Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. fU. S. Weather Rureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow: colder tonight with lowest temperature about 10_degrees. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 42, at 2 p.m, yesterday; lowest, 26, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Ch ¢ Foening 51 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Thi: only evening paper in Washington with the Assotiated Press news A, Satuiday's Circulation, 104,315 Sundyy's Circulation, 111,566 Entered as sec post office, No. 30,932, ‘Washington, ond class matter DI WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY = { 1929 —~THIRTY-TWO PAGES. CENTS. TWO PLANE AND FLYERS INFINECONDITION: ALOFT 146 HOURS All Records Are Shattered. Men Deafened by Roar of Motors. QUESTION MARK HOVERS CLOSE TO HOME PORT Trouble Saturday Night Which Threatened Forced Landing Seems Eliminated. ssociated Press. 'ROPOLITAN AIRPORT, Los Angeles, January 7.—Man and ma- chine still were pitted against time and gravity today as the Army mono- plane Question Mark continued on its seventh day of flight. There were no more records left 1o break and it flew to the watchword “sail on and on.” Apparently in perfect condition, the plane ended its 146th hour in the air at 9.26:46 am. Observers reported it had consumed a minimum of gasoline during the night, indicating that th2 motors were performing at their best. | This was said to mean that the time | when the great mechanical bird gives | way under the strain is “remote.” Reports on the condition of the five men were that they were as fit as the plane, except that they had been deafened by the constant roar of the motors. They previously had declared | that the longer they remained up the better they liked it. All memories of the trying week end, during which they had to contend against missing spark plugs, cold, diffi- cult refueling situations and lack.of sleep, seemed to have vanished. Close to Home Port. The big monoplane continued to hover close to its home port, however, in or- der to keep the records it has made. The plane must land at the scene of the take-off in order vo have the rec- ords officially accepted. At. 6:45 am. the Question Mark made contact with a refueling plane and took aboard its usual supply of gasoline. A package of delicacies and emergency rations also was transferred. The 139th hour of continuous flight was passed at 2:26 am. Motor trouble which developed Sat- urday night apparently had been elim- inated. The trouble, caused by fouled plugs, was eliminated by Capt. Ira Eaker, chief pilot, when he threw opem wide the throttle of the big liner and brought the lagging cylinders back into action. It was one time Saturday night Spats, in cogimand, ordered all men to mei; posis to be ready for a glide to eart Passes Dixmude Mark. "The first crisis was caused earlier last week by combined fog, clouds, weather and threatened fuel shortage. The Question Mark, which took off from this airport at 7:26 a.m. New Year day, claimed the last aircraft endurance record yesterday morning when it soar- ed past the estimated 118 hours of con- tinuous flight made by the ill-fated Dixmude, lost in the Mediterranean. The monoplane already has beaten the more recent and better known en- durance and distance record of the Graf | Zeppelin, which covered 111 hours 34 minutes ‘and 6,500 miles in its limping voyage to America last Fall. Shortly after eclipsing all lighter- than-air records, the ship doubled the previous endurance refueling records of airplanes, and at the 131st hour last night had remained aloft double the time that an airplane ever flew before. It is estimated that the ship in its amazing demonstration of mec] cal and air-worthiness has flown be- tween 10,000 and 12,000 miles, nearly half the distance around the world. ‘The tenth night refueling of the ship shortly after midnight today also was the speediest yet accomplished by the two large Army planes engaged in its resupply. But 32 minutes were re- quired by the refueling ships from the time the Question-Mark dropped a fuel signal flare until the plane had gone up, put 170 gallons of gasoline aboard ¢ -d landed again. It was believed this supply would keep the ship, which had returned to high altitudes within gliding distance of this port. going until nearly daylight. During Saturday night’s motor trouble, when the ship mounted to unusually high altitudes, five refuelings were necessitated. * Feasibility Held Proved. Flight observers point out that the many night contacts with the ship, as well ‘as the large number of daily day- light contacts made, has proven com- pletely the feasibility of refueling planes in flight, an operation attempted only a few times prior to the present flight. and then nevér with great success. An entry by Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada, one of the four pilots aboard, in the log dropped here yesterday re- vealed that the men no longer could trust their ears in determining condi- tion of the motors. During Saturday night’s difficulty he had written: One motor sounds all right but it doesn’t look so good. It is siowing up: We can't trust our ears any more. It looks as though the human being would outlast the motors. They are going fast.” sunday’s periormance, nowever, ifi- dicated that Quesada’s fears for the life of the motors were groundless for the present at I Ground and refueling observers they appeared S 1o be tunctioning smoothly. Eaker's Message. An entry by Capt. Eaker ai 4 o'clock vesierday morning indicated what the fivers have 1o confend with in low tem- peratures. It sald: Just 100k over (the eon :ol) for an hour. 5.000 feet and dropped to 4,000. We are suffering from cold more tonight than any night so far. One of our win- dows blew away today and there is & howling gale in here all the time. Shortly thereafter Maj. Spatz wrote: ‘Everything is in readiness for a forced landing. The plane will not hold its altitude on two motors he- lieve our hearing has been temporarily aflected, because to gll of us our sight tells us a cylinder is gone, but our hear- ing tells us nothing.” Habitual Criminal Code Upheld. LANSING. Mich., January 7 (®).— The habitual criminal section of the €tate Criminal Code was upheld by the £tale Supreme Court today when it »ffirmed the conviction of Fred Palm, Aansing bootlegger. -at | fioers by vesidents of Los Angeles. In 1 found 1t too cold for me at; Letter Delivered Here Written on Duration -Plane Sent by Quesada to Mother, Given to Refuel Pilot, Put in Airmail. | What is thought to be the first let- | ter ever muailed from an airplane dur- ing the course of+a record flight was received today by Mrs. Helen A. Quesada, 4716 Ninth street, from her son, Lieut. Elwood Quesada, night pllot on the Army endurance plane Question Mark, in its flight over California. The letter was transferred by Lieut. Quesada from the Question Mark to the refueling plane, piloted by Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, on January 2, the second day of the flight, and was sent to this city by alrmail. It is written on stationery specially prepared for the his letter, which is brief, Lieut Quesada told his mother that the fiight, then smoothly. “We are going strong is what T mean,” he wrote. “The first day went over big. “No trouble at all. The people out here are in our corner. Received your telegram and undershirls. They are great, just what I needed. “We get wonderful food. The ladies on the post fix us ugwfllhb. ‘We have everything a person could want—good food, warm clothing, comfortable beds, ete.” Drawing on Stationery. ‘The envelope in which the letter was mailed bears the lettering, “U. 8. Army Air Service. Refueling mission. Tri- motored Fokker Question Mark. letter head shows a drawing of the Question Mark in flight and bears at the top the same as < the envelope. Below the head, on the left, js the list of the plane’s personnel: Maj. Carl Spatz, Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Lieut. H. A, Halverson, Lieut. Elwood Quesada and Sergt. Roy W. Hooe. Below at the right is the date line: “On board the Question Mark over Southern California, January —, 1929, — day of flight.” The undershirts referred to by Lieut. Quesada in his letter wlexe l:m v: him by his mother by parcel post and were delivered to him aboard the -Question Mark in the air. This is thought to be the first parcel post package ever delivered to a person aboard an air- plane in flight. “I knew it would be cold in the air at night and that the men would need all the warm clothing they could get,” Mrs. Quesada sald, explalning her package to the young fiyer, who is the junior member of the Question Mark’s crew. Tgnorant of Plans. Mrs. Quesads said that she had no intimation of the part her son was to play in the Army’s: spectacular flight until the day before the Question Mark left Bolling Field for the West Coast, last month. “I knew he was going to California, but did not know for what purpose,” she said. “He had previously made the other time to fly Brig. Gen. J. E. only 12 hours old, was proceeding | . the two flights west, once by himself and | o; LETTER PENNED ON “QUESTION MARK” Facsimile of letter writlen by Lieut. Quesada. 2 pllot on the Army endur- ance plane “Question Mark,” and received by his mother here this morning. —Star Staff Photo, THREE ARE INDICTED IN ‘POWWOW’ CASE Placed on Trial for Slaying of Farmer in York County, Pa. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Staft’ Correspondeng of The Star. YORK, Pa., January 7.—Shadows of a distant past seemed to have seftled over the York County courthouse today as three men went on trial for murder of an alleged witch doctor. In the center of the business section of a flourishing American city a grand Jury returned the three indictments and ‘country people had flocked’ in fromn the nearby countryside prepared to tes- ify to ‘the of charms of the devil and their faith in superstitlons which were rife in the German e~ land two centuries ago, The case went to the grand j 10:30 a. ‘True bills against all P s were retyrned at 10:44. ‘Two counts ‘were included dictment, l!\m‘det and manslaughter. Plead - Not, Guilty,. , ' Immediately after the indictment the defendants, John Blymyer, Wilbert G. Hess and John' Curry, were arraigned to hear the charges read to them in full. THe bills charged them with kill- ing Nelson D. Rehmeyer, 60-year-old recluse. - All. three pleaded not guilty. During the selection of the jury no reference is being made to belief in witcheraft. District Attorney Amos W. Herrmann, who is prosecuting the case, may try to prove a robbery motive in the murder of Rehmeyer rather than that the recluse, widely reputed to have possessed supernatural powers, was killed because it was believed he was “hexing” the family of young Hess. Sensitive Over Witcheraft Charge. at craft angle of the case and no provisions were made for the newspaper men who descended upon the town and Judge Ray P. Sherwood, the trial judge, ruled that all except representatives of the press associations must ' take their chances as spectators in the little court- room once the trial gets under way. Blymyers' lawyer, Herbert B. Cohen, is quoted as saying that the defense will attempt to establish the point that his client actually had reason to believe that he was being subjected to malific supernatural influences. ASA KEYES ORDERED Former Los Angeles Prosecutor and Six Co-defendants Face Bribery Charges, By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 7.—Former District Attorney Asa Keyes and six co- defendants were ordered to appear for here today on charges of bribery and conspiracy growing out of the Fechet, assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, to the aeronautical exposition at Mines Field last September. The Ques- tion Mark's flight was planned secret- ly and I knew not.hin* about it until the day before they left.” . v Lieut. Quesada has been in the Army Air Corps only two years. He is as- signed o permanent, duty in the office of ths chief of the Army Air Cerps as personal pilot to Gen. Fechet. He flew the general to Greenly Island, off the northern Canadian coast, last Sum- mer as a part of the expedition sent to the relief of the crew of the German | transatlantic monoplane Bremen. 1 [ | McIntyre Accepts Appointment. | Maj. Gen. Frank Mclntyre, retiring | chief ‘of the Bureau,of Insular Affairs, | has accepted appointment as Philippine Julian Petroleum Corporation stock overissue frauds. District Attorney Buron Fitts, who once was a subordinate to Keyes, subpoenaed . more *than .twa score .wit- nesses and announced that he was pre- pared to demand immediate trial. Among the first expected to be called are Joseph Sherman, Milton Pike and <cohn Retterger, whose notes i & small diary became the testimony upon which the grand jury largely based its indict- ments. The trio were employes in the tallor shop of Ben and David Getzo, alleged g-betweem in the pay-off of asserted bribes. In addition to Keyes and the Getzoffs, the defendants are Jack Bennett of Julian Petroleum Corporation; Ed and Jaek Rosenberg, brokers and former defendants in_the Julian fraud cases, and Charles Reimer, former confiden- i trade commissioner in Washington. tial investigation for Keyes. Keeps Promise By the Associated Press James Lucey, Northampion, Mass., shoemaker, today kept a promise to an old friend. Seven years ago Lucey assured Cal- vin Coolidge, then Vice President, that he would visit him in Washington. Todzy he kept that promise, and chat- ted with the President for more than 15 minutes in the executive office and then had luncheon with him. Lucey and Mr, Coolldg; ‘have heen Shoemaker Friend of Northampton and Visits Coolidge friends for 37 vears, since the Presi- dent was a student at Amherst College, when he used to drop in at his shop to talk with the cobbler. Lucey sald that his conversation with the President today dealt with old friends and reminiscences of hap- nings in Northampton. He was par- ul.n.rl{ impressed with the President’s physical condition and thought Mr. Coolidge was looking as fine as he had ever seen in each in- | the: York is a bit sensitive oyer the witch- | T0 APPEAR FOR TRIAL ¢ HODVERCONFERS HITH PRESDENT ONGO0D-HLTRP Tour Believed Success and to| Have Aided Pan-Amer- ican Parley. PRESIDENT-ELECT ADOPTS ATTITUDE OF SILENCE Came Here to “Listen—Policy May Retard Action on Farm Relief Bill. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President-elect Herbert Hoover's “good-will trip” to Central and South America was the subject of his efirst conference today with President Cool- idge since his election. The President-elect called at the ‘White House at 9:30 o'clock this morn- ing and was closeted with President Coolidge for nearly three-quarters of an | hour. 1t was Mr. Hoover's first call since he returned to Washington yes- terday afternoon. The Hoover trip to South and Central America was reported to have been en- tirely successful and to have aided ma- terially in the satisfactory agreements | reached at the Pan-American Confer- ence in Washington. Adopts Policy of Silence. Mr. Hoover, it was said at his head- quarters in the Mayflower Hoiel, has come here to “listen.” He is not talking for publication. He is seeking informa- tion. The imyression was conveyed that Mr. Hoover does not intend to discuss publicly matters of legislation now be- fore Congress. That includes the farm relief bill. 1f Mr. Hoover persists in this attitude of silence toward the farm bill, it is cer- tain that no bill will be passed at the present short session of Congress and | that Mr. Hoover will be expected to ful- fill his campaign promise to call Con= gress to meet in special session this Soring to handle the farm problem. This will be a sad blow to those mem- bers of the Senate nmil Houx:‘ wh;wi h“i vrgently recommended to r. loove! lhgt hey place his shoulder behind the farm bill so that it may be put through now and a special -session of the new Congress be avoided. However, there has been no little skepticism on Capitol Hill _that ncx}\\y farm bill can be put through bol ro\ls“:round. whether Mr. Hoover gives the measure his approval or not. Among-Mr. Hoover's early callers at the Mayflower headquarters today were Benator Edge and Senator-elect Hamil- n, “of New Jersey. They known i sdvance that _present_to Mr. Hoayer Rt W. Morrow, Ameri- bassador to Mexico, for appoint- ):; State, Mr., Morrow is a resident of New Jersey, and the Senators are urging his appointment both as a matter of State pride and on the ground that Mr. Morrow is emi- nenty qualified for that effice. Both Senator Fess and Senator Bur- ton of Ohib -whll" recommend to Mr. Hoover _that le appoint Walter F. " (Continuéd on Page 2, Column 1) -. FIGHT POLIGE FAIL OHALT BANDITS Six Hold-up Men Shoot Way Out of Theater With Loot of $2,500. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 7.—With & blood-spattered, bullet-marked car as their only clue, detectives today were secking a gang of gunmen Wwho es- aped with $2,500 after a gun battle in the lobby of a crowded Brooklyn theater. While 2,500 patrons scrambled for shelter from the score of shots, six gunmen fought their way out of the Fox Folly Theater, in the Williams- burg district last night, with two po- licemen pursuing them and six others seeking to bar their way to the car where two other gunmen waited. ‘The manager and treasurer of the theater had just placed the day's re- ceipts in the office safe when the six entered. Samuel Schullhalter, the manager, was forced to open the safe. A uniformed policeman in the theater with his wife was called by an usher and joined the special officer employed by the theater as the robbers backed out of the office. The two policemen opened fire on the retreating gunmen, who returned their fire. Two sergeants and four patrol- men attracted by the shooting joined in the gun fight while women and chil- dren in the theater screamed and sought cover, One of the policemen was wounded in the hand. The robbers’ car, which had been stolen and bore stolen license plates, was found later with 27 bullet holes in it. Blood on the floor and cushions indicated at least one of the gang had heen hit. COLDEST WAVE COMING. Frigid Weather, With Mercury at 10, Predicted for Washington. The coldest weather of the Winter will be blown into. Washington tonight by winds from the frigid northwest. ‘The Weather Bureau forecasts a de- cided drop to & minimum of about 10 degrees before morning. The previous low record of the Winter was 20 de- grees. ‘The cold spell will be of short dur- ation, the Weather Bureau promises, and will be unaccompanied by snow. Fair but zippy weather is foreseen for the next 24 hours. I Radio -P;'ogiams—l’agg 10! ‘houses before ~March- 4 { Spec TEX RICKARD DIES IN MIAWA HOSPITAL Body of Sports Promoter En Route to New York After Brief Rites. By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January T— George L (Tex) Rickard, who traveled an adventurous road from cowboy to millionaire and found more gold, in making boxing champions than in the Klondike, was on his last journey today. Rickard died in the Allison Hospital here yesterday on the sixth day of an illness which followed an operation for appendicitis New Year night. The body of the promoter whose name topped all the rest in the world of fistiana, was being borne to New York, the scene of his greaest-triumphs, on the Havana ial of the Plorida East Coast Line Pallroad. Mrs, Rickard, who had kept a faith- Sack Bemey. who 1ovea the promoter ac] ) W e promo as his * pal”; Walter Field, Rick- ard's friend, and Steve Hannegan., rep- resenting tHe eity of Miami Beach, ac- crm;pm -the ly. Over the nze casket, so heayy that 18 men were re- quited t6 WL 1t into the hearse, lay & blanket of roses. given by Dempsey and Fiald, and which bore the tribute* To Our Pai.” Promoter Dies Gamely. Rickard died gamely fighting the vi- clous inroads of peritonitic infection which followed the operation. He re- mained conscious until about two hours before his death at 8:37 o'clock yester- day morning. Shortly before lapsing into the coma from which he never ral- lied, he turned to the faithful wife and friends who gathered at his bedside with the jon that he was “getting a tough break, but I'll fight.” “Uien the dying man grasped the hand of Mrs. Rickard, and the feeble voice in- quired solicitiously about his 3-year-old daughter. When told that Maxine was all right and wanted her father to get well, Rickard said “Help me over this, sweet- heart. I'm fighting my——." he did not finish the sentence, and in two hours he was dead. Stricken New Year Day. A certificate, issued shortly afterward by Dr. E. H. Adkins, who attended Rickard, said that death resulted from “an overwhelming infection following acute gangrenous appendicitis.” Rick ard was stricken on New Year day, but belleving he suffered indigestion, he de- termined to bear the pain and overcome it. Later, the pain became so acute that physicians were summoned and the operation followed. This was pronounc- ed successful and Rickard apparently was improving until Friday night when he suffered a relapse from which it was feared death might come that night., But the promoter rallled and some hope, was_held for his recovery until iden denouement came during the early hours of yesterday. Dempsey, rugged ring warrior, be- came a nervous, unstrung boy as he realized that the man who had lifted him to & high place was dead. “I've lost the best pal I ever had,” he de- clared. “I am grief stricken over his death.” When Dempsey left the room and sought the reception hall, he struggled to control his emotions. His pale facz, covered by a two-day growth of beard, Dempsey choked as he said: “It must come to every one, but it's mighty hard to see Tex go. We can only carry on as he would have done.” Brief Services Held. Grief striken and on- the- verge of prostration, Mrs. Rickard was forced to g0 to bed, where she remained all morn- ing, but, demonstrating the same strength that d_her through the ordeal of her hu: d’s illness, she was able to attend brief funeral services in the afternoon. Rickard was not & church member, but Father Willlam Barry of the Cath- olic Chureh, to which Mrs. Rickard be- longs, officiated at the services. The body then was faken to the car now bearing it to New York, but the funeral party did not arrive at the railway sta- tion until shortly before train time. Although it was not traveling in a private car, the party virtually had the benefit of one, since only a single com- partment_had been taken by others— (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) “The Vicarion” By Gardner Hunting Begins on Page 29 of Today’s Star. Sees His Reflection, T!liuks 1t His Enemy, ' Smashes Window Said to have mistaken his own refiqction in a show window for that, of another man, Abraham Raugh, a soldier, last night broke a window of the City Service Sta- tion, 'Third and Virginia avenue southiwest, and was arrested for destraying private property and Hochrding 10 Foliceman X iceman Knapp of the ifourth precinct who made the ariest, Raush took his own reflectin_for that of H. Gordon, station attendant, with ‘whom het had previously had an nt. On 1\is own request the soldier was tuiyied over to the military authorities when arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court. MALTBIE OUTLINES MNERGERBENEFS Tells Capper $%0,000,000 Out of Plan. Holding to his original recommuenda- tion that "the $50,000,000 valwati should be left out of the street railwa: merger plan, ‘Dr. Milo R. Maltbie told Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committee today that “very great benefits” still would accrue to the com- panies by the merger, even if all of the changes urged by him are made. Dr. Maltbie declared the companies would gain through the merger -the $250,000 a year they now are required to pay in salaries to crossing police- men, and would save from $500,000 to DORAN OFFERS DRY PLAN FOR CAPTAL Three Suggestions Submitted for Consideration of Gib- son and Subcommittee. Federal Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran today submitted to Chariman Gilison of the subcommittee considering a separate prohibition law for the Dis- trict of Columbia. three su to make prohibition enforcement more effective here. ‘These recommendations were made Idliowing a hearing at which Commis- sioner Doran testified at the request of tie Gibson subcommittee. The recom- mendations are: First, enactment of the Sheppard act of March 3, 1917, after eliminating therefrom certain sections found inef- fective and after substituting and add- | Papitol Ing certain sections which are calculated o cffectively accomplish enforcement. Second, passage by Congress of an act making the national prohibition act and acts amenda! includ- tory thereto, ing the Willis-Campbell act, applicable to the District. Ofters Further Explanation. Third, passage of an act for the Dis- trict similar in imj and guage to the prohibition laws enacted by Legislatures of several of the States. Commissioner Doran offered to have the chief counsel of the Prohibition Bureau, or one of his assistants, ap- pear before the Gibson subcommittee to explain any aspect of the statutes suggested in his recommendations. In explaining the first suggestion, Commissioner Doran pointed out that he first pai h of section 1 of the t be eliminated 'm Sheppard act, Words to the effect that no person on or after the passage of the act, man- ufacture, sell, transport, im- $1,000,000 annually in reduced operat- ing expenses. “Using the lower figure,” he contin- ued, “the companies will gain by unifi- cation, regardiess of all other consider- ations, approximately $750,000 per an- num.” Subcommitiee Megts Wednesday. Immediately upon receipt of the letter Senator Capper announced the subcommittee in direct charge of the merger question will meet at 10:30 Wednesday morning to begin its de- liberations and that Dr. Maltbie would come from New York to attend. After outlining the savings he mates the companies would gain from unification. Dr. Maltble continued: “The Cagl‘u.\ Traction Co. has a valuation which must be recognized by rate-making bodies at most onlv until a new valuation can be made. The Wi ton Railway & Electric Co. has no valuation fixed by the courts as of any date, and the last one made by the commission is nearly 10 years old. The property of the Washington Rapid 'rrmglt Co. has not been valued at any time by a court or a commission. The establishment of a value of $50,000,000 for any which xi\e t:er n':d properties nor the companies have today. “If the companies are seriously con- sidering ch;o:‘bmnmk:c "c:: the 'l’l\fllm' merger proj un! y can have a valuation of $50,000,000 established for some period in the contract, and thereby placed beyond the reach of any commission, court or Congress itself, such recognition is not merely formal. It has been sald that when unifica- tion takes -place the rights.which the present companies have regarding valu- ations will lapse or e worthless. Whatever these rights may be, they ad- here to th2 property and will remain with it regardless of ownership.” In another part of his letter Dr. Maltbie sald: “Why should the companies surrend- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Weapon in Pocket of Ca‘r or Under Seat UnlawAfully Concealed, Justice Robb Rules Sl o e o A weapon is unlawfully concealed when reposing in such proximity to a person as to be convenient of access '::\L within l;e;ch hl:t does n:z' have on his person, but may be in a pocket of an automobile or hidden under u;e seat of the machine. ‘This in effect is the ruling .of the District Court of by Justice Charl Appeals in an opinion les H. Robb affirming the action of Judge John P. McMahon ‘n Police Court, who told a jury that it would be a violation of law if within presen ditions,” says Justice Robb, “will doubt the necessity for a concealed weapon law, wi Congress enacted for the riod would create s right [0 barte! pert, export, deliver, furnish or possess ‘ny intoxicating liquor otherwise than by the act, be substituted. :The word * " might be in- cliided in this prohibition if deemed ex- rddlent. The definition of alcoholic uors might be eliminated and the defi- niion of intoxicating liquors as set forth in the national prohibition act be sulgstituted. The penalties provided for in the Sheppard act might be chjinged to conform to those in the Jogres-Stalker bill, now pending in Con- grass. The commissioner advised that sec- ) 2 of the Sheppard act might be elirhinated and the following inserted: “Liquor for non-beverage purposes and for sacramental purposes may be manufactured, purchased, sold, bar- tered, ti rted, imported, exported, deliyered, furnished and possessed, bu only under permits duly issued by the comimissioner of prohibition, who is vestird with discretionary authority to issuf: such permits and fix the amount of liond in case the commissioner de- terniines that a bond shall be required. All t‘emh permits shall expire on De- cember 31 next succeeding issuance therizof, but may be renewed for the ensying year at the discretion of the nissioner, -Pen:{ts may be re- t HOUSE TO GET PAY BILL. Lehtbach Expects to Introduce His | Measure Tomorrow. Chairman Lehlbach of the House Distirict committee expects to introduce in the House tomorrow the relief bill for {he lower paid Government employes who did not benefit as Congress in- tended they should under the Welch pay lact. Mr. Lehlbach was delayed in the com- Pl of this bill, which he had ex- pecled to introduce today, by the fact | has tha| he was presiding in the House all Hay Saturday. | purpgse of protecting the public from the tnenace of concealed deadly and HOOVER 70 TABOO ELABORATE PLANS FOR INAUGURATION President-Elcct Willing to Re- view Parade on Lines of Coolidge March. CONFERENCE WITH GRANT IS SCHEDULED TOMORROW Future Chief Executive Tentative- ly Approves Program of Ex- ercises at Capitol. BY REX COLLIER. President-elect Herbert Hoover wi taboo any plans for an elaborate auguration, in accordance with his preq viously announced determination thad his induction into the presidency shall be “as simple as any ever held.” He will make plain his ideas in thig connection in a conference tomorrow morning with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the inaugural come | mittee, That the President-elect may cone cede a point or two in tee discussion of plans for a large civic parade was in- | dicated this afternoon by Senator Moses of New Hampshire, member of the com= mittee on 'ments for the cere- mony at the Capitol. Following a cone ference with Mr. Hoover at the latter’s office, the Senator said he gained following the induction exercises, but would insist on a small mili - escort to the Capitol prior to the m’Mn. It was understood at Hoowr %zad- g::nen m‘t;g the President-elect did b tl"e'xpect.e o ‘g.unde to exceed that Approves Capitol Program. The President-elect today approved tentatively the program of f¢ pur:‘ at the Capitol, as outlined by Senator Moses of New Hampshire and Repre- sentative Snell of New York, who com= prise the committee in charge of ar- rangements for the actual swearing in on Capitol Hill. This part of the program, of course, always is of profound dignity, and there was no difficulty in obtaining Mr. Hoo- ver's approval on the simple plans out- lined to him by the tors. Senator Moses and Mr. Snell conferred with Mr, Hoover in his private office at the May=~ flower Hotel for more than hour. On emerm 3 t.hl‘tmd '.h:h disc aro e formal ceremony at the con that end of the day's activi Sl 'Mr. Hoover found the pl&ve have | made entirely satisfactory,” Mr. Snell said. “The induction ceremon; exactly similar to those held @gJ for President Coolidge. be the same seal ATTANge;) (‘n:sn Capitol with IE:'L'I reserved i!rn ersons. . “The Capitol rites will ir. Hoover has no ohlm = formalities demanded by the tance of the occasion. Rem: e induction of a Chief {“e Unlfid States is an imj bn. - The ceremo “;‘ ‘}‘fv, ny mi wElefll’y not the future Presi the hour of the ceremony .fifi&'fi’fl will go with him from his home to the gmiwl' and thence back to the White The' President-clect first made known his antipathy to an elaborate inaugural program at Palo Alto just after his election. He did not mince words that occasion, pointing out that he felt that the ceremonies should be as brief and as simple as it is possible to make them. hl‘xl::r reiterated these ining the simplest ceremony on rece ord, and of emulating it. i Repeats His Wishes. Today, on lea the te Hous after his con!erm '“‘Vhlhl Presidet Coolidge, Mr. Hoover once more stressc the fact that he his indu into office to be - He said he had not changed his mind i any respect about this matter. In view of these repeated assertions it seems very unlikely that the Presie dent-elect will agree to any plans for a civic demonstration in his honor. This would imply that he will turn thumbs down on any proposal for maching units on Pennsylvania avenue next March 4, with the excepiion of the small military escort_demanded by custom, if not by law. There is no doubt that great prese sure will be brought to bear on him to permit various p-tr‘l;ue, ‘v:flm civie organizations Ve grou in the line of march, but unless he e‘: be made to see that such units are ab- solutely essential, they will be left ouy of the ion. ‘procession. As for an aerial show during the pa< rade, there is a ibility that he will raise no serious objection. He may agree that the importance of aviation may warrant its inclusion in the official uni s S e oy ny . Gran! conference the Pr;lndent-elecb. & to _to_only one period—the evening of March 4— although it had orl?tnll.ly been intended to have displays of fireworks March 3 and 3, as well as March 4. One of tha h%fihnun—g;oblbly either Keith'y 's—is to rous weapons. Its purpose is ‘whol sohl‘ne and it is ':‘hn legw of h:he court’ in construing W ve in mind the legisiative “Tle word ‘about’ is a comprehen- sive term and we must assume that intended it should be accord- ed 'h in Congress intended to limit the prohibition to the of such weapons on the rson} it must be assumed it would wsed the word ‘on’ instead of ", _We rule, therefore, that the words Yconcealed about the person”as used in the statute were intended to mean, and do mean, concealed in such proximily to the person as to be con- e intent. Venlent of access and within reach.” eve 3 oMll'_hl.ruucunlMl.l. Another meeting of chairmen several committees will be held day afternoon, at the New Willard Hotel, when Col. Grant will outline to the heads of the committees the exact wishes of the President-elect with re< spect to the inaugural. Immedfiately after this meeting it is expected that contracts for the reviewing stands will be awarded and the real work of gete u%mmmwunarm st how long the parade will be, fny (Continued on Page 2, Column 3 1