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2 FIGHT OVER BIDS - HANPERS PUPILS ment Works Handicap at McKinley School. Instruction in certain subjects re- Qquiring machinery or laboratory equip- | ment has been seriously curtailed at the new McKinley High School by | competitive bidders, wrangles and what school officials term “red tape” methods in purchase of needed cquipment, it was learned in school and District gov- ernment, circles today. | Besides the handicap imposed upon instruction, it also was revealed that the | same conditions had tied up delivery | of required cafeteria equipment, so that for at least another week the students will be unable to buy hot food there and will be obliged to use boards placed over barrcls and boxes in place of table: Classes affected by lack of working facilities include those in pattern- making, cabinet making and wood turning, which are without lathes, and those in physics, chemistry, home eco- nomies and biology, which lack labo- ratory equipment. Machines Not Ordered. Although efforts to buy 11 wood Jathes for the mechanical classes were launched last March 15, orders have not yet been piaced for the machines Meanwhile, however, the Bureau of Efficiency, the Bureau of Standards and the superintendents of machinery of the District Fire Department and the District Refuse Department all have been involved in various capaci- ties to determine which of several lathes under consideration should be purchased by the District. Money al- ready appropriated for the purchase of the equipment has been available for a year. At present the instructors at Me- Kinley High School have been attempt- ing to teach their subjects with three sample lathes which the various bid- ding concerns had sent to the build- ing pending award of contracts. Delay in placing of orders far the 11 lathes has been caused chiefly by the fajlure of bidding concerns to adhere to the specifications for the machines and their reputed subsequent deter- mined efforts to force the District pur- chasing officer to accept their prod- ucts. The first bids were opened April 23, 1928, but because the specifications called for a patented instrument, thus shutting out all but cne concern, new bids were advertised for October 23 The final bids were received Novem- ber 24, and the school officials recom- mended the acceptance of those sub- mitted by a Baltimore concern, al. though its figure of $4,712.40 was higher than four other concerns. Only one bid was higher. ‘The school business manager, how- ever, contended that the company was the lowest bidder adhering to specifi- | cations. The specifications included among other items the requirement that the pupils’ lathes, 10 of which were ordered, weigh 1,000 pounds, and that the machines’ controls be com- pletely inclosed. The lower bidders, i* was contendetl, offered machines that not only were lighter than the required standard, but which lacked the safety devices demanded by the school au- thorities. Machines Are “Underweight.” All but one of the bidding concerns, also a Baltimore firm, dropped 'their demands. This concern, supported at various times by members of the Sen- ate and House, however, bidding $3,980.12, had been so insistent upon acceptance of its product that the Bureau of Standards sent experts to McKinley High School within the last four days to weigh the samples now in the building. The findings of the ex- ferv.s showed that the machine of the atter weighed 780 pounds stripped and minus crating, while the other product tipped the scales at 593 pounds. Maj. R. O. Wilmarth, assistant su- Eennundam of schools in charge of usiness affairs, pointed out that the lathe of the disputing company which was weighed is not the machine which will be furnished by that concern, but one sent here as a sample of work- manship before bids were submitted. M. C. Hargrove, District purchasing officer, said today he was writing a letter to Maj. Wilmarth asking whether the specified 1,000 pounds indicated shipping weight or stripped weight. Upon that fact probably will depend whether the purchase recommended by the school authorities will be made or whether the entire proceedings must be repeated by soliciting new bids. Maj. Wilmarth readily told The Stay that the 1,000 pounds which the school authorities specified as the weight of each pupils’ lathe was i's shipping weight. This would indicate, according to the school people, that the disputing concern probably would Teceive the order. Even after the order is given, how- ever, 45 days will elapse before de- livery of the machines can be made. By that time, the second semester of the 1928-29 school year will have been started. Work now is under way on the in- stallation of the cafeteria equipment. | ThrouNiout the Fall and until now, no hot foods have been served in the lunchroom, Frank C. Daniel, principal, said today, and cold lunches have been v’ the pupils on makeshift “tables” formed by boards placed on barrel tops. Difficulties similar to those involv- ing the lathes have tied up delivery of the laboratory equipment, although this material probably will be in use within a short time now, Mr. Daniel saild. Since opening of school, how- ever, the students, relying upon the equipment for their instruction in the laboratory subjects. have been oblized | to forego that feature of their cdu- cation, FALLON FUNERAL SET. Services to Be Conducted at St. Martin’s Tomorrow. Funeral services for Mrs, Mary Fal- lon, who died Tuesday at the residence of her son-in-law, Patrick H. O'Dea, 1825 First street, will be conducted in St. Martin’s Church tomorrow morn- ing. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Fallon was born in Ireland, but moved with her parents at an early age to Bradford, England. She came to the United States with her husband and family in 1882, settling in Phila- delphia. In 1903 she came to Wash- ington. She is survived by her daugh- ter, Sister Mary Paula of the Ursuline Order. She was the widow of Patrick Fallon, WRECKAGE NOT BUOY. OSLO, Norway, January 10 (P).—It was stated today that wreckage found on the Finmarken coast marked “Latham-Paris” was not a lifebuoy, but two tubelike parts fastened together. It was understood the wreckage was found on the western side of North Cape on New Year day. Roald Amundsen and five companions were flying toward Spitzbergen in a French Latham seaplane in June when they disappeared. Since the end of August various pieces of wreckage have been picked up at sea off the coast of Norway and one was positively identi- fled as having been a float on the Amundsen plane. It was generally be- lieved that this indicated that the craft | Students at the ne; | of cstimates, hids, ete., THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY: JANUARY 10, LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AT NEW McKINLEY HIGH McKinley High School are using this equipment for their laboratory work while the confusion ' being untangled. Star Staff Photo. MARCH 4 VISITORS ASSURED OF ROOMS iNo Shortage Is Expected by Inaugural Committee Deal- ing With Private Homes. ‘There will be no dearth of accommo- dations for visitors to Washington for Herbert Hoover's inauguration as Presi- dent on March 4. Anticipating 150,000 or more visitors, the inaugural com- mittee is confident that hotels and pri- vate homes will be able to take care of any number of persons coming here for the inaugural period. mittee on housing and_hospitality, of | which Mrs. Virginia White Speel is chairman, announced today that while accommodations for only 15,000 persons so far have been arranged, there is no prospect of a room shortage. This committee deals only with ac- commodations in_rooming houses and private homes. Hotel reservations are being made directly by the hotels. Res- ervations in Washington hostelries by 0 means are all taken, according to | Miss Kathleen Lawler, vice chairman of the committee. The hotels, through their association, plan a co-operative arrangement by which visitors can be accommodated with the minimum of trouble, Miss Lawler said the housing com- mittee is making every effort to provide good accommodations for visitors. As soon as rooms are registered a mem- ber of a visiting committee makes an inspection and approves the price, which ranges between $1.50 and $6 a day, de- pending upon the number of meals served, the location of the house and the available facilities. Six dollars a day is the top price approved by the committee for rooms listed with it. It is the plan of the grandstand com- mittee to line Pennsylvania avenue along much of its length with wooden grandstands, with seats being sold to ald in defraying committee -expenses. Mr. Hoover, President*Coolidge, Vice President-elect Curtis, Vice President Dawes and many members of Congress and the official family of the new President are expected to be in the official Teviewing stand to be erected on Pennsylvania avenue in front of the White House. The request of the committee for par- ticipation of the great dirigible Los Angeles in an aerial parade coincident with the inaugural parade has not been answered, but the committee fecls Gonfi- | dent it will be here. All matters not cleared by the state- ment Tuesday of Chairman Grant after a conference with President-elect Hoover are expected to be clarified at a meeting of chairmen of the various com- mittees this afternoon at the Willard Hotel. FARM PROBLEMS TOLD TO HOOVER BY GRANGE GROUP (Continued From First Page). inently mentioned recently as a candi- date of the railroad brotherhoods for this post. Mr. Doak, a Virginian, if ap- pointed would fill the demand for Southern representation in the cabinet. He was in charge of the labor bureau of the Republican national committee in the recent campaign. Porto Rico Visit Urged. Felix Cordova Devila, resident com- missioner from Porto Rico, paid his respects to the President-elect and urged him to visit the island if he made the proposed trip to the West Indies after he leaves Washington. Mr. Devila | said Mr. Hoover told him he would go | to Porto Rico if he could and if the | West Indies trip is carried out and that in any event he hoped to visit Porto Rico sometime during his ad- ministration. Among others who called upon Mr. Hoover at his headquarters in the Ma; flower today were Senator Phipps cof Colorado and Gen. Lord, director of the budget. Mr. Hoover continues to receive vari- ous brands of advice regarding a spe- cial session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. Sena- tor Moses of New Hampshire and Senator Watson of Indiana, the pros- pective Republican leader of the Sen- ate, have launched a drive to brnig about prompt action on a farm relief bill at this session of Congress, and in that way to forestall a special session, which the President-elect promised dur- ing the campaign he would call if a farm bill were not enacted at the pre ent short session. In spite of their ef- forts, however, indications are that no farm bill will be passed by both houses and become a law by March 4. Even if the McNary bill should be taken up in the Senate and passed, there is doubt that the bill could be put through the House, where there is a strong senti- | ment, particularly in the committee on agriculture, to have the farm problem dealt with in a special session of the new Congress after March 4. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Demo- cratic leader, said today he saw no prospects of the passage of a farm bill at this session. He said: “There appears now little prospect that serious cfforts will be made dur- ing this session to enact farm relief legislation,” he said. “In the time that remains of the short session it is likely that the majorily party’s Represen- tatives in Congress can come to an agreement on a bill relating to the sub- ject and bring it forward for action. “However, should they do this. I would throw no obstacle in the way of consideration of the measure.” SIX MORE DIE OF FLU. Six deaths from influenza have been reported in the past 24 hours, and 70 new cases of the disease, according to figures released by the District Health Department today. ‘There have been 17 deaths reported The com- | ' SOUGHT IN fiSurvey Being Conducted by ! George Washington Dean | of Men. Believes Public Opinion Is Erroneous—Wants View Corrected. Does the typical collegian have socks but no garters? Is his shirt and collar rumpled and his suit habitually wrin- kled? 1Is there any connection between | the attempt to be “collegiate” and such problems as drinking, “necking” and neglect of classwork? Is he of the fiivver steed and sloppy shoes with the unmistakable tang of the campus, but with only a touch of the classroom about him, the fellow who is picking up all the stray education being offered in the universities of the Nation? Answers to these questions are sought in a questionnaire recently sent out to the deans of 400 leading colleges by Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of men at George Washington University. The dean plans to present the results of his survey before the annual convention of the Association of Deans and Advisers of Men here April 11, 12 and 13. Thinks No Is Answer. Dean Doyle thinks no is the correct answer to most of his questions, but he wants to find out how much concern end chagrin the college heads of the Nation should feel “over the mental picture of the ‘colleglate’ boy or girl which the general public has apparently created during recent years.” He says that he has sent the questionnaire in an effort to contribute something toward the correction of what he believes an erroneous public opinion. Dean Doyle already has received some answers to his questionnaire, but has not had time to go over them carefully to ascertain just what the preponder- ance of answers to his questions decides. Dean Doyle secks answers to the fol- lowing question: “Is the ‘collegiate’ of the humorous press and vaudeville stage the typical student of your college? or “Is he an exception in the personnel of your enroliment, and if so, what percentage of the student body is like him? “Is a slouchy appearance, denced by garterless socks, as evi- rumpled TRUE PICTURE OF COLLEGIAN QUESTIONNAIRE | DR. HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE. shirt and collar, sloppy shoes and wrinkled suits of clothing typical of your student body? or “Is neatness in appearance, as evi- denced by clean shaving, well-shined shoes, starched linen, appropriate neck- ties of neat appearance and well- pressed suits of clothing typical of your student body? “In the main, does the psychological attitude of your student body approve of slouchy and careless habits of dress and conduct or neat habits of dress and courteous manners? “Is there any appreciable attitude of disfavor in your student body toward carelessness in dvess and manners? “Is there any connection, In your | opinion, between the attempt to be ‘collegiate’ and such problems as: Drinking, ‘necking,’ neglect of class| work, dishonesty in examinations, other | ethical problems? 1 Concerning Activities. “Does the ‘collegiate’ type of student | referred to in the opening of this letter | excel as a rule in: Scholastic standing, sports or other student activities? “In your opinion is the ‘collegiate’ type diminishing or increasing? “Dou you or do you not agree with | me that in general our student bodies | are composed of reasonably serious- minded young people whose ideals and standards of conduct compare favor- ably with those of preceding genera- tions—in short that their faults are faults of manners rather than morals?” —_— PLEA OF GARRETT FOR PAROLE HEARD 150 Letters and Petition Signed by 1,000 Submitted Favor Montgomery Man. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, January 10.— Hearing on the application of John E. Garrett, former State's aitorney of Montgomery County, for a parole was held yesterday before Edward M. Par- rish, State Parole Commissicner. Gar- rett was convicted on two charges of forgery and three of embezzlement, and sentenced May 12, 1925, to 11 years in the Maryland Penitentiary. Under the | law he is eligible for parole after serv- | ing a third of the sentence. He becomes eligible January 12. Garrett, who was represented before the board by Attorney Kenneth Lyd- dane of Rockville, presented 150 letters from business men of Washington, Montgomery and Frederick Countie: asking favorable action on the applic. tion for a parole, and a petition con- taining more than 1,000 names of resi- | dents of Rockville, Chevy Chase, Beth- | esda, Glen Echo, Friendship Heights, Cabin John and other communities in | Montgomery County. Rossa F. Downing, a Washington at- torney, living at 1103 Vermont avenue, agrees to be sponser for Mr. Garrett in the event the parole is granted under one of the provisions of the parole law. The letters and petitions asking the parole are the most extensive ever re- ceived in any case before the parole commissioner. No objections or pro- tests have been received. The trial at which Garrett was convicted was before Judges Hammond Urner, Robert Peter, and Leonard Worthington. Judge Urner and Judge Peter have written the parole | weight. 14-YEAR-OLD BOY CALM AS HE FACES ‘HEX’ MURDER JURY _(Can(ly\um;‘:r—st Page). not posed as a witch doctor himself, but he had studied the books, met Mil- ton Hess, 45 years old and tubercular. He told Hess he was a doctor, he said, and that his tuberculosls was due to witcheraft. Blymer charged $10 for this information. "He assured Hess that Rehmeyer was the witch. Three times as a child, Blymyer said, he had been powwowed by Rehmeyer, and knew the power of the old man. Then he told the details of the murder, always throwing the blame on Curry and Wilbert Hess for the actual violence. When they left the Rehmeyer home after setting the body on fire, Blymyer | said, he looked back and saw some- | body standing in the window in the! firelight. He said, he thought it was | the witch Rehmeyer. Young Hess told him that it was only a shadow. Since Rehmeyer has been buried, he said, the spell has gone from him. He | can sleep and eat, and is gaining, He is certain that the recluse | was the person who bewitched him. | Otherwise “how could the witch doctor | have told me so0.” Blymyer insisted that it was right| to kill & person who bewitches you, in | self-defense. _If a reputable witch doctor, he insisted, told him that the judge ‘or the mayor of York had be- | witched him it would have ben right to have killed them, to save others from their uncanny power. If a spell is once taken off, s by kiling the witch, it never can be put on again. Must Believe in It. “Could you bewitch yourself, John,” At:ornsy Cohen asked. o4 commissioner that they have no ob- jection to the parole, while Albert B special State’s’ attorney, who prosecuted the case, wrote that he made it & practice never to recommend or op- pose the application for a parole, OFFICERS TRANSFERRED. Orders . for New Army Assign- ments Are Announced. Maj. Samuel McP. Browne, Medical lCnrps, stationed at El Paso, Tex., has been ordered to Tientsin for duty with troops in China, effective in March next; Capt. Victor N. Meddis, Medical Corps, now in China, has been ordered to El Paso, Tex.; Capt. Page P. A. Chesser, Dental Corps, at Walter Reed General Hospital, has been ordered to the Panama Canal Zone; Capt. Law- rence K. Anderson, Dental Corps, at the Army Medical School, this city, has been ordered to Fort Riley, Kans.; Capt. Gerald W. Fitz Gerald, Veterinary Corps, at the Kansas Agricultural Col- lege at Manhattan, has been ordered to the Army Medical Center, this cit First Lieut, Harold L. George, Air Cro) of the office of the chief of Air Crops, Munitions Building, has been ordered to Honolulu, Hawall; Col. A. Owen Sea- man, Quartermaster Corps, assistant m"f:uiud Rehmeyer have bewitched No, you've got to believe in it first.” “Three children in fairyland,” was the way Attorney Cohen described the weird adventure in the wooded depths of Rehmeyers Valley on the nighe of November 27, “Witches, & book and a lock of hair— these are the things that are in the minds of your grandchildren,” he con- tinued. “But Blymyer has lived in falryland for 32 years. But instead of preity good old fairies he has seen witches and devils flying around.” He scored the witch doctors as| “fakers sapping the life and money of this community.” “You gentlemen know what they are doing,” he added. “They worked on this poor, feeble-minded boy and the result was murder.” The fact that the house was robbed after the killing of Blmyer, upon which Commonwealth Attorney Hermann laid much stress in his Veflorts to prove a criminal motive, Cohen dismissed as another indication of “children chasing butterfiies, moncy, when it could be picked up.” Even in the shadow of the electric chair, Cohen saild Blymyer in enjoy- ing life as he never has before because “the hex is gune and he doesn't care what happens to him.” Insists Robbery Motive. general superintendent, Army Transport Service, New York City, has been ordered to Fort Hayes, Ohio, for duty at headquarters, 5th Corps Area. It cost American business more lhun‘lbl,v had been due to burning, his un- ‘had broken up and that all members of g:s far in January, and 921 cases of :‘lyoo.oou.ono for the holiday necessitated ‘the party were dead. disease, election day, Commonwealth Attorney Hermann insisted that the real motive of the murder was robbery, which view evi- 'dently was accepted by the jurors. He stressed that Rehmeyer's death prob- nscious, but living body having been &ud on the funeral pyre of straw Ja IBRIBERY CHARGES | of the special investigating committee | Dudley Field Malone, New York attor- | can and sent to the committee for its SCORED IN SENATE Heflin Attacks Hearst for Mexican Plot Stories in Papers. Bitter criticism was stirred in the Senate late yesterday afternoon fol- lowing presentation of a report from a committee which had been conduct- ing a secret investigation into docu- ments purporting to show that Senators | Borah and Norris had accepted monecy from the Soviet government, the Sen- ators being eulogized by their associ- ates and the circumstances of the in- quiry strongly assailed. The documents purported to show payments of $100,000 to each of the Senators by the Soviet for their services to obtain American recognition of Russia. In making its report, the committee, through Chairman Reed of Pennsy vania, made it clear that the charges alwa had been obviously false and that the investigation was carried through at the specific request of the two Senators, who wanted to avoid any appearance of & “witewash.” The documents constituted a new set of papers which the committee has been investigating for a year and which were disclosed as part of the investiga- tion into the Mexican documents print- ed in the Hearst newspapers & year ago. The committee at that time held the Mexican documents fraudulent. Reed Withdraws Motion. The report brought & demand on the floor from Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, that the investigating com- mittee “indict” Willlam Randolph Hearst for publication of those papers. Senator Heflin's demand blocked & motion by Chairman Reed for the dis- charge of the committee. He with- drew the motion temporarily after Heflin's attack on Mr. Hearst, who was not mentioned by the commiitee n its first report on the Mexican documents. Senator Reed and the other members flayed the ‘“peddling” of such docu- ments when the report of the news- papers involving Senators Borah and Norris was made public. Senators Borah and Norris, with Senators Heflin and La Follette of Wis- consin, were named as receiving money from Mexico in the documents, pub- lished about a year ago in a number of the Hearst papers. Going before the investigating com- mittee the two Senators made sworn statements denying every particular and any knowledge of them. They de- manded that the papers be made public. Robinson Denounces Documents. As in the case of the Mexican notes, ney, was named in Russian papers as the intermediary between Russia and the Senators who presumably were being paid for services in behalf of American recognition of Russia. Mr. Malone likewise denied any part in the | supposed scheme. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, arose to denounce the documents as “damnable villainy.” Senator Reed sald that the photo- stats of the supposed Russian papers | were picked up in Europe by an Ameri- information. A man was found, he ex- plained, who offered to sell the originals for $50,000, but could not offer any clue as to the source of the papers or to their authenticity. Senator Robinson, however, said: “A former employe of the Russian embassy in Paris produces copies of instruments which on their face imply dishonest and disioyal conduct.” While Senator Reed declared that recently the Mex- jcan government had been “victimized” by the purchase of forged papers pur- porting to give information of hostile steps by this Government toward Mex- ico. "Contents of New Papers. ‘The new papers revealed by the com- mittee included: First: Eight photographs of letters or receipts, purporting to show that Sena- tors Borah and Norris had received $100,000 each from the Soviet Am- bassador in Paris, either directly or through the interposition of Dudley Field Malone. Second—Two typewritten documents, | said to be statement of the substance of | an order for the payment of money from | Soviet accounts in Paris to Senator Nor- ris, and the substance of a letter said to have been written by Senator Borah | in September or October, 1927, to the Soviet Ambassador in Paris. Third—A receipt alleged to have been | sigred by Senator Borah, for the pay. ment to him of a large sum of money by the Mexican government. “This paper,” the committee report said, “appears to have been sent by American Ambassador Sheffield from Mexico to Undersecretary Olds of the American State Department. So little regard was there given it that it was Jestroyed without being submitted to our committee or to the Senate, but it has been described to us.” Senator Heflin demanded the com- mittee to bring out a report condemning | Mr. Hearst for his part in the publica- tion of the Mexican documents. Heflin Waxes Wrathful. The publisher, Heflin declared, “de- sarves the condemnation and the scorn of the people of this country,” and asked | whether the members of the committee | “were afraid to attack Mr. Hearst be- cause of the influence of his chain of newspapers.” “If we get to that state” the Ala- baman added, “it is about time to weed out here and get some one who will defend the United States Senate. He (Hearst) goes away without any con- demnation. He found he couldn't get the little fellows so he went after the big fellows.” Senator Robinson sald he did not think the committee had the right to| indict any one and recalled that a year ago, in an address, he had disparaged the publication of the documents with- out more investigation. He added that while he did not think the committee had the right to act, that the Senate could. Senator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, also declared he believed the committec without authorily to act against Hearst in the manner suggested by Heflin, but suggested that the committee be re- tuined so that it could function in case any more developments arose out of the making public of the committee’s dis- closures. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra this evening in Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock: March, “La Ritirata Italiana”.Dresscher Overture, “Lustspiel”........Keler-Bela Entr’ acte— “Andentine” , “Kikl” ...... Selection from the opera .Lemare .Savine ‘Martha,” Flotow Fox-trot, “Doin’ the Raccoon”. . ..Coots Valse de concert, “Hebe”....Waldteufel Finale, “Anything You Say".Donaldson “The Star Spangled Banner.” —— e the center of his kitchen and set on fire e. Mrs. Mary Fisher, a former land- lady of Blymyer's testified that he used to boil needles for witchcraft purposes in his room. “Haven't you done that” Judge Sher- wood asked Attorney Cohen. “The court has.” He referred to an old super- stition in this part of Pennsylvania. During the 1928 travel season, just closed, more than 3,000,000 people vis- ited the national parks and national’ monuments, HARBOR NAMED BY BYRD FOR BENNETT SHIP B!“ [“_mURE O\, 4 /" LAND? 93| LITTLE - i 5 SN AS LIKELY Opposition Believed Readyfi to Filibuster to Prevent Action on Measure. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | “We have met the enemy and our flag is still there.” Thus Senator Fred- | erick Hale of Maine, chairman of the | Scnate naval affairs committee, sum- | marizes the cruiser bill situation fol- lowing this week's bombardment by the | pacifist armada. “The anti-prepared- | ness crowd came, it saw and it failed | to conquer,” is the rest of the Maine Senator's metaphorical epitome. Hale believes the cruiser program, of | which he has charge in the Senate, {has now successfully withstood its | toughest assault from without. But he is | not. yet assured that it has clear sailing | In the Senate itself. The plans of the op= | position, although tn an acknowledged | minority, are well known. It hopes to | prevent. aciion on the cruiser bill dur- | Ing the rest of the short session. It is | believed ready to filibuster endlessly |for that purposc. If these schemes | materialize, it may be that the cruiser | proponents will have to resort to cloture The location on the western coast of the Bay of Whales of Floyd Bennett | for the purpose of forcing the bill to Harbor, discovered and named for the famous polar aviator by Comdr. Byrd; 2 vote. At present Senator Hale counts also Capt John Rodgers, at the harbor’s entrance, named for the Navy's widely & safe majority for the measure. But known aviation pioneer. —From New York Times. JUGOSLAY PUBLIC MEETINGS BARRED King Alexander Moves to Halt Political Discussion by Subjects. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, January 10. —AIl public assemblage as been for- bidden, in order to terminate political discussions. The decree ordering this was issued by Gen. Peter Zivkovitch, premier, on behalf of King Alexander. At the same time it was learned that the police had raided, searched and sealed the premises of the Metal In- dustries Club in Belgrade. A Zagreb newspaper said that one of the first undertakings of the new government would be to organize the national finances so as to make the best use of national resources and that everything would be done to induce foreign capital to enter the country. ‘The new finance minister, Dr. Stanka Shverlyuga, is president of the Zagreb Bourse and vice president of the Union of Jugoslav Banks. Severity Unpopular. A neutral diplomat arriving Bucharest, Rumania, and Zagreb, said that the severity of the new regime in Jugcslavia had made a disagreeable impression in all quarters. No section of the popula- tion, however, had openly protested against the extra legal status of the government. Institution of strict legal procedure in with no right of appeal from sentences | based on alleged infractions of the laws for the defense of the realm, caused & painful impression in Jugoslavia and | he believed that this was bound to have | a similar effect throughout Europe. Many Ignorant of Changes. The diplomat said the majority of Jugoslavia's population of 12,000,000, were still ignorant of the profound political changes. Non-appearance of newspapers during the Christmas holi- days of the Orthodox Church and & strict censorship combined to keep the populace as a whole uninformed. King Alexander’s intentions were so concealed that the changes came like a bomb shell to everybody except Gen. Zivkovitch, and Gen. Stefan Hadjitch, who was appointed minister of war. These two alone were in the confidence of the King. iMOSES SEEKS VOTE ON TREATY SOON; ASKS AGREEMENT (Continued From First Page). their support of a big Navy. We may need it. We may be compeiled to meet gun for gun, battleship for battleship. “When we leagalize, as we do by this treaty, British control of one-fourth of the world's habitable land, more than one-fourth of the total inhabitants of the world, we draw the noose tight about our neck. “Why Betray America?” “Here is this mighty giant, the British Empire, with vast territory of land, with | her dominion over more than one- fourth of the people of the world, the territorial integrity of which we ac- knowledge and legalize, with the trade routes to the Orient and Africa under her control—we now by this treaty de- liver into her keeping the ports of two great continents from which she may deny our commerce. Why then, sirs, do you propose to make the contest an un- even one—why handicap America? Why betray America with this pretended covenant for peace? Peace! There is no peace—there can be no peace ex- cept an armed peace, so long as gov- ernments insist upon maintaing the causes of war.” Senator Walsh decried most of the discussion so far on the treaty as con- stderation of “ways and means by which war can be waged by the several coun- tries without violating this peace pact and escape its moral consequences,” He called attention to the armament programs of other nations and warned that this country likewise should be careful not to neglect its naval program. “I shall vote for this treaty,” he said, “not because I am entirely certain that it is a real, genuine movement that will materially advance the ending of war and the promotion of peace in the world, but because if the United States fails to ratify it now in view of their partici- pation in the international negotiations that have brought it into being it would be misunderstood. “It would place the United States, re- gardless of her sincere and profound de- sire and purpose to bring about peace in the world, in the position of an obstruc- tionist to such 4 movement.” Senator McKellar declared for the treaty because he believed all interna- tlonal disputes should be composed by peaceful methods. Failure to ratify the treaty, he declared, would put this coun- try in imperialistic position before the rest of the world. However, he, too, de- manded & navy and one which could take its place alongside that of Great Britain’s. Archbishop Drops Dead. MELBOURNE, Australia, January 10 (/P).—The Most Rev. Harringtsn Clare Lees, Anglican Archbishop of Mel- bourne, dropped dead today. He was $8 yeasrs old. LS from Belgrade | “Dream Isle,” Sunk In Pacific, Will Be Raised by Finder American Contractor Buys MacMillan Ship for Expedition. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, January 10.—A “dream island” sunk in the Pacific Ocean off the California Coast is the destination of a cruise headed by B. M. Bramley, paving contractor, who has bought the steam yacht Peary from Donald B. MacMillan, explorer, for the expedition. The island lies under 20 feet of water. Bramley says it was first re- vealed to him in a dream while he was in Cleveland. So vivid was his dream and so inviting was the pros- pect of exploration and discovery in seas safled for centuries by ships of | every nation that Bramley set out in search of his island while in California. Plane Hunt Successful. A ship was chartered and he made soundings for days without success. He gave up the idea and was about to re- turn when persistent promptings to find his “dream island” caused him to charter an airplane. He found it, plainly visible from the cockpit, he said, in 15 or 20 feet of water. Now he means to build a breakwater about the place, pump sand from the bottom of the sea to make new land, and erect a fishing and outing paradise. “It may be fantanstic,” Bramiey said, but investigation of stone prices for the wall about his island demonstrate his earncstness to go through with the plan anyhow. Peary’s History Colorful. ‘The Peary is a fitting ship for the cruise, Its history is as colorful as scme aspects of Bramley's dream. it was built first by the French govern- ment as a mine sweeper, but lay in dry dock until a private purchaser fitted it luxuriously as a yacht. Then Comdr. MacMillan bought it for the Arctic expedition of 1925 with Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. He named it the Peary in honor of Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, his commander on thefixpedx- tion which discovered the North Pole. MacMillan, here for a series of lec- tures, was in negotiations for the sale of the ship to Haiti, which planned to | make a war vessel of it ,when Bramley appeared yesterday with the purchase price. It is now at anchor in Boston. WESTHORPE RITES HELD. Treasury Employe Had Service of 44 Years With U. S. Funeral services for Miss Sallie V. Westhorpe, 64 years of age, Treasury Department employe, 1934 First street northeast, who died Tuesday morning | at her home, were held today at Wright's undertaking establishment, with burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. Miss Westhorpe who had a service of 44 years in the Treasury was an expert money counter in the Redemption Division, and officlals who praised her loyalty to duty, declared she had count- ed during her service, many billions of dollars in paper money. She became ill at the First Congregational Church Sunday night and was assisted home by friends, who took care of her. Surviving nephews, Raymond Smith and Joscph Smith of Jamaica, Long Island, and Westhorpe Rutledge of Al- bany, came to Washington for the funeral. SHEPHERD RITES HELD. Nephew of Late Capital Governor Buried in Asheville. Funeral services for Charles L. Shep- herd, traffic manager for the H. K. Ferguson Construction Co. in North Carolina, and a nephew of the late Gov. Shepherd of this city, were held in Asheville, N. C., where he died last Thursday morning, according to word recelved here. Mr. Shepherd was stricken with a heart attack during a wedding ceremony of his daughter, just after he had given her in marriage. He had to leave the church and was unable to return until after the ceremony. Later he was taken to the Mission Hospital, where he died. He was a native of this city and a vet- eran of the Spanish-American War. He is survived by his widow, his daughter, Mrs. Page Shepherd Secrest; one brother and a sister. He had been a resident of Asheville about three years. | there is admitted danger in an indef- | inite postponement of a roll call. Under Common Head. The most interesting revelation de- | veloped during “pacifist week” in Washington is that all the varied | groups opposed to national defense are now leagued under a common head. | That fact was disclosed by Dr. Edward T. Devine, dean of the American Uni- versity at Washington, who presided at the banquet which brought the anti- cruiser conference to a close on Janu- ary 8. Dr. Devine announced that the “Washington Couneil on International Relations,” which sponsored the confer- ence, had as its main purpose the fusion of the diversified interests com- moniy battling for peace and disarma- ment. The two principal constituent groups are the National Council for Prevention of War and the Federal Council of { Churches. Their respective leaders are Frederick J. Libby and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh. Dr. De- vine, in opening and closing the con- ference banquet, declared that “gun- toting on the high seas"—his descrip- tion of the functions of the United States Navy—“must cease,” and nailed that slogan to the mast as the one around which the assembled forces | should rally. Capable Speakers Marshalled. ‘The anti-cruiser groups marshalled for their purposes a quartet of extraor- dinarily capable public speakers. It consists _of Bishop McConnell, Prof. Parker T. Moon of Columbia Univer- sity, Rabbi James Heller of Cincinnati and Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Detroit. The National Capital in many a day has not heard so clever and interesting a group of after-dinner orators. Yet they made far less impression on | buttonholed Senators than they did | upon their highly entertained banquet | auditors. Messrs. McConnell, Moon, | Heller and Niebuhr argued along fairly | identical lines. They assailed the in- | consistency of American policy in of- | fering the world the Kellogg peace pact i with one hand and passing a 15-cruiser bill with the other. They branded such I action as “nullification” of the Kellogg | “olive branch.” Bishop McConnell, recalling mission- | ary days in the Far East, said it re- | minded hum of the. “confusion Uncle | Sam always caused in the minds of | Chinese by sending out on the same boats soldiers to shoot Chinamen and missionaries to convert them.” Other | speakers voiced the view that the prac- | tical, tangible way to arrest the naval | competition, which they claimed “is al- | ready on,” is for the United States to stop dead still in its naval-building | tracks and summon the world to Wash- ingtori~*“for another disarmament con- ference.” Four Senators at Table. Four members of the Senate wers at | the speakers’ table at the anti-crulser banquet—Messts. Brookhart of Iowa, | Wheeler of Montana and Frazier an# | Nye of North Dakota. They compose !the inner bloc of the cruiser opposi- | tion, which includes, as well, Senators | Norris of Nebraska, La Follette and | Blaine of Wisconsin, Dill of Wash- !ington and five or six others not so | openly identified with the fight on the | cruisers. It was Senator Brookhart who received chief credit for blocking im.ssage of the bill at the previous ses- sion of Congress. Cruiser supporters | appear to have singled him out as the | prospective organizer of preventive ac- tion on the bill during the rest of the present session. | " One of the things the pacifist cru- | saders discovered, to their dismay, in Washington is that they no longer have a monopoly of the “folks-back-home” | system of bringing pressure to bear on | Congress. They learned that Senators | have not for years heard more vigor- | ously from contitutents than they are | now hearing in pro-cruiser letters and | telegrams. | (Copyright, 1929.) 'TWO ROB NEW JERSEY BANK OF $14,346 IN BILLS Unmasked Pair Lock Employes Be- hind Gate of Vault and Escape. | By the Associated Press. HAWTHORNE, N. J., January 10.— Two unmasked men held up the First | National Bank as it was being opened | for business today and escaped with | $14,346 in bills. | The robbers, both of whom were |armed with revolvers, walked in“almost on the heels of Arthur L. Cruikshank, ant cashier, and cornered him and Howard Hausman, the night watchman, after Cruikshank had opened the vault. They scooped up all the bills in the vault, leaving several thousand dollars |in gold and silver coin, locked the two employes behind the gate of the vault and escaped. 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