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- e ; PLANSPROPAGANDA PROBE N SCHOOLS National Education Associa- tion Names Chairman of In- vestigating Committee. ‘The National Education Association | today took its first step toward what is | planned to be a sweeping investigation | of propaganda circulation in the schools | of the land and other interests. Dr.| Edwin C. Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools, was named chair- man of a committee of 10 which will probe the propagandizing of the schools. The committee is the outgrowth of the exposures in the current investiga- tion of the power interests by the Fed- eral Trade Commission. The appointment was announced to- day by J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the National Education Association, which has headquarters at 1201 Sixteenth street, Other members of the com- mittee have not been announced by President Uel W. Lamkin, president of the association, because of his inability to complete the appointments. ° _In making his announcement, Dr. Crabtree said: “The purpose of the committee will be to constructively study the question of how schools may bring themselves into closer touch with | everyday life through proper use of the vast amount of material which various organizations and agencies have made available for school use. The commit- tee also will state the principles which should guide school officials and teach- ers in using such material so that chil- dren may be protected from one-sided viewpoints and from exploitation for commercial advertising purposes. “The commiteee will study the ques- tion as it concerns all schools and all business and educational organizations, rather than confining itself to par- ticular institutions and organizations.” ‘The repart of the committee will be heard at the Atlanta meeting of the antlonll Education "Association’ next July. DEATH OF LANSING MARKS PASSING OF FAMOUS WAR TRIO (Continued From FPirst Page.) oording to Dr. Stirling Ruffin, he was semi-conscious. The former cabinet officer had so withdrawn from public affalrs in the period. after his resig- nation, in February, 1620, that only a few knew of his critical condition and word of his death came as a surprise and shock to official Washington. Succeeded Bryan. Robert Lansing was a lifelong stu- dent of government, diplomacy and in- ternational law. Bryan's celebrated break with President Wilson, arising from a disagreement as to what the official American attitude toward the tragedy of the Lusitania should be, found Mr, Lansing holding the post of counselor of the State Department. ‘With Bryan's res tion he was pro- moted to the cabinet and was faced at once with the intricacies of what already was a tense international sit- ‘uation. As with his predecessor, Mr. Lansing’s tenure of office ended in disagreement with President Wilson. In Mr. Lan- oun made public February brmuhtpsbout. ostensibly, by his action in calling a meeting of the during the President’s grave illness. THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928. v HARR(S 3¢ ROBERT LAN: G, Wartime Secretary of State, who suc- cumbed at his home here yesterday. gress, constitutionally unable to exer- cise the functions of his office. During the talk at the Capitol of putting Vice President Marshall at the head of the Government, Secretary Lansing called a meeting of the cabinet. Mr. Lansing believed he was sup- ported by precedent in thus summon- ing the cabinet during the disability of the President. He found in the records that it had been done when President Garfield lay ill for weeks after he had been shot, and before then when President Taylor ultimately was succeeded by Vice President Fill- more. The upshot of the cabinet meeting, it was said, was a demand upon Mr. Lansing from the President, asking by what authority he had summoned it, but the best opinion is that Mr. Wil- son did not know of the incident until later. When he did learn of it, the President took summary action that resulted in Lansing offering his resig- nation, Mr. Lansing was born at Watertown, N. Y, October 17, 1864. - He was grad- uated from Amherst College, with the degree of bachelor of arts, in 1886. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar and practiced law. Before becoming ac- tually connected with the State Depart- ment in 1914, he had represented the United States in connection with vari- ous arbitration treaties for more than 20 years, first when he was named as- sociate counsel in the Behring Sea ar- bitration. Later Mr. Lansing was mace counsel before the Behring Sea Claims Commission. In 1903 he was solicitor | for his country before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. ‘Writing Widely Read. During the years that followed Mr. Lansing held many similar posts. March 27, 1914, he was appointed coun- selor for the State Department. The year following he represented the State Department on the central committee of the American Red Cross. With the resignation of Secretary Bryan. he wus appointed to the portfolio of Secretary of State a few days later in recognition of his able services. After his own resignation from the State Department, Mr. Lansing estab- lished a law firm, with offices at 8 Jack- son place. Although advancing in age. he was engaged in active practice until his last illness. He married Miss Eleanor Foster, daughter of former Secretary of State John W. Foster, when he was 26 years old. During their long residence in the National Capital, the Lansings have been among its social leaders. His de- mocracy of spirit as evniced through his interest in the Department of State Club endeared him to all its employes. Mr. sing was a member of many TEACHER SAYS SHE BURNED SELF TO PROVE FAITH IN "SPIRIT LOVE" Illinois Sunday School Instructor Seared by Furnace Flames—Police Doubt Her Story. Scent Attack. By the Associated Press. LAKE BLUFF, Il October 31.—Self- torture by fire to prove her faith in a “spirit love” was advanced today to explain the strange case of Miss El- frieda Knaak, 30-year-old Sunday school teacher and book agent. It was a wierd, uncanny explanation, full of holes and wide open to practi- cal-minded police skepticism, but it came from the lips of Miss Knaak her- self, lying near death from burns mys- teriously inflicted in the basement of the Lake Bluff police station some time | Monday night. Physicians Unconyinced. Physicians were unconvinced. “To believe her story,” said Dr. A, J. Risinger, attending her, “you would have to believe these facts: “That she first placed one foot, then the other, in the furnace and kept them there for some little time; that she thrust head and arms and held them there under what certainly must have been terrific pain. The firebox is only 1234 by 8% inches. “It does not seem possible that a person, even in a trance, could do that. Muscular reaction alone would cause her to jump back from the flames.” The name of Charles W. Hitchcock, 45 years old, married and the father of four children, was brought into the case by Miss Knaak, who during the night {requently cried out: “Hitch, oh, Hitch. Why don’t you come to me?"” “Who did this?” said the State’s at- torney, bending over the girl's cot. “I did it myself, for faith, for purity was the response. At intervals the of- ficers obtained her story. She had known Hitchcock four years, she said, having studied elocution and salesman- ship in classes he conducts here. No “Material Love Affair.” “A few months ago I got to know him spiritually,” she was quoted as saying. “This was no matérial love affair. Advanced psychology made me understand him, For weeks I have been hearing his voice saying, ‘Have faith; have faith.’ “I had an appointment with him Monday night. He did not keep it. (Hitcheock, who beside being a teach- er is night policeman of Lake Bluff, has been confined to his home with a broken leg for a week.) When he did not appear, I again heard his voice, urging me to have faith. “To prove my faith, I thought of the fire. I removed my clothes and burned them. I burned myself. “I survived. I proved my faith, and T'll live. Be sure of this: I knew I would survive.” Hitchcock, his leg in a cast, was un- able to clear up the girl's story. “‘Poor girl, if she had a crush on me, I certainly didn’t know it,” he said. Hitchcock said Miss Knaak came to him four years ago to study salesman- ship and elocution. Since finishing the course she has occasionally communi- cated with him, Hitchcock. said, seek- ing his advice on problems confront- ing_ her. Hitchcock conducts his classes in the morning hours, working as night police- man from 1 p.m. to 1 am. One theory investigation was that Miss Knaak, not knowing of his injury, had gone to the police station Monday even- ing to await his arrival after his official rounds. The station is closed at night, but Miss Knaak was presumed to have had a key, as did many other persons. Advance Attack Theory. It is possible, police said, that she may have gone to the furnace room for warmth, and that she may have been attacked by some vagrant who himself had gotten into the basement to keep warm during the chilly night. Physi- clans said the burns probably were in- flicted shortly before the young woman was discovered by the janitor, about 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning. ‘The janitor found Miss Knaak stand- ing up, her face and body blackened by the fire. Her forearms were burned to the bone, her hair was burned from her head, and the heat had seared the flesh of her forehead through to the skull. She was leaning against a pipe by the furnace when the janitor saw her, and the sight sent him running up- stairs, screaming for help. Hitchcock was appointed night police- man four years ago when his health made it necessary to leave the stage, where he appeared in vaudeville, and thf movies, where he acted character roles. Miss Knaak, whose home is with her widowed mother in Deerfield, Ill, has studied at the Universities of Illinois and Chicago and at the State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich. It was while teaching at Waukegan, Ill, that she first began the study of elocution with Hitcheock. BORAHTO DELVER BALTIORESPEC Will Talk Tonight in Same Auditorium Where Smith Spoke Monday. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., October 31.—Turn- ing to the political border State of Maryland to deliver a speech for the candidacy of Herbert Hoover, Senator ‘William E. Borah of Idaho today crosses the campaign trail of Gov. Smith at Baltimore. LY ‘The Senator left here early today ‘and arrives at the Maryland city late this afternoon. He will deliver his speech Lan: clubs, including the Chevy Chase and A exchange with his chief followed, and when the documents were made ublic they included Mr. Lansing's res- &nluon and President Wilson’s ac- ce] ce of it “with appreciation. historic exchange, which imme- diately preceded the resignation, wasas follows: “While we were still in Paris” Mr. ‘Wilson wrote his etary of State under date of February 11, “I felt, and have felt Increlslnfiz ever since, that you accepted my guidance and di- rection on questions with regard to which I hlfllwul:ltmct you only with reasing reluctance. m‘F‘ x. must say that it would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the embarrassment of feeling your re- Metropolitan in Washington and others in his native town. As an authority on international law he was widely known for his writings. Among his books are “Government, Its Origin, Growth and Form in the United States”; “The Big Four and Others of the Peace Confer- ence,” and “Notes on Sovereignity.” He also was an associate editor of the American Journal of International Law, Besides Mrs. Lansing, he is survived by two_sisters, the Misses Kate and Emma Lansing, who were at his bed- side when the end came. They are his only near relatives. Mr. Lansing was a trustee of the Church of the Covenant in this city for 30 years, but retains membership in the First Presbyterian Church of Watertown, N, Y, luctance 'fidfldw"“m of ih.l ex‘:% it would give your present office ngngflam me an opportunity to select e one else whose mind would more ly go along with mine.” On the following day Mr. Lansing re- plied as follows: “Ever since January, 1919, I have been conscious of the fact that you no longer were disposed to welcome my ad- vice in matters pertaining to the nego- tiations in Paris, to our foreign service or to international affajrs in general. Holding these views, I would, if I had consulted my personal inclination alone, have resigned as Secretary of State and as a commissioner to negotiate peace. I have felt, however, that such a step might have been misinterpreted both at ‘home and abroad and that it was my duty to cause you no embarrassment in cas forward the great task in which you were then engaged.” Colby Named Successor. Frank L. Polk, Undersecretary of State, became Secretary ad interim and served until Bainbridge Colby was appointed Mr. Lansing's successor. The disagreements between President Wilson end Mr. Lansing are generally said to have antedated the entry of the United States in the, war. Rela- tions between the two almost reached the breaking point in 1917 when Lansing issued his celebrated statement saying that the United States was daily being drawn nearer and nearer the war. By some it was thought to forecast the entry of the United States. Wilson made every effort to overtake the statement after it had been given out at the State Department, but it was impossible. When Lansing went to Paris with the American mission more difficulties developed. With other members of the mission he was not in accord with Wil- son’s idea of making the treaty of peace and the covenant of the League of Nations one and the same inseparable document. It was Lansing’s idea such 8 plan would delay ratification of a peace treaty, and in this he was sup- ported by Henry White and Col. E. M. House, the President’s particular per- sonal adviser. Mr. Wilson went back to Paris in March, 1919, to find that during his brief absence in the United States Lansing and others had agreed, tenta- tively, at least, to have the peace terms and the covenant separated. The situa- tion became so acute that Mr. Wilson avoided a break only because he deemed it more important not to let European statesmen see a split in the American peace delegation. However, the incident which came nearer than anything else to cause a break was said to be the sensational testimony of William C. Bullitt, one of the American experts attached to the mission, before the Senate foreign rela- tions committee. Out of Sympathy With League. Reading from a diary, Bullitt quoted Lansing as having toild him that he was out of sympathy with the League of Nations’ covenant, and as predicting that the treaty would fail if the Amer- ican people ever learned of its full im- port. Mr. Lansing, obviously in a diffi- cult situation, did_ not repudiate Bullitt's statement. Wilson was then s wi PRESIDENT EXTENDS HIS CONDOLENCES Hoover and Kellogg Also Send Messages of Sympathy to Mrs. Lansing, President Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg -and ‘Herbert Hoover last night sent messages of condolence to Mrs. Robert Lansing on the death of her husband. The President, in extolling Mr. Lansing’s service as Secretary of State, declared that his part in estab- lishing peace “assures him a place in history.” The President's message follows: “I have learned with deep sorrow of the passing of your distinguished hus- band,” the President wrote. “The sad news will be a shock not alone to a host of intimate friends, but as well to those both here and abroad, who are familiar with the important part he played in international affairs for so many years. “His work in the Department of State, culminating with his service as Secretary of State during the trying period of a great war, and his subse- quent part in establishing peace, as- sure him a place in history. “Mrs. Coolidge joins me in heartfelt sympathy for you and for the members of your family.” Secretary Kelloge said: “I was shocked to hear cf the death of Robert Lansing. He was a personal friend of mine of long standing for whom I had the highest regard. He had a dis- tinguished record as a public man, especially in the State Department. His death will be a loss to the country and deeply felt by his many friends.” “I am deeply grieved to learn of the death of Robert Lansing,” Mr. Hoover | said. “He was a great public servant who contributed much to his coun- try's welfare.” STEEL BANDS IN PLACE. | Work in Reinforcing National Mu- seum Dome Is Begun. ‘The first of two great steel bands with which the supporting columns and dome of the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution are to be rein- forced have been put in place by the H. S, Hatton Construction Co. The first band, consisting of I beams and connecting steel plates, rests upon the floor of the circular zluuowny which surrounds the rotunda, beneath the arches supporting the dome. Six months will be required to complete the work. Banker’s Funeral Tomorrow. MASON CITY, Iowa, October 31 (). —Funeral services for Charles H. Mac- tonight in the same auditorium in which the Democratic presidential nominee spoke last Monday, under his present plans. In making his second appeal of the campaign to the voters of the usually Democratic Old Dominion State here last night the Idahoan failed to fol- low a prepared advance text of His speech, in which he declared he was “not_in agreement with either Hoover or Gov. Smith” on the question of Government control of the Nation's power resources and reiterated charges against Gov. Smith on his prohibition and immigration pronouncements dur- ing the campaign Declaring that he expected a greater vote than “ever before seen in any election of the country,” he urged the voters to cast their ballots on the basis of their convictions and “the dic- tates of their consciences.” “Party lines and organizations have become relatively unimportant,” he said, “in this election. This indicates to me unmistakably the election of Hoover on November 6." “The President of the United States is supposed to be the ideal of the American people,” he continued, “and no man is better fitted for that office than Hoover.” “I hope that the sixth of November will register the individuality of the American people,” he added. Replying to Democratic criticisms of Hoover's failure to protest against the naval oil scandals, Borah said that the “rule should apply to all,” and Gov. Smith “had not protested against the graft of Tammany Hall, many of whose members have been sent to the peni- tentiary, and lots more should go there.” FLYING FISH READY FOR HOP TO BERMUDA Irish Seaplane, With Publisher Aboard, Will Take Off From Manteo, N. C., Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va., October 31.—The Flying Fish, Irish seaplane, bearing George Palmer Putnam, New York pub- lisher; Lieut. W. N. Lancaster, pilot, and Harry Lyon, navigator who directed the course of the Southern Crogs to Australia, will leave Norfolk this after- noon for Manteo, N. C., a fishing vil- lage cn Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, where it is planned to start the proposed non-stop flight for Bermuda tomorrow mornin, Bermuda lies 600 miles east of Manteo. The Flying Fish is equipped with an emergency radio apparatus. BOMB KILLS ARTIST AS HE STARTS AUTO Buffalo Neighborhood Rocked by Blast—Women and' Children in Near-Panic. g. almost due By the Associated Presk. BUFFALO, N. Y., October 31 —Frank Mirolla, & commercial artist, died in a hospital this morning of injuries suf- fered when an explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb wrecked his automobile as he attempted to start it. The explosion rocked the neighbor- hood I“;md shattered glass in buildings nearby. Women and children ran into the Nider, who dropped dead in his office on his Western speaking tour, from physically, and, as rumors said in Con- [ in the First National Bank, of which which he returned a broken man, he was president, will be held at noon | the garage. He dlpn‘d short), tomorrow at the MacNider street and were quieted only with the arrival of police and firemen, who found Mirolla unconscious 30 feet from ly after being v removed to a hos) NEW JERSEY VOTING LISTS PURGED MORE Officials Continue Process of Removing Alleged Fraudu- lent Registrations. ‘ By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, October 31.—The task of purging. the voting lists of al- legedly fraudulent registrations con- tinued in three New Jersey counties today. { An the Democratic stronghold of Hud- son County more than 21,000 names remained on the ineligible list after John Ferguson, superintendent of elec- tions, announced no further appeals would be heard. ‘The original list as published in newspapers under a recent law passed by the State Legislature contained 28,417 names, but this was reduced be- cause of typographical errors in publi- cation and by presentation of affidavits by persons showing their names should not have heen included. Impossible to Hear All Persons whose names have been stricken from the voting lists can file affidavits’ with the Court of Common Pleas until noon election day, Each case, however, must be considered in- dividually, and politicians contend it would be a physical impossibility for the “three judges to consider all the cases. In Essex County, normally Demo- cratic, and the only other county in- cluded in the provisions of the Wolber act which permits by publication the challenging of, registrants, the names of about 2,000 persons were published yesterday. Federal Agents Investigate. The huge increase in registration in this county resulted in a complaint to the Department of Justice by Republi- can leaders and the sending of special agents into the State to conduct an in- vestigation, In Atlantic County, where Judge Wil- liam H. Smathers is conducting hear- ings into charges of unlawful regis- tration, the names of 784 persons were remvoed from the list of voters in the first ward of Atlantic City during the first day's hearing. Atlantic County is normally Repub- lican and Prosecutor Louis Repetto, a Democrat, had charged there were more than 2,370 illegal voters registered in Atlantic City alone. OFFICIALS ACCUSED IN RUM RING PROBE District Attorney Files Bill of Par- ticulars to Pittsburgh Indictments. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, October 31.—Specific allegations in the Government's claim that a gigantic liquor ring involving public officials exists here were made today by John D. Meyer, United States attorney, in filing bills of particulars to indictments returned last June by a Federal grand jury. Meyer charged more than 400 saloons, clubs, confectioneries and other places in various parts of the city were oper- ated under police and political control. On the South Side, Meyer said, Francis Kirley, ward chairman, and John J. McCardle, police inspector, de- termined whether saloons should be closed or permitted to operate. In the “Strip” district, the attorney charged John W, Orie, police magistrate; his brother Stanley and Luke Sullivan, member of the State Legislature, issued orders for delivery of liquor. Thomas Oliffee and Samuel J. Grenet, another member of the State isla- ture, had charge of the sale of liquor on the North Side, Meyer said. ‘The bills of particulars was filed in response to an order by Federal Judge R. M. Gibson that more specific infor- mation be presented in support of the indictment which named 167 politicians, lice and alleged racketeers and boot- leggers. A number of those indicted had filed action to quash the indict- aments, contending they were “vague.” Graf Zeppelin Log By the Associated Press. (Eastern Standard Time.) ' Monday, October 29. 1:54 am—Left Lakehurst, 'N. J. 3:15 a.m.—Passed over New York City. 5yl,m.—Pnsud over Block Island, off Rhode Island coast. 6:15 a.m.—Passed Chatham, and headed out to sea. 7:15_a.m—Sighted by trawler Wid- geon 75 miles northeast of Chatham. | Mass., 10:15 a.m—Sighted by steamship Laconia 90 miles southwest of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia. 2 p.m.—Gave position to Germany | as latitude 43 north, longitude 58 west | —500 to 600 miles at sea from Chat- ham. 1 5 p.m.—Gave position at 42.30 north, | 5450 west—about 750 miles east of | Chatham. | Midnight—Gave position as 250 miles | northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. | Tuesday, October 30. 7 a.m.—Steamship Mauretania, about 500 miles east of Cape Race, in com- munication with Zeppelin somewhat to the north. 10 a.m.—Sighted by steamship Capu- | gn about 730 miles northeast of Cape | ace. 12:40 p.m.—Steamship Blairesk re- | ported Zeppelin while in position about 890 miles northeast of Cape Race. 2:15 p.m.—Passed over cable ship Domina about 950 miles northeast of Cape Race. 5 p.m.—Gave Friedrichshafen, Ger- many, position about 730 miles west of Fastnet Light, Cork, Ireland. 7:15 p.m.—Sighted by steamship | Westerdijk about 550 miles west of | Lizard Head, Cornwall, England. Midnight—Gave position about 430 miles west of Lizard Head, Cornwall, England. ‘Wednesday, October 31. 5:50 a.m.—Sighted by steamship Boulder Pool about 500 miles west of | Bordeaux, France. 6:21 a.m.—Reported over the Bay of Biscay. | 10:30 a.m. Eastern standard time, re- ported 40 miles west of the Gironde Es- tuary on the Central French coast. W.C.T.U. REELECTS MIRS. N. M. POLLOCK Fifty-fourth Annual-' Conven- ¢ tion Votes to Retain President. Mrs. N. M. Pollock was re-elected president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia at today's session of the fifty-fourth annual convention of the organization in First Congregational Church. Dr. Lauretta Kress was elected first vice president. Other officers elected were Mrs. James M. Doran, wife of the prohibition com- missioner, second vice president; Mrs. H. Edon Rogers, corresponding secre- tar; Mrs. Charles Montgomery, record- ing secretary; Mrs, William Peters, as- sistant recording secretary, and Mrs. George A. Ross, treasurer. The elections were held during the morning and the results announced early this afternoon. Under the rules of the organization, a majority vote is required, which was 102 today. Officers not receiving the requifed majority, but who had the greatest number of votes, were declared elected by adop- tion of a special resolution. Doran Lauds Dry Law. Prohibition as in force in this coun- try is the only way of dealing with the liquor situation, because other methods have proved unsatisfactory, de~ clared Dr. James M. Doran, United States prohibition commissioner. To illustrate this point, Dr. Doran declared tl in British Columbia vari- ous crimes attributed to alcoholism have increased with freer distribution of liquor. During recent years, he pointed out, British Columbia debts have increased from $35,000,000 to over $81,000,000, and many persons there have been forced to lose their homes for non-payment of taxes, he continued. Points to Failures. In connection with the so-called liquor control laws, other than prohi- | bition, Dr. Doran said that all methods | other than prohibition had been tried in this country prior to the enactment of the eighteenth amendment, and added that it matters little in what way liquor is distributed if the people are allowed legally to drink it. Dr. Doran indicated in his address that there is a wider study being made of the liquor question from an eco- nomic standpoint than ever before. Mr. Doran said that more than 75,000 arrests were made by Federal prohibi- tion agents last year and that more than 7,000 automobiles and trucks were confiscated. He also praised the work of the Federal Government in reduc- ing the quantity of liquor smuggled into the United States from approximately 14,000,000 gallons in 1926 to about 5,000,000 gallons last year. Dispute Crops Up. ‘The old dispute between the W. C. T. U. and the Board of Education re- jarding the instructing of mlgolll in pub- lic schools on effects of alcohol cropped up during this morning’s session. Mrs. Charles P. Grandfleld, chairman of the section on scientific temperance in- struction, declared that Dr. Ballou, su- perintendent of schools, and Asst. Supt. smghen Kramer were in sym- pathy with them, but that the Board of Education is not. Today's meeting was called to order by Mrs. N. M. Pollock, the president, At a meeting of the convention of the organization in the ¥First Congrega- tional Church last night, D. Stewart Patterson of the Methodist Board of ‘Temperance and Public Morals de- clared that reports of drinking ameng high school students are greatly exag- gerated. TWO BIG STORES MAY COME T0 D. C. Montgomery Ward Co. and Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consider Locating Chain Establishments Here. Washington is being considered as the possible site for two competing chain department stores of the extens- ive mail order and retall systems of Montgomery Ward Co. and Sears, Roe- buck & Co., it was learned today. C. H. Getz, manager of the retail installation department of the Ward firm, has made inquiry here regarding growth of the Washington population; railroad and other transportation to and from Washington and local em- ployment and industries in connection with the company's study of a site here for a retail outlet. - This move, it is uderstood, is made in connection with the plan of the Ward concern to establish 200 retail department chain stores in the United States by the end of 1028. While the Sears, Roebuck company has not yet decided to locate a retail department store here as a part of its system, the fact that Washington is being considered as a site for a new ! William H. PANZRAM INDICTED; THEFT 1S CHARGED Housebreaking and Larceny Allegations Made Against Confessed Slayer. Carl Panzram, 36 years old, who has sought to be brought to trial for raur- der, was indicted today by the grand jury on a charge of housebreaking and larceny. the home of Dr. Louis W. Eugster, 3620 Macomb street, August 8, and to have | stolen a radiola worth $100 and a quantity of jewelry and wearing ap- parel. Panzram declares he killed two boys, one in Philadelphia and the other in Massachusetts. An indictment for murder has been reported against him in Philadelphia, but United States At- torney Leo A. Rover decided yesterday Fisher of Pennsylvania for the return of Panzram until the prisoner had been tried on the housebreaking charge. The case will be scheduled for trial next week. Perjury in the course of his testi- mony before a referee in bankruptey is charged in an indictment against Harry A. Bramow, a building contrac- tor, who went into bankruptey in July, 1927. According to the indictment Bramow while being examined under oath ad- ministered by Ralph D. Quinter, referee in bankruptey, told an attorney for his creditors that he had paid Frank Birn- baum, of Detroit, $25,000 due him March 15, 1927, when in fact he never owed him more than $18,000 and only paid him that amount on that date, it is alleged. He is also charged with Jerry Maiatico of this city between May and July of 1927, which payments are said to have -been denied by Maiaticc. A claim that he paid $200 to Sol Ackerman was also denied. Watchman Indicted. George C. Jennings, a watchman at the Veterans' Bureau, is charged with mutilating and obliterating official records of the bureau. He is said to have obtained possession of his compensation record and to have destroyed the record and also to have torn and thrown away the personnel record of the bureau relating to himself, July 26 last. Henry H Griffin and John W. Mad- den, both colored, were exonerated by the grand jurors of a charge of homi- cide in connection with the shooting of Elwood Mitchell, September 2 last. The tragedy occurred at 1017 V street. ‘The grand jurors also refused to in- dict Creed Jordan and Harry Jackson. charged with carnal knowledge, and James R. Duckett, grand larceny. Others Charged. Fourteen other indictments were re- ported to Chief Justice McCoy, includ- ing the following: Walter Moore, Louis Weaver, James J. Grace, Willie Brown, Jeft Oden, Richard Collins, Harrison Brown, Willlam H. Hall, James W. Ed~ wards (2 cases) and Thomas Hightower, housebreaking; Garfield Green, Clar- ence Collins and James L. May, grand larceny; Perry E. Dutch, grand larceny and joy-riding, and Pewee Paul (3 cases), depredation on private property. REFLOORING OF CHAIN District to Rush Work as Soon % as Necessary Lumber Arrives. Reflooring of Chain Bridge will start not later than November 20, it was an- nounced today by Capt. H. C. White- hurst, Assistant District Engineer Com- missioner. Original plans called for redecking the bridge in October, but the rejection of the timber ordered for the work be- cause it failed to comply with specifica~ tions caused an unforeseen delay. Capt. ‘Whitehurst said that approximately one- third of the lumber needed which meets specifications has arrived, and that the remainder is scheduled to be shipped within the next three weeks. The en- tire force of the District Bridge Depart- ment will be detailed to the reflooring project, Capt. Whitehurst said, in order to avold any further delay in eomflet- ing the reconstruction of the bridge, which was opened to traffic several months ago after being closed for a year to permit the construction of a new abutment on the Virginia side. {SMITH MURDER TRIAL SET FOR NOVEMBER 19 Collins to Prosecute Alleged Slayor of Daughter. E. Russell Kelly to Defend Him. Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 1 today tentatively set for Monday, November 19, the trial of Franklin E. Smith, 50-year-old bank watchman, charged with murder in the first degree in connection with the death of his 19-year-old daughter, Bessle L. Smith, September 26. The date was set at the request of As- sistant United States Attorney Willilam H. Collins, who will be in charge of the prosecution. Former Assistant United States Attorney E. Russell Kelly has been selected by the chief justice to conduct the defense of the prisoner. At his arraignment recently Smith said he was guilty of murder but not of premeditated murder, He also sald he had no funds to employ counsel and Chief Justice McCoy asked Kelly to act. Unless Kelly, has some objection to the date indicated by the court the trial is expected to start on that date. Pl S AR DAVIS GRIEVED BY DEATH. Former Envoy Declares Lansing’s Passing Is Loss to Nation. HARTFORD, Conn., October 31 (#). ~—The death of Robert Lansing, former .s:cretnril of State, “is an unqualified loss to the country” and “a great grief” to John W, Davis, former Ambassador to England. Mr. Davis, lrenk(ng at a Democratic rally here, sald that he had been in touch with Mr. Lansing’s home by tele- phone and although he knew that his friend was ill, the news of his death was a great shock. “A grent public servant has gone,” he sald. Out of work and “disgusted” because he was hungry and without a place to sleep, Earl C. O'Donoghue, giving his last address as the 400 block of I street southwest, walked into the first pre- stolen an automobile. He was lodged in a cell overnight and today, after he had pleaded guilty to joy riding before Judge John P, McMahon in Police Court, he was committed to jail in default of $500 bond. unit of the system was confirmed today by a regional official of the firm in Philadelphia by long distance tele~ phone, According to police, O'Donoghue stole an automobile owned jointly by Leroy P. Sunderland and Leonard L. Cross S He is said to have entered | not to present a requisition from Gov. | representing that he had paid $6.700 to | BRIDGE STARTS SOON Steals Auto and Gives Up to Police “To Obtain Food and Place to Sleep” cinct yesterday and told police he had | bad Wedding Date Set Alicia Calles, beautiful daughter of President Calles of Mexico, and Jorge Almada, son of a prominent Mexican family, who will be married Novemur| 4. A honeymoon trip planned by theK couple will take them around the world. | —Associated Press Photo. | POLCEABANDON A OF INFORWERS Seventh Perjury Case Ends in Conviction—Another Awaits Trial. With one police informer convicted today, and another yesterday, in perjury cases, an announcement was made to- day by Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart that the use of informers in, police work about Washington has been practically discontinued because of their unreliability, the difficulty in lo- cating them when wanted to testify and the refusal of juries to belleve their testimony. George Houston, colored, an informer, was convicted of perjury by a jury be- fore Justice Walter I. McCoy in District Supreme Court today. Warren Gross, colored, also employed by police in gathering information it alleged offenders, was convicted of a like offense yesterday afternoon. Both cases involved affidavits in liquor cases before United States Commissioner ‘Turnage. Gross was found guilty of swearing falsely that he had pought liquor in the old Benning Hotel on Benning road northeast. Houston was convicted of making a false affidavit about a liquor purchase at 904 Tenth street. Sentence will be passed on both men Saturday. Both were prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Walter M. Shea. Houston’s conviction marked the seventh case against informers. One other is awaiting trial. Charges of sale and possession were dropped in Police Court today against Edward Jack Rainer and Louis Rosen- thal, both of 733 Seventh street, while similar charges against Mrs. Beatrice La Rocque were reset for jury trial. The admitted failure of the informer method of liquor law enforcement led Commissioner Turnage and Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt to suggest sev- men hired under the civil service laws be used for the work. LABOR ASKS BETTER BUILDING INSPECTION Urges Steps to Insure Safety of Public and Workers During Operations. ! Criticizing inspection of construction | work in the District, the Washington Central Labor Union asks that proper steps be taken to insure safety of work- men and the general public in building and demolishing operations, in a. reso- lution adopted yesterday at a meeting of the union and submitted to the Washington Building Trades' Council. The resolution says: | recent accidents indicate inspection of construction work in the District is not being ver- formed with that degree of efficiency and care that the safety of those em- ployed and the public demsand; “Resolved, That we hereby call the attention of the District authorities to this condition and request that such steps be taken by them as may be neces- sary to insure the safety of the worl men involved and the general public. DUCK SEASON OPENS. Tomorrow will be a good day for ducks—if -it rains. Hundreds of local sportsmen are pre- paring for ‘the opening of the hunting season at sunrise tomorrow. The sea- son in Maryland, Virginia and the Dis- trict closes January 31. Local hunters have on several occa- slons protested to Federal game au- thoritles that ducks, during the season assigned, are not “fat enough.” They urge that the season be delayed for a month, Game authorities report that ducks are plentiful in this section of the coun- !r{ and similar reports have been re- ceived in regard to rabbits. eral weeks ago that new policemen or | S G Mud CITIZENS FIGHT - MD. AVE. CHANGE Direct Thoroughfare Is De- manded at Hearing Before D. C. Commissioners. A storm of protest met a proposal for a change of the highway plan in- volving abandonment of Maryland ave- nue northeast between M street and Oklahoma avenue, at a publie hearing on highway plan changes before the District Commissioners today. Representatives of the Washington Board of Trade, the American Auto- mobile Association, the Annapolis Chamber of Commerce, the City Club, the Beaver Dam Country Club, the Bay Ridge Civic Association, the Sherwoo Forest and Epping Forest Clubs joined' in demanding that the line of Mary< land avenue be left intact to provide a direct avenue for traffic from the Capital through Decatur Heights to Annapolis. Many speakers called attention to the “intolerable” traffic conditions imme= diately on this side of the Bladensburg Cross, especially on Sundays and holi- days. Work on Highway Plans. The speakers declared that the Mary- land Park and Planning Commission is at work on plans for a highway connect- ing with Oklahoma avenue at the Dis- trict line, continuing lhmu{h Decatnr Heights, and joining the Defense High- way above Bladensburg. Thus res:. | dents of the Anapolis section would | be able to enter by way of Decat | Heights and avoid the Bladensbur “bottle-neck” altogether. | | _To abandon the line of Maryland avenue and shunt trafic along M strees to Oklahoma avenue would be folly, Col Robert Lee Longstreet of the Board of Trade declared. Robert Howard, a property owner, declared that if Maryland avenue were to be abandoned and the highway plans walt for completion of Oklahoma ave- nue, it would take seven or eight years for the reclamation work in Anacostia Park to progress to the point where it would be possible to build the hflhwn?’ By that time. he said, property in adjacent Maryland would be so subdi- vided that it would be impossible to carry through the highway plans. . Realignment Is Opposed. E. D. Campbell, representing property owners in the tract bounded by Lough - boro road, Foxhall road, Conduit road and Chain Bridge road northwest, ob- jected to a proposed realignment of University Terrace in that section and suggested that its curve be moved farther east so as to take less Jand off the property in question. Victor J. Evans, represented by At- torney Raiph H. Case, objected to the widening of Foxhall road by taking land off his property in the same sec- tion, and also to the extension of Cathe- dral avenue through his property. A proposal to relocate streets in the area at the end of Sixteenth street northwest, bounded by the District line, Thirteenth street and Kalmia road northwest was postponed at request of jthe Maryland National Park and Plan- ning Commission. 4 i There was no objection recorded to a proposal to remove from the highway plan the present Forty-seventh street and C street in the area bounded by Central avenue, Forty-ninth - street, Payne’s Cemetery and Bcnaing road northeast, and to cubsti‘ute for these highways curved roads following the topography of the land more closely. A proposal to abandon H 'and I streets northeast between Eighteenth street and Bladensburg road, and to make a slight change In the angle where K street strikes Oates street, met with no objection except for a sugges- t from W. J. Latimer ‘hat the line of K street be altered slightly. District Surveyor Melvin C. Hazen stated therc Wwas no objection io the alteration. . SLEUTHS HAVE CLUE IN CHINESE SLAYINGS Lieut. Kelly of Detective Force Following Lead in Double Shooting of 3 Weeks Ago. Lieut. of Detectives Edward J. Kell; is in New York today following a leng received in connection with the double Chinese slaying here nearly three weeks ago. Accompanying him is a Chinese resident of this city, who probably will be used as a witness when the grand )‘ll:;ln‘hl- up the investigation of the \ Members of the homicide squad to- day declared they knew practically nothing of the details of their chief's trip. It is believed, however, that the witness was taken to New York for the purpose of facing a Chinese sus- :I:cy!led of complicity in the double ng. In the Chinese quarter on lower Pennsylvania avenue there is every in- dication that both the On Leongs and Hip Sings intend abiding by the terms of the peace agreement between the heads of the two factions. PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. First Race, 1:15 P.M. (Horses Listed According to Post Positions.) FIRST RACE—The Monkt 4-vear-oids ‘And ub; purees EH000e S men 148 Fairmount 130 a Red a John R. Macomber entry. b Five pounds claimed for ride; SECOND RACE—Purse, $1,300; 2-: I maidens; ¢ furjongs, ¢ 1100 F-vesr-old Safety Pin Ben Marshai A 5 b Anastasi 8 dMatin's also_ellgib! Fair Bob White Poj Inception d Graydale vada Stock Farm entry. b M. L. Schwartz-Goodestone Stable entry. ¢ Cold ‘Stream Stud entry. d Audley Farm entry, THIRD RACE_Purge. $1.300; and up; claiming; 6 furlongs. +Son Ami *Tetra G *Sea Cre Yessanno Grey of Dawn Rock Thorn *Encam Heartache .. *Long Point Many Flaws 3-year-olds ¢! *MacMaxim Linen Kin Star Gold Pondy . 1 Stoney ‘Lonesome 3 His 1 hland Captain 116 * 10 FOUR’ the Ons- well; 2-¥4 RACE-Purse. $1.300; olds; 6 Sun Broom turlongs. olden Arrow ue FIFTIL RACK.The Riggs Handicap; 3- year-oids: 325,000 added: 113 miles. 116 b Princess Tina., 110 of 1414 Twenty-ninth street while it was parked on the Ellipse. The man claimed he drove around town several Lawle a One Hou; Her Ladysbip Petee Wrack . 117 Golden Auburn.. 88 gsftn:uon 108 ace . b Chancel Algernon ley_ .. S A. O. Schwarta entry. b Audley Farm entry. IXTH RACE-—' Southern Handicap: %l'%n g 5?- .l:n-flm. $1,500; 1 mile and hours, but in spite of the fact that |Portia ... the lights on the car were said to be and the car itself was stolen, no- body arrested him. Finally he decided to surrendér himself. Precinct Detective Kane, who ques- tioned O'Donoghue, said the man could xlnlcmlT T. o o :.‘....-"”. Y ear Tinita 19 a The Gwynn Oak: purse. 4 Up) " Caming: give no reason for taking the car other | Lincoln Pl than that he had been drinking. A flat tire caused him to abandon the ma- chine on Florida avenue, where it was recovered by 4 The