Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 1

WEA'T (U. 8. Weatner Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool, probably light frost in exposed places tonight; morrow fair; slowly Temperature—Highest, p.m. yesterday: lowest, 43, at 6:30 a. today. Full report on page 9. Clozing N. Y. Marke "HER. rising temperature. 63, at 5:15 ts, Pages 14 and 15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Toening Star, service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,074 30,829, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, o D. C (GIRL FOUND DEAD: FATHER, SOUGHT, T0 GIVE HIMSELF UP , Body of Bessie L. Smith, 19, i Discovered in Apartment. Parent Said to Admit Act. NO SIGNS OF VICLENCE ARE FOUND BY CORONER Friend €ays Frenklin Smith Hur- ried Away From House on Telling of Death. oid, of 1151 dced on ment thore i two hous chingy for her father, Fron . on a repoit ! that 1 . Smitn called up his wifc at home end an- | nounced that he w2s coming to give himself up. i When the girl’s bedy was found there | was no marks to indicate violence and ! no signs of a struggle, in the opinion of Coroner Nevitt, who had been imme- diately summoned. He said, however, that there was a bruise on her collar- bone, and ordered an autopsy. Pillow Over Face. The girl lay, fully ciothed, with a pillow over her face. Her hat and gloves were on the bed beside her. | The girls death was reported by ! Jcin C. Steele, who occupies an apart- { ment in the some building at the New Je avenue address. Steele, w}?o id he had known the girl for six ¥ i had just moved there Friday, 1 he_told potice. Reporting the case to the sec?nd procinet police, Steele said he left the { house at 6 o'clock this morning and ! yeturncd about 11 o'clock. He found the door to the Smith apartment { Jocksd ond his knock was answered by Mr. Smith, Stesle said. Police Break Door Open. Bessie in?” he said, he asked. | E:s. she's in, but she's dead.” the father is said to have replied. Theare- upon he emerged from the door, locked {4t and left the bullding hurriedly, Stecle said. The girl's acquaintance followed the father for a short distance and ihen decided to telephone the mother, Mrs. Franklin Smith, who is employed at the Treasury Department. 8 bed in her fam at 11:30 tod while police | After ralating this story to the mother | he went to tlfe leeeri& precinct and told | WM had with Smith. Police rushed to the house, broke open the door and found the girl dead. While police were working on the cas> the homicide squad at headquar- ters was informed that Smith at noon called up the Metropolitan National Bank, where he is employed as = watchman, and had told an officiel ' there that he had just killed his ! daughier. - Wife Receives Calil. A city-wide search was at once in- . stituted for the father, and while a ! policeman was on duty at the home 2 i short while later, pending the removsl of the girl's body to the morgue. a | phone call was received by the girl’s mother, an employe of the fim\x‘r_y . Department, who found Smith on the i other end of the line. He told her that he intended to give himself up, but she advised him to come | home first, and police were waiting at the apartment early this afternoon for to appear. h“’;“h: gill:‘l?: mother, prostrated by the tragedy, refused to discuss the case, and police were without any knowledge of what was behind it. Smith s between 50 and 55 years of age, is 5 feet 9 or 10 inches in height and weighs about 150 pounds. He is clean shaven, has sharp features and is of siender build. He has dark hair and is nearsighted in one eye. He wears glasses part of the time. st seen he wore a blue suit and a light felt hat. - PRISON GUN PLO ‘ PROBED BY AGENTS' Atlanta Warden Tells of Two Jus-| tice Men Checking At- tempted Delivery. | | By the Associated Precs. ATLANTA, Seviember 26.—Wzrden John W. Snook disclesed today that two Department of Justice agonts have been here a week investigating thz manner in which two pistols used | Roy Gardner, train bandit, and others , in a recent attempt to escape, were| ! smugsled into the Federal penitentiary. | The Atlanta Constitution said un-| ! confirmed reports from Washington | l were to the effect that the two opera- | | tives also had been ordered to begin a “secret inquiry of afia 2t the prisor bt Warden Snook asserted he was i aware of it if such instructions had been given The warden i aid he was not in a! i position to disc reports published in the Constitution that undercover agents had be>n “planted” in the prison since the first of the year, later being | transferred to Leavenworth after hav-! ing been interviewed by one of the in-| vestigators now here. 1 ! A Detroit prisoner, Peter Hansen, | who records thow was committed for | a year and a day for prohibition law violation, was linked in this uncon- { firmed rumor after the newspaper said an investigation by it had failed to re- veal any record of his conviction in Detroit. While a prisoner here Hansen was said to have communicated with an “Ed Sweitzer,” who lived at 1549 Clark avenue in Detroit, where Thomas C. Wilcox, head of the Detroit burcau of the Department of Justice and one of | the two agents now here, lived for some time. Wilcox came to Atlanta to interview Hansen some time in March. This visit was followed on April 10 by Hansen's transfer to Leavenworth. The Constitution sald authorities of the Kansas prison had refused to divulge whether Hansen still was con- fined there. Wilcox was quoted as having said it ;‘as “not unusual to transfer prisoners . | lieeman shuffed forward. When _lest | DRAMATIC SCENES IN ARREST Captain and Seven Sergeants Among! | Prisoners Jailed on Charges of Receiving Money From Rum Gang. By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA, September 26— | The arrest of a captain of police and | 22 other members of the force, charged | with extortion, bribery and conspiracy | in collccting money from bootleggers | and speakeasy proprietors, was one of th? most dramatic scenes ever enacted in the corridors of City Hall. Among the prisoners were seven sergeants and two City Hall detectives. Shortly before last midnight police- men began emerging frem the office of District Attorney Monaghan. Their faces wore a serious look and there was no conversation among them as they wer2 ordered to wait. Presently Patrick J. McKewen, chief of the county detective force, attached | to the district attorney’s office, came | nd took up his position with a | ritten list of names in his hanc: our namss,” h> said, “I | 3 to step out hers and | ne up in “double filo. When he called the first name a po- | “Com= "on, make it snappy,” Mc- Kewen shouted. ot As other names were called the men answered “Here” and took their places in_the line. Last came Capt. Charles Cohen, com- SVITHTO AMPLIFY FORMER SPEECHES Plans Talk in St. Paul to Ap- peal to Northwest Inde- pendent Factions. By the Associated Press. GOV. SMITH'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO MINNEAPOLIS, September 26.—- An overnight ride through the moun- tainous regions of Montana brought Gov. Smith into North Dakota today, but he faced another -day and night Jjourney by train before reaching the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Tomorrow night at St. Paul he is to deliver his fifth speech of the cam- paign, following & reception at Minne- apolis. There were indications that the nominee probably would elaborate at St. Paul on some of -the issues he already had discussed, particularly farm relief and allied topics thai might appeal to the Northwesiern in- dependent political elements. Mandan, across the Missouri River from Bismarck, the capital, was th> first stop on the governor’s schedule today. Gov. Walter Maddock and cther North Dakotans planned to board the special shortly before noon. At his first night press conference on his special train last night Gov. Smith made it plain that he was choos- ing his campaign themes as he goes | along. | “I have not any set method,” L= | | said. *“The ideas just come to me.” { To Quit Religious Issue. He reiterated that his Oklahoma City | speech would be his last on the ques- tion of religion in politics and said his personal political impression after his two-day visit to Montana was that everything appeared all right. Asked if he had noticed any evidences of “the distress about which you have been told in New York,” in the farm regions he had visited, the governor replied: “What do you mean by evidence— { physical evidence?” “Yes,” the reporter returned, “lack of painted houses, run down condition of farms, fences and so forth.’ “I could not say as to that because { T have not scen any farms. They have | been so far away from the railroad !track that you could not tell whether thoy were painted or not.” He added that he did not regard such scenes, if any existed, as “a barometer of conditions.” “That may be carelessness,” he ex- plained, and continued, “I have not been looking out of the windows while we have been traveling. I have been working. The only things I have seen so far_are the cities. ~All the other times I have been obliged to stay at my knitting.” Asked if any State leaders had told him about the condition of the farmers, " (Continued on Page 6, Column 4. 15 DIE IN MEXICAN FLOOD. Heavy Rains in Jalisco Cause Rivers to Leave Banks. MEXICO CITY, September 26 (#).--- Serious flood congitions are reported in the State of Jalisco, where at least 15 persons have been killed in the collapsc of houses. Reports from Ciudad Guzman state that for five days there have boen heavy rains, causing the San Pedro and Santa Catarina Rivers to overflow. Lake Say- ula ficoded over its banks into the town of Sayula and several houses collapscd. Fifteen bodics have been recovered from the debris and 1t is feared that the death list may grow. A large section of the | WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928 — FC mander of one of the police districts. “Get at the head of the line,” said Mc- Kewen, and the police commander obeyed as silence reigned. It was a ccene unparalleled in Philadelphia po- lice history. Then at another command the col- umn moved forward in the dim light of the long. wide sixth-floor corridor of Philadelphia’s immense City Hall. Slow- Iy it marched into the centrel police station, on the same ficor, and into the big cellroom, where the guardians of the law were placed behind the bars to await a hearing. Two other police captains, a half a dozen city detectives and Matthew Pat- terson, Republican organization ward leader and a member of the Pennsyl- vania House of Representatives, have been arrested hitherto in connection with police bribery. They are at lib- erty under heavy bail, awaiting further hearings. Paticrson surrendered vesterday to he District attorney, who had a_warrant, charging him plicity in the collection of iection money from bootleggers. Capt. Charles W. Schoenleber, who w. allegad to have received $7.440 of this fund. previousiy had been arrested. The third commander of a police district under arrest is Capt. William Knoell. Monoghan said the evidence on which Cehen and his subordinates were_ar- rested was obtained in a raid by Fed- (Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) TOLERANCE PLANK 1S URGED BY CLUB Massachusetts G. 0. P. Ask- ed to Adopt Stand—Hoo- ver Liberality Praised. i | By the Ascociated Press. BOSTON, September 26.—A plank dealing with the religious issue which the Rocsavelt Club has submitted to the Republican State committee with the suggestion that it be incorporated in the platform to be adopted at the Re- publican State convention next Satur- dey, was made public today by Robert M. Washburn, president of the c'ub. The plank reads: “The party in the State convention assembled commends the religious liber- ality Jf Herbert Hoover. This is set ou his speech of acceptance. With the same high purpose with which he has in this way m’m this -issue in his campaign, so the party in this State recognizes it in its L I respects not only the letter, hut also the spirit of article 6, of the Consti- tution ‘of the United States, which in substance is that no one is lified for the presidency, because of the way in which he worships his God. The pro- visions of the Constitution it proposes to enforce, so far as liss in its power. It repudiates as un-American in a great democracy the contention, softly said by some, that a Roman Cathalic, be- cause of his faith, is ineligible for the presidency.” ————e SAFE ROBBED OF $100 IN AUTO STATION Tools Found in Service Garage Used by Burglars After Second- Floor Window Is Broken. Burglars last night broke into the au- tomobile service station of Stanley Hor- ner, Inc., 1728 Kalorama road, ripped open the safe with tools they found ;lllsze and escaped with approximately The robbery was discovered this morning when the place was opened for' business. The thieves had broken through a second-floor window, removed the safe from the office to the furnace room on the first floor and then broken it open with the tools taken from the SIDEC‘II([ rtt)om. orts were made today by the police to_obtain clear fingerprints, since no other clues were left. Headquarters Detective Thomas Sweeney of the safe squad investigated. MISSING WITH JEWELRY. NEW YORK, September 26 (4).— The disappearance since Thursday of Aaron Zilver, 43-year-old wholesale jewcler, has been reported to the police by his wife, who said she believes he hel ~ems and cash totaling $100,000 in v > on his person. Mrs. Zilver said he was last seen leaving his office in Fulton street carry- ing a bag containing the gems and other jewelry. She believes he may have been robbed and slain. She said he was fond of bling friends may have learned he car- ried the money and jewelry. Menufacturer Killed in‘ Crash. EZXCELSIOR, Minn., Sent=mber 25 (/). —Alfred J. Krank, 62, president of manufacturing company, was killed * a street car ncar here. Mr. Krank was City of Guadalajara was flooded yester- Snow and Hail Falls Heavy snow and hail were falling over this city last night, though none of it reached the ground, except as a very chilly rain. Tonight probably will be the coldest of the present spcll of |snappy weather, with the temperature | falling probably to about 40 degrees and | with a possibility of light frost in ex- | posed places, according to the Weather | Bureau forecast. | Last night's snowfall, encountered by |Lieut. J. N. Peyton, Army Air Corps, | piloting a big Fokker bombing plane, was raging at about 8 o'clock at an altitude of 8,500 feet, and was accom- panied by temperatures far below freezing. The snow and hail were melt- ing at about 4,000 feet, where the frozen particles struck the ‘“roof” of the warm air dome over the city. Te mmmm wag en heasy it preventad Before Reaching Earth—Co thrown through the windshield and underneath the wheels of the street car. Here, But Melts lder Tonight the completion of searchlight tests which are being conducted jointly by the Armv Air Corps and the Engineer Corps at Fort Humphreys, Va. The tests are to determine the penetrating powers of searchlight beams at vari- ous altitudes in various conditions of weather. Ordinarily the beams can penctrate the air to 15,000 feet, but last night the plane was forced to quit at 8,500 feet, when the blinding snow destroyed - visibility and cut off the beams of the lichts below. ‘Tomorrow, according to the Weather Bureau, may be a little cloudy, with slowly rising temperature. There is no prospect of much warmer weather in ;the immediate future, however, | | i Radio Program—Page 33 gambling and fears some of his gam- | MRS. WILLEGRANDT IS SPONSORED BY G.0.P. COMMITTEE Newton Regrets She “Cannot Give More Time to Campaign.” DENIES RESING ISSUE OF CHURCH PREJUDICE Specches in Tennessee and Ken- tucky Are Planned by Official. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. Scptember 26.—Congres: man Walter Newton of Minnezota, in charge of the Republican Speakers’ Bureau, declared today that Mrs. Mabel Walker WillebranGi 1s spon- cored by the Republican national com- mittes in her campalgn addresses, and added that “my only regret is that Mrs. Willebrandt cannot give more of her_ time to the campaign.” His statement was made in an in- terview with ncwspapermen in which Mrs. Willebrandt participated when she called at Western Republican cam- paign headquarters. Mrs. Willebrandt, whose recent utterances against the candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith for President have aroused criticism on the ground that she had tried to in- ject religious prejudice into the cam- paign, vehemently denied such charges in her talk with reporters. “There is nothing in a single speech or utterance of mine,” she declared, “either public or private, that could with the slightest decree of fairness be twisted into a construction of arousing the religious prejudices or an abuse of Mr. Smith or anybody else on the ground of religion. “It is Mr. Smith himself who is try- ing to dodge behind his own church. I personally have too high respect for the Catholics with whom I have worked not fo be sorry to see a prominent Catholic like Mr. Smith attempt to create a be- lief in the public mind that criticism directed to him by the drys and by peo- ple oppoced to Tammany is aimed at his church.” She said the prohibition was a moral and not a political issue in the cam- paign and declared that Gov. Smith and not the Democratic or Republican party had injected it into the cam- gulgn, She added that she would have een making speeches in the campaign whether prohibition had been an issue or not. Asked whether she was spop~ sored by the Republican national com- mittee, she reterred the reporter to Mr. Newton, who assured them that she was. Immediately after meeting with re- porters she went into conference with Mr. Newton about addresses she is to geliver in Tennessee and Kentucky next month and announced that she would leave Chicago tonight. Mrs. Willebrandv refused to be drawn into any discussion for her addresses with reporters, but issued a brief state- ment of less than 20 words. “My speeches,” this statement said, “speak in no uncertain terms for them- sewves. I have no additions or apologies to make. | DECLARED “FREE LANCE.” Work Hoids She Sometimes Taiks for Party, Sometimes for Seif. By the Assoclated Press. Assistant _Attorney General Walker Willebrandt™ sometimes speaks under the auspices of the Republican | | | quote Chairman Work, “on her own.” The Republican ieader was waylaid | late yesterday by a dozen newspaper | correspondenis as he descended the lstnlrwly leading to Herbert Hoover's private office. ‘The reporters immedi- {ately laid down a Leavy barrage of questions as to Mrs. Willebrandt's cam- paign status. Mrs. Willebrandt has been roundly criticized by Democratic leaders, in- cluding Gov. Smith himself, for an ad- dress before the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the ~clergymen present, with their | fihurch members, could swing the elec- on. Dr. Work told the reporters that he was unfamiliar with her cxact posi- tion in the Republican campaign, add- | ing that she is a Department of Ju: tice official and “a sort of free lance. “Sometimes she goes out on her own,” he said, “and sometimes the committee sends her out.” Some one asked il her address be- fore the Ohio Conference and an- other delivered Sunday night at a sim- Il!nr gathering in Lorain, Ohio, had 1 been arranged for by the committee. | Dr. Work referred the inquirer to Rep- { resentative Newton of Minnesota, chair- | man of the National Speakers’ Bureau, | who is now in Chicagq. Asked specifically ii he approved of the »speeches Mrs. Willebrandt had made, Dr. Work replied that he had |not read them, and that, if he did, it would have to be after the campaign. | ""A reporter suggested that he would | find them “interesting.” CELLER PROTESTS TO NEWTON. New York Democrat Asks That Woman Speaker Be Silenced. NEW YORK. September 26 ().— Representative Fmanuel Celler, Demo- | erat, Brooklyn, today wrote to Repre- the spealel bureau of the Western , Column 7.) 'HANKOW FIRE LEAVES 7,000 WITHOUT HOMES Blaze Starting in Gambling Den Wipes Out Street—Seven Bodies Found. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, China, September 26.— It was fearcd today that many persons were dead as a result of a fire which started in a gambling den in the native city yesterday morning. ‘The flames spread rapidly, burning 2,000 houses and shops and razing one of the principal streets in the Chinese city. Seven bodies had been recovered today. It was feared (hat many people were drowned when they jumped into iponds to escape. Seven thousand per- #ons ware homelesg taden, Mabel | national committee and sometimes, to | |she asked that Smith be defeated on | | the prohibition issue, and declared that | sentative Walter Nevton, in charge of | e | heacquarters of the Republican nation- | day when his automobile crashed into | f CO;"“D,‘"’f at Chicago, aying that in | News Kote: stung it to death, LEAGUE BOLSTERS KELLOGG TREATY Adjourns After Deciding to Ask All Nations to Sign “General Act.” BY the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 26.—The ninth Assembly of the League of Nations wound up its work and adjourned short- ly after noon today. The last hours of the session were marked by a rather bitter exchange be- tween Count Albert Apponyi of Hun- gary. and delegates of the little entente countries. Last night Count Apponyl had ap- proved proposals to forward conciliation and arbitration as a method of settling disputes between Hungary and her neighbors. -But he rejected a commit- tee resolution recommending treaties of non-aggression and mutual assistance. Take Up Challenge. He saild that Hungary, in view of her disarmed and defenseless position, could not seriously undertake the obligations that would be incurred under such treaties. Today N. P. Commene of Rumania and Dr. Stefan Osusky of Czecho- slovakia took up Count Apponyi’s chal- lenge. They successively mounted the tribune of the Assembly and denied that there was any lack of spirit for con- ciliation on the part of their countries or Jugoslavia, the third member of the little entente. Dr. Osusky said he was | confident that the spirit of the League of Nations would prevail and would re- sult in harmonization of all differences. The “general act,” framed by Nicholas Politis of Greece. as a reinforcement of the Kellogg pact for the renunciation of war, was approved by the assembly. i Under this “general act” the signatory nations—and all the world is to be in- vited to sign—would undertake to set- tle all disputes between themselves by pacific means. They would use commis- sions of conciliation, the judicial proce- dure of the international court or sim- ilar tribunals, or the services of arbi- trators, as the case might demand. The signetories, however, would be author- ized to reserve from operation of the act disputes on any subject which they considered of strictly domestic jurisdic- tion. Lauds Frankness. In declaring the assembly closed, its president, Herluf Zahle, Danish minister to Germany, lauded the frankness with which some of the questions had been | discussed. The assembly has been noteworthy | for the general atmosphere reflecting determination in all sections of the world that war shall not again plague ! mankind. While the assembly has found ithe progress of disarmament slow. it | received plain warnings from organiza- tions representing millions of men and women which presented memorials in- i sisting that there be no faltering in de- termination to achieve a reduction in armaments. This ninth Assembly of the League was characierized ot the outset by the general praise bestowed on the Kellogg- Briand pact,. although the legal com- mittee of the Assembly later declined to cite thet treaty as a contribution to {international law. The committee held | that the pact contained no machinery for the settlement of disputes and there- fors was not necessarily an impetus to | compulsory arbitration. Disarmament Omnipresent. With the disarmament problem prom- inent in official discussions and in side ne talk, particularly becau: of the un- vublished Franco-British naval accord. the biggest question treated at Geneva was really settled outside the Assembly. “big six” decided to liquidate all the problems inherited from the World War by finding solutions for the delicate issue of evacuation of the Rhineland and the question of German war rep- arations. Yet disarmament was con- stantly in the forefront.. Dr. J. Loudon of Holland, president of the preparatory disarmament commission, caused one of the big sensations of the Assembly by propesing that the five big naval powers—the United States. Great Brit- ain, France, Japan and Italy—meet him in private parley and try to wipe out the differences respecting naval limita- tions that have been dividing them. The Assembly adopted this proposal in principle, for Dr. Loudon was given instructions to keep contact with these governments and to convoke the pre- paratory commission early in 1929, Among other actions of the Assembly were these: It decided to send a commission of experts to study the opium evil in the Far East. It denled China a semi-permanent seat in the Council of the League and clected Spein to such a position. Ven- ezuela and Persia were chosen for thres.year terms on the Counedl, This developed when statesmen of the | JRTY-TWO PAGES. (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS BEGIN 9,000-MILE HIKE. Two Chileans Expect to Walk From New York to Santiago. NEW YORK, September 26 (#).—Two young Chileans with a will to walk started today on a 9,000-mile hike to Santiago, in their native land. They left from the statue of Colum- bus in Columbus Circle, planning to tramp 12 hours a day and hoping to reach journey's end in three and a half vears. Their names are Javier Garribo and Tomas Ulloa. REIGN OF TERROR EXPOSED IN OHIO Masked and Robed “Night Riders” Bullied Citizens. One Man Indicted. By the Assoclated Press. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, September 26.—A reign of terror by a band of citizens calling ‘hemselves “Night Rid- ers” has held sway in Barton, a vil- lage of less than a thousand popula- tion, near here, for several months, County Prosecutor Paul V. Waddell has been informed, following the indictment and arrest yesterday of John Eberhardt, coal mine foreman, on a charge of riotous conspiracy. Eberhardt is alleged to have been the leader of a “Night Rider” gang, which is alleged to have attempted to lynch Mrs. Goldie Wheeler, 21, and Lester Berry, 18, several nights ago, after accusing them of improper conduct. The two told the Belmont County grand jury that they were harged to a tree by the necks with only their toes touch- ing the ground. Heretofore held in silence by threat of death from the raiders if any of their activities were revealed, several Barton _citizens voluntarily appeared before Prosecutor Waddell last night, after Eberhardt's arrest, and related how the band had dominated the little village for months. These witnesses charged that women had been lured | away from home by masked robed men and beaten because of some fancied wrong they had committed. Young boys and girls, particularly, | were said to have been the victims of the gang. As a result of the additional infor- mation given him last night by the voluntary witnesses, Prosecutor Wad- dell said he expects to obtain the ar- |rest of at least half a dozen other persons. Eberhardt was released under $1,500 bond today in Common Pleas Court, pending arraignment. OF LORD CHANCELLOR Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Struggled to Help Son, Earl of Birken- head, Achieve Greatness. By the Associated Press. EASTBOURNE, England, September 26.—Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, whose devo- tion and sacrifice helped her son, the Earl of Birkenhead, to reach the lord .| ehancellorship, died this morning. She fought against carly obstacles tc push her son forward and on tha carl’s side there was unwavering affec- ) tion and pride in his mother. ! Lord Birkenhead's father, Frederick i Smith, died 40 years ago, a few weeks after he had become Mayor or Birk- jenhead. Mrs. Smith was left with a small income to bring up her family of five children. She sent ‘“younz | Freddie” through Oxford and guided jand encouraged him throughout his career. Pastor to M1 | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 26.—Dr. S, Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Councll of Churches of Christ in Amer- ica, has been invited to become the world’s first radio pastor. He has long been known to millions of !radlo fans through his meetings at the Bedford branch of the Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn, broadcast every Sunday afte:- noon. A new hook-up, planned by the National andc-sunr Co., would carry his voice not only all over the United States, but to other countries through shor ve stations. j Dr. Cadman is at present pastor of the Central Qangregaticnal Chureh {Dr. Cadman Gets Offer to Become of {rounded hy his radis au HESSE URGS ULE T0 LET CAPTANS TRYMNORASES Precinct Heads Would Pe- nalize Patrolmen for Lesser Infractions. PLAN WOULD EXPEDITE TRIAL BOARD’S WORK A farmer in Kentucky hitched his mule near a®beehive and the bees nearly 00 FACING FINES Court Rules Massachusetts Avenue Area Held No " Trap for Autoists. More than 100 persons given tickets for entering a closed area on Massa- | chusetts avenue between Fifth and| Third streets late yesterday are liable | to fines as a result of the ruling of Traffic Court Judge Isaac R. Hitt to- day in the case of Lawrence Mills, a lawyer, 1018 Eleventh street northeast, | one of those charged with passing the | detour signs. The case was fought, with the Amer-} ican Automobile Association directing | the defense, the association holding that | the closed area was a deliberate trap for motorists. v { Judge Hitt riled that there was no| trap in the closed arca and declared that the police did everything in their power to protect the motorists. He took Mr. Mills' personal bond. ; Meanwhile, Capt. Martin Reilly of | the sixth precinct gave assurance today | that proper action to warn motorists against entering the closed area would be given and that the practice of wait- | ing inside the detour signs and giving motorists who dplss them tickets would be_discontinued. In another case today, Judge Hitt accepted the excuse of Douglas W | Winters, 915 Sixth street, that he did | not see the detour sign because of chil- | | dren playing in the street, and the case was dismissed. l In two other cases, those of Edward D. Schloemerer and Clagg G. Stegall, | pleas of guilty to disregarding tiie de-| tour signs were accepted by the court and they were released on their per- nal bond. | 'The Mills trial took more than an| | hour and was marked by heated clashes | | between Charles C. Collins. A. A. A. | counsel, who conducted the defense, and | Assistant Corporation Counsel chesmr‘ H. Gray, prosecutor. Collins attempted | to prove that the situation on Massa- ! chusetts avenue yesterday afternoon | was_comparable to “the old country roadside court system, ' It was not until about 7:30 o'clock | last night, however, that police aban-| doned the practice of giving tickets, and this came only after George E. Keneipp, manager of the District division of the A. A. A, had appealed to Inspector E. L. Brown of the Traffic Bureau and cxe | plained the situation. Then the detour cigns were removed and traffic was al- lowed to go on through Massachusetts avenue and H street, where police for two hours and a half had been issuing tickets, and running what Sergt. B. J. Houch. one of the policemen on duty at the trap, termed “a toll business.” Signs Back Again Today. Today the signs were back again in more prominent places and motorists were reported to be observing them. Acting cn complaints that a bad traf- fic situation existed in the section be- tween Fifth and Third streets on Massa- chusetts avenue and on H street be- tween Massachusetts avenue and Third street, where sewer work was being done, Capt. Reilly asked the Traffic Bu- reau for detour signs and put them in place at about 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon. He stationed an officer at the apex of the little triangular park at Massachusetts avenue and H street. Due to street cars entering the closed sec- tion, the policeman on duty found a flood of autcmobile traffic entering both ways into the closed portion of H street and Massachusetts avenue, and called for help from the precinct station to cope with the situation. The cars entering the closed section often obscured the view of motorists of the detour signs and the traffic poured on through. Then the three policemen trying to cope with the situation started to take drastic_action. They stationed them- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) llions of Radio Fans Brooklyn, but the new position would re- quire his retirement from that post, says Frank S. an, secretary of the radio committee of the Federal Council of cthurches. who made the announce- ment. Dr. Cadman is due home from Europe October 2, at which time it is expected he will announce his decision. Unoffi- clally it was said his salary would ne ONDETOUR CHARGE Recommendation Is Outgrowth of Scheme of Inspector Henry J. Pratt. Another far-reaching move to im- prove conditions in the Police Departe ment was made today by Supt. Edwin B. Hesse when he recom- mended to the District Commissioners the adoption of amendments to the police manual which would give pre- cinct captains authority to try and penalize policemen under their com- mand for minor infractions of dis- cipline. The recommendation is the outgrowth of a plan proposed last week by In- spector Henry J. Pratt, assistant super- intendent of police, after a preliminary study of cases referred to the trial board in a three-year period revealed that a majority cf them involved minor breaches of discipline. Maj. Hesse medified Pratt's plan slightly before passing it on to the Commissioners for i approval. | Penalties Prescribed. The am:ndments proposed would | 2uthorize precinct commanders, upon | writien request of officers accused of minor infractions of discipline, to pass upon the cases and impose penalties. The penalties prescried wou'd be in the form of reprimands, imposition of cxtra hours of duty, forfeiture of leaves of absence not to exceed five days in |any one case and the forfeiture of not |less than $5 nor more than $10 of salary. All such cases would be reviewed by | the major and superintendent of police, and, except where the penzlty involves the forfeiture of pay, the decision of ihe major and superintendent would be final and conclusive. Cases involving forfeiture of pay would he reviewed by the Commissioners, whose decision 2also would be final and conclusive. The major and superintendent may, how- ever, refer any case to the Police Trial Board for adjudication. “The necessity of some such method of administering discipline is apparent,” sald Maj. Hesse in his report to the Commissioners. Hesse Urges Adoption. “Preliminary reports of a compre- hensive survey now being conGueted by the department of cases referred to the Police Trial Board during the last three fiscal years indicate that the ma- jority of ine cases so referred have been for minor infractions of discipline, such as usualiy occur in any - large group of men operating under strict rules, and a great number of such cases could have been handled in the manner set forth had the machinery for such action been set ug. “It ‘is beliecved that under this broad grant of authority and power, particu- larly the authority to make needfu! rules and regulations for the proper Jovernment of the force, the Commis- sioners may, by the enactment of cer- tain amendments to the manual, make effective the plan as recommended.” POLICEMAN ON TRIAL. ! Davis Charged With Failing to Arrest Man Carrying Revolver. Policeman Frank A. Davis, a patrol driver at the seventh precinct, appeared before the police trial board this morn- ing to answer charges of neglect of duty and failing to take proper police action which arose out of his failure on August 20 to arrest a man on the street whom he knew to be carrying a un. The testimony indicated that Davis saw Roy O. Cooper at Thirteenth and E streets and knew he had a gun, but followed him through Tenth street and | Pennsylvania avenue without attempt- ing to arrest him and then dispatched a taxi driver, George Ceich, to Police- man Joseph Sincovitz of the Traffic Bureau, who was on duty at Ninth | streeet and Pennsylvania avenue, for assistance. Sincovitz took Cooper into | custody and disarmed him. Davis was | off duty at the time and did not have & revolver. Ceich testified that Davis said “he | wasn't going to arrest the man; the man might have shot him.” The case of Policeman L. 1. Botts of the third precinct, charged with using obscene language, was also heard by the board this morning. Botts was | alleged to have verbally abused Herbert Harris, colored, a chauffeur, who lives in the rear of 2112 Massachusetts ave- nue. FILM DIRECTOR HURT, COOK HELD AFTER FIGHT A. B. Barringer May Be Disfigured for Life as Result of Battle in Home. Py the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Calif, September 26.—A. B. Barringer, film scenarist and director, was in a hospital here today and his cook, George M. Mullen, was held on suspicion of mayhem, as the result of a battle in the Barringer home last night in which teeth, fists, pots, pans and chairs were said to have figured. Physicians said a large chunk had been bitten out of Barringer's cheek and that he probably would be perma- nently dlanured. The battle began, the police’ were told. when Barringer entered the kitcher and found Mullen feeding his and Barringer’s s there. Ba T objected to dogs in his kitchen and ordered the cook to take them out. The cook resented the order. Mrs. Barringer called the police after the fight had been in progress about half an hour. . President Chairi Returns. PANAMA, September 26 (#)—Presi- around $25,000 a year. The sermons would be non-sectarian, funds being raised by a committee com- posed of Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Dr. Cadman would also continue his custom of answering questions pro- dianoa dent Cheiri, who has been on leave of absence because of iliness, has resumed his post. One of his first acts on re- turni as to send back to the As- sembly with his approval a bill amend- in&the constitution so that no presicont might be elected §o sucosed .