Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burean Porecast.) Increasing cloud rain late tonight or tomorrow, slowly rising temperature. ‘Temperatures: Highest, 53, at 4 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 30, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 iness, followed by ch No. 30081, " Toisres s aeco Fntered as second class matter shington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ¢ Foening Sha “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the paper: * s are printed. Saturday's Circulation, 107,663 Sunday's Circulation, WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1929—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. MRS. BLALOCK WEEPS ON WITNESS STAND UNDER SEVERE FIRE Tears Flow as Defense Counsel Seeks to Bring Palmist’s Two | Sisters Into Case. UNSIGNED LETTER THREATENING HER LIFE REPORTED RECEIVED Leahy’s Cross-Ques Show Burlingame tioning Aimed to ’s Relations Were of Business Nature. Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, accuser #ibjected to a severe cross-examin: of Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, was | ation today when she returned to the witness stand before the extraordinary trial board at the sixth precinct police station. William E. Leahy, chief couns grilling examination, which he de el for Burlingame, conducted the signed to reveal the character of the palmist and to show that the veteran police officer’s relations with her were of a business nature Mrs. Blalock, for the first time since she took the witness stand, | broke down under the fire of questions from the defense counsel and wept copiously. Tears ran down he! r cheeks several times when Leahy tried to bring her two sisters into the case. Even before Leahy began his showed signs of nervousness in mai the first day of the trial. easily In her chair. cross examination, Mrs. Blalock rked contrast to her demeanor on Her mouth twitched and she shifted un- ‘Whether the changed condition was due to an anonymous letter | She is said to have received at h er hotel threatening her life, or whether it was due to the ordeal she knew was coming, was not known. | She had nothing to fear, howe ver, as the special Department of | Justice guard escorted her to the trial and agents were prominent in the trial board room. Fails to Get Admission. Early in the examination Leahy tried fo get an admission from Mrs. Blalock that former Policeman Orville Staples had persuaded ner to co-operate with him to “break” Capt. Burlingame. She denjed vehemently that such a request had been made and insisted she met Staples only twice and that she had gone to him with her troubles on her own volition. ‘Through the cross-examination. the defense brought out the many different phases of Mrs. Blalock's past and color- ful life in an apparent attempt to dis- credit _her character. The testimony took her through several cities and finally led up to the more recent epi- sode which brought about the charges against Capt. e. Mrs, Blalock was on the witness stand continugusly throughout the morning session, and she was scheduled ncheon recess to grilling from the Most of her testi- mony at the mo: session had to do ‘with her past life and the circumstances wnder which she met Capt. Burlingame. Says She Feared Captain. Leahy drew from Mrs. Blalock an &dmission that aside from helping her to procure a palmist’s license, Capt. Burrtnglme had taken an unwonted interest in her business affairs and had aided her in having repairs made on some property she owned. Mrs. Bla- Jock declared she accepted his assistance because she “feared him.” Only & small crowd of spectators ap- peared at the sixth precinct station to attend the second day of the trial, and a few of them were admitted, At e afternoon session, however, it is planned to bar all persons not directly ooncerned with the case, in order that gome of the Department of Just ards who have been protecting Mrs. !;lloek might be removed. Few Spectators Admitted. Tn contrast with the precautions taken @an the first day of the trial today, no ane was searched by policemen stationed at the door. Policeman Robert J. Allen of the third precinct, who was barred from the afternoon session Saturday, was among the fortunate few who gain- ed admission. Allen was im civilian elothes and on Saturday he appeared @t the trial in his uniform. Mrs. Blalock came to the sixth! precinct station promptly at 10 o'clock Accompanied by a Department of Justice | uard. She remained outside the trial | gmrd Toom, however, until after the board had convened | Before the trial board began, Corpora- fion Counsel Bride, Fowler, his assistant, and the defense counsel, Leahy and | ‘Woodard, held a brief private conference in the rear of the trial board room with | Chairman Davison of the board. In the meantime Capt. Burlingame had taken his seat at the table in the board room and began making notes on several | cards he had taken from his pocket. Chairman Davison called the bunrd{‘ to order at 10:10 o'clock and asked the defense and prosecution if they were ready to proceed. Attorneys for both | sides announced they were ready and | Mrs. Blalock was escorted into the room. She was dressed in a dark blue ! felt hat in striking contrast to the light | gray one she wore Saturday and a new | figured dress. As soon as she had taken | her seat on the witness stand Bride | reminded her that she was still under | oath 1 Chairman Davison announced that | Mrs. Blalock would be the only witness at the morning session and excused | il others who had been summoned. | Although the prosecution rested its | case Saturday, as far as the direct testimony of Mrs. Blalock was con-‘ i ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) RESTAURANT IS BOMBED. defense counsel. Chicago Mystery Attack Routs 25 Three Youthful Crime “Specialists™ Jailed on Report by Father of One South Side Apartment Occupants. CHICAGO. February 25 (#) —Twen-; #y-five occupants of a South Side apart- | ment building ran to the street carly today when a bomb exploded in the | doorway of a restaurant on the ground floor. Windows were shattered in near- | young specialists in crime were in jail | |today because one of their fathers de- | by buildings exceeded $2.000. The restaurant owner, Mrs. Margaret Shepard, could advance no motive for the attack. It was the eleventh bomb- ing of the year. and damage Dominican Treaty Signed. INAUGURAL PARADE MAYSTART AT1PM March Will Begin on Conclu- sion of Hoover’s Address Next Monday. ‘The inaugural parade next Monday probably will start from the Capitol about 1 o'clock, it was indicated to- day. The exact moment of the initial movement of the parade depends upon the length of President-elect Hoover's inaugural speech, but indications are that it will start at or shortly before 1 o'clock. It also is plain that the presidential party will not move at the head of the parade all the way to the White House, but will leave the procession at a point between Twelfth street and Fifteenth street, where the parade will halt during the presidential luncheon at the White*House. Immediately after the luncheon Mr. Hoover, Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Curtis and other distinguished guests who will sit | in the officlal stand in front of the ‘White House will take their places in the stand, while a mounted courier dashes down Pennslvania avenue to in- form Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, parade marshal, that the President is ready to review the procession. Then the parade will start again, while air- planes from the three services wheel ice | Overhead in and around a sky parade of blimps headed by the great lighter- than-air craft Los Angeles. Mr. Hoover, according to present | plans, will leave his 8 street home about. 11:30 Monday morning and proceed by automobile to the Capitol. by way of Pennsylvania avenue. There he will watch the induction into office in the Senate chamber of Vice President-elect Charles Curtis, and will then “proceed | to the east front of the Capitol, where | he will take the affitmation of office and make his inaugural address. Blimp Will Broadcast Story. A word picture of the parade and the parade crowds as they look from the air will be brought to the ears of radio | listeners for a half hour on the after- | noon of March 4, through arrange- ments concluded today between the Army Afr Service and the National Broadcasting Co. A radio announcer will ride in the control cabin of the blimp TC-5, from Langley Field, and will broadcast two 15-minute word pic- tures of the show on the ground. The broadcast from the blimp will be picked | up and rebroadcast on the WRC wave length of 315 meters. The TC-5 went | up vesterday at Langley Pield for ex- perimental tryouts of the broadcast, which were termed very successful. | Two of the alrplanes in the sky | parade and at least one dirigible wiil carry aerial photographers, who will | make the first air pictures of an in- augural. As March 4 draws near the extent of the inaugural becomes apparent. The officials stand is being inclosed in glass and workmen today were placing along the curbstones of the court of honor, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets, a row of cedar trees, which will give the court the appearance of a formal garden. Meanwhile Chairman Grant of the inaugural committee has been asked by the West End Citizens’ Association to abandon plans made to have the parade disband at Nineteenth i street, and to permit it to move to ing or not, he said, he did not believe (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Mexico City Sees Early Marriage as Lindbergh Arrives = | [Suspects Honeymoon Flight to U. S. W Follow Wedding. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, February 25—While those who knew kept silent, those who did not know wondered today if Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his fiancee, Miss Anne Morrow, would not be mar- ried while he is in Mexico, and fly back together to the United States. Arrival of the tall, young aviator here vesterday at sundown and his precipi- tate departure for the Morrow country home at Cuernavaca, set in motion a veritable flood of speculation. Some said that Cuernavaca, set in idyllic fashion in the mountains, 40 miles from Mexico City, having served as the scene of the courtship of the two, was to be also their wedding place. It was even suggested that Col. Lind- | bergh flew here in a four-passenger plane because he expected to have a ‘passenger” on his trip back, and might, perhaps, need some extra room for additional baggage. If there was no positive information that such was the intention of the be- trothed pair, neither were there denials. Col. Lindbergh himself was more than usually reticent as to his plans in the less than an hour he spent here last night. Officials at the United States embassy carried reticence even further. Report- ers were refused admission to the build- ing andw ere told that Col. Lindbergh was not there, although they had seen | him enter a few moments befcre. | Message Greets Him. A whispered message from his fiancee | awaited the aviator at Valbuena Field when he landed, in lieu of the young lady hersell. She had left Saturday ! with her mother, her sister Elu.nbeth,} and her father, Ambassador Morrow, . for Cuernavaca, unaware, it is believed, | that the week-end was to bring her | company. A laconic telegram received from Col. Lindbergh at the embassy yester- day morning announced he was leaving Eagle Pass, Tex., and would arrive in Mexico City in the afternoon. Arrival at 6:53 pm. (7:53 p.m. Eastern stand- ard time) actually was much later than was anticipated. It took the aviator 11 hours and 13 minutes to fly approx- imately 700 miles between Eagle Pass and Valbuena Field. His tardiness had given rise to some anxiety for his safety when, just as the sun was sinking be- | hind the mountains to the west of the | field, his plane appeared and settled deftly to the ground. i About 50 people crowded around him. | Reporters he waved away with the| words, “Maybe I can see you later,”| and again, “I have nothing to say.” | Allan Dawson, third secretary of the embassy. spoke with him for an in- stant, whispering a few words in his ear—presumably the message of Miss| Morrow. Col. Lindbergh rolled down his shirt sleeves, but on the coat to his gray suit, donned a gray fedora hat with a black band and stepped from his plane. An embassy car whisked him to Mexico City. newspaper men ‘ollowing. BYRD'S FLAGSHP OFF ON JOURNEY T0 NEW ZEALAND City of New York’s Departure Leaves Antarctic Party Alorie at Base. SUPPLY BOAT ON WAY TO LITTLE AMERICA Men Will Be Isolated Until De- cember if It Is Turned Back by Ice. BY RUSSELL OWEN, By Wireless (o The Star and the New York imes LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Feb- ruary 23 (Relayed by Bark City of New York, February 24).—The City of New York. flagship of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, has left for New Zealand. and if the supply ship Eleanor Bolling. which is en route here, should be turned back by fce, our little group on the bar- rier will be beyond reach except by radio until next December. It was with strangely mixed feelings that we stood at the edge of the ice yesterday and watched the tall white ship move slowly away and disappear in | Whales. We felt alone, as if for the first time it was possible to realize how far away we were from the normal life of home, and yet glad that this part of the work was safely finished. We turned inland over the trail, the dogs' tails flying like plumes as they trotted fast over the hard snow, parka hoods coated with frost, and the men laughing and joking and tipping each other over into the drifts. Had Planned to Lay Bases. Comdr. Byrd made the decision to send the City of New York back after iling to the northeast to get sound- ings In charted waters, and inciden- tally to lay bases on the barrier for flights next year. _He was driven back by a severe storm; and there were so many indica- tions that the sea will soon freeze over that he merely tied the ship up long enough to get the last personal effects ashore and then sent her on her long journey back through the storms of the low latitudes. The storm which checked his prog- ress northward was the worst yet ex- perienced down here, the wind blowing 30 miles an hour and lashing the waves into spray which froze before :‘l {(el] back into the sea or on the ec High winds prevail outside, while | there is comparative calm at the base on the Barrier, and the City of New York struck bad weather as soon as she pushed past the capes. The tempest swept off the Barrier in chill- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) SEMTE SASKED TODENY VARE SEAT Norris Unable to Be Present, ! His Resolution Offered by Robinson. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania was brought directly before the Senate today by the introduction of a resolution, drafted by Senator Norris of Nebraska, denying Vare a seat in the Senate. The Norris resolution was introduced | by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, who sald that he offered the resolution be- | cause Senator Norris was unable to be present because of other duties. The presentation of the Norris reso- lution gave the Vare case a new turn in the Senate. It was presented by Senator Robinson following a discussion of the Vare case by Senator Reed of Missouri, chairman of the investigating committee which has dealt with the charges of fraud and corruption in the senatorial primary and election which resulted in the election of Mr, Vare to the Senate in 1626. Senator Reed said that a majority of his committee had reached the conclusion that Mr. Vare was not entitled to a seat in the Senate. He said. however, that Mr. Vare was v 1ll. and that it had never been his practice to strike a man when he was down. For that reason, he added, he did not intend to present a resolu- tion or seek final action on the Vare case at this time. He said, however, that if the Senate decided to take up the Vare case he would feel compelled to support a resolution denying Vare a seat Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, who has been a defender of Mr. Vare in the Se praised Senator Reed of Mis- sourl. for his attitude. “The heart of the Senator from Mis- sourd is saving him in this instance as well as his head.” said Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Sena- tor insisted that at this moment Mr. Vare s helplessly paralyzed. Whether Senators believe him guilty of wrongdo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) { CHICAGO. February 25 (#).—-Three leided he would “rather see my boy in {prison than see him a criminal.’ ! The three, all 18 or younger, were | arrested last night in a hotel room after George Barker, the father, told police he had followed his son for several days |and had confirmed his suspicions that SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Re-| his boy was leading a life of crime. ublic, February 25 (#).—President yasquez today signed the recently an- nounced Dominjcan-Haitian boundary | and The youths confessed robberies and burglaries, each to nearly police said, 45 | | _George Barker. jr. said he robbed the poor boxes of 30 Catholic churches “because the doors were always open | and there was nobody around.” John Weeks, jr.. picked on beauty parlors, butcher shops and groceries, he said, “because they were awful easy to get into."” Sidney Larson told of snatching pocketbooks from unescorted women, “because 1f you did it right you snatch the purse and lam ft, and she'd never |get a look at vou.” He also robbed Chinese laundries. he said, on the (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) EXPERTS TOTALK ANNUITIES TODAY Berlin and Paris Views Show Difference of Two Bil- lion Marks. BY LELAND STOWE. Special Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, February 25—The final draft of the Stamp plan, evolved by the sub- committee of five headed by Sir Josiah Stamp, for reparations payments di- vided into an unprotected portion: and a protected portion, was to be presented to the reparations experts at the plenary | session today, giving the signal for the experts to begin to “talk annuities.” With this amplified report, originally four pages long but probably enlarged | to six or eight pages, the commission | headed by Owen D. Young of the United States entered the third week of its labors—a week which promises to leave nebulous preparations behind and get down to fundamentals. Reception of Report Important. The contents and reception of the Stamp _subcommittee’s recommenda- tions relative to splitting the annuities and maintaining partial transfer pro- tection for Germany appear as of the utmost importance in shaping the en- tire future course of the negotiations. ‘The committee of five has worked energetically at elaborating the details of the chief items of the Stamp pro- posal. It will shortly be apparent whether there is a genuine possibility that the Stamp scheme can be ac- ceptable to the committee as a whole as a suitable “bridge” between the German and allied anticipated demands for annuities amounts. There was evident last night a con- siderable lack of enthusiasm over the projected split annuity, not only among the Germans but among some French officials. Counter Safeguard in Prospect. 1t is confidently expected that if the Stamp draft is considered seriously, the French will demand that some sort of preservation of the Dawes plan’s index of prosperity be included in order to counterbalance the concession to the Germans on the retention of partial transfer protection. This has already been clearly hinted at in the French press. Bui the index of prosperity, in any (Continued on Page 4, Column 5). SOCIETY LEADER DIES. Harry Caryl Haskins Succumbs at Palm Beach. PALM BEACH, Fla., February 25 (#). —Harry Caryl Haskins, New York and Palm Beach society bachelor, was found dead at Grayhorn, his Atlantim ave- nue Winter home here, today. Haskins, whose permanent address was given at 12 West Pifty-sixth street, New York City, was a member of the Calumet and Nassau Country Clubs of | theory that “Chinamen are afraid of had a reason for his ”spe-l\zél:\ks nng always keep their money in | Cl New York and the Gulf Stream Golf lub, the Everglades and the Bath and Te: Clube here, A WE EMPLON' TH1S RECORD,§ Sussr1BE Now neetase e | EASE T; PRICE) _u?h y Pvicen YESTER O Epg e o] News Note. New York Congressman wants pictures and pep intraduced into the Record, WY WINS RULING {the mists that shrouded the Bay of | FOR NEW LICENSE Radio Commission Reversed in Case In volving Time Limitation. ‘The District of Columbia Court of Appeals today reversed the action of the Federal Radio Commission and directed the issuance to the General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N. Y., of a renewal at its tion station WGY on 790 kilocycles with the power of 50 kilowatts. The costs of the appeals of the company and of the people of the State of New York, who joined its request for full-time operation, were assessed against the commission. In an opinion by Chief Justice George E. Martin, the court sustained the power of Congress, under the commerce clause of the Constitution, to provide for the reasonable regulation of the use and operation of radio stations in this country and to establish the Federal Radio Commission to give effect to that authority. Regulations promulgated by the commission, however, the court held must be reasonable and “such as to serve the public convenience, inter- est and necessity.” On the question of the reasonable- ness of placing a time limitation on station WGY requiring it to close down at sunset on the Pacific Coast where the same wave channel was granted to station KGO at Oakland, Calif., Chief Justice Martin says: “It appears that station WGY represents a large invest- ment of capital, said to be $1,500,000, adventured in part during the pioneer stages of broadcasting, and that the station has been one of the most im- portant development stations in the country; that through its enterprise important and valuable apparatus has been developed which has greatly ad- vanced the art of broadcasting; that it has been one of three stations recog- nized in this country as development brdoacasting stations, and that at present it carries on great experimental work of this character in the public interest. Large Population Affected. “It also appears that within a hun- dred miles of the station there is a very large population, both urban and rural, estimated to number more than 2,000,000 persons, residing in the States of New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, who, in large part, are dependent upon this station for re- liable and regular broadcasting service; and that if the station should be silenced during the early hours of the evening, as determined by the commission, the general public within this territory would be seriously prejudiced. In view of the service to the art heretofore rendered by WGY and still continued by it, with the resulting advantage to the public, and in view also of the ‘public convenience, interest and necessity’ of so great a constituency for full-time operation, it appears that the restrie- tion complained of is not reasonable and should not be enforced.” ‘The General Electric Co., through Attorney Frank J. Hogan, filed its ap- peal and a motion for an injunction against the Federal Radio Commission “(Continued on Page 2, Column 6). U. S. RIGHT IN CHINA REPORTED TAKEN UP Shanghai Minister Has Brought Extraterritorially Ques- tion Before State Department. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, February 25—It is understood here that the ~Chinese Minister at Washington has taken uj the question of extraterritoriality witl the State Department, the Nationalist government seeking to have the United States relinquish this right. It was announced, however, that the visit of John Van A. MacMurray, Amer- ican Minister at Peking, to Nanking was not in connection with this question. Hears Locomotive Turns Over. CALERA, Ala., February 25 (#)—The locomotive of the Pan-American fast passenger train on the Loulsville & Nashville Railroad was turned over when it hit an open switch near here early this morning. The engineer, A. E. Hobbs of Birmingham, was reported seriously injuted. None of the coaches was derailed. Maryland and Virginia News Pages 6 and 7, 'GUNMEN ISSUE ‘HEALTH TIPS’ AS CHICAGO PREPARES TO VOTE| Candidate for Alderman Threatened With Death as Voters Are Warned to Keep From Polls. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. February 25. Chicago elects aldermen. Latest news from the more active ~Tomorrow | fronts follows: Candidate in “bloody twentieth” licene! to aperate: withont. fime limita- | 0o LocAteRed: with/ death- unless he quits race. Bullet, stray or deliberate, cuts neat hole in windshield of automobile carry- ing campaign captains of candidate in fourth ward. . Voiers living within rifle range of the University of Chicago campus re- ceive telephone warnings they will be “taken for a ride” if they show up at the polls tomorrow. Workers for one candidate announce they will not be out election day be- cause of a fear that it might not be healthy, The campaign in the “bloody twentieth” is described as even more highly charged with possibilities than a4 year ago when a colored lawyer, tavius Granady, was shot dead in the street. Granady was a candidate for ward committeeman opposing Morris Eller, city collector and at | present under indictment as a result {of the disturbances in his ward last year. The name of A! Capone has been prominent in the “bloody twentieth™ campaign, the charge being made that Capone followers and the Eller sup- | porters have united in an effort to de- | feat Alderman A. J. Prignano. _State PROWLER'S BULLET MISSES DEMPSEY Plot to Kidnap Former Cham- pion Is Seen on Eve of Fight. By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., February 25.— An unidentified prowler entered Jack Dempsey’s room here about 5 a.m. today and shot once at the former champion, the bullet going wide. Dempsey made a report of the affair to police late this morning. Dempsey was sleeping with Floyd Fitzsimmons, Detroit promoter, at the hume of Harry Moir, on the ocean front at Miami Beach. According to the report made to po- lice, the former champion awakened about 5 a.m. and saw a small figure sil- houetted in a window opening to the street. Fitzsimmons awoke about the same time. Dempsey said he thought the man was his host, but Fitzsimmons called out: “What do you want?"” The man at the window replied in gruff tones: “Turn on those lights,” and, address- ing a supposed accomplice in the hall- way, said. “Come on in, Joe." When the man spoke, Dempsey said he leaped from the bed and the man retreated, firing once wildly as he backed out of the window. ‘The bullet, from a .38-caliber re- volver, buried itself in the wall about knee-high from the floor. The theory advanced by police is that the man was a burglar and that he did not know he was entering & room occu- pied by Dempsey. g no enemies ) the former champion told police. “I believe the man picked my room by accident, hoping to make an easy cleanup.” ‘Two plain clothes men have been as- signed to guard Dempsey, who is here in the role of promoter of the Sharkey- Stribling fight Wednesday. Dempsey later was quoted by friends as saying he believed two men intended to kidnap him and hold him for ran- som. until after the Sharkey-Stribling fight. The men returned to the Moir home a half hour after their visit, flashed the lights of their automobile on lhflj house and drove away, Dempsey said. Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) HOUSE TURNS DOWN PRORIBITION FUND $24,000,000 Proposal for Enforcement Is Defeated by Vote of 239 to 125. By the Associated Press. ‘The $24,000,000 prohibition proposal was rejected today by the House as it voted down & motion to send the second deficiency bill back to the appropria- | tions committee for incorporation of the fund. The vote was 239 to 125. A moment later the measure was passed with a viva voce vote, It now goes to the Senate. As passed by the House, the bill carries $2,727,000 additional for pre- hibition. The sum was recommended by the President and would be divided among the Department of Justice, the customs service, the Prohibition Bureau and Civil Service Commission to carry on their prohibition work. WOMAN FOUND MURDERED. Slayer of Husband Six Years Ago Sought in Des Plaines, Ill. DES PLAINES, Iil, February 25 (#). Mrs. Rose Vanturella, widowed mother at her home last night. Two of her children, returning from visits with friends, found her body on the kitchen floor, her head crushed. Defoe, who was acquitted six years ago on a ‘charge of shooting the woman's husband, Frank, during an argument. FOCH’S CON DITION GRAVE. Appears on Marshal's Lung. PARIS, February 25 (#).—Condition of Marshal Foch was a matter of grave concern to his physicians this morning. It was known that a new spot of pul- monary congestion had appeared on one of the marshal’s lungs. Women Give Brooch In Recognition of Tact and Charm| to First Lady In recognition of the tact and charm with which she has served her country in the role of First Lady of the Land, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge today received from a group of woman admirers a magnificent diamond bdrooch. ‘The presentation, made early this afternoon at the White House, came as a complete surprise to Mrs. Coolidge. There were no ceremonies and no speeches, and the donors took elabor- ate precautions to see that their names should never be made public. The gift, it was explained, was in- tended to let the wife of the retiring President know that her unfailing hos- pitality and cordiality as mistress of the Executive Mansion during the past six years have won for her the admira- tion and esteem of American woman- 00d. A card attached to the gift was in- scribed: Mrs, Calvin Coolidge in affectionate appreciation of her kind- ness and graciousness while the hostess of the White House.” ‘There was also a pink leather-bound book containing the names of the wom- en presenting the token. A duplicate book will be filed in the secret archives of the State Department. The names therein are those of intimate friends of Mrs. Coolidge in a number of States and at least one foreign country. The brooch is about 3': inches long and 1'; inches wide. There is a dazzling 5-carat diamond in the cen- | ter and perfect diamonds on each side totaling about 3!y carats. There are more than 200 smaller diamonds clustered about the others. In addition to the brooch there is a 22-inch platinum chain, with 170 diamonds set | in _the bar. While no estimate of the value of :‘he pieces was &Pl:hlnnble from the onors, it was sal e cost ran into figures, five @ S [ of three children, was beaten to death | Police started a search for Tony | SECRET EXCHANGES FORD. . CAMBLERS CHARGED BY POLIGE | Company Furnishes Unlisted Phones for Criminals, Gibson Committee Is Informed. ACCUSATIONS BRING DENIALS FROM FIRM Official Declares Charges Made by Hesse and Pratt Are Absurd. Charges that private telephone ex- changes are operated in Washington for gamblers, bootleggers and criminals and that the telephone company fur- nishes unlisted telephones to these peo- ple who are operating outside of the |law and refuses to give information to the police, were made at a special meet- | ing of the Gibson subcommittee today. | Both Maj. Edwin B. Hesse and Im- | spector Pratt of the Police Department | testified that telephone officials have | refused to give information on unlisted | telephones on the ground that it is | prohibited by law. These officials, Maj. Hesse said, told him they never ques- tioned the business of persons who sought private telephones and that the | company would be subject to suit if it | gave out such information. Says Company Refused Information. Inspector Pratt testified that he re- cently raided a place where there were 12 or 14 telephones, with unlisted num- bers, and the telephone company re- fused to give him information as to whose telephones these were. He told the subcommittee that telephone offi- |cials said they did not know of any such telephones. He went back and telephoned over each one of the phones, he said. and on 10 of the 14, he received an_answer. Clinton Howard, chairman of the national united committee for law enforcement, who has been conducting Sunday law enforcement meetings here for the last two months, also testified that he had learned that a private tele- phone exchange was operated for | gamblers, bootleggers and other crim- inals. He estimated that there a 4,000 to 5000 speakeasies in the city. but on examination admitted that all of his investigations had been carried uulby one man, . Inspector Pratt told the subcommittee ) that ‘there are direct telephone lines | from barber shops and cigar stores to gamblers’ headquarters. uctmmm Gibson explained that he formers for the Police Department, and that in certain blocks liquor was sold in every house. “If the Police Department will secure indictments for these alleged bootleg- gers and bookmakers, we will discon- linue their service at once,” declared Walter B. Clarkson, assistant to the president of the Chesapeake & Potomac ., in a statement to The Star. “We do not desire to give telephone service to any such people, but, being a public utility, we must supply service to those who apply for it, and are permitted to do business. “If there are any private branch ex- changes furnished to bootleggers and criminals we have no knowledge of it, Being a public utility, we cannot refuse to give telephone service to those who apply for it. We would much prefer not | to give telephone service to any alleged bookmaker, or bootlegger, but when peo- ble come to us and apply for service, if they are in such business, they never disclose it. “Cannot Discriminate.” “It is the practice of a telephone company, when any individual sub- scriber so desires, not to list his name in the directory, and we make no dis- crimination. Many people in Washing- ton, particularly those in public life. prefer not to have their names listed in the directory. in order that they might not be disturbed. There are thousands of non-listed subscribers in Washington today. and we make no | discrimination. We cannot give out | Information as to these non-listed tele- phones for the same reason that the | people desire to have them non-listed, but the idea that we are protecting bootleggers and bookmakers by refusing to divulge the information we have is absurd.” Mr. Howard stated that, at a recent meeting, a policeman said he wanted to wash his hands of “this whole business™ because every time he made out a case he was “the goat.” { | Mr. Gibson explained that according jto his study of the situation the police {are not entirely at fault for existing | conditions and that the office of the district attorney, the corporation coun- | sel and higher-ups of the Police De- partment are to blame. | Mr. Howard said that the investi- gator employed by him had discovered 342 speakeasies in Northwest Washing- ton and only four on Four-and-a-half street. He estimated that 70 per cent New Pulmonary Congestion Spot|Oof all the gamblers, bootleggers and criminals are on unlisted telephone numbers, which are guarded jealously. COOLIDGE SIGNS D. C. BILL President Approves $38.472.615 Appropriation Voted by Congrees. The District of Columbia appropria- tion bill for the fiscal year emfiz. Sune 30 1930, carrying approximately $38,- 472,615, ‘became law today with the approval of President Coolidge. The President also signed two other bills affecting District interests, includ- ing the joint resolution providing for the quartering in certain public build- ings in Washington of troops partici- pating in inaugural ceremonies. The third measure signed was an amend- ment to the District Workmen's Com- pensation act providing for the voca- tional rehabilitation of employes dis~ abled in line of duty. e Bank Statemen Washington clearing house, $4,668,- 896.52. Treasury balance, $$83,000,509.85, fiutfl?sfineflgfilfi‘llmu..l ew York cl exchange, $728,000,000. - New York clearing house balance, $164,000,000. Radio Program—Page 28 ~