Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1929, Page 17

Even skis are motorized these novelties for Winter sport lovers af shows how the motor ski works does the propelling. St days. They are one of the latest t St. Moritz, Switzerland, and this with a center tractor slide that —Wide World Photos. SECRECY IN WEST AGTION 1§ SCORED Put Senators in Ridiculous Position, Dill Says—Nor- ris Also Protests. By the Assoclated Press. Protests against the consideration of nomination of Secretary West of the Interior Department in executive session were heard yesterday in the Senate. Senator Dill, Democrat, Washington, declared that members of the Senate put themselves in a “ridiculous position” by considering nominations in secret when they themselves must campaign in the open for -their own positions. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, who fought West’s nomination, issued a statement protesting against the secret meetings for consideration of executive nominations. He also reviewed his op- position to West, who was confirmed Monday by a vote of 54 to 27. Refers to Roll Call. A roll call published yesterday under the copyright of the United Press which purported to be that showing the vote on the West nomination was referred to by Senator Dill with the remark Wife Goes to Prison But Husband Stays Home With Children By the Associated Press BAY CITY, Mich,, January 24. —Mrs. Theresa Efu will serve 191 days in the Saginaw County Jail, while her husband, Leslie Efu, cares for their three small children. Both pleaded guilty in Federal Court yesterday of viola- tion of the prohibition law. Judge Arthur J. Tuttle fined one of them 1 cent and sentenced the other to the 191-day jail term, allowing them to decide who should pay each penalty. It was decided the husband should pay the fine, since he could better care for the children. THREE ARRESTED IN GAMING RAIDS |Fourth Man Is Taken in Cus- tody on Rum Transporta- tion Charge. that he did not know whether it was correct. He reminded the Senate that under its strict rules he could not state Wwhether the poll was incorrect if he knew it was. “I trust it will never become a rule of the Senate” interjected Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, “that a Senator may not denounce as false any such statement by whomsoever made.” Senator George said privately he had een misrepresented by the roll call, “Involved in Mr. West’s confirmation,” | said Senator Norris' statement, “was an | extremely important question of national policy. His ability and integrity are not involved. His judgment and viewpoint upon a question of national importance Is the only issue. It is in no way private. It has nothing to do with his private life, but the question is a public one having to do with the handling of the matural resources of the entire country.” Reviews West’s Testimony. The Senator reviewed West's testi- mony before a Senate committee in- vestigating contributions of Mr. Insull to ay Illinois senatorial campaign. He said West had told of investments in the Insull interests and later in testi- mony before the committee consider; his nomination explained he had dis- posed of these investments, although members of his family still owned stock in the Insull companies. It would be difficult, Norris continued, to select a case coming before the Federal Power Commission for the development of waterpower on any streams in which Mr. Insull would not be either directly or indirectly interested, adding: “The question at once presents itself “under these circumstances, is Mr. West the proper person to appoint as Secre- tary of the Interior?’ It is not my pur- pose to argue that question, but that was the question which was decided by the Senate. “It is conceded that members of the Senate, like people outside of the Senate, | have a perfect right to differ upon this point; but have Senators, being repre- sentative of the people and acting as trustees for the people, any right to conceal from the people how they stand and how they have voted upon this proposition? Have not the citizens of a free country the right to know how their ser stand upon national ques- tion kind and of such impor- tancel” g | | Three arrests were made in two raids jon alleged gambling places yesterday | afternoon, and a fourth man was ar- | rested on charges of transporting liquor as the result of activities of the police | vice squad under Sergt. O. J. Letter- | mai n. | In'a raid at a house in the 800 block | of Fourteenth street police arrested Joseph Frank Murray on a charge of permitting gaming. In the third floor of the same bullding, police allege, they found Joseph Harvey, whom they ar- | rested on a charge of possession of one quart of whisky. Entering the office alleged to have been occupied by Harvey one member of the squad pushed an electric button resulting in the opening of a door leading to another room, and in this second room, the squad reported, were chairs and glasses. A quart of liquor was seized. Harvey posted collateral with the police. The other raid made by the squad | yesterday was in a building in the 700 | block of H street northeast, where there ' |15 a near-beer establishment on the | lower floor conducted by Owen Crinder, ; isald by members of the squad to be a former member of the police force. Crinder was arrested on a charge of | | permitting gaming in an upper room. He deposited $50 collateral for his ap- | pearance in court, | After speeding through the southwest | section at 40 miles an hour, in and out | of alleys and across a dump and lot, {members of the vice squad captured { Nathanial Flood, 20-year-old colored | youth of the 200 block E street. | Cruising on South Capitol street the | | squad noticed a touring car approach- | {ing. Suspecting that it was a liquor | car they pursued it for many blocks. { Flood ditched his car and attempted to elude his pursuers by running through alleys and a vacant house. Running up a blind alley and seeing no way to es- | cape, he is said to have surrendered. In | the abandoned car was found four cases !nl alleged corn whisky. Arraigned in Police Court today Flood was ordered to | Post $2,000 bond before being released. | It is the third time he has been ! charged with transporting and possess- | ing liquor. Furnifure made of steam pipes has Desn exhibited in Paris THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, The President-elect and Mrs. Hoover in the outhland. They are shown here witl Sewell of Miami (at right) as he greeted them with other city representatives on their arrival there en route to Belle Isle for their pre-inaugural vacation. —Associated Pr JANUARY 24, 1929.° h Mayor station. ess Photo. Miami youngsters greet the next First Lady. Mrs. Hoover leans over the platform rail to shake hands with a little girl waiting to greet her as the President-elect’s special train arrived at the Miami Their car —Associated Press Photo. All Miami turned out to greet the President- elect and Mrs. Hoover on their vacation trip. is seen here leading the parade through the flag-decorated streets of the city. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. The 10,000-ton cruiser Salt Lake City sliding from the ways at Camden, N. J., at the launching yesterday, attended by Secretary Wilbur with other high officials of the Navy Department and the Utah delegation in Congress. One of eight cruisers authorized in 1924, the Salt Lake City is the first of this group to be launched under the terms of the naval limitation treaty of 1922, mns e —Wide World Photos. Firemen to the rescue! When old Dobbin’s 1,200 pounds plunged through the ice of the pond in the Boston Public Gardens his rescue tested the ingenuity of the rescue squad. He was finally gotten out with the assistance of the raft. The horse went through while hauling an ice scraper. HERSEY IS ORDERED TOU. S. S. TENNESSEE Commander of the Upshur to Be Navigator of Battleship June 8. Navy Department orders made pub- lic today revealed that Comdr. Mark L. Hersey, jr., commanding officer of the District Naval Reserve ship, the Upshur, at the navy yard, will be de- tached May 20 and report to the battle- ship Tennessee June 8 as navigator. Comdr. Hersey will be relieved by Lieut. Comdr. Richard S. Field, now commanding the destroyer Bainbridge, which is in the New York Navy Yard to be overhauled. Comdr. Hersey, who is inspector and instructor of Naval Resercists in Wash- ington, has been in command of the Upshur since October 19, 1927. Pre- viously he was an instructor at North- western University, at Evanston, Ill., where a Naval Reserve unit is main- tained. Comdr. Field was born in Mississippi in 1890 and was a graduate of the Naval Academy in the class of 1911, BUS LINESBECLARED NOT “CARRIERS BY RAIL” Workman Wins Claim for Compen- sation on Commissioner's Decision, Bus lines in the District operating under authority of the Public Utilities Commission are not to be classified as “common carriers by railroad” and are therefore subject to the District of Columbla workmen’s compensation act, which exempts certain common carriers, it was ruled yesterday by Deputy Commissioner Robert J. Hoage, who administers the act for the Fed- eral Government, in the compensation claim of Joseph Ciements against the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. Clements set out in his claim he was injured October 6. last, whiie employed by the company in making repairs on busses, ~Representatives of the com- pany claim exemption under the Dis- trict act as common carriers by rail- Joad. La Follette Statue For Hall of Fame Reaches New York By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 24—A nine-foot marble statue of the late Robert La Follette, to be placed in the Hall of Fame at Washington, has been brought to this country on the liner Paris by Jo Davidson, American sculp- tor, who completed it at his Paris studio. Davidson was commissioned to execute the statue by the State of Wisconsin three years ago. ADDRESSES SCHEDULED. Civil Service Speak at Saturday Banquet. Civil Service Commissioners William C. Deming, George R. Wales and Miss Jessie Dell will address the annual ban- quet of the employes of the United States Civil Service Commission at the Mayflower Hotel, Saturday night at 7 o'clock. Addresses also will be delivered at the meeting by Dr. John T. Doyle, sec~ retary of the commission; Dr. H. A. Edson, chief examiner, and by Charles M. Galloway, former commissioner. ‘Workers of the New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore offices of the commis- sion will attend the meeting. COOLIDGE URGES ADDED FUND FOR ARCHITECT Extensions and Improvement of Federal Buildings in Three States Would Get Bulk of Sum,, By the Associated Press. President Coolidge yesterday recom- mended that Congress make available-a supplemental appropriation of $394,000 for the Treasury Department for use by the supervising architect in 1929, Of the sum, $200,000 is to be used for extensions and improvements in Fed- eral buildings, including those at Lan- caster, Ky. Tallahasse, Fla., and Goldsboro, N. C. Thé balance of $194,000 would be used to pay for serve ices of outside architects in the con- suction of public buildings, " Commissioners to L) JURY ACQUITS YOUTH FACING LIQUOR CHARGE Edward F. Schwenk Is Freed After Trial Yesterday in Police Court. A jury in Police Court yesterday acquitted Edward F. Schwenk, 23, re-! | siding in the 800 block of Eighth street southeast, of transporting and posses- sion of liquor charges, believing that he was ignorant that liquor was con- cealed in the car. The driver of the machine in which Schwenk was riding escaped when ac- costed by Policeman Miles Zamenacek, who discovered 16 gallons of whisky in the car. GIRL HELD_IN FORGERY. Charged With Cashing Postal Cer- tificates for $100. Charged with forging the name of Mollie Credle to two postal savings certificates, Marie Daly Jenkins, 17- year-old colored girl was held under $500 bond yesterday after United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage in- vestigated the charge. It is alleged that the girl forged the name to the certificates amounting to $100 and cashed them at a postal sav- ings station in New York. Seventy- five dollars of the amount which she is said to have received was in her possession at the time of her arrest. She will be turned over to the Federal Court, in New York district for trial, ADMITS DOUGHNUT THEFT. Officer Concealed in Store Arrests Homeless Man. .Complaints made by the proprietor of a grocery store at 338 Missouri avenue that groceries were being stolen led to the arrest of Willlam Searles, 23 years old, yesterday. After being informed of the thefts Officer R. J. Frazier of the sixth precinct concealed himself in the store and arrested the man when he made off with a dozen doughnuts. Searles confessed that he took the doughnuts because he was hungry and homeless when arraigned in Police Court before Judge Gus A. Schuldt yes- terday. The court ordered the proba- tion authorities to investigate, —Wide World Photos. WILLIAM ROSSITER, PUBLISHER, EXPIRES | President of Rumford Press and Noted Statistician Dies After Short Illness. William S. Rossiter, president of the | Rumford Press, publishers, noted statis- | tician, who several years ago served on the joint advisory committee of the American Statistical Association and the American Economic Association to advise the director of the census, died at his home, in Concord, N. H., yester- day after a short illness, according to v;grd received here. He was 67 years ol Mr. Rossiter had served on various important missions. In 1908 he was selected by President Roosevelt to in- | vestigate "the Government Printing Office. In 1918, he served on the statf of the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board. He was a member of the American Economics _Association, the National Municipal League, the American Sta- tistical Association, which he served as president in 1922, and was a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society of London. He also belonged to the Cosmos Club of this city, the Amherst and Repub- lican Clubs of New York and the Uni- versity Club of Boston. He was author of “The Population. Problem of Ver- mont,” in 1911. He also wrote a report on printing and publishing for the United States Census Bureau, 1900-1905, and a report on the growth in popula- tion from 1910 to 1920. ESCAPES DEATH. Man Flees Burning Home at 4815 Howard Street. John Wolfe, 47, narrowly escaped with his life early this morning, when a fire of mysterious origin destroyed his home, at 4815 Howard street, The fire started in the south end of the building at 2:30 o'clock and consumed the one-story frame building in less than half an hour. Wolfe said he had no fire in the house and could not account for the blaze. His bedroom was in flames when he awoke. He climbed through a win- dow, taking only an overcoat and ‘B8l of trousers with him, e . Evidence of stormy days at sea. A glistening coat of frozen spray covered the French liner Paris when she docked at New York yesterday after a passage throug! h heavy Winter storms. —Associated Press Photo. Bishop Deplores Money Standard as Church Gauge By the Assaciated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Janu-~ ary 24.—Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, the Protestant Episcopal Church, diocese of Tennessee, deplores the modern tendency to consider money the main thing in church life and reduce religion to a com- mercial basis. “I must deplore the tendency today to measure all success by commercial standards,” said Bishop Gailor. “There is danger that the ministry of thé church itself shall be regarded as a mere business or profession, where the ability to raise money is the test of efficiency, and where the out- lying places in the country may be neglected, because the young men of ability who enter the min- istry are not ready for sacrifices and plain living.” WILBUR RETURNS STEWARD PROTEST Fails to Comment on Letter Concerning Wages of Navy Employes. | Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has re- | turned without answer or comment the | last letter of Luther C. Steward, presi- dent of the Federation of Federal Em- ployes, concerning wages of employes in the Navy Department. This was revealed last night by Steward, who made public the cor- respondence dating back to December 26, concerning 4-B employes, who are | certain clerical employes, principally in | navy yards, whose work was increased from seven to eight hours. Steward had protested that the de- partment had told him there would be no change in the status of these employes, and then gone ahead to change their status, without according Steward the privilege of appearing in their behalf. In a letter of January 15 Secretary Wilbur explained that “such wages were reduced to an eight- hour besis, which was the daily base pay of the classified or office forc: in the fleld. The Navy's employes,” he | said “have been paid for eight hours’ | work per day, although only required to work seven hours therefor.” Answering this, Steward concluded that “we renew our protest against the! action of the department in extending { hours without corresponding increase in compensation, and without giving the employes or their representatives an opportunity to be heard on the ques- tion.” Steward also claimed that the Secre- tary had disregarded a protest concern- ing classified laborers’ wages, and that “regardless of data submitted, classified laborers at navy yards and stations have nothing to expect in the way of equi- table wage adjustment.” To this last letter of Steward's, he received from J. A. Doyle, private secre- tary to Secretary Wilbur, this short i rejoinder: “The Secretary of the Navy has directed me to return to you your letter of this date.” | $1,210 BAD CHECKS CHARGED T SINGER i;Mme. He Accused of Passing Them at Department Store. nrietta ‘Coquelet Is Charges of passing $1,210 worth of bad checks at a large department store ;ln Washington were placed last night against Mme. Henrietta Coquelet, widow |of a former military attache of the French embassy, and well known singer, following her arrest in an apart- | ment said by police to be occupied by an official of the Veterans' Bureau, zt\;lme. Coquelet is alleged by police and John N. Harding, an offic Woodward & Lothrop's store, w‘“{,.(?,f passed worthless checg.s at the store for $2.500 during the month of December. The warrent upon which she was ar- rested last night by Headquarters De- tective C. J. P. Weber charged her with only half of the total amount. On December 31, last, just after she is alleged to have passed the last bad check, Mme. Coquelet reported to po- lice that her purse containing $3,100 in $100 bills was cut from her arm while she was in the elevator at the store. According to Headquarters Detective Ira Keck of the bad-check squad Mme. Coquelet negotiated the checks at the store by asking employes in one de- partment to cash them for her as she wanted to make a purchase in another department where she was nat known. An investigation disclosed that none of the money so obtained was spent at Woodward & Lothrop's. The man in whose apartment Mme, Coquelet was arrested, it was reported, sharply criticized the police. He said Mme. Coquelet was his cousin and was visiting him to discuss her financial affairs. He came with her to police headquarters and there threatened to enlist the aid of friends in Congress against the officers involved in the case, Mme. Coquelet, however, was taken to the House of Detention and held there until 10:45 o'clock, when she was released under $4.000 bond. In Police Court today her hearing was continued a week. ANTI-BLUE LAWS BODY ELECTS CO-CHAIRMAN Mrs. Lily C. McFadden Given Post, Several Speak at Meeting in Mayflower, Mrs. Lily C. McFadden was lasf eclected co-chairman of the hé:!?l?l’?s" Committee Opposed to Blue Laws at a conference in the Mayflower Hotel, to serve in collaboration with John J. Me- Ginnis, previously chosen chairman of th; co“l’;uninee. - W. Austin, president of the Dis- trict of Columbia Association 0pp<?ud to Blue Laws, which is a branch of the National Association Opposed to Blue ted, presided. Laws, Incorpora Linn A. E. Gale, secretary of the na- tlonal group, spoke, urging a ‘“united front against blue laws,” Henry Flury, biology teacher in Bast- ern High School, predicted that the Lankford District Sunday law bill would eventually pass “because of the apathy e Fallure of dog racing at Durban, South Africa, has resulted in a receiv- eship for the Wacks of the public.” Rev. H. M. Lawson, tor of the Body of Christ Baptist Church and a vice president of the national group, and Prof. David Eccles of Landover, also \