Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. S (U. 8. Wenther Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain this afternoon and to- night; tomorrow partly cloudy. Tem- perature—Highest, 56, at 2 p.m. yester- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news day; lowest, 41, at Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 7:30 am. today. L Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 110,468 No. 3“1982- post office, Wa Entered as second class matter shington, 1. . WASHINGTON, D. ¢, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929—FORTY PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. DEFENSE PLANNING 10 CALL PALMIST'S SISTER AS WITNESS Trial Board Idle Today as Mrs. Blalock Faces Grand Jury. RUMOR SHE GAVE NEW DATA IS UNCONFIRMED Appears Refreshed After Seven Hours on Stand, Concluded Last Night. Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, the palm read- ing fortune teller, who bared the sordid episodes of her life in pressing her charges against Capt. Guy E. Burlin- game, went before a Federal grand jury today and repeated the story she un- folded before an extraordinary trial board of her relations with the veteran police officer. In the meantime, there was a lull in the trial board's proceedings, a recess having been taken until 1 o'clock to-| morrow afternoon at the urgent request of Burlingame’s attorneys, who, it was learned, are planning to furnish the greatest surprise since the trial opened ; by putting Mrs. Blalock's sister on the witness stand as a witness for the defense. { The palmist has persistently and most vigorously resisted the efforts of the defense to draw her family into the case, and on three different occasions broke down on the witness stand and sobbed when Chief Defense Counsel William E. Leahy mentioned her sisters and her father. New Information Rumored. Mrs. Blalock completed her testimony before the special trial board last night and was excused, and though plainly fatigued at the close of the severe and unrelenting examination she had unde: gone for more than seven hours, she peared to be greatly refreshed when | called before the grand jury this morn- ing. Although there were rumors that | she had given the grand jurors informa- tion not heretofore revealed, no confir- mation of this came from the grand Jury room. Mrs. Blalock refused to talk to inter- viewers after leaving the jury room at 1:50 o'clock. It was said she had signed | the customary voucher before the jury, calling for a $2 witness fee and $3 for daily subsistence, but beyond that, no information was forthcoming from court attaches. Accompanied by the protective De- partment of Justire guard which has; . escorted her ever since her arrival in ‘Washington last Thursday night, Mrs. Blalock arrived at the District Supreme Court Building at 10:53 o'clock, and + went.into conference with William H. Collins, assistant United States attor- ney for the District, who was assigned to investigate the Burlingame-Blalock case at the direction of the Gjbson sub- committee of the House. She was clos- eted with Collins for less than 10 min- utes and then led to the grand jury | witness room, trailed by a group of mewspaper reporters. Mrs. Blalock appeared to be willing enough to talk, but the Department of Justice agents advised her to remain | silent until after she had related her story to the grand jury. She heeded their advice, but promised to permit the mewspaper men to interview her as soon @&s she left the grand jury room. May Last 10 More Days. With the brief respite in the trial board’s hearings, it became apparent today that the trial of Capt. Burlin- game will continue for at least another 10 days. Corporation Counsel William ‘W. Bride, the principal prosecutor, sald that he had 15 more witnesses to be heard whose direct testimony probably would take two days, while the defense counsel has indicated that his defense testimony would occupy about seven days. This would use up nine days without allowing time for the summing 'up arguments, which likely will occupy another day. Handwriting and typewriting experts will be the first witness put on the stand by the prosecution when the trial is resumed tomorrow, according to Prosecutor Bride. They will be called on to testify to the authorship of the va- ried collection of love letters, recelpts and cancelled checks introduced as evi- dence as well as the genuineness of the wvarious sgnatures on the documents. Typewriter to Play Part. The typewriter, on which the now famous “Heart Sore” and “Broken Hearted Daddy” letters were written | as well as the testimony of the hand- writing and typewriter experts are des- !tined nmow to play a more important part in the case than at first expected in view of recent developments. Although Mrs. Blalock has said she is certain Burlingame wrote the letters, 'for she discussed their contents with {him, she has admitted that he gave none of them to her in person. The | defense, it has been indicated, will make an effort to prove that the letters were not written by the veteran police officer. Mrs. Blalock was attired in the same outfit when she went before the grand jury today that she wore to the trial Yesterday—a short sealskin fur coat, a conservative figured dress and a natty dark blue felt hat drawn tight over her head. In all of the testimony that has poured into the record in the first two «days of the trial, there has not come an inkling of what caused Mrs. Blalock to turn on Capt. Burlingame. On the wit- ness stand yesterday she mentioned several “quarrels” she had with the police officer, but they were regarded as mere preliminaries to the subse- quent filing of her charges. __Mrs. Blalock may never return to the (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) CANTONESE EXPECT NANKING CAMPAIGN By the Associated Press. SHANGHAIL February 26.—Reports from apparently well informed quariers in Canton today said the Canton gov- ernment expects the Nationalist gov- crnment at Nanking soon to launch a military campaign against it. Such a campaign would seck to force the Canton government 1o give Nanking the allegiance which admittedly does ot now exist. In enticipation of such a happening. the Canton government has outlined a plan of action for possible hostilities. The Cantonese accuse Gen. Chiang Kal Shek and the Christian general, Feng Yu-Hsiang, of being secretly alied and courting the favor of radical elements h a plan to subjugate “conservative n” Driver, Pursuing It, Hurt in Crash. Several Autos Missed in 4-Mile Dash Up Seventh Street. Running wild, controls wide open, a stolen street car with no one aboard sped 4 miles up Seventh street early this morning, narrowly missing several automobiles, and jumped the tracks at Seventh and T streets just as Police- man Frederick R, Rabil of the first precinct swung onto the front platform from a pursuing mail truck and reach- ed for the lever which would have brought it to a halt, ‘The car was started on its mad jour- ney by an unidentified colored man who took it from the Capital Traction Co. barns at P and Water streets south- west, apparently for a joy ride, and de- serted it before reaching Seventh and E streets. Rabil was thrown to the floor and badly shakea up. John L. Bernhardt, 34 years old. of 622 G street southwest, the driver of the mail truck, who first sighted the runaway car and gave chase, was thrown to the street when the car swung around and struck his inachine. His neck was wrenched and he sustained abrasion to the right side of hés face, but refused hospital treat- ment. Mail Truck Damaged. ‘The mail truck was damaged to the cxtent of $200 and the front door of the street car was smashed and the air lines broken. The smash-up caused orly about a 15-minute delay in the schedule. Bernhardt was proceeding west on E street, carrying mail from Union Station to the old post office at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, about 4 o'clock this morning. He saw the car (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Narrowly | STOLEN STREET CAR, DESERTED. WRECKED AFTER WILD JOURNEY Policeman and Mail Truck| JOHN L. BERNHARDT. 29 KILLED, SCORES HURT BY TWISTERS Tornadoes Hit North Texas, Northwest Mississippi, Southeast Arkansas. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 26— Search of the ruins of Duncan, Miss, today revealed the bodies of seven ad- ditional victims of yesterday's tornado, and increased the storm toll in the States of Mississippl, Arkansas and Texas to 29, with scores injured. Most of the dead in Mississippl were colored persons and Chinese, while two white persons were killed in the col- lapse of a home near Dewitt, Ark., and two white persons and two colored lost their lives in Texas. the three States, several were in a seri- ous condition today, and it was feared the death list might mount. Striking first in North Texas yester- day morning. the tornado next dropped down on Duncan in Northwest Missis- sippi, killing 21, then jumped to Marks, Miss., where two colored persons were killed in their plantation cabins, and several others hurt. Half an hour later the vicinity of Dewitt in Southeast Ar- kansas was hit. Red Cross workers on duty at Duncan since shortly after the tornado struck dispensed food and coffee to the destitute today, while Na- tional Guardsmen gl\urded the debris- Ploclked streets and highways to prevent ooting. Duncan Almost in Ruins. Duncan lay almost in ruins, the greater part of its business district strewn along the ground for a con- siderable distance, many of its resi- dences razed and the streets littered with trees and other debris. Officials estimated the damage to Duncan at $250.000, and the damage in Texas at approximately the same amount. ‘The dead are: ‘Texas—Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Jones, who lost their live in the collapse of their home at Cooper, and two colored persons at Grand Prairie, Mississippi—J. T. Johnson, tenant farmer; Kate Mack, 2, and Eddie Mack, 6, her brother; a Chinese family of five, 13 colored persons crushed to death in the collapse of buildings at Duncan, and two colored persons killed on a plantation northwest of Marks. Arkansas—Mrs. C. L. Nicholson and her 15-year-old daughter, who met death in the destruction of their farm home near Dewitt. Strikes Without Warning. Almost without warning the hamlet of Duncan was demolished about 2:30 p.m. yesterday, when a twister swept diagonally across the business section. Fourteen stores, a two-story brick hotel, eight residences and a number of col ored persons’ cabins were levelled. Fe structures remained unscathed. All power in Duncan was cut off and while rescue workers searched the wreckage in darkness, national guards- looting and vandalism. The troops were ordered out early in the evening by Gov. Theo G. Bilbo. | “Two black clouds rapidly converging in the northwest gave Duncan its faint warning of the coming storm. There was a terrific roar as the clouds met and the air was filled with debris. “There was so much noise that it | sounded #s if every house in town was Among the several score of injured in | 08! men patrolled the vicinity to prevent | DOGTORS SAY FOCH CANNOT RECOVER His Death Seems Question of Ten Days at Most, They Predict. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 26.—The Associated Press was informed authoritatively today that the condition of Marshal Ferdinand Foch is considered hopeless and that his death appears only a question of days— one week or 10 days at the most. ‘The informant, in a grief-stricken tone and with tears welling up in his eyes, reluctantly admitted that the 78-year-old generalissimo of the allied armies, who has been struggling agalnst a complication of diseases for the past month, probably has fought his last ht. The marshal's temperature rose to 101.6 at noon today and his weakness is becoming alarming, each pulmonary attack bringing the famous soldier lower and lower. In addition to combating uremia, the marshal's physicians must fight sclerosis of the heart. “Can the marshal be saved?” the informant was asked. “I fear not. We must not forget that the soldier is nearing 78." Officially hope has not been aban- doned for the famous soldier, and at least one of his doctors is still optimistic that the marshal may pull through, but in other authoritative quarters this optimism is feared unwarranted. TWO TO BE QUESTIONED IN RIGGS BANK ROBBERY Copies of Suspects’ Pictures Are Sent to Local Police by Milwaukee. Detective Frank A. Varney, accom- panied by Charles Bul‘ycs: and Wal- ter English, in the employ of a sight- seeing bus company, is in Milwaukee, Wis., to see two men under arrest there for questioning in connection with the theft of $15,000 worth of Liberty bonds from Riggs Bank the afternoon of February 7. It is reported that the men were arrested after some person had tried to dispose of several thousand dollars worth of Liberty bonds in Milwaukee. The men under arrest were booked as Raymond E. Fox and Albert Casper, and copies of their photographs sent to the local police. Shortly before the bank was robbed, it is stated, two men in a parked car reported to have made the statement that they had some dealings with Riggs Bank. Burgess and English were shown the photographs, and police say they reported Fox as looking very much like one of the men tney had seen in the parked car. TALK ACROSS ATLANTIC. Budapest and Buenos Aires Officials Open Telephone Service. BUPAPEST, Hungary, February 26 (A).—Direet transoceanic telephone ser- vice between Budapest and Buenos Aires was opened today by Premie ings and good wsihes with Argentine |officials. A three-minutes comercia] lcall between Budapest and Buenos Aires cost about $32. | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) By the Associuted Press. LONDON, February 26.—Purchase of six detective “thrillers” by Queen Mary in a 5-and-10-cent store at Bognor yes- terday has given rise to speculation as to whether King George does not in- valescence. ‘The Queen, to general astonishment, as to whether the goods were British- made, bought a number of articles and then went to the book counters. There she purchased Edgar Wallace's 6-penny “Room 13.” “The Flying 55." The Missing “Captain of tend some light reading during his con- | appeared in the store and after inquiry | Queen Buys Six Ten-Cent Books: ‘. King George, Better, May Read Them | Souls,” “A Kirg by Night Man From Morocco.” She Edith M. Dell's “The Charge.” | At other counters the Queen bought | some glass dishes, liquid nail polish and manicure sets, some rubber sponges, | leatherette toilet cases and two botlcs of smelling salts. Some of the purchases were taken in the royal motor car, while instructions were left for a large parcel to be sent to Craigweil House. Queen Mary said that most of the articles were to be given to charity bazaarg and “The 0 bought Hundredth south of the Treasury Department were | Bethlen who exchanged friendly greet- | 17 ORDERED HELD N INVESTIGATION OF GANG MASSACRE Several of Men Listed Be- lieved to Be Actual Killers of Seven. BADGE FOUND IN RAID HELD IMPORTANT CLUE ;Nation to Be Circularized in Effort to Bring About Arrests, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 26.—An order for the arrest of 17 men was issued by Deputy Police Commissioner John Stege today in the gang massacre in- vestigation. Several of the men in his list, he said, may have been the actual killers. Others are believed to have definite and | important knowledge concerning the seven-fold murder. Photographs of some of the 17 have been identified, he said, by witnesses whose identities have been kept se- cret for their own protection. The arrests were ordered after Stege had spent several hours of study over the polics “blue book” of criminals, and had requestioned witnesses, 17 Are Named. ‘The 17 who are sought are: Claude Maddox, arrested a short time ago when a machine gun was found at “the Circus” Cafe, of which he is part owner, Tony Capezia (Tough Tony) known years ago, and partner of Maddox. Jack McGurn, a machine gun ex- pert and a lieutenant of Al Capone. Joseph Lolordo, John Schulte, Danny Vallo, gang leader; Rocco Fanelli, under indictment in connection with vote frauds in the “bloody twentieth” ward; Tony Barone, Rocco Belcastro, whose description corresponds with that wit- nesses have given of the man who drove the death car for the Valen- tine day killers. Frank Diamond, known as a maker of stills; Rocco Griffo, Samuel and Jo- seph Ajello, brothers and friends of George (Bugs) Moran: William (Box- car) Rode, Charles Kakel, Frank Milicl and George King. Some Close to Moran. Some of these men are known to have been close to George Moran, and Stege hopes from them to learn who Moran’s enemies are and who would have a mo- tive to massacre seven of Moran's men. Maddox is a major hope of the in- vestigators. He lives near the pri- vate garage in which the slayefs' car was found last week. His previous possession of a machine gun was anoth- er factor influencing police in their sus~ picion that he may be able to give valuable information. Schulte is known as one who is deadly with small firearms. He is reputed to be a master of the use of springs, concealed in_his_sleeves, by “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) o LINDY AND ANNE Take Their Place in Line Set Aside for “Betrothed” in Walk Around Plaza. By the Associated Press. CUERNAVACA, Mexico, February 26. —"“Manena” is the best information obtainable about the plans of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his flancee, Miss Anne Morrow. “Manana,” says the Mexican fre- quently. The word means “tomorrow,” but it is the Mexican’s method of indi- cating an indefinite time in the future. “Some time later,” Col. Lindbergh has said, he will reveal when he is to be married, how long he is to remain in Mexico, what “is plans for the fu- ture are. ‘Today he and his flancee were free for walking, talking, riding—just be- ing together, in a land almost dream- like in flowering verdant beauty. Residents of the town itself—it has a population of 7,000—hardly were aware a visitor of note was in their midst. There was far more interest in the prospect of next Sunday's band concert in the plaza and the bi-weekly motion picture shows, which do not take place when the roads are bad. ‘The Indian population, with their cotlon, pajama-like trousers and soft Spanish speech, have had visitors of note among them since the conquest, after which Cortez made Cuernavaca his home. The ill-starred Carlota and Maximilian came there to bask in its sunlight, Only One Newspaper Man at Hand. Now as then, they have shrugged their shoulders and let be what will be, replying ““Manana” to all but the simplest demands of life upon them. With the aviator and his flancee at Cuernavaca are her mother, Mrs. | Dwight Morrow, and her sister Eliza- beth, A lone correspondent remained this morning of the eight who came here yesterday in anticipation of a sur- prise ‘wedding after the colonel's flight from Texas. The others returned late yesterday to Mexico City. “There will be no surprise wedding, some close to the Morrow famil vouchsafed, averring that an announce ment of the date and place would be made in due course just as the engage- ment_snnouncement was made. Opinion was that Col. Lindbergh and ihs Morrows would remain here for «wo or three days, returning then to (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) '| Maryland and Virginia News Pages 10 and 11. Pa as a sluffer, implicated in a murder two | STROLL AS LOVERS : ELEVEN ARECAUGHT N RUM TRAP HERE | Tricked Into Making Deliv- eries to Officers—Seven Autos Seized. Continuing the drive to “clean up” Washington for Inauguration day, a prohibiion agent and several third pre- cinet policemen spent last evening en- ticing alleged bootleggers into a neatly laid trap and, before they called it a day, 10 men and a woman had been arrested and seven automobiles seized. Acting under orders to dry up the wet spots in the city before the inau- guration, Prohibition Agent B. N. Quinn and Pvts. S. F. Graveley, R. F. Mc- Carthy and F. O. Brass of the third precinct went to the 600 block of Twen- tieth street, where they had arranged for the use of an apartment, early last evening. ‘They were equipped with a long list of bootleggers' telephone numbers and assisted by a woman whose soft voice was calculated to allay the suspicions of the most cautious bootlegger. Agrees to Make Delivery, ‘The officers settled themselves in easy chairs in the apartment and the woman went to the telephone. Calling the first number on the list, she pleaded carnestly for two quarts of whisky. The bootlegger finally agreed to make the delivery and the officers sat back. to wait for the unsuspecting victim to walk into their trIF. ter a few minutes a significant knock on the door was heard. “Come ," the woman called. ‘The door opened, and in strode Wil- llam Thomas St. Clair and Stanley W. Richards, The two quarts were placed on a table and the two men were ar- rested. They were compelled to drive their own car to the station house, where both were charged with illegal possession and transportation of whis- ky. The car and the liquor was seized. Richards gave his age as 29, and an address in the 900 block of M street. St. Clair, who is 26, said he lived at the same address. Second Call Made. ‘The officers returned to the apartment after locking the two men in a cell, and a second call was made. This time 1t was answered by Bernard R. Reed, 20, of the 4400 block of Georgia avenue, who consented to deliver two gquarts of whisky. He also was arrested, his whis- ky confiscated and his automobile seized. Next came Vigliocel Lindo, 38, of the 1000 block of Fourteenth street, and Willlam Edward Godbold, 23, of tha 2000 block of Thirty-seventh street. ‘They made the same delivery, two quarts of whisky, and were arrested on similar charges, Their automobile was also seized. At this point the policemen, some- what surprised at their success, decided to take time out for dinner. At 11:35 o'clock, however, they returned to the apartment_and resumed operations. James Roland Reed, allas W. W. Davis, 28 years old, of 2400 block of | Nineteenth street, was called first. ‘The soft-voiced woman again or- dered two quarts of whisky. Reed was not impressed. The night was stormy, he pointed out, and the hour late. It would hardly be worth his while to venture forth just to deliver a mere two quarts of whisky. Besides, he ex- plained, the caller's name had slipped his mind. Order Is Increased. ‘That would be quite all right, the woman _insisted, & party was on, and she had to have the whisky. Just add three quarts of gin and two pints of rum to the order, and please hurry along. Stimulated by the increased order, Reed complied, and a few minutes later he opened the apartment door. "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) BOY KILLS FATHER AFTER BEING BEATEN Chicago Police Believe 12-Year-0ld Youth Shot in Self- Defense. | By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, February 26.—Philip Nicoletti nked his 12-year-old son Charles last night, beat him, choked him and then started after his with a knife. The boy shot him dead. Charles was held by juvenile authori- ties today, but the stories of his mother and an older brother who witnessed the shooting led police to believe it was in self-defense. ‘The witnesses said the father, who had been drinking, punished Charles for coming home late, and that the boy ran to his father's room, snatched up a revolver, and fired four shots after Nicolett{ senior had raised & knife against v Woman Fearing Gem Theft Robbed First Time They Are Worn By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 26.—Mrs. Laura Price had not worn her jewels this Winter, fearing theft. Yesterday she decided to take a chance, and she was robbed. She had stopped to consult her modiste and was about to re-enter her car when a man with a pistol snatched the two strands of pearls from her neck, 4 diamond bracelet from her wrist and three diamond rings from her finger, yanked the mink coat from her back and drove away. Her husband said the gems and coat could not be duplicated for less than $18,350. RETIREMENT BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Measure Provides Incfease in Maximum Annuity From $1,000 to $1,200. The House today, by a vote of 219 to 0, passed the Dale-Lehlbach bill to liberalize the civil service retirement law under the sveclal rule ~rdered by the rules committee in the last session of Congress. It was called up for vote after a petition signed by 281 members of the House had been presented to the Speaker to force action by Repub- lican leaders. ‘The bill, which previously had been passed by the Senate, provides an in- crease in maximum annuities from $1,000 to $1,200. While the House was debating the adoption of the rule, Representative ‘Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, a member of the civil service committee, told the facts in the case, saying “this action today is nothing but a gesture in bringing the bill up. Consideration of this measure today is just a sop to su- perannuated employes who are waiting for Congress to open up its heart.” He reviewed the progress of the bill through the House and Senate and em- phasized that it would not be called up today, only that Republican leaders are certain that it will “sleep the sweetly peaceful sleep that other legislation has slept in the capacious pocket of the Chief Executive, which is just as ca- pacious as the pocket of the chairman of the rules committee.” Spokesmen for both the Republican and Democratic sides protested against a proposal for a division of time in de- bating the bill, stating that there was no known opposition to it. Fire Trial Board Upheld. ‘The District Commissioners today upheld the action of the Fire Depart- ment trial board in imposing a $100 fine on Pvt. W. D. Canter, No. 5 En- gine Company, for intoxication. Pvt. Canter was found guilty of reporting for duty December 26, 1928, while in- toxicated. He was suspended after ex- amination by Dr. J. J. Kilroy, 8 mem- ber of the board of surgeons of the department. Al Agree on Diploma Mill Bill. ‘The House today agreed to the con- ference report on the so-called diploma mill bill, which provides for strict regu- lation of degree-conferring institutions in the District. [ oo s | ‘Washington clearing house, $5,182,- 516.90. Treasury balance, $85,961,037.85. Customs receipts, "$3,789,649.30. New York clearing house exchange, $1,685,000,000. New York clearing house balance, $155,000,000. | HOOVER'S SPEECH FOR INAUGURAL IS GIVEN T0 PRINTER President-Elect Is Expected to Announce Cabinet in Press Monday. COL. DONOVAN INDICATES HE WILL NOT BE IN LIST Nominations Due to Be Sent to Senate, in Special Session, PETITIONS T0 URGE VOTEFOR DSTRIT Inauguration Visitors ~ Will Get Opportunity to Sup- port Plea. ‘Visitors who come to Washington from widely scattered sections of the country this week end to witness the inauguration of President-elect Hoover, will be given an opportunity to sup-| port the petition of District residents to participate at some hoped-for future date in the election of the Chief Execu- tive of the United States, as well as to have their own voting representatives in Congress. Arrangements have been made by a committee on inaugural activities of the citizens' joint committee on Na- tional representation for the placing of petitions urging national representa- tion for Washington in the headquarters of tion to be opened Fourteenth and P streets. As one feature of the extensive edu- cational program planned by the spe- cial committee of the now widespread national representation organization for inauguration week two petitions urging approval of the joint resolutions, now pending in Congress, which would pave the way for election of District repre- sentatives in Congress will be placed in the headquarters for supporters to sign. Two Petitions Planned. ‘There will be a petition offered for residents of other cities and States whose citizens now enjoy the privilege of the franchise, and there will be a | second petition for the tax-paying but | non-voting residents of the National Capital. ‘The many activities of an educational nature in support of national represen- tation for Washington's half million citizens are being arranged by a special committee of the citizens' joint com- mittee, consisting of Frederic Willlam Wile, chairman; Mrs. George A. Ricker, vice chairman; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs. Edna Johnston, Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, Dr. George F. Bower- man, Washington Topham, John B. Colpoys, Dorsey W. Hyde, jr.; Jesse C. Suter, John Clagett Proctor, Mrs. Lou- ise Ottenberg, Gideon A. Lyon. John Joy Edson, Mrs. Ella Spencer Mussey, Miss Florence F. Stiles, Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Judge Mary O'Toole, The- odore W. Noyes, W. W. Everett, Ivan C. Weld and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, Special groups of the special commit- tee now are concluding preparations for various activities to be carried on dur- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | CANADA MOUNTED POLICE Cassiar and iSkanni Tribes Gained Notoriety Through Human Sacrifices at Orgies. By the Associated Press. EDMONTON, Alberta, February 26.— Reports of fresh lawlessness on the part of the Cassiar and the Sikanni tribes- men have caused the Royal Canadian mounted police to decide to establish a post at Fort Liard next Summer. ‘The tribesmen, who live in the North- west Territories, gained attention some years ago through stories of orgies at which there were human sacrifices. In lonely canyons, other reports stated, two Indians found guilty of bringing misfortune on the tribe, were lashed naked to stakes in below-zero weather and water was poured over their bodies until they turned into statues of ice. This year, however, reports of thc heaver being killed off have determined the police to establish a post at the junction of the Liard and Pettitot Rivers. . Vaccination Day Set. NANKING, China, February 26 (#).— Widespread occurrence of smallpox has led to government designation of March 1 as “national vaccination day.” Every- one is urged to be vaccinated. South Carolina Blue Laws powerless To Affect Sunday Army Enlistments By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., February 26.—The South Carolina blue laws, like the flow- ers that bloom in the Spring, have nothing to do with the case of Corpl. William Woodbury and his enlistment in the Army, Federal Judge Munger has decided. Woodbury, court-martialed February 5 for desertion and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, had sought release through habeas corpus action. He argued that his enlistment at Fort Moultrie, S. C,, was on a Sunday and gmrc(orc void under the State’s blue WS, Judge Munger said that enlistment In the United States Army was no ordi- nary contract, being comparable rather to & marriage vow. Maj. C. R. Willlams, judge advocate for this Army Corps area, argued that Fort Moultrie wasn't amenable to South Carolina laws, blue or otherwise, being under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Government. Woodbury deserted from Fort Moul- trie February 3, 1926, and was captured December 5, 1928, at Sioux City, Iowa. Radio Programs—Page 27 PLAN POST NEAR INDIANS | as Soon as Possible. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President-elect Hoover has completed his inaugural address and is understood to have virtually completed his cabinet making. The address, which does not include more than 3,000 words, now is in the hands of the printer. It is understood that advance copies of it will be ready for the press Saturday afternoon and the impression is that an advance copy of the list of the 10 men he has selected to serve in his cabinet will be given to the press at the same time. Both of these advance copies are to be with- held from publication until Monday afternoon, The indications are that Mr. Hoover wiil send the nominations of his cabi- net to the Senate as soon as possible after he completes his inaugural ad- dress. The Senate already has been called by President Coolidge to sit in extra session to be ready to receive what nominations his successor may send to the Senate and to be in a posi- tion to act quickly. In the meantime the cabinet guessing goes merrily along and is one of the most popular indoor and outdoor sports in Waskington today. Since President- elect Hoover's conference yesterday and this morning with Col. William J. Dono- van, Assistant Attorney General, the feeling generally is that Mr. Donovan can be eliminated from the cabinet speculation. Denovan to Go to New Mexico. Col. Donovan, who has been consist- ently mentioned in connection with appointment as either Attorney General or Secretary of War, when asked re- garding his cabinet possibilities, said that he was returning to New Mexico, where he is engaged in some work for the Government, and intimated very strongly that he would not be in the cabinet. ‘There have been recent rumors that James W. Good, former Representative from Iowa, who personally was in charge of Mr. Hoover's pre-convention cam- paign and who directed the Republican | activities in the West during the las! campaign, and William D. Mitchell of Minnesota, at present solicitor general |of the United States, are among those | being seriously considered to head the Department of Justice. The latter always has been recognized as a Demo- crat, but has been a personal friend of Mr. Hoover for some time and is under=- stood to have supported him in the la/ campaign. Friends See Mellon as Remaining. There was nothing about the Hoov. / home on S street or his headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel today to con- firm recent rumors to the effect that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is not to be retained in the cabinet. Close friends of Mr. Hoover feel confident that there is no foundation for these rumors, although they admit Mr. Hoover has not discussed the matter with them. Col. Donovan_was a guest at break- fast at the Hoover home this morning, and they sat and talked for half an hour afterward, but the question of the new cabinet is understood not to have been among the subjects touched. Sena- tor Moses of New Hampshire and Senator Hastings and Senator-elect, ‘Townsend of Delaware, and National Committeeman Hislop of New Hamp- shire, and Mark Sulivan, newspaper man, of New York, were callers at the S street house in the forenoon. Ralph Arnold from Los Angeles, { chairman of the county central com- mittee and one of the Republican lead- ers of Southern California and personal friend of Mr. Hoover, will calredlllinl the afternoon. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Harland F. Stone, who was one of Mr. Hoover's fishing com- panions when in Florida, dropped in be- fore lunch for a few minutes’ chat. President-elect Hoover endeavored to find time in between his morning con- ferences to be measured for some new presidential clothes. He and Mrs. Hoo- ver will be guests at dinner at the White House Sunday night. DIVISION OF KANSAS IS AIM OF RESOLUTION | Establishmnt of State's Western Half as Forty-Ninth State Is Sought. By the Assoclated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., February 26.—Divi- slon of Kansas and establishment of the western half as the forty-ninth State in the Union is proposed in a res- olution prepared for introduction in the State Legislature. Failure of the Legislature to reap- portion the senatorial districts every five years, as provided in the Kansas consti- tution, is pointed out in the resolution. ‘The document charges that no such re- apportionment has been made for 2§ years, despite repeated efforts by the western part of the State, The resolution also declares that Western Kansas has “nearly half the population” of the State, and “pays nractically one-half” of all taxes used to maintain State institutions, hich is taxation without representation. Reference is made to the present al- lotment of six Senators to the Western half of the State and 34 to the east ern half, this be treason, make the most the resolution concludes. It was prepared by four western members oi the House. e Continue Hop to Hanoi. RANGOON, Burma, February 26 (#). ~The French aviators Joseph Lebrix and Antoine Paillard left here at 8:26 am. for Bangkok, Siam, in continua- tion of their flight to Hanol, Fremch -China, from Francee s i