Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 13

VENING . STAR,. WASHINGTON, D. .C, “']‘ZT)NRSD\Y. JANUARY Tammany braves attend corner Hall Building in New York. Tammany, is seen in center laying the stone. stone laying for the new Tammany John R. Voorhis, venerable grand sachem of —Associated Press Photo. ANTI-WAR TREATY RAPPED BY BLAINE Kellogg Pact Called Menace to Civilization and Peace in Attack. By the Assocated Press. ‘The Kellogg anti-war treaty went into another round of Senate debats today, with Senator Blaine, Republi- can, Wisconsin, making a plea for adop- ‘tion of his resolution to declare it the sense of the Senate that Great Britain's note reserving freedom of action under the treaty in defense of her territories hould not be considered an actual rvation to the treaty. Senator Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, ‘who has withheld his attack pending the outcome of the conference looking to an agreement in the controversy over preparation of an American in- terpretation, was ready to take the floor late today or tomorrow. By acceptance of the British views, expressed in a note by Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Senator Blaine argued that “we, by this treaty, solemniy acknowledge that less than 50,000,000 pubjects of Great Britain shall have the kight to rule over 400,000,000 people, n';l;:x?llt their consent, against their pro- “Is there a single member of this Benate,” he asked, ‘who can say that ‘we are not by this treaty building up a power that is not only a menace to the | jpeace of the world, but, as well, a men- #ee to civilization itself? “This pact commits our Nation to an impossible peace unworthy of the tradi tions of America and forgstful of that Which made this Republic_possible.” MYSTERY VEILS CRASH. Five Die as French Plane Plunges Into Sea on Test Flight. SAINT-RAPHAEL, France, January 9 (#).—Mystery today surrounded the plunge of a French naval plane during & test flight which carried five men | with it to their deaths. The machine, 2 large all-metal tri-motor seaplane, SENATORS ABSENT AS PACIFISTS CALL Most of Those Interviewed in Delegates’ Poll Favor Pend- ing Cruiser Bill. Handicapped by failure to find many | | Senators either in their offices or on | the floor of the Senate, the more than 100 delegates to the citizens’ conference |on cruisers, who yesterday afternoon | | visited the Senate to report the atti- tudes of the legislators on the Navy cruiser bill, made only a partial poil of the body. Most of the Senators interviewed, ac- cording to reports made to the confer- ence later at the Washington Hotel, were in favor of the cruiser bill, and one, Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania, who received the largest delega- tion from the conference, was quoted as saying that he was sorry that the bill did not call for 30 instead of 15 cruisers. Urged to Continue Effort. Letters and more letters to Senators urging them to vote against the bill was urged by Frederick J. Libby, head of the National Council to Prevent War, at the closing of the conference last night at a banquet in the hall of na- tions of the Washington Hotel. The banquet was attended by about | 300 delegates and guests of the confer- ence, including four Senators—Nye, Brookhart, Frazier and Wheeler—all of whom, in after-dinner speeches, espoused the cause of the conference From Senator James A. Reed of Mi |souri, whose interview was relayed to the conference by a press representative at the Capitol, came the statement: “Every one believes in peace, but your method of getting it is by making the country defenseless, which means the | certainty of war.” » The interviewers found the two Mary- land Senators, Bruce and Tydings; McKellar of Tennessee, Overman and Simmons of North Carolina, Gerry and Metcalf of Rhode Island, Copeland of New York, Glenn of Illinois and Sackett of Kentucky in favor of the cruisers | Many Senators considered as against | the Navy bill. however, were not inter- was being subjected to trials by Lieut. Compardon, chief tester of the naval air depot. He was accompanied by Lieut. Requin and three mechanics. The seaplane was flying at a height of 300 feet four miles off the coast when | It was seen to plunge headlong into the sea, sending up an immense column of water. Launches dashed to the rescue. The machine was found 15 feet below the surface. The rescuers were able to recover only the body of Lieut. Requin. TWO DIE IN HOTEL FIRE. Pair Killed When Trapped by Mysterious Blaze. JOLIET, I, January 9 (P).—Two persons were burned to death and a dozen others were rescued yesterday when a mysterious fire desrtoyed a downtown hotel. d. and the principal arguments of ) the delegates were directed toward the | | Senators who either have been non- | committal on the subject or have been | openly in favor of the cruisers. ically all of the Senators inter- { viewed, the poll showed, were in favor of the Kellogg treaty in addition to the | cruiser bill and reports of the delegates | quoted them almost unanimously in | saying they saw nothing inconsistent |in"the passage of the two measures. Devine Mentions “Hypocrisy.” Dr. Edward T. Devine, who recently I resigned as dean of the graduate col- lege of American University, acted as toastmaster at the banquet Jast night. | He characterized as “convicting ous | selves of mational hypocrisy” the con- sideration of the cruiser bill and the ipeace pact in “practically the same { breath” and announced receipt of a | flood of messages to the conference from |all over the country from persons | pledging support of the conference’s A happy group of fiyers just after the Question Mark landed. The five men who made the record-breaking flight are seen receiving congratulations. Maj. Carl Spatz, commanding officer (at right), has his arm around Capt. Hoyt of the refuel- ing plane.—Copyright by P. & A. Photos. The colder the better! Leo Hyman of Chicago doesn’t let Winter interfere with his daily plunge in Lake Michigan. Ifere he is perched on a bank of ice and snow, ready for the bracing dip. —Associated Press Photo. Atlanta “belonged” to the Georgia Tech gridmen when they returned from their conquest of Galifornia in the Pasadena Rose Bowl on New Year day. This shows the crowd storming” some of the 10 “official” cars in which the players rode in triumph from the station through the city. —Assoctated Press Photo. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur | campaign against the cruiser bill. Walker. A Detérmination of the stand of the Police and firemen carried out all the | precent administration and: of the com- guests save the Walkers, whose escape | jng administration on national defense was cut off by flame. jand the building of all engines of war, The building was a three-sto { particularly with T ture of brick and frame consiruction. | iruction of airpla | was urged by Edward C. F A motion picture camera developeu | delphia attorney, at the benquet last Under a bower of palms, the body of Tex Rickard lies in state in Madison Square Garden, in the center of the great arena where some of his greatest sport ventures have been staged. Friends and admirers by thousands have filed by the bronze casket since it was placed in the Garden arena yesterday. —Associated Press Photo. JANITOR FOUND DEAD IN GAS-FILLED ROOM |Two Tenants Seeking More Heat Discover Body of Robert Wilkinson. Robert Wilkinson, 60, janitor at the LeDroit Building, 802 F street, was found dead in a gas-filled room at the F street address this morning. His head was resting on the stove and gas was pouring from an open jet. The Fire Department rescue squad and Emergency Hospital ambulance were summoned. Oxygen was adminis- tered for a few minutes, but it soon was apparent life was extinct. He was pronounced dead by Dr. I. Rutkoskl of the hospital staff, Charles L. Stiefel and Paul Balter- man, tailors, tenants on the same floor of the building, went to Wilkinson's apartment this morning to complain about lack of heat. Smelling g they searched the apartment and discovered Wilkinson in a partitioned-off space he used as a kitchen. He was seated on a chair and his head was buried in his arms resting on the stove. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt issued a certificate of accidental death. FINDS ANCIENT TkACES. Brazil Settled by Egyptians 4,000 Years Ago, Says Explorer. RIO JANEIRO, January 9 (#)—The newspaper A Noite today quoted Alfredo Do Sanjos, a Portuguese naturalist, as saying that he had found evidence that ptian, Phoenician and Carthagentan civilizations existéd in Brazil and other parts of South America 4,000 years ago. He has just returned to Rio Janeiro after spending four months in the little-known interior regions. The naturalist said he had verified hieroglyphies reported by a French en- gineer years ago in Minas Goyaz, Matto Grosso and Bahia. More than 3,000 were found and some were photo- praphed. He claimed that these in- dicated that ancient peoples took the by a California scientist operates to|night. Mr. Evans suggested that ail slowly that he has made a film of a|craft constitute engines of war equally dbroken hone knitting. . &s deadly as cruisers, treasures to Brazll and founded cities wtheren John S. Jamison, 70-year-old retired policeman, the man who first told President McKinley that the battleship Maine had been sunk at Havana, died early today at his home, at 141 E street southeast, after a long illness. On June 30 Jamison retired, because of poor health, from the force on which he had served for 41 years, 30 of which he had spent in the White House. Appointed to the force in 1887, he was assigned to the sixth precinct, un- der Lieut. John Kelly, father of Lieut. Ed Kelly, present chief of the homicide squad. After five years of duty there he was detailed to the White House, which, at that time, was occupied by President Harrison. p Making his rounds on the morning of February 15, 1898, during President McKinley's administration, Jamison Man Who Notified McKinley of Maine’s Sinking, Retired Policeman, Dies heard the President’s telephone ring. Answering it he discovered the caller was Secretary of the Navy Long, who wished to inform the President that the Maine had been blown up. _According to Jamison, after he awakened tho President and told him of the disaster, McKinley then arose and paced the floor of his room, murmuring, “The Maine blown up, the Maine blown up. After 30 years of continuous service at the White House, Jamison was trans- ferred to Police Court, where he was detailed in the office of Judge Ralph Given, who was at that time assistant United States attorney. Interment will be-at Mount Olivet Cemetery on Friday morning. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Mae Stephans, ‘and his son, Roderick H. Jamison, both of Washington. ' DECREASE IS SHOWN IN INFLUENZA CASES {porled to the District Health Office, | pared with 116 the day before. No deaths were reported. The additional cases bring the total number to 851 since January 1. Large increases in influenza reported in Southern States sent the total for the country at large up to 195,553 new cases for the week ending January 5, reports to the Public Health Servi showed today, compared with 162,288 cases reported the preceding week. Army Transfers Ordered. Col. Edgar A. Myer, United Stat. fantry, on duty with the Illinois Na- tional Guard at Chicago, and Maj Thomas H. Monroe, United States In- fantry, at the Edgewood Arsenal, Md., have been ordered to the Rhilippines; Col. Herbert J. Brees, United States Cavalry, has been transferred from Fort Leavenworth, Kans., to San_Francisco: Maj. Hugh Mitchell, Signal Corps. from Fort Monmouth, N. J., to Honolulu, and First Lieut. Charles B. de Shields, Air Corps, from Fort Sill, Okla., to Phillips .flel_dkAberdecn, Md. A decided decrease was noted today | !in the number of cases of influenza re- | there benig only 85 new cases, as com- | |HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON D. C. SITS TOMORROW Chairman Gibson of the special sub- committee that has been making an nomy-efficiency survey of the muni- administration, has called mem- s of the subcommittee mnto an execu- session tomorrow morning, to view | progress of the various investigations made for the subcommittee by the Bu- | reau_of Efficiency. | committee ~will endeavor to carry | through during the remainder of the | present short session. JULIUS STANIER DIES. Julius Stanier, 90, business manager | |for the Trade Unionists, with offices | on G streei, died at his residence, 1333 Park road, foday after an fliness of one | week. Mr. Stanler had been a resident of | this city for the past 30 years. He was | a member of the King Solomon Lodge of Masons. | He is survived by two daugh Max Abel and Mrs. Lilly W, ithree sons, Lee Stanier and Kuzen Stanier of Pittsburgh and Monroe . Stanier of New York City, | Mr. Gibson hopes at this meeting to} | determine the program which the sub- | Proving that the small ones can be strong. Nineteen adults and two children test the strength of this little “streamline” plane, which has a wingspread of only 35 feet. It is said to have attained a speed of 200 miles an hour in its first test at Los Angeles. —Wide World Photos. ELLIS REPORTED INDICTED BY JURY Chicago Gambling Ring “Pay-Off” Suspect Refuses to Name Profit Sharers, | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January 9.—Oliver J. | Enlis, who as pay-off man for the Chi- | cago' Heights gambling and liquor syn- | dicate said he handled more than | $30,000 a month, yesterday was re- | ported to have been named by the county grand jury in four true bills | charging him with operating gambling devices Ellis was one of more than a score of | men arrested in the suburb Sunday in B.|a wholesale raid by Federal agents and | the Chicago police, who seized more than 400 slot machines at Ellis' home. While Federal agents said Ellis stated frankly that he was the pay-off man for the gambling syndicate, he refused | to name four other men, two of them i reported to be county politicians, who {shared the $30.000 a month with him Whether the names were learned by | the grand jury the State's attorney's | office refused to say. Among a score of others held as a { result of the raids, officers hope to find i the solution for at least three of about 130 slayings in the suburb in the last ive yeal CORNER STONE LAID. | New Tammany Hall May Be Dedi- cated on April 13. NEW YORK, January 9 (A).—The corner stone of the new Tammany Hall, near Union Square, was laid yesterday by John R. Voorhis, 99-year-old grand sachem of the Tammany Society, owner of the building. Among those present were former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Mayor James J. Walker and other city officials, Tam- many Society. : It is expected the building will b finished in time for dedication cn Ap the anniversary of Thomas Jefler n’s birth, or on April 30, the anni- versary of George Washington's inaug- .uration as President. " Carries the team right with him!. H. R. Merrill, faculty representative of the Brigham Young University of Prove, Utah, lifting the basket ball quintet of the university, which weighs, collectively, 877 pounds. He ac- companies the team for its visiting games. —Wide World Photos. WOMEN T STUDY Board to Hear Report on Treaty Friday. Further steps to be taken by the General Federation of Women's Clubs in support of the Kellogg treaty will be decided at the Midwinter session of the board of State president, national officers and directors which opened last night at headquarters, 1734 N strect, with a reception tendered members of Congress and other officials by the | board. | Friday morning at the final session of the board, the question of the Kellogg treaty will come up when Mrs. Ben Hooper, chairman of international rela- tions, submits her report. Mrs. Hooper will report on the resolution to support the treaty, which was adopted by the General Federation in convention last Spring, and upon what has been done by clubs in the organization in support. Received by President. Following the reception last night the members got down to business to- PEACE PAGT STEP General Federation of Clubs FACTORY “DRIVES” VALUE 1S DOUBTED Whiting Questions Results in Addressing National Com- mercial Secretaries. The value of “drives” by the cham- ors of commerce and other organiza- tions for new industries for their cities in some cases was questioned today by Secretary of Commerce Whiting in an address before officers and directors of the National Association of Commercial | Organization Secretaries in conference | at the Department of Commerce with branch division office managers of the department from over the country. About 350 delegates attended the ses- slon, among whom were chamber of co;nv;xfirce secretaries. le not denying that this is the day of direct competition between cities for industries and businesses, Secretary Whiting declared that not every com- munity was able to meet the specialized Tequirements of industry and that there were cases where new factories might conceivably be a jarring or disruptive force in a community, Favors Local Concentration. He held that in many cases a cham- day dispatching a full program of re- | DT of commerce or other business or- ports and routine matters this morning | 82nization might more judiciously de- before going to the White House at | Yote its efforts to increasing the ef- noon to be received by the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. John W. Sippel, president of the General Federation, called the board to order at 9:30 last night. The ratifica tion of the new directors was the first | official business. State leaders whose appointments were confirmed are Mrs. | J. M. Stinson of Arkansas, Mrs. Charles J. Reeder of New York and Mrs. A. E. | ficiency and profits of industries that the community already had. The convention was to be addressed |later in the day by Dr. Julius Klein | of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Col. William Donovan, as- sistant Attorney General; Dr. F. M. | Surface of the domestic commerce di- | vision of the Department of Commerce; | A. F. Myers, retiring chairman of the | Federal Trade Commission; William P. | MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation, and O. H. Cald- well of the Radio Comimission, on re- lation of work of Federal organizations and that of trade organizations. . The position taken by Secretary Whit- ing regarding industrial promotion b trade organizations is conformity with general policies adopted by the Joint Incustrial Council of ‘Washington, a co-operative organization set up by the Washington Chamber of Commerce, | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- }lion. Board of Trade and other trade organizations of Greater Washington for the promotion of industrial expan- ! slon in and near Washington. | . Local organizations have been active j in urging establishment here of new 8 ; “light” manufacturing plants Widow of Ambassador to Spain g"n‘%;omple!ltlve w!thxefil.stmgnl{)c‘nlt{& 2 ustries, it was pointed out T Under Cleveland Dies at | W Hyde, jr. sectetary of the Joint 1o Daughter's Home. I dustrial Council. | Jones of North Dakota, who serves in | the dual capacity of State president and director. Tour of City to Be Made. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Sippel will head tHe delegation of officers and di- rectors to the Washington Cathedral, where she will place a stone in the structure on behalf of the Federation. | The pilgrimage to the Cathedral will be followed by a brief tour of the city to points of interest. MRS. LEONORA TAYLOR VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA COUNCIL AN;WERS SUIT. |Catho]ie Welfare Body Pleads Jus- Mrs, Leonora Talyor, 78, widow of Hannis Taylor, United States Ambas- | sador to Spain during President Cleve- ‘land's administration, died of pneu- monia at the residence of her daught Mrs. Clay Bayly, 2039 New Hampsh tification in Damage Suit. avenue, today. » The National Catholic Welfare Con- Mrs. T S 12 | o Christ Child Society of Providence Hos- | 1o, S20:000 damages for alleged libel ought against it by James W. Camp- many leaders and members of the Tam- pital, and had for a number of years |, een’ active in soclal circles here. o I Rekl charpel 13 She is survived by two daughters, Mrs :'"Ih'ée"é'i,"&'r'fn’?}dcfi?mzfi§ %r‘op;:)_' Hunt of Boston and Mrs, Clay 'al Help, Fifteenth street and Morris with whom she made her hom 1 southeast. ons, Charles Taylor of Mobile, 1> defendant is charged with writ- Hannis Taylor, jr., and Alfred to officials at the navy yard, where r of this city, and a sister, Mrs. | pbell had a contract, telling of rd Taylor, wife of the Interstats olleged illegal removal of the sand. rce Commiszionor. Th> daugh- onference pleads justification for s and sister were with her when she statement contained in the letter. Her husband died in December, ' Altorneys Hamilton & Hamilton ap- ‘pear for the conference, A