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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Partly cloudy and colder today: tem- penm below freezing tonight; tomor- row 3 ‘Temperature—Highest, 46, at 8:45 w: lowest, 34, at 1 am. ay. Full report on page 25. e e == e WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ) Means Associated Press. No. 1,247—No. 30,966. “ DISPUTED ISSUES IND.C. MONEY BILL AWAIT CONFEREES House and Senate Group Will Consider Appropriation Measure This Week. * ALLOWANCE INCREASE IS IMPORTANT ITEM Other Leading Points Include Hir- ing of Normal School Grad- uates as Teachers. The District appropriation bill which ' passed the Senate yesterday afternoon, | will be intrusted this week to conferees from the two houses of Congress to consider changes made by the Sen- ate, including the important amend- ment increasing the Federal share in the expenses of the National Capital from $9.000,000 to $10,000,000. As passed by the Senate, the bill | carried a new total of $38,636,415, as | compared with the House total of $31 213,150, Interest in the work of the conferees ! will center chiefly on the final de- ecision with regard to the Federal oon- tribution, but there are a number of other important amendments, the ul- timate fate of which rests with the managers to be appointed from the House and Senate. These include: Teacher Question Is Raised. The action of the Senate in strik- fng out the House limitation, which would give only 25 per cent of local hormal zchool graduates a preference over outsiders in teacner appointments, and insertion of a clause by the Sen- ate raising the normal schools to de- gree-conferring teachers’ colleges. The Senate amendment appropriating $150,000 to build a special sanitarium near the Tuberculosis. Hospital for tu- bercular children, in the hope that such an institutiort would restore many of these children to health sooner than in the existing health Senate’ amendments s ial $16,600 for the wfim Mfin‘ ©f crippled children, including employ- zflat of two physiotherapists to attend em. additonal $34000 Jor - empleymess o 4 em;j it of school teachers. lermes A Senate amendment allowing $110,~ ug r?r a site for a colored elementary #chool. g The tonférees also will have to pass two limitations, put final it by S B 2o issuance of Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. THRIVING IN on Tour of e sh will eventually kill them or cure them Who gets these thousands’ the publication today of article will be published tomorrow. Astrologists, numerologists, the infinite. by the District. year. Anybody whose application ment can get one. lowed up by the police. 1f the police investigation shows that there are no obvious ulterior motives behind the proposed probing of the in- finite, other than an honest fee for honest service, the license is granted. It does not, of course, constitute a guar- antee of competence such as implied in the license issued to a physician, den- tist or lawyer. The paying public must | decide for itself as to the soundness of What do they give in return? & series of articles discussing this guestion. he Sundiy St WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNRQAY MORNING, FEBRUARY .10, 1929—108 PAGES. PSYCHIC PRACTITIONERS WASHINGTON Seventy-Two Are Licensed in the Dis- trict—Newspaper Man Reports Inspection. Washingtonians pay many thousands of dollars a vear to find what the stars have in store for them: what significance lies in the names, whether the blonde whose presence is indicated dy lines on the palm should unned or sought. and whether the mysterious ravs which bombard the earth number of letlers in_their The Star begins The second BY THOMAS R. HENRY. characterologists, letterologists, palmists, phrenologists, clairvoyants, cranial psychologists, tea leaf readers, grapnologists, card readers, crystal gazers, cosmologists, witch doctors, metaphysicians, trance mediums and plain fortune tellers are treading on one another’s heels in Washington this Winter in their earnest endeavors to interpret the infinite for the astonish- ingly large number of Washingtonians with cold cash to invest in Thus far this year 72 practitioners of the occult have been licensed These licenses cost $25 each and are good for one is approved by the Police Depart- The present requirements for qualifying as an interpreter of the infinite is to secure 10 letters, to be filed with the application, from residents of Washington. These letters are fol- the practitioner’s metaphysics and his or her proximity to the infinite. ‘The licenses, bearing the signature ot Wade H. Coombs, District tax collector, through whose office they are issued, are displayed prominently in the con- sultation rooms. They are quite effec- tive. If any skeptic presumes to.cast doubts_on the qualifications of the " Continued on Page 19, Column 1) TORAL IS EXECUTED IN OBREGON DEATH Youthful Slayer Faces Firing Squad With Religious Phrase on Lips. BY CLARENCE DUBOSE, Associated Press Correspondent. MEXICO CITY, February 9.—The pistol shots that killed Gen. Alvaro Obregon last July had their last echo today with the execution by a firing squad of Jose de Leon Toral, the Presi- dent-elect’s assassin. The ybung slayer, who throughout had maintained that he felt his act was for the good of Mexico, went to his death calmly and bravely, facing the firing squad quietly and dropping swiftly be- fore a Tapid hail of shots. The execution had been set for noon, but it was put over until 12:30 pm. A few minutes before that hour Toral High | was taken to a small patio and in- Business High School '1; tompleted. Paving rrg;ni- Pending. also are a) imateiy 20 spe- items subject to final may adjust their differences by plac- ing some limit on the number of local Jgraduates who would be given pref- erence, and at the same time retain nt. sum of $10,- 000,000 led to a debate which sev~ Senators questioned whether Wash- ton is being taxed enough in com- parison with similar cities. Chairman Bingham of the District Subcommittee on appropriations an- swered these queries by quoting from data recently collected by the Bureau of Efficiency, whish, he contended, shows Washington paying a fair tax. He declared facts assembled in the bureau's report also uphold the reason- ableness of the $1,000,000 increase in the Federal contribution, and empha- kized that the pengln&enu «oes not propose to decrease ~present tax rate in Washington. Senator King, Denfocrat, of Utah, made the most extended argument #gainst the amendment. Senator. Couz- ens, Republican, of Michigan, raised & question as to whether Washington s sufficiently taxed. Senators Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, and Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, joined in the discussion of this point. Simmons Defends Increase. Senator Simmons, Democrat, of North Carolina, veteran member of the Sen- ate, strongly defended the action of the Benate lpgroprhtlom committee in in- creasing the Federal contribution. After Senstor Caraway, Democrat, of Ar- kansas, had argued that there is no Jegal obligation resting on the Federal Government to meet a part of the Dis- frict's expenses, Senator Simmons re- 4 “I want to say that I am entirely in #ympathy with the liberality of the com- mittee. I agree with the Senator from Arkansas that there is not any legal liability in a purely technical sense, but 1 think there is a moral lisbility which 48 just as strong if not stronger than a legal liability.” Senator Kln{ declared there is a legal and moral obligation on property own- ers of the District to pay a reasonable tax., He said: “When they pay a tax comparable to that paid by citizens of the United States generally, and there £ a deficit left, then, in my opinion, the Pederal Government should meet that deficit.” . . A . Senator Simmons replied that it ‘“makes no difference whether the obli- gation be legal or moral. the Senator from Utah admits that the Government s liable for whatever amount is neces- sary properly to conduct the govern- ment of the District of Columbia after the peaple of this District have paid upon their property a reasonable amount, of taxation.” Senator King responded that he had not made such admission, but had said he would vor it as an act of generosity.” Senator Bingham then proceeded to gfi' by the report of the Bureau of ciency that the average ratio of ex- ‘empt property to taxable property for all cities of the United States of this size 18 17 per cent, and that in Wash- ington the ratio is 54 per cent. “if we gount all Government property in Wash- fnigton that is legally exempt.” Holds Exempt Total Is High. . _“If one takes away from the amount of exempt property that which is used by the Federal Government alone,” Senator Bingham continued, ‘“and Jeaves merely that which is used by the District and the parks. but not the . Tatinued on Page 5, Column 2 structed how to act before the firing squad. He listened calmly to the in- structions and even smiled a little as the men told him how to die. Then he ‘was led to a stone wall in a large court- yard of the Federal Penitentiary and was placed before a portion scarred by the bullets of many other executions. At 12:35 p.m. (1:35 Eastern Standard Time) the fatal shots rang out and Toral slumped down. His body twitched and Capt. Rodriguez Rabiela, in charge of the squad, fired the coup de grace, using a pistol once presented to him by Gen. Obregon, Toral's victim. Cry Cut Short by Death. Just as the rifies of the firing squad _ckled. ‘Toral tried to shout. ) ‘That was as far as he got. He had hoped to cry “Viva Cristo Rey” (“Long live Christ the King”), but his words were cut short by death. A Catholic t, dressed in civilian clothes, as priests have been in Mexico for some years, except when in churches, was with Toral in his cell until the walk to the execution ground. The distance from the cell to the firing squad was very short, just down the corridor. ‘Toral was dead in less than a minute after he left the priest and only a few seconds after he had stepped into' the courtyard. ‘The squad was ready as he 8] ‘The instant he was in pproached. position the rifles cracked. This rapidity seemed to startle Toral and he carried into death an espression of astonish- ment, as if he had expected an oppor- tunity to say something before death while facing the squad. He was not blindfolded, nor was any move made to do so. He simply was marched from his cell by two civillan officials of the penitentiary. Priest Is Detained. A moment after he received the coup de grace, the priest who had been with him in his cell, Rafael Ruiz Soto, pushed through the soldier guards, ad- vanced to the corpse, knelt and dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Toral. He made the sign of the cross and pro- nounced extreme unction. He was de- tained by the guards for having broken through the lines. However, he kept the bloodstained handkerchief as & relic of what Toral earlier had called his_martyrdom. During a final conference with one of his attorneys this morning, Toral sald: “I am absolutely convinced that I will go direct to heaven and join God there. I die absolutely tranquil.” One of the guards, when asked by reporters just before execution how Toral was conducting himself, replied: “He has the courage of a bull.” ‘Toral was shaved at his request by the prison barber this morning. He felt his face and said: “It is not smooth enough, go over me once more."” After the barber had repeated the operation REPARATION STUDY TO TARE 5 WEES | Speed Is Password Adopted at First Meeting of Experts. By the Assoclated Pr PARIS, February 9.—Five weeks was set today as the limit for consideration of the reparations problem by the new Commission of Experts. Speed was the password adopted at the first meeting of the commission, which was held this morning under the temporary chair- manship of Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. All the delegates, Germans, allies and Americans, agreed at this informal “get acquainted” gathering that if they could not find a basis for a final set- tiement of Germany's war - accounts within five weeks, there was a likeli- hood they never wood agree. There was unanimous demand at the meeting that Owen D. Young of the United States become permanent chairman. Mr. Young, however, de- murred at the suggestion, saying he understood that President Coolidge would prefer a European in the chair. It was decided to send a message to Washington telling the President of the unanimous desire for Mr. Young. In both allied and German circles it was emphasized that since the United States delegates seemed destined to wield a preponderant influence on the committee deliberations, they should assume corresponding responsibilities and therefore it was proper that Mr. Young should become presiding officer. Heart of Problem Seen. ‘The finding of a fresh total of Ger- man reparation payment and also the fixing of the number of annual install- ments were stated on all sides to be the heart of the whole problem. Therefore, those two aspects of the situation prob- ably will be tackled first. Mr. Young, with J. P. Morgan and ‘Thomas W. Lamont, the other Amer- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) TWO WOMEN TO SEEK AIR HONORS FOR SEX |12 One After Altitude Mark, as Other ‘Wants Endurance Record—Will Make Attempts Today. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 9.—Two young women will hop off here tomor- row, bent on establishing new air rec- ords for their sex. Miss Marvel Crosson, formerly a mail | W, and supplies flyer in Alaska, plans to start upward at 2 p.m. in an effort to set a new altitude mark. Miss Bobby Trout will follow her into the air at 5 pm., in an effort to recapture the endurance title which she won here January 1 only to lose it three weeks later to Miss Elinor Smith of New York, who remained aloft 13 hours 16 min- utes and 45 seconds. Miss Trout also plans an attempt to increase the eight hours night flying mark for women and better the 932 miles distance record for a 60-horse- power motor. She will use the Golden Eagle ship in which she made her for- mer flight, and Miss Crosson will pilot a Travelair plane. Miss Trout will loop the course used by the record-making Question Mark. ‘The Weather Bureau forecast fair weather for tomorrow but said sub- zero temperatures would be encountered in the higher altitudes with a moderate wind up to 4,000 feet. Miss Crosson will wear a fur-lined flying suit and carry an oxygen mask and equipment. Also ‘Toral attempted to pay him, but the barber refused. In_accordance with othe! i ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 9.—Safes are all right but they are the first place robbers look for valuables, Mrs. Caroline Mitchell decided two weeks ago. So she took negotiable bonds valued at $8,000 from 2 wall safe and hid them in a tin box under a couch on a sleeping porch. Today she returned home to find the house ransacked, the safe. and to make her record official, she will have a sealed barograph furnished through the contest committee of the National Aeronautical Association. Safe Opened, $8.000 Bonds Are Missing, Woman Recalls Hiding Them on Hunch the bonds missing from it and reported to the police that the bonds had been stolen. Some time after the police arrived Mrs. Mitchell recalled that she had taken the bonds hunch. She looked and found them. Although had torp the from ‘they had not the robbers the couch BNEHAM FAVORS RUSHIG ARPORT URGESAD B .. Government Should Pay All or Large Part of Cost, He Believes. FLATS OPPOSITE POTOMAC PARK PROPOSED AS SITE Could Be Established Sooner Than Gravelly Point Project, Senator Thinks. ‘Washington should have an airport without delay and the Federal Govern- ment should bear the expense, or at least a large part of it, Chairman Bing- ham of the District subcommittee on approprations declared in the Senate yesterday. Senator Bingham also disclosed that he has in mind the possibility of ob- taining for the airport site the land now used by the Department of Agriculture for experimental purposes, located op- posite Potomac Park, instead of Gravel- ly Point, because he believes the air- port could be established there sooner than the Gravelly Point project could be carried out. His statements came in response to questions of Senator Vandenberg, Re- publican of Michigan, who is in charge of the airport bill in the Senate Dis-~ trict committee, and the views expressed by Senator Bingham stimulated renew- ed hope of early action on the question. Gives Personal Views. When Senator Vandenberg asked the chairman of the subcommittee in Lc!urge of appropriations if he had any views as to the division of cost of an airport for Washngton, Senator Bing- ham replied: “The question brings up a matter on which the two houses are continually at variance, and it is rather a difficult one for me to answer. My own personal feelings in the matter are these: The persons who would use such an air- port_to its fullest extent would be in nearly all cases persons coming to Washington for the sake of having to do business with the Federal Govern- ment, and not with the citizens and business houses of Washin, 3 “They would be persons, in large measure, coming to appear before the committees of Congress and to attend to matters in which their States and communities were interested, and with respect to which they desire to com- municate with their Senators and Con- gressmen. In view of that fact it seems to me that the Federal Govern- ment ought to bear the expense of constructing an adequate municipal airport, or at least a very large share of that expense. Senator Vandenberg early in the week had announced that his subcom- mittee was marking time on the air- port bill because of the possibility that an appropriation might be made for a general survey of the landing field re- quirements of the Capital as a prelimi- nary step. After the District appro- priation bill had been considered yester- day Senator Vandenberg asked Chair- man Bingham if such a survey is con- templated. Requirements Studied. _ Senator Bingham replied that at one time he had intended to propose such 2 survey, but had since learned that it was not needed because an exten- sive study of the Capital's require- ments has been made. “May I take this opportunity of say- ing,” Senator Bingham continued, “‘that 1 hope very much that the District committee, and particularly the sub- committee of which the Senator from Michigan is chairman, will promptly take under consideration the bills now pending in regard to the authorization (v(;r”mn appropriation for an airport in “Nearly all the other great capitals of the world either have or are building suitable airports. Even Rome, the capital of Italy, where today there are very few lines of afrplanes coming in, about completed the econstruction of a magnificent airport. The capi- tals of Germany, France, England, Hol- (Continued on I::E 4 Ei‘umn 8) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 10. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 30. . C. T. U. Activities—Page 30. D. A. R. Activities—Page 32. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 33, At Community Centers—Page 33, | Financial News—Pages 34, 35 and 36. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 6, - Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 6. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Soclety. PART FOUR—I18 PAGES. | Amusement Section—Theater, Screen | . and Music, News of the Motor World—Pages 6, 7 and 8. Col. Lindbergh's Story—Page 9. Aviation Activities—Pages 9 and 10. Fraternal News—Pages 11 and 12, Marine Corps Notes—Page 12. Army and Navy News—Page 13, Organized Reserves—Page 13. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 13. District National Guard—Page 13. and ages 15, District_of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 18. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. News of the Clubs—Page 8. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. feff . jers; o e aigh Lighia o Fistory, W BROKERS CONSIDER INCREASING MARGIN Move to Boost Costs to Small, Odd-Lot Traders Is Being Studied. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 9.—Another revision of margin requirements is being considered not only in Wall Street but also in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadeiphia and other cities, it was learned today. Conferences of brokers to discuss the subject have been under way for several | days, and attention also has been given | to the matter of making the minimum charge for items higher and having it more generally adopted. The reason for the upward readjust-| ment in margins is to weed out some of the more unprofitable accounts. A cor- rollary of the move is to make the custom more general of refusing to han- dle orders of less than, say, 25 sharés, on margin. The odd-lot business of most firms is held to provide scant profits, while at the same time increas- ing greatly the amount of clerical work. In an effort to make this branch of their business come nearer paying its way some firms have instituted a minimum charge of $5 an item. It also is reported that there is a scheme on' foot to alter' the present arrangement for delivery of stock by adopting a “skip-delivery” plan. The proposal would make shares bought on Monday deliverable at 2:15 on Wednes- day, instead of on Tuesday as at pres- ent. Now shares bought on Friday and Saturday are deliverable on Monday; under the new plan this stock would be delivered on Tuesday. devised to make the easier. Odd-lot traders have swarmed the Street this year, bringing their few hun- dreds of dollars to make a “killing” even as do the big traders. So great has been the volume of this petty business that clerical forces of brokerage firms have been under a constant strain. It takes as long to do the bookkeeping on an order of 10 shares as it does on one of 500 shares and the commission, in the former case, is in no sense com- parable. Because of the strain under which clerks have been working, the Exchange closed today. It may be necessary to close another Saturday or two in the near future so that accounts can be brought up to date without undue pres- sure on office staffs. Brokers are not attempting to discourage outright pur- chases of odd-lot blocks of stock. But what they are making a drive on is to cut down the trading of small traders ‘who operate on margin, - JUDGE HOLDS CANADA ALIEN ACTS BIND U. S. Bauer Estate Loses Court Tilt for Railway Stock Confiscated by Dominion During War. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 9.—Acts of the Canadian Parliament «confiscating prop- erty of enemy aliens during the World War are binding on courts of the United States, even though it developed later that persons from whom property was seized resided in the United States, Federal Judge F. E. Geiger of Mil- waukee has ruled. ‘The decision received here today was in the case of the estate of Jacob Bauer against the Canadian govam- ment and the Canadian Pacific Rail- road. The government confiscated $200,000 worth of stock in the road owned by Bauer, who at the time he bought the stock was a resident of Germany, although & citizen of the United States and member of the Bauer family of Chicago, once engaged in the brewery business. An attempt was made to recover the stock through Canadian courts, which ruled adversely on Bauer's claim that he was an American citizen when the stock was seized under the alien prop- erty act. Two years ago sult wi started in Federal courts in this coun- try with former Senator James Hamil- ton Lewis representing the Bauer estate. Judge Geiger's decision was based ‘on a finding that decision of the Canadian courts is binding on United States courts. Lewis sald he would carry the battle to the United States Supreme that about $800,000 worth of stock in the road, owned by German-Americans and um_dm the war, would be afjected by the - This plan is| work of staffs| il My ¢ ' : neen ‘Woman Changes Mind About Trip Abroad, Returns With Pilot Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 9.—Mrs. Lewis C. Clark, wife of a New York broker, started for Europe early this morning and then changed her mind. At Ambrose Light she crawled down the tall Jacob’s ladder with the pilot of the Majestic and headed back fer home. Mrs. Clark had been feeling ill when she boarded the Majestic with her maid and just as the vessel was to leave the harbor communicated with Capt. William Marshall. Aided by Pilot John Ramaya, she and the maid climbed down the 60 or 70 steps of the | weaving ladder from the prome- | | nade deck and went by rowboat to the pilot ship New York. Later she was landed at Staten Island. Most of her effects were left on board. NE MAN CREDITED WITH ENDING “WAR Peace in Nicaragua Is An- nounced After Capture of Sandino’s Aide. One man—First Lieut. Herman Henry Hanneken of the United States Ma- rines—is credited with ending the “war” being. ‘The Nicaraguan legation announced last night that it was officially informed that the Sandino bands have departed from the country and “peace has been re-established throughout Nicaragua.” This is ascribed to the capture a few days ago of Manuel Maria Jiron, Sandino’s right-hand man, by Lieut. Hanneken. Jiron was represented as being the brains of the Sandino move- ment. A Dbrief typewritten statement, signed by Evaristo Carazo, charge d'affaires of the Nicaraguan legation here, an- nouncing the re-establishment of peace, sald: “This legation has been officially informed by the Nicaraguan govern- ment that Sandino's bands have left the Nicaraguan tersitory and that peace has been re-established: -throughout Nicaragua.” This action seems to bring to a close Nicaragua's three years of civil strife, but leaves a question as to Sandino’s whereabouts. Various statements have represented the famed bandit leader, who was a leader in the ranks of the present President of Nicaragua, Jose Maria Moncada, as being dead. Other announcements have placed Sandino in Honduras, well out of touch with his erstwhile theater of operations in North- western Nicaragua, where he has been the object of attacks by the United St marines and native forces by ?lrplme and by primitive infantry war- Te. are. While the State and Navy Depart- ments last night lacked official in- formation concerning the termination of the confilc, officils expreased_grati- President Coolidge . made & personal visit to the Treasury Department late yesterday afternoon to view. the models of the Federal structures to be erected in the triangle. Departing from his usual custom of having departmental matters brought to him, the Chief Executive left the White House and went to the department, and with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon spent about 20 minutes Inspecting the models. ‘While the models are not yet com- plete, they represent several buildings which are to be erected in the triangle, and show, in graphic style, using the three dimensions, something of how the triangle will look in the future. The President saw the virtually com- pleted model of the Department of Commerce Building, which is now un- der construction in the site bounded by Fourteenth and Fifteen! B and E streets. He saw & model of what the architects tentativel, for the on Department of % nter Mariket. A s in Nicaragua, at least for the time | Popes - FIVE i iy w u‘! PAPAL RELATINS MY FACE HOOVER | Prablem of Sending U. S. En- voy to Vatican Seen as Early Issue. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | Resumption of American diplomatic | relations with the Holy See of Rome— relations which were maintained for 19 years between 1848 and 1867—is al- together likely to be one of the early issues faced by the Hoover administra~ tion. The restoration of temporal pow- er to the Pope, in consequence of the epoch-making concordat with the Ital- ian government, entitles Plus XI to seek | formal official recognition at the hands of every country in the world. With its Roman Catholic population | lomats consider it a foregone conclu- | slon that sooner or later the United States will be asked by the newly ca- parisoned “Vatican State” to exchange representatives between the two gov- ernments. President Polk in 1847 sent the first American envoy to St. Peter's, (and successors to him were regularly appointed until the middle of the John- son administration in 1867. Although both American Ministers and consular officers were sent to. the Papal States throughout the 19 years in question, the Vatican, for some rea- son which no one now in Washington quite understands, never tried to ac- credit envoys to the United States. The have been content to tain | purely ecclesiastical representatives in | this country, known as apostolic dele- | gates. The present delegate to the | United States is Archbishop Pietro Pu- masoni-Biondi. He is probably the least- known foreigner in the Capital. He lives quietly in a house far less pretentious than the residences of small foreign countries represented in Washington by Ministers. Archbishop Biondi's activi- tles, like those of all his predecessors, appear to be confined strictly to church airs. He is described as a “lason officer” between the Vatican at Rome and the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States. Holy See's Network World Wide. Already the Holy See's network of diplomatic relations is world wide. The Vatican legations include those of Aus- tria, Bavaria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Great Britain, Monaco, the Netherlands, Po- land, Portugal, Roumania, Spain, Switz- erland and of practically all the repub- | Hes of the Western Hemisphere, except the United States, Cuba, Mexico and | Uruguay. As in the former times of {yelations with the United ‘States, the Vatican has not sent envoys of its own to all the countries which maintain le- gations at the Holy See. But full dip- lomatic status exists with them all. ‘The nearest Uncle Sam has ever come in modern times to direct diplomatic dealings with the Roman Cathollc Church was when President Roosevelt | sent William Howard Taft to Rome in 1902—in the midst of Taft's governor generalship of the Philippines—to con- fer with Pope Leo XIII. the mission was to arrange for purchase extensive holdings of agricultural lands in the Philippines. These lands were the properties of Catholic religious or- ders in_the islands and had been in (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Coolidge Goes to Treasury Department To See Models of Buildings for Trianglci building which is to be located between the grand plaza and the great circle were finished, but the completed struc- tures were not entirely shown in the models. This building will be concave on two sides and is to Rouse inde- pendent offices of the Government. The “toy” triangle buildings are made of cardboard, and accurately painted to represent the completed appearance of the structures the Government is build- ing to house its departments. The bulldings were arranged on a triangular table about 20 feet long, and where there were no completed build- ings some cardboard was set up to tentatively represent the general archi- tectural ‘lines which are to be followed out, to give the Chief Executive a graphic picture of the expected future appearance of the triangle. Among the officials present when President Coolidge and Secretary Mel- lon looked over the models were As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury Carl Junte Sulding program, and Lovis A pul program, Bimon, head of the architectural divi- sion of the supervising architect's office. CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | of roundly 20,000,000, Washington dip- | the ‘The object of | | by the United States of the church’s | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE SENATE APPROVES PLANTO WITHHOLD BURLINGANES PAY Amendment Is Voted After Caraway Flays Dougherty and Captain. GIBSON GROUP TO DECIDE ON COURSE TOMORROW D. C. Heads to Sift Case Thor- oughly—Police Ordered to Join Search for Palmist. Rebuffed by the District Commission~ ers in its move to force the suspension of Capt. Guy F. Burlingame of the second precinct pending an investiga- tion of the charges of Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, the Gibson subcommittee of the House will meet in special session tomorrow morning to determine a new course of action. Chairman Gibson called the meeting late yesterday following receipt of a communication from the Commissioners containing refusal to agree to the com- mittee's demand that Burlingame be suspended. Will Sift Case Thoroughly. Another outstanding development in the Burlingame-Blalock case was an announcement last night by Commis- sioner Proctor L. Dougherty that the Commissioners intend to sift the case thoroughly, even though they refused to suspend the police captain. The let- ter the Commissioners sent to Mr. Gib- son, he said, should not be construed that they had in mind “whitewashing” Burlingame. Commissioner Dougherty also revealed that the Police Department had been ordered to join in_the search for the missing palmist. Department of Jus- tice agents have been on her trail for several days. “The Commissioners have no inten tion whatever of dropping the case, declared Mr. Dougherty, “We have di- rected the police to make a search for the complaining witness with a view to prosecuting it to its conclusion.” ‘The reply of the Commissioners to the Gibson committee’s demand had not been at the Capitol an hour when the Burlingame-Blalock case flared up un- Cotmmasiones Poscies 1 Dougherty, who has administrative aupcrvhhm. over the Police Department, as well as Bur« | lins!mz,.::d; a fesult the Senate, on mot] the Arkansas s amendment to the appro- Printion il the tain his salary “untll he el be Vit against him.” 5 Conference Necessary. The amendment must be settled in conference with the House before the appropriation bill is enacted into law. Even though the conferees should agree | to the amendment there is speculation as to what the immediate effect of the | Senate’s action, since Burlingame would be kept on the pay roll until June 30, when the appropriation bill's funds are available, unless removed for cause iy | the meantime. It would then be a ques- tion who wili decide whether the ofi- cer is vindicated of “charges” which as yet have not been filed against him | officially. Senator Caraway declared that Com- missioner Dougherty “is utterly unsuited to have charge of the police force” and asserted that Burlingame “stands con-, victed in the minds of everybody who has half sense.” “I have been, like every one else, in- terested in the controversy now raging down at police headquarters.” Senator Caraway began. “I am confident there is something very wrong with the po- lice force. Whether it is with the in- dividual men or whether it is the major in charge, I do not know. I have no doubt about one thing? however—that Mr. Dougherty, who is the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is utterly unsuited to have charge of the police foxce. He may not be in sympathy with lawlessness; I do not know: I never heard of him until he was appointed, and I have not found anybody else who ever had; but he is in sympathy with most of the abuses that are taking place in the police force, I am sure, by his attitude toward some things that | have been attempted. Attacks Burlingame. “Here is Capt. Burlingame, who stands | convicted in the minds of everybody | who has half sense. Everybody knows | there is something wrong with him and !hls connections with this palmist; his extortion of money from her; his unwil- lingness to explain to the District Com- missioners or any one else his relations with this palmist; and in that he is up- held by the District Commissioners not- withstanding the fact that the House committee investigating the affairs of the Dfimct has requested them to sus- = him. | o “Yesterday a policeman, who pleaded guilty to intoxication, was fined $100 and restored to duty. Anybody knows that a man who gets drunk on the po- lice force is protecting somebody who is selling whisky, and if he will protect & bootlegger, he will protect a burglar or a murderer or any one else for a con- sideration, because men are not honest | and dishonest in spots: they are either honest or they are dishonest. The man who protects somebody in the commis- sion of a crime is dishonest. Whether he is in sympathy with the law or not, {he is an undesirable man to be put in charge of law enforcement because he is corrupt already.” Protection Charged. After Senator Caraway had offered his amendment, he continued his dis- cussion, as follows: “The security of property and life in the District of Columbia, as in every city, depends on the police force. When everybody knows that some man who is corrupt is still retained on the force, and in a position of authority, he knows that that example tends to break down the morale of the whole police force. If it were just a matter of dealing with Capt. Burlingame alone, it would be different. He has been on the force, he has been crooked for years, we now know, but the public did not know it. policeman in the department knows it now and they know that for some rea- son not given the ers are protecting Burlingame in his position. They know there is ‘wrong A. | With those higher up in command, and, therefore, their attitude is an invita- (Continued on Page 4, Column 49