacco | from | for manufactured tobacco | In this category, Virginia ! { and topped only by North Carolina with | $23,484,369.10: | { ision on Conduit Incidenta | oisbiisd - HOOVER TO DISCLSS * CANPAGHPLANS The result of a ¢ | ney in this positio Nominee Starts Week to Be| | Marked by Conferences | | | With Leaders. 2 quiet week end at home here after his long trip across country, | Herbert Hoover, Republjcan presidential candidate, today started out upon a | week that is expected to be marked l)‘\'i a number of conferences with party | | leaders over campaign plans, mrlumnu“ his own program for the immediate | future. | Mr. Hoover had as breakfast guests this morning William J. Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and | James Francis Burke, counsel for the Rgpublican national committee. The Republican nominee then went | | to his former office at the Department | | of Commerce Building to greet his suc- essor, William F. Whiting of Holyoke, Mas¢,, Tecently named Secretary of Commerce by President Coolidge. | Returning to his home, Mr. Hoov ! had as guests at luncheon Charles D.| Hilles, Republican national committee- man from New York, and Vice Chair- man Daniel E. Pomeroy of New Jersey. Mr. Hilles expressed the belief New York would be a battle ground in the cam- paign, and indicated that he and other leaders assumed Mr. Hoover would make a trip to that State While the Republican presidential nominee was awaiting the establishment ‘()f his personal headquarters within a | day or two at the Frothingham house, R street. his vice presidential run- i ning mate, Senator Curtis of Kar | was leaving Washington to speak | morrow at the New York State Fair at Syracuse. He will stop over in New | York City this afternoon to confer with party leaders there. Before returning | to Washington Senator Curtis will go to Harrisburg, Pa.. to deliver an address | Thursday to 35,000 farmers of the Key- stone State at a picnic of the National | Grange. | Zihlman Visits Nominee. | Among the visitors at Republican na- | | tional headquarters today was Repre- | sentative Zihlman of Maryland, who | expressed the belief the Republicans | have a very good chance of carrying Maryland in Novembet. Another development today was the announcement that Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee¢ Institute, has commended Hoover's efforts “in behalf of all classes.” In a message to A. L. Holsey, secretary of the colored voters division of the Republican national | ommittee, Dr. Moton said “After listening to the acceptance | speech of Mr. Moover I felt that here was the spokesman of the finest and best in American life. He spoke as one familiar with the problems dis- cussed, whether sectional, national or | international. His grasp was firm and wing sure; his outlook statesmanlike, con- | trolled and directed by strong human | | sympathies " Attends Friends Meeting. After going to worship at the Friends | Meeting House, Eve street, between { Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, in the morning, Mr. Hoover spent the remainder of Sunday at home, resting {from the busy week which marked the | {close of his Western trip | It 15 expected he will confer with a | number of party leaders before d |ciding upon his future speaking en- gagements, One of the immediate sug- gestions to be passed upon is that he deliver a radio address on Labor Day There are many invitations from all | sections of the coumtry to be considered |in mapping out Mr. Hoover's speaking itinerary for the next two months. |OPEN-AIR SERVICES | CONDUCTED BY GROTTO 750 Attend Rites Sponsored by Kal-{ v. the house which served road yesterday, the ¢ er I Fatally Injured } 1 WILLIAM J. O'TOOLE. WILLIA 0700L KLLED BY FALL Former Minister to Paraguay Dies While Supervising Coal Plant Construction. By the Associated Préss BLUEFIELD. W. Va, 27— August willlam J. O'Toole, American minister | to Paraguay during the Harding ad- ministration, was killed today in a fall at the American Coal Cleaning Co.'s plant at Gilllam, near here. O'Toole, president of the coal cor- poration, a concern engaged in prepar- ing coal for marketing, was supervising the work of constructing new units of the company when he slipped from a high structure and toppled to the ground. He died soon after the acci- dent. His father, Col. Edward O'Toole, is general manager of the United States Coal & 7oke Co. at Gary. Mr. O'Toole was born in Monarch, Pa., March 25. 1894. He received an AB. degree from Catholic University here in 1915. He was employed by the U. 8. Coal & Coke Co., Gary, W. Va.. during the Summer¢ from 1906 to 1915, and fol- lowing his graduation from Catholic University served as auditor and then secreatry-treasurer of the company through 1919. Subsequently he held varfous positions of importance with coal and mining companies Entering the diplomatic service, Mr. O'Toole in January, 19 s named Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Paraguay. During the World War Mr. O'Toole served as a first lieutenant, attached to the 86th Division at Camp Grant Subsequently he was an_finstructor in the Officers’ Training School, Camp Grant He was & member of the American | | Institute of Mining and Metallurgical | Engineeers, the American Legion, and | n honorary member of the American ocioty of the River Platte, Buenos Aires. He also belonged to the Union Golf and Tennis Association MAJ. BRADEN FOUND | DEAD IN BATHROOM Treasurer of Federal Employes' Union Supposed to Have Suf- lipolis Group at Temple Heights. ! services, attended | were held at Tem in commemora- | tion of The officers and | mombers of Kallipolis Grotto, Veiled | Prophets, were al guests Officers present included Arthur M | Poynton, monarch; Harry B. Planking- | { ton, chief justite; Henry C. Stein, mas- ter of ceremonies; Josoeph H. Curran trensurer; Edward W. Libbey, s y | L. Whiting Estes, Castleman P, Boss and Samuel 1. Shr monarchs, Ed ward Schmid, grand monareh; Grate Dunkum, grand commander, | Knights Templar, and Jumes T. Gibbs grand master of Masons “The sermon was delivered by Homer 1 Councilor of Calvary Baptist Church. | Kallipolis Grotto Band plaved through- | out the services, and J. Walter Hum phries, accompanied by Harry G. Kim | ball, sang two solos | | 206U CORONATION SOON. May Next Week End | VIENNA, Augt 7 (). Newspape: | dispatches from Trieste bring n report that the speaker of the Natlonal As sembly of Albanta, which s sitting at 1']!11\!).1, announced today that transier of Albania from w republic into a mon- archy wil tuke place next Saturday and | Sunday This 1s a week later than the dates |originally selocted for the coronation |ceremony and other festivities i con nection with the naming of Presiden Ahmed Zogu as ruler under the title of § Scanderbeg 111, \ Open-air Masonic by about 750 persons ple Heights vesterday iotto day ¥ past Albanin Become Monarchy | outbreak of the fered Fatal Heart Attack. Maj. J. G treasurer of Union, was A Braden, 78 years old the Federal Employes | found dead in the bath- ! room at his residence, 1466 Clifton | street, early today. Death apparently resulted from a heart attack Maj Braden's hody was found in the bathtub after his wife, becoming | alarmed at his prolonged stay In the | room. summoned a neighbor who broke in the door The Fire Department rescue squad was called, byt Moy | Braden had already been pronounced | dead when they arrived He was bormn in Minnesota and was in business at Aberdeen, 8. Dak., at the anish-American war Maj. Braden assisted I organtzing and commanded the reglment of South ! Dakota Volunteers in Cuba, and also led them In the suppression of the Philippine insurrection later | After the war he came to Washing- | ton and entered the service of the In- | terior Department. retiring about five | ars He had been active | n the | work of the Federal Emplaves' Union, serving i the capaeity of untll the time of his death Maj. Braden was & member of severnt | Masonic bodies. He Is survived by his widow treasuver Inquest Is Postponed At the request of police, who an-| nounced that they have been unable to | complete thelr investigation, Coroner | Nevite today postponed a scheduled in- | quest into the death of Mrs. Mable (ler- | ber, 26 years old, of Bradbury, Md. Mrs Gerber died in Sibley Hospital sulm-l day from blood paisoning resulting from | an operation p:i‘ormoad before she went | to the hospital it was said. An aus topsy was performed by Dr. A, M Mm-l Donald. . ¢ in the picture, with {wo o b on the edge of Minister | J REVW.C. NEVILS upants, ending its wild jour- high cliff. THO ESCAPE DEATH ASCARLEAPS WAL Roof of House Halts Auto’s Wild Fall on Edge of Biuff on Conduit Road. n Farrell, Gl Md. and James J Georgla avenue narre in a freak accident early yesterday when thelr sedan was in collision with a car operated by H. E. Willis, Potomac, Md.. on Conduit road just east of Glen Echo. Catapulted off the highway, their car hurdled a cc somersaulting down halted at the brink of a high bluff by the roof of a Summer house which the front wheels of the machine tried to | climb. Aside from the damage to the car, the only other damage was to a straw hat worn by Burns, who a pas- senger in the front seat. The hat was crushed when some sharp rocks pierced the top of the sedan during the somer- sault. - Although the body of the car | was dented and the mudguards and | front axle damaged, not a pane of | gless was cracked e Echo Heigh Burns 3214 escaped death |~ The two men climbed out of the car, | suffering only from fright. But for | the Summer house, the car and its oc- ! cupants would have crashed nearly a 100 feet below on the tracks of the Cabin John line at the bottom of the valley. The accident occurred shortly | before 1:30 aum., at about the time the last car going to the barn is due. | A flower bed below the wall, which | the car cleared in its first leap, was | scarcely touched. This morning Willis paid 4 fine of $40 on his plea of guilty to a charge -of | viclating driving reguiations on Conduit |road. Special United States Commis- sioner Charles E. Benson, Cabin John | Bridge, imposed the fine. HOOVER TURNS OFFICE OVER TO WHITING By the Associated Press. Administration of the Department of | Commerce was formally turned over to | william F. Whiting of Holyoke, Mass | today by Herbert Hoover | went to his office for the occasion. He greeted his successor with a handshake, { and then introduced him to various sec- {tion chiefs of the department. The | two posed briefly for photographs in | a room crowded with newspaper men. | Then, entering an inner office, Hoover and Whiting conferred briefly and a | few ménutes later they left the building | together. |MAYOR WALK.ER'S KIN DIES | CLINTON, lowa, August 27 (#).— Mrs. Etta Traver Allen, mother of Mrs mes Walker, wife of the mayor of New York City, died this morning Mrs. Walker has been with her | mother since a few d ter she be- ;l‘dn\(‘ 1l several week | will arrive this afternoon l Heads Georgetown Upper: Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, ves terday appointed president of the Uni versity, and (lower) Rev. R. Rush Ran kin, successar to the pest of dean of ' the wllua« arts and scleuces, et The Republican presidential candidate | ago. Mr. Walker | |the Lo'clock 56.0. PRESDENT | Succeeds Rev. C. W. Ly&ns as University Head—Rev. Rankin Named Dean. Recalled to Boston for reassignment Rev. Charles W. Lyons, S. J., presiden | of Georgeto University for the past was succeeded yesterday 8. J 1 in Washington ncident with | presidency of the inst | ment made today | Rankin, S. J he Hilltop 4 P emtirely unexpected owing 1 policy recently adopted in the of Jesus, the announcement d by the university yester- d considerable surprise. Father Washington August absence of four y nnder intment as dean of the college and s not ew Society | rations for the forthcoming academic year as generally believed tha | Father Lyons would remain another | year as president of Georgetown, as no indication of a char made when the usual faculty tra 1d Appoint- ments were announced late in Jul f president is 1 years at a Jes. Usua hel | university Lyons will await an assign- | the New England Province the order, to which he is now perma- nently attached. Selects Rankin as Dean. The first act of the new p today was to announce the selection of Father R: in as dean of the col Father Rank teacher of wide e perience, is now Buffalo, N. Y., at- tending to Summer duties. He is ex- pected to return to Washington and as- sume his duties at the college on Wed- nesda; | The appointment of Father Nevils is considered at the university as ad- mirably suited to carry on the new- building program, which his predeces- sor_succeeded in getting under way. Father Nevils also is expected to co! plete the organization of Georgeto | Untversity Alumni Clubs in all part of the country. a work which he suc- cessfully started just before his transfer | four years ago to become dean of the Shadowbrook House of Studies for Jesuit scholastics at Stockbridge, Mass. Previously he had sesved as dean of Georgetown College, chancellor of the university and regent of the School of Foreign Service. He was born in Phila- i delphia May .29, 1878. In 1911 he was ordained a priest. He is one of the best known teachers of English literature in the Jesuit order and has lectured fre- | quently on Shakespearean drama. The new dean of the college who will take up the duties just relinquished by Father Nevils, also is well known in ‘Washington. Won Commendation in War. Father Rankin served as a chaplain in the Army during the World War, | with the rank of major. He won con- spicuous commendation for his services. After the war he was dean of the School of Sociology at Fordham Uni- versity, New York City. and dean of its Graduate School for seven years before coming to Georgetown the Summer of 1926. While at Fordham he was largely | responsible for the remarkable growth | of that institution in recent years. | He was born in Jersey City, N. J. | 1879, and_was educated at St. Peter's | College. He is a doctor of philosophy | of Fordham. me; n 'MRS. LEONORA J. DANIEL IS CLAIMED BY DEATH ! Funeral Rites Will Be Cenducted at Residence Tomorrow Morn- | ing at 11 0'Clock. | Mrs. Leonora Jane Daniel {old, wife of Frank C. Daniel { of McKinle y Hospital operation Mrs. Daniel was a former member of |the Chevy Chase Club and was for & | number of years an active worker for | the Rosedale Mission. She was a mem- ber of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian | Chureh. - Born in_Philadelphia, Mrs. Daniel came to this city with her parents Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wright, when {a child |~ She was for a number of years sec- retary to the principal of “McKinley High' School and while serving in that | capacity to Mr. Daniel the romance de- veloped which culminated in their mar- riage in 1919. | In addition to her husband | parents, she is survived by a dau |Jsne, 15 months old: an ado John Humphrey Daniel, nearly 3 y old: three sisters. Mrs. Irene Hess, M ha Cook and Mrs. Ella Weleh two brothers, Willlam Wright sdwin Wright Funeral services will be conducted at residence, 3815 Jocelyn street Chevy Chase, tomorrow morning at 11 Rev. J. T. Marshall. pastor of Georgetown Presbyterian - Church officiate. Interment will be 38 years pricipal High School. died in Sib- Saturday following an an the will vate prie BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band, at the Capitol 0 o'clock tor March, “Light Cruisers Benter (Dedicated to Rear Admiral A. L. Willard, U. 8. N.) Rhapsody, “Espana” Duet for two piccolos. Forest jems from “Princ March. Indienne’ Valse from the ballet suite Beauty" Song for oboe and cl Villanelle Danse. “Nig Selections fr Rose Marie" “The Star Spangled Banner Chabrier Birds of Damar yhne Meyerbeer Ador By the United States Army Band s Reservation 313-A, Twenty-sixth and Irving streets northeast, 7:30 o'clock night March, “The (United dverture. Waltz, “Ve Adjutant Gener ates) Marti” (Cuba) olanos” «Venezuel arry Northern Rhapsody States) Fantasta, “A PFestival Mied States) Demerssemet Selection, “Victor Herbert Favorit (United States) Herbert-Lak March. “La Democracia” (QGuate- mala) niAgua The Spangled Banner By the United Marine Barracl Mareh, Avanjue: Star ates Marine Baud, a s, 813 o'clock t Marine Corps Instity dverture, ¢ tutermeszo, Characteristic, darmes” “larinet enise” ., werpts from “The Wi Nile" Vaits man Carneval ! Fresco™ H Parade of the Get Lake solo, “La Curnaval de Jean jen the Herbegt “Tales of the Vienna Wood: ard of rand scenes from “Pagliace Leoncaya No. 14", .. Lis The Halls of Monte« Hungarian Rhapsody. Marines' hymn, auma.’ “The Star Spangled Bannes,"